Well the sun is a hellish inferno of radiation as it stands, dumping a million tonnes of the nastiest crap we can find into it would be like spitting into niagara falls.
Not just BSD code, but the damn BSD kernel. That's a tad more significant, yes?
From what I've read it's more complex than that.
OS X is a bit like Windows NT. There's a microkernel and a bunch of subsystems on top. Essentially BSD is a subsystem running on the Mach microkernel, it's not the kernel.
Additionally, the world is based on specialization, where I want a part machined I go to a place that does it for a living. I don't try to keep 10 machinists in house and try to make them experts - not cost effective. Our economy is based on the exact opposite of what Elon is trying to do. he wants to build his engines in house and magically have the reliability and performance of the big boys using what amounts to college kids / new hires and a few experts in their management.
Grow up, space if the big leagues, and it will kill people and they will kill people if they aren't careful.
It sounds like the 'people' it will kill are actually college kids and new hires.
No, no. Evolution is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH and creationists are HERETICS.
Seriously people get over yourselves. People who claim to believe in evolution on the internet have quite clearly never read any science and are behaving like some caricature of ignorant fundamentalists.
It's one thing to read some Dawkins when you're a teenager and decide he's probably right and it's cool to watch him argue with idiots. It's quite another to try to be Dawkins yourself in your thirties when you have one millionth of the knowledge he does.
Which is not low unemployment causing inflation. It's creation of temporary money (since that's how you lower the loan rate - let people borrow more than is lent) causing inflation. And the existence of stagflation shows that it doesn't always lower unemployment.
Plus there's the the 1930's German case where very high inflation coincided with very high unemployment.
This is true. What I really what to comment on here is the state of the FUD surrounding Vista. There were many negative reviews of Vista at time of release, which were deserved, if a little hyperbolic - I know, because I ran Vista and tested it.
When SP1 came out the reviews were similarly negative. I didn't test it for several months. Most broken things had not been fixed, the reviews said, and I did not go back for seconds.
Recently, I did test Vista with SP1. As it happens, I'm still running it. And whilst I'm not ready to recommend Vista yet, I'll say this gladly: most of the problems were fixed. And most of the articles bashing SP1 were just inaccurate FUD.
It really irritates me when things are reported innaccurately in this way. I don't mind if you have a negative opinion of something, even if it's something I really like. But I can't abhor being LIED to, simply because you're a zealot.
Damn right, since I installed SP1 Vista is as fast as XP.
You don't watch the news, do you. Putin admitted that US politicians in places of power encouraged their contry to invade.
You mean accused, right. Oh no, to Democrats Putin is absolutely 100% trustworthy.
Oh, and how do you think the world thinks of our actions in Iraq? Do you have ANY idea how many innocent Iraqi's have died in this fight?
90%+ of them where killed by the insurgents, the people who will end up running the place when the Democrats pull troops out.
The rest of your comment is tl;dr. Mind you I should point out that if you hate America so much and trust Iraqi insurgents and Russian dictators more than you trust the US Army it's not too surprising that Americans won't vote for you.
Does this mean I'll have to build up another sigh of relief and let it out again at a later date?
No it means at a later date you'll inhale the sigh of relief but it will turn into a whimper of fear as you feel the awesome shockwaves as somewhere on the other side of the earth collapses into a black hole.
Is artificial panspermia required for artificial insemination?
If so, I, for one, welcome our naturally selected test-tube baby overlords.
As an aside... just because a lifeform has been "hardened" or "selected" for space travel doesn't necessarily mean it has been adapted for life on a particular planet. Most planets don't have environments that mirror the conditions found in space.
No, but being able to survive in space is a prequisite for panspermia. And you could imagine organisms that are able to go dormant in space would wake up once they hit the space like conditions of the upper atmosphere. So they wake up and breed there and gradual adapt to life on the surface over lots of generations.
That said I don't think tardigrades are a good candidate for panpermia because they require oxygen. It seem to me that most planets that don't have life, i.e. the ones you're trying to seed, won't have oxygen. Something plant like and similarly hardy, like lichens or bacteria seems like a better bet.
In fact seeding planets that already have life with animals could be considered to be a hostile act. Seeding barren planets doesn't seem like a problem.
I'm not sure what you mean by flipping the bill, but this is just a report on costs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/broadband_britain_how_fast_how.html How much is it going to cost to bring ultra-fast broadband to Britain? Well, BT and Virgin say they're both doing just that over the next couple of years, for an investment of a couple of billion pounds between them. But, according to today's report from the Broadband Stakeholders' Group, the final bill could mount as high as £29bn.
See the Government isn't going to do any of the real work, just commission reports on it that the people doing the work think are complete nonsense.
Because some people might want to buy them who already own set top boxes?
Why would you want a PAL tuner in a TV that is plugged into a set top box, given that the STB should be connected by SCART, not UHF...
How do you know the TVs being sold don't have SCART? Pretty every TV I've seen sold in the UK in the last ten years does
Who cares, it's not up to the government to stop people buying obsolete things.
Actually, it is part of the government's job to stop companies misleading people into buying stuff that will very soon be useless. At the very least they should mandate that big "This TV will not be able to receive broadcast TV in a few months" stickers be put on them. Not everyone is well informed about the current state of the digital switchover - I imagine that quite a few people still buy PAL TVs with absolutely no idea that they will cease to be useful (without a set top box) within months.
Hmm, maybe the government should put stickers on Linux machines to say "this machine can't run Windows software" too.
It's like people buying cheap HD DVD players after HD DVD was killed. I'm not sure why, but a lot of people did. What you're suggesting is that some government bureacrat work out a set of rules to decide what was obsolete, if people understood the implications of the obsoleteness. They'd have to fine people for not displaying the right sticker, which means someone would need to check. You're far better off just allowing the market to handle this.
And just think about all the employment we can create, paying people 12 pence about minimum wage so they can watch other people. No more pesky unemployment figures to worry about.
This is England, you wouldn't need to pay 'em. Just call it Distributed Big Brother and have a tabloid style "Shop the evil doers, win a bounty" number for people to call. The unemployed will happily watch it at home and the underemployed will happily watch it at work.
Hell you could charge 'em for the privilege and use some of that money for the bounties and the rest to pay off the loan that you used to build the system. Oh and hookers and blow in some country where rich swine are protected from the press.
Just about every new TV comes with support for Freeview
Sadly there still seem to be quite a few PAL CRTs for sale - I have no idea why the sale of these soon to be obsolete sets hasn't been banned.
Because some people might want to buy them who already own set top boxes? Or maybe they want to use them as paperweights. Who cares, it's not up to the government to stop people buying obsolete things.
I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that a court would clearly regard pro DRM clauses as unconscionable and ipso fact de jure casus belli pro matria mori invalid.
I would therefore advise games programmers to release a non DRM version on Pirate Bay, since everyone knows that most people who try the game in a pirate version will end up buying it.
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Well the sun is a hellish inferno of radiation as it stands, dumping a million tonnes of the nastiest crap we can find into it would be like spitting into niagara falls.
Or trolling slashdot.
There's no danger of copulation with these people, accidental or otherwise.
That should tell you something shouldn't it?
That's racist. China and Thailand have a pretty lax approach to piracy but that's not all of Asia.
Not just BSD code, but the damn BSD kernel. That's a tad more significant, yes?
From what I've read it's more complex than that.
OS X is a bit like Windows NT. There's a microkernel and a bunch of subsystems on top. Essentially BSD is a subsystem running on the Mach microkernel, it's not the kernel.
Yeah, damned vampires and demons! I kid! Sides, I say this as a furry. Most the time it's not really prejudice, it's more like caution towards us.
It's not caution. Furries should be gassed.
Additionally, the world is based on specialization, where I want a part machined I go to a place that does it for a living. I don't try to keep 10 machinists in house and try to make them experts - not cost effective. Our economy is based on the exact opposite of what Elon is trying to do. he wants to build his engines in house and magically have the reliability and performance of the big boys using what amounts to college kids / new hires and a few experts in their management.
Grow up, space if the big leagues, and it will kill people and they will kill people if they aren't careful.
It sounds like the 'people' it will kill are actually college kids and new hires.
No, no. Evolution is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH and creationists are HERETICS.
Seriously people get over yourselves. People who claim to believe in evolution on the internet have quite clearly never read any science and are behaving like some caricature of ignorant fundamentalists.
It's one thing to read some Dawkins when you're a teenager and decide he's probably right and it's cool to watch him argue with idiots. It's quite another to try to be Dawkins yourself in your thirties when you have one millionth of the knowledge he does.
Which is not low unemployment causing inflation. It's creation of temporary money (since that's how you lower the loan rate - let people borrow more than is lent) causing inflation. And the existence of stagflation shows that it doesn't always lower unemployment.
Plus there's the the 1930's German case where very high inflation coincided with very high unemployment.
This is true. What I really what to comment on here is the state of the FUD surrounding Vista. There were many negative reviews of Vista at time of release, which were deserved, if a little hyperbolic - I know, because I ran Vista and tested it.
When SP1 came out the reviews were similarly negative. I didn't test it for several months. Most broken things had not been fixed, the reviews said, and I did not go back for seconds.
Recently, I did test Vista with SP1. As it happens, I'm still running it. And whilst I'm not ready to recommend Vista yet, I'll say this gladly: most of the problems were fixed. And most of the articles bashing SP1 were just inaccurate FUD.
It really irritates me when things are reported innaccurately in this way. I don't mind if you have a negative opinion of something, even if it's something I really like. But I can't abhor being LIED to, simply because you're a zealot.
Damn right, since I installed SP1 Vista is as fast as XP.
You don't watch the news, do you. Putin admitted that US politicians in places of power encouraged their contry to invade.
You mean accused, right. Oh no, to Democrats Putin is absolutely 100% trustworthy.
Oh, and how do you think the world thinks of our actions in Iraq? Do you have ANY idea how many innocent Iraqi's have died in this fight?
90%+ of them where killed by the insurgents, the people who will end up running the place when the Democrats pull troops out.
The rest of your comment is tl;dr. Mind you I should point out that if you hate America so much and trust Iraqi insurgents and Russian dictators more than you trust the US Army it's not too surprising that Americans won't vote for you.
So it's all the fault of the US? And you people wonder why you struggle to beat weak Republican candidates.
It's always nice to see complex engineering projects that work. It gives the impression that theory and reality are getting closer.
Theory and reality are the same, at least in theory.
Does this mean I'll have to build up another sigh of relief and let it out again at a later date?
No it means at a later date you'll inhale the sigh of relief but it will turn into a whimper of fear as you feel the awesome shockwaves as somewhere on the other side of the earth collapses into a black hole.
Is artificial panspermia required for artificial insemination?
If so, I, for one, welcome our naturally selected test-tube baby overlords.
As an aside... just because a lifeform has been "hardened" or "selected" for space travel doesn't necessarily mean it has been adapted for life on a particular planet. Most planets don't have environments that mirror the conditions found in space.
No, but being able to survive in space is a prequisite for panspermia. And you could imagine organisms that are able to go dormant in space would wake up once they hit the space like conditions of the upper atmosphere. So they wake up and breed there and gradual adapt to life on the surface over lots of generations.
That said I don't think tardigrades are a good candidate for panpermia because they require oxygen. It seem to me that most planets that don't have life, i.e. the ones you're trying to seed, won't have oxygen. Something plant like and similarly hardy, like lichens or bacteria seems like a better bet.
In fact seeding planets that already have life with animals could be considered to be a hostile act. Seeding barren planets doesn't seem like a problem.
How do you know the TVs being sold don't have SCART? Pretty every TV I've seen sold in the UK in the last ten years does
So why do you need the soon to be obsolete tuner?
Because these are old TVs being sold off cheap presumably.
I'm not sure what you mean by flipping the bill, but this is just a report on costs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/broadband_britain_how_fast_how.html
How much is it going to cost to bring ultra-fast broadband to Britain? Well, BT and Virgin say they're both doing just that over the next couple of years, for an investment of a couple of billion pounds between them. But, according to today's report from the Broadband Stakeholders' Group, the final bill could mount as high as £29bn.
See the Government isn't going to do any of the real work, just commission reports on it that the people doing the work think are complete nonsense.
Because some people might want to buy them who already own set top boxes?
Why would you want a PAL tuner in a TV that is plugged into a set top box, given that the STB should be connected by SCART, not UHF...
How do you know the TVs being sold don't have SCART? Pretty every TV I've seen sold in the UK in the last ten years does
Who cares, it's not up to the government to stop people buying obsolete things.
Actually, it is part of the government's job to stop companies misleading people into buying stuff that will very soon be useless. At the very least they should mandate that big "This TV will not be able to receive broadcast TV in a few months" stickers be put on them. Not everyone is well informed about the current state of the digital switchover - I imagine that quite a few people still buy PAL TVs with absolutely no idea that they will cease to be useful (without a set top box) within months.
Hmm, maybe the government should put stickers on Linux machines to say "this machine can't run Windows software" too.
It's like people buying cheap HD DVD players after HD DVD was killed. I'm not sure why, but a lot of people did. What you're suggesting is that some government bureacrat work out a set of rules to decide what was obsolete, if people understood the implications of the obsoleteness. They'd have to fine people for not displaying the right sticker, which means someone would need to check. You're far better off just allowing the market to handle this.
And just think about all the employment we can create, paying people 12 pence about minimum wage so they can watch other people. No more pesky unemployment figures to worry about.
This is England, you wouldn't need to pay 'em. Just call it Distributed Big Brother and have a tabloid style "Shop the evil doers, win a bounty" number for people to call. The unemployed will happily watch it at home and the underemployed will happily watch it at work.
Hell you could charge 'em for the privilege and use some of that money for the bounties and the rest to pay off the loan that you used to build the system. Oh and hookers and blow in some country where rich swine are protected from the press.
Just about every new TV comes with support for Freeview
Sadly there still seem to be quite a few PAL CRTs for sale - I have no idea why the sale of these soon to be obsolete sets hasn't been banned.
Because some people might want to buy them who already own set top boxes? Or maybe they want to use them as paperweights. Who cares, it's not up to the government to stop people buying obsolete things.
I believe much of the control software is written in java.
We are so screwed. So screwed.
Ah. Some blamecasting, after which everybody pretends it had never happened?
Everyone pretends what never happened?
or k9copy?
That clones dogs.
I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that a court would clearly regard pro DRM clauses as unconscionable and ipso fact de jure casus belli pro matria mori invalid.
I would therefore advise games programmers to release a non DRM version on Pirate Bay, since everyone knows that most people who try the game in a pirate version will end up buying it.
Mod this comment up, it is not satire.
Why stop at Amazon, let's take it to every retailer with a review page:
Best Buy Spore Product Page
EBGames Spore Product Page
Toys R Us Spore Product Page
If you do this to Gamespot, remember to mention how Battletoads is a better game at the end of the review.