Just a thought - humour me! Human DNA represents about 4Gb of data, including the "junk" DNA. The protein "interpreters" for this source code are pretty complex (we're talking CISC, not RISC!), but the instructions for building the proteins which act as interpreters are also coded into this 4Gb - so I don't think I'm cheating too much when I say that our inherited characteristics fit into this figure.
Now how much other information contributing to "you" have you received during your lifetime? There's obvious stuff like the learning of details of a particular language, but large parts of our cultural experience also influence who we are. This can be important to genetic survival - for instance if you don't learn to dance the right way in some cultures, you're less likely to mate and propagate.
It's difficult to equate the raw data volumes for DNA and inheritance - one couldn't plausibly claim that a DVD containing Star Wars was as significant as 10% of your DNA. Still, perhaps it's sensible to question for a communication-centred species like humans: how much of our inheritance is from DNA, and how much is from our libraries?
To return to mammoths: we know that elephants are strongly social animals (at least the female ones are) and pass knowledge between generations. If we breed a mammoth from old DNA, but have no mammoth culture in which to raise it, do we really get a mammoth?
I see Connectix don't sell Virtual PC without DOS or Windows. I've got a legal, non-OEM copy of Win2k. If I buy Virtual PC plus DOS, can I install Win2k over it?
Americas sins are not forgiven because we also provide aid. By that logic, you should be tired of all of the bashing of National Socialism because hey, they were art and history patrons, and their war machine revolutionized aerospace.
It's not a question of forgiving you - it's a question of being decidedly worried about what you're going to do next. I live in Britain, and I am not absolutely confident that there are no circumstances under which you would use these against us. Forgive my bluntness, but the impression I have is that the only thing which moderates US action against anything that the body politic doesn't like is concern about the consequences to the US, and the more military superiority you have, the less restrained you are. In every major conflict from Korea through Vietnam to Gulf I and II, someone in the US government starts speculating about the use of nuclear weapons.
If your allies don't trust your judgement, will anyone else?
Oh, lest anyone misunderstand - I'm talking about the US as a state. I like individual USians just fine so long as they keep off the subject of gun law.
The one Germany would have a Kaiser. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire would be intact. And the Ottoman Empire. Without US intervention, the Central Powers would have won WWI. So no WWII. No Soviet Union. And no Iraq.
It's not my period, but I have read that the US contribution to WWI was small - that the main force of troops arrived about a year after the US declared war, and that their munitions were predominantly provided by the UK. I'd be interested if anyone knows more about this.
As to the Soviet Union, this seems unlikely. It was the successes of Germany on the Eastern Front which provoked the revolution, so removing the US from the war would not seem to change this.
All sufficiently large governments suppress fundamental individuals. In the US, consider Mitnick, jailed for several years without trial. In the UK, consider the routine action of Customs and Excise in confiscating vehicles they consider to be involved with smuggling, without trial, appeal or redress. In France, consider the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior and murder of one of its crew. I think you will agree that none of this is sufficient reason to declare war on these countries, even the last. So yes, you are already dealing with relative morals in this case.
Ok, whose morals? I'm a democrat, as are you - but this isn't the only political philosophy based on a moral principal. A supporter of Islamic theocracy will probably look on our governments much as we do on theirs - morally wrong, and arguably unfit to rule.
I use the usual system of one-per-company addresses, all aliased to my normal address, with the ability to divert them to the bit-bucket if they become a problem. I've had this address for about five years, and I buy a lot of stuff on the Web, but I have no, as in zero, spam. I've never yet had to devnull any of the addresses (there are currently 90), but I've yet to have offers to enlarge portions of my anatomy or bank balance. I've not used any of the addresses on Usenet, but other than that I've not taken any precautions. Am I alone in this?
I've played with one of these for a couple of minutes. It was a prototype, so it didn't have a full software load, but I tried everything that's referred to in the article. The screen is a little larger than that of a P800, but is flush with the surface rather than recessed, and seems to be of higher resolution. I was using a web browser: the effect is that you have a full-sized virtual screen (perhaps laptop sized) and you're moving a letterbox around the virtual screen by tilting the device. The response is crisp and fast, so that this works very well indeed - vastly better than using cursor keys.
Rotating the device to go to portrait or landscape also works very cleanly, and it does landscape and portrait in two directions so you can pick it up without turning it to a favoured direction.
I didn't experiment much with the on-screen buttons, but as mentioned in the article, there's a slight vibration every time a button is pressed which does help. I'd like to compare this to a single "click" type movement for ease of use.
'Fraid I've got to agree with parent. If you know the stuff, a paper index is enough. If you don't, you've just got to read it until you've internalised it before you can draw any vaild conclusions.
If you insist on linking the documents, use plain hand-written HTML - I've done it before while getting in to a subject, but don't expect to need it after the first couple of weeks.
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That's not necessarily true - I believe it's true of DD fusion (hard) but not of DT fusion (relatively easy). No idea how the quantities would compare with a fission reactor.
Yes, but it will be handled by brain dead monkeys, particularly as it reaches the consumers. If you can't stop it leaking in an engineering environment, what do you expect of Joe Commuter's five year old car?
For the Outlook problem, you may be able to avoid doing a conversion. I run my own mail server for various reasons, and access it through IMAP. As you probably know, IMAP allows you to store email in folders on the server, rather than just being a download protocol. It's supported by both Outlook and Mail, and in fact I use both clients with the same mail repository.
My own system uses a separate Linux box running sendmail to download the mail, then a separate imap daemon to allow access to the mailboxes, but I don't think that you will need to have the sendmail part for your purposes. I'd suggest just setting up the IMAP part, and using Mail or Outlook to do the mail download from your existing server, then just file the messages on the IMAP machine, using it purely as storage. Since both mail clients can support multiple servers you shouldn't have a problem doing this. This should allow you to migrate from Outlook by setting up the new folders on the server and just copying the files over from the local Windows folders - i.e. Outlook will do the conversion for you.
IMAP is available for the Mac - I don't use the Mac version myself, but I think you'll have to install it from Fink as I don't think it's part of the standard Mac distribution.
On the financial side, I use GnuCash but don't have enough experience to recommend it. It will import QIF. A major consideration is that most banks will not allow download to anything other than IE on Windows.
They are NOT political prisoners, they are violent terrorists
One of the reasons for open jury trials and the rule of law is to make sure you convict the right people of the right laws. This has not happened. To date, have seen little or no evidence to link these people to the WTC. By "evidence" I mean in the strict legal sense of that which is "seen" (this is the latin root of the word) and is subject to informed hostile questioning to establish its validity. What we outside the intelligence community have is only hearsay (again, in the legal sense of the word) - good enough to warrant an investigation, but we have no idea if there is enough to put guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
I am greatly cynical of any regime which so distrusts that its citizens will reach the "right" verdict that it bypasses the rule of law. It is always too easy to find reasons for the current situation being a special case. There are no special cases. If the benefit and the weight of law does not apply to all people, it has little worth.
I'm told the reason they reversed it was because the original was something like a trademark belonging to the Boy Scouts in Germany. My grandfather (British) once showed me Scout badge he'd been given at a pre-war jamboree in Germany - a swastika on a yellow ribbon, looking rather like a medal.
Already had this problem with a P800 (travelling in Europe on BA). The stewardess wasn't a luddite - she was ok at first, but apparently got instructions that the CAA (UK equiv of FAA) hasn't ok'd them yet, so very politely asked me to turn it off. I don't have a problem with that - seems more sensible for a central body to work out what's safe than leave it to cabin crew.
The telecomms industry could do with starting from the ground up (rather than building off the technologically suspect CDMA or GSM systems) with a new, open standard 100% packet based network with IP6 support - then and maybe then the internet (and related services) on a mobile level could become a killer app. Until then they would be best off sticking to voice calls and massivly overcharging for SMS.
Oh boy, flame on.
It might be worth having a rummage on 3GPP to see what's really going on. Yes, there will be support for packet switching, but also for circuit switching - because that's an efficient use of the bearer for voice traffic. There are measures to improve latency. 3G also has to deal with mobility management (moving from cell to cell), roaming, and session maintenance while switching between UMTS and GSM/GPRS. None of it is simple, and IP6 only addresses a tiny fraction of these issues.
I prefer Macs myself, but I do this on my Windows notebook (HP Omnibook) under Win2k - just takes a little fiddling with the Display control panel. And yes, it's really cool!
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Last year I got a £5 coin in change in the UK - never seen one before or since as they're usually just for coin collectors, but apparently the bank had run out of £5 notes.
However, I think your problem stems from the fact that you're using a Palm device with iSync
Yes, that's the problem - it's been a couple of weeks and I'd forgotten the details
I'm not sure either, but it'll most likely be in your user folder somewhere (duh;) ). Either way, you can manually save and or export both your calendars and your contacts (as separate vcards) to use for backup, and even to use bluetooth file exchange to get them on the Palm. Maybe worth a try?
Well, the Calendar data turns out to be under ~/Library, but I've not tracked down the contacts data. The problem is that I want to move the file out of the way, rather than just back up the contents and empty it - the idea is to force it to regenerate the file from the sync data rather than delete the records on the Palm. BTW, getting data from the Mac to the Palm works fine with iSync, it's only the other way that isn't provided.
ITo be fair, on ease of use wrt to this whole isync stuff, my T68i blows the P800 out of the water... for now.
Yup - I've got one - haven't had a chance to play with the remote control sw yet. Trouble is the T68i's memory is way too small for my contact lists so I can't use it for syncing.
Sorry, no solutions from me, but I wondered if anyone had a solution to a related problem. I keep a master diary and contacts list on my work PC (Win2K, Exchange) and sync either a Palm Tungsten. I want to over-write the diary and contacts on the Mac with the data from the handheld. Problem is that iSync doesn't allow you to do that - you can only over-write the handheld with the Mac data.
I'm reluctant to simply delete all the data on the Mac as this will probably delete all or some of the contacts on the handheld - also I'm not sure where iCal and iAddress keep their data to back it up.
Your personal history is anecdotal; the sales history of Microsoft's products is strong evidence to the contrary.
That's a pretty bald statement. Since I assume you aren't going to say that Win2k didn't sell, can you explain this "strong evidence to the contrary"?
Two Windows operating systems were on sale at the same time. One of them cost more and had less backwards compatibility, but higher stability. It had a significant proportion of the sales, particularly in the corporate market. Now maybe those customers were buying Win2k for something other than stability, but I don't see that you can get that purely from the sales history.
The AK-47 when absolutely positively need to kill every motherf**ker in the room, while drowning out their screams with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, except no substitutes.
(Ah, Violence and soft symphany music They go so well together.)
And perhaps a spot of milk-plus prior to the old ultraviolence, Alex?
Bill Gates has maintained in the past that customers will not pay for bug fixes - and hence by inference will not pay for reliability. I suspect that this is demonstrably untrue. Personally I bought Win2k for my own use purely for its stability compared with '98 and ME (dons Nomex underwear). Thoughts?
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Now how much other information contributing to "you" have you received during your lifetime? There's obvious stuff like the learning of details of a particular language, but large parts of our cultural experience also influence who we are. This can be important to genetic survival - for instance if you don't learn to dance the right way in some cultures, you're less likely to mate and propagate.
It's difficult to equate the raw data volumes for DNA and inheritance - one couldn't plausibly claim that a DVD containing Star Wars was as significant as 10% of your DNA. Still, perhaps it's sensible to question for a communication-centred species like humans: how much of our inheritance is from DNA, and how much is from our libraries?
To return to mammoths: we know that elephants are strongly social animals (at least the female ones are) and pass knowledge between generations. If we breed a mammoth from old DNA, but have no mammoth culture in which to raise it, do we really get a mammoth?
I see Connectix don't sell Virtual PC without DOS or Windows. I've got a legal, non-OEM copy of Win2k. If I buy Virtual PC plus DOS, can I install Win2k over it?
Ah, so that rumble over my house must be the drains. Funny how it affects people between Heathrow and Bristol.
It's not a question of forgiving you - it's a question of being decidedly worried about what you're going to do next. I live in Britain, and I am not absolutely confident that there are no circumstances under which you would use these against us. Forgive my bluntness, but the impression I have is that the only thing which moderates US action against anything that the body politic doesn't like is concern about the consequences to the US, and the more military superiority you have, the less restrained you are. In every major conflict from Korea through Vietnam to Gulf I and II, someone in the US government starts speculating about the use of nuclear weapons.
If your allies don't trust your judgement, will anyone else?
Oh, lest anyone misunderstand - I'm talking about the US as a state. I like individual USians just fine so long as they keep off the subject of gun law.
It's not my period, but I have read that the US contribution to WWI was small - that the main force of troops arrived about a year after the US declared war, and that their munitions were predominantly provided by the UK. I'd be interested if anyone knows more about this.
As to the Soviet Union, this seems unlikely. It was the successes of Germany on the Eastern Front which provoked the revolution, so removing the US from the war would not seem to change this.
Ok, whose morals? I'm a democrat, as are you - but this isn't the only political philosophy based on a moral principal. A supporter of Islamic theocracy will probably look on our governments much as we do on theirs - morally wrong, and arguably unfit to rule.
I use the usual system of one-per-company addresses, all aliased to my normal address, with the ability to divert them to the bit-bucket if they become a problem. I've had this address for about five years, and I buy a lot of stuff on the Web, but I have no, as in zero, spam. I've never yet had to devnull any of the addresses (there are currently 90), but I've yet to have offers to enlarge portions of my anatomy or bank balance. I've not used any of the addresses on Usenet, but other than that I've not taken any precautions. Am I alone in this?
Rotating the device to go to portrait or landscape also works very cleanly, and it does landscape and portrait in two directions so you can pick it up without turning it to a favoured direction.
I didn't experiment much with the on-screen buttons, but as mentioned in the article, there's a slight vibration every time a button is pressed which does help. I'd like to compare this to a single "click" type movement for ease of use.
Overall, a very tasty device.
If you insist on linking the documents, use plain hand-written HTML - I've done it before while getting in to a subject, but don't expect to need it after the first couple of weeks.
That's not necessarily true - I believe it's true of DD fusion (hard) but not of DT fusion (relatively easy). No idea how the quantities would compare with a fission reactor.
Yes, but it will be handled by brain dead monkeys, particularly as it reaches the consumers. If you can't stop it leaking in an engineering environment, what do you expect of Joe Commuter's five year old car?
My own system uses a separate Linux box running sendmail to download the mail, then a separate imap daemon to allow access to the mailboxes, but I don't think that you will need to have the sendmail part for your purposes. I'd suggest just setting up the IMAP part, and using Mail or Outlook to do the mail download from your existing server, then just file the messages on the IMAP machine, using it purely as storage. Since both mail clients can support multiple servers you shouldn't have a problem doing this. This should allow you to migrate from Outlook by setting up the new folders on the server and just copying the files over from the local Windows folders - i.e. Outlook will do the conversion for you.
IMAP is available for the Mac - I don't use the Mac version myself, but I think you'll have to install it from Fink as I don't think it's part of the standard Mac distribution.
On the financial side, I use GnuCash but don't have enough experience to recommend it. It will import QIF. A major consideration is that most banks will not allow download to anything other than IE on Windows.
They are safer, but they were safer before the cameras.
One of the reasons for open jury trials and the rule of law is to make sure you convict the right people of the right laws. This has not happened. To date, have seen little or no evidence to link these people to the WTC. By "evidence" I mean in the strict legal sense of that which is "seen" (this is the latin root of the word) and is subject to informed hostile questioning to establish its validity. What we outside the intelligence community have is only hearsay (again, in the legal sense of the word) - good enough to warrant an investigation, but we have no idea if there is enough to put guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
I am greatly cynical of any regime which so distrusts that its citizens will reach the "right" verdict that it bypasses the rule of law. It is always too easy to find reasons for the current situation being a special case. There are no special cases. If the benefit and the weight of law does not apply to all people, it has little worth.
I'm told the reason they reversed it was because the original was something like a trademark belonging to the Boy Scouts in Germany. My grandfather (British) once showed me Scout badge he'd been given at a pre-war jamboree in Germany - a swastika on a yellow ribbon, looking rather like a medal.
SCO bought Xenix from Microsoft. Does anybody know whether Microsoft retained any commercial interest in SCO?
Already had this problem with a P800 (travelling in Europe on BA). The stewardess wasn't a luddite - she was ok at first, but apparently got instructions that the CAA (UK equiv of FAA) hasn't ok'd them yet, so very politely asked me to turn it off. I don't have a problem with that - seems more sensible for a central body to work out what's safe than leave it to cabin crew.
Oh boy, flame on.
It might be worth having a rummage on 3GPP to see what's really going on. Yes, there will be support for packet switching, but also for circuit switching - because that's an efficient use of the bearer for voice traffic. There are measures to improve latency. 3G also has to deal with mobility management (moving from cell to cell), roaming, and session maintenance while switching between UMTS and GSM/GPRS. None of it is simple, and IP6 only addresses a tiny fraction of these issues.
I prefer Macs myself, but I do this on my Windows notebook (HP Omnibook) under Win2k - just takes a little fiddling with the Display control panel. And yes, it's really cool!
Last year I got a £5 coin in change in the UK - never seen one before or since as they're usually just for coin collectors, but apparently the bank had run out of £5 notes.
Yes, that's the problem - it's been a couple of weeks and I'd forgotten the details
Well, the Calendar data turns out to be under ~/Library, but I've not tracked down the contacts data. The problem is that I want to move the file out of the way, rather than just back up the contents and empty it - the idea is to force it to regenerate the file from the sync data rather than delete the records on the Palm. BTW, getting data from the Mac to the Palm works fine with iSync, it's only the other way that isn't provided.
Yup - I've got one - haven't had a chance to play with the remote control sw yet. Trouble is the T68i's memory is way too small for my contact lists so I can't use it for syncing.
I'm reluctant to simply delete all the data on the Mac as this will probably delete all or some of the contacts on the handheld - also I'm not sure where iCal and iAddress keep their data to back it up.
I'm also waiting for the P800 to be supported!
That's a pretty bald statement. Since I assume you aren't going to say that Win2k didn't sell, can you explain this "strong evidence to the contrary"?
Two Windows operating systems were on sale at the same time. One of them cost more and had less backwards compatibility, but higher stability. It had a significant proportion of the sales, particularly in the corporate market. Now maybe those customers were buying Win2k for something other than stability, but I don't see that you can get that purely from the sales history.
And perhaps a spot of milk-plus prior to the old ultraviolence, Alex?
Bill Gates has maintained in the past that customers will not pay for bug fixes - and hence by inference will not pay for reliability. I suspect that this is demonstrably untrue. Personally I bought Win2k for my own use purely for its stability compared with '98 and ME (dons Nomex underwear). Thoughts?