The way I saw it was as a way to protect against random mutations. If you have a lot of "useless" DNA, it can act as a target, so any mutation will hit nothing much important 97% of the time.
I've been doing that in Gaim/Pidgin since 1.0 or one of the subversions of that.
And yet, there, in Gaim/Pidgin, it says "Only join existing". WTF? The only downsides to Pidgin is lack of voice and video. Also, Pidgin is not for Windows? What are they smoking???
Uh, this is a bad argument due to your conflation of right and wrong in the moral and practical senses.
Putting a USB device into a USB socket is right, putting a FireWire device in a USB socket is wrong. This is the "incompetence" sense.
Helping old ladies across the street is right, raping people is wrong. This is the "sociopathic" sense.
Incompetence would be putting a RJ11 connector in an RJ45 socket.
Incompetence would be trying to operate a car without knowing how to drive.
Malice would be trying to run over as many people as possible.
A better definition of incompetence would be inability to distinguish correct from incorrect.
The possibility of a gene for homosexuality is present, because all men inherit their X chromosomes through their mothers. Even if no gay men reproduced, we'd still have gay men, especially if the same gene provided some advantage to the mother, let's say larger breasts. It will be selected FOR in females, despite being selected against in males.
Lesbians don't have a similar mechanism, but, in the dark old days, you really didn't need to ask a ladies permission. Except if you're me.
I remember in one of my required Honors courses, talking about the difference between the sciences and the humanities, which is, that the person doing the science shouldn't matter.
He's a great scientist because of his great science.
He isn't, however, that great of a person.
Incidentally, in 10th grade, someone in my class saw him enter a deli and order a sandwich (I live in one of the towns near Cold Spring Harbor. I could walk there. Takes me 2.5 hrs, but I could walk there.
Is it just me, or would the mesh networking and some of the built in software not be perfect for an MMORPG. The game topology can represent the actual locations of people, one can "Warp" into the internet play area by using an access point.
That may be what you are attempting but doing something a lot isn't an argument that it isn't wrong. Nor is being good at it.
Yes, but, I am arguing that doing something a lot has a tendency to help one do it better. Which means that complications are less likely to occur. Doing it a lot does not make anything more or less wrong, that's where the rest of my comment comes in.
Removal of the foreskin results in decreased sensitivity with consequent effects on sexual pleasure.br> Prove that to me. Female circumcision has been proven to, in most forms decrease sexual pleasure. This should be rather obvious, as the tissue with the sensitive nerves is being cut off in these forms. Male circumcision may, or may not, or may even improve pleasure, depending on which article you read. It's definitely not clear-cut. And the proven decreases in incidence of disease (not only for the male, but for the partner) indicates either everyone does not follow proper hygiene, or it is insufficient.
the unnecessary snipping away of flesh, altering both form and function and preventing the previous function provided by the mutilated/removed flesh seems to fall into that category.
Do we know that it has a function? No one seems to have conclusively proven that. We could have a scientific paper fight if you want.
Doing something a lot doesn't somehow make it right. The same goes for being good at it. Not to mention that it's all without the informed consent of the patient.
I'm arguing that it isn't wrong. And experience makes someone better at something, language allows the passage of experience, no?
Don't you realize that holding grudges like this, complaining about what X's people did to us a thousand years ago, is what fueled this whole craptastic issue?
Jews were looked down upon partly because some group of Jews a thousand years ago supposedly condemned Jesus. And they used it as an excuse.
If we can't forgive the actions of, say, the Catholic Church five hundred years ago, how do you expect us to be able to forgive the actions of Palestinians today, which would be necessary in order to bring about peace?
What one person in the Catholic Church of today was in the Catholic Church during the inquisition?
Mutilating?
Ok, so it might have been painful, but I can't exactly say I remember it.
It can reduce the incidence of many sexually transmitted diseases, perhaps even HIV.
And we've been doing it for years upon years. We know how to do it well now.
Sure, but maybe capping it at $30 or $50 would make more sense, to avoid bad publicity from WTF sized bills, and still make it worthwhile to use the $15 unlimited plan?
No, that's untrue, except in a strict monopoly. Phone plans have plenty of hooks, but if one provider offered SMS messages for one-tenth or one-hundredth of everyone else, it would be popular.
Price is determined where supply meets demand, at the profit optimization point. Supply is determined by cost.
Apple is also acting as a middleman.
They give the consumers something they want (no DRM, higher quality) in exchange for a higher price.
They give the sellers something they want (higher price) in exchange for something they are reluctant to give (no DRM, higher quality)
In the end, this give the Slashdot Hive Mind what it wants (less DRM in the world).
In the end, Apple sells more tracks as audiophiles and people who care about rights snap them up.
Everyone is happier, which is the way economics should be.
I have experienced this.
I switched from firefox to konqueror when I had 256MB of RAM.
Firefox crashed, and was much slower.
Now that I have a GB of RAM, it doesn't matter so much.
However, KDE has a lot of libs to load too, it has a lot of memory usage.
Konqueror is a light enough browser even WITHOUT the added bonus of using the same libs as the WM/DW,
It works rather nicely on Openbox.
You're a company, trying to outdo other companies.
Would you rather have a gigabyte be 1,000,000,000 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes?
Let's take a 60 gig drive, which now has 60,000,000,000 bytes.
You could call it 60 gigabytes, or 55.9 gigabytes (binary). Which would you do?
Now, at the level of 1.36 PB, it would make the difference between 1.36GB and 1.21GiB.
So, it's a marketing thing. You want to sound like you have as much space as your competitors, and nerds may know that 60GB=55.9GiB, but people who think they are savvy, who are most of the people who buy new drives, would thing 60>>55.9, and they're the same price!
Even though most consumers don't buy 1.36PB arrays, this carries over anyway.
I am glad. Open Standards should be, well, the standard.
If it passes there, and similar ones in other states, everyone will be able to read important gov't files without surrendering their freedom of choice, and the files will not become locked in an abandoned format.
Hopefully the Federal Government will see the light.
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The way I saw it was as a way to protect against random mutations.
If you have a lot of "useless" DNA, it can act as a target, so any mutation will hit nothing much important 97% of the time.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these imagining a Beowulf cluster of these.
They'd have to use the cases Gateway used.
I opened up somebody's Gateway from 98. It was like 90% empty space.
Bitlbee + irssi over ssh is my drug of choice.
However, MSN stopped working. Oh well.
I've been doing that in Gaim/Pidgin since 1.0 or one of the subversions of that.
And yet, there, in Gaim/Pidgin, it says "Only join existing".
WTF?
The only downsides to Pidgin is lack of voice and video.
Also, Pidgin is not for Windows? What are they smoking???
Uh, this is a bad argument due to your conflation of right and wrong in the moral and practical senses. Putting a USB device into a USB socket is right, putting a FireWire device in a USB socket is wrong. This is the "incompetence" sense. Helping old ladies across the street is right, raping people is wrong. This is the "sociopathic" sense. Incompetence would be putting a RJ11 connector in an RJ45 socket. Incompetence would be trying to operate a car without knowing how to drive. Malice would be trying to run over as many people as possible. A better definition of incompetence would be inability to distinguish correct from incorrect.
IANAGE, but I am studying to be one.
The possibility of a gene for homosexuality is present, because all men inherit their X chromosomes through their mothers. Even if no gay men reproduced, we'd still have gay men, especially if the same gene provided some advantage to the mother, let's say larger breasts. It will be selected FOR in females, despite being selected against in males.
Lesbians don't have a similar mechanism, but, in the dark old days, you really didn't need to ask a ladies permission. Except if you're me.
So, conclusion: I'm a weakling.
I remember in one of my required Honors courses, talking about the difference between the sciences and the humanities, which is, that the person doing the science shouldn't matter.
He's a great scientist because of his great science.
He isn't, however, that great of a person.
Incidentally, in 10th grade, someone in my class saw him enter a deli and order a sandwich (I live in one of the towns near Cold Spring Harbor. I could walk there. Takes me 2.5 hrs, but I could walk there.
Another forumite on slashdot? However, thinking about that, a forumite is about at home on slashdot as rats are in Deng Lees
Is it just me, or would the mesh networking and some of the built in software not be perfect for an MMORPG. The game topology can represent the actual locations of people, one can "Warp" into the internet play area by using an access point.
That may be what you are attempting but doing something a lot isn't an argument that it isn't wrong. Nor is being good at it.
Yes, but, I am arguing that doing something a lot has a tendency to help one do it better. Which means that complications are less likely to occur. Doing it a lot does not make anything more or less wrong, that's where the rest of my comment comes in.
Removal of the foreskin results in decreased sensitivity with consequent effects on sexual pleasure.br>
Prove that to me. Female circumcision has been proven to, in most forms decrease sexual pleasure. This should be rather obvious, as the tissue with the sensitive nerves is being cut off in these forms. Male circumcision may, or may not, or may even improve pleasure, depending on which article you read. It's definitely not clear-cut. And the proven decreases in incidence of disease (not only for the male, but for the partner) indicates either everyone does not follow proper hygiene, or it is insufficient.
the unnecessary snipping away of flesh, altering both form and function and preventing the previous function provided by the mutilated/removed flesh seems to fall into that category. Do we know that it has a function? No one seems to have conclusively proven that. We could have a scientific paper fight if you want. Doing something a lot doesn't somehow make it right. The same goes for being good at it. Not to mention that it's all without the informed consent of the patient. I'm arguing that it isn't wrong. And experience makes someone better at something, language allows the passage of experience, no?
Don't you realize that holding grudges like this, complaining about what X's people did to us a thousand years ago, is what fueled this whole craptastic issue? Jews were looked down upon partly because some group of Jews a thousand years ago supposedly condemned Jesus. And they used it as an excuse. If we can't forgive the actions of, say, the Catholic Church five hundred years ago, how do you expect us to be able to forgive the actions of Palestinians today, which would be necessary in order to bring about peace? What one person in the Catholic Church of today was in the Catholic Church during the inquisition?
Mutilating? Ok, so it might have been painful, but I can't exactly say I remember it. It can reduce the incidence of many sexually transmitted diseases, perhaps even HIV. And we've been doing it for years upon years. We know how to do it well now.
Sure, but maybe capping it at $30 or $50 would make more sense, to avoid bad publicity from WTF sized bills, and still make it worthwhile to use the $15 unlimited plan?
No, that's untrue, except in a strict monopoly. Phone plans have plenty of hooks, but if one provider offered SMS messages for one-tenth or one-hundredth of everyone else, it would be popular. Price is determined where supply meets demand, at the profit optimization point. Supply is determined by cost.
Apple is also acting as a middleman. They give the consumers something they want (no DRM, higher quality) in exchange for a higher price. They give the sellers something they want (higher price) in exchange for something they are reluctant to give (no DRM, higher quality) In the end, this give the Slashdot Hive Mind what it wants (less DRM in the world). In the end, Apple sells more tracks as audiophiles and people who care about rights snap them up. Everyone is happier, which is the way economics should be.
And Oligopolies function like monopolies over the portion of the supply/demand chart that they want to operate at.
I have experienced this. I switched from firefox to konqueror when I had 256MB of RAM. Firefox crashed, and was much slower. Now that I have a GB of RAM, it doesn't matter so much. However, KDE has a lot of libs to load too, it has a lot of memory usage. Konqueror is a light enough browser even WITHOUT the added bonus of using the same libs as the WM/DW, It works rather nicely on Openbox.
As long as Vista is released sometime near an election. Which might be likely.
Slashdot should really have Score:N Can't take a joke
You're a company, trying to outdo other companies. Would you rather have a gigabyte be 1,000,000,000 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes? Let's take a 60 gig drive, which now has 60,000,000,000 bytes. You could call it 60 gigabytes, or 55.9 gigabytes (binary). Which would you do? Now, at the level of 1.36 PB, it would make the difference between 1.36GB and 1.21GiB. So, it's a marketing thing. You want to sound like you have as much space as your competitors, and nerds may know that 60GB=55.9GiB, but people who think they are savvy, who are most of the people who buy new drives, would thing 60>>55.9, and they're the same price! Even though most consumers don't buy 1.36PB arrays, this carries over anyway.
Where is the list of the 72 colleges to avoid? I don't think it's too late to change my decision...
I first thought: You have a large field, paved with asphalt. There are cans of paint all around. You park your car, and paint the lines around it.
I am glad. Open Standards should be, well, the standard. If it passes there, and similar ones in other states, everyone will be able to read important gov't files without surrendering their freedom of choice, and the files will not become locked in an abandoned format. Hopefully the Federal Government will see the light.