Corn wasn't genetically modified. And it certainly wasn't created, it was simply a selectively bred grass. Carrots becoming orange wasn't genetic modification either. Likewise, orange carrots were not created, they were simply slectively bred root vegetables. Bananas becoming sweet wasn't genetic modification either. Likewise, bananas weren't created, they were simply slectively bred plantains.
I think you're missing the/Genetic Modification/ aspect, and confusing it with selective breeding. We also didn't selectively breed corn to be resistant to weedkillers, we selectively bred it for its colour and taste.
"Who here started using Linux becuase it was "easy to use"? Noone."
Wrong. I did.
Put me in front of a Windows machine and I'm a gibbering idiot, I can't do anything. Likewise Mac, in its various GUI incarnations.
Stick me in front of HPUX, Solaris, DU, Linux etc. and I'm a fish back in water again. I chose Linux for all my home systems _solely_ because of ease of use. I'm a developer, with Linux everything I need is there at my fingertips. That's what I use it for, and it's so damn easy. I'm happy.
_I_ can buy them that way, as I'm a geek and know >50 PC vendors in town, and would probably buy components anyway.
However, Joe Average only has access to high street stores, and well known outlets. e.g. the single biggest shop, right in the centre of town, that everyone knows:
http://www.pcsuperstore.fi/kategoria.html?category _id=1_1 Can you see any PCs that ship without an OS, or with Linux? Don't bother looking, there aren't any.
That's what the masses "chose" from. Sure, they've got the choice of Macs with OSX, but they're still not actually being offered a _choice_ of OS with a PC system. As I said - MS stuff comes _bundled_ for the majority of consumers, and they don't even realise that there are other options (apart from Mac).
How do you know radiumhahn isn't God incarnate, eh?
(Oh, BTW, it was the/article/ that was pretending to be insightful, which radiumhahn succinctly punctured. Radiumhanh didn't place himself forward as a slashdot story worthy of discussion. Your aim is misaligned.)
"Go is about possession of territory. How could this NOT lead to warfare?"
Warfare in an enviroment where you can place the antagonists at arbitrary gridpoints with unfailing accuracy, and where depending on what happens many squares away, you or your opponent can suddenly die.
Yeah, that kind of war, how stupid of me to not think of that type of war. Just like World War I but without the mustard gas. Or like Vietnam without the defoliants. My mistake.
He's also forgotten about the minds behind "The Turk" in the late 1700s. I'm sure that they pondered and mused the solutions of other intellectual puzzles. It doesn't matter that they knew The Turk was a fraud, as all that was required was "thought about the existance of". E.g. The book 'Inanimate Reason' was written a century before Babbage.
There's a scheme, of dubious legality, here in Finland called "puumit", or "bums", which will pay the no-ticket fines for you if you're caught on any of the public transport system (bus, tram, metro, train). Signing up to the puumit scheme costs about half a fine, or equivalently one week's travel, per month.
Microsoft are in violation of trademarks though, right now. In the Hanover Trust settlement, MS agreed to always prefix "Excel" with "Microsoft", as "Excel" was already trademarked (in the computing field). However, the title on a
microsoft webpage pertaining to Excel is:
"Excel 2003 Product Information"
Hypocrites.
FatPhil
MR's only keeping this up out of childish petulance, but for some reason I think it's amusig for him to keep it up. Any slap that MS get would be a good slap, IMHO. Anyway, onto suggestions for new names. The how thing's a wind-up, so just call it
Windups
with an 'eye' sound 'i', so not even a 'win' beginning.
Hi Arvind, Long time no see! Are you still at uni? Drop me a mail some time, it would be great to collaborate with you again! (Have you seen my latest little project, PIES?) Phil
I organise a small number-crunching project (computational number-theory), and if you'd like to race my code on your Athlon-64 verses everyone else's PII/III/4s and Athlons, I can let you have the source, and maybe reserve a chunk for you (it's not one of these flashy client-server setups). It assume the usual GNU compiler toolchain, so any linux distro or similar would be ideal. (Gentoo - get everything optimised for your system?)
Oxygen it a horrendously poisonous gas in high concentrations. You'd better be thankful for the ~80% Nitrogen in the air, or you'd be dead.
Back "on topic" I want to know if the removal of corriander from my curries will cause fatal tongue damage?
No, really back "on topic", sorry. The article's author briefly visited comp.compression a week or so back. I seem to remember dismissing him and his article quite quickly due to his poor definition of terms, and just plain incorrect use of terms.
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Corn wasn't genetically modified. And it certainly wasn't created, it was simply a selectively bred grass.
/Genetic Modification/ aspect, and confusing it with selective breeding.
Carrots becoming orange wasn't genetic modification either. Likewise, orange carrots were not created, they were simply slectively bred root vegetables.
Bananas becoming sweet wasn't genetic modification either. Likewise, bananas weren't created, they were simply slectively bred plantains.
I think you're missing the
We also didn't selectively breed corn to be resistant to weedkillers, we selectively bred it for its colour and taste.
So yes, your straw man burns but proves nothing.
FP.
The NT side wasn't so much collaborating, but stealing (namely Mica). However, they got found out and weaseled together an agreement.
FP.
"Who here started using Linux becuase it was "easy to use"? Noone."
Wrong. I did.
Put me in front of a Windows machine and I'm a gibbering idiot, I can't do anything. Likewise Mac, in its various GUI incarnations.
Stick me in front of HPUX, Solaris, DU, Linux etc. and I'm a fish back in water again. I chose Linux for all my home systems _solely_ because of ease of use. I'm a developer, with Linux everything I need is there at my fingertips. That's what I use it for, and it's so damn easy. I'm happy.
FP.
_I_ can buy them that way, as I'm a geek and know >50 PC vendors in town, and would probably buy components anyway.
y _id=1_1
However, Joe Average only has access to high street stores, and well known outlets.
e.g. the single biggest shop, right in the centre of town, that everyone knows:
http://www.pcsuperstore.fi/kategoria.html?categor
Can you see any PCs that ship without an OS, or with Linux? Don't bother looking, there aren't any.
That's what the masses "chose" from. Sure, they've got the choice of Macs with OSX, but they're still not actually being offered a _choice_ of OS with a PC system. As I said - MS stuff comes _bundled_ for the majority of consumers, and they don't even realise that there are other options (apart from Mac).
FP.
A doctor would know not to use a Magnum to perform the castration.
...
You're not a doctor, so
"the fact that buyers have chosen not to buy the alternatives and instead largely stick with Microsoft"
Are you trying to say PCs don't come _bundled_ with MS software?
Weird.
FP.
Thank God?
/article/ that was pretending to be insightful, which radiumhahn succinctly punctured. Radiumhanh didn't place himself forward as a slashdot story worthy of discussion. Your aim is misaligned.)
Thank _GOD_?
How do you know radiumhahn isn't God incarnate, eh?
(Oh, BTW, it was the
"Go is about possession of territory. How could this NOT lead to warfare?"
Warfare in an enviroment where you can place the antagonists at arbitrary gridpoints with unfailing accuracy, and where depending on what happens many squares away, you or your opponent can suddenly die.
Yeah, that kind of war, how stupid of me to not think of that type of war. Just like World War I but without the mustard gas. Or like Vietnam without the defoliants. My mistake.
FP.
He's also forgotten about the minds behind "The Turk" in the late 1700s. I'm sure that they pondered and mused the solutions of other intellectual puzzles.
It doesn't matter that they knew The Turk was a fraud, as all that was required was "thought about the existance of". E.g. The book 'Inanimate Reason' was written a century before Babbage.
FP.
No. You've gone way too narrow.
Invoking Hitler when the subject is politics.
FP.
There's a scheme, of dubious legality, here in Finland called "puumit", or "bums", which will pay the no-ticket fines for you if you're caught on any of the public transport system (bus, tram, metro, train). Signing up to the puumit scheme costs about half a fine, or equivalently one week's travel, per month.
FP.
Postrgres was a pun on the previous Ingres database.
FP.
Note that "SQL Server" is no more trademarkable than "C Compiler".
FP.
Microsoft are in violation of trademarks though, right now. In the Hanover Trust settlement, MS agreed to always prefix "Excel" with "Microsoft", as "Excel" was already trademarked (in the computing field). However, the title on a microsoft webpage pertaining to Excel is:
"Excel 2003 Product Information" Hypocrites. FatPhil
"... does not want to take control on the computer."
Which is why the user's logged in as root the whole time? Sure, that makes sense.
FP.
SO they could have called it 'GUIos', and then in _bold_ characters on the front of the box they should have proclaimed
+---------------+
| |
| GUIOS |
| |
| Contains: |
| |
| Windows |
| Icons |
| Menus |
| Pointers |
| |
+---------------+
And that's only half a joke, I think (IMHO, IANAA) it would be a fantastic wind-up idea.
FP.
MR's only keeping this up out of childish petulance, but for some reason I think it's amusig for him to keep it up. Any slap that MS get would be a good slap, IMHO. Anyway, onto suggestions for new names. The how thing's a wind-up, so just call it
Windups
with an 'eye' sound 'i', so not even a 'win' beginning.
FP.
However:
Using automatic IP address asignment he ended up with collisions.
With manual assignment, he probably wouldn't have.
The ironic world of network administration.
FP.
Heheh, that old chestnut.
I'm flattered that it still gets mentioned.
Thanks for keeping the comments at the top of it.
Phil
Organise files - like putting MP3s in /My Music/, pr0n in /My Images/, /My Documents/?
and viruses in
FP.
Hi Arvind,
Long time no see! Are you still at uni? Drop me a mail some time, it
would be great to collaborate with you again! (Have you seen my latest
little project, PIES?)
Phil
Holy cow, I can't believe anyone remembers that now!
-tugs forelock-
While I'm here I must show due respect to GIMPS for harnessing hundreds of
thousands of PCs and bulldozing so convincingly through these ranges.
Phil
I organise a small number-crunching project (computational number-theory),
and if you'd like to race my code on your Athlon-64 verses everyone else's
PII/III/4s and Athlons, I can let you have the source, and maybe reserve a
chunk for you (it's not one of these flashy client-server setups). It assume
the usual GNU compiler toolchain, so any linux distro or similar would be
ideal. (Gentoo - get everything optimised for your system?)
Phil
Oxygen it a horrendously poisonous gas in high concentrations.
You'd better be thankful for the ~80% Nitrogen in the air, or
you'd be dead.
Back "on topic" I want to know if the removal of corriander from my curries
will cause fatal tongue damage?
No, really back "on topic", sorry. The article's author briefly visited
comp.compression a week or so back. I seem to remember dismissing him and
his article quite quickly due to his poor definition of terms, and just
plain incorrect use of terms.
FP.
Yup - cracking 128-bit AES by brute force is O(1) too, because the key size
is fixed at 128 bits.
Phil