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Apple was far from first. But the point still remains, MS Windows is about as original as a $6 USD dollar bill.

What about 'Free' .NET apps?

If GPL software is like a virus, then Mono must be the kissing disease of free software :-)

it's um... not a daemon.

A daemon is not a demon.

it's um... not a daemon.

A daemon is not a demon.

Oh, okay. And what makes you think I got it from the web? I really can't believe I'm continuing to dignify this. Your principle really does mean that if ANYONE ELSE has ever quoted the same passage, you have to also quote them. You and I both know that's wrong, so you can spare me the lecture. I bolded the passage, not because someone else happened to do it a few years ago in an obscure little internet article, but because that is the part I wanted to emphasize! And guess what? I sorta kinda mentioned that I added the bold.

You know what my favorite intro to a book is? It's the one in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. It goes "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (p. 1, bold added) as quoted in

http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/cities.html

http://www.bartleby.com/59/6/itwasthebest.html

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29595.html

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/charles dic101118.html

http://www.epinions.com/content_3173621892

http://www.courierpostonline.com/columnists/cxan06 1104a.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/it-was-the-best-of-ti mes-it-was-the-worst-of-times

http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=75 62_0_10_0_C

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/it_was_the_best _of_times-it_was_the_worst_of/147366.html

According to you and only you, I have to quote all those webpages whenever I want to quote the first like of that book. Otherwise, it's plagiarism. Oh, and I better cross my fingers and hope no one has bolded any part of that sentence.

Well, good work. You got me to dignify another person who really doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

Or, try feeding it Pi. (though it may not work)

This is exactly a fair use issue. The "good guys" have decided that the "bad guys" are not allowed to reference or quote them. As you have pointed out, all the comments are in favor of the "good guys" because they are good. One person stands up for "fair use," and you call it a troll.

If something is 'justified' then it is moral.

At the moment you surely are making moral judgements based on an arbitrary system - your own moral code. If God is by definition holy and righteous and wise then his morality will be infinitely superior to ours.

And at the end of the day, morality has no meaning if it does not have consequences.

It draws a line of authority, but not of superiority. It shows differences in roles, not differences in status. In fact, man gets the tougher role here as his position of authority has to be acted out sacrificially. It is more costly than the position of the woman.

Submission does not necessitate a difference in value, but rather a difference in role. In a job, your boss would have authority over you, but that doesn't make him a more valuable human being. Christ is in submission to the Father, but is no less valuable or glorious. He is equal in standing. In the same way, men and women are equally valuable before God. They just have different roles. Don't import your own definition of what submission entails over the Bible's description of what it entails.

please please please have a good guy scientist who gets the girl (or a good gal scientist who gets the guy) at least once a decade

How about The Nutty Professor
  that was 1996, so they have another year to meet the goal.
 
  Note I do not reference the sequel in 2000, I assumed you meant at least a decent "scientist gets the girl movie."

BAH! They can keep the stupid Push to Talk. The only thing worse than someone yelling on their cellphone in the supermarket (sidetone, anyone?) is someone yelling while using PTT in the supermarket. I really *don't* want to hear you on the phone and I certainly don't need to hear the person on the other end of the line.

I think PTT has its places, though. I think it could be very valuable in the construction business where you could put all kinds of contractors and consultants in the same list. I'm sure there are other applications similar to this, but for noraml use? No, thank you.

Now that I think of it, this is more of a social problem than a tech problem.

Another poster pointed out the convenience of a "buddy list" showing the availability of a PTT friend. That would be pretty cool. I'd like to know if someone is available before I call them, but what if we were to use that to *instantly* connect a call (forget dialing) to them privately, skipping the PTT part?

;-)

Well, The Onion has been mistakenly referenced more than once. I count at least four.

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-onion?method=6/

As the press release states, some Answers.com software will be receiving "chartered placement" on a Wikipedia tools listing in return for compensating the foundation. I suppose you might say that doesn't constitute advertising (as the "clarification" states) but it's a distinction without a difference.

Just recently, it was announced that Opera would start a partnership with Answers.com as well, mostly for their upcoming Opera 9 browser (which is available already as a tech preview). Seems like they're gaining popularity, and for having such a clean site I can't say I dislike it. Looks like a good site that aggregates info from various sources.

However, Wikipedia information/vandalism critics may be opposed to that Answers.com heavily use that service, and it's now starting to get seamlessly integrated in web browsers and spread to other parts of the Internet thanks to the GNU Free Documentation License, the reputable Google.com being one of them (they use it for definition queries as in define:slashdot and Who is Rob Malda). A lot of information control in the hands of you and me, in other words.

> Couldn't some people just simply mirror the stuff elsewhere and go on from there?

Answers.com has been ripping Wikipedia since forever. Google searches frequently turn up hits with identical text from both domains.

Here's an example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves
http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-graves (scroll down a bit)

http://www.answers.com/topic/animal-liberation-fro nt

They think it's all over... (Blue screen causes entire stadium to crash) ... It is now!

(http://www.answers.com/topic/they-think-it-s-all- over for those of you who dont follow World Cup football)

What does "To take on or impart color" or dye have to do with VoIP? I think the proper word should be "Die" or cease living is really what you're after here. I don't mean to be picky, but that made me feel weird when I read it. It had to be corrected... Thank you.

What does "To take on or impart color" or dye have to do with VoIP? I think the proper word should be "Die" or cease living is really what you're after here. I don't mean to be picky, but that made me feel weird when I read it. It had to be corrected... Thank you.

>>Humour is a new concept to you isn't it?

I just recently went out and bought a sense of humor!! Maybe I should consider getting a refund.

and referencing the Internet...
  here is the definition
http://www.answers.com/internet&r=67

Kamikazes died out uh.. about 50 freakin years ago!?

How old are you, ten? Look, son, 50 years are nothing in the development of humanity. They "died out" just 25 freakin years before I was born, doesn't sound that much to me. My dad was 21 already. And I'm not even middle-aged.

Hell, 25 years before I was born my anchestors in this country had to be stopped by an onslaught of most major nations from exterminating millions of jews, gays, sinti, roma, communists, anarchists, libertarians, (I'm sure I forgot some groups) systematically in fucking factories built for the purpose.

In the decades afterwards, many of these criminals continued to lead the major organizations of state and private sector. A guy like Heinrich Gross who performed the cruelest experiments on handicapped childen in a Nazi hospital, continued to serve as an psychological expert in trials. Which in fact meant that it could happen to you (and did to a lot of people) that the police would bust you with a little marijuana or something, and if it went to trial, this Nazi killer asshole "examined" you and gave his assessment of your psychological state to the judge.

Others, who had sentenced people to death routinely every day for printing of pamphlets, etc., took high positions in the "democratic" post-war judiciary system. Walter Roemer had been the First Prosecutor at the Sondergerichtshof (Special Court) in Munich, where, among many others, he sentenced Sophie Scholl to death. He became head of the department for public law in the post-war ministry of justice.

Major industry leaders like Alfried Krupp who had built a factory right beside Auschwitz, were left with a slap on the wrist, if anything at all.

These are just examples for the sake of brevity, and it stopped only because slowly these criminals die out.

Just 50 years. Get a perspective.

It is common for a woman to be completely covered from head to toe in some Muslim cultures.
It is common for a man to wear a mortification belt in some christian cultures.

I'm interested to see what they do about Krusty, who's Jewish.

Remember that episode where Sideshow Bob programs Bart, while wearing a suicide bomber's belt, to hug Krusty and blow him up? In the original version: ...yet another "kill Krusty" scheme, this time by hypnotizing Bart into becoming a suicide bomber and killing Krusty on the show. However, at the last minute, Krusty makes an on-air apology to Sideshow Bob for all the pain he's caused him, causing Sideshow Bob to have a change of heart. Sideshow Bob warns everybody that Bart is a bomb, prompting Krusty's monkey to swoop in and throw the bomb away (the only people hurt are the evil network executives, whose body parts merge into a T-1000 like monster).

With "Badr" as the new protagonist, what happens in that episode now?

Did I just give away the ending?

but the OP's statement was as well.

"that involves replying to an argument or assertion by addressing the person presenting the argument or assertion rather than the argument itself."

Do you know the meaning of the words "rather than"? I addressed the argument by attacking it's foundation; the assertion that the USA doesn't censor the Internet. I attacked it by giving examples of how the USA has censored the Internet.

The fact that I later went on to call him an idiot does not change the fact that I addressed his argument itself; I didn't attack him rather than the argument.

"Ad hominem abusive (also called argumentum ad personam) usually and most notoriously involves merely (and often unfairly) insulting one's opponent"

This is at the very least a clear example of the second.

No it isn't. Merely. If I had done nothing but call him an idiot, then your claim would be true. But I addressed his argument as well, rendering your claim false.

It's not enough to quote the words at me, you have to understand them first. You clearly do not.

But you've got to ask yourself, what did calling him/her an idiot DO for the debate?

It did nothing for the debate. It might have done something for their future credibility though. It's true, saying the complete opposite of a phrase because you don't understand it makes you look like a fucking idiot. Next time, he might use the phrase correctly, without harming his credibility.

I consider people that throw around insults during a debate to be the less skilled debaters.

That's your prerogative. I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as using phrases you don't understand though.

Article 30.Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

If I remember reading the article right a few days ago in the magazine, I believe it mentions some sort of memory-shifting metal that reacts to heat. He can expose a coil of the stuff to the sun so when heated up during the day, the coil would wind itself up. Possibly he could use a large magnifying glass to get the temperature up high enough. During night when the temp goes down it would unwind and thus drive the clock. Alternating coils mechanically exposed to the sun on alternating days would keep the mechanics going for some time. Memory metal has a very high fatigue resistance. Memory metal info here).

Although the work of Daniel Hillis and his team is extremely interesting, much more impressive is the tale and contribution of English clock designer John Harrison.

Anyone see the contradiction here?

Its not a contradiction, its called irony.

Dude, just take the train in Trondheim to get in Hell.

I vaguely recall him being very involved in Project Bob, but I can't remember if that was as a developer or just a very interested manager.

He was a very interested manager. Melinda Gates (then Melinda French) was the project manager.

I vaguely recall him being very involved in Project Bob, but I can't remember if that was as a developer or just a very interested manager.

He was a very interested manager. Melinda Gates (then Melinda French) was the project manager.

> In an attempt to steer this back to what I was originally saying, it wasn't the nitty gritty details of the JVM that made it what it is (no, I don't mean a hulking mass of slop), but rather it was the fact that someone was sitting in their office at Sun and mused about having the ability to run the same binary code on any architecture.

Try Xerox Parc, where Smalltalk was from. Try p-code. There are a lot of pre-Java (and even pre-Sun) portable systems which don't require recompiles to run across different architectures.

>Computers have only just recently become fast enough that it is practical to consider switching to just-in-time compilation

Again, various Smalltalk implementations have been doing that for quite a long time. From http://www.answers.com/topic/just-in-time-compilat ion
"Dynamic translation was pioneered by the commercial Smalltalk implementation currently known as VisualWorks, in the early 1980s. Currently it is also used by most implementations of the Java virtual machine."

Most of the things people consider "new" about Java are either from Smalltalk, or predate it. Garbage collection was invented with Lisp, in the 50s...

> Your Newton reference is very apt, and I may have been a little quick to declare the end of CS. However while I don't really think that CS itself will stop growing, I don't think that it is as important to engineers in the field as a good creative background would be, nor to those wishing to study it as a pure science as a good mathematics-based curriculum would be.

CS is not a supremely useful field of study at the undergraduate level (most aren't), and won't make anyone a good programmer; nor will it suffice to give someone a good grasp of theory. I'd take it over a "creative" liberal-arts education for someone interested in the field, although there are obviously non-CS graduates who can run circles around many who graduate from CS. CS isn't a pure science, in any way, and a lot of parts of it use math quite lightly, so I fail to understand why you say a good math-based curriculum would be important to those who would study it as a "pure science".

More along these lines; open to the art of hermeneutics for those who can :)

CC.

I recently derived the famous equation in my slashdot journal entry. It can be found when starting from the assumptions Einstein had when Special Relativity was first proposed. That is:

• The laws of the universe are valid in all inertial reference frames.
• The strength of electric and magnetic fields are each a certain constant in space.

From the second axiom, you can show that the speed of light only depends on the strength of electric and magnetic fields in space using Maxwell's equations. An interesting derivation that requires vector calculus, so I'll save the pain of it for you. ;-) From the first axiom, you can show that the speed of light violated Galilean Relativity.

Knowing that Galilean Relativity is still useful, Einstein proposed another assumption:

• To fix Relativity you need only a simple linear correction factor.

From that, you can derive the Lorentz Transformations. Then while examining how those transformations affect the conservation of momentum in collisions you can derive a more useful definition of momentum based on the old definition and that correction factor.

Finally using the new equations of Momentum and the Lorentz Transformations, you can redo Young's derivation of Kinetic Energy using the old definitions of velocity, force, and energy. The end result is a mass at rest still has some energy. This energy is called the rest energy and is related by the famous relation. That's what Einstein's equation says (no hokey about relativistic mass please).

Now you know why it was so . :-D

"Who cares if it's easy to deface, it's got great moderation!"

Swift (and not so swift) moderation doesn't do very much good. A friend added me to a list of famous erotic authors. It was removed.. a few weeks later. Get what? I (Aaron Gyes) am still, months later, all over the damn internet.

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-authors-of-er otic-works
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li /list_of_authors_of_erotic_works.htm
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20o f%20authors%20of%20erotic%20works
http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/List_of_erotic _authors
http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/List_of_erotic_au thors
http://web.linix.ca/pedia/index.php/List_of_erotic _authors
http://www.europe.com/index.php/List_of_authors_of _erotic_works
http://www.medicalrace.com/dictionary/List_of_erot ic_authors
http://www.dictionaryofeverything.com/explore/112/ List_of_authors_of_erotic_works.html
http://list-of-authors-of-erotic-works.iqnaut.net/
http://www.omnipelagos.com/entry?n=list_of_authors _of_erotic_works
http://www.gardeningdaily.com/flowers-and-plants/L ist_of_erotic_authors
http://www.braindex.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Lis t_of_erotic_authors
http://en.efactory.pl/List_of_erotic_authors
http://www.art-fresh.net/DisplayArticleFull314102. html
http://www.thefreeencyclopedia.com/definition/word .aspx?w=List_of_erotic_authors
http://bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/List_of_authors_o f_erotic_works
http://www.dogluvers.com/dog_breeds/List_of_erotic _authors

The government derives its just power from the consent of the governed. If you're too young to vote, it's unjust to try you as an adult.

You'd better hope that it's as accurate as they claim. May I point the honourable gentlemen at the evidence provided against the Guildford Four and the victims of Bloody Sunday. The "explosive traces" could easily have come from a pack of playing cards!

http://www.answers.com/topic/bloody-sunday

Disclaimer: I am neither Irish, nor an Irish Republican supporter

A long monotonous speech or piece of writing.

It's a new word for me. Maybe it's new for someone else.

Characteristics of Fascist Philosophy

Fascism, especially in its early stages, is obliged to be antitheoretical and frankly opportunistic in order to appeal to many diverse groups. Nevertheless, a few key concepts are basic to it. First and most important is the glorification of the state and the total subordination of the individual to it. The state is defined as an organic whole into which individuals must be absorbed for their own and the state's benefit. This "total state" is absolute in its methods and unlimited by law in its control and direction of its citizens.

A second ruling concept of fascism is embodied in the theory of social Darwinism. The doctrine of survival of the fittest and the necessity of struggle for life is applied by fascists to the life of a nation-state. Peaceful, complacent nations are seen as doomed to fall before more dynamic ones, making struggle and aggressive militarism a leading characteristic of the fascist state. Imperialism is the logical outcome of this dogma.

Another element of fascism is its elitism. Salvation from rule by the mob and the destruction of the existing social order can be effected only by an authoritarian leader who embodies the highest ideals of the nation. This concept of the leader as hero or superman, borrowed in part from the romanticism of Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Carlyle, and Richard Wagner, is closely linked with fascism's rejection of reason and intelligence and its emphasis on vision, creativeness, and "the will."

garner
tr.v., -nered, -nering, -ners.
To gather and store in or as if in a granary.
To amass; acquire. See synonyms at reap.
n.
A granary.
An accumulation or collection of something.

http://www.answers.com/garner&r=67

Old English 800

Compare Lisa with this.

I'm tired of getting this shit coming up. "All but" means "all except". That would mean the screen is in every possible state, but certainly not useless.

Why must I, for whom English only the third language, correct this kind of shit ?

had a job a few months.

I envy you. I have a job, but it pays $0.00 an hour. How should I go about finding a job that pays better so that I can afford luxuries such as the one described in the article?

Oddly, I had a person at a cat rescue tell me that my cat might be "Laconic". I remembered this word from my GRE exam:

Laconic: Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise. See synonyms at silent.
(source: http://www.answers.com/laconic)

I just had to kind of wonder how my cat was going to be using a lot of words and thus, be anything but laconic.

I'm not familiar with that name but here's a link to something that suggests it is the same as windows 3.11. It was the precursor to Windows NT.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=wfq vpb85x0qe?method=4&dsname=Wikipedia+Images&dekey=W indows+for+Workgroups+startup+logo.png&gwp=8&sbid= lc01b&linktext=%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fcont ent.answers.com%2Fmain%2Fcontent%2Fwp%2Fen%2Fthumb %2Fa%2Fae%2F180px-Windows_for_Workgroups_startup_l ogo.png%22%20alt%3D%22Windows%203.11%20startup%20l ogo%22%20height%3D%22135%22%20width%3D%22180%22%3E

it also turns each star in multi-star systems into planets, in systems where stars orbit each other.

No, because stars are already defined. Stars undergo fusion, or underwent fusion in the past. Planets do not.

what about systems where there is no star, only a gas giant or other non-star massive object? would such a system have no planets at all under your definition?

Well they wouldn't orbit a star, so they couldn't be planets. Depending on the type of interstellar object, conceivabliy they could be moons of a rogue planet, but for sake of argument we'll assume it's a brown dwarf.

I honestly don't have answer for that. I guess you could call them planetoids, but I don't find that particulary appealing. Ideally neologism based on ancient greek or latin could be created that would be a synonym for planet (i.e. "wander"), but not "planet". I'll punt and say "satellites", and be thankful that isn't the question be posed. :)

It can only be rational if you drop the "VS" thing.

Changed. Now does the comparison look less biased?

Move?

How? If I can't find a job in town, not even a part-time minimum wage job, then how can I save up $2000 for bus fare, rent, and food? How can I best leverage the six months of experience working for $0.00 per hour that I have? Even then, how can I make sure that I will actually find a job in the town to which I move?

Get friends who have one or the other who let you borrow it?

What's the most polite and most effective way to find people in town who 1. have a PSP, 2. are willing to become my friend, and 3. are willing to let me play their PSP?

I bought my PSP in Japan

Do you run into problems with UMD Video region coding? Unlike DVD Video, UMD Video is said to put Europe and Japan in separate regions.

Yes, that is true. But most of the supervising is done by the pilot. The pilot must constantly watch the computer controlled flight systems and detect any differences between the computer and his standby instruments instantly, or all sorts of bad shit can happen.

For a really good read about computer controlled flight systems and their limitations, read this article.

Your strawmen are amazing.
You posted a very long reply to my very short comment. You assumed many things that are false. You also put words into my mouth, please do not do this.


If an artist is selling her work, and I agree to buy it, but do not pay her, she would have every right to take me to court for breach of contract.

If an artist publishes her work, and I obtain a copy, but do not pay her, I have not wronged her in any way. If I make additional copies without paying her, I have not wronged her.

Artists do not have moral ownership of publishd works. when something is presented to the public, it is in the public domain, by default. Publishing a public document does not make a publisher unscrupulous.

As long as people want books to be written, they will pay people to write them. This is a feature of the free market, and does not depend on copyright. If an investor has confidence in an author, he may offer her an advance in exchange for a percentage of the book's final price, or a flat repayment. Essentially a loan, which is what I believe book advances essentially are now.

The street performer protocol is one moral way to get paid. I'm not sure I'd say I'm doing artists a favor, but I am doing them no harm. Why do you think copying is immoral?

Your position is that artists are acting in an immoral way. That makes the artists immoral. Why would you want art produced by such a person?
This is a logical fallacy. Everyone does immoral things at one time or another. I do not believe this condemns the person as a whole. Further, why would I not want art simply because it has been produced by an person who as done immoral things? If Michael Jackson molested little boys, does that change the quality of his music? I largely disagree with many political opinions of artists whose work I cherish. Why do you try to place on me a strange inhuman absolutism?

I have no secret artists. There are artists who release their work, and they do not starve. People want art, people will pay artists.

Under copyright, artists do not ask a price for their work, they ask a price for a copy. The immorality is in threatening those who would exercise their basic right to communicate information. I resepect artists, as artists, for their art. I will not respect their attempts at coercion.

Your final paragraph was mostly strawmen. I do not hate artists for using copyright. I will address the other relevant points when you can state them politely.