Since when? AFIAK, Knoppix is live CD only. No install. I used it yesterday to teach a Linux class, and if there's an install option, I didn't see it.
-Dave
Have you ever actually worked in programming? Not to be offensive, but it sounds like you haven't. Extreme Programming consists of techniques that could improve, quite simply, the programming of (nearly) every single coder, be they 9-to-5ers or consultants, that I've ever met. It certainly helped me.
BTW, have you ever actually tried pair programming? To flatly say it "doesn't work" is naive in the extreme - I know of many who have used it sucessfully, myself included.
Good thing, too, because everyday I say to myself "hey, I wish I could write a game with grainy, low resolution graphics like Commander Keen with 2D BUFFER TECHNOLOGY!"
I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner. After all, it's incredibly rewarding for a nation to land on the moon. Look at all we got out of it. Like, ehh... That is to say, we obviously have the advantage of... The benefits to us are... umm... Clearly, you could say that we...
Now I can pump even MORE radiation into my brain. My cell phone, pager, laptop, computer, wireless mouse/keyboard and CB radio aren't enough... Must... have... cancer...
Persistance. If you try your best, and keep going at it, eventually you will be rewarded. The thing is that you can't stop improving - always get better, and eventually you'll have enough good content, enough recurring visitors that you'll have something to be proud of. Far too many sites become stagnant that could have become something great - you don't have to do the same.
Dave
I can't see gigantic problems arising from cloning per se - after all, as is already pointed out, identical twins are more or less the same biologically. The real problem is the gigantic risk of birth defects and other problems pregnancies is extremely high. Further, quite a lot of mothers who have lost children feel that by cloning they'll be able to "regain" those that they lost, even when the child is older. Can you imagine being a child that is expected to be identical to another child that came before? That'd be horrible for the poor kid; not only that, but the mother who wanted to have her child cloned may not realise that she'd have to try as many as forty times to get a living child, and furthermore even then the child may have strange genetic ailments and other problems.
The problem is not the thing in and of itself; let's face it, despite what movies tell you, having a clone of yourself is pretty much a worthless thing in (nearly) all cases. (Excepting, of course, for the obvious applications in espionage and related fields where the identity ambiguity is useful.)
Dave
Dave
According to the article, it tells the boundary between the objects via the varying conductivities. Interesting. Now, unless I'm mistaken - it's been a long time since I've had any electronics education - you can't measure conductance without applying voltage, yes? If so, this seems like it may not be the most healthful thing possible. Granted, we're probably not talking about much voltage, but electricity and people are just not a good combination. We get enough fried enough because of sitting in front of monitors all day - this isn't gonna help.
I'm not sure how much of a difference this is going to make. The EFF is great and all, but, frankly, they don't have much of a presence in Washington. Not compared to the MPAA, RIAA, and friends.
Still, Napster had one legal target; Peer to peer services have many. How are they going to stop these services? Especially open source ones? Seems to me that even if they "ban" or limit a given service, the legal ramifications are unlikely to extend to forks anyway. Change some comments and, violla! A new port!
The fact that there is no clear person responsible for the content of the services except the users themselves makes it difficult, as I said. They can't prosecute eighty thousand or more individuals. It's impossible.
support pure science? Most of what NASA does doesn't have a direct commercial application. Why would a corporation be interested in something like that? I mean, the entire DMCA and all the legal battles relating to it really don't say good things about how much big corporations support science, does it?
... and corporations don't really care about science. Engineering, yes, applied science, certainly - but pure science, the kind that NASA does? Not really.
On the other hand, NASA has botched enough missions so that it seems *something* must be done. Is this a solution? Perhaps. Privatization, though, can have it's own share of worries and problems; HMOs are a good example.
I'm a student at a vocational college in New Hampshire, and I'd like to get a Beowulf cluster set up here. The obvious question, though, is how do I convince the local administration to go for it? Any suggestions? I'm thinking of having it be on a donation basis, although of course any support the schol can give will be supported.;D I'd deeply and sincerely appreciate any suggestions.
Dave
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Since when? AFIAK, Knoppix is live CD only. No install. I used it yesterday to teach a Linux class, and if there's an install option, I didn't see it. -Dave
Have you ever actually worked in programming? Not to be offensive, but it sounds like you haven't. Extreme Programming consists of techniques that could improve, quite simply, the programming of (nearly) every single coder, be they 9-to-5ers or consultants, that I've ever met. It certainly helped me.
BTW, have you ever actually tried pair programming? To flatly say it "doesn't work" is naive in the extreme - I know of many who have used it sucessfully, myself included.
David J Berube, Berube Consulting.. and I suspect 95% of the people here are dumb enough to make a sexist remark like that in front of said girls.
Gee, tough choice: tell my grandkids I was boring, or be dead. ;)
Dave
You DO know that MW is not mW, right?
Heh. Big difference between mega and milli.
I think they were aiming at snubbing microsoft, not sending them into an apoplectic rage.
Good thing, too, because everyday I say to myself "hey, I wish I could write a game with grainy, low resolution graphics like Commander Keen with 2D BUFFER TECHNOLOGY!"
I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner. After all, it's incredibly rewarding for a nation to land on the moon. Look at all we got out of it. Like, ehh... That is to say, we obviously have the advantage of ... The benefits to us are... umm... Clearly, you could say that we...
Wait, no, we didn't get squat. Darn!
Nothing like paying good money to read newspaper reporters restate the painfully obvious.
"Breaking news: Some Americans now driving to work in lieu of walking!"
DaveUse Scramdisk. It's free, and works on Win9x. (Or better yet, use Linux and any of the numerous encrypted file solutions there.) -Meefan
He has a point.
See! I can do single sentence inane, noninformative, nonenlightening posts too! Mod me up! Mod me up!
Now I can pump even MORE radiation into my brain. My cell phone, pager, laptop, computer, wireless mouse/keyboard and CB radio aren't enough... Must... have... cancer...
DaveIt's not dead; it's only mostly dead.
Dave... I don't use Time Warner. If this trend continues, I'm going to go hide in a cave someplace before I rack up trillions of dollars in debt... Dave
No... electric guitars are electric.
It takes a real genius to both start a huge multinational guitar company AND at the same time start the cyberpunk genre. Who knew?
Persistance. If you try your best, and keep going at it, eventually you will be rewarded. The thing is that you can't stop improving - always get better, and eventually you'll have enough good content, enough recurring visitors that you'll have something to be proud of. Far too many sites become stagnant that could have become something great - you don't have to do the same. Dave
I can't see gigantic problems arising from cloning per se - after all, as is already pointed out, identical twins are more or less the same biologically. The real problem is the gigantic risk of birth defects and other problems pregnancies is extremely high. Further, quite a lot of mothers who have lost children feel that by cloning they'll be able to "regain" those that they lost, even when the child is older. Can you imagine being a child that is expected to be identical to another child that came before? That'd be horrible for the poor kid; not only that, but the mother who wanted to have her child cloned may not realise that she'd have to try as many as forty times to get a living child, and furthermore even then the child may have strange genetic ailments and other problems. The problem is not the thing in and of itself; let's face it, despite what movies tell you, having a clone of yourself is pretty much a worthless thing in (nearly) all cases. (Excepting, of course, for the obvious applications in espionage and related fields where the identity ambiguity is useful.) Dave Dave
According to the article, it tells the boundary between the objects via the varying conductivities. Interesting. Now, unless I'm mistaken - it's been a long time since I've had any electronics education - you can't measure conductance without applying voltage, yes? If so, this seems like it may not be the most healthful thing possible. Granted, we're probably not talking about much voltage, but electricity and people are just not a good combination. We get enough fried enough because of sitting in front of monitors all day - this isn't gonna help.
I'm not sure how much of a difference this is going to make. The EFF is great and all, but, frankly, they don't have much of a presence in Washington. Not compared to the MPAA, RIAA, and friends.
Still, Napster had one legal target; Peer to peer services have many. How are they going to stop these services? Especially open source ones? Seems to me that even if they "ban" or limit a given service, the legal ramifications are unlikely to extend to forks anyway. Change some comments and, violla! A new port!
The fact that there is no clear person responsible for the content of the services except the users themselves makes it difficult, as I said. They can't prosecute eighty thousand or more individuals. It's impossible.
support pure science? Most of what NASA does doesn't have a direct commercial application. Why would a corporation be interested in something like that? I mean, the entire DMCA and all the legal battles relating to it really don't say good things about how much big corporations support science, does it?
... and corporations don't really care about science. Engineering, yes, applied science, certainly - but pure science, the kind that NASA does? Not really. On the other hand, NASA has botched enough missions so that it seems *something* must be done. Is this a solution? Perhaps. Privatization, though, can have it's own share of worries and problems; HMOs are a good example.
Mental note: Check for typos next time. lol.
DaveI'm a student at a vocational college in New Hampshire, and I'd like to get a Beowulf cluster set up here. The obvious question, though, is how do I convince the local administration to go for it? Any suggestions? I'm thinking of having it be on a donation basis, although of course any support the schol can give will be supported. ;D I'd deeply and sincerely appreciate any suggestions.
Dave