So wait, you're proposing to only have science fiction that doesn't raise cause us to ask questions about our society's direction? So what, you want all of the books read to be meaningless action with lasers, warpdrives and space wars that affect us in no way shape or form? Bah! I saw Bah! When I saw this article, my mind first went to those kinds of scifi books as well and laughed at the exercise. But when I actually looked at peoples suggestions to find good quality books like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, etc. I remembered that the good science fiction is not often remembered as science fiction at all, its just remembered as good literature.
I think it would be more interesting to learn where you work. Not the school district where I went, that's for sure. We didn't ready any fantasy as we were too focused on classic literature, but we did a lot of research into witchcraft through out the times as we read a Scarlett letter and the crucible. We also watched quite a few movies with full frontal nudity (male and female, with parental notification and consent). There was only one kid that didn't participate in the movie watching due to his and his parents beliefs, but he also didn't believe in celebrating labor day for what its worth.
More influential.... You have an argument. Most likely that is true. Those shows set the funny sitcom Man vs wife dynamic combined with hairbrianed schemes that have been used in every sitcom since. Funnier? Absolutely not. But its sort of like complaining that the first paintings weren't as good as Da Vinci, Michelangelo, or Rembrandt. The first pioneers are never the best.
Well, if you only accepted individuals that engaged in high risk behaviors and stated that they had no intention of stopping their behavior, then it might be more accurate.
Ahh, that is science(references to articles). But what does GMO have to do with HFCS? If you drink enough water, You'll die. If you only eat Rabbit, you die. If you eat only carrots, you die.
I don't think I can link to the new scientist articles from the early part of this decade. Perhaps it was never sold, but it was tested of course. In any case there have always been good reasons for farmers to save and replant corn seed. Economic ones. Farmers in third world countries might be able to afford seed every five years or so, but not every year. Yes, the purchased seed does produce higher yields, but when you are subsistence farming with out access to capitol to buy the commercial seed, then you take what you can get to get more food.
I'm sorry your post did not contain a reply to my post, or any science. I suggest you try talking to this guy, he may be willing to talk with you on that subject, or following your example talk about something else not related to your topic while containing zero science.
I think its fair to accurately describe how it was marketed, regardless of the original intentions. In anycase, you can't do much to assuage the fears of the anti GMO groups by introduce more genetic modification. Its like trying to invent good spider killing spiders to give to someone with an irrational fear of spiders and expect them to love them.
Plus, they do sue farmers who's crops have the round up ready gene in the corn that wasn't grown from Monsanto seeds. They are the RIAA of agriculture on steroids. At least with the RIAA, music isn't essential to life. When you start mixing IP with food supplies, that's where it gets really scary.
Well, sort of. I myself think all of the anti-GMO crap is BS fear mongering. Having said that, Monsanto is run by a bunch of assholes. They created the terminator corn, that sought to protect their " intelectuall property" by creating corn that wasn't fertile. So you couldn't grow corn, harvest it and then plant the seeds for another crop. ( Note they did remove it from the market place over widespread criticism. )
From Monsanto's perspective, growing corn from seed that was grown from their seed is theft. You do not have the "right" to plant that. You must buy new seed from Monsanto.
Yeah, that's what everyone who likes superhero comic books says. But very few of them have actually read, or like those. They also told me how deep watchmen was. I am no longer open to taking literary suggestions from them.
Its really a false dichotomy. You need a little of both. You need to have your procedures matched to the reliability,performance and architecture of your infrastructure.
Or, as a medical analogy... "In their efforts in curing cancer, are doctors relying too much on surgery and not enough on chemotherapy?"
I think you're confused about all of the music industry groups that try to get paid for music. ASCAP is pretty much the biggest organization for songwriters. Yes songwriters for the big labels, but also those for smaller labels as well.
Its not very exclusive. You can join for a one time fee of $25. http://www.ascap.com/about/howjoin.asp Then you can hate yourself for the rest of your life;)
Tell me about it. I think I'm the last living person to have applied to work at Be inc. I responded to the ad for a c++ programmer. A month later I got a reply from the webmaster, apologizing for the posting staying on so long ( it didn't have a date attached with it), they were laying everyone off, rather than hiring people.
No, I have met them. Many of them. I wouldn't be writing this if I hadn't. Trust me they are human. They aren't always trying to derail all of the time. They do have genuine fears and concerns. You can only discuss things with them, if they're comfortable. You have to give them the space and time to come to their own conclusions with out threatening them with your tone.
Yeah, there are. The interview subject Charlie Miller has them stock piled. He wins the browser hack-a-thon every year, by pulling out exploits he's known about. But like the article says, not many people actually try to develop Mac hacks. It takes a considerable amount of time to find exploits, especially remote ones, and there just isn't as much of a payoff for doing it with macs.
First Listen with civility to their claims while maintaining a soothing tone and give acknowledge both the things they are correct about and the fears that drive them to the untruths. Then respectfully ask questions that do not make them contradict themselves. Before you know it, you're having a rational conversation that you both can learn from.
I don't know about that. According to one of the articles:
Q: Are you concerned about competing with new iPods with cameras built in?
A: The more things like that that make their way into these devices that aren't about great music and video playback, the more it's distracting or sacrificing that original purpose of the device. Apps are jamming in, cameras -- that's work that's not being done on the music front.
With this release, you can see we're still really focused on music and video. We're still hyper-focused on that. Maybe that's the benefit of being the little guy. We can have that laser-focus.
Maybe some of those people... did buy an iPod because it's all about music, and now it's not. Maybe we can get some of those folks.
No offense intended. Just might not have been copied correctly. I made copies of the win2k cd myself (for back up purposes). It took a couple tries to get a bootable one ( cd burning was new to me a the time and I wasn't using the best software).
I think they were pretty common by the "late nineties". I've done a lot of work on computers from that era from many different manufactures and makes. I know some of the first computers with Cd roms were non bootable, but those were pretty much 96 and prior.
Absolutely. My experience as well. I've been told emphatically by its devs that it is not for desktop use. Server only at this point. I had trouble with even those parts.
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So wait, you're proposing to only have science fiction that doesn't raise cause us to ask questions about our society's direction? So what, you want all of the books read to be meaningless action with lasers, warpdrives and space wars that affect us in no way shape or form? Bah! I saw Bah! When I saw this article, my mind first went to those kinds of scifi books as well and laughed at the exercise. But when I actually looked at peoples suggestions to find good quality books like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, etc. I remembered that the good science fiction is not often remembered as science fiction at all, its just remembered as good literature.
I think it would be more interesting to learn where you work. Not the school district where I went, that's for sure. We didn't ready any fantasy as we were too focused on classic literature, but we did a lot of research into witchcraft through out the times as we read a Scarlett letter and the crucible. We also watched quite a few movies with full frontal nudity (male and female, with parental notification and consent). There was only one kid that didn't participate in the movie watching due to his and his parents beliefs, but he also didn't believe in celebrating labor day for what its worth.
More influential .... You have an argument. Most likely that is true. Those shows set the funny sitcom Man vs wife dynamic combined with hairbrianed schemes that have been used in every sitcom since. Funnier? Absolutely not. But its sort of like complaining that the first paintings weren't as good as Da Vinci, Michelangelo, or Rembrandt. The first pioneers are never the best.
Well, if you only accepted individuals that engaged in high risk behaviors and stated that they had no intention of stopping their behavior, then it might be more accurate.
Ahh, that is science(references to articles). But what does GMO have to do with HFCS? If you drink enough water, You'll die. If you only eat Rabbit, you die. If you eat only carrots, you die.
I don't think I can link to the new scientist articles from the early part of this decade. Perhaps it was never sold, but it was tested of course. In any case there have always been good reasons for farmers to save and replant corn seed. Economic ones. Farmers in third world countries might be able to afford seed every five years or so, but not every year. Yes, the purchased seed does produce higher yields, but when you are subsistence farming with out access to capitol to buy the commercial seed, then you take what you can get to get more food.
I'm sorry your post did not contain a reply to my post, or any science. I suggest you try talking to this guy, he may be willing to talk with you on that subject, or following your example talk about something else not related to your topic while containing zero science.
I think its fair to accurately describe how it was marketed, regardless of the original intentions. In anycase, you can't do much to assuage the fears of the anti GMO groups by introduce more genetic modification. Its like trying to invent good spider killing spiders to give to someone with an irrational fear of spiders and expect them to love them.
Plus, they do sue farmers who's crops have the round up ready gene in the corn that wasn't grown from Monsanto seeds. They are the RIAA of agriculture on steroids. At least with the RIAA, music isn't essential to life. When you start mixing IP with food supplies, that's where it gets really scary.
Well, sort of. I myself think all of the anti-GMO crap is BS fear mongering. Having said that, Monsanto is run by a bunch of assholes. They created the terminator corn, that sought to protect their " intelectuall property" by creating corn that wasn't fertile. So you couldn't grow corn, harvest it and then plant the seeds for another crop. ( Note they did remove it from the market place over widespread criticism. )
From Monsanto's perspective, growing corn from seed that was grown from their seed is theft. You do not have the "right" to plant that. You must buy new seed from Monsanto.
Yeah, that's what everyone who likes superhero comic books says. But very few of them have actually read, or like those. They also told me how deep watchmen was. I am no longer open to taking literary suggestions from them.
Its really a false dichotomy. You need a little of both. You need to have your procedures matched to the reliability,performance and architecture of your infrastructure.
Or, as a medical analogy... "In their efforts in curing cancer, are doctors relying too much on surgery and not enough on chemotherapy?"
My kingdom for a mod point...
And yet you registered for a slashdot account.
I think you're confused about all of the music industry groups that try to get paid for music. ASCAP is pretty much the biggest organization for songwriters. Yes songwriters for the big labels, but also those for smaller labels as well.
Its not very exclusive. You can join for a one time fee of $25. http://www.ascap.com/about/howjoin.asp Then you can hate yourself for the rest of your life ;)
Tell me about it. I think I'm the last living person to have applied to work at Be inc. I responded to the ad for a c++ programmer. A month later I got a reply from the webmaster, apologizing for the posting staying on so long ( it didn't have a date attached with it), they were laying everyone off, rather than hiring people.
No, I have met them. Many of them. I wouldn't be writing this if I hadn't. Trust me they are human. They aren't always trying to derail all of the time. They do have genuine fears and concerns. You can only discuss things with them, if they're comfortable. You have to give them the space and time to come to their own conclusions with out threatening them with your tone.
Yeah, there are. The interview subject Charlie Miller has them stock piled. He wins the browser hack-a-thon every year, by pulling out exploits he's known about. But like the article says, not many people actually try to develop Mac hacks. It takes a considerable amount of time to find exploits, especially remote ones, and there just isn't as much of a payoff for doing it with macs.
First Listen with civility to their claims while maintaining a soothing tone and give acknowledge both the things they are correct about and the fears that drive them to the untruths. Then respectfully ask questions that do not make them contradict themselves. Before you know it, you're having a rational conversation that you both can learn from.
Please, a little civility. You're giving Bill named users a bad rep.
Insulting others, just makes you look bad. And insulting others that insult others, only drags yourself to their level.
That is horrible and hopefully upcoming legislation will address that, but its quite a logical leap from that to what the poster is fearing.
Although, the last time I disagreed with Bruce he was 100% correct in his prediction. Hmm... I know who I would believe if I wasn't me.
No offense intended. Just might not have been copied correctly. I made copies of the win2k cd myself (for back up purposes). It took a couple tries to get a bootable one ( cd burning was new to me a the time and I wasn't using the best software).
I think they were pretty common by the "late nineties". I've done a lot of work on computers from that era from many different manufactures and makes. I know some of the first computers with Cd roms were non bootable, but those were pretty much 96 and prior.
Absolutely. My experience as well. I've been told emphatically by its devs that it is not for desktop use. Server only at this point. I had trouble with even those parts.
So, Apple would also allow applications that were compiled with a gcj like compiler as well. I think that's the point the GP was making.
code running on a virtual machine => not allowed
Code not running in a virtual machine => allowed