1. Using a whole population of cells to fine tune the level of control. Source: You et al, "Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing", Nature 428, pp868-871.
2. Writing a "compiler" for translating high level instructions (blink on and off at 2 Hz) into biobricks. Source: personal communication with Rodney Brooks.
Apple has made a decision to use a non-standard platform
Only the graphics display connector and some of the bus controllers are non-standard in the current offerings, since when has that constituted a platform? The only other part (ignoring the case) you won't find in a PC is the CPU, but the PPC ISA is certainly a standard.
Apple has now, hasn't it? (I don't own a Mac myself, but I saw a friend of mine using "fink", which he described as "apt for Macs")
Well fink is more like *BSD ports, except it can use apt and whether downloading.deb's or building from source uses dpkg. It's not from Apple, but of course it's for OS X. Personally, I like both the Apple (self-contained executable, just drag and drop from an automounted.dmg file), all preferences stored under ~/Library in xml form) and fink ways of doing things. It's painless either way.
It's in common usage on parts of the net, and has been mentioned several times before on/. In fact, the origin is stated in the "what is 419?" link right at the top of one of the articles!! Anyone would think you'd been stuck on a secret Soviet military space station for 14 years or something.
Fact: For U.S. persons, information will only be kept for a short period after completion of the travel itinerary, and then it will be permanently destroyed.
So all the passenger data that the EU is leeching to US is being permanently stored - i.e. US is building a database of all EU citizens who have ever travelled to US. scary.
Firstly, non-US doesn't imply EU. Secondly, CAPS II applies to domestic US flights, the scheme operating for international visitors is different, I believe it's current incarnation is called VISIT. Recently it's been extended to include biometric data. Also, the biometric and other data isn't given from the country of origin, it's collected by the airline (or presented in the passport). When I last flew from the EU to the US the airline stated its own policy that they destroyed the data (I didn't see what use it is to them, they already have my address anyway!).
But in the States, there can't be a 12-month statutory warranty, for DAPs anyway, because Rio only offer 90 days on their products.
Just because a company offers less than 12 months, isn't to say there can't be a statutory warranty. Maybe the 90 days is a special warranty above the statutory one. Any USians care to comment? At any rate, Apple offer 12 month warranties on iPods, I bought mine in NY and can use the 12 month warranty wherever I am in the world.
A similar trick was apparently "used" by Stradivarius in making violins, in that inadvertent soaking in brine in combination with the usual varnishes applied creates a good sound. More info further down on this page. I've listened to a talk by Nagyvary in which one of his violins was played, and it's truly stunning to hear (I used to play the violin before I found out I was better at coding:)
At lease the Aussies had the "excuse" of being considered as BAD ppl (extraded UK Criminals, and anybody that was making a fuss against the local gov) so anything they did was an improvement.
Americans should have done better, seeing their "nobler origins" of persecuted.
Go learn your own history first before talking about ours in equally ignorant terms.
The people are Aussies - not Ozzies.....which would make a nation of ex-heavy metal rockers who did too many drugs in their youth and now walk around not quite sure whats really going on in the world who would still vote John Howard as premier.
It's pronounced the same as Ozzies, however, and it led to the infamous Roswell incident, where having explained to our American friends how to pronounce it the waitress in the diner in Roswell asked "You guys know the Osbournes?" Also, no one has voted for John Howard as premier, since he's never been one.
Source? My 667MHz G4 powerbook (OS X 10.3.3) gets a higher score than my 2.4GHz P4 desktop (Redhat 7.3). And this has nothing to do with whether or not a system is Unix-based, let alone the Gimp! The parent post should be troll or OT, not interesting.
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1. Using a whole population of cells to fine tune the level of control. Source: You et al, "Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing", Nature 428, pp868-871.
2. Writing a "compiler" for translating high level instructions (blink on and off at 2 Hz) into biobricks. Source: personal communication with Rodney Brooks.
Also, they mention that all the coding is being done by some university.
So the code will compile, but will contain millions of bugs and won't do anything useful. Well, I supposed they are trying to emulate Windows.
I will soon complete a modern version of Da Vinci's nuclear breeder reactor as soon as I can find a wood cog that decelerates neutron emissions.
No, to slow down neutrons you need glow-in-the-dark gun and bow sights. Any boy scout knows that!
That's not weird. Now, an Erdös number of 5 for US$354, that's weird. I'd bid, but my Erdös number is already 5.
Let's see, masses of raw image input, smaller movie file on disc output. Go figure.
Apple has made a decision to use a non-standard platform
Only the graphics display connector and some of the bus controllers are non-standard in the current offerings, since when has that constituted a platform? The only other part (ignoring the case) you won't find in a PC is the CPU, but the PPC ISA is certainly a standard.
Apple has now, hasn't it? (I don't own a Mac myself, but I saw a friend of mine using "fink", which he described as "apt for Macs")
.deb's or building from source uses dpkg. It's not from Apple, but of course it's for OS X. Personally, I like both the Apple (self-contained executable, just drag and drop from an automounted .dmg file), all preferences stored under ~/Library in xml form) and fink ways of doing things. It's painless either way.
Well fink is more like *BSD ports, except it can use apt and whether downloading
how do you create a headline everyone will intertpet in their own useful way..
I don't know, but it probably involves the use of space technology.
It's in common usage on parts of the net, and has been mentioned several times before on /. In fact, the origin is stated in the "what is 419?" link right at the top of one of the articles!! Anyone would think you'd been stuck on a secret Soviet military space station for 14 years or something.
Was not FAT12 (DOS 2.0) not actually an extension of the CP/M file system?
So you're saying MS grew FAT on other people's work?
Fact: For U.S. persons, information will only be kept for a short period after completion of the travel itinerary, and then it will be permanently destroyed.
So all the passenger data that the EU is leeching to US is being permanently stored - i.e. US is building a database of all EU citizens who have ever travelled to US. scary.
Firstly, non-US doesn't imply EU. Secondly, CAPS II applies to domestic US flights, the scheme operating for international visitors is different, I believe it's current incarnation is called VISIT. Recently it's been extended to include biometric data. Also, the biometric and other data isn't given from the country of origin, it's collected by the airline (or presented in the passport). When I last flew from the EU to the US the airline stated its own policy that they destroyed the data (I didn't see what use it is to them, they already have my address anyway!).
But in the States, there can't be a 12-month statutory warranty, for DAPs anyway, because Rio only offer 90 days on their products.
Just because a company offers less than 12 months, isn't to say there can't be a statutory warranty. Maybe the 90 days is a special warranty above the statutory one. Any USians care to comment? At any rate, Apple offer 12 month warranties on iPods, I bought mine in NY and can use the 12 month warranty wherever I am in the world.
What about a virtual PI (adviser) for that price? Nature 428, 467 (01 April 2004); doi:10.1038/428467d
A similar trick was apparently "used" by Stradivarius in making violins, in that inadvertent soaking in brine in combination with the usual varnishes applied creates a good sound. More info further down on this page. I've listened to a talk by Nagyvary in which one of his violins was played, and it's truly stunning to hear (I used to play the violin before I found out I was better at coding :)
Oh come now. This is Europe. Surely you mean liters to the kilometer.
;)
No, litres to the kilometer.
We already know who you are.
Or 1978.
At lease the Aussies had the "excuse" of being considered as BAD ppl (extraded UK Criminals, and anybody that was making a fuss against the local gov) so anything they did was an improvement. Americans should have done better, seeing their "nobler origins" of persecuted.
Go learn your own history first before talking about ours in equally ignorant terms.
The people are Aussies - not Ozzies.....which would make a nation of ex-heavy metal rockers who did too many drugs in their youth and now walk around not quite sure whats really going on in the world who would still vote John Howard as premier.
It's pronounced the same as Ozzies, however, and it led to the infamous Roswell incident, where having explained to our American friends how to pronounce it the waitress in the diner in Roswell asked "You guys know the Osbournes?"
Also, no one has voted for John Howard as premier, since he's never been one.
I bet if you put a 2.4 kernel on that P4 you'll see your unixbench score skyrocket.
Linux n233-13 2.4.20-18.7 #1 Thu May 29 08:57:32 EDT 2003 i686 unknown
Then why does OSX do so poorly on UnixBench?
Source? My 667MHz G4 powerbook (OS X 10.3.3) gets a higher score than my 2.4GHz P4 desktop (Redhat 7.3). And this has nothing to do with whether or not a system is Unix-based, let alone the Gimp! The parent post should be troll or OT, not interesting.
No, I'm pretty sure it's Mach-based, like HURD.
Mach is just a microkernel, OS X has a BSD layer running on top of Mach, in much the same way as Linux can run on top of Mach.
exactly where did this start from?
In Soviet Russia, of course!
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and began to learn about truly mystifying things like "women"
;)
They're not that mystifying, once you realize that they're just elements in the set of irrationals.