Muscle cells contain mitochondria; I assume that the ones in this experiment do too. If so, you just need to feed them some sugar and they'll do the rest.
please don't misuse the term "goes gold"
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Bugzilla 2.18 Goes Gold
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· Score: 3, Informative
This term originated in the games industry, meaning that when the game was ready to be shipped, a master CD has been pressed and delivered to the publisher for production. The gold CD is used to stamp out the CDs that are actually shipped. It means that the final version of the game has been made, but you can't buy it yet because it still has to be shipped.
The bugzilla guys aren't doing anything like this; it's free software after all, and you can get it today; "goes gold" means you can't get it yet, you still have to wait for the production ramp-up.
The difference is that Paige paid Williams with my money and yours, in direct violation of the law.
As a conservative, I think that you would be upset by that.
And you're an idiot if you think that the news organizations favor the Democrats. Every cable news network is trying to out-right-wing Fox. The allegedly liberal NY Times shilled for the Iraq war and was used as a tool by the Bush administration to promote it.
Both Republicans and Democrats have attacked Armstrong Williams and the Bush administration for their theft of $240,000 in taxpayer money. The reason you're seeing this story flogged now is to create some kind of equivalence, an "everybody does it".
As for the NY Times, it was a chief promoter of Bush's war (particularly through its "star reporter", Judith Miller, who practically let Ahmed Chalabi write the front page). If that's "liberal bias", I'd be happy to get rid of it. In many cases the Times has been biased in Bush's favor.
And so-called liberal journalists attack Michael Moore every time they mention him. In what universe does the mainstream press write uncritical articles about Michael Moore? The Times, in particular, hates his guts; he's not the kind of guy you'd want staying over at your estate in the Hamptons.
Please either back up your charge or retract your claim. Specifically who was paid, how much, to flog which story, when, by the Clinton administration?
Instapundit is a partisan Republican, with no information on what transpired. Those of us who were active DailyKos members at the time know the history. Since the charge is that we (the readers of the blog) were allegedly misused, why are you going to Instapundit for your information?
But the claim was completely accurate. DailyKos was far superior to BlogForAmerica.com at the time; Kos had demonstrated expertise. He had worked with scoop of K5 to put together the technically best political site at the time, and it shot to the #1 Democratic-leaning web site. And Dean didn't need any paid shills in the blogosphere at the time; the DailyKos membership was busy busting their bank accounts and giving it all to Dean, before Kos ever took any money.
But the Wall Street Journal is happy: people stopped talking about Armstrong Williams taking taxpayer money, illegally to flog No Child Left Behind on the air (it's a crime for two reasons: Congress specifically outlawed propaganda by the executive branch long ago, and the FTC payola regulations forbid broadcasters from accepting money to put stuff on the air without disclosure).
But there's a problem with this. He was doing what plant breeders have been doing for ten thousand years: noticing which plants have a desirable property and saving the seeds from those. Monsanto is basically arguing for the end of agriculture as it was traditionally carried out, and certainly the end of subsistence agriculture (as their seeds, if they have a property that lets them out-compete other seeds, will spread everywhere). You'll either pay Monsanto or you won't eat.
The problem is that BusyBox is mostly GNU; if you don't believe me, download its source and check the copyrights; large parts of it are copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, because it was built from cut-down versions of GNU tools.
Google is already filtering, clearly, which is why it returns zero matches for NeverEverNoSanity. They appear to be using patterns other than "powered by phpBB" to do the filtering; probably they've gotten hold of the worm itself and are blocking specifically the terms that worm's search queries use.
... is to forbid the imposition of a new, more restrictive EULA in exchange for obtaining a security update. An update that enhances functionality is different, but the user should not be forced to pay for (either with dollars or with loss of rights) the enhanced functionality to get the security upgrade.
The contest page says that the entries must be available under a GPL license. I hope everyone remembers that the GPL requires source to be provided, and that "source" is defined as the preferred form form making modifications to the work. For GIMP-produced images, the source is clearly the.xcf file. That means that either the.xcf file has to always accompany the.png or.jpg version, or at least be on the same FTP or web site, or else there has to be an offer, good for three years, to give the.xcf file to anyone who has the.png or.jpg file. Sharing only the.png file would be like sharing only the binary for a GPLed program.
For many purposes, GPLed images are a pain in the ass because of this requirement.
On the other hand, if the GIMP developers want the splash image to serve as a tutorial, this mignt
be exactly what they want to require. In that case, they might want to give bonus points to splash images with really nicely organized.xcf files.
No, that's not accurate
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A New Elena Story
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There really are tours of the area, and she evidently went on a tour, so the pictures are real. What's fake are her claims that she rides her motorcycle alone in the radioactive zone.
The author did not choose an article at random. He deliberately chose an article where he had personal knowledge that would lead him to believe that the Wikipedia authors would be likely to mess up (that is, the controversy over Hamilton's birth date). In other words, he set out to find a mistake, and he found one. I'm sure that the Wikipedia folks will now clean up the Hamilton article, but this is not a random assessment of quality.
That's not quite right. You are correct that Fedora releases are not beta versions of RHEL releases, but it is true that nearly everything risky that Red Hat wants to put in future RHEL releases gets tested out first in Fedora releases. Fedora 2, for example, most certainly was about debugging SELinux and gaining practical experience with how to use it effectively. So, Fedora is, in part, about debugging the distro.
Re:Free Speech in Denmark??
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Press freedom
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And in the US you can be jailed for your comments online for any of a variety of reasons: because your comments are interpreted as a threat is just one.
Moderators, you screwed up
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Saving Huygens
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The parent is not "informative". The buggy receiver is (at least partially) a chunk of code running on a processor. Didn't you read the article?
Hint: what do you think "firmware" means? The code is in ROM, and evidently not changeable.
Oh, come on. Of course it has a bias. It's just that it's closer to your bias. Saying it has no bias makes you sound like Bill O'Reilly insisting that he operates a No Spin Zone.
I mean, the idea of Hollywood liberals teaming up with North Korea isn't biased?
I like South Park a lot, but let's face it, this is a right-wing movie these guys made.
In those days, theaters advertised a phone number that was answered by a person, and parents could give the baby-sitter the theater's phone number. Just try that today. You will find that there is no published phone number that is answered by a human being in the evening; everything is voicemail, and often a whole chain of theaters will have only one number.
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Muscle cells contain mitochondria; I assume that the ones in this experiment do too. If so, you just need to feed them some sugar and they'll do the rest.
The bugzilla guys aren't doing anything like this; it's free software after all, and you can get it today; "goes gold" means you can't get it yet, you still have to wait for the production ramp-up.
And you're an idiot if you think that the news organizations favor the Democrats. Every cable news network is trying to out-right-wing Fox. The allegedly liberal NY Times shilled for the Iraq war and was used as a tool by the Bush administration to promote it.
In this particular case, there was full disclosure. But a law requiring it would probably violate the First Amendment.
Get it through your head. The purpose of DailyKos.com was to get Democrats elected to office. Kos was 100% open about this.
As for the NY Times, it was a chief promoter of Bush's war (particularly through its "star reporter", Judith Miller, who practically let Ahmed Chalabi write the front page). If that's "liberal bias", I'd be happy to get rid of it. In many cases the Times has been biased in Bush's favor.
And so-called liberal journalists attack Michael Moore every time they mention him. In what universe does the mainstream press write uncritical articles about Michael Moore? The Times, in particular, hates his guts; he's not the kind of guy you'd want staying over at your estate in the Hamptons.
Please either back up your charge or retract your claim. Specifically who was paid, how much, to flog which story, when, by the Clinton administration?
Instapundit is a partisan Republican, with no information on what transpired. Those of us who were active DailyKos members at the time know the history. Since the charge is that we (the readers of the blog) were allegedly misused, why are you going to Instapundit for your information?
But the claim was completely accurate. DailyKos was far superior to BlogForAmerica.com at the time; Kos had demonstrated expertise. He had worked with scoop of K5 to put together the technically best political site at the time, and it shot to the #1 Democratic-leaning web site. And Dean didn't need any paid shills in the blogosphere at the time; the DailyKos membership was busy busting their bank accounts and giving it all to Dean, before Kos ever took any money.
But the Wall Street Journal is happy: people stopped talking about Armstrong Williams taking taxpayer money, illegally to flog No Child Left Behind on the air (it's a crime for two reasons: Congress specifically outlawed propaganda by the executive branch long ago, and the FTC payola regulations forbid broadcasters from accepting money to put stuff on the air without disclosure).
But there's a problem with this. He was doing what plant breeders have been doing for ten thousand years: noticing which plants have a desirable property and saving the seeds from those. Monsanto is basically arguing for the end of agriculture as it was traditionally carried out, and certainly the end of subsistence agriculture (as their seeds, if they have a property that lets them out-compete other seeds, will spread everywhere). You'll either pay Monsanto or you won't eat.
The problem is that BusyBox is mostly GNU; if you don't believe me, download its source and check the copyrights; large parts of it are copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, because it was built from cut-down versions of GNU tools.
Google is already filtering, clearly, which is why it returns zero matches for NeverEverNoSanity. They appear to be using patterns other than "powered by phpBB" to do the filtering; probably they've gotten hold of the worm itself and are blocking specifically the terms that worm's search queries use.
Or do you really think that there are 30,000 pages MSN can find that Google can't?
I suspect that Google is blocking access to this search term as well as other that the worm uses, in an effort to stop the worm from spreading.
... is to forbid the imposition of a new, more restrictive EULA in exchange for obtaining a security update. An update that enhances functionality is different, but the user should not be forced to pay for (either with dollars or with loss of rights) the enhanced functionality to get the security upgrade.
For many purposes, GPLed images are a pain in the ass because of this requirement. On the other hand, if the GIMP developers want the splash image to serve as a tutorial, this mignt be exactly what they want to require. In that case, they might want to give bonus points to splash images with really nicely organized .xcf files.
There really are tours of the area, and she evidently went on a tour, so the pictures are real. What's fake are her claims that she rides her motorcycle alone in the radioactive zone.
The author did not choose an article at random. He deliberately chose an article where he had personal knowledge that would lead him to believe that the Wikipedia authors would be likely to mess up (that is, the controversy over Hamilton's birth date). In other words, he set out to find a mistake, and he found one. I'm sure that the Wikipedia folks will now clean up the Hamilton article, but this is not a random assessment of quality.
That's not quite right. You are correct that Fedora releases are not beta versions of RHEL releases, but it is true that nearly everything risky that Red Hat wants to put in future RHEL releases gets tested out first in Fedora releases. Fedora 2, for example, most certainly was about debugging SELinux and gaining practical experience with how to use it effectively. So, Fedora is, in part, about debugging the distro.
And in the US you can be jailed for your comments online for any of a variety of reasons: because your comments are interpreted as a threat is just one.
Hint: what do you think "firmware" means? The code is in ROM, and evidently not changeable.
I mean, the idea of Hollywood liberals teaming up with North Korea isn't biased? I like South Park a lot, but let's face it, this is a right-wing movie these guys made.
It's simple. If you have few friends, and get no calls, a cell-phone jam is all upside, no downside. But without WiFi, life sucks.
In those days, theaters advertised a phone number that was answered by a person, and parents could give the baby-sitter the theater's phone number. Just try that today. You will find that there is no published phone number that is answered by a human being in the evening; everything is voicemail, and often a whole chain of theaters will have only one number.
Cell phones have "vibrate" mode too, and the surgeon is perfectly capable of letting it go to voicemail, leaving the theater and returning the call.