O/K. I honestly apologize. However, do understand that I was not mocking or making fun of that situation. I was laughing along with the comment previously posted. Unfortunately, a picture is worth a thousand words. Those are not the words I meant to convey!!!
I know it's a little late for a reply, but my point is: humans did not MAKE algae. Algae was here before we were. We can't just go and make life...I know we try (i.e. cloning), but it's probably going to just end up biting us in the ass.
Joking aside, the quote from the article that gets me is: "We can make bugs that eat carbon dioxide, we can make trees grow in climates that are barren today," he added.". This is where the genome projects and what-not get carried away. Have we not yet learned that changing the environment, even minutely, can introduce a whole new cycle to the food chain and safety of the region as a whole. Soon to follow is overpopulation, environment destruction, and all that fun stuff. (see chinese beatles, killer bees, and that Simpsons episode where Bart took his frog to Australia...I think it was Australia...for examples). Sure reversing our own destruction through the introduction of new bacteria is a great idea, but then how does one get rid of all the bacteria?
Well then...that explanation clarifies the title just as much as the original. Thank you for the correction. I guess my sarcasm has made me the chump-king on this one.
Good explanation...seeing as I had only a guess as to what that meant. I was especially confused when I read the typo at the end of the original post, "...and his merry band. Hugo van der Sanden is the new pumpking...". I'd much rather be a pumpkin than a pump-king.
People may get moderated down when they give no reasons behind the complaints. C++ brought C and the programming world as a whole to a new level with OOP, graphics manipulations, STL, and several other features. I say good bye to the days of module and data structure combinations bringing only coupling and cohesion nightmares for debug programmers to toil through all day and possibly all night. The only time C++ is messy is when the programmer is messy. Bringing the man amongst men to our universities is a great move...I never thought I'd say this, but I wish I was back in school. Students are going to come out KNOWING C++, not just knowing about C++. I'd venture to say that those students' programs won't be messy.
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O/K. I honestly apologize. However, do understand that I was not mocking or making fun of that situation. I was laughing along with the comment previously posted. Unfortunately, a picture is worth a thousand words. Those are not the words I meant to convey!!!
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I know it's a little late for a reply, but my point is: humans did not MAKE algae. Algae was here before we were. We can't just go and make life...I know we try (i.e. cloning), but it's probably going to just end up biting us in the ass.
Joking aside, the quote from the article that gets me is: "We can make bugs that eat carbon dioxide, we can make trees grow in climates that are barren today," he added.". This is where the genome projects and what-not get carried away. Have we not yet learned that changing the environment, even minutely, can introduce a whole new cycle to the food chain and safety of the region as a whole. Soon to follow is overpopulation, environment destruction, and all that fun stuff. (see chinese beatles, killer bees, and that Simpsons episode where Bart took his frog to Australia...I think it was Australia...for examples). Sure reversing our own destruction through the introduction of new bacteria is a great idea, but then how does one get rid of all the bacteria?
It's not too bad, those of us who are members of the Stonecutters know that the real number is 912...DOH!
Actually, they are being fed those giant brained mice that we also get to read about from a link on slashdot.
Well then...that explanation clarifies the title just as much as the original. Thank you for the correction. I guess my sarcasm has made me the chump-king on this one.
Good explanation...seeing as I had only a guess as to what that meant. I was especially confused when I read the typo at the end of the original post, "...and his merry band. Hugo van der Sanden is the new pumpking...". I'd much rather be a pumpkin than a pump-king.
People may get moderated down when they give no reasons behind the complaints. C++ brought C and the programming world as a whole to a new level with OOP, graphics manipulations, STL, and several other features. I say good bye to the days of module and data structure combinations bringing only coupling and cohesion nightmares for debug programmers to toil through all day and possibly all night. The only time C++ is messy is when the programmer is messy. Bringing the man amongst men to our universities is a great move...I never thought I'd say this, but I wish I was back in school. Students are going to come out KNOWING C++, not just knowing about C++. I'd venture to say that those students' programs won't be messy.