The only time my XP ever bluescreens is when I turn on or off my MOTU828mkII firewire audio interface. The MOTU drivers don't have that "Windows Certified" logo or whatever they call it, and Windows throws up a warning when trying to install the drivers telling you as much. I guess that driver approval crap is worth something after all. *shrug*
Now, if only MOTU would get off their asses and release some Linux drivers, I'd never have to boot into Windows for recording work. All I ever get back from their tech support is "we're working on it." WTF, how long do they need? They had new drivers for the Intel Macs almost as soon as they were announced. I shoulda went with Presonus or Yamaha for mLAN. Bleh.
Pssh, ninjas and kaninjas have had this technology for like ever. That's how they get away with killing anyone they want. That, and they're totally sweet.
And he didn't found it, he's the 34rd generation grandmaster of the Togakure ryu, as well as eight others. He founded the Bujinkan Honbu dojo and was the first to ever accept non-Japanese as students. An-shu Stephen Hayes was among one of the first, who has now branched off to teach his "westernized" form of ninpo taijutsu he calls to-shin do, taking some of the core principles of ninpo taijutsu and updating the teaching of it using modern education methods. Controversial in many ninpo cicles and everyone has their own opinion about it.
Hatsumi is also a chiropracter and artist as well. You can read a bit more about him here. If you'd like to see what a 73 year old ninja looks like in motion, check him out here. Even at his age, he moves much more fluidly than most, and easily throws around guys half his age.
I'm currently a student in the Genbukan Ninpo Bugei dojo, headed by Soke Tanemura Shoto, a former student of both Hatsumi and Hatsumi's teacher, Takamatsu Toshitsugu. Another ninpo ryu is the Jinenkan ryu, although I don't know very much about that particular school.
As much as I have a personal interest in this topic, I find it pretty odd to be appearing on Slashdot. News for nerds? Maybe, but not very tech-oriented. Still, glad to see that the real ninja are getting some recognition other than the Real Ultimate Power crap. The real history of the ninja is much more fascinating and entertaining than any drivel some goober on the internet can make up.
If anyone is interested further in any of this, feel free to email me, I'd be happy to converse on it.:)
Great, next someone writes a virus based on a genetic algorithm and as the virus propagates across the world, by the time it reaches back to ground zero it's a totally different species! Or, erm, yeah, something like that.... viva la Darwinia!
If you build a house, you put a lot of time and money behind it. But I should still be able to come and live in your house, rent free. After all, I'm only one person, I'm not taking up all the space and preventing you from living in your house, so I'm not depriving you of anything of consequence.
This is called the Fecund Universe Theorydeveloped by Lee Smolin. The wikipedia article linked here mentions that the theory includes concepts of reproduction and mutation, but not natural selection, but then goes on to talk about universes "favoring" the creation of other universes that also create many black holes that also create their own children universes. I would consider that a form of natural selection. Combined with the Anthropic Principle, it provides a rational for us being here that makes sense.
After seeing this book, Beginning Ubuntu Linux featured on/. a few weeks ago, I ordered it and read through it and it sounds like what you're looking for: it gives a pretty good overview of Ubuntu from a Windows user POV. It even makes comparisons between different common and "critical" Windows apps and their Linux counterparts. Having used Ubuntu for a few months prior to getting this book and playing around with it, I was still able to learn a few neat tricks with this. For someone that's just starting out from scratch with Ubuntu, I think this book is a pretty good resource.
Sperm + Egg = Baby
okay, which came first, according to the theory of evolution?
I don't know, I haven't studied that particular situation. Anyone know? Google it?
how is being sexual in nature more conducive to survival? if you've been married, you'd know better... if not, you will...
Sexual selection is thought to work in a roundabout way such that those that are seen as most fit by members of the opposite sex are seen as more attractive. The selected attribute may actually have something to do with survival ability, or it may be as arbitrary as a difference in color. The real answer is that being sexual may not be more conducive to survival itself, but is more conducive to reproduction.
why do i have an amazing, astounding, ingenious, freaked out eyeball of complexity and teeth that want to fall out? weren't teeth important to survival, too? especially 10,000 years ago?
Normally eyeballs don't fall out. But they do help you to survive much better than you would without them. Teeth are important to survival, but 10,000 years ago, you may not have lived to an age long enough to have them fall out. But as long as you lived long enough to reproduce, that was enough.
how is a hybrid land / water ear advantageous on eithe rland or water? btw, no such ear has ever been discovered. just postulated.
For the first creatures crawling out of the water, their water ears probably didn't help very much on land. But since they were the first creatures on land, there wasn't much else for them to hear anyway. As more and more creatures crawled out onto the land and started to stay there, competition began. Those that whose water ears heard a little bit better than the others, in general, survived to reproduce better than the others. Through random mutation and natural selection, eventually those "water" ears worked much better as "land" ears.
if the platypus lived and went extinct x thousands of years ago... what would an evolutionsit claim claim about it being transitionary? how would slashdot react?
A particular species going extinct doesn't necessarily any bearing on whether it is transitory or not. Either the species has diverged into different species with the original species no longer existing, or the species went exinct before then and didn't. An "evolutionist" would claim one of the two, whichever scenario happened to be the one that happened. Slashdot probably wouldn't care one way or another.
how does life come from death?
Usually happens when you hear "CLEAR!!!" Or, if what you really meant was how does life come from non-living material, current hypoteheses are discussed here. Note the difference between chemical abiogenesis and spontaneous generation, which traditionally refers to fully formed organisms like maggots forming from dead or nonliving material.
how do appendages that offer no benefit stay around long enough to eventually become a benefit?
Example?
why are my ears facing forward instead of backwards? i can see forward, so wouldn't the greatest benefit come from having my ears pointed backwards so i could better hear prey coming up from behind? *especially* before language existed? or did ears come into existance *after& language came into existence?
I don't know about you, but I have more than a front and a back, I also have a left and a right and thanks to the concept of stereo hearing, I can identify sounds all around me, including the behind me.
how come we can't repreoduce macro-evolution in the lab? why can't we turn bacteria into something entirely different than bacteria - even thoug we've dramamtically increased the speed of reproduction?
We can increase rate of reproduction and watch thousands of generations happen, but even at such rates we would still be waiting around for millions of
While you're correct that the GP comment wasn't addressing the actual problem stated (simple population growth in terms of overall numbers), the difference between legal and illegal immigrants is the extra strain that the illegal ones put on our country by using up our resources (education, health care, etc...) without paying taxes and putting back into the system they're leeching off of. As such, making a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants in this context does make sense.
I understand your comment was partially in jest and still partially serious, but I felt that this distinction still should be pointed out because obviously there are still quite a few who don't understand the problem with illegal immigrants. *cough cough our government cough Bush cough*
I'd gladly pay a dollar more per ticket for a theater to actually have employees whose sole job is to sit in each theater room and police the people who won't STFU, whip out their ringing cellphones in the middle of the movie, have bratty loud kids, etc. I imagine a buck per ticket increase, while not huge in the grand scheme of things per customer, would at least (per theater) cover the cost of having the extra usher in each viewing room. Maybe even have one actual security guard per cinema that can be radioed in to viewing rooms with particularly rowdy or uncooperative assholes.
Let's say an usher gets $7/hour (made up, but not totally unreasonable, could be less)
Let's also say a typical movie lasts 2 hours. So $14 per showing for the usher there. You'd only have to sell 14 tickets to cover that cost. If you're selling less than 20 tickets per show, you probably don't need an usher in that viewing room anyway.
Yes, some people complain that movie tickets are already expensive for what you're getting, and some may feel that they should already be getting this level of quality in their movie experience already, but I think it's only gonna happen if there can be someone there at all times to ensure that disruptions are taken care of. If a buck a ticket is what it takes to cover that cost (and it could probably be less depending on what the cost works out to be), it would certainly increase the value of the big-screen experience. In my opinion, it would be justified and worth it. YMMV
This is assuming that the rest of his body is operating as a "normal" human's would be also. He is taking way more supplements than the body needs to operate normally, but he's not shooting for normal: he's shooting for most efficient/optimized for his particular genetics and body chemistry, while at the same time working to reprogram that body chemistry to establish new baselines and do away with unneccessary and undesirable "normal" processes.
It's pretty obvious that what works for him won't work for most people; he even says that directly, his plan is formulated for his particular chemistry. He's treating much more than diabetes with it; he's also making up for other genetic deficiencies he's predisposed to, having had some key "problem" genes personally tested for in himself to see which alleles he possesses. Again, the body is just a big chemical factory. Different genes directly decide what chemicals are produced and in what quantities. One allele may not be as desirable to have as another. We can't currently change our genome directly, but we can control what we put in our bodies to counteract those negative effects.
Ray and Terry Grossman M.D. (co-author of Fantastic Voyage) aren't just some hacks pulling this stuff out of their asses. At least view the companion website to see what you think before dismissing it out of hand.
Amazing all these armchair chemists ridiculing someone who's done actual research on how the chemical factory that is our bodies works and finding out what chemicals we need and how much. Have you read his Fantastic Voyage? Have you even heard of it?
The human body is a chemical factory at it's most basic level. Genetics (a system of chemicals memes) predisposes you to be more or less sensitive, intolerant, needy, etc. of certain chemicals to keep the factory operating correctly and efficiently. Why is it so hard to understand that someone has analyzed their specific bodily needs, taking into account general human body plan and personal genetics, to come up with his own personalized regimin of suppliments (read: suppliments, not food replacements) that by all tests and accounts, seems to be working? He's completely beaten his type II diabetes and genetically predisposed heart conditions. I doubt he'll have to worry about "dying of kidney failure at early age" since he's 56 and biological age tests put him at the body of a 40 year old.
Call me a Ray Kurzweil fanboy if you wish, but I'd rather be on the team of someone with a proven past and current success record.
Really pisses them off when they go to the theater and then find out they don't own it after paying money, or not being able to take the elephants home from the circus!
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The only time my XP ever bluescreens is when I turn on or off my MOTU828mkII firewire audio interface. The MOTU drivers don't have that "Windows Certified" logo or whatever they call it, and Windows throws up a warning when trying to install the drivers telling you as much. I guess that driver approval crap is worth something after all. *shrug* Now, if only MOTU would get off their asses and release some Linux drivers, I'd never have to boot into Windows for recording work. All I ever get back from their tech support is "we're working on it." WTF, how long do they need? They had new drivers for the Intel Macs almost as soon as they were announced. I shoulda went with Presonus or Yamaha for mLAN. Bleh.
Pssh, ninjas and kaninjas have had this technology for like ever. That's how they get away with killing anyone they want. That, and they're totally sweet.
Hatsumi is also a chiropracter and artist as well. You can read a bit more about him here. If you'd like to see what a 73 year old ninja looks like in motion, check him out here. Even at his age, he moves much more fluidly than most, and easily throws around guys half his age.
I'm currently a student in the Genbukan Ninpo Bugei dojo, headed by Soke Tanemura Shoto, a former student of both Hatsumi and Hatsumi's teacher, Takamatsu Toshitsugu. Another ninpo ryu is the Jinenkan ryu, although I don't know very much about that particular school.
As much as I have a personal interest in this topic, I find it pretty odd to be appearing on Slashdot. News for nerds? Maybe, but not very tech-oriented. Still, glad to see that the real ninja are getting some recognition other than the Real Ultimate Power crap. The real history of the ninja is much more fascinating and entertaining than any drivel some goober on the internet can make up.
If anyone is interested further in any of this, feel free to email me, I'd be happy to converse on it. :)
Great, next someone writes a virus based on a genetic algorithm and as the virus propagates across the world, by the time it reaches back to ground zero it's a totally different species! Or, erm, yeah, something like that.... viva la Darwinia!
Article is from 2001, so she's probably 17 by now. That's legal in many states. What's the AoC in Germany? :P
If you build a house, you put a lot of time and money behind it. But I should still be able to come and live in your house, rent free. After all, I'm only one person, I'm not taking up all the space and preventing you from living in your house, so I'm not depriving you of anything of consequence.
This is called the Fecund Universe Theorydeveloped by Lee Smolin. The wikipedia article linked here mentions that the theory includes concepts of reproduction and mutation, but not natural selection, but then goes on to talk about universes "favoring" the creation of other universes that also create many black holes that also create their own children universes. I would consider that a form of natural selection. Combined with the Anthropic Principle, it provides a rational for us being here that makes sense.
You'd still do her. Don't lie.
Torrent plzthx.
After seeing this book, Beginning Ubuntu Linux featured on /. a few weeks ago, I ordered it and read through it and it sounds like what you're looking for: it gives a pretty good overview of Ubuntu from a Windows user POV. It even makes comparisons between different common and "critical" Windows apps and their Linux counterparts. Having used Ubuntu for a few months prior to getting this book and playing around with it, I was still able to learn a few neat tricks with this. For someone that's just starting out from scratch with Ubuntu, I think this book is a pretty good resource.
I don't know, I haven't studied that particular situation. Anyone know? Google it?
how is being sexual in nature more conducive to survival? if you've been married, you'd know better... if not, you will...
Sexual selection is thought to work in a roundabout way such that those that are seen as most fit by members of the opposite sex are seen as more attractive. The selected attribute may actually have something to do with survival ability, or it may be as arbitrary as a difference in color. The real answer is that being sexual may not be more conducive to survival itself, but is more conducive to reproduction.
why do i have an amazing, astounding, ingenious, freaked out eyeball of complexity and teeth that want to fall out? weren't teeth important to survival, too? especially 10,000 years ago?
Normally eyeballs don't fall out. But they do help you to survive much better than you would without them. Teeth are important to survival, but 10,000 years ago, you may not have lived to an age long enough to have them fall out. But as long as you lived long enough to reproduce, that was enough.
how is a hybrid land / water ear advantageous on eithe rland or water? btw, no such ear has ever been discovered. just postulated.
For the first creatures crawling out of the water, their water ears probably didn't help very much on land. But since they were the first creatures on land, there wasn't much else for them to hear anyway. As more and more creatures crawled out onto the land and started to stay there, competition began. Those that whose water ears heard a little bit better than the others, in general, survived to reproduce better than the others. Through random mutation and natural selection, eventually those "water" ears worked much better as "land" ears.
if the platypus lived and went extinct x thousands of years ago... what would an evolutionsit claim claim about it being transitionary? how would slashdot react?
A particular species going extinct doesn't necessarily any bearing on whether it is transitory or not. Either the species has diverged into different species with the original species no longer existing, or the species went exinct before then and didn't. An "evolutionist" would claim one of the two, whichever scenario happened to be the one that happened. Slashdot probably wouldn't care one way or another.
how does life come from death?
Usually happens when you hear "CLEAR!!!" Or, if what you really meant was how does life come from non-living material, current hypoteheses are discussed here. Note the difference between chemical abiogenesis and spontaneous generation, which traditionally refers to fully formed organisms like maggots forming from dead or nonliving material.
how do appendages that offer no benefit stay around long enough to eventually become a benefit?
Example?
why are my ears facing forward instead of backwards? i can see forward, so wouldn't the greatest benefit come from having my ears pointed backwards so i could better hear prey coming up from behind? *especially* before language existed? or did ears come into existance *after& language came into existence?
I don't know about you, but I have more than a front and a back, I also have a left and a right and thanks to the concept of stereo hearing, I can identify sounds all around me, including the behind me.
how come we can't repreoduce macro-evolution in the lab? why can't we turn bacteria into something entirely different than bacteria - even thoug we've dramamtically increased the speed of reproduction?
We can increase rate of reproduction and watch thousands of generations happen, but even at such rates we would still be waiting around for millions of
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Speak for yourself! How many of us do you think are lucky enough to have windows in these basements, you insensitive clod?!
I understand your comment was partially in jest and still partially serious, but I felt that this distinction still should be pointed out because obviously there are still quite a few who don't understand the problem with illegal immigrants. *cough cough our government cough Bush cough*
Any Walton & Johnson 10%'ers here? :)
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lameness filter, be gone
Let's say an usher gets $7/hour (made up, but not totally unreasonable, could be less) Let's also say a typical movie lasts 2 hours. So $14 per showing for the usher there. You'd only have to sell 14 tickets to cover that cost. If you're selling less than 20 tickets per show, you probably don't need an usher in that viewing room anyway.
Yes, some people complain that movie tickets are already expensive for what you're getting, and some may feel that they should already be getting this level of quality in their movie experience already, but I think it's only gonna happen if there can be someone there at all times to ensure that disruptions are taken care of. If a buck a ticket is what it takes to cover that cost (and it could probably be less depending on what the cost works out to be), it would certainly increase the value of the big-screen experience. In my opinion, it would be justified and worth it. YMMV
Just what we need, the crapper scene from Dumb and Dumber in 4D, complete with smells.
There, I fixed that for you.
Did you even check out the website? You think we'll still be mostly biological in 100, even 50 years?
It's pretty obvious that what works for him won't work for most people; he even says that directly, his plan is formulated for his particular chemistry. He's treating much more than diabetes with it; he's also making up for other genetic deficiencies he's predisposed to, having had some key "problem" genes personally tested for in himself to see which alleles he possesses. Again, the body is just a big chemical factory. Different genes directly decide what chemicals are produced and in what quantities. One allele may not be as desirable to have as another. We can't currently change our genome directly, but we can control what we put in our bodies to counteract those negative effects.
Ray and Terry Grossman M.D. (co-author of Fantastic Voyage) aren't just some hacks pulling this stuff out of their asses. At least view the companion website to see what you think before dismissing it out of hand.
But what will we use to cover the bottom of our cat litter boxes and bird cages with now?
The human body is a chemical factory at it's most basic level. Genetics (a system of chemicals memes) predisposes you to be more or less sensitive, intolerant, needy, etc. of certain chemicals to keep the factory operating correctly and efficiently. Why is it so hard to understand that someone has analyzed their specific bodily needs, taking into account general human body plan and personal genetics, to come up with his own personalized regimin of suppliments (read: suppliments, not food replacements) that by all tests and accounts, seems to be working? He's completely beaten his type II diabetes and genetically predisposed heart conditions. I doubt he'll have to worry about "dying of kidney failure at early age" since he's 56 and biological age tests put him at the body of a 40 year old.
Call me a Ray Kurzweil fanboy if you wish, but I'd rather be on the team of someone with a proven past and current success record.
"If you try and take a cat apart - to see how it works - the first thing you have on your hands... is a non-working cat."
Really pisses them off when they go to the theater and then find out they don't own it after paying money, or not being able to take the elephants home from the circus!
Mod this redundant? :P