As I said Evolution has bee observed but the current theory of Evolution is an incomplete theory. We are learning more about it everyday.
All scientific theories are "incomplete." All theories will potentially fail eventually because they are all approximations. Newton's theory of mechanic has been shown to fail in the relativistic realm, but that doesn't mean it's not "valid."
Python is overly simplistic, making it difficult to do certain types of interesting programming.
This is by design, Python is meant to be dumbed down (in the sense that Java is) and have a clean small footprint.
And this
Perl is still a brilliant language to get the simple things done really really fast but tieing together half a dozen CPAN modules, while still having the ability to scale your code base up a hell of a long way, and the knowledge that it's fairly easy to write highly portable code.
Common wisdom (which may or may not be actual wisdom) suggests that powering up/down of computer power supplies is one of the largest sources of "wear" on computers nowadays, and so it's best to avoid that (replacing system components and increased costs in the industries to make this possible should be factored into eco-costs as well). Having systems go to sleep to various degrees presumably gets one much of the way towards being more eco-friendly without so much of this wear. That said, presumably a rigourous analysis on the topic would provide more reliable guidance.
Some paragraph. Can you, like, up a notch on ass-covering? It can use some more "presumably" and "may or may not". Throw in some "perhaps" and "possibly" too.
There is no such thing as "free market". You need a whole plethora of government regulations (property right, property tax (protecting ownership costs money), rules of transfer, etc.) before any kind of market emerges, "free" or whatever characterization you prefer to use.
How did the Monkey (or the study's authors) determine (ehem) the selection/mutation was deterministic? Being deterministic is distinct from selection favored for survival/reproduction. Btw, what theory proposes random evolution?
No, I didn't RFTA (get OUT!!). I didn't even RTF comments - mod me dupe for all I care.
Apart from that, I'll continue to consider that harsh social and organizational norms can be valid in an effectively-wartime environment where the whole culture could easily have been wiped out by surrounding cultures at any time.
"Valid" on what basis? Why don't you state YOUR ethical construct and all your corollaries?
And yet religion tells us that the eucharist transforms bread into the body of christ and wine into his blood whereas science proves that the bread remains bread and the wine remains wine no matter how much religious belief you have.
Which methodology would you prefer someone like the food standards agency to employ ?
Don't be so autistic. Many people observe religious traditions like all other traditions - we do it because we've been doing for long time, and perhaps as a way to honor those who came before us, not because it makes sense.
To paraphrase Richard Dawkin's central argument in "The God Delusion": all religion is necessarily evil because it fosters a culture in which a faith-based life is an acceptable lifestyle, which in turn leaves a society with no means of resaonably extirpating the extremists, who are truly dangerous. In other words, if moderate faith is acceptable, it is implicit that extreme faith must also be acceptable.
So your saying it is perfectly acceptable to throw the baby out with the bath water? I mean this is basically making the case that one or two bad people justify persecuting everyone right?
No, he's saying you let mosquitoes nest in your backyard, you're allowing spread of the diseases transmitted by the mosquitoes.
On a second thought, send up a really big "leaf" blower. Hm... you know, this black matter thing, it may be the accumulation of these blown-over space debris seeping through time from the future... I see Nobel prize in my future.
Also, many economists are Keynesian (taught that way). Ron Paul follows the Austrian (Von Mises) school of thought. There are significant differences between the two and also disagreements. Of course a traditional economist is going to clash with him.
I'm not an economist, but one of my degrees says "economics" (from back in the '90s), and Keynesian went out of fashion even then (much longer ago I believe). Milton Friedman, his "monetarist" followers, and other Chicago-school fellas have been winning many of the Nobel prizes and gaining field mindshare since more than a decade ago. Why don't you follow your own advice and list the books on economics Paul has wrote and why they're important.
You guys are failing to communicate because you have different premises. Batman defines character by the appearance, Arthur by its semantic (as does Unicode). Semantic definition is clearer than the visual one, especially since the appearance of the same character varies depending on the font used. The possible problem due to similar appearances remains, although I don't know how big of a problem it is/will become.
4. Slashdot is moderated largely by hypocritical children who will mod up popular opinion and mod down unpopular posts regardless of accuracy. I predict the slow demise of Slashdot as the comments area, a once fertile land of discussion and intelligent observation becomes a members only arena linux/mac fanboys and video gamers who can't envision anyone else's opinion being right other than theirs. It will be a place where where speaking ill of religion, republicans or windows will be given an automatic +2 informative while speaking ill social web sites, video games, or modding practices will be an auto -2 troll.
I actually think the comments have gotten better and reflect the widening of the reader base. Seems there are more people from different fields (lawyers, doctors, scientists of various sorts, Starbuck's "barista" (sp?), basement dwellers) than just buncha sysadmins and programmers. As for biases, it's been always like that from what I can remember. If you were to comment arguing for unpopular opinion, but do it with some intelligence, you may even win a convert or two. Like this:
Larry Wall ate too much acid - witness the Perl the burnout.
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It's the vast trans-baltic conspiracy. Boycott Lutefisk.
In other words, Apple/OS X "just works" and sucks just like all the other ones.
As I said Evolution has bee observed but the current theory of Evolution is an incomplete theory. We are learning more about it everyday.
All scientific theories are "incomplete." All theories will potentially fail eventually because they are all approximations. Newton's theory of mechanic has been shown to fail in the relativistic realm, but that doesn't mean it's not "valid."
There is no such thing as "free market". You need a whole plethora of government regulations (property right, property tax (protecting ownership costs money), rules of transfer, etc.) before any kind of market emerges, "free" or whatever characterization you prefer to use.
How did the Monkey (or the study's authors) determine (ehem) the selection/mutation was deterministic? Being deterministic is distinct from selection favored for survival/reproduction. Btw, what theory proposes random evolution? No, I didn't RFTA (get OUT!!). I didn't even RTF comments - mod me dupe for all I care.
I'm guessing MapReduce schemes are eating into traditional RDBMS market? If so, are there concrete products that implement MapReduce algorithm?
Math is supposed to be hard. That's why it's called math. Ask a Barbie.
Insightful my ass. You don't even know if you're disagreeing with the post you are replying to!! MacDouches...
Ah, the magic of analogy.
Ok, I'm an ignorant American (actually, an ignorant immigrant). 7/7??? What the fuck's that?
Just thought I sneak in a comment before 25 ceiling.
You guys are failing to communicate because you have different premises. Batman defines character by the appearance, Arthur by its semantic (as does Unicode). Semantic definition is clearer than the visual one, especially since the appearance of the same character varies depending on the font used. The possible problem due to similar appearances remains, although I don't know how big of a problem it is/will become.
Hell, like we don't. Check out the movie called "Lord of War". And the French has been shitting on West Africans for ages. Nigeria has lots of oil.