Ahh, but those are the chances (IHHO) to find a planet almost identical to Earth. Should we find life on Europa, or even remains of life on Mars, those numbers mean nothing. And just multiplying the probabilities means you're assuming independence, which e.g. for the chemical quantities may be plain wrong (but IANAC,NAG).
Or like, say, post something to Slashdot with several flawed analogies, and put a Sig below saying "Please don't flame me for my post, I left my brain in the other pair of pants."
Actually, the system seems to be more like Meta-Moderation than Moderation. Google uses the number of links to a site as a qualifier of relevance, IOW as a positive moderation. The votes on the actual relevance by the users will then be used to identify sites whose links are not a good indicator of relevance, to then be (mostly) ignored in future searches, IOW similar to Meta-Moderation.
Bullshit. It is totaly legal for Nazis to march through the streets of Germany. Hell, when they do, people try to take that as proof that Germany is still Nazi.
Nitpick: affect also is (nitpickier: can be) a noun, but then means:
1.Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language: "The soldiers seen on television had been carefully chosen for blandness of affect" (Norman Mailer).
2. Obsolete. A disposition, feeling, or tendency.
It depends on how many dimensions the journalist uses when comparing size, one (e.g. diameter), two (e.g. area of the front) or three (the volume). If you compare a 1"x1"x1" cube to one 3"x3"x3", is the latter 3 times, 9 times or 27 times as big? Different people will give different answers.
I can see this being a problem for commercial games, but an Open Source game's resources are only limited by the interest from contributors - and maybe by management issues (IOW "This is too much for me to handle"). The problem is that you have too little of a specific kind of resource.
You are right, this is less a problem of cloned DNA, but the way we currently can clone it. This is a link to an article in German about this very problem. It's about an article in the August issue of Science. There are several more articles on cloning on Telepolis, but all in German.
Did anybody read the article? They have an abundance of programmers, but hardly any artists. The two groups are mostly disjunct. Adding "art" would not make the game worse. Hell, they have two almost finished sound systems but no sounds.
BTX allowed micropayment, in a way that a page you loaded could cost money, from between DM 0.01 to 9.99 (the system would ask you before you loaded it of course).
When the CCC found an exploit in the system, they informed (the then still state owned monopolistic mail/phone company) Deutsche Bundespost. The DBP said there was nothing wrong, so the CCC used the exploit to get the computer from a bank to call up their page again and again, untill the bank owed the more than DM 10,000. They gave it back the next day, and BTX got a very bad press.
They also told him that he would be held responsible for others distributing files based on his translation. The already finished parts (ca. 75% of all text) has been available for download a couple of days already, and the project was featured on Heise. So how many people have copies of those files already?
It's not some guy, it's some 15 guys. And Sid does make his money, (unless someone uses it with a pirated version), because the patch simply replaces the text files from the American version. And this stupid national market protectionism (this includes DVD region codes) is just plain stupid. And if this goes like SMAC, the official translation will suck. They translated "Mindworms" with "Psycho-Viren". Oh well, I'll have to wait till next year for Civ3 anyways:-(
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when you read the above as "See X-rated pictures of Venus Williams here".
SETI@HOME is looking for strong, yet non-natural signals, and not trying to decode them - that comes later.
Like in The Thing From Another World?
As had Star Trek, even TOS had non-anthropomorphic aliens. Usually not "played" by CGI.
Ahh, but those are the chances (IHHO) to find a planet almost identical to Earth. Should we find life on Europa, or even remains of life on Mars, those numbers mean nothing. And just multiplying the probabilities means you're assuming independence, which e.g. for the chemical quantities may be plain wrong (but IANAC,NAG).
Or like, say, post something to Slashdot with several flawed analogies, and put a Sig below saying "Please don't flame me for my post, I left my brain in the other pair of pants."
Actually it's water plus heat, and heat plus oxygen plus nitrogen -> NOx, and heat plus various nasty components -> nastier stuff. Glad to be of help.
Actually, the system seems to be more like Meta-Moderation than Moderation. Google uses the number of links to a site as a qualifier of relevance, IOW as a positive moderation. The votes on the actual relevance by the users will then be used to identify sites whose links are not a good indicator of relevance, to then be (mostly) ignored in future searches, IOW similar to Meta-Moderation.
Geez, what more do you want, an excerpt from the book? RTFB!
Bullshit. It is totaly legal for Nazis to march through the streets of Germany. Hell, when they do, people try to take that as proof that Germany is still Nazi.
And the other half seems to be a human female.
But the combustion byproducts of hydrogen and the oxygen in air are water and NOx and other nasties depending on what else is in the air.
It depends on how many dimensions the journalist uses when comparing size, one (e.g. diameter), two (e.g. area of the front) or three (the volume). If you compare a 1"x1"x1" cube to one 3"x3"x3", is the latter 3 times, 9 times or 27 times as big? Different people will give different answers.
I can see this being a problem for commercial games, but an Open Source game's resources are only limited by the interest from contributors - and maybe by management issues (IOW "This is too much for me to handle"). The problem is that you have too little of a specific kind of resource.
You are right, this is less a problem of cloned DNA, but the way we currently can clone it. This is a link to an article in German about this very problem. It's about an article in the August issue of Science. There are several more articles on cloning on Telepolis, but all in German.
It's a known fact that cloned DNA is often (but not always) weaker and ages faster. This may not be the case with human DNA however.
Did anybody read the article? They have an abundance of programmers, but hardly any artists. The two groups are mostly disjunct. Adding "art" would not make the game worse. Hell, they have two almost finished sound systems but no sounds.
When the CCC found an exploit in the system, they informed (the then still state owned monopolistic mail/phone company) Deutsche Bundespost. The DBP said there was nothing wrong, so the CCC used the exploit to get the computer from a bank to call up their page again and again, untill the bank owed the more than DM 10,000. They gave it back the next day, and BTX got a very bad press.
So why don' you speak Vietnamese?
Actually, Firaxis was supportive of the translation. But they are only the developers and don't count when it comes to business.
They also told him that he would be held responsible for others distributing files based on his translation. The already finished parts (ca. 75% of all text) has been available for download a couple of days already, and the project was featured on Heise. So how many people have copies of those files already?
It's not some guy, it's some 15 guys. And Sid does make his money, (unless someone uses it with a pirated version), because the patch simply replaces the text files from the American version. And this stupid national market protectionism (this includes DVD region codes) is just plain stupid. And if this goes like SMAC, the official translation will suck. They translated "Mindworms" with "Psycho-Viren". Oh well, I'll have to wait till next year for Civ3 anyways :-(
There is no mention that any military targets were hit in that attack. Not the supposed supplies, nor the vehicles.
No it doesn't. Read 1984.