That's not precisely true. Some savants perform their amazing tricks in ways in ways that far resemble a computer than the rest of us. Our complex neural networks often have all kinds of competing structures and after passing layers of decision nodes biggest/rightest signal wins (with a lot of impact and influence by all those other prior nodes.) A simpler system tends to be more linear (fewer competing nodes) and therefore more resembles (if no duplicates) the behaviors of the far simpler computer (who wins by brute force alone.)
So before we label the player a cheater, check to be certain he isn't autistic or the victim of limited brain damage.
That's the point though, your perspective, your point of view, your opinion. There is no objective reality here. Which isn't to say I don't have a similar opinion, just that if you go around paving your opinions all over the scenery doesn't that make just as "evil" as any other egotistical bastard doing the same. Now if as a society we came up with a new game for being human predicated on... let's say workability, where the goal is for human beings to be empowered, fully self expressed and as personally productive as possible inside the basic limits of a sustainable environmental practice and given by an exponentially expanding technology, a whole different kind of life might be possible. Perhaps the key is choosing a game that recognizes and respects humanity.
People talk like there are moral absolutes, these are cultural constructs sitting on top of biological imperatives. Jeeze. There are games that people play. The corporate game is based on profit and is by design war-like right up to and including killing large numbers of people who get in your way (read about mercenaries hired by Shell Oil to wipe out entire African Villages to get what they wanted.) There are other games, like the game called society. These two games are often at odds with one another, and because one is predicated on the common good and the other is predicates on what's good for the corporation it is easy to see those looking from a social context getting a wee bit fussy about the practices of corporations.
This is especially true when corporations choose Sociopaths as their Corporate Officers. Corporations do behave monolithically. That is to say, that Corporations tend to have consistent cultures (unless they consciously prevent such cultures from forming which is unlikely because these cultures tend to be powerful motivators.) The cultures of a corporation are typically managed by its leaders (not always, but most often coming from the Corporate Officers.) So a business wide lack of respect for people, bigotry, sexism, greed, lawlessness or corruption, usually points to a board that is by most social norms EVIL. Another way of saying this is EVIL is as EVIL does. A lot of corporations have chosen to use human beings like toilet paper, because they think its good for the bottom line. These folks have no appreciation for critical dangers presented by a moral bankruptcy. The good news is that sooner or later, society tends to crush these entities. There are sadly gross exceptions.
And if you look at the "Public Stupid Beating" that Oracle has received... they may own the copyright to a PUBLIC software which can (and will) BY LICENSE forked and begun ANEW... at a different place with a different name and the herd of public resources migrates there leaving, the copyright holder with a virtually empty bag of unfed ego. This is the magic that is open source. Once started its like gravitational collapse... it runs on its own steam and its damn hard to stop. It is in fact one of the best cures for corporate douche baggery. Truth is, I see Open Source as something of a pry bar, to break the whole corporate model apart. The beauty is that its not hostile to Corporate practices in the least, in fact Corporations understand that they need a uniform, reliable, robust infrastructure to succeed and the fact that they don't have to pay for it is simply awesome. They don't see the poison in the pill though, the magic coming in the form of people everywhere seeing the critical value of having globally accessible resources that all human beings need to function, and thrive, a growing meritocracy subsumes the existing profit model. Its stealth, subversive and very clandestine, but I think its the shape of the future and I love the fact that its quietly causing havoc with business as usual.
Its time for the species to give up childish behavior and engineering a real social operating system that uses what works and discards what doesn't. I figure we're maybe a hundred years over due. The corporate model is a cancer doomed to failure, best it die now before it drags us all down with it.
People love art. Music, Film, Games, Performance. By the very nature of art, its a unique, dynamic and inspired moments of human insight, expression, understanding, enlightenment, communication. The act of attempting to formulate this process, is like climbing up a cow's ass in an attempt to witness the magic of grass turning into milk. In both cases the outcome invariably ends up mixed with cow flop.
Enough already with the endless attempts to turn a film into a franchise then milk every atom of joy, love and money out until these Scrooges ruin the whole thing for everybody. Enough already of safe projects built to ride the mean average of everything hoping to appeal to everyone and further drain already depleted wallets. Most of all, enough with soul-less accounting minions measuring the worth of a film by the number of tickets sold. By that logic "Dumb and Dumber" is a greater movie than "Raising Arizona". I understand movie making is a business and box-office is the final measure of success, but for those who are more interested in the art, the humanity, and the beauty that people create, the box office is a side effect. Great art isn't for everyone so, bankers will never be interested in great art (save that which can be invested in, stored in a vault, and later resold at great profit.) So for the love of all that's Holy(wood), let the artists thrive and make art. Support and empower them. There will be magic, and wonder and beauty. Occasionally there will be wonder and pain and genius. This was a spectacular year for film. You bankers bank... its what you're good at. Let the artists art.
Hollywood (as run by bankers) has this unpleasant habit of beating dead horses into a frothy pink slurry. I'm certain there must some remaining bludgeoning of orcs and wizards after the Hobbit... they'll just make it up as whole clothes and anoint it with JRR Tolkien... have his family bless it for a 10% slice of the cinematic cow pie and everyone adjourns to count the proceeds.
You can't succeed with a film anymore without 22 sequels, 11 prequels, 5 spin-offs, a documentary of the making of, and 7 video games in tribute of. Its like the film Oompah Loompahs will be made to squeeze every femtopenny from a genre until the fabric of space and time itself begins to unravel.
The Oil Companies don't own the German Government... therefore no problem going for solar (sadly the same can't be said about the US government.) However, due to the similarities of drilling for oil, gas and this new geothermal, this is a potential energy source I'm betting the Oil guys would be willing to invest in. Add, the fact that as its monetized, the owners can turn it on and off 24/7, and it something that is much more compatible with their existing business models (its harder to meter the sun, and managing power storage and distribution for peak load is itself an interesting engineering problem... not insurmountable, just interesting, same issue with wind power.)
The only issue I can see that is significant, is the possibility of geological activity leading to earthquake. The existing geothermal energy sources around Calistoga California have been the source of recent controversy. It seems, to increase the power output and efficiency of these systems that the owners have pumped substantial amounts of water into them, to dramatically increase steam production. The water and steam act as a lubricant, and allow fractured rock (faults) to slide more easily and there has been a dramatic increase of earthquakes in the area (some significant.)
One could argue that this is a small trade for environmentally friendly, near unlimited high quality power, and with this new technology to make it available in even more areas, a potential energy windfall. That said, we should probably restrict its use near large active fault systems so as not to precipitate a profoundly unwanted side effect.
Yes and when the news and all the media being watched by the mouth breathing public are owned by a shocking few corporations and those corporations act monolithicly to steer society in the direction they choose, to inform or misinform as they choose, to manipulate and promote public opinion in the name of what's good for the plutocracy, we have a wee problem.
Or, perhaps this is the way its always been and a free press is an aberration or illusion. Personally I think its high time we pried the those crypt keeper fingers off of the controls steering society into ever deeper water and we just said screw the banks and screw the corporations. Its time for real free enterprise.
Yeah but the inertial difference would be some infinitesimal amount. Way to small to notice. The real problem is that this design in going to suffer huge stress at the points of the Z so if our intrepid rider is into mountain bikes he's going to break this thing about 4 weeks after he starts using it at precisely the worst possible time to have you crank break (while standing on your peddles on a steep climb.)
All you have to do to blow this out of the water is ask him why there isn't a curlicue wrench to give you more leverage in a tight place... not like we haven't been using wrenches for a while. This is a profound DUH, and no magic fairy dust nor faith in a loving deity will wash the stink of stupid off it. Sorry.
I just did a search on just "Beer" and the first thing to show up was "Sam Adams", I'm guessing that right there would be enough to start a war with the German's and we all know as goes Germany so goes the EU...
Yeah, last version by Jasc was 9.0, and had equal amounts of photo tools and general paint and drawing tools including synthetic art media and kaleidoscopic symmetric draw. Fast, small, easy to use. Then Corel bought it and made it photo only so as not to compete with their own Paint program and so they threw away some of its best features no the least of which was a Python API that allowed you to make powerful macros, batch file processing and customizable processing tools.
The new version has batch processing but its all inside a massive (rather bloated) image management UI. I like the lean, clean speed of 9.0. That said, CS2 has a lot over very cool image manipulations and Adobe allows you to make very nice vector content... very nice for images that need to scale.
Adobe had priced its tools for professionals only because only a professional could possible afford to spend several thousand dollars for a personal software suite. This is a tremendous boon to Adobe and they'd be insane not to capitalize on it. Tens of thousands of people download OLD software and becoming skilled at its use will hunger for the features of the newer versions. If they would also allow these new owners to become part of the Adobe family for a reasonable upgrade price understanding that they got here by free introduction, Adobe could be looking at a huge explosion of interest in its products and a whole new community of users. At a time when companies like Adobe are getting killed by smaller software developers selling less expensive tools to get the job done, this could be a fantastic way to "Shake off the fleas". Even better, because it was an accident "wink, wink", they can't be poked for noncompetitive practices.
For Adobe who isn't selling CS2 to anyone any more, here's a chance to get great consumer acceptance and press, hook a whole new population of fish, and put the squeeze on their competition all at the same time. If it wasn't done on purpose it was a lucky accident, and if it was done on purpose somebody should be promoted to one of the corner offices... he's a sly dog that should be included in a lot more decision making. Kudos, this is either a very bright move or a fortuitous accident, either way, hang on and enjoy the ride!
If you're going to grow meat in a factory its going to be a multistage process. Cells are grown in a oxygenated growth medium, You take the gelatinous slurry of cells and you print them into a matrix that is virtually identical to normal muscle tissue found in the animal from which the cells come. You combine fat and collagen fibers to give the meat structure and texture. Once its a certain thinkness its cut and removed for packing. The meat need no antibiotics, because the entire process is closed and the only living thing in the system are beef muscle cells. This meat can be made healthier than regular meat, with extra nutrition included.
There are plenty of extruded foods in our culture starting with white bread. This could be a huge win for people all over the world. There is no reason the meat will need special chemicals. IT should simply be as close to the natural product as possible. Hamburger will be the easiest thing to make at first, but steak should come soon after.
As for color, the color of beef is grey, then you add blood to make it red. There is no reason they can't use synthetic cows blood to color the meat. It will give the meat the proper color and taste. Its a simple matter of how good an artificial meat you want.
This would be a demonstration of the mistake of using a religious source of knowledge rather than a scientific, the result being that you have missed out on very important dietary opportunities. Those foods you call rotten, do those include fermented foods? Yogurt? Kimchee? Sauerkraut? Japanese pickles? Cheese? All of these foods in fact have fantastic probiotic value which has been demonstrated to support improved nutrient uptake, vitality, regularity, and a significant reduction of bowel relaated diseases, including colon cancer and irritable bowel.
Are wines putrid? They are the result of fermentation as are beers. Both of these beverages have noted health value in measure quantities. Not the least of which is these being a sense of happiness. This is not an argument for intoxication, but that small amounts of alcohol has studied benefits.
Butter and meat are high in fat and cholesterol. Its important to limit the intake of these foods no matter how much Krishna liked them. So you might want to use your religion as a starting point but open your mind a little and read the latest research to supplement those beliefs, because they may help keep you healthy.
You are absolutely right we are no longer limited by our biological design we have the resources that come with civilization. Though we are confronted by the side effects of all that high fructose corn syrup, highly processes wheat, soy and corn. One reason for the epidemic of obesity, another being the human craving for sweet and salty food exploited by food businesses.
You are also right that vegans can find balanced nutrition in our modern society because they can combine foods from disparate locations whose incomplete protein combined provide the complete protein a human being needs. The real art is taking the culinary palette provided by vegan ingredients and making great cuisine, and I've actually seen some amazing vegan cooking (you wouldn't even belief an Alfredo using seaweed pasta and cashew based alfredo sauce could be that good.)
The only problem here I see is people thinking because they do it, it must somehow be morally better... and that would be the biggest fallacy of all.
You don't need to make suggestions to yourself. There is plenty of superb reading about the human migration from herbivore to omnivore. There are a number of human adaptations designed to support some meat intake. All of this is needed to support the fact that our calorie hungry brains are twice the size of a Chimpanzees. That and the fat needed to myelinize this big brain demands a significantly greater fat intake than... lets say a Gorilla. That almost guarantees some meat intake. So we became a creature with extra digestive structures that disappeared (think appendix), To a creature with a single stomach like a feline or canid. At the same time we retained teeth which are a mix leaning toward plant eating (though notice our molars are half the size of our closest plant eating relatives), and long intestinal tract. One other thing to notice is that our digestive process takes between 12 and 24 hours normally. That's about twice a cat's process and between a third and a quarter of the digestive time of vegetarians our size and larger. So on all accounts we are in the middle, making us, omnivores, and digestively speaking the closest thing to a human being is a pig, then maybe a bear. Classic omnivores one and all.
What he's saying is that human beings are omnivores, that by our very design we were built to eat meat (meat in this case includes insects, grubs, rodents, and a fair collection of reptiles... as well as domesticated herd animals and wild ruminants.) Its the price of having this big brain, it needed more nutrients than a primate could consume from leaf eating (watch how much leaf matter a gorilla has to pound down to function, and notice the size of that lower veg crushing jaw.) So we are build to mix up our intake including a little meat.
In a modern society we can create artificial diets that combine elements that would have been very difficult to attain in the past in sufficient quantities for optimal health. So being a vegan is possible. You can feel superior, but just remember that the same modern technology that brought the grains and legumes and food items you consume from the corners of the world also impact the viability of the ecosphere, so you nay want to stretch that consciousness a little and ask is my lifestyle helping life on the planet or simply assuaging my upper middle class guilt. You may want to eat more local, and that isn't always easy. By the way, though plants are the fundamental source of food energy on the planet, you might want to ask why animals have more value than plants. Cute animals more than ugly ones. Its all just cells clustered to create forms. Life consumes life. The carbon and nitrogen cycles delineate this process. Your squeamishness is arbitrary and invented and is not at all reflected in your very biology. Just something to think about.
So there are no indigenous vegetarians. Vegetarianism is the result of cultures and belief systems.
Clearly getting the meat to resemble its cell source will be the critical problem. Using something like a massive 3D Printer to build large masses of artificial muscle (using electrical stimulation to exercise it and give it real structure and density) and controlling its growth to include extra nutritional values for instance high Omega 3 content. This meat would be much healthier than the meat we eat now, and because it was grown in an antiseptic environment, there would be virtually no possibility of food contamination. Also using different cell stocks gives you chicken, turkey, pork, beef, fish or shellfish. The efficiency of meat production would an order of magnitude greater than current livestock farming. The meat would be with any luck, healthy, inexpensive, delicious and environmentally friendly. So yes, the vast majority of people would eat the syn-meat. Real meat would be a luxury commodity for the super wealthy... like Kobe beef taken to the limit.
Forget the liberal, conservative crap... political position be damned, I'm not going to defend Obama, I'm not at all happy with his track record of protecting the Constitution. That said, Dubyah and his cabinet just need to be lined up against a wall (and the fact they haven't been is an indictment of the sad state of our legal and political system.) The crimes committed were simply legion but for starters there's lying to the American People to forward an agenda of oil hunting, empire building, attempts at creating a permanent political platform for an American military presence in the middle east and all around pouring most of a trillion dollars into Halliburton and its subsidiaries, All the while leaving America vulnerable to known terrorist threats, consorting with enemies of the United States and ultimately sending thousands of American soldiers off to needless deaths in a country we had no business being in, while at the same time precipitating the death of nearly 200,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.
for an encore he gave Wall Street carte blance to rape the American Middle Class and implode the economy. The cherry on top of this shit sundae was letting the City of New Orleans go to hell while he ate popcorn watching. Dubyah is the product on his Dad's side of men who laundered blood money for Nazi Germany to support fascism. On his Mother's side he's a direct decedent of President Franklin Pierce, considered by many to be one of the worst Presidents in history. So it shouldn't be any wonder that he's a fascist and a hit-man for the wealthy (he said as much in his campaign speech.) Any President who makes it policy to gut the Bill of Rights, and flush the Geneva Convention is a criminal plain and simple and party affiliation or political position doesn't change an iota of this.
It was Google's founders who framed the motto, and under their guide Google avoided acts that could be construed as evil. The founders were bought out, and now the "Business Folk" who run post IPO Google use the "Don't be evil" directive as a nice suggestion when its convenient, because profit always comes first, and second, in fact profit fills the top 10 priority space. If you have to kill a few babies to make that black ink flow, then so be it, this is America, right?
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That's not precisely true. Some savants perform their amazing tricks in ways in ways that far resemble a computer than the rest of us. Our complex neural networks often have all kinds of competing structures and after passing layers of decision nodes biggest/rightest signal wins (with a lot of impact and influence by all those other prior nodes.) A simpler system tends to be more linear (fewer competing nodes) and therefore more resembles (if no duplicates) the behaviors of the far simpler computer (who wins by brute force alone.)
So before we label the player a cheater, check to be certain he isn't autistic or the victim of limited brain damage.
That's the point though, your perspective, your point of view, your opinion. There is no objective reality here. Which isn't to say I don't have a similar opinion, just that if you go around paving your opinions all over the scenery doesn't that make just as "evil" as any other egotistical bastard doing the same. Now if as a society we came up with a new game for being human predicated on... let's say workability, where the goal is for human beings to be empowered, fully self expressed and as personally productive as possible inside the basic limits of a sustainable environmental practice and given by an exponentially expanding technology, a whole different kind of life might be possible. Perhaps the key is choosing a game that recognizes and respects humanity.
People talk like there are moral absolutes, these are cultural constructs sitting on top of biological imperatives. Jeeze. There are games that people play. The corporate game is based on profit and is by design war-like right up to and including killing large numbers of people who get in your way (read about mercenaries hired by Shell Oil to wipe out entire African Villages to get what they wanted.) There are other games, like the game called society. These two games are often at odds with one another, and because one is predicated on the common good and the other is predicates on what's good for the corporation it is easy to see those looking from a social context getting a wee bit fussy about the practices of corporations.
This is especially true when corporations choose Sociopaths as their Corporate Officers. Corporations do behave monolithically. That is to say, that Corporations tend to have consistent cultures (unless they consciously prevent such cultures from forming which is unlikely because these cultures tend to be powerful motivators.) The cultures of a corporation are typically managed by its leaders (not always, but most often coming from the Corporate Officers.) So a business wide lack of respect for people, bigotry, sexism, greed, lawlessness or corruption, usually points to a board that is by most social norms EVIL. Another way of saying this is EVIL is as EVIL does. A lot of corporations have chosen to use human beings like toilet paper, because they think its good for the bottom line. These folks have no appreciation for critical dangers presented by a moral bankruptcy. The good news is that sooner or later, society tends to crush these entities. There are sadly gross exceptions.
And if you look at the "Public Stupid Beating" that Oracle has received... they may own the copyright to a PUBLIC software which can (and will) BY LICENSE forked and begun ANEW... at a different place with a different name and the herd of public resources migrates there leaving, the copyright holder with a virtually empty bag of unfed ego. This is the magic that is open source. Once started its like gravitational collapse... it runs on its own steam and its damn hard to stop. It is in fact one of the best cures for corporate douche baggery. Truth is, I see Open Source as something of a pry bar, to break the whole corporate model apart. The beauty is that its not hostile to Corporate practices in the least, in fact Corporations understand that they need a uniform, reliable, robust infrastructure to succeed and the fact that they don't have to pay for it is simply awesome. They don't see the poison in the pill though, the magic coming in the form of people everywhere seeing the critical value of having globally accessible resources that all human beings need to function, and thrive, a growing meritocracy subsumes the existing profit model. Its stealth, subversive and very clandestine, but I think its the shape of the future and I love the fact that its quietly causing havoc with business as usual.
Its time for the species to give up childish behavior and engineering a real social operating system that uses what works and discards what doesn't. I figure we're maybe a hundred years over due. The corporate model is a cancer doomed to failure, best it die now before it drags us all down with it.
People love art. Music, Film, Games, Performance. By the very nature of art, its a unique, dynamic and inspired moments of human insight, expression, understanding, enlightenment, communication. The act of attempting to formulate this process, is like climbing up a cow's ass in an attempt to witness the magic of grass turning into milk. In both cases the outcome invariably ends up mixed with cow flop.
Enough already with the endless attempts to turn a film into a franchise then milk every atom of joy, love and money out until these Scrooges ruin the whole thing for everybody. Enough already of safe projects built to ride the mean average of everything hoping to appeal to everyone and further drain already depleted wallets. Most of all, enough with soul-less accounting minions measuring the worth of a film by the number of tickets sold. By that logic "Dumb and Dumber" is a greater movie than "Raising Arizona". I understand movie making is a business and box-office is the final measure of success, but for those who are more interested in the art, the humanity, and the beauty that people create, the box office is a side effect. Great art isn't for everyone so, bankers will never be interested in great art (save that which can be invested in, stored in a vault, and later resold at great profit.) So for the love of all that's Holy(wood), let the artists thrive and make art. Support and empower them. There will be magic, and wonder and beauty. Occasionally there will be wonder and pain and genius. This was a spectacular year for film. You bankers bank... its what you're good at. Let the artists art.
Hollywood (as run by bankers) has this unpleasant habit of beating dead horses into a frothy pink slurry. I'm certain there must some remaining bludgeoning of orcs and wizards after the Hobbit... they'll just make it up as whole clothes and anoint it with JRR Tolkien... have his family bless it for a 10% slice of the cinematic cow pie and everyone adjourns to count the proceeds.
You can't succeed with a film anymore without 22 sequels, 11 prequels, 5 spin-offs, a documentary of the making of, and 7 video games in tribute of. Its like the film Oompah Loompahs will be made to squeeze every femtopenny from a genre until the fabric of space and time itself begins to unravel.
The Oil Companies don't own the German Government... therefore no problem going for solar (sadly the same can't be said about the US government.) However, due to the similarities of drilling for oil, gas and this new geothermal, this is a potential energy source I'm betting the Oil guys would be willing to invest in. Add, the fact that as its monetized, the owners can turn it on and off 24/7, and it something that is much more compatible with their existing business models (its harder to meter the sun, and managing power storage and distribution for peak load is itself an interesting engineering problem... not insurmountable, just interesting, same issue with wind power.)
The only issue I can see that is significant, is the possibility of geological activity leading to earthquake. The existing geothermal energy sources around Calistoga California have been the source of recent controversy. It seems, to increase the power output and efficiency of these systems that the owners have pumped substantial amounts of water into them, to dramatically increase steam production. The water and steam act as a lubricant, and allow fractured rock (faults) to slide more easily and there has been a dramatic increase of earthquakes in the area (some significant.)
One could argue that this is a small trade for environmentally friendly, near unlimited high quality power, and with this new technology to make it available in even more areas, a potential energy windfall. That said, we should probably restrict its use near large active fault systems so as not to precipitate a profoundly unwanted side effect.
We just threatened them with no more Hobbitses...
So what comes after the Hobbit? Snow White as JRR Tolkien would have written it?
Yes and when the news and all the media being watched by the mouth breathing public are owned by a shocking few corporations and those corporations act monolithicly to steer society in the direction they choose, to inform or misinform as they choose, to manipulate and promote public opinion in the name of what's good for the plutocracy, we have a wee problem.
Or, perhaps this is the way its always been and a free press is an aberration or illusion. Personally I think its high time we pried the those crypt keeper fingers off of the controls steering society into ever deeper water and we just said screw the banks and screw the corporations. Its time for real free enterprise.
How often do you get to discuss a crank with a crank... too bad its not April, I'd have gone with the prank crank thanks.
Yes, and the flexing of the arm will certain end in the thing breaking at a stress point and potentially injuring the rider... we call this a SNAFU!
Yeah but the inertial difference would be some infinitesimal amount. Way to small to notice. The real problem is that this design in going to suffer huge stress at the points of the Z so if our intrepid rider is into mountain bikes he's going to break this thing about 4 weeks after he starts using it at precisely the worst possible time to have you crank break (while standing on your peddles on a steep climb.)
All you have to do to blow this out of the water is ask him why there isn't a curlicue wrench to give you more leverage in a tight place... not like we haven't been using wrenches for a while. This is a profound DUH, and no magic fairy dust nor faith in a loving deity will wash the stink of stupid off it. Sorry.
I just did a search on just "Beer" and the first thing to show up was "Sam Adams", I'm guessing that right there would be enough to start a war with the German's and we all know as goes Germany so goes the EU...
Yeah, last version by Jasc was 9.0, and had equal amounts of photo tools and general paint and drawing tools including synthetic art media and kaleidoscopic symmetric draw. Fast, small, easy to use. Then Corel bought it and made it photo only so as not to compete with their own Paint program and so they threw away some of its best features no the least of which was a Python API that allowed you to make powerful macros, batch file processing and customizable processing tools.
The new version has batch processing but its all inside a massive (rather bloated) image management UI. I like the lean, clean speed of 9.0. That said, CS2 has a lot over very cool image manipulations and Adobe allows you to make very nice vector content... very nice for images that need to scale.
Adobe had priced its tools for professionals only because only a professional could possible afford to spend several thousand dollars for a personal software suite. This is a tremendous boon to Adobe and they'd be insane not to capitalize on it. Tens of thousands of people download OLD software and becoming skilled at its use will hunger for the features of the newer versions. If they would also allow these new owners to become part of the Adobe family for a reasonable upgrade price understanding that they got here by free introduction, Adobe could be looking at a huge explosion of interest in its products and a whole new community of users. At a time when companies like Adobe are getting killed by smaller software developers selling less expensive tools to get the job done, this could be a fantastic way to "Shake off the fleas". Even better, because it was an accident "wink, wink", they can't be poked for noncompetitive practices.
For Adobe who isn't selling CS2 to anyone any more, here's a chance to get great consumer acceptance and press, hook a whole new population of fish, and put the squeeze on their competition all at the same time. If it wasn't done on purpose it was a lucky accident, and if it was done on purpose somebody should be promoted to one of the corner offices... he's a sly dog that should be included in a lot more decision making. Kudos, this is either a very bright move or a fortuitous accident, either way, hang on and enjoy the ride!
If you're going to grow meat in a factory its going to be a multistage process. Cells are grown in a oxygenated growth medium, You take the gelatinous slurry of cells and you print them into a matrix that is virtually identical to normal muscle tissue found in the animal from which the cells come. You combine fat and collagen fibers to give the meat structure and texture. Once its a certain thinkness its cut and removed for packing. The meat need no antibiotics, because the entire process is closed and the only living thing in the system are beef muscle cells. This meat can be made healthier than regular meat, with extra nutrition included.
There are plenty of extruded foods in our culture starting with white bread. This could be a huge win for people all over the world. There is no reason the meat will need special chemicals. IT should simply be as close to the natural product as possible. Hamburger will be the easiest thing to make at first, but steak should come soon after.
As for color, the color of beef is grey, then you add blood to make it red. There is no reason they can't use synthetic cows blood to color the meat. It will give the meat the proper color and taste. Its a simple matter of how good an artificial meat you want.
This would be a demonstration of the mistake of using a religious source of knowledge rather than a scientific, the result being that you have missed out on very important dietary opportunities. Those foods you call rotten, do those include fermented foods? Yogurt? Kimchee? Sauerkraut? Japanese pickles? Cheese? All of these foods in fact have fantastic probiotic value which has been demonstrated to support improved nutrient uptake, vitality, regularity, and a significant reduction of bowel relaated diseases, including colon cancer and irritable bowel.
Are wines putrid? They are the result of fermentation as are beers. Both of these beverages have noted health value in measure quantities. Not the least of which is these being a sense of happiness. This is not an argument for intoxication, but that small amounts of alcohol has studied benefits.
Butter and meat are high in fat and cholesterol. Its important to limit the intake of these foods no matter how much Krishna liked them. So you might want to use your religion as a starting point but open your mind a little and read the latest research to supplement those beliefs, because they may help keep you healthy.
You are absolutely right we are no longer limited by our biological design we have the resources that come with civilization. Though we are confronted by the side effects of all that high fructose corn syrup, highly processes wheat, soy and corn. One reason for the epidemic of obesity, another being the human craving for sweet and salty food exploited by food businesses.
You are also right that vegans can find balanced nutrition in our modern society because they can combine foods from disparate locations whose incomplete protein combined provide the complete protein a human being needs. The real art is taking the culinary palette provided by vegan ingredients and making great cuisine, and I've actually seen some amazing vegan cooking (you wouldn't even belief an Alfredo using seaweed pasta and cashew based alfredo sauce could be that good.)
The only problem here I see is people thinking because they do it, it must somehow be morally better... and that would be the biggest fallacy of all.
You don't need to make suggestions to yourself. There is plenty of superb reading about the human migration from herbivore to omnivore. There are a number of human adaptations designed to support some meat intake. All of this is needed to support the fact that our calorie hungry brains are twice the size of a Chimpanzees. That and the fat needed to myelinize this big brain demands a significantly greater fat intake than... lets say a Gorilla. That almost guarantees some meat intake. So we became a creature with extra digestive structures that disappeared (think appendix), To a creature with a single stomach like a feline or canid. At the same time we retained teeth which are a mix leaning toward plant eating (though notice our molars are half the size of our closest plant eating relatives), and long intestinal tract. One other thing to notice is that our digestive process takes between 12 and 24 hours normally. That's about twice a cat's process and between a third and a quarter of the digestive time of vegetarians our size and larger. So on all accounts we are in the middle, making us, omnivores, and digestively speaking the closest thing to a human being is a pig, then maybe a bear. Classic omnivores one and all.
The other, other white meat!!!
What he's saying is that human beings are omnivores, that by our very design we were built to eat meat (meat in this case includes insects, grubs, rodents, and a fair collection of reptiles... as well as domesticated herd animals and wild ruminants.) Its the price of having this big brain, it needed more nutrients than a primate could consume from leaf eating (watch how much leaf matter a gorilla has to pound down to function, and notice the size of that lower veg crushing jaw.) So we are build to mix up our intake including a little meat.
In a modern society we can create artificial diets that combine elements that would have been very difficult to attain in the past in sufficient quantities for optimal health. So being a vegan is possible. You can feel superior, but just remember that the same modern technology that brought the grains and legumes and food items you consume from the corners of the world also impact the viability of the ecosphere, so you nay want to stretch that consciousness a little and ask is my lifestyle helping life on the planet or simply assuaging my upper middle class guilt. You may want to eat more local, and that isn't always easy. By the way, though plants are the fundamental source of food energy on the planet, you might want to ask why animals have more value than plants. Cute animals more than ugly ones. Its all just cells clustered to create forms. Life consumes life. The carbon and nitrogen cycles delineate this process. Your squeamishness is arbitrary and invented and is not at all reflected in your very biology. Just something to think about.
So there are no indigenous vegetarians. Vegetarianism is the result of cultures and belief systems.
Clearly getting the meat to resemble its cell source will be the critical problem. Using something like a massive 3D Printer to build large masses of artificial muscle (using electrical stimulation to exercise it and give it real structure and density) and controlling its growth to include extra nutritional values for instance high Omega 3 content. This meat would be much healthier than the meat we eat now, and because it was grown in an antiseptic environment, there would be virtually no possibility of food contamination. Also using different cell stocks gives you chicken, turkey, pork, beef, fish or shellfish. The efficiency of meat production would an order of magnitude greater than current livestock farming. The meat would be with any luck, healthy, inexpensive, delicious and environmentally friendly. So yes, the vast majority of people would eat the syn-meat. Real meat would be a luxury commodity for the super wealthy... like Kobe beef taken to the limit.
Forget the liberal, conservative crap... political position be damned, I'm not going to defend Obama, I'm not at all happy with his track record of protecting the Constitution. That said, Dubyah and his cabinet just need to be lined up against a wall (and the fact they haven't been is an indictment of the sad state of our legal and political system.) The crimes committed were simply legion but for starters there's lying to the American People to forward an agenda of oil hunting, empire building, attempts at creating a permanent political platform for an American military presence in the middle east and all around pouring most of a trillion dollars into Halliburton and its subsidiaries, All the while leaving America vulnerable to known terrorist threats, consorting with enemies of the United States and ultimately sending thousands of American soldiers off to needless deaths in a country we had no business being in, while at the same time precipitating the death of nearly 200,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.
for an encore he gave Wall Street carte blance to rape the American Middle Class and implode the economy. The cherry on top of this shit sundae was letting the City of New Orleans go to hell while he ate popcorn watching. Dubyah is the product on his Dad's side of men who laundered blood money for Nazi Germany to support fascism. On his Mother's side he's a direct decedent of President Franklin Pierce, considered by many to be one of the worst Presidents in history. So it shouldn't be any wonder that he's a fascist and a hit-man for the wealthy (he said as much in his campaign speech.) Any President who makes it policy to gut the Bill of Rights, and flush the Geneva Convention is a criminal plain and simple and party affiliation or political position doesn't change an iota of this.
It was Google's founders who framed the motto, and under their guide Google avoided acts that could be construed as evil. The founders were bought out, and now the "Business Folk" who run post IPO Google use the "Don't be evil" directive as a nice suggestion when its convenient, because profit always comes first, and second, in fact profit fills the top 10 priority space. If you have to kill a few babies to make that black ink flow, then so be it, this is America, right?