Natural transgenerational horizontal gene transfer from one completely separate species to another does indeed occur though the medium of DNA viruses.
Viruses fall into the "natural variation" bucket, while most people prefer to distinguish the selective breeding and genetic engineering buckets. But lets run with this viral transfer of DNA thing for a moment. Sure it may move some DNA from plant to plant, possibly across species and even to a different genus. It seems exceptionally unlikely that it would transfer DNA across kingdoms - i.e. from bacteria (or animals) to plants. And even then, it would probably only transfer from bacteria that live on the plants - bacteria that we probably already eat with the plants.
The only difference (which you claim makes them "not similar at all") is that modern genetic engineering can create new sequences to insert via DNA vector and Mendelian techniques pretty much rely on alleles that already exist in a population.
Right, with the modern methods you can insert the gene from Ebola that codes something that damages blood vessels and kills people. Not only is the risk of that happening with Mendelian techniques very low, you couldn't do it if you tried. This is why genetic engineering/modification is fundamentally different than selective breeding and potentially much more dangerous. Don't try to pretend they're essentially the same thing.
Nobody would make that piece for $300. That price clearly does not include the value of his time or any number of other things (like the computer used for CG and editing for example). Just call it a hobby project or something, but don't claim it only cost $300.
I want to be properly represented as a person with a copyright interest in the program, and I want the folks who assert lawsuit on others to comply in regard to my rights as they would have others comply with theirs. I doubt that legal action will be necessary to effect this change.
Putting up a public blog complaining that you're not represented doesn't seem like a very nice way to go about it. How you handle such matters will reflect on you and your business. OTOH if business is slow, any PR will do in a pinch I guess.
It seems from your post that:
1) You seem upset that SFLC isn't representing *your* interests in the matter, but they are representing others.
2) You are unhappy that someone registered a copyright without including you on it.
3) You seem to imply that you'd be willing to waive your rights in the matter, or give your blessing to distribution without source.
1 is not relevant
2 would suggest you should go after the people who registered it - unless my interpretation of 3 is correct.
3 If true, why would you say that?
The only point I can see to your rant is to draw attention to yourself and your consulting business trying to raise doubts about a bunch of things.
What exactly is your point here?
If this is CSS code they "stole", how many web developers have ripped off code from other sites? I'd wager 100% have borrowed something. I challenge you to find one site that was completely constructed by reading the documentation and writing all such code from scratch. Also, in this case how much of the "code" was original work vs scraped off other sites?
This is why people use ad blockers and stuff like myth's auto-commercial skip. If the advertisers had not become obnoxious these things would not be so popular.
Actually, if they hadn't become so obnoxious, these things would not *work*. I don't think the advertisers have realized that they have enabled the commercial skip they so despise.
A number of reverse engineering tools were developed for the Nouveau effort. Some of that can be used for similar efforts with other hardware. Most of that can be used should a new graphics driver architecture come out of nVidia. I have often wonder how long it will take if the Nouveau status matrix gets a new column, for that new generation of card to get support. It's been like 3 years for all the existing ones.
The reverse engineering of the nVidia driver took advantage of the close nVidia driver. Because the OS is open, they were able to put in hooks to intercept all data moving between the computer and the card. They can even monitor communication during specific rendering events. While it's an enormous amount of effort for a video card, it pales in comparison to trying to figure out how even a simple device works with no documentation and no existing way to manipulate it. In other words, the existence of the closed driver is what made the effort possible in the first place.
How do the Nouveau Nvidia drivers compare to the official ones? Do they actually work, no glitching/freezing issues or other similarities to the official driver, etc...?
Download a Fedora 12 live CD. Make a bootable USB flash drive from it and just try it. Bugs vary from GPU to GPU, so this is a great way to try Nouveau with whatever you've got. Of course this is 2D only, but you're interested in video playback, so that's fine.
I tried the free version of sketchup a couple years ago and the only thing I could do with my models was view them in sketchup. Is there any way to export to a standard format? Are there converters now? Or do you have to buy something in order to do useful things with the models?
Ahem. I thought it was already shown that vegetation - including trees - is growing faster due to the increase in atmospheric CO2. That means you can't really use tree rings to gauge temperature change when by definition the thing you think is changing the temperature is also know to effect tree growth and hence the rings.
I once heard that Emerson (motor maker) uses 10-20 percent of the worlds electrical copper. Motors are a huge user of copper. I work in electric vehicles, and when we pump 100kW through a motor we're losing some 1.6 percent to heat in the windings. Change that to aluminum and the losses will only increase - and then the cooling solution becomes more complex, the weight goes up, the range goes down. Then there are the previously mentioned issues with aluminum. And to the GGP, all the easy copper has been mined, but I believe there is still plenty available to meet the inceasing demand. If handled properly it can be easily recycled too.
I just put in a blank CD. Then a folder appears on the desktop with a button to burn the CD. I drag the file I want into there and hit that button. I'm not sure what this MAN thing is everyone keeps talking about.
You never played with mercury did you. It's liquid at room temperature and pressure and while some may absorb through the skin, it's not that much. Plenty of kids in the old days played with mercury - yes it's a bad idea, but what's in a CFL isn't going to kill you. There is certainly no danger to being in a room with liquid mercury. In fact, IIRC one of the large observatories floats its telescope in mercury to provide a nice bearing. Just because some states legislators have passed laws, doesn't mean they are right about the level of hazard.
Yeah, thanks for clarification of the argument that He4 can't be created in a fusion reaction. My main question remains: Why is there so much more He4 in the universe than He3 when Helium is primarily supposed to come from fusion reactions in stars?
You can't have it both ways. The evidence (over abundance of He4) suggests that He4 DOES get created in fusion reactions, and hence our models of nuclear fusion must be incomplete.
So why do we assume all white men don't need any additional help?
We don't. We assume that a majority of black folks could use some additional economic help. This was true starting with the end of slavery and people do tend to end up in the same economic condition their parents were in (middle class breeds middle class, etc...) so you can't necessarily say "that was a long time ago" because it wasn't - yet. Just don't ask me at what point that changes:-)
Regarding nuclear fusion. It is often said that Hydrogen fusion will produce Helium 4 which will then emit a neutron to become Helium 3 - some argument about the Helium 4 having too much energy to remain that way. To digress a bit - this was used as evidence against cold fusion (the neutrons should have killed them). So I looked it up and Helium 4 is far more abundant than 3 both on earth and apparently on the moon. As you can see by the abundance of kids balloons, we are not out of Helium 4 which is in much wider use. So can someone explain to me where all the Helium 4 comes from that was supposed to emit neutrons and turn into Helium 3???
The problem list provides a snapshot of the current state of research in a particular research area, letting experts track new developments
So when a promising idea comes along, the "expert" can follow up and hopefully get credit for the solution. I see this is the workplace and on the net in various places. Technical discussion forums are lurked by "experts" in industry who look for ideas without contributing anything to the discussion. Some people don't mind, others don't realize, and others are bothered by it.
What they need to do is broadcast the present price of electricity and have the meter bill accordingly. Then get the total bill every month. This enables the "consumer" to regulate their usage to reduce cost (smoothing usage as the utilities want). It also avoids the need for large amounts of data sent back. There are usually simple solutions, and the fact that companies don't use the simple solutions generally points to an agenda other than what is claimed.
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Viruses fall into the "natural variation" bucket, while most people prefer to distinguish the selective breeding and genetic engineering buckets. But lets run with this viral transfer of DNA thing for a moment. Sure it may move some DNA from plant to plant, possibly across species and even to a different genus. It seems exceptionally unlikely that it would transfer DNA across kingdoms - i.e. from bacteria (or animals) to plants. And even then, it would probably only transfer from bacteria that live on the plants - bacteria that we probably already eat with the plants.
Right, with the modern methods you can insert the gene from Ebola that codes something that damages blood vessels and kills people. Not only is the risk of that happening with Mendelian techniques very low, you couldn't do it if you tried. This is why genetic engineering/modification is fundamentally different than selective breeding and potentially much more dangerous. Don't try to pretend they're essentially the same thing.
Just wondering.
He said it's unproven, not untested. In fact, the existence of failed tests tend to support his implication that the assertion is false.
They should just broadcast it using ATSC. Then we don't need a receiver on the TV just the antenna.
Fuck you.
Nobody would make that piece for $300. That price clearly does not include the value of his time or any number of other things (like the computer used for CG and editing for example). Just call it a hobby project or something, but don't claim it only cost $300.
Putting up a public blog complaining that you're not represented doesn't seem like a very nice way to go about it. How you handle such matters will reflect on you and your business. OTOH if business is slow, any PR will do in a pinch I guess.
It seems from your post that:
1) You seem upset that SFLC isn't representing *your* interests in the matter, but they are representing others.
2) You are unhappy that someone registered a copyright without including you on it.
3) You seem to imply that you'd be willing to waive your rights in the matter, or give your blessing to distribution without source.
1 is not relevant
2 would suggest you should go after the people who registered it - unless my interpretation of 3 is correct.
3 If true, why would you say that?
The only point I can see to your rant is to draw attention to yourself and your consulting business trying to raise doubts about a bunch of things.
What exactly is your point here?
Because the license says so.
If this is CSS code they "stole", how many web developers have ripped off code from other sites? I'd wager 100% have borrowed something. I challenge you to find one site that was completely constructed by reading the documentation and writing all such code from scratch. Also, in this case how much of the "code" was original work vs scraped off other sites?
Actually, if they hadn't become so obnoxious, these things would not *work*. I don't think the advertisers have realized that they have enabled the commercial skip they so despise.
A number of reverse engineering tools were developed for the Nouveau effort. Some of that can be used for similar efforts with other hardware. Most of that can be used should a new graphics driver architecture come out of nVidia. I have often wonder how long it will take if the Nouveau status matrix gets a new column, for that new generation of card to get support. It's been like 3 years for all the existing ones.
The reverse engineering of the nVidia driver took advantage of the close nVidia driver. Because the OS is open, they were able to put in hooks to intercept all data moving between the computer and the card. They can even monitor communication during specific rendering events. While it's an enormous amount of effort for a video card, it pales in comparison to trying to figure out how even a simple device works with no documentation and no existing way to manipulate it. In other words, the existence of the closed driver is what made the effort possible in the first place.
Download a Fedora 12 live CD. Make a bootable USB flash drive from it and just try it. Bugs vary from GPU to GPU, so this is a great way to try Nouveau with whatever you've got. Of course this is 2D only, but you're interested in video playback, so that's fine.
I tried the free version of sketchup a couple years ago and the only thing I could do with my models was view them in sketchup. Is there any way to export to a standard format? Are there converters now? Or do you have to buy something in order to do useful things with the models?
Ahem. I thought it was already shown that vegetation - including trees - is growing faster due to the increase in atmospheric CO2. That means you can't really use tree rings to gauge temperature change when by definition the thing you think is changing the temperature is also know to effect tree growth and hence the rings.
I once heard that Emerson (motor maker) uses 10-20 percent of the worlds electrical copper. Motors are a huge user of copper. I work in electric vehicles, and when we pump 100kW through a motor we're losing some 1.6 percent to heat in the windings. Change that to aluminum and the losses will only increase - and then the cooling solution becomes more complex, the weight goes up, the range goes down. Then there are the previously mentioned issues with aluminum. And to the GGP, all the easy copper has been mined, but I believe there is still plenty available to meet the inceasing demand. If handled properly it can be easily recycled too.
I just put in a blank CD. Then a folder appears on the desktop with a button to burn the CD. I drag the file I want into there and hit that button. I'm not sure what this MAN thing is everyone keeps talking about.
You never played with mercury did you. It's liquid at room temperature and pressure and while some may absorb through the skin, it's not that much. Plenty of kids in the old days played with mercury - yes it's a bad idea, but what's in a CFL isn't going to kill you. There is certainly no danger to being in a room with liquid mercury. In fact, IIRC one of the large observatories floats its telescope in mercury to provide a nice bearing. Just because some states legislators have passed laws, doesn't mean they are right about the level of hazard.
Yeah, thanks for clarification of the argument that He4 can't be created in a fusion reaction. My main question remains: Why is there so much more He4 in the universe than He3 when Helium is primarily supposed to come from fusion reactions in stars?
You can't have it both ways. The evidence (over abundance of He4) suggests that He4 DOES get created in fusion reactions, and hence our models of nuclear fusion must be incomplete.
We don't. We assume that a majority of black folks could use some additional economic help. This was true starting with the end of slavery and people do tend to end up in the same economic condition their parents were in (middle class breeds middle class, etc...) so you can't necessarily say "that was a long time ago" because it wasn't - yet. Just don't ask me at what point that changes :-)
Regarding nuclear fusion. It is often said that Hydrogen fusion will produce Helium 4 which will then emit a neutron to become Helium 3 - some argument about the Helium 4 having too much energy to remain that way. To digress a bit - this was used as evidence against cold fusion (the neutrons should have killed them). So I looked it up and Helium 4 is far more abundant than 3 both on earth and apparently on the moon. As you can see by the abundance of kids balloons, we are not out of Helium 4 which is in much wider use. So can someone explain to me where all the Helium 4 comes from that was supposed to emit neutrons and turn into Helium 3???
Thanks,
So when a promising idea comes along, the "expert" can follow up and hopefully get credit for the solution. I see this is the workplace and on the net in various places. Technical discussion forums are lurked by "experts" in industry who look for ideas without contributing anything to the discussion. Some people don't mind, others don't realize, and others are bothered by it.
What they need to do is broadcast the present price of electricity and have the meter bill accordingly. Then get the total bill every month. This enables the "consumer" to regulate their usage to reduce cost (smoothing usage as the utilities want). It also avoids the need for large amounts of data sent back. There are usually simple solutions, and the fact that companies don't use the simple solutions generally points to an agenda other than what is claimed.