Your post is almost too much of a troll and flamebait to respond to, but you pushed my buttons so congrats!
Some of the things people tend to either overlook, ignore, or just not know, is that cloning is not creating a perfect replication of life of any form. These findings will now support this
So the technology at the current stage is imperfect. So what? This is not an argument against cloning, this is an argument against cloning TODAY... I am not arguing that todays cloning methods are perfect (I am not an expert by any means) but this is not an ethical argument again cloning!
We may be able to cure cancer if cloning leads to a better understanding of cell differentiation. Theories exist about how cloning may lead to a cure for heart attacks, a revolution in cosmetic surgery, organs for organ transplantation, and predictions abound about how cloning technology will save thousands of lives. Wrong DNA testing will hopefully address issues surrounding health and anyone who uses cloning as an argument is blind to science and the real truth surrounding cloning.
You have given no evidence that this is a misconception... in fact it is likely to be true. With perfect (or near-perfect) copies of cells, logically treatments can be tested much more efficently.
Assumptions and statements such as this are thrown in the loop by those who are in power to gain financially by supporting cloning by attempting to empathize with those suffering.
You don't know that. You CAN'T know their reasons! And again, your suspicions about their empathy have nothing do do with any reason for or against cloning.
Endangered species could be saved - Through the research leading up to human cloning we will perfect the technology to clone animals, and thus we could forever preserve endangered species, including human beings.Animals and plants could be cloned for medical purposes - Through the research leading up to human cloning, we should discover how to clone animals and plants to produce life-saving medications.
Personally I think DNA research is a better solution.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but that was not a response to the "misconception" at all. DNA research to save endangered species and plants??
I certainly don't want a world full of genetically identical people, but I do know that advances from cloning (and your precious DNA research) are going to improve the world around us. Further, the imperfect cloning technologies of today are also going to improve.
That's such crap though. MSN's messenger is the worst program ever put to code!
I admit, I've never used AIM, but compared with ICQ, Messenger is a sleek and efficient program. If you can't stand Microsoft, admit it, don't slander Messenger for no reason.
... but maybe I'm just reaching! But the description in the link, if accurate, sounds like it would be a load of fun. Imagine the first contact with the Klingons or other trek staples? It could be more of an initial space exploration show than a "prime directive" show which the trek series focused on way too much. Oh well, I'm willing to give it an honest shot for sure.
Well, according to their website at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/msde/default.asp the distribution license is free if you use a Visual Studio product... but I dunno about Access 2000 but I figure it would be the same.
And you are right about the admin tools, but one other important difference: it is optimized for 5 or less concurrent users, and you can't use it as a replication client. Basically anything that ships with SQL server is unavailable, and doesn't let you interoperate with it.
... but be warned using Access as a front-end to another database type. I have a few users that have Access 97 setup as a front-end to our Oracle8 and SQL Server 7 databases, and Access will start giving ODBC errors whenever the tables get sufficiently large, and then the whole thing shuts down.
If I were use, test Access 2000 to see if they have improved on this at all, because otherwise it's just not worth it. And I'm not just some Access or ODBC flamer, I'm speaking from direct experience!
Gently explain this to your boss. Tell him you understand that he may have a preference toward Access, but you know from past experience that Access will not meet your long-term needs and you recommend something different.
Well, I read from the post that their boss wanted to use Access as the front-end, but may be flexible on the back-end. So this might be the ideal solution for the client. I know that I have often setup simple Access front-ends for users that need direct access to the data for our Oracle and SQL Server databases... it gives them a lot of flexibility and power for a novice user. Of course, it gives them a lot of opportunity to do a lot of damage...
To clear it up: MS Access ships with the MSJET engine, which they developed themselves, while SQL Server is based on the Sybase-Microsoft joint project which developed a D.O.A. database for OS/2.
Access 2000 ships with the MSJet engine by default, but you can easily configure it to use a dumbed-down version of SQL Server called Microsft Database Engine (MSDE) which only allows 5 concurrent users and doesn't allow use of the SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS) but is available for free (beer) license and distribution. Access supports being front-end to MSJet or MSDE as well as SQL Server.
Of course, in pure scientific terms nothing is ever proved, and this would have to be included in that. But what this does tell us is that if some form of creation were true, we were designed to appear as if we evolved. Just like the universe was designed to appear as if were millions of years old instead of 6,000 biblical years.
You will never prove the religious crackpots wrong -- because you can never prove the non-existance of something. Besides, they have a further weapon: faith. That can make any sort of evidence disappear into the deep recesses of denail.
If the AAAS presents the proper scientific perspective to the case, to cut through the mush thrown out by the lawyers and paid scientists from either side, then they would be much more impartial that what exists now.
In an evolution-type case, the AAAS scientist could tell the judge "So far as the evidence points to, evolution is the best explanation as to how complex life forms on Earth came to be". That is a scientific perspective, and it is mostly free of bias -- just reporting on what is common knowledge.
If the other side says "there is a great amount of debate in the scientific community about evolution" then the AAAS scientist can be in a perfect, non-biased position to refute that. I think that it's a great move for proper justice.
The second reason is the US government had good reasons to want to fake a moon landing, and we've been lied to often enough before. The basic premise of the Hoax Believers, is that the US was 'losing' the 'space race' and needed a victory over the Soviets to bolster capitalism and the American Way.
Agreed. Case in point: The first iteration of the "Star Wars" project... and (arguably) the current iteration as well.
Of course, to me that doesn't give THIS conspiracy theory much credence.... but I'm a skeptic by nature.
"The existance of Napster has stifled a lot of legitimate music sites," Rosen said.
Yep. Napster sure made MP3.com's life hard. Oh, wait... wasn't that you?
From Rosen's perspective (so far as I know), my.mp3.com was not a legitimate music site. Now the site is legitimate, but before it wasn't (from their perspective). And her point is valid even if you disagree with it: the existance of widely available free music makes the business of selling that same music more difficult.
If Napster is shut down, people will be looking for alternatives that they can (potentially) provide. But until then most people will not switch to a pay service when Napster is so easy, quick, and free.
Now, I can understand why people are upset at the RIAA for their actions... but Napster has certainly made life tough for them in the business of selling online music. Of course, the other side of the coin remains true: they weren't doing it themselves, and Napster was the biggest trigger for the upcoming changes. But the widespread free and illegal trading will have to stop in order for business to be done. Period.
As a VB developer, I've been dying to have an opportunity to write Linux applications. And I know most of you look down on me with scorn for writing in VB at all, but for RAD 3-tier database access applications VB has outdone them all. It's main limitation (for this purpose) is its dependance on the Windows platform.
I've been following Kylix for quite some now, and it does everything that I need it to start working on the Linux platform without having to learn a "difficult" programming language. Of course... I have to say "almost finally" because it's technically not available yet.
I know that there are licensing issues that people are concerned about, but IMHO the disadvantages are nothing compared with the advantage of having RAD developers (there are a lot of us, you know) able to develop business applications in a hurry on the Linux platform. Hurrah!
I'm guessing if AMD actually does have any real plans to buy Transmeta, it's largest concern is Transmeta's supposed lower power consumption.
Don't get me wrong... I think that the power consumption of the Transmeta chips would be great for something like the Athlon... but the real kicker would be code morphing for the Sledgehammer. Everybody knows the trouble that Intel has had with the Itanium x86 emulation... and AMD wants to correct that ASAP, especially with the 32bit-64bit hybrid that they have planned.
An added bonus: the combination of the two companies would be so large that Microsoft could not afford to ignore supporting it with their 64-bit OS (which they have not yet committed to for the Sledgehammer). And I don't care what you think about Microsoft, but they are DAMN important to much of the IT world.
Conservatism is essentially about "leave me the fuck alone," not "force other fuckers to stop doing stuff I don't like."
Actually, you are wrong from two different perspectives.
1) The views that you speak of are generally considered "classically liberal", which the US was founded upon. Liberal means "favoring change" which was important to the oppressed colonies.
2) Conservatism literally means "Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change." Now, the US comes from a classical liberal perspective, and has since moved away from it (a matter of degree, compared with other countries). So the "traditional view", or conservative view often refers to the anti-government sentiment that you also refer to. Of course, it also refers to other classical political traits such as pro-military, racism (don't flame me), and agriculture.
after they entered a saturated Liux market they failed to advertize there product to their target audiance.
No, there was no target audience, that was the problem. Corel never properly defined who they were targeting with their Corel Linux product... the closest that they could offer as a target market was a newbie Linux user, but it turns out that they (obviously) would rather use an open source product, or at the very least a free (beer), that's why they were drawn to Linux. No customers, no future.
and then M$ said "hey Corel, stop making those desktop applications for Linux and I will give you a lot of money."
Again, you are wrong (sorry). Corel is still going to make Linux apps, and MS doesn't really care about that (at least not in the short term, while Corel's apps suck). The reason that MS made the investment was for two (possibly three)reasons: keep the competition afloat for antitrust reasons (ala apple), 3rd party support for their.NET framework (which they are gaga over), and possibly because they thought it would be a good investment.
And back then, there weren't entire industries based around the calendar, so the change only effected the literate minority. Today, the majority of business requires a consistent calendar.
Of course, if you read the article, that is exactly his point. Businesses require a consistant calendar, and don't have one. Accounting periods are a horrible way to deal with the uneven calender that we have now.
If it wasn't for the "ignored" new years day, it would be even better. Maybe if we change the orbit of the earth somehow we can...
You make it unprofitable for Media3 to host the spammer. You do this by driving business away from Media3. You do that by blackholing enough of their customers that Media3 says "We are losing money doing this. Let's not do this anymore
Sure... now take the Above.net perspective. Their customers are complaining that they cannot reach non-spamming sites. Follow the money. What does above.net (or another business) do? They have to ingore the RBL or else their customers will get pissed off and leave(or route packets through somewhere else). Follow the money. The RBL will lose all power if it blocks non-spam related sites or over-reacts too much.
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Perhaps you should as well :)
/. did another (extremely rude) update without marking the article "UPDATED".
It's not his fault....
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Your post is almost too much of a troll and flamebait to respond to, but you pushed my buttons so congrats! Some of the things people tend to either overlook, ignore, or just not know, is that cloning is not creating a perfect replication of life of any form. These findings will now support this
So the technology at the current stage is imperfect. So what? This is not an argument against cloning, this is an argument against cloning TODAY... I am not arguing that todays cloning methods are perfect (I am not an expert by any means) but this is not an ethical argument again cloning!
We may be able to cure cancer if cloning leads to a better understanding of cell differentiation. Theories exist about how cloning may lead to a cure for heart attacks, a revolution in cosmetic surgery, organs for organ transplantation, and predictions abound about how cloning technology will save thousands of lives. Wrong DNA testing will hopefully address issues surrounding health and anyone who uses cloning as an argument is blind to science and the real truth surrounding cloning.
You have given no evidence that this is a misconception... in fact it is likely to be true. With perfect (or near-perfect) copies of cells, logically treatments can be tested much more efficently.
Assumptions and statements such as this are thrown in the loop by those who are in power to gain financially by supporting cloning by attempting to empathize with those suffering.
You don't know that. You CAN'T know their reasons! And again, your suspicions about their empathy have nothing do do with any reason for or against cloning.
Endangered species could be saved - Through the research leading up to human cloning we will perfect the technology to clone animals, and thus we could forever preserve endangered species, including human beings.Animals and plants could be cloned for medical purposes - Through the research leading up to human cloning, we should discover how to clone animals and plants to produce life-saving medications. Personally I think DNA research is a better solution.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but that was not a response to the "misconception" at all. DNA research to save endangered species and plants??
I certainly don't want a world full of genetically identical people, but I do know that advances from cloning (and your precious DNA research) are going to improve the world around us. Further, the imperfect cloning technologies of today are also going to improve.
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That's such crap though. MSN's messenger is the worst program ever put to code!
I admit, I've never used AIM, but compared with ICQ, Messenger is a sleek and efficient program. If you can't stand Microsoft, admit it, don't slander Messenger for no reason.
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... but maybe I'm just reaching! But the description in the link, if accurate, sounds like it would be a load of fun. Imagine the first contact with the Klingons or other trek staples? It could be more of an initial space exploration show than a "prime directive" show which the trek series focused on way too much. Oh well, I'm willing to give it an honest shot for sure.
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Well, according to their website at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/msde/default.asp the distribution license is free if you use a Visual Studio product... but I dunno about Access 2000 but I figure it would be the same.
And you are right about the admin tools, but one other important difference: it is optimized for 5 or less concurrent users, and you can't use it as a replication client. Basically anything that ships with SQL server is unavailable, and doesn't let you interoperate with it.
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... but be warned using Access as a front-end to another database type. I have a few users that have Access 97 setup as a front-end to our Oracle8 and SQL Server 7 databases, and Access will start giving ODBC errors whenever the tables get sufficiently large, and then the whole thing shuts down.
If I were use, test Access 2000 to see if they have improved on this at all, because otherwise it's just not worth it. And I'm not just some Access or ODBC flamer, I'm speaking from direct experience!
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Gently explain this to your boss. Tell him you understand that he may have a preference toward Access, but you know from past experience that Access will not meet your long-term needs and you recommend something different.
Well, I read from the post that their boss wanted to use Access as the front-end, but may be flexible on the back-end. So this might be the ideal solution for the client. I know that I have often setup simple Access front-ends for users that need direct access to the data for our Oracle and SQL Server databases... it gives them a lot of flexibility and power for a novice user. Of course, it gives them a lot of opportunity to do a lot of damage...
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To clear it up: MS Access ships with the MSJET engine, which they developed themselves, while SQL Server is based on the Sybase-Microsoft joint project which developed a D.O.A. database for OS/2.
Access 2000 ships with the MSJet engine by default, but you can easily configure it to use a dumbed-down version of SQL Server called Microsft Database Engine (MSDE) which only allows 5 concurrent users and doesn't allow use of the SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS) but is available for free (beer) license and distribution. Access supports being front-end to MSJet or MSDE as well as SQL Server.
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userid is a troll
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apologies for missing the end bold tag... but it doesn't invalidate my point.
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Of course, in pure scientific terms nothing is ever proved, and this would have to be included in that. But what this does tell us is that if some form of creation were true, we were designed to appear as if we evolved. Just like the universe was designed to appear as if were millions of years old instead of 6,000 biblical years.
You will never prove the religious crackpots wrong -- because you can never prove the non-existance of something. Besides, they have a further weapon: faith. That can make any sort of evidence disappear into the deep recesses of denail.
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If the AAAS presents the proper scientific perspective to the case, to cut through the mush thrown out by the lawyers and paid scientists from either side, then they would be much more impartial that what exists now.
In an evolution-type case, the AAAS scientist could tell the judge "So far as the evidence points to, evolution is the best explanation as to how complex life forms on Earth came to be". That is a scientific perspective, and it is mostly free of bias -- just reporting on what is common knowledge.
If the other side says "there is a great amount of debate in the scientific community about evolution" then the AAAS scientist can be in a perfect, non-biased position to refute that. I think that it's a great move for proper justice.
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maybe it's the same people that calculate how much Napster is destroying artists whist ignoring a rise in CD sales...
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The second reason is the US government had good reasons to want to fake a moon landing, and we've been lied to often enough before. The basic premise of the Hoax Believers, is that the US was 'losing' the 'space race' and needed a victory over the Soviets to bolster capitalism and the American Way.
Agreed. Case in point: The first iteration of the "Star Wars" project... and (arguably) the current iteration as well.
Of course, to me that doesn't give THIS conspiracy theory much credence.... but I'm a skeptic by nature.
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He listed languages written right-left instead of the latin based left-right.
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"The existance of Napster has stifled a lot of legitimate music sites," Rosen said. Yep. Napster sure made MP3.com's life hard. Oh, wait... wasn't that you?
From Rosen's perspective (so far as I know), my.mp3.com was not a legitimate music site. Now the site is legitimate, but before it wasn't (from their perspective). And her point is valid even if you disagree with it: the existance of widely available free music makes the business of selling that same music more difficult.
If Napster is shut down, people will be looking for alternatives that they can (potentially) provide. But until then most people will not switch to a pay service when Napster is so easy, quick, and free.
Now, I can understand why people are upset at the RIAA for their actions... but Napster has certainly made life tough for them in the business of selling online music. Of course, the other side of the coin remains true: they weren't doing it themselves, and Napster was the biggest trigger for the upcoming changes. But the widespread free and illegal trading will have to stop in order for business to be done. Period.
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If you can't find an existing game, try to drum one up yourself based on some form of the Prisoner's Dilemna.
It shouldn't be too hard, use cards or something. And the Prisoner's Dilemna is a simple yet effective demonstration of a non-zero-sum world.
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As a VB developer, I've been dying to have an opportunity to write Linux applications. And I know most of you look down on me with scorn for writing in VB at all, but for RAD 3-tier database access applications VB has outdone them all. It's main limitation (for this purpose) is its dependance on the Windows platform.
I've been following Kylix for quite some now, and it does everything that I need it to start working on the Linux platform without having to learn a "difficult" programming language. Of course... I have to say "almost finally" because it's technically not available yet.
I know that there are licensing issues that people are concerned about, but IMHO the disadvantages are nothing compared with the advantage of having RAD developers (there are a lot of us, you know) able to develop business applications in a hurry on the Linux platform. Hurrah!
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I'm guessing if AMD actually does have any real plans to buy Transmeta, it's largest concern is Transmeta's supposed lower power consumption.
Don't get me wrong... I think that the power consumption of the Transmeta chips would be great for something like the Athlon... but the real kicker would be code morphing for the Sledgehammer. Everybody knows the trouble that Intel has had with the Itanium x86 emulation... and AMD wants to correct that ASAP, especially with the 32bit-64bit hybrid that they have planned.
An added bonus: the combination of the two companies would be so large that Microsoft could not afford to ignore supporting it with their 64-bit OS (which they have not yet committed to for the Sledgehammer). And I don't care what you think about Microsoft, but they are DAMN important to much of the IT world.
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Conservatism is essentially about "leave me the fuck alone," not "force other fuckers to stop doing stuff I don't like."
Actually, you are wrong from two different perspectives.
1) The views that you speak of are generally considered "classically liberal", which the US was founded upon. Liberal means "favoring change" which was important to the oppressed colonies.
2) Conservatism literally means "Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change." Now, the US comes from a classical liberal perspective, and has since moved away from it (a matter of degree, compared with other countries). So the "traditional view", or conservative view often refers to the anti-government sentiment that you also refer to. Of course, it also refers to other classical political traits such as pro-military, racism (don't flame me), and agriculture.
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Oay, but I missed the original comment. And the article was incredibly funny.
I'm glad they posted it. Do you really expect them to read every comment and not post anything already included there?
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Of course, it doesn't really count as fact checking to call up the PR firms and get the standard "no comment".
But I'm not being critical... it's certainly a good rumor.
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after they entered a saturated Liux market they failed to advertize there product to their target audiance.
.NET framework (which they are gaga over), and possibly because they thought it would be a good investment.
No, there was no target audience, that was the problem. Corel never properly defined who they were targeting with their Corel Linux product... the closest that they could offer as a target market was a newbie Linux user, but it turns out that they (obviously) would rather use an open source product, or at the very least a free (beer), that's why they were drawn to Linux. No customers, no future.
and then M$ said "hey Corel, stop making those desktop applications for Linux and I will give you a lot of money."
Again, you are wrong (sorry). Corel is still going to make Linux apps, and MS doesn't really care about that (at least not in the short term, while Corel's apps suck). The reason that MS made the investment was for two (possibly three)reasons: keep the competition afloat for antitrust reasons (ala apple), 3rd party support for their
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And back then, there weren't entire industries based around the calendar, so the change only effected the literate minority. Today, the majority of business requires a consistent calendar.
Of course, if you read the article, that is exactly his point. Businesses require a consistant calendar, and don't have one. Accounting periods are a horrible way to deal with the uneven calender that we have now.
If it wasn't for the "ignored" new years day, it would be even better. Maybe if we change the orbit of the earth somehow we can...
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You make it unprofitable for Media3 to host the spammer. You do this by driving business away from Media3. You do that by blackholing enough of their customers that Media3 says "We are losing money doing this. Let's not do this anymore
Sure... now take the Above.net perspective. Their customers are complaining that they cannot reach non-spamming sites. Follow the money. What does above.net (or another business) do? They have to ingore the RBL or else their customers will get pissed off and leave(or route packets through somewhere else). Follow the money. The RBL will lose all power if it blocks non-spam related sites or over-reacts too much.
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