Well, in a practical sense, developing an anencephalitic clone would probably generate a lot more controversy, because it:
1) Involves human cloning.
2) Removes all chance of consent from the organ "donor", which would probably cause certain spasms in various people. (Although, the designed IVF "donor" will not excercise choice...)
3) Involves redefining humanity. Some people belive that life "begins at conception." Since the embryo is designed not to have a brain, it is simultaneously human in the eyes of e.g. the Catholic Church and anti-abortionites, and not (has no potential of ever becoming human, precisely because it is designed not to be.) I guess that's what people mean by "playing God."
(A certain number of pregnancies end in miscarriges, or the zygote does not properly implant, due to completely natural occurences. If these occurences are duplicated by artificial means, to induce an abortion/miscarraige/whatever, some ethicists have a problem with that.)
Sometimes "ethical minefields" are only problematic in the eyes of person who have rather conservative ethical views...
For every ethical dilemna, there are alternative situations where the ethics are far more confused. So the kid was selected on the basis of not having the disease, and being a good match for a tissue donation. I think that was a good choice.
It should be pointed out that the embryo was selcted (as is usual with in vitro fertilization), not designed. The tissue donation is relatively non-harmful to the donor.
Now, if you want to play "Bioethical Nightmare," there are plenty of other possible scenarios, none of which apply in this presnt situation.
Example: You need an organ. To ensure maximum biocomapatibility, it may prove advantageous to produce a clone from which the organs will be harvested. Since the clone will be discarded after harvesting, should measures be taken to ensure that the clone will not develop a brain?
The company claims 90 million voxels, not 90 voxels. Although 90 million may not be that impressive (448 voxels cubed), 90 voxels (4.5 voxels to a a dimension) is next to useless. Assuming 3 bits per pixel, you'd need 32 Meg just to run the frame buffer. I wonder what the graphic chipset is like.
Of course, that 13 bucks is about the price of trade paperback, and twice the cost of a mass-market paperback. The print's easier to read, though. Chapter 3 is about 40 pages, and the whole work is about 80 pages, so far.
As for use of OpenGL versus Direct3d, well, that's a matter for programmers to worry about, they develop the software that uses it, not the user. And boy, do they have lots more to worry about than just the quality of the API. At the time D3D was made though, there wasn't much in the way of OpenGL implementation on Windows PC.
One might point out, however, that Direct3D is not available on any non-Microsoft OSes. So if I used Direct3D in writing a game, it would make subsequent (or simultaneous) ports to MacOS, Linux, BSD, etc, much more difficult. Microsoft is in a position to control the quality of the OpenGL implementation available on its machines.
I find email to be a most useful library tool. I've often used librarycatalogs that will email the results of a search to a user specified address. This feature is inavaluable when collating a electronic bibliography for BibTex, or for collating interlibrary loan lists.
Often, I've kept certain notes in my email account, so that I might be able to refer back to them if neccesary. I don't always have all my notebooks with me.
It's also useful to be able to correspond with other researchers-- some material cannot be transmitted accurately via telephone.
Of course, the WWW has subsumed some of these functions-- but how are you supposed to update a web page without telnet access?
We're not pirating copies of Windows. We're not stealing copies of Windows DVD Players. We want to be able to develop our own DVD player, for Linux, for *BSD, for any OS we care to run.
We won't die if we're unable to play DVDs. It's just an itch. But itches are made to be scratched. The entire Free software movement is about developing software-- and about exchanging source code. If comapnies are allowed to put arbitary limits on the nature and kind of code we are able to exchange, free software will no longer be so.
There are those who believe that artistic endevours only provide "content" -- content that can be metered, censored, and restricted. There are people who would copyright "facts", believing that short term profits are more important than long term advances in knowlege. I'm not one of them.
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Deep linking is a "borderline copyright violation"? Interesting legal advice.
Of the ten commandments, these would be most objectionable:
1 No other gods before me
2. No graven images, etc
3. Something about a name and vanity
4. something about keeping a day holy
5. adultery is in the eye of the beholder
6. something about treating servants and wives as property.
But, then, I'm not exactly straight thinking, in your eyes-- since I believe that the "ten commandments" are the product of but one religion, and should not be posted in, say, courtrooms.
Despite being a democrat-- a liberal democrat no less, I feel morally obligated to point out that Kaplan was a Clinton appointee.
This is not to say that the choices of "Shrub" would be any better. In fact, his court would most likely be more hostile to free speach doctrine, while at the same time, more friendly to the demands of corporate entities, possibly including the MPAA.
I don't know if Nader has a position. I don't want to even think about Buchanan's nominees...
"Mr. Johansen is a very
talented young man and a member of a well known hacker group who viewed "cracking" CSS as an
end it itself and a means of demonstrating his talent and who fully expected that the use of DeCSS
would not be confined to Linux machines. Hence, the Court finds that Mr. Johansen and the others
who actually did develop DeCSS did not do so solely for the purpose of making a Linux DVD player
if, indeed, developing a Linux-based DVD player was among their purposes.
Accordingly, the reverse engineering exception to the DMCA has no application here."
I started to learn Gtk-- because the rival, Qt, wasn't C++. In a visceral sense, something that required a pre processor (moc), just wasn't C++.
So, to me, something that leveraged tempates to acomplish what was, in Qt, little more that a macro hack, was a bonus-- though I never did look at the internals.
I learned C++ by first tackling the STL, and then moving on to classes and inheritance. Gtk-- fit my (odd) style more so than Qt...
The defunct Cray 3 used this approach, except for the part about the ATX. The making of the Cray 3 has some pretty cool pictures. And Seymour Cray wasn't afraid of pouring big bucks into cool case design.
There are quite few libertarians who post on/., however,/. was never intended to be the exclusive haven of people of one particular ideology. As for myself, I'm a liberal democrat.
The "two axis" political test is no more than libertarian propaganda. I'm sure the CPUSA could devise a similar test that would show themselve to be the optimal political party.
Under *nix, yer stil pretty safe. Only running Netscape as root would truly expose you. And no one is stupid
enough to do that, right? Well... maybe Red Hat users.
Actually, netscape is used as the UI to a number of sysadmin utils including up2date. (And, yes, it does run netscape as root.)
I have heard of convergent evolution-- (as a biology student, I had better have). The proteins you allege to have been affected by Convergent evolution may not be the proteins that cause allergies. (In other words, just because a peanut looks and tastes like a nut, it's still not a nut.) However, I am not familiar with allergy research, and cannot give specifics.
I realize that personal experience is of little value when discussing medical issues. However, I myself am allergic (anaphalaxis) to the so called "Brazil Nut." (which, like the peanut, is not a true nut, but is sold as a nut.) I experince no allergic reactions when eating peanuts.
Peanut allergy can cause anaphalxis is some persons. Some of those people can theoretically injest nuts without reaction, but because of the contamination factor cannot do so.
For a more detailed look on food borne allergies (with reference to genetic engineering), see this paper. But, again, this really isn't my field.
Whilst it's easy to claim that Germans are idiots and no such thing would ever happen in the US (free speech, etc), please remember that frivolous suits are pretty uncommon in Germany: people claiming money for eating peanuts and suing because they were allergic to nuts and there was no 'WARNING: May contain nuts' label on the box,
But peanuts aren't nuts. The're legumes. I would imagine that a peanut allergy is very different from a nut allergy... In general, though, "nut" companies do make peanut based products, and, when they switch their assembly lines, the machines aren't washed/cleaned to the extent that would prevent allegy causing contamination. People with nut allegies buy the peanuts, and are poisoned by nut residues.
The latest kernel is 2.40.pre5 (It's upgrade time for me.)
I was looking at Redhat-beta-pinstripe on sourceforge, and they do have SRPMS for XFree86-4.0.1 kernel-2.2.16-17 and kernel24-2.4.0-0.16
So their hopes must be pretty high. I bet the final release of 7.0 will have kernel 2.4.1, at least as an option. The big selling point will probably be the GLX support for the i810, rage128, matrox, voodoo3, etc.
They do have support for Xfree86-3.3.6, though, so they may be hedging their bets.
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Well, in a practical sense, developing an anencephalitic clone would probably generate a lot more controversy, because it:
1) Involves human cloning.
2) Removes all chance of consent from the organ "donor", which would probably cause certain spasms in various people. (Although, the designed IVF "donor" will not excercise choice...)
3) Involves redefining humanity. Some people belive that life "begins at conception." Since the embryo is designed not to have a brain, it is simultaneously human in the eyes of e.g. the Catholic Church and anti-abortionites, and not (has no potential of ever becoming human, precisely because it is designed not to be.) I guess that's what people mean by "playing God."
(A certain number of pregnancies end in miscarriges, or the zygote does not properly implant, due to completely natural occurences. If these occurences are duplicated by artificial means, to induce an abortion/miscarraige/whatever, some ethicists have a problem with that.)
Sometimes "ethical minefields" are only problematic in the eyes of person who have rather conservative ethical views...
For every ethical dilemna, there are alternative situations where the ethics are far more confused. So the kid was selected on the basis of not having the disease, and being a good match for a tissue donation. I think that was a good choice.
It should be pointed out that the embryo was selcted (as is usual with in vitro fertilization), not designed. The tissue donation is relatively non-harmful to the donor.
Now, if you want to play "Bioethical Nightmare," there are plenty of other possible scenarios, none of which apply in this presnt situation.
Example: You need an organ. To ensure maximum biocomapatibility, it may prove advantageous to produce a clone from which the organs will be harvested. Since the clone will be discarded after harvesting, should measures be taken to ensure that the clone will not develop a brain?
Now that's an ethical minefield...
The company claims 90 million voxels, not 90 voxels. Although 90 million may not be that impressive (448 voxels cubed), 90 voxels (4.5 voxels to a a dimension) is next to useless. Assuming 3 bits per pixel, you'd need 32 Meg just to run the frame buffer. I wonder what the graphic chipset is like.
Crew of seven, and accomadates 10 passengers? I wouldn't call a 17 person capacity boat "personal."
I think he's talking about the GeForce 256, and the Radeon 256. I, for one, cannot tell the marketing hype from the architectural reality...
Of course, that 13 bucks is about the price of trade paperback, and twice the cost of a mass-market paperback. The print's easier to read, though. Chapter 3 is about 40 pages, and the whole work is about 80 pages, so far.
One might point out, however, that Direct3D is not available on any non-Microsoft OSes. So if I used Direct3D in writing a game, it would make subsequent (or simultaneous) ports to MacOS, Linux, BSD, etc, much more difficult. Microsoft is in a position to control the quality of the OpenGL implementation available on its machines.
I find email to be a most useful library tool. I've often used librarycatalogs that will email the results of a search to a user specified address. This feature is inavaluable when collating a electronic bibliography for BibTex, or for collating interlibrary loan lists.
Often, I've kept certain notes in my email account, so that I might be able to refer back to them if neccesary. I don't always have all my notebooks with me.
It's also useful to be able to correspond with other researchers-- some material cannot be transmitted accurately via telephone.
Of course, the WWW has subsumed some of these functions-- but how are you supposed to update a web page without telnet access?
It's not unlicensed-- OMS is released under the GPL.
Unathorized-- well, that has legal problems. Unapproved, maybe. Open Source, yes.
The G4 is apple's "supercomputer on a chip." The iMac uses a G3.
Haven't I heard something about the i860 being a "Cray on a chip"? I guess old marketing tatic die hard...
Actually, the entire keybock of 400(or so) possible keys can now be forced.
The original message was posted from
"From: wdfvze@kaplan.com"
nice touch!
We're not pirating copies of Windows. We're not stealing copies of Windows DVD Players. We want to be able to develop our own DVD player, for Linux, for *BSD, for any OS we care to run.
We won't die if we're unable to play DVDs. It's just an itch. But itches are made to be scratched. The entire Free software movement is about developing software-- and about exchanging source code. If comapnies are allowed to put arbitary limits on the nature and kind of code we are able to exchange, free software will no longer be so.
There are those who believe that artistic endevours only provide "content" -- content that can be metered, censored, and restricted. There are people who would copyright "facts", believing that short term profits are more important than long term advances in knowlege. I'm not one of them.
Deep linking is a "borderline copyright violation"? Interesting legal advice.
Of the ten commandments, these would be most objectionable:
1 No other gods before me
2. No graven images, etc
3. Something about a name and vanity
4. something about keeping a day holy
5. adultery is in the eye of the beholder
6. something about treating servants and wives as property.
But, then, I'm not exactly straight thinking, in your eyes-- since I believe that the "ten commandments" are the product of but one religion, and should not be posted in, say, courtrooms.
Despite being a democrat-- a liberal democrat no less, I feel morally obligated to point out that Kaplan was a Clinton appointee.
This is not to say that the choices of "Shrub" would be any better. In fact, his court would most likely be more hostile to free speach doctrine, while at the same time, more friendly to the demands of corporate entities, possibly including the MPAA.
I don't know if Nader has a position. I don't want to even think about Buchanan's nominees...
"Mr. Johansen is a very
talented young man and a member of a well known hacker group who viewed "cracking" CSS as an
end it itself and a means of demonstrating his talent and who fully expected that the use of DeCSS
would not be confined to Linux machines. Hence, the Court finds that Mr. Johansen and the others
who actually did develop DeCSS did not do so solely for the purpose of making a Linux DVD player
if, indeed, developing a Linux-based DVD player was among their purposes.
Accordingly, the reverse engineering exception to the DMCA has no application here."
I wonder what the application to LiVid will be.
I started to learn Gtk-- because the rival, Qt, wasn't C++. In a visceral sense, something that required a pre processor (moc), just wasn't C++.
So, to me, something that leveraged tempates to acomplish what was, in Qt, little more that a macro hack, was a bonus-- though I never did look at the internals.
I learned C++ by first tackling the STL, and then moving on to classes and inheritance. Gtk-- fit my (odd) style more so than Qt...
As for Gtk+: yuck...
The Cray 3 dissipates 88 kilowatts of energy with the help of flourinert. The ultimate cooling solution:
The defunct Cray 3 used this approach, except for the part about the ATX. The making of the Cray 3 has some pretty cool pictures. And Seymour Cray wasn't afraid of pouring big bucks into cool case design.
There are quite few libertarians who post on /., however, /. was never intended to be the exclusive haven of people of one particular ideology. As for myself, I'm a liberal democrat.
The "two axis" political test is no more than libertarian propaganda. I'm sure the CPUSA could devise a similar test that would show themselve to be the optimal political party.
Under *nix, yer stil pretty safe. Only running Netscape as root would truly expose you. And no one is stupid
enough to do that, right? Well... maybe Red Hat users.
Actually, netscape is used as the UI to a number of sysadmin utils including up2date. (And, yes, it does run netscape as root.)
I realize that personal experience is of little value when discussing medical issues. However, I myself am allergic (anaphalaxis) to the so called "Brazil Nut." (which, like the peanut, is not a true nut, but is sold as a nut.) I experince no allergic reactions when eating peanuts.
Peanut allergy can cause anaphalxis is some persons. Some of those people can theoretically injest nuts without reaction, but because of the contamination factor cannot do so.
For a more detailed look on food borne allergies (with reference to genetic engineering), see this paper. But, again, this really isn't my field.
But peanuts aren't nuts. The're legumes. I would imagine that a peanut allergy is very different from a nut allergy... In general, though, "nut" companies do make peanut based products, and, when they switch their assembly lines, the machines aren't washed/cleaned to the extent that would prevent allegy causing contamination. People with nut allegies buy the peanuts, and are poisoned by nut residues.
The latest kernel is 2.40.pre5 (It's upgrade time for me.)
I was looking at Redhat-beta-pinstripe on sourceforge, and they do have SRPMS for
XFree86-4.0.1
kernel-2.2.16-17
and
kernel24-2.4.0-0.16
So their hopes must be pretty high. I bet the final release of 7.0 will have kernel 2.4.1, at least as an option. The big selling point will probably be the GLX support for the i810, rage128, matrox, voodoo3, etc.
They do have support for Xfree86-3.3.6, though, so they may be hedging their bets.