I noticed another post referring to RMS sharing his ideas with Noam Chomsky, while I admire both men as intellectuals, I'm afraid the greatest threat to liberals and democrates of all spots and stripes is that we are our greatest enemies. We don't jump to the conclusion that we are right, rather we tend to list to the left and circle ideologies and problems, canvassing them from all sides and in all lights. Come vote time we tend to fragment into camps warring as much with each other as with the neocons. Chomsky has in recent federal elections siphoned off votes that might have helped elect a Democratic President.
Maybe in America as in Canada we need to put aside our petty differences and vote en bloc to push the neocons out of power before the definition of facism RMS casts at America today becomes applicable in the U.S. and in Canada.
I'll now dismount my soapbox and return to fretting about the present Federal election at home.
"The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing."
I assemble my own boxes because it's relaxing and I get to pick and choose my components. I get to go with Seagate drives that have never failed me and Viewsonic G or P series Crts, I've got the desktop realestate to go with crts and they give me the best results.
So why buy a Dell? If you're going to wipe the drive and do an install from scratch you're losing any benefit from their install. If you're after a system for gaming wouldn't you want to build it yourself? Is it just the ~50 bucks saved?
I've never owned or used a Dell so I don't know what the draw is other than the obvious of buying in bulk.
The Reg has a Dec 15th article commenting on IBM's... "elevating the pair to IBM's Strategic Alliance program, its highest tier partner status. The move is designed to make it easier for firms to acquire Linux-based systems by integrating and streamlined sales, distribution and service channels between the hardware vendor (IBM) and its two principal open source software partners, Red Hat and Novell."
The Red Hat/Novell heavyweight competition benefits everyone.
The Old Boy network headed up by Britian and the U.S. has officially brought India into the Club (nuclear, economic, military). After the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and in the face of China's rush to prosperity, the Old Boys have made it evident that India is their choice to embrace and extend into the East.
"Together at last", reads a headline from the Economist in July of this year. Britain and the U.S. have made it clear of late that India is their boy in the East and, no doubt, trade and military agreements will follow to insure India's economic and military position becomes, as much as possible, preemminent.
The offshoring of IT to India is just a drop in the barrel compared to what will follow in a show of hegemonic, power politics.
Google turned up a few marginal, but interesting sites that suggest an Anglosphere spin on the spate of recent announcements. I don't doubt that India's success as a rising star in the aftermath of the British Empire will serve it well.
The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems or RAD lab
I propose to gather the world's greatest minds to generate memorable, unpatented acronyms for the IT industry.
I'm sure the person hours lost to coming up with yet another acronym for yet another venture must run into the gazillions of dollars per year. Charges for my companies services will be slight by comparison.
Google on the law of demand and answer. It would seem the law of demand and answer doesn't register. Maybe it's outside the law, maybe an outrage. "I demand an answer", with an implied, or else I'll tell my Mom!
Maybe it's the law of the hidden CIA prisons, but, surely, if it's the law, well then, as we demand so shall we receive an answer.
I like chicks alot. Been married, lived with a few others, like long term relationships. The thing is I don't get the uber smooth, cyber skinned, tricked out, fantasy girls, or, the equally poreless, celluloid supermodels. The first time I seriously came undone in the face of transcendent physical beauty was the first time I saw my first real girlfriend fresh out of the shower sans makeup.
I guess I'm just a regular guy that likes real regular chicks with attractive little flaws.
I'll take the time I've here and now cause obviously I'm not suited to the tailored, gene spliced and diced perfect world to come.
I've been clicking the refresh button @/. since the late 90s.
Gee at maybe ~100 clicks/day for ~7 years I must have driven advertising revenue for the site to the tune of at least $500,000... I mean, even before the site had ads my obsessive compulsive hourly refresh rate drove the popularity of the site to where the guys made an OK buck the first time it sold.
So consider this post my invoice in the sum of $500,000. I'll take it out in credit at Think Geek, but not in subscription dollars... or, just knock off the dupes, hell, knock of the dupes and I'll subcribe.:)
nobody really wants to 'make the switch' away from something they're comfortable with.
Early adopters of Google may have, for the most part being looking for a better search engine, but what sold Google to the masses was far simpler.
The masses seek simplicity.
(1)Google, the name is as simple as baby talk. The name, Google, while carrying its math connotations, is friendly in a silly, simple way. MicroSoft, like a cowboy wanting to see his brand everwhere, would do well to let go of MSN and brand its search engine with something akin to Google. Yahoo has some similarity in simple, attractive terms, but Google is bunny cute.
(2)The colours Google employs are engaging in a primitive simple way as is the name Google. If I were competing against Google I would go with simple attracting colours that held out a similarity to finger painting. Again, Google employs simple, childlike colours that are reminescent of kindergarden and hold out a process of searching that is as simple and fun as fingerpainting. Google's cartoon representations of Christmas, Easter and other notable days again are made to make the Google search experience childlike in simplicity. It's Google's eye candy that pulls in the common searcher.
If I went up against Google I'd start out by licensing something like Paddington Bear to signify a safe site for children. Paddinton's raingear suggests safety and what's more child safe than a teddy bear? I'd employ other brightly coloured images, say a red rose for personals, etc..
Icon's dominate windows on the desktop, the same iconographic point and click simplicity would do more to drive inroads into Google's domain than better tech.
Unfortunately Google's competitors, like Google itself is driven by wringing every penny from every resource to support stock price. Public companies can only do evil, like the wicked witch in Snow White, they stand before the mirror and ask "mirror, mirror, on the wall, whose stock price is the prettiest of them all", and, what they offer to their users is a bright, rosy, red poisoned apple to put them to sleep.
Google has had cooties for years. While I was a very early user of Google and had it up on my then site, I would give up Google now in a heart beat if there were a viable alternative.
'Do no evil' does not jive with 'IPO'. Once a company goes public it's doomed to image control in order to keep it's stock price looking pretty.
... the cell becomes chaotically embryonic in nature,...
...all cause cancer by essentially turning on a cell's replication machinery and reverting the cells back to pluripotent and proliferative states,...
By the above is it then fair to say that teratoma, ( "The best evidence suggests that most [teratoma] are due to abnormal differentiation of fetal germ cells that arise from the fetal yolk sac..." )..." made up of a variety of parenchymal cell types representative of more than a single germ layer, usually all 3. Arising from totipotential cells"..., exhibit the dynamics of cancer in embryology?
Thanks for lending some clarity to my initial question.
I'm not competent in this area and my readings are related to the epistemological questions that arise from questions akin to questions asked by Erwin Schrodinger in his seminal book, 'What is Life?', and the many other books since that pursue the same question.
In embryology there is a process known as... "induction This has been widely studied in vertebrates, particularly amphibians. During induction, tissue becomes differentially determined in response to the concentration of a chemical signal from another region of the embryo. Induction involves intercellular interactions. Usually regulation will only occur if certain regions are present. These are the signaling centers or organizers. The ability to respond to the inductive signal is called competence. The range of choices open to competent tissue is a property of its state of determination. For example, once mesoderm is formed it is competent to become somite, kidney, mesenchyme, or blood cells. It is no longer competent to become one of the ectodermal derivatives."
In my own lame lay terms it maybe that cancer cells loose the chemical markers that tell them to play nice and fit in. Once a cancerous cell looses sight of its utilitarian goal it may enter a state wherein it attempts to develop into a multicelled structure but without the chemical messengers necessary to the task. The bone marrow cells may have characteristics that chemically sense areas that would be receptive to metastasis.
The article mentioned ordinary bone marrow cells, but recent reports have cited... "Bone marrow stem cells, for example, are the most primitive cells in the marrow. From them all the various types of blood cells are descended. Bone marrow stem-cell transfusions (or transplants) were originally given to replace various types of blood cells."
"Stem cells from bone marrow can also, quite remarkably, give rise to non-marrow cells"
Do bone marrow cells exhibit pluripotent characteristics that lend them to the use metastasis puts them to?
bathos: bathos - a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
It's great to see slapstick humour is thriving in the U.S.
In highschool myself and a few friends made a habit of getting together to watch comedic silent films. The films were available from libraries and the venerable National Film Board of Canada.
Generally our favourites were Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
While I fear and loath (in the best intentioned way of the late H.S. Thomson) the policies of America as applied to IP, the USPTO has taken to mimicing Chaplin's indifferent giant machine crunching the common person in the truest, sadly comedic, bathotic fashion. Unfortunately I'm afraid act two has been foredone by Kafka.
The difference between the makeup, function, and behavior of a given type of cells between one species and another is so insignificant (remember, we're talking on a cellular level) that they can generally be ignored. You can almost always assume that a given cell type in one organism will behave identically to a parallel cell in another. The species that the cell came from is all but insignificant.
Further you wrote:
Brains look for order.
Is it more productive to say brains filter out noise and order results. I'm suggesting something along the lines of Picasso's famous saying: "Je ne cherche pas, je trouve" (I don't seek, I find). The anthropic principle suggests we find the universe as it is because if it were otherwise we wouldn't be here to find it so.
As you wrote...The difference between the makeup, function, and behavior of a given type of cells between one species and another is so insignificant...... does this suggest that we will find order as we are able to discern it because all life arose from the basic principles that inform said order.
Overall the above might seen a bit of a nit pick but it goes to deep presuppositions.
You can still find a job,
go out and talk to a friend.
On the back of every magazine
there are those coupons you can send.
Why don't you join the Rosicrucians,
they can give you back your hope,
you can find your love with diagrams
on a plain brown envelope.
But you've used up all your coupons
except the one that seems
to be written on your wrist
along with several thousand dreams.
Now Santa Claus comes forward,
that's a razor in his mit;
and he puts on his dark glasses
and he shows you where to hit;
and then the cameras pan,
the stand in stunt man,
dress rehearsal rag,
it's just the dress rehearsal rag,
you know this dress rehearsal rag,
it's just a dress rehearsal rag.
Start the little ankle bitters out on edubuntu and, maybe they'll end up in the nerdy niche of Scientific Linux which has just released version 4.2.
The philosophy and developer base of OSS allows for products to be made to fit niches that big closed source companies like Microsoft can't be bothered to service. The ability to develop to suit the needs of fringe groups is a powerful tool. It's good to see it being fully exploited.
We are apes. We exhibit a degree of dimorphism between the sexes in that males tend to be larger. Other than sexual dimorphism there is little in the male's repertoire to court females as is seen in the bright plumage of birds and other species. One thing that distinguishes us from other speicies is our relatively big brain and, as an outgrowth of our big brain, language. Our brain uses huge amounts of resources and, it's been suggested, is co-evolutionary with growth of our complex social organization.
It follows from our development of language and complex social organizations that our brains are a resource we would default to in striving for the best mates to propogate our genes. We compete between individuals and for mates by language, by telling stories. Religion is the greatest story ever told by each and every tribe.
Religion is an evolutionary adaptational gambit. As an adaptational ploy, religion decrees if you want to get along go along. And if you make for a good tribal fit in terms of the archetypes projected by the story that is religion you will get a mate, maybe a prime mate.
In terms of complex tribal structures religion is evolution in action.
Back in the day when men were men and children were chattles, teenagers were treated like dogs off the leash. My grandfather told me when he was a kid trying to steal an apple or two, farmers would run them off with blasts from a double barrel shotgun, the shells packed with rocksalt. He said the rocksalt wouldn't break their skin but stung horribly.
I've never seen rocksalt, but I imagine it's just outsized chunks of salt. Fired from a 12 gauge the impact must smart bad. So even if driving away teens with high frequency sounds is discriminatory and wrong, teenagers today get it served up much more humanely than our forefathers.
Sounds like this guy retired from public life and took to the wicked weed we grow. Then too it's the tail end of mushroom season and maybe he stumbled upon one of the better patches of psilocybe magic mushrooms.
I like to think our superior recreational drugs (with the sadly missed exception of peyote) and excellent beer are the drawing cards for aliens throughout the 'verse.
It's good to know one of our retired politicians is projecting our world renowed good Canadian manners outward toward our interglactic neighbours.
"...the Army's attorney general, Joseph Welch, rebuked McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
"McCarthyism took place during a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. During this period people from all walks of life became the subject of aggressive "witch-hunts," often based on inconclusive or questionable evidence. It grew out of the Second Red Scare that began in the late 1940s and is named after the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin."
It's ironic that, especially Hollywood, and, the recording industry, so much a target of Joe McCarthy should now be at the forefront of an hysterical witchhunt intent on making criminals of all and sundry.
Slashdot Mirror
I noticed another post referring to RMS sharing his ideas with Noam Chomsky, while I admire both men as intellectuals, I'm afraid the greatest threat to liberals and democrates of all spots and stripes is that we are our greatest enemies. We don't jump to the conclusion that we are right, rather we tend to list to the left and circle ideologies and problems, canvassing them from all sides and in all lights. Come vote time we tend to fragment into camps warring as much with each other as with the neocons. Chomsky has in recent federal elections siphoned off votes that might have helped elect a Democratic President.
Maybe in America as in Canada we need to put aside our petty differences and vote en bloc to push the neocons out of power before the definition of facism RMS casts at America today becomes applicable in the U.S. and in Canada.
I'll now dismount my soapbox and return to fretting about the present Federal election at home.
"The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing."
None could resist, none were saved.
So why buy a Dell? If you're going to wipe the drive and do an install from scratch you're losing any benefit from their install. If you're after a system for gaming wouldn't you want to build it yourself? Is it just the ~50 bucks saved?
I've never owned or used a Dell so I don't know what the draw is other than the obvious of buying in bulk.
The Red Hat/Novell heavyweight competition benefits everyone.
"Together at last", reads a headline from the Economist in July of this year. Britain and the U.S. have made it clear of late that India is their boy in the East and, no doubt, trade and military agreements will follow to insure India's economic and military position becomes, as much as possible, preemminent.
The offshoring of IT to India is just a drop in the barrel compared to what will follow in a show of hegemonic, power politics.
Google turned up a few marginal, but interesting sites that suggest an Anglosphere spin on the spate of recent announcements. I don't doubt that India's success as a rising star in the aftermath of the British Empire will serve it well.
I propose to gather the world's greatest minds to generate memorable, unpatented acronyms for the IT industry.
I'm sure the person hours lost to coming up with yet another acronym for yet another venture must run into the gazillions of dollars per year. Charges for my companies services will be slight by comparison.
So where's my 1.5 mill?
Google on the law of demand and answer. It would seem the law of demand and answer doesn't register. Maybe it's outside the law, maybe an outrage. "I demand an answer", with an implied, or else I'll tell my Mom!
Maybe it's the law of the hidden CIA prisons, but, surely, if it's the law, well then, as we demand so shall we receive an answer.
I like chicks alot. Been married, lived with a few others, like long term relationships. The thing is I don't get the uber smooth, cyber skinned, tricked out, fantasy girls, or, the equally poreless, celluloid supermodels. The first time I seriously came undone in the face of transcendent physical beauty was the first time I saw my first real girlfriend fresh out of the shower sans makeup.
I guess I'm just a regular guy that likes real regular chicks with attractive little flaws.
I'll take the time I've here and now cause obviously I'm not suited to the tailored, gene spliced and diced perfect world to come.
Gee at maybe ~100 clicks/day for ~7 years I must have driven advertising revenue for the site to the tune of at least $500,000... I mean, even before the site had ads my obsessive compulsive hourly refresh rate drove the popularity of the site to where the guys made an OK buck the first time it sold.
So consider this post my invoice in the sum of $500,000. I'll take it out in credit at Think Geek, but not in subscription dollars... or, just knock off the dupes, hell, knock of the dupes and I'll subcribe.:)
Early adopters of Google may have, for the most part being looking for a better search engine, but what sold Google to the masses was far simpler.
The masses seek simplicity.
(1)Google, the name is as simple as baby talk. The name, Google, while carrying its math connotations, is friendly in a silly, simple way. MicroSoft, like a cowboy wanting to see his brand everwhere, would do well to let go of MSN and brand its search engine with something akin to Google. Yahoo has some similarity in simple, attractive terms, but Google is bunny cute.
(2)The colours Google employs are engaging in a primitive simple way as is the name Google. If I were competing against Google I would go with simple attracting colours that held out a similarity to finger painting. Again, Google employs simple, childlike colours that are reminescent of kindergarden and hold out a process of searching that is as simple and fun as fingerpainting. Google's cartoon representations of Christmas, Easter and other notable days again are made to make the Google search experience childlike in simplicity. It's Google's eye candy that pulls in the common searcher.
If I went up against Google I'd start out by licensing something like Paddington Bear to signify a safe site for children. Paddinton's raingear suggests safety and what's more child safe than a teddy bear? I'd employ other brightly coloured images, say a red rose for personals, etc..
Icon's dominate windows on the desktop, the same iconographic point and click simplicity would do more to drive inroads into Google's domain than better tech.
Unfortunately Google's competitors, like Google itself is driven by wringing every penny from every resource to support stock price. Public companies can only do evil, like the wicked witch in Snow White, they stand before the mirror and ask "mirror, mirror, on the wall, whose stock price is the prettiest of them all", and, what they offer to their users is a bright, rosy, red poisoned apple to put them to sleep.
'Do no evil' does not jive with 'IPO'. Once a company goes public it's doomed to image control in order to keep it's stock price looking pretty.
Anything, even the weirdest USB drives ever, could only improve on the sad, shallow life you now lead.
except for me, uhmmm... I'm doing research... drawing statistical relevance from the /. polls.
By the above is it then fair to say that teratoma, ( "The best evidence suggests that most [teratoma] are due to abnormal differentiation of fetal germ cells that arise from the fetal yolk sac..." )..." made up of a variety of parenchymal cell types representative of more than a single germ layer, usually all 3. Arising from totipotential cells"..., exhibit the dynamics of cancer in embryology?
Thanks for lending some clarity to my initial question.
In embryology there is a process known as... "induction This has been widely studied in vertebrates, particularly amphibians. During induction, tissue becomes differentially determined in response to the concentration of a chemical signal from another region of the embryo. Induction involves intercellular interactions. Usually regulation will only occur if certain regions are present. These are the signaling centers or organizers. The ability to respond to the inductive signal is called competence. The range of choices open to competent tissue is a property of its state of determination. For example, once mesoderm is formed it is competent to become somite, kidney, mesenchyme, or blood cells. It is no longer competent to become one of the ectodermal derivatives."
In my own lame lay terms it maybe that cancer cells loose the chemical markers that tell them to play nice and fit in. Once a cancerous cell looses sight of its utilitarian goal it may enter a state wherein it attempts to develop into a multicelled structure but without the chemical messengers necessary to the task. The bone marrow cells may have characteristics that chemically sense areas that would be receptive to metastasis.
Just $.02, while maybe just 1/2 cent.
"Stem cells from bone marrow can also, quite remarkably, give rise to non-marrow cells"
Do bone marrow cells exhibit pluripotent characteristics that lend them to the use metastasis puts them to?
bathos: bathos - a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
It's great to see slapstick humour is thriving in the U.S.
In highschool myself and a few friends made a habit of getting together to watch comedic silent films. The films were available from libraries and the venerable National Film Board of Canada.
Generally our favourites were Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
While I fear and loath (in the best intentioned way of the late H.S. Thomson) the policies of America as applied to IP, the USPTO has taken to mimicing Chaplin's indifferent giant machine crunching the common person in the truest, sadly comedic, bathotic fashion. Unfortunately I'm afraid act two has been foredone by Kafka.
The difference between the makeup, function, and behavior of a given type of cells between one species and another is so insignificant (remember, we're talking on a cellular level) that they can generally be ignored. You can almost always assume that a given cell type in one organism will behave identically to a parallel cell in another. The species that the cell came from is all but insignificant.
Further you wrote:
Brains look for order.
Is it more productive to say brains filter out noise and order results. I'm suggesting something along the lines of Picasso's famous saying: "Je ne cherche pas, je trouve" (I don't seek, I find). The anthropic principle suggests we find the universe as it is because if it were otherwise we wouldn't be here to find it so.
As you wrote...The difference between the makeup, function, and behavior of a given type of cells between one species and another is so insignificant...... does this suggest that we will find order as we are able to discern it because all life arose from the basic principles that inform said order.
Overall the above might seen a bit of a nit pick but it goes to deep presuppositions.
Spread Of HIV In India Tied To Truck Drivers Soliciting Commercial Sex Workers
You can still find a job,
go out and talk to a friend.
On the back of every magazine
there are those coupons you can send.
Why don't you join the Rosicrucians,
they can give you back your hope,
you can find your love with diagrams
on a plain brown envelope.
But you've used up all your coupons
except the one that seems
to be written on your wrist
along with several thousand dreams.
Now Santa Claus comes forward,
that's a razor in his mit;
and he puts on his dark glasses
and he shows you where to hit;
and then the cameras pan,
the stand in stunt man,
dress rehearsal rag,
it's just the dress rehearsal rag,
you know this dress rehearsal rag,
it's just a dress rehearsal rag.
Leonard Cohen
Dress Rehersal Rag
The philosophy and developer base of OSS allows for products to be made to fit niches that big closed source companies like Microsoft can't be bothered to service. The ability to develop to suit the needs of fringe groups is a powerful tool. It's good to see it being fully exploited.
No, as a Canadian, I haven't, and, sadly, it's looking unlikely that I will be again.
It follows from our development of language and complex social organizations that our brains are a resource we would default to in striving for the best mates to propogate our genes. We compete between individuals and for mates by language, by telling stories. Religion is the greatest story ever told by each and every tribe.
Religion is an evolutionary adaptational gambit. As an adaptational ploy, religion decrees if you want to get along go along. And if you make for a good tribal fit in terms of the archetypes projected by the story that is religion you will get a mate, maybe a prime mate.
In terms of complex tribal structures religion is evolution in action.
I've never seen rocksalt, but I imagine it's just outsized chunks of salt. Fired from a 12 gauge the impact must smart bad. So even if driving away teens with high frequency sounds is discriminatory and wrong, teenagers today get it served up much more humanely than our forefathers.
I like to think our superior recreational drugs (with the sadly missed exception of peyote) and excellent beer are the drawing cards for aliens throughout the 'verse.
It's good to know one of our retired politicians is projecting our world renowed good Canadian manners outward toward our interglactic neighbours.
"...the Army's attorney general, Joseph Welch, rebuked McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
"McCarthyism took place during a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. During this period people from all walks of life became the subject of aggressive "witch-hunts," often based on inconclusive or questionable evidence. It grew out of the Second Red Scare that began in the late 1940s and is named after the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin."
It's ironic that, especially Hollywood, and, the recording industry, so much a target of Joe McCarthy should now be at the forefront of an hysterical witchhunt intent on making criminals of all and sundry.