Does anyone have instructions on how to set up a Freenet node for a computer on a broadband router through a dynamic IP address? Their FAQ isn't very clear on how to do this, and I didn't even know of the problem until I looked at the logfile (no warning messages show up):
"There was an error determining this node's physical address(es).
Please make sure (ipAddress) and (listenPort) are correctly set.
Note that you may put a host name in the (ipAddress) field if you have a dynamic IP and are using a dynamic DNS service."
As someone who hates that disgusting Adobe PDF format (why people can't publish in HTML after all this is the web right ?) here is the text of the pdf.
WTF? PDF is a format that renders the same regardless of the program used to view it, and can be generated by open-source linux software. HTML is a format that is viewed differently depending on the program and settings used, especially since the majority of people use IE (not exactly standards compliant). Moreover, PDF files can be easily saved and viewed later without worrying about saving every single image in the same path - which is often useful for research papers with charts and graphs all over the place (ejournals often have PDF files which, when printed out, are identical to the articles in the paper-based journal...try doing that with HTML.
No. You (the dumbasses who voted for a dead guy) felt sorry for a woman who's husband died, so you decided to make her a US Senator, despite that she had ZERO experience and was in no way capable of fulfilling the duties a Senator should be doing.
Or maybe they just figured that anyone would be better than Ashcroft. Heck, I'd vote for Krusty the Clown over him...
Yeah, and before someone says "BLAH BLAH my cellphone/PocketPC", those use emulators - which mean they use processing power extremely inefficiently. That's fine for playing C64 games on your desktop, but it'd be nice to have more than a couple hours of power with a "portable" device. A miniturized C64 processor that could get days of battery life out of a couple AAs would be neat...
We were still in an economic boom (bubble, but who knew) at the time.
Anyone with a trace of "common" sense? I was just surprised that it lasted that long. I'd long since given up talking about it, because I kept getting weird looks whenever I mentioned tulip bulbs.
Part of the problem is that stores don't generally have (or let you use) any programs that are power-hungry (games, etc.) - which would cause the laptop to heat up and the fan to go to high speed. On display they're quiet and cool, but run a game on them and it's a different story. (Which is why, when I tried out a Toshiba 2Ghz, I got it from a store with a good return policy - ie, the kind where even if you just don't like the noise/heat/colour, you can take it back within a couple weeks.)
Yeah, that sounds typical of Intel. What about VIA C3? Or Crusoe?
Of course, you have to sacrifice a bit of raw speed for the sake of a more efficient design, but it's better than second-degree burns to the groin.
Btw, it doesn't help for a laptop to be "thin-assed" if it can also double as a furnace (type quickly or your fingers will burn!) and roars like a jet engine. These days, the only useable laptops I see are used. Though these might be pretty good...
...like this computer. As far as I've heard, C3's get better performance than the crusoe while having equally low heat production/energy consumption - haven't seen any numbers, though. Btw, has anyone gotten one of those Lindows laptops? They're pretty cheap, light, and small...are they cool and quiet, too?
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
"Sure they're cheaper in Canada. Pharmaceutical companies use the economic abundance of the US to subsidize the cost of drugd everywhere else."
Whaaa? No, they make plenty of money. (And our generic manufacturers make plenty of money selling off-patent drugs at a fraction of the price.) The reason they charge so much in the U.S. is because they can (no price controls or reference-based pricing), and because they spend more on advertising in the U.S. than on research (advertising for drugs is extremely limited in Canada).
Golly, that must be why Canada (and most industrialized nations with nationalized health care systems) have lower infant mortality, longer median lifespan - better health by most metrics - than the good ole' US of A.
My two physician friends from the UK who've spent time working in the US laugh themselves silly about the state of clinical medicine here. They laugh about the lack of preventative medicine, they laugh about the overuse of absurdly expensive diagnostics that are not substantially better (gotta justify the expense of that new MRI machine), they laugh at the procedure-based pay system, where an MD's income is directly tied to the number and types of procedures performed. You're gonna have that lower back surgery whether it is likely to help you or not - the doc has payments on an 8-series beemer and a cottage in the Hamptons. Or maybe she's a young doctor just scraping by and she's choosing between bankruptcy and $250,000 in student loans.
Sheesh, never any mod points when I actually want 'em. This Scientific American article deals with some of the same issues.
That's odd, I had to wait one day for MRIs of my knees after an accident (apparently the machine techs weren't available on weekends), and my surgeon was pissed off at them.
Oh, and the Fraser Institute is so far right it isn't even on the map - it makes Fox News look fair and balanced.
Btw, it's kinda strange that such a "superior" system results in lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality, yet takes a larger percentage of GDP...
Not really - finding an outlet isn't all that hard. Using it on a bus or plane is kinda hard, but it can still be used in a hotel room/library/ferry(they've got plugs near tables specifically for that purpose)/etc. Plus, having a 2 hour (or less*) battery life defeats the purpose of most new laptops anyway - I wouldn't buy an expensive, brand-new one unless it had at least 4 or 5 hours of battery time (while actually being used, like playing a DVD).
*I tried out a new Toshiba that was almost out of juice after half an hour. Also, the fan would start roaring on and off like at engine revving at the slightest cpu load, and I could almost see the waves of heat rising from the thing. Yay for Future Shop's full-refund policy!
Heck, I've bought a used Toshiba Portege 610CT, 90mhz with a "Designed for Windows 95" sticker on it a couple years ago, and it works great. I have to plug it in, as the battery is long dead, but everything else works great.
Look at how many people have swallowed the "Greenhouse Theory" despite the vast amounts of good science that refutes it.
Yeah, 'cause there's plenty of other explanations for why Venus is hotter than Mercury, and why the Earth isn't a frozen ball of ice. This is supposed to be +5 insightful?!
Hmm... I agree in your case, but... I know from personal experience (being on the receiving end) that running over a pedestrian in a crosswalk is somehow considered a "no-fault" accident by ICBC.
None of the DVDs I own have unskippable commercials. But then, the DVDs I buy are almost entirely anime plus some SF stuff (Red Dwarf, Babylon 5, etc.) I don't think the Princess Bride or Army of Darkness had any, though.
Many of them do have the stupid FBI warning as unskippable (Excel's version of it is priceless, though - "Ilpalazzo is watching you!"). Nearly all of them stick the previews in the extras section, which I much prefer. Also, I've watched far more trailers by clicking on them in the extras section than at the start of a DVD, especially the ones with good theme songs.;-)
Yeah, it stopped working for a while right after I loaded the page the first time. It seems to be working now. The PDF is a bit easier to read.
Anyway, my point was that natural gene transfer across extremely different species (ie, cross-kingdom) isn't something completely unknown, nor is doing it necessarily some mad science perversion of nature. Whether it is a good idea or not remains to be seen and would depend on the individual case. There's a healthy medium between extreme paranoia and extreme recklessness - it would be nice to see some good regulations or necessary precautions on this, but most stuff i've heard of is from fanatics pushing on a complete ban of anything GMO. I'd agree with anyone saying Monsanto is evil, though - I'd like to see "open-source"/public domain stuff, rather than ridiculous gene patents, but that's drifting off to another topic entirely.
Species from completely different kingdoms will never mate and succesfully reproduce (this is what we were talking originally).
It was about originally about introducing genes from an unrelated organism (first species, then you extended it to kingdom - you put the "breeding" bit in fairly early, too).
This is a strawman argument, anyway. The natural transfer of a genetic information across kingdoms/species/etc. is analogous to the artificial insertion of a gene into a plant, not breeding them together to produce some lame mad science experiment.
Of the 51 examined gene fusions that are represented in at least two of the three primary kingdoms (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota), 31 were most probably disseminated by cross-kingdom horizontal gene transfer, whereas 14 appeared to have evolved independently in different kingdoms and two were probably inherited from the common ancestor of modern life forms.
The plant symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum has two glutamine synthetase genes, one similar to those found in other bacteria, the other 50% identical to the enzymes from higher plants.
When protein sequences encoded by archaeal genomes are used to search protein sequence databases for similar sequences, some sequences have their best match with sequences from eubacteria. The opposite is also true (ref1, ref2, ref3). There are even a few cases where one sequence segment of a protein with an origin in one kingdom is attached to a segment with an origin in another kingdom (ref).
A similar benefit would be that such cats would never have to be given up for adoption (or euthanized) because their owner (or their owner's child) developed such an allergy.
"The natural transfer of genetic material from some phytopathogenic bacteria to plants has been established. For example, the symptoms of crown gall disease caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens are due to the transfer and stable integration into the plant genome of phytohormone biosynthetic genes contained on a bacterial plasmid. The reverse process has yet to be demonstrated in a natural environment, however, numerous studies have attempted to establish its possibility."
There is no way to do transgenetic breeding, iow. to introduce genes from one species into another species by breeding.
You're wrong. This occurs commonly in plants:
"Another type of polyploid species, much more common than autopolyploids, is called an allopolyploid, referring to the contribution of two different species to a polyploid hybrid. The potential origin of an allopolyploid begins when two different species interbreed and combine their chromosomes. Interspecific hybrids are usually sterile because the haploid set of chromosomes from one species cannot pair during meiosis with the haploid set from another species. Though infertile, a hybrid may actually be more vigorous than its parents and propagate itself asexually (which many plants can do). At least two mechanisms, illustrated in Figure 22.10b, can transform the sterile hybrids into fertile polyploids."
- Campbell, Neil. Biology, 4th ed.
Viruses can also transfer genes between species naturally.
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"There was an error determining this node's physical address(es). Please make sure (ipAddress) and (listenPort) are correctly set. Note that you may put a host name in the (ipAddress) field if you have a dynamic IP and are using a dynamic DNS service."
WTF? PDF is a format that renders the same regardless of the program used to view it, and can be generated by open-source linux software. HTML is a format that is viewed differently depending on the program and settings used, especially since the majority of people use IE (not exactly standards compliant). Moreover, PDF files can be easily saved and viewed later without worrying about saving every single image in the same path - which is often useful for research papers with charts and graphs all over the place (ejournals often have PDF files which, when printed out, are identical to the articles in the paper-based journal...try doing that with HTML.
Or maybe they just figured that anyone would be better than Ashcroft. Heck, I'd vote for Krusty the Clown over him...
Yeah, and before someone says "BLAH BLAH my cellphone/PocketPC", those use emulators - which mean they use processing power extremely inefficiently. That's fine for playing C64 games on your desktop, but it'd be nice to have more than a couple hours of power with a "portable" device. A miniturized C64 processor that could get days of battery life out of a couple AAs would be neat...
Anyone with a trace of "common" sense? I was just surprised that it lasted that long. I'd long since given up talking about it, because I kept getting weird looks whenever I mentioned tulip bulbs.
"The original Oregon Trail featured monochrome stick-figures of Indian Braves for you to defeat."
How many points of meat were they worth?
Part of the problem is that stores don't generally have (or let you use) any programs that are power-hungry (games, etc.) - which would cause the laptop to heat up and the fan to go to high speed. On display they're quiet and cool, but run a game on them and it's a different story. (Which is why, when I tried out a Toshiba 2Ghz, I got it from a store with a good return policy - ie, the kind where even if you just don't like the noise/heat/colour, you can take it back within a couple weeks.)
Of course, you have to sacrifice a bit of raw speed for the sake of a more efficient design, but it's better than second-degree burns to the groin.
Btw, it doesn't help for a laptop to be "thin-assed" if it can also double as a furnace (type quickly or your fingers will burn!) and roars like a jet engine. These days, the only useable laptops I see are used. Though these might be pretty good...
...like this computer. As far as I've heard, C3's get better performance than the crusoe while having equally low heat production/energy consumption - haven't seen any numbers, though. Btw, has anyone gotten one of those Lindows laptops? They're pretty cheap, light, and small...are they cool and quiet, too?
*pounding at door*
Uhhh, gotta run.
- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
Whaaa? No, they make plenty of money. (And our generic manufacturers make plenty of money selling off-patent drugs at a fraction of the price.) The reason they charge so much in the U.S. is because they can (no price controls or reference-based pricing), and because they spend more on advertising in the U.S. than on research (advertising for drugs is extremely limited in Canada).
Sheesh, never any mod points when I actually want 'em. This Scientific American article deals with some of the same issues.
Oh, and the Fraser Institute is so far right it isn't even on the map - it makes Fox News look fair and balanced.
Btw, it's kinda strange that such a "superior" system results in lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality, yet takes a larger percentage of GDP...
*I tried out a new Toshiba that was almost out of juice after half an hour. Also, the fan would start roaring on and off like at engine revving at the slightest cpu load, and I could almost see the waves of heat rising from the thing. Yay for Future Shop's full-refund policy!
Heck, I've bought a used Toshiba Portege 610CT, 90mhz with a "Designed for Windows 95" sticker on it a couple years ago, and it works great. I have to plug it in, as the battery is long dead, but everything else works great.
Look at how many people have swallowed the "Greenhouse Theory" despite the vast amounts of good science that refutes it.
Yeah, 'cause there's plenty of other explanations for why Venus is hotter than Mercury, and why the Earth isn't a frozen ball of ice. This is supposed to be +5 insightful?!
Hmm... I agree in your case, but... I know from personal experience (being on the receiving end) that running over a pedestrian in a crosswalk is somehow considered a "no-fault" accident by ICBC.
None of the DVDs I own have unskippable commercials. But then, the DVDs I buy are almost entirely anime plus some SF stuff (Red Dwarf, Babylon 5, etc.) I don't think the Princess Bride or Army of Darkness had any, though.
;-)
Many of them do have the stupid FBI warning as unskippable (Excel's version of it is priceless, though - "Ilpalazzo is watching you!"). Nearly all of them stick the previews in the extras section, which I much prefer. Also, I've watched far more trailers by clicking on them in the extras section than at the start of a DVD, especially the ones with good theme songs.
Anyway, my point was that natural gene transfer across extremely different species (ie, cross-kingdom) isn't something completely unknown, nor is doing it necessarily some mad science perversion of nature. Whether it is a good idea or not remains to be seen and would depend on the individual case. There's a healthy medium between extreme paranoia and extreme recklessness - it would be nice to see some good regulations or necessary precautions on this, but most stuff i've heard of is from fanatics pushing on a complete ban of anything GMO. I'd agree with anyone saying Monsanto is evil, though - I'd like to see "open-source"/public domain stuff, rather than ridiculous gene patents, but that's drifting off to another topic entirely.
This is a strawman argument, anyway. The natural transfer of a genetic information across kingdoms/species/etc. is analogous to the artificial insertion of a gene into a plant, not breeding them together to produce some lame mad science experiment.
Here's a better article:
Of the 51 examined gene fusions that are represented in at least two of the three primary kingdoms (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota), 31 were most probably disseminated by cross-kingdom horizontal gene transfer, whereas 14 appeared to have evolved independently in different kingdoms and two were probably inherited from the common ancestor of modern life forms.
And here is another:
The plant symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum has two glutamine synthetase genes, one similar to those found in other bacteria, the other 50% identical to the enzymes from higher plants. When protein sequences encoded by archaeal genomes are used to search protein sequence databases for similar sequences, some sequences have their best match with sequences from eubacteria. The opposite is also true (ref1, ref2, ref3). There are even a few cases where one sequence segment of a protein with an origin in one kingdom is attached to a segment with an origin in another kingdom (ref).
"But once you've been inside of one of those ships for a while, you're never... quite whole... again. But you do as you're told!"
A similar benefit would be that such cats would never have to be given up for adoption (or euthanized) because their owner (or their owner's child) developed such an allergy.
"The natural transfer of genetic material from some phytopathogenic bacteria to plants has been established. For example, the symptoms of crown gall disease caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens are due to the transfer and stable integration into the plant genome of phytohormone biosynthetic genes contained on a bacterial plasmid. The reverse process has yet to be demonstrated in a natural environment, however, numerous studies have attempted to establish its possibility."
- this site
This PDF gives a few examples, too. Not to mention Bacteria and Yeast.
You're wrong. This occurs commonly in plants:
"Another type of polyploid species, much more common than autopolyploids, is called an allopolyploid, referring to the contribution of two different species to a polyploid hybrid. The potential origin of an allopolyploid begins when two different species interbreed and combine their chromosomes. Interspecific hybrids are usually sterile because the haploid set of chromosomes from one species cannot pair during meiosis with the haploid set from another species. Though infertile, a hybrid may actually be more vigorous than its parents and propagate itself asexually (which many plants can do). At least two mechanisms, illustrated in Figure 22.10b, can transform the sterile hybrids into fertile polyploids."
- Campbell, Neil. Biology, 4th ed.
Viruses can also transfer genes between species naturally.