I can compile GNU fileutils.. play Warcraft3.. run Adobe Photoshop.. and use Cron.. all on the same machine in the same OS -natively- without dualbooting.. and you can actually watch fullmotion video (ie DVD's) behind a transparent terminal window thanks to a true OpenGL rendered desktop.
Apple has done in a few years what many in the Linux community have been trying to do for ages..
If all of these sites actually contain child porn why not focus all efforts on getting them shut down completely.. having a few ISP's block these websites accomplishes nothing..
when you actually start getting alot of traffic it is sometimes best to use static pages for as much content as possible.. of course these static pages are generated from information stored in a database..
opening a database connection for every visitor on every page is suicide if you only have a single server.. and your site is featured on slashdot..
I remember designing BBS menubar interfaces using 'The Draw' way back in 1995.. The menubar would be static but the content on the page (in this case user comments or lists of images and files) would change.
why would you need bloatware like w2k advanced server to browse the web and process words?.. install linux.. or at least install the least bloated version of windows you can find.. if there is suh a thing.
Glimli and Legolas were born enemys.. yet as the story progresses they become friends..
Frodo was born to the weakest of races.. yet over time he becomes the strongest character..
Aragorn was born a king.. yet it took him many years to become a king..
the characters in lord of the rings may have been born into a character.. however as the story progresses these characters evolve and change.. they make choices good and bad... and their lives as well as others are affected by them.
The point is Dell is using desktop CPU's in their SmartStep model laptops - and as a result these laptops don't behave like you would expect from a laptop using a 'Speedstep' compliant chip.
Desktop CPU's are not compatible with Speedstep technology (Speedstep reduces speed - but allows the user to bypass this if need be within software)
The Dell SmartStep laptop actually reduces your speed by half in battery mode and this CANNOT be altered via software.. or buttons on the keyboard etc..
Dell makes no mention of this fact on their website, product brochures, or any other material you would read before purchasing the laptop.
The professor has a pretty impressive list of scientific / engineering accomplishments - i doubt anyone can top him:
- a bamboo lie detector (hooked up to the ship's horn and the radio's batteries) - a coconut shell battery recharger - a bamboo telescope - a Geiger counter - jet-pack fuel - a bamboo xylophone - keptibora-berry extract to remedy Gilligan's double vision - an assortment of tonics, antiseptics, poisons, "spider cider" (to kill off gargantuan morning spiders) - soap made from plant fats - shark repellent - a pedal-powered bamboo sewing machine - lead radiation suits and make-up (protection from a meteor's cosmic rays) - a helium balloon (rubber raincoats sewn together and sealed with tree sap) - a strychnine serum that temporarily paralyzes Gilligan - an electrode linked to to a pedal-powered generator - pedal powered washing machine - pedal powered water pump - pedal powered telegraph - Mr. Howell's roulette wheel and pool table
the bombardier beetle evolved just like everything
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I think the evolutionists still win according to this article on the Bombardier Beetle:
A step-by-step evolution of the bombardier system is really not that hard to envision. The scenario below shows a possible step-by-step evolution of the bombardier beetle mechanism from a primitive arthropod.
1.Quinones are produced by epidermal cells for tanning the cuticle. This exists commonly in arthropods. [Dettner, 1987]
2.Some of the quinones don't get used up, but sit on the epidermis, making the arthropod distasteful. (Quinones are used as defensive secretions in a variety of modern arthropods, from beetles to millipedes. [Eisner, 1970])
3.Small invaginations develop in the epidermis between sclerites (plates of cuticle). By wiggling, the insect can squeeze more quinones onto its surface when they're needed.
4.The invaginations deepen. Muscles are moved around slightly, allowing them to help expel the quinones from some of them. (Many ants have glands similar to this near the end of their abdomen. [Holldobler & Wilson, 1990, pp. 233-237])
5.Some invaginations (now reservoirs) become so deep that the others are inconsequential by comparison. Those gradually revert to the original epidermis.
6.In various insects, different defensive chemicals besides quinones appear. (See Eisner, 1970, for a review.) This helps those insects defend against predators which have evolved resistance to quinones. One of the new defensive chemicals is hydroquinone.
7.Cells that secrete the hydroquinones develop in multiple layers over part of the reservoir, allowing more hydroquinones to be produced. Channels between cells allow hydroquinones from all layers to reach the reservoir.
8.The channels become a duct, specialized for transporting the chemicals. The secretory cells withdraw from the reservoir surface, ultimately becoming a separate organ. This stage -- secretory glands connected by ducts to reservoirs -- exists in many beetles. The particular configuration of glands and reservoirs that bombardier beetles have is common to the other beetles in their suborder. [Forsyth, 1970]
9.Muscles adapt which close off the reservoir, thus preventing the chemicals from leaking out when they're not needed.
10.Hydrogen peroxide, which is a common by-product of cellular metabolism, becomes mixed with the hydroquinones. The two react slowly, so a mixture of quinones and hydroquinones gets used for defense.
11.Cells secreting a small amount of catalases and peroxidases appear along the output passage of the reservoir, outside the valve which closes it off from the outside. These ensure that more quinones appear in the defensive secretions. Catalases exist in almost all cells, and peroxidases are also common in plants, animals, and bacteria, so those chemicals needn't be developed from scratch but merely concentrated in one location.
12.More catalases and peroxidases are produced, so the discharge is warmer and is expelled faster by the oxygen generated by the reaction.
13.The walls of that part of the output passage become firmer, allowing them to better withstand the heat and pressure generated by the reaction.
14.Still more catalases and peroxidases are produced, and the walls toughen and shape into a reaction chamber. Gradually they become the mechanism of today's bombardier beetles.
15.The tip of the beetle's abdomen becomes somewhat elongated and more flexible, allowing the beetle to aim its discharge in various directions.
Why does a 17 year old need his father to ask Slashdot how to carry around a computer?
Lend him your car (presumeably he has a license by now).. and throw the computer in the trunk.. No need to tote it around like a suitcase to the actual fencing tournaments.. and if you don't want to buy him a laptop.. lease one..
Back in the day when the shopping cart was invented (were talking 1937 - not amazon.com) the first stores to offer these contraptions noticed that they were not catching on at all.. so what did they do?
They resorted to hiring models to shop with grocery carts as to "model" the behavior desired for customers.
What companies are on the Liberty Alliance Management Board? A.There are currently 16 companies on the management board. They are: American Express, AOL Time Warner, Bell Canada, Citigroup, France Telecom, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard Company, MasterCard International, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems, RSA Security, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines, and Vodafone.
Some big names sure.. but in reality these companies are just as money hungry as Microsoft.. is entrusting your purchasing habits to these guys really a good idea?
Unless Gates lays a smackdown on Jobs during the keynote I doubt M$ is going to be able steal any of Apples thunder.. especially not be releasing 'new' products that Apple has been selling for years.
Other than some extra RAM and a CDRW the pricing is pretty much the same between the Mandrake comps and the M$ Windows comps.. and the Mandrake one is loaded with loads of pre-installed bloatware software.. I would have expected a big difference in price / not a small difference in components..
Microsoft Windows XP Home AMD 1.3 GHz Duron processor 128 MB memory 40 GB hard drive $499.00
Mandrake Linux OS v8.2 AMD 1.3 GHz Duron processor 256 MB memory 40 GB hard drive $498.00
For one the Heatsink fans are exactly the same - right down to the positioning of the fan fins..
For two the wires from one of the fans are not casting a shadow..
In fact if you do a Google image search you can find the original image.. although some of the stuff has been switched around this is a pretty amateur job.
see original here: http://home.earthlink.net/~doniteli/radeon8 500-64m b.jpg
Perhaps the creator needs to head down to the nearest Starbucks and try some real-world conversation.. here is a log from a chat with an ALICE bot..
Hi, I'm Alison What's your name? You: bubba baby... Alison: Don't call me "baby". Are you a man or a woman? You: 100% man Alison: Do you have any conditions I should know about? You: what? Alison: Didn't you understand it? You: so what should we do now? Alison: Right now? Oh. Whatever you like. You: you know what i like Alison: Interesting gossip: 217-person said he like. You: 217? what does that mean? Alison: Try to determine if this is a person or a computer responding. Alison: Does "that" refer to "Interesting gossip: 217-person said he like" ? You: this is making no sense, l8r Alison: If you could have any kind of robot what would it be? You: it would be you Alison: You can download me for free! Or buy the CD Rom for $29.95.
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OSX is a dream OS ..
.. play Warcraft3 .. run Adobe Photoshop .. and use Cron .. all on the same machine in the same OS -natively- without dualbooting .. and you can actually watch fullmotion video (ie DVD's) behind a transparent terminal window thanks to a true OpenGL rendered desktop.
..
I can compile GNU fileutils
Apple has done in a few years what many in the Linux community have been trying to do for ages
If all of these sites actually contain child porn why not focus all efforts on getting them shut down completely .. having a few ISP's block these websites accomplishes nothing ..
when you actually start getting alot of traffic it is sometimes best to use static pages for as much content as possible .. of course these static pages are generated from information stored in a database ..
.. and your site is featured on slashdot ..
opening a database connection for every visitor on every page is suicide if you only have a single server
lucas lost it a long long time ago ..
I remember designing BBS menubar interfaces using 'The Draw' way back in 1995 .. The menubar would be static but the content on the page (in this case user comments or lists of images and files) would change.
so the drive itself is actually the size of a PC card at the minimum .. as you need the media and the reader together to constitute a drive ..
why would you need bloatware like w2k advanced server to browse the web and process words? .. install linux .. or at least install the least bloated version of windows you can find .. if there is suh a thing.
You would think a country with a billion+ people and vast resources would be able to develop a cpu more on par with current technology ..
All they would need is 1.2GHz to get into Apple territory.
Gaylord the Pup
Glimli and Legolas were born enemys .. yet as the story progresses they become friends ..
.. yet over time he becomes the strongest character ..
.. yet it took him many years to become a king ..
.. however as the story progresses these characters evolve and change .. they make choices good and bad ... and their lives as well as others are affected by them.
Frodo was born to the weakest of races
Aragorn was born a king
the characters in lord of the rings may have been born into a character
The point is Dell is using desktop CPU's in their SmartStep model laptops - and as a result these laptops don't behave like you would expect from a laptop using a 'Speedstep' compliant chip.
.. or buttons on the keyboard etc ..
Desktop CPU's are not compatible with Speedstep technology (Speedstep reduces speed - but allows the user to bypass this if need be within software)
The Dell SmartStep laptop actually reduces your speed by half in battery mode and this CANNOT be altered via software
Dell makes no mention of this fact on their website, product brochures, or any other material you would read before purchasing the laptop.
commisioner gordan has been projecting images onto gotham city's foggy night sky for years ...
the problem is that humans are destructive by nature .. i hope we never get there ..
The professor has a pretty impressive list of scientific / engineering accomplishments - i doubt anyone can top him:
- a bamboo lie detector (hooked up to the ship's horn and the radio's batteries)
- a coconut shell battery recharger
- a bamboo telescope
- a Geiger counter
- jet-pack fuel
- a bamboo xylophone
- keptibora-berry extract to remedy Gilligan's double vision
- an assortment of tonics, antiseptics, poisons, "spider cider" (to kill off gargantuan morning spiders)
- soap made from plant fats
- shark repellent
- a pedal-powered bamboo sewing machine
- lead radiation suits and make-up (protection from a meteor's cosmic rays)
- a helium balloon (rubber raincoats sewn together and sealed with tree sap)
- a strychnine serum that temporarily paralyzes Gilligan
- an electrode linked to to a pedal-powered generator
- pedal powered washing machine
- pedal powered water pump
- pedal powered telegraph
- Mr. Howell's roulette wheel and pool table
A step-by-step evolution of the bombardier system is really not that hard to envision. The scenario below shows a possible step-by-step evolution of the bombardier beetle mechanism from a primitive arthropod.
1.Quinones are produced by epidermal cells for tanning the cuticle. This exists commonly in arthropods. [Dettner, 1987]
2.Some of the quinones don't get used up, but sit on the epidermis, making the arthropod distasteful. (Quinones are used as defensive secretions in a variety of modern arthropods, from beetles to millipedes. [Eisner, 1970])
3.Small invaginations develop in the epidermis between sclerites (plates of cuticle). By wiggling, the insect can squeeze more quinones onto its surface when they're needed.
4.The invaginations deepen. Muscles are moved around slightly, allowing them to help expel the quinones from some of them. (Many ants have glands similar to this near the end of their abdomen. [Holldobler & Wilson, 1990, pp. 233-237])
5.Some invaginations (now reservoirs) become so deep that the others are inconsequential by comparison. Those gradually revert to the original epidermis.
6.In various insects, different defensive chemicals besides quinones appear. (See Eisner, 1970, for a review.) This helps those insects defend against predators which have evolved resistance to quinones. One of the new defensive chemicals is hydroquinone.
7.Cells that secrete the hydroquinones develop in multiple layers over part of the reservoir, allowing more hydroquinones to be produced. Channels between cells allow hydroquinones from all layers to reach the reservoir.
8.The channels become a duct, specialized for transporting the chemicals. The secretory cells withdraw from the reservoir surface, ultimately becoming a separate organ. This stage -- secretory glands connected by ducts to reservoirs -- exists in many beetles. The particular configuration of glands and reservoirs that bombardier beetles have is common to the other beetles in their suborder. [Forsyth, 1970]
9.Muscles adapt which close off the reservoir, thus preventing the chemicals from leaking out when they're not needed.
10.Hydrogen peroxide, which is a common by-product of cellular metabolism, becomes mixed with the hydroquinones. The two react slowly, so a mixture of quinones and hydroquinones gets used for defense.
11.Cells secreting a small amount of catalases and peroxidases appear along the output passage of the reservoir, outside the valve which closes it off from the outside. These ensure that more quinones appear in the defensive secretions. Catalases exist in almost all cells, and peroxidases are also common in plants, animals, and bacteria, so those chemicals needn't be developed from scratch but merely concentrated in one location.
12.More catalases and peroxidases are produced, so the discharge is warmer and is expelled faster by the oxygen generated by the reaction.
13.The walls of that part of the output passage become firmer, allowing them to better withstand the heat and pressure generated by the reaction.
14.Still more catalases and peroxidases are produced, and the walls toughen and shape into a reaction chamber. Gradually they become the mechanism of today's bombardier beetles.
15.The tip of the beetle's abdomen becomes somewhat elongated and more flexible, allowing the beetle to aim its discharge in various directions.
Why does a 17 year old need his father to ask Slashdot how to carry around a computer?
.. and throw the computer in the trunk .. No need to tote it around like a suitcase to the actual fencing tournaments .. and if you don't want to buy him a laptop .. lease one ..
Lend him your car (presumeably he has a license by now)
Back in the day when the shopping cart was invented (were talking 1937 - not amazon.com) the first stores to offer these contraptions noticed that they were not catching on at all .. so what did they do?
...
They resorted to hiring models to shop with grocery carts as to "model" the behavior desired for customers.
Needless to say it worked like a charm
pr0n, mp3s, avis, vobs, warez ... the usual
A realtime MPEG-1 encoder connected through USB is supposed to be exciting news ..?
..
Maybe if it did MPEG-4 and Firewire
What companies are on the Liberty Alliance Management Board?
.. but in reality these companies are just as money hungry as Microsoft .. is entrusting your purchasing habits to these guys really a good idea?
A.There are currently 16 companies on the management board. They are: American Express, AOL Time Warner, Bell Canada, Citigroup, France Telecom, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard Company, MasterCard International, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems, RSA Security, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines, and Vodafone.
Some big names sure
Unless Gates lays a smackdown on Jobs during the keynote I doubt M$ is going to be able steal any of Apples thunder .. especially not be releasing 'new' products that Apple has been selling for years.
mp3.slashdot.org ...
Other than some extra RAM and a CDRW the pricing is pretty much the same between the Mandrake comps and the M$ Windows comps .. and the Mandrake one is loaded with loads of pre-installed bloatware software .. I would have expected a big difference in price / not a small difference in components ..
Microsoft Windows XP Home
AMD 1.3 GHz Duron processor
128 MB memory
40 GB hard drive
$499.00
Mandrake Linux OS v8.2
AMD 1.3 GHz Duron processor
256 MB memory
40 GB hard drive
$498.00
That picture looks like a photoshop job ..
..
..
.. although some of the stuff has been switched around this is a pretty amateur job.
8 500-64m b.jpg
For one the Heatsink fans are exactly the same - right down to the positioning of the fan fins
For two the wires from one of the fans are not casting a shadow
In fact if you do a Google image search you can find the original image
see original here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~doniteli/radeon
Perhaps the creator needs to head down to the nearest Starbucks and try some real-world conversation .. here is a log from a chat with an ALICE bot ..
...
Hi, I'm Alison What's your name?
You: bubba baby
Alison: Don't call me "baby". Are you a man or a woman?
You: 100% man
Alison: Do you have any conditions I should know about?
You: what?
Alison: Didn't you understand it?
You: so what should we do now?
Alison: Right now? Oh. Whatever you like.
You: you know what i like
Alison: Interesting gossip: 217-person said he like.
You: 217? what does that mean?
Alison: Try to determine if this is a person or a computer responding.
Alison: Does "that" refer to "Interesting gossip: 217-person said he like" ?
You: this is making no sense, l8r
Alison: If you could have any kind of robot what would it be?
You: it would be you
Alison: You can download me for free! Or buy the CD Rom for $29.95.
(http://www.blivion.com/alison/)