The strong anthropic principle: If it were any other way, we wouldn't be here to discuss it. You are giving artificial significane to something that does not warrant it. The chance of me drawing all four aces from a deck is very low, but it is the same as the chance that I will draw an 8 , a jack, a 5, and a 2.
Your premises are incorrect. If it had evolved an ability to metabolize a substance that was not present, how would the scientists know? Also, natural selection merely states that those traits which give a reproductive advantage will spread. If the substance they become able to metabolize is not present, how does said ability provide a reproductive advantage?
You know, some other people have been suggesting that Google removes symbols from their searches, but I don't find this to be true. As an example, google (with quotes) "foo.*baz" . You will notice that bar is also bolded , as just as if it was (gasp) a search term. Why? Because regexes work, that's why!
Actually, for that I have to disagree. One thing that my (former) school, where I introduced TorPark to the equation and where it is enjoying phenomenal success, does is to block all webmail save for their in-house Exchange system. This makes it very difficult to send documents larger than their ridiculously small maximum attachment size between my home Linux computer and the school. Also, they block such sites as Digg, Reddit, and most importantly SlashDot because they fear that having access to those will prove an irresistible temptation to the students. In fact, they have also blocked most sites pertaining to encryption, tunnelling, and anything else which could *remotely* be used to bypass the system. As long as the schools continue to treat us as prisoners or second class citizens (or worse yet, incapable of controlling our own actions), they will be in the wrong for punishing us merely because we exercised our minds to break free from artificial constraints. I have offered to act as a "white hat" and help them nail down problems that actually have some degree of insecurity, such as the fact that any user can freely bypass maximum filesize allotments, install CygWin, browse the Samba shares without authentication (which also opens up an opportunity to use a program like Hydra to bruteforce ANY user's password), etc, but was repeatedly told by teachers that even offering this to anyone at a higher level could get me suspended because they consider anyone with the necessary knowledge an inherent security threat. I'm sorry, but that isn't right or fair; and I will continue to undermine those who make such short-sighted decisions.
As I said, I'm running gentoo, but I may need to elaborate. This is the only linux computer I have access to, so distcc is out. I use ccache, but I built everything right there - The only stuff I got precompiled were blobs like realplayer. All I have to do is set niceness to 19, and then I can do everything while it compiles in the background (Thanks to some handy kernel patches that make memory priorities a function of niceness). After the initial install, "only" somewhere around a week (as I decided to use dm-crypt+LUKS halfway through), it runs perfectly all the time, even when compiling. With beryl. At the same time. So nyah.:-P
Seriously, 512MB is plenty for gentoo - I'm running it on a 2.4GhZ P4m w/512MB, and I have dm-crypt+LUKS, kde, mysql, apache, and a bunch of other stuff running at any given time - on my laptop. That's the great thing about linux in general and gentoo in particular - You can build anything with it.
Breakeven is the point at which the HARNESSED energy (the energy converted into electricity) is equal to the amount of energy used to continue and CONTAIN the reaction. I don't think that anybody contained Hiroshima or Nagasaki (much less used them to power a blender), folks. As is, there are a two leading ways of achieving fusion:
Tokamak: Magnetic field requires more energy than is produced
Bubbles: The power is harnessed how?
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The strong anthropic principle: If it were any other way, we wouldn't be here to discuss it. You are giving artificial significane to something that does not warrant it. The chance of me drawing all four aces from a deck is very low, but it is the same as the chance that I will draw an 8 , a jack, a 5, and a 2.
Your premises are incorrect. If it had evolved an ability to metabolize a substance that was not present, how would the scientists know? Also, natural selection merely states that those traits which give a reproductive advantage will spread. If the substance they become able to metabolize is not present, how does said ability provide a reproductive advantage?
Tell that to the little-endians!
War~riors, come out and pla~ay!
You know, some other people have been suggesting that Google removes symbols from their searches, but I don't find this to be true. As an example, google (with quotes) "foo.*baz" . You will notice that bar is also bolded , as just as if it was (gasp) a search term. Why? Because regexes work, that's why!
Actually, for that I have to disagree. One thing that my (former) school, where I introduced TorPark to the equation and where it is enjoying phenomenal success, does is to block all webmail save for their in-house Exchange system. This makes it very difficult to send documents larger than their ridiculously small maximum attachment size between my home Linux computer and the school. Also, they block such sites as Digg, Reddit, and most importantly SlashDot because they fear that having access to those will prove an irresistible temptation to the students. In fact, they have also blocked most sites pertaining to encryption, tunnelling, and anything else which could *remotely* be used to bypass the system. As long as the schools continue to treat us as prisoners or second class citizens (or worse yet, incapable of controlling our own actions), they will be in the wrong for punishing us merely because we exercised our minds to break free from artificial constraints. I have offered to act as a "white hat" and help them nail down problems that actually have some degree of insecurity, such as the fact that any user can freely bypass maximum filesize allotments, install CygWin, browse the Samba shares without authentication (which also opens up an opportunity to use a program like Hydra to bruteforce ANY user's password), etc, but was repeatedly told by teachers that even offering this to anyone at a higher level could get me suspended because they consider anyone with the necessary knowledge an inherent security threat. I'm sorry, but that isn't right or fair; and I will continue to undermine those who make such short-sighted decisions.
As I said, I'm running gentoo, but I may need to elaborate. This is the only linux computer I have access to, so distcc is out. I use ccache, but I built everything right there - The only stuff I got precompiled were blobs like realplayer. All I have to do is set niceness to 19, and then I can do everything while it compiles in the background (Thanks to some handy kernel patches that make memory priorities a function of niceness). After the initial install, "only" somewhere around a week (as I decided to use dm-crypt+LUKS halfway through), it runs perfectly all the time, even when compiling. With beryl. At the same time. So nyah. :-P
All hail Larry the Cow!
Seriously, 512MB is plenty for gentoo - I'm running it on a 2.4GhZ P4m w/512MB, and I have dm-crypt+LUKS, kde, mysql, apache, and a bunch of other stuff running at any given time - on my laptop. That's the great thing about linux in general and gentoo in particular - You can build anything with it.
Breakeven is the point at which the HARNESSED energy (the energy converted into electricity) is equal to the amount of energy used to continue and CONTAIN the reaction. I don't think that anybody contained Hiroshima or Nagasaki (much less used them to power a blender), folks. As is, there are a two leading ways of achieving fusion:
Tokamak: Magnetic field requires more energy than is produced
Bubbles: The power is harnessed how?