A. We have pigs. Pigs will do. Also, interstellar explorers will be more productive if they've had a good breakfast, which can't be done without bacon.
B. Cloning amplifies the millions of eggs per female to billions. Obviously the male side is excessive production.
C. An emotional block to a technical problem. The people who go will be more pragmatic. It's a filter.
With modern technology a single pair of humans is capable of producing billions of offspring over their reproductive span, and radiation problems are evident in time to abort. Technology is only going to get better and that number will rise to infinity. This is already not a blocking problem. The perception that space is hostile to life, that's a blocking problem. The people who master space will stride forward in full knowledge that there are risks, there is real danger, there will be pain. The point of that post is that we're probably not those people any more and if I want my genome to persist I'll have to teach my kids to speak a foreign language. I'm VERY not happy about that.
No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.
Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.
This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.
So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this State of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space.
William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
It's cold out there, and dark. Lots of miles between gas stations. It's full of risks and danger. We haven't got what it takes to do this any more. You go.
We'll wait here by the fire where it's warm. You go: to Mars, the Asteroids, the stars. If you make it back tell us your traveller's tales of petroleum seas, of fields of diamonds, of the strangeness men have become Out There. Write if you find life.
One day the Rock will come, or the Flare, or some other thing. In our final moments it will comfort us that Out There are Men, continuing our journey.
If you give web designers a place to submit bug reports on your website, even if it's not exactly topical, they'll use it. Some web designs are truly unfortunate. If HP published the physical location of their web design teams they'd probably have to enroll them in something similar to a witness protection program.
This is misleading. This isn't a US labor work-action style of walkout, which is about influencing management. These folks knew they were likely losing their jobs and went home to consider their options and grasp the thing emotionally. Their work contract includes the flexibility to do this, which is a responsible and compassionate way to manage people.
It hasn't "paid off" until the money they got from the business is more than the money they put into building it. Otherwise, it's just money spent to ruin other people's good businesses, which isn't the achievement shareholders are looking for. ETA for XBox to unlock that achievement: never.
That's just the corner of this deal that interests you. Finland has a great deal invested in Nokia - as their largest corporation and business it was a huge employer and its stock a huge part of retirement funds, since it was for a long time a reliable producer. The dissipation of its worth to a remnant small enough or Microsoft to acquire, the loss of the jobs overseas, the lost taxes, the loss of the profits and the secondary and tertiary effects are going to be a huge hit to Finland. Many thousands of very good engineers are losing their jobs over this also.
Other people care about different stuff. Your personal choice of a cellular phone platform isn't the most significant thing happening here by a long stretch, even if that's the fraction you most care about.
The rest of the management shakeups are just as amazing. The VP of marketing for North America since 2003 (during which time Nokia's US presence completely dissolved) has been made head of Smart Devices. A nother softie, Chris Weber, will head up US operations.
Don't be a fool. What happened to Sendo? They partnered with Microsoft, were killed and eaten by Microsoft for their cellphone intellectual property. This story has been told over and over so many times it's not funny. Nokia has no hope now - It's doomed.
There are plenty of city workers with city-issued phones to find all the potholes. Take off the tinfoil hat.
Of course the purpose of this is to find all the potholes to the city workers can avoid them on the way home - and maybe make a nice graphical pothole zonemap for the city website. Actual road crews probably won't have access to the information.
Will nobody else say it? Ok, I'll say it without inserting some criticism about the timing, the need for this change, or whatever.
This needed to be done. The patch needed to be the default. The patch is here and it provides an improvement on the Windows experience not only for the Windows users, but for those of us who share an Internet with them.
So thank you, Microsoft, for doing the right thing.
Yes. Unix was awesome. Yes, they did take Microsoft's money and make a hash of it. No, this didn't impede progress at all because we had already worked around the intellectual property issues of Unix with Linux. A swing and a miss for the 'softies. Nice try, come again in 2015.
You've used a lot of words to say nothing. Congratulations. I now believe you are who you say you are, that your words are true. But as you've said nothing, what does it matter?
Normally I would post some information here that's relevant to the current squabble, some stuff that equates to the ultimate decimation of SCO and their trolling ways. But that's a foregone conclusion. Dissolution is waiting for SCO, and the only interesting thing about it is the way they do it.
But that is settled, so if I want to educate and inform I have to go further afield. One of those ways is to teach folk about Ransom Love.
You see, Ransom was a Linux geek, fully into the ecosystem. He understood why this would win, though he was ahead of his time by a decade. His company (caldera) made a Linux distro and it was seen for a while as the fusion of commercial VS free. He hit his IPO at the peak of the.com era, and for a time his company was worth billions of dollars. He looked at this and said, "well, if we're worth so much, why don't we buy Unix, which is worth so little today?" He was a true geek and admired the Unix in a way most of those who read this can't. And that was his undoing. He might have done it, but time and market forces blocked him.
You see, the Unix Way isn't a software product. It's not a bulk of code. It's not a block of copyrights. It's a philosophy. It can't be owned, any more than the Scientific Method can be owned.
So he bought it, and suffered therefrom. He's an IT geek for the Mormon church now. He'll carry what might-have-been to his dieing day, but he should let it go. He reached for a ring that was not there.
Today mobile is taking over the IT revolution from desktops. The dominant forces are a derivation of BSD Unix (iOS) and Linux in the form of Android. Ransom was right. He was just too early, and some day we'll grant him his rightful place in the pantheon of tech visionaries. For now he suffers the fate of a local prophet, which is to say a local prophet is always stoned.
By the way.. nobody in their right mind is going to believe a Nokia deal with Microsoft is anything but a unilateral suicide pact. We know what happened to Sendo. This new pr firm is totally lame. It's overreaching.
The only association with the term with the target page on the entire internet is the Google results. The term does not occur on the target page. It does not occur on any pages that link to the target because it's carefully chosen to be unique to the test. Since the association between the term and the target exists nowhere but Google search, for Bing to use that association - however they found it out - is to cheat and copy the Google search result. Period. There is no other way. It is solid proof of copying. Is it illegal? Probably not. Is it wrong? Absolutely yes.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet, Act I Scene V.
A. We have pigs. Pigs will do. Also, interstellar explorers will be more productive if they've had a good breakfast, which can't be done without bacon.
B. Cloning amplifies the millions of eggs per female to billions. Obviously the male side is excessive production.
C. An emotional block to a technical problem. The people who go will be more pragmatic. It's a filter.
With modern technology a single pair of humans is capable of producing billions of offspring over their reproductive span, and radiation problems are evident in time to abort. Technology is only going to get better and that number will rise to infinity. This is already not a blocking problem. The perception that space is hostile to life, that's a blocking problem. The people who master space will stride forward in full knowledge that there are risks, there is real danger, there will be pain. The point of that post is that we're probably not those people any more and if I want my genome to persist I'll have to teach my kids to speak a foreign language. I'm VERY not happy about that.
No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.
Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.
This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.
So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this State of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space.
William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
- JFK, at Rice University, 7/12/1962
It's cold out there, and dark. Lots of miles between gas stations. It's full of risks and danger. We haven't got what it takes to do this any more. You go.
We'll wait here by the fire where it's warm. You go: to Mars, the Asteroids, the stars. If you make it back tell us your traveller's tales of petroleum seas, of fields of diamonds, of the strangeness men have become Out There. Write if you find life.
One day the Rock will come, or the Flare, or some other thing. In our final moments it will comfort us that Out There are Men, continuing our journey.
If you give web designers a place to submit bug reports on your website, even if it's not exactly topical, they'll use it. Some web designs are truly unfortunate. If HP published the physical location of their web design teams they'd probably have to enroll them in something similar to a witness protection program.
Yes, it's good PR. They should do more of it.
This is misleading. This isn't a US labor work-action style of walkout, which is about influencing management. These folks knew they were likely losing their jobs and went home to consider their options and grasp the thing emotionally. Their work contract includes the flexibility to do this, which is a responsible and compassionate way to manage people.
It hasn't "paid off" until the money they got from the business is more than the money they put into building it. Otherwise, it's just money spent to ruin other people's good businesses, which isn't the achievement shareholders are looking for. ETA for XBox to unlock that achievement: never.
That's just the corner of this deal that interests you. Finland has a great deal invested in Nokia - as their largest corporation and business it was a huge employer and its stock a huge part of retirement funds, since it was for a long time a reliable producer. The dissipation of its worth to a remnant small enough or Microsoft to acquire, the loss of the jobs overseas, the lost taxes, the loss of the profits and the secondary and tertiary effects are going to be a huge hit to Finland. Many thousands of very good engineers are losing their jobs over this also.
Other people care about different stuff. Your personal choice of a cellular phone platform isn't the most significant thing happening here by a long stretch, even if that's the fraction you most care about.
I'm starting to think he wasn't hired, he was temporarily transferred to a remote office to shut it down.
The rest of the management shakeups are just as amazing. The VP of marketing for North America since 2003 (during which time Nokia's US presence completely dissolved) has been made head of Smart Devices. A nother softie, Chris Weber, will head up US operations.
Darn, I've already posted or I would mod you up. Congratulations - I think you have the answer here. This is the Sendo deal all over again.
Don't be a fool. What happened to Sendo? They partnered with Microsoft, were killed and eaten by Microsoft for their cellphone intellectual property. This story has been told over and over so many times it's not funny. Nokia has no hope now - It's doomed.
There are plenty of city workers with city-issued phones to find all the potholes. Take off the tinfoil hat.
Of course the purpose of this is to find all the potholes to the city workers can avoid them on the way home - and maybe make a nice graphical pothole zonemap for the city website. Actual road crews probably won't have access to the information.
Will nobody else say it? Ok, I'll say it without inserting some criticism about the timing, the need for this change, or whatever.
This needed to be done. The patch needed to be the default. The patch is here and it provides an improvement on the Windows experience not only for the Windows users, but for those of us who share an Internet with them.
So thank you, Microsoft, for doing the right thing.
So you want to think about the full ramifications of every Windows machine on the Internet being globally routable?
Ah, there's the thing. He bought the business, not the religion.
No, they have a netblock. That may be worth more than the rest of the company in two weeks.
Yes. Unix was awesome. Yes, they did take Microsoft's money and make a hash of it. No, this didn't impede progress at all because we had already worked around the intellectual property issues of Unix with Linux. A swing and a miss for the 'softies. Nice try, come again in 2015.
You've used a lot of words to say nothing. Congratulations. I now believe you are who you say you are, that your words are true. But as you've said nothing, what does it matter?
Normally I would post some information here that's relevant to the current squabble, some stuff that equates to the ultimate decimation of SCO and their trolling ways. But that's a foregone conclusion. Dissolution is waiting for SCO, and the only interesting thing about it is the way they do it.
But that is settled, so if I want to educate and inform I have to go further afield. One of those ways is to teach folk about Ransom Love.
You see, Ransom was a Linux geek, fully into the ecosystem. He understood why this would win, though he was ahead of his time by a decade. His company (caldera) made a Linux distro and it was seen for a while as the fusion of commercial VS free. He hit his IPO at the peak of the .com era, and for a time his company was worth billions of dollars. He looked at this and said, "well, if we're worth so much, why don't we buy Unix, which is worth so little today?" He was a true geek and admired the Unix in a way most of those who read this can't. And that was his undoing. He might have done it, but time and market forces blocked him.
You see, the Unix Way isn't a software product. It's not a bulk of code. It's not a block of copyrights. It's a philosophy. It can't be owned, any more than the Scientific Method can be owned.
So he bought it, and suffered therefrom. He's an IT geek for the Mormon church now. He'll carry what might-have-been to his dieing day, but he should let it go. He reached for a ring that was not there.
Today mobile is taking over the IT revolution from desktops. The dominant forces are a derivation of BSD Unix (iOS) and Linux in the form of Android. Ransom was right. He was just too early, and some day we'll grant him his rightful place in the pantheon of tech visionaries. For now he suffers the fate of a local prophet, which is to say a local prophet is always stoned.
By the way.. nobody in their right mind is going to believe a Nokia deal with Microsoft is anything but a unilateral suicide pact. We know what happened to Sendo. This new pr firm is totally lame. It's overreaching.
News for nerds. Stuff that matters. And this is both of those.
The only association with the term with the target page on the entire internet is the Google results. The term does not occur on the target page. It does not occur on any pages that link to the target because it's carefully chosen to be unique to the test. Since the association between the term and the target exists nowhere but Google search, for Bing to use that association - however they found it out - is to cheat and copy the Google search result. Period. There is no other way. It is solid proof of copying. Is it illegal? Probably not. Is it wrong? Absolutely yes.