Re:Lets use another language...
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Flavor vs. Flavour
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No, it's called "English" as opposed to "American".
They speak English in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. and in America, they speak American. Also they pronounce the letter z wrong. it's Zed, not Zee. And they think Kraft dinner is Kraft mac & cheese (and food, for that matter), and the beer tastes like watered down piss. etc.
Differences in countries are stupid to debate about, because there's no right answer, just differences.
I think unleashing a firey inferno on the rodent and a half a mile around him is a pretty damned effective mousetrap. NO mouse is getting off scott free on that one (except maybe mutant cyborg mice)
"a fully digital system would mean an end to those crackly phone calls and slow connections."
And a replacement of packet loss... no crackling, just sweet silence. sometimes interrupted with a few clicks and pops that are around the same freq. as your friends' voice.
I have a digital cell (as do most) and if you've got a bad connection (because you live in a downstairs room), then you still can't make heads nor tails of the conversation
that has to do with the acid/base in a potato, not the starch energy. What this is more akin to would be burning a potato in an extremely controlled, microscopic level
Your right. it is about choice. I CHOOSE to put windows on my computer. Linux doesn't fulfill my needs. Neither does BSD, or OS/2, nor BeOS. My needs are 1) must run with all my hardware, 2) must work with a minimal amount of hacking. 3) must run on affordable hardware.
1 and 2 pretty much destroy every x86 OS out there except windows, and 3 destroys Osx
Re:Glucose = sugar!
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"If it can run on glucose it probably can run on fructose/sucrose/lactose "
Probably not. Your body doesn't burn fructose specifically, it converts it to glucose first. Sucrose is a fructose molecule + a glucose molecule, so it'd have to be broken apart and the fructose converted. Your body does this all automatically, but then the point is moot, since it can (technically) run off starch as well, starch just being a polysacharide of glucose.
So in your body = okay, dumping the nanomachines into a vat of fructose wouldn't work.
I wonder if this could replace dieting as a new drug to lose weight. All you need are some nanomachines that run on this and use up the excess energy. They could putter around your bloodstream cleaning plaque from your arteries and fixing that whole "heart murmur from being so obese" thing, all while burning more calories than you would excercising.
Or, for those of us that are more concerned with being weak & a bit chubby (rather than dangerously obese), they could build muscle tissue (easiest way I'd guess would be to selectively kill muscle cells slower than your body can repair them. Glucose -> heat energy. the heat destroys individual muscle cells slowly) while burning excess calories.
Step 3: PROFIT!! (if someone was selling an injection that meant I'd have to eat a bit more but it'd make me all ripped without the hassle of excercise, I'd be all over that)
This does beg the question though, of how to kill off the nanomachines before you become Ahhh-nold (or Calista Flockhart)
Actually, I can't remember who I was talking to (someone who plays with low level stuff all day for money), but he said something to the effect of the windows/linux VM can't deal properly with more than 1 Gig of ram without slowing the system down, so if you aren't using >1gig of ram (like having a couple iso's on a ramdisk), then your system is actually slower than if you had 1024M.
"You can complain to user support at commercial company and they MUST respect your complains or you can get them in deep trouble. "
Heh... you've obviously never worked helldesk. My job is to get customers off the phone as quickly as possible so that I can get back to screwing around on slashdot. Customers have threatened to complain to the CEO or hire a lawyer, but the way modern warranties are phrased, it's not going to do them a whole lot of good even if they find the most expensive lawyer in the world.
A good majority of my coworkers' troubleshooting steps are: 1) System Restore 2) Destructive recovery 3) Service 4) Not our end of things, call someone who isn't us.
That's the shit that ruined IRC. Fscking color codes all over the place, plus making it user friendly opens it up to social rejects invading my turf. If I get one more random ASL from some idiot in singapore, I'm gonna kill someone. Not to mention it's easy to write annoying scripts for.
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Makes sense to me... since most of them (w/ the exception of the teenage goth girls) are logs of what neat stuff you found on the web (a la memepool.com). web log weblog blog.
PCR (polymerase chain reaction) should increase that amount of DNA to as much as you want, restricted only by the time you have to spare, and how much nucleotide you have. Throw the DNA in with some nucleotide and some polymerase (enzyme. fuses nucleotides into a chain iirc), heat it up, cool it down. Repeat untill you have enough DNA to work with. How much it actually needs to get the chain reaction started, i'm not sure. I'd assume that it's not much at all. One strand should, in theory, be able to make an infinate amount of copies of itself (again, given an infinate amount of time, and an infinate amount of nucleotides thrown in to the mix), but IANAGS (i am not a genetic scientist. i just play one on tv (not really that either. damn. i suck))
Neat. I have a veneer (thin wood covered particle board, w/ grain and everything) desk, and I only started needing a mouse pad when my MS wheelmouse broke and I decided to pick up an optical.
That said, next week I'm picking up a regular ball mouse. So that I can ditch the mousepad again.
I'm not saying that "the government" itself grants rights, just that the strongest grant the rights. The government happens to be the strongest entity in the world.
Like I said, the only natural right is "might makes right". And as for your comment "If the government owns my right to say what I want, then do I have that right?" no, you don't. The government grants them, by virtue of their strength. If congress and the president wanted to revoke the bill of rights, they could do that exact thing tomorrow, the only thing stopping them is the constitution, but it's just a piece of paper. So long as they continue to command the police force and the military, they have more might than you, so they're the one in charge of granting and enforcing the rights they deem neccesary.
Think of this. Canada conciders free health care to be a natural right. The USA does not. Another example of one strong entity (the government of Canada) granting more rights than another strong entity (the government of the USA)
We almost did, but then we punted the conservatives out, and Treudeau took great pains to 1) ensure that we don't become an oligarchy (by not entrenching property rights), and 2) piss off the American president at the time (just for sh**s and giggles)
EVERY right is a priveledge. In fact, "free speech" "freedom of the press", all these "rights" are just priveledges, granted to you by the wielders of the only real RIGHT. Might makes right. That's natural rights for you.
Who are the mightiest in our society? Why the government of course. The government grants you the PRIVELEDGE of free speech, the PRIVELEDGE of not being discriminated against. If free speech is actually a natural right, as you claim, then it couldn't be taken away by Stalinist or facist systems, it'd be impossible... but they did so, untill someone more mighty overthrew them and granted people those priveledges.
And as for the right to culture, culture would still develop if it were a strongholded media-ocracy (making up words can be fun), it'd just be in a different form. Soviet Russia had culture (in soviet russia culture has you?), facist Germany had culture, etc.
It's easy to buy a senator/congressman. Find one with morals? no worries, there's 200 someodd more.
In Canada, you can buy all the MP's you want. Not gonna make a whole lot of impact with that one though, since they all pretty much vote on party lines (or else the parliment is dissolved) along with the Prime Minister, and it's hard to buy the PM, because by being so powerful, he's also a huge target by the opposition and the media. Also, the executive branch (Prime ministers and the rest of the cabinet) decide what the party lines are behind closed doors, so lobbyists don't know if they're getting their money's worth. That said, if the government was caught enacting a DMCA style law, and the opposition/media found out about CRIA "donations", they'd probably be in a ton of trouble.
Every political system has it's strengths and weaknesses. The Westminster system (UK, Canada, others) concentrates a lot of power in a few hands, but it's hard to buy off the system, and blame lands in the hands of the minister responsible (something wrong with the fisheries? it's the fisheries ministers fault.) Presidential system (USA, Singapore IIRC) makes it easy to buy off the system, has no blame (except the democrats if you're a republican, or the republicans if you're a democrat), but doesn't have a lot of power concentration.
Actually, this isn't just "a few extra gamma rays coming from the sky" this is "large amounts of concentrated nuclear ion (like Iodine, which has this pesky quality of jamming itself in your thyroid and never leaving) being released into the lower (read: breathable) part of the atmosphere"
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No, it's called "English" as opposed to "American".
They speak English in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. and in America, they speak American. Also they pronounce the letter z wrong. it's Zed, not Zee. And they think Kraft dinner is Kraft mac & cheese (and food, for that matter), and the beer tastes like watered down piss. etc.
Differences in countries are stupid to debate about, because there's no right answer, just differences.
Not to mention without France you'd all be spelling it properly (flavour) anyways. (France helped out during your little "revolution" thing)
Or German/Japanese butt, either. That was mostly the Brits, and America joined when the war was almost over anyways.
flavors/flavours of GNU/Linux distributions
I think unleashing a firey inferno on the rodent and a half a mile around him is a pretty damned effective mousetrap. NO mouse is getting off scott free on that one (except maybe mutant cyborg mice)
Yeah, it's evolved... and it's time for the weaker one to die.
"a fully digital system would mean an end to those crackly phone calls and slow connections."
And a replacement of packet loss... no crackling, just sweet silence. sometimes interrupted with a few clicks and pops that are around the same freq. as your friends' voice.
I have a digital cell (as do most) and if you've got a bad connection (because you live in a downstairs room), then you still can't make heads nor tails of the conversation
that has to do with the acid/base in a potato, not the starch energy. What this is more akin to would be burning a potato in an extremely controlled, microscopic level
Your right. it is about choice. I CHOOSE to put windows on my computer. Linux doesn't fulfill my needs. Neither does BSD, or OS/2, nor BeOS. My needs are 1) must run with all my hardware, 2) must work with a minimal amount of hacking. 3) must run on affordable hardware.
1 and 2 pretty much destroy every x86 OS out there except windows, and 3 destroys Osx
"If it can run on glucose it probably can run on fructose/sucrose/lactose "
Probably not. Your body doesn't burn fructose specifically, it converts it to glucose first. Sucrose is a fructose molecule + a glucose molecule, so it'd have to be broken apart and the fructose converted. Your body does this all automatically, but then the point is moot, since it can (technically) run off starch as well, starch just being a polysacharide of glucose.
So in your body = okay, dumping the nanomachines into a vat of fructose wouldn't work.
I wonder if this could replace dieting as a new drug to lose weight. All you need are some nanomachines that run on this and use up the excess energy. They could putter around your bloodstream cleaning plaque from your arteries and fixing that whole "heart murmur from being so obese" thing, all while burning more calories than you would excercising.
Or, for those of us that are more concerned with being weak & a bit chubby (rather than dangerously obese), they could build muscle tissue (easiest way I'd guess would be to selectively kill muscle cells slower than your body can repair them. Glucose -> heat energy. the heat destroys individual muscle cells slowly) while burning excess calories.
Step 3: PROFIT!! (if someone was selling an injection that meant I'd have to eat a bit more but it'd make me all ripped without the hassle of excercise, I'd be all over that)
This does beg the question though, of how to kill off the nanomachines before you become Ahhh-nold (or Calista Flockhart)
Actually, I can't remember who I was talking to (someone who plays with low level stuff all day for money), but he said something to the effect of the windows/linux VM can't deal properly with more than 1 Gig of ram without slowing the system down, so if you aren't using >1gig of ram (like having a couple iso's on a ramdisk), then your system is actually slower than if you had 1024M.
"they may have DECREASED their marketshare but another minor player could of increased theirs thus making the overall sector go up"
My guess, VIA
As soon as users stop caring about their software investments.
"You can complain to user support at commercial company and they MUST respect your complains or you can get them in deep trouble. "
Heh... you've obviously never worked helldesk. My job is to get customers off the phone as quickly as possible so that I can get back to screwing around on slashdot. Customers have threatened to complain to the CEO or hire a lawyer, but the way modern warranties are phrased, it's not going to do them a whole lot of good even if they find the most expensive lawyer in the world.
A good majority of my coworkers' troubleshooting steps are: 1) System Restore 2) Destructive recovery 3) Service 4) Not our end of things, call someone who isn't us.
Don't get me started on mIRC.
That's the shit that ruined IRC. Fscking color codes all over the place, plus making it user friendly opens it up to social rejects invading my turf. If I get one more random ASL from some idiot in singapore, I'm gonna kill someone. Not to mention it's easy to write annoying scripts for.
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WebLog
Makes sense to me... since most of them (w/ the exception of the teenage goth girls) are logs of what neat stuff you found on the web (a la memepool.com). web log weblog blog.
Correct me if I'm wrong here (IANAM), but didn't calculus solve this problem like, a few hundred years ago?
PCR (polymerase chain reaction) should increase that amount of DNA to as much as you want, restricted only by the time you have to spare, and how much nucleotide you have. Throw the DNA in with some nucleotide and some polymerase (enzyme. fuses nucleotides into a chain iirc), heat it up, cool it down. Repeat untill you have enough DNA to work with. How much it actually needs to get the chain reaction started, i'm not sure. I'd assume that it's not much at all. One strand should, in theory, be able to make an infinate amount of copies of itself (again, given an infinate amount of time, and an infinate amount of nucleotides thrown in to the mix), but IANAGS (i am not a genetic scientist. i just play one on tv (not really that either. damn. i suck))
Neat. I have a veneer (thin wood covered particle board, w/ grain and everything) desk, and I only started needing a mouse pad when my MS wheelmouse broke and I decided to pick up an optical.
That said, next week I'm picking up a regular ball mouse. So that I can ditch the mousepad again.
I'm not saying that "the government" itself grants rights, just that the strongest grant the rights. The government happens to be the strongest entity in the world.
Like I said, the only natural right is "might makes right". And as for your comment "If the government owns my right to say what I want, then do I have that right?" no, you don't. The government grants them, by virtue of their strength. If congress and the president wanted to revoke the bill of rights, they could do that exact thing tomorrow, the only thing stopping them is the constitution, but it's just a piece of paper. So long as they continue to command the police force and the military, they have more might than you, so they're the one in charge of granting and enforcing the rights they deem neccesary.
Think of this. Canada conciders free health care to be a natural right. The USA does not. Another example of one strong entity (the government of Canada) granting more rights than another strong entity (the government of the USA)
Canada has no constitutional right to property.
We almost did, but then we punted the conservatives out, and Treudeau took great pains to 1) ensure that we don't become an oligarchy (by not entrenching property rights), and 2) piss off the American president at the time (just for sh**s and giggles)
Okay, gloves are off time.
EVERY right is a priveledge. In fact, "free speech" "freedom of the press", all these "rights" are just priveledges, granted to you by the wielders of the only real RIGHT. Might makes right. That's natural rights for you.
Who are the mightiest in our society? Why the government of course. The government grants you the PRIVELEDGE of free speech, the PRIVELEDGE of not being discriminated against. If free speech is actually a natural right, as you claim, then it couldn't be taken away by Stalinist or facist systems, it'd be impossible... but they did so, untill someone more mighty overthrew them and granted people those priveledges.
And as for the right to culture, culture would still develop if it were a strongholded media-ocracy (making up words can be fun), it'd just be in a different form. Soviet Russia had culture (in soviet russia culture has you?), facist Germany had culture, etc.
It's easy to buy a senator/congressman. Find one with morals? no worries, there's 200 someodd more.
In Canada, you can buy all the MP's you want. Not gonna make a whole lot of impact with that one though, since they all pretty much vote on party lines (or else the parliment is dissolved) along with the Prime Minister, and it's hard to buy the PM, because by being so powerful, he's also a huge target by the opposition and the media. Also, the executive branch (Prime ministers and the rest of the cabinet) decide what the party lines are behind closed doors, so lobbyists don't know if they're getting their money's worth. That said, if the government was caught enacting a DMCA style law, and the opposition/media found out about CRIA "donations", they'd probably be in a ton of trouble.
Every political system has it's strengths and weaknesses. The Westminster system (UK, Canada, others) concentrates a lot of power in a few hands, but it's hard to buy off the system, and blame lands in the hands of the minister responsible (something wrong with the fisheries? it's the fisheries ministers fault.) Presidential system (USA, Singapore IIRC) makes it easy to buy off the system, has no blame (except the democrats if you're a republican, or the republicans if you're a democrat), but doesn't have a lot of power concentration.
Actually, this isn't just "a few extra gamma rays coming from the sky" this is "large amounts of concentrated nuclear ion (like Iodine, which has this pesky quality of jamming itself in your thyroid and never leaving) being released into the lower (read: breathable) part of the atmosphere"