This article at MacKiDo covers the differences (and a lot more info) between DPS and display PDF. Basically, it comes down to licensing -- Next had to pay boatloads to Adobe to license display postscript and Jobs, back at Apple, didn't want to repeat the mistake while still shoving the rest of NextStep into Mac OS.
According to Parenting for Dummies, (I admit it, I'm reading it, along with a whole bunch of other parenting books and magazines), there are two (related) ways to spoil a child:
1) Give in to temper tantrums (act mad)
2) Let them manipulate you into giving them what they want (act cute; act sad)
You want to provide boundaries to keep children safe, but those walls must continually expand. Parents shouldn't give an 8-year-old beer; parents shouldn't let an 8-year-old drive the minivan.
But parents should commend an 8-year-old's curiosity and explorations of the world around her, as long as she's not endangering herself...
Personally, I worry that the ones who would most want to clone themselves are probably the ones we'd least want cloned. Also, I think in small quantities it probably wouldn't doom the world (twins, triplets, quads)
... but imagine the process becomes incredibly inexpensive, almost trivial. Throw in artificial wombs. I think when you get to dozens or hundreds of clones, that might get screwy. Some people resent being one of several middle kids in a large family, what if you were one of a hundred identical twins? How would you name them? (if you're not George Foreman)
I wonder how many clones of himself Bill Gates could afford to create...
I am somewhat concerned about the use of academic funding to compete with commercial enterprises.
All in all, I think competition between academic and commercial endeavors is a good thing. Academic ventures are good because our tax dollars can fund discoveries that enter the public domain -- public money for public benefit.
The downside is that academic ventures can suck capital and effort away from commercial ventures ("Why try and study that to make money from it? There's already a government-funded effort.") Academic studies may take longer to complete without market pressures to speed things along, while commercially-funded ones are at risk of cutting corners and reducing accuracy to reduce time-to-market.
The genome effort was special in that you had well-funded commercial and government entities chasing after a worthy goal -- the competition sped up the process, but a lot of material is now out in the public domain. Not bad at all...
Actually, the XFL has contracts to show games on *three* networks: NBC, UPN, and TNN. It's like the NFL: CBS and Fox focus on the two conferences.
Now all we need to hear is, "This is a sport of death and honor--code of the gladiators!"
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If speed is a change in distance per unit time, you'll need a different unit of measurement if you're trying to describe a change in distance *and* time per unit... what? "ether"?
I would prefer to pay more than a $1 in royalties to an artist out of the $16 cost of a CD. Just because RIAA companies have a chokehold on distribution (currently) doesn't mean they actually contribute anything to the value chain. I've been able to pay for downloaded software because it's the authors who hold the rights. Imagine if you had to give up the rights to your software in order to get listed in PCZone, Programmer's Paradise, whatever. Luckily, developers have distribution alternatives to try to get paid (non-GPL stuff, o'course). Artists get screwed over by record labels, and it's a shame.
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This article at MacKiDo covers the differences (and a lot more info) between DPS and display PDF. Basically, it comes down to licensing -- Next had to pay boatloads to Adobe to license display postscript and Jobs, back at Apple, didn't want to repeat the mistake while still shoving the rest of NextStep into Mac OS.
According to Parenting for Dummies, (I admit it, I'm reading it, along with a whole bunch of other parenting books and magazines), there are two (related) ways to spoil a child:
...
1) Give in to temper tantrums (act mad)
2) Let them manipulate you into giving them what they want (act cute; act sad)
You want to provide boundaries to keep children safe, but those walls must continually expand. Parents shouldn't give an 8-year-old beer; parents shouldn't let an 8-year-old drive the minivan.
But parents should commend an 8-year-old's curiosity and explorations of the world around her, as long as she's not endangering herself
On the very slim chance this isn't a troll, I offer the following:
... but imagine the process becomes incredibly inexpensive, almost trivial. Throw in artificial wombs. I think when you get to dozens or hundreds of clones, that might get screwy. Some people resent being one of several middle kids in a large family, what if you were one of a hundred identical twins? How would you name them? (if you're not George Foreman)
...
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (replace robots with artificially-created humans)
Personally, I worry that the ones who would most want to clone themselves are probably the ones we'd least want cloned. Also, I think in small quantities it probably wouldn't doom the world (twins, triplets, quads)
I wonder how many clones of himself Bill Gates could afford to create
I am somewhat concerned about the use of academic funding to compete with commercial enterprises.
...
All in all, I think competition between academic and commercial endeavors is a good thing. Academic ventures are good because our tax dollars can fund discoveries that enter the public domain -- public money for public benefit.
The downside is that academic ventures can suck capital and effort away from commercial ventures ("Why try and study that to make money from it? There's already a government-funded effort.") Academic studies may take longer to complete without market pressures to speed things along, while commercially-funded ones are at risk of cutting corners and reducing accuracy to reduce time-to-market.
The genome effort was special in that you had well-funded commercial and government entities chasing after a worthy goal -- the competition sped up the process, but a lot of material is now out in the public domain. Not bad at all
Actually, the XFL has contracts to show games on *three* networks: NBC, UPN, and TNN. It's like the NFL: CBS and Fox focus on the two conferences.
Now all we need to hear is, "This is a sport of death and honor--code of the gladiators!"
If speed is a change in distance per unit time, you'll need a different unit of measurement if you're trying to describe a change in distance *and* time per unit ... what? "ether"?
I thought a Chinese athlete won the women's marathon in Sydney ...
I would prefer to pay more than a $1 in royalties to an artist out of the $16 cost of a CD. Just because RIAA companies have a chokehold on distribution (currently) doesn't mean they actually contribute anything to the value chain. I've been able to pay for downloaded software because it's the authors who hold the rights. Imagine if you had to give up the rights to your software in order to get listed in PCZone, Programmer's Paradise, whatever. Luckily, developers have distribution alternatives to try to get paid (non-GPL stuff, o'course). Artists get screwed over by record labels, and it's a shame.