" I am not sure, whether this is really such a grand idea -- yes, genetics and cloning hold enormous potential, but I think with the current knowledge of this subject there should be a moratorium on actual experiments (especially on human cells) until we learn more of the background of the whole thing - and especially, until we have some form of agreement on ethical standards about what we want to achieve and how far we are willing to go."
Ok, well the most obvious argument is "How do we learn without doing research?" We already know the "theoretical level"...which is why people want to pursue research to begin with.
That aside, who decides on the ethical standards? Who decides when we've learned enough "background" to proceed with experiments? Historically speaking there is no way...there will always be people that disagree and there will always be those who think we should put something off until we have a better understanding.
"Please moderators. I am not trying to start a flame, I'm just bringing up a point. If you are so unafraid of Nuclear Power, then move your family to within site distance of a plant."
So, instead we should all hide away in some barren field where cars have no chances of wrecking into our houses, we have no nasty power lines to give us illnesses, no trees in the area to fall on the house, no animals around to carry off the children, no streams that could potentially be contaminated, safe altitude to avoid flooding--but not too high so that a plane might fly into your house!...hell, we shouldn't even live in houses because those are dangerous...they might catch fire or something might fall off a shelf and nail someone in the head!
My point being: I can understand the concern to an extent but do people really stop and think about the hundreds of other things that put our lives in danger on a daily basis that we never think about?
I live near a nuclear plant. Certainly not within 2 miles as its an industrial area with no residents...but close enough to know the evacuation routes. I can't say I've ever been concerned about it. There are a hundred other things more likely to happen and more hazardous to my healthin on any given day.
Where in that sentence did it say it mattered? It simply stated a clock speed--one of the various technical specs mentioned in TFAs
Had it said something like, "The first version of the chip will crush all competition at speeds faster than 4Ghz." then I'd agree with what you've said, but there was no relation of clockspeed to performance in any of the articles as far as I can tell.
Is it illegal to install video cameras to monitor the interior of my building? Is it illegal if reviewing the video I noticed a woman in a public hallway in the nude?
I was excited to watch the first season since it was something to fill the gap left by Voyager.
Yes, sorry...I'm the sole fan of Voyager. Probably only because I didn't watch anything Trek until after DS9 and TNG were gone. (Although I certainly caught up on those series as well)
I don't even remember the second season. Then we had the third, with that Xindi crap. Overall I thought it was good that they decided to stick with a story arc for a change...but as someone above already mentioned it seemed like nothing more than "Osama in Space"
Then we were given season 4. With the exception of the space nazis I found it to be a vast improvement over the first three seasons. The 3-part arcs were decent and Enterprise finally went back to exploring space for a change.
The transporter episode sucked. It was nothing more than a rehashed Voyager plot (Which, no doubt, came from an earlier series) where MAD_SCIENTIST uses a transporter to correct ATROCITY_A.
Still...I'm not sure it's the writing that is a problem this season. The acting itself seems dry. The ship/sets seem about as big as a closet.
After the last Trek story on/. I saw people commenting on BSG. I decided to watch it and after seeing the miniseries and entire first season I can understand why Enterprise is failing.
In a way I'm upset over the news--I'm holding out for a 2nd season of BSG though...if that doesn't happen I'll really be angry.
"No, not unless rescuers were launched by a full-speed ICBM the very instant the shuttle broke up. Unless Houston can immediately get news of a wing break, this is a non-starter."
You entirely missed the point. The question raised wasn't "Could the Columbia crew have been saved WHILE it broke up?"
Rather, it was "Could we have realized the problem while in orbit and kept the shuttle in orbit long enough to rescue the crew in some way?"
It's unlikely the crew could have been saved even if the severity of the problem had been realized since it would have taken days if not weeks to prep another shuttle.
This is why they're going to prep another shuttle for possible rescue--so that if something goes wrong and the crew has to remain in orbit, they can launch a rescue within a reasonable amount of time.
According to TFA, Apple replaced the 'g5' with 'g4' in these so-called clues/hints.
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"Try creating a monopoly on satellite radio before the industry even gets off its feet"
I'm not sure the industry is going to get any more off its feet as far as additional competition.
This isn't exactly like a Windows -vs- Linux battle because these are both pieces of software that more often than not will run on the same hardware.
In the case of satellite radio you have to buy hardware specific to that company. I'd equate this more to Betamax -vs- VHS. Betamax may have been a superior format but for those who already had VHS, what incentive was there to buy another piece of proprietary hardware?
Of course there are kits that allow you to use satellite radio with a head unit that doesn't come satellite-ready that would allow switching, but even then you're still having to buy more proprietary hardware.
For there to be any new competition in the market, there is going to have to be innovation that takes satellite radio beyond its current form because nobody is going to care if yet another company pops up with commercial-free satellite radio that is identical to the others except for 1) Company name 2) Content offered.
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The summary indicates they would expand their products into TV and other markets in addition to radio.
I forgive you for stopping midway through the summary to post a question which is answered in it...
I don't really care to know that EA made a profit! Oh noes, a game company made a profit! Layoffs? That's a part of life...and no offense to those 60 or so people but this is hardly news.
Frankly, I don't even see anything newsworthy in the whole summary...but apparently that's just my opinion and one not shared with at least one person.
"then the Republicans will start shouting again about how P2P is inheiriently evil, and that will be the end of that."
Except the fact that the US is not the legal authority over Earth. They may whine, they may try to make it illegal in some way, and they may even succeed but it will never be the end so long as its legal elsewhere.
"I get extremely pissed off if it includes spyware and then the developers lie about it."
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Of course, that doesn't make it any better in my view...I don't want that crap installed regardless.
Dumbed-down sci-fi? Is there some requirement of scifi that it be complicated beyond the comprehension of the everyday viewer to the point where it's considered geekish to even watch?
I actually enjoyed some of the series simply because it was "dumbed down" as you so aptly put it. It was just enough to offset it from something like CSI, but not the point of Star Trek and the like.
Regardless, we should all be so fortunate that we don't have movies based on reality shows....yet.
" It's gotta feel damn good to actually pull your product because too many people want it. Seriously, this problem has gotta be the "best" problem Blizzard could have had with this game."
No, it better be the WORST feeling for them. They can't even keep the servers up for the existing players to play.
Many will tell you that the servers were "down" from Thursday through Sunday regardless of whether or not the official status was "up." That's in addition to the 16 hours of scheduled downtime on Thursday.
The kicker? The 16 hour downtime to fix the problem actually made it even worse. That's when they introduced even more population caps without first informing the customers. Now players can sit in queues for anywhere between 1 to 3 hours...and if they're lucky enough to wait that long and log in, they may get 10 minutes of actual playtime before they get booted out of the game or lag out and forced to sit in the queue yet again.
This isn't just a problem for the high population servers, it's affecting even the low population servers. What does this mean? Nobody but Blizzard themselves can say with any certainty...but I'm willing to bet this has nothing to do with the popularity of the game and how many copies were sold. My guess is they have a poorly designed backend/database system that is simply broken and cannot be fixed even by throwing more hardware at the issue.
If they can engineer a seed to resist Roundup, why can't they also engineer a seed that has a lower shelf life not allowing them to be saved for another planting season?
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" I am not sure, whether this is really such a grand idea -- yes, genetics
...which is why people want to pursue research to begin with.
and cloning hold enormous potential, but I think with the current
knowledge of this subject there should be a moratorium on actual
experiments (especially on human cells) until we learn more of the
background of the whole thing - and especially, until we have some form
of agreement on ethical standards about what we want to achieve and how
far we are willing to go."
Ok, well the most obvious argument is "How do we learn without doing research?" We already know the "theoretical level"
That aside, who decides on the ethical standards? Who decides when we've learned enough "background" to proceed with experiments? Historically speaking there is no way...there will always be people that disagree and there will always be those who think we should put something off until we have a better understanding.
"Please moderators. I am not trying to start a flame, I'm just bringing up a point. If you are so unafraid of Nuclear Power, then move your family to within site distance of a plant."
So, instead we should all hide away in some barren field where cars have no chances of wrecking into our houses, we have no nasty power lines to give us illnesses, no trees in the area to fall on the house, no animals around to carry off the children, no streams that could potentially be contaminated, safe altitude to avoid flooding--but not too high so that a plane might fly into your house!...hell, we shouldn't even live in houses because those are dangerous...they might catch fire or something might fall off a shelf and nail someone in the head!
My point being: I can understand the concern to an extent but do people really stop and think about the hundreds of other things that put our lives in danger on a daily basis that we never think about?
I live near a nuclear plant. Certainly not within 2 miles as its an industrial area with no residents...but close enough to know the evacuation routes. I can't say I've ever been concerned about it. There are a hundred other things more likely to happen and more hazardous to my healthin on any given day.
"But I thought GHz didn't matter?"
Where in that sentence did it say it mattered? It simply stated a clock speed--one of the various technical specs mentioned in TFAs
Had it said something like, "The first version of the chip will crush all competition at speeds faster than 4Ghz." then I'd agree with what you've said, but there was no relation of clockspeed to performance in any of the articles as far as I can tell.
" Except we lost the only shuttle that could get it up there."
Except had you read the article you would have noticed the plan would use an Atlas 521 rocket to put it in orbit instead of a shuttle
I actually RTFA since it included a sensationalistic phrase like "biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made."
.NET platform. I certainly wouldn't call this a huge mistake made by MS.
To me, it sounded like a big advertisement for Java.
It's the developers decision to use unsafe code in the
A hunting rifle can be used to kill people. Does that mean the trigger should only work after inserting a valid and current hunting license?
"Maybe Bill Gates will fix Windows."
I think it would be interesting to sit him down in front of the piles of source for his OS and see if he actually can make sense of it.
He may have been the creator, but I suspect he hasn't done much work on it at all lately.
What kind of question is that?
That's like asking:
Is it illegal to install video cameras to monitor the interior of my building?
Is it illegal if reviewing the video I noticed a woman in a public hallway in the nude?
I couldn't agree more.
/. I saw people commenting on BSG. I decided to watch it and after seeing the miniseries and entire first season I can understand why Enterprise is failing.
I was excited to watch the first season since it was something to fill the gap left by Voyager.
Yes, sorry...I'm the sole fan of Voyager. Probably only because I didn't watch anything Trek until after DS9 and TNG were gone. (Although I certainly caught up on those series as well)
I don't even remember the second season. Then we had the third, with that Xindi crap. Overall I thought it was good that they decided to stick with a story arc for a change...but as someone above already mentioned it seemed like nothing more than "Osama in Space"
Then we were given season 4. With the exception of the space nazis I found it to be a vast improvement over the first three seasons. The 3-part arcs were decent and Enterprise finally went back to exploring space for a change.
The transporter episode sucked. It was nothing more than a rehashed Voyager plot (Which, no doubt, came from an earlier series) where MAD_SCIENTIST uses a transporter to correct ATROCITY_A.
Still...I'm not sure it's the writing that is a problem this season. The acting itself seems dry. The ship/sets seem about as big as a closet.
After the last Trek story on
In a way I'm upset over the news--I'm holding out for a 2nd season of BSG though...if that doesn't happen I'll really be angry.
Duh?
I would think it's common sense that anything that detracts from your concentration on the task of driving would decrease your quality of driving.
They were probably still waiting on the bootstrap to compile the livecd image :)
"No, not unless rescuers were launched by a full-speed ICBM the very instant the shuttle broke up. Unless Houston can immediately get news of a wing break, this is a non-starter."
You entirely missed the point. The question raised wasn't "Could the Columbia crew have been saved WHILE it broke up?"
Rather, it was "Could we have realized the problem while in orbit and kept the shuttle in orbit long enough to rescue the crew in some way?"
It's unlikely the crew could have been saved even if the severity of the problem had been realized since it would have taken days if not weeks to prep another shuttle.
This is why they're going to prep another shuttle for possible rescue--so that if something goes wrong and the crew has to remain in orbit, they can launch a rescue within a reasonable amount of time.
According to TFA, Apple replaced the 'g5' with 'g4' in these so-called clues/hints.
"Try creating a monopoly on satellite radio before the industry even gets off its feet"
I'm not sure the industry is going to get any more off its feet as far as additional competition.
This isn't exactly like a Windows -vs- Linux battle because these are both pieces of software that more often than not will run on the same hardware.
In the case of satellite radio you have to buy hardware specific to that company. I'd equate this more to Betamax -vs- VHS. Betamax may have been a superior format but for those who already had VHS, what incentive was there to buy another piece of proprietary hardware?
Of course there are kits that allow you to use satellite radio with a head unit that doesn't come satellite-ready that would allow switching, but even then you're still having to buy more proprietary hardware.
For there to be any new competition in the market, there is going to have to be innovation that takes satellite radio beyond its current form because nobody is going to care if yet another company pops up with commercial-free satellite radio that is identical to the others except for 1) Company name 2) Content offered.
The summary indicates they would expand their products into TV and other markets in addition to radio.
I forgive you for stopping midway through the summary to post a question which is answered in it...
Agreed.
I don't really care to know that EA made a profit! Oh noes, a game company made a profit! Layoffs? That's a part of life...and no offense to those 60 or so people but this is hardly news.
Frankly, I don't even see anything newsworthy in the whole summary...but apparently that's just my opinion and one not shared with at least one person.
I doubt it. The time-traveling alien Nazis was the worst part of the season. Everything else was at least watchable.
I thought season 4 was an improvement, and at least they didn't screw up the storyline with Brent Spiner.
Oh, and as for it being confirmed on Sirtis' official site...as far as I can tell any reference to such a confirmation was removed.
"then the Republicans will start shouting again about how P2P is inheiriently evil, and that will be the end of that."
Except the fact that the US is not the legal authority over Earth. They may whine, they may try to make it illegal in some way, and they may even succeed but it will never be the end so long as its legal elsewhere.
"I get extremely pissed off if it includes spyware and then the developers lie about it."
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Of course, that doesn't make it any better in my view...I don't want that crap installed regardless.
And even then, don't confuse crackers with script kiddies.
"I will personally decapitate anyone I see on the freeway playing Halo 2 while driving. Cell phones are bad enough."
Hopefully you'll be conducting such activities from the passenger seat...otherwise I'm sure you see the irony here.
Dumbed-down sci-fi? Is there some requirement of scifi that it be complicated beyond the comprehension of the everyday viewer to the point where it's considered geekish to even watch?
I actually enjoyed some of the series simply because it was "dumbed down" as you so aptly put it. It was just enough to offset it from something like CSI, but not the point of Star Trek and the like.
Regardless, we should all be so fortunate that we don't have movies based on reality shows....yet.
" It's gotta feel damn good to actually pull your product because too many people want it. Seriously, this problem has gotta be the "best" problem Blizzard could have had with this game."
No, it better be the WORST feeling for them. They can't even keep the servers up for the existing players to play.
Many will tell you that the servers were "down" from Thursday through Sunday regardless of whether or not the official status was "up." That's in addition to the 16 hours of scheduled downtime on Thursday.
The kicker? The 16 hour downtime to fix the problem actually made it even worse. That's when they introduced even more population caps without first informing the customers. Now players can sit in queues for anywhere between 1 to 3 hours...and if they're lucky enough to wait that long and log in, they may get 10 minutes of actual playtime before they get booted out of the game or lag out and forced to sit in the queue yet again.
This isn't just a problem for the high population servers, it's affecting even the low population servers. What does this mean? Nobody but Blizzard themselves can say with any certainty...but I'm willing to bet this has nothing to do with the popularity of the game and how many copies were sold. My guess is they have a poorly designed backend/database system that is simply broken and cannot be fixed even by throwing more hardware at the issue.
Why would microsoft acquire it? The summary clearly states that they're supporting Verisign rather than bidding on it themselves.
If they can engineer a seed to resist Roundup, why can't they also engineer a seed that has a lower shelf life not allowing them to be saved for another planting season?
" Well, what if their program generates a real email?"
That's why MX entries donated to the project are not supposed to be currently in use.
Hard to generate a valid email address if the (sub)domain was never used for mail in the first place.
I know, it's ok..I forgive you for not RTFA/RTFAQ.