Ok, your the ultimate suprime being in the universe. You decide to create life. So you think of the simplist solution, instead of the one best suited for survival and deversification. That makes sense. (not arguing existance just arguing against your logic)
Yes, but viruses cannot self replicate, they require living cells to preform the replication. So given that it seems as if viruses have to have evolved (don't like using that term but it makes sense for my point) after simple cellular forms of life.
Ok then assuming we evolved from something much simpler, why did evolution seem to have been contained in a straight line up untill bacteria. I'm refering to the fact that all life shares a fairly high amount of DNA (I can't remember the percent exactly.. something around 80%). If evolution took us from something that wasn't even that complex (as that first 80% shared is extremly complex) why do we not see a greater variety of DNA patterns. Wouldn't it make sense that evolution would have found several other ways to define life than that.
Personally I want a cow that walks over to my table at a resturant and ask what part of him do I want to eat. This cow of course is genetically altered to have a desire to be eatten. He takes great pride and joy out of his work. (Note: all this stolen from Hitchiker's Guide of course)
Your talking about the Pope right? You really think he's a virgin? Give me a break.. And I doupt if asked that God would call him his main man, I doupt God is even Catholic in the first place (HAR HAR). And when did something have to be hip for you to believe in it. Personally if God ever did turn hip, I'd loose alot of respect for the guy, Absolute wisdom my ass.
Sure, and my experiment building a circuit board shows that nature could have designed a simple computer out of mineral deposits in the earth. The simpliest bacteria known is as or more complex than most processors, yet I doupt nature is going to randomly create one nomatter how many billions or years you give it. (I'm not talking bout evolution here folks, talking about the chance of that first life form that was created by the mix of amino acids and a lot of heat and or pressure)
ATX1 duh we know that. We're talking about the dreamcast though, how do you even go about sending AT commands to it in the first place, noone yet knows (outside of Sega of course). And for some reason I doupt Sega has SLIP installed.
Accually I think the sega rep does, he just wasn't expecting such a question and probably didn't realize there was a telnet port open on the dreamcast. a: no. i tried scanning for open ports on my dreamcast, i saw telnet was open, and i tried using telnet to access it. i did this from my dsl-connected computer. i got the login and password prompt in the telnet window. the dreamcast works fine, even when i'm using telnet. r: whoa, man. i dunno. a: alright.. r: i couldn't give you any dns or anything a: yeah? r: that'd be ILLEGAL! It seemed that he was starting to catch on towards the end there.
Been way to long sense I've seen it done, but I believe you can simply hook up your dreamcast to your computers modem, dial out on the dreamcast and send an ATA to the modem on the computer. Then just run a ppp server. ok accually its not that simple as you have to force the dreamcast to ignore the fact there is no dialtone.. but if you can pull that off.
A crime is a crime. One isn't free from justice for their past crimes just because they changed their ways, (or not given a chance to commit many new crimes). Generally once a trial begins usually what facts and evidence exist at the beginning of the trial are the facts used throughout the trial.
Did you try putting your sound card on the slot fartest from the power supply? There is sometimes effects of the emf from the power supply effecting the analog parts of many cards. Try that, if that doesn't still work either it truly is a crappy card, or your just a little too picky when it comes to audio noise
On the other hand, it could be moderated down as "Bad spelling". But then afain there is no such an option. Well there you go again, assuming I'm speaking english. - note: that was supposed to be funny
Hey... what if I had a large karma and wanted to be reborn as a high state of life in the form of meept. Are you trying to say that meept is a lower form of life? I'm offended.
Personally I think the average registered slashdot is useless. I wouldn't think any more than.1% of slashdotters even read spam (or is.1% being insulting, should it be.01%?) much less reply/buy anything from it. Spam is marketting directed to newbies. I would hope that collectivly we are a bit smarter than that, not counting AC of course.
But, also we have a open sourced constitution, that anyone can borrow from or modify to create their own monarchy, democracy, or whatever they see fit to do. Note: this constitution is currently not available quite yet, but you know, you can't have everything:)
Anonymous as I was the one marking your comment as funny, now you wouldn't want that undone would you:)
On a related note: The Register has a story about the K8 (note the register appears to be down right now, but the link is on the main page). Not very much information, but interesting never the less.
well personally I hope you get the 10 comments picked randomly all at once. These comments should also not have the name of the commentor displayed. This way you can be as unbaised as possible.
That is exactly why I don't believe in socialist. For some reason government just can't take issues seriously. While in a capitolistic company, every thing that could possibly go wrong is taken with the upmost seriousness usually. (This is one reason I'm not worried about y2k in america)
Well, you can hear the changes from 1 to 0, but if it came out of a pc speaker its not a digital wave as digital waves aren't really waves..:) (they are more like cliffs shaped like _l`l_l`l instead of/\/\/`\__/\) but its really next to impossible to create a perfectly digital sound wave. The waves that come out of your pc speaker are from a digital source, but are still analog in wave form.
Is it just me, or is it really annoying to everyone else when something deserving of a quicky gets a full writeup, while your submission doesn't even get a quicky:)
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Ok, your the ultimate suprime being in the universe. You decide to create life. So you think of the simplist solution, instead of the one best suited for survival and deversification. That makes sense. (not arguing existance just arguing against your logic)
Yes, but viruses cannot self replicate, they require living cells to preform the replication. So given that it seems as if viruses have to have evolved (don't like using that term but it makes sense for my point) after simple cellular forms of life.
Ok then assuming we evolved from something much simpler, why did evolution seem to have been contained in a straight line up untill bacteria. I'm refering to the fact that all life shares a fairly high amount of DNA (I can't remember the percent exactly.. something around 80%). If evolution took us from something that wasn't even that complex (as that first 80% shared is extremly complex) why do we not see a greater variety of DNA patterns. Wouldn't it make sense that evolution would have found several other ways to define life than that.
Personally I want a cow that walks over to my table at a resturant and ask what part of him do I want to eat. This cow of course is genetically altered to have a desire to be eatten. He takes great pride and joy out of his work.
(Note: all this stolen from Hitchiker's Guide of course)
Your talking about the Pope right? You really think he's a virgin? Give me a break.. And I doupt if asked that God would call him his main man, I doupt God is even Catholic in the first place (HAR HAR). And when did something have to be hip for you to believe in it. Personally if God ever did turn hip, I'd loose alot of respect for the guy, Absolute wisdom my ass.
Sure, and my experiment building a circuit board shows that nature could have designed a simple computer out of mineral deposits in the earth. The simpliest bacteria known is as or more complex than most processors, yet I doupt nature is going to randomly create one nomatter how many billions or years you give it. (I'm not talking bout evolution here folks, talking about the chance of that first life form that was created by the mix of amino acids and a lot of heat and or pressure)
ATX1 duh we know that. We're talking about the dreamcast though, how do you even go about sending AT commands to it in the first place, noone yet knows (outside of Sega of course). And for some reason I doupt Sega has SLIP installed.
Did you try diconnecting your dreamcast and trying the port again? If it still works... it ain't your dreamcast. If it doesn't.. it MAY have been
Accually I think the sega rep does, he just wasn't expecting such a question and probably didn't realize there was a telnet port open on the dreamcast.
a: no. i tried scanning for open ports on my dreamcast, i saw telnet was open, and i tried using telnet to access it. i did this from my dsl-connected computer. i got the login and password prompt in the telnet window. the dreamcast works fine, even when i'm using telnet.
r: whoa, man. i dunno.
a: alright..
r: i couldn't give you any dns or anything
a: yeah?
r: that'd be ILLEGAL!
It seemed that he was starting to catch on towards the end there.
Been way to long sense I've seen it done, but I believe you can simply hook up your dreamcast to your computers modem, dial out on the dreamcast and send an ATA to the modem on the computer. Then just run a ppp server. ok accually its not that simple as you have to force the dreamcast to ignore the fact there is no dialtone.. but if you can pull that off.
The nations of the world would simply destroy your satilites. Its not that tough. Legalities or not.
A crime is a crime. One isn't free from justice for their past crimes just because they changed their ways, (or not given a chance to commit many new crimes). Generally once a trial begins usually what facts and evidence exist at the beginning of the trial are the facts used throughout the trial.
According or a press release on pine's site it last 8 hours on 4 AA's
Did you try putting your sound card on the slot fartest from the power supply? There is sometimes effects of the emf from the power supply effecting the analog parts of many cards. Try that, if that doesn't still work either it truly is a crappy card, or your just a little too picky when it comes to audio noise
On the other hand, it could be moderated down as "Bad spelling". But then afain there is no such an option.
Well there you go again, assuming I'm speaking english. - note: that was supposed to be funny
Well accually I thought europeans were more prone to riot during sport games.
Hey... what if I had a large karma and wanted to be reborn as a high state of life in the form of meept. Are you trying to say that meept is a lower form of life? I'm offended.
Personally I think the average registered slashdot is useless. I wouldn't think any more than .1% of slashdotters even read spam (or is .1% being insulting, should it be .01%?) much less reply/buy anything from it. Spam is marketting directed to newbies. I would hope that collectivly we are a bit smarter than that, not counting AC of course.
AHHHHHH!!! *looks really embarrassed, and tries to pretend he doesn't know what just happend*
But, also we have a open sourced constitution, that anyone can borrow from or modify to create their own monarchy, democracy, or whatever they see fit to do. Note: this constitution is currently not available quite yet, but you know, you can't have everything :)
:)
Anonymous as I was the one marking your comment as funny, now you wouldn't want that undone would you
On a related note: The Register has a story about the K8 (note the register appears to be down right now, but the link is on the main page). Not very much information, but interesting never the less.
well personally I hope you get the 10 comments picked randomly all at once. These comments should also not have the name of the commentor displayed. This way you can be as unbaised as possible.
That is exactly why I don't believe in socialist. For some reason government just can't take issues seriously. While in a capitolistic company, every thing that could possibly go wrong is taken with the upmost seriousness usually. (This is one reason I'm not worried about y2k in america)
Well, you can hear the changes from 1 to 0, but if it came out of a pc speaker its not a digital wave as digital waves aren't really waves.. :) (they are more like cliffs shaped like _l`l_l`l instead of /\/\/`\__/\) but its really next to impossible to create a perfectly digital sound wave. The waves that come out of your pc speaker are from a digital source, but are still analog in wave form.
Is it just me, or is it really annoying to everyone else when something deserving of a quicky gets a full writeup, while your submission doesn't even get a quicky :)