Lots of genes are turned off in different cells in the body. There are lots of research to find what tissues that certain genes are active in. (Have you really never heard that when you feel up/down your hormone levels change? Hormones are proteins made by genes -- and influence gene expression in other cells.)
For some information on gene regulation (on/off, etc) see e.g. Lecture 16
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(I know too little about biology and evolution to have any really hard opinions, so take this with a grain of salt. If you haven't heard about gene regulation, study more.)
Genes are turned on and off all the time in your brain depending on your environment (and part of the environment for your brain cells is what you think and feel).
Need I say more? Your idea sounds like the beginning of that.....
Quite a few frustrated net people would love to be embraced and extended by the Borg -- to get acceptable net speed...
Wireless brain connections to integrate minds must be lots of MBps! (Besides, considering the average american waist line -- it wouldn't hurt that badly in the looks department, either.)
[The polar regions and other areas get lots of sun]
Small hint for those blessed by the geography:
The time when you really friggin' need electricity for heat/light is obviously when the sun hardly get over the horizon!!
This is so long after that noone will ever read this, but...
Years and years ago I did some code that generated rtf (documents from database that should be formatted in Pagemaker). I read the standards and looked at what Word 4 generated -- my code generated rtf that was NOT compatible with Word 5...:-(
You could probably do the exact same argument about Ericsson and Sony in Europe -- but most phones here are Ericsson variants instead...
I've never worked at Sony or Ericsson but would guess that after a merger, the pipeline of existing development projects takes quite a while to run through. (And then you have things like different demands in different markets, etc.)
Your specific claim was that Nokia's phone technology was bought from Sanyo and passed off as it's own in Europe. (Likewise with Ericsson copying from Sony.)
Certainly, the Japanese phone market with high-colour LCD:s and Java might be a step or two before the rest of the world, but that is not exactly supporting your claim. (Especially since the Symbian O/S that Nokia/Ericsson/etc are converging on is from England -- not Japan.)
Protocols used by Solaris machines are documented.
Proprietary protocols are used by O/S selers that don't want competition and lock in their users so they have a hard time integrating their systems with other people's machines. It gives many of us daily trouble.
In this case the seller of a "lock in" OS also are condemned criminals. So what are you arguing about?
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Parent is "Insightful" and not "Humorous": What kind of lowlife people hang out here at/. !?
Oh, I see -- my kind...:-)
Bad example -- Msoft has 86% margin already
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Let's say Microsoft is required to hire only Americans. Because of their increased labor costs, their OS becomes more expensive.
I though the existence of Tabula rasa believers were the same as believers in "it's all in the genes" -- a myth. (-: Ok, some communist neo-lysenkoists might hang around reading their Gould...:-)
I think you're joking and not really believe in Tabula rasa. But, then, I have a hard time understanding that people believe in Jesus and Muhammed, etc.
I don't agree. The US Air Force can't be worse than NASA at building launch capability!
Military R&D do things differently from research done at universities and private companies. In the long run, it is probably an advantage to have multiple research methods. (As long as NASA's space program isn't one of them.)
Otherwise, the money would have been wasted on SUVs, or something. For humanity it is, in the long run, probably better to get lots of research into e.g. better lasers.
(-: Actually building most of the non-space stuff is a waste of money, though!:-)
Personally I'd fit -- I've described myself as having about 0.5 in simultaneous capacity... (I am INTP in Meyer Briggs, the only test I've taken.) Still, only anecdotal "proof".
Write it up and get someone to investigate it! It's interesting.
(-: You don't want to depress parents of ADD children even more by telling them that their children might grow up to become computer nerds!?:-)
In the next product generation you probably can have your camera wirelessly connected and put it into your glasses, etc.
One press of a button and your exact position (and the last 30 seconds of sound/video) is on an ICQ to your friends and email to the police.
When we get there, I predict a big drop in violent crime.
And the implications for people's politeness are interesting when anyone being an asshole can be sent to a hundred people as email in a minute (Subject: "What an asshole! Anyone know him?"). (Especially interesting with face recognition).
The problem is the possibility of 1984. We have a better and better world today beacuse everything depended on a good industry and to get a good industry you more or less needed an open democratic society.
What if some control state can keep the economy open and throw all political troublemakers in jail? Stalin Sovjet that works well... shudder! History as a foot trampling a face.
There is a finite probability that this will be modded up to 5.
Hmm, not related, but -- I've wondered when this'll happen: Any selling/buying of mod points on eBay?
To be able to fake word-of-mouth must be a dream for ad agencies. Say, "Insightful" +5 for messages that claim a commercial compiler give better code than another (and a few 'Trolls' on comments that disagree). No worse than ordering studies guaranteed to get a "correct" result, which of course not even Msoft would do...
(Exchange service? "You get as many mod points as you give up -- the browser plugin do the work". Not much worse than writing auto-aimers for games!)
I'm not even going to think about what good ad money an application reading can make... How many mod points a month could be generated? (Needs a few prepared messages to fake a real person.)
(N B: I haven't looked, but if a/.-user in any way can see who modded whom to what, it should probably be turned off... Could be used for an "exchange".)
To do some meta-modding here, if you mod this positive, vote "Funny" -- not "Interesting"! (-: Don't make me more cynical, please!:-)
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I use the print to get a few chapters for the subway on paper. (Reading up on, amonst others, the Linux kernel -- second edition came out recently.)
All the beer in Ireland or Belgium wouldn't make me get a job to write compilers for that processor architecture.
Also, as the other comment said -- the extra transistors make 'em eat batteries in portable applications (where you can't just get a bigger fan).
For some information on gene regulation (on/off, etc) see e.g. Lecture 16 here
(I know too little about biology and evolution to have any really hard opinions, so take this with a grain of salt. If you haven't heard about gene regulation, study more.)
Wireless brain connections to integrate minds must be lots of MBps! (Besides, considering the average american waist line -- it wouldn't hurt that badly in the looks department, either.)
That was that karma...
Certainly a coincidence... Does not answer why Microsoft prefers that free software use the BSD license instead of GNU... :-)
The time when you really friggin' need electricity for heat/light is obviously when
the sun hardly get over the horizon!!
The existence of the concept "evil" is not easy for a hard line atheist like myself to accept.
Years and years ago I did some code that generated rtf (documents from database that should be formatted in Pagemaker). I read the standards and looked at what Word 4 generated -- my code generated rtf that was NOT compatible with Word 5... :-(
I've never worked at Sony or Ericsson but would guess that after a merger, the pipeline of existing development projects takes quite a while to run through. (And then you have things like different demands in different markets, etc.)
Certainly, the Japanese phone market with high-colour LCD:s and Java might be a step or two before the rest of the world, but that is not exactly supporting your claim. (Especially since the Symbian O/S that Nokia/Ericsson/etc are converging on is from England -- not Japan.)
Parent deserves a 5. Even if it's just a formulation of Standard Operation Procedure in the security field, which everyone but Microsoft agrees on.
Proprietary protocols are used by O/S selers that don't want competition and lock in their users so they have a hard time integrating their systems with other people's machines. It gives many of us daily trouble.
In this case the seller of a "lock in" OS also are condemned criminals. So what are you arguing about?
What kind of lowlife people hang out here at
Oh, I see -- my kind... :-)
They already have a 86% profit margin on the OS.
But your point is correct for non-criminal non-monopolists.
I think you're joking and not really believe in Tabula rasa. But, then, I have a hard time understanding that people believe in Jesus and Muhammed, etc.
Hence, to get a better the talent pool for documentation writers -- outlaw development of 3D shoot 'em ups like FPS and all other 3D games!
Military R&D do things differently from research done at universities and private companies. In the long run, it is probably an advantage to have multiple research methods. (As long as NASA's space program isn't one of them.)
Otherwise, the money would have been wasted on SUVs, or something. For humanity it is, in the long run, probably better to get lots of research into e.g. better lasers.
(-: Actually building most of the non-space stuff is a waste of money, though! :-)
Personally I'd fit -- I've described myself as having about 0.5 in simultaneous capacity... (I am INTP in Meyer Briggs, the only test I've taken.) Still, only anecdotal "proof".
Write it up and get someone to investigate it! It's interesting.
(-: You don't want to depress parents of ADD children even more by telling them that their children might grow up to become computer nerds!? :-)
BTW, liked your .sig, but too cynical even for me!
You don't mean this as a general rule? ADD people shouldn't be the kind gravitating to sitting still on chairs for long hours? Or?
Yeah!
Oh, that alternative worked? I just thought they copied the menues straight from Netscape... :-)
One press of a button and your exact position (and the last 30 seconds of sound/video) is on an ICQ to your friends and email to the police.
When we get there, I predict a big drop in violent crime.
And the implications for people's politeness are interesting when anyone being an asshole can be sent to a hundred people as email in a minute (Subject: "What an asshole! Anyone know him?"). (Especially interesting with face recognition).
The problem is the possibility of 1984. We have a better and better world today beacuse everything depended on a good industry and to get a good industry you more or less needed an open democratic society.
What if some control state can keep the economy open and throw all political troublemakers in jail? Stalin Sovjet that works well... shudder! History as a foot trampling a face.
Hmm, not related, but -- I've wondered when this'll happen:
Any selling/buying of mod points on eBay?
To be able to fake word-of-mouth must be a dream for ad agencies. Say, "Insightful" +5 for messages that claim a commercial compiler give better code than another (and a few 'Trolls' on comments that disagree). No worse than ordering studies guaranteed to get a "correct" result, which of course not even Msoft would do...
(Exchange service? "You get as many mod points as you give up -- the browser plugin do the work". Not much worse than writing auto-aimers for games!)
I'm not even going to think about what good ad money an application reading can make... How many mod points a month could be generated? (Needs a few prepared messages to fake a real person.)
(N B: I haven't looked, but if a /.-user in any way can see who modded whom to what, it should probably be turned off... Could be used for an "exchange".)
To do some meta-modding here, if you mod this positive, vote "Funny" -- not "Interesting"! (-: Don't make me more cynical, please! :-)