Ramshaw's team made its initial discovery while developing contraceptive vaccines for sterilising mice and rabbits without killing them. The researchers modified the mousepox virus by adding a gene for a natural immunosuppressant called IL-4, expecting this would boost antibody production.
Yes, I can see why we should stop all efforts to control introduced species. I agree with you that all environmental research is bad and must be stopped NOW.
Everything I've read has mentioned automounting for AFP and NFS, but not SMB (client-side). Everything I've read has said that it has solved disconnection hangs for AFP and NFS...but again, not SMB (client), which of course is what everybody at work uses.
Grumble grumble.
And yes, I've heard that disconnection is a common problem to FreeBSD-derived SMB clients, which would make this something Apple could fix and make the community swoon with gratitude.
Who ever modded this 'funny' and whoever replied questioning the veracity of this charge, it is abso-freaking-lutely true and not a bit funny. They have been doing this since the late '70s.
Do you wonder why they went after the people who were downloading their stuff for free rather than paying for it LAST? And MP3.com, who required that you have a licensed copy of the CD FIRST?
It's because this is part MCLXI in the RIAA's war against cutting out the middleman. Why do you think Al Gore held the enquiries about decency in music but then stopped them and instead sponsored the RIAA's legislation against home DAT player/recorders, copy-protection, and tax on blank tape? Because the RIAA saw an opportunity to put on some revenue-boosting warning stickers on their albums in exchange for getting rid of the possibility of digital-quality recording in the home. How many DAT audio recorders do you find at Best Buy? NONE. Thank the RIAA and Al Gore.
Along come computers, and they are too generally useful for the RIAA to ban. So they have been in an all-out campaign against the MP3 format because it allows easy distribution of home-recorded music, without relying on RIAA members to do the recording and promotion.
So yes, on a second front they continue looking for people who do recording gigs in "unlicensed" studios and rat on them to the local zoning commission, and in the LA area they work with local zoning boards to ensure that home recording, no matter how imperceptible to the neighbors, is zoned out of any residential neighborhood.
This is why so many musicians who don't think IP is a fraud nonetheless can't support the RIAA, because anything that hurts the RIAA at this point helps musicians.
I really think the ideal would be if there were some sort of British Josh Whedon to write this. With the sense of humor and darkness of Buffy, Doctor Who could be back with Tom Baker-level quality. But it would have to be a Brit, much as it stings my imperial running dog fascist American pride to say so.
Fortunately, the guy is supposed to be a raving fan (though pretty much any Doctor Who fan is raving).
The ideal system would be a free-text search of all the books in the catalogue.
No, no, no, no.
What is needed is that PLUS exactly what you hinted at: faceted classification.
Books can be arranged on the shelves by author or FILO or whatever, but they should be, in the age of computers, indexed by multiple heirarchical facets.
Keywords and free-text searches are far too unreliable, even in the age of Google. If you're doing serious research, you can't rely on the first Google hit, you need to try several different methods. In fact, Google's methodology, ranking by weighted hyperlink popularity, wouldn't apply to books.
What you need are a combination of faceted classification (like the subject entries in the cataloging software most libraries use) and free-text as well as abstract searching. Quite frankly, humans and the software they write are too stupid to classify everything well enough to use one system or another exclusively.
Not having mod points, I'll second this heartily. I develop on a Mac and have a PC at my desk to check stuff on. Since PCs can't have multiple versions of IE on them, I still use BrowserCam to automatically check the obscure browsers.
It does make testing small fixes for a single browser a little slow, but it's great for ensuring that the fix you made for IE 5.5 didn't break IE 6 (which it usually will).
OK, actually "cartel", but it's much the same. And then there's "supply and demand" coupled with "music is cheap or free".
To have a chance of getting "big," at least prior to the advent of MP3s, you had to sign up with the RIAA-affiliated record company and hope against hope that some no-talent hack in the front office would champion your disc and actually promote it.
The urge to make music for other people is frequently an obsession, so the record industry basically plays on it. Since they know you'll probably make music, even if you're having to put a hat on the street by the subway, that all they have to do is offer you lottery-like odds of getting paid. Just enough do to make it look attractive--and how many poor people go to 7-11 on even more remote hopes to play the lotto?
Partially, it's also a supply and demand problem. There is ALWAYS another musician to replace you. So you don't have a choice since the big companies have cartel-exclusive distribution deals with Sam Goody's, etc. but they can always get another boy band/hair band/whiny chick on a guitar. Increasingly, they don't even bother but simply hold auditions and look for dancers with nice teeth and bods that they can fake the music for.
There's also, quite frankly, an underappreciation on the part of the public of how much work it takes to be a musician. I used to handle organizing groups for a service our music school would offer, providing low-cost live music for local charitable organizations.
There's low-cost and then there's insane. I was frequently asked to provide a quartet on $50. Not per person, for everybody. I couldn't even get college students to give up their Saturday or Friday nights for $12.50. The rationale of the people was, well, we're only paying for a couple hours' playing so we're paying better than minimum wage.
Except that there's the setup and teardown, there's the hours of practice you put in the rest of the week, all leading up to those two or three hours on the gig.
So: consumers don't think music is "worth that," a bunch of slimy lawyers (but I repeat myself) have gotten a legal-on-a-technicality monopoly through a cartel, and there is always the kid down the block willing to play his Casio for free.
And how many people have read them? The overall market for that kind of stuff is increasingly limited. There are now just two and a half first-rank SF short story periodicals.
But they have declining readerships. And they're getting older. I'm probably one of the younger subscribers to Analog, and I'm in my thirties. If you ask the authors you mention, they'd kill for half of Clarke's or Asimov's readership from the Golden Age.
The problem is that nobody reads pulp entertainment anymore--that is now tied up in George Lucas's and Rick Berman's space soap opera clutches. Now, the pulps were also mostly dreck, but they had enough of an audience that nobody minded if they published a creepy think-piece beside a range-war-in-space yarn. But Star Trek and Star Wars don't allow that kind of writing in, and there's no short fiction to give a wide range of new authors a chance.
One of XHTML 2's more controversial points is removing the img tag completely and replacing it with the object tag.
This would superficially seem to put that strategy in jeopardy.
Or would it? Images, at least, have a very limited interactivity with the browser (if you don't specify width and height, the browser calculates it and renders accordingly). There is, absent an image map, no interactivity.
This is a serious question--does anyone know what this may mean, in light of the W3C's statement?
a) The cost is only $10 in taxes. Dubious. Health care, as you note, is expensive. To move to a Canadian-style system would cost loads more money and would make up the difference, as Canada does, by rationing services.
b) Kids with bullets in their stomachs are checked for insurance. Obviously you haven't spent much time in the US. Emergency room care is free for all, and a big source of our medical costs. Free or reduced cost medical care is available for indigent people through the Medicaid program. The service is underutilzed, and people who make slightly more than the qualifying income level tend to opt to save money for other things than health insurance, and they don't do it for ever. Many of these are young people with middle-class or better parents just starting out. The 43 million figure also includes people whose coverage under one job runs out before they start a new job, so it's not as if these people are permanently uninsured. "Under-insured" is very much a loaded term--some people (like me, 10 years ago) choose cheap catastrophic coverage because we're young and healthy and can manage our money well enough to keep the $1000 deductible lying around rather than spending it on beer.
I know, heresy, but there you go. Question authority.
Right, the usual argument is funded. But they didn't train him either. There are lots of people arguing that if you would step outside of ANSWER pamphlets as your source of info. They only trained the people they funded. Didja ever work in government? If they're not spending the money, they won't give you a second's worth of time.
I do remember thinking how much time I could save if the user would just fess up to what they did.
I've seen this countless times, and I just don't think users are intentionally lying. Much of the time, because they tend not to read everything on the screen, they don't know what they've just done.
Take the user deleting all the e-mail in her inbox in an above post. I've seen users highlight all their messages and then do stupid things because they want to unhighlight them. Part of this is because computer interface design is still very modal, and a button does different things depending on what happens on the screen. So they have logic, just not the logic that comes with experience.
In the case of the inbox person, she probably thought "I've highlighted all of these things, I want that highlight to go away. How do I make something go away? Oh, right, hit the delete key. I made the selection go away. Wait! Where is my e-mail?"
Couple that with the very human tendency to not want to consider your own fallibility, and the many problems that are the fault of the operating system/program, and it's natural for their first instinct to be to blame the computer. Unfortunately, we're trying to get people who are competent to use a typewriter to use a much more sophisticated device, and it's just not simple enough for them yet.
So while I feel your pain (I've had to support users of websites I've programmed), don't believe that they are intentionally lying. Yes, they may not be logical to you, but generally they believe that they didn't do anything wrong.
That being said, how you train them on the way it does work is a mystery to me. It takes more patience than I have to do it with any regularity.
Yeah, those that trained Bin Laden should indeed be punished. Oh wait, that would be the CIA - I guess the world isn't black and white after all.
Sigh. The world does have some gradation in shading, however.
Repeat after me: The CIA never funded Osama bin Laden.
He's a freakin' multi-billionaire, he didn't need the funds.
They funded other groups such as those led by Abdul Haq who cooperated with bin Laden in ousting the Sovs. However, those groups didn't agree with the Taliban, which Osama supported, and so most of them were killed or fled the country. In fact, Haq was killed when he went into Afghanistan to try to rally people around him. If you want to blame the CIA for something, try for not supporting Haq or hooking up with the military to get him out when he realized he was being surrounded.
The CIA has much to be ashamed of, you don't have to invent stuff because it helps your immediate rhetorical need.
Agent Smith:"That's right your Honor, after our thorough investigation we found that the code in question is nothing more than fiendishly hidden links to terrorist organizations and kiddy porn sites placed in the program by SCO."
Bah...this Administration would just declare them "enemy combatants" and let them rot in jail until Howard Dean releases all the--
Um, hmmm...OK, maybe I would have a reason to vote for Bush...
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To quote from R-ing TFA:
Ramshaw's team made its initial discovery while developing contraceptive vaccines for sterilising mice and rabbits without killing them. The researchers modified the mousepox virus by adding a gene for a natural immunosuppressant called IL-4, expecting this would boost antibody production.
Yes, I can see why we should stop all efforts to control introduced species. I agree with you that all environmental research is bad and must be stopped NOW.
I've complained about the SPOD bug on losing a network connection to an SMB mount since v. 10.1 and for several point releases in between. Rrrr.
Pepsi tastes like shit. No hit me with your flames :-)
No argument here. And no free music for me unless forced by dint of caffeine need--I can swallow Diet Pepsi, but that's it.
Everything I've read has mentioned automounting for AFP and NFS, but not SMB (client-side). Everything I've read has said that it has solved disconnection hangs for AFP and NFS...but again, not SMB (client), which of course is what everybody at work uses.
Grumble grumble.
And yes, I've heard that disconnection is a common problem to FreeBSD-derived SMB clients, which would make this something Apple could fix and make the community swoon with gratitude.
As has automounting, so I hear. But NOT &*%&*$%$ SAMBA!!!!!!!!
Rrrrr...
Who ever modded this 'funny' and whoever replied questioning the veracity of this charge, it is abso-freaking-lutely true and not a bit funny. They have been doing this since the late '70s.
Do you wonder why they went after the people who were downloading their stuff for free rather than paying for it LAST? And MP3.com, who required that you have a licensed copy of the CD FIRST?
It's because this is part MCLXI in the RIAA's war against cutting out the middleman. Why do you think Al Gore held the enquiries about decency in music but then stopped them and instead sponsored the RIAA's legislation against home DAT player/recorders, copy-protection, and tax on blank tape? Because the RIAA saw an opportunity to put on some revenue-boosting warning stickers on their albums in exchange for getting rid of the possibility of digital-quality recording in the home. How many DAT audio recorders do you find at Best Buy? NONE. Thank the RIAA and Al Gore.
Along come computers, and they are too generally useful for the RIAA to ban. So they have been in an all-out campaign against the MP3 format because it allows easy distribution of home-recorded music, without relying on RIAA members to do the recording and promotion.
So yes, on a second front they continue looking for people who do recording gigs in "unlicensed" studios and rat on them to the local zoning commission, and in the LA area they work with local zoning boards to ensure that home recording, no matter how imperceptible to the neighbors, is zoned out of any residential neighborhood.
This is why so many musicians who don't think IP is a fraud nonetheless can't support the RIAA, because anything that hurts the RIAA at this point helps musicians.
NASA has fallen behind Europe's ESA/Russian space programs to the point where it is using 1960s rockets compared with ion engines
Really? Damn--that's pretty impressive specific impulse on the ion engine in that Ariane 5.
Oh wait, apples, oranges and NASA did it first. AGAIN.
It's bad enough when Americans think they invented everything without Euros bettering them by, um, becoming them.
Doesn't this debunk the theory that Australia is a moon that fell from the sky and became a continent?
It was, but the inhabitants stole them. We're just looting their stash.
I really think the ideal would be if there were some sort of British Josh Whedon to write this. With the sense of humor and darkness of Buffy, Doctor Who could be back with Tom Baker-level quality. But it would have to be a Brit, much as it stings my imperial running dog fascist American pride to say so.
Fortunately, the guy is supposed to be a raving fan (though pretty much any Doctor Who fan is raving).
The ideal system would be a free-text search of all the books in the catalogue.
No, no, no, no.
What is needed is that PLUS exactly what you hinted at: faceted classification.
Books can be arranged on the shelves by author or FILO or whatever, but they should be, in the age of computers, indexed by multiple heirarchical facets.
Keywords and free-text searches are far too unreliable, even in the age of Google. If you're doing serious research, you can't rely on the first Google hit, you need to try several different methods. In fact, Google's methodology, ranking by weighted hyperlink popularity, wouldn't apply to books.
What you need are a combination of faceted classification (like the subject entries in the cataloging software most libraries use) and free-text as well as abstract searching. Quite frankly, humans and the software they write are too stupid to classify everything well enough to use one system or another exclusively.
And if you mess with the Air Transport Association, you'll get labelled as a terrorist.
For an elevator that goes up to 36,000 km, the question will be, will it have a 666th floor?
Not having mod points, I'll second this heartily. I develop on a Mac and have a PC at my desk to check stuff on. Since PCs can't have multiple versions of IE on them, I still use BrowserCam to automatically check the obscure browsers.
It does make testing small fixes for a single browser a little slow, but it's great for ensuring that the fix you made for IE 5.5 didn't break IE 6 (which it usually will).
The word you're looking for here is "monopoly".
OK, actually "cartel", but it's much the same. And then there's "supply and demand" coupled with "music is cheap or free".
To have a chance of getting "big," at least prior to the advent of MP3s, you had to sign up with the RIAA-affiliated record company and hope against hope that some no-talent hack in the front office would champion your disc and actually promote it.
The urge to make music for other people is frequently an obsession, so the record industry basically plays on it. Since they know you'll probably make music, even if you're having to put a hat on the street by the subway, that all they have to do is offer you lottery-like odds of getting paid. Just enough do to make it look attractive--and how many poor people go to 7-11 on even more remote hopes to play the lotto?
Partially, it's also a supply and demand problem. There is ALWAYS another musician to replace you. So you don't have a choice since the big companies have cartel-exclusive distribution deals with Sam Goody's, etc. but they can always get another boy band/hair band/whiny chick on a guitar. Increasingly, they don't even bother but simply hold auditions and look for dancers with nice teeth and bods that they can fake the music for.
There's also, quite frankly, an underappreciation on the part of the public of how much work it takes to be a musician. I used to handle organizing groups for a service our music school would offer, providing low-cost live music for local charitable organizations.
There's low-cost and then there's insane. I was frequently asked to provide a quartet on $50. Not per person, for everybody. I couldn't even get college students to give up their Saturday or Friday nights for $12.50. The rationale of the people was, well, we're only paying for a couple hours' playing so we're paying better than minimum wage.
Except that there's the setup and teardown, there's the hours of practice you put in the rest of the week, all leading up to those two or three hours on the gig.
So: consumers don't think music is "worth that," a bunch of slimy lawyers (but I repeat myself) have gotten a legal-on-a-technicality monopoly through a cartel, and there is always the kid down the block willing to play his Casio for free.
- an ex-musician
Except, of course, to be literal, a moth (order Lepidoptera) is not a bug (order Hemiptera).
And how many people have read them? The overall market for that kind of stuff is increasingly limited. There are now just two and a half first-rank SF short story periodicals.
But they have declining readerships. And they're getting older. I'm probably one of the younger subscribers to Analog, and I'm in my thirties. If you ask the authors you mention, they'd kill for half of Clarke's or Asimov's readership from the Golden Age.
The problem is that nobody reads pulp entertainment anymore--that is now tied up in George Lucas's and Rick Berman's space soap opera clutches. Now, the pulps were also mostly dreck, but they had enough of an audience that nobody minded if they published a creepy think-piece beside a range-war-in-space yarn. But Star Trek and Star Wars don't allow that kind of writing in, and there's no short fiction to give a wide range of new authors a chance.
One of XHTML 2's more controversial points is removing the img tag completely and replacing it with the object tag.
This would superficially seem to put that strategy in jeopardy.
Or would it? Images, at least, have a very limited interactivity with the browser (if you don't specify width and height, the browser calculates it and renders accordingly). There is, absent an image map, no interactivity.
This is a serious question--does anyone know what this may mean, in light of the W3C's statement?
You mean, like this?
The laugh is that -- wait for it -- IT REQUIRES MICROSOFT PRODUCTS TO RUN!!!!!
Plus it also requires user activation.
So it technically doesn't meet your criteria (AddressBook and Mail.app). But funny nonetheless.
Must...resist...smelly...nerd...joke...
Can't.
And that would be different from your sweaty unbathed basement-dwelling sysadmin how?
You assume:
a) The cost is only $10 in taxes. Dubious. Health care, as you note, is expensive. To move to a Canadian-style system would cost loads more money and would make up the difference, as Canada does, by rationing services.
b) Kids with bullets in their stomachs are checked for insurance. Obviously you haven't spent much time in the US. Emergency room care is free for all, and a big source of our medical costs. Free or reduced cost medical care is available for indigent people through the Medicaid program. The service is underutilzed, and people who make slightly more than the qualifying income level tend to opt to save money for other things than health insurance, and they don't do it for ever. Many of these are young people with middle-class or better parents just starting out. The 43 million figure also includes people whose coverage under one job runs out before they start a new job, so it's not as if these people are permanently uninsured. "Under-insured" is very much a loaded term--some people (like me, 10 years ago) choose cheap catastrophic coverage because we're young and healthy and can manage our money well enough to keep the $1000 deductible lying around rather than spending it on beer.
I know, heresy, but there you go. Question authority.
Right, the usual argument is funded. But they didn't train him either. There are lots of people arguing that if you would step outside of ANSWER pamphlets as your source of info. They only trained the people they funded. Didja ever work in government? If they're not spending the money, they won't give you a second's worth of time.
I do remember thinking how much time I could save if the user would just fess up to what they did.
I've seen this countless times, and I just don't think users are intentionally lying. Much of the time, because they tend not to read everything on the screen, they don't know what they've just done.
Take the user deleting all the e-mail in her inbox in an above post. I've seen users highlight all their messages and then do stupid things because they want to unhighlight them. Part of this is because computer interface design is still very modal, and a button does different things depending on what happens on the screen. So they have logic, just not the logic that comes with experience.
In the case of the inbox person, she probably thought "I've highlighted all of these things, I want that highlight to go away. How do I make something go away? Oh, right, hit the delete key. I made the selection go away. Wait! Where is my e-mail?"
Couple that with the very human tendency to not want to consider your own fallibility, and the many problems that are the fault of the operating system/program, and it's natural for their first instinct to be to blame the computer. Unfortunately, we're trying to get people who are competent to use a typewriter to use a much more sophisticated device, and it's just not simple enough for them yet.
So while I feel your pain (I've had to support users of websites I've programmed), don't believe that they are intentionally lying. Yes, they may not be logical to you, but generally they believe that they didn't do anything wrong.
That being said, how you train them on the way it does work is a mystery to me. It takes more patience than I have to do it with any regularity.
Yeah, those that trained Bin Laden should indeed be punished. Oh wait, that would be the CIA - I guess the world isn't black and white after all.
Sigh. The world does have some gradation in shading, however.
Repeat after me: The CIA never funded Osama bin Laden.
He's a freakin' multi-billionaire, he didn't need the funds.
They funded other groups such as those led by Abdul Haq who cooperated with bin Laden in ousting the Sovs. However, those groups didn't agree with the Taliban, which Osama supported, and so most of them were killed or fled the country. In fact, Haq was killed when he went into Afghanistan to try to rally people around him. If you want to blame the CIA for something, try for not supporting Haq or hooking up with the military to get him out when he realized he was being surrounded.
The CIA has much to be ashamed of, you don't have to invent stuff because it helps your immediate rhetorical need.
Agent Smith:"That's right your Honor, after our thorough investigation we found that the code in question is nothing more than fiendishly hidden links to terrorist organizations and kiddy porn sites placed in the program by SCO."
Bah...this Administration would just declare them "enemy combatants" and let them rot in jail until Howard Dean releases all the--
Um, hmmm...OK, maybe I would have a reason to vote for Bush...