So you could take a stem cell from a man and generate an ovum, and take a stem cell from a woman and generate a sperm, and then put them together and conceive a child.
But would some of the eggs have a Y chromosome, and all of the sperm have X chromosomes? And would that work (i.e. where the fertilised egg was XY)?
Now Microsoft is estopped from going after people using c# and.net technologies.
NO!
Microsoft is only estopped from going after people using C# and *CLI* technologies. They hold patents over other aspects of *.NET* technologies which are not covered by this feel-good announcement.
It is still all clear as mud.
So what if I grant royalty-free licences to everyone who wants to build a car chassis... if I have patented using a car chassis *with wheels*? What if Microsoft, say, patented general GUI functionality *in so far as it requires the CLI*? Even Gtk# would infringe that sort of patent, even though Gtk++ and the CLI separately had no patent encumbrances.
Just because all the components are safe from patent threats, it does not mean that any *combination* of those components are free from patent threats. "Using GUI functionality with the CLI" may be patented - or "using database functionality with the CLI". Having the CLI and your own GUI or database library won't help you there.
Ask those same people about having THEIR face superimposed on a nude...'s body and see how their answers change.
Provided I don't have to look at it, I really don't care. You can make up whatever images you like on your computer about me. I only care if you try to show them to me - or publish them - and they happen to be gross.
Of course, if you photoshop my head onto the statue of David, *I* might publish it.
In Australia, you can subscribe to a mobile phone service with a "free" phone included, OR you can buy an unlocked phone from some third party shop (or get your existing phone unlocked) and just buy a SIM card. The choice is yours.
I have no objection to companies offering cheap phones... provided I can get an account without a phone if that happens to be cheaper in my case.
Getting an account and phone in one is actually a good deal if you use the phone a lot (like most people seem to). It is like buying the phone at a wholesale price rather than at a retail price.
I remember watching the moon landings on TV at school - live.
At the time, I knew the whole thing would have been possible to do in a Hollywood studio. Thing is, Hollywood would have made it look more "realistic" and dramatic.
And they would have had to add some cheesy character - like an alien.
You know, Australians get a better deal with Linux.
The American price of Linux is the same number of US dollars as the Australian price expressed in Aussie dollars... BUT the Aussie $ is worth less than the US$ - so we get Linux cheaper than the Americans!
I'll have a go. Darl McBride will come out of the woodwork and found to be an alien made robot. Now that his identity doesn't need to be hidden, he unleashes a genetically engineered plague that wipes out all of man kind... except for Hans Reiser. Together they forge an alliance and with the weapons taken from the RIAA, they wage a war against Heaven itself.
Careful with "purpose" -- Evolution is non-teleological, and "purpose" has no place in evolutionary explanations. I think you mean that everything has to ba adaptive, but even then I wonder how you know -- surely evolution would allow characteristics that are not adaptive as long as they have no cost. In fact, evolution depends to some extent on things that are not necessary, as Stephen J Gould pointed out -- a part of an organism can only adapt to a new function if it's not needed for something else.
So what you are saying is: evolution serves no purpose.
At six years old, he memorized pages out of phone books faster than most people could read them as a party trick. As an adult, he invented modern computer memory architecture, made foundational advances in quantum mechanics, invented the entire field of game theory, and helped work on the nuclear bomb.
I was going to point out the case of John Stuart Mill, who wrote a compendium of Political Economy when he was about 13 and knew ancient Greek when he was 3.
But then I realised that all the ancient Greeks themselves could speak ancient Greek when they were three. Makes you think, doesn't it.
I didn't bother reading the summary... but I gather it is just some guy who's bragging that his "inflatable tower" can reach all the way up into outer space.
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So you could take a stem cell from a man and generate an ovum, and take a stem cell from a woman and generate a sperm, and then put them together and conceive a child.
But would some of the eggs have a Y chromosome, and all of the sperm have X chromosomes? And would that work (i.e. where the fertilised egg was XY)?
Now Microsoft is estopped from going after people using c# and .net technologies.
NO!
Microsoft is only estopped from going after people using C# and *CLI* technologies. They hold patents over other aspects of *.NET* technologies which are not covered by this feel-good announcement.
It is still all clear as mud.
So what if I grant royalty-free licences to everyone who wants to build a car chassis ... if I have patented using a car chassis *with wheels*? What if Microsoft, say, patented general GUI functionality *in so far as it requires the CLI*? Even Gtk# would infringe that sort of patent, even though Gtk++ and the CLI separately had no patent encumbrances.
Just because all the components are safe from patent threats, it does not mean that any *combination* of those components are free from patent threats. "Using GUI functionality with the CLI" may be patented - or "using database functionality with the CLI". Having the CLI and your own GUI or database library won't help you there.
Ask those same people about having THEIR face superimposed on a nude...'s body and see how their answers change.
Provided I don't have to look at it, I really don't care. You can make up whatever images you like on your computer about me. I only care if you try to show them to me - or publish them - and they happen to be gross.
Of course, if you photoshop my head onto the statue of David, *I* might publish it.
Surely "Vista+" means "*Vista and* any later versions of Windows". It does not mean "Windows 7".
But it takes a 6 year old to read the article and find out that the story is bullshit.
Didn't your mommy and daddy tell you that bragging is not nice? And as for using naughty words, I'm shocked!!!
Bing Is No Go
Why not both?
In Australia, you can subscribe to a mobile phone service with a "free" phone included, OR you can buy an unlocked phone from some third party shop (or get your existing phone unlocked) and just buy a SIM card. The choice is yours.
I have no objection to companies offering cheap phones ... provided I can get an account without a phone if that happens to be cheaper in my case.
Getting an account and phone in one is actually a good deal if you use the phone a lot (like most people seem to). It is like buying the phone at a wholesale price rather than at a retail price.
Why not?
I remember watching the moon landings on TV at school - live.
At the time, I knew the whole thing would have been possible to do in a Hollywood studio. Thing is, Hollywood would have made it look more "realistic" and dramatic.
And they would have had to add some cheesy character - like an alien.
You know, Australians get a better deal with Linux.
The American price of Linux is the same number of US dollars as the Australian price expressed in Aussie dollars ... BUT the Aussie $ is worth less than the US$ - so we get Linux cheaper than the Americans!
They had laptops or typewriters with function and modifier keys in the 19th century?
Yeah, of course!
What do you think Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, used to code with?
2) Backward compatibility, there are people still running applications written 40 years ago
Oh, so they are still playing "Hunt the Wumpus"?
(OK, so it was written 37 years ago, not 40. Sue me.)
Should I be barred from suing you for being a nuisance, just because I'm a nuisance myself?
Yes. It is called "unclean hands" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_hands).
You being a jackass undermines your suit against me being a jackass.
Microsoft calling anyone anti-competitive should result in the court bursting out in raucous laughter.
I'll have a go. Darl McBride will come out of the woodwork and found to be an alien made robot. Now that his identity doesn't need to be hidden, he unleashes a genetically engineered plague that wipes out all of man kind... except for Hans Reiser. Together they forge an alliance and with the weapons taken from the RIAA, they wage a war against Heaven itself.
Too obvious.
But think of the fun you can have trying to make catapults with them.
No, but I have seen them stand up for a group of Nazi's, ...
They were probably just Grammar Nazis protesting the misuse of apostrophes.
gold bouillon
That would really taste awful.
rj
That food's too rich for me.
Its a bacteria. What viruses live inside it?
It's a bacterium. If there are two or more, then they are bacteria.
If we are to be killed by resurrected ancient bacteria, at least let us be grammatically correct when we die!
Careful with "purpose" -- Evolution is non-teleological, and "purpose" has no place in evolutionary explanations. I think you mean that everything has to ba adaptive, but even then I wonder how you know -- surely evolution would allow characteristics that are not adaptive as long as they have no cost. In fact, evolution depends to some extent on things that are not necessary, as Stephen J Gould pointed out -- a part of an organism can only adapt to a new function if it's not needed for something else.
So what you are saying is: evolution serves no purpose.
Correction:
"...that pulls together assertions by combing through more than 500 million Web pages."
I suspects it just pulls together *sentences*.
What is more amazing is that it struck a 14-year-old German. I didn't think these things existed anymore; I thought all Germans were over 40 by now.
Maybe he is a 41-year-old dyslexic German.
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
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Read up on John Von Neumann.
At six years old, he memorized pages out of phone books faster than most people could read them as a party trick. As an adult, he invented modern computer memory architecture, made foundational advances in quantum mechanics, invented the entire field of game theory, and helped work on the nuclear bomb.
I was going to point out the case of John Stuart Mill, who wrote a compendium of Political Economy when he was about 13 and knew ancient Greek when he was 3.
But then I realised that all the ancient Greeks themselves could speak ancient Greek when they were three. Makes you think, doesn't it.
I didn't bother reading the summary... but I gather it is just some guy who's bragging that his "inflatable tower" can reach all the way up into outer space.
Somehow, prices for netbooks crept up with the addition of harddisks and Windows.
(A) bait and switch (Ooh, look! Netbooks are cheap. (Everyone rushes to buy.) Ooh, look. Netbooks cost just as much as everything else.)
(B) embrace, extend, destroy
Take your pick.
Firefox, on its own, should not be capable of locking up the entire machine.
Firefox, on its own, won't even run. It is not an operating system, or even a windowing environment - it requires both. It is never "alone".