The ability to change sex wasn't something they evolved in the movie. It was something they either had all along, inherited from a common ancestor or got from the frog DNA that was used to fill in the gaps in their genome.

Why wouldn't these E. Coli be expected to evolve independance from the artificial stuff? Because it takes generations to evolve something.. and.. there is no selection pressure to do so until it is already too late. They don't evolve because they die.

But Lysine IS found in nature. The extra security here is that they are dependant on something they cannot obtain because it is not found in nature.

If you were on a budget and the upgrade to PCI had to come in stages that just meant you had a mixed system. Now you had plug and play PCI devices that couldn't understand why some resources were just not available since they were already taken by the old ISA hardware. That started to improve once BIOSs got smart enough to let you block off resources from the PnP pool.

I'm not worried about paying double for Netflix. I'm more worried that 10, 20 or even 30 years from now Netflix or some company which bought Netflix will still be doing the same thing they are today with no real innovation because nobody else was ever able to afford the "fast lane" fees to enter the market and challenge them.

I don't think Netflix's price could double due to carriers charging them. The market probably wouldn't support it. If carriers wanted to drive Netflix out of business they might. I could see Comcast doing that if they want to sell streaming Xfinity to everyone.

Unless they want to kill Netflix in order to replace it with their own services, if carriers get the ability to do slow lanes they would have to charge an amount that Netflix can actually afford to pay without raising their prices so high that they go out of business. Otherwise they lose a potential revenue stream.

As for your bill going up.. if Netflix can raise their prices without losing their customers they should have already done it even before having to pay fees to the carriers. That's how free market supply and demand work!

I remember reading (back in Pentium I days) that NASA still used 386s for a lot of things that went into space. The larger transistors inside made the chip more radiation resistant.

I wonder if they ever found a way to make modern processors more radiation resistant or if they just added more shielding or maybe even still use the old stuff...

What the fuck are you talking about?

I've watched my parents throw away perfectly good printer/scanner combos that were only a few years old because there were no drivers beyond XP.

I have dozens of network and video adapters on a shelf in my garage that work great in Linux but have no Windows drivers beyond XP.

Until recently even a 386 could run Linux!

Linux vendor? I wouldn't know. I've never used one. I can install my own software thank you!

I was assuming that EISA was just a special case inside of the same code as ISA and that what was proposed was to remove all ISA support. Is that what was going to happen?

ISA is old but I am sure there is quite a bit more than just one person out there with some sort of legacy hardware using it. I have a little bit of ISA hardware myself that I would like to use but not quite enough to build up a legacy PC. Every now and then I search the internet for ISA to USB adapters. There actually IS one company selling such a beast but it is way to expensive to be worthwile for me. But.. if I had some expensive piece of lab equipment or something like that with a proprietary ISA adapter... it would make sense.

I loved being able to set the IRQs and memory addresses. Ok, not really but the for the first decade or so I HATED plug and play, or plug and pray as we called it in my office. Half the time it didn't work! It would try to put things right on top of one another. When possible I would disable it and just use the jumpers. Once you got used to it it wasn't THAT hard and it was great knowing that your soundcard was on IRQ X and your video on IRQY and never the two would conflict. Early plug and play seemed to randomly decide to reshuffle things and the next time you boot it may not still work.

That was of course a long time ago and things work well on any reasonable hardware today. But.. I still cringe when people complain about setting IRQs. It's not hard to move a jumper and its not that complicated of a concept to know that to things probably shouldn't try to use the same resource. Not being able to set those things caused me far far more frustration than having to set them ever did! Even though things are great now I'm not entirely sure that decade of pain was worth it to get here.

"I had never managed to see more than one of these systems in my lifetime"

When I was in college I worked for the campus (NPR, not student) radio station. I wasn't a DJ, did tech work there. Anyway.. that was around the same time you were replacing that EISA system.

We were on a tight budget (hey, it's public radio, what do you expect). During my time there we put the first computers in the studios as well as everyone's offices. Previously only a few managers had computers.

Anyway... to accomplish this we used to get old computers from other university departments. I'm talking real old, like original IBM ATs and knockoffs from the same era. We would hack the case with a nibbler and pop-rivet gun to fit a standard motherboard. We kept the power supply, floppy drives and sometimes they had usable hard drives. Yes.. we installed Windows 95 (and later 98) on MFM hard drives!

My boss, the engineer had a source for 486 motherboard, CPU + RAM combos. Depending on CPU speed and amount of RAM they were either $10 or $15! This all sounds horribly obsolete but at the time it was plenty good enough to run the then current web browsers, Office and email. Anything beyond that they probably weren't supposed to be doing anyway. In an era when new PCs were still $1500+ we were equiping people for under $50.

Well.. back to the point.. these motherboards had EISA slots and somehow the boss managed to get ahold of a handful of EISA video cards. Those computers that got the EISA cards did seem to run a lot faster!

So.. long story short.. I have seen more EISA cards than you. :-P

Oh, yah, this thread was about kids who only had a smartphone. How many platforms are identical between desktops and smartphones? Sure, Android uses Java. It isn't exactly the same environment as on a desktop though. I don't think the same code is very likely to run on both beyond maybe console hello world.

Should they be teaching programming using HTML5? If so I don't think we can find enough common ground to even have a reasonable conversation about this!

That probably isn't the point. Did the original article say what track the classes were on, Computer Science or Information Systems? I'm thinking Computer Science but maybe that's just because it is what I studied.

Anyway, at least when I was in school (~15 years ago I must admit) the question of marketshare was a non-issue for Computer Science students. The classes were meant to teach THEORY. The languages and platforms used were chosen to best present the theory (or just happened to be what a professor knew/liked). The professor could use BFK if that's what he thought best represented the concept he was teaching!

All that practical stuff.. then popular languages.. that was assumed to not be worth teaching. It would all be obsolete by graduation time anyway! You were expected to learn that stuff on your own, maybe even on the job. The theory you learn though was supposed to make you better at it once you did.

If you wanted to learn the actual tools employers were looking for.. then you went for Information Systems. Then you didn't learn theory so much. Also you took a lot of business classes. Instead of computer science your goal was it management.

Yes but you are at a university level. University level computer classes are generally taught by people with some background in computers.

Pre-university schools will NEVER have that benefit. It just isn't the same set of job requirements. Pre-University schools are places filled with children. Children who are there because they have to be, don't apreciate the importance of why they are there and honestly don't have the emotional maturity to do so.

To do the job well teachers require a tendancy towards caring and nurturing, patience and a love for children that one does not need in the University. The personality types that will do well align more with those of a nanny than those of a computer scientist.

Some schools may get lucky and find a teacher with both. That will always be rare. Here is a magic box, you can memorize exactly what it does as you follow along the pre-written course syllabus with NO DEVIATION and the kids will see EXACTLY what you see. That's what is needed for teachers.

Or.. maybe I was just jaded by my own experiences...

If they really want version 2 to sell...

Start mass producing some sort of cheapie glass-like thing under a different name out of China. Make it work but buggy enough to be slightly annoying. Make so many, so cheap that they are all over the place.

    Let the Glass shy AHoles wine, complain and in some cases start bar fights because they get mad every time they see one. Give it a year or two for the AHoles to burn themselves out and go find a different cause to baby on about.

    Then, when everyone is used to the cameras being around... finally Google comes out with a well refined, not-sucking Glass 2 and nobody is worried because OMG IT HAS A CAMERA! They are already used to that.

I don't get it. What the F... are they doing?

They release Glass.. at a rediculous price for early developers to check it out.

They got a bunch of negative attention because people feared the camera. (Lions Tigers, Bears and Cameras, Oh My)

Everyone talks about it like it was a failure to sell.

They start looking for how to make version 2 sell like version 1 didn't.

But... they never even tried to sell it at a normal price? Right? That "explorer" price wasnt supposed to be anywhere near representative of Glass's price as a real product right?

So what if a very vocal number of people keep talking about how much they hate it? Any attention is attention. Maybe there are enough of us who WOULD buy it if it were at a reasonable price. Maybe the naysayers rants just keep reminding us how much we want one! Free marketing!

Or maybe that's just me. I don't see how they can know anything about sales when it has only ever been offered for $1,500! Who the F buys a toy like that for $1500?!?

Generation 1 should be old news now, having been sold for something like $200 to $250. Generation 2 should be almost out and people like me who will never spend the money for a device that will be obsolete in a year should be chomping at the bit to go buy a gen 1 for $50 or so soon.

Or is $1500 really what it costs to make and sell a device like that? Is the tech required still that expensive? If so then they should give up. And.. the rest of us should go through eggs at Google headquarters for producing (and I assume patenting) something so far ahead of it's time that in a few years when the components ARE available for a reasonable price nobody can/will produce it b/c the one company which now hogs all the IP marketed too soon, lost money and is now afraid to try again!

They should just suspend both parties, harasser and harasee. Afterall, that's how most schools handle physical (non-sexual) harassment right? And it works oh-so well!