We just can't forget that this is an issue of society, not one of nature. It's one thing to say that no sentient life form deserves to be tortured senselessly - it's another thing entirely to say that they deserve a spot in our human society.
what chimpanzee needs a personal lawyer? On the upside, chimpanzees in suits are always funny.
Why can't people think that God put an devolved form of life on the planet and we evolved like the Scientists say?
Because evolution is not "done". We are not the finished product, by any means.
The reason that evolution and creationism can't be reconciled is because creationism (and religion for that matter) assumes that humans are special, that we are the apex of life on earth. Evolution, on the other hand, tells us that we are just the most recent iteration and that our species will eventually either go extinct and be replaced with a higher life form, or that we will continue to evolve.
What if one were to bring a computer or ipod with a traditional hard disk aboard one of these elevators? Might the strong magnetic fields used to hold the elevator up in the air also be strong enough to completely wipe the drive?
as a point of reference: My friend accidentally wiped his powerbook by setting it on top of his Marshall JCM-900 guitar amp (the amp has two huge transformers (which consist of wire wrapped around a giant magnet) ). Considering how much larger the magnets in these maglevs would need to be to suspend a ton or more of metal, I would certainly be concerned for my data if i were to bring it on one of these.
With that in mind, maybe these will give us a good motivation for switching away from magnetic storage.:-P
well, by referring to init, i was gesturing towards unix in general, and being a linux user,/etc/init.d is the first thing that came to my mind.
i probably should have said rc anyway though considering i was talking about freebsd...
oh well. no one likes my post anyway
I'm quite sure that this so-called 'instant' mode could be easily emulated using linux...
There's a live distro called 'geexbox' which accomplishes this very task. the image is around 8MiB, and it boots into a dvd player-like interface. It would be trivial to write it to a small disk partition and boot from something like GRUB.
Big record companies may have the wrong mindset on this issue.
I'm sure radio stations in the UK are a lot like they are in america: the same handful of songs played over and over, from a narrow list of genres.
I'm not old enough to remember, but from what I gather, radio didn't used to be like this. Instead, it was a medium in which small bands could get their music out to the masses, a medium that people would actually _want_ to tune into to discover new music.
Those days are now gone, and broadcast radio is all but dead; it seems only natural that P2P should serve as FM's modern-day replacement.
I really don't know what the RIAA expects us to do when it takes away our only venue of getting new music and then outlaws the alternative.
There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one time when it is born.
You and I are alive at this moment.
I'm not sure that we yet realize the magnificence of humanity's collective accomplishment.
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but pretty soon, canada will be absorbed by the US anyway...
We just can't forget that this is an issue of society, not one of nature. It's one thing to say that no sentient life form deserves to be tortured senselessly - it's another thing entirely to say that they deserve a spot in our human society.
what chimpanzee needs a personal lawyer? On the upside, chimpanzees in suits are always funny.
or maybe we shouldn't worry about it at all since the apocalypse will be here in 2012 anyway.
Why can't people think that God put an devolved form of life on the planet and we evolved like the Scientists say?
Because evolution is not "done". We are not the finished product, by any means.
The reason that evolution and creationism can't be reconciled is because creationism (and religion for that matter) assumes that humans are special, that we are the apex of life on earth. Evolution, on the other hand, tells us that we are just the most recent iteration and that our species will eventually either go extinct and be replaced with a higher life form, or that we will continue to evolve.
What if one were to bring a computer or ipod with a traditional hard disk aboard one of these elevators? Might the strong magnetic fields used to hold the elevator up in the air also be strong enough to completely wipe the drive?
:-P
as a point of reference: My friend accidentally wiped his powerbook by setting it on top of his Marshall JCM-900 guitar amp (the amp has two huge transformers (which consist of wire wrapped around a giant magnet) ). Considering how much larger the magnets in these maglevs would need to be to suspend a ton or more of metal, I would certainly be concerned for my data if i were to bring it on one of these.
With that in mind, maybe these will give us a good motivation for switching away from magnetic storage.
well, by referring to init, i was gesturing towards unix in general, and being a linux user, /etc/init.d is the first thing that came to my mind.
i probably should have said rc anyway though considering i was talking about freebsd...
oh well. no one likes my post anyway
Isn't it a coincidence that windows is starting to sound more and more like UNIX?
... aka /etc/init.d/ ???
...
-vista 'rewritten from scratch'
-symlinks
-unix-like permissions
-'restart manager'
I guess we'll see, but it certainly lends evidence to the theory that Microsoft has re-written Windows using code from freeBSD
I'm quite sure that this so-called 'instant' mode could be easily emulated using linux...
There's a live distro called 'geexbox' which accomplishes this very task. the image is around 8MiB, and it boots into a dvd player-like interface. It would be trivial to write it to a small disk partition and boot from something like GRUB.
Big record companies may have the wrong mindset on this issue.
I'm sure radio stations in the UK are a lot like they are in america: the same handful of songs played over and over, from a narrow list of genres.
I'm not old enough to remember, but from what I gather, radio didn't used to be like this. Instead, it was a medium in which small bands could get their music out to the masses, a medium that people would actually _want_ to tune into to discover new music.
Those days are now gone, and broadcast radio is all but dead; it seems only natural that P2P should serve as FM's modern-day replacement.
I really don't know what the RIAA expects us to do when it takes away our only venue of getting new music and then outlaws the alternative.
There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one time when it is born. You and I are alive at this moment. I'm not sure that we yet realize the magnificence of humanity's collective accomplishment.
Windows on a Cell phone? I can see it how: "Hey man, I lost you, did you drive under a tunnel or something?" "No... My phone just BSOD'ed."