Well, there wouldn't have been a problem if they would have only taken Swifts Modest Proposal seriously
"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled..."
And see, comparisons to the famine and Microcock do have some validity.
In organic farming monoculture is anathema. Having a variety of species in the same field reduces exposure to disease. It is more work to farm like this so the product is more expensive but of better quality. The same can be applied to network running open source software, more work to properly maintain but more secure.
Sorry, you and 2600 are wrong about BART tickets. I once tried this and guess what? If you go in and out the same station you must pay an "excursion fare" at the time 4 dollars. The ticket lady said it was for people who might want to sightsee (because west Oakland is sooo beautifull).
My favorite way to test someone -- before they arrive pull the ethernet cable just out of it's seat so it looks plugged in but is not connected. Then when the person comes in sit them down in front of the workstation and ask them to figure out why its not connected to the network.
The problem is that people tend to go online at the same time in my neiborhood. My DSL works fine all day but almost every night at 6pm I get dropped and can't reconnect for about an hour and a half because people come home and check thier email and surf before anything comes on tv. This is very annoying especially since I am running a personal web server that works great but to the world seems to go down every day. My isp (Earthlink) is definatly streaching it.
That reminds me of the yarn about there being a spike in water consumption every fifteen minutes in the evening, everyone taking a potty break during commercials flushes at the same time.
there is a spider that acts like a wheel Closely related to the dancing white ladies are the Namib wheeling spiders (Carparachne spp. ), which have a peculiar mechanism when threatened. In an attempt to evade its predators, this spider forms itself into a tight ball and rolls rapidly down a dune slope. from here
"Simplify Web publishing Why can't we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move?" - my home directory, including public_html, is accessible from Samba. I can copy any file there and it is live on the web instantly.
I don't even use samba, my apache has mod_dav. My main URL is a virtual host web server, my secondary URL is a webDAV server on the same directory.
My email address got hijacked by a spammer once. Getting all the undeliverable notices was annoying but people replying to my address cursing at me bummed me out.
That stupid show was more than a little sensational it was downright alarmist. I already knew about the pole switching phenomenon so it didn't scare me but if you hadn't heard of it before they made it seem like doomsday. Of course tv watchers today are so desensitized it probably didn't have that much of an impact.
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That reminds me of a funny poster I saw in SF in the late 90's when techies were in high demand, it read:
"Just because you act like a geek doesn't make you a nerd"
Whether coarse hair is caused by a separate gene in chimps or humans and chimps both have it but it is suppressed by a different gene in humans is just the kind of thing that can now be learned with this data.
Humans and chimps evolved from a common ancestor. The waters will be muddied by parallel mutations but it is a safe bet that the changes to the human genome that enabled the huge increase in cranial capacity will not be resident in chimp dna. Taking out all sequences shared by chimps and humans a researcher now only has to look at 1% to find those mechanisms. It won't be all the instructions to create a brain, just the instructions that make a brain human.
You are right that Hibernation won't increase your lifespan, but cryogenic freezing might. If it is possible to slow down the atoms in a cell to near 0 Kelvin without crystalization, then you got your ticket to Tau Ceti.
The goal here I think is to be able to eliminate sections of the genome when looking for specific genes. For example if you are looking for the gene that causes chimps to grow coarse hair on their bodies you can eliminate all parts of the sequence that are identical to humans. (most humans I should say.)
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And see, comparisons to the famine and Microcock do have some validity.
In organic farming monoculture is anathema. Having a variety of species in the same field reduces exposure to disease. It is more work to farm like this so the product is more expensive but of better quality. The same can be applied to network running open source software, more work to properly maintain but more secure.
In the food biz Utility Grade Beef is one of the lowest quality cuts.
shudder
Sorry, you and 2600 are wrong about BART tickets. I once tried this and guess what? If you go in and out the same station you must pay an "excursion fare" at the time 4 dollars. The ticket lady said it was for people who might want to sightsee (because west Oakland is sooo beautifull).
I'll see your CRAM and raise you mercury delay line memory
My favorite way to test someone -- before they arrive pull the ethernet cable just out of it's seat so it looks plugged in but is not connected. Then when the person comes in sit them down in front of the workstation and ask them to figure out why its not connected to the network.
The problem is that people tend to go online at the same time in my neiborhood. My DSL works fine all day but almost every night at 6pm I get dropped and can't reconnect for about an hour and a half because people come home and check thier email and surf before anything comes on tv. This is very annoying especially since I am running a personal web server that works great but to the world seems to go down every day. My isp (Earthlink) is definatly streaching it.
That reminds me of the yarn about there being a spike in water consumption every fifteen minutes in the evening, everyone taking a potty break during commercials flushes at the same time.
No matter how well trained, dogs have common sense and feel fear. Robots wouldn't unless we programmed them to.
there was an article in last months Sci Am about robot fear and that it is a needed trait.
article here
there is a spider that acts like a wheel
Closely related to the dancing white ladies are the Namib wheeling spiders (Carparachne spp. ), which have a peculiar mechanism when threatened. In an attempt to evade its predators, this spider forms itself into a tight ball and rolls rapidly down a dune slope. from here
"Simplify Web publishing Why can't we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move?" - my home directory, including public_html, is accessible from Samba. I can copy any file there and it is live on the web instantly.
I don't even use samba, my apache has mod_dav. My main URL is a virtual host web server, my secondary URL is a webDAV server on the same directory.
Two great tastes that taste great together.
My email address got hijacked by a spammer once. Getting all the undeliverable notices was annoying but people replying to my address cursing at me bummed me out.
Don't forget the Predator, the pioneering *un*manned plane.
Amen, something should be done, why just the other day I heard someone say Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian! The nerve of some people.
Excuse me, but everyone knows the best way to keep track of the date by how many seconds have passed since midnight December 31st 1969.
Actually you are not far off
lookee here
I just finished setting up a freeBSD web server and it was very easy. How hard is typing:
/usr/ports/www/apache13
cd
make install
apachectl start
And that was remotly so a GUI wouldn't have been any help anyway.
That stupid show was more than a little sensational it was downright alarmist. I already knew about the pole switching phenomenon so it didn't scare me but if you hadn't heard of it before they made it seem like doomsday. Of course tv watchers today are so desensitized it probably didn't have that much of an impact.
That reminds me of a funny poster I saw in SF in the late 90's when techies were in high demand, it read:
"Just because you act like a geek doesn't make you a nerd"
Whether coarse hair is caused by a separate gene in chimps or humans and chimps both have it but it is suppressed by a different gene in humans is just the kind of thing that can now be learned with this data.
Humans and chimps evolved from a common ancestor. The waters will be muddied by parallel mutations but it is a safe bet that the changes to the human genome that enabled the huge increase in cranial capacity will not be resident in chimp dna. Taking out all sequences shared by chimps and humans a researcher now only has to look at 1% to find those mechanisms. It won't be all the instructions to create a brain, just the instructions that make a brain human.
You are right that Hibernation won't increase your lifespan, but cryogenic freezing might. If it is possible to slow down the atoms in a cell to near 0 Kelvin without crystalization, then you got your ticket to Tau Ceti.
The goal here I think is to be able to eliminate sections of the genome when looking for specific genes. For example if you are looking for the gene that causes chimps to grow coarse hair on their bodies you can eliminate all parts of the sequence that are identical to humans. (most humans I should say.)