Anyone hear of scrapple? It's an eastern Pennsylvania thing. It's a breakfast food, like sausage, but comes in a brick. I like it sliced thin, and fried all crunchylike.
I wonder if the same thing can be done with chlorella, or other small life forms. We could grow these in outer space, right? I'm getting hungry...
Rock-on, dewd, I'm a longhair too. I choose to not work in banks, or other boring places, and generally choose the startups, dotcoms, and Internet companies. These people don't care. Besides, for every longhaired geek in shorts, there are two seriously overweight and smelly IT trolls.
Readers would prolly not be supprised that where I work there are modded folks -- tattoos and piercings. I don't think those things interfere with their ability to do their work, and I would expect those "marked" folks would be the types of people that stand-out in the industry, as they are exceptional people anyway. Y'know, my.02.
Which PIM package has nested tasks? Frequently, I'll add a bunch of tasks to my task list, but some of them depend upon other tasks. No package I've seen so far will do this. Sure, I can put them into categories, but categories don't work the way that nested tasks should.
Great. What about perchlorate, or lead, mercury, PCBs, dioxin, saturated fats, and good 'ol fashioned drinking water? All of those things are in our food, and cause cancer and other nasty things.
Sure, testing is good, and there should be reasonable testing performed.
Hell, in all seriousness, if I had a list of available nano-tech (including foods), I'd definately try 'em. I am not affraid of modified plants, or opposed to things like nanopants. I would show off my nanopants to my friends and cow orkers.
I have these (non stretchy) microfiber shorts on now, not sure if these are considered nanotech. I sure would enjoy office shirts made out of the same material.
Protest all you want! However, these are products I personally want to buy, even as a novelty.
Hell, I've met various types of scientists at parties -- just gotta go to the right parties. Also, smarter and more evolved/refined people congregate together at parties, usually -- unless they're doing the white-picket-fence thing, which just isn't for me (or my SO, aren't I lucky!).
Also, give your geek some space to breathe, and work on work/hobbies/projects, and to visit other people. A little bit of space can go a loooong way.
I went for a walk with a friend through my neighborhood, the South Side of Pittsburgh. I was stopped by a security guard, who told me that I could not take pictures of the hospital buildings. He got real close and mean when I asked why, and only upon pressing him did he tell me it was a security risk. In my own fucking neighborhood.
Your water is dangerous too! Do you have filters on your water tap? I drink straight from the tap.
Hell, if I could find out which GM foods were, I'd like to try 'em. Who cares if it's a bigger tomato, and is perhaps jucier and more tasty? I do, and that's what I think I want in a tomato, not a dinky little spotted nasty rotted thing -- which is what I see alot as an excuse for a natural tomato.
Selective breeding has been going on for longer than I care to speculate. And how bad is that? A bigger, tastier, insect-resistant tomato?
I have not studied extensively DNA, proteins, or even simple chemistry. I believe, however, that these things can be modeled, and explored. We'll find some self-organizing results, and self-distroying results. It does take quite the balance for a creature to exist -- take away the sequence for the high-affinity choline receptor, and you get a creature that just doesn't work all that well. This type of knock-out mouse will be fine until it starts breathing on it's own, and not having that particular receptor, it's unable to maintain the balande of chemicals for things like breathing. It will die in like 24 hours. I asked on this one. I got the concept right though.
Yes, creating small mutant creatures that don't work right, is definately gross and distasteful. Without that kind of research, though, we really wouldn't get anywhere. I'm quite glad that it's not my job, but then again, I don't have to deal with SCO, or Novel, or Microsoft either.
I'd love to see the warflying visualizations after an airborne wardrive. Using a directional antenna picks up signals on the ground, not in the air -- and are kinda useless mapping out unless you know the angles and charachteristics of the antenna. Might actually be nice to see what flyers pick-up with flightplans. Or would that also be a security-risk?
Totally. As a friend of mine said recently, "Parts equal loss." Some kids at MIT had built some prototypes of small gas turbines to power laptops -- suckers were tiny. Honestly, a couple of small turbines and related peripherals, in addition to a combination of capacitors and batteries, should be able to power a ground commuter vehicle quite well.
Oh, totally, dewd! It's not quite that far off, y'know.
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I agree that genes should be left for geneticists, but when your compiler, debugger, and emmulator/simulator check for bad or even icky results, it might actually be fun to toy with genes, in an neat visual way.
At least, I have fantasies about modifying vegetables, fruits, and bugs. I expect that wasps can be reengineered to produce complete reams of laser printer paper, even with a sealed paper wrapper. I expect that ants or cockroaches could be modified to clean your house, better than they do. I expect bacteria or other small folded shapes can be reengineered to spit-out carbon nanotubes, construct simple buildings, or eat trash and grow fuel-cell cartridges.
All this hinges on us being able to effectively "file/print" DNA molecules. It's fun to watch technology accelerate, I am one excited geek.
Good thing, too! No, I doubt that municipalities can provide better Internet than ISPs, but it should not be ISPs, iLECs, or anyone else who determines what works in this area. I read somewhere that it costs less to install a wireless network in a City, than it does to supply trashbags. Verizon needs to be stopped.
Winn is a sercurity analyst, author, and general famous person. Google for his name, and you'll understand. I've been reading his stuff for years.
Also, most of your arguments don't hold water. Once you understand that there are many many platforms available for mobile computing, and actually take the time to understand some of them, you will realize that he's right with respect to time wasted beating your face against the keyboard just to get some actual work done. (read one of the sister posts about DSL support and IP networking issues)
I swore off Windows at the end of last year, in favor of Fedora Core 3. Nice workstation, but I am having trouble editing DV, using bluetooth with my phone, and just playing MP3 streams from SomaFM.
Some of these, and others are why I am still visiting EBay, and fantasizing about a used 15" TiBook.
That you, Josh? Dude, I remember when you showed me that Windows NT logo tattooed to your arm -- I couldn't believe it, and I teased you for it. I couldn't figure out why you had a multicolored serial port on the other arm, but I think you told me you had it covered up with a "balance" chip. Do you show those off at work? I guess they take you seriously, since you've been at Microsoft for a while. Here's that picture of me in front of one of those Microsoft signposts from my trip to visit a while ago. Anyway, rock-on, dewd.
Who gives a shit if they're xyz insured. Does that mean anything? With my prior personal experience, I may have better luck either keeping cash in a sack under my mattress, or entrusting it to a nasty crack-ho than leaving it with whatever financial institution. Hay, Vinnie, c'mere a sec, I got some binness for ya.
Wouldn't that be great? No more fucked-up additional laws? Do we need additional laws? I think everything can be distilled into it's basics, and infered through debate at it's instance. All laws should be writen in large letters on a single side of a sheet of paper, and anything above that is unwaranted. Don't fuck with other people, enjoy life, and don't impede on other people's fun. Too simplistic? Perhaps it can be worded more succintly?
"First you have to excel in high school to get into college in the first place"
I found junior-high and high-school to not be a learning experience, or college prepatory experience, but child storage -- nothing more or less. I think I went to particularly stupid schools. Highest math I was allowed to take was geometry. Does that mean that I get punished financially the rest of my life for my high school grades? That is total bullshit.
I would go home from school to program my Apple II with BASIC and assembly, and other techie things we all did at that age.
Screw you for throwing my resume in the trash. If my lack of formalized education makes you not wanna read about me in my resume, you can read about me in the technology section of various papers and magazines.
You're an asshole, and I'm glad I don't work for you.
I have no college degree, my folks weren't rich enough to send me, and I dropped out of high school because they wouldn't let me take any computer classes. I have no formal education.
In spite of that, I have come quite a distance, and I stand out among my peers. It makes me extremely fucking angry when I get turned down for a job because I don't have a degree. Why do I get punished for the socioeconomic class my folks brought me into?
So, you, take that keyboard you're typing on, and jam the whole thing into your ass. And, I'm glad I don't work for you.
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Anyone hear of scrapple? It's an eastern Pennsylvania thing. It's a breakfast food, like sausage, but comes in a brick. I like it sliced thin, and fried all crunchylike.
I wonder if the same thing can be done with chlorella, or other small life forms. We could grow these in outer space, right? I'm getting hungry...
Rock-on, dewd, I'm a longhair too. I choose to not work in banks, or other boring places, and generally choose the startups, dotcoms, and Internet companies. These people don't care. Besides, for every longhaired geek in shorts, there are two seriously overweight and smelly IT trolls.
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Readers would prolly not be supprised that where I work there are modded folks -- tattoos and piercings. I don't think those things interfere with their ability to do their work, and I would expect those "marked" folks would be the types of people that stand-out in the industry, as they are exceptional people anyway. Y'know, my
Which PIM package has nested tasks? Frequently, I'll add a bunch of tasks to my task list, but some of them depend upon other tasks. No package I've seen so far will do this. Sure, I can put them into categories, but categories don't work the way that nested tasks should.
Great. What about perchlorate, or lead, mercury, PCBs, dioxin, saturated fats, and good 'ol fashioned drinking water? All of those things are in our food, and cause cancer and other nasty things.
Sure, testing is good, and there should be reasonable testing performed.
I, for one, welcome our new nanopants overlords!
Hell, in all seriousness, if I had a list of available nano-tech (including foods), I'd definately try 'em. I am not affraid of modified plants, or opposed to things like nanopants. I would show off my nanopants to my friends and cow orkers.
I have these (non stretchy) microfiber shorts on now, not sure if these are considered nanotech. I sure would enjoy office shirts made out of the same material.
Protest all you want! However, these are products I personally want to buy, even as a novelty.
Hell, I've met various types of scientists at parties -- just gotta go to the right parties. Also, smarter and more evolved/refined people congregate together at parties, usually -- unless they're doing the white-picket-fence thing, which just isn't for me (or my SO, aren't I lucky!).
Also, give your geek some space to breathe, and work on work/hobbies/projects, and to visit other people. A little bit of space can go a loooong way.
I went for a walk with a friend through my neighborhood, the South Side of Pittsburgh. I was stopped by a security guard, who told me that I could not take pictures of the hospital buildings. He got real close and mean when I asked why, and only upon pressing him did he tell me it was a security risk. In my own fucking neighborhood.
Your water is dangerous too! Do you have filters on your water tap? I drink straight from the tap.
Hell, if I could find out which GM foods were, I'd like to try 'em. Who cares if it's a bigger tomato, and is perhaps jucier and more tasty? I do, and that's what I think I want in a tomato, not a dinky little spotted nasty rotted thing -- which is what I see alot as an excuse for a natural tomato.
Selective breeding has been going on for longer than I care to speculate. And how bad is that? A bigger, tastier, insect-resistant tomato?
I have not studied extensively DNA, proteins, or even simple chemistry. I believe, however, that these things can be modeled, and explored. We'll find some self-organizing results, and self-distroying results. It does take quite the balance for a creature to exist -- take away the sequence for the high-affinity choline receptor, and you get a creature that just doesn't work all that well. This type of knock-out mouse will be fine until it starts breathing on it's own, and not having that particular receptor, it's unable to maintain the balande of chemicals for things like breathing. It will die in like 24 hours. I asked on this one. I got the concept right though.
Yes, creating small mutant creatures that don't work right, is definately gross and distasteful. Without that kind of research, though, we really wouldn't get anywhere. I'm quite glad that it's not my job, but then again, I don't have to deal with SCO, or Novel, or Microsoft either.
Isn't that kinda hard for our current excuse for technology? This has never been done before, right? I welcome our new killbot overlords.
I'd love to see the warflying visualizations after an airborne wardrive. Using a directional antenna picks up signals on the ground, not in the air -- and are kinda useless mapping out unless you know the angles and charachteristics of the antenna. Might actually be nice to see what flyers pick-up with flightplans. Or would that also be a security-risk?
Totally. As a friend of mine said recently, "Parts equal loss." Some kids at MIT had built some prototypes of small gas turbines to power laptops -- suckers were tiny. Honestly, a couple of small turbines and related peripherals, in addition to a combination of capacitors and batteries, should be able to power a ground commuter vehicle quite well.
Oh, totally, dewd! It's not quite that far off, y'know.
I agree that genes should be left for geneticists, but when your compiler, debugger, and emmulator/simulator check for bad or even icky results, it might actually be fun to toy with genes, in an neat visual way.
At least, I have fantasies about modifying vegetables, fruits, and bugs. I expect that wasps can be reengineered to produce complete reams of laser printer paper, even with a sealed paper wrapper. I expect that ants or cockroaches could be modified to clean your house, better than they do. I expect bacteria or other small folded shapes can be reengineered to spit-out carbon nanotubes, construct simple buildings, or eat trash and grow fuel-cell cartridges.
All this hinges on us being able to effectively "file/print" DNA molecules. It's fun to watch technology accelerate, I am one excited geek.
Ooh, bigtime fractint user. How can I get a check for working on open-source projects?
Good thing, too! No, I doubt that municipalities can provide better Internet than ISPs, but it should not be ISPs, iLECs, or anyone else who determines what works in this area. I read somewhere that it costs less to install a wireless network in a City, than it does to supply trashbags. Verizon needs to be stopped.
You could always visit another hotspot. How's the coffee, though?
Winn is a sercurity analyst, author, and general famous person. Google for his name, and you'll understand. I've been reading his stuff for years.
Also, most of your arguments don't hold water. Once you understand that there are many many platforms available for mobile computing, and actually take the time to understand some of them, you will realize that he's right with respect to time wasted beating your face against the keyboard just to get some actual work done. (read one of the sister posts about DSL support and IP networking issues)
I swore off Windows at the end of last year, in favor of Fedora Core 3. Nice workstation, but I am having trouble editing DV, using bluetooth with my phone, and just playing MP3 streams from SomaFM.
Some of these, and others are why I am still visiting EBay, and fantasizing about a used 15" TiBook.
That you, Josh? Dude, I remember when you showed me that Windows NT logo tattooed to your arm -- I couldn't believe it, and I teased you for it. I couldn't figure out why you had a multicolored serial port on the other arm, but I think you told me you had it covered up with a "balance" chip. Do you show those off at work? I guess they take you seriously, since you've been at Microsoft for a while. Here's that picture of me in front of one of those Microsoft signposts from my trip to visit a while ago. Anyway, rock-on, dewd.
Who gives a shit if they're xyz insured. Does that mean anything? With my prior personal experience, I may have better luck either keeping cash in a sack under my mattress, or entrusting it to a nasty crack-ho than leaving it with whatever financial institution. Hay, Vinnie, c'mere a sec, I got some binness for ya.
Dissent is highly patriotic. Go read some history. Hell, I didn't even *go* to school, and I know some of these things!
Wouldn't that be great? No more fucked-up additional laws? Do we need additional laws? I think everything can be distilled into it's basics, and infered through debate at it's instance. All laws should be writen in large letters on a single side of a sheet of paper, and anything above that is unwaranted. Don't fuck with other people, enjoy life, and don't impede on other people's fun. Too simplistic? Perhaps it can be worded more succintly?
What is this thing (tilts head) retirement?
"First you have to excel in high school to get into college in the first place"
I found junior-high and high-school to not be a learning experience, or college prepatory experience, but child storage -- nothing more or less. I think I went to particularly stupid schools. Highest math I was allowed to take was geometry. Does that mean that I get punished financially the rest of my life for my high school grades? That is total bullshit.
I would go home from school to program my Apple II with BASIC and assembly, and other techie things we all did at that age.
Screw you for throwing my resume in the trash. If my lack of formalized education makes you not wanna read about me in my resume, you can read about me in the technology section of various papers and magazines.
You're an asshole, and I'm glad I don't work for you.
I have no college degree, my folks weren't rich enough to send me, and I dropped out of high school because they wouldn't let me take any computer classes. I have no formal education.
In spite of that, I have come quite a distance, and I stand out among my peers. It makes me extremely fucking angry when I get turned down for a job because I don't have a degree. Why do I get punished for the socioeconomic class my folks brought me into?
So, you, take that keyboard you're typing on, and jam the whole thing into your ass. And, I'm glad I don't work for you.