Actually, no, there isn't really enough mass inferred from the luminuous material to keep the galaxies spinning as fast as they do without breaking apart. And no, even the black hole cannot account for all that missing. This problem is known as the dark matter problem in astrophysics.
It matters to me, and I couldn't care less about the masses or ease of use. I care about something that works for me, and that is free of patents and other traps.
I'm sick of people that think that "masses" are all that matters, if that was the case we would be all running Windows, listening to boys/girls bands, looking TV, drinking coca-cola and living in a big city.
Whatever the masses do, OGG is one of the most important projects out there to protect my freedom of using a hight quality audio format, if you don't like it, unlike with some other "DRM enabled" formats, you wont be obligated to use it any time soon.
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I am afraid I don't understand the materialist position. Should a materialist believe in neutrinoes? And if a materialist believed it, does that mean he's a spiritualist?
To say that examiners have no motivation to reject just for rejection's sake is asinine. Examiners don't grant or reject based on the PTO's ability to earn money from fees. They do it based on the fact that it's their job.
Unless what I have read from slashdot is wrong, for many years, patent examiners were rewarded based on the numbers of patents they granted. So the above poster is trying to correct for this. But your idea, of going back to the original state of affairs, may also work. But I suspect that even if individual examiners weren't rewarded, the entire PTO itself may be rewarded for merely rubberstamping applications, so it still wouldn't work.
The point of the penalization, is to make the applicants think hard about how much the patent is really worth. To the swamping of the office by obvious and silly patents.
I stand corrected. And organization can have goals, which sound like motives for people. But an organization cannot ever have enotions. A man is not the organization.
I don't understand why people keep attributing motives and emotions to an organization like the FSF. FSF wrote a lot of GNU tools like gzip, sed, cat. They consciously set out to duplicate each and every piece of the software on Unix, whether it was glamorous work or not.
Now that they've done it, I have no problems giving them a little credit by typiing GNU/Linux, but still using "Lih-nooks" conversationally. Why is spelling things this way hard? It would be hard to write an emacs Macro that inserted "GNU" everytime one typed "Linux".
Heck, if one think this is petty, then it's even pettier to complain about the pettiness. (And I know what I just did: complain about your pettiness. So there!)
With all due respect, I think the Easterner's metaphysics is way too overrated. They make for a good survivalist attitude towards life and the universe. That's about it. There's nothing extremely deep about it, and it definitely does not suit all sorts of temperaments.
The reason for this is not to be a troll. I say this becuase I was brought up an Easterner, and I know too many people who claim deep understanding, when the point of it is not *understanding*. Thus my criticism.
David Brin's literary decontruction of George Lucas is perfectly right. His method of borrowing the tropes of Eastern mysticism lacks true understanding of the mind of a oriental philosophers. And it shows, in his ridiculous plotline.
And what difference is there between a cert in algorithm analysis, and a course in discrete maths + formal languages?
The problem of the certs, is that no employer can know or specify, in advance, exactly and precisely what future problem needs to be solved. The point is to be flexible, and to be flexible involves not just book knowledge, but an apprecciation of how people currently tackle the problems of today.
Becuase the problems of tomorrow are caused by the solutions of today.
No, I think you have just read "truth" into what susano_otter is saying. A movie's (novel) message can be "vivisection is wrong becuase of the intentions of the man", or it can be "vivisection is wrong becuase it was depicted graphically and made me hate it". These are distinct messages and it CAN be both.
The truth value of that proposition, is independent of our judgements about which message is more apt for which movie.
Read carefully. Brin is saying that this fact was never communicated in the film. And he does provide a good reason for ignoring everything written about the Star Wars universe.
Are you sure Lucas is talking about Eastern philosophy, and not the simple-minded Westerner's philosophy of Good-vs-Evil?
David Brin's well-reasoned and critical approach comes the Western tradition of analytic philosophy. Now can I ask you for exactly where your critique comes from?
No, he is saying if you assume some of the good guys are really bad guys and vice versa, their meaningless, plot-convenient actions would suddenly have true motivations.
Even Lucas himself has admitted that Hitler/the Holocaust was some of the source of inspiration for the ideas in Star Wars. Godwin's Law is irrelevant, for bringing up the Nazi's is ontopic. Godwin's Law only works becuase of offtopic references to the Nazism/Hitler.
Whoa, stand back and think. If RedHat wants to fork, then please let them support the fork. Imagine how simple it is for the KDE developers. Just issue a public notice, saying that RedHat KDE is not KDE, and cannnot be total supported. Then anytime anyone complains, point them to the notice. Problem solved.
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BTW, you've just lost the debate according to Godwin.
Why should it be ugly? It's all a dream! It's only a dream!
They are loosers.
Why? When they said "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win", it refers to YOU, not MS.
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Do they get spaced?
It's for lobotomies.
Do you know this for a fact? Are you indeed that wise to know that laws won't be abused in this way?
The more important question is: Do law-makers like Fritz Hollings KNOW about the repercussions of what they do?
I am afraid I don't understand the materialist position. Should a materialist believe in neutrinoes? And if a materialist believed it, does that mean he's a spiritualist?
reject just for rejection's sake is asinine. Examiners don't grant or reject based on the PTO's ability to earn money from fees. They do it based on the fact that it's their job.
Unless what I have read from slashdot is wrong, for many years, patent examiners were rewarded based on the numbers of patents they granted. So the above poster is trying to correct for this. But your idea, of going back to the original state of affairs, may also work. But I suspect that even if individual examiners weren't rewarded, the entire PTO itself may be rewarded for merely rubberstamping applications, so it still wouldn't work.
The point of the penalization, is to make the applicants think hard about how much the patent
is really worth. To the swamping of the office
by obvious and silly patents.
And it can go the other way as well - a wrong by a few against people.
I stand corrected. And organization can have goals, which sound like motives for people. But an organization cannot ever have enotions. A man is not the organization.
Now that they've done it, I have no problems giving them a little credit by typiing GNU/Linux, but still using "Lih-nooks" conversationally. Why is spelling things this way hard? It would be hard to write an emacs Macro that inserted "GNU" everytime one typed "Linux".
Heck, if one think this is petty, then it's even pettier to complain about the pettiness. (And I know what I just did: complain about your pettiness. So there!)
You do want him to go away right?
No - that would be superfluous.
But the point is that if you take the film or novel seriously, you will necessarily choose the meaning that maximizes the truth.
The reason for this is not to be a troll. I say this becuase I was brought up an Easterner, and I know too many people who claim deep understanding, when the point of it is not *understanding*. Thus my criticism.
David Brin's literary decontruction of George Lucas is perfectly right. His method of borrowing the tropes of Eastern mysticism lacks true understanding of the mind of a oriental philosophers. And it shows, in his ridiculous plotline.
The problem of the certs, is that no employer can know or specify, in advance, exactly and precisely what future problem needs to be solved. The point is to be flexible, and to be flexible involves not just book knowledge, but an apprecciation of how people currently tackle the problems of today.
Becuase the problems of tomorrow are caused by the solutions of today.
The truth value of that proposition, is independent of our judgements about which message is more apt for which movie.
Read carefully. Brin is saying that this fact was never communicated in the film. And he does provide a good reason for ignoring everything written about the Star Wars universe.
David Brin's well-reasoned and critical approach comes the Western tradition of analytic philosophy. Now can I ask you for exactly where your critique comes from?
Comparative philosophy, here we come.
No, he is saying if you assume some of the good guys are really bad guys and vice versa, their meaningless, plot-convenient actions would suddenly have true motivations.
Even Lucas himself has admitted that Hitler/the Holocaust was some of the source of inspiration for the ideas in Star Wars. Godwin's Law is irrelevant, for bringing up the Nazi's is ontopic. Godwin's Law only works becuase of offtopic references to the Nazism/Hitler.
Whoa, stand back and think. If RedHat wants to fork, then please let them support the fork. Imagine how simple it is for the KDE developers. Just issue a public notice, saying that RedHat KDE is not KDE, and cannnot be total supported. Then anytime anyone complains, point them to the notice. Problem solved.