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Are you kidding? They aren't nice about it. They assume that you are pirating and you have to convince them that you aren't. Plus, the last time I did this it reset my client's display settings to a resolution that their LCD monitor didn't like, and I had to guess where the ok buttons were. Hell, it might even be more convenient to buy a legitimate copy and crack the activation just to not have to deal with these jerks. That's why I dual boot Linux and Win2k on all of my machines, and hopefully when ReactOS is finished, I won't even have to have Win2k.
I completely agree, there have been many interesting occurrences with Enoch. At one point in Cryptonomicon, he actually dies during WWII, but is alive and well to point Randy in the right direction. Then he appears in all three of the Baroque Cycle, and at one point "brings Daniel Waterhouse back to life". So what is he? Did he find the philosophic mercury, the elixir of life so to speak? Or his he the manifestation of an idea, something that floats around in an "unreal" state and is only personified when he is needed? The second idea appeals to me a little more because of the way that he seems to bounce in and out of the story line and only shows up when something important happens, or when he must perform some action that allows the story line to progress.
Scatter these sensors around Hollywood, and use the software to search for nodal influences in the Celeb world, and you have Slitscan. Though, I can't wait to see the "average" consumer.
"Which is to say, [Laney], anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anoited. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and sweats constantly. The sweat runs info those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, [Laney], no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidental elections."
There is a solution, and it is called PearPC. It is an amazing opensource PowerPC emulator. It's currently fairly slow, e.g. 40 times slower than native speed of your processor, but it works quite well. I am currently running Mac OS 10.3.4 on my X86 Mandrake box. They are working on optimizations and it is getting faster with every release (currently 0.3.0)
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Seems you are correct. I just tried it again, and it worked fine. It seems odd that it would only work on IE the other day and now when I try it again with Moz Firefox it works fine. Maybe I was just too quick to react.
It's a damn shame that the US gov can't write a simple reg program that will work cross platform. I simple see no reason to write IE dependent code. Especially when the code is related to a government service. When will people learn that by writing IE dependent code, they are only hurting themeselves and their users.
There are a few senisible rules that we need to consider when asking whether something is a planet. First and formost, is it spherical? If something has enough mass to cause it to take a spherical shape then it has passed the first test. Second, does it fuse anything? If it doesn't fuse anything, then it passes the second test.If it fuses anything, then it is a star. Although if it is deuterium that the object fuses, then it is a brown dwarf star. Third, does it orbit a star? If it orbits something other than a star, then it is considered a moon. If it orbits a star, then it has passed the third test. By these tests, both Sedna, Pluto, and Quaoar are planets. However, so is Ceres (the largest astroid in the inner belt). So, the real question is do we want to make a distinction between really small planets and big planets. Mecury only has a diameter of 4879.4 km. That is about twice the size of pluto, but it is still smaller than Titan and Ganymede which are both moons. So should we strike Mecury from the list of planets, I think not. An arbitrary size is not good enough. If we don't follow the guidelines laid out above, I hope there is a damn good reason.
My printer used to say pc load letter, but then its faceplate got smashed in a move. Now it just has black boxes where the text is. Still works though, and I know enough to guess what the error messages are when it jams or runs out of paper. Guess I won't be needing one of these new fangled "user-friendly" models. Cause, that is how they should be marketing this thing. Marketing it towards women is sexist, and it's not like they are the only ones who don't have a clue when it comes to technology. I can easily make the sales droids at the local "Best Buy" equivalent's heads smoke. It's quite fun, especially when that start talking down to me. Tech and mainstream will only partially merge. There will always be the people who care enough to get something that isn't offered at the local "Best Buy" equivalent, and there will always be the people who could careless about the specs and cabiblities of a device as long as it performs the function they want it to do relatively well. They need to market towards the latter, and do it with care and respect. The former will care enough to do there own research.
Just because Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is set in the 17th and 18th centuries doesn't mean that it is not science fiction. To get to this we have to ask ourselves what exactly science fiction is. The truth is there are many Fantasy novels that are masquerading as science fiction. But these have elements that are not explained by scientific reasoning. True science fiction uses principles of Science to explain why certain things are happening in the novel. Science Fiction also deals with how science and technology affects the Human Race. In both the Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver everything is explained by scientific principles and the technology that is described affects the fate of the human race. Yes they may be historical, but NOT ALL SCI-FI HAS TO BE ABOUT THE FUTURE. In fact that doesn't even factor into the most practical definition of SCI-FI, which is "Fiction about Science". BOTH Cryptonimicon and Quicksilver are undisputedly Fiction about Science.
Yes but isn't the SCO Group, that is claiming that they own System V because of the Asset Purchase Agreement that was between the Santa Cruz Operation, and Novell. The Santa Cruz Operation may have knew what they were buying, but the Caldera still misunderstood what the Santa Cruz Operation had previously aquired when they were buying the operating systems division of the Santa Cruz Operation. Thus the SCO Group (Caldera) is still dumb to think that they aquired *all* rights to System V when the purchased the operating systems division of the Santa Cruz Operation.
Can a company sue another company for being plain stupid? I mean, SCO thought they were getting all of System V because they failed to grasp all of the ramifications of the contract they had with Novell. The only argument that they might have is the claim that Novell tricked them into a contract that they thought was more inclusive. From reading the correspondence, I don't think this is the case. It was just a matter of shear stupidity on SCO's part to agree to a contract under their assumption that it was more inclusive than it is.
With Photoshop we all heard about the workarounds. Though, I was wondering how effective the algorithm is in the first place. Does the quality of the bill come into question? I scanned a slightly used ten-dollar bill, and there was no trouble importing it into Photoshop CS. I saved the picture as a *.psd, and had no trouble reopening it. I applied several filters on the image with no problems. I have yet to try this on a 20-dollar bill. Either it only detects 20 dollar bills and higher, or the quality of the bill (i.e. slightly creased) dramatically affects whether the software detects currency.
Have you heard of Mac-on-linux? It allows you to run OS X on any PPC boxen that is running linux. This means that there isn't a need for the rom that usually causes problems for those trying to run Mac OS on a non Mac box.
And it is people like you that make this world an awful place. You can only gain knowledge by looking at the world from multiple perspectives, and you can only gain wisdom by looking at the world holistically.
Let's see... Thanks for calling me an idiot.:> You also wouldn't know sarcasm if it fell in your lap. I have been outside my time zone and overseas. The point that you that you make about third world countries is moot because there is no comparison between a third world country and a police state. Yes, third world countries may have corrupted government, and yes the living conditions in a third world country may be deplorable, but they will never have the resources to completely monitor and control their citizens. The fact that 1984 was fiction is also irrelevant, yes the situation is far fetched; however, it brings to light issues that are relevant to the deployment and use of DVR by the police. So... let's count the failures: 1. Failing to recognize sarcasm, 2. Assuming what I have done and where I have been, 3. Failing to recognize that a comparison to work of fiction would allow deeper insight into the situation. We could go on, but I think there is no need. So, who is the idiot, indeed? Perhaps you shouldn't be so quite to react in a condemning manner next time. I was just trying to use sarcasm to highlight some points that I thought were worth highlighting.
I think what he means is there is a continuously running cache of video. The trouble is how to sort through the useful video and the useless video. They wouldn't want video of a cop's four or five trips to the donut shop. That being said, a cop may not realize that something important is happening until three or five minutes after it has happened. Thus, technology comes to the rescue of our poor little piggy's a$$. You see, the video is already recorded, so while our little piggy dozes, the ever-vigilant camera records what is going on. All our protagonist, or should I say antagonist, has to do is press a little button and the last 5 minutes are pulled off of the cache and placed onto permanent storage, and simultaneously the system starts recording the live feed. Soon, they will be installing cameras in our home, and whenever the feel that we are in violation of whatever ridiculous law they pass next, they can come into our home and press a button and record the last 24 hours of our life onto permanent storage. Ah... Ain't it wonderful to live in a police state. 1984 here we come.
According to this post Microsoft Bails Out Of Corel, Microsoft converted their shares for sale back on Feb 22, 2001. All this means is they found a buyer. Also, for all of those that say Corel is dead, I haven't seen anything about them declaring bankruptcy. In fact, they are refocusing their efforts on what they do best, graphics. Their graphics programs have always been simple to use, and output quality images. With their new CEO, and refocused strategy, they may have a chance to recover from their Linux debacle.
Re:Telomeres and their relation to mitosis
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"then all we have to do is construct a living sheep from spare parts found in any kitchen!".
I realize that current technology is probably not capable of this; however, technology is always advancing. All I am advocating is to look into alternate solutions. The fact that we can clone at all with our current technology is very impressive. But, we need to be looking forward, and trying new things. There might be a chance that our current technology causes premature aging. Your attitude is intolerant (laugh) I am sorry, but if this discussion was 10 years ago, then you would be on the side saying that cloning would never happen. There are two things that can be done to improve our ability to clone.
A. Improve our current techniques, i.e. better initial techniques, or Telomere treatment (suggested to be on the horizon)
B. Scratch our current techniques and start a new.
All I am advocating is an open mind and to try something fresh.
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The chopping to bits that you describe is called recombination or cross over. It is when the two chromosomes of a pair cross over and are recombined at the spot where the crossed over. This does happen quite often, but under an ideal situation, it doesn't. I am sure that there is some way to limit the recombination process. With that in mind, we could, perhaps as technology advances, initiate an artifical meosis process. One in which we control all of the variables. Then all we have to do is select the haploid chromosomes that are identical, and place them in their respective sex cells, one in the egg and one in the sperm, and then let nature take over. The result would be a genetically identical zygote, that when it reaches maturity won't have the telomere problem.
Telomeres and their relation to mitosis
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Ok, so every cell in your body goes through a process called mitosis. What Scientists have been doing so far is rip the nucleus out of a fertilized egg and replace it with the nucleus of a cell for the subject that is to be cloned. Well, as it may turn out, that cell has already gone the process of mitosis a number of times and each time its Telomeres(the end strands of DNA on a Chromosome) shorten. The funny thing is, all biological organisms have a way of repoducing already. In higher level organisms, such as mammals, this process is called meosis. Now every organism has number of chromosomes. Each chromosome comes with a homologous pair. When meosis takes place these pairs split in two. The thing about meosis is that we already know that the telomores are intact and don't cause premature aging. So instead of replacing the nucleus of a fertilized egg, why don't we take advantage of the process of meosis and with artifical insemination techinics, cause the subject to produce multiple eggs. The probobility that one set of the pair will end up in specific egg is 50:50. So if you have the subject produce multiple eggs, then it is quite likely that you will end up with an egg with one set of the pair and an egg with the other set. You take DNA from the egg with the other set, and you insert it into a sperm. Of course you would have to replicate it a number of times to have a successful insemination , but that wouldn't be anything we couldn't overcome with modern technology.
Now I don't have to blatantly disregard Microsoft's EULA by copying True Type fonts over to Linux anymore. Finally distros will be crisp and clear on first install!
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Subject of #bt on efnet
* Now talking in #bt
* Topic is 'BE PATIENT WHILE WE WORK THINGS OUT'
Looks like server hop perhaps to avoid there ISP shutting them down.
Are you kidding? They aren't nice about it. They assume that you are pirating and you have to convince them that you aren't. Plus, the last time I did this it reset my client's display settings to a resolution that their LCD monitor didn't like, and I had to guess where the ok buttons were. Hell, it might even be more convenient to buy a legitimate copy and crack the activation just to not have to deal with these jerks. That's why I dual boot Linux and Win2k on all of my machines, and hopefully when ReactOS is finished, I won't even have to have Win2k.
I completely agree, there have been many interesting occurrences with Enoch. At one point in Cryptonomicon, he actually dies during WWII, but is alive and well to point Randy in the right direction. Then he appears in all three of the Baroque Cycle, and at one point "brings Daniel Waterhouse back to life". So what is he? Did he find the philosophic mercury, the elixir of life so to speak? Or his he the manifestation of an idea, something that floats around in an "unreal" state and is only personified when he is needed? The second idea appeals to me a little more because of the way that he seems to bounce in and out of the story line and only shows up when something important happens, or when he must perform some action that allows the story line to progress.
Scatter these sensors around Hollywood, and use the software to search for nodal influences in the Celeb world, and you have Slitscan. Though, I can't wait to see the "average" consumer.
"Which is to say, [Laney], anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anoited. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and sweats constantly. The sweat runs info those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, [Laney], no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidental elections."
Idoru, William Gibson
There is a solution, and it is called PearPC. It is an amazing opensource PowerPC emulator. It's currently fairly slow, e.g. 40 times slower than native speed of your processor, but it works quite well. I am currently running Mac OS 10.3.4 on my X86 Mandrake box. They are working on optimizations and it is getting faster with every release (currently 0.3.0) PearPC
Seems you are correct. I just tried it again, and it worked fine. It seems odd that it would only work on IE the other day and now when I try it again with Moz Firefox it works fine. Maybe I was just too quick to react.
It's a damn shame that the US gov can't write a simple reg program that will work cross platform. I simple see no reason to write IE dependent code. Especially when the code is related to a government service. When will people learn that by writing IE dependent code, they are only hurting themeselves and their users.
There are a few senisible rules that we need to consider when asking whether something is a planet. First and formost, is it spherical? If something has enough mass to cause it to take a spherical shape then it has passed the first test. Second, does it fuse anything? If it doesn't fuse anything, then it passes the second test.If it fuses anything, then it is a star. Although if it is deuterium that the object fuses, then it is a brown dwarf star. Third, does it orbit a star? If it orbits something other than a star, then it is considered a moon. If it orbits a star, then it has passed the third test. By these tests, both Sedna, Pluto, and Quaoar are planets. However, so is Ceres (the largest astroid in the inner belt). So, the real question is do we want to make a distinction between really small planets and big planets. Mecury only has a diameter of 4879.4 km. That is about twice the size of pluto, but it is still smaller than Titan and Ganymede which are both moons. So should we strike Mecury from the list of planets, I think not. An arbitrary size is not good enough. If we don't follow the guidelines laid out above, I hope there is a damn good reason.
My printer used to say pc load letter, but then its faceplate got smashed in a move. Now it just has black boxes where the text is. Still works though, and I know enough to guess what the error messages are when it jams or runs out of paper. Guess I won't be needing one of these new fangled "user-friendly" models. Cause, that is how they should be marketing this thing. Marketing it towards women is sexist, and it's not like they are the only ones who don't have a clue when it comes to technology. I can easily make the sales droids at the local "Best Buy" equivalent's heads smoke. It's quite fun, especially when that start talking down to me. Tech and mainstream will only partially merge. There will always be the people who care enough to get something that isn't offered at the local "Best Buy" equivalent, and there will always be the people who could careless about the specs and cabiblities of a device as long as it performs the function they want it to do relatively well. They need to market towards the latter, and do it with care and respect. The former will care enough to do there own research.
Just because Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is set in the 17th and 18th centuries doesn't mean that it is not science fiction. To get to this we have to ask ourselves what exactly science fiction is. The truth is there are many Fantasy novels that are masquerading as science fiction. But these have elements that are not explained by scientific reasoning. True science fiction uses principles of Science to explain why certain things are happening in the novel. Science Fiction also deals with how science and technology affects the Human Race. In both the Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver everything is explained by scientific principles and the technology that is described affects the fate of the human race. Yes they may be historical, but NOT ALL SCI-FI HAS TO BE ABOUT THE FUTURE. In fact that doesn't even factor into the most practical definition of SCI-FI, which is "Fiction about Science". BOTH Cryptonimicon and Quicksilver are undisputedly Fiction about Science.
Right, the one dollar bill has not gone through revisions, but the ten dollar bill has, and that is what I scanned.
Yes but isn't the SCO Group, that is claiming that they own System V because of the Asset Purchase Agreement that was between the Santa Cruz Operation, and Novell. The Santa Cruz Operation may have knew what they were buying, but the Caldera still misunderstood what the Santa Cruz Operation had previously aquired when they were buying the operating systems division of the Santa Cruz Operation. Thus the SCO Group (Caldera) is still dumb to think that they aquired *all* rights to System V when the purchased the operating systems division of the Santa Cruz Operation.
Can a company sue another company for being plain stupid? I mean, SCO thought they were getting all of System V because they failed to grasp all of the ramifications of the contract they had with Novell. The only argument that they might have is the claim that Novell tricked them into a contract that they thought was more inclusive. From reading the correspondence, I don't think this is the case. It was just a matter of shear stupidity on SCO's part to agree to a contract under their assumption that it was more inclusive than it is.
With Photoshop we all heard about the workarounds. Though, I was wondering how effective the algorithm is in the first place. Does the quality of the bill come into question? I scanned a slightly used ten-dollar bill, and there was no trouble importing it into Photoshop CS. I saved the picture as a *.psd, and had no trouble reopening it. I applied several filters on the image with no problems. I have yet to try this on a 20-dollar bill. Either it only detects 20 dollar bills and higher, or the quality of the bill (i.e. slightly creased) dramatically affects whether the software detects currency.
Have you heard of Mac-on-linux? It allows you to run OS X on any PPC boxen that is running linux. This means that there isn't a need for the rom that usually causes problems for those trying to run Mac OS on a non Mac box.
I was waiting for the: Download a copy off of BitTorrent: Priceless!
And it is people like you that make this world an awful place. You can only gain knowledge by looking at the world from multiple perspectives, and you can only gain wisdom by looking at the world holistically.
Let's see... Thanks for calling me an idiot. :> You also wouldn't know sarcasm if it fell in your lap. I have been outside my time zone and overseas. The point that you that you make about third world countries is moot because there is no comparison between a third world country and a police state. Yes, third world countries may have corrupted government, and yes the living conditions in a third world country may be deplorable, but they will never have the resources to completely monitor and control their citizens. The fact that 1984 was fiction is also irrelevant, yes the situation is far fetched; however, it brings to light issues that are relevant to the deployment and use of DVR by the police. So... let's count the failures: 1. Failing to recognize sarcasm, 2. Assuming what I have done and where I have been, 3. Failing to recognize that a comparison to work of fiction would allow deeper insight into the situation. We could go on, but I think there is no need. So, who is the idiot, indeed? Perhaps you shouldn't be so quite to react in a condemning manner next time. I was just trying to use sarcasm to highlight some points that I thought were worth highlighting.
I think what he means is there is a continuously running cache of video. The trouble is how to sort through the useful video and the useless video. They wouldn't want video of a cop's four or five trips to the donut shop. That being said, a cop may not realize that something important is happening until three or five minutes after it has happened. Thus, technology comes to the rescue of our poor little piggy's a$$. You see, the video is already recorded, so while our little piggy dozes, the ever-vigilant camera records what is going on. All our protagonist, or should I say antagonist, has to do is press a little button and the last 5 minutes are pulled off of the cache and placed onto permanent storage, and simultaneously the system starts recording the live feed. Soon, they will be installing cameras in our home, and whenever the feel that we are in violation of whatever ridiculous law they pass next, they can come into our home and press a button and record the last 24 hours of our life onto permanent storage. Ah... Ain't it wonderful to live in a police state. 1984 here we come.
Well... according to the Chinese Search engine, Slashdot doesn't exist. I think I will stick to Google for now.
According to this post Microsoft Bails Out Of Corel, Microsoft converted their shares for sale back on Feb 22, 2001. All this means is they found a buyer. Also, for all of those that say Corel is dead, I haven't seen anything about them declaring bankruptcy. In fact, they are refocusing their efforts on what they do best, graphics. Their graphics programs have always been simple to use, and output quality images. With their new CEO, and refocused strategy, they may have a chance to recover from their Linux debacle.
"then all we have to do is construct a living sheep from spare parts found in any kitchen!".
I realize that current technology is probably not capable of this; however, technology is always advancing. All I am advocating is to look into alternate solutions. The fact that we can clone at all with our current technology is very impressive. But, we need to be looking forward, and trying new things. There might be a chance that our current technology causes premature aging. Your attitude is intolerant (laugh) I am sorry, but if this discussion was 10 years ago, then you would be on the side saying that cloning would never happen. There are two things that can be done to improve our ability to clone.
A. Improve our current techniques, i.e. better initial techniques, or Telomere treatment (suggested to be on the horizon)
B. Scratch our current techniques and start a new.
All I am advocating is an open mind and to try something fresh.
The chopping to bits that you describe is called recombination or cross over. It is when the two chromosomes of a pair cross over and are recombined at the spot where the crossed over. This does happen quite often, but under an ideal situation, it doesn't. I am sure that there is some way to limit the recombination process. With that in mind, we could, perhaps as technology advances, initiate an artifical meosis process. One in which we control all of the variables. Then all we have to do is select the haploid chromosomes that are identical, and place them in their respective sex cells, one in the egg and one in the sperm, and then let nature take over. The result would be a genetically identical zygote, that when it reaches maturity won't have the telomere problem.
Ok, so every cell in your body goes through a process called mitosis. What Scientists have been doing so far is rip the nucleus out of a fertilized egg and replace it with the nucleus of a cell for the subject that is to be cloned. Well, as it may turn out, that cell has already gone the process of mitosis a number of times and each time its Telomeres(the end strands of DNA on a Chromosome) shorten. The funny thing is, all biological organisms have a way of repoducing already. In higher level organisms, such as mammals, this process is called meosis. Now every organism has number of chromosomes. Each chromosome comes with a homologous pair. When meosis takes place these pairs split in two. The thing about meosis is that we already know that the telomores are intact and don't cause premature aging. So instead of replacing the nucleus of a fertilized egg, why don't we take advantage of the process of meosis and with artifical insemination techinics, cause the subject to produce multiple eggs. The probobility that one set of the pair will end up in specific egg is 50:50. So if you have the subject produce multiple eggs, then it is quite likely that you will end up with an egg with one set of the pair and an egg with the other set. You take DNA from the egg with the other set, and you insert it into a sperm. Of course you would have to replicate it a number of times to have a successful insemination , but that wouldn't be anything we couldn't overcome with modern technology.
Now I don't have to blatantly disregard Microsoft's EULA by copying True Type fonts over to Linux anymore. Finally distros will be crisp and clear on first install!