I love it how they do something everyone else has been doing for years and they act as if they're god's gift to humanity because of it.
"Our Glorious Scientists have slashed disease rates ten times!" Yes, when you no longer sleep in your own feces and the whole ten person family doesn't eat with their unwashed hands from the same bowl, it does tend to improve hygeine.
This sounds like a good way to study computational properties of bacterial colonies. By printing them like this, perhaps they would be able to get them to behave in ways that would perform useful information processing. It might also end up acting as some sort of "interface" to DNA computation.
Whether we'd be able to get them to behave in reproducible ways would be the question.
Here are some links. The first has some interesting photos of bacterial colonies-- similar to cellular automata, because hey! They are! And the second is a link to an article on bacterial colony computation. Or maybe they're both to Goatse. You won't know until you click.
Yeah, the problem with any webmail is obviously the fact that you don't control the server it's on, etc etc.
It's a double-edged sword, though. Which is more stable, your personal network or Google's? I do forward my mail from gmail to my local machine where it gets backed up. And all the browser is is a user interface.
There's a great program I use called Gmail, brought to you by those fine guys at Google.
Gmail is never going to expose your computer to viruses unless you run attachments. Gmail has a smaller memory footprint than any of the other programs, and can be run on any machine that runs Lynx. Gmail stops spam. Gmail not only takes up no disk space on your computer, but gives you two gigs free per account! And you can have as many gmail accounts as you want!
Gmail also supports RSS feeds, which makes it useful for many other reasons.
I set up Thunderbird, and then I realized there was no reason to ever use it. And Outlook...
Support of stem cell research, even going against the White House party line to do so, is the only good thing I know of that The Governator has done during his term in office.
As a biotechnological monster himself, he knows that we shouldn't be running away from technology. Also, he may be getting worried that the cancer chickens are going to come home to roost.
A night at home watching american television is one of the most boring things I can think of. With the exception of watching military propaganda on the History Channel, I haven't spent an evening watching TV since maybe 1995. If Brit tv were on more, I could almost see myself sitting and watching that.
American television programming is dumbed down to a junior high school level.
Just so you know... best boot manager out there is called Gag. It has no problem supporting whatever operating systems it finds on your disk, and it finds new operating systems AT BOOT TIME.
Nah, this is actually useful. Those calculators are really powerful little devices, like a mini-PDA. They can also be piss-slow for performing their designed function, so this improves the usefulness of the device, unlike so many other Slashdot projects.
Things like scene-by-scene remakes of Citizen Kane all done in legos.
INSIGHTFUL? The asininity of this post beggars description, I'm not even going to go into it point by point.
Another great idea would be to leave a plasma screen out on the doorstep with a note saying "Please Mr. Robber, take the TV don't come in and kill us."
This is a way to get around (almost said shortcircuit) second amendment protections.
Smart weapon -> Cops can shut it off -> Police state can shut it off -> We are now emasculated.
Point blank: One of the most persuasive arguments in favor of weapon freedom is the fact that an armed populace is a final last ditch check against tyranny. When the death squad comes for you or your neighbor or the family you're hiding in your crawlspace, you can at least go out like a man.
If they want to give us Metalstorm automatics and have those be smartchipped... HA HA as if that would ever happen, had you going there for a moment didn't I.
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(Oh and by the way I'm a tree-hugging pacifist liberal hippie. What a pass we have come to...)
Limited-purpose servo units, like computer-programmable robot arms, seem much more usable than any type of currently-conceivable rovers or functionoids. There's the whole problem of not being able to easily orient itself to the "work" like an assembly-line robot can.
We have all this vast technology and the only practical use we've come up with for home robots is the Roomba. Aside from above, there are vast obstacles remaining in everything from image recognition on up.
There are Insane Hobbyists out there who are making Gingery CAM units. I'd love to see a book on THAT.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft operating systems and software accomplish this without all the work.
No, I'm not. I'm just an amateur real interested in artificial life.
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It's so much more interesting than real life.
http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/pattern_c03/p_b
I love it how they do something everyone else has been doing for years and they act as if they're god's gift to humanity because of it.
"Our Glorious Scientists have slashed disease rates ten times!" Yes, when you no longer sleep in your own feces and the whole ten person family doesn't eat with their unwashed hands from the same bowl, it does tend to improve hygeine.
Microsoft.dieplzkthx();
This sounds like a good way to study computational properties of bacterial colonies. By printing them like this, perhaps they would be able to get them to behave in ways that would perform useful information processing. It might also end up acting as some sort of "interface" to DNA computation.
Whether we'd be able to get them to behave in reproducible ways would be the question.
Here are some links. The first has some interesting photos of bacterial colonies-- similar to cellular automata, because hey! They are! And the second is a link to an article on bacterial colony computation. Or maybe they're both to Goatse. You won't know until you click.
http://alnk.org/dankwish
http://alnk.org/nearseal
It would be nice if microsoft removed "My Patent" and "My Annoyance" and "My hair-tearing headache."
It would also be nice if they added "My Compiler" to the default install of the OS.
I can dream.
Yeah, the problem with any webmail is obviously the fact that you don't control the server it's on, etc etc.
It's a double-edged sword, though. Which is more stable, your personal network or Google's? I do forward my mail from gmail to my local machine where it gets backed up. And all the browser is is a user interface.
Seriously, get the fuck over yourself.
Does anybody actually use these 3 programs?
There's a great program I use called Gmail, brought to you by those fine guys at Google.
Gmail is never going to expose your computer to viruses unless you run attachments. Gmail has a smaller memory footprint than any of the other programs, and can be run on any machine that runs Lynx. Gmail stops spam. Gmail not only takes up no disk space on your computer, but gives you two gigs free per account! And you can have as many gmail accounts as you want!
Gmail also supports RSS feeds, which makes it useful for many other reasons.
I set up Thunderbird, and then I realized there was no reason to ever use it. And Outlook...
This is interesting news coming as it does in the week that the CIA is scheduled to run a 3 day netwar exercise called Silent Horizon.
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050525/D8AAFUIO
Am I just blowing smoke here...?
Support of stem cell research, even going against the White House party line to do so, is the only good thing I know of that The Governator has done during his term in office.
As a biotechnological monster himself, he knows that we shouldn't be running away from technology. Also, he may be getting worried that the cancer chickens are going to come home to roost.
I hope it can crack PGP encrypted libraries.
That's the next thing for the OSS thieves. Then their malfeasance will be well-nigh undetectable...
SO! We now know the truth: Microsoft is blameless for the shoddy security of their products. It's all the fault of the x86 architecture.
After all, how could Microsoft be expected to learn the intricacies of their primary platform and write code that does what it's supposed to?
We have been lied to.
Imagine that! A slashdot post from a literalminded dumbfuck! A point:
1) Shut the fuck up and go back to World of Warcraft, nerdbait.
Imagine that! Automation takes away the job of a camel jockey.
Poetic justice.
A night at home watching american television is one of the most boring things I can think of. With the exception of watching military propaganda on the History Channel, I haven't spent an evening watching TV since maybe 1995. If Brit tv were on more, I could almost see myself sitting and watching that.
American television programming is dumbed down to a junior high school level.
The "beggining:" Microsoft OS without any Microsoft OS included.
And it will cost $249.
The bad news is it's heading straight for us.
Just so you know... best boot manager out there is called Gag. It has no problem supporting whatever operating systems it finds on your disk, and it finds new operating systems AT BOOT TIME.
Nah, this is actually useful. Those calculators are really powerful little devices, like a mini-PDA. They can also be piss-slow for performing their designed function, so this improves the usefulness of the device, unlike so many other Slashdot projects.
Things like scene-by-scene remakes of Citizen Kane all done in legos.
Mod parent as troll.
INSIGHTFUL? The asininity of this post beggars description, I'm not even going to go into it point by point.
Another great idea would be to leave a plasma screen out on the doorstep with a note saying "Please Mr. Robber, take the TV don't come in and kill us."
Just brilliant. Open up and say "baaaaaaa."
This is a way to get around (almost said shortcircuit) second amendment protections.
Smart weapon -> Cops can shut it off -> Police state can shut it off -> We are now emasculated.
Point blank: One of the most persuasive arguments in favor of weapon freedom is the fact that an armed populace is a final last ditch check against tyranny. When the death squad comes for you or your neighbor or the family you're hiding in your crawlspace, you can at least go out like a man.
If they want to give us Metalstorm automatics and have those be smartchipped... HA HA as if that would ever happen, had you going there for a moment didn't I.
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(Oh and by the way I'm a tree-hugging pacifist liberal hippie. What a pass we have come to...)
I'm a single-minded loafer.
Or a hi-rise or any number of cool structures. But NOOOOOOOO he grinds out this horridly ugly monstrosity.
"Form follows function" may not necessarily apply when the medium you're building with it capable of so many things...
Somebody needs a hug.
Limited-purpose servo units, like computer-programmable robot arms, seem much more usable than any type of currently-conceivable rovers or functionoids. There's the whole problem of not being able to easily orient itself to the "work" like an assembly-line robot can.
We have all this vast technology and the only practical use we've come up with for home robots is the Roomba. Aside from above, there are vast obstacles remaining in everything from image recognition on up.
There are Insane Hobbyists out there who are making Gingery CAM units. I'd love to see a book on THAT.
Mu metal?
That's a little bit hard to find. What about metal from Atlantis, hyperborea or Lemuria?
WTF is mu metal?