You need the lockspike I use for sailing. The spike locks in place and would make a better stabbing weapon than the blade on the other end. I keep it with me in my back pack, just in case I have a difficult knot to undo;)
This is what we need. Medicine is far too conservative in so many cases.
I think we need more engineers involved in Medicine, particularly on the implementation side. I wish I could point to this but I remember reading about a scientist who had invented something quite revolutionary who spent the next seven years rebuilding his machine to be small enough for general use. That is the kind of job which should be given to an engineer, but it won't keep the scientist employed.
Tyrell: The facts of life. To make an alteration in the evolvment of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Roy: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship. Then the ship sinks.
Roy: What about EMS recombination.
Tyrell: We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent a potent mutagen It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
Roy: Then a repressive protein that blocks the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries the mutation and you've got a virus again. But, uh, this-- all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
The point, of course, is that if Muslim fundamentalists can do so much damage with a plane, why would anyone in their right mind be comfortable with a nation of like ideology having nukes?
The leadership of Iran must know that if they nuked the USA they wouldn't have a country at all the next day.
This is why MAD works much better when you have more than two players. Any small country which nukes a neighbour would get nuked by (say) half the other players. So nobody uses their nukes. Having said that I won't be going to S Korea again until N Korea have fired their new "test missile" from their west coast base.
Problem is, there are so many other vectors that are easier - millions if not billions of shipping containers enter the US each year entirely uninspected. Why mess with a launch and guidance system able to withstand launch and reentry stresses when you could just build a Fat Man and put it in the back of a van?
You'd be talking about ten kilotons of yield at best and if you fire it at ground level you would be lucky to take out a city block. The two bombs dropped on Japan relied on being dropped from aircraft so that radiation could do a lot of damage. The heavy part of a nuke is the containment system. The cheap, simple way to do that is to use concrete, but that precludes firing it from an aircraft. You could make it lighter and more complex with the help of a bigger organisation like the government of Iran, but those people are going to worry about you being busted and their involvement being discovered. I don't think the shipping container idea is really much of a threat.
Thank you for your informative and scary message. My company is currently migrating from cvs to clearcase, and from inhouse development to partly outsourced to india. ClearCase multi site will be used to integrate with the contractor.
I pushed a DSCM solution (mercurial, git, bitkeeper) but I couldn't get people to listen and now I am out of that job.
I don't plan to be around to see it work (or not as the case may be).
The makers of this device have taken a free operating system and used it to build their product, from which they will make money. I don't see anything wrong with requiring them to release changes they have made, so that others can benefit.
If you can't handle a couple of extra pounds of gear on your bike, or on foot, maybe your choice of laptop isn't your biggest problem right now.
Thats right. Cycle commuting on every working day, 10km each way is a marginal prospect for me because of the maintenance I have to do. I mean maintenance on both my body and the vehicle. About six months my back problem came back and I dealt with it by carrying less and shifting loads differently when I went across speed humps, etc. Then my knees developed problems and I had to change frame geometry. And so on.
If netbsd was gpl licensed I would be Free to compile my own version of the OS to run on the Sidekick. As it stands there is nothing to make them release the source code to drivers they have written.
No, this is notable because it's an open admission that WinCE can't cut it.
At least in the short term. MSFT appear to have bought this product from elsewhere. To keep it alive they need to get a release out the door. Maybe in parallel they are porting the software to run on WinCE.
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You need the lockspike I use for sailing. The spike locks in place and would make a better stabbing weapon than the blade on the other end. I keep it with me in my back pack, just in case I have a difficult knot to undo ;)
I have seen a patch of snow at the summit of Mount Bogong in February. I am pretty sure it survives most years.
But no, I doubt it snows this side of Australian Antarctic Territory at this time of year. Though it might snow on Heard Island.
Receipts for snow shovels from your Australia office. Never mind that it doesn't snow there.
But it does.
Is that HIV mutates *very* rapidly.
I wonder if anybody has worked out how many permutations there are.
Life itself is a death sentence.
Possibly not if we get the ability to directly edit our genes.
This is what we need. Medicine is far too conservative in so many cases.
I think we need more engineers involved in Medicine, particularly on the implementation side. I wish I could point to this but I remember reading about a scientist who had invented something quite revolutionary who spent the next seven years rebuilding his machine to be small enough for general use. That is the kind of job which should be given to an engineer, but it won't keep the scientist employed.
Tyrell: The facts of life. To make an alteration in the evolvment of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Roy: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship. Then the ship sinks.
Roy: What about EMS recombination.
Tyrell: We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent a potent mutagen It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
Roy: Then a repressive protein that blocks the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries the mutation and you've got a virus again. But, uh, this-- all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
copied from here BTW
If you outsource it to France the work will be done in Toulouse.
The point, of course, is that if Muslim fundamentalists can do so much damage with a plane, why would anyone in their right mind be comfortable with a nation of like ideology having nukes?
The leadership of Iran must know that if they nuked the USA they wouldn't have a country at all the next day.
a robot snake swallow whole an injured soldier, and poop out the same soldier completely healed :D
Or it can just come back out the way it went in.
They should just send the snake bot into battle and station the humans behind the lines to repair them.
This is why MAD works much better when you have more than two players. Any small country which nukes a neighbour would get nuked by (say) half the other players. So nobody uses their nukes. Having said that I won't be going to S Korea again until N Korea have fired their new "test missile" from their west coast base.
Problem is, there are so many other vectors that are easier - millions if not billions of shipping containers enter the US each year entirely uninspected. Why mess with a launch and guidance system able to withstand launch and reentry stresses when you could just build a Fat Man and put it in the back of a van?
You'd be talking about ten kilotons of yield at best and if you fire it at ground level you would be lucky to take out a city block. The two bombs dropped on Japan relied on being dropped from aircraft so that radiation could do a lot of damage. The heavy part of a nuke is the containment system. The cheap, simple way to do that is to use concrete, but that precludes firing it from an aircraft. You could make it lighter and more complex with the help of a bigger organisation like the government of Iran, but those people are going to worry about you being busted and their involvement being discovered. I don't think the shipping container idea is really much of a threat.
I just thought it was a rather big step from medium range missiles to putting something in orbit.
About 2km/s of delta V.
That must be it.
Microsoft should have sent Holden around to put the Machine on the new applicants.
Thank you for your informative and scary message. My company is currently migrating from cvs to clearcase, and from inhouse development to partly outsourced to india. ClearCase multi site will be used to integrate with the contractor.
I pushed a DSCM solution (mercurial, git, bitkeeper) but I couldn't get people to listen and now I am out of that job.
I don't plan to be around to see it work (or not as the case may be).
The makers of this device have taken a free operating system and used it to build their product, from which they will make money. I don't see anything wrong with requiring them to release changes they have made, so that others can benefit.
Cool. Somebody tell Borland!
But the calendar only went up to 1999.
Its like for version control they use perforce, while MSFT fans are stuck using visual source safe.
Outside of one tiny (and fucked) company I had the misfortune of working at, I've never seen anyone use Visual SourceSafe.
Our Indian contractor apparently uses it as their standard source control tool.
If you can't handle a couple of extra pounds of gear on your bike, or on foot, maybe your choice of laptop isn't your biggest problem right now.
Thats right. Cycle commuting on every working day, 10km each way is a marginal prospect for me because of the maintenance I have to do. I mean maintenance on both my body and the vehicle. About six months my back problem came back and I dealt with it by carrying less and shifting loads differently when I went across speed humps, etc. Then my knees developed problems and I had to change frame geometry. And so on.
If netbsd was gpl licensed I would be Free to compile my own version of the OS to run on the Sidekick. As it stands there is nothing to make them release the source code to drivers they have written.
From my POV netbsd is less free.
Its like for version control they use perforce, while MSFT fans are stuck using visual source safe.
No, this is notable because it's an open admission that WinCE can't cut it .
At least in the short term. MSFT appear to have bought this product from elsewhere. To keep it alive they need to get a release out the door. Maybe in parallel they are porting the software to run on WinCE.