Why the hell should there be sugar in bread? Bread is made from cereal, water and yeast or baking powder. Fruit or nuts for specialty breads. That's it.
In fact, the "100%" number for Cox comes from a whopping sample size of TWO. No, the total number of tests with 100% blocking was 7. All of them from 1am to 5am, interestingly enough. During peak hours, the blocking rate was more like 50%. Seems to me that they're not inspecting 100% of all connections due to limited resources. During peak daytime hours, some connections slip through.
We are in an adversary system. No lawyer and no judge knows all of the law. It's far too vast. So, why isn't there a data base with a search engine?
Just wondering. I am aware that it's probably mostly on paper, but lots of old books (heck, pulp and pr0n) are being scanned in - law seems a bit more important to me.
Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to make emailing (scanning/OCR'ing) all docs the SOP of the courts, instead of printing and faxing them? Then it would be easy to stuff everything into local/state/federal archives and running an index.
As long as teaching is considered a lowly bad-paying job in the US this isn't going to change. I had (in Germany) some wonderful science (and math and CS) teachers. They all had MS or PhD degrees. And not in education. They knew what they were talking about, and they had a passion for it. And they were paid decent salaries.
I'd be a hit at the next rave i can tell you that for sure! Amen. Attention from the chicks => Huge evolutionary advantage. That gene would spread like wildfire.
Ain't gonna work. Not everybody has those same convictions and parents will want the best for their children that they can afford. And not every country in the world will have the same restrictions on germ cell modifications as most of the developed nations today.
It'll start with fixing known genetic defects. As the combined effects of groups of genes are better understood, basic functions can be improved. Better overall health or longevity doesn't sound too bad to me. How about improved resistance against cardiovascular disease (there's clearly a genetic component that can be considered a defect) or Alzheimer's? AIDS resistance? Malaria resistance without sickle cell disease?
I would be against genetically modifying a viable human fetus, or even something that would normally develop into one. Even if we had a safe way to fix a genetic defect? Say both parents have a known genetic condition and selecting embryos for the presence of that defect wouldn't work.
Obviously a slippery slope. "Less than 140 IQ" is a known genetic defect too...
Many would accuse you of dodging the issue with that definition. The problem is that to get those stem cells, a fertilized human egg is, at some point, stopped from developing farther. If life begins at conception, trying to tell people you only killed a blastocyst, not an embryo, isn't going to do much for you.
Yes life begins at conception. That doesn't mean we can't kill it. There's always a trade off. When does the potential of that life to become a human being (it's not yet) outweigh the burden on the mother, the family and society? You flush lots of human life down the toilet or throw it in the trash every day. There's nothing magic about it. There's no doubt that a viable fetus is worth preserving and bringing to term, but before that the door is open for discussion.
"What's the difference between them and cell cultures removed from your body? Especially if we could clone those?", ignoring that fertilized embryos are becoming human and samples are not? We can clone those. Dolly the sheep was cloned from an ordinary (somatic) body cell.
Now, each time you blow your nose or take a dump do you commit mass murder? You're killing millions of viable cells in each case.
This is not a rational argument. It's a theological one.
That embryo is a pile of cells that has the potential to become a human being. More than half of naturally conceived embryos die before a pregnancy is established and nobody cares.
Amen. That sounds so politician-ese, balanced and correct that it was probably worded by a campaign committee. As in, "Ugh, space? Of course, we're all for it. Quick, get a statement out!"
FWIW, some women have 4 different receptors. One of the receptor pigments is encoded on the X chromosome so women can have two different types. See the Wikipedia article as usual.
It's not the multitasking per se, its "process" prioritization. If you do smalltalk with a passenger and can stop talking/listening when traffic requires your attention, fine. OTOH, if you're having a heated argument with your spouse, you'll probably give it a higher priority than watching what's going on around you.
I always leave a *lot* of distance to people who talk on their phone or who have an animated conversation with a passenger. You can tell - head turning all the time, hands gesturing... Those people are dangerous - thye are the ones who drift left and right all the time. I learned that lesson as a biker (from a couple of close calls) and it helps a lot in the car too.
Mmm, warehouses... I worked in one in Memphis for a couple of days. In August. No AC. At least they had free water. Coffee was 50c and a 5 minute walk though.
Cost of personnel to procure it, insurance, shipping, paperwork, legislation, research, etc on a per-item basis: $8000
Total cost in taxes, per laptop, to you: $11000
Cost of laptop, out of back of 10-year-old SUV with motor running, on street, from some guy named Joey with methamphetamine acne: $400 Value of data on unencrypted drives: Priceless.
Why, I once got my tie caught in the gears of the difference engine, and had to stay there until we hit the last digit of the calculation -- I was there for days.;-) Meh. Back in my days, those storage slaves who carried clay tablets into and out of the computing room with the abaci were just way too slow and unreliable (dropped tablets all the time and broke them), so we invented caching and ECC.
Anybody who advocates NTFS has never worked with directories with a large number (>100,000) of files under one directory tree. Just deleting one file can make the disk seek for several seconds, during which the filesystem is completely frozen. I guess it's reshuffling its entire B-tree.
I've been bitten by the ext3 journal corruption bug due to out-of-order writes of the journal (write-heavy operation on a large RAID with write-back caching and a power failure), so... how well is journaling and recovery being tested under such conditions?
6) They are around, but we don't notice or understand them. What if SETI is the equivalent of looking for smoke signals? Maybe they use neutrino beams or gravity waves or some other form of communication that we don't know about yet.
Maybe they are so far beyond us that we don't notice them. Ants have a marvelous society, but do they grok humans? I don't think so.
We're just barely able to leave our cradle, er, planet. Yes, there are probably several filters before we could become a spacefaring civilization. The simplest would be that interstellar travel, even in the form of von Neumann probes or seed ships, is technically infeasible because it takes too much energy.
OTOH, Apple's been around for nearly a decade longer than Dell, and people have been predicting Apple's demise since before even Dvorak began his torrent of verbal excrement. And yet, Apple has managed to persevere and surprise all of us over and over again. You may not like Apple, but you can't deny that they know how to weather ups and downs. Steve Jobs seems especially good at getting people excited about even their mundane products. I think Dell should be looking at Apple. That's because their OS was crap for years and they were unable to fix it. Once they fixed that, they came back. Newfangled HW like iPods came later.
Many. How many systems/devices with embedded Linux are out there? Cell phones? Storage and multimedia systems? Tape libraries? To name just the ones that come immediately to my mind.
The products I've been working on for the last few years have all been 100% or partly based on a Linux kernel.
So... there's a new paradigm out there that opens up new markets and allows new products but competes with old products/markets/thinking. And this is a problem why, exactly?
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Why the hell should there be sugar in bread?
Bread is made from cereal, water and yeast or baking powder. Fruit or nuts for specialty breads. That's it.
Works. It's the only thing that'll run acceptably.
Seems to me that they're not inspecting 100% of all connections due to limited resources. During peak daytime hours, some connections slip through.
Just wondering. I am aware that it's probably mostly on paper, but lots of old books (heck, pulp and pr0n) are being scanned in - law seems a bit more important to me.
Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to make emailing (scanning/OCR'ing) all docs the SOP of the courts, instead of printing and faxing them? Then it would be easy to stuff everything into local/state/federal archives and running an index.
Remember, YouTube no workee, wifey not happy.
Or something like that.
As long as teaching is considered a lowly bad-paying job in the US this isn't going to change.
I had (in Germany) some wonderful science (and math and CS) teachers. They all had MS or PhD degrees. And not in education. They knew what they were talking about, and they had a passion for it. And they were paid decent salaries.
Ain't gonna work. Not everybody has those same convictions and parents will want the best for their children that they can afford. And not every country in the world will have the same restrictions on germ cell modifications as most of the developed nations today.
It'll start with fixing known genetic defects. As the combined effects of groups of genes are better understood, basic functions can be improved. Better overall health or longevity doesn't sound too bad to me. How about improved resistance against cardiovascular disease (there's clearly a genetic component that can be considered a defect) or Alzheimer's? AIDS resistance? Malaria resistance without sickle cell disease?
Obviously a slippery slope. "Less than 140 IQ" is a known genetic defect too...
Many would accuse you of dodging the issue with that definition. The problem is that to get those stem cells, a fertilized human egg is, at some point, stopped from developing farther. If life begins at conception, trying to tell people you only killed a blastocyst, not an embryo, isn't going to do much for you.
Yes life begins at conception. That doesn't mean we can't kill it. There's always a trade off. When does the potential of that life to become a human being (it's not yet) outweigh the burden on the mother, the family and society? You flush lots of human life down the toilet or throw it in the trash every day. There's nothing magic about it.There's no doubt that a viable fetus is worth preserving and bringing to term, but before that the door is open for discussion.
Careful with that argument. A newborn's brain capacity is lower than that of an adult or even juvenile chimpanzee (or other ape.)
Now, each time you blow your nose or take a dump do you commit mass murder? You're killing millions of viable cells in each case.
This is not a rational argument. It's a theological one.
That embryo is a pile of cells that has the potential to become a human being. More than half of naturally conceived embryos die before a pregnancy is established and nobody cares.
Amen. That sounds so politician-ese, balanced and correct that it was probably worded by a campaign committee. As in, "Ugh, space? Of course, we're all for it. Quick, get a statement out!"
The longest line? That would certainly be in Perl.
Just the other day I was over 240 characters with a perl -e one-liner.
FWIW, some women have 4 different receptors. One of the receptor pigments is encoded on the X chromosome so women can have two different types. See the Wikipedia article as usual.
It's not the multitasking per se, its "process" prioritization.
If you do smalltalk with a passenger and can stop talking/listening when traffic requires your attention, fine.
OTOH, if you're having a heated argument with your spouse, you'll probably give it a higher priority than watching what's going on around you.
I always leave a *lot* of distance to people who talk on their phone or who have an animated conversation with a passenger. You can tell - head turning all the time, hands gesturing...
Those people are dangerous - thye are the ones who drift left and right all the time. I learned that lesson as a biker (from a couple of close calls) and it helps a lot in the car too.
Mmm, warehouses... I worked in one in Memphis for a couple of days. In August. No AC.
At least they had free water. Coffee was 50c and a 5 minute walk though.
Cost of personnel to procure it, insurance, shipping, paperwork, legislation, research, etc on a per-item basis: $8000
Total cost in taxes, per laptop, to you: $11000
Cost of laptop, out of back of 10-year-old SUV with motor running, on street, from some guy named Joey with methamphetamine acne: $400 Value of data on unencrypted drives: Priceless.
Why, I once got my tie caught in the gears of the difference engine, and had to stay there until we hit the last digit of the calculation -- I was there for days.
Anybody who advocates NTFS has never worked with directories with a large number (>100,000) of files under one directory tree. Just deleting one file can make the disk seek for several seconds, during which the filesystem is completely frozen. I guess it's reshuffling its entire B-tree.
I've been bitten by the ext3 journal corruption bug due to out-of-order writes of the journal (write-heavy operation on a large RAID with write-back caching and a power failure), so... how well is journaling and recovery being tested under such conditions?
6) They are around, but we don't notice or understand them.
What if SETI is the equivalent of looking for smoke signals? Maybe they use neutrino beams or gravity waves or some other form of communication that we don't know about yet.
Maybe they are so far beyond us that we don't notice them. Ants have a marvelous society, but do they grok humans? I don't think so.
We're just barely able to leave our cradle, er, planet. Yes, there are probably several filters before we could become a spacefaring civilization. The simplest would be that interstellar travel, even in the form of von Neumann probes or seed ships, is technically infeasible because it takes too much energy.
Many. How many systems/devices with embedded Linux are out there? Cell phones? Storage and multimedia systems? Tape libraries? To name just the ones that come immediately to my mind.
The products I've been working on for the last few years have all been 100% or partly based on a Linux kernel.
So... there's a new paradigm out there that opens up new markets and allows new products but competes with old products/markets/thinking. And this is a problem why, exactly?