perhaps they're only effective due to environmental conditioning-- got dragonflies? size probably matters due to wingbeat sound, as well. Sorry, I'm not Mr. Science. A true case for YMMV.
As reenactors, we're out in the summer most weekends. A Civil War doctor reenactor friend of mine swears by the lozenge-shaped mosquito repellers sold at Walgreens -- They're supposed to mimic the sound of dragon-fly's wingbeat noise. Last year, using this, he had remarkably few skeeter bites. He DID, however, have some lonely dragon flies around his tent occasionally...
Didn't I read about an ex-con trying for chicago ward alderman -- and winning? What's the ethical difference here? If you trust an alderman with public funds why not trust an ex-hacker with your data? Expectations are set in either way.
I learned by reading the the * manual, too. I.E. the Linux Bible is nothing but reprinted FAQ docs. That gets you going. Looking at my desktop under my "desktop" I have LINUX in a Nutshell by O'Reilly and Linux System Commands by M&T Books. For everything else, hit the man pages, man.
I believe that this illustrates the difference between science fiction engineering and real engineering. Boundary conditions. If you exaggerate system parameters, you get sci fi or real strange systems. Here, I can see five boundary conditions that could contribute to the grey goo scenario--
1.how efficient are the scavengers or builders that provide atoms; 2.what keeps the nanites from breaking down or working at cross tasks; 3.what keeps the nanites from being brain-washed by natural or artificial means;4. what keeps the nanites from eating each other;5. is there a supervisory mechainism that allows nanites to build big things vs. lots and lots of itty bitty things. Can THAT be corrupted. Without a 100% certain programming technique, we can't afford to let loose an invasive, programmed technology. The concept of terraforming by cellular automata is an old one, but there you're doing simple things, like turning carbon into C02 or some such. You have no existing environment that you need to maintain.
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perhaps they're only effective due to environmental conditioning-- got dragonflies? size probably matters due to wingbeat sound, as well. Sorry, I'm not Mr. Science. A true case for YMMV.
As reenactors, we're out in the summer most weekends. A Civil War doctor reenactor friend of mine swears by the lozenge-shaped mosquito repellers sold at Walgreens -- They're supposed to mimic the sound of dragon-fly's wingbeat noise. Last year, using this, he had remarkably few skeeter bites. He DID, however, have some lonely dragon flies around his tent occasionally...
TEST: is it SVR4 compatible?
that's OPERANT compatibility
The premise of the article is look/feel.
Ahh. 530 plus command-line executables and a programmable shell in each and every distro. God, I love touch-typing!
Didn't I read about an ex-con trying for chicago ward alderman -- and winning? What's the ethical difference here? If you trust an alderman with public funds why not trust an ex-hacker with your data? Expectations are set in either way.
I learned by reading the the * manual, too. I.E. the Linux Bible is nothing but reprinted FAQ docs. That gets you going. Looking at my desktop under my "desktop" I have LINUX in a Nutshell by O'Reilly and Linux System Commands by M&T Books. For everything else, hit the man pages, man.
I believe that this illustrates the difference between science fiction engineering and real engineering. Boundary conditions. If you exaggerate system parameters, you get sci fi or real strange systems. Here, I can see five boundary conditions that could contribute to the grey goo scenario-- 1.how efficient are the scavengers or builders that provide atoms; 2.what keeps the nanites from breaking down or working at cross tasks; 3.what keeps the nanites from being brain-washed by natural or artificial means;4. what keeps the nanites from eating each other;5. is there a supervisory mechainism that allows nanites to build big things vs. lots and lots of itty bitty things. Can THAT be corrupted. Without a 100% certain programming technique, we can't afford to let loose an invasive, programmed technology. The concept of terraforming by cellular automata is an old one, but there you're doing simple things, like turning carbon into C02 or some such. You have no existing environment that you need to maintain.