Of course, I've just lost moderator status so can't verify but - some time in the last week - I noticed that moderation controls were missing for the last post in a "thread", i.e. the last of this post's children (I can't say if I saw it for "threads" of size 1, like this one currently is).
Can anyone verify?
Of course, I discovered the issue when I wanted to moderate a post but couldn't because the select was missing; however the select was present for all of the post's siblings.
Any thoughts on this? I don't know how "mainstream" the thinking is but it is being proposed as a factor, i.e. could allow other damage to take place (they seem to be concentrating on newborns). There'sresearch being done in the area. Obviously, scientific results tend based on statistics, rather than experiments - although some more ghoulish stuff has been done with monkeys.
VirtualBox (deb available via package manager) to create a Windows VM.
Install Windows in that VM.
Download and install your VPN client to your virtual Windows.
Worked for me:-)
Useful link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox. The VirtualBox configuration bit is useful here: as I said, VirtualBox (Open Source Edition) is available in Ubuntu Package Manager, so you don't have to do the apt-get stuff...
Darwinian evolution is a process in which successive generations differ cumulatively from preceding generations due to the differential reproductive success conferred on individuals by imperfectly heritable traits.
Problems with this definition (for me):
Evolution isn't a natural process, it is a term invented by humans to describe changes observed over generations (for want of a better word). Individual life forms don't have an "evolution system" (maybe we could say that a species is an evolution system) or "evolution gene"
Evolution cannot be invoked to predict the changes a species will undergo in future: these are determined by the species' environment, for the most part (a species obviously being part of its own environment)
Your definition suggests that evolution occurs only because of imperfect inheritance of traits, in which case a species would continue to evolve even if it didn't need to (contrary to Darwin's own observations)
If I recall correctly (I wasn't there, I read it somewhere;-), Darwin was more interested in Natural Selection than "evolution".
How about looking at it another way?
If species A has developed the capability to "evolve" quickly (it generates more deviations than "average" from its "core" genome, so hopefully there is an above-average chance that one of the variations will survive some disaster that destroys other variations) and species B somehow developed the ability to withstand all possible disasters in its environment 1 million years ago and does not need to change, which species is "fitter"?
Thank you. Far more interesting than a discussion about which operating system has the best games.
Of course, the money isn't all going to Bill Gates: employees' salaries have to be paid, children have to be fed.
Somehow, it seems more useful to and train people to protect the public than to encourage them to write software that can only be used by those that are willing to pay...
this claim of 50 million euro saving is arrived at by the commissioner multiplying the cost of the licenses by how many they didn't have to purchase. A text book example of calculating yourself rich.
If they did have to purchase those licenses (and they would have had to, sooner or later), would they have got the budget for it? How long would they have had to wait for approval?
Now that they won't have to spend that money on licenses, what will they spend it on instead? I expect that they don't have the money in the first place (as you suggest).
he also claims NO training was needed... so no training of your system admins, or any staff?
Yes. Quote from TFA Source: "Users need no training to use a web browser". He was not talking about administrator training, it was end user training. Here is what he had to say about the savings they were making on administration tasks:
Previously, one of us would be travelling all year just to install a new version of some anti virus application on the desktops in the Gendarmerie's outposts on the islands in French Polynesia. A similar operation now is finished within two weeks and does not require travelling
Ubuntu's advantage, in particular, is that it effectively delegates many administration tasks to application and package writers. The commercial world calls this "software as a service", I think.
Maybe they'll try to undermine IBM again and provide consultants at a cheaper rate. Good for the country that businesses save money, makes it more competitive internationally.
In the meantime, they don't have to do much about hiring locally, having implied a lack of skill by offering training.
Tax-deductable training?
Wow, cynicism is fun!
If someone rich and well-connected politically were to go into the fusion business, the government would find it easier to extol its virtues and throw money in its general direction.
Example: giving billions to petrochemical companies so that they can make Hydrogen out of oil.
Unfortunately, I find it hard to imagine the world of business becoming interested in something like fusion, since Hydrogen is far to common: if anyone can get the raw materials for next-to nothing, there's no money in it. You can't control the market/price/mark-up (although bottled water companies are doing pretty well).
Win7 allows programs like Photoshop to insert themselves stealthily into your firewall exception list. Further, that the OS allows large software vendors to penetrate your machine[...] the OS even after reboot has locked you out of your own Local Settings folder [...] and refuses to allow the replacement of the Local Settings folder after it is unlocked with Unlocker to move it to the Desktop for examination (where it also denies you entry to your own folder). Setting permissions to 'allow everyone' was disabled!
Did you ask your friend why he sent the money? If God told him to, that would be indeed be evidence (albeit anecdotal) of God.
Next time God asks me to give a friend of mine some money, I'll respectfully suggest that he:
Mods: it's not offtopic, just difficult to read!
Have you ever broken a limb and had it in a plaster cast? Notice how the limb has lost muscle (maybe even bone) when the cast comes off?
Have you heard that thinking about exercise imporves muscle tone?
Ever re-learnt something? Or re-re-learnt seomthing? Each time, it's quicker.
"Use it or you lose it"
Epigenetics is a feedback mechanism, just like all the others. It must be a good one because it has been around for a long time.
The case of the Irish Elk is a good example of a feedback mechanism that failed.
Be careful with that giraffe neck - it might be bad for your kids!
It probably had the dis-advantage of requiring people to do the right thing to get plastic to the machine.
I think we need to somehow bring the machine to people; I mean, somehow make it almost impossible for people not to do the right thing. I have no idea how: of course, it's best for people not to have unnecessary plastics in the first place.An extreme example:
net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory it is vitally important to get a receipt
AFAIK The Beatles were with Apple Records, so they were used to being the biggest Apple. Legal standing probably didn't come into it to a great extent: this is showbiz.
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There is no hangover with marijuana
You're not smoking enough of it.
Or maybe this one?
;-)
Mods?
You don't have to mod but a comment would be useful.
Is the moderation select box available for this post?
I promise I'll stop now, Slash-filter
Or this one?
Mods?
You don't have to mod but a comment would be useful.
Is the moderation select box available for this post?
How about this one?
Mods?
You don't have to mod but a comment would be useful.
Is the moderation select box available for this post?
I see that parent was modded +, so select was clearly available there. How about this one?
Mods?
You don't have to mod but a comment would be useful.
Is the moderation select box available for this post?
Of course, I've just lost moderator status so can't verify but - some time in the last week - I noticed that moderation controls were missing for the last post in a "thread", i.e. the last of this post's children (I can't say if I saw it for "threads" of size 1, like this one currently is).
Can anyone verify?
Of course, I discovered the issue when I wanted to moderate a post but couldn't because the select was missing; however the select was present for all of the post's siblings.
Any thoughts on this? I don't know how "mainstream" the thinking is but it is being proposed as a factor, i.e. could allow other damage to take place (they seem to be concentrating on newborns). There's research being done in the area. Obviously, scientific results tend based on statistics, rather than experiments - although some more ghoulish stuff has been done with monkeys.
VirtualBox (deb available via package manager) to create a Windows VM. :-)
Install Windows in that VM.
Download and install your VPN client to your virtual Windows.
Worked for me
Useful link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox. The VirtualBox configuration bit is useful here: as I said, VirtualBox (Open Source Edition) is available in Ubuntu Package Manager, so you don't have to do the apt-get stuff...
Darwinian evolution is a process in which successive generations differ cumulatively from preceding generations due to the differential reproductive success conferred on individuals by imperfectly heritable traits.
Problems with this definition (for me):
If I recall correctly (I wasn't there, I read it somewhere ;-), Darwin was more interested in Natural Selection than "evolution".
How about looking at it another way?
If species A has developed the capability to "evolve" quickly (it generates more deviations than "average" from its "core" genome, so hopefully there is an above-average chance that one of the variations will survive some disaster that destroys other variations) and species B somehow developed the ability to withstand all possible disasters in its environment 1 million years ago and does not need to change, which species is "fitter"?
Continuing the pedantic tone, ants are not bugs. I learnt this today thanks to the excellent Life in the Undergrowth.
Thank you. Far more interesting than a discussion about which operating system has the best games.
Of course, the money isn't all going to Bill Gates: employees' salaries have to be paid, children have to be fed.
Somehow, it seems more useful to and train people to protect the public than to encourage them to write software that can only be used by those that are willing to pay...
this claim of 50 million euro saving is arrived at by the commissioner multiplying the cost of the licenses by how many they didn't have to purchase. A text book example of calculating yourself rich.
If they did have to purchase those licenses (and they would have had to, sooner or later), would they have got the budget for it? How long would they have had to wait for approval?
Now that they won't have to spend that money on licenses, what will they spend it on instead? I expect that they don't have the money in the first place (as you suggest).
he also claims NO training was needed... so no training of your system admins, or any staff?
Yes. Quote from TFA Source: "Users need no training to use a web browser". He was not talking about administrator training, it was end user training. Here is what he had to say about the savings they were making on administration tasks:
Previously, one of us would be travelling all year just to install a new version of some anti virus application on the desktops in the Gendarmerie's outposts on the islands in French Polynesia. A similar operation now is finished within two weeks and does not require travelling
Ubuntu's advantage, in particular, is that it effectively delegates many administration tasks to application and package writers. The commercial world calls this "software as a service", I think.
Maybe they'll try to undermine IBM again and provide consultants at a cheaper rate. Good for the country that businesses save money, makes it more competitive internationally.
In the meantime, they don't have to do much about hiring locally, having implied a lack of skill by offering training.
Tax-deductable training?
Wow, cynicism is fun!
If someone rich and well-connected politically were to go into the fusion business, the government would find it easier to extol its virtues and throw money in its general direction.
Example: giving billions to petrochemical companies so that they can make Hydrogen out of oil.
Unfortunately, I find it hard to imagine the world of business becoming interested in something like fusion, since Hydrogen is far to common: if anyone can get the raw materials for next-to nothing, there's no money in it. You can't control the market/price/mark-up (although bottled water companies are doing pretty well).
I was going to write a comment to go with that quote but I like it the way it is!
Win7 allows programs like Photoshop to insert themselves stealthily into your firewall exception list. Further, that the OS allows large software vendors to penetrate your machine[...] the OS even after reboot has locked you out of your own Local Settings folder [...] and refuses to allow the replacement of the Local Settings folder after it is unlocked with Unlocker to move it to the Desktop for examination (where it also denies you entry to your own folder). Setting permissions to 'allow everyone' was disabled!
Next time God asks me to give a friend of mine some money, I'll respectfully suggest that he:
Mods: it's not offtopic, just difficult to read!
Have you ever broken a limb and had it in a plaster cast? Notice how the limb has lost muscle (maybe even bone) when the cast comes off?
Have you heard that thinking about exercise imporves muscle tone?
Ever re-learnt something? Or re-re-learnt seomthing? Each time, it's quicker.
"Use it or you lose it"
Epigenetics is a feedback mechanism, just like all the others. It must be a good one because it has been around for a long time.
The case of the Irish Elk is a good example of a feedback mechanism that failed.
Be careful with that giraffe neck - it might be bad for your kids!
It probably had the dis-advantage of requiring people to do the right thing to get plastic to the machine.
I think we need to somehow bring the machine to people; I mean, somehow make it almost impossible for people not to do the right thing. I have no idea how: of course, it's best for people not to have unnecessary plastics in the first place.An extreme example:
net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory it is vitally important to get a receipt
- Douglas Adams
... the only difference being that SQL is human-readable ;-)
About as doomed as COBOL
I had to look up RULE 34 to understand that post: at first I thought you were suggesting that maybe the cliches were coming from a bot.
I didn't say that but I'd expect that it was one of the reasons.
AFAIK The Beatles were with Apple Records, so they were used to being the biggest Apple. Legal standing probably didn't come into it to a great extent: this is showbiz.