Win2K runs quite smoothly on my trusty old PII/400 (with 512mb) I tried out XP but my machine couldn't cope, plus I believe Win2K to be more stable (service pack 4) for my setup at least... (and I've actually got a licence for the Win2K)
people buying new pc's have XP, people who's hardware is not suited for XP won't upgrade for the sake of upgrading... they'll wait till they're in need of a complete new system.
yupz, google is your friend, the article mentions that they'll be able to send/receive messages with a lag of aroound 9 to ten minutes (as opposed to 30 minutes using the mars orbiters to relay the message)
exactly, there's still a big cultural difference between china and the west, the *formula* might not work the way grandparent-poster thinks it 'll work.
> Environment, in Belgium we pay a recycling tax on every consumer product, sure it 's only like three dollars or so at most, but it's levied on every product; normal, cheap and dirt cheap
(heck even my Creative(tm) Mouse was 'made in China'
Maybe it didn't corrupt Bilbo, but it really, really freaked me out when his faced turned all weird, trying to grab the ring from Frodo, before 'bursting into tears'.
the CC terminal i used to have at work allows the last statementen to be reprinted. These statementes reveal the cc# and expiry date... all that's needed to do some heavy internet shopping
Are you thinking of the extreme cooling guys who used liquid nitrogen to cool their system? because if you are (and i might be mistaken) they didn't immerse the system rather than cooling tubes... the system itself was immersed in a non-conductive material.
on topic: my chain smoking brother has an old celeron thingy, the screen and case look yellow and the keyboard is a haggered piece of sh!t. last time i opened the case there was cloud of dust and the whole thing was covered in a thick layer of dust... truly disgusting.
it's not as much an easter egg, as it is the rockstar guys really liking their classics.
Yes it is a reference to the Taxi television series. Even the cabs look the same to the ones in the series. Notice that the rival cabcompany in vice city has different cabs.
The car dealership you buy from the footballpro is called 'sunshine autos'... the name of the company in 'Taxi' was 'Sunshine Cabs'
to go completely off topic... Taxi the movie rules:P
I can see how bologna will make comparison easier between member states' degrees. But in the end, graduating from Vigo, Sate College in Spain with a master's will not weigh heavier than a german bachelor... that's just the way people think.
wireless? that's darn insecure... appaling really!
legal age of voting in belgium is 18, i'm 24... already had to cast a vote 3 times... all of them were electronic. So electronic voting is feasable albeit on a somewhat smaller scale overhere, but it is possible!
Once you do have a secure AND idiotproof system. We'll no longer see the dead-people-voting, and gee-wiz-what-hole-should-i-punch mishaps
Actually I always thought the states should be the front runner in electronic voting, the technology is there and with so many people casting a vote, it would make processing it a lot easier.
You are right, even though it is isn't exactly the same. Domestication is just as much manipulative as the genetic variant!
Maybe I'm like the first farmer that said, "no chemical shit in my ground!", there will always be early adaptors and people that heavily oppose new technologies.
I'll leave it at the fact that I feel a bit squeemish about altering animals/plants so drastically.
Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated. We don't know how exactly. But some genius may have thrown a proto-dog a bone. The domestication may have taken dozens or hundreds of generations. Does dog DNA contain genes not found in Wolf DNA? IIRC, some, but less than you might think...
Do you believe the domestication of wolves actually resulted in a subset of that species we call dogs? Or is that that a hint of that 'domesticatable'-gene (sp?) was already present and through cross-breeding became prevalant in our beloved rover? Don't forget that some animals may not be so domesticated as they seem, kittens/pups for a part, learn to be comfortable around humans from their parents. And some cat domestic their masters rather than become domesticated.
Anyhow, if we were to ask the ancestors who took the first steps in domesticating the wolf whether they would accept some magical help that would change the nature of the wolf to convert it from a danger and a competitor into a friendly and useful companion in just one generation, do you think they would tell us it was unethical?
Maybe. I don't know.
I don't know either, but if they're anything like the primitive cultures that still exist on our puny planet, they will have shown a deep respect for nature. Something that is lacking in most civilized culture today.
Let me ask you a different question. Do you feel there would more of an ethical problem with fiddling with the genome of a wild animal?
Domesticated animals are either by nature docile (cows) or become docile in their upbringing (cats & dogs) So, no, I make no distinction between wild and domesticated animals when it comes to genetic manipulation.
Consider ourselves...
Would you consider genetic manipulation on humans? New and radical cancertherapies might just do that? But to genetically engineer a human baby?
I do not consider conditioning/domestication as infringing on nature's IP. But changing the genetic makeup of a species/animal is not like hacking an Xbox so it does what you want it to do. It is creating an entirely new species, with possible consequences we cannot begin to fathom.
The spidersilk-goatsmilk is not natural, the purpose for milk is to be consumed. Would you drink it, knowing it contained spidersilkprotein?
I'm not sure I would, though, if you start contemplating food too much, you end up a vegetarian,... or worse:-)//
just reread my post, and noticed something. Could cross-breeding / selective breeding be considered genetic manipulation? I think so, but it does so from a completely different outset. To use the natural building blocks provided by nature without artifial help (i.e. test-tubes)
You wouldn't get a spider to mate with a goat... it's to big to eat!
You are right of course, I think gel would be rather tough to extract from the goat. Other posters, who apparantly saw the same documentary have also said this.
Even though the production differs (actual silk vs silk protein) the intended applications (kevlar-replacements, etc..) and goals remain the same.
But the goats were extremely cute, and probably lived a better life than any other farm goat.
Still, is it ethical to (mis)create beings into chemical factories? Surely we've been using animals for such purposes for a long time already (the musk of certain animals...) But actually altering a species' genome even if by a few genes for the sake of producing spidersilk, is completely different thing!
Slashdot Mirror
don't forget spam faxes...
Well it's better than what SCO has to offer
http://www.goatse.cx/
recently a belgian music service launched, sort of a 'test project'... the songs cost 2 (!!!) = USD $2,60 (?)
the editor is probably on 'mars' time and forgot his morning coffee....
I downloaded 'Son a Preacher' the song form Pulp Fiction.
Okay so it wasn't a 286, it was a P120 with 4megs.
Did it through a lazy 28k dial-up too...
well, i wasn only trying it out... like most people "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" xp doesn't appeal to me... yet.
who's to say my new system won't have a flavor of linux ont? that depends on where i'll be at that time. (employerwise)
Win2K runs quite smoothly on my trusty old PII/400 (with 512mb) I tried out XP but my machine couldn't cope, plus I believe Win2K to be more stable (service pack 4) for my setup at least... (and I've actually got a licence for the Win2K)
people buying new pc's have XP, people who's hardware is not suited for XP won't upgrade for the sake of upgrading... they'll wait till they're in need of a complete new system.
yupz, google is your friend, the article mentions that they'll be able to send/receive messages with a lag of aroound 9 to ten minutes (as opposed to 30 minutes using the mars orbiters to relay the message)
rtfm?
exactly, there's still a big cultural difference between china and the west, the *formula* might not work the way grandparent-poster thinks it 'll work.
> Environment, in Belgium we pay a recycling tax on every consumer product, sure it 's only like three dollars or so at most, but it's levied on every product; normal, cheap and dirt cheap
(heck even my Creative(tm) Mouse was 'made in China'
Maybe it didn't corrupt Bilbo, but it really, really freaked me out when his faced turned all weird, trying to grab the ring from Frodo, before 'bursting into tears'.
Great, now i'll be getting emails saying
'Inkreez ur HD size'
the CC terminal i used to have at work allows the last statementen to be reprinted. These statementes reveal the cc# and expiry date... all that's needed to do some heavy internet shopping
My first thought, he should combine this with the blinkenlights engine, so he can play tetris on it :D
Yupz, I remember that one... has to count as hardware under duress!
Are you thinking of the extreme cooling guys who used liquid nitrogen to cool their system? because if you are (and i might be mistaken) they didn't immerse the system rather than cooling tubes... the system itself was immersed in a non-conductive material.
on topic: my chain smoking brother has an old celeron thingy, the screen and case look yellow and the keyboard is a haggered piece of sh!t. last time i opened the case there was cloud of dust and the whole thing was covered in a thick layer of dust... truly disgusting.
It is possible to have eletronic voting! It's been done before and without that many troubles.
I, for one, have never had to vote using plain old paper.
it's not as much an easter egg, as it is the rockstar guys really liking their classics.
... the name of the company in 'Taxi' was 'Sunshine Cabs'
:P
Yes it is a reference to the Taxi television series. Even the cabs look the same to the ones in the series. Notice that the rival cabcompany in vice city has different cabs.
The car dealership you buy from the footballpro is called 'sunshine autos'
to go completely off topic... Taxi the movie rules
to me Vice City is a lot like watching Miami Vice
:D
(reurns airing every day overhere -Antwerp, Belgium)
when you reach a certain wanted level, you even get one cop car chasing you containing two vice cops that just happen to 'look' like crocket & tubbs
gotta love that game
I can see how bologna will make comparison easier between member states' degrees. But in the end, graduating from Vigo, Sate College in Spain with a master's will not weigh heavier than a german bachelor... that's just the way people think.
bologna is bad mmmkay
I didn't see someone mentioning Bindows yet.
Yes, I know it's Win/IE only...
I second you on that! W2k/SP4 never been touched, not a single virus/worm eploit or anything.
wireless? that's darn insecure... appaling really!
... already had to cast a vote 3 times... all of them were electronic. So electronic voting is feasable albeit on a somewhat smaller scale overhere, but it is possible!
legal age of voting in belgium is 18, i'm 24
Once you do have a secure AND idiotproof system. We'll no longer see the dead-people-voting, and gee-wiz-what-hole-should-i-punch mishaps
Actually I always thought the states should be the front runner in electronic voting, the technology is there and with so many people casting a vote, it would make processing it a lot easier.
You are right, even though it is isn't exactly the same. Domestication is just as much manipulative as the genetic variant!
:)
Maybe I'm like the first farmer that said, "no chemical shit in my ground!", there will always be early adaptors and people that heavily oppose new technologies.
I'll leave it at the fact that I feel a bit squeemish about altering animals/plants so drastically.
Enjoy the milk! The goats were cute
Do you believe the domestication of wolves actually resulted in a subset of that species we call dogs? Or is that that a hint of that 'domesticatable'-gene (sp?) was already present and through cross-breeding became prevalant in our beloved rover? Don't forget that some animals may not be so domesticated as they seem, kittens/pups for a part, learn to be comfortable around humans from their parents.
And some cat domestic their masters rather than become domesticated.
I don't know either, but if they're anything like the primitive cultures that still exist on our puny planet, they will have shown a deep respect for nature. Something that is lacking in most civilized culture today.
Domesticated animals are either by nature docile (cows) or become docile in their upbringing (cats & dogs) So, no, I make no distinction between wild and domesticated animals when it comes to genetic manipulation.
Would you consider genetic manipulation on humans?
New and radical cancertherapies might just do that? But to genetically engineer a human baby?
I do not consider conditioning/domestication as infringing on nature's IP. But changing the genetic makeup of a species/animal is not like hacking an Xbox so it does what you want it to do. It is creating an entirely new species, with possible consequences we cannot begin to fathom.
The spidersilk-goatsmilk is not natural, the purpose for milk is to be consumed. Would you drink it, knowing it contained spidersilkprotein?
I'm not sure I would, though, if you start contemplating food too much, you end up a vegetarian,
just reread my post, and noticed something.
Could cross-breeding / selective breeding be considered genetic manipulation? I think so, but it does so from a completely different outset. To use the natural building blocks provided by nature without artifial help (i.e. test-tubes)
You wouldn't get a spider to mate with a goat... it's to big to eat!
You are right of course, I think gel would be rather tough to extract from the goat. Other posters, who apparantly saw the same documentary have also said this.
Even though the production differs (actual silk vs silk protein) the intended applications (kevlar-replacements, etc..) and goals remain the same.
But the goats were extremely cute, and probably lived a better life than any other farm goat.
Still, is it ethical to (mis)create beings into chemical factories? Surely we've been using animals for such purposes for a long time already (the musk of certain animals...)
But actually altering a species' genome even if by a few genes for the sake of producing spidersilk, is completely different thing!