Also as unbelievable as it seems people are not going to go back to a hunter gatherer lifestyle living in teepies in the woods. They want electricity so the greens can either keep on rejecting every form of power generation and eventually they just end up ignored as a bunch of tedious ranting reactionaries who dish up endless problems but no solutions, or they start using what common sense they have and realise that the best option is sometimes a compromise.
Anyway , come on , who runs out of fuel these days? read the friggin gauge! Plus if you did you could damage some modern fuel systems so you wouldn't be restarting your piston engine car either.
In fact they don't like any form of power generation.
nuclear = [insert glowing green fluffy sheep horror stories] fossil = [insert global meltdown story] wind power = [insert migrating insert birds killed by blades sob fest] or [blot on lovely landscape rant] tidal power = [insert moan about marsh habitat of less spotted wading snot gobler flooded] Solar power = [insert some fucking rare tortoise issue] hydro = [insert whinge about flooded valleys/woodlands/displace peasents etc etc]
So are you going to have an infinite number of transcription factors then for every possible piece of data stored in the DNA?
I don't think so.
DNA is a effectively a hard wired database where the required data/protein recipes must exist for the cell to work. The cell doesn't just make up new proteins as it goes along unlike a database which can store any combination of data anywhere in any given amount (up the maximum) at any time and said data can be updated or deleted at any given time.
"This combination is the most relaxing for the eye."
Nothing gives me a headache quicker than a bright background, especially white. Black backgrounds which light text are much nicer and far easier to read.
Which do you think your eyes would prefer - staring at the stars for 8 hours or staring at a bright torch trying to read some letters glued on the lens?
Ok , you wouldn't find a tea company today building its own hardware , but you may well find them writing their own software. Many many non tech companies still do this - banks, insurance , market research to name but a few. Possibly even McDonalds and pizza hut do too but I'm just guessing.
I actually work in a market research company and we DO design our own set top box and handheld hardware though obviously the actual manufacturing is outsourced because the functionality we need from it is simply not available commercially.
So don't be too surprised if you find non-tech companies poking their fingers in the techy pie occasionally.
"It's called 'Computer Information Systems' or 'Business Information Systems' or 'Management Information Systems."
True , but AFAIK those courses are really business courses with some simplistic computing bolted on. They're not really intense CS courses that get down to the specifics of what you'd required for business programming - eg database tuning, normalisation and so forth.
Its just a cynical way for universities to make money and it does a disservice to the people who take it. Any good CS course should equip someone with the knowledge (if not ability) to work on games programming - theres nothing special about it apart from perhaps a slightly greater emphasis on physics and thats only if you work on a physics engine anyway.
There're no special accountancy programming degrees or degrees in insurance or banking programming so why games programming? Its just a cynical cash cow.
No one said anything about people being deliberately exterminated. Also , I wouldn't bet on us being here to stay - I'm sure some of the dinosaurs thought the same.
There are far to many people on this planet. Check out the enviromental destruction in places such as africa, brazil , east asia to plant food crops and on a lesser scale housing. Look at how little natural enviroment is left in places such as western europe and the USA not to mention the amount of energy 6 billion people consume - and hence the amount of CO2 produced.
RPM is all relative however. For example 5000rpm might be a lot for a car engine , but for a sports bike engine its barely tickover. 1800rpm for a generator or truck however is probably close to maxing it.
For centuries after people were imprisoned in Britain for years with little or no trial especially if you happened to have pissed of the king. In fact even trials in medieval times were little more than a rubber stamp for the decision that had already been made by the local sheriff or other judicial representative.
As far as legal rights go I'd far sooner be living today than at any other time in the past. Even in the 19th century things were pretty grim - you could be imprisoned for debt with no food except what visitors brought you. No visitors? Tough , you starved.
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Also as unbelievable as it seems people are not going to go back to a hunter gatherer lifestyle living in teepies in the woods. They want electricity so the greens can either keep on rejecting every form of power generation and eventually they just end up ignored as a bunch of tedious ranting reactionaries who dish up endless problems but no solutions, or they start using what common sense they have and realise that the best option is sometimes a compromise.
Anyway , come on , who runs out of fuel these days? read the friggin gauge! Plus if you did you could damage some modern fuel systems so you wouldn't be restarting your piston engine car either.
In fact they don't like any form of power generation.
nuclear = [insert glowing green fluffy sheep horror stories]
fossil = [insert global meltdown story]
wind power = [insert migrating insert birds killed by blades sob fest] or [blot on lovely landscape rant]
tidal power = [insert moan about marsh habitat of less spotted wading snot gobler flooded]
Solar power = [insert some fucking rare tortoise issue]
hydro = [insert whinge about flooded valleys/woodlands/displace peasents etc etc]
You just can't win with this brainless hippies.
"hey don't put gender on everything (not even his/hers); they don't even have anything for plural. It's neat."
I see that as a disadvantage , not an advantage. Some language constructs evolved for a good reason.
Would you rather have a car thats expensive to run or no car at all and have to rely on friends to give you rides?
"When a nation is no longer able to excel in a technology they pioneered, it's very difficult to come back."
Yeah , its a shame what happened to Germanys rocket program.
"Why infinite?"
Err , because you can choose to search for anything in a database. It doesn't have to actually be in there.
So are you going to have an infinite number of transcription factors then for every possible piece of data stored in the DNA?
I don't think so.
DNA is a effectively a hard wired database where the required data/protein recipes must exist for the cell to work. The cell doesn't just make up new proteins as it goes along unlike a database which can store any combination of data anywhere in any given amount (up the maximum) at any time and said data can be updated or deleted at any given time.
Try doing that with DNA.
.. DNA decomposes from bactierial , chemical and radiative action so can't just be left on its own locked away for years.
DNA is read slowly by biological means which is hardly easy to interface to digital systems.
DNA is read sequentially , its not random access at the base level making it useless for most types of database.
Current technologies could in theory already be pushed to have greater storage density than DNA - eg transistors made from a few atoms.
So other than an interesting intellectual exercise , whats the point?
"Maybe you should get out more ? You know, sunlight and stuff ?"
Sorry , was that supposed to be an amusing put down?
"And if the background it too bright, you can reduce it to a light grey (or other color of your choice)."
Err , or you can reduce it to black.
Go back under your bridge.
"This combination is the most relaxing for the eye."
Nothing gives me a headache quicker than a bright background, especially white. Black backgrounds which light text are much nicer and far easier to read.
Which do you think your eyes would prefer - staring at the stars for 8 hours or staring at a bright torch trying to read some letters glued on the lens?
"Having a black background with white text is the stupid option, it causes lots of eye problems."
Nonsense. I've used white text on black backgrounds in xterms for 15 years without any problems.
Ok , you wouldn't find a tea company today building its own hardware , but you may well find them writing their own software. Many many non tech companies still do this - banks, insurance , market research to name but a few. Possibly even McDonalds and pizza hut do too but I'm just guessing.
I actually work in a market research company and we DO design our own set top box and handheld hardware though obviously the actual manufacturing is outsourced because the functionality we need from it is simply not available commercially.
So don't be too surprised if you find non-tech companies poking their fingers in the techy pie occasionally.
"It's called 'Computer Information Systems' or 'Business Information Systems' or 'Management Information Systems."
True , but AFAIK those courses are really business courses with some simplistic computing bolted on. They're not really intense CS courses that get down to the specifics of what you'd required for business programming - eg database tuning, normalisation and so forth.
"some real gems though, such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz,"
I wouldn't call Hot Fuzz a real gem. Really overrated more like.
Anyway , AFAIK neither of them used CGI so whats your point?
Its just a cynical way for universities to make money and it does a disservice to the people who take it. Any good CS course should equip someone with the knowledge (if not ability) to work on games programming - theres nothing special about it apart from perhaps a slightly greater emphasis on physics and thats only if you work on a physics engine anyway.
There're no special accountancy programming degrees or degrees in insurance or banking programming so why games programming? Its just a cynical cash cow.
"I guess that means we'll either need to tightly control uranium/plutonium sources or make sure no one wants to nuke us.."
I think both those cats are long out of their bags.
No one said anything about people being deliberately exterminated. Also , I wouldn't bet on us being here to stay - I'm sure some of the dinosaurs thought the same.
There are far to many people on this planet. Check out the enviromental destruction in places such as africa, brazil , east asia to plant food crops and on a lesser scale housing. Look at how little natural enviroment is left in places such as western europe and the USA not to mention the amount of energy 6 billion people consume - and hence the amount of CO2 produced.
You pig ignorant jackass.
Not.
Any average size reasonably fit man could carry 33 kgs for long enough to plant the bomb.
I train in a gym and I can carry 70 kgs on my back. It would be strenuous but I could do it. Dont assume everyone is a pasty faced 110 pound wimp.
It might be rather a giveaway to anyone in a 20 foot radius unless you cover the thing with a duvet when pushing the buttons!
RPM is all relative however. For example 5000rpm might be a lot for a car engine , but for a sports bike engine its barely tickover. 1800rpm for a generator or truck however is probably close to maxing it.
For centuries after people were imprisoned in Britain for years with little or no trial especially if you happened to have pissed of the king. In fact even trials in medieval times were little more than a rubber stamp for the decision that had already been made by the local sheriff or other judicial representative.
As far as legal rights go I'd far sooner be living today than at any other time in the past. Even in the 19th century things were pretty grim - you could be imprisoned for debt with no food except what visitors brought you. No visitors? Tough , you starved.
Posting twice , 2nd time as AC smacks of desperation.