Low-grade ultraviolet. Even that is enough to break some of the bonds in the gene, allowing them to fualtily recombine. Look through old copies of "The Amateur Scientist" from the '60s. This is really elementary biology - high school stuff. Guess the quality of education has gone down over the decades.
Its been done lots of times - heck, I remember reading about how you can do this at home, back in the late '60s, in one of the popular science articles. Usual cautions about making sure to wipe everything down with lysol, how to make yourself a glove box, hyow to culture samples in petri dishes, etc.,
Shouldn't it be trivial to culture some bacteria, put them in a hostile environment (too hot, too cold, whatever), and then bombard them with cosmic rays and whatnot to induce random mutation?
And couldn't we get some very useful benchmarks on the evolutionary process, which is essentially the interaction between random mutations and environmental forces to produce successivly more viable generations?
Youdon't need to be so complicated. Just take a piece of carcass from an animal (say, a pig) that died of disease, put it in a box with a source of mild radiation, and wait a month. Open the box. There's a chance that some of the bugs that survived, reporduced, and mutated into new forms will do you some serious bad shit to you.
I would hope people would get the idea from the name and content - zen - sit there and contemplate the possibilities of css - and when they are elightened, proceed with their own design.
Just ripping off someone else's stuff is low, and really, rather pointless in the long run. No creativity. Nothing to be proud of.
If you read further, you'll see that they encourage people to release their designs under the creative commons. Some do, some don't. Either way, the idea isn't to rip of the designer - its' to get inspiration, useful ideas, etc., and see how you can use the techniques in your own designs. I should have made that clear. Thanks for pointing it out.
Somehow, I don't think that its a demonstraton of the power of any Young Homosexual Women's Helpline (1-888-THE-GLNH), though working in a reference to lesbians in ANY article is guaranteed to get the "guys-living-in-mom'sbasement" crowd all hot and bothereddddddd
If you had read the article, you'd have seen that apparently, the guy who registered the domain a few years ago, and is now out of the picture, doesn't want to turn over the domain to the people who have been doing the heavy lifting for the last while.
Moral of the story - if you're doing a lot of work on something, make sure the contact info is up to date, or you can end up having your work "hijacked".
Oh, I got it to work w. xinerama under KDE, but when I tried to get it to go back to 2 separate desktops instead of one "stretched" desktop, it refused to reconfigure itself, instead leaving me with only one working monitor, despite a couple of HOURS trying to get it to work, and logging out/bak in, and even rebooting.
Strangely enough, its working okay now - but in the intervening weeks I've gotten used to gnome, and gnome runs quicker (now that I've killed off beagle, which would end up hogging 98% of cpu and send "top" through the roof, it-s even better)
Why don't you just get a pad of paper, and a pen? Then you write your todo list on that, and save a fair chunk of pence because you don't need to buy and power another monitor.
Well, I've got a 3rd monitor kicking around, and I could stuff another card into the box. Its like people who've never used dual-monitor setups don't realize the difference it makes. Same with desktop screen pagers - once you've got a dozen virtual desktops, you get used to stuffing a couple of shells on one, an editor on another, a browser on another, another browser on another (for compatibiity testing), a 3rd browser on another (again, for compatibility testing), 2-3 file browsers on another, email on another, ftp on another, the GIMP on another, etc. (well, that's my usual setup, and it's not a high-end machine, but it handles it okay:-).
Now, having said all that, I'm actually going to grab the old paper-based notebook to do some planning.
In my case it's probably a hardware issue (ain't it always). I was surprised that they worked at all, considering the mb is a cheapie with on-board duron and video and sound and lan that's going onto its 4th year in a few months (while a MUCH newer, name-brand pimped-out amd64 box is just sitting there doing nothing because the mb died just as the warranty ran out).
Heck, the secondary display is a 10-year-old ati all-in-wonder (well, it'll be 10 years old in February), and it works great for what I'm doing.
I'm not complaining - switching to gnome made it feel much more responsive. Heck, I'm even getting to like the GIMP.
... because I refuse to do cross-browser sniffing, and I still "want it all in terms of development.
That means, for example, ignoring "work-arounds" for Opera, Konqueror and Safari and concentrating on Firefox and Exploder. If it works on those 2, its "good enough". But there are a lot of people who are going to go "what about Opera!?!" Opera has a serious iframe layer bug, and Konqueror doesn't handle the "visibility" property properly (you also have to set "display to "none", which makes it incompatible with both the standard and IE, though firefox handles it okay).
However, I switched to dual monitors, and they just don't work under kde (t's probably just me, I'm NOT flaming the kde developers). So I've been using gnome for the last month, and, surprise - it's a LOT better than it used to be, and it runs faster than KDE.
Te KDE apps work just fine (Kontact and KWallet are running all the time on this box).
My only question is - do I try to install a 3rd monitor (I've got 2 19" ones, but I could still use a smaller one for keeping a small to-do list, etc., front-and-center.
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Low-grade ultraviolet. Even that is enough to break some of the bonds in the gene, allowing them to fualtily recombine. Look through old copies of "The Amateur Scientist" from the '60s. This is really elementary biology - high school stuff. Guess the quality of education has gone down over the decades.
Its been done lots of times - heck, I remember reading about how you can do this at home, back in the late '60s, in one of the popular science articles. Usual cautions about making sure to wipe everything down with lysol, how to make yourself a glove box, hyow to culture samples in petri dishes, etc.,
Like I said, this is so old its NOT news.
I would hope people would get the idea from the name and content - zen - sit there and contemplate the possibilities of css - and when they are elightened, proceed with their own design.
Just ripping off someone else's stuff is low, and really, rather pointless in the long run. No creativity. Nothing to be proud of.
If you read further, you'll see that they encourage people to release their designs under the creative commons. Some do, some don't. Either way, the idea isn't to rip of the designer - its' to get inspiration, useful ideas, etc., and see how you can use the techniques in your own designs. I should have made that clear. Thanks for pointing it out.
... but then I can pretend I'm a slashdot editor and post it as a DUPE!
Frig - I screwed up the first link. My bad http://www.csszengarden.com/
Need inspiration?
Go or here
Lots of css goodness, examples, downloadable stuff, etc.
Why not just go here instead?
Really nice shit!
Somehow, I don't think that its a demonstraton of the power of any Young Homosexual Women's Helpline (1-888-THE-GLNH), though working in a reference to lesbians in ANY article is guaranteed to get the "guys-living-in-mom'sbasement" crowd all hot and bothereddddddd
If you had read the article, you'd have seen that apparently, the guy who registered the domain a few years ago, and is now out of the picture, doesn't want to turn over the domain to the people who have been doing the heavy lifting for the last while.
Moral of the story - if you're doing a lot of work on something, make sure the contact info is up to date, or you can end up having your work "hijacked".
Strangely enough, its working okay now - but in the intervening weeks I've gotten used to gnome, and gnome runs quicker (now that I've killed off beagle, which would end up hogging 98% of cpu and send "top" through the roof, it-s even better)
4 monitors - maybe next year ...
[whine] .. but there's no ROOM for pen and paper within easy reach... [/whine]
Seriously, I think I could find other uses for it as well. But I'm probably not going to test it any time soon.
Well, I've got a 3rd monitor kicking around, and I could stuff another card into the box. Its like people who've never used dual-monitor setups don't realize the difference it makes. Same with desktop screen pagers - once you've got a dozen virtual desktops, you get used to stuffing a couple of shells on one, an editor on another, a browser on another, another browser on another (for compatibiity testing), a 3rd browser on another (again, for compatibility testing), 2-3 file browsers on another, email on another, ftp on another, the GIMP on another, etc. (well, that's my usual setup, and it's not a high-end machine, but it handles it okay :-).
Now, having said all that, I'm actually going to grab the old paper-based notebook to do some planning.
Everything? The name doesn't.
Didn't /some/most/ other major distros start out that way?
In my case it's probably a hardware issue (ain't it always). I was surprised that they worked at all, considering the mb is a cheapie with on-board duron and video and sound and lan that's going onto its 4th year in a few months (while a MUCH newer, name-brand pimped-out amd64 box is just sitting there doing nothing because the mb died just as the warranty ran out).
Heck, the secondary display is a 10-year-old ati all-in-wonder (well, it'll be 10 years old in February), and it works great for what I'm doing.
I'm not complaining - switching to gnome made it feel much more responsive. Heck, I'm even getting to like the GIMP.
That means, for example, ignoring "work-arounds" for Opera, Konqueror and Safari and concentrating on Firefox and Exploder. If it works on those 2, its "good enough". But there are a lot of people who are going to go "what about Opera!?!" Opera has a serious iframe layer bug, and Konqueror doesn't handle the "visibility" property properly (you also have to set "display to "none", which makes it incompatible with both the standard and IE, though firefox handles it okay).
Until a month ago, I would have agree with you
However, I switched to dual monitors, and they just don't work under kde (t's probably just me, I'm NOT flaming the kde developers). So I've been using gnome for the last month, and, surprise - it's a LOT better than it used to be, and it runs faster than KDE.
Te KDE apps work just fine (Kontact and KWallet are running all the time on this box).
My only question is - do I try to install a 3rd monitor (I've got 2 19" ones, but I could still use a smaller one for keeping a small to-do list, etc., front-and-center.
There's no excuse even today to do any cross-browser detection. /me checks to make sure I'm wearing my asbestos underwear.
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- Once you've had black, you never go back
- Once you've had asian, you never want caucasian
Doesn't matter - in another 100 generations we're all going to be either dead or brown.Unfortunately, we're slowly (or not so slowly) catching up in terms of "supersized" people.
"Hongcouver" - I LUV it! Fits right in there with Canuckistan/Kanuckistan.
See - sex DOES help you live longer.
STAY TUNED for the NEW REALITY TV SHOW! That's right folks, we get to see people PUSH SHIT BACK INTO A HORSE!.
Now THAT would get viewers! Heck, I don't watch reality shows, but I'd probably tune in for a laugh.