If you want biological molecules for drugs, the last thing you want to do is try to synthesise them Why not just open up yeast to genetic engineering and have the modified yeast create your molecules by the ton? Once you have the research and modifications done, you can grow those yeasts for pennies.
They talk about this 'treaty' for months behind closed doors, cross all the i's, dot all the t's, get ready to roll it out, pick up on the groundswell protest against it, and NOW they say they need more discussion on it? Talk about spindoctoring at its finest...
This is nothing new. People have been using biogas in India for ages. I first learned about it over 30 years ago. The Indians use mostly manure, but any organic material can be used, the more plant products you use, the more biogas you get.
There's a book from 1980 called "The Mother Earth News Handbook of Homemade Power" that goes into it (and other 'green' technologies that work well on small scales) that goes into greater detail. You can find it for 4-5 bucks on bookfinder.com
They never could count on him to figure out the next new thing correctly. (Can anyone say 'Lisa'? 'Cube'?)
What? Your expectation is for every single product to work out? A hen that lays golden eggs? Dream on, it doesn't exist. Jobs had more products that were milestones in computer evolution than he had failures. That's a pretty unique success rate.
My expectations? No, I know better. The corporate board of directors? Damned straight they do. Dump money into something that doesn't work, and they see it as being out a ton of money. Who cares if you actually learn something that'll help them down the line, you wasted money NOW that could go towards other things, like crushing the competition, or paying dividends, or developing something that WILL make the company a ton of money. Why do you think most corporations don't do a lot of R&D unless it's government subsidised?
They're politicians and bureaucrats. How much fucking brains do you think they have? I'm willing to bet that password strained their limited intelligence. Rocket scientists they're not.
Why do you think they fired him from Apple? They brought him back when they bought up NeXT when it went under. SJ was a sometime marketting genius. Problem was, like most geniuses, his talent was erratic as hell. They never could count on him to figure out the next new thing correctly. (Can anyone say 'Lisa'? 'Cube'?)
Hell, I have an FBI file. Prints on file with them, too. Everybody in the military, past, present, and future, gets one as part of their security clearance procedure. Some of us get them added to over the decades as a result of, well, things. Things like, participating in a protest movement, joining an organisation with ties to radical politics. I do have to say, tho, that most of the 'subversive' things I did back in the day are real snoozers today. Kinda hard to remember why we fucking cared that much.
There's another damaging situation: You can complain about iTunes and subscription sites being damaging to copyright owners and having inferior audio quality, but one of the worst culprits is YouTube.
OK, the iTunes store pays a percentage to the 'copyright holders', or rather, RIAA. How is this 'damaging' the 'copyright owners'? Oh, right, RIAA screws them. But you can't say that in an interview, they'll drop you like a lava lamp.
There are valid reasons to fight against piracy. It ruins the argument to be so silly and inflammatory.
Sure there are. For one thing, it causes a menace to navigation.
By redefining 'piracy' as 'deliberate copyright infringement through means up to and including downloading digital copies off the internet without buying a license to do this', they lower the threat of those Somali gentlemen who recently made the news. After all, if a software/music pirate doesn't pack a gun, shouldn't we expect those same Somali gentlemen to be similarly unarmed? The point is, downloading a file off the internet isn't piracy, it's copyright infringement. If RIAA put the legislation in those terms, nobody would take them seriously. By redefining it as 'piracy', they can get sentiment whipped up a lot easier in their favor.
I like the concept of Debian. Nice package management tools, easy upgrades (to a point). When you start going to look for off the beaten trail software is where Debian gets weird.
It was my experience that there was some cool software out there that never got ported to new versions. So you add the repository anyway, and ran into library hell. Ubuntu was supposed to fix that.
The idea behind Ubuntu was to back the hell away from the bleeding edge. Back, WAY back, onto some nice safe solid ground. OK, we're here? Cool. We start building from this point on. The software was never intended for being on the cutting edge, it was intended for being rock solid without having to go through dependency hell. It did this quite well.
JS, I think you need to go back, WAY back, and relearn what you forgot from the bad old days...
Just checked out the Lubuntu desktop. Interesting, not bad, but could use some more work on the configuration tools. For some strange reason, it didn't find some stuff I use all the time, like Aterm & FBReader. I'dve thought it would have had some kind of dynamic menu or created a menu from the apt database, but I guess not...
xv is shareware, something weird in the Linux universe. Hasn't been updated in a looooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.
xmms was abandoned for xmms2, which was a big mistake in my mind. Yeah, it became client-server, but I had problems adding my collection to it. It'd import a certain amount, then choke and die. I stick with the classic xmms, it still works. I update my list with a simple shell script I knocked out in like 5 minutes that automatically finds all my MP3s & sorts them out. Takes less than a minute.
I don't use KDE or GNOME, I use Fluxbox. I left Fedora for Ubuntu with the Dapper release, having been a hardcore RedHat fan since 3.0.3. RedHat/Fedora just got to be a pain in the ass to update when I made the switch. You couldn't really update it anymore, you had to pretty much wipe and reinstall, which they recommended. KDE 3.x was good, so was GNOME 2.x. I've tried Unity, KDE, ICWM, AfterStep, FVWM2, Blackbox, e17, just about everything out there, coming back to Fluxbox every time. I haven't much cared what's under the hood in ages, and yeah, some stuff I still compile by hand. That list is getting smaller and smaller all the time. I don't have much problems installing new stuff cause I know how to use apt-get from the command line. Apt-get is what got me interested in Debian-derived distros. It seems to Just Work for me.
Distros I've tried? I started out on SLS, used Slack, went RedHat/Fedora, played with Mandrake (for a couple customers' machines), SuSE, Debian back in the day, Ubuntu. Now I'm thinking, time to check out Mint?
The Defense budget hasn't been a mere 5 billion since, oh, 1948, IIRC. The current 3 wars we're involved in (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) each suck up about 5 billion a day thereabouts.
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If you want biological molecules for drugs, the last thing you want to do is try to synthesise them Why not just open up yeast to genetic engineering and have the modified yeast create your molecules by the ton? Once you have the research and modifications done, you can grow those yeasts for pennies.
They talk about this 'treaty' for months behind closed doors, cross all the i's, dot all the t's, get ready to roll it out, pick up on the groundswell protest against it, and NOW they say they need more discussion on it? Talk about spindoctoring at its finest...
This is nothing new. People have been using biogas in India for ages. I first learned about it over 30 years ago. The Indians use mostly manure, but any organic material can be used, the more plant products you use, the more biogas you get.
There's a book from 1980 called "The Mother Earth News Handbook of Homemade Power" that goes into it (and other 'green' technologies that work well on small scales) that goes into greater detail. You can find it for 4-5 bucks on bookfinder.com
My expectations? No, I know better. The corporate board of directors? Damned straight they do. Dump money into something that doesn't work, and they see it as being out a ton of money. Who cares if you actually learn something that'll help them down the line, you wasted money NOW that could go towards other things, like crushing the competition, or paying dividends, or developing something that WILL make the company a ton of money. Why do you think most corporations don't do a lot of R&D unless it's government subsidised?
They're politicians and bureaucrats. How much fucking brains do you think they have? I'm willing to bet that password strained their limited intelligence. Rocket scientists they're not.
Why do you think they fired him from Apple? They brought him back when they bought up NeXT when it went under. SJ was a sometime marketting genius. Problem was, like most geniuses, his talent was erratic as hell. They never could count on him to figure out the next new thing correctly. (Can anyone say 'Lisa'? 'Cube'?)
Hell, I have an FBI file. Prints on file with them, too. Everybody in the military, past, present, and future, gets one as part of their security clearance procedure. Some of us get them added to over the decades as a result of, well, things. Things like, participating in a protest movement, joining an organisation with ties to radical politics. I do have to say, tho, that most of the 'subversive' things I did back in the day are real snoozers today. Kinda hard to remember why we fucking cared that much.
Hey, us Trekkies have always been interested in keeping up with the Cardassians. Er, wait...
OK, the iTunes store pays a percentage to the 'copyright holders', or rather, RIAA. How is this 'damaging' the 'copyright owners'? Oh, right, RIAA screws them. But you can't say that in an interview, they'll drop you like a lava lamp.
... are not the Jedi you're looking for...
You can go about your business...
Move along...
Sure there are. For one thing, it causes a menace to navigation.
By redefining 'piracy' as 'deliberate copyright infringement through means up to and including downloading digital copies off the internet without buying a license to do this', they lower the threat of those Somali gentlemen who recently made the news. After all, if a software/music pirate doesn't pack a gun, shouldn't we expect those same Somali gentlemen to be similarly unarmed? The point is, downloading a file off the internet isn't piracy, it's copyright infringement. If RIAA put the legislation in those terms, nobody would take them seriously. By redefining it as 'piracy', they can get sentiment whipped up a lot easier in their favor.
Include Neocons and it drops down to 1.75 kg.
Definitely Fluxbox here.
Just wish somebody'd kept the sourcecode to toolbox and kept it updated.
I like the concept of Debian. Nice package management tools, easy upgrades (to a point). When you start going to look for off the beaten trail software is where Debian gets weird.
It was my experience that there was some cool software out there that never got ported to new versions. So you add the repository anyway, and ran into library hell. Ubuntu was supposed to fix that.
The idea behind Ubuntu was to back the hell away from the bleeding edge. Back, WAY back, onto some nice safe solid ground. OK, we're here? Cool. We start building from this point on. The software was never intended for being on the cutting edge, it was intended for being rock solid without having to go through dependency hell. It did this quite well.
JS, I think you need to go back, WAY back, and relearn what you forgot from the bad old days...
Never got to it.
Just checked out the Lubuntu desktop. Interesting, not bad, but could use some more work on the configuration tools. For some strange reason, it didn't find some stuff I use all the time, like Aterm & FBReader. I'dve thought it would have had some kind of dynamic menu or created a menu from the apt database, but I guess not...
At least they didn't fuck up a meters-to-feet conversion.
Dunno bout you, but I have serious doubt that DHS has the necessary expertise to breathe half the time.
xv is shareware, something weird in the Linux universe. Hasn't been updated in a looooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.
xmms was abandoned for xmms2, which was a big mistake in my mind. Yeah, it became client-server, but I had problems adding my collection to it. It'd import a certain amount, then choke and die. I stick with the classic xmms, it still works. I update my list with a simple shell script I knocked out in like 5 minutes that automatically finds all my MP3s & sorts them out. Takes less than a minute.
I don't use KDE or GNOME, I use Fluxbox. I left Fedora for Ubuntu with the Dapper release, having been a hardcore RedHat fan since 3.0.3. RedHat/Fedora just got to be a pain in the ass to update when I made the switch. You couldn't really update it anymore, you had to pretty much wipe and reinstall, which they recommended. KDE 3.x was good, so was GNOME 2.x. I've tried Unity, KDE, ICWM, AfterStep, FVWM2, Blackbox, e17, just about everything out there, coming back to Fluxbox every time. I haven't much cared what's under the hood in ages, and yeah, some stuff I still compile by hand. That list is getting smaller and smaller all the time. I don't have much problems installing new stuff cause I know how to use apt-get from the command line. Apt-get is what got me interested in Debian-derived distros. It seems to Just Work for me.
Distros I've tried? I started out on SLS, used Slack, went RedHat/Fedora, played with Mandrake (for a couple customers' machines), SuSE, Debian back in the day, Ubuntu. Now I'm thinking, time to check out Mint?
Just gotta remind the politicians that we gotta convert from metric, the data should be ok.
Like they said in 'The Right Stuff', 'No bucks, no Buck Rogers!'
Yeah, I vaguely remember the US having a middle class. Been awhile, though...
The Defense budget hasn't been a mere 5 billion since, oh, 1948, IIRC. The current 3 wars we're involved in (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) each suck up about 5 billion a day thereabouts.
The good news is, we're only 20 years away from fusion power.
Probably easier to build a methane digester such as http://www.small-farm-permaculture-and-sustainable-living.com/methane_generator.htmlhere. There's even a cool video to watch. IIRC from my old hippie days, there's an economy of scale involved, so you might wanna build one with a couple neighbors...
That's two songs you owe RIAA royalties on now.