Why would they evolve away the trait any faster than the current bacteria do? Producing a lactic acid byproduct neither helps nor hinders the bacteria from an evolutionary standpoint. The current strain has been producing lactic acid for hundreds if not thousands of years.
I did on-site service work recently for a 'union man' who did some work at a nearby nuclear power plant. He told me that after they were suited up they walked in and decided they were bill gates, mr burns, and homer simpson. They were told to move a radioactive part and 'burns' asked 'gates' if he was going to go get that. He said, "Hell no, I'm not moving that fucking thing. I'm Bill Gates, I'll buy homer a six-pack and that dumb bastard'll do it". Apparently the staff at the plant didn't find it as funny as they did.
He also had screen by screen pictures of the computer-based nuclear safety exams they all used to cheat their way in and could have walked right off the set of the sopranos but that is another story.
If you were sequencing DNA and got a B then you'd seriously need to recheck the equipment (or the competence of the operator). Perhaps a T or a G, or even a C but never a B.
'2. They aren't talking about tracking vehicles with GPS, just using GPS based odometers if manufactureers start offering them:'
Riiight, so the proposal lets the manufacturers select which tax to pay. If you make SUV's then you include the odometers, if you make hybrids then you don't. Oh yeah, that'll benefit oregon.
If the GPS's are installed, someone has the data and can track you with them. If someone has the data, then the authorities can access it. I for one don't want anyone, including the state/police to be able to track me.
'you were probably picked on in school and don't get any action from the females'
I tagged and bagged half the cheerleaders and took the queen to the prom. Now I'm married to an underwear model. Strike One.
'So you tend to root for the perceived underdog.'
I support the best solution for the task at hand. The only time that has ever been windows is when there is a vendor requirement for it that can't be worked around. Many businesses have an industry specific application that requires windows for instance and often that is all they really run.
'You also tend to not understand the computing needs of average people'
My clients disagree.
'most of you don't know shit about Windows but think you do.'
Microsoft disagrees, they've certified that I'm an 'Expert' on their Operating System solutions.
Seriously is that all you've got? A bunch of unfounded statements?
lol I can't tell you how many times I've found myself doing that.. spelling out a command letter for letter for mom to type into a prompt. A dos prompt that is.
Windows is far more rough around the edges than Linux. Fixing a connectivity issue without resorting to the DOS prompt in windows is pretty much impossible with the included utilities.
Of course you can download a repair util to fix a corrupted IP/Winsock configuration on windows (something that happens randomly and frequently, I fix a half dozen of these a week).
On Linux... well come to think of it, I don't believe I've ever seen that happen on Linux.
'IOW, why would you have to upgrade? Why would you be forced into an upgrade?'
Because Microsoft makes sure you are forced to upgrade. It isn't the OS that does it, its the things that surround the OS. Drivers, DirectX, Media Player, etc.
Sooner or later you are going to want to run new software that depends on those things and then you are stuck upgrading the OS.
There is an entire legion of shit that you can't run on win2k anymore. Not because win2k wouldn't work, but because you need one of those other packages that doesn't run on win2k.
'That's great, just as long as the sites they want to go to (which includes some Visa sites, such as the Signature home page, and many banking sites) will work in FF. I run into about a site a month which either wont' load or can't load in Firefox, and I have to use IE.'
Seriously? I'm a tech and my userbase (let alone just me) runs into maybe a site a year that doesn't load in FF. This year it is the netflix watch online movies. The DRM isn't compatible with FF, so, add that one to IETab and move on.
Yup, amazing, a site filled with geeks, technophiles, scientists, engineers, programmers, and other technical experts has an audience with the prevailing attitude that Microsoft solutions are poor that *nix is a superior solution.
In summary, you recommend Windows media player, IE, Microsoft PhotoEd, Windows security center, and some stuff from the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional site.
While I agree that a tuned install would be an interesting benchmark I still do not agree that testing the systems as shipped and intended to run by the respective manufacturers is 'unfair' simply because one manufacturer has a poor idea of how you should run it.
I'm not going to debate the technical specifics of the apps I used as examples. The point being that there is more java on the server but plenty on the desktop as well.
Even if it were only the server we are looking at default installs are STILL a reasonably fair benchmark. Admins are SUPPOSED to be competent users who know how to tune the system, in the real world competent admins are rare.
'If not it is no better than saying Windows SUX dude!'
At what point DOES it become fair game to say 'Windows SUX dude!' How many performance, security, greed, incompetence, and UI issues is the threshold? Must be fairly high.
You mean Linux might save palm right? Linux is growing, not dying. Why do we need a year of the Linux desktop? Linux will keep plodding along if this is this is the coming decade of the Linux desktop.
'While this is morally dubious in our society, its perfectly correct from natures perspective. '
It is morally dubious to certain religious cults who hold sex as some sort of divine and sacred gift that should only be shared with 'the right one'.
The fact is, regardless of your moral beliefs. It is perfectly natural for humans to want to mate with other humans of breeding age. It does not make you a pervert, it does not mean if you do so you should go to prison, it does not mean you have raped someone, it does not mean you should be considered a criminal, and it especially does not mean you should be considered a sex offender sent to pound me in the ass prison and then further punished with infamy for the rest of your life.
Castration (chemical and/or physical) is recommended by many for sex offenders. Those convicted of statutory rape are considered sex offenders.
They will never again be employable. They are listed on registries. In my community there is a channel on local tv that does nothing but switch through the mugshots of the 'perverts' all day long.
The thing is, there is nothing perverted about one individual physically ripe for having brats being attracted to another. That is how nature intended it to work.
Are they mentally mature? Possibly not. But making poor choices in sexual partners is something they will do all their lives anyway. The rest can be cured with birth control and sexual education.
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Why would they evolve away the trait any faster than the current bacteria do? Producing a lactic acid byproduct neither helps nor hinders the bacteria from an evolutionary standpoint. The current strain has been producing lactic acid for hundreds if not thousands of years.
A quarter? I got a buck a tooth and felt I was shafted because most friends netted at least $5.
Its called money and good insurance. Some of you have it, most of us don't.
I did on-site service work recently for a 'union man' who did some work at a nearby nuclear power plant. He told me that after they were suited up they walked in and decided they were bill gates, mr burns, and homer simpson. They were told to move a radioactive part and 'burns' asked 'gates' if he was going to go get that. He said, "Hell no, I'm not moving that fucking thing. I'm Bill Gates, I'll buy homer a six-pack and that dumb bastard'll do it". Apparently the staff at the plant didn't find it as funny as they did.
He also had screen by screen pictures of the computer-based nuclear safety exams they all used to cheat their way in and could have walked right off the set of the sopranos but that is another story.
Three-headed fish coming to a pond near you!
If you were sequencing DNA and got a B then you'd seriously need to recheck the equipment (or the competence of the operator). Perhaps a T or a G, or even a C but never a B.
I'm surprised that we haven't seen Alan chime in himself on his plans and reasons for the move. He does tend to lurk around here a bit ;)
'2. They aren't talking about tracking vehicles with GPS, just using GPS based odometers if manufactureers start offering them:'
Riiight, so the proposal lets the manufacturers select which tax to pay. If you make SUV's then you include the odometers, if you make hybrids then you don't. Oh yeah, that'll benefit oregon.
If the GPS's are installed, someone has the data and can track you with them. If someone has the data, then the authorities can access it. I for one don't want anyone, including the state/police to be able to track me.
'you were probably picked on in school and don't get any action from the females'
I tagged and bagged half the cheerleaders and took the queen to the prom. Now I'm married to an underwear model. Strike One.
'So you tend to root for the perceived underdog.'
I support the best solution for the task at hand. The only time that has ever been windows is when there is a vendor requirement for it that can't be worked around. Many businesses have an industry specific application that requires windows for instance and often that is all they really run.
'You also tend to not understand the computing needs of average people'
My clients disagree.
'most of you don't know shit about Windows but think you do.'
Microsoft disagrees, they've certified that I'm an 'Expert' on their Operating System solutions.
Seriously is that all you've got? A bunch of unfounded statements?
lol I can't tell you how many times I've found myself doing that.. spelling out a command letter for letter for mom to type into a prompt. A dos prompt that is.
Windows is far more rough around the edges than Linux. Fixing a connectivity issue without resorting to the DOS prompt in windows is pretty much impossible with the included utilities.
Of course you can download a repair util to fix a corrupted IP/Winsock configuration on windows (something that happens randomly and frequently, I fix a half dozen of these a week).
On Linux... well come to think of it, I don't believe I've ever seen that happen on Linux.
'IOW, why would you have to upgrade? Why would you be forced into an upgrade?'
Because Microsoft makes sure you are forced to upgrade. It isn't the OS that does it, its the things that surround the OS. Drivers, DirectX, Media Player, etc.
Sooner or later you are going to want to run new software that depends on those things and then you are stuck upgrading the OS.
There is an entire legion of shit that you can't run on win2k anymore. Not because win2k wouldn't work, but because you need one of those other packages that doesn't run on win2k.
'That's great, just as long as the sites they want to go to (which includes some Visa sites, such as the Signature home page, and many banking sites) will work in FF. I run into about a site a month which either wont' load or can't load in Firefox, and I have to use IE.'
Seriously? I'm a tech and my userbase (let alone just me) runs into maybe a site a year that doesn't load in FF. This year it is the netflix watch online movies. The DRM isn't compatible with FF, so, add that one to IETab and move on.
"lolololrofl omg the nerdz recommended lenux."
Yup, amazing, a site filled with geeks, technophiles, scientists, engineers, programmers, and other technical experts has an audience with the prevailing attitude that Microsoft solutions are poor that *nix is a superior solution.
Not telling at all that.
Stop dancing around it, seniors are doing well if they remember to close their mouths while they eat.
In summary, you recommend Windows media player, IE, Microsoft PhotoEd, Windows security center, and some stuff from the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional site.
Microsoft fanboi much?
While I agree that a tuned install would be an interesting benchmark I still do not agree that testing the systems as shipped and intended to run by the respective manufacturers is 'unfair' simply because one manufacturer has a poor idea of how you should run it.
I'm not going to debate the technical specifics of the apps I used as examples. The point being that there is more java on the server but plenty on the desktop as well.
Even if it were only the server we are looking at default installs are STILL a reasonably fair benchmark. Admins are SUPPOSED to be competent users who know how to tune the system, in the real world competent admins are rare.
'If not it is no better than saying Windows SUX dude!'
At what point DOES it become fair game to say 'Windows SUX dude!' How many performance, security, greed, incompetence, and UI issues is the threshold? Must be fairly high.
There is plenty of Java on the desktop.
For instance these results give insight into why programs like Vuze and OpenOffice.org run so slowly on windows relative to *nix.
It doesn't. NTFS-3g is much faster than previous solutions but still isn't nearly as fast as using a native filesystem.
If your definition of 'media' includes 700mb-1gb+ files then forget it. If its word documents and powerpoint then by all means.
'Vista tends to have a lot of "stuff" running in the background. A lot of of which you can turn off.'
That is a design decision of the operating system. An optimized system is NOT representative of average vista performance. A default install is.
'Because third parties like the organization which discovered this bug need to have a way to audit the system'
From my original post 'that saving human readable printouts doesn't give you'
An optical scanner only introduces additional errors into the process.
'And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too.'
You mean Linux might save palm right? Linux is growing, not dying. Why do we need a year of the Linux desktop? Linux will keep plodding along if this is this is the coming decade of the Linux desktop.
'While this is morally dubious in our society, its perfectly correct from natures perspective. '
It is morally dubious to certain religious cults who hold sex as some sort of divine and sacred gift that should only be shared with 'the right one'.
The fact is, regardless of your moral beliefs. It is perfectly natural for humans to want to mate with other humans of breeding age. It does not make you a pervert, it does not mean if you do so you should go to prison, it does not mean you have raped someone, it does not mean you should be considered a criminal, and it especially does not mean you should be considered a sex offender sent to pound me in the ass prison and then further punished with infamy for the rest of your life.
erm, 4 or 5 yrs on the 17yr old girl rather. Most of them start to bleed and get a shape around that point.
Castration (chemical and/or physical) is recommended by many for sex offenders. Those convicted of statutory rape are considered sex offenders.
They will never again be employable. They are listed on registries. In my community there is a channel on local tv that does nothing but switch through the mugshots of the 'perverts' all day long.
The thing is, there is nothing perverted about one individual physically ripe for having brats being attracted to another. That is how nature intended it to work.
Are they mentally mature? Possibly not. But making poor choices in sexual partners is something they will do all their lives anyway. The rest can be cured with birth control and sexual education.
'ended up in pregnancy and abortion'
So? If anything that is a birth control ad, not support for imprisonment and castration.