Jesus, as the son-of-god born into human flesh, was contaminated by the human reptilian brain. IMO, he was an experiment by God to see how a human, blessed with semi-infinite wisdom and capabilities, would manage on the planet.
I never got a real sense of power before a company I worked for folded on me. I got a court order, with an accompanying piece of paper, declaring that they owed me a paycheck.
Has a free software solution to creating raw art been created? AFAIK, people that make original art and release it are acting out of the goodness of their own hearts or are hoping for concert time or hiring by some firm that might give them a paycheck for the art they then create on company time (owned by the employer).
Suppose that a person spends a ton of time making a model for a game, and that game is published/sold... should the model be published as well for people to tweak and trade? Is it enough, or too much, that if the model is used in the "next game" that that game must be released under the GPL?
It's just a question that the game producers (and proponents of freedom of information) are avoiding entirely.
I, for one, work day to day with research. I would like to tell everyone what I'm doing all the time. I can only hope that interested persons are willing to decipher my multiple directories of unclean "work". This does not make me a person, OTOH, that can declare that an artist that has gone through the refinement process to "publish a model for a game" should also release it to the general public with no clear sort of compensation.
I already know I'm not getting paid for my research. Others are working under the assumption that they will. Should they be told that they need to find a new paradigm for their skills? It's fine with me, albeit harsh.
The way things are now, though, the system is easy to understand. If publishing and IP were to change to take advantage of digital copying the compensation routes become unclear. It is, and has been, an issue for a long time now.
They're already are allowances within their genetic code for such deviation. As opposed to a new feature previously not found within the genetic code. Which is what evolution dictates.
Evolution demands a novel genetic mutation? The winnowing of a population is not evolution, then. Isn't the transformation of a proto-penguin into a flightless, swimming animal more than just a series of small steps where a slight mutation provides a survivability advantage? Wouldn't this slow process of evolution also include periods of time where a particular subset of the population would have higher survivability rates during an environment change?
To go back to the original question, "Can evolution happen within 3-7 generations?" if we demand a novel ability in the creature to demonstrate "evolution", can't this be seen in a single generation?
Bathing a petri dish in an antibiotic and mutagen bath would seem to qualify for "evolution" then, especially if, before a bacteria was killed off, it was able to split into an antibiotic-resistant daughter. Perhaps some protein tag on the surface of the daughter is not expressed properly.
Theoretically, then, it would be possible to have evolution in a single generation.
I thought that evolution was a gradual series of population shifts.
If one were to take a petri dish and put it in a warm environment and the population shifted to represent those organisms better capable of using the higher ambient temperature... is that evolution? Seems to me like it's an example of external pressures selecting the fittest organisms. Alternately, after a few generations, you can say that the bacteria "evolved" to take advantage of the heat.
I don't own an iPod, but at least I understand the idea. I bought an mp3/CD (disc) player with FM and I'm stoked.
It would be nice to not have to buy a Mac machine just to run whatever all this other i* is, though.
A few months ago, I was looking for a pro-(US)-sports schedule and found that all the REALLY GREAT schedules were written in iCal format. At the time, I was thinking, simply, "how do I transfer this to my nearest format?"... not installing an entire OS to transfer. That, of course, was before it was possible to even do so.
I'll look up GarageBand, IntuemRW, AdiumX, and iWork to see what they're about.
My hobbies are surfing, swording, gambling, and, of course, my wife.
All I was saying is that here is an opportunity for me to explore the Mac OS without buying all the associated hardware. And, at this point, what should I worry about anymore?
Seven years ago or so Mac and Windows were heads on for software (with an associated hardware tie-in), and I installed linux to get away from all the mess. Now I can freely explore Mac but I've kinda-sorta lost interest because I'm well entrenched.
I'm responding to the story's point of "you can install Mac OS on probably what you own right now."
FYI, I've helped people install Yellowdog Linux. Unfortunately, those persons (for the most part) just wanted to try linux (as in, linux "something") on a piece of hardware that they already owned. The important part is that these were people willing to explore.
Now, here I am asking a question like, "I own hardware that I'm running linux on, why should I try Mac OS?".
I'm just asking.
My only experience supporting OS X has been in the realm of "this works and this doesn't"... but that involved NFS mounts and X and whatever Mac uses for their own windowing system.
I'm not trying to berate Mac. I know many people that use Macs, but they're typically incapable of explaining why they like it. They just use it, regardless of hardware problems.
Should I install this just to find out why it's so inexplicable? That would be interesting in and of itself.
I have 3 servers in my house running ancient (although upgraded) Debian installations and am "perfectly" happy with my current Linux-based desktop.
I can get my work done. I can run many things. I can browse and play movies or whatever.
I've resisted dabbling with Gentoo. I've resisted many other new distributions.
I figure that these days I'm quite frankly not too interested in trying out multiple systems just to see what they have to offer.
Does Mac OS REALLY provide something different? I could never afford it before.
I've seen Mac OS on laptops and can't see that it's a world of difference. It was always the same story about this program not running or that.
Would a Mac OS let me run programs I cannot currently run? I'm not looking for snazzy graphics/clicking effects. I'm thinking that if I can download something that will only work on a Mac then it's worth a shot.
I'm thinking if I can buy a piece of software that will only run in Mac OS and be fantastic, it's worth a shot.
One nice thing about online sports is that you have an "infinite" number of streams from which to choose. I subscribed to the NHL and MLB packages through digital cable, but they would only show up to 7 (or so) simultaneous games. I don't think this is some sort of inherent limitation in the way that digital cable works, but it's definitely something to do with the interface and licensing issues. In any case, at times, if they didn't include the game I wanted in the subset they were broadcasting, I was SOL.
MLB radio (I can't say anything about video since I haven't subscribed to it), in comparison, has home, away, and alternate language broadcasts for every single game in the season. It's ridiculous. To do this in a TV format you would need to reserve around 30 or more channels just for those busy days when there are 10 simultaneous games. Not only that, but in a TV format, just finding the proper channel for the game you are interested in would be a PITA.
Secondly, since I work/relax in multiple places, it's convenient to have a single subscription to content that I can access as long as there is a functional computer nearby. I can even use my same login on the other side of the country to access games I might be interested in but won't be carried on any local television. This is pretty much impossible with TV under the current system.
It's not much fun to tape a game and watch it a week later when you get back from your trip. So, in this case, the real-time nature of the content is valuable as well.
Yeah, the "audio" is, in effect, algorithmically generated subtitles output to a scrolling LED sign.
If there's already a subtitle track in the movie then you can use the LED output for music and sound effects. [DOG BARKS], [GUNSHOT], [SPOOKY ATMOSPHERIC MOOG MUSIC].
Even The Pirates of the Carribean at Disneyland has people concurrently going through lengthy looped scenes, so that certain boats see the beginning of the loop, others see the middle, and others the end.
I was once stuck in the Pirates of the Carribean's burning village listening to:
YO HO
YO HO
A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME
YO HO
YO HO
A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME
for over 20 minutes straight. It was a nightmare.
The first five minutes were interesting. I really got to see the details about the animatronics. I was able to appreciate how the ride was put together. I checked out the boat. I checked out the rails between which the boat rides. It was enlightening. Annoying, true, but preferable overall because I got to explore on my own for a bit.
The next five minutes were a bit more confused. All the passengers were getting to know each other, chuckling, making pithy comments, getting worried, calling to passengers in other boats, and basically exhibiting various expected reactions to the situation. All the while, the bloody YO HO YO HO song was carrying on and on. And the puppets were dancing in the same way, over and over again.
The next five minutes were spent dealing with fellow passengers freaking out about the music, the fucking puppets, and, mostly, the fact that we're "trapped" and WTH is GOING ON!? THERE MUST BE SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG!! IT'S BEEN FIFTEEN MINUTES AND WE'RE ALL JAMMED IN THESE BOATS IN A BURNING VILLAGE SOMEWHERE!!
What turned out to be roughly the last five minutes were spent AGREEING THAT THIS IS CrAzy! WHY CAN'T THESE FUCKING PUPPETS SING A BIT MORE THAN YO HO YO HO A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME OVER... AND... OVER... AND OVER!? IS THERE ANOTHER VERSE?! WILL THIS BOAT EVER START AGAIN!? IS THIS THE TIME YOU USE THOSE EXITS IN THE RIDE? IS IT OK TO STEP IN THE WATER? WHY ARE THERE 5 BOATS ALL BUMPED AGAINST EACH OTHER IN THIS BURNING TOWN!? HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE? OH GOD FUCK THESE PIRATES, FUCK THESE PEOPLE, JUST GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!! THIS SUCKS! I HATE DISNEYLAND. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO BE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Yes, that was a great example. Your link went directly to a thread of 10 messages. It's pretty obvious which one you were pointing out as the important or useful one.
Can you do 'view as tree' then save a link these days? I'm just noticing that now. Maybe it's new since this morning.
I got a PS2 when they first came out. At the time, DVD players were around $100. It was a GREAT justification.
After owning it so many years, and even after going through a hundred games or so with RedOctane, it's hard to tell which we've used it for more often.
Lately, due to lack of gaming time, we've basically only been using it for DVDs. I think that's pretty sweet... and I can only imagine the consequences if my wife kept looking at some $300 game system collecting dust.
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It's a fact. Not poetry. Have at it.
Jesus, as the son-of-god born into human flesh, was contaminated by the human reptilian brain. IMO, he was an experiment by God to see how a human, blessed with semi-infinite wisdom and capabilities, would manage on the planet.
Hung up and stabbed.
Poor Jesus.
God never cries, dumbshit.
If you could vaporize and recreate the universe with a snap of your fingers, would you cry about anything related to what we're talking about?
AFA humans know, he don't cry. He might pour 40's on the lawn for his dead fellow-god homies, but he don't cry.
fuck it
I never got a real sense of power before a company I worked for folded on me. I got a court order, with an accompanying piece of paper, declaring that they owed me a paycheck.
Has a free software solution to creating raw art been created? AFAIK, people that make original art and release it are acting out of the goodness of their own hearts or are hoping for concert time or hiring by some firm that might give them a paycheck for the art they then create on company time (owned by the employer).
... should the model be published as well for people to tweak and trade? Is it enough, or too much, that if the model is used in the "next game" that that game must be released under the GPL?
Suppose that a person spends a ton of time making a model for a game, and that game is published/sold
It's just a question that the game producers (and proponents of freedom of information) are avoiding entirely.
I, for one, work day to day with research. I would like to tell everyone what I'm doing all the time. I can only hope that interested persons are willing to decipher my multiple directories of unclean "work". This does not make me a person, OTOH, that can declare that an artist that has gone through the refinement process to "publish a model for a game" should also release it to the general public with no clear sort of compensation.
I already know I'm not getting paid for my research. Others are working under the assumption that they will. Should they be told that they need to find a new paradigm for their skills? It's fine with me, albeit harsh.
The way things are now, though, the system is easy to understand. If publishing and IP were to change to take advantage of digital copying the compensation routes become unclear. It is, and has been, an issue for a long time now.
/. is working on an old-school model that says that more traffic is better.
They've been, if not exactly unapologetic, unwilling to change their style from day one.
They're already are allowances within their genetic code for such deviation. As opposed to a new feature previously not found within the genetic code. Which is what evolution dictates.
Evolution demands a novel genetic mutation? The winnowing of a population is not evolution, then. Isn't the transformation of a proto-penguin into a flightless, swimming animal more than just a series of small steps where a slight mutation provides a survivability advantage? Wouldn't this slow process of evolution also include periods of time where a particular subset of the population would have higher survivability rates during an environment change?
To go back to the original question, "Can evolution happen within 3-7 generations?" if we demand a novel ability in the creature to demonstrate "evolution", can't this be seen in a single generation?
Bathing a petri dish in an antibiotic and mutagen bath would seem to qualify for "evolution" then, especially if, before a bacteria was killed off, it was able to split into an antibiotic-resistant daughter. Perhaps some protein tag on the surface of the daughter is not expressed properly.
Theoretically, then, it would be possible to have evolution in a single generation.
I thought that evolution was a gradual series of population shifts.
... is that evolution? Seems to me like it's an example of external pressures selecting the fittest organisms. Alternately, after a few generations, you can say that the bacteria "evolved" to take advantage of the heat.
If one were to take a petri dish and put it in a warm environment and the population shifted to represent those organisms better capable of using the higher ambient temperature
Uh, I wrote that the wrong way.
Throw a "wouldn't you see" in there.
Wouldn't you expect to see evolution within just a few generations?
Spray a partially effective antibacterial agent on a few generations of bacteria ... within a few generations you will see evolution in action.
Yes.
... not installing an entire OS to transfer. That, of course, was before it was possible to even do so.
I don't own an iPod, but at least I understand the idea. I bought an mp3/CD (disc) player with FM and I'm stoked.
It would be nice to not have to buy a Mac machine just to run whatever all this other i* is, though.
A few months ago, I was looking for a pro-(US)-sports schedule and found that all the REALLY GREAT schedules were written in iCal format. At the time, I was thinking, simply, "how do I transfer this to my nearest format?"
I'll look up GarageBand, IntuemRW, AdiumX, and iWork to see what they're about.
My hobbies are surfing, swording, gambling, and, of course, my wife.
All I was saying is that here is an opportunity for me to explore the Mac OS without buying all the associated hardware. And, at this point, what should I worry about anymore?
... but that involved NFS mounts and X and whatever Mac uses for their own windowing system.
Seven years ago or so Mac and Windows were heads on for software (with an associated hardware tie-in), and I installed linux to get away from all the mess. Now I can freely explore Mac but I've kinda-sorta lost interest because I'm well entrenched.
I'm responding to the story's point of "you can install Mac OS on probably what you own right now."
FYI, I've helped people install Yellowdog Linux. Unfortunately, those persons (for the most part) just wanted to try linux (as in, linux "something") on a piece of hardware that they already owned. The important part is that these were people willing to explore.
Now, here I am asking a question like, "I own hardware that I'm running linux on, why should I try Mac OS?".
I'm just asking.
My only experience supporting OS X has been in the realm of "this works and this doesn't"
I'm not trying to berate Mac. I know many people that use Macs, but they're typically incapable of explaining why they like it. They just use it, regardless of hardware problems.
Should I install this just to find out why it's so inexplicable? That would be interesting in and of itself.
I have 3 servers in my house running ancient (although upgraded) Debian installations and am "perfectly" happy with my current Linux-based desktop.
I can get my work done. I can run many things. I can browse and play movies or whatever.
I've resisted dabbling with Gentoo. I've resisted many other new distributions.
I figure that these days I'm quite frankly not too interested in trying out multiple systems just to see what they have to offer.
Does Mac OS REALLY provide something different? I could never afford it before.
I've seen Mac OS on laptops and can't see that it's a world of difference. It was always the same story about this program not running or that.
Would a Mac OS let me run programs I cannot currently run? I'm not looking for snazzy graphics/clicking effects. I'm thinking that if I can download something that will only work on a Mac then it's worth a shot.
I'm thinking if I can buy a piece of software that will only run in Mac OS and be fantastic, it's worth a shot.
TIA
Two thoughts:
One nice thing about online sports is that you have an "infinite" number of streams from which to choose. I subscribed to the NHL and MLB packages through digital cable, but they would only show up to 7 (or so) simultaneous games. I don't think this is some sort of inherent limitation in the way that digital cable works, but it's definitely something to do with the interface and licensing issues. In any case, at times, if they didn't include the game I wanted in the subset they were broadcasting, I was SOL.
MLB radio (I can't say anything about video since I haven't subscribed to it), in comparison, has home, away, and alternate language broadcasts for every single game in the season. It's ridiculous. To do this in a TV format you would need to reserve around 30 or more channels just for those busy days when there are 10 simultaneous games. Not only that, but in a TV format, just finding the proper channel for the game you are interested in would be a PITA.
Secondly, since I work/relax in multiple places, it's convenient to have a single subscription to content that I can access as long as there is a functional computer nearby. I can even use my same login on the other side of the country to access games I might be interested in but won't be carried on any local television. This is pretty much impossible with TV under the current system.
It's not much fun to tape a game and watch it a week later when you get back from your trip. So, in this case, the real-time nature of the content is valuable as well.
Yeah, the "audio" is, in effect, algorithmically generated subtitles output to a scrolling LED sign.
If there's already a subtitle track in the movie then you can use the LED output for music and sound effects. [DOG BARKS], [GUNSHOT], [SPOOKY ATMOSPHERIC MOOG MUSIC].
Even The Pirates of the Carribean at Disneyland has people concurrently going through lengthy looped scenes, so that certain boats see the beginning of the loop, others see the middle, and others the end.
... AND ... OVER ... AND OVER!? IS THERE ANOTHER VERSE?! WILL THIS BOAT EVER START AGAIN!? IS THIS THE TIME YOU USE THOSE EXITS IN THE RIDE? IS IT OK TO STEP IN THE WATER? WHY ARE THERE 5 BOATS ALL BUMPED AGAINST EACH OTHER IN THIS BURNING TOWN!? HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE? OH GOD FUCK THESE PIRATES, FUCK THESE PEOPLE, JUST GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!! THIS SUCKS! I HATE DISNEYLAND. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO BE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I was once stuck in the Pirates of the Carribean's burning village listening to:
YO HO
YO HO
A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME
YO HO
YO HO
A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME
for over 20 minutes straight. It was a nightmare.
The first five minutes were interesting. I really got to see the details about the animatronics. I was able to appreciate how the ride was put together. I checked out the boat. I checked out the rails between which the boat rides. It was enlightening. Annoying, true, but preferable overall because I got to explore on my own for a bit.
The next five minutes were a bit more confused. All the passengers were getting to know each other, chuckling, making pithy comments, getting worried, calling to passengers in other boats, and basically exhibiting various expected reactions to the situation. All the while, the bloody YO HO YO HO song was carrying on and on. And the puppets were dancing in the same way, over and over again.
The next five minutes were spent dealing with fellow passengers freaking out about the music, the fucking puppets, and, mostly, the fact that we're "trapped" and WTH is GOING ON!? THERE MUST BE SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG!! IT'S BEEN FIFTEEN MINUTES AND WE'RE ALL JAMMED IN THESE BOATS IN A BURNING VILLAGE SOMEWHERE!!
What turned out to be roughly the last five minutes were spent AGREEING THAT THIS IS CrAzy! WHY CAN'T THESE FUCKING PUPPETS SING A BIT MORE THAN YO HO YO HO A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME OVER
And then the boats started up and all was fine.
I survived.
yeah, duh
It's somewhere on your 1040, I think line 47 or so, ah, here:
Cash/coffee prizes/winnings (if lifetime winnings submit form Z-27 or enter $1e14, $1e14-20 if filing jointly):
I think 1e14 is as high as the IRS' calculators can go.
zombo.com rules
cracked me up
And 'interference'. :)
HA HA
Yes, that was a great example. Your link went directly to a thread of 10 messages. It's pretty obvious which one you were pointing out as the important or useful one.
Can you do 'view as tree' then save a link these days? I'm just noticing that now. Maybe it's new since this morning.
Well, you can freeze anything and it's good for the bbq.
...
Also, with raising bugs for protein, there is a serious presentation issue. It's going to be hard to serve up a pile of legs
Are you serious?
I bet cockroaches could be frozen.
There is some sort of toad that freezes. I know it was a popular topic (this toad) when cryogenics was the next big thing.
I got a PS2 when they first came out. At the time, DVD players were around $100. It was a GREAT justification.
... and I can only imagine the consequences if my wife kept looking at some $300 game system collecting dust.
After owning it so many years, and even after going through a hundred games or so with RedOctane, it's hard to tell which we've used it for more often.
Lately, due to lack of gaming time, we've basically only been using it for DVDs. I think that's pretty sweet