There would have been a number of moths in the population that were naturally dark prior to the industrial revolution. Those moths would have suffered higher predation than the lighter colored moths which blended in more easily. This would have kept their numbers very low. During the IR the darker colored moths would have blended in more easily and the roles been reversed, allowing the already naturally occuring dark moths to increase in number while the lighter colored moths were kept down by predation. The mutations existed pre-IR. Natural variation allowed that type of moth to survive through different environmental changes. They didn't split into two species.
There's no such environmental change and no predator to enforce that level of natural selection on humans. Plus for the fact that there's no motivation for pretty people to only select other pretty people to procreate with. I've seen plenty of cavemen with beautiful mates.
DING DING DING... give the man a prize for... "a lot of web designers don't." There's a difference between web designers and web developers in a quite a few of the people I've met. Some call themselves web developers and yet rely very heavily on the tools to do all of the work for them. Not in one of those "work smarter not harder" ways, but in the "what's wrong with the font tag" way. They're really designers. Most of the time they might as well be using Photoshop or Illustrator to mockup the site and then hand it off to a web developer to figure out the code. Of course, I've also met my share of dipshits in that camp too. They're too eager to use buzzword-de-jour and end up relying on Sun/Oracle/IBM's tooling and create double the amount of work for themselves.
MS knows that there are plenty of people out there who are willing to fork over good money for a tool that is just adequate so that they can output content, applications, documents, etc., that is just adequate. That's where the real money is. It's not in producing the best product or service it's about appealing to the mass audience of neophites and apathetic designer/developers.
So what you are saying is that this is a device that can be easily used by terrorists for bomb making. It's a good thing our president is ever vigillant. This terrorist loving scientist and his invention will be picked up soon so that America remains safe and secure.
Sometimes lately it seems that non-believers give the best arguments for Christianity, while true Christians fall well short of providing any enlightenment. I've seen three aetheists give compelling arguments about why it's okay for science and faith to coexist and even compliment one another.
In my mind science and faith follow a similar path. The truths in science require observation and testing. Over time we learn that the truths we believed are no longer quite accurate and we must change our understanding to believe new truths. Science is always being tested and retested and refined.
Faith follows the same course. We must observe ourselves and our world and through tests become stronger in our faith or fall away from it. Faith must be continually refined. A faith untested is not faith, it is complacency.
Religion and science, much as religion and faith, often come into conflict. To me, religion has always been about embracing a series of set beliefs and practices. These practices are enforced and inflexible. They are not allowed to change or grow with a persons faith. This is why we see so many factions in the Christian faith (Quakers, Baptists (north and south), Catholics, etc.) At some point in the religious practice someone decided that this set of beliefs didn't match his faith and since the current set couldn't change then a new set needed to be created. Not a very fluid process but I'm sure there are some parallels in science to, when scientists spin off into different camps around interpretation of a particular event or theory.
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It's a joke based off of the parent post. Compare my post to the parent and you'll see.
Most jokes are based on observation of real events. Many people, especially here in the U.S., hate the thought of learning and using any other language. "This is America speak English" is a phrase I hear quite often as Spanish begins to take over as a secondary language in Wal-Mart and Target loud speaker anouncements. Likewise I've met families who are immagrants from Italy, Korea, Ecuador, and Vietnam where one or more family members refused to learn to speak English.
People live within their comfort zone and fight fiercely to stay there.
However, it's not unique to the U.S. Canada has similar issues as well as Mexico, China, Africa, India, etc.
Okay let's go back to the parent post and compare it to my own. Pay particular attention to the end of the parent post, which is garbage. Then look at the end of my post, which is garbage.
I stay away from such languages as Japanese and "French". Not because they are a bad idea. Rather, it is because I only want to be able to have to know one language. If I learn Japanese, I'd still have to frequently use English due to the other people I have to use that are still English this. Is it easy to be proficient at both and switch back-and-forth at ease, or does the confusion result in certains ont baisé vers le haut des capacités linguistiques?
Why do we need GPS. Isn't the normal gas tax sufficient.
For example:
If I don't drive, I don't use the roads, I don't buy gas, I'm not taxed.
If I do drive, I do use the roads, I do buy gas, I'm taxed.
If I use the roads a lot I pay a lot in taxes because of all the gas I buy. If I don't use the roads a lot I use less gas and pay less gas taxes.
If I drive a compact car that gets 35 mpg and have to refill a 10 gallon tank every two weeks I'm going to pay taxes on that gas used. Which should correlate to how much wear and tear I put on the road.
If I drive an SUV that gets 12 mpg and have to refill a 20 gallon tank every week I'm going to pay taxes on that gas used. Which should correlate to how much wear and tear I put on the road.
If they tax based on mileage then lighter more fuel efficient cars end up paying the same amount of tax per mile as larger less efficient cars and trucks which may actually place more wear on the roads they use.
I doubt the inovative just to be inovative comment. There are some legitimate needs that the technology fits. Yes TODAY westerners aren't familiar with/don't appreciate the ability of multitasking a room or changing a space based on need. For the most part if it is a den now it will be a den in 20 years. But how many families out there are faced with the fact that their children leave and suddenly they have much more house than they need. Or families that have sudden growth through acquiring other family member's children or multiple births that need to add on a room or two. How many people every year have to reconfigure their spaces based on a disability to sudden illness?
While the near future it might not be cost effective, as with anything, as the techniques come into the mainstream and the cost of the equipment goes down it could well be cheaper and more efficient.
You're correct to a degree but a single company can't always be the penultimate producer of a product. If the defeated company is extinguished from existence and no other companies come in to fill the void then no competition can occur and the product stagnates. Once you allow consolidation to such a point where the failure of a competitor creates opportunity for a monopoly to exist then you are not fostering competition, you are fostering creation of monopolies. Worse yet you create system of psuedo competition where the big players allow the smaller players only enough market share to say that they are not EXACTLY monopolies. They become effective monolopolies even though not "legal" monopolies.
Plus you get into situations where instead of competing to build a better product a company simply purchases the competitor and kills the product. The purchasing company continues with their main product and the lesser product prevails. The consumer loses.
I'm confused. See I keep hearing that all these government guys get paid to promote and ensure that the there is plenty of competition in the market. Then I hear about 2 HUGE companies merging so that they can compete against the the only remaining competitor in the market. So now instead of 3 competing in the market it's just 2. And I hear the same government guys saying "Yeah, that's okay, we understand needing to compete, go right ahead".
Then we hear all these analysts talk about how competition drives innovation, competition is good, it keeps companies agile, blah blah blah.
Then we have groups like Gartner floating articles which in essence say Microsoft needs to win the "browser war" so that companies only have to deal with ONE browser. It's sounds an awful lot like winning the browser war means completely wiping out the competition instead of just holding a commanding lead. Why is it that there's a war anyway? I wish corporations would stop running campaigns against each other as if they were trying to channel G.W. Bush.
Why isn't Gartner promoting companies focusing on a standard vs. a product. While I understand their profit model is based of of referring people to specific products that they review and track shouldn't part of their advice be to not rely on a specific product because of the potential for competing products to take the lead. Isn't part of the analysis they do predicting what might come in the future and how to leverage current products and allow for flexibility when markets change.
Or are they really saying "There's no need or room for competition within the browser market. Just use IE if you can, until it becomes too unsafe. Firefox can't hold out forever, it will fail. Just keep waiting for Longhorn."
I've seen this I think a little over done lately where the artists insert what might be considered natural human flaws like freckles and other blemishes into the skin, etc. The problem is that it's seems stretched. Sometimes there are too many freckles, too large, too frequent, or the translucency is just off.
Then there's hair. It's not all the same thickness or texture. Real hair even on a persons scalp has a variety of shades, textures, lengths, colors, etc. The hair put on all the models I've seen so far are generated to the same exacting specification (i.e. equal to the average human hair). When faced with things like arm hair or eyebrow hair it's all the same. To create an eyebrow it seems they just pile more hair into the same amount of space instead of starting out at the edges with really fine hair and then as you go down the brow it becomes more course.
It's the same with skin. Skin comes in a variety of options but for the most part these models always have the same skin from head to toe. Pores are missing, veins, scars, wrinkles are more like smooth ridges than real wrinkles (i.e. there's an indentation there but the indendation is smooth).
I think what I really miss with a lot of the character renders is sublety. Too many things are done to say "HEY LOOK I'M A REAL BOY!" and they look forced. Like some of the character renders in games where the character fidgets a little too much or breaths really really deep as they stand waiting for you to get out of their way. Or when the characters blinking is such a major focus of the action of their face. I like to be romanced a little - give me a pulse and some soft breathing and a little sublety and it will take me a long way.
But what is "the music business". Is Wal-Mart in "the music business" or CompUSA or Coca-Cola or Pepsi? Is iTunes in anyway in competition with Apple Music. iTunes is just a mechanism for distribution like any other channel. In theory Apple Music is in the business of producing the music and finding the distrubution partners (like Apple iTunes, Sam Goody, Best Buy, etc.). It's not obvious that there's any overlap whatsoever in what Apple Music does vs. Apple iTunes Music Store.
It's like when Apple computers was sued for including a sound card, should they also have been sued when they included a CD player application? Now they've created a new distribution channel for music which has become very popular. Apple Music should be taking advantage of that stream in a way other than lawsuits. Or is that maybe the point of the lawsuit to gain some extra leverage in that new distribution channel and forge the next contract.
Sha! Your lucky it was a rental. I got talked into the purchase and didn't read the fine print about how I'd only get 17 minutes of bliss once a year and have to keep paying a "re-up" fee. If I chose not to pay the re-up fee and terminate the contract or look for an alternate bliss carrier I'd be charged an early termination fee which could legally be up to half of what I own PLUS continuing annual fees.
How would you identify the servers used by people of a particular political persuasion. That doesn't make any sense. It's not like all Democrats are going to be routed to a particular box or everyone from St. Louis is going to hit a particular machine.
You're all correct. I did leave out the "need for what" and I did put in some acronyms that non-CS/and computer illiterate people might not understand. I do think that there's enough there to give a basic understanding of the robustness of the product to people who are looking for a CMS and don't know what features Plone has. People who don't know they have a problem aren't looking for a solution and so I didn't target them in what I wrote.
There's actually a Slashdot lookalike built off of the ZOPE base (the same product that Plone is built on top of) called "Squishdot".
New functionality can be added via plugin products (i.e. message boards, wiki's, additional database types, java/jsp support, php support, etc.)
Workflows provide an easy mechanism for defining who creates content and how content gets published. These can be easily changed and even graphed (via an add-on product).
The default set up web content is standards based providing either html tables or CSS for layout. A focus on accessibility and internationization is also a key strength of the system.
Content is modular and it's easy to include or exclude certain elements based on need, security, or preferences.
Content can be edited externally using your favorite editor (Dreamweaver, GoLive, Frontpage, Notepad, Word (hA!)). Or content can be edited as source from a web form. Add-ons like Kupu and Epoz can also provide a simple web enabled WYSIWYG that works in most major browsers.
It can easily be used in combination with standard HTTP servers like Apache and IIS. You could use APACHE to serve static content and Plone/ZOPE to serve dynamic content, or use APACHE as a caching mechanism to speed up and existing Plone site(s).
Multiple databases can be used to segment content and/or multiple sites. New database types can be added via add-on products (i.e. Oracle, DB2, MySQL, etc.). You choose which type of database you want to use, if you want to use the filesystem, or if you want to mix filesystem and multiple types of databases.
Instances can be clustered using the installed ZEO product. This allows you to set up a single master site instance and run multiple caching clients on a single machine or on multiple machines. This helps in providing failover solutions and scalability. Other uses include realtime debugging without affecting other instances, separating the development users from the normal users, segmenting content, and helping in zero downtime upgrades/migrations.
Has XML-RPC, REST, SOAP capabilities.
Can use standard SQL to select/insert data in existing databases.
A wide variety of document types including the ability to convert some proprietary documents to HTML format. Document types can be easily extended or new types created via a configuration file (using Python, UML, XML schema).
Discussion enabled documents
XML, RSS feeds
Simple subscription/registration system
Maintains user preferences
Much more functional "out of the box" and less to build out than other comparable systems (i.e. Vignette).
Well supported via commercial support, contract labor, documentation, support e-mail lists, mirrored searchable lists (gmain), example sites, product sites, code documentation, and user created support pages.
Not necessarily true. Deployments may actually boost development as you find bugs and are presented with challenges by the client. These challenges may result in the creation of a new product, new documentation, or new configurations for deployment.
www.att.com might use Netscape while www.att.com/services uses Apache and www.attws.com uses IIS. So Netscape/Apache/IIS could all claim to have AT&T as a customer for "their main site" and be technically correct. Or you might go to AARP and it tells you Apache but all they're using Apache for is for proxy/rewrite and pull content from a ZOPE server and an IIS server.
In our company we have probably 5 different products servicing different web needs. We have Apache in front of Plone/ZOPE and IIS. We have IIS serving intranet content. We have Netscape/iPlanet server serving up Silverstream server content. Nowhere in the enterprise do we have Apache as a standalone solution, yet Apache is listed as our "preferred" web server in all of our internal documentation.
So how do we get counted in a "survey" especially when we use products that can't be seen from the internet or aren't publicly available for sniffing.
Slashdot Mirror
Not quite accurate.
There would have been a number of moths in the population that were naturally dark prior to the industrial revolution. Those moths would have suffered higher predation than the lighter colored moths which blended in more easily. This would have kept their numbers very low. During the IR the darker colored moths would have blended in more easily and the roles been reversed, allowing the already naturally occuring dark moths to increase in number while the lighter colored moths were kept down by predation. The mutations existed pre-IR. Natural variation allowed that type of moth to survive through different environmental changes. They didn't split into two species.
There's no such environmental change and no predator to enforce that level of natural selection on humans. Plus for the fact that there's no motivation for pretty people to only select other pretty people to procreate with. I've seen plenty of cavemen with beautiful mates.
DING DING DING... give the man a prize for... "a lot of web designers don't." There's a difference between web designers and web developers in a quite a few of the people I've met. Some call themselves web developers and yet rely very heavily on the tools to do all of the work for them. Not in one of those "work smarter not harder" ways, but in the "what's wrong with the font tag" way. They're really designers. Most of the time they might as well be using Photoshop or Illustrator to mockup the site and then hand it off to a web developer to figure out the code. Of course, I've also met my share of dipshits in that camp too. They're too eager to use buzzword-de-jour and end up relying on Sun/Oracle/IBM's tooling and create double the amount of work for themselves.
MS knows that there are plenty of people out there who are willing to fork over good money for a tool that is just adequate so that they can output content, applications, documents, etc., that is just adequate. That's where the real money is. It's not in producing the best product or service it's about appealing to the mass audience of neophites and apathetic designer/developers.
So what you are saying is that this is a device that can be easily used by terrorists for bomb making. It's a good thing our president is ever vigillant. This terrorist loving scientist and his invention will be picked up soon so that America remains safe and secure.
You're making it sound as if April 1st is somehow different from the other 364 days.
Sometimes lately it seems that non-believers give the best arguments for Christianity, while true Christians fall well short of providing any enlightenment. I've seen three aetheists give compelling arguments about why it's okay for science and faith to coexist and even compliment one another.
In my mind science and faith follow a similar path. The truths in science require observation and testing. Over time we learn that the truths we believed are no longer quite accurate and we must change our understanding to believe new truths. Science is always being tested and retested and refined.
Faith follows the same course. We must observe ourselves and our world and through tests become stronger in our faith or fall away from it. Faith must be continually refined. A faith untested is not faith, it is complacency.
Religion and science, much as religion and faith, often come into conflict. To me, religion has always been about embracing a series of set beliefs and practices. These practices are enforced and inflexible. They are not allowed to change or grow with a persons faith. This is why we see so many factions in the Christian faith (Quakers, Baptists (north and south), Catholics, etc.) At some point in the religious practice someone decided that this set of beliefs didn't match his faith and since the current set couldn't change then a new set needed to be created. Not a very fluid process but I'm sure there are some parallels in science to, when scientists spin off into different camps around interpretation of a particular event or theory.
It's a joke based off of the parent post. Compare my post to the parent and you'll see.
Most jokes are based on observation of real events. Many people, especially here in the U.S., hate the thought of learning and using any other language. "This is America speak English" is a phrase I hear quite often as Spanish begins to take over as a secondary language in Wal-Mart and Target loud speaker anouncements. Likewise I've met families who are immagrants from Italy, Korea, Ecuador, and Vietnam where one or more family members refused to learn to speak English.
People live within their comfort zone and fight fiercely to stay there.
However, it's not unique to the U.S. Canada has similar issues as well as Mexico, China, Africa, India, etc.
Okay let's go back to the parent post and compare it to my own. Pay particular attention to the end of the parent post, which is garbage. Then look at the end of my post, which is garbage.
I stay away from such languages as Japanese and "French". Not because they are a bad idea. Rather, it is because I only want to be able to have to know one language. If I learn Japanese, I'd still have to frequently use English due to the other people I have to use that are still English this. Is it easy to be proficient at both and switch back-and-forth at ease, or does the confusion result in certains ont baisé vers le haut des capacités linguistiques?
No, it's "some guy from finland or something".
Why do we need GPS. Isn't the normal gas tax sufficient.
For example:
If I don't drive, I don't use the roads, I don't buy gas, I'm not taxed.
If I do drive, I do use the roads, I do buy gas, I'm taxed.
If I use the roads a lot I pay a lot in taxes because of all the gas I buy. If I don't use the roads a lot I use less gas and pay less gas taxes.
If I drive a compact car that gets 35 mpg and have to refill a 10 gallon tank every two weeks I'm going to pay taxes on that gas used. Which should correlate to how much wear and tear I put on the road.
If I drive an SUV that gets 12 mpg and have to refill a 20 gallon tank every week I'm going to pay taxes on that gas used. Which should correlate to how much wear and tear I put on the road.
If they tax based on mileage then lighter more fuel efficient cars end up paying the same amount of tax per mile as larger less efficient cars and trucks which may actually place more wear on the roads they use.
Did I miss something?
I doubt the inovative just to be inovative comment. There are some legitimate needs that the technology fits. Yes TODAY westerners aren't familiar with/don't appreciate the ability of multitasking a room or changing a space based on need. For the most part if it is a den now it will be a den in 20 years. But how many families out there are faced with the fact that their children leave and suddenly they have much more house than they need. Or families that have sudden growth through acquiring other family member's children or multiple births that need to add on a room or two. How many people every year have to reconfigure their spaces based on a disability to sudden illness?
While the near future it might not be cost effective, as with anything, as the techniques come into the mainstream and the cost of the equipment goes down it could well be cheaper and more efficient.
You're correct to a degree but a single company can't always be the penultimate producer of a product. If the defeated company is extinguished from existence and no other companies come in to fill the void then no competition can occur and the product stagnates. Once you allow consolidation to such a point where the failure of a competitor creates opportunity for a monopoly to exist then you are not fostering competition, you are fostering creation of monopolies. Worse yet you create system of psuedo competition where the big players allow the smaller players only enough market share to say that they are not EXACTLY monopolies. They become effective monolopolies even though not "legal" monopolies.
Plus you get into situations where instead of competing to build a better product a company simply purchases the competitor and kills the product. The purchasing company continues with their main product and the lesser product prevails. The consumer loses.
I'm confused. See I keep hearing that all these government guys get paid to promote and ensure that the there is plenty of competition in the market. Then I hear about 2 HUGE companies merging so that they can compete against the the only remaining competitor in the market. So now instead of 3 competing in the market it's just 2. And I hear the same government guys saying "Yeah, that's okay, we understand needing to compete, go right ahead".
Then we hear all these analysts talk about how competition drives innovation, competition is good, it keeps companies agile, blah blah blah.
Then we have groups like Gartner floating articles which in essence say Microsoft needs to win the "browser war" so that companies only have to deal with ONE browser. It's sounds an awful lot like winning the browser war means completely wiping out the competition instead of just holding a commanding lead. Why is it that there's a war anyway? I wish corporations would stop running campaigns against each other as if they were trying to channel G.W. Bush.
Why isn't Gartner promoting companies focusing on a standard vs. a product. While I understand their profit model is based of of referring people to specific products that they review and track shouldn't part of their advice be to not rely on a specific product because of the potential for competing products to take the lead. Isn't part of the analysis they do predicting what might come in the future and how to leverage current products and allow for flexibility when markets change.
Or are they really saying "There's no need or room for competition within the browser market. Just use IE if you can, until it becomes too unsafe. Firefox can't hold out forever, it will fail. Just keep waiting for Longhorn."
I've seen this I think a little over done lately where the artists insert what might be considered natural human flaws like freckles and other blemishes into the skin, etc. The problem is that it's seems stretched. Sometimes there are too many freckles, too large, too frequent, or the translucency is just off.
Then there's hair. It's not all the same thickness or texture. Real hair even on a persons scalp has a variety of shades, textures, lengths, colors, etc. The hair put on all the models I've seen so far are generated to the same exacting specification (i.e. equal to the average human hair). When faced with things like arm hair or eyebrow hair it's all the same. To create an eyebrow it seems they just pile more hair into the same amount of space instead of starting out at the edges with really fine hair and then as you go down the brow it becomes more course.
It's the same with skin. Skin comes in a variety of options but for the most part these models always have the same skin from head to toe. Pores are missing, veins, scars, wrinkles are more like smooth ridges than real wrinkles (i.e. there's an indentation there but the indendation is smooth).
I think what I really miss with a lot of the character renders is sublety. Too many things are done to say "HEY LOOK I'M A REAL BOY!" and they look forced. Like some of the character renders in games where the character fidgets a little too much or breaths really really deep as they stand waiting for you to get out of their way. Or when the characters blinking is such a major focus of the action of their face. I like to be romanced a little - give me a pulse and some soft breathing and a little sublety and it will take me a long way.
But what is "the music business". Is Wal-Mart in "the music business" or CompUSA or Coca-Cola or Pepsi? Is iTunes in anyway in competition with Apple Music. iTunes is just a mechanism for distribution like any other channel. In theory Apple Music is in the business of producing the music and finding the distrubution partners (like Apple iTunes, Sam Goody, Best Buy, etc.). It's not obvious that there's any overlap whatsoever in what Apple Music does vs. Apple iTunes Music Store.
It's like when Apple computers was sued for including a sound card, should they also have been sued when they included a CD player application? Now they've created a new distribution channel for music which has become very popular. Apple Music should be taking advantage of that stream in a way other than lawsuits. Or is that maybe the point of the lawsuit to gain some extra leverage in that new distribution channel and forge the next contract.
Most likely it's the mountains and hills that sit near the borders.
Sha! Your lucky it was a rental. I got talked into the purchase and didn't read the fine print about how I'd only get 17 minutes of bliss once a year and have to keep paying a "re-up" fee. If I chose not to pay the re-up fee and terminate the contract or look for an alternate bliss carrier I'd be charged an early termination fee which could legally be up to half of what I own PLUS continuing annual fees.
How would you identify the servers used by people of a particular political persuasion. That doesn't make any sense. It's not like all Democrats are going to be routed to a particular box or everyone from St. Louis is going to hit a particular machine.
"you can dive into an unknown project, select a random source file and understand it." HA! You haven't seen the same code that I've seen.
How many times can you shuffle that until it goes from:
"Started I random it like time, all shuffle much the I've so the using."
to:
"I like the random shuffle so much, I've started using it all the time."
How many times would it take to shuffle a series of songs back into their original album order?
You're all correct. I did leave out the "need for what" and I did put in some acronyms that non-CS/and computer illiterate people might not understand. I do think that there's enough there to give a basic understanding of the robustness of the product to people who are looking for a CMS and don't know what features Plone has. People who don't know they have a problem aren't looking for a solution and so I didn't target them in what I wrote.
There's actually a Slashdot lookalike built off of the ZOPE base (the same product that Plone is built on top of) called "Squishdot".
Not necessarily true. Deployments may actually boost development as you find bugs and are presented with challenges by the client. These challenges may result in the creation of a new product, new documentation, or new configurations for deployment.
Yes it does.
Throw one more caveat into the mix:
www.att.com might use Netscape while www.att.com/services uses Apache and www.attws.com uses IIS. So Netscape/Apache/IIS could all claim to have AT&T as a customer for "their main site" and be technically correct. Or you might go to AARP and it tells you Apache but all they're using Apache for is for proxy/rewrite and pull content from a ZOPE server and an IIS server.
In our company we have probably 5 different products servicing different web needs. We have Apache in front of Plone/ZOPE and IIS. We have IIS serving intranet content. We have Netscape/iPlanet server serving up Silverstream server content. Nowhere in the enterprise do we have Apache as a standalone solution, yet Apache is listed as our "preferred" web server in all of our internal documentation.
So how do we get counted in a "survey" especially when we use products that can't be seen from the internet or aren't publicly available for sniffing.