I really wish I could select the "foot" icon to indicate when I'm joking...
But to continue the gag:
Which would immediately be blind since you don't live in a permanent blackness
If I could afford to maintain a tank of this nature, I could certainly afford to put it in a sealed room with no light sources more intense than those of the fishes, since the human eye can detect extremely low light levels when dark-adapted.
I was thinking about making the same observation about hardiness or evolutionary fitness or lack thereof. Nonetheless, the answer to your question
What does humanity lose when all soybean plants become roundup-resistant?
is, in a word, biodiversity. As we move toward a monoculture, we risk losing the *global* crop in the event of some unforeseen threat to which it is not resistant.
This is, of course, assuming that you don't refer to a fully biodiverse array of soybean plants that would arise from the natural injection of a roundup-resistant gene. I doubt that is likely, however, given the relative time scales of evolution and human farming practices.
How would you clean it? That is without killing the fish when you depressurized it.
While I'm daydreaming, I may as well make it a perfectly self-sustaining biosphere that never needs cleaning, right?
Seriously, if I could afford to create such an environment and the equipment needed to get the fishes from the ocean and into it (which to the best of my knowledge noone has ever done) I would imagine I could create a cleaning system that works while the system was pressurized.
Alternately, perhaps some multi-chambered approach where the fish could be herded into a chamber that remains pressurized while the other chamber is depressurized for cleaning???
I
feel much safer knowing the control is in my hands...
And plenty of people feel safter in SUVs, despite the fact that they are more prone to rollover than passenger cars and three times as likely to kill you when they do.
I feel much safer knowing the control is in my hands, than an arbitrary machine anyway.
While I'm also generally skeptical of machines doing my thinking for me, I can't help wondering if you feel equally safe with everyone else, including that half-blind arthritic octogenarian bearing down on you from behind, in full control of their lethal road missiles? (Disclaimer: I live in the retirement capital of the US so my perceptions are skewed badly.)
Operating in traffic is a statistics game as much as an individual effort, and plenty of excellent drivers end up dead because of the incompetence of others. If done properly and widely adapted, technology such as this is likely to make you safer, despite the minor loss of control.
Well-designed machines will supplement and compensate for drivers, not replace them. On the other hand, advanced machines and roadways could, by surpassing the abilities of most drivers, give us superhighways where we could read/. while travelling 200 MPH to work in the next state.
Or is this just yet another way to force us into a new upgrade cycle?
I suspect this will be a long attrition as it was with phasing ISA out of motherboards.
From the Anandtech article:
With the advent of RAID arrays, Gigabit Ethernet and other high bandwidth devices on consumer class systems, PCI's 133MB/s available bandwidth is clearly insufficient to handle these demands.
So, for many users PCI-Express will not be a necessity because the unwashed masses are by and large not on the cutting edge of the sort of technology that demands it. The early adapters will drive the market and the rest will follow along when there is a pressing need or when the industry drives us there, e.g. when we can't easily get motherboards or cards without it. I am a fairly cutting edge user and it has only been in the last couple years I switched off the last machine at my house with an ISA slot.
If, as stated elsewhere, this will outperform AGP, then hardcore gamers certainly will go there, but who needs to force an upgrade on them anyway?:-)
Why don't the publishers jump on kazaa and grab a batch of IP addresses of people hosting mp3s and use the DMCA? Oh wait, that would be a legit application of the DMCA, and its apparently illegal to actually use it for its intended use instead of using it to bully people around for making competing products like remote controls and dvd playing software for unsupported platforms.
Actually, that would be an legitimate application of existing copyright law, hunting down those violating your copyright and taking them to task. DMCA has nothing to do with such reasonable efforts, but rather criminalizes technology that can be used for copyright infringement. Ergo, the cases brought under the DMCA are appropriate to the DMCA, it's just that the DMCA is a stupid law.
Sometimes I think/. editors just like to watch the righteous indignation ensue when they post one of these DRM stories. There was nothing in that story (other than the tidbit you mentioned, which could have easily been sourced to a more informative read if the intent was to inform of Sun's work) about which even casual readers of this board aren't already well informed,
Funny you should remark XP is extremely bad even for MS. Other than some odd UI fluff, I find it to be their best to date (stable as 2K and preferable from a user perspective wrt hardware support, games, etc). The only major problem I have with it is the predatory licensing and bait-and-switch tactics of changing the rules in order to accept security patches.
I use XP sporadically because my job sometimes requires me to because my clients do. In the past year, I'd estimate I've used it about 10% of the time.
We can only hope for a similar move with Windows XP
No kidding. It's ridiculous that I have not been able to apply a service pack with security fixes because the license differs from the OS such that it imposes untenable terms.
OK, I know this is daydreaming, and there are probably a million reasons why they won't work, but here are a couple of suggested cures for NIMBY:
* The farther people are from the plant, the more they pay for their energy.
* Cap the maximum output of any particular power plant as a function of population density and geography. If people aren't willing to have a plant built in their neighborhood, they obviously don't want the power that bad.
Anyone care to comment on the notions expressed in the CNET article that this case could have precedent in the Sherwood v, Walker? Is this "doctrine of mutual mistake" appropriately applied as precedent since it is a decision about property and not about copyright?
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You need both. Not because the young minds are better but because someone hasnt spent twenty years telling them a list of things are impossible.
Definitely so. There's also the issue of (some) senior employees becoming resistant to change. This can be a nice check against the iconoclasm of new graduates, but can't be allowed to put a drag on the enterprise, which frequently happens.
Ideally you'll have a nice balance of experience and youthful exuberance and can get the two to work together effectively, recognizing how each complements the other.
Re:Odd, I see the exact opposite.
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True. Oh so true... I used to work for a large company with an aging population of IT folks, and there was a marked tendency for certain "dinosaurs" to put a drag on projects a lot of the time.
In my view, this was a political, rather than a practical problem. When you have people who just want to wile away their time to retirement in planning meetings that never go anywhere because they just don't want to adapt to another sea change in technology, it becomes a problem. On the other hand, there were very senior techies in my group that were on the absolute vanguard, and they were a blessing to work with as a person entering the industry.
I think it ultimately comes down to the type of personality. Interest in the latest technology may make a young hacker look like da bomb today, but are they the kind of person who will still be energized by the state of the art 10 years from now? An experienced programmer with a resume showing an up-to-date skills would look much better to me than a freshout with the same skills.
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When those young, fast and inexperienced coders give them brittle, unmaintainable code that soon collapses under it's own weight, they will call in us old seasoned consultants to fix the problems at a premium price.
A manager that can't distinguish quality of work from quantity has no business making hiring decisions in this industry.
Disclaimer:
What precedes is not meant to reflect generally on young programmers. There are both brilliant and useless coders at all ages.
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But to continue the gag:
If I could afford to maintain a tank of this nature, I could certainly afford to put it in a sealed room with no light sources more intense than those of the fishes, since the human eye can detect extremely low light levels when dark-adapted.
Thanks for the tip. My next trip Westward will not be complete without a visit to see the fangtooth!
Actually, I have kept a number of them (only fresh or brackish for exactly the reason you mention). It was intended to be a joke...
is, in a word, biodiversity. As we move toward a monoculture, we risk losing the *global* crop in the event of some unforeseen threat to which it is not resistant.
This is, of course, assuming that you don't refer to a fully biodiverse array of soybean plants that would arise from the natural injection of a roundup-resistant gene. I doubt that is likely, however, given the relative time scales of evolution and human farming practices.
While I'm daydreaming, I may as well make it a perfectly self-sustaining biosphere that never needs cleaning, right?
Seriously, if I could afford to create such an environment and the equipment needed to get the fishes from the ocean and into it (which to the best of my knowledge noone has ever done) I would imagine I could create a cleaning system that works while the system was pressurized.
Alternately, perhaps some multi-chambered approach where the fish could be herded into a chamber that remains pressurized while the other chamber is depressurized for cleaning???
I'd rather have a pressurized tank with naturally bioluminescent deep-sea species...
Wish I could claim intent, but it was completely the work of my id, I assure you. :-)
And plenty of people feel safter in SUVs, despite the fact that they are more prone to rollover than passenger cars and three times as likely to kill you when they do.
While I'm also generally skeptical of machines doing my thinking for me, I can't help wondering if you feel equally safe with everyone else, including that half-blind arthritic octogenarian bearing down on you from behind, in full control of their lethal road missiles? (Disclaimer: I live in the retirement capital of the US so my perceptions are skewed badly.)
Operating in traffic is a statistics game as much as an individual effort, and plenty of excellent drivers end up dead because of the incompetence of others. If done properly and widely adapted, technology such as this is likely to make you safer, despite the minor loss of control.
Well-designed machines will supplement and compensate for drivers, not replace them. On the other hand, advanced machines and roadways could, by surpassing the abilities of most drivers, give us superhighways where we could read
I suspect this will be a long attrition as it was with phasing ISA out of motherboards.
From the Anandtech article:
So, for many users PCI-Express will not be a necessity because the unwashed masses are by and large not on the cutting edge of the sort of technology that demands it. The early adapters will drive the market and the rest will follow along when there is a pressing need or when the industry drives us there, e.g. when we can't easily get motherboards or cards without it. I am a fairly cutting edge user and it has only been in the last couple years I switched off the last machine at my house with an ISA slot.
If, as stated elsewhere, this will outperform AGP, then hardcore gamers certainly will go there, but who needs to force an upgrade on them anyway?
Actually, that would be an legitimate application of existing copyright law, hunting down those violating your copyright and taking them to task. DMCA has nothing to do with such reasonable efforts, but rather criminalizes technology that can be used for copyright infringement. Ergo, the cases brought under the DMCA are appropriate to the DMCA, it's just that the DMCA is a stupid law.
Sometimes I think
Funny you should remark XP is extremely bad even for MS. Other than some odd UI fluff, I find it to be their best to date (stable as 2K and preferable from a user perspective wrt hardware support, games, etc). The only major problem I have with it is the predatory licensing and bait-and-switch tactics of changing the rules in order to accept security patches.
Heh heh. Cool. Wonder if it would have worked so well if I'd made the subject "Mod me Interesting"?
I use XP sporadically because my job sometimes requires me to because my clients do. In the past year, I'd estimate I've used it about 10% of the time.
No kidding. It's ridiculous that I have not been able to apply a service pack with security fixes because the license differs from the OS such that it imposes untenable terms.
Unless you mean that we need more of them with the sense of farmers and truckers.
Look on the bright side. It's bound to raise the intelligence level of much of the posting...
OK, I know this is daydreaming, and there are probably a million reasons why they won't work, but here are a couple of suggested cures for NIMBY:
* The farther people are from the plant, the more they pay for their energy.
* Cap the maximum output of any particular power plant as a function of population density and geography. If people aren't willing to have a plant built in their neighborhood, they obviously don't want the power that bad.
Like hurricanes and tornadoes for instance?
Thank you very much for a fantastic, informative response. I can't believe it is languishing unmoderated. This deserves to be +5 informative.
Anyone care to comment on the notions expressed in the CNET article that this case could have precedent in the Sherwood v, Walker? Is this "doctrine of mutual mistake" appropriately applied as precedent since it is a decision about property and not about copyright?
Definitely so. There's also the issue of (some) senior employees becoming resistant to change. This can be a nice check against the iconoclasm of new graduates, but can't be allowed to put a drag on the enterprise, which frequently happens.
Ideally you'll have a nice balance of experience and youthful exuberance and can get the two to work together effectively, recognizing how each complements the other.
True. Oh so true... I used to work for a large company with an aging population of IT folks, and there was a marked tendency for certain "dinosaurs" to put a drag on projects a lot of the time.
In my view, this was a political, rather than a practical problem. When you have people who just want to wile away their time to retirement in planning meetings that never go anywhere because they just don't want to adapt to another sea change in technology, it becomes a problem. On the other hand, there were very senior techies in my group that were on the absolute vanguard, and they were a blessing to work with as a person entering the industry.
I think it ultimately comes down to the type of personality. Interest in the latest technology may make a young hacker look like da bomb today, but are they the kind of person who will still be energized by the state of the art 10 years from now? An experienced programmer with a resume showing an up-to-date skills would look much better to me than a freshout with the same skills.
When those young, fast and inexperienced coders give them brittle, unmaintainable code that soon collapses under it's own weight, they will call in us old seasoned consultants to fix the problems at a premium price.
A manager that can't distinguish quality of work from quantity has no business making hiring decisions in this industry.
Disclaimer:
What precedes is not meant to reflect generally on young programmers. There are both brilliant and useless coders at all ages.