It's the "(almost)" bit which is important and as I already posted a couple of levels up, It's already happening. Farmers are finding that roundup is no longer killing all of their weeds.
All you need is a field or playing field full of dandelions. Spray 80% of it with Roundup each year, covering a different 80% each year. Leave enough behind to allow the dandelions and other weeds to repopulate the field.
A few years of that and tada... Roundup resistant dandelions. It'd only cost $50 per year for 5-10 years. How much did Monsanto spend on research trying for the same effect?
Once you have the field of resistant weeds, harvest some of it and go visit Monsanto and offer to sell them your "high tech" dandelions for research purposes.
Farmers in the UK are going to have to be very careful over this one. "Organically" produced crops have a premium price here and one of the requirements to be classified as organic is no GM. If a neighbouring farmer's GM crop gets into an organic farmer's crop, there could well be financial penalties if the source of the contamination can be proven.
My brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia about 2 years ago.
1: The meds are important. Some fuck them up, have very nasty side effects. They have to find meds which fit, this can take a while. My brother seems happy at the moment, he has a two weekly injection which reduces the swings of daily medication and he doesn't have to worry about remembering.
2: Read this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/de ta il/glance/-/books/074756177X
He's a clinical psychologist. It's about family life in general but has some useful insights about schizophrenia.
3: The good news is that schizophrenics can have perfectly normal lives. But they need a basis of support and understanding from friends and family. Not necessarily intrusive support, and it doesn't mean you have to be a doormat or walk on eggshells but it has to be available, this is what seems to make the biggest difference between those who go on to lead normal lives and those who end up on the streets, locked up for life or dead.
4: Talk to other sufferers and their supporters, there are mailing lists, newsgroups etc Google knows.
5: Get a doctor she trusts (easier said than done). Makes a huge difference, especially if they are competent.
Basically, it needn't be the end of the world. She could be completely normal in a few years, not needing meds at all. It does take years though and a lot of it is down to how you and your family handle it. Not easy.
Yeah, it sounds outdated to you because you have no idea what you're talking about. Fashionable is it?
Oooh, look information-r.us isn't registered. Should I? Should I? Direct it to a porn site? Maybe you should register that one quickly, before someone else does. Oh, and you might want to get information-r-us.com/net/org as well.
Get a clue. In a completely flat namespace, which is what you are suggesting, you're going to have to register pretty much every combination you can. Just like now.
If it worked fine we wouldn't be having this bloody discussion. Again. There's domain squatting, trademark infringement, lawsuits over name collisions. It's all completely unnecessary.
The fact that names are created under.com offloads the traffic from the root nameservers to the.com nameservers thereby freeing up the root nameservers to handle more queries..com isn't a de-facto flat hosts file for the whole internet, not even remotely. We're using a.org name right now and my company is a.co.uk
Businesses exist within different sections society and equally so within yellow pages directories.
If all you can come up with is a flat list of names and numbers like the phone book, or a hosts file you don't have the requisite experience to be commenting on the subject. We have been there and it *doesn't work*. Christ it doesn't even work within moderate sized organisations never mind something the size of the Internet.
What about the McDonalds car rental business? It is an issue.
Did you also know that what you are proposing is little better than a hosts file which will cane the bollocks off of the top level name servers?
Sometimes I wish that PC monitors came with a big stick attached to them so that their operators could be thwacked about the head when they mail or post something completely inane. It would need a protocol to allow the transmission of clues. The clue protocol.
The US governments reactions to terrorist threats are exactly what the terrorists wanted.
They now have thousands of US servicemen they can take pot shots at any time they feel like a laugh.
There is now a second destabilised regime in the middle east within which they can work. Who wants to put money on Iraq not collapsing into civil war within 5 years of the allies pulling out?
The US government is now monitoring it's citizens movements, associations and actions closely. Security being the word of the day, not freedom.
As far as I can see, the US is going down the terrorist's list of 101 fun things to do and basically just going along with them.
"Developed too long ago" - Bullshit "Widgets and toolkits part of the server" - Bullshit "X has outlived the usefulness of its design. It's time to move on" - Bullshit
Sorry, the problem *is* with Gnome/GTK. It is *noticably* slower than other toolkits/ UIs/ libraries which don't seem to have a problem with flickering.
Now, I don't know where the performance problems are *within* the glib/gtk/gnome stack, but that *is* where they are.
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All you need is a field or playing field full of dandelions. Spray 80% of it with Roundup each year, covering a different 80% each year. Leave enough behind to allow the dandelions and other weeds to repopulate the field.
A few years of that and tada... Roundup resistant dandelions. It'd only cost $50 per year for 5-10 years. How much did Monsanto spend on research trying for the same effect?
Once you have the field of resistant weeds, harvest some of it and go visit Monsanto and offer to sell them your "high tech" dandelions for research purposes.
It's already happening:
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http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstry.asp?recid=87
You've got to laugh. Who would have thought that evolution would be developing it's own roundup resistance. Damn that Charles Darwin.
Maybe the Monsanto executives are creationists.
Farmers in the UK are going to have to be very careful over this one. "Organically" produced crops have a premium price here and one of the requirements to be classified as organic is no GM. If a neighbouring farmer's GM crop gets into an organic farmer's crop, there could well be financial penalties if the source of the contamination can be proven.
My brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia about 2 years ago.
e ta il/glance/-/books/074756177X
1: The meds are important. Some fuck them up, have very nasty side effects. They have to find meds which fit, this can take a while. My brother seems happy at the moment, he has a two weekly injection which reduces the swings of daily medication and he doesn't have to worry about remembering.
2: Read this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/d
He's a clinical psychologist. It's about family life in general but has some useful insights about schizophrenia.
3: The good news is that schizophrenics can have perfectly normal lives. But they need a basis of support and understanding from friends and family. Not necessarily intrusive support, and it doesn't mean you have to be a doormat or walk on eggshells but it has to be available, this is what seems to make the biggest difference between those who go on to lead normal lives and those who end up on the streets, locked up for life or dead.
4: Talk to other sufferers and their supporters, there are mailing lists, newsgroups etc Google knows.
5: Get a doctor she trusts (easier said than done). Makes a huge difference, especially if they are competent.
Basically, it needn't be the end of the world. She could be completely normal in a few years, not needing meds at all. It does take years though and a lot of it is down to how you and your family handle it. Not easy.
Yeah, it sounds outdated to you because you have no idea what you're talking about. Fashionable is it?
Oooh, look information-r.us isn't registered. Should I? Should I? Direct it to a porn site? Maybe you should register that one quickly, before someone else does. Oh, and you might want to get information-r-us.com/net/org as well.
Get a clue. In a completely flat namespace, which is what you are suggesting, you're going to have to register pretty much every combination you can. Just like now.
Having said that if he can bring some light on to the shitty system we have just now it's all good.
It *doesn't* work fine.
.com offloads the traffic from the root nameservers to the .com nameservers thereby freeing up the root nameservers to handle more queries. .com isn't a de-facto flat hosts file for the whole internet, not even remotely. We're using a .org name right now and my company is a .co.uk
If it worked fine we wouldn't be having this bloody discussion. Again. There's domain squatting, trademark infringement, lawsuits over name collisions. It's all completely unnecessary.
The fact that names are created under
Yeeeeellllooooowwww ppaaaaagggeeeeessss.
Businesses exist within different sections society and equally so within yellow pages directories.
If all you can come up with is a flat list of names and numbers like the phone book, or a hosts file you don't have the requisite experience to be commenting on the subject. We have been there and it *doesn't work*. Christ it doesn't even work within moderate sized organisations never mind something the size of the Internet.
"I have thought about the problem, and come to the opposite conclusion"
Yes, you may well have, but you're an idiot.
Please try to take your own advice.
What about the McDonalds car rental business? It is an issue.
Did you also know that what you are proposing is little better than a hosts file which will cane the bollocks off of the top level name servers?
Sometimes I wish that PC monitors came with a big stick attached to them so that their operators could be thwacked about the head when they mail or post something completely inane. It would need a protocol to allow the transmission of clues. The clue protocol.
The DNS isn't a free market. It's *infrastructure*.
My rant on the subject:
http://www.archeus.plus.com/colin/dns/
Again...
The problem with this is hardware support. IBM can get away with it because they control the hardware.
Slashdot has always been full of "losers, trolls, and teeny-boppers". Why else do you think the mod system appeared? So there.
Well, so far you've made the case for a vector processor, or an add on like AltiVec. How's about making one for a faster CPU?
I mean, if you're tired of waiting and everything.
The naming system was designed to be heirarchical because the flat hosts.txt naming system didn't scale, and it didn't scale 20 years ago.
What ICANN have done is make DNS flat, WHICH DOESN'T FUCKING SCALE.
And could easily be avoided. If ICANN had a clue what they were doing, this kind of bollocks simply wouldn't be a problem.
The solution is here:
http://www.archeus.plus.com/colin/dns/
The US governments reactions to terrorist threats are exactly what the terrorists wanted.
They now have thousands of US servicemen they can take pot shots at any time they feel like a laugh.
There is now a second destabilised regime in the middle east within which they can work. Who wants to put money on Iraq not collapsing into civil war within 5 years of the allies pulling out?
The US government is now monitoring it's citizens movements, associations and actions closely. Security being the word of the day, not freedom.
As far as I can see, the US is going down the terrorist's list of 101 fun things to do and basically just going along with them.
"Developed too long ago" - Bullshit
"Widgets and toolkits part of the server" - Bullshit
"X has outlived the usefulness of its design. It's time to move on" - Bullshit
Basically you're talking out of your arse.
Or... Gnome developers simply don't care that performance is poor.
So you're saying that Gnome has been deliberately designed to suck?
Sorry, the problem *is* with Gnome/GTK. It is *noticably* slower than other toolkits/ UIs/ libraries which don't seem to have a problem with flickering.
Now, I don't know where the performance problems are *within* the glib/gtk/gnome stack, but that *is* where they are.
It isn't just compression, with LBXproxy and similar, Gnome apps are noticably poorer performing than Motif apps on similar operations.
Motif stuff over a wan/dsl/dialup can actually work usably.