What? So, somehow the overhead of four streams on your pipe is less than one stream, and you can download four things from the same site faster than you can download one thing? Are you smoking crack? Either your ISP (or the remote server) is limiting the bandwidth consumed per stream, the servers you connect to are incredibly slow to execute select(), prozilla is connecting to multiple servers (the site's unclear on that), or your speed increase is as valid as the speed increase my car will experience after adding "NeuSpeed" stickers. Have you done back-to-back comparisons?
The automatic seelction of the fastest mirror is a neat feature, though, and probably contributes. But just using "wget" will peg my pipe as long as the other end can keep up...
Don't forget the user-agent flag - "-U 'somebrowser/1.1'" gets around those pesky sites which block downloads based on wget's default user-agent (or the user agent of many popular downloaders).:)
1) Linux desktops have almost all been around since before OS X, and could not have copied that interface. 2) OS X was partialy inspired by NeXTStep, which also inspired GnuSTEP (through the OpenStep standard). Which is *what the article's about* and which existed before OS X.
BTW, Expose just rearranges windows for you, so saying that it makes it unneccesary to rearrange windows is a bit of a stretch.
Just for the record, Drag-n-drop is only useful for simple actions - it becomes a nuiscance for more complicated tasks, or is simply non-intuitive in some situations. What if I drag a file and drop it on the icon of a text file - do I want to concatenate them, do I want to run the perl script in that text file, do I want to rename a file, do I want the guy down the hall to spontaneously combust? I drop a file in the middle of a word document. Do I want to insert the file there, do I want to open a new window, do I want to replace the current window, so I want the file name inserted at the drop point? What's intuitive to every user? What's sensible?
Argh, you blind fool. Head over to google and type in "dmca vote record". Then look at the first link, which shows everyone who voted for the DMCA. For those too lazy to even do that bit of research, I'll summarize:
Yea's - 99 Nay's - 0 Abstains - 1
That's 45 Democrats voting to pass the DMCA, 54 Republicans voting for, and one Republican not voting (presuming I counted correctly - I may have been off by one). It required a 50% majority to pass. With the unanimously Yea vote by the Democrats, it would have taken only *5* Republicans to pass the bill. Given the Democrats' unanimous support of the DMCA, it would have passed a Democrat-controlled Senate as well.
What about the Telecommunications act of 1996? Oh, look, there were a whopping 4 Democrats and one Republican voting Nay - with most of the Democrats voting Yea. Again.
So keep the crap about it being the Republicans fault (or the Democrats) to yourself - that garbage set of bills is the fault of the collective scumbags present in Washington regardless of party. Just like nearly every other right-reducing act passed in the last 50 years. Maybe if people would actually pay attention to who they're voting for and realize that they're *all* working against "us" (not just the evil "other" party), we could get some of this stupidity fixed. There's another election November 8 - that's next Tuesday. Hooray for another 10% or lower turnout, mostly of uninformed voters.
Well, there's that little problem wherin the motors are Harley-style, but are generally not made by Harley Davidson. The frames are custom-made by someone other than Harley Davidson. The other stuff is generally not Harley Davidson-made, either. I see your point, but the big custom shops generally aren't modifying new (or old) Harleys, they're building derivitive works based loosely on the specs of the originals. Just FYI.
You should also angrily mention that the shitty digicam can't transfer photos off of the phone[1] or do anything else useful via the IR port. Make sure to be very angry when mentioning this, because you bought the stupid thing explicitly for the IR support.
[1] you can assign a photo to a contact, then transfer the contact to a machine, then get the photo out of the contact info. And repeat that for each photo you want to ransfer. Which is a pain in the butt. Or you can send each photo individually via email to your WordPress install which has one of the commonly available picture mail hacks set up.
You should really shop around a little more. $10-$20 is not expensive, and you can get them up to the 25 foot range (which will take care of most anything a typical homeowner will *ever* encounter) for well under $50. It doesn't take much skill top operate one, either. I can see hiring a plumber to replace a pipe (well, for others - I'd do it myself because I have this strange compulsion to learn useful skills and I learned about plumbing a long time ago), but you can go out, buy a snake, and return before most plumbers will even get to your house. Heck, you can evev buy some Liquid Plumber for $5 and try that first, so you can return the snake.
A hint - if you oil the tool up before you put it away, it likely won't rust.
If you're paying $50 for a $12 oil change, you, my friend, *are* a retard. And welcome at my garage anytime you need your oil changed, BTW.:)
BTW, your local hardware store sells chemicals which will remove typical drain clogs for $5 to $10. Anything bigger is the result of a retard putting something in a drain that shouldn't have been - and a snake to drag it out can be purchased at your local hardware store for under $25.
I eat fast food, though, so I'll grant you that last one.
Not really (and not that I'm taking you seriously). Good "fatty" meat has the fat intertwined with the muscle - you look for a little bit of marbling in a quality cut of beef, for example. You'll also note that most animals raised for meat are "harvested" somewhat young by human standards. If you've ever eaten an old cow or pig (or fish or horse, for that matter), you'll know why - the meat gets pretty stringy and tough, and just doesn't taste very good. It's relegated to dog food and stew, rather than standing on its own. You really don't want it too young, either, as it won't cook very well (IMH non-veal-eating O).
With people, the muscle generally is not mixed with the fat - the fat deposits just build up around the muscle. On top of that, what little muscle one would get off of a human is there because it's used regularly. After just a few years, that muscle gets pretty darned stringy. And adult human probably would *not* taste very good in steak form, but might be acceptable in something like a slow-cooked barbeque, where there a lot of softening cooking and taste-masquerading sauce. Not surprisingly, that's a common theme in movies where a body is disposed of via cooking.
Based on experience raising livestock, anyway - I've never *intentionally* tried to eat a person...:)
He said that the animal souls are pure, and implied that human souls are not (presumably as a reference to "original sin"). So, cannibal or not, you're inherently impure. At least, that's what the "keepers of religion and makers of the laws" would have you believe.:)
You've been able to use Oracle 10.whatever for free for development use for a while now. I took a DB class a couple of semesters ago (one more stupid requirement for an experienced sysadmin - 10+ years - to get that damned piece of paper some short-sighted employers are so fixated upon) which use Oracle and eventually added some Cold Fusion. My two least favorite web/database products. Anyway, I grabbed what may have been Oracle 10g, and installed it just fine, for free, from their website. I guess I could reasonably be using it as a backend to my web stuff right now - it's not like the outside world has any way of knowing what DB is providing data to my PHP stuff (not to Oracle licensing nazis - I'm using MySQL, actually, but just making a point). So, the main use is probably to get that already freely available development platrom into some production use, so the potential users can see hwo well it really works in their production systems - eventually buying "the big version" when they need more power. Or, possilbly getting Oracle so ingrained that it's what they wanna use when they go elsewhere - kinda like Microsoft giving software to highschools and colleges...
BTW, BlueDragon CF server is a nice free Cold Fusion development platform, if you like that kind of thing or need it for a class...:)
I generally don't do a lot of heavy formatting on anything, allowing for some change in layout to be acceptable - but like others said, using PDF is really the way to go if layout's critical. Even MS Word isn't consistent with layout across all versions or in all cases. That's why my resumes go out in.txt - readable in the email, and I generally don't want to work for a place that requires.doc formatted resumes (hooray for me having that option, I guess).
I've always seen it as a story, much like a television series with a fictional family. We've got the man who was created first (because that's how society at the time worked - man = important), and a woman "created from his rib". The created from him thing is showing that the wife is a "part of" the husband; that she needs to be respected and cared for because she's basically "from the same mold". Then there's the devil masquerading as a snake, tempting the good folks to break the law. They're happy and carefree - efectively in Heaven (some theologists beleive that Eden wasn't actually on Earth, but rather a place between Heaven and Earth) - prior to breaking the law, and then after they break the law they know fear and shame, are kicked out of Eden and an angel with a flaming sword prevents return access until Jesus is born etc. So, episode two's moral is "obey the law, or you'll be punished". It's also a convenient way to introduce the concept that people are inherently bad until they've received permission from the giver of religion to be accepted into heaven, but we'll let that slide for now. After they're expelled, the series continues with the birth of Cain, Abel, and Seth - along with several other more minor characters, including the two daughters who Cain and Abel marry. These provide a background for other stories about being willing to sacrifice everything for God, not being jealous, leaving for a better place without "looking back", etc.
Adam was supposed to have lived for 930 years or so, which in itself seems rather unexplainable withouth presuming that he's a metaphor for the "source" of human life in the middle east (which is often cited as the origin of humans who eventually migrated all over the place)...
I meant girls as interchangeable with females - though I guess maybe they'd stop being "girls" when someone considers using the term "MILF" to describe them?:) Sarah Michelle Gellar was apparently born in 1977*, putting her at 28 - I thought she was younger than that (though I'm gonna call that young since it's just a few months younger than I am;)). And I thought that Cagney and Lacey was just a crappy show - Laverne and Shirley stayed popular (ranked in the top 3 for its first 4 seasons, including being rated number 1 for years 3 and 4)* and on the air for a long time, though. They weren't exactly young women...
* Thanks, Google - I don't know these things off the top of my head:)
You should have stayed for his whole lecture instead of falling asleep after the first few seconds of the "second law of thermodynamics" lecture. Learn what you missed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
Entropy describes the amount of randomness in a system, and basically just shows that reactions which increase entropy are not reversible - it's possible to increase entropy but not decrease it. The concept of Entropy does not mean that everything is slowly degrading. It just shows that *some* degredations can't be undone. While it may be related to things like the conversion of food to energy, or the consumption of food energy during body processes, that's the only way entropy relates to biology. DNA struture complexity has nothing to do with energy input, though for someone who beleieves that accepts an ever-increasing level of randomness it shoudl be reasonable to assume that it could well have been randomly created.
As far as scientists never observing evolution, what about the bacteria which, due to a frame-shift mutation, suddenly developed an inefficient but previously non-existant ability to digest Nylon (a synthetic substance invented in 1935)? The enzyme is only about 2% as effective as the previous carbohydrate digesting enzyme, and has been observed to occur through mutation several times, despite fairly large odds against it. One would think that, if an intelligent designer was planning for bacteria to eat nylon, this designer would have done a little more than a bit shift to make these things. I mean, is the designer just so lazy that a marginally adequate solution is all that's needed?
Why is fossil evidence or the lack therof the definitive answer as to how things evolved? It takes a pretty specific location and timing for a death to result in a fossil, and even then soem organisms will decay before fossilization can occur. Bats are a common example, IIRC. They have tiny bones which tend to go away pretty quickly. And as far as half-mutation goes, that's not how it works (I'll keep comments about some people that live down the street and who look awfully darned similar to the gorillas at the zoo). There's a series of small steps eventually diverging over a very long period of time, not just one big step or two half-steps. There are several examples of that in sea life, which is also where fossilization tends to happen. Strong evidence that evolution happens is as close as a search for the bacteria which showed up with the ability to digest nylon - a man-made substance which didn't exist until the mid 20th century. Or maybe they had the ability all along, but the proteins involved aren't beneficial in any other way, and are pretty inefficient...
My question for you, as one Christian to another, is why don't other Christians ever seem to make the jump that the Bible's "first seven days" may well be a metaphor? I mean, the Bible is *full* of friggin' metaphors - half of that stuff is not meant to be taken literally. Why does no one ever step back and think that, perhaps the whole "creation of the planet" thing is just another metaphor, created to help explain what happened between the Big Bang and the history around the time where "the stories" began, using terms that the common folk could understand? Personally, I'm partial to that viewpoint. I believe that there's a supernatureal force that we don't understand, and that things go better when people follow their concience - which is the underlying idea behind most religion (be good, die happy, and you'll always be that way). I even beleive that said force was around from the beginning, and may have guided evloution along. However, given that lots of religions just happen to involve "rules" which, conveniently, keep the commoners in their place while the few who "really understand" get to keep handing the rules out, I'm a bit skeptical of the likelyhood of there being any accuracy in the details related about how the world came to be. Heck, the Bible doesn't even *give* details - it's just a few paragraphs that lead into people crankin' out babies who started wars and brought about the "modern" world. Just look at any long-lived insestuous ruling order (Egypt, for one) for an example of how well everyone coming from the same parents works out - the Garden of Eden is almost *definitely* a metaphor.:)
I dunno, I'm pretty sure that both camps are actually relating the same story. I'll bet they could both see the forest if all those darned trees weren't in their way...
I think they mistyped the version in the article. The 2.6 series is considered stable, and doesn't get a bunch of new features added liek this without several months of testing. New features of this magnitude would be in 2.7, or maybe 2.6.x-ac. For years, even minor numbers have meant stable and odd unstable. Geez, get with the program guys.:)
I personally found it odd that they mentioned shows whose main characters are generally thought of as "cute girls" and claimed that as the reason more *women* were watching...
Maybe that firm could devise a service wherin they rent out processor time on their grid during that idle time! It'd be great - people could just use what they need rather than investing in a complete grid that they wouldn't totally utilize themselves! Wait...
Yup - I've had to "real_cloudmaster" a few sites in the past. It's annoying - esp. when the person who got there before me hasn't actively used the account in "a while" (on sites where there are ways of finding that out).
It's not really a visible number anymore either - just a qualitative "excellent" (or some other term I've not seen because I was pegged at 50 when that switch happened and I tend to not troll enough to have dropped significantly since). I was dissapointed because I used to have "Maintain 50 Karma on Slashdot" in my "other stuff" setion of my resume - depending on the anticipated sense of humor at the recipient's end, of course.:)
Slashdot Mirror
What? So, somehow the overhead of four streams on your pipe is less than one stream, and you can download four things from the same site faster than you can download one thing? Are you smoking crack? Either your ISP (or the remote server) is limiting the bandwidth consumed per stream, the servers you connect to are incredibly slow to execute select(), prozilla is connecting to multiple servers (the site's unclear on that), or your speed increase is as valid as the speed increase my car will experience after adding "NeuSpeed" stickers. Have you done back-to-back comparisons?
The automatic seelction of the fastest mirror is a neat feature, though, and probably contributes. But just using "wget" will peg my pipe as long as the other end can keep up...
Don't forget the user-agent flag - "-U 'somebrowser/1.1'" gets around those pesky sites which block downloads based on wget's default user-agent (or the user agent of many popular downloaders). :)
there are pizza boxes on the floor and AlphaServers in the rack but no wife in my house.
Matter and anti-matter, my friend. They just don't mix.
1) Linux desktops have almost all been around since before OS X, and could not have copied that interface.
2) OS X was partialy inspired by NeXTStep, which also inspired GnuSTEP (through the OpenStep standard). Which is *what the article's about* and which existed before OS X.
BTW, Expose just rearranges windows for you, so saying that it makes it unneccesary to rearrange windows is a bit of a stretch.
Just for the record, Drag-n-drop is only useful for simple actions - it becomes a nuiscance for more complicated tasks, or is simply non-intuitive in some situations. What if I drag a file and drop it on the icon of a text file - do I want to concatenate them, do I want to run the perl script in that text file, do I want to rename a file, do I want the guy down the hall to spontaneously combust? I drop a file in the middle of a word document. Do I want to insert the file there, do I want to open a new window, do I want to replace the current window, so I want the file name inserted at the drop point? What's intuitive to every user? What's sensible?
I'm not sure who'd want condoms branded by a company known for their "compact" vehicles driven by kids who are "all show and no go"... :)
Argh, you blind fool. Head over to google and type in "dmca vote record". Then look at the first link, which shows everyone who voted for the DMCA. For those too lazy to even do that bit of research, I'll summarize:
Yea's - 99
Nay's - 0
Abstains - 1
That's 45 Democrats voting to pass the DMCA, 54 Republicans voting for, and one Republican not voting (presuming I counted correctly - I may have been off by one). It required a 50% majority to pass. With the unanimously Yea vote by the Democrats, it would have taken only *5* Republicans to pass the bill. Given the Democrats' unanimous support of the DMCA, it would have passed a Democrat-controlled Senate as well.
What about the Telecommunications act of 1996? Oh, look, there were a whopping 4 Democrats and one Republican voting Nay - with most of the Democrats voting Yea. Again.
So keep the crap about it being the Republicans fault (or the Democrats) to yourself - that garbage set of bills is the fault of the collective scumbags present in Washington regardless of party. Just like nearly every other right-reducing act passed in the last 50 years. Maybe if people would actually pay attention to who they're voting for and realize that they're *all* working against "us" (not just the evil "other" party), we could get some of this stupidity fixed. There's another election November 8 - that's next Tuesday. Hooray for another 10% or lower turnout, mostly of uninformed voters.
Well, there's that little problem wherin the motors are Harley-style, but are generally not made by Harley Davidson. The frames are custom-made by someone other than Harley Davidson. The other stuff is generally not Harley Davidson-made, either. I see your point, but the big custom shops generally aren't modifying new (or old) Harleys, they're building derivitive works based loosely on the specs of the originals. Just FYI.
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You can build a brand new '67-'69 Camaro without any GM-produced prducts, too: http://www.dynacorn.com/site/14classics/classic.h
You should also angrily mention that the shitty digicam can't transfer photos off of the phone[1] or do anything else useful via the IR port. Make sure to be very angry when mentioning this, because you bought the stupid thing explicitly for the IR support.
[1] you can assign a photo to a contact, then transfer the contact to a machine, then get the photo out of the contact info. And repeat that for each photo you want to ransfer. Which is a pain in the butt. Or you can send each photo individually via email to your WordPress install which has one of the commonly available picture mail hacks set up.
You should really shop around a little more. $10-$20 is not expensive, and you can get them up to the 25 foot range (which will take care of most anything a typical homeowner will *ever* encounter) for well under $50. It doesn't take much skill top operate one, either. I can see hiring a plumber to replace a pipe (well, for others - I'd do it myself because I have this strange compulsion to learn useful skills and I learned about plumbing a long time ago), but you can go out, buy a snake, and return before most plumbers will even get to your house. Heck, you can evev buy some Liquid Plumber for $5 and try that first, so you can return the snake.
A hint - if you oil the tool up before you put it away, it likely won't rust.
If you're paying $50 for a $12 oil change, you, my friend, *are* a retard. And welcome at my garage anytime you need your oil changed, BTW. :)
BTW, your local hardware store sells chemicals which will remove typical drain clogs for $5 to $10. Anything bigger is the result of a retard putting something in a drain that shouldn't have been - and a snake to drag it out can be purchased at your local hardware store for under $25.
I eat fast food, though, so I'll grant you that last one.
Not really (and not that I'm taking you seriously). Good "fatty" meat has the fat intertwined with the muscle - you look for a little bit of marbling in a quality cut of beef, for example. You'll also note that most animals raised for meat are "harvested" somewhat young by human standards. If you've ever eaten an old cow or pig (or fish or horse, for that matter), you'll know why - the meat gets pretty stringy and tough, and just doesn't taste very good. It's relegated to dog food and stew, rather than standing on its own. You really don't want it too young, either, as it won't cook very well (IMH non-veal-eating O).
:)
With people, the muscle generally is not mixed with the fat - the fat deposits just build up around the muscle. On top of that, what little muscle one would get off of a human is there because it's used regularly. After just a few years, that muscle gets pretty darned stringy. And adult human probably would *not* taste very good in steak form, but might be acceptable in something like a slow-cooked barbeque, where there a lot of softening cooking and taste-masquerading sauce. Not surprisingly, that's a common theme in movies where a body is disposed of via cooking.
Based on experience raising livestock, anyway - I've never *intentionally* tried to eat a person...
He said that the animal souls are pure, and implied that human souls are not (presumably as a reference to "original sin"). So, cannibal or not, you're inherently impure. At least, that's what the "keepers of religion and makers of the laws" would have you believe. :)
You've been able to use Oracle 10.whatever for free for development use for a while now. I took a DB class a couple of semesters ago (one more stupid requirement for an experienced sysadmin - 10+ years - to get that damned piece of paper some short-sighted employers are so fixated upon) which use Oracle and eventually added some Cold Fusion. My two least favorite web/database products. Anyway, I grabbed what may have been Oracle 10g, and installed it just fine, for free, from their website. I guess I could reasonably be using it as a backend to my web stuff right now - it's not like the outside world has any way of knowing what DB is providing data to my PHP stuff (not to Oracle licensing nazis - I'm using MySQL, actually, but just making a point). So, the main use is probably to get that already freely available development platrom into some production use, so the potential users can see hwo well it really works in their production systems - eventually buying "the big version" when they need more power. Or, possilbly getting Oracle so ingrained that it's what they wanna use when they go elsewhere - kinda like Microsoft giving software to highschools and colleges...
:)
BTW, BlueDragon CF server is a nice free Cold Fusion development platform, if you like that kind of thing or need it for a class...
I generally don't do a lot of heavy formatting on anything, allowing for some change in layout to be acceptable - but like others said, using PDF is really the way to go if layout's critical. Even MS Word isn't consistent with layout across all versions or in all cases. That's why my resumes go out in .txt - readable in the email, and I generally don't want to work for a place that requires .doc formatted resumes (hooray for me having that option, I guess).
I've always seen it as a story, much like a television series with a fictional family. We've got the man who was created first (because that's how society at the time worked - man = important), and a woman "created from his rib". The created from him thing is showing that the wife is a "part of" the husband; that she needs to be respected and cared for because she's basically "from the same mold". Then there's the devil masquerading as a snake, tempting the good folks to break the law. They're happy and carefree - efectively in Heaven (some theologists beleive that Eden wasn't actually on Earth, but rather a place between Heaven and Earth) - prior to breaking the law, and then after they break the law they know fear and shame, are kicked out of Eden and an angel with a flaming sword prevents return access until Jesus is born etc. So, episode two's moral is "obey the law, or you'll be punished". It's also a convenient way to introduce the concept that people are inherently bad until they've received permission from the giver of religion to be accepted into heaven, but we'll let that slide for now. After they're expelled, the series continues with the birth of Cain, Abel, and Seth - along with several other more minor characters, including the two daughters who Cain and Abel marry. These provide a background for other stories about being willing to sacrifice everything for God, not being jealous, leaving for a better place without "looking back", etc.
Adam was supposed to have lived for 930 years or so, which in itself seems rather unexplainable withouth presuming that he's a metaphor for the "source" of human life in the middle east (which is often cited as the origin of humans who eventually migrated all over the place)...
I meant girls as interchangeable with females - though I guess maybe they'd stop being "girls" when someone considers using the term "MILF" to describe them? :) Sarah Michelle Gellar was apparently born in 1977*, putting her at 28 - I thought she was younger than that (though I'm gonna call that young since it's just a few months younger than I am ;)). And I thought that Cagney and Lacey was just a crappy show - Laverne and Shirley stayed popular (ranked in the top 3 for its first 4 seasons, including being rated number 1 for years 3 and 4)* and on the air for a long time, though. They weren't exactly young women...
:)
* Thanks, Google - I don't know these things off the top of my head
My pamphlet, a PhD in Chemical Engineering.
You should have stayed for his whole lecture instead of falling asleep after the first few seconds of the "second law of thermodynamics" lecture. Learn what you missed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
Entropy describes the amount of randomness in a system, and basically just shows that reactions which increase entropy are not reversible - it's possible to increase entropy but not decrease it. The concept of Entropy does not mean that everything is slowly degrading. It just shows that *some* degredations can't be undone. While it may be related to things like the conversion of food to energy, or the consumption of food energy during body processes, that's the only way entropy relates to biology. DNA struture complexity has nothing to do with energy input, though for someone who beleieves that accepts an ever-increasing level of randomness it shoudl be reasonable to assume that it could well have been randomly created.
As far as scientists never observing evolution, what about the bacteria which, due to a frame-shift mutation, suddenly developed an inefficient but previously non-existant ability to digest Nylon (a synthetic substance invented in 1935)? The enzyme is only about 2% as effective as the previous carbohydrate digesting enzyme, and has been observed to occur through mutation several times, despite fairly large odds against it. One would think that, if an intelligent designer was planning for bacteria to eat nylon, this designer would have done a little more than a bit shift to make these things. I mean, is the designer just so lazy that a marginally adequate solution is all that's needed?
Why is fossil evidence or the lack therof the definitive answer as to how things evolved? It takes a pretty specific location and timing for a death to result in a fossil, and even then soem organisms will decay before fossilization can occur. Bats are a common example, IIRC. They have tiny bones which tend to go away pretty quickly. And as far as half-mutation goes, that's not how it works (I'll keep comments about some people that live down the street and who look awfully darned similar to the gorillas at the zoo). There's a series of small steps eventually diverging over a very long period of time, not just one big step or two half-steps. There are several examples of that in sea life, which is also where fossilization tends to happen. Strong evidence that evolution happens is as close as a search for the bacteria which showed up with the ability to digest nylon - a man-made substance which didn't exist until the mid 20th century. Or maybe they had the ability all along, but the proteins involved aren't beneficial in any other way, and are pretty inefficient...
:)
My question for you, as one Christian to another, is why don't other Christians ever seem to make the jump that the Bible's "first seven days" may well be a metaphor? I mean, the Bible is *full* of friggin' metaphors - half of that stuff is not meant to be taken literally. Why does no one ever step back and think that, perhaps the whole "creation of the planet" thing is just another metaphor, created to help explain what happened between the Big Bang and the history around the time where "the stories" began, using terms that the common folk could understand? Personally, I'm partial to that viewpoint. I believe that there's a supernatureal force that we don't understand, and that things go better when people follow their concience - which is the underlying idea behind most religion (be good, die happy, and you'll always be that way). I even beleive that said force was around from the beginning, and may have guided evloution along. However, given that lots of religions just happen to involve "rules" which, conveniently, keep the commoners in their place while the few who "really understand" get to keep handing the rules out, I'm a bit skeptical of the likelyhood of there being any accuracy in the details related about how the world came to be. Heck, the Bible doesn't even *give* details - it's just a few paragraphs that lead into people crankin' out babies who started wars and brought about the "modern" world. Just look at any long-lived insestuous ruling order (Egypt, for one) for an example of how well everyone coming from the same parents works out - the Garden of Eden is almost *definitely* a metaphor.
I dunno, I'm pretty sure that both camps are actually relating the same story. I'll bet they could both see the forest if all those darned trees weren't in their way...
I think they mistyped the version in the article. The 2.6 series is considered stable, and doesn't get a bunch of new features added liek this without several months of testing. New features of this magnitude would be in 2.7, or maybe 2.6.x-ac. For years, even minor numbers have meant stable and odd unstable. Geez, get with the program guys. :)
I personally found it odd that they mentioned shows whose main characters are generally thought of as "cute girls" and claimed that as the reason more *women* were watching...
You're using RTF with a .doc extension, right?
Maybe that firm could devise a service wherin they rent out processor time on their grid during that idle time! It'd be great - people could just use what they need rather than investing in a complete grid that they wouldn't totally utilize themselves! Wait...
Yup - I've had to "real_cloudmaster" a few sites in the past. It's annoying - esp. when the person who got there before me hasn't actively used the account in "a while" (on sites where there are ways of finding that out).
It's not really a visible number anymore either - just a qualitative "excellent" (or some other term I've not seen because I was pegged at 50 when that switch happened and I tend to not troll enough to have dropped significantly since). I was dissapointed because I used to have "Maintain 50 Karma on Slashdot" in my "other stuff" setion of my resume - depending on the anticipated sense of humor at the recipient's end, of course. :)
Is it getting warm in here?