Not to mention the terrible driver support, and where's all the games? Macs have more games than Vista, and compared to consoles, no PC platform has any signficant number of games.
Yeah, thing is, "expression" means "results in a change in the phenotype", so clearly introns express something, just not proteins. By definition, an intron is the parts of DNA fragment which is spliced out before the parts that are not spliced out are translated into a protein.
Subscribers actually see these stories early.. and there's a line on them that says "if you see anything obviously wrong with this article, email..." and there's a link. About 2 times out of the 8 times I've emailed something has happened that appears to be in response to my email. "dupe" seems to get them jumping. For this article I emailed "this doesn't affect bootcamp" but I was ignored.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful. Heh, you're a bit behind the times aint ya? 21st century research has shown that introns contain the "control logic" of expression. Proteins are the building blocks of life, but the introns contain sequences that are transcribed into mRNA that interacts with protein expression to inhibit or promote. In the 20th century, the study of molecular biology could be liked to a 1930s plane engineer looking at a Boeing 747.. they would recognise many important things: the shape of the wings, the thickness and composition of the metals used.. they might be baffled by the jet engine for a while, but they'd pretty quickly figure out how it works. Then, many years later when they think they've understood just about everything, a modern engineer might ask "was there anything you didn't understand?" and they'd probably reply "yeah, what the hell is with these miles and miles of what looks like glass cable? What's that all about?"
Oh, and in regards to the spam, what you just described sounds a lot like the information privacy act in Australia.
it's to change the way people think. In particular, it's to change the people who have *no* opinion into followers of his "there's certain levels of decency" dogma. As much as we think people like Jack Thompson only want to force their opinions on others, it's not true.. He truly believes he is right and wants others to agree with him. The publicity is what makes this possible, not winning or losing.
I still, to this day, don't know how I finished the math portion of my CS degree. I think I just forced myself to do it.. maybe I tricked myself into thinking I cared. Similarly with databases.
you were the ones who did the bare minimum to get through university. Never read the textbooks. Pooled efforts with your friends to complete assignments, plagarising off each other, and getting away with it until the university introduced automatic plagarism detection software. You guys were the ones who came into the lab and complained that you couldn't get a terminal to complete your assignments due to those of us who actually chose to study this field out of actual interest taking up seats. You guys would complain that you couldn't concentrate because of everyone talking about programming. Yeah, I remember you guys.
If you bought it for use with Vista because they advertised that it worked with Vista then returning it is exactly what you should be doing. And if people actually did this, instead of just whining, Nvidia would *much* more quickly get the picture. Take your card back to whoever you bought it from and get a refund.
I'm trying to think of any other product where you can buy it at time X, it suits your purpose and you're happy, then at time X+1 something changes, it no longer suits your purpose and that is somehow the manufacturer's fault. Honestly, if you bought your card to use with XP and it now doesn't work with Vista, don't you solely have the option of not using Vista? Or buying a new card? And if Nvidia are yet to sell any new cards that work with Vista, aint you just shit out of luck?
Now, of course, if Nvidia are claiming that their cards work with Vista and you're buying the card solely for use with Vista, and it doesn't work, take your card back for a full refund and go without.
Just in case you don't actually know the answer: people get rich by selling oil. They get rich by selling techniques for drilling it. They get rich from working with the people who have it. These same people control what research gets funding and what research doesn't.
Unwanted, mostly. If there's anything consumer products manufacturers should have learnt by now, it's that they have no idea wtf people want.. Of course I admit that it's a bit much to ask that they just make something, throw it onto the market and see what happens. That would take courage.
Yeah, not the least of which is that books are not just about entertainment. I don't exactly trawl around bittorrent sites, but I'm betting their aint too much in the way of educational materials on there.
Which is why all the decent e-book readers mysteriously fail to reach the market. In all the last 15 years, since the invention of e-ink, dozens of companies have attempted to make viable e-book readers and been quashed by patents or by the copyright owners who have demanded that the product include draconian DRM. The OLPC, intended to (eventually) sell at US$100 per unit, has a 1200 (H) x 900 (V) resolution (200 dpi) display which is readable in direct sunlight. That is what you need to comfortably read a book. That, or e-ink, with even higher dpi. These things are clearly not expensive, where are they? The OLPC shows what engineers can do when they are able to stop thinking about what will make the most money, and just try to make something great.
dont you understand that the US govt a long time ago made monopolies (supposedly) illegal? Our forefathers knew that if the market is reduced to a single player, then the free market is no longer free. Unfortuantely, they didn't. They certainly believed what you have said, and if you read anything that was written about monopolies at the time, you'll have no doubt what they intended, but they failed to codify this in law. Instead, they provided rules for what monopolies could and couldn't do. This was interpreted later as proof that monopolies were both expected and permitted. In fact, the original intention was that no monopolies were permitted, except for new inventions, and those only for a limited time. The time limit chosen was indicitive of the intention of this exception: the expected amount of time necessary for a new immigrant to come to the US, set up a shop to make this new invention and train an apprentice. After that, they figured, the immigrant is established and others can begin competing with him. Patents were solely intended as incentive for knowledgable people to immigrate. How in the hell did we get from there to here? Nothing short of a lack of vigilance.
If you think Postgres is so much better than mySQL (and I'm honestly not debating with you that it isn't) then go start your own open source company around Postgres to provide support services. You should make a fortune and put mySQL to shame.
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Not to mention the terrible driver support, and where's all the games? Macs have more games than Vista, and compared to consoles, no PC platform has any signficant number of games.
Yeah, thing is, "expression" means "results in a change in the phenotype", so clearly introns express something, just not proteins. By definition, an intron is the parts of DNA fragment which is spliced out before the parts that are not spliced out are translated into a protein.
Great, now I'm gunna be on that site trying to find a Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Subscribers actually see these stories early.. and there's a line on them that says "if you see anything obviously wrong with this article, email ..." and there's a link. About 2 times out of the 8 times I've emailed something has happened that appears to be in response to my email. "dupe" seems to get them jumping. For this article I emailed "this doesn't affect bootcamp" but I was ignored.
Oh, and in regards to the spam, what you just described sounds a lot like the information privacy act in Australia.
Yeah, and those bastards, requiring some sort of unique number to identify people using a telephone! Who ever heard of such trickery!
Did you think that maybe, just maybe, I DON'T LIVE IN YOUR COUNTRY! and therefore don't see the same ads as you? Fuckin' stupid arrogant americans.
Is there another kind?
it's to change the way people think. In particular, it's to change the people who have *no* opinion into followers of his "there's certain levels of decency" dogma. As much as we think people like Jack Thompson only want to force their opinions on others, it's not true.. He truly believes he is right and wants others to agree with him. The publicity is what makes this possible, not winning or losing.
To be fair, where can I go get a trade school education for computer programming? Oh, that's right, no-where.
I still, to this day, don't know how I finished the math portion of my CS degree. I think I just forced myself to do it.. maybe I tricked myself into thinking I cared. Similarly with databases.
you were the ones who did the bare minimum to get through university. Never read the textbooks. Pooled efforts with your friends to complete assignments, plagarising off each other, and getting away with it until the university introduced automatic plagarism detection software. You guys were the ones who came into the lab and complained that you couldn't get a terminal to complete your assignments due to those of us who actually chose to study this field out of actual interest taking up seats. You guys would complain that you couldn't concentrate because of everyone talking about programming. Yeah, I remember you guys.
Why can't you return it?
If you bought it for use with Vista because they advertised that it worked with Vista then returning it is exactly what you should be doing. And if people actually did this, instead of just whining, Nvidia would *much* more quickly get the picture. Take your card back to whoever you bought it from and get a refund.
I'm trying to think of any other product where you can buy it at time X, it suits your purpose and you're happy, then at time X+1 something changes, it no longer suits your purpose and that is somehow the manufacturer's fault. Honestly, if you bought your card to use with XP and it now doesn't work with Vista, don't you solely have the option of not using Vista? Or buying a new card? And if Nvidia are yet to sell any new cards that work with Vista, aint you just shit out of luck?
Now, of course, if Nvidia are claiming that their cards work with Vista and you're buying the card solely for use with Vista, and it doesn't work, take your card back for a full refund and go without.
Just in case you don't actually know the answer: people get rich by selling oil. They get rich by selling techniques for drilling it. They get rich from working with the people who have it. These same people control what research gets funding and what research doesn't.
Yeah, we were talking about video.
Yeah, not the least of which is that books are not just about entertainment. I don't exactly trawl around bittorrent sites, but I'm betting their aint too much in the way of educational materials on there.
Which is why all the decent e-book readers mysteriously fail to reach the market. In all the last 15 years, since the invention of e-ink, dozens of companies have attempted to make viable e-book readers and been quashed by patents or by the copyright owners who have demanded that the product include draconian DRM. The OLPC, intended to (eventually) sell at US$100 per unit, has a 1200 (H) x 900 (V) resolution (200 dpi) display which is readable in direct sunlight. That is what you need to comfortably read a book. That, or e-ink, with even higher dpi. These things are clearly not expensive, where are they? The OLPC shows what engineers can do when they are able to stop thinking about what will make the most money, and just try to make something great.
Allow me to put this another way...
If you think Postgres is so much better than mySQL (and I'm honestly not debating with you that it isn't) then go start your own open source company around Postgres to provide support services. You should make a fortune and put mySQL to shame.
We'll wait here till you get back.
We have the best broadband in the world second to maybe, south korea. And what laws are you talking about?
Or is that 10,000 customers that regularly renew their MySQL licenses?
What's the average license cost? $40,000?
Yup, that's fucked, and is exactly the kind of thing that should be attracting government attention.. not net neutrality.