Google results for "metagene" seem to suggest that they're classifications attached to the way that genes express themselves. They're independent of the actual contents of the DNA and don't change the contents of the DNA (they only reflect how the genes operate). DNA should only change with mutations, copy-errors, and viri.
Maybe someone can drum up a good car analogy to make it clear
TFA indicates that MJ doesn't have any charge for calls made. So whether this is a good deal for you will depend whether your per-call charge stacks up against a $1.70 monthly fee
Whether you personally are under fire or not, if you're doing a job that involves killing people it's going to be stressful. Imagine a UAV pilot that killed 5 people in a car somewhere overseas driving home wondering if the people they killed aren't just as innocent as the people in cars around him. The fact that you're not bodily in a war could actually make it harder to mentally justify your actions, because you're not just firing back at people that are trying to kill you.
It's a pretty large leap to go from a soldier in a video game to a ground fighting soldier in real life, but there was a recent story on NPR about how similar they've made drone piloting to video games. They use video game inspired controllers so that they A. feel similar to what people are used to using and B. piggy-back on the decade of experience that game controller designers have put in
GROSS: Many people have made the observation that with more robotics, war becomes like a video game. But you report about how some of the robotics are intentionally designed like video games to take advantage of skills that young soldiers have as a result of having played a lot of video games. Would you describe how some war robotics are designed intentionally like video games?
MR. SINGER: Well, it's interesting. The military quickly figured out that there were two advantages of doing this. For example, the hand-held controllers that most of the ground robotics systems use, they're modeled after the Xbox or the PlayStation. And the reason was two-fold. One, they figured out, okay, these game companies have spent millions of dollars designing systems that are, you know, perfectly suited, where your finger should go and the like, and if they did all the research, why don't we piggyback on that? The second is they figured out, hold it, the video game companies have actually trained up our forces for us already. That is, you know, we're getting kids coming in who've spend the last several years working with these little video game controllers. So why not free-ride off of that as well?
And the result of it is, because of these systems and because they're trained up that way, it's another kind of ripple effect we're seeing, the demographics of war even being reshaped. That is, one of the people that we interviewed was a 19-year-old high school dropout. He's an Army specialist. He's actually, by some consideration, the best drone pilot in the entire force, and it's in part because of video games. And it's an interesting story because he originally wanted to join the Army to be a helicopter mechanic, but because he had failed his English class, he wasn't qualified for that, and instead they said, hey, do you want to be a drone pilot? And he's turned out to be spectacular at it. They sent him off to Iraq, and then he was so good that they brought him back to be an instructor in the training academy. And again, this is someone who's not even an officer yet, and he's in the Army.
Now, take this ripple effect further. This is not a story that people in the Air Force like to hear, and it's spooking out a lot of people, for example, you know, F15 pilots, who spent years and years training, go to college, they're officers, and when they hear, hold it, this 19-year-old video gamer is not just better at these systems than me but actually is out there doing more fighting than me, what's going on here?
So basically you're saying Android is doing as much as it can do about what it can control, and not much about things it can't control. None of that is good news for Apple who is not doing enough of the former and pissing off a lot of people with their attempts at the latter.
From their perspective any upgrade they build that is not accompanied by tiered pricing will just get used for free by the same people.
The US lags in broadband because the cable companies are so entrenched that they can see a market for 5% of users who use more bandwidth that could be filled by a higher bandwidth product, and it's just as easy for them to ignore those customers (because people have to take what they can get). It's a lot easier for them to overlook the 5% that get might be willing to pay more to not be stuck on their throttled plan, than it would be if those customers could actually leave altogether for another service. If they had true competition they'd offer more expensive tiers for people that needed more bandwidth, and they'd be forced by their competitors to offer cheaper tiers for people who don't use much at all. That's not necessarily a net gain for them.
I wonder where they are in their product cycle, since that might make buying the lifetime contract less of a good deal. I bought my parents a Series 2 TiVo a few years back and added the lifetime contract. They've gotten a lot of good use out of it, and it was definitely worth the money (though it would have been MORE worth the money if they actually gave the rebate they advertised). But if you switch from one TiVo to another the lifetime contract follows the TiVo, so AFAIK there's no option to upgrade to Series 3 without paying for service again. So if they are going to kick out a Series 4 TiVo with new features anytime soon, it's probably worth waiting.
A lot of cloud APIs don't allow full relational database access, so now it seems we are coming up with all these justifications for why we don't really need it.
Need someone to justify the lack of a feature? There's a Steve Jobs for that!
Making "good money" on an item is entirely relative. I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy to make more than they are by taking a bigger piece from this end too. It's just a question of when does gouging on storage costs cut too much into people's motivation for buying more storage, and apparently they've decided that this won't put them over that line. If anything the fact that they feel this won't hurt their download sales enough to be counterproductive must mean that they feel that people are really motivated to download.
if it means that they can use the same mass produced chip in all their calculators, it can be a lot cheaper to just disable things than to have different production lines. This is what Intel did with the 486 SX. We're all just speculating here though right, no one knows of hardware features that were disabled?
I could see how they could be concerned that some of the software features of a higher-end calculator might be created in the new OS that runs on the cheap calculators, but can we all agree that's a ridiculous justification?
Yet they're still sold all the time, and enough people are doing it that it's a multi-million dollar business. So if you think you might want to sell your account, don't use one account for all your games together.
Actually in your solution if all the players were gathered in the same place you'd have massive interprocessor communication and end up hitting a bandwidth bottleneck instead of a processing bottleneck. Splitting people into groups based on proximity is done for that exactly that reason.
The challenge is being flexible about the notion of proximity (so that the X number of people assigned to each server can be close or far apart depending on the actual density of the area), and handling the cases at the boundary of whatever partition you do arrive at (because even if you can redraw the boundaries of the area a server will handle there will be an edge and the people just over the edge will need to see what's happening just inside). "Zone walls" and "instances" were the simple solution to the second problem
Actually I imagine the first Prime Minister that gets caught coming and going from his girlfriend's house on CCTV will be in favor of cancelling this program. They were all quite upset when that paper uncovered their improper expenses last year (more upset at the reporting than the actual impropriety), so I could easily see a scandal of that sort getting this whole thing cancelled.
I found this part of the article interesting from an open source aspect:
Tony Weeresinghe, MillenniumIT's CEO, emphasises that the application of Linux at LSE will differ from other trading entities. Linux platform codes at LSE will not need to be modified to enable further upgrades, he explains. 'MTFs, like Bats or Chi-X, modified them to get high performance but now cannot upgrade to other newer versions that are coming from elsewhere.'
since they're using Linux without major customization in order to allow them to upgrade it with new kernels, maybe when they do make customizations they'll ship them upstream so that they don't have to recustomize.
Slashdot Mirror
Google results for "metagene" seem to suggest that they're classifications attached to the way that genes express themselves. They're independent of the actual contents of the DNA and don't change the contents of the DNA (they only reflect how the genes operate). DNA should only change with mutations, copy-errors, and viri.
Maybe someone can drum up a good car analogy to make it clear
TFA indicates that MJ doesn't have any charge for calls made. So whether this is a good deal for you will depend whether your per-call charge stacks up against a $1.70 monthly fee
given that Apple is being sued by Nokia as we speak, maybe the iPhone doesn't include that in the cost
Exactly. They've patented swag. The free stuff that companies send to some magazines and bloggers in return for review posts? more of the same.
that would explain the red-and-white-stripes optical recognition cameras that you can clearly see on the lower fuselage
Whether you personally are under fire or not, if you're doing a job that involves killing people it's going to be stressful. Imagine a UAV pilot that killed 5 people in a car somewhere overseas driving home wondering if the people they killed aren't just as innocent as the people in cars around him. The fact that you're not bodily in a war could actually make it harder to mentally justify your actions, because you're not just firing back at people that are trying to kill you.
GROSS: Many people have made the observation that with more robotics, war becomes like a video game. But you report about how some of the robotics are intentionally designed like video games to take advantage of skills that young soldiers have as a result of having played a lot of video games. Would you describe how some war robotics are designed intentionally like video games?
MR. SINGER: Well, it's interesting. The military quickly figured out that there were two advantages of doing this. For example, the hand-held controllers that most of the ground robotics systems use, they're modeled after the Xbox or the PlayStation. And the reason was two-fold. One, they figured out, okay, these game companies have spent millions of dollars designing systems that are, you know, perfectly suited, where your finger should go and the like, and if they did all the research, why don't we piggyback on that? The second is they figured out, hold it, the video game companies have actually trained up our forces for us already. That is, you know, we're getting kids coming in who've spend the last several years working with these little video game controllers. So why not free-ride off of that as well?
And the result of it is, because of these systems and because they're trained up that way, it's another kind of ripple effect we're seeing, the demographics of war even being reshaped. That is, one of the people that we interviewed was a 19-year-old high school dropout. He's an Army specialist. He's actually, by some consideration, the best drone pilot in the entire force, and it's in part because of video games. And it's an interesting story because he originally wanted to join the Army to be a helicopter mechanic, but because he had failed his English class, he wasn't qualified for that, and instead they said, hey, do you want to be a drone pilot? And he's turned out to be spectacular at it. They sent him off to Iraq, and then he was so good that they brought him back to be an instructor in the training academy. And again, this is someone who's not even an officer yet, and he's in the Army.
Now, take this ripple effect further. This is not a story that people in the Air Force like to hear, and it's spooking out a lot of people, for example, you know, F15 pilots, who spent years and years training, go to college, they're officers, and when they hear, hold it, this 19-year-old video gamer is not just better at these systems than me but actually is out there doing more fighting than me, what's going on here?
So basically you're saying Android is doing as much as it can do about what it can control, and not much about things it can't control. None of that is good news for Apple who is not doing enough of the former and pissing off a lot of people with their attempts at the latter.
From their perspective any upgrade they build that is not accompanied by tiered pricing will just get used for free by the same people.
The US lags in broadband because the cable companies are so entrenched that they can see a market for 5% of users who use more bandwidth that could be filled by a higher bandwidth product, and it's just as easy for them to ignore those customers (because people have to take what they can get). It's a lot easier for them to overlook the 5% that get might be willing to pay more to not be stuck on their throttled plan, than it would be if those customers could actually leave altogether for another service. If they had true competition they'd offer more expensive tiers for people that needed more bandwidth, and they'd be forced by their competitors to offer cheaper tiers for people who don't use much at all. That's not necessarily a net gain for them.
I wonder where they are in their product cycle, since that might make buying the lifetime contract less of a good deal. I bought my parents a Series 2 TiVo a few years back and added the lifetime contract. They've gotten a lot of good use out of it, and it was definitely worth the money (though it would have been MORE worth the money if they actually gave the rebate they advertised). But if you switch from one TiVo to another the lifetime contract follows the TiVo, so AFAIK there's no option to upgrade to Series 3 without paying for service again. So if they are going to kick out a Series 4 TiVo with new features anytime soon, it's probably worth waiting.
relax, relax, there are lots of ways to get out of a Verizon contract
GOP political consultant is a position that won't be importing from Mexico any time soon, start studying up on your FOX News talking points
A lot of cloud APIs don't allow full relational database access, so now it seems we are coming up with all these justifications for why we don't really need it.
Need someone to justify the lack of a feature? There's a Steve Jobs for that!
If Android requires permission then this problem is solved for them, put them in the "they're doing it right" column
Is there a star map for that?
Making "good money" on an item is entirely relative. I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy to make more than they are by taking a bigger piece from this end too. It's just a question of when does gouging on storage costs cut too much into people's motivation for buying more storage, and apparently they've decided that this won't put them over that line. If anything the fact that they feel this won't hurt their download sales enough to be counterproductive must mean that they feel that people are really motivated to download.
It'll be ok though, because Google is making a plugin for this plugin
if it means that they can use the same mass produced chip in all their calculators, it can be a lot cheaper to just disable things than to have different production lines. This is what Intel did with the 486 SX. We're all just speculating here though right, no one knows of hardware features that were disabled?
I could see how they could be concerned that some of the software features of a higher-end calculator might be created in the new OS that runs on the cheap calculators, but can we all agree that's a ridiculous justification?
Yet they're still sold all the time, and enough people are doing it that it's a multi-million dollar business. So if you think you might want to sell your account, don't use one account for all your games together.
I'm curious why they can't just move people over themselves anyway, don't they manage both the old and new system?
it's also a ton of gear piled onto your characters, are you suggesting that people don't ever sell MMO accounts?
Actually in your solution if all the players were gathered in the same place you'd have massive interprocessor communication and end up hitting a bandwidth bottleneck instead of a processing bottleneck. Splitting people into groups based on proximity is done for that exactly that reason.
The challenge is being flexible about the notion of proximity (so that the X number of people assigned to each server can be close or far apart depending on the actual density of the area), and handling the cases at the boundary of whatever partition you do arrive at (because even if you can redraw the boundaries of the area a server will handle there will be an edge and the people just over the edge will need to see what's happening just inside). "Zone walls" and "instances" were the simple solution to the second problem
Actually I imagine the first Prime Minister that gets caught coming and going from his girlfriend's house on CCTV will be in favor of cancelling this program. They were all quite upset when that paper uncovered their improper expenses last year (more upset at the reporting than the actual impropriety), so I could easily see a scandal of that sort getting this whole thing cancelled.
since they're using Linux without major customization in order to allow them to upgrade it with new kernels, maybe when they do make customizations they'll ship them upstream so that they don't have to recustomize.
some of those are a lot more blockbustery than others, Thunderbirds?