how much difiiculty will it be to route system messages (illegal logins / diskspace low etc) to/dev/lcd? that would make the thing pretty usefull as the current software seems to be windows-only
Article After the Sept. 11 attacks, some politicians and business leaders have called for a national identification card, but Forman said that's not in the works. "We don't have any plans for a national ID card," he said.
translate: If we would have used MS software the world would have been a safe place
I should have put some witty comment here but this whole story is just too stupid. Aren't I glad I'm not an american. (although, according to Passport I am, and 108 years old. Living in Beverly Hills. Brilliant)
If you don't like Telecom products, go to someone else.
Having said this, I can fully understand the ISP's decision as I've seen what MP3 and DivX can do to my server's bandwith. I don't see why creating GB traffic just because your are too lazy to go out and rent "will drive the technology economy in years to come". All it will drive up is prices.
Isn't this just a cache I mean, netscape keeps track of my bwrowsing history. MS Find keeps track of my last searches. BASH keeps track of my last typed command.
Usually this comes in handy. Hell, I can probably code something that will post my BASH command history and my netscape browsing archive onto the net.
First of all: I do not believe this is actually true. Antinori really isn't better at cloning then the Roslin Institute, and they usually have a few hundred miscarriages for every successful pregnancy. Presuming Antinori did not have a few hundred women standing by to be impregnated, he really is very lucky to have a 100% success rate.
But anyway: Let's just assume this is an actual clone. Evidence is now coming through showing that dolly isn't quite as healty as we first expected. Apparently she ages a lot faster, and has a number of diseases. Now imagine that, when the baby is born ('prototype clone'), (s)he starts getting all types of horrible diseases, limbs missing and what have you. That is when Joe Schmoe will understand you just can't copy people like you can copy a CD. Too bad someone has to suffer for it.
Indeed you are right After actually reading the page it ended up to be not nearly as exciting as it could have been =/. For some bizarre this got modded up. Apparently I wasn't the only one not reading the article. Having said that, I still think the model you and I are discussing is actually very powerfull and possible, although - indeed- very difficult. Would be a hell of a lot better than a simple dual plane though...
It will also not work. The whole idea behind this is that certain pixels on the low layer get shaded by pixels from the upper layer. Now if you have a high enough resolution, and if the pixels fit exactly, then you get 3D (meaning: your left sees something else then your right eye).
This is because the shading pixel is not really on top of the underlying pixel, but a little bit left or right from it. This is the difficult part! Don't forget that you don't see the depth just because it has two layers: you see it because the upper pixel and the lower pixel together produces two images: 1 for the left eye, 1 for the right!
If you do this with two screens that are not exactly matched you will most likely lose the effect of 3D.
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It is to estimate the likelyhood of more life in the universe,
It is a misconception that water is a requirement for life. Sure, life without water is practically impossible on earth. This is mainly because the melting point and boiling point of water are in the range of temeratures encountered here. That is also where carbon-based lifeforms are usefull. Now on a much hotter planet for instance, COH lifeforms won't hack it, as the COH bindings are too weak to hold on at very high temperatures. In such cases it would be wise to adapt a Si-based form, which has quite similar characteristics to C when placed at a higher temperature. On the other hand, when a planet is much cooler, water is pretty useless as it's only present as ice. Mind you: ice is no good when you are dealing with cell-like organisms (as we are). In such case another liquid is more practical (maybe some very apolar fluid)
We shouldn't decide whether something can be called 'life' just because it looks like us. Life should be quantified in terms of energy and entropy instead
then all of the surviving robots get paired off randomly
...which makes this pretty stupid. The whole idea of evolution is built upon "selection" i.e. the robot that does best has most offspring. Just looking at survival rate is a measure for measuring fitness, but it's too crude a method for improving ones genes. Besides that now every surviving bot has the same amount of fitness (offspring). That seems to be some binary kind of selection which I at least have never come across in real life. Randomly mixing genes is therefore 'not' a good method to mimick nature.
I keep wondering why big companies like HP and Sun choose linux, instead of freeBSD. Although I'm not an expert on any of them, as far as I understand the BSD structure resembles SunOS and HP/UX more than Linux. Both BSD and linux are open source, and the BSD license even seems to be preferable to companies if, in the end, they decide to go closed source anyway.
Can someone explain this to me?
We were just discussing programming languages recently.
We use so-called micro-arrays frequently, which yield so much information it is not possible to go through all that manually (on average you get about 10.000 "genes" that show changes in expression, after which you have to check the intertesting ones for functionality).
At the moment we can either mess around with MS excel or buy some serious software which is so incredibly expensive only companies can afford it.
Still I doubt whether Perl should be the language of choice due to it tending to be "write-only code". Maybe this book will change my mind though.
exactly
even better still: M$ Will get out of that just the way they're getting out of their lawsuits now, whereas OSS companies, unable to afford all those lawyer costs, will simply go bankrupt.
Both systems have one drawback: Anyone close to the screen can easily view your password entry.
Apart from that I quite like the technology, although Passface more than the abstract art version, which I can't get into my head
At the moment most software is still english. Not M$ word but things like BIND and SendMail. These rely simply on english characters. So even though you have chinese HTML, you still have to type in your addresses in English.
Besides, I've tried typing on a chinese keyboard and it sure wasn't easy.
don't you READ the parent mail?? It clearly states three possible solutions to evade without a shuttle docked. As it says in THAT email, non of these methods was shown to be dedicated for evasive actions
get your head out of your ass
That's three russian solutions, of which none is sure.
Other countries must have thought of this I presume. If all relies on getting a space shuttle up there it's just a matter of waiting untill bad weather prevents the shuttle to launch in time
You're right, maybe we aren't!!!!
Let's quickly burn all fossile fuels and find out!!
</stupidity>
It can't hurt to cut down on CO2 emission, even if it's not the 100% cause of global warming.
But if it turns out that it was the influence of man, there won't be an 'undo' button!
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I'm not really into tweaking syslogd but,
/dev/lcd?
how much difiiculty will it be to route system messages (illegal logins / diskspace low etc) to
that would make the thing pretty usefull as the current software seems to be windows-only
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although there is not so much mention of this new tower. Bit odd
Article
After the Sept. 11 attacks, some politicians and business leaders have called for a national identification card, but Forman said that's not in the works. "We don't have any plans for a national ID card," he said.
translate:
If we would have used MS software the world would have been a safe place
I should have put some witty comment here but this whole story is just too stupid. Aren't I glad I'm not an american. (although, according to Passport I am, and 108 years old. Living in Beverly Hills. Brilliant)
This is a free world
If you don't like Telecom products, go to someone else.
Having said this, I can fully understand the ISP's decision as I've seen what MP3 and DivX can do to my server's bandwith. I don't see why creating GB traffic just because your are too lazy to go out and rent "will drive the technology economy in years to come". All it will drive up is prices.
sure
I just surfed to www.newyorktimes.com
Do I care if MS will find out?
Your issue is a matter of taste, not a matter of law. Treat it as such
did you read it?
It is *not* being sent to MS, unless someone hacks into it (virus) to do so
Isn't this just a cache
I mean, netscape keeps track of my bwrowsing history. MS Find keeps track of my last searches.
BASH keeps track of my last typed command.
Usually this comes in handy. Hell, I can probably code something that will post my BASH command history and my netscape browsing archive onto the net.
What's the news here?
First of all: I do not believe this is actually true. Antinori really isn't better at cloning then the Roslin Institute, and they usually have a few hundred miscarriages for every successful pregnancy. Presuming Antinori did not have a few hundred women standing by to be impregnated, he really is very lucky to have a 100% success rate.
But anyway: Let's just assume this is an actual clone. Evidence is now coming through showing that dolly isn't quite as healty as we first expected.
Apparently she ages a lot faster, and has a number of diseases. Now imagine that, when the baby is born ('prototype clone'), (s)he starts getting all types of horrible diseases, limbs missing and what have you. That is when Joe Schmoe will understand you just can't copy people like you can copy a CD. Too bad someone has to suffer for it.
Indeed you are right
After actually reading the page it ended up to be not nearly as exciting as it could have been =/.
For some bizarre this got modded up. Apparently I wasn't the only one not reading the article.
Having said that, I still think the model you and I are discussing is actually very powerfull and possible, although - indeed- very difficult. Would be a hell of a lot better than a simple dual plane though...
It will also not work.
The whole idea behind this is that certain pixels on the low layer get shaded by pixels from the upper layer. Now if you have a high enough resolution, and if the pixels fit exactly, then you get 3D (meaning: your left sees something else then your right eye).
This is because the shading pixel is not really on top of the underlying pixel, but a little bit left or right from it. This is the difficult part!
Don't forget that you don't see the depth just because it has two layers: you see it because the upper pixel and the lower pixel together produces two images: 1 for the left eye, 1 for the right!
If you do this with two screens that are not exactly matched you will most likely lose the effect of 3D.
I'm confused now
I guess I'll wait for "D" to come out
just because it happens somewhere else as well...
doesn't mean it's OK
I always thought NFS meant "No File Security"
It is to estimate the likelyhood of more life in the universe,
It is a misconception that water is a requirement for life. Sure, life without water is practically impossible on earth. This is mainly because the melting point and boiling point of water are in the range of temeratures encountered here. That is also where carbon-based lifeforms are usefull.
Now on a much hotter planet for instance, COH lifeforms won't hack it, as the COH bindings are too weak to hold on at very high temperatures. In such cases it would be wise to adapt a Si-based form, which has quite similar characteristics to C when placed at a higher temperature.
On the other hand, when a planet is much cooler, water is pretty useless as it's only present as ice. Mind you: ice is no good when you are dealing with cell-like organisms (as we are). In such case another liquid is more practical (maybe some very apolar fluid)
We shouldn't decide whether something can be called 'life' just because it looks like us. Life should be quantified in terms of energy and entropy instead
Thank you for this post.
At least now I know that there are a few americans left that don't share GWBush's "Wild West" mentality. Maybe there is still some hope.
then all of the surviving robots get paired off randomly
...which makes this pretty stupid. The whole idea of evolution is built upon "selection" i.e. the robot that does best has most offspring. Just looking at survival rate is a measure for measuring fitness, but it's too crude a method for improving ones genes. Besides that now every surviving bot has the same amount of fitness (offspring). That seems to be some binary kind of selection which I at least have never come across in real life. Randomly mixing genes is therefore 'not' a good method to mimick nature.
This post is not ment to troll but...
I keep wondering why big companies like HP and Sun choose linux, instead of freeBSD. Although I'm not an expert on any of them, as far as I understand the BSD structure resembles SunOS and HP/UX more than Linux. Both BSD and linux are open source, and the BSD license even seems to be preferable to companies if, in the end, they decide to go closed source anyway.
Can someone explain this to me?
We were just discussing programming languages recently.
We use so-called micro-arrays frequently, which yield so much information it is not possible to go through all that manually (on average you get about 10.000 "genes" that show changes in expression, after which you have to check the intertesting ones for functionality).
At the moment we can either mess around with MS excel or buy some serious software which is so incredibly expensive only companies can afford it.
Still I doubt whether Perl should be the language of choice due to it tending to be "write-only code". Maybe this book will change my mind though.
exactly
even better still: M$ Will get out of that just the way they're getting out of their lawsuits now, whereas OSS companies, unable to afford all those lawyer costs, will simply go bankrupt.
Apart from that I think it's a good thing though.
Crick is dead
Both systems have one drawback: Anyone close to the screen can easily view your password entry.
Apart from that I quite like the technology, although Passface more than the abstract art version, which I can't get into my head
At the moment most software is still english. Not M$ word but things like BIND and SendMail. These rely simply on english characters. So even though you have chinese HTML, you still have to type in your addresses in English.
Besides, I've tried typing on a chinese keyboard and it sure wasn't easy.
don't you READ the parent mail?? It clearly states three possible solutions to evade without a shuttle docked. As it says in THAT email, non of these methods was shown to be dedicated for evasive actions
get your head out of your ass
That's three russian solutions, of which none is sure.
Other countries must have thought of this I presume. If all relies on getting a space shuttle up there it's just a matter of waiting untill bad weather prevents the shuttle to launch in time
You're right, maybe we aren't!!!!
Let's quickly burn all fossile fuels and find out!!
</stupidity>
It can't hurt to cut down on CO2 emission, even if it's not the 100% cause of global warming.
But if it turns out that it was the influence of man, there won't be an 'undo' button!