You have to be kidding. SG-1 episodes can be SOOOOOO repetitious. (SG-1 goes to planet, brings back artifact, artifact threatens world, SG-1 gets rid of it, world is saved.) I'm sure patriotic Nazis who thinks the US Armed Forces can-do-no-wrong must eat this show up, but SG-1 is not a warm, psychological blankie for me.
Season 6? You're in for a disappointment. Parker Lewis (Corin Nemec) can't fill Dr. Jackson's shoes.
Don't get me wrong, I think SG-1 is good sci-fi. But it doesn't beat ST:TOS, ST:TNG (season 3+), or ST:DS9 (season 2+). (Well, maybe ST:TNG...)
I'd rather force ST writers to watch Farscape or (hee hee) Lexx.
Actually, it was season 1 of Enterprise that I thought was the best. Yes, it was mediocre, but its the only season where there were episodes I liked. It pretty much sucked after season 1. I haven't even bothered trying to catch up to the latter half of the season 3 episodes. (That's how bad it is.)
No, she was no Jeri Ryan, but Nicole was a cutie. The only episode Terry Farrell looked good was the time travel/tribble episode. (And day-am, the best babes were on Star Trek: TOS.) Nana Visitor struck me as a mean, yapping poodle.
Yeah, that was one big minus of DS9, lack of real babe-age.
We flipped on his 706 and talked from a drive-thru in northern CA to a guy in Greenland. It only lasted about 10 minutes, then the band closed, and we ate our burgers. You wouldn't want your TV signals doing that.
No, you certainly wouldn't want that to happen! Why, a skip could open up, and then we could be getting porn from German broadcast TV, and then... wait a second...
1) They're not grad students. They're both assistant professors at UC Berkeley. (Odd though that they don't refer to them as Doctors.) Do you really think grad students have $200K to throw around on their own experiments?
2) They chose to publicly credit a grad student (Leor Weinberger) with contributing to this particular piece of work. But leave it to Wired's "professional" journalist to write ambiguously on the facts of a story.
3) It is *not* a cure to HIV/AIDS. Its merely a engineered component which would be a necessary step towards a potential cure for HIV using "synthetic" biology. (Apparently, "gene therapy" is an unpopular term nowadays.) Their theory is that a bioengineered HIV virus would be able displace the deadly strains of HIV and thus reduce AIDS deaths. Adam does a lot of computer modelling in his research to help demonstrate his theories (which to me is also a notable aspect of this story...)
So, to conclude this part, you did not RTFA, heavyweights with hundreds of millions of dollars are able to do this, grad students have not yet demonstrated an ability to do this (although much like an a-bomb or bio-weapons, its probably in their reach), all the conclusions you reached from your presumptions are probably incorrect, and most important, there isn't a cure for AIDS just over the horizon.
I really wish they had published papers available online specific to this research. ( Google let me down...:( ) I suspect the Wired writer was incorrect as describing the engineered HIV virus as "latching" onto the real ones. More likely, its engineering the "vaccinating" HIV virus to be non-deadly and outcompete deadly HIV strains to infect a host (but IANAB). Don't suppose any graduate biology/chemistry students could help dig up some links?
What I did find from Google was a useful blurb about Adam and his work
1) Get as many clues as to the nature of configuration management as quickly as possible.
2) Try to determine what your bosses' understanding about CM. (Ask them.) Its generally going to be viewed as an obstacle and a "cost center". If they're not on-board in terms of its importance, my guess is that it will be likely to be a detrimental move.
3) If they give you the time, get an idea of what changes you would need to make and then give them a gameplan before taking the job. If they're not onboard with what your job will require, you will have a dysfunctional situation.
Given your counterproductive request, it sure doesn't appear that you know that.
Coders are the only ones who should upgrade their kernel?
No, people capable of comprehending the notes in the changelogs should be able to decide whether to upgrade their kernel. If you can't, let people who are better able to evaluate the significance of kernel changes to decide for you whether a kernel upgrade is warranted. Following up on whiny requests for changelog novelizations is not a kernel hackers obligation.
Because the OSS community cannot lead, they have to follow? What a dumb statement.
No, I'm pointing out that kernel hackers provide more in terms of source code and documentation than any other commercial or open source effort. (Duh.)
"That I require?" WTF are you talking about? I made a suggestion, and a minor one at that, about something that I think could be improved upon. Way to blemish the community that you blindly follow.
Its a stupid suggestion, and it would be a time wasting obstacle if any of them took you seriously. I'd rather those kernel developers working on making the kernel work and work better, than writing up a teaching tool so YOU can understand whether you should upgrade your kernel. You are the whining blemish to the community.
No, you're the moron. Our debt is exported by the value of our currency. Once countries decide not to carry our debt, the value of the currency will collapse, and that will mean an economic depression. Our purchasing power will be radically diminished as our currency will not be able to get an equitable rate of exchange for goods. Who cares if the majority of the debt is owned by Americans? A way of discerning where we are in this doomsday clock is by analyzing the trade imbalance, and take a look at the big picture. We are hemorraging debt, interest payments to that debt takes up 8% of our taxes, we're not producing products internally to the level we consume from imports, and are exporting jobs.
My money is on the Chinese. They are culturally more homogeneous. And centralized gov't can better mandate necessary changes (think fascism). As Europe is mired in its aging demographic, India is mired in its bureaucratic, if not corrupt, local gov'ts. Yeah, it looks like things are hopping in India, but that's only because they speak English, so they have a greater presence in our western economies. China might have an earth-shattering gov't revolution/civil war in the future, but after the dust clears, it will all be working for China. India, on the other hand, will probably be mired in sectarian strife, between muslims, sikhs, hindus, dalits, and whatever else needs to scratch out a living.
Because kernel hackers have better things to do with their time than spoon-feed their changelogs for you. Most are not being paid to make things clearer to you. Linux activity focuses on improving OS operation, not to be a teaching tool.
If you don't understand coder-speak, you really have no business mucking around with kernel versions. Just let your distribution decide when you should be upgrading your kernel.
When Microsoft or BSD or OS X starts producing documentation and source code at the "mature" standard that you require, that will be a good time for Linus to consider such issues.
Of course, its Sun's own fault. If they weren't so anal-retentive about control of the language, they could of submitted it to an open-standards body, and then Kodak would have had a hell of a time trying to enforce those patents...
What server is going to need mount a filesystem to a user's PC? You close outbound port to 445 and at least you constrain the ability of the worm to spread from the servers. Also, by having the internal firewalls in place, you can localize and locate any damage the rogue worm will do.
As long as you allow laptops or let users introduce material to a PC, you have to acknowlege that internal connections are as able to introduce worms/viruses as external network connections. That requires use of internal firewalls. Even if it may be problematic in this instance, its still better than nothing.
Don't blame the user for an inadequate network design. Servers should be segregated from "users" on separate subnets with firewalls between them. You can poke some more holes into the internal firewalls to account for applications; it sure beats having nothing.
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What am I going to watch? Joan of Arcadia.
What else? Sopranos, Dead Like Me, 24, SG-1, Smallville, Will & Grace, and mebbe a little Carnivale, Deadwood, and CSI.
Hint: A galactic federation with military starships and military characters does not equal good science fiction.
I will certainly enjoy friday nights more than you will.
You have to be kidding. SG-1 episodes can be SOOOOOO repetitious. (SG-1 goes to planet, brings back artifact, artifact threatens world, SG-1 gets rid of it, world is saved.) I'm sure patriotic Nazis who thinks the US Armed Forces can-do-no-wrong must eat this show up, but SG-1 is not a warm, psychological blankie for me.
Season 6? You're in for a disappointment. Parker Lewis (Corin Nemec) can't fill Dr. Jackson's shoes.
Don't get me wrong, I think SG-1 is good sci-fi. But it doesn't beat ST:TOS, ST:TNG (season 3+), or ST:DS9 (season 2+). (Well, maybe ST:TNG...)
I'd rather force ST writers to watch Farscape or (hee hee) Lexx.
Too late, they've already raped the ST timeline.
Ironic. Quantum Leap would be the better show to continue, rather than Enterprise.
Actually, it was season 1 of Enterprise that I thought was the best. Yes, it was mediocre, but its the only season where there were episodes I liked. It pretty much sucked after season 1. I haven't even bothered trying to catch up to the latter half of the season 3 episodes. (That's how bad it is.)
UPN is reviving "Homeboys from Outer Space"???
Now *THAT* is a sci-fi series I could get behind (unlike Enterpoop).
You forgot: Ezri Dax (Nicole DeBoer)
No, she was no Jeri Ryan, but Nicole was a cutie. The only episode Terry Farrell looked good was the time travel/tribble episode. (And day-am, the best babes were on Star Trek: TOS.) Nana Visitor struck me as a mean, yapping poodle.
Yeah, that was one big minus of DS9, lack of real babe-age.
We flipped on his 706 and talked from a drive-thru in northern CA to a guy in Greenland. It only lasted about 10 minutes, then the band closed, and we ate our burgers. You wouldn't want your TV signals doing that.
No, you certainly wouldn't want that to happen! Why, a skip could open up, and then we could be getting porn from German broadcast TV, and then... wait a second...
Kinda makes me wonder why they didn't settle it on a counterstrike server or Unreal server...
lol. You are so right.
Nah, I think they become the CEO/CFO of Fortune 100 companies...
...a pair of Hollywood actors can synthesize a virus! I wonder what Adam Arkin and David Schaffer will do for an encore...
1) They're not grad students. They're both assistant professors at UC Berkeley. (Odd though that they don't refer to them as Doctors.) Do you really think grad students have $200K to throw around on their own experiments?
2) They chose to publicly credit a grad student (Leor Weinberger) with contributing to this particular piece of work. But leave it to Wired's "professional" journalist to write ambiguously on the facts of a story.
3) It is *not* a cure to HIV/AIDS. Its merely a engineered component which would be a necessary step towards a potential cure for HIV using "synthetic" biology. (Apparently, "gene therapy" is an unpopular term nowadays.) Their theory is that a bioengineered HIV virus would be able displace the deadly strains of HIV and thus reduce AIDS deaths. Adam does a lot of computer modelling in his research to help demonstrate his theories (which to me is also a notable aspect of this story...)
So, to conclude this part, you did not RTFA, heavyweights with hundreds of millions of dollars are able to do this, grad students have not yet demonstrated an ability to do this (although much like an a-bomb or bio-weapons, its probably in their reach), all the conclusions you reached from your presumptions are probably incorrect, and most important, there isn't a cure for AIDS just over the horizon.
I really wish they had published papers available online specific to this research. ( Google let me down... :( ) I suspect the Wired writer was incorrect as describing the engineered HIV virus as "latching" onto the real ones. More likely, its engineering the "vaccinating" HIV virus to be non-deadly and outcompete deadly HIV strains to infect a host (but IANAB). Don't suppose any graduate biology/chemistry students could help dig up some links?
What I did find from Google was a useful blurb about Adam and his work
.1) Get as many clues as to the nature of configuration management as quickly as possible.
2) Try to determine what your bosses' understanding about CM. (Ask them.) Its generally going to be viewed as an obstacle and a "cost center". If they're not on-board in terms of its importance, my guess is that it will be likely to be a detrimental move.
3) If they give you the time, get an idea of what changes you would need to make and then give them a gameplan before taking the job. If they're not onboard with what your job will require, you will have a dysfunctional situation.
Also, the caffeine in tea is a different isomer than the caffeine in coffee (and both are different from the caffeine in chocolate).
The caffeine in coffee tends to have a greater physiological effect than in the other forms of ingestion.
Given your counterproductive request, it sure doesn't appear that you know that.
Coders are the only ones who should upgrade their kernel?
No, people capable of comprehending the notes in the changelogs should be able to decide whether to upgrade their kernel. If you can't, let people who are better able to evaluate the significance of kernel changes to decide for you whether a kernel upgrade is warranted. Following up on whiny requests for changelog novelizations is not a kernel hackers obligation.
Because the OSS community cannot lead, they have to follow? What a dumb statement.
No, I'm pointing out that kernel hackers provide more in terms of source code and documentation than any other commercial or open source effort. (Duh.)
"That I require?" WTF are you talking about? I made a suggestion, and a minor one at that, about something that I think could be improved upon. Way to blemish the community that you blindly follow.
Its a stupid suggestion, and it would be a time wasting obstacle if any of them took you seriously. I'd rather those kernel developers working on making the kernel work and work better, than writing up a teaching tool so YOU can understand whether you should upgrade your kernel. You are the whining blemish to the community.
No, you're the moron. Our debt is exported by the value of our currency. Once countries decide not to carry our debt, the value of the currency will collapse, and that will mean an economic depression. Our purchasing power will be radically diminished as our currency will not be able to get an equitable rate of exchange for goods. Who cares if the majority of the debt is owned by Americans? A way of discerning where we are in this doomsday clock is by analyzing the trade imbalance, and take a look at the big picture. We are hemorraging debt, interest payments to that debt takes up 8% of our taxes, we're not producing products internally to the level we consume from imports, and are exporting jobs.
My money is on the Chinese. They are culturally more homogeneous. And centralized gov't can better mandate necessary changes (think fascism). As Europe is mired in its aging demographic, India is mired in its bureaucratic, if not corrupt, local gov'ts. Yeah, it looks like things are hopping in India, but that's only because they speak English, so they have a greater presence in our western economies. China might have an earth-shattering gov't revolution/civil war in the future, but after the dust clears, it will all be working for China. India, on the other hand, will probably be mired in sectarian strife, between muslims, sikhs, hindus, dalits, and whatever else needs to scratch out a living.
Because kernel hackers have better things to do with their time than spoon-feed their changelogs for you. Most are not being paid to make things clearer to you. Linux activity focuses on improving OS operation, not to be a teaching tool.
If you don't understand coder-speak, you really have no business mucking around with kernel versions. Just let your distribution decide when you should be upgrading your kernel.
When Microsoft or BSD or OS X starts producing documentation and source code at the "mature" standard that you require, that will be a good time for Linus to consider such issues.
So, what exactly is flamebait?
That CORBA will probably invalidate the patents?
Or that Sun exposed itself to the lawsuit by not putting java up to a standards committee?
So is misrepresenting the WMD threat Iraq posed pre-invasion.
Do you think GWB is seriously concerned about impeachment?
Take a look at those patents.
Didn't those idiots ever hear of CORBA?
Of course, its Sun's own fault. If they weren't so anal-retentive about control of the language, they could of submitted it to an open-standards body, and then Kodak would have had a hell of a time trying to enforce those patents...
What server is going to need mount a filesystem to a user's PC? You close outbound port to 445 and at least you constrain the ability of the worm to spread from the servers. Also, by having the internal firewalls in place, you can localize and locate any damage the rogue worm will do.
As long as you allow laptops or let users introduce material to a PC, you have to acknowlege that internal connections are as able to introduce worms/viruses as external network connections. That requires use of internal firewalls. Even if it may be problematic in this instance, its still better than nothing.
Breaks my heart. Who the hell would run Oracle off a Windoze box? If you don't need an ACID database, who the hell needs Oracle?
Don't blame the user for an inadequate network design. Servers should be segregated from "users" on separate subnets with firewalls between them. You can poke some more holes into the internal firewalls to account for applications; it sure beats having nothing.
Ummm, is the new version Knoppix so indispensable that one wouldn't consider sticking to the previous version of knoppix?