Sure, sure, he didn't go into serious detail, but he did state that adaptation occurred.
Most likely, those creatures that did not become sterile from the effect of radiation on their gonads had one or another sort of duplicated gene set (it happens a lot). Their children would then be less suceptible to radiation poisoning and their children less still. Eventually these animals would have a full or more duplicate of their entire DNA.
Those who suffered ill effects from it (ie: the animal equivalent of downs syndrome) would be less likely to survive, and so the ones that didnt - those that have mutated enough genetic machinery to allow such a duplication to exist (probably a small percentage, but a seed nonetheless) - would be more likely to propagate.
So yes, mother nature adapts. Mother nature is a generalized term for things on the cellular level that 'just happen'. It's not retarded, it's shorthand for those who don't feel like thinking too hard about a subject.
I mean, unless you think it was the noodly appendage of Our Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Oh hell, not another pastafarian with your wacky 'meaty design' theories.
(Substitute 'pseudo christian' and 'intelligent design', 'fundamentalist'/'moslem'/'christian'/'catholic' and 'devine creation', or 'arkleseizurist' and 'nasal design' as needed.)
Given the choice between 'free and illegal, but unrestricted' and 'affordable, legal, but rediculously unusable', guess which I choose.
Given the choice between 'free and illegal' and 'affordable and legal', I choose 'affordable'.
Note that the restrictions aren't in the second note. Without DRM, and at a reasonable price, I choose the less risky endeavor.
The music industry doesn't need DRM. The music industry needs to rethink their price point. That's always been the problem they've not been willing to face up to, i.e. Given that the average consumer is not actively trying to pay for a good, how much is the consumer willing to pay for the good to be delivered conveniently?
CDs have been overpriced for ages; they got an R&D price for them at their inception and never lowered it, reaping lots of cash in the early nineties and becoming bloated, comfortable, and crap-producing.
Now, they're insisting that we pay the same price (but at a per-track rate) for even lower-quality product and trying to make the data less usable via DRM.
I daresay that 'good for the consumer' hasn't entered into their equations for a long, long time. There's a word for industries that have no respect for their customer base: dying.
In short: the consumers' disrespect of the RIAA comes from their attempt to bleed us. If they were to set the right prices and drop this stupid DRM thing, you'd see sales skyrocket.
Lets take an interview out of context and bash the one guy who's came up with innovative gameplay in the last ten years!
Please.
I won't defend the guy, but I can understand where he's coming from. Faster processor, nicer graphics, new controller - none of it makes a good game. The guy's a designer; his business is making good games.
All he said is that he can't think of anything he wants to do with the revolution. What can YOU come up with?
Writing video drivers is VERY difficult. That doesn't mean that the drivers wouldn't get aided by the optimization and bug-fixing powers of the open-source community at large.
What's interesting to note is that most if not all of these bugs were found in-house at mozilla, and patched with speed. I think the dude's trying to say that the Firefox development model is fundamentally better for consumers than IE. E.g., exploitable code is more-often-than-not found and patched by the developers faster than they are found and exploited in the wild - unlike the IE model in which exploits are only taken seriously whenever there's a threat of installed-base loss.
Of course, that sort of diligence is unsustainable, IMHO. I suspect that around Firefox 4.0 we'll start seeing exploits happen faster than patches.
Theoretically, a firefox extention could destroy your computer, invite a virus, even spy on you and call home.
Though, as you said, official extensions get vetted by the community - if there's a serious infraction, you can bet it'll be caught within the day of its posting, either by someone getting a broken computer, or just some dude poking in a cool extension's source code.
Though, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a spybot extention lurking around, calling home on port 80 under firefox's executable name to get around firewalls.
ooh, I dunno, anything that uses all of DOM Level 1? Firefox, AFAIK, is the only browser to fully implement DOM 1. The others (Opera 7+, IE 6+, Konqueror 3.2+, Safari from OSX 10.2+) have 'sufficient' support for it, but Firefox has had stellar support for DOM level 1 since 1.0.
Do yourself a test. Write a page with a custom tag in it; call it <beer>. Now, check out which browsers will enumerate it using getElementsByTagName('beer') and which won't.
What's that? Only firefox handles it correctly? Surely not!
Yeah. I hate using <object>s for my custom tags; it just annoys me. But that's browser compatibility for you.
If Intel goes DRM, I will buy AMD. If AMD goes DRM, I will buy VIA. If VIA goes DRM, I will buy Transmeta. If Transmeta goes DRM, I will buy ARM or PPC or anything but DRM.
I run linux. I don't need to stay on a given architechture. And I don't need DRM.
Generally. As long as the content's been paid for once, you can stream out the raw decoded content to ffmpeg or mencoder to produce non-DRM files that may be played as pleased.
On a related note, by 'relevant', does ABC mean 'just barely afloat' or 'in the process of sinking into obscelescence'?
Just asking 'cos, ah... offering low res content with embedded adverts (which, given the model by which they'd have to deliver these non-skippable ads, also prevent you from rewinding past them to catch what you missed before the commercial) doesn't seem all that 'relevant' to me, by its classical definition.
By the way, if you want a way to avoid ads from asx files, just study up a bit on the use of the Java proxy, Muffin. It's got a customizable filter powerful enough to let you say, "In files of mimetype video/asx (I don't actually know the mimetype), change all occurences of the parameter 'skippable' to 'true'", or something of that nature.
The asx file is the control, and the skip protection is only secured by obscurity. Don't let them fool you.
Ok. Do you have an issue with teaching the process of natural selection and genetic adaptation - two proven concepts that are directly related to evolution - to elementary school students?
"Hello, my name is David, and I'm... I'm a Linux user" *breaks down in sobs for a second*
*wipes the tears*
"I've been using Linux for over a decade now, and I just can't seem to quit permentantly. Every time I do, I just start getting a craving for the command line. I start greppin- I mean chewing at the end of my pencils, parsing perl scripts on paper, and even hand-compiling code to the x86.
"I try to go clean, use Windows or OS X. I just can't take it. It's like, everything's too pretty, you know? I just crave the cold feeling of XFCE or Blackbox.
"I've tried ways to ween myself... Topologilinux, coLinux... even VMWare... but nothing seems to work.
*tearing up again*
"Some of my friends - linux addicts as well - they tell me that I should realize that I just can't deal with an inferior system anymore. That I should accept that I simply should live that everyone else will experience the glory of blue screens of death, and just suffer with my nonlethal segmentation faults.
"But I know better. I CAN be a conformist. Sometimes, I just want to be able shout it from the rooftops: 'WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS!'"
*coughs and splutters*
-- "Steve B." at an Linux Addicts Anonymous meeting
Ok, Whisper is not a DE for a kid; they won't catch on to it very easily.
Meanwhile, I LIKE Syllable; it's one of the lighter-weight linuxes.
The problem is that more often than not, a lighter weight system is more difficult to get used to.
SymphonyOS would be a good 'for kids' choice. I like the ideas in Symphony OS; I think that's a design that could probably go far - if they were going to implement it right. Right now, they're running the whole thing on a perl backend through mozilla firefox.
You want bloat? That's bloat. It's not clever or advanced, it's repurposing a web browser as an OS backend so that lazy coders get a break.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, that's how per-species adaptation works. Some survive a problem, others don't. The DNA pool has 'adapted' to the issue.
Query: How is parent retarded?
Sure, sure, he didn't go into serious detail, but he did state that adaptation occurred.
Most likely, those creatures that did not become sterile from the effect of radiation on their gonads had one or another sort of duplicated gene set (it happens a lot). Their children would then be less suceptible to radiation poisoning and their children less still. Eventually these animals would have a full or more duplicate of their entire DNA.
Those who suffered ill effects from it (ie: the animal equivalent of downs syndrome) would be less likely to survive, and so the ones that didnt - those that have mutated enough genetic machinery to allow such a duplication to exist (probably a small percentage, but a seed nonetheless) - would be more likely to propagate.
So yes, mother nature adapts. Mother nature is a generalized term for things on the cellular level that 'just happen'. It's not retarded, it's shorthand for those who don't feel like thinking too hard about a subject.
I mean, unless you think it was the noodly appendage of Our Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Oh hell, not another pastafarian with your wacky 'meaty design' theories.
(Substitute 'pseudo christian' and 'intelligent design', 'fundamentalist'/'moslem'/'christian'/'catholic' and 'devine creation', or 'arkleseizurist' and 'nasal design' as needed.)
No! You're wrong! Nuclear is too powerful! We can't make a plant safe, it's impossible!
Flamebaiting fucker. Go do some research on _modern_ nuclear designs.
*poke*
read the whole post, douchebag.
Given the choice between 'free and illegal, but unrestricted' and 'affordable, legal, but rediculously unusable', guess which I choose.
Given the choice between 'free and illegal' and 'affordable and legal', I choose 'affordable'.
Note that the restrictions aren't in the second note. Without DRM, and at a reasonable price, I choose the less risky endeavor.
The music industry doesn't need DRM. The music industry needs to rethink their price point. That's always been the problem they've not been willing to face up to, i.e. Given that the average consumer is not actively trying to pay for a good, how much is the consumer willing to pay for the good to be delivered conveniently?
CDs have been overpriced for ages; they got an R&D price for them at their inception and never lowered it, reaping lots of cash in the early nineties and becoming bloated, comfortable, and crap-producing.
Now, they're insisting that we pay the same price (but at a per-track rate) for even lower-quality product and trying to make the data less usable via DRM.
I daresay that 'good for the consumer' hasn't entered into their equations for a long, long time. There's a word for industries that have no respect for their customer base: dying.
In short: the consumers' disrespect of the RIAA comes from their attempt to bleed us. If they were to set the right prices and drop this stupid DRM thing, you'd see sales skyrocket.
Wow.
Lets take an interview out of context and bash the one guy who's came up with innovative gameplay in the last ten years!
Please.
I won't defend the guy, but I can understand where he's coming from. Faster processor, nicer graphics, new controller - none of it makes a good game. The guy's a designer; his business is making good games.
All he said is that he can't think of anything he wants to do with the revolution. What can YOU come up with?
"saying it is to hard is just stupid"
Perhaps. Unfortunately, he is partially right.
Writing video drivers is VERY difficult. That doesn't mean that the drivers wouldn't get aided by the optimization and bug-fixing powers of the open-source community at large.
Suit yourself; me, I want my superman suit!
"How many people do you think are really "reading" the source."
The mozilla in-house guys that have been locating their own exploits at blazing speed.
Though, I've looked at it (trying to get the Qt port to work), and I don't know how they can find a damn thing in that mess.
What's interesting to note is that most if not all of these bugs were found in-house at mozilla, and patched with speed. I think the dude's trying to say that the Firefox development model is fundamentally better for consumers than IE. E.g., exploitable code is more-often-than-not found and patched by the developers faster than they are found and exploited in the wild - unlike the IE model in which exploits are only taken seriously whenever there's a threat of installed-base loss.
Of course, that sort of diligence is unsustainable, IMHO. I suspect that around Firefox 4.0 we'll start seeing exploits happen faster than patches.
Still, 4.0's a long way off.
Theoretically, a firefox extention could destroy your computer, invite a virus, even spy on you and call home.
Though, as you said, official extensions get vetted by the community - if there's a serious infraction, you can bet it'll be caught within the day of its posting, either by someone getting a broken computer, or just some dude poking in a cool extension's source code.
Though, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a spybot extention lurking around, calling home on port 80 under firefox's executable name to get around firewalls.
ooh, I dunno, anything that uses all of DOM Level 1? Firefox, AFAIK, is the only browser to fully implement DOM 1. The others (Opera 7+, IE 6+, Konqueror 3.2+, Safari from OSX 10.2+) have 'sufficient' support for it, but Firefox has had stellar support for DOM level 1 since 1.0.
Do yourself a test. Write a page with a custom tag in it; call it <beer>. Now, check out which browsers will enumerate it using getElementsByTagName('beer') and which won't.
What's that? Only firefox handles it correctly? Surely not!
Yeah. I hate using <object>s for my custom tags; it just annoys me. But that's browser compatibility for you.
Signature result: #REF!
(unless it's nonstatic cellular automata, in which case, the result is a blinker)
Oh my GOD are you a useless troll.
'Have a lawyer handy since I will sue you'?
1) Get a life
2) Lose the legal threats, and
3) maybe come up with a sensical argument at some point.
I've been reading your posts; if you're NOT getting paid, I humbly suggest you're getting ripped off.
*Squints at the document*
You couldn't even teach yourself to program if this shit were on your computer... They trying to dry up their own supply of programmers?
If Intel goes DRM, I will buy AMD. If AMD goes DRM, I will buy VIA. If VIA goes DRM, I will buy Transmeta. If Transmeta goes DRM, I will buy ARM or PPC or anything but DRM.
I run linux. I don't need to stay on a given architechture. And I don't need DRM.
Lets be honest here.
Even if Linus breaks down and puts DRM in the kernel, you don't have to check the 'Y' box... or even the 'M' box.
I'm sorry, but when was the last time this joker was relevant? 1996?
Make that 'Consumers to Corporations'
Generally. As long as the content's been paid for once, you can stream out the raw decoded content to ffmpeg or mencoder to produce non-DRM files that may be played as pleased.
On a related note, by 'relevant', does ABC mean 'just barely afloat' or 'in the process of sinking into obscelescence'?
Just asking 'cos, ah... offering low res content with embedded adverts (which, given the model by which they'd have to deliver these non-skippable ads, also prevent you from rewinding past them to catch what you missed before the commercial) doesn't seem all that 'relevant' to me, by its classical definition.
By the way, if you want a way to avoid ads from asx files, just study up a bit on the use of the Java proxy, Muffin. It's got a customizable filter powerful enough to let you say, "In files of mimetype video/asx (I don't actually know the mimetype), change all occurences of the parameter 'skippable' to 'true'", or something of that nature.
The asx file is the control, and the skip protection is only secured by obscurity. Don't let them fool you.
Ok. Do you have an issue with teaching the process of natural selection and genetic adaptation - two proven concepts that are directly related to evolution - to elementary school students?
Hm. A "Linux Support Group", huh?
"Hello, my name is David, and I'm... I'm a Linux user" *breaks down in sobs for a second*
*wipes the tears*
"I've been using Linux for over a decade now, and I just can't seem to quit permentantly. Every time I do, I just start getting a craving for the command line. I start greppin- I mean chewing at the end of my pencils, parsing perl scripts on paper, and even hand-compiling code to the x86.
"I try to go clean, use Windows or OS X. I just can't take it. It's like, everything's too pretty, you know? I just crave the cold feeling of XFCE or Blackbox.
"I've tried ways to ween myself... Topologilinux, coLinux... even VMWare... but nothing seems to work.
*tearing up again*
"Some of my friends - linux addicts as well - they tell me that I should realize that I just can't deal with an inferior system anymore. That I should accept that I simply should live that everyone else will experience the glory of blue screens of death, and just suffer with my nonlethal segmentation faults.
"But I know better. I CAN be a conformist. Sometimes, I just want to be able shout it from the rooftops: 'WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS!'"
*coughs and splutters*
-- "Steve B." at an Linux Addicts Anonymous meeting
Dear god...
Ok, Whisper is not a DE for a kid; they won't catch on to it very easily.
Meanwhile, I LIKE Syllable; it's one of the lighter-weight linuxes.
The problem is that more often than not, a lighter weight system is more difficult to get used to.
SymphonyOS would be a good 'for kids' choice. I like the ideas in Symphony OS; I think that's a design that could probably go far - if they were going to implement it right. Right now, they're running the whole thing on a perl backend through mozilla firefox.
You want bloat? That's bloat. It's not clever or advanced, it's repurposing a web browser as an OS backend so that lazy coders get a break.