Wasn't Myst programmed in applescript? I clearly remember "the making of myst" that was included with a apple a roommate had bought (the game was included as well). The two bothers who made the game (forgot their names) talked about applescript or hypercards or something... I played the game wth my roommate and we really liked it... but i couldn't believe it was programmed in a scripting language.
Well I quite certain they will not use 1 dna strand to store the data... they will use lots. See it as RAID but then with really cheap disks... and millions of them. As long there is no heavy selection on the replication (there is a bit of selection: AT bonds only have 2 H-bonds while CG has 3), it should be very accurate.
I'm sorry, but I can not agree with this point of view. I assume that scientific theory that you are writing about is the Gaia hypothesis of Lovelock, which in my point of view totally flawed.
If natural selection optimizes anything it would be the ability to replicate.
The algorithm of evolution is quite simple: Organisms replicate. The replication rate of organisms is higher that their habitat can provide (otherwise we would have billions of eliphants etc). Selection takes place (the sieve that will shift between those organisms that will reproduce and those that won't): Some die by a stupid accident (e.g. lightning), some don't. Some die because they are not resistant to some kind of disease, some are and will not die. Some are better at obtain energy than others. etc. Those that don't die before the age propagation will have a chance to replicate.
Some of those were lucky and some were not (it's getting bit binary). But some where lucky because they happended to be more prepared for their environment they encountered (not because they were not hit by lightning).
They had something that gave them an advatange.
In the long run this something will be selected for.
Of course this something exists of many "things".
So what is the "thing" that is being selected. What is the "thing" that stays. This is what biologist call the unit of selection. So what is the unit of selection... it is not species, not organisms, it is the replicator: the unit of selection is: the gene!
Those genes that give an organism a higher chance for reproduction will increase in number, those that give an organism a lower chance will dwindle in numbers.
Natural selection doesn't optimize "loops". The "whole web of life" doesn't co-evolve towards "optimum survival of each species". It doesn't evolve at all. Genes of species can co-evolve. The "whole web of life" can't. (Or genes IN species co-evolve) There is nothing "nice" about evolution. If it does happen to be "nice" in our point of view, it isn't "nice". Evolution doesn't know "nice". To be more precice it doesn't "know" anything. A virus doesn't give a damn about its host it infects. A pathogenic bacterium doesn't either. A virus that would be so virulent that it would kill its host before it can infect another is simply not viable. It would die. A virus that would be a little bit nicer would a better chance. Therefore it would replicate. However a virus that would be too "nice", e.g. one that would take minimal resources of its host, would be replaced be the one that would.
Sorry for this rant, but there is no "collective natural selection".
Please define what you mean by sick. The earth is not a living system. It doesn't replicate. Therefore it can't be shaped by any form of natural selection. Therefore it is not like our own body.
From the article:
According to the Summer 2004 Evans Data Linux Developers Survey, 93% of Linux developers have experienced two or fewer incidents where a Linux machine was compromised. Eighty-seven percent had experienced only one such incident, and 78% have never had a cracker break into a Linux machine. In the few cases where intruders succeeded, the primary cause was inadequately configured security settings.
So does that mean:
7 % experienced more than 3 incidents?
And how can 87% have experienced 1 incident while 78% had none?
Just curious. What kind of maintenance do you on your Postgresql database?
I have (I think) put the following things in cron: Vacuum full in the weekend. Analyze every night. Reindex once a week. Cluster every night. And I have the vacuum daemon Running. (And a backup every night)
Are there any things I should do manually?
I can't find any good postgres books about these issues. Ok, the newsgroups are ok, but a book would be still welcomed.
(I have two postgresql books, but both of them don't really tell things I'm think are interesting (specially the oreilly really stinks)
I read the link... Cringely seems to be correct on many things.
But how about this one:
"5) The SCO debacle has created a crisis within the Linux community. They pretend that it hasn't, but it has. This will come to a head in 2004 with either the development of a new organizational structure for Linux or the start of its demise. Linux has to grow or die, and the direction it takes will be determined in 2004."
I'm not really into these things, but are there really any signs that the "organizational structure for Linux" is changing in because of the "SCO debacle"?
Sofar as I know nothing really changed, or am I mistaken?
furthermore aren't prediction 5 and 6 a bit contradictory. Cingely says (prediction 6): "This was never more than a stock scam"... If so than why the "or the start of its demise"?
If bacterial fossils would be found, it could possibly tell us a lot about how life orginated on earth.
The biggest problem with all the hypothesis of the origin of life is that of falsification. This problem is not confined to theories of the genesis of life alone.
All biologist that want to explain why a certain animal evolved from its ancestors in such a way and not in an other way, have this problem. So do historians. "What would have happened if king George the whatever died at 18 of pneumonia, I assume that germany bla bla ".
You can probably tell a nice story, but do you have any data to prove your assumptions?. Although biologist often are in a better position to prove their assumptions (there are a lot more animals with the same niches/ancestors, living in different continents/islands evolving in different species in comparison to king George's), it often resorts to just story-telling.
If life did orginate independently on Mars and any remains of this event could be found and studied, it could not only falsify a lot of hyphotesis but also stir new ones in the right direction
Although I think that XP has some valuable ways of bugs to be found. My link should have been "more information".
The ore of bad programming can be probably found elsewere.
Is Junit any way linked with extreme programming? It sound that their goals are quite identical. However their ore informationmore informationsection doesn't mention JUnit anywhere.
I'm not really good at translating but I'll give it a try
Loosely translated from a article on WebWereld (dutch IT news site)
Dutch judge prohibits the use of the trademark Lindows
This conclusion was made by the Dutch judge Sj. Rullmann in Amsterdam on Thursday.
Microsoft claimed during court that Lindows violated its
trademark and that the name Lindows is too confusing in comparison to its own
product Windows.
"Lindows profits unlawfully from the success of Windows because
Lindows.com too explicitly puts its product in the market as a product
which is capable of running both platforms", according to the judge.
[I don't even understand the next line in Dutch but I'll try: ]
Moreover Lindows distinguishes itself [huh?] from Windows because of
its name [and] Lindows takes unjustified advantage from the [fuck
knows: undistinguishablility?] and reputation of the brand Windows.
Lindows.com is summoned to cease the violation of the trademark infringement
on the brand Windows. The software company of Michael
Robertson is also no longer allowed to advertise in
the Netherlands.
Furthermore the four resellers in the Netherlands must stop with the
sale and advertisements of Lindows products.
Also the judge ruled that Lindows must ensure that internet users from
the Benelux [BElgium NEtherlands LUXembourg] can
no longer access the site www.lindows.com.
This verdict corresponds to earlier rulings of
judges in Finland and Sweden. There the use of the names LindowsOS and Lindows
became prohibited in December as well.
Lindows.com could change its name in the Benelux. According to Erik
Vollebregt Clifford Change, the question whether this will
happen is uncertain because the sales in the Benelux are not high, but it is up to the lawyer's office of Lindows.com [in the USA]
Vollebregt: "We just sent the sentence to USA. Hence it still must be determined
whether Lindows thinks it makes sense and money worth spending to
appeal to the verdict"
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Wasn't Myst programmed in applescript?
I clearly remember "the making of myst" that was included with a apple a roommate had bought (the game was included as well). The two bothers who made the game (forgot their names) talked about applescript or hypercards or something... I played the game wth my roommate and we really liked it... but i couldn't believe it was programmed in a scripting language.
US Army Guide to Encryption:
Kill eve.
There a few.
One which is free sofware is GNU Compiler for the Java but I'm not sure if it works with swing.
AWT is not supported so I suppose swing isn't either.
Well I quite certain they will not use 1 dna strand to store the data... they will use lots. See it as RAID but then with really cheap disks... and millions of them. As long there is no heavy selection on the replication (there is a bit of selection: AT bonds only have 2 H-bonds while CG has 3), it should be very accurate.
btw HIV is RNA (retro) virus
On the otherhand the world is filled with enzymes called DNase that will willingly eat your TB DNA storage in no time.
Siliconase however does not exist.
mmmm chick in holland is definitely preaching something else...
Probably not related...
Or maybe the dutch relative is the black sheep in the family
It is the default firefox start page. (If you do a fresh install)
I'm sorry, but I can not agree with this point of view.
I assume that scientific theory that you are writing about is the Gaia hypothesis of Lovelock, which in my point of view totally flawed.
If natural selection optimizes anything it would be the ability to replicate.
The algorithm of evolution is quite simple:
Organisms replicate.
The replication rate of organisms is higher that their habitat can provide (otherwise we would have billions of eliphants etc).
Selection takes place (the sieve that will shift between those organisms that will reproduce and those that won't):
Some die by a stupid accident (e.g. lightning), some don't.
Some die because they are not resistant to some kind of disease, some are and will not die.
Some are better at obtain energy than others.
etc.
Those that don't die before the age propagation will have a chance to replicate.
Some of those were lucky and some were not (it's getting bit binary).
But some where lucky because they happended to be more prepared for their environment they encountered (not because they were not hit by lightning).
They had something that gave them an advatange.
In the long run this something will be selected for.
Of course this something exists of many "things".
So what is the "thing" that is being selected. What is the "thing" that stays. This is what biologist call the unit of selection.
So what is the unit of selection... it is not species, not organisms, it is the replicator: the unit of selection is: the gene!
Those genes that give an organism a higher chance for reproduction will increase in number,
those that give an organism a lower chance will dwindle in numbers.
Natural selection doesn't optimize "loops".
The "whole web of life" doesn't co-evolve towards "optimum survival of each species". It doesn't evolve at all. Genes of species can co-evolve. The "whole web of life" can't. (Or genes IN species co-evolve)
There is nothing "nice" about evolution. If it does happen to be "nice" in our point of view, it isn't "nice". Evolution doesn't know "nice". To be more precice it doesn't "know" anything.
A virus doesn't give a damn about its host it infects. A pathogenic bacterium doesn't either.
A virus that would be so virulent that it would kill its host before it can infect another is simply not viable. It would die.
A virus that would be a little bit nicer would a better chance.
Therefore it would replicate. However a virus that would be too "nice", e.g. one that would take minimal resources of its host, would be replaced be the one that would.
Sorry for this rant, but there is no "collective natural selection".
Please define what you mean by sick.
The earth is not a living system.
It doesn't replicate.
Therefore it can't be shaped by any form of natural selection.
Therefore it is not like our own body.
Ok i get this
/e (2) /etc/ (3) /etc/init.d/ (6) /etc/init.d/xinetd (9)
/etc /etc/rc.d/init.d/ in 6 keystrokes and the xinetd in 9 :)
tab =>
in (5)
tab =>
xi (8)
tab =>
since init.d is symlinked in
I get
Ok I'm stupid.. the 78% where never cracked.
So 22% was cracked? Still sounds a bit high though.
From the article:
According to the Summer 2004 Evans Data Linux Developers Survey, 93% of Linux developers have experienced two or fewer incidents where a Linux machine was compromised. Eighty-seven percent had experienced only one such incident, and 78% have never had a cracker break into a Linux machine. In the few cases where intruders succeeded, the primary cause was inadequately configured security settings.
So does that mean:
7 % experienced more than 3 incidents?
And how can 87% have experienced 1 incident while 78% had none?
Just curious. What kind of maintenance do you on your Postgresql database?
I have (I think) put the following things in cron:
Vacuum full in the weekend.
Analyze every night.
Reindex once a week.
Cluster every night.
And I have the vacuum daemon Running.
(And a backup every night)
Are there any things I should do manually?
I can't find any good postgres books about these issues. Ok, the newsgroups are ok, but a book would be still welcomed.
(I have two postgresql books, but both of them don't really tell things I'm think are interesting (specially the oreilly really stinks)
I read the link... Cringely seems to be correct on many things.
But how about this one:
"5) The SCO debacle has created a crisis within the Linux community. They pretend that it hasn't, but it has. This will come to a head in 2004 with either the development of a new organizational structure for Linux or the start of its demise. Linux has to grow or die, and the direction it takes will be determined in 2004."
I'm not really into these things, but are there really any signs that the "organizational structure for Linux" is changing in because of the "SCO debacle"? Sofar as I know nothing really changed, or am I mistaken?
furthermore aren't prediction 5 and 6 a bit contradictory.
Cingely says (prediction 6): "This was never more than a stock scam"...
If so than why the "or the start of its demise"?
It's backspace (open a prompt type some thing the type ctrl+h) ...
Thus
"while SCO^H^H the offer lasts... "
says
"while S the offer lasts.."
Should probably have been SCO^H^H^H
and what the heck is "Gentoo" anyway?!
It's a penguin... here are some pics
if tens of thousands of innocent people end up in prison it is time to question your judgement system
"what is Scribus really like?"
Here a link to their homepage
>> Chemical Formula CF3CF2C(O)CF(CF3)2
Looks like a real ozone killer... well as long it doesn't evaporate easily, maybe this will not be a problem
If bacterial fossils would be found, it could possibly tell us a lot about how life orginated on earth.
The biggest problem with all the hypothesis of the origin of life is that of falsification. This problem is not confined to theories of the genesis of life alone.
All biologist that want to explain why a certain animal evolved from its ancestors in such a way and not in an other way, have this problem. So do historians. "What would have happened if king George the whatever died at 18 of pneumonia, I assume that germany bla bla ".
You can probably tell a nice story, but do you have any data to prove your assumptions?. Although biologist often are in a better position to prove their assumptions (there are a lot more animals with the same niches/ancestors, living in different continents/islands evolving in different species in comparison to king George's), it often resorts to just story-telling.
If life did orginate independently on Mars and any remains of this event could be found and studied, it could not only falsify a lot of hyphotesis but also stir new ones in the right direction
Although I think that XP has some valuable ways of bugs to be found. My link should have been "more information".
The ore of bad programming can be probably found elsewere.
Is Junit any way linked with extreme programming? It sound that their goals are quite identical. However their ore informationmore informationsection doesn't mention JUnit anywhere.
I'm not really good at translating but I'll give it a try
Loosely translated from a article on WebWereld (dutch IT news site)
Dutch judge prohibits the use of the trademark Lindows
This conclusion was made by the Dutch judge Sj. Rullmann in Amsterdam on Thursday.
Microsoft claimed during court that Lindows violated its trademark and that the name Lindows is too confusing in comparison to its own product Windows.
"Lindows profits unlawfully from the success of Windows because Lindows.com too explicitly puts its product in the market as a product which is capable of running both platforms", according to the judge.
[I don't even understand the next line in Dutch but I'll try: ] Moreover Lindows distinguishes itself [huh?] from Windows because of its name [and] Lindows takes unjustified advantage from the [fuck knows: undistinguishablility?] and reputation of the brand Windows.
Lindows.com is summoned to cease the violation of the trademark infringement on the brand Windows. The software company of Michael Robertson is also no longer allowed to advertise in the Netherlands.
Furthermore the four resellers in the Netherlands must stop with the sale and advertisements of Lindows products.
Also the judge ruled that Lindows must ensure that internet users from the Benelux [BElgium NEtherlands LUXembourg] can no longer access the site www.lindows.com.
This verdict corresponds to earlier rulings of judges in Finland and Sweden. There the use of the names LindowsOS and Lindows became prohibited in December as well.
Lindows.com could change its name in the Benelux. According to Erik Vollebregt Clifford Change, the question whether this will happen is uncertain because the sales in the Benelux are not high, but it is up to the lawyer's office of Lindows.com [in the USA]
Vollebregt: "We just sent the sentence to USA. Hence it still must be determined whether Lindows thinks it makes sense and money worth spending to appeal to the verdict"
A picture says more than a thousand words ;)
thumbs and highres pictures here
article was posted here