Are you kidding? No conflicts other than the Galileo affair? Let's look at the history of the Greeks and Romans, shall we? Many scientists and philosophers flourished under those cultures. Thales, Democrates, Eratosthenes, Hypatia, Euclid, Archimedes, etc. Who suppressed their works? Could it be... early Christians? Who preserved their works for Europe to rediscovered hundreds of years later? Could it be those "heathen" Arabs? Let us not forget the other great accomplishments of Christian missionaries such as the complete destruction of Incan and Aztec culture. How about the Scopes monkey trial? Do you not call that a conflict between religion and science? To call Christianity the birthplace of science is revisionism of the highest degree. The Greek, Roman, Chinese, Indian, etc philosophers conducted science just fine before Christ came around, thank you very much.
I'm not sure how I feel about this Dilbert Hole thing, but I really don't think you can compare it to the Dysfunctional Family Circus. The Family Circus is well known to be a ultra-conservative white-bread "happy-happy" comic. Thus DFC really is a parody of Family Circus. The Dilbert Hole, on the other hand, doesn't really parody anything. It doesn't try to jab at Scott Adams pseudo-proworker stance, it doesn't parody the characters in Dilbert. In other words, it isn't a parody. But DFC most definitely is.
What do you mean Lynx doesn't have progressive rendering? Do you mean loading a page as it's being downloaded? This was actually added in lynx2.8.1. Check it out. It's _very_ nice.
I'm 16 (almost 17). I'm a junior in college. If someone can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality by at worst 12 years old, they're in deep trouble. I know of plenty of 25 year-olds who are much less mature than my younger brother (who's in 2nd grade). I've played Quake and Doom before, but I'm not going around shooting people. Or even thinking about shooting people. Have you ever heard of a thing called release? Would you rather have people release their anger by shooting at real people that at Cacodemons? And no, I'm not even a Libertarian.
Weird... I could swear that link in the original posting was to a different article from BBC. In fact, I remember it was linked to the article "Movie pioneer Kubrick dies" and not "Kubrick: A film odyssey". So either the BBC changed their pages or somebody changed the Slashdot link. Oh well. Whatever
OK. Just found a better article about this on the AP Wire site (wire.ap.org). According to Warner Bros, Eyes Wide Shut will still be released on July 16.
It's time to mourn the passing of another great director. *sigh* We've had Akira Kurosawa and Sam Fuller die within the last couple of years. Now Kubrick. Hopefully Bergman will stay with us for a while. The question now is, what will happen to Eyes Wide Shut?
I love RedHat and all, but you'd think they'd know to make their site somewhat lynx friendly. There's god darned [inline]'s all over the place. There isn't even a text based version. Oh well...
My German's not that great either, but I think "suse" is more properly "zoozah", since both s's should be pronouced sort of like z's. Think of words like sieben and sammeln. Truth is though, I can't think of a German word (non English derived) that starts with "su"... hrm... But even the English derived ones like "super" are pronounced with a z sound. But the, there's words like spass. Anyways... just to through some more confusion into the circle...
I'm not sure about this ('m definitely no expert in this area), but the Mathematica 3.0 protection scheme seems pretty solid. Of course, I've never really tried looking for cracks and such, since I have a legal copy. Does anybody know if a crack for Mathematica exists?
Since it's actually using mpg123 as its base, I don't think there should be a problem any more. On my PII-400, mpg123 starts off using around 60%, drops to around 20% in less than a second, and eventually gets down to around 5%. Note that I've got a 4MB buffer on it, which is probably the reason for the heavy usage at the beginning.
> (GNU is not free- it was paid for out of your taxes!)
Where the heck are you getting this from? Are you prepared to back up this statement? Or are you just falling for the old "all OSS people are communists" propaganda?
I'd have to disagree with the sentiment that science programs don't teach practical problem solving skills. In my (admittedly limited) experience, science programs teach problem solving on a very abstract level. It is up to the student to apply those abstract problem solving skills to practical problems, but the abstract approach helps develop much higher critical thinking skills (IMHO). It is my perception that engineering programs tend toward the "look it up in a book" problem solving mentality. In a computer setting, this is often quite sufficient (and maybe preferred), but there may always be situations where the documentation just doesn't cut it. Note that for my statements regarding science programs, I'm assuming a Moore Method approach to teaching. Take my statements with a grain of salt, though, since I am a double CS and math major, so I'm probably at least a little biased. Just my 2 bytes.
Darn. I guess we should all go tell Linus Torvalds and Donald Knuth that they doesn't know anything about programming.
Come on people. Having a CS degree does not automatically make you clueless. Sure, there are many CS majors who are completely clueless, and there are many self-taught people who are very good at programming. But don't generalize like you just did or you'll just sound like an idiot.
BTW, I'm pursuing a math and CS degree, so I must be in some state of limbo between geekdom and cluelessness, right?
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Are you kidding? No conflicts other than the Galileo affair? Let's look at the history of the Greeks and Romans, shall we? Many scientists and philosophers flourished under those cultures. Thales, Democrates, Eratosthenes, Hypatia, Euclid, Archimedes, etc. Who suppressed their works? Could it be... early Christians? Who preserved their works for Europe to rediscovered hundreds of years later? Could it be those "heathen" Arabs?
Let us not forget the other great accomplishments of Christian missionaries such as the complete destruction of Incan and Aztec culture. How about the Scopes monkey trial? Do you not call that a conflict between religion and science?
To call Christianity the birthplace of science is revisionism of the highest degree. The Greek, Roman, Chinese, Indian, etc philosophers conducted science just fine before Christ came around, thank you very much.
Haven't you heard hallucinogens are bad for your health?
I'm not sure how I feel about this Dilbert Hole thing, but I really don't think you can compare it to the Dysfunctional Family Circus. The Family Circus is well known to be a ultra-conservative white-bread "happy-happy" comic. Thus DFC really is a parody of Family Circus. The Dilbert Hole, on the other hand, doesn't really parody anything. It doesn't try to jab at Scott Adams pseudo-proworker stance, it doesn't parody the characters in Dilbert. In other words, it isn't a parody. But DFC most definitely is.
What do you mean Lynx doesn't have progressive rendering? Do you mean loading a page as it's being downloaded? This was actually added in lynx2.8.1. Check it out. It's _very_ nice.
I'm 16 (almost 17). I'm a junior in college. If someone can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality by at worst 12 years old, they're in deep trouble. I know of plenty of 25 year-olds who are much less mature than my younger brother (who's in 2nd grade). I've played Quake and Doom before, but I'm not going around shooting people. Or even thinking about shooting people. Have you ever heard of a thing called release? Would you rather have people release their anger by shooting at real people that at Cacodemons? And no, I'm not even a Libertarian.
Weird... I could swear that link in the original posting was to a different article from BBC. In fact, I remember it was linked to the article "Movie pioneer Kubrick dies" and not "Kubrick: A film odyssey". So either the BBC changed their pages or somebody changed the Slashdot link. Oh well. Whatever
OK. Just found a better article about this on the AP Wire site (wire.ap.org). According to Warner Bros, Eyes Wide Shut will still be released on July 16.
Huh? He was, AFAIK, not involved with that movie at all.
It's time to mourn the passing of another great director. *sigh* We've had Akira Kurosawa and Sam Fuller die within the last couple of years. Now Kubrick. Hopefully Bergman will stay with us for a while.
The question now is, what will happen to Eyes Wide Shut?
I love RedHat and all, but you'd think they'd know to make their site somewhat lynx friendly. There's god darned [inline]'s all over the place. There isn't even a text based version. Oh well...
My German's not that great either, but I think "suse" is more properly "zoozah", since both s's should be pronouced sort of like z's. Think of words like sieben and sammeln. Truth is though, I can't think of a German word (non English derived) that starts with "su"... hrm... But even the English derived ones like "super" are pronounced with a z sound. But the, there's words like spass. Anyways... just to through some more confusion into the circle...
I'm not sure about this ('m definitely no expert in this area), but the Mathematica 3.0 protection scheme seems pretty solid. Of course, I've never really tried looking for cracks and such, since I have a legal copy. Does anybody know if a crack for Mathematica exists?
Since it's actually using mpg123 as its base, I don't think there should be a problem any more. On my PII-400, mpg123 starts off using around 60%, drops to around 20% in less than a second, and eventually gets down to around 5%. Note that I've got a 4MB buffer on it, which is probably the reason for the heavy usage at the beginning.
> (GNU is not free- it was paid for out of your taxes!)
Where the heck are you getting this from? Are you prepared to back up this statement? Or are you just falling for the old "all OSS people are communists" propaganda?
Um... I didn't see this particular episode of
Wall $treet Journal, but I think the post was
referring to a _guest_ on the show.
Just FYI...
I'd have to disagree with the sentiment that science programs don't teach practical problem solving skills. In my (admittedly limited) experience, science programs teach problem solving on a very abstract level. It is up to the student to apply those abstract problem solving skills to practical problems, but the abstract approach helps develop much higher critical thinking skills (IMHO). It is my perception that engineering programs tend toward the "look it up in a book" problem solving mentality. In a computer setting, this is often quite sufficient (and maybe preferred), but there may always be situations where the documentation just doesn't cut it.
Note that for my statements regarding science programs, I'm assuming a Moore Method approach to teaching.
Take my statements with a grain of salt, though, since I am a double CS and math major, so I'm probably at least a little biased.
Just my 2 bytes.
Darn. I guess we should all go tell Linus Torvalds and Donald Knuth that they doesn't know anything about programming.
Come on people. Having a CS degree does not automatically make you clueless. Sure, there are many CS majors who are completely clueless, and there are many self-taught people who are very good at programming. But don't generalize like you just did or you'll just sound like an idiot.
BTW, I'm pursuing a math and CS degree, so I must be in some state of limbo between geekdom and cluelessness, right?