I believe you can set Firefox to start up with "my previous session"; I know Opera does that by default. It sounds like that extension could share sessions across computers, but of course it's dead now.
Supposedly, Opera Link will eventually sync sessions, but at the moment it only does speed dial, notes, and bookmarks (which I haven't used since I discovered sessions and speed dial...).
Who cares if it is "truly" curved? It just has to have the same overall effect.
If you prefer another example beyond Buckminster, look at the game Asteroids. The game is as discrete as a universe gets- integer location values, after all. And yet the rules of that universe are such that it has equivalent topology to a toroid.
Or perhaps, "What's the difference between them and cell cultures removed from your body? Especially if we could clone those?", ignoring that fertilized embryos are becoming human and samples are not? If you destroy a culture from your body, you remain alive. In the case of an embryo, that culture is their body.
In the end, it does seem to come down to what defines an "individual". The (practically always) new combination of DNA formed during fertilization seems the most explicit.
The situation of cloning from a sample of your own tissue muddles things, though. The fact that tissue doesn't naturally revert into an embryo would seem to be the clearest line here. Once a human has delibrately set the cell line on an organism-replicating path, one may as well treat it as a new individual, as one would have essentially "thrown the switch" normally reserved for post-fertilization development.
Depends on your personality. Some people might angst, some would think it cool. I'd prefer it to being dead, in any case.
In cases of identity, though, asking "how would YOU feel" isn't as helpful. You weren't born with the ability to glow under a blacklight, so you really wouldn't know what it's like to grow up that way.
That said, people have coped with far worse problems. This wouldn't even be an inconvience, aside from close-minded people fed by Hollywood.
So? Tropes Are Not Bad. Indeed, having more Genre Savvy readers can give a good writer more possibilities- if you know that the readers expect certain conventions, you can mess with them through inversions, subversions, deconstructions, etc.
And a completely original work would be incomprehensible- even if you allowed it to be written in an existing language, you couldn't use any of our physics, or even the concept of directed linear time.
I've never understood why some people consider aliens = advanced = "enlightened". Sure, it makes for convenient sci-fi social commentary and deus ex machinas, but given our current sample size, intelligent life is probably less than pacifistic.
For all we know, we could come across as paragons to them for never having an out-and-out nuclear war.
And if one uses an XSLT stylesheet, one needn't even include the header/sidebar/footer on each page- just let the XSLT wrap it around the content div.
Really, given how even IE6 supports it, XSLT is almost criminally underused...
So far, I've only heard vague progressions like you've just given. Which bases of which genes changed, in what order? Until one can establish hard details like that, as opposed to hazy "trait x APPEARS!" statements, saying evolution is the cause gives one no more information than saying "God did it", "aliens did it", or even "spaghetti did it."
True. Microsoft actually does have technical ideas worth considering. However, I wouldn't want to see Microsoft politically in charge of any of these efforts, given the influence of their marketing department.
Can you provide any (even hypothetical) mutation-by-mutation walkthroughs of the development of any complex structure? For "evolution" (whatever that nebulous term means today) to be compelling to me, it needs to be able to provide predictions at all scales, not just the macroscopic.
Looking through my textbooks, I find plenty of description of natural selection. Sometimes there's even a couple paragraphs on mutation. But then they label the whole section "Evolution" and continue on to other subjects.
So far, I have yet to see any convincing arguments that mutation can produce innovative changes. Sure, there are cases of antibiotic resistance, but most of them seem to be merely disabling the mechanisms exploited by the antibiotic, as opposed to actually developing a defense against the antibiotic itself.
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You can set up Opera that way, but it involves a lot of obscure setting-tweaking for the menu-bar-on-one-line effect.
So I have to grant a small point to Firefox for UI configurability. I still prefer Opera's look overall, though.
Tip for you to save more space, though- get rid of the Google bar and just set up a search shortcut.
Except that they aren't mirroring it; they fetch the information off of wikipedia each request, as opposed to caching or something like that.
In short, wasting Wikipedia's bandwidth and your time.
Actually, if it uses the external image trick, it can tell your version of Windows, if the image HTTP request includes a user-agent header.
Doesn't apply to all readers, sure; I don't know if standalone readers bother with that header, and most web services block images until ok'd.
I believe you can set Firefox to start up with "my previous session"; I know Opera does that by default. It sounds like that extension could share sessions across computers, but of course it's dead now.
Supposedly, Opera Link will eventually sync sessions, but at the moment it only does speed dial, notes, and bookmarks (which I haven't used since I discovered sessions and speed dial...).
Sure thing!
In Firefox, go to http://link.opera.com/
It's not just position- the green light actually has a bit of blue mixed into it.
I don't see Apple making it a priority, though. Maybe later, when Cocoa games have already set a quality benchmark.
Don't browsers usually cache DNS data? Most casual users will probably already have Google in there.
Who cares if it is "truly" curved? It just has to have the same overall effect.
If you prefer another example beyond Buckminster, look at the game Asteroids. The game is as discrete as a universe gets- integer location values, after all. And yet the rules of that universe are such that it has equivalent topology to a toroid.
Nonsense. Look at the faces of a geodesic dome. Each face is discrete, but the structure as a whole is curved for all practical purposes.
You mean a software update that masks nail clippers?
They'll probably just number it 10.10.x.
The Wii is actually sold at a profit, last I heard. More importantly, it has the advantage of an on-average less technically inclined user base.
In the end, it does seem to come down to what defines an "individual". The (practically always) new combination of DNA formed during fertilization seems the most explicit.
The situation of cloning from a sample of your own tissue muddles things, though. The fact that tissue doesn't naturally revert into an embryo would seem to be the clearest line here. Once a human has delibrately set the cell line on an organism-replicating path, one may as well treat it as a new individual, as one would have essentially "thrown the switch" normally reserved for post-fertilization development.
Depends on your personality. Some people might angst, some would think it cool. I'd prefer it to being dead, in any case.
In cases of identity, though, asking "how would YOU feel" isn't as helpful. You weren't born with the ability to glow under a blacklight, so you really wouldn't know what it's like to grow up that way.
That said, people have coped with far worse problems. This wouldn't even be an inconvience, aside from close-minded people fed by Hollywood.
So? Tropes Are Not Bad. Indeed, having more Genre Savvy readers can give a good writer more possibilities- if you know that the readers expect certain conventions, you can mess with them through inversions, subversions, deconstructions, etc.
And a completely original work would be incomprehensible- even if you allowed it to be written in an existing language, you couldn't use any of our physics, or even the concept of directed linear time.
I've never understood why some people consider aliens = advanced = "enlightened". Sure, it makes for convenient sci-fi social commentary and deus ex machinas, but given our current sample size, intelligent life is probably less than pacifistic.
For all we know, we could come across as paragons to them for never having an out-and-out nuclear war.
And if one uses an XSLT stylesheet, one needn't even include the header/sidebar/footer on each page- just let the XSLT wrap it around the content div.
Really, given how even IE6 supports it, XSLT is almost criminally underused...
So far, I've only heard vague progressions like you've just given. Which bases of which genes changed, in what order? Until one can establish hard details like that, as opposed to hazy "trait x APPEARS!" statements, saying evolution is the cause gives one no more information than saying "God did it", "aliens did it", or even "spaghetti did it."
True. Microsoft actually does have technical ideas worth considering. However, I wouldn't want to see Microsoft politically in charge of any of these efforts, given the influence of their marketing department.
Faruk Ates says this is the replacement.
Can you provide any (even hypothetical) mutation-by-mutation walkthroughs of the development of any complex structure? For "evolution" (whatever that nebulous term means today) to be compelling to me, it needs to be able to provide predictions at all scales, not just the macroscopic.
Looking through my textbooks, I find plenty of description of natural selection. Sometimes there's even a couple paragraphs on mutation. But then they label the whole section "Evolution" and continue on to other subjects.
So far, I have yet to see any convincing arguments that mutation can produce innovative changes. Sure, there are cases of antibiotic resistance, but most of them seem to be merely disabling the mechanisms exploited by the antibiotic, as opposed to actually developing a defense against the antibiotic itself.
You mean a hovercat?
I hope Schrodinger has an indoor cat...