What I mean is the seedless banana which the human eat
Actually seedless bananas are mutants - if you go to the forest in Indonesia / Malaysia there are varieties of banana - edible, but filled with seeds
The 'mutant' seedless banana which the human eat can not reproduce 'sexually' - they produce their offsprings by 'cloning' (natural cloning), all shooting up from the same network of root
Unlike rice or apple or onion, banana plants do not 'sexually reproduce'
Banana plants produce its 'offspring' by the root, very much like bamboo
That is why it is not easy to 'engineer' newer varieties of banana plants
That is why for the past several decades Cavendish banana has been the only variety available in 90% of the world (almost 100% of the Western world)
But things may be changing though... with the advent of genetic engineering a lot of works have been done in combining gene sequences of different species of banana, hoping to produce newer varieties
Fact is that Cavendish becomes the main variety because the 'Panama Disease'. as mentioned in TFA, wiped out the previous, much more tasty variety
In Asia you get to enjoy more varieties because banana originally came from the South East Asian region (mainly Indonesia and Malaysia, with some in Southern Thailand and on some island in the Philippines)
There was no banana in Africa nor in America - all the bananas in Africa was brought there some 2 thousand years ago, most probably by sea-faring tribes originated from Southern China / Vietnam which plied both the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean
In places like Indonesia and Malaysia there are other varieties of bananas, unfortunately many varieties had gone extinct due to habitat destruction
I have tried 'red banana' before, yes, blood red in color, very tasty and smell really nice too - if you happen to be near Singapore, Indonesia or Malaqysia do not forget to taste all the different varieties of banana that you would never get to taste elsewhere
... I'm in Asia and the bananas look fine to me...
One of my co-worker in Singapore has a banana plantation in Indonesia, and because of the disease he almost lost everything
Once the disease arrive, all the banana trees died, within weeks
Banana tree truck is unlike the solid wood tree truck - the core of the tree trunk is layered, much like onion, and the layers are tender - the disease, a type of fungi, attacked the gaps between the layers inside the core, and the rot came from within
There is no cure, absolutely no cure
Once the plantation is infected they have to chop down all the trees and ***BURN EVERYTHING***, , else the fungi may spread to nearby banana trees
Bonus trivia...
Do you know how the disease spread to Africa?
The disease hitched a ride on the bottom of a pair of boots
Yes, *BOOTS*
Some 'banana expert' went to Asia to check the banana disease, he wore a pair of boots into the plantation which was affected
Some months later, that same 'expert' went to Africa - and he wore the *SAME* pair of boots and walked into a pristine banana plantation (absolutely no disease) and the fungi which hitched a ride on his boot was transferred into the soil, and from there onwards Africa's banana are no longer disease free
Reading that book will only get you one of the two ways to be successful
The other way... not htat I am teaching you guys really rotten stuffs, but it has happened many times before in our tech fields...
Since the poster already stated that he (and his family) already obtained the world-wide patent for their invention, they could opt for the unscrupulous way of SUING instead of selling
We are talking about reality here -
A. If you try to sell them stuffs, they will try their best to cheat you, steal your technology, and then refuse to pay you the loyalties
B. If you sue them, they will have to defend themselves in the court - and if (like the poster has stated) have already obtained the patent needed, then you have legal ground to charge them loyalties (plus the penalties for their illegal use of your technology without paying you)
Yahoo should get out of Internet business long time ago
Yahoo was one of the many hundreds of Internet-related 'e-entity' jumping on the Net bandwagon, but unfortunately Yahoo did / does not seem to know what they want to do
When people offered webmail services (like hotmail, which was gobbled up by Microsoft) Yahoo started their own yahoo mail
Altavista offered search engine Yahoo also offer search engine
When Twocow offered file gathering / downloading service Yahoo followed suit...
... et cetera... et cetera
Even today Yahoo does not have a focus
It has a lab, and the lab people created a lot of neat and very useful stuffs... and at the end, Yahoo kill almost all of those neat services
It wants to be like Google, except it doesn't know how to focus on selling ad spaces
The best Yahoo can do now is to sell all its assets, gather up all the money and then distribute it back to the shareholders, and then close shop
TFA's description of 'violent videos' as violence by Israeli soldiers, conveniently ignoring videos produced by the islamic terrorists encouraging viewers to stab and kill Jews
Exhibit A, the embedded video in the following link showed a 'blow-by-blow' demonstration of how to stab and kill Jews
... it just means that as education prevails, people are less prone to fall for insane cults...
Too many people are confusing 'Education' with 'Intelligence' ***Education can never replace Intelligence***
There are so many cases where highly educated people - even Engineers / Surgeons - have joined cults
Many of the 'volunteers' for the Islamic State are highly educated people - no, they are not the ones you see in those gruesome videos, but they joined Islamic State and work as administrators / accountants / planners and keep the bureaucracy running
Another example: The cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh back in the 1970's, where they set up a commune in Oregon, USA, attracted a lot of very highly educated folks
People who are highly educated are not necessarily smart - they may be bookworms and they may even graduate with honor degrees with flying colors, but that does not, in any way, heighten the level of their intelligence at all
... it probably comes down to the fact that CS uses block design/maxtrix reasoning...
It comes down to the fact that some problems need outsiders, whose thinking have yet to be confined inside that proverbial box, in order to attain the correct solution
I mean, if I were to waste my time hunting down non-existing red mercury I might as well waste my time better by chasing down an equally non-existing cold fusion
If I were to get Red Mercury what the fuck am I going to do with it, other than a few spectacular 'KA-BOOM'?
But if I were to get my hands on Cold Fusion that really works, I would be the one controlling the world's endless supply of the much needed energy that this world is hungry for
What better way to force the world bows down before me, huh?
In order to test if the vocal cord is capable to produce any sound they killed a dog, and then use the dead dog's vocal box to test that vocal cord,,, all in the name of science...
I don't care if it is Obama or Bush or Clinton or Reagan or... they are all politicians and American politicians simply can not understand science
Whether or not NASA survive depends on one thing - the WILL for America to push forward its space program - whatever sitting president wants to dick around it shouldn't become a priority
... Since The RaspberryPi Foundation is UK-based, does this mean that in order to comply with the law, all RaspberryPis produced after this law goes into effect must come with MI5/MI6-approved encryption backdoors ?...
No worry, we can always get ras-pi alternatives from American companies... oh wait...
Ah... we can always get Banana Pi from China...oh shit !
Oh my! Looks like we are fucked no matter from whom we get our development boards
I am not at all surprised at the falling value of university degrees because, as you have stated, those who are coming out of school are simply not as good as their elder peers, but this phenomenon works only in developed nations, based on my own experience of having business in several continents
Many of the recent college graduates from developed nations (yes, even in Eastern Asian nations such as Korea and Japan) are seriously lacking the will to think
I don't know if they are lazy to think or if they are afraid to think, I simply don't know
Compare to them, the college graduates from 3rd world countries, particularly from those we used to call 'banana republics', while they are lacking in ttraining (their colleges are simply not as good as the one in developed nations) they made up with their eagerness to try out new stuffs, to explore and to think
My present and future plan is to sustain the number of employees in developed countries, to provide services to our existing clients (most of them are from developed nations) but for those so-called 'banana republics' I will be looking for more talents, and will provide them plenty of training to bring them up on par with their counterparts from developed nations - they deserve every single penny of training I invest on them because they are eager to improve themselves
I am really sick and tired of your lame attempt of hoodwinking people with _half-truths_
... If you are killed by an Islamist terrorist, you are eight times more likely to be Muslim than non-Muslim...
REAL FACT:
Over 86% of the moslems in this world live inside Moslem-majority countries
The largest group of moslems living in a non-moslem majority country are the moslems in India *about 8%*
2nd largest group of moslems living in non-moslem majority countries are moslems living in the West (EU, Canada, and USA) *about 3%*
3rd largest group of moslems living in a non-moslem majority country are the moslems in China*about 1.6*
The above 3 groups put algether amounts to less than 12.5% of the total number of moslems in the entire world
With more than 86% of the total number of moslems living in MOSLEM-MAJORITY COUNTRIES the likelihood that a moslem being killed by their fellow moslems is - of course - much higher than the likelihood of moslems being killed by non-moslems or the likelihood of non-moslems being killed by moslems
By denying the evilness of islam and accusing those who dare to oppose the cruelty acts of moslems as 'evil' the liberals are actually lending a helping hand to those moslem terrorists
The moslems are pushing for a total world domination, but they need the weapons and technology to do it
Europe and America have the technology and the weapons - them moslems are coming to take over both places and use the weapons and technology to help them conquer the entire world
Unlike other religions, in Islam the act of KILLING is considered as honorable!
That is why throughout the world moslems are killing people - from Nigeria to Syria, to Kenya, to Paris, to WTC of NYC, to China, to Indonesia... everywhere the you find moslem they kill
Slashdot Mirror
... else how are they going to import millions more of those terrorists?
What I mean is the seedless banana which the human eat
Actually seedless bananas are mutants - if you go to the forest in Indonesia / Malaysia there are varieties of banana - edible, but filled with seeds
The 'mutant' seedless banana which the human eat can not reproduce 'sexually' - they produce their offsprings by 'cloning' (natural cloning), all shooting up from the same network of root
Unlike rice or apple or onion, banana plants do not 'sexually reproduce'
Banana plants produce its 'offspring' by the root, very much like bamboo
That is why it is not easy to 'engineer' newer varieties of banana plants
That is why for the past several decades Cavendish banana has been the only variety available in 90% of the world (almost 100% of the Western world)
But things may be changing though ... with the advent of genetic engineering a lot of works have been done in combining gene sequences of different species of banana, hoping to produce newer varieties
Fact is that Cavendish becomes the main variety because the 'Panama Disease'. as mentioned in TFA, wiped out the previous, much more tasty variety
In Asia you get to enjoy more varieties because banana originally came from the South East Asian region (mainly Indonesia and Malaysia, with some in Southern Thailand and on some island in the Philippines)
There was no banana in Africa nor in America - all the bananas in Africa was brought there some 2 thousand years ago, most probably by sea-faring tribes originated from Southern China / Vietnam which plied both the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean
In places like Indonesia and Malaysia there are other varieties of bananas, unfortunately many varieties had gone extinct due to habitat destruction
I have tried 'red banana' before, yes, blood red in color, very tasty and smell really nice too - if you happen to be near Singapore, Indonesia or Malaqysia do not forget to taste all the different varieties of banana that you would never get to taste elsewhere
One of my co-worker in Singapore has a banana plantation in Indonesia, and because of the disease he almost lost everything
Once the disease arrive, all the banana trees died, within weeks
Banana tree truck is unlike the solid wood tree truck - the core of the tree trunk is layered, much like onion, and the layers are tender - the disease, a type of fungi, attacked the gaps between the layers inside the core, and the rot came from within
There is no cure, absolutely no cure
Once the plantation is infected they have to chop down all the trees and ***BURN EVERYTHING***, , else the fungi may spread to nearby banana trees
Bonus trivia ...
Do you know how the disease spread to Africa?
The disease hitched a ride on the bottom of a pair of boots
Yes, *BOOTS*
Some 'banana expert' went to Asia to check the banana disease, he wore a pair of boots into the plantation which was affected
Some months later, that same 'expert' went to Africa - and he wore the *SAME* pair of boots and walked into a pristine banana plantation (absolutely no disease) and the fungi which hitched a ride on his boot was transferred into the soil, and from there onwards Africa's banana are no longer disease free
Reading that book will only get you one of the two ways to be successful
The other way ... not htat I am teaching you guys really rotten stuffs, but it has happened many times before in our tech fields ...
Since the poster already stated that he (and his family) already obtained the world-wide patent for their invention, they could opt for the unscrupulous way of SUING instead of selling
We are talking about reality here -
A. If you try to sell them stuffs, they will try their best to cheat you, steal your technology, and then refuse to pay you the loyalties
B. If you sue them, they will have to defend themselves in the court - and if (like the poster has stated) have already obtained the patent needed, then you have legal ground to charge them loyalties (plus the penalties for their illegal use of your technology without paying you)
Moslems have killed over 130 people in Europe this year
Moslems have killed over 60,000 people in the Middle East this year
Moslems have just killed 14 people in California
Isn't it time to ban *ISLAM*?
Yahoo should get out of Internet business long time ago
Yahoo was one of the many hundreds of Internet-related 'e-entity' jumping on the Net bandwagon, but unfortunately Yahoo did / does not seem to know what they want to do
When people offered webmail services (like hotmail, which was gobbled up by Microsoft) Yahoo started their own yahoo mail
Altavista offered search engine Yahoo also offer search engine
When Twocow offered file gathering / downloading service Yahoo followed suit ...
... et cetera
... et cetera
Even today Yahoo does not have a focus
It has a lab, and the lab people created a lot of neat and very useful stuffs ... and at the end, Yahoo kill almost all of those neat services
It wants to be like Google, except it doesn't know how to focus on selling ad spaces
The best Yahoo can do now is to sell all its assets, gather up all the money and then distribute it back to the shareholders, and then close shop
TFA's description of 'violent videos' as violence by Israeli soldiers, conveniently ignoring videos produced by the islamic terrorists encouraging viewers to stab and kill Jews
Exhibit A, the embedded video in the following link showed a 'blow-by-blow' demonstration of how to stab and kill Jews
http://www.theblaze.com/storie...
Exhibit B, a 'tutorial video' of how to stab, where to stab, produced by islamic terrorists
http://www.timesofisrael.com/v...
DICE should be ashamed to publicize such trashy liberal propaganda !!
Too many people are confusing 'Education' with 'Intelligence'
***Education can never replace Intelligence***
There are so many cases where highly educated people - even Engineers / Surgeons - have joined cults
Many of the 'volunteers' for the Islamic State are highly educated people - no, they are not the ones you see in those gruesome videos, but they joined Islamic State and work as administrators / accountants / planners and keep the bureaucracy running
Another example: The cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh back in the 1970's, where they set up a commune in Oregon, USA, attracted a lot of very highly educated folks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
People who are highly educated are not necessarily smart - they may be bookworms and they may even graduate with honor degrees with flying colors, but that does not, in any way, heighten the level of their intelligence at all
It comes down to the fact that some problems need outsiders, whose thinking have yet to be confined inside that proverbial box, in order to attain the correct solution
... I would go for Cold Fusion instead
I mean, if I were to waste my time hunting down non-existing red mercury I might as well waste my time better by chasing down an equally non-existing cold fusion
If I were to get Red Mercury what the fuck am I going to do with it, other than a few spectacular ' KA-BOOM '?
But if I were to get my hands on Cold Fusion that really works, I would be the one controlling the world's endless supply of the much needed energy that this world is hungry for
What better way to force the world bows down before me, huh?
In order to test if the vocal cord is capable to produce any sound they killed a dog, and then use the dead dog's vocal box to test that vocal cord ,,, all in the name of science ...
You can blame Bush all you want, and I can point to the fact that it was Obama who wanted to turn NASA into a moslem appeasing agency
http://www.space.com/8725-nasa...
Both arguments wont get us anywhere
I don't care if it is Obama or Bush or Clinton or Reagan or ... they are all politicians and American politicians simply can not understand science
Whether or not NASA survive depends on one thing - the WILL for America to push forward its space program - whatever sitting president wants to dick around it shouldn't become a priority
No worry, we can always get ras-pi alternatives from American companies ... oh wait...
...oh shit !
Ah... we can always get Banana Pi from China
Oh my! Looks like we are fucked no matter from whom we get our development boards
I am not at all surprised at the falling value of university degrees because, as you have stated, those who are coming out of school are simply not as good as their elder peers, but this phenomenon works only in developed nations, based on my own experience of having business in several continents
Many of the recent college graduates from developed nations (yes, even in Eastern Asian nations such as Korea and Japan) are seriously lacking the will to think
I don't know if they are lazy to think or if they are afraid to think, I simply don't know
Compare to them, the college graduates from 3rd world countries, particularly from those we used to call 'banana republics', while they are lacking in ttraining (their colleges are simply not as good as the one in developed nations) they made up with their eagerness to try out new stuffs, to explore and to think
My present and future plan is to sustain the number of employees in developed countries, to provide services to our existing clients (most of them are from developed nations) but for those so-called 'banana republics' I will be looking for more talents, and will provide them plenty of training to bring them up on par with their counterparts from developed nations - they deserve every single penny of training I invest on them because they are eager to improve themselves
I am really sick and tired of your lame attempt of hoodwinking people with _half-truths_
REAL FACT:
Over 86% of the moslems in this world live inside Moslem-majority countries
The largest group of moslems living in a non-moslem majority country are the moslems in India *about 8%*
2nd largest group of moslems living in non-moslem majority countries are moslems living in the West (EU, Canada, and USA) *about 3%*
3rd largest group of moslems living in a non-moslem majority country are the moslems in China*about 1.6*
The above 3 groups put algether amounts to less than 12.5% of the total number of moslems in the entire world
With more than 86% of the total number of moslems living in MOSLEM-MAJORITY COUNTRIES the likelihood that a moslem being killed by their fellow moslems is - of course - much higher than the likelihood of moslems being killed by non-moslems or the likelihood of non-moslems being killed by moslems
Running out of legitimate target?
Has Jesus Christ now become the latest target of your liberal SJW attack?
By denying the evilness of islam and accusing those who dare to oppose the cruelty acts of moslems as 'evil' the liberals are actually lending a helping hand to those moslem terrorists
The moslems are pushing for a total world domination, but they need the weapons and technology to do it
Europe and America have the technology and the weapons - them moslems are coming to take over both places and use the weapons and technology to help them conquer the entire world
In the New Testament killing is never portrayed as honorable
On the other hand in the koran killings are portrayed as an honorable service to 'allah', as long as the one getting slaughtered are the infidels
I am a Christian and I do read my Bible, and unlike you, I do read the koran as well to see the big contrast among the two
Who the fuck is ignorant?
The shooters are yelling "Allahu Akhbar" and you fucking liberals are beyond help !
It is the moslems who are doing the fucking killings !!
Can you liberals please wake the FUCK up?
I've enough of the stupidity of you liberals ! The shooters are yelling "Allahu Akhbar" and you goddamn liberals are blaming the French !!
Moslems kill for 'allah'
The more infidels they kill the moslems are being told that their 'allah' will reward them with more virgins
Unlike other religions, in Islam the act of KILLING is considered as honorable!
That is why throughout the world moslems are killing people - from Nigeria to Syria, to Kenya, to Paris, to WTC of NYC, to China, to Indonesia ... everywhere the you find moslem they kill