This is undoubtedly a great triumph for science, but I can't help but wonder about the scientific implications of this.
Evolution rewards those who preserve their lives longest, passing on their genes to the most offspring. Due to this, our actions and behaviours are influenced by our need to survive more than we could ever imagine. Now with the ability to replicate organs, we stand at the brink of our ultimate goal eternal life.
Without the grim reaper breathing down our necks, how will we react? Will we strive to help others, or give in to our basest desires? For example, many people like fatty, sugary food, although we (unless giant fatties) limit our intake so that our organs don't fail. This way, we can go on to make babies and spread our genes. If we no longer have to fear death, what shall tell us to tame our indulgences?
Disney are just trying to protect their income so that they can continue their God given work of creating dreams for the children. Why are geeks so eager to make this a crime? Don't any of you remember watching such Disney classics as 'The Goonies' as a child? Do any of you have children? What do they think of Disney?
There's a difference between the techhead/hacker who programs/tweaks/overclocks and the guy who went out and got an MCSE.
Yeah, the MCSE has a job, while the 'overclocker' and 'tweaker' live in their parents basements' and post crappy OSS fan worship comments on slashdot.
By the way, every time I see a spoilt, upper middle-class shithead with hoodie and a skateboard listening to Pennywise or some other X-TREME facade of 'punk' bullshit, I want to beat the worthless fuck over the fucken head with his overpriced totally rad manifestation of disposable income he calls a skateboard until the ritalin and faux-teen pretension bleeds out, saturating the street with such brilliance.
Face it, skateboarders are a bunch of malcontents, vandals and ne'er-do-wells, and I'm fucken glad this 'sport' is illegal. I only wish the police would stop bowing to public pressure and take a harder line on them. Hard jail time (perhaps 3-6 months) should be the absolute minimum far skating in a public area.
No no no... Microsoft sux0rs when it comes to frivolous things like web servers, databases, software development etc. But for the highly serious, dedicated area of video games, you just can't afford to use obsolete, inferior LINUX software. In this case, it's OK to use evil software. Surely you would have learnt this by now.
I find Mail.app to be a *much* better performing MUA, and it already supports Exchange servers out of the box. Add to that powerful filtering options, near perfect HTML rendering and anti-aliasing, the most complete IMAP4 implementation yet, and the fact that Apple generously supplies it with each and every OS X system, and I see no reason for anything else.
Reading about this book, I'm reminded of Godel, Escher, Bach. That was another huge magnum opus encompassing the authors personal interest in a wide range of stuff, and also revealing a deep unity between three apparently diverse subjects.
I don't know if Wolfram is a genius or nutter, but I'm certainly looking forwards to finding out.
Incidentally he sounds a lot like Newton, who also considered his contemporaries to be idiots, was obsessively secretive about his work, and was generally an unpleasant person to anyone who dared to disagree with him. I want to read his book, but I don't particuarly want to meet the guy.
Although I agree that the universe is best explained as being computerized, and this idea is already many decades old, and I have written my own online book on the subject here, the big problem I have with Wolfram's approach is the same big problem that others have already pointed out: Wolfram insists on the underlying program for the universe being very simple.
In the June 2002 issue of Wired magazine which I got today, there is an article about Wolfram and his book. In that story, Wolfram is quoted as saying, in answer to the question low long the program would be: "I don't know. In Mathematica, for example, perhaps three, four lines of code." [page 148]
Wolfram is great with the math, and has a strong physics background. However, he seems stupid to me on this subject, because he believes in a free-ride that gives great complexity from great simplicity. My own background is computer science (PhD), and there are no free-rides like that in computer science.
What, you mean these people actually want to get paid for their work!?!? Fuck that!! I'm gonna steal intellectual property and use LINUX because information wants to be free and I want free Slipknot on my LINUX machine!>!?!
FUCK DA RIAA, MPIAA, DCMA, POLICE COP PIG FASCICSTS!!!
Here at the Page Widening Research Institute (PWRI), we have found a rather startling side effect of the well-known Page Widening Post (PWP) first documented by C Flounderson et al and made popular by Klerck. As is understood by all, the PWP is only known to affect the industry standard Microsoft Internet Explorer line of internet browsers. On current versions PC versions, the effect is to stretch the text in a horizontal manner, thus making comments difficult to read, but still possible.
Under older Mac versions of IE (v 4.01 specifically) however, the PWP will black out all text (excluding links and comment headers) on the page.
As we understand it, the bug only occurs when the article summary is visible at the top of the page (ie article.pl). For example, this page suffers, but not this one.
Unfortunately, IE 4 for Mac is unlikely to be used by many any more, but I hope that this information will be useful for others interested in information widening/blackening.
Face it, TV broadcasting is a service. The price we pay is ads. If you watch TV without watching the ads, you are stealing. I would be more than willing to pay in dollars instead of in boredom. Besides, $250 is about as much as Sky Digital goes for down here, and that has no ads. So what's wrong with that?
Seriously, that was one of the shittest movies I've ever seen. It's worse than Star Wars Pt One even. And now all the effects that were at least partially (anyone remember Ni Ten Ichi Ryu?) original are completely done to death. I hate to say, but I'm looking forward to Star Wars 2: Attack of the Ninjas more than Matrix 2.
I'm sorry, but what the fuck do you *expect* these people to say? "PVRs are cool, ads are fucking lame"? You see, there's this little thing could 'business'. Yeah, sometimes it makes people into self-centred, self-righteous cunts that don't care about anything but themselves, but at the same time it creates jobs for average, working-class chumps like me and billions of other people around the world. It's nice to have this type of idealism, but you need to realise that there are far more important things in this world than being able to watch Voyager or browse pr0n without those pesky little ads everywhere.
In my experience, digital camera support under LINUX has been next to non-existent. Either the USB is flakey or the necessary software is too buggy (read: pathetic) to use.
As much as it pains me to say it, I think a quality WINDOWS XP system may be more up to the job. Don't get me wrong - I love LINUX - but this is just one (of many) areas that could do with improvement.
There should be an apostrophe in that "its". You see, "it's" is short for "it is". Therefore, an apostrophe is used. (But remember, possessive "its" has no apostrophe.)
Plus the scripts are GNU copylefted.
Are you saying that there is a difference between terrorists and GNU?
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Evolution rewards those who preserve their lives longest, passing on their genes to the most offspring. Due to this, our actions and behaviours are influenced by our need to survive more than we could ever imagine. Now with the ability to replicate organs, we stand at the brink of our ultimate goal eternal life.
Without the grim reaper breathing down our necks, how will we react? Will we strive to help others, or give in to our basest desires? For example, many people like fatty, sugary food, although we (unless giant fatties) limit our intake so that our organs don't fail. This way, we can go on to make babies and spread our genes. If we no longer have to fear death, what shall tell us to tame our indulgences?
Disney are just trying to protect their income so that they can continue their God given work of creating dreams for the children. Why are geeks so eager to make this a crime? Don't any of you remember watching such Disney classics as 'The Goonies' as a child? Do any of you have children? What do they think of Disney?
Code is art. So the answer is yes, it does.
OSS 'programmers' don't have jobs, that's why they are OSS 'programmers', and not professional software developers.
not only are the graphics awkward in products like this, but they seldom have the "slick interface" present in commercial games
By 'slick', do you mean usable?
Yeah, the MCSE has a job, while the 'overclocker' and 'tweaker' live in their parents basements' and post crappy OSS fan worship comments on slashdot.
By the way, every time I see a spoilt, upper middle-class shithead with hoodie and a skateboard listening to Pennywise or some other X-TREME facade of 'punk' bullshit, I want to beat the worthless fuck over the fucken head with his overpriced totally rad manifestation of disposable income he calls a skateboard until the ritalin and faux-teen pretension bleeds out, saturating the street with such brilliance.
Face it, skateboarders are a bunch of malcontents, vandals and ne'er-do-wells, and I'm fucken glad this 'sport' is illegal. I only wish the police would stop bowing to public pressure and take a harder line on them. Hard jail time (perhaps 3-6 months) should be the absolute minimum far skating in a public area.
No no no... Microsoft sux0rs when it comes to frivolous things like web servers, databases, software development etc. But for the highly serious, dedicated area of video games, you just can't afford to use obsolete, inferior LINUX software. In this case, it's OK to use evil software. Surely you would have learnt this by now.
I find Mail.app to be a *much* better performing MUA, and it already supports Exchange servers out of the box. Add to that powerful filtering options, near perfect HTML rendering and anti-aliasing, the most complete IMAP4 implementation yet, and the fact that Apple generously supplies it with each and every OS X system, and I see no reason for anything else.
Reading about this book, I'm reminded of Godel, Escher, Bach. That was another huge magnum opus encompassing the authors personal interest in a wide range of stuff, and also revealing a deep unity between three apparently diverse subjects.
I don't know if Wolfram is a genius or nutter, but I'm certainly looking forwards to finding out.
Incidentally he sounds a lot like Newton, who also considered his contemporaries to be idiots, was obsessively secretive about his work, and was generally an unpleasant person to anyone who dared to disagree with him. I want to read his book, but I don't particuarly want to meet the guy.
Although I agree that the universe is best explained as being computerized, and this idea is already many decades old, and I have written my own online book on the subject here, the big problem I have with Wolfram's approach is the same big problem that others have already pointed out: Wolfram insists on the underlying program for the universe being very simple.
In the June 2002 issue of Wired magazine which I got today, there is an article about Wolfram and his book. In that story, Wolfram is quoted as saying, in answer to the question low long the program would be: "I don't know. In Mathematica, for example, perhaps three, four lines of code." [page 148]
Wolfram is great with the math, and has a strong physics background. However, he seems stupid to me on this subject, because he believes in a free-ride that gives great complexity from great simplicity. My own background is computer science (PhD), and there are no free-rides like that in computer science.
What, you mean these people actually want to get paid for their work!?!? Fuck that!! I'm gonna steal intellectual property and use LINUX because information wants to be free and I want free Slipknot on my LINUX machine!>!?!
FUCK DA RIAA, MPIAA, DCMA, POLICE COP PIG FASCICSTS!!!
Can we find out if *he* has a molten core?
Hopefully work will be continued by thousands of sub-"hello, world" angsty teenage boys the world over. It's the beauty of open source!
Here at the Page Widening Research Institute (PWRI), we have found a rather startling side effect of the well-known Page Widening Post (PWP) first documented by C Flounderson et al and made popular by Klerck. As is understood by all, the PWP is only known to affect the industry standard Microsoft Internet Explorer line of internet browsers. On current versions PC versions, the effect is to stretch the text in a horizontal manner, thus making comments difficult to read, but still possible.
Under older Mac versions of IE (v 4.01 specifically) however, the PWP will black out all text (excluding links and comment headers) on the page.
As we understand it, the bug only occurs when the article summary is visible at the top of the page (ie article.pl). For example, this page suffers, but not this one.
Unfortunately, IE 4 for Mac is unlikely to be used by many any more, but I hope that this information will be useful for others interested in information widening/blackening.
Face it, TV broadcasting is a service. The price we pay is ads. If you watch TV without watching the ads, you are stealing. I would be more than willing to pay in dollars instead of in boredom. Besides, $250 is about as much as Sky Digital goes for down here, and that has no ads. So what's wrong with that?
But yeah, I live in perpetual fear of
Seriously, that was one of the shittest movies I've ever seen. It's worse than Star Wars Pt One even. And now all the effects that were at least partially (anyone remember Ni Ten Ichi Ryu?) original are completely done to death. I hate to say, but I'm looking forward to Star Wars 2: Attack of the Ninjas more than Matrix 2.
So, how long until we start seeing Doom III inspired school shootings?
I'm sorry, but what the fuck do you *expect* these people to say? "PVRs are cool, ads are fucking lame"? You see, there's this little thing could 'business'. Yeah, sometimes it makes people into self-centred, self-righteous cunts that don't care about anything but themselves, but at the same time it creates jobs for average, working-class chumps like me and billions of other people around the world. It's nice to have this type of idealism, but you need to realise that there are far more important things in this world than being able to watch Voyager or browse pr0n without those pesky little ads everywhere.
As much as it pains me to say it, I think a quality WINDOWS XP system may be more up to the job. Don't get me wrong - I love LINUX - but this is just one (of many) areas that could do with improvement.
Its not just for terrorists any more.
There should be an apostrophe in that "its". You see, "it's" is short for "it is". Therefore, an apostrophe is used. (But remember, possessive "its" has no apostrophe.)
Plus the scripts are GNU copylefted.
Are you saying that there is a difference between terrorists and GNU?
eWorld, eMate, eMac...
PS, EMACS suxxez use VIM u dorkz!!!~
Turkey Manure Used to Save the Environment
Can this be used to help save LINUX?
Why does nobody ever use "^W"???
I do not see the why "^H" has to be the popularity party favour for all children!!?
Please SLASHDOT READERS, solve the mystery for me, the mystery of the "^H" and the "^W"!!?
Well, I'd be willing to give up a little personal freedom if it helps to reduce crime.
moer plzkthx
Nobody has ever heard of this before!