Although they can't combine with fresh genes to exchange genetic features, I don't think they'll have a problem maintaining their current DNA, or something just as good. The ones that are well equipped to hide in hives and reproduce are the ones that will survive--natural selection still applies.
Scientists have been looking for a way to stop the spread of African honeybees in North America, because they are much more aggressive toward humans, among other things. It seems that by importing a few of these clones, they could get rid of the African bee population, while leaving the indiginous species alone. Of course, another mutation could make a clone's eggs smell like the eggs of another species...
Feel free to post your questions about it and I'll do my best to answer.
Ok, here goes: Upon hearing "Case Western Reserve" for the first time, which of the following did you think it was?
1) A hard drive manufacturer 2) A Colorado brewery 3) A wilderness area in Idaho 4) A brand of fine tobacco in the UK 5) A nuclear arms storage site in Nevada 6) A California penitentiary 7) A window case mod kit
I think you're responding to a straw man. The original poster's point was pretty much what you're saying here. A/C changed the economic structure of things, which resulted in getting rid of some nice things, which it would be really nice to keep around.
Today's digital standard costs $150,000, and the resolution is so low, the pixels are very visible.
In a word, it sucks. This isn't anti-technology. This is anti-sucky-technology. When they start projecting at 3-4 megapixels, then we may have something worth watching.
The price of a DVD is not that different from the price of a CD. The difference:
DVDs have hours of video and high quality surround sound.
CDs have an hour of run-of-the-mill digital stereo.
Other factors: - People are boycotting the RIAA Trust, because of the way it treats artists, fans, and other companies. For example: MP3.com, whose pants got sued off for letting people listen to their own music. - Britney Spears - "N" Sync - What's playing on the radio? Same thing as an hour ago. And they want us to buy that garbage? - Now the RIAA is trying to crash your computer when you put a CD in. - Services like Napster, which help people find music they will like, are being shut down. - "N" Sync
Let's use time as our 4th dimension. Imagine a cube that appears and then disappears in an instant. That's a 3D cube. Now stare at a cube for a few seconds.
That's a hypercube.
A 4D being would see the difference instantly. The 3D cube would seem kind of "flat" next to the other one.
A blade is a computer on a board. You can put multiple blades in one case and have them share power supplies. I think Compaq sells them, among others.
This is a way to get them very dense and lower in power consumption (which also lowers air conditioning bills), but as a previous poster pointed out, small footprints come at a price.
It's almost exactly like that scene in the original Star Wars where R2D2 ran a movie of Princess Leia saying 'Help me Obi Wan.'
Not really. It's a sheet of film, like the holograms you get on Windows CDs or ones you buy at the toy store. The difference is it's bigger, a lot better quality, and they can create it from a rendered (rather than real) object.
Contrary to what the Slashdot description implies, there's no real-time anything involved here.
I didn't mean to imply anything about the difficulty of coding. It's chilling because of the amount and type of data they are getting access to (i.e. the call logs for an entire phone company). It makes you wonder: What other databases have the drug lords purchased on the black market since then?
"...the cartel had assembled a database that contained both the office and residential telephone numbers of U.S. diplomats and agents based in Colombia, along with the entire call log for the phone company in Cali, which was leaked by employees of the utility. The mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining software. It cross-referenced the Cali phone exchange's traffic with the phone numbers of American personnel and Colombian intelligence and law enforcement officials.... ...the system fingered at least a dozen informants, [who] were swiftly assassinated by the cartel."
That was in 1994. They've become more sophisticated since then.
Do you really think MPEG-2 will be gone that soon?
The audio CD standard is more than 20 years old, and it's not going to disappear any time soon. Secure formats will appear, but you'll still be able to play your old CDs.
MS Office still comes with codecs to read word processor files in a variety of formats, going back to the early days of the PC.
Newer formats will come and go. But widely used formats like MPEG-2 will be readable for a long, long time. Make something your DVD player can play, and then don't worry. You'll be fine.
Thanks for the update. The article I read a few years ago said 10 years, but that info is obviously outdated and/or false.
I liked the insights from cd-info on the sensationalist nature of the press. It's unfortunate that getting on the front page often takes higher importance than informing the public.
Hey, maybe that's why the RIAA gets a payment whenever I purchase a blank CD. And I thought it was to pay for the music which they were planning for me to put on it after I bought it.
If it's widely used and not controlled by one company, you should be fine.
VCD/DVD are a great idea. I wouldn't do VHS/Beta, since they lose quality rather quickly.
Even on a disc, you will need to worry about data loss. Keep more than one copy and create new copies every 5-10 years, because CDs can deteriorate with time.
Very interesting. Add this cultural difference to population density difference, and you have huge incentive for wireless networks. I've read that the Japanese tend to be more enthusiastic about new and different technologies. This might also play a role.
This is important because it gives the FTC a rock solid example of the kind price fixing scheme that is going on throughout the industry.
A few years ago, an FTC investigation found that the industry had set up contracts that prevented retailers from advertising CDs below a certain price level. Without competition, the price of CDs was kept artificially high.
To anyone who has been to a record store lately, it is obvious that whatever was done to correct this has made no difference. Prices continue to float upward, while the cost of making CDs goes down.
Meanwhile, the RIAA has poured money into campaign funds, buying votes to help them continue their abuse. Now every time I buy a CD to back up my data, I pay a tax to the artists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h record companies. The more we get disgusted and boycott them, the more statistics they claim to have showing they need more government protection.
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I'll be out in Toronto selling Rolexes and hard drives, if anyone needs one. Just look for the guy in the big black coat.
Although they can't combine with fresh genes to exchange genetic features, I don't think they'll have a problem maintaining their current DNA, or something just as good. The ones that are well equipped to hide in hives and reproduce are the ones that will survive--natural selection still applies.
Scientists have been looking for a way to stop the spread of African honeybees in North America, because they are much more aggressive toward humans, among other things. It seems that by importing a few of these clones, they could get rid of the African bee population, while leaving the indiginous species alone. Of course, another mutation could make a clone's eggs smell like the eggs of another species...
Had it. Got sick of it really fast. Really obnoxious software. Software must stay out of my way until I need it to run.
Feel free to post your questions about it and I'll do my best to answer.
Ok, here goes: Upon hearing "Case Western Reserve" for the first time, which of the following did you think it was?
1) A hard drive manufacturer
2) A Colorado brewery
3) A wilderness area in Idaho
4) A brand of fine tobacco in the UK
5) A nuclear arms storage site in Nevada
6) A California penitentiary
7) A window case mod kit
...it might actually have a chance of raising the EUR 100,000 it needs to buy Blender from the NaN shareholders...
Of course, if they fail to raise the full amount, they may have to settle for a less expensive one from KitchenAid.
And no, this isn't off-topic. I'm commenting on the post I'm replying to.
(still laughing from post)...
I think you're responding to a straw man. The original poster's point was pretty much what you're saying here. A/C changed the economic structure of things, which resulted in getting rid of some nice things, which it would be really nice to keep around.
And I'll have to say I agree with both of you.
For me, smooth=nice.
HD is 24fps??? Yuck. One more reason not to upgrade for a while yet.
Today's digital standard costs $150,000, and the resolution is so low, the pixels are very visible.
In a word, it sucks. This isn't anti-technology. This is anti-sucky-technology. When they start projecting at 3-4 megapixels, then we may have something worth watching.
Mad Kitty Disease
The price of a DVD is not that different from the price of a CD. The difference:
DVDs have hours of video and high quality surround sound.
CDs have an hour of run-of-the-mill digital stereo.
Other factors:
- People are boycotting the RIAA Trust, because of the way it treats artists, fans, and other companies. For example: MP3.com, whose pants got sued off for letting people listen to their own music.
- Britney Spears
- "N" Sync
- What's playing on the radio? Same thing as an hour ago. And they want us to buy that garbage?
- Now the RIAA is trying to crash your computer when you put a CD in.
- Services like Napster, which help people find music they will like, are being shut down.
- "N" Sync
That's a good point. And what about the, er, patriots, involved in U.S. events such as the "Boston Tea Party."
I do support the fight against terrorism. But as you point out, this definition is way too broad.
That's really cool. Looks like a holodeck. Just make sure they keep the safety protocols on when you're doing hurricane exploration.
Let's use time as our 4th dimension. Imagine a cube that appears and then disappears in an instant. That's a 3D cube. Now stare at a cube for a few seconds.
That's a hypercube.
A 4D being would see the difference instantly. The 3D cube would seem kind of "flat" next to the other one.
Do a search for "blade server."
A blade is a computer on a board. You can put multiple blades in one case and have them share power supplies. I think Compaq sells them, among others.
This is a way to get them very dense and lower in power consumption (which also lowers air conditioning bills), but as a previous poster pointed out, small footprints come at a price.
It's almost exactly like that scene in the original Star Wars where R2D2 ran a movie of Princess Leia saying 'Help me Obi Wan.'
Not really. It's a sheet of film, like the holograms you get on Windows CDs or ones you buy at the toy store. The difference is it's bigger, a lot better quality, and they can create it from a rendered (rather than real) object.
Contrary to what the Slashdot description implies, there's no real-time anything involved here.
I didn't mean to imply anything about the difficulty of coding. It's chilling because of the amount and type of data they are getting access to (i.e. the call logs for an entire phone company). It makes you wonder: What other databases have the drug lords purchased on the black market since then?
Excerpt:
...the system fingered at least a dozen informants, [who] were swiftly assassinated by the cartel."
"...the cartel had assembled a database that contained both the office and residential telephone numbers of U.S. diplomats and agents based in Colombia, along with the entire call log for the phone company in Cali, which was leaked by employees of the utility. The mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining software. It cross-referenced the Cali phone exchange's traffic with the phone numbers of American personnel and Colombian intelligence and law enforcement officials....
That was in 1994. They've become more sophisticated since then.
Do you really think MPEG-2 will be gone that soon?
The audio CD standard is more than 20 years old, and it's not going to disappear any time soon. Secure formats will appear, but you'll still be able to play your old CDs.
MS Office still comes with codecs to read word processor files in a variety of formats, going back to the early days of the PC.
Newer formats will come and go. But widely used formats like MPEG-2 will be readable for a long, long time. Make something your DVD player can play, and then don't worry. You'll be fine.
Thanks for the update. The article I read a few years ago said 10 years, but that info is obviously outdated and/or false.
I liked the insights from cd-info on the sensationalist nature of the press. It's unfortunate that getting on the front page often takes higher importance than informing the public.
Hey, maybe that's why the RIAA gets a payment whenever I purchase a blank CD. And I thought it was to pay for the music which they were planning for me to put on it after I bought it.
If it's widely used and not controlled by one company, you should be fine.
VCD/DVD are a great idea. I wouldn't do VHS/Beta, since they lose quality rather quickly.
Even on a disc, you will need to worry about data loss. Keep more than one copy and create new copies every 5-10 years, because CDs can deteriorate with time.
Very interesting. Add this cultural difference to population density difference, and you have huge incentive for wireless networks. I've read that the Japanese tend to be more enthusiastic about new and different technologies. This might also play a role.
Ok, enough with the 3 tenors jokes.
This is important because it gives the FTC a rock solid example of the kind price fixing scheme that is going on throughout the industry.
A few years ago, an FTC investigation found that the industry had set up contracts that prevented retailers from advertising CDs below a certain price level. Without competition, the price of CDs was kept artificially high.
To anyone who has been to a record store lately, it is obvious that whatever was done to correct this has made no difference. Prices continue to float upward, while the cost of making CDs goes down.
Meanwhile, the RIAA has poured money into campaign funds, buying votes to help them continue their abuse. Now every time I buy a CD to back up my data, I pay a tax to the artists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h record companies. The more we get disgusted and boycott them, the more statistics they claim to have showing they need more government protection.