Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 552
No backup?
Didn't he write some source code control system or other to prevent this...?
No backup?
Didn't he write some source code control system or other to prevent this...?
...and how many updates can we expect to have to manually install over the next year if we administer a few dozen machines?
What will they use as fertilizer?
Either it's difficult enough that the developers didn't want to spend the time and money to make their code compatible with the most incompatible OS currently available
I don't mean stuff that isn't compatible with Windows, I mean actual Windows programs where the authors expect you to compile it yourself with a particular version of VC++, or even with command-line gcc and makefiles (VC++ is a free download, what Windows developer in their right mind uses gcc?)
Why don't they just post a binary? There's only one Windows 'distro' (yes, there's various versions but they're all compatible).
It's like they don't want people to use their software.
In most cases it's easy if you already know how and have the environment set up.
So...basically nobody. Way to alienate a lot of potential users.
The risks from green potatoes are no more significant than the risks associated with basically any meat product.
Nobody's saying they are, but they're probably far greater than the risks from Golden Rice.
So you need to rewrite the whole damn 5TB disk?
You failed to read even the summary?
Here me out.
Wear you out?
How about compiled binaries (for Windows users). How difficult is that...?
All these tricks are just wishful thinking.
If other people learn you've been contacted then you're guilty no matter how you did it - by telling them or by stopping updates to a web site. It's all communication.
Stop drinking the cool-aid...
For the body to take advantage of the vitamin A it needs to be consumed with fat.
So the poor people should make sure to have a good kebab with their portion of rice...
If only there was a way to find out whether or not the vitamin A in Golden Rice could be absorbed by humans...like, I dunno, eating some. Nah, you'd have to be a reckless idiot to do that. Much better to sit around on the Internet and imagine ways it might not work.
Oh, wait, somebody did eat some! http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/89/6/1776.full.pdf
Cross-bred plants can't be patented?
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