Regardless of the religious connotations of such an action, there's the issue of the limited knowledge we have about clonning.
Until very recently,scientists where at a loss to explain why so many clones failed either to come to term, or if they were "successfully" brought to term, why did they have so many anomalies.
Discover magazine, as one of their top science stories for 2002 (number 33), report that biologists have discovered a particular gene Oct 4 that affects the outcome.
The thing is, we still don't know how to control that gene, so we are still left playing the odds.
One of the regular columns of Game Developers Magazine, is a feature called: "Game Postmorten". In this column, different game companies talked about their experiences writing some of their games.
You'll notice that more and more games are resembling big hollywood productions, with multi-year engaments, and dozens of contributors. This has come about because users expect photo-realistic graphics, and true-to-real physics engines. A small group of developers have little chance of having this resources at hand.
For an example, check the Postmorten for Dungeon Siege Here.
I recently read in Discover magazine, that some astrophysicists are openly questioning whether we have the mental prowess to actually understand many of the mysteries in the universe.
For analogy, they talked about Apes. While it is clear that an Ape has intelligence, we do not expect them to start solving differential calculus any time soon. Their intelligence can't even conceive that such a thing exists.
Could it be, they asked, that perhaps some "secrets" of the universe are simply beyond our ability to even know what we don't know; and like the Apes, we are unable to even conceive their solutions?
"... She said the problem was fixed two weeks ago -- over a month after the states' top lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, showed the search problem during opening arguments as evidence of Microsoft's wrongdoing,
So the "problem" was presented as evidence of wrong doing, so they went ahead and fixed it. Is this similar to tampering with evidence?
Bloch: "Precisely. In fact, people who try to "do the quickest slop you can throw down" often take longer to produce a working system than people who carefully design the components. But certainly, API design helps if you consider cost over time".
This is one of the most common fights between us (developers) and management. Often managers are only interested on the fastest route, without considering the maintenance costs down the road.
I'll be emaling my manager a link to this story (anonimously, of course. I want to keep my job;-)
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That would explain Tiger Woods.
I'd add that it's not only their livelihood (their means of support or subsistence) that is at stake here, but also their LIVES.
Speaking out could not carry a higher cost for them.
My mistake, I didn't realize that you're not the real Miguel Icaza (user id 7116).
You're just a loser who can't even post under his/her own identity.
John
Mono runs in the Mac?? I checked the site, but there's no mention of it anywhere :-(
Or am I missing something?
Thanks,
John
You can watch the Animatrix trailer here
John
Regardless of the religious connotations of such an action, there's the issue of the limited knowledge we have about clonning.
Until very recently,scientists where at a loss to explain why so many clones failed either to come to term, or if they were "successfully" brought to term, why did they have so many anomalies.
Discover magazine, as one of their top science stories for 2002 (number 33), report that biologists have discovered a particular gene Oct 4 that affects the outcome.
The thing is, we still don't know how to control that gene, so we are still left playing the odds.
John
One of the regular columns of Game Developers Magazine, is a feature called: "Game Postmorten". In this column, different game companies talked about their experiences writing some of their games.
You'll notice that more and more games are resembling big hollywood productions, with multi-year engaments, and dozens of contributors. This has come about because users expect photo-realistic graphics, and true-to-real physics engines. A small group of developers have little chance of having this resources at hand.
For an example, check the Postmorten for Dungeon Siege Here.
John
I recently read in Discover magazine, that some astrophysicists are openly questioning whether we have the mental prowess to actually understand many of the mysteries in the universe.
For analogy, they talked about Apes. While it is clear that an Ape has intelligence, we do not expect them to start solving differential calculus any time soon. Their intelligence can't even conceive that such a thing exists.
Could it be, they asked, that perhaps some "secrets" of the universe are simply beyond our ability to even know what we don't know; and like the Apes, we are unable to even conceive their solutions?
Food for thought,
John
Diamons are forever. Plot Here
Isn't that what Kirk did each week?
John
You can find a good resource here.
John
This is part of a disturbing national trend.
In Ohio, they're keeping a DNA database of CLEARED suspects!
John
Interesting enough, the current issue of Discover magazine has an article about Chocolate, and how it's in danger of becoming extinct.
You can read a sample of the article at: Discover
"recieved" ?? ;-)
I have a Zaurus SL-5500, and when using it with my 802.11b network, it doesn't seem to care about the SID.
It doesn't matter what name I use, it seems to always work. Has anyone else experienced this?
John
Remember this Dilbert, the one were Wally gets a bunch of money because he has a cool ponytail?
See Here
and
See Here
John
Now, we all know what Slashdot readers want to see ...
Grrrr
;-)
Perhaps the answer is for brodcasters to switch to a "sponsor" model, like NPR and PBS do.
Note that this is the model that CNBC is using with "Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser", and it seems to be working very well for them.
John
I found a place that sells them at:
natural solutions
John
"... She said the problem was fixed two weeks ago -- over a month after the states' top lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, showed the search problem during opening arguments as evidence of Microsoft's wrongdoing,
So the "problem" was presented as evidence of wrong doing, so they went ahead and fixed it. Is this similar to tampering with evidence?
John
"Juliette Katz spent the past seven years sharpening her resume as a marketing manager at America Online, Food.com and other Internet start-ups."
;-)
Darn it, and here I was thinking that Jon Katz was finally out of the picture! Oh well, one Katz down, one to go
This is one of the most common fights between us (developers) and management. Often managers are only interested on the fastest route, without considering the maintenance costs down the road.
I'll be emaling my manager a link to this story (anonimously, of course. I want to keep my job ;-)
John
You state that your project will be using different languages, in that case, simply use C for C-style DLLs.
To use those C-style DLLs, simply write Declare statements in VB, just as if you had been making Win32 API calls.
John
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