Same thing that causes every shift in advertising techniques. Some intrepid soul tried it, it worked, everyone else copied it. Most likely correlated with a significant downturn in publishing costs for images due to technological advances, although I'm too lazy to figure that out for sure.
I actually prefer the snazzy images with no text for advertising purposes. Reading a bunch of words with no purpose other than extracting my money wastes far too much of my time. Tickle my visual cortex please!
Putting the perils of terming new knowledge "obvious" aside, it does seem obvious that evolutionary mechanisms would have to be preexisting for life to have indeed evolved. Since the most generic definitions of life I've seen boil down to providing some form of localized reverse entropy, evolution of the materials of that reverse entropy should be able to happen before the condition itself is actually achieved.
To draw an utterly meaningless comparison, you can certainly have a power supply without a computer, but good luck doing any computing without the power supply. If that makes sense. I should probably cut my breakfast rum down to under 5 shots.
No thanks, I'll go on doing whatever I want. It's not so much that I find intelligent debate difficult. It's that I find it in places other than Slashdot. Most of what goes on here is just pretension and people congratulating each other on sharing opinions under the guise of being the intellectual elite. It's fun to take any self-described elite down a peg.
Oh relax. I just take ridiculous positions for fun. Trolling is the old-fashioned word, I believe. I nerdbait, I crazybait, I argue for kicks - and occasionally I get a great reaction. It's the internet, don't take it so damned seriously.
--- end of the point.
Note to APK: here's another post for you to link in your seemingly unending diatribes against me. What will you do when I abandon this account and move on to yet another one, with a concurrent change in style? I hope you don't implode for lack of an enemy.
I guess this one is also good for whatever other stalkers I've managed to acquire. Seems to be at least two. Please, continue chopping away at my nonexistent credibility. Nothing could hurt me more.
The concept of predictability for *nix addicts seems to be somewhat out of line with what "normal" people would expect when it comes to interfaces. Clever abbreviations and long lists of options that need to be typed in (and may be referring to the first letter, or the second letter, or some synonym of the option name) just don't seem to sink in with the general population.
No one forces you to make any purchases. What happened to caveat emptor? Are you really so incapable you need your hand held through every transaction? Your point particularly fails in this case because the writing was pretty well on the wall for a long damn time.
Would you like Psystar to find the money to continue by a) looking under rocks along the highway b) selling plasma with the bums downtown c) rooting around in their asses until something is found?
Or maybe you think the promises of people who predicated a business on breaking the law* are actually worth something? That's almost endearing.
(*save your spiel about the laws being unjust. They were fairly well understood and the court upheld them, so reality wins over idealism here.)
Expecting everyone in a group to adopt the privacy seeking of the most paranoid individual would lead to a society of shut-ins. If it bothers you, opt out completely. Go Sean Penn on anyone who takes your picture. Draw your blinds. Just don't wait for the world to consider it rational and want to be the same way.
You know, as a general principle, deriding people who are social doesn't really make you a better person. I get the whole gallant loner nerd ethic. Its basis is as false as the idea of the noble poor.
You don't have to have a problem with a drug to consider it a drug. Try not to imbue too much meaning that doesn't actually exist - leave the definition twisting to the professionally dishonest and you'll find that things work out much better on the whole, because it makes their machinations that much easier to spot.
People entertaining themselves with a large social circle of acquaintances aren't any less real than you are. You have no greater intrinsic value despite your derision.
Some additions to fix the flaws in your corrections
61,200 for "i hate tmobile" 137,000 for "i hate att"
Of course, that probably introduces some duplicates. Also, considering that hatred is possibly the least rational of all emotions, I would be very cautious deriving meaning from this.
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Same thing that causes every shift in advertising techniques. Some intrepid soul tried it, it worked, everyone else copied it. Most likely correlated with a significant downturn in publishing costs for images due to technological advances, although I'm too lazy to figure that out for sure.
I actually prefer the snazzy images with no text for advertising purposes. Reading a bunch of words with no purpose other than extracting my money wastes far too much of my time. Tickle my visual cortex please!
Putting the perils of terming new knowledge "obvious" aside, it does seem obvious that evolutionary mechanisms would have to be preexisting for life to have indeed evolved. Since the most generic definitions of life I've seen boil down to providing some form of localized reverse entropy, evolution of the materials of that reverse entropy should be able to happen before the condition itself is actually achieved.
To draw an utterly meaningless comparison, you can certainly have a power supply without a computer, but good luck doing any computing without the power supply. If that makes sense. I should probably cut my breakfast rum down to under 5 shots.
No thanks, I'll go on doing whatever I want. It's not so much that I find intelligent debate difficult. It's that I find it in places other than Slashdot. Most of what goes on here is just pretension and people congratulating each other on sharing opinions under the guise of being the intellectual elite. It's fun to take any self-described elite down a peg.
Oh relax. I just take ridiculous positions for fun. Trolling is the old-fashioned word, I believe. I nerdbait, I crazybait, I argue for kicks - and occasionally I get a great reaction. It's the internet, don't take it so damned seriously.
--- end of the point.
Note to APK: here's another post for you to link in your seemingly unending diatribes against me. What will you do when I abandon this account and move on to yet another one, with a concurrent change in style? I hope you don't implode for lack of an enemy.
I guess this one is also good for whatever other stalkers I've managed to acquire. Seems to be at least two. Please, continue chopping away at my nonexistent credibility. Nothing could hurt me more.
The concept of predictability for *nix addicts seems to be somewhat out of line with what "normal" people would expect when it comes to interfaces. Clever abbreviations and long lists of options that need to be typed in (and may be referring to the first letter, or the second letter, or some synonym of the option name) just don't seem to sink in with the general population.
I'd do it, but I actually follow the suggestions and try to use my frequently granted points to promote.
No one forces you to make any purchases. What happened to caveat emptor? Are you really so incapable you need your hand held through every transaction? Your point particularly fails in this case because the writing was pretty well on the wall for a long damn time.
Which is to say I concede my mistake... I'm far too distracted at the moment to be coherent and I should probably stop posting.
I picked up on the sarcasm (it would be hard to miss the 'seriously') but you cast drugs in the role of evil with the next few sentences.
It's not so much that I missed your point, I didn't work hard enough to make my own.
Would you like Psystar to find the money to continue by a) looking under rocks along the highway b) selling plasma with the bums downtown c) rooting around in their asses until something is found?
Or maybe you think the promises of people who predicated a business on breaking the law* are actually worth something? That's almost endearing.
(*save your spiel about the laws being unjust. They were fairly well understood and the court upheld them, so reality wins over idealism here.)
Expecting everyone in a group to adopt the privacy seeking of the most paranoid individual would lead to a society of shut-ins. If it bothers you, opt out completely. Go Sean Penn on anyone who takes your picture. Draw your blinds. Just don't wait for the world to consider it rational and want to be the same way.
You know, as a general principle, deriding people who are social doesn't really make you a better person. I get the whole gallant loner nerd ethic. Its basis is as false as the idea of the noble poor.
You don't have to have a problem with a drug to consider it a drug. Try not to imbue too much meaning that doesn't actually exist - leave the definition twisting to the professionally dishonest and you'll find that things work out much better on the whole, because it makes their machinations that much easier to spot.
People entertaining themselves with a large social circle of acquaintances aren't any less real than you are. You have no greater intrinsic value despite your derision.
Idealism makes for interesting opinions.
I understand it, though. I get really excited when I meet someone with a mutual preference in hammers.
Hell, it isn't even a word.
Some additions to fix the flaws in your corrections
61,200 for "i hate tmobile"
137,000 for "i hate att"
Of course, that probably introduces some duplicates. Also, considering that hatred is possibly the least rational of all emotions, I would be very cautious deriving meaning from this.
I develop anonymous stalkers on Slashdot. As you can see, I am quite successful.
This is Slashdot, we always cheer for Europe. They can do no wrong.
Aero sabotaged OpenGL? That makes about as much sense as saying IE sabotaged network sockets.
The obvious answer: Successful enough to have a bunch of people whining about it here on Slashdot.
That's true, but watching them come up with excuses is more entertaining than most movies.
That's the best excuse to pirate I've ever read. You win Slashdot.
I post this reply simply to stir the pot.
Wow, you're still going off about that? You flatter me... and frighten me.