Actually, they apparently used liver cells that were treated with the virus in vitro. This doesn't look anything like a viable technology, and they admit it's at least 10 year off to find a suitable carrier virus. And even then, they said something like the person would have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their life.
Well, hard disks have a lot of RAM on board these days, 8 megs is getting to be pretty much standard on ATA now.
As far as optical, the various movie companies have stifled any optical disks with the capacity to mean anything.
But to take your concept to something that we can do right now, in software.... (hint to any industrious open source devs!):
Imagine this. A hybrid RAID kind of system involving one high speed disk like a 10K SCSI drive, and several slow (5400rpm) but high capacity ATA drives. The 10K SCSI drive acts like an intelligent cache for the slower drives.
With a system like this, you get all the latency/transaction time benefits of 10K SCSI, with the capacity of the huge 5400rpm ATA drives that are out these days, all at a fraction of the cost.
This could all be done below the file system level, just as software RAID is done today.
Or it could be done in hardware. Imagine if the platters in a hard disk didsn't spin at the same speeds. What if instead there was one high speed platter, and several very low speed, very high areal density platters. A similar system could be developed.
The new law would only have teeth if the war continued, and the south was brought back into the union and subjected to its laws.
And that was really the key. The emancipation proclamation burned the bridges. There had been active work to restore the union, to restore it back to the way it was, with some possible compromises, including federal programs to buy slaves from slave owners, and resettle freed slaves in Africa, something Lincoln was in favor of. Lincoln burned those bridges, gave up on resettlement programs, and gave the south a strong message: restoration is not an option.
After all, you don't see the newspapers developing the vending machine that only lets you get one paper, all of them I have ever seen are the same old "take as many as you want" model.
As a Libertarian, I know government doesn't work also. I don't think it has anything to do with religion though. As a Libertarian I do adovcate eliminating government charity in favor of private charity, be it secular or religious.
About humanism, it does have a weak foundation. I don't believe in humanism completely, I believe in something that could be described as "selfish humanism". I believe every action we take is inherently selfish, on some level or another.
To take your words: "I sacrifice my welfare...because I can look forward to something better"
Inherently a selfish action. You are acting a certain way, because of a percieved quid-pro-quo of getting something after you die. Every action, no matter how altruistic it seems, can be viewed in this light.
I build a system of ethics from this inherently selfish foundation. Surprisingly, it works pretty well. Selfishness doesn't imply a lack of empathy, or of feelings, only a primary motivation to do things for yourself before you do them for others. Often doing things for selfish reasons benefits others.
An example, maybe someone joins the peace corps "to help people" because it gives them warm fuzzies, or because it will increase their social standing back home, or because they can put it on their resume, or because it gives them a license to act like they are better than someone else, etc...
Not all selfish motivations are tangible, many may be subconsious, but the key to my system of ethics is understanding this.
This may sound a lot like Objectivism, and it's similar, but I don't agree with many of the conclusions the mainstream Objectivist comes to.
This message was originally about 200 lines longer, but I cut a lot out. This is just way too big a subject matter to discuss effectively here.
You know, that's one thing that I agree with Christians with, but for opposite reasons.
I see santa as a way to indoctrinate kids with the belief that there is an all powerful being that judges whether they have been good or bad, and rewards or punishes them accordingly.
Sorta like training wheels for later life when they fear the judgement of the god/afterlife fantasy, instead of developing an independant system of ethics to guide their choices.
It's it strange how one concept can be hated on both sides of the fence for totally opposite reasons?
I see PHP.net as what would be a good use of invariant sections. The main documentation is "official" and unable to be changed by users, but the users can attache annotations to expand on or correct the main text. I don't think they use the license this way, but I could see it applying to a situation like that.
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You can run the game in winex, but last time I tried, the video screwed up half the time, and it was dead slow, like 10fps on a geforce2.
The TigerMP is hard on the power supplies and voltage regulators because it only has a single ATX power connector and not the supplimental connector that most MP boards have these days. The arrangement and location of the voltage regulators also makes it hard to get good airflow over them in a lot of cases. It's really a kinda poorly engineered board. I used to like it, but after working with several of them, they've been nothing but headaches.
We have one that we can only run in single processor mode for some reason. Don't know if it is software or hardware, but it will reliably crash hard when you run ghostscript on a large file.
I spent days trying to track down that problem, swapping RAM, CPU, motherboard, powersupply (2x400W redundant), adding more case fans, even cutting a hole in the case to put a new fan directly over the VRM/CPUs, using a HVAC meter to measure airflows, trying different kernels, and kernel options, etc. I gave up. That system is permanatly single processor now. Since we swapped everything out except the case, we wrote it off as a cursed case.
Another identical system in an identical case, doesn't have the problem. Go figure.
I have similar experiences with failure rates, at least 2 out of 10 bad with cheap ram, with another 10% of the cheap ram developing problems later on. Don't use cheap RAM anymore, so this is all based on cheap RAM from about 2 years ago.
I've also had 100% success with Crucial and good name RAM. One caveat I have to mention, we had serious trouble using Kingston RAM on a Tyan TigerMP. Memtest86 didn't turn up anything wrong, but the OS would hang within an hour of uptime. Never did quite figure that one out, and the RAM apparently wasn't bad, it worked fine in another system, but switching the RAM to Crucial fixed it.
So, I guess the bottom line is pretty much the same as your post, but also might want to ask around or search around for the motherboard you are going to get to make sure it isn't allergic to any particular good brand name.
Dude, I did RTFA, look at my other post in this thread where I said the same thing you said when someone asked if they are also going to reject paper form letters like postcards or fax-ins.
People will write more letters as a result of this though. Why risk your electronic message being grouped in with electronic form letters and ignored when you can write a paper letter that they can easily tell at a glance is not a form letter?
They said in the article that they have a hard time telling the bulk electronic mail from the handwritten electronic mail, that's why they are doing this in the first place.
I don't know how you got the idea that I am some liberal tree-hugger Mr AC, but I do understand that conservation doesn't mean those things.
It does, however, imply an efficient use of natural resources. I don't see wasting lots of paper on things that could be electronic as an efficient use.
I know you were probably joking, but since you were modded insightful, I guess I should reply, if for nothing other for the sake of the people that modded you up.
There really isn't a concept of time unless it is relative to something. Think about it.
The Sensation II was the last Tandy branded computer to sell in the US. My parents got one when I asked for a computer all those years ago. If it had a cdrom tray rather than caddie, then it was a Sensation II. The first Sensation came with a caddie CDROM.
The WD hard disk had a strange habit of hanging under heavy swapping load, it would freeze for like a full minute, then start working again right where it left off.
Oh, yeah, the hard disk they shipped with was 212 megs, and it was already nearly full with all the crap they put on it. Tons of demo programs, and the stupid desktop replacement that Tandy wrote was default instead of Program Manager, forgot the name. It was huge and bloated for the time and considering the machine shipped with 4 megs ram.
The soundcard and modem were on the same card, and the modem was only 2400 when 9600 was pretty much standard by late 1993 when the system came out. Of course you had three ISA slots to upgrade it with, but the lower slot could only take short cards because the processor interfered with the clearance.
Now that I think about it, I really know way more than I ever wanted to about this subject. That computer was really what got me into computers in the modern sense, the only one I had before that was a C64.
The Forest Service mission is captured by the phrase "Caring for the Land and Serving People." Our mission, as set forth by law, is to achieve quality land management under the sustainable multiple- use management concept to meet the diverse needs of people. For Forest Service employees this means participating in the follow activities:
Advocating a conservation ethic in promoting the health, productivity, diversity, and beauty of forests and associated lands. Listening to people and responding to their diverse needs in making decisions.
Protecting and managing the national forests and grasslands so that they best demonstrate the sustainable multiple-use management concept. Providing technical and financial assistance to State and private forest landowners, encouraging them to practice good stewardship and quality land management in meeting their specific objectives.
Providing international technical assistance to cities and urban communities to improve their natural environment by planting trees and caring for their forests.
Helping States and communities to use the forests wisely in order to promote rural economic development and a quality rural environment. Developing and providing scientific and technical knowledge aimed at improving our capability to protect, manage, and use forests and rangelands.
Providing work, training, and education to the unemployed, underemployed, elderly, youth, and disadvantaged in pursuit of our mission.
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Actually, they apparently used liver cells that were treated with the virus in vitro. This doesn't look anything like a viable technology, and they admit it's at least 10 year off to find a suitable carrier virus. And even then, they said something like the person would have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their life.
All the need to do is invent another virus that makes some other organ function as a liver!
Well, hard disks have a lot of RAM on board these days, 8 megs is getting to be pretty much standard on ATA now.
As far as optical, the various movie companies have stifled any optical disks with the capacity to mean anything.
But to take your concept to something that we can do right now, in software.... (hint to any industrious open source devs!):
Imagine this. A hybrid RAID kind of system involving one high speed disk like a 10K SCSI drive, and several slow (5400rpm) but high capacity ATA drives. The 10K SCSI drive acts like an intelligent cache for the slower drives.
With a system like this, you get all the latency/transaction time benefits of 10K SCSI, with the capacity of the huge 5400rpm ATA drives that are out these days, all at a fraction of the cost.
This could all be done below the file system level, just as software RAID is done today.
Or it could be done in hardware. Imagine if the platters in a hard disk didsn't spin at the same speeds. What if instead there was one high speed platter, and several very low speed, very high areal density platters. A similar system could be developed.
Why not release an OS on an EPROM?
:)
With security patches every couple days for all modern OSs, you'd be pushing the write limits.
There are watches that use this to wind themselves.
The energy from it is miniscule in terms of something like a cell phone though.
The new law would only have teeth if the war continued, and the south was brought back into the union and subjected to its laws.
And that was really the key. The emancipation proclamation burned the bridges. There had been active work to restore the union, to restore it back to the way it was, with some possible compromises, including federal programs to buy slaves from slave owners, and resettle freed slaves in Africa, something Lincoln was in favor of. Lincoln burned those bridges, gave up on resettlement programs, and gave the south a strong message: restoration is not an option.
A ballsy move, but it worked in the end.
I agree, I don't think newspapers care.
After all, you don't see the newspapers developing the vending machine that only lets you get one paper, all of them I have ever seen are the same old "take as many as you want" model.
As a Libertarian, I know government doesn't work also. I don't think it has anything to do with religion though. As a Libertarian I do adovcate eliminating government charity in favor of private charity, be it secular or religious.
About humanism, it does have a weak foundation. I don't believe in humanism completely, I believe in something that could be described as "selfish humanism". I believe every action we take is inherently selfish, on some level or another.
To take your words: "I sacrifice my welfare...because I can look forward to something better"
Inherently a selfish action. You are acting a certain way, because of a percieved quid-pro-quo of getting something after you die. Every action, no matter how altruistic it seems, can be viewed in this light.
I build a system of ethics from this inherently selfish foundation. Surprisingly, it works pretty well. Selfishness doesn't imply a lack of empathy, or of feelings, only a primary motivation to do things for yourself before you do them for others. Often doing things for selfish reasons benefits others.
An example, maybe someone joins the peace corps "to help people" because it gives them warm fuzzies, or because it will increase their social standing back home, or because they can put it on their resume, or because it gives them a license to act like they are better than someone else, etc...
Not all selfish motivations are tangible, many may be subconsious, but the key to my system of ethics is understanding this.
This may sound a lot like Objectivism, and it's similar, but I don't agree with many of the conclusions the mainstream Objectivist comes to.
This message was originally about 200 lines longer, but I cut a lot out. This is just way too big a subject matter to discuss effectively here.
You know, that's one thing that I agree with Christians with, but for opposite reasons.
I see santa as a way to indoctrinate kids with the belief that there is an all powerful being that judges whether they have been good or bad, and rewards or punishes them accordingly.
Sorta like training wheels for later life when they fear the judgement of the god/afterlife fantasy, instead of developing an independant system of ethics to guide their choices.
It's it strange how one concept can be hated on both sides of the fence for totally opposite reasons?
attache heh. I need more caffiene. Or Peeps. Or chocolate or something. mmmmm Theobromine.
I see PHP.net as what would be a good use of invariant sections. The main documentation is "official" and unable to be changed by users, but the users can attache annotations to expand on or correct the main text. I don't think they use the license this way, but I could see it applying to a situation like that.
You can run the game in winex, but last time I tried, the video screwed up half the time, and it was dead slow, like 10fps on a geforce2.
Knowingly as opposed to spyware that tries to trick you into installing something that spies on you.
This thing's stated purpose is spying on what pages you go to.
The TigerMP is hard on the power supplies and voltage regulators because it only has a single ATX power connector and not the supplimental connector that most MP boards have these days. The arrangement and location of the voltage regulators also makes it hard to get good airflow over them in a lot of cases. It's really a kinda poorly engineered board. I used to like it, but after working with several of them, they've been nothing but headaches.
We have one that we can only run in single processor mode for some reason. Don't know if it is software or hardware, but it will reliably crash hard when you run ghostscript on a large file.
I spent days trying to track down that problem, swapping RAM, CPU, motherboard, powersupply (2x400W redundant), adding more case fans, even cutting a hole in the case to put a new fan directly over the VRM/CPUs, using a HVAC meter to measure airflows, trying different kernels, and kernel options, etc. I gave up. That system is permanatly single processor now. Since we swapped everything out except the case, we wrote it off as a cursed case.
Another identical system in an identical case, doesn't have the problem. Go figure.
If you knowingly run a program that openly spies on every page you go to, you get what you deserve.
I have similar experiences with failure rates, at least 2 out of 10 bad with cheap ram, with another 10% of the cheap ram developing problems later on. Don't use cheap RAM anymore, so this is all based on cheap RAM from about 2 years ago.
I've also had 100% success with Crucial and good name RAM. One caveat I have to mention, we had serious trouble using Kingston RAM on a Tyan TigerMP. Memtest86 didn't turn up anything wrong, but the OS would hang within an hour of uptime. Never did quite figure that one out, and the RAM apparently wasn't bad, it worked fine in another system, but switching the RAM to Crucial fixed it.
So, I guess the bottom line is pretty much the same as your post, but also might want to ask around or search around for the motherboard you are going to get to make sure it isn't allergic to any particular good brand name.
Aren't all news outfits big media outfits, by definition? :)
I get your drift though, there is way too many corporate conflicts of interest in journalism these days.
Dude, I did RTFA, look at my other post in this thread where I said the same thing you said when someone asked if they are also going to reject paper form letters like postcards or fax-ins.
People will write more letters as a result of this though. Why risk your electronic message being grouped in with electronic form letters and ignored when you can write a paper letter that they can easily tell at a glance is not a form letter?
They said in the article that they have a hard time telling the bulk electronic mail from the handwritten electronic mail, that's why they are doing this in the first place.
Seems like bad journalism at its finest.
The story says the Justice department merely filed a brief with the court stating their position, yet they refer to it as a "ruling". So which is it?
"Verizon's persistent efforts to protect copy thieves on pirate peer-to-peer networks will not succeed," [RIAA's Matt Oppenheimer] told Reuters.
Copy Thieves. heh
I don't know how you got the idea that I am some liberal tree-hugger Mr AC, but I do understand that conservation doesn't mean those things.
It does, however, imply an efficient use of natural resources. I don't see wasting lots of paper on things that could be electronic as an efficient use.
I know you were probably joking, but since you were modded insightful, I guess I should reply, if for nothing other for the sake of the people that modded you up.
There really isn't a concept of time unless it is relative to something. Think about it.
The Sensation II was the last Tandy branded computer to sell in the US. My parents got one when I asked for a computer all those years ago. If it had a cdrom tray rather than caddie, then it was a Sensation II. The first Sensation came with a caddie CDROM.
The WD hard disk had a strange habit of hanging under heavy swapping load, it would freeze for like a full minute, then start working again right where it left off.
Oh, yeah, the hard disk they shipped with was 212 megs, and it was already nearly full with all the crap they put on it. Tons of demo programs, and the stupid desktop replacement that Tandy wrote was default instead of Program Manager, forgot the name. It was huge and bloated for the time and considering the machine shipped with 4 megs ram.
The soundcard and modem were on the same card, and the modem was only 2400 when 9600 was pretty much standard by late 1993 when the system came out. Of course you had three ISA slots to upgrade it with, but the lower slot could only take short cards because the processor interfered with the clearance.
Now that I think about it, I really know way more than I ever wanted to about this subject. That computer was really what got me into computers in the modern sense, the only one I had before that was a C64.
Dude, I don't speak for them, I just pasted that from the web page I linked verbatim.
I agree that "Listening to people" part does seem hypocritical in light of this story.
http://www.fs.fed.us/fsjobs/mission.html
The Forest Service mission is captured by the phrase "Caring for the Land and Serving People." Our mission, as set forth by law, is to achieve quality land management under the sustainable multiple- use management concept to meet the diverse needs of people. For Forest Service employees this means participating in the follow activities:
Advocating a conservation ethic in promoting the health, productivity, diversity, and beauty of forests and associated lands.
Listening to people and responding to their diverse needs in making decisions.
Protecting and managing the national forests and grasslands so that they best demonstrate the sustainable multiple-use management concept.
Providing technical and financial assistance to State and private forest landowners, encouraging them to practice good stewardship and quality land management in meeting their specific objectives.
Providing international technical assistance to cities and urban communities to improve their natural environment by planting trees and caring for their forests.
Helping States and communities to use the forests wisely in order to promote rural economic development and a quality rural environment.
Developing and providing scientific and technical knowledge aimed at improving our capability to protect, manage, and use forests and rangelands.
Providing work, training, and education to the unemployed, underemployed, elderly, youth, and disadvantaged in pursuit of our mission.
The article says this would also apply to paper mails that were form letters, such as postcard or fax campaigns.