My only concern with GM foods is that the technology is not acessible to 3rd world countries, which typically depend on the export of agricultural goods to survive.
Making agriculture dependent on GM food is to make 3rd world countries even more dependent on the bottom line of multinational biotech companies.
Apart from this, I welcome GM food. For example, it should be much more healthy to drink no caffeine GM cofee than to extract the caffeine of coffee using all sorts of organic, potencially hazardous, solvents.
Increased pruductions with desisese and weather resistant plants should also produce less agricultural polution for the same crop yield.
I casually slip out of the living room during comercials. It's a welcome break to have a snack, go to the toilet or read some part of the boot while the TV is mute.
I never thought my kitchen, toilet and books were all part of qualified theft. Then again, I'd rather stop stealing by stopping whatching TV than by stopping eating or reading.
What's wrong with this guys in the US? Since when I am not free to choose what I see or don't see on TV? When I buy a TV, use a web browser or whatever I am under no contractual obligation to see comercials.
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If you were living under a left wing oriented government, "fair" would most likely be right-wing biased:)
Don't belive everything you read!
Read as much as you can from independent sources. somewhere between the lines there should be the real objective news, neither left, righ, pro or against.
Seldom have I found any piece of news that does not try to influence the way you think, by emphasising some aspects while neglecting others.
My setup is a duron 900 with a TNT2U and an asus A7V133. I have an almost simmetrical experience from yours.
With the default kernel in mandrake (2.4.8, i belive) i always had freezes with nvidia agp drivers. With agpgart, it only froze on ocasion, but frequently enough to keep me away from quake3. All this with the latest nvidia drivers.
I have been using 2.4.17 with agpgart for a while now and it is a definite improvement in terms of stability. In all the (too many) hours of playing quake3 (sometimes over the whole weekend) it only froze once. I compiled 2.4.17 myself with all the IDE performance goodies on.
I don't know if this 'stability' i get is due to the criptic message "Stomping Athlon Bug" i get during boot of 2.4.17... I haven't bothered with it until now.
Linux(linux/gnu/distro) is probably the worst offender in bundled software: A bunch of CDs with programs falling short on almost nothing for common and advanced users.
Many people (myself included) use cheap pcs to do number crunching for scientific porposes.
Normaly I use the low end machines, like my home PC (linux duron 900), to develop and test the code I will put to run on alphas.
I haven't made any calculations, but i suppose that for poor labs with many sudents, the cost of an alpha (for example) could finance >2 "lower end" systems which are also cheaper & easier to maintain and upgrade.
Tips on how to frag a LPB when you have +250 ping:
1. The LPB is using quake as an IRC client. Since low pings usualy correlate with ISP fixed rates they just hang in there chatting.
2. The LPB is looking at something in the wall or making salutes to another LPB and you pack a railgun.
3. All the LPBs are fighting for the rocket launcher and you make some lucky frags just by shooting at random through the stop-motion of the jumping LPBs.
4. The LPB is so lame that you frag him before he thows himself into the lava.
5. If the LPB has a rocket lauucher and is low on heath, then you might make him lose a frag by forcing him to shoot when you run against him.
Several signal transduction components are highly conserved in evolution. You may find the same components in amoebas, shrimps and man.
Most the proteins involved in the regulation of cell cycle fall into this category. Any dysfunction of these proteins can result in anything from cell death (cell cycle arest, apoptosis) to uncontrolled cellular division (cancer).
Apparently this is Just One More Piece to fit in the puzzle.
The complexity of signalling pathways is such that simply perturbing one component can have completely unexpected results, in the short- medium- and long-term.
To my knowledge, at least some forms of diabetes and arthrites have been proven to be auto-immune diseases.
There are several animal models used in immunology, which are characterized as being prone to develop autoimmune deseases. For example, NOD mice develop auto-immune diabetes in certain (clean) conditions at some period of life.
A lot of people are using windows because it is cheap, i.e. it costs as much as a blank cd. So, in a somewhat distorted way, windows is competing with linux in the free (as beer) marquet.
If microsoft does implement this two things may happen: Someone cracks the code or people start using competing products.
I belive that in the long run this is good for the free (beer/speach) OSs in general.
As a Portuguese I understand some of the resons why the French have a protectionist attitude of theire language and culture.
One clue: It's not because its english/american.
It's simply because it is not French. All these 'small' European languages have a rich history and litterature that is deeply embeded in the sence of nationality of the countries. Don't be shocked, but many people prefer to be only selectively influenced by American culture. Economic success, by it self is not a valid reason to americanize all the world (although apparently you think so).
Economic success and cultural issues are two separate affairs. In the second part of you comment you are confusing author films, some of which are art (and subsidised) with hollywood comercial ventures.
All these discussions about licencing make me wonder if it is legal to give someone used software.
Example: I start using linux and therefore, have this windows pack arround, no longer usefull. Can I just give it to someone without any second thoughts?
The only problem I can see with debian is the requirement to logon to the net to get updates.
Most people I know (including me) still use modems and pay per minute fees. Keeping an updated system this way can be very expensive and time consuming.
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My only concern with GM foods is that the technology is not acessible to 3rd world countries, which typically depend on the export of agricultural goods to survive.
Making agriculture dependent on GM food is to make 3rd world countries even more dependent on the bottom line of multinational biotech companies.
Apart from this, I welcome GM food. For example, it should be much more healthy to drink no caffeine GM cofee than to extract the caffeine of coffee using all sorts of organic, potencially hazardous, solvents.
Increased pruductions with desisese and weather resistant plants should also produce less agricultural polution for the same crop yield.
Hell!!! I had some simulations crushing numbers repeating some calculations a couple hundred times for statistical purposes.
The stupid antivirus was hogging 50% cpu time (for the fast runs) just to check the multiple runs of the exe.
To hell with virus and crappy anti virus software.
Ditto.
Last CDs I bought were curtesy of Morpheus. Glad they stopped in time before i spent too much money.
I've got enough of good old cds, conveted to mp3, that play seemesly in my xmms.
Why would I need a Ghz CPU if not to run quake? To run solitaire?
I casually slip out of the living room during comercials. It's a welcome break to have a snack, go to the toilet or read some part of the boot while the TV is mute.
I never thought my kitchen, toilet and books were all part of qualified theft. Then again, I'd rather stop stealing by stopping whatching TV than by stopping eating or reading.
What's wrong with this guys in the US? Since when I am not free to choose what I see or don't see on TV? When I buy a TV, use a web browser or whatever I am under no contractual obligation to see comercials.
If you were living under a left wing oriented government, "fair" would most likely be right-wing biased :)
Don't belive everything you read!
Read as much as you can from independent sources. somewhere between the lines there should be the real objective news, neither left, righ, pro or against.
Seldom have I found any piece of news that does not try to influence the way you think, by emphasising some aspects while neglecting others.
Isn't it easy to port macosx to these since the underlining of macosx is open source (if i understand correctly)?
My setup is a duron 900 with a TNT2U and an asus A7V133. I have an almost simmetrical experience from yours.
With the default kernel in mandrake (2.4.8, i belive) i always had freezes with nvidia agp drivers. With agpgart, it only froze on ocasion, but frequently enough to keep me away from quake3. All this with the latest nvidia drivers.
I have been using 2.4.17 with agpgart for a while now and it is a definite improvement in terms of stability. In all the (too many) hours of playing quake3 (sometimes over the whole weekend) it only froze once. I compiled 2.4.17 myself with all the IDE performance goodies on.
I don't know if this 'stability' i get is due to the criptic message "Stomping Athlon Bug" i get during boot of 2.4.17... I haven't bothered with it until now.
That is part of the not-so-fun part of linux application dependencies that leads to a huge amount of wasted time in upgrades.
Linux(linux/gnu/distro) is probably the worst offender in bundled software: A bunch of CDs with programs falling short on almost nothing for common and advanced users.
This is about 3-4 years old, i don't remember where i copied it from. It displays the full path on the window title:
0 7"'
if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$TERM" = "xterm-color" -o \
"$TERM" = "rxvt" -o "$TERM" = "vs100" -o "$TERM" = "dtterm" ]
then
export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;$HOSTNAME:$PWD\007\033]1;$LOGNAME@$HOST\0
else
export PROMPT_COMMAND=' '
fi
Then the PS1 just reflects the current dir, for a quick reference.
export PS1="[\h:\W]\\$ "
Not really.
Many people (myself included) use cheap pcs to do number crunching for scientific porposes.
Normaly I use the low end machines, like my home PC (linux duron 900), to develop and test the code I will put to run on alphas.
I haven't made any calculations, but i suppose that for poor labs with many sudents, the cost of an alpha (for example) could finance >2 "lower end" systems which are also cheaper & easier to maintain and upgrade.
does it work if i tilt my duron 45 degrees?
Tips on how to frag a LPB when you have +250 ping: 1. The LPB is using quake as an IRC client. Since low pings usualy correlate with ISP fixed rates they just hang in there chatting. 2. The LPB is looking at something in the wall or making salutes to another LPB and you pack a railgun. 3. All the LPBs are fighting for the rocket launcher and you make some lucky frags just by shooting at random through the stop-motion of the jumping LPBs. 4. The LPB is so lame that you frag him before he thows himself into the lava. 5. If the LPB has a rocket lauucher and is low on heath, then you might make him lose a frag by forcing him to shoot when you run against him.
You will have banner-ads integrated in your toaster when you upgrade it to correct the 'burnt-toast-while-in-shower' bug.
Several signal transduction components are highly conserved in evolution. You may find the same components in amoebas, shrimps and man.
Most the proteins involved in the regulation of cell cycle fall into this category. Any dysfunction of these proteins can result in anything from cell death (cell cycle arest, apoptosis) to uncontrolled cellular division (cancer).
Apparently this is Just One More Piece to fit in the puzzle.
The complexity of signalling pathways is such that simply perturbing one component can have completely unexpected results, in the short- medium- and long-term.
As I see it, CS is just a tool to automate mathematics on computers. It will never replace nor bilogy nor physics nor mathematics.
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A soon-to-be Biologist
I compiled the experimental hfs support in the 2.2 series to read hfs zip disks in my crappy pc.
:D
I was feeling pretty 1337 at that time
To my knowledge, at least some forms of diabetes and arthrites have been proven to be auto-immune diseases.
There are several animal models used in immunology, which are characterized as being prone to develop autoimmune deseases. For example, NOD mice develop auto-immune diabetes in certain (clean) conditions at some period of life.
A lot of people are using windows because it is cheap, i.e. it costs as much as a blank cd. So, in a somewhat distorted way, windows is competing with linux in the free (as beer) marquet.
If microsoft does implement this two things may happen: Someone cracks the code or people start using competing products.
I belive that in the long run this is good for the free (beer/speach) OSs in general.
Don't be such a troll.
As a Portuguese I understand some of the resons why the French have a protectionist attitude of theire language and culture.
One clue: It's not because its english/american.
It's simply because it is not French. All these 'small' European languages have a rich history and litterature that is deeply embeded in the sence of nationality of the countries. Don't be shocked, but many people prefer to be only selectively influenced by American culture. Economic success, by it self is not a valid reason to americanize all the world (although apparently you think so).
Economic success and cultural issues are two separate affairs. In the second part of you comment you are confusing author films, some of which are art (and subsidised) with hollywood comercial ventures.
Of the fact that macs are completely shalow. If you copy the looks of a mac onto another computer you end up pretty close to the real thing.
All these discussions about licencing make me wonder if it is legal to give someone used software.
Example: I start using linux and therefore, have this windows pack arround, no longer usefull. Can I just give it to someone without any second thoughts?
The main reasons are:
1. It is too slow. On my mac it is almost half the speed of 4.7. Even ie on the mac is faster!
2. It is full of links to useless busines/entertainement/buy/sell stuff, that i haven't figured out how to eleminate from the interface.
The only problem I can see with debian is the requirement to logon to the net to get updates.
Most people I know (including me) still use modems and pay per minute fees. Keeping an updated system this way can be very expensive and time consuming.