amazing surf ride, but the few-meter surges did hospitalise a number of Aussies in Western Australia and Christmas Island by dragging them out to sea or pounding them on the beaches.
There were actually two sets of surges hitting WA that day, one from a Richter 8 earthquake near Tasmania which may have triggered the later, larger earthquake, and another from said later quake.
There were also a family drowned by ocean surges in Victoria about a week after the big quake.
...the orignal IBM PC put a processor in the keyboard and another (dumb) processor on the motherboard to talk to it.
This USB keyboard I'm typing on involves at least three processors, one to scan the keys, one to do the USB on the peripheral side and the third to do the USB on the motherboard side.
...leaves the main processor to marshal everything and pick up any processing too complicated for the sub-processors' tiny little minds. Such a beastie would certainly keep the RAID arrays rattling and network cards glowing.
Using a P4 to do I/O work is like using a battleship as a landing craft. Until now, the alternatives have been to do that or let your soldiers (packets) swim to shore. Intel's smarter cards are like providing landing craft.
This is not a new concept.
DEPCAs made network I/O easy back in the days of ISA busses twenty odd years ago, and there have been PCI cards with their own CPUs which you can actually load a version of Linux into and use as standalone routers - so the network cards handle stuff like ICMP and defragmenatation without even touching the main CPU.
In particular, the EU and the religious power behind it is symbolised by the scarlet women riding the beast, who makes war with the remains of the primitive Church, who are witnesses of (testifiers to) Jesus Christ.
Several of the people who pushed the EU together were adamant that they were doing it for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Church, as a kind of reinstantiation of Charlemagne's Empire. All of them were devout Marians. This is the politics which drove the formation of the EEC. It's really got nothing to do with coal and steel. Read up on it, you'll be amazed.
...swimming fishily around bubbling the piscene equivalent of "Stercus, stercus, stercus, morturi est!"*, they bubble "Surf's up, boys, quick, grab your boards and let's do some touristing?"
An awesome number of applications are set up to be LDAP-aware and all of the service config files typically have the LDAP parts already in there and commented out.
Certainly Samba, PAM, Apache, PHP, CUPS, ProFTPd and every other serious service I can think of are like this.
I'm sure they have a wizard for it somewhere but have never had to use it yet.
If the mutations it's producing are random, then why is the outcome always the same? And if the results are consistently the same, is it really due to a mutation, or to a pre-existing defence mechanism deliberately substituting a different genetic value in order to protect the organism, or at least its descendents?
If you put me under more UV light, say by shipping me to Fiji and forcing me to work outdoors, I would automatically protect myself using a different mechanism: my skin would get darker, not more transparent. Eventually, my descendents would have noticeably darker skin than I - not because of any mutation, but because of a pre-programmed adaptation.
The important attribute of this term - which you're evidently attempting to work around - is "accurate".
Your assertion that the assembly of simple life, or proto-life, from a "stew", was impossible, is unproveable.
It is quite susceptible to proof. It is a very simple matter of chemistry (well, physics, if you want to get pedantic) and fairly basic arithmetic.
Of course mutations that kill the individual before they can reproduce are not inherited. Is that all you mean?
No, they kill or cripple the descendents, and crippled descendents are in turn a burden on the species.
But where do you get the idea that "all observed mutations are damaging"?
From examining all of the claims published that extol a mutation as beneficial. In every single case, the mutation has produced its effect by reducing the amount of useful information carried by the organism, and in every single case the organism got ripped off for its "benefit". Sickle Cell Anaemia vs Hepatitis being a case in point.
Since observation shows us redshifted objects clustered into "shells" around us, we must be near the middle of stuff; and
since the focus of the changes in redshift is consistent and not exactly on us, it's not an instrument or observation error; and
since the data has been gathered by different observers at different observatories at different times, it is not an experimenter's error, and nor is it transient; and
since many physically associated objects with different redshift and a smooth redshift gradient between them exist, redshift is probably not (or not primarily) a measure of expansion; and
since it involves the entire visible universe, it's not a localised effect (hyper galactic explosion or whatever); it follows that
We are a cosmic stone's throw from the center of the universe.
How unlikely is that?
I'm seriously impressed by the grandness...
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...of this thesis, or should I call it a sermon? (-:
However, it stuill stumbles over a few mundane problems.
Regardless of the species-level information processing capabilities available (and how would that come about in the first place? one wonders), the actual litmus test of a gene's suitability is the survival-to-reproduction or not of individuals within the species. The engine cannot be divorced from its parts. If these mutations are not lethal and are spread therough the population, then the whole species is accumulating cruft.
The punchline is that it's being accumulated in such a way that errors cannot be filtered out, since any one or small group of them is minor enough not to be noticeably engaged by selection factors. By the time the effect is large enough to be "noticed" by selection, the whole species is littered with various more-or-less-randomly allocated pieces of useless or harmful information, so a candidate for being a better species is not competing with the species at its starting point, the candidate is competing with other individuals suffering a broad range of damage similar to its own. The micro-changes in each member of the speies have changed (damaged) the species as a whole without significant selection occuring.
A neutral mutation is still a nett error because it is displacing (competing with) a gene (or whatever; unit of "genetic" information) which has the potential to contain that most elusive of developments, a helpful mutation.
These and similar reasons are why, despite the statistical wonderland laid out by your proposal, you will still hear of "survival of the luckiest" theories. Perhaps the best way I've heard it put is "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice they're different."
Swipe any text with mouse, anywhere, in any application. Middle-click on browser. Done.
Alternate approach: Swipe text with mouse, park mouse over shell, type "ly<tab>", middle click, Enter. Requires not having LyX installed, else you have to type "lyn<tab>" instead.
The complicated (and therefore easy to muck up) Windows security model was made necessary by Microsoft doing bizarre things like run their friggin' webserver in Ring 0. The Linux equivalent would be to make your scripting do-everything hello-code-red webserver a kernel module. Even today, many common apps need to run with Administrator privs which kind of defeats the purpose in having ACLs in the first place.
If you want piles of ACLs, an SE-Linux kernel defacates all over Windows from a great height. The amount of control you can have over not just files but transitions between states and all manner of other stuff is pretty staggering. Mandrake is one distro which ships with an SELinux kernel.
In most situations, you'll never need it. The typical service will leave a small, difficult-to-crack do-nothing listener open which accepts an incoming connection on a priviledged port and then immediately drops privileges before doing any heavy lifting. Services like PostgreSQL and Squid don't even need to do that 'coz their ports don't need superuser. SELinux, chroot, UserMode and so on are mostly belt-and-braces stuff, options you simply don't have under Windows. Period.
Funny thing is, 2003/XP is derived from 2000 from NT. NT started life as a spelling-error-compatible clone of a VMS variant called MICA. VMS can be locked down to high military security levels in a matter of seconds. So... Microsoft started with a secure system, it turned to pooh in their hands, and now they're bandaiding and splinting it in the hope of making it halfway secure again. D'oh!
Why not default Debian, Mandrake or SuSE? All of them have more secure defaults. Mandrake even has an app with a simple security slider from "normal" to "draconian" (we're talking login timeouts, tab-completion not working 'coz you can't scan/bin as a user, and needing to be in a special group to run X here).
...and "bugger off" after a deliberate check not that the software is on a supported platform, but that the software is not on a particular competing platform.
If I was the antitrust enforcers I'd be all over this like ants on a dead elephant. This is exactly the same tactic that they lost to Caldera in court on: MS-DOS vs DR-DOS as the OS and Win 3.1 as the "application" against today's MS-Windows vs WINE-on-Linux/*BSD as the OS and MS-Office as the application, in each case with a check for a specific competitor which nobbles the application.
Just ask the people who have to do commercial printing from it. They even prefer MS-Excel (no shit, people do submit stuff to be printed as.xls) because the layout is stabler (note: not "stable", just "stabler").
OO-Writer does most of what MS-Publisher does. No file compatibility, and no automated adding/linking-to of frames on new pages, but laying stuff out at arbitrary positions, interframe flow etc are all there. No direct WordArt equivalent, but numerous ways of working around that.
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It would probably help if they'd discovered that you can put an SSH server up on XP so that bandwidth isn't such an issue.
amazing surf ride, but the few-meter surges did hospitalise a number of Aussies in Western Australia and Christmas Island by dragging them out to sea or pounding them on the beaches.
There were actually two sets of surges hitting WA that day, one from a Richter 8 earthquake near Tasmania which may have triggered the later, larger earthquake, and another from said later quake.
There were also a family drowned by ocean surges in Victoria about a week after the big quake.
So, OK, maybe not 100% wrong.
...the orignal IBM PC put a processor in the keyboard and another (dumb) processor on the motherboard to talk to it.
This USB keyboard I'm typing on involves at least three processors, one to scan the keys, one to do the USB on the peripheral side and the third to do the USB on the motherboard side.
- manage the TCP stack
- manage and parse each TCP connection
- optimise the parsed SQL
- plan and execute intelligent disk IO
...leaves the main processor to marshal everything and pick up any processing too complicated for the sub-processors' tiny little minds. Such a beastie would certainly keep the RAID arrays rattling and network cards glowing.Using a P4 to do I/O work is like using a battleship as a landing craft. Until now, the alternatives have been to do that or let your soldiers (packets) swim to shore. Intel's smarter cards are like providing landing craft.
This is not a new concept.
DEPCAs made network I/O easy back in the days of ISA busses twenty odd years ago, and there have been PCI cards with their own CPUs which you can actually load a version of Linux into and use as standalone routers - so the network cards handle stuff like ICMP and defragmenatation without even touching the main CPU.
In particular, the EU and the religious power behind it is symbolised by the scarlet women riding the beast, who makes war with the remains of the primitive Church, who are witnesses of (testifiers to) Jesus Christ.
Several of the people who pushed the EU together were adamant that they were doing it for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Church, as a kind of reinstantiation of Charlemagne's Empire. All of them were devout Marians. This is the politics which drove the formation of the EEC. It's really got nothing to do with coal and steel. Read up on it, you'll be amazed.
...several Chanellors and the like speaking of the EEC as "Europe Entirely Catholic" and being a reincarnation of Charlemagne's Empire.
Yes, I know the PP left the tags off. Mod it up anyway!
Several people were killed in Australia due to unusually large waves from the 'quake - only a couple of meters, but they did arrive.
Sorry, almost forgot: you insensitive clod!
...swimming fishily around bubbling the piscene equivalent of "Stercus, stercus, stercus, morturi est!"*, they bubble "Surf's up, boys, quick, grab your boards and let's do some touristing?"
* ObPratchettRef
An awesome number of applications are set up to be LDAP-aware and all of the service config files typically have the LDAP parts already in there and commented out.
Certainly Samba, PAM, Apache, PHP, CUPS, ProFTPd and every other serious service I can think of are like this.
I'm sure they have a wizard for it somewhere but have never had to use it yet.
If the mutations it's producing are random, then why is the outcome always the same? And if the results are consistently the same, is it really due to a mutation, or to a pre-existing defence mechanism deliberately substituting a different genetic value in order to protect the organism, or at least its descendents?
If you put me under more UV light, say by shipping me to Fiji and forcing me to work outdoors, I would automatically protect myself using a different mechanism: my skin would get darker, not more transparent. Eventually, my descendents would have noticeably darker skin than I - not because of any mutation, but because of a pre-programmed adaptation.
If not because the OS security model sucks, of course. (-:
You also need to learn a bit more about how earlier versions of IIS worked.
- Since observation shows us redshifted objects clustered into "shells" around us, we must be near the middle of stuff; and
- since the focus of the changes in redshift is consistent and not exactly on us, it's not an instrument or observation error; and
- since the data has been gathered by different observers at different observatories at different times, it is not an experimenter's error, and nor is it transient; and
- since many physically associated objects with different redshift and a smooth redshift gradient between them exist, redshift is probably not (or not primarily) a measure of expansion; and
- since it involves the entire visible universe, it's not a localised effect (hyper galactic explosion or whatever); it follows that
- We are a cosmic stone's throw from the center of the universe.
How unlikely is that?...of this thesis, or should I call it a sermon? (-:
However, it stuill stumbles over a few mundane problems.
Regardless of the species-level information processing capabilities available (and how would that come about in the first place? one wonders), the actual litmus test of a gene's suitability is the survival-to-reproduction or not of individuals within the species. The engine cannot be divorced from its parts. If these mutations are not lethal and are spread therough the population, then the whole species is accumulating cruft.
The punchline is that it's being accumulated in such a way that errors cannot be filtered out, since any one or small group of them is minor enough not to be noticeably engaged by selection factors. By the time the effect is large enough to be "noticed" by selection, the whole species is littered with various more-or-less-randomly allocated pieces of useless or harmful information, so a candidate for being a better species is not competing with the species at its starting point, the candidate is competing with other individuals suffering a broad range of damage similar to its own. The micro-changes in each member of the speies have changed (damaged) the species as a whole without significant selection occuring.
A neutral mutation is still a nett error because it is displacing (competing with) a gene (or whatever; unit of "genetic" information) which has the potential to contain that most elusive of developments, a helpful mutation.
These and similar reasons are why, despite the statistical wonderland laid out by your proposal, you will still hear of "survival of the luckiest" theories. Perhaps the best way I've heard it put is "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice they're different."
Swipe any text with mouse, anywhere, in any application. Middle-click on browser. Done.
Alternate approach: Swipe text with mouse, park mouse over shell, type "ly<tab>", middle click, Enter. Requires not having LyX installed, else you have to type "lyn<tab>" instead.
Or maybe you're not using Linux?
RPC vulnerability from 2 years ago taken advantage of by several worms since.
Use PostgreSQL or FireBird (yes, there are Win32 versions) which don't run with elevated privileges and you won't risk a Slammer.
Microsoft first makes the software, and then nails it down after the fan sloshes to a halt. Almost everyone else makes it secure from Day One.
The complicated (and therefore easy to muck up) Windows security model was made necessary by Microsoft doing bizarre things like run their friggin' webserver in Ring 0. The Linux equivalent would be to make your scripting do-everything hello-code-red webserver a kernel module. Even today, many common apps need to run with Administrator privs which kind of defeats the purpose in having ACLs in the first place.
If you want piles of ACLs, an SE-Linux kernel defacates all over Windows from a great height. The amount of control you can have over not just files but transitions between states and all manner of other stuff is pretty staggering. Mandrake is one distro which ships with an SELinux kernel.
In most situations, you'll never need it. The typical service will leave a small, difficult-to-crack do-nothing listener open which accepts an incoming connection on a priviledged port and then immediately drops privileges before doing any heavy lifting. Services like PostgreSQL and Squid don't even need to do that 'coz their ports don't need superuser. SELinux, chroot, UserMode and so on are mostly belt-and-braces stuff, options you simply don't have under Windows. Period.
Funny thing is, 2003/XP is derived from 2000 from NT. NT started life as a spelling-error-compatible clone of a VMS variant called MICA. VMS can be locked down to high military security levels in a matter of seconds. So... Microsoft started with a secure system, it turned to pooh in their hands, and now they're bandaiding and splinting it in the hope of making it halfway secure again. D'oh!
Why not default Debian, Mandrake or SuSE? All of them have more secure defaults. Mandrake even has an app with a simple security slider from "normal" to "draconian" (we're talking login timeouts, tab-completion not working 'coz you can't scan /bin as a user, and needing to be in a special group to run X here).
README (-:
Which unless you've got a binary debugger going is never something to be too cocksure about.
Think of it as "Service Pack MAXINT".
...and "bugger off" after a deliberate check not that the software is on a supported platform, but that the software is not on a particular competing platform.
If I was the antitrust enforcers I'd be all over this like ants on a dead elephant. This is exactly the same tactic that they lost to Caldera in court on: MS-DOS vs DR-DOS as the OS and Win 3.1 as the "application" against today's MS-Windows vs WINE-on-Linux/*BSD as the OS and MS-Office as the application, in each case with a check for a specific competitor which nobbles the application.
Just ask the people who have to do commercial printing from it. They even prefer MS-Excel (no shit, people do submit stuff to be printed as .xls) because the layout is stabler (note: not "stable", just "stabler").
OO-Writer does most of what MS-Publisher does. No file compatibility, and no automated adding/linking-to of frames on new pages, but laying stuff out at arbitrary positions, interframe flow etc are all there. No direct WordArt equivalent, but numerous ways of working around that.