There's no system of government or economic power which hasn't evolved into something else over time or simply been overthrown. All by the common man. What makes you think "you can't change the world"? It is changeable. It changes. It might just take time, or waiting for the right moment.
Aristocrats? Revolution looming on the horizon? Money from the US? What bizarro version of Europe have you been living in? Was it by chance located in Disneyland?
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Designing DNA to create a given protein sequence is no big deal. Designing a new sequence to yield a desired structure is a huge problem, which has only be solved for special cases - google the "protein folding problem". Designing a structure with a desired function is practically impossible at the current level of theoretical knowledge. If we have solved all of that, then we might think about interactions in the organism. Nearly no drug design is done by rational approaches today, it is all mass screening. These guys mentioned in the article have nothing else but a new DNA synthesis approach, making new sequences more easily available - good for them, there is a market for this, but scientifically this is no breakthrough. They are just another startup bullshitting their way through the fund-raising phase.
If your gonna bitch 'bout semantics - I always hated *nix systems that put the users directories in the "/home" tree. I'm not at home, I'm at fscking WORK here!!
You got a point there. Perhaps it is the time to wish for sufficiently fast computers that can render the voice chat into a timbre or even a style of speech that is more in character. I mean, I lost the confidence in any of my co-players being able to actually role-play. If it takes an AI to at least make them seem to be role-playing - bring it on!
I got one for you: Here you go I was a bit mistaken - it doesn't directly incorporate the C shell into the explorer, but rather the normal command prompt. But if you have the Windows SfU installed, the basic C shell functionality is available from the windows command prompt. So it understands the basic GNU tools, you can use pipes, redirections, perl (if installed - I use the ActiveState perl), sed, grep... basically all you need.
Nothing against KDE! I stick to windows, at least partially, for other reasons, detailed elsewhere in this thread. But if you have to use it, there are a lot of "unixy" tools out there making the experience palatable. There is a nice tool, for example, (which i can't locate quickly at the moment), which ties the C shell CLI from Microsofts Windows Services for Unix to the Explorer - always a small shell for each open directory where you can grep and fire off perl one-liners to your hearts content.
Windows XP still won't let me open up an explorer window to a remote server over an SSH connection, along with another window to a remote FTP server, and let me drag files back and forth to transfer them.
WinSCP is your friend. And even open source. I agree, though, that it would be nicer to have such functionality integrated in the file browser itself.
Netswitcher might help you with your problem. Though I never had this myself. My laptops running happily on the ethernet in the office though there is a WLAN present, for which it is also configured.
Good list, so far. Let me add a few points - these are the reasons why I keep a Windows box at home and a XP pro partition on my laptop:
1) (For the laptop) Give me a literature and reference management system that is comparable to EndNote or ReferenceManager and can seamlessly import my huge literature database. Then I'll move to Open Office and ditch my windows partition on the laptop completely
2) (Regarding the box at home) Well, for one it is my gaming machine, as you mentioned above. Second, I'm into digital music and harddisk recording. I haven't seen a system under linux that can compete with Cubase and Reason for software synthesis and MIDI management.
I have to admit that these are rather specialized problems, but they keep me personally tied to windows. At work I'm happily hacking along on several boxes running Fedora Core 3 (and less happily on several Suns and SGIs).
I second that. Additionally I'd like it to have an open interface, so that different clients could plug into the server - FPS client for the grunts on the ground, flight sim clients, tank sim clients, things like SubCommand, whatever.
Give the player the ability to switch with AI controlled units anytime and wage a massive war, were a single game might take weeks or even months to complete. Make the strategic level important, so that accurate planning of attacks on supply lines, production facilities and all that stuff becomes important. Ahh... one can only dream.
That's no problem with the use of mediate. The whole chemistry is utter crap. All fats ar triglycerides (esters of glycerol with three fatty acid molecules). And no, triglycerides are not remotely similar to cholesterol, which belongs to the group of steroids. Failing on that basic level of science does not bode well for the overall quality of the article. Of course I didn't RTFA, but from the quotes I read so far, I have that feeling that this mind-training techniques did not work to well for the authors of TFA...
Well, I guess the overall quality of science fiction films reflect the bad reputation science fiction as a genre usually has. And you are basically right, the sheer amount of crap in the SF literature scene is unbelievable. Still, if done right, SF provides a wonderful laboratory setup to create situations and environments, which can concentrate and purify philosophical, psychological and humanistic questions to a very high degree. Stanislav Lem is a master at that, as is Philip K. Dick. Joe Haldeman also comes to mind. Unfortunately, the general "pulp" reputation of SF ensures that nearly no good director wants to touch the genre with a ten foot pole, and most SF movies produced are actually the usual action crap with spaceship battles instead of car chases and lasers instead of revolvers. Still, in my opinion, it is worth sifting through all that crap to find the occasional gem in the form of "Blade Runner", "Solaris" (Tarkovskij, of course) or "Abre los ojos" (Later badly redone as "Vanilla Sky"). So, please don't take "Matrix" or "Terminator" as examples how "the best SF, unfortunately, is rarely as good as real solid great filmmaking". There is way better stuff out there - it just didn't usually come in blockbuster format.
But... But... that would tax the *rich*... You don't seriously believe that would fly given the current political climate? Cynicism aside - you have a basically good idea here. The same progressive system you suggest for property taxes should apply to capital gains. Aside from that - keep it as simple as possible, close loopholes, get rid of exceptions, make the whole system transparent. I guess the numbers you give are rather low, but that's just a feeling. But, as I said, good luck lobbying for a system like that... *that*...
Err.. Don't know which part of Europe you are refering to, but in Germany, I always have to give a signature for credit card purchases. I had to dig out my pin when I moved to California, because I never used it back home. Now debit card (EC card) purchases, yes, those are generally chip&pin.
Not even this will work. If someone can hack your brain to decode the DRM info, some other guy can hack your brain to circumvent the first hack. Hmm... of course this would be punishable by death then - as will be most crimes when the prison population first exceed any managable quantity. Ahh.. the future's so bright I gotta wear shades, dude.
Excuse me while I laugh my ass off. The market will do SHIT for you. You see, your hypothetical free market model is flawed - it requires information to be symmetrically distributed between consumers and producers. In a perfectly informed society this might work. When the corporation basically control propaganda and indoctrination, your market is worth jack shit. How many "informed consumers" are out there? I haven't met many, lately.
Slight error, plague... This initely copyable thing has no value in a free market system. Of course, THE FREE MARKET and THE INVISIBLE HAND are the holy duality of modern capitalism - thinking about alternatives is heresy... That's the deeper reason for all this shit going on. The raving and ranting of the **ASSES of America is not only about a failing business model. It is about a failing economic model. It is actually one of the most perverted moves in the history of mankind - as soon as there is no more scarcity to information, laws are enacted to create artificial scarcity, in order to save a frikkin' ECONOMIC MODEL. Ye Gods! And to all those dumbfucks who will undoubtetly come up with the classic "ahh... but then there is no incentive for the artist to create anymore"-line: Guys, the majority of great art ever produced by mankind stems from pre-copyright, pre-licensing, pre-**ASSHOLES of A periods and was mostly done for the sake of the art itself and not for FUCKING PROFIT.
Ahh, better, much better guys. Sorry, one has to vent once in a while.
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There's no system of government or economic power which hasn't evolved into something else over time or simply been overthrown. All by the common man. What makes you think "you can't change the world"? It is changeable. It changes. It might just take time, or waiting for the right moment.
Aristocrats? Revolution looming on the horizon? Money from the US? What bizarro version of Europe have you been living in? Was it by chance located in Disneyland?
Designing DNA to create a given protein sequence is no big deal. Designing a new sequence to yield a desired structure is a huge problem, which has only be solved for special cases - google the "protein folding problem". Designing a structure with a desired function is practically impossible at the current level of theoretical knowledge.
If we have solved all of that, then we might think about interactions in the organism. Nearly no drug design is done by rational approaches today, it is all mass screening. These guys mentioned in the article have nothing else but a new DNA synthesis approach, making new sequences more easily available - good for them, there is a market for this, but scientifically this is no breakthrough. They are just another startup bullshitting their way through the fund-raising phase.
If your gonna bitch 'bout semantics - I always hated *nix systems that put the users directories in the "/home" tree. I'm not at home, I'm at fscking WORK here!!
Now that is a classical case of "more information than I wanted".
You got a point there. Perhaps it is the time to wish for sufficiently fast computers that can render the voice chat into a timbre or even a style of speech that is more in character. I mean, I lost the confidence in any of my co-players being able to actually role-play. If it takes an AI to at least make them seem to be role-playing - bring it on!
I got one for you:
Here you go
I was a bit mistaken - it doesn't directly incorporate the C shell into the explorer, but rather the normal command prompt. But if you have the Windows SfU installed, the basic C shell functionality is available from the windows command prompt. So it understands the basic GNU tools, you can use pipes, redirections, perl (if installed - I use the ActiveState perl), sed, grep... basically all you need.
Nothing against KDE! I stick to windows, at least partially, for other reasons, detailed elsewhere in this thread. But if you have to use it, there are a lot of "unixy" tools out there making the experience palatable. There is a nice tool, for example, (which i can't locate quickly at the moment), which ties the C shell CLI from Microsofts Windows Services for Unix to the Explorer - always a small shell for each open directory where you can grep and fire off perl one-liners to your hearts content.
WinSCP is your friend. And even open source. I agree, though, that it would be nicer to have such functionality integrated in the file browser itself.
Netswitcher might help you with your problem. Though I never had this myself. My laptops running happily on the ethernet in the office though there is a WLAN present, for which it is also configured.
1) (For the laptop) Give me a literature and reference management system that is comparable to EndNote or ReferenceManager and can seamlessly import my huge literature database. Then I'll move to Open Office and ditch my windows partition on the laptop completely
2) (Regarding the box at home) Well, for one it is my gaming machine, as you mentioned above. Second, I'm into digital music and harddisk recording. I haven't seen a system under linux that can compete with Cubase and Reason for software synthesis and MIDI management.
I have to admit that these are rather specialized problems, but they keep me personally tied to windows. At work I'm happily hacking along on several boxes running Fedora Core 3 (and less happily on several Suns and SGIs).
Drooool....
I second that. Additionally I'd like it to have an open interface, so that different clients could plug into the server - FPS client for the grunts on the ground, flight sim clients, tank sim clients, things like SubCommand, whatever.
Give the player the ability to switch with AI controlled units anytime and wage a massive war, were a single game might take weeks or even months to complete. Make the strategic level important, so that accurate planning of attacks on supply lines, production facilities and all that stuff becomes important. Ahh... one can only dream.
That's not unusual at all, as it states clearly that Star Wars is no SF, but fantasy.
Have fun with them. I know it sucks when you run out of the darn things.
That's no problem with the use of mediate. The whole chemistry is utter crap. All fats ar triglycerides (esters of glycerol with three fatty acid molecules). And no, triglycerides are not remotely similar to cholesterol, which belongs to the group of steroids. Failing on that basic level of science does not bode well for the overall quality of the article. Of course I didn't RTFA, but from the quotes I read so far, I have that feeling that this mind-training techniques did not work to well for the authors of TFA...
Well, I guess the overall quality of science fiction films reflect the bad reputation science fiction as a genre usually has. And you are basically right, the sheer amount of crap in the SF literature scene is unbelievable. Still, if done right, SF provides a wonderful laboratory setup to create situations and environments, which can concentrate and purify philosophical, psychological and humanistic questions to a very high degree. Stanislav Lem is a master at that, as is Philip K. Dick. Joe Haldeman also comes to mind.
Unfortunately, the general "pulp" reputation of SF ensures that nearly no good director wants to touch the genre with a ten foot pole, and most SF movies produced are actually the usual action crap with spaceship battles instead of car chases and lasers instead of revolvers.
Still, in my opinion, it is worth sifting through all that crap to find the occasional gem in the form of "Blade Runner", "Solaris" (Tarkovskij, of course) or "Abre los ojos" (Later badly redone as "Vanilla Sky"). So, please don't take "Matrix" or "Terminator" as examples how "the best SF, unfortunately, is rarely as good as real solid great filmmaking". There is way better stuff out there - it just didn't usually come in blockbuster format.
That's not entirely a problem caused by the captchas, now is it?
But... But... that would tax the *rich*... You don't seriously believe that would fly given the current political climate?
Cynicism aside - you have a basically good idea here. The same progressive system you suggest for property taxes should apply to capital gains. Aside from that - keep it as simple as possible, close loopholes, get rid of exceptions, make the whole system transparent.
I guess the numbers you give are rather low, but that's just a feeling. But, as I said, good luck lobbying for a system like that... *that*...
Pf... Steer straight and accelerate hard towards gate... Where's the problem?
Err.. Don't know which part of Europe you are refering to, but in Germany, I always have to give a signature for credit card purchases. I had to dig out my pin when I moved to California, because I never used it back home. Now debit card (EC card) purchases, yes, those are generally chip&pin.
Not even this will work. If someone can hack your brain to decode the DRM info, some other guy can hack your brain to circumvent the first hack. Hmm... of course this would be punishable by death then - as will be most crimes when the prison population first exceed any managable quantity. Ahh.. the future's so bright I gotta wear shades, dude.
Excuse me while I laugh my ass off. The market will do SHIT for you. You see, your hypothetical free market model is flawed - it requires information to be symmetrically distributed between consumers and producers. In a perfectly informed society this might work. When the corporation basically control propaganda and indoctrination, your market is worth jack shit. How many "informed consumers" are out there? I haven't met many, lately.
Brilliant, good Sir.
I don't really know yet if this comment shall make me laugh, vomit, scream or go out and start a bloody revolution. Brillant.
Slight error, plague... This initely copyable thing has no value in a free market system. Of course, THE FREE MARKET and THE INVISIBLE HAND are the holy duality of modern capitalism - thinking about alternatives is heresy... That's the deeper reason for all this shit going on. The raving and ranting of the **ASSES of America is not only about a failing business model. It is about a failing economic model. It is actually one of the most perverted moves in the history of mankind - as soon as there is no more scarcity to information, laws are enacted to create artificial scarcity, in order to save a frikkin' ECONOMIC MODEL. Ye Gods!
And to all those dumbfucks who will undoubtetly come up with the classic "ahh... but then there is no incentive for the artist to create anymore"-line: Guys, the majority of great art ever produced by mankind stems from pre-copyright, pre-licensing, pre-**ASSHOLES of A periods and was mostly done for the sake of the art itself and not for FUCKING PROFIT.
Ahh, better, much better guys. Sorry, one has to vent once in a while.