What would you think if some big company asked you to "licence" the right to talk English, or French, or Chineese ?
Well, English is Open Source with many homes, French is BSD with the official provider the Academie Francaise (and some variants in Canada etc), and Chinese is a bunch of languages - Mandarin for example is one.
Re:My standard space elevator comment...
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Seeing it hasn't been brought up yet, no material strong enough to build the elevator yet exists. It is not yet clear whether it is even possible to do so.
I'll go tell the spiders outside my door to stop producing their webs, as you've declared they don't exist.
I'm sure they'll ignore millions of years of evolution and vanish in a puff of smoke since you're obviously more correct about their existence than they are.
um, where did i put that irony key.... it was around here somewhere on the keyboard...
The thing is, unlike certain people like Monsieur Bush who believe we're guilty until proven innocent, that in America (and much of the world) you're INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty.
So this was an obvious conclusion.
If you think I've stolen your sharpe dog, you can't just lock me up and keep me in prison for stealing your dog because I have a sharpe dog that looks like yours. You have to prove that the dog I have is in fact YOUR dog. Plus, you also have to prove I STOLE the dog. I might have innocently picked up a poor stray halfway across town that was starving to death, which was your dog that a wandering minstrel let out of your yard when you said mean things to him.
Proof. Not accusations.
If you don't like our system of Innocent until PROVEN guilty, move to Iraq.
I used to be a die hard PC gamer. I loved the greater depth and the willingness to experiment that PC games had over console games. Sim City, Civilazation, Falcon 3.0, Starflight, The Sims... these were amazing games.
But that era of PC gaming is dead. The games now all require the newest hardware in order to play the game and have it look anything whatsoever like the screenshots on the box. In order to keep up with the cutting edge in PC gaming, I would have to spend $400 on a new graphics card every month.
Have to agree with you there. The last PC game I bought was Black and White, the last Mac game was an expansion for Diablo II, and since then I just buy console games. I'm sick and tired of paying for stuff I really don't need.
It's not important to me how realistic the rain splatter is, if the game has no storyline. A higher res Sim is less interesting than a cool Sims: The Urbz game with cool stories and soundtracks.
If this kills off PCs for gaming and lets me buy a commodity PC that sells for a reasonable $200 cost, $300 with flatscreen monitor - or a $300 laptop - then good riddance is what I say!
I've got a hacker's Apple II+ (172K RAM, dual floppy), a hacker's Mac SE (external 40GB external SCSI2 HD, dual floppy) and a bunch of other disused computers and I'm sick and tired of spending $2000 when the rest of the world spends less than $300.
Do you have to use the de-atomizer ray gun on the molecule to remove it, then use your atomizer mist spray to replace it, and molecular re-integrator beam to reconnect it?
And what if an ant steps on it... man, those things are expensive... not the ant, the single-molecule switch.
I used to have one of them, but I lost it somewhere in one of my pockets, and now I can't seem to find it anymore. It was probably altered in a biochemical reaction with my nickel-based quarter and the pocket lint...
This is nothing - we design genes all the time
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In fact, a friend of mine did two major variants just this quarter at the Baker labs down the hall, one with a luminescent rocker switch and one with a ligand-activated toggle.
Just making it all pretty doesn't mean you know what it will do. It's more important to understand how it will work and how the whole chain will be impacted than it does being able to just visualize it.
The real headline is that "The Opinion Research Corporation is staffed by a pack of retarded monkeys. The CEO expressed optimism that their next release will be more along the lines of Hamlet than a total pile of bullshit. High School students everywhere were known to ask 'What's the difference?'".
You're talking about a firm my now dead grandma started working for after WW II, that she retired from, and died at the age of 99 about six years back.
The fact is, for some unknown reason, people pay them money to do these studies. I doubt they ask Why - more likely it's an interest group of some form or another that paid for it.
A small fraction of the population screening out a handful of alleles is not going to make much of a dent.
Unless the specific sequences survive only in regions where they aren't evolutionarily positive, and thus will be eliminated at a more rapid pace as everyone goes for the latest designer gene alterations.
Mary: Why does your kid have the recessive gene for survival in mercury-rich environments, Sally?
Sally: Why, do you think I should have it altered with a viral DNA operation before they're born?
Mary: Sure, then they'll be just like everyone else! Besides, after you add the cute button nose and excessive tallness, why how could that not be good?
And thus another useful gene is "weeded out" (most weeds are or have been regarded as food, flowers, or other useful things and are our primary source of medications or possible cures...)
it's Linux/BSD FIRST, Wintel SECOND, and Unix THIRD.
After all, it's on sales. They only count the cost WHEN SHIPPED, so if you buy an OEM server with Wintel and reimage it as a more stable Linux/BSD server, it gets counted as Wintel. Plus you can buy a lot of Linux/BSD imaged BIOS only boxen for the price of a Wintel or Unix box.
Sorry but your friend working on Longhorn is hardly unbiased isn't he? So there are things that MS won't budge on heh? Well they are about to get the lesson in sovereign nations. I doubt very much that MS will take their ball and go home and right off a market of 400 million people.
Additionally, it is within the scope for them, should MSFT refuse to comply, to take those fines and use them to replace all software and OS on all computers in schools, universities, and government with open source competitors.
After all, what's fair for the gander is fair for the fois gras.
[caveat - I own shares of MSFT, Nokia, and RHAT and thus can't make up my mind if this is good or bad]
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What would you think if some big company asked you to "licence" the right to talk English, or French, or Chineese ?
Well, English is Open Source with many homes, French is BSD with the official provider the Academie Francaise (and some variants in Canada etc), and Chinese is a bunch of languages - Mandarin for example is one.
Seeing it hasn't been brought up yet, no material strong enough to build the elevator yet exists. It is not yet clear whether it is even possible to do so.
.... it was around here somewhere on the keyboard ...
I'll go tell the spiders outside my door to stop producing their webs, as you've declared they don't exist.
I'm sure they'll ignore millions of years of evolution and vanish in a puff of smoke since you're obviously more correct about their existence than they are.
um, where did i put that irony key
The thing is, unlike certain people like Monsieur Bush who believe we're guilty until proven innocent, that in America (and much of the world) you're INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty.
So this was an obvious conclusion.
If you think I've stolen your sharpe dog, you can't just lock me up and keep me in prison for stealing your dog because I have a sharpe dog that looks like yours. You have to prove that the dog I have is in fact YOUR dog. Plus, you also have to prove I STOLE the dog. I might have innocently picked up a poor stray halfway across town that was starving to death, which was your dog that a wandering minstrel let out of your yard when you said mean things to him.
Proof. Not accusations.
If you don't like our system of Innocent until PROVEN guilty, move to Iraq.
Use metric not American measurements.
The last time you forgot this the lander crashed into Mars.
I volunteer Bush to go. We should use the extra payload saved instead of a return trip to build oil derricks.
I thought they said it would be prospecting for Oil, not Water ...
I used to be a die hard PC gamer. I loved the greater depth and the willingness to experiment that PC games had over console games. Sim City, Civilazation, Falcon 3.0, Starflight, The Sims... these were amazing games.
But that era of PC gaming is dead. The games now all require the newest hardware in order to play the game and have it look anything whatsoever like the screenshots on the box. In order to keep up with the cutting edge in PC gaming, I would have to spend $400 on a new graphics card every month.
Have to agree with you there. The last PC game I bought was Black and White, the last Mac game was an expansion for Diablo II, and since then I just buy console games. I'm sick and tired of paying for stuff I really don't need.
It's not important to me how realistic the rain splatter is, if the game has no storyline. A higher res Sim is less interesting than a cool Sims: The Urbz game with cool stories and soundtracks.
Seriously?
If this kills off PCs for gaming and lets me buy a commodity PC that sells for a reasonable $200 cost, $300 with flatscreen monitor - or a $300 laptop - then good riddance is what I say!
I've got a hacker's Apple II+ (172K RAM, dual floppy), a hacker's Mac SE (external 40GB external SCSI2 HD, dual floppy) and a bunch of other disused computers and I'm sick and tired of spending $2000 when the rest of the world spends less than $300.
they're registered to Richard M. Nixon and other people who live at slightly altered variants of my phone and address.
With Photoshop, you can get enough to do the same at the library.
We're Americans - those under seige by the "Patriot Act" - we believe in Freedom!
Does a Beowulf cluster of these molecules run Linux in the post-9/11 world?
Of course not, they run a much more stripped-down OS.
But the question is, how much uptime will you get?
Just a dab of a nice reagant and Poof! there go the lights ...
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Hope they remembered oxygen is moderately corrosive, especially in the presence of electric currents
Great... bit-rot is now real, instead of just an artifact of idiots not maintaining the contract promised by both sides of an API.
... it will dissolve!
Not only that, but when you spill coffee on the switch, it won't just short out
I'm always switched on, with the help of my handy caffeine molecule switch!
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oh, you meant another type of live wire/circuit
never mind, I'll just have another cup of tea
if a molecule of mine wants to become a transistor, i am all for it. just don't come running back when you get burnt out!
What if it wants to become a bi-polar switch and cross state lines?
Do you have to use the de-atomizer ray gun on the molecule to remove it, then use your atomizer mist spray to replace it, and molecular re-integrator beam to reconnect it?
... man, those things are expensive ... not the ant, the single-molecule switch.
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And what if an ant steps on it
I used to have one of them, but I lost it somewhere in one of my pockets, and now I can't seem to find it anymore. It was probably altered in a biochemical reaction with my nickel-based quarter and the pocket lint
1. Steal code from open source and pretend it's theirs. ...
2. Sue open source.
4. Profit!
Ok, so it's the same as the Gnomes Underwear Plan on South Park, but it's TWICE as EFFECTIVE!
0 x 2 = 0
have you read some of that stuff?
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almost as bad as MSFT
but cool that this is happening.
In fact, a friend of mine did two major variants just this quarter at the Baker labs down the hall, one with a luminescent rocker switch and one with a ligand-activated toggle.
Just making it all pretty doesn't mean you know what it will do. It's more important to understand how it will work and how the whole chain will be impacted than it does being able to just visualize it.
you don't seriously expect us to believe that MSFT is going to use non-proprietary formats, do you?
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At least try to make it believable
a nice little hack just to confuse the man.
Now I'll have to make it say something like "The Black Hole of Carnegie Hall".
The real headline is that "The Opinion Research Corporation is staffed by a pack of retarded monkeys. The CEO expressed optimism that their next release will be more along the lines of Hamlet than a total pile of bullshit. High School students everywhere were known to ask 'What's the difference?'".
You're talking about a firm my now dead grandma started working for after WW II, that she retired from, and died at the age of 99 about six years back.
The fact is, for some unknown reason, people pay them money to do these studies. I doubt they ask Why - more likely it's an interest group of some form or another that paid for it.
Public Relations.
But hey, call it whatever you want.
A small fraction of the population screening out a handful of alleles is not going to make much of a dent.
...)
Unless the specific sequences survive only in regions where they aren't evolutionarily positive, and thus will be eliminated at a more rapid pace as everyone goes for the latest designer gene alterations.
Mary: Why does your kid have the recessive gene for survival in mercury-rich environments, Sally?
Sally: Why, do you think I should have it altered with a viral DNA operation before they're born?
Mary: Sure, then they'll be just like everyone else! Besides, after you add the cute button nose and excessive tallness, why how could that not be good?
And thus another useful gene is "weeded out" (most weeds are or have been regarded as food, flowers, or other useful things and are our primary source of medications or possible cures
Doesn't that make you feel oh so good?
it's Linux/BSD FIRST, Wintel SECOND, and Unix THIRD.
After all, it's on sales. They only count the cost WHEN SHIPPED, so if you buy an OEM server with Wintel and reimage it as a more stable Linux/BSD server, it gets counted as Wintel. Plus you can buy a lot of Linux/BSD imaged BIOS only boxen for the price of a Wintel or Unix box.
Sorry but your friend working on Longhorn is hardly unbiased isn't he? So there are things that MS won't budge on heh? Well they are about to get the lesson in sovereign nations. I doubt very much that MS will take their ball and go home and right off a market of 400 million people.
Additionally, it is within the scope for them, should MSFT refuse to comply, to take those fines and use them to replace all software and OS on all computers in schools, universities, and government with open source competitors.
After all, what's fair for the gander is fair for the fois gras.
[caveat - I own shares of MSFT, Nokia, and RHAT and thus can't make up my mind if this is good or bad]