For those of you who want to pay more.. Build-to-order options include up to 8GB of RAM.
A simple search on Google turned up the right kind of 512MB sticks for $20 each at tigerdirect, which would make it $80+S+H for the DIY upgrade.
Apple wants $350 to upgrade your 2x256MB to 4x512MB (2GB). , which is hella expensive.. High-end Dells also come standard with 512MB, but wants $540 for the same upgrade!
I won't argue about the video card. Don't know much about video cards, but unless they're going to speed up BLAST database searches, I don't want to pay extra for the video card.
It's much cheaper to buy the memory elsewhere, like 50% cheaper, and dead easy to install if you aren't stoned. Whether Dells or Macs, I always get the smallest amount of RAM that isn't wasteful, and order the rest online from a reputable reseller.
Just remember to get the RAM specs from the Apple page, and figure out the number of slots and RAM sticks you'll end up with in advance.
As a Mac OS user, I nonetheless feel compelled to point out the search button clearly visible in the Longhorn control panel screenshot. For all I know, it may be a Google search bar instead of the obvious, but it's probably just the duck you were looking for.
The people I've seen complaining about Paypal are merchants who get bit by disputed transactions for services rendered.
You won't have any dispute issues, so Paypal is great.
From the customers POV, Paypal allows them to use a credit card in a very-secure website (time-tested) without giving the small-website-owner anything but money and an email address. Paypal doesn't require them to create accounts anymore either.
Look to the other comments for tasteful display suggestions.
A lot of DNA damage is automatically repaired. You get a lot of broken DNA by being in sunlight, and much of that is repaired. Breaks in DNA are spliced back together, copy errors (mismatches in C/T G/A) are detected and a best guess is used to fix them. Entire sections of broken DNA can be copied and patched in from the other chromosome.
Of course, that doesn't always work, but it's generally a whole lot better than nuthin'.
Although some cancers result from mistakes in DNA repair. A "common" form of leukemia results from a particular section of a gene breaking off and being spliced with the wrong section from another chromosome. The protein that gets assembled following the misrepair is missing the section that keeps it disabled under normal circumstances. Thus, unrestrained replication, which is cancer.
(In searching for the name of this cancer, i came across this bit of info: "[Regarding mammilian DNA..] It has been estimated that approximately 50 DNA double-strand breaks occur during S phase of a normal cell division cycle, and additional breaks may occur during other phases of the cell cycle." http://www.bloodjournal.org/cgi/content/full/105/5/1843-a
They did consider the implications, compared them to the security risks users were already exposed to, and suggested that the applications (this being an application-layer protocol) visually distinguish IDN or mixed IDN domains.
I'm not sure that they meant "irreducibly complex" in the same way most creationists did.
The beauty of this Avida program is that the programmers could trace the history of the mutations for any given organism. So, if their successful "equals" animal was so irreducible, how did it evolve? I bet that all 19 of the prerequisite subroutines didn't evolve at once, or without benefits to the organism.
If so, I wouldn't call it irreducible. The human eye isn't "irreducible" either. It's just complex. There's lots of ways it could be more primitive and yet better than an even more primitive (ancestral) eye.
In other words, I think that "truely irreducible" complexity is still a good argument against evolution, but with the understanding that we're still pretty new to the 'reducing' game.
I'd suggest that too, except that it would screw up audits. Auditors looks around, pick a few desks at random, and look for passwords on the monitor, or under the mousepad, and look to see if the desk drawers are locked. (And for private information lying on the desks.) If it looks like a password, then it's a black mark; they won't actually test it.
I put a card in my wallet with obfuscated passwords and credit card numbers. I rearrange characters, add a bunch of extras, and remove some I've memorized.
I use the vertical scroll along the right, Expose mapped to the top corners, and middle click to the bottom left. A normal tap is the left click, and the physical button is the right click. Combined with a dvorak/querty layout, it also means that friends and family quickly learn to leave my laptop alone.:)
The pretty Windows installer seems to have problems setting the mysql sa password. I've installed it three times on Windows machines; once it left the db with a blank password, once with an unknown password (I had to reset it), and once it worked. I had no problems with my Mac installation.
I'm guessing that the Windows installer has problems with ' and <space> characters, and who knows what else.
But the iTMS music files are DRM'd with an AAC encryption scheme. So only Apple-DRM compatible players can play the music as it is downloaded. As far as I'm aware, only the iPod is currently able to play these DRM'd files. Copying the files elsewhere does squat.
Of course, if you feel like breaking the DMCA, you *can* decrypt the files for use in other players.
Thanks for the considerate response. I was vague about "life matters". I mean something like... trying not to hurt others, trying to stay alive.. but I can't really put it into words.
I suppose I think of a belief as something we regard as true that may influence our thoughts and behavior. I'll admit that lies aren't always found out, and that it won't make any difference to the unverse 100,000 years from now whether I existed. And it won't make any difference to me 100 years from now. But I choose to live my life as though I believed that life "mattered" and when lying would be convenient, I remember that lies will be found out without a doubt. Though I'll admit otherwise if pressed.
Maybe the right phrase for my kind of belief is "duct tape belief".:)
Santa Claus has the same problem. Despite bringing presents to all the good children in the world every year, and numerous sightings of him and his reindeer, despite all of the eaten cookies and milk drunk while everyone is in bed, the filled stockings, the movies, the songs, the culture.. despite all of the documented proof, many people still don't believe in Santa Claus. The only alternatives are mass hallucinations, or maybe a giant world wide conspiracy, which are just rediculous. There's no way that Santa Claus can prove his own existence -- he's off the grid!
God (the almighty) can't prove himself to us without disrespecting our free will? Much the same way that teaching a child to read disrespects and destroys their free will? And nothing he can do in the physical universe could make his existence as clear as the existence of the sun, short of actual mind control?
If you had children, would you go out of your way to hide your own existence from them, like in a 2,000 year game of hide and seek? If they started killing each other over disagreements as to your existence, wouldn't you, as a caring father, end the game?
I call myself a atheist now, but really I'm open to the idea of other powerful energy beings. Proof-wise, I have to call myself an agnostic. However, I find plenty of evidence that if God exists, then he either has no power, or doesn't care, or is just mean. In any case, the Bible is fiction (not The Truth) and most Christians today are dead wrong.
How many wars could've been prevented by the all-powerful benevolent creator, burner of bushes and commander of angels, simply booming out to the world in a loud and Godly voice, "Yo, I exist, Jesus was special, but not my son, and you're all invited to a party at my house after I destroy the Earth in the apocalypse!"
In any case, I pass the test. I would not worship God, nor would I be subservient to him, any more than I would my own father. Hopefully, my own children will also have enough sense to think for themselves once they grow up.
What is this "God" in your energy universe? Is there more than one? Where are they? Why do you think these Gods exist?
If they exist, can we communicate with them? Can we get usable infomation from them? Perhaps they can explain the mysteries of the universe, and tell us whether a Grand Unified Theory exists.
There's no way I'll keep myself nestled only within the illusion of things that are real. However, if I'm going to believe that the universe was created by an intelligent super-duper all-powerful being for the express purpose of being worshipped... then I'm going to believe that they did it last Tuesday, implanting fake memories in us, and stocking the libraries full of romance novels. After all, that'd be a piece of piss compared to actually engineering self-replicating DNA with an intelligent intermediate step.
You forgot to mention the Mysteries of Stonehenge, the advanced technology of the ancient Egyptions, the Miracle of Accupuncture, paranormal research in the army, and the aliens who walk among us.
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A simple search on Google turned up the right kind of 512MB sticks for $20 each at tigerdirect, which would make it $80+S+H for the DIY upgrade.
Apple wants $350 to upgrade your 2x256MB to 4x512MB (2GB). , which is hella expensive.. High-end Dells also come standard with 512MB, but wants $540 for the same upgrade!
I won't argue about the video card. Don't know much about video cards, but unless they're going to speed up BLAST database searches, I don't want to pay extra for the video card.
It's much cheaper to buy the memory elsewhere, like 50% cheaper, and dead easy to install if you aren't stoned. Whether Dells or Macs, I always get the smallest amount of RAM that isn't wasteful, and order the rest online from a reputable reseller. Just remember to get the RAM specs from the Apple page, and figure out the number of slots and RAM sticks you'll end up with in advance.
As a Mac OS user, I nonetheless feel compelled to point out the search button clearly visible in the Longhorn control panel screenshot. For all I know, it may be a Google search bar instead of the obvious, but it's probably just the duck you were looking for.
It also was so buggy -- caused so many blue screens -- that it eventually became the first thing we'd disable on a new system.
Rule #1: If I found it through Google, within the first 30 hits, do not bookmark.
Rule #2: At the end of the day, sort all new bookmarks, or they get deleted.
There is a fair amount of free music out there. Some of it is really good too.
It's in Microsoft and Walmart's best interest to break up Apple's hold on this market. They got lotsa money to throw at congress-critters.
For myself, I'm torn between loyalties to Apple (grow, Apple, grow!) and hating DRMs.. In case, loyalty wins.
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The people I've seen complaining about Paypal are merchants who get bit by disputed transactions for services rendered. You won't have any dispute issues, so Paypal is great. From the customers POV, Paypal allows them to use a credit card in a very-secure website (time-tested) without giving the small-website-owner anything but money and an email address. Paypal doesn't require them to create accounts anymore either. Look to the other comments for tasteful display suggestions.
A lot of DNA damage is automatically repaired. You get a lot of broken DNA by being in sunlight, and much of that is repaired. Breaks in DNA are spliced back together, copy errors (mismatches in C/T G/A) are detected and a best guess is used to fix them. Entire sections of broken DNA can be copied and patched in from the other chromosome.
5 /1843-a
Of course, that doesn't always work, but it's generally a whole lot better than nuthin'.
Although some cancers result from mistakes in DNA repair. A "common" form of leukemia results from a particular section of a gene breaking off and being spliced with the wrong section from another chromosome. The protein that gets assembled following the misrepair is missing the section that keeps it disabled under normal circumstances. Thus, unrestrained replication, which is cancer.
(In searching for the name of this cancer, i came across this bit of info: "[Regarding mammilian DNA..] It has been estimated that approximately 50 DNA double-strand breaks occur during S phase of a normal cell division cycle, and additional breaks may occur during other phases of the cell cycle." http://www.bloodjournal.org/cgi/content/full/105/
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~bethmont/mutdes.html is a basic intro to mutagens and DNA repair mechanisms.
It's all relative.
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They did consider the implications, compared them to the security risks users were already exposed to, and suggested that the applications (this being an application-layer protocol) visually distinguish IDN or mixed IDN domains.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3490.html
Check out sections 1.2 and 10.
I have to buy an entire OS AND a new system just to get the benefits of a 'secure' browsing environment?
Yes. It's called Apple.
I'm not sure that they meant "irreducibly complex" in the same way most creationists did.
The beauty of this Avida program is that the programmers could trace the history of the mutations for any given organism. So, if their successful "equals" animal was so irreducible, how did it evolve? I bet that all 19 of the prerequisite subroutines didn't evolve at once, or without benefits to the organism.
If so, I wouldn't call it irreducible. The human eye isn't "irreducible" either. It's just complex. There's lots of ways it could be more primitive and yet better than an even more primitive (ancestral) eye.
In other words, I think that "truely irreducible" complexity is still a good argument against evolution, but with the understanding that we're still pretty new to the 'reducing' game.
They probably outsourced the slogan too!
I'd suggest that too, except that it would screw up audits. Auditors looks around, pick a few desks at random, and look for passwords on the monitor, or under the mousepad, and look to see if the desk drawers are locked. (And for private information lying on the desks.) If it looks like a password, then it's a black mark; they won't actually test it.
I put a card in my wallet with obfuscated passwords and credit card numbers. I rearrange characters, add a bunch of extras, and remove some I've memorized.
Amen to Sidetrack!
:)
I use the vertical scroll along the right, Expose mapped to the top corners, and middle click to the bottom left. A normal tap is the left click, and the physical button is the right click. Combined with a dvorak/querty layout, it also means that friends and family quickly learn to leave my laptop alone.
The pretty Windows installer seems to have problems setting the mysql sa password. I've installed it three times on Windows machines; once it left the db with a blank password, once with an unknown password (I had to reset it), and once it worked. I had no problems with my Mac installation.
I'm guessing that the Windows installer has problems with ' and <space> characters, and who knows what else.
But the iTMS music files are DRM'd with an AAC encryption scheme. So only Apple-DRM compatible players can play the music as it is downloaded. As far as I'm aware, only the iPod is currently able to play these DRM'd files. Copying the files elsewhere does squat.
Of course, if you feel like breaking the DMCA, you *can* decrypt the files for use in other players.
Thanks for the considerate response. I was vague about "life matters". I mean something like... trying not to hurt others, trying to stay alive.. but I can't really put it into words.
I suppose I think of a belief as something we regard as true that may influence our thoughts and behavior. I'll admit that lies aren't always found out, and that it won't make any difference to the unverse 100,000 years from now whether I existed. And it won't make any difference to me 100 years from now. But I choose to live my life as though I believed that life "mattered" and when lying would be convenient, I remember that lies will be found out without a doubt. Though I'll admit otherwise if pressed.
Maybe the right phrase for my kind of belief is "duct tape belief". :)
Santa Claus has the same problem. Despite bringing presents to all the good children in the world every year, and numerous sightings of him and his reindeer, despite all of the eaten cookies and milk drunk while everyone is in bed, the filled stockings, the movies, the songs, the culture.. despite all of the documented proof, many people still don't believe in Santa Claus. The only alternatives are mass hallucinations, or maybe a giant world wide conspiracy, which are just rediculous. There's no way that Santa Claus can prove his own existence -- he's off the grid!
That's utterly lame.
God (the almighty) can't prove himself to us without disrespecting our free will? Much the same way that teaching a child to read disrespects and destroys their free will? And nothing he can do in the physical universe could make his existence as clear as the existence of the sun, short of actual mind control?
If you had children, would you go out of your way to hide your own existence from them, like in a 2,000 year game of hide and seek? If they started killing each other over disagreements as to your existence, wouldn't you, as a caring father, end the game?
I used to be a religious idiot. Then I grew up.
I call myself a atheist now, but really I'm open to the idea of other powerful energy beings. Proof-wise, I have to call myself an agnostic. However, I find plenty of evidence that if God exists, then he either has no power, or doesn't care, or is just mean. In any case, the Bible is fiction (not The Truth) and most Christians today are dead wrong.
How many wars could've been prevented by the all-powerful benevolent creator, burner of bushes and commander of angels, simply booming out to the world in a loud and Godly voice, "Yo, I exist, Jesus was special, but not my son, and you're all invited to a party at my house after I destroy the Earth in the apocalypse!"
In any case, I pass the test. I would not worship God, nor would I be subservient to him, any more than I would my own father. Hopefully, my own children will also have enough sense to think for themselves once they grow up.
What is this "God" in your energy universe? Is there more than one? Where are they? Why do you think these Gods exist?
If they exist, can we communicate with them? Can we get usable infomation from them? Perhaps they can explain the mysteries of the universe, and tell us whether a Grand Unified Theory exists.
There's no way I'll keep myself nestled only within the illusion of things that are real. However, if I'm going to believe that the universe was created by an intelligent super-duper all-powerful being for the express purpose of being worshipped... then I'm going to believe that they did it last Tuesday, implanting fake memories in us, and stocking the libraries full of romance novels. After all, that'd be a piece of piss compared to actually engineering self-replicating DNA with an intelligent intermediate step.
You forgot to mention the Mysteries of Stonehenge, the advanced technology of the ancient Egyptions, the Miracle of Accupuncture, paranormal research in the army, and the aliens who walk among us.
The truth is not here.