Even after a major asteroid hit (or nuclear war, or global warming, or pick-your-favorite-doomsday-scenario), the earth with still be considerably more inhabitable than the moon or mars. It could vaporize 99% of our liquid water and we'd still have more than mars. It could vaporize 99.999% of our atmosphere and we'd still have more than the moon. Life on earth has survived several previous asteroid hits; I'll take my chances down here.
Governor Swartzenager said in a press release, "The state of California has Terminated vendor lock in. It's the End of Days for the Raw Deal and True Lies we were getting from Microsoft. Documents can now be backed up for Total Recall."
I'd bet the target sequence is linked to a selectable antibiotic resistance gene as well, otherwise this would be impossible.
Great, it isn't bad enough that the overuse of antibiotics has created resistant strains of bacteria; now we're creating them on purpose to store computer data. Am I the only one who thinks that's a bad idea?
Can this actually be considered a satellite transmitter as it is only beaming signal to a receiver on top a hill?
You are correct, it is not a satellite transmitter. Both the original article and the Slashdot post make the common mistake of calling any parabolic dish antenna a satellite antenna, even when no satellite is involved. Conversely, many satellite antennas (both transmitting and receiving) are not parabolic dishes at all (think of a handheld GPS or satellite phone), but the most commonly seen (to most people) satellite antennas are satellite television receivers, which are parabolic dishes, thus the assumption.
And I doubt there's any hint of "revenge" here - I'm sure both Governments are loving being able to tighten controls and share information.
You're half right, it's not about revenge. When the rules change on one side of the border, that forces a change on the other side. Canada would love to let in American tourists without a passport as we have for the last 50 years. The problem is, when those Americans tried to get back across through US customs, they would be asked for their passport and wouldn't be allowed back home without one. It may seem inconvenient to be turned back at the border by Canadian customs at the start of your vacation, but it would be a lot more inconvenient to find yourself stuck in Canada at the end of your vacation, looking for the nearest US consulate office to apply for an emergency passport and then waiting for it to arrive.
Yeah, I know, it's crazy. It's almost as if someone's opinions in disparate subjects might be of different legitimacy!
...or (and this one will sound really crazy to politically polarized Americans) just maybe it's possible for people to have a combination of opinions that don't line up with the dogma of either the left or the right wing.
That argument makes no sense before the law. If publishing companies don't like me photocopying their books and passing them on to people, laden with ads for profit, could I say "No, the companies should have printed them on special anti-photocopying paper"?
Anti-photocopying paper would be the equivalent of some sort of technical means of preventing web spiders from accessing the page. The 'robots.txt' file is simply a machine-readable notification of the page owner's limits on how the content can be used, a lot like the notice printed in many books saying "No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher".
I for one refuse to comment on this subject until Michael Crichton tells me what is right!
Well, you are slightly better off getting your science information from an author with doctorate in medicine than politian with a bachelor of arts degree (though in fairness, he did invent the internet).
As it becomes more popular, it becomes more tempting to vandalize, and in turn becomes less reliable, a point that many have made already[theonion.com]
Linking to a satirical, fake news article in theonion.com as evidence of the unreliability of citing Wikipedia as a source; I applaud your brazen audacity sir.
I was able to move an install of XP from a dead desktop to a laptop and then a year later, back to a new desktop (I installed Linux, temporarily on the laptop before ditching it). All it took was a phone call each time and an explanation of why I was moving the install.
If you have a separately purchased copy of XP (the kind that comes in a cardboard box with a CD) you can transfer it to another computer. If you have an OEM version that came 'free' with the computer, you may only use it on that computer.
As a capitalist, I believe in free markets. Speculators who create artificial scarcity by buying up limited resources and monopolizing them are the opposite of a free market. Profits are good if you do something to deserve them.
Obviously if people are willing to pay enough for real estate, currency, domains, tickets, or PS3s to make speculating in these commodities profitable, then the speculators ARE providing a useful service -- matching up scarce commodities with the people that want them the most. Eliminate the scarcity, and you eliminate the incentive for speculation.
But by buying up limited resources, speculators are artificially creating scarcity specifically so they can profit off it. That is NOT a useful service. Selling inflatable rafts to flood victims is providing a useful service (even if you profit from it). Blowing up a dam so you can create a demand for the inflatable rafts you sell is NOT providing a useful service.
I was modded -1 flamebait for saying that the Conservatives under Mr. Harper are corrupt, useless, and in this case, going against the general public.
They were correct for modding you flamebait for an anti-Conservative tirade. This is not a partisan issue. Bev Oda's predecessor in Paul Martin's Liberal government Sam Bulte was just as guilty of accepting money from the music lobby. The content industry will throw money at whoever they think can deliver copyright "reform", regardless of what party represent.
If I see a piece of land, and think "McDonalds will want to put a franchise here." and then buy it, I'm a forward thinking business man.
No, you're a real-estate speculator not a business man. Businessmen create and run businesses, generate employment for others, service their customers and stimulate the economy. Real-estate speculators, currency traders, domain squatters, ticket scalpers and people who sell PS3s on eBay are just ignorant jerks who are gaming the system to enrich themselves while providing no useful service.
The industry wanted higher prices however. If they came in selling mp3s at double the price on apple, it would be very interesting to see which way customers went...
Actually, the industry wanted both higher AND lower prices. Higher than $0.99 for new music, lower than $0.99 for the back catalog (which has already recouped its development costs many times over). Sounds reasonable to me (and I don't often agree with the music industry).
Living in a city is better for the environment (less transport) and better for the community (public transport, utilities, schools...). It should be rewarded.
Yes, everyone should live in the city and food will magically appear in the grocery stores (or maybe we'll just switch to eating Soylent Green).
Honestly, do you really believe the crap you're spouting? Cities might be slightly better for the environment than sprawling commuter suburbs but they are certainly not better for the environment than self-sufficient rural communities (you know, the ones that put food on your plate).
The great thing about OSS is that if you don't like the direction a project is taking, you can branch it and write your own. If there are really that many people who want an updated Win9x version of Firefox, then I'm sure someone will maintain a branch (perhaps using the newest security/features but utilizing the older rendering engine). There are people trying to port Firefox to the Commodore Amiga for crying out loud, and I'm sure the Amiga user base is a lot smaller than Win9x.
Did it ever occur to anyone that many people probably splurged on legal tunes that they already loved and owned to get it onto their iPod (or whatever). Now that they have all the favorites/classics/etc., there is no reason for them to keep pace with whatever of the 70% crap that the industry pumps out.
Bingo! The same thing happened to CDs (only it took a little longer). Once the format caught on, sales were brisk while people re-purchased their favorite albums they already owned on LPs or cassettes. Once that process was over, sales plateaued and then started dropping, since people were only buying new music and as anyone over 40 will tell you, all new music sucks (nothing personal youngsters, when you're over 40, you'll think new music sucks too). The record companies tried to blame the decline on piracy and I'm sure Apple will try that as well, but the fact remains that each time a new format is introduced, there's an initial sales burst and then a leveling off to sustainable levels. Businesses unfortunately don't understand sustainability and believe that sales must always grow or someone must be 'stealing' from them.
Adult lactose intolerance is, for most mammals, a normal thing (which is why you shouldn't give milk to cats/hedgehogs/etc). Adult mammals aren't supposed to seek out sources of milk, for obvious reasons, which is why the production of lactase usually stops once the mammal is old enough to eat real food.
You sound like my vegan friends who spout witty remarks like "Cow's milk is for baby cows." (to which I reply "Soy milk is for baby soys.")
Of course, this mechanism evolved loooong before humans got the idea of domesticating goats/sheep/cattle and use the milk of a completely different species to supplement their diet. This made a mechanism that would have been faulty (adult mammal that tolerates lactose) suddenly become a genetic advantage.
The article seems to be saying that this mechanism arose directly in response to domesticating animals, not before. Goat's milk by the way, is extremely low in latose and is tolerable by many more people than cow's milk.
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Even after a major asteroid hit (or nuclear war, or global warming, or pick-your-favorite-doomsday-scenario), the earth with still be considerably more inhabitable than the moon or mars. It could vaporize 99% of our liquid water and we'd still have more than mars. It could vaporize 99.999% of our atmosphere and we'd still have more than the moon. Life on earth has survived several previous asteroid hits; I'll take my chances down here.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/11 20_021120_raptor.html
Creationists try to deny this too, but there's concrete, physical evidence so you'd be a fool to deny it right?
AMD will compete by releasing "Law & Order: Central Processing Unit".
Governor Swartzenager said in a press release, "The state of California has Terminated vendor lock in. It's the End of Days for the Raw Deal and True Lies we were getting from Microsoft. Documents can now be backed up for Total Recall."
Great, it isn't bad enough that the overuse of antibiotics has created resistant strains of bacteria; now we're creating them on purpose to store computer data. Am I the only one who thinks that's a bad idea?
You are correct, it is not a satellite transmitter. Both the original article and the Slashdot post make the common mistake of calling any parabolic dish antenna a satellite antenna, even when no satellite is involved. Conversely, many satellite antennas (both transmitting and receiving) are not parabolic dishes at all (think of a handheld GPS or satellite phone), but the most commonly seen (to most people) satellite antennas are satellite television receivers, which are parabolic dishes, thus the assumption.
"PATRIOT" is an acronym; "act" is not (unless you mean "Assholes Can't Type").
You're half right, it's not about revenge. When the rules change on one side of the border, that forces a change on the other side. Canada would love to let in American tourists without a passport as we have for the last 50 years. The problem is, when those Americans tried to get back across through US customs, they would be asked for their passport and wouldn't be allowed back home without one. It may seem inconvenient to be turned back at the border by Canadian customs at the start of your vacation, but it would be a lot more inconvenient to find yourself stuck in Canada at the end of your vacation, looking for the nearest US consulate office to apply for an emergency passport and then waiting for it to arrive.
...or (and this one will sound really crazy to politically polarized Americans) just maybe it's possible for people to have a combination of opinions that don't line up with the dogma of either the left or the right wing.
Anti-photocopying paper would be the equivalent of some sort of technical means of preventing web spiders from accessing the page. The 'robots.txt' file is simply a machine-readable notification of the page owner's limits on how the content can be used, a lot like the notice printed in many books saying "No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher".
Well, you are slightly better off getting your science information from an author with doctorate in medicine than politian with a bachelor of arts degree (though in fairness, he did invent the internet).
Linking to a satirical, fake news article in theonion.com as evidence of the unreliability of citing Wikipedia as a source; I applaud your brazen audacity sir.
If you have a separately purchased copy of XP (the kind that comes in a cardboard box with a CD) you can transfer it to another computer. If you have an OEM version that came 'free' with the computer, you may only use it on that computer.
Stealing live phone wires is for wimps, that's just 48V DC. These guys are stealing live power wires.
As a capitalist, I believe in free markets. Speculators who create artificial scarcity by buying up limited resources and monopolizing them are the opposite of a free market. Profits are good if you do something to deserve them.
But by buying up limited resources, speculators are artificially creating scarcity specifically so they can profit off it. That is NOT a useful service. Selling inflatable rafts to flood victims is providing a useful service (even if you profit from it). Blowing up a dam so you can create a demand for the inflatable rafts you sell is NOT providing a useful service.
They were correct for modding you flamebait for an anti-Conservative tirade. This is not a partisan issue. Bev Oda's predecessor in Paul Martin's Liberal government Sam Bulte was just as guilty of accepting money from the music lobby. The content industry will throw money at whoever they think can deliver copyright "reform", regardless of what party represent.
No, you're a real-estate speculator not a business man. Businessmen create and run businesses, generate employment for others, service their customers and stimulate the economy. Real-estate speculators, currency traders, domain squatters, ticket scalpers and people who sell PS3s on eBay are just ignorant jerks who are gaming the system to enrich themselves while providing no useful service.
Actually, the industry wanted both higher AND lower prices. Higher than $0.99 for new music, lower than $0.99 for the back catalog (which has already recouped its development costs many times over). Sounds reasonable to me (and I don't often agree with the music industry).
I couldn't have put it better myself Steve. That's certainly the strategy Apple has used to make the Mac the worlds most stable computer.
Do your worst Apple fan-boys, my karma can take it.
Yes, everyone should live in the city and food will magically appear in the grocery stores (or maybe we'll just switch to eating Soylent Green).
Honestly, do you really believe the crap you're spouting? Cities might be slightly better for the environment than sprawling commuter suburbs but they are certainly not better for the environment than self-sufficient rural communities (you know, the ones that put food on your plate).
My Nokia 3155i uses the smaller charging socket, but it came with an adapter so I can use older chargers.
The great thing about OSS is that if you don't like the direction a project is taking, you can branch it and write your own. If there are really that many people who want an updated Win9x version of Firefox, then I'm sure someone will maintain a branch (perhaps using the newest security/features but utilizing the older rendering engine). There are people trying to port Firefox to the Commodore Amiga for crying out loud, and I'm sure the Amiga user base is a lot smaller than Win9x.
Bingo! The same thing happened to CDs (only it took a little longer). Once the format caught on, sales were brisk while people re-purchased their favorite albums they already owned on LPs or cassettes. Once that process was over, sales plateaued and then started dropping, since people were only buying new music and as anyone over 40 will tell you, all new music sucks (nothing personal youngsters, when you're over 40, you'll think new music sucks too). The record companies tried to blame the decline on piracy and I'm sure Apple will try that as well, but the fact remains that each time a new format is introduced, there's an initial sales burst and then a leveling off to sustainable levels. Businesses unfortunately don't understand sustainability and believe that sales must always grow or someone must be 'stealing' from them.
You sound like my vegan friends who spout witty remarks like "Cow's milk is for baby cows." (to which I reply "Soy milk is for baby soys.")
Of course, this mechanism evolved loooong before humans got the idea of domesticating goats/sheep/cattle and use the milk of a completely different species to supplement their diet. This made a mechanism that would have been faulty (adult mammal that tolerates lactose) suddenly become a genetic advantage.
The article seems to be saying that this mechanism arose directly in response to domesticating animals, not before. Goat's milk by the way, is extremely low in latose and is tolerable by many more people than cow's milk.