Re:I hope that sounds better in Japanese
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You don't understand what you're talking about. The Japanese grammatical structure is quite different from that of English. What you see on their clothes are English words written in Japanese grammatical structure. A Japanese person that knows the literal definition of the English words will know exactly what it means. In English, we say: Bob has long hair. In Japanese (literally translated to English) they would say: Long hair Bob has. It gets a lot wierder than that as you get into more complex sentence structure.
Basically those sayings are translated for a Japanese person that understands the literal definition of the words but uses Japanese grammatical structure. Knowing this, it may still seem strange, but then again we often associate nuances to words that are not part of their literal definition, so we may deem their choice of words inappropriate when they are in fact in keeping with the literal definition.
Indbreeding only has adverse effects if the family in question possesses recessive genes for said effects. Normally, those genes would not manifest themselves in the offspring's phenotype because breeding with someone from another family (assuming they do not possess that same gene) will keep that gene recessive. Inbreeding, however, would significantly increase the chance that that gene would surface in the offspring phenotype, as both parents would possess that recessive gene.
If, however, the Oberon's crew did not possess any recessive genes with "negative" effects, indbreeding would not be harmful in any way. eventually, the species would diversify as its numbers grew due to standard genetic mutations, but it would not suffer any of the deformations etc. that we, as a society, attribute to/associate with inbreeding. ...
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the problem with your theory is that the PoH is not Earth. You get a clear shot of the PoH from space as MM is leaving in the pod, and there is one super-huge giant continent interspersed with rivers and a few lakes. That is definitely not earth. The only way that could have been earth is if that was Pangea (before the continents broke apart) hundreds of millions of years ago.
this is aside from the fact that PoH has 3 moons etc.
Also, why would the apes further back in time from PoH be more technically advanced than the apes of PoH? ...
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Yup.. I was thinking that that would happen. Just like I was saying about how the RIAA wants to drop the court case against those professors. The DMCA simply cannot survive a bout in court. ...
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For all you hardcore FF fans, you gotta download the orchestral mp3's! Those things are Badass(tm). I personally think that FF3's Orchestrals are the best by far (esp. the "World of Ruin").
I'd have bought the CD's to support Square, but I can't find them anywhere.
That was exactly my point. The reason that the RIAA does not want to take the issue to court is that the current precedences that have been established re: fair use all indicate that the DMCA would not survive a serious court battle.
They basically tried to get the DMCA drafted to be so tough that nobody would want to risk taking it to court. Backing down to an intimidating letter that alludes to the dire consequences of violating ridiculously draconian law is much safer for corporations, and especially individuals who don't want to go to jail for a decade or so. To them, the possible consequences are too grave, even if the risk factor is low. ...
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The simple reason that the RIAA doesn't want to go to court is that the DMCA is almost guaranteed to be ruled unconstitutional. As long as it doesn't actually get tested in court, it is a formidable and forbidding piece of legislation that would rightly scare anyone intelligent enough to understand its implication.
Facing the DMCA is like playing chicken with a cardboard Mac truck. It's big, it's bad, but if you were to ever call its bluff, it probably won't survive. ...
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... And Florida's supreme court decided to stop the recounts even though it is specifically prohibited by the constitution for a court to resolve an electoral dispute. The independant studies also showed that invalid absentee votes were over 4x more likely to be counted if they were for Bush, and election officials admitted that they had been given different instructions/standards for counting votes based on whether or not Bush was likely to carry the county. ...
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The flaw in your example is that AMD's processors, aside from anyone's proprietary optmizations, are just as good (sometimes better, sometimes worse... usually better for my purposes). With ATI vs nVidia, ATI makes budget gfx cards, and it shows. If they make a succesful move into the high-end gfx card market, more power to them, but at the present time they don't have anything that can seriously challenge the GeForce3. ...
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The difference is that nVidia holds a large enough share of the high-end gaming market (their main target market) that the emergence of GeForce3-optimized games is guaranteed to happen soon. This is because graphics-intensive 3d games actually require all the raw graphics processing speed they can lay their hands on. Games rely on image far more than apps, so games shops will be scrambling to make use of the GeForce3 optimizations so they can include badass gfx fx in their products for display on the TV's at Software etc.
With P4, Intel no longer holds enough of the market to force software shops to use their extensions. With a few limited exceptions, the cost of developing a seperate app to take advantage of the P4 optimizations would be too high to justify the expenditure of extra resources. Also, most apps do not require massive speed. Basically the only consumer-level products that actually need huge processing power are games, and the graphics card is more important than the CPU at that point. ...
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The point is that the OS should run on a minimum of resources. The best server OS would run on a 8086/512k RAM (or even less!). That way, when you run it on a dual Athlon 1.2ghz/2GB RAM, you can serve an order of magnitude (or two) more people than you would be able to with 2k, without the server buckling. He said that the OS should be able to run on a 386, not that you should run it on a 386. There's a big difference. ...
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You do realize, of course, that no OEM that produces those types of systems would use closed-source software from a third party for the actual mission critical systems. If not OSS, they go in house (at which point the software is effectively OSS for their purposes). ...
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Although the economy is an extremely important factor that the justice department must weigh when deciding on their course of action, they cannot permit Microsoft to engage in what has been found to be illegal activity for the sake of the stock market. Should they allow market considerations to determine their position, the problem will only get worse. If they do not act to enforce the law as they have interpreted it, this case will forever be cited as a landmark precedence that will effectively destroy the Sherman Antitrust Act. MSFT may go down (maybe way down), taking the market with it, but the market will recover. There will be massive shifts in the market, but in the end, only the healthiest companies, those that have solid value and profitability, will survive. ...
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of course WMA will sound good compared to MP3. It's really not a fair comparison. MP3 is a first-generation lossy audio codec (geared to music). It's like comparing the SNES to the PS1. ...
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The reason you'd need a satellite for this type of encryption is that there is no network that can handle the transmission bandwidth necessary to transmit that string of numbers. Sure there are OC-192 backbones that could, but you'd get hit hard with the "last mile" problem. With a satellite, however, you can directly broadcast the stream of numbers everywhere, bypassing the bottlenecks that limit ground-based networks.
The argument that diversity in DNA promotes survival of a species is no longer true of the human race. Technological and social evolution have supplanted physical adaptation as the means by which our species ensures its survival. Humans no longer experience positive evolution (evolution promoting "beneficial" traits) because we no longer operate (in the physical sense) on a "survival of the fittest" basis.
While the sickle-cell anemia example cited is true, I would liken that method of dealing with malaria to a particularly crufty software hack. It gets the job done, but there are many better ways, and the "side effects" of sickle-cell anemia make it particularly undesirable.
It's easy to eliminate a known gene, but a lot harder to design and implement a brand new one to meet a new hazard.
You can't eliminate an organism's gene (without creating a different organism). You can only control the organism's genotype. Anyway, I think that it would be an unnecessary strain on resources to attempt to homogenize the human genotype. Most likely genetics will be used to control only key genes that determine hereditary diseases/complications/conditions.
The rate at which the environment is changing (thanks to ourselves) is so great that humans cannot cope by relying on natural genetic evolutio
IIRC, the sheep is genetically as old as the original because the quality of an organisms DNA deteriorates with age. This is why your body is unable to repair itself perfectly forever. As your DNA deteriorates, your body loses the ability to perfectly regenerate its tissue (i.e. skin) and the effects of aging set it. This is not something that can be "fixed" by better technology (just as you can't "fix" a low-resolution image into a higher resolution image). Scientists need to find a way to extract DNA from sources that do not deteriorate (i.e. sex cells). Alternatively, people could preserve some genetic samples of themselves when they are at an optimal age
I really doubt that aliens would want to clone human beings for any purpose other than scientific experimentation. There are a lot of posts re: Alien's will clone us and make a slave race!, but if you think about it, would You clone an inherently rebellious and territorial species to be slaves?? If their technology is advanced enough to allow detection of a small (relatively speaking) object and cloning of a species with which they have had no direct contact, they could probably create their own custom species as a slave race (a race that wouldn't mind being slaves, and would be genuinely glad to be of service).
Many people will take this opportunity to argue that the existence of man is a plague on the earth, and a threat to nature. In reality, man is part of nature. Species go extinct "naturally" all the time. It is obvious that species are going extinct at an alarmingly higher rate than before industrialization ocurred, but that is just part of the natural process of evolution (i.e. organisms that cannot adapt to a post-industrial world are not fit to live in a post-industrial world and will therefore go extinct. The caveat here is that we determine exactly what constitutes a "post industrial world"). The only difference between the coming of mankind and the comet that obliterated the dinosaurs is that we can, to a large extent, choose to limit/direct our impact on the surrounding environment. Right now we're choosing to alter the environment at a significantly higher rate than necessary, which is probably a Bad Thing, seeing as we don't fully comprehend the extent of our impact on environmental processes that we have yet to understand.
When (not if) genetic engineering is perfected (or at least largely understood) the whole matter of species going extinct will become moot. Whether or not you would want to live in a world whose organisms that were designed by corporations run by PHB's, however, is another matter entirely.
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Basically those sayings are translated for a Japanese person that understands the literal definition of the words but uses Japanese grammatical structure. Knowing this, it may still seem strange, but then again we often associate nuances to words that are not part of their literal definition, so we may deem their choice of words inappropriate when they are in fact in keeping with the literal definition.
If, however, the Oberon's crew did not possess any recessive genes with "negative" effects, indbreeding would not be harmful in any way. eventually, the species would diversify as its numbers grew due to standard genetic mutations, but it would not suffer any of the deformations etc. that we, as a society, attribute to/associate with inbreeding.
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this is aside from the fact that PoH has 3 moons etc.
Also, why would the apes further back in time from PoH be more technically advanced than the apes of PoH?
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Yup.. I was thinking that that would happen. Just like I was saying about how the RIAA wants to drop the court case against those professors. The DMCA simply cannot survive a bout in court.
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Let's hope that when this case goes to court Skylarov's lawyer challenges the DMCA as unconstitutional.
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I'd have bought the CD's to support Square, but I can't find them anywhere.
Nobuo Uematsu rules!
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They basically tried to get the DMCA drafted to be so tough that nobody would want to risk taking it to court. Backing down to an intimidating letter that alludes to the dire consequences of violating ridiculously draconian law is much safer for corporations, and especially individuals who don't want to go to jail for a decade or so. To them, the possible consequences are too grave, even if the risk factor is low.
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Facing the DMCA is like playing chicken with a cardboard Mac truck. It's big, it's bad, but if you were to ever call its bluff, it probably won't survive.
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... And Florida's supreme court decided to stop the recounts even though it is specifically prohibited by the constitution for a court to resolve an electoral dispute. The independant studies also showed that invalid absentee votes were over 4x more likely to be counted if they were for Bush, and election officials admitted that they had been given different instructions/standards for counting votes based on whether or not Bush was likely to carry the county.
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The flaw in your example is that AMD's processors, aside from anyone's proprietary optmizations, are just as good (sometimes better, sometimes worse... usually better for my purposes). With ATI vs nVidia, ATI makes budget gfx cards, and it shows. If they make a succesful move into the high-end gfx card market, more power to them, but at the present time they don't have anything that can seriously challenge the GeForce3.
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With P4, Intel no longer holds enough of the market to force software shops to use their extensions. With a few limited exceptions, the cost of developing a seperate app to take advantage of the P4 optimizations would be too high to justify the expenditure of extra resources. Also, most apps do not require massive speed. Basically the only consumer-level products that actually need huge processing power are games, and the graphics card is more important than the CPU at that point.
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ok, I should have said it is a pointless comparison. It would only be news if WMA wasn't better than MP3.
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The point is that the OS should run on a minimum of resources. The best server OS would run on a 8086/512k RAM (or even less!). That way, when you run it on a dual Athlon 1.2ghz/2GB RAM, you can serve an order of magnitude (or two) more people than you would be able to with 2k, without the server buckling. He said that the OS should be able to run on a 386, not that you should run it on a 386. There's a big difference.
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You do realize, of course, that no OEM that produces those types of systems would use closed-source software from a third party for the actual mission critical systems. If not OSS, they go in house (at which point the software is effectively OSS for their purposes).
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Although the economy is an extremely important factor that the justice department must weigh when deciding on their course of action, they cannot permit Microsoft to engage in what has been found to be illegal activity for the sake of the stock market. Should they allow market considerations to determine their position, the problem will only get worse. If they do not act to enforce the law as they have interpreted it, this case will forever be cited as a landmark precedence that will effectively destroy the Sherman Antitrust Act. MSFT may go down (maybe way down), taking the market with it, but the market will recover. There will be massive shifts in the market, but in the end, only the healthiest companies, those that have solid value and profitability, will survive.
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of course WMA will sound good compared to MP3. It's really not a fair comparison. MP3 is a first-generation lossy audio codec (geared to music). It's like comparing the SNES to the PS1.
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The reason you'd need a satellite for this type of encryption is that there is no network that can handle the transmission bandwidth necessary to transmit that string of numbers. Sure there are OC-192 backbones that could, but you'd get hit hard with the "last mile" problem. With a satellite, however, you can directly broadcast the stream of numbers everywhere, bypassing the bottlenecks that limit ground-based networks.
While the sickle-cell anemia example cited is true, I would liken that method of dealing with malaria to a particularly crufty software hack. It gets the job done, but there are many better ways, and the "side effects" of sickle-cell anemia make it particularly undesirable.
It's easy to eliminate a known gene, but a lot harder to design and implement a brand new one to meet a new hazard.
You can't eliminate an organism's gene (without creating a different organism). You can only control the organism's genotype. Anyway, I think that it would be an unnecessary strain on resources to attempt to homogenize the human genotype. Most likely genetics will be used to control only key genes that determine hereditary diseases/complications/conditions.
The rate at which the environment is changing (thanks to ourselves) is so great that humans cannot cope by relying on natural genetic evolutio
IIRC, the sheep is genetically as old as the original because the quality of an organisms DNA deteriorates with age. This is why your body is unable to repair itself perfectly forever. As your DNA deteriorates, your body loses the ability to perfectly regenerate its tissue (i.e. skin) and the effects of aging set it. This is not something that can be "fixed" by better technology (just as you can't "fix" a low-resolution image into a higher resolution image). Scientists need to find a way to extract DNA from sources that do not deteriorate (i.e. sex cells). Alternatively, people could preserve some genetic samples of themselves when they are at an optimal age
What would happen if somebody launched a massive DDoS attack against a Hailstorm/Passport server?
I really doubt that aliens would want to clone human beings for any purpose other than scientific experimentation. There are a lot of posts re: Alien's will clone us and make a slave race!, but if you think about it, would You clone an inherently rebellious and territorial species to be slaves?? If their technology is advanced enough to allow detection of a small (relatively speaking) object and cloning of a species with which they have had no direct contact, they could probably create their own custom species as a slave race (a race that wouldn't mind being slaves, and would be genuinely glad to be of service).
whoa... using html and posting at 2:33am is not a good idea
When (not if) genetic engineering is perfected (or at least largely understood) the whole matter of species going extinct will become moot. Whether or not you would want to live in a world whose organisms that were designed by corporations run by PHB's, however, is another matter entirely.
somelamekiddie: d00d, I jes DDoS'd flight 254!