Why bother figuring out how it's turned on? Just engineer a transgene, with the gene and a promoter sequence that you do know how to control (there are many different types, and some can be manipulated by external chemical control). Then insert the transgene into a test cell and use the added promoter sequence to turn it on at will.
Not true. The people renting the "alternatives" will probably never see the originals, leaving them unable to tell whether the bad movie they saw was that way because of the edits or because the original director did a poor job.
If the product is not clearly marked as being a 're-edit', but I would imagine that it would be marketed as that, so the veiwer would know full well. This doesn't strike me as a campaign to trick people, but give them alternatives.
Besides, you're guaranteed free speech, not the right for every one to think your an artistic genius.
I've looked at the Apple Blast modifications. Interestingly, most of the changes are in the word table generation portion of the code, which only takes place at the begining of the program. Very few modifications have been made the actual search portion. What this means is that for sequences that require a lot of table generation (ie. really long sequences) there is a signicant speedup. But it doesn't show up for short sequences.
>Wrong. Yes it is. SURVIVAL UNDER ANY POSSIBLE MEANS is human nature.
This survival under any possible means seems to be comflicted by every person that has died in a war. It would seem that most men that died in WW2/American Revolution/Civil War valued freedom and country over personal survival. (I've only named conflicts with americans because their the ones I'm most familuar with).
Part of being an 'adult' is realizing that you are not the center of the universe, and you must sometimes forgo your needs, ie survival in this case, for a greater good.
Does this show have priority over all other shows running at the same time? So if it ran at the same time as farscape, would I have a copy of this show, or of farscape?
(I don't own a tivo, and I'm basing this question on the assumption that it can monitor one channel at a time)
I'm still amazed at the pair of brass balls needed to even suggest a settlement like this.
Can you think of any other company that would see flooding the market with their product as a good solution to a monopoly lawsuit? If AT&T had suggested adding free phone lines to schools in reponse to the goverment saying they already had too much control, they would have been laughed out of the court room.
Remeber that simpson's episode where Flander's was reading to his kids?
"And then Harry Potter and all his friends went straight to hell for practicing witch-craft. The End."
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It looks as if one of the sesame street characters are posied to become this generation's Kilroy.
For those who don't know, where ever Americans went durning the second world war, they would paint a cartoon character, Kilroy.
So, who should it be? I think the obvious choice to represent the united states would be Ernie.
>First, some of us are not Christians. Does this mean our children should be forced to learn your religion?
I guess you would perfer them to learn your religion.
Many Christians either homeschool their children or send them off to private schools, so they can avoid having their children indoctrinated into the popular religion of atheisism/evolutionism.
It's a falicy for ANYONE to believe they are without a religious basis. No one is immune and no one is objective.
Every religous is based on a series of dogmatic statements. And saying that the universe came from a big bang, is just as dogmatic as saying God created it in 7 days.
Moz
Spelling Mistakes arn't me fault, educated in public school.
If we didn't have popup adds, microsoft, and spam, then what would we bitch about?
We might have to start bitching about things like global warming or starvation in 3rd world contries.
Next, I'd expect Billy to be up on the podium, giving one of those 'Fire and Brimstone' kind of messages.
--
'It's evil, and of the devil', he yells shaking his fist towards the heavens. 'Repent now, and let the light of microsoft fill your lives'
He moves quickly toward the front row pointing a microphone at on the the bearded programmers in the front row.
'Forgive, Billy, for I have sinned, I'd programmed on a free operating system, and have released code under the GPL!!!'
'I've seen men for more gone then yourself, turn to see the light...' Billy quickly moves his hand towards the programmers forhead, pushing him back, 'I rebuke the GPL!!! I rebuke the GPL!!! I rejuke the GPL!!! Can I get a witness??!?!'
'Praise microsoft,' the crowd shouts back.
I think the main problem is that everyone assumes there is only one borg queen.
I'd bet the 6 sepperate hubs represent 6 sepperate borg colonies, each with their own borg queens, much the same way ants, bees, whatever, have a queen per colony.
This would also explain how the same actress can get killed 2 times (possible three if she was still on the ship in Best Of Both Worlds). Because hives typically replace the queen as soon as the other one is killed (which we can assume was done through cloning).
But the question becomes, if you have to come up with explanations like that to cover up plot holes, is it really worth it?
It's stuff like this that makes me want to beat the crap out of a lawer with a baseball bat.
Can somebody, with official copy of 'California Penal Code', tell me if that is illegal?
> question for you: Do you feel that viewing/watching pr0n is an unfaithful act
> to a significant other? what about going to strip clubs? what about
> thinking about someone else during lovemaking with your significant other?
If your SO would be seriously upset by finding out that you did, then yes it's on the same level. If they watch porn with you, then probably not.
It's not the action that's important, it's the effect that is can have.
At the moment, no. Simply because MacOSX requires an Apple Machine. If someone is buying a new machine, they might think about it, but if they are simply upgrading their OS, most people will be sticking with their Intel hardware.
Of course there are always rumors of copies of MacOSX running on Intel hardware (after all, NeXT, it's grandpa, worked on Intel), most conspiracy specialists would tell you that the instant that Apple tries to release a Intel MacOSX Microsoft would pull support for Microsoft Office (not even mentioning the canabilizing effects for their own hardware market).
But all of this get said every time there is a mention of OSX, it's hardly a new topic. So why the Slashdot article?
Wow, floppy CDs. I would dare say that this is the height of human achivement. It took a few million years to reach this point, but we finally did it.
And I would dare say that it doesn't get any better then this. The human race should stop while it's ahead.
It's obviously fake (IMHO). Not that I have proof, but the tone sounded like 'if I was Bill Gates, this is what I would say'.
But I think we still can learn from it. By playing devils advocate, and trying to picture how the enemy sees us, we are able to better expose our own flaws. There are many points, while twisted to fit a somewhat propaganda type arguement, do have some truth in them. There is a need to stop some of the 'infighting' between the different desktops, and there is a need for better device drivers.
Yes you blood my boil when you read it, or you may laugh at it as a fraud, but what ever you do, just try to learn.
I'd be curious to see if any companies have a hand in this. Have any computer companies made campain contributions to any of the politions involved?
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> A Seti workset on my Mac G4 at 450 Mhz takes 6
> hrs, done on my 333 Pentium 2 its 16 hrs if it is
> done under Windoze and 12 if it is done under
> BeOS (same hardware thus 33% penalty for
> Microsquish OS over BeOS). My 700 Mhz Athlon
> does one in about 8 hours (direct scale
> from the P2) in Windoze.
I read someplace theat the seti client does a lot of fast fourier (spell?) analysis. Thats one of the types of calculations that can be sped up by Alvitech.
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Why bother figuring out how it's turned on? Just engineer a transgene, with the gene and a promoter sequence that you do know how to control (there are many different types, and some can be manipulated by external chemical control). Then insert the transgene into a test cell and use the added promoter sequence to turn it on at will.
No, I think he ment HID (Human Interface Device).
I'd have to agree with the 'about' 2x equation. At least from standard genetic software tests (BLAST).
Not true. The people renting the "alternatives" will probably never see the originals, leaving them unable to tell whether the bad movie they saw was that way because of the edits or because the original director did a poor job.
If the product is not clearly marked as being a 're-edit', but I would imagine that it would be marketed as that, so the veiwer would know full well. This doesn't strike me as a campaign to trick people, but give them alternatives.
Besides, you're guaranteed free speech, not the right for every one to think your an artistic genius.
>Then I think that I should be allowed to edit your posts prior to them appearing on Slashdot.
Your analogy is slightly off, the movies have already been released, and these arn't designed as replacements, but rather alternatives.
You should have said, "Then I think that I should be allowed to edit your posts AFTER they appear on Slashdot."
I think that's perfectly acceptable, after all, I just did it to you....
I've looked at the Apple Blast modifications. Interestingly, most of the changes are in the word table generation portion of the code, which only takes place at the begining of the program. Very few modifications have been made the actual search portion. What this means is that for sequences that require a lot of table generation (ie. really long sequences) there is a signicant speedup. But it doesn't show up for short sequences.
There's search engines other then google? That's news to me.
>Wrong. Yes it is. SURVIVAL UNDER ANY POSSIBLE MEANS is human nature.
This survival under any possible means seems to be comflicted by every person that has died in a war. It would seem that most men that died in WW2/American Revolution/Civil War valued freedom and country over personal survival. (I've only named conflicts with americans because their the ones I'm most familuar with).
Part of being an 'adult' is realizing that you are not the center of the universe, and you must sometimes forgo your needs, ie survival in this case, for a greater good.
Does this show have priority over all other shows running at the same time? So if it ran at the same time as farscape, would I have a copy of this show, or of farscape?
(I don't own a tivo, and I'm basing this question on the assumption that it can monitor one channel at a time)
I'm still amazed at the pair of brass balls needed to even suggest a settlement like this.
Can you think of any other company that would see flooding the market with their product as a good solution to a monopoly lawsuit? If AT&T had suggested adding free phone lines to schools in reponse to the goverment saying they already had too much control, they would have been laughed out of the court room.
Remeber that simpson's episode where Flander's was reading to his kids?
"And then Harry Potter and all his friends went straight to hell for practicing witch-craft. The End."
It looks as if one of the sesame street characters are posied to become this generation's Kilroy.
For those who don't know, where ever Americans went durning the second world war, they would paint a cartoon character, Kilroy.
So, who should it be? I think the obvious choice to represent the united states would be Ernie.
>First, some of us are not Christians. Does this mean our children should be forced to learn your religion?
I guess you would perfer them to learn your religion.
Many Christians either homeschool their children or send them off to private schools, so they can avoid having their children indoctrinated into the popular religion of atheisism/evolutionism.
It's a falicy for ANYONE to believe they are without a religious basis. No one is immune and no one is objective.
Every religous is based on a series of dogmatic statements. And saying that the universe came from a big bang, is just as dogmatic as saying God created it in 7 days.
Moz
Spelling Mistakes arn't me fault, educated in public school.
The digits 12345 occur at position 49702.
That's amazing, it's the same as the combination on my luggage!!!
(Spaceballs in case you didn't catch it)
If we didn't have popup adds, microsoft, and spam, then what would we bitch about?
We might have to start bitching about things like global warming or starvation in 3rd world contries.
Moz
Next, I'd expect Billy to be up on the podium, giving one of those 'Fire and Brimstone' kind of messages.
--
'It's evil, and of the devil', he yells shaking his fist towards the heavens. 'Repent now, and let the light of microsoft fill your lives'
He moves quickly toward the front row pointing a microphone at on the the bearded programmers in the front row.
'Forgive, Billy, for I have sinned, I'd programmed on a free operating system, and have released code under the GPL!!!'
'I've seen men for more gone then yourself, turn to see the light...' Billy quickly moves his hand towards the programmers forhead, pushing him back, 'I rebuke the GPL!!! I rebuke the GPL!!! I rejuke the GPL!!! Can I get a witness??!?!'
'Praise microsoft,' the crowd shouts back.
I think the main problem is that everyone assumes there is only one borg queen.
I'd bet the 6 sepperate hubs represent 6 sepperate borg colonies, each with their own borg queens, much the same way ants, bees, whatever, have a queen per colony.
This would also explain how the same actress can get killed 2 times (possible three if she was still on the ship in Best Of Both Worlds). Because hives typically replace the queen as soon as the other one is killed (which we can assume was done through cloning).
But the question becomes, if you have to come up with explanations like that to cover up plot holes, is it really worth it?
Kyle
It's stuff like this that makes me want to beat the crap out of a lawer with a baseball bat.
Can somebody, with official copy of 'California Penal Code', tell me if that is illegal?
> question for you: Do you feel that viewing/watching pr0n is an unfaithful act
> to a significant other? what about going to strip clubs? what about
> thinking about someone else during lovemaking with your significant other?
If your SO would be seriously upset by finding out that you did, then yes it's on the same level. If they watch porn with you, then probably not.
It's not the action that's important, it's the effect that is can have.
At the moment, no. Simply because MacOSX requires an Apple Machine. If someone is buying a new machine, they might think about it, but if they are simply upgrading their OS, most people will be sticking with their Intel hardware.
Of course there are always rumors of copies of MacOSX running on Intel hardware (after all, NeXT, it's grandpa, worked on Intel), most conspiracy specialists would tell you that the instant that Apple tries to release a Intel MacOSX Microsoft would pull support for Microsoft Office (not even mentioning the canabilizing effects for their own hardware market).
But all of this get said every time there is a mention of OSX, it's hardly a new topic. So why the Slashdot article?
Wow, floppy CDs. I would dare say that this is the height of human achivement. It took a few million years to reach this point, but we finally did it.
And I would dare say that it doesn't get any better then this. The human race should stop while it's ahead.
Great!!! I think I'm already becoming an 'Am I Hot or Not' addict.
Damn You Slashdot!!!! Damn you to hell!!!!
Time for Betty Ford again
It's obviously fake (IMHO). Not that I have proof, but the tone sounded like 'if I was Bill Gates, this is what I would say'.
But I think we still can learn from it. By playing devils advocate, and trying to picture how the enemy sees us, we are able to better expose our own flaws. There are many points, while twisted to fit a somewhat propaganda type arguement, do have some truth in them. There is a need to stop some of the 'infighting' between the different desktops, and there is a need for better device drivers.
Yes you blood my boil when you read it, or you may laugh at it as a fraud, but what ever you do, just try to learn.
I'd be curious to see if any companies have a hand in this. Have any computer companies made campain contributions to any of the politions involved?
> A Seti workset on my Mac G4 at 450 Mhz takes 6 > hrs, done on my 333 Pentium 2 its 16 hrs if it is > done under Windoze and 12 if it is done under > BeOS (same hardware thus 33% penalty for > Microsquish OS over BeOS). My 700 Mhz Athlon > does one in about 8 hours (direct scale > from the P2) in Windoze. I read someplace theat the seti client does a lot of fast fourier (spell?) analysis. Thats one of the types of calculations that can be sped up by Alvitech.