burn 'em with a good oxidizer (like liquid nitrous) at high enough temperatures, and tires too will be mostly just another source of clean-burning hydrocarbons. the exhaust should be mostly water, CO2, N2 and little else.
more like isinstance(chimps, homoSapiens.__class__) == 1 (or whatever the syntax is in your favourite OO language). we're cousins to chimps, and we've pretty much always known that; this study is about whether we're first or second cousins.
well yeah, lettuce and us are both
eukaryotes. when you think about it, it's pretty amazing how many things all eukaryotes by definition must have in common - cell and organelle structure, cell metabolism, probably entire encyclopedias' worth of biochemistry, and so on.
ISTR hearing that one of the most commonly shared, and least mutated, genes known has something to do with how DNA gets coiled up into chromosomes. little wonder something like that would be common! wish i could find a reference for the quote, though...
Alsot, it only taks 2 atoms in the wrong place in the dna to make the difference between a normal human and someone with addition challenges.
really? which two atoms at what places in the DNA?
you're probably trying to make a mildly derogatory reference to Down's syndrome (trisomy 21). but that doesn't involve damage to the DNA as such, it involves an extra chromosome - an extra copy of one particular piece of DNA. specifically one extra copy, not two, and not just any chromosome will do - trisomy 23, for example, has entirely different effects.
Two critters are said to be in the same species if they can breed and have fertile offspring.
well, if they're the kind of critters most of us usually think of when we hear some talk about "critters". it's not a universal definition, though - it's only valid for organisms that reproduce sexually, and even then you sometimes have to just plain guess simply because it's not practical to find out for sure.
this text wasn't really meant as a definition of what a "species" is, but it gives an overview of the problems with the word anyway, fairly near the top. what it boils down to is, you've got to keep in mind what sort of critters you're dealing with and how they go about making more critters; just what the difference between two species is, depends on how they respectively live.
i've just finished an Intro to CS course that used Java. i spent most of the semester wishing to all heavens the prof'd used Python instead. i ended up learning a lot more about the syntax and idiosyncracies of Java than i did about CS - with Python, the language-specific stuff would have taken a huge lot less time to cover, and caused many fewer headaches.
what titles are on the Hell's Faire CD? i'd like to know because if it's mostly the same books i already got on my War of Honor CD, then i'll wait for the paperback, but if i can get a dozen or so new books by splurging for the hardcover, i'll do that instead.
(sorry to bother/. with stupid FAQs like that, but the baen.com site doesn't seem to have a "ls -lr" of the damn thing anywhere. and no, i won't be downloading the blasted ISO over a 56k modem...)
"nobody gives a damn about ogg"? man, give up smoking the cheap crack.
take a look at people who embed audio in other projects - in-game music, for example. free code and specs availability and patent-freeness is making ogg a de-facto standard in that scene pretty rapidly.
okay, so AAC has k-rad standards bodies bowing down in its direction five times a day. what's a license gonna cost me, and who guarantees some patent holder won't just decide to up and change that tomorrow? with ogg, you know what you're in for.
if you've encoded all your CDs as MP3 at 192kbps or better, then clearly you care about sound quality at least a little, or you'd've gone for 128k or less. in that case, you're not gonna reencode as anything - you're gonna re-rip from the CDs and encode the CDDA in whatever new format tickles your fancy. (which is, of course, what you were talking about. most people use "reencode" to mean translating from one lossy format to another, not to mean redoing all their work. semantic quibble.) and if you're considering that sort of effort, then you should definitely give a damn about ogg - its sound quality per file size is quitecompetitive.
the one thing people still need to worry about is portable players. too often they just play the crummy (encumbered, non-free) formats; me, i'm not wasting my money on a toy that won't play the format i've settled on for my music collection, and i'm not re-ripping all my discs now that i've finally got the quality settings down pat the way i like them. if your iWhatever won't play my ogg, i won't buy it, i'll just have to dig the CD out of storage and play it on my discman. as for that "neuros" thingy, now - that looks like it might become something.
burning rubber is toxic if you burn it with just atmospheric oxygen, at the (low) temperatures it'll achieve in open, ambient conditions. but pour on some liquid oxygen (or liquid N2O will work too, i guess) in a bit of confinement to build up some chamber pressure, and the rubber starts being just another hydrocarbon. hybrid engines burn clean, exhausting water and carbon {di,mon}oxide mainly, unless maybe you try to throttle them down i suppose. dunno how long they might smolder and sputter if you cut off the oxidizer flow.
if the rock surrounds the thing to be dated, then that rock formation can't easily be any older than the thing it surrounds. or are you claiming you're capable of throwing your dead cat into solid rock such that the cat becomes embedded in the rock, without leaving clear and obvious traces of the impact?
Re:Close boxes in individual tabs - a bad idea
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large proportion of the tab? that's weird, on my screen it takes up less space than the idiotic and thoroughly useless favicon on the other side of the tab, and far less space than gets devoted to the title of the tab.
i love having close boxes on each tab. the ability to close any tab without having to switch to it first is pretty much a basic necessity, for me. if i really hated it, my galeon would let me turn it off, but if somebody decided to move that particular configuration feature to gconf and bury it deep i wouldn't miss it.
Now, the Linux automounter (I'm talking about autofs, not amd) behaves very badly at times, but that's another story...
please, if you have the time, do tell the story! i'm beginning to rely semi-seriously on autofs 4, and if i'm setting myself up for something nasty, i'd like to know before i'm in too deep.
I think one of Linux' weak points is that it doesn't offer any real *alternative* when it comes to the GUI.
I think Linux needs some sort of wildly different GUI, perhaps not even based on the WIMP metaphore.
has it been so long already, that the Great X11 Window Manager Chaos is beginning to be forgotten?
say, here's a beginner's guide sort of site for you. for the really exotic, not-even-WIMP-based ideas you'd really need a completely redesigned and rewritten application suite, which would take some little time to create, but a few of the more... exotic... WM's already out there might be good starting points. TreeWM, maybe Ion, maybe PWM, perhaps 3Dwm. or just go googling for "window manager", see how long that'll keep you busy...
maybe it's a sign of getting old, when you can clearly remember the days of "unix has too many GUIs!" and seeing the good point that was therein made.
but the old clunker's plenty fast enough for me - it can outrun my 233MHz pentium MMX pretty easily. all i really need it for is bzflag, anyway, and the way i play, i'd be getting my ass whupped no matter *what* video card i owned...
unfortunately, a desert anywhere between you and the switching station also rules out DSL.
i got telemarketed for cheap ADSL by my local telco - "oh, our meter readings say you must be right on top of the switch, connectivity should be excellent, only $50 a month!" sounded great, so i signed up.
two weeks later, modem arrived. two weeks after that, still no DSL, so i called the telco. "oh, your order's been cancelled - turns out your neighborhood is on a fiber run, we can't do DSL over fiber".
a year-plus later, now, and i'm still on a 56K dialup. sure, tell me about the virtues of fiber to the home. yeah, i'll pay more for technology that so far is only giving me more headaches than plain old copper would have, yessir, sure i will! </sarcasm>
you might be talking about SunRays, perhaps? that's about the only "dumb terminals" sun's sold these last several years. they've got smartcard readers of some sort, IIRC, unless those slots i'm thinking of are for flash memory cards of some sort.
sun workstations may or may not have floppies installed - they've traditionally used funky proprietary floppy drives that probably cost two-three times what a PC floppy drive do, so if you're installing a hundred suns, you likely would opt out of them, yeah.
the last few generations of sun workstations (the blades and onwards) are dropping their floppies for smart card readers as standard equipment, too, but anything up to about the Ultra 80's could at least take floppies if you ordered them that way. dunno how many installations actually did, in practice, though.
I now know how everyone felt in 1986, after the Challenger disaster.
if anything, it was a bit worse then. there was a civilian aboard Challenger - Christa McAuliffe, because of whom that liftoff was watched on live TV in a lot of classrooms. the shuttle program was going full-bore then, too; it was a time when the things were supposed to be safe, effective, cheap lift to orbit. regular people didn't expect them to blow up spectacularly and kill all their crew back then, so it was more of a surprise and shock.
but yeah, just about as bad the second time around too. goddessdammit, i just don't want there to be a third time. woulda, coulda, shoulda had the bloody DC-X by now...
Re:Biggest problem with macroevolution...
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the "initial conditions of macroevolution" is a population of living things that can reproduce.
the term "macroevolution" was initially invented by fundamentalists for their own reasons, but eventually became used even by biologists as a convenient shorthand for "evolution at or above the species level", that is, more or less, "speciation". insofar as the term "macroevolution" means anything at all, that's pretty much it. and when you're talking of that, then you're presupposing an initial (population of a) species which changes or diverges (evolves, for short) into one or more different species.
perhaps you meant to refer to abiogenesis and the fact that the conditions of the very early earth are not very well known. but if so, you used the wrong terminology; "macroevolution" - like any kind of biological evolution - really has nothing much to do with that.
granted that what got quoted wasn't the actual legalese they're going to use, but to judge by what the man said, it sounds to me like distributors won't be allowed to bundle binaries of their code. possibly not even source packages, much less unmodified source. if that's the case, they'd damn well better sell one helluva good GUI version of it if they want any linux marketshare at all - as long as RedHat and Mandrake keep distributing GnuPG by default, any "official" PGP is gonna have a steep uphill battle.
one of the pages had concept drawings showing a "club" interior - side mounted sofa, chairs at each end of that mounted facing inwards, like a miniature conference room on wheels. IIRC it even showed a miniature table up against the opposite wall from that sofa.
no, it didn't show how you were supposed to get in and out, unfortunately, nor did it show how the seatbelts would work in that setup. still, that drawing made me suspect somebody was thinking luxury limo market. and hey, if eight wheels still seems a bit excessive for a limo, you can always stretch it further...
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er... yes, actually, it would.
HTH. HAND.
burn 'em with a good oxidizer (like liquid nitrous) at high enough temperatures, and tires too will be mostly just another source of clean-burning hydrocarbons. the exhaust should be mostly water, CO2, N2 and little else.
more like isinstance(chimps, homoSapiens.__class__) == 1 (or whatever the syntax is in your favourite OO language). we're cousins to chimps, and we've pretty much always known that; this study is about whether we're first or second cousins.
ISTR hearing that one of the most commonly shared, and least mutated, genes known has something to do with how DNA gets coiled up into chromosomes. little wonder something like that would be common! wish i could find a reference for the quote, though...
really? which two atoms at what places in the DNA?
you're probably trying to make a mildly derogatory reference to Down's syndrome (trisomy 21). but that doesn't involve damage to the DNA as such, it involves an extra chromosome - an extra copy of one particular piece of DNA. specifically one extra copy, not two, and not just any chromosome will do - trisomy 23, for example, has entirely different effects.
correct. we're just another ape. there's a difference - unless, maybe, you've got a tail...?
well, if they're the kind of critters most of us usually think of when we hear some talk about "critters". it's not a universal definition, though - it's only valid for organisms that reproduce sexually, and even then you sometimes have to just plain guess simply because it's not practical to find out for sure.
this text wasn't really meant as a definition of what a "species" is, but it gives an overview of the problems with the word anyway, fairly near the top. what it boils down to is, you've got to keep in mind what sort of critters you're dealing with and how they go about making more critters; just what the difference between two species is, depends on how they respectively live.
i've just finished an Intro to CS course that used Java. i spent most of the semester wishing to all heavens the prof'd used Python instead. i ended up learning a lot more about the syntax and idiosyncracies of Java than i did about CS - with Python, the language-specific stuff would have taken a huge lot less time to cover, and caused many fewer headaches.
what titles are on the Hell's Faire CD? i'd like to know because if it's mostly the same books i already got on my War of Honor CD, then i'll wait for the paperback, but if i can get a dozen or so new books by splurging for the hardcover, i'll do that instead.
(sorry to bother /. with stupid FAQs like that, but the baen.com site doesn't seem to have a "ls -lr" of the damn thing anywhere. and no, i won't be downloading the blasted ISO over a 56k modem...)
take a look at people who embed audio in other projects - in-game music, for example. free code and specs availability and patent-freeness is making ogg a de-facto standard in that scene pretty rapidly.
okay, so AAC has k-rad standards bodies bowing down in its direction five times a day. what's a license gonna cost me, and who guarantees some patent holder won't just decide to up and change that tomorrow? with ogg, you know what you're in for.
if you've encoded all your CDs as MP3 at 192kbps or better, then clearly you care about sound quality at least a little, or you'd've gone for 128k or less. in that case, you're not gonna reencode as anything - you're gonna re-rip from the CDs and encode the CDDA in whatever new format tickles your fancy. (which is, of course, what you were talking about. most people use "reencode" to mean translating from one lossy format to another, not to mean redoing all their work. semantic quibble.) and if you're considering that sort of effort, then you should definitely give a damn about ogg - its sound quality per file size is quite competitive.
the one thing people still need to worry about is portable players. too often they just play the crummy (encumbered, non-free) formats; me, i'm not wasting my money on a toy that won't play the format i've settled on for my music collection, and i'm not re-ripping all my discs now that i've finally got the quality settings down pat the way i like them. if your iWhatever won't play my ogg, i won't buy it, i'll just have to dig the CD out of storage and play it on my discman. as for that "neuros" thingy, now - that looks like it might become something.
here's some random links i googled up: some guy's FAQ, a paper on hybrid engines with a lot of formulas and math (not a whole lot about cleanliness, though), a page with some firing pics which also claims clean burning.
sorry for the caps lock, but THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! you've changed my default vim configuration settings!
enough of this prattle. go read this tutorial about radiochron dating and maybe you'll learn something today. or read about isochron dating methods and learn how different dating methods can be used to verify one another. or, heck, why not just start at the beginning: go read about fossils and paleontology.
i love having close boxes on each tab. the ability to close any tab without having to switch to it first is pretty much a basic necessity, for me. if i really hated it, my galeon would let me turn it off, but if somebody decided to move that particular configuration feature to gconf and bury it deep i wouldn't miss it.
please, if you have the time, do tell the story! i'm beginning to rely semi-seriously on autofs 4, and if i'm setting myself up for something nasty, i'd like to know before i'm in too deep.
has it been so long already, that the Great X11 Window Manager Chaos is beginning to be forgotten?
say, here's a beginner's guide sort of site for you. for the really exotic, not-even-WIMP-based ideas you'd really need a completely redesigned and rewritten application suite, which would take some little time to create, but a few of the more... exotic... WM's already out there might be good starting points. TreeWM, maybe Ion, maybe PWM, perhaps 3Dwm. or just go googling for "window manager", see how long that'll keep you busy...
maybe it's a sign of getting old, when you can clearly remember the days of "unix has too many GUIs!" and seeing the good point that was therein made.
hey, at least that ought to outpace my voodoo3.
but the old clunker's plenty fast enough for me - it can outrun my 233MHz pentium MMX pretty easily. all i really need it for is bzflag, anyway, and the way i play, i'd be getting my ass whupped no matter *what* video card i owned...
i got telemarketed for cheap ADSL by my local telco - "oh, our meter readings say you must be right on top of the switch, connectivity should be excellent, only $50 a month!" sounded great, so i signed up.
two weeks later, modem arrived. two weeks after that, still no DSL, so i called the telco. "oh, your order's been cancelled - turns out your neighborhood is on a fiber run, we can't do DSL over fiber".
a year-plus later, now, and i'm still on a 56K dialup. sure, tell me about the virtues of fiber to the home. yeah, i'll pay more for technology that so far is only giving me more headaches than plain old copper would have, yessir, sure i will! </sarcasm>
sun workstations may or may not have floppies installed - they've traditionally used funky proprietary floppy drives that probably cost two-three times what a PC floppy drive do, so if you're installing a hundred suns, you likely would opt out of them, yeah.
the last few generations of sun workstations (the blades and onwards) are dropping their floppies for smart card readers as standard equipment, too, but anything up to about the Ultra 80's could at least take floppies if you ordered them that way. dunno how many installations actually did, in practice, though.
if anything, it was a bit worse then. there was a civilian aboard Challenger - Christa McAuliffe, because of whom that liftoff was watched on live TV in a lot of classrooms. the shuttle program was going full-bore then, too; it was a time when the things were supposed to be safe, effective, cheap lift to orbit. regular people didn't expect them to blow up spectacularly and kill all their crew back then, so it was more of a surprise and shock.
but yeah, just about as bad the second time around too. goddessdammit, i just don't want there to be a third time. woulda, coulda, shoulda had the bloody DC-X by now...
the term "macroevolution" was initially invented by fundamentalists for their own reasons, but eventually became used even by biologists as a convenient shorthand for "evolution at or above the species level", that is, more or less, "speciation". insofar as the term "macroevolution" means anything at all, that's pretty much it. and when you're talking of that, then you're presupposing an initial (population of a) species which changes or diverges (evolves, for short) into one or more different species.
perhaps you meant to refer to abiogenesis and the fact that the conditions of the very early earth are not very well known. but if so, you used the wrong terminology; "macroevolution" - like any kind of biological evolution - really has nothing much to do with that.
granted that what got quoted wasn't the actual legalese they're going to use, but to judge by what the man said, it sounds to me like distributors won't be allowed to bundle binaries of their code. possibly not even source packages, much less unmodified source. if that's the case, they'd damn well better sell one helluva good GUI version of it if they want any linux marketshare at all - as long as RedHat and Mandrake keep distributing GnuPG by default, any "official" PGP is gonna have a steep uphill battle.
one of the pages had concept drawings showing a "club" interior - side mounted sofa, chairs at each end of that mounted facing inwards, like a miniature conference room on wheels. IIRC it even showed a miniature table up against the opposite wall from that sofa.
no, it didn't show how you were supposed to get in and out, unfortunately, nor did it show how the seatbelts would work in that setup. still, that drawing made me suspect somebody was thinking luxury limo market. and hey, if eight wheels still seems a bit excessive for a limo, you can always stretch it further...