Bacteria can evolve AND they can laterally transmit DNA changes through the current living population. So it is accurate to say that changes can "emerge" in bacteria. More complicated organisms have to reproduce, but bacteria can go either way.
Lamark was actually right, with regards to bacteria. They can transmit acquired traits.
Taxing 7 million players will kill subscription rates.
Removing ingame "economies" to avoid taxes will kill subscription rates.
Just tax people when they get a payment in monies from ebay, gold farming companies, etc. and deposit that money into their bank accounts. The same process could be used for any sales on ebay.
My experience is that Apple tends to have the LEAST amount of originality and they actively frown on people thinking outside of their box. Apple is the ultimate "mental monopoly" model, designed to lock consumers in as much as possible and force them to think and work the Apple Way.
MS is almost as bad. They practice economic monopolies. Most Apple fans consider this nothing more than crass capitalism compared to Apple's more artistic monopolistic model.
Linux is the only truly "free" solution. Do whatever you want, however you want to do it, and don't worry about making the wrong choice because the only cost to the consumer is their time.
I've seen quite a few Ali G episodes and most of the pre-release hype for Borat, and it sort of strikes me that Cohen's comedy is pure anti-muslim bigotry. He seems to go out of his to consistently portray muslims in the worst possible light.
There is no biological need for testosterone in the modern urban environment. Promiscuity is at levels that allow any male to "mate" almost constantly, without effort, and without the need to "win" the right to mate from other males. There is no responsibility to raise or even have any offspring to male good provider traits are not necessary to display to females. Life in affluent western countries is so antiseptically "safe" and without risk that aggression has no place and is in fact frowned upon by females.
Transplant this study to a riskier environment and I bet the outcome is reversed.
Hmmm. NIS, automounter, and NFS file servers for/home. I could log into any system I was allowed to and my home dir, files,.profiles and X windows config was just as I left it.
Hmmm. Active Directory roaming profiles.
Hmmm. Linux, LDAP, automounter, and a remote home directory.
Pres. Clinton tasked the NSA with monitoring of domestic to domestic phone calls by executive order after the Oklahoma City bombing in the 1990s in an effort to combat "militias" and other domestic terror groups. It was common knowledge, widely reported, and much maligned at the time. Monitoring of all domestic to international communications has been in effect since the start of the coldwar.
Why is this such a big deal now? Granted its unnerving, but Bush did not start it. Remember Al Gore's "Clipper" chip? Federally mandated and designed encryption with built in backdoors and key escrow.
The reality is the US will move toward a system of complete video and electronic surveilance of its citizens similar to what is in place in the UK. It will include laws that either outlaw encryption, demand keys escrow or make it a crime to withhold keys. The US will also move to a system of internet monitoring similar to China. No government gives up power, and if it sees other governments, especially democratic Euro governments, with more it will move to adopt the same powers.
and that he can only do so by convincing average citizens to act,
Ahh the "raising awareness" ploy. I'm soooo sick of activists that equate "awareness" with actually doing something. Example, Celebrity X goes to Africa for a weekend photo-op on their way to Sun City and claims they doing something concrete by raising awareness.
I actually believe the global warming threat is real, although unlike Gore, I don't believe there is a darned thing humans can do about it. The question for me is what is the impact, how do we plan for the impact, and how do we adapt to the new conditions.
Realistically, no one is going to accept the drastic drop in living standards required to lower C02 emmissions. No one in the developing world is going to accept being locked out of development in order to keep the weather nice in the West.
That will not last forever. The credit card vendors are moving the shift liability back to the retail merchant not the issuing merchant bank or the the aquirer. The merchants will either raise prices or hold the cardholder responsible.
Secondly, what else can a phisher do if they have your name and CC data? Can they bootstrap from that to further knowledge about you allowing them to actually access your credit (for loans, cars, etc.) Once they can assume your credit history the sky is the limit and your life is ruined for 12-18 months while you try and fix it.
At the end of the day, nothing is free. Credit card fraud costs $$$ and those costs are factored back into the system somewhere. It is either higher fees, interests rates, prices or taxes. Somehow you will pay for it.
He hired a ghost writer to do Earth in the Balance, and it was soundly trounced by the Scientific community at the time. It was activist rhetoric that cherry-picked scientific "facts" to back up its claims.
He was part of the administration that negotiated Kyoto, then FAILED to do anything with it. Failed being the operative word. If a surgeon fails operating on you do you give him credit for trying? Kyoto itself is so horribly flawed as to not be worth having. It does not prevent developing nations from repeating the mistakes of undustrialization in the west. It exempts them in the name of development. Western nations for the most part are not able to meet the Kyoto requirements. So the sum result is nothing.
Again, if Gore is certain that only he can save the world from global warming, then logically he would be campaigning endlessly for the most powerful position he can get so that he has the power to compel change. He is,uniquely among green activists, in a position to become president of the worlds most powerful industrial nation where he could effect change. Unless he has the sand to do that he should just shut up.
The solution to GW will require massive state compulsion and social engineering. It will require that rich nations dramatically lower their living and technology standards. It will require thtat developing nations like China and India either develop differently from how they are or halt development altogether. It will require massive decreases in world trade (use local resources only). It will require massive decreases in world population. There are only a few positions of power in the world able to pull this off, and even fewer environmentalists who have a reasonable chance of obtaining those positions.
Gore is obligated to try if he really believes what he says.
According to Gore, global warming will end it all in 10 years. Yet he felt no need or responsibility to do anything about it when he was a Senator or Vice President. He felt no need to campaign on the issue in 2000, and he feels no responsibility to run for president in 2008 in order to get the power necessary for him to save the world.
He is an "activist" which means he can complain and grouse and content himself with believing that creating "awareness" equates with actually doing something concrete.
Two out of his three laptops had hardware failures unrelated to Vista so how do they even get to get mentioned in an article complaining about Vista's laptop support.
His remaining laptop had issues with the availability of 3rd party drivers to support 3rd party hardware. How exactly is this supposed to be MS's problem?
"...on paper, they can generate a lot more polygons with that product than we can with a single graphics product. I think some of these quad-graphics systems can get there now."
Its a non-story. A core2 with a quald sli setup they "think" can match consoles now? Lets see. Thats a minimum of a $4000 system compared to a $399-599 console.
The real question is why are we paying so much for the same power in a PC or getting so little power for the same price (you can't really game on the $399 PCs)?
Modern unions in the US simply manage downsizing on behalf of management. See the some of the most recent contract settlements:
Northwest Airlines: Unions negotiate huge (30-50%) salary reductions GM: Unions give up jobs & plants to keep salaries up for remaining workers
Union leaders are just Management in another name, and I think that is why union membership is falling and new workers don't want anything to do with a union.
"You will find at that level EVERYONE will try to drive less"
Not in North America, (and eventually, India, Russia, China). The average distance between cities is over 100 miles. At those ranges mass transit is not feasible and people HAVE to drive.
Article says it went into production 2004. I've never seen one.
GM is supposed to release a hybrid petrol/electric this year, maybe a diesel/electric as well. Hybrid is a HUGE win for those of us who require offroad/towing power.
Umm, eletric motors provide instant torque with equals massive acceleration from 0. It takes a combustion engine time move to high rpms.
The best work truck you can get right now is a Dodge "Contractor" model with a 6 cyl cummings diesel and four electric motors. Instant torque combined with the long haul power of a diesel. It gets 24mpg and has an internal 20Kw generator that can power four 3000 sq ft homes. It can run on Biodiesel too. Now THAT is a hybrid.
US citizens are bombarded with media "crisis" reports on their health, alleged health risks, conflicting medical research, and drug marketing. The perpetual "you are not safe" media message results in hyper sensitivity to any health issues. In the US, a springtime runny nose is considered sick.
Combine that with long days, overtime, and only 10 days off a year, and you get people who are frequently ill and think they are.
I agree. The/. conclusion is flawed. The top 5 are all PC hardware vendors. Apple can only get MS defectors if they release OSX for the general PC market. The reality is that Apple will eventually leave the OS and the computer market in favor or becoming a media company and selling appliances to consume media.
1.) The earth's average temperature is higher when averaged over the last 1, 5, 10 million years. Cooling is the anomoly. The earth should be in a warming phase starting with the end of the last ice age 10K years ago.
2.) More people should equal more heat, especially when concentrated in environmentally damaging megacities. This might be offset by the loss of other biomass due to the environmental destruction required to keep the megacities humming.
3.) The earth is a carbon-based system. All organisms release carbon when they die and many release it as a byproduct while alive. Every energy source large enough to be useful, except for nuclear, releases carbon at some point.
4.) The solution is massive depopulation combined with limiting large sections of the planet to pre-industrial lifestyles.
FWIW, computers/technology manufacturing is one of the most environmentally damaging technologies pound for pound in the world. So no one on/. has any room to judge.
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Bacteria can evolve AND they can laterally transmit DNA changes through the current living population. So it is accurate to say that changes can "emerge" in bacteria. More complicated organisms have to reproduce, but bacteria can go either way.
Lamark was actually right, with regards to bacteria. They can transmit acquired traits.
What is the purpose of genetically engineering/modified crops (over an above the natural development process used for centuries)?
Normal farming produces plenty of food.
Taxing 7 million players will kill subscription rates.
Removing ingame "economies" to avoid taxes will kill subscription rates.
Just tax people when they get a payment in monies from ebay, gold farming companies, etc. and deposit that money into their bank accounts. The same process could be used for any sales on ebay.
My experience is that Apple tends to have the LEAST amount of originality and they actively frown on people thinking outside of their box. Apple is the ultimate "mental monopoly" model, designed to lock consumers in as much as possible and force them to think and work the Apple Way.
MS is almost as bad. They practice economic monopolies. Most Apple fans consider this nothing more than crass capitalism compared to Apple's more artistic monopolistic model.
Linux is the only truly "free" solution. Do whatever you want, however you want to do it, and don't worry about making the wrong choice because the only cost to the consumer is their time.
I've seen quite a few Ali G episodes and most of the pre-release hype for Borat, and it sort of strikes me that Cohen's comedy is pure anti-muslim bigotry. He seems to go out of his to consistently portray muslims in the worst possible light.
There is no biological need for testosterone in the modern urban environment. Promiscuity is at levels that allow any male to "mate" almost constantly, without effort, and without the need to "win" the right to mate from other males. There is no responsibility to raise or even have any offspring to male good provider traits are not necessary to display to females. Life in affluent western countries is so antiseptically "safe" and without risk that aggression has no place and is in fact frowned upon by females.
Transplant this study to a riskier environment and I bet the outcome is reversed.
Hmmm. NIS, automounter, and NFS file servers for /home. I could log into any system I was allowed to and my home dir, files, .profiles and X windows config was just as I left it.
Hmmm. Active Directory roaming profiles.
Hmmm. Linux, LDAP, automounter, and a remote home directory.
Hmmmm. Knoppix + ~/user on a flashdrive.
Pres. Clinton tasked the NSA with monitoring of domestic to domestic phone calls by executive order after the Oklahoma City bombing in the 1990s in an effort to combat "militias" and other domestic terror groups. It was common knowledge, widely reported, and much maligned at the time. Monitoring of all domestic to international communications has been in effect since the start of the coldwar.
Why is this such a big deal now? Granted its unnerving, but Bush did not start it. Remember Al Gore's "Clipper" chip? Federally mandated and designed encryption with built in backdoors and key escrow.
The reality is the US will move toward a system of complete video and electronic surveilance of its citizens similar to what is in place in the UK. It will include laws that either outlaw encryption, demand keys escrow or make it a crime to withhold keys. The US will also move to a system of internet monitoring similar to China. No government gives up power, and if it sees other governments, especially democratic Euro governments, with more it will move to adopt the same powers.
Dress the Mac in a bomb belt.....
Ahh the "raising awareness" ploy. I'm soooo sick of activists that equate "awareness" with actually doing something. Example, Celebrity X goes to Africa for a weekend photo-op on their way to Sun City and claims they doing something concrete by raising awareness.
I actually believe the global warming threat is real, although unlike Gore, I don't believe there is a darned thing humans can do about it. The question for me is what is the impact, how do we plan for the impact, and how do we adapt to the new conditions.Realistically, no one is going to accept the drastic drop in living standards required to lower C02 emmissions. No one in the developing world is going to accept being locked out of development in order to keep the weather nice in the West.
That will not last forever. The credit card vendors are moving the shift liability back to the retail merchant not the issuing merchant bank or the the aquirer. The merchants will either raise prices or hold the cardholder responsible.
Secondly, what else can a phisher do if they have your name and CC data? Can they bootstrap from that to further knowledge about you allowing them to actually access your credit (for loans, cars, etc.) Once they can assume your credit history the sky is the limit and your life is ruined for 12-18 months while you try and fix it.
At the end of the day, nothing is free. Credit card fraud costs $$$ and those costs are factored back into the system somewhere. It is either higher fees, interests rates, prices or taxes. Somehow you will pay for it.
He hired a ghost writer to do Earth in the Balance, and it was soundly trounced by the Scientific community at the time. It was activist rhetoric that cherry-picked scientific "facts" to back up its claims.
He was part of the administration that negotiated Kyoto, then FAILED to do anything with it. Failed being the operative word. If a surgeon fails operating on you do you give him credit for trying? Kyoto itself is so horribly flawed as to not be worth having. It does not prevent developing nations from repeating the mistakes of undustrialization in the west. It exempts them in the name of development. Western nations for the most part are not able to meet the Kyoto requirements. So the sum result is nothing.
Again, if Gore is certain that only he can save the world from global warming, then logically he would be campaigning endlessly for the most powerful position he can get so that he has the power to compel change. He is,uniquely among green activists, in a position to become president of the worlds most powerful industrial nation where he could effect change. Unless he has the sand to do that he should just shut up.
The solution to GW will require massive state compulsion and social engineering. It will require that rich nations dramatically lower their living and technology standards. It will require thtat developing nations like China and India either develop differently from how they are or halt development altogether. It will require massive decreases in world trade (use local resources only). It will require massive decreases in world population. There are only a few positions of power in the world able to pull this off, and even fewer environmentalists who have a reasonable chance of obtaining those positions.
Gore is obligated to try if he really believes what he says.
According to Gore, global warming will end it all in 10 years. Yet he felt no need or responsibility to do anything about it when he was a Senator or Vice President. He felt no need to campaign on the issue in 2000, and he feels no responsibility to run for president in 2008 in order to get the power necessary for him to save the world.
He is an "activist" which means he can complain and grouse and content himself with believing that creating "awareness" equates with actually doing something concrete.
Two out of his three laptops had hardware failures unrelated to Vista so how do they even get to get mentioned in an article complaining about Vista's laptop support.
His remaining laptop had issues with the availability of 3rd party drivers to support 3rd party hardware. How exactly is this supposed to be MS's problem?
A non-story.
"...on paper, they can generate a lot more polygons with that product than we can with a single graphics product. I think some of these quad-graphics systems can get there now."
Its a non-story. A core2 with a quald sli setup they "think" can match consoles now? Lets see. Thats a minimum of a $4000 system compared to a $399-599 console.
The real question is why are we paying so much for the same power in a PC or getting so little power for the same price (you can't really game on the $399 PCs)?
Modern unions in the US simply manage downsizing on behalf of management. See the some of the most recent contract settlements:
Northwest Airlines: Unions negotiate huge (30-50%) salary reductions
GM: Unions give up jobs & plants to keep salaries up for remaining workers
Union leaders are just Management in another name, and I think that is why union membership is falling and new workers don't want anything to do with a union.
Come on guys....keep the OS X version up to date.
"You will find at that level EVERYONE will try to drive less"
Not in North America, (and eventually, India, Russia, China). The average distance between cities is over 100 miles. At those ranges mass transit is not feasible and people HAVE to drive.
http://www.hybrid-vehicles.net/dodge-ram-hybrid-tr uck.htm
Article says it went into production 2004. I've never seen one.
GM is supposed to release a hybrid petrol/electric this year, maybe a diesel/electric as well. Hybrid is a HUGE win for those of us who require offroad/towing power.
Umm, eletric motors provide instant torque with equals massive acceleration from 0. It takes a combustion engine time move to high rpms.
The best work truck you can get right now is a Dodge "Contractor" model with a 6 cyl cummings diesel and four electric motors. Instant torque combined with the long haul power of a diesel. It gets 24mpg and has an internal 20Kw generator that can power four 3000 sq ft homes. It can run on Biodiesel too. Now THAT is a hybrid.
US citizens are bombarded with media "crisis" reports on their health, alleged health risks, conflicting medical research, and drug marketing. The perpetual "you are not safe" media message results in hyper sensitivity to any health issues. In the US, a springtime runny nose is considered sick.
Combine that with long days, overtime, and only 10 days off a year, and you get people who are frequently ill and think they are.
My read on the story is that Linux on x86 replaced expensive proprietary unix systems.
"By migrating from a costly UNIX platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on its workstations, servers and at the hub site,"
How exactly is this being read as a blow to microsoft? Linux is killing off the Unix market.
I agree. The /. conclusion is flawed. The top 5 are all PC hardware vendors. Apple can only get MS defectors if they release OSX for the general PC market. The reality is that Apple will eventually leave the OS and the computer market in favor or becoming a media company and selling appliances to consume media.
1.) The earth's average temperature is higher when averaged over the last 1, 5, 10 million years. Cooling is the anomoly. The earth should be in a warming phase starting with the end of the last ice age 10K years ago.
/. has any room to judge.
2.) More people should equal more heat, especially when concentrated in environmentally damaging megacities. This might be offset by the loss of other biomass due to the environmental destruction required to keep the megacities humming.
3.) The earth is a carbon-based system. All organisms release carbon when they die and many release it as a byproduct while alive. Every energy source large enough to be useful, except for nuclear, releases carbon at some point.
4.) The solution is massive depopulation combined with limiting large sections of the planet to pre-industrial lifestyles.
FWIW, computers/technology manufacturing is one of the most environmentally damaging technologies pound for pound in the world. So no one on
"He had a chance to make something that was embarrasing work out really well for him. "\\
Not everyone wants to debase their self respect just for cash.