I think you should go back and reread the grandparent. "Furthermore, a recent study"... "the balance of evidence"... "epidemiologial data to back it up" -- every part of that post seems to be dealing with the article's content; at one point it mentions the author by name, but at no point makes any statement about the author.
But while I'm here waiting for slashdot to let me post again, why don't I expand a little? Personally, I think that a little sci-fi, fantasy, anything that sends the message that things are possible, is good for the ego, and the average Joe these days tends to have a seriously dented sense of self.
In fact, we already know that Einstein was "wrong", and that Relativity doesn't describe anything. Since we don't have a complete replacement for it yet, we can't with certainty say just how wrong it is. FTL and time travel currently appear rather unlikely for a number of reasons, but they're not entirely out of the picture; certainly the universe has repeatedly proven itself to be weirder than we could imagine.
That said, there's not a damn thing wrong with using "sci-fi" as a backdrop to tell an interesting story, whether the technology is plausible or not. Taking the real and extrapolating it can make for some great stories; some of the greatest authors around today still do it. But taking something completely implausible and saying "what if" is also valuable -- far more valuable than arguing over whether the end result is sci-fi or fantasy.
Yes... and how does that make me wrong? As I said, some transactions (those ones) have fees, which are usually fairly low, and comparable to those of credit-card processors. Others (personal transactions up to a certain limit) are free.
Keep in mind that I don't even particularly like PayPal; I was merely clarifying a point from the grandparent that could easily be misleading. While there are several reasons to dislike PayPal, and to like the idea of competition, the premise that they're leveraging a monopoly position to jack up rates isn't a particularly strong one. Yet, anyway.
Not an especially accurate headline. Someone might actually have come up with a "new model" -- not that TFA actually says anything worthwhile about it. But the idea itself isn't new at all. See, for example, Cliff Pickover's Time: A Traveler's Guide for some light (but enlightening) material on Closed Timelike Curves. Basically TFA is saying that they think that CTCs are the only kind of time travel that could exist in reality, and apparently that they have some sort of "model" that proves this, but doesn't actually provide any sort of explanation of the model; it's just sort of a fuzzy explanation of CTCs.
Aspirin: Wrong. Salicylic acid exists in nature. The fine folks at Bayer did the acetyl- part, creating a synthetic drug.
Penicillin: Wrong. Penicillium is a mold that exists in nature. Practically all Penicillin used these days is synthesized. (And besides, extraction was always necessary. You wouldn't get a very pleasant effect by eating mold.)
Bread: Wrong. The grain, water, and yeast don't knead and cook themselves. Bread doesn't form in nature, so it's man-made.
Oxygen: Still somewhat wrong. Don't discount particle accelerators, I'm willing to bet there have been at least a few micrograms of oxygen created over the years as the result of high-speed atomic colissions.
That there seems to be no consideration these days of whether a headline or article summary comprises anything even close to a gramatically well-formed thought before it's posted?
There's a software solution to the problem of reaching for the arrow keys; it's called vi. As another poster mentioned, vi also requires fewer hand-contorting control- or alt- combinations than your average app.
At one point, I wrote a keyboard "evolver" program, using a fairly good model of finger travel as the objective function, and a genetic algorithm to make things go -- and what I found was that if I seeded dvorak in, I ended up with basically no evolution, just a lot of little dvoraks running around. Now, that doesn't mean that Dvorak is the optimum layout -- but it would seem to indicate that it's smack in the middle of a rather deep local minimum.:)
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But then, vi is the only program where L means "Go Right", so whatever;)
Hey! 'l' is the One True Way to Go Right in Nethack;)
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I believe that the point was that those things don't make it into the shell history file.
I never claimed that the changes didn't derive from Debian, and it certainly isn't factually incorrect to say that Debian made the same improvements as Ubuntu, any more than it is to say that Ubuntu made the same improvements as Debian. I think that you're reading quite a lot into what I said that was never there.
Anyway, keep in mind that Ubuntu wasn't just created yesterday either; all I said was that it was perfectly legitimate to discuss which of the same features made it into Sarge as Hoary, and that there's no sensible reason to force people to place Ubuntu in a secondary position.
The massive amounts of ads on Weather Underground, which, if blocked, somehow manage to disable the whole page? The convenient size, availability, and background updating of forecastfox?
with Windows, you would have to go out to the store, buy three different software packages, and install them all while you hunt for license keys and hope that they don't all overwrite each other's DLLs.
With Linux, the driver for the video doodad is probably already installed; for everything else there's apt-get. No compiling, no driving, and probably less total time spent than the Windows approach:)
Well, while it's on-topic -- recently I've been following TCPMP for PalmOS, and it's pretty impressive. It's still beta, but it works well (on any ARM-based PalmOS device), and plays a great number of file formats. One of its plugins is based on ffmpeg, so pretty much any file format anyone might care about (including Vorbis) is playable, except for Windows Media Audio -- and I doubt many slashdotters really care about wma. Oh, and it's open-source, of course. Anyway, homepage. Navigation is on the left, don't get fooled into thinking there's nothing there;)
Er, no? The latest release of Ubuntu was two months ago; at the time, the focus was on how it was different from Debian (because otherwise, why would it exist)? Now that Debian has made their first release in quite some time, it seems perfectly sensible to make a reference to how they've made many of the same improvements that Ubuntu has.
That said, I don't see it, unless a whole bunch of configuration-related crap went straight into stable without ever hitting sid:)
As often as can be reasonably expected (though never HOWTOs; I haven't seen a good one of those written since about 2001). You show me an app that's entirely self-explanatory, and I'll show you one of two explanations.
1) The program does absolutely nothing worthwhile 2) The program acts exactly like some real-world object. It's not that no learning is required, just that it was already done long ahead of time:)
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that the market for Opera is limited to those people who either
1) Really, really like seeing ads in their browser, or
2) Enjoy paying money for a browser.
Considering the existence of so many alternatives, some of them rather good, I think that that market will always be limited.
Hipocrocy? What's that? Maybe you mean Hippocracy? I've heard medicine is full of that.
I think you should go back and reread the grandparent. "Furthermore, a recent study" ... "the balance of evidence" ... "epidemiologial data to back it up" -- every part of that post seems to be dealing with the article's content; at one point it mentions the author by name, but at no point makes any statement about the author.
and that Relativity doesn't describe anything
Sorry, folks, that should have been "everything".
But while I'm here waiting for slashdot to let me post again, why don't I expand a little? Personally, I think that a little sci-fi, fantasy, anything that sends the message that things are possible, is good for the ego, and the average Joe these days tends to have a seriously dented sense of self.
In fact, we already know that Einstein was "wrong", and that Relativity doesn't describe anything. Since we don't have a complete replacement for it yet, we can't with certainty say just how wrong it is. FTL and time travel currently appear rather unlikely for a number of reasons, but they're not entirely out of the picture; certainly the universe has repeatedly proven itself to be weirder than we could imagine.
That said, there's not a damn thing wrong with using "sci-fi" as a backdrop to tell an interesting story, whether the technology is plausible or not. Taking the real and extrapolating it can make for some great stories; some of the greatest authors around today still do it. But taking something completely implausible and saying "what if" is also valuable -- far more valuable than arguing over whether the end result is sci-fi or fantasy.
Yes... and how does that make me wrong? As I said, some transactions (those ones) have fees, which are usually fairly low, and comparable to those of credit-card processors. Others (personal transactions up to a certain limit) are free.
Keep in mind that I don't even particularly like PayPal; I was merely clarifying a point from the grandparent that could easily be misleading. While there are several reasons to dislike PayPal, and to like the idea of competition, the premise that they're leveraging a monopoly position to jack up rates isn't a particularly strong one. Yet, anyway.
Most of that was eBay listing fees. Paypal fees are usually only a few percent, and only on certain transactions (others are free).
It's an awful idea that screws badly with caching proxies, search engines, and archive.org, among other things.
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I can never find an "arodland" license plate when I'm looking for one, though
Not an especially accurate headline. Someone might actually have come up with a "new model" -- not that TFA actually says anything worthwhile about it. But the idea itself isn't new at all. See, for example, Cliff Pickover's Time: A Traveler's Guide for some light (but enlightening) material on Closed Timelike Curves. Basically TFA is saying that they think that CTCs are the only kind of time travel that could exist in reality, and apparently that they have some sort of "model" that proves this, but doesn't actually provide any sort of explanation of the model; it's just sort of a fuzzy explanation of CTCs.
Aspirin: Wrong. Salicylic acid exists in nature. The fine folks at Bayer did the acetyl- part, creating a synthetic drug.
Penicillin: Wrong. Penicillium is a mold that exists in nature. Practically all Penicillin used these days is synthesized. (And besides, extraction was always necessary. You wouldn't get a very pleasant effect by eating mold.)
Bread: Wrong. The grain, water, and yeast don't knead and cook themselves. Bread doesn't form in nature, so it's man-made.
Oxygen: Still somewhat wrong. Don't discount particle accelerators, I'm willing to bet there have been at least a few micrograms of oxygen created over the years as the result of high-speed atomic colissions.
That there seems to be no consideration these days of whether a headline or article summary comprises anything even close to a gramatically well-formed thought before it's posted?
There's a software solution to the problem of reaching for the arrow keys; it's called vi. As another poster mentioned, vi also requires fewer hand-contorting control- or alt- combinations than your average app.
At one point, I wrote a keyboard "evolver" program, using a fairly good model of finger travel as the objective function, and a genetic algorithm to make things go -- and what I found was that if I seeded dvorak in, I ended up with basically no evolution, just a lot of little dvoraks running around. Now, that doesn't mean that Dvorak is the optimum layout -- but it would seem to indicate that it's smack in the middle of a rather deep local minimum. :)
But then, vi is the only program where L means "Go Right", so whatever ;)
;)
Hey! 'l' is the One True Way to Go Right in Nethack
I believe that the point was that those things don't make it into the shell history file.
I never claimed that the changes didn't derive from Debian, and it certainly isn't factually incorrect to say that Debian made the same improvements as Ubuntu, any more than it is to say that Ubuntu made the same improvements as Debian. I think that you're reading quite a lot into what I said that was never there.
Anyway, keep in mind that Ubuntu wasn't just created yesterday either; all I said was that it was perfectly legitimate to discuss which of the same features made it into Sarge as Hoary, and that there's no sensible reason to force people to place Ubuntu in a secondary position.
The massive amounts of ads on Weather Underground, which, if blocked, somehow manage to disable the whole page? The convenient size, availability, and background updating of forecastfox?
Er...
:)
with Windows, you would have to go out to the store, buy three different software packages, and install them all while you hunt for license keys and hope that they don't all overwrite each other's DLLs.
With Linux, the driver for the video doodad is probably already installed; for everything else there's apt-get. No compiling, no driving, and probably less total time spent than the Windows approach
Well, while it's on-topic -- recently I've been following TCPMP for PalmOS, and it's pretty impressive. It's still beta, but it works well (on any ARM-based PalmOS device), and plays a great number of file formats. One of its plugins is based on ffmpeg, so pretty much any file format anyone might care about (including Vorbis) is playable, except for Windows Media Audio -- and I doubt many slashdotters really care about wma. Oh, and it's open-source, of course. Anyway, homepage. Navigation is on the left, don't get fooled into thinking there's nothing there ;)
Er, no? The latest release of Ubuntu was two months ago; at the time, the focus was on how it was different from Debian (because otherwise, why would it exist)? Now that Debian has made their first release in quite some time, it seems perfectly sensible to make a reference to how they've made many of the same improvements that Ubuntu has.
:)
That said, I don't see it, unless a whole bunch of configuration-related crap went straight into stable without ever hitting sid
As often as can be reasonably expected (though never HOWTOs; I haven't seen a good one of those written since about 2001). You show me an app that's entirely self-explanatory, and I'll show you one of two explanations.
:)
1) The program does absolutely nothing worthwhile
2) The program acts exactly like some real-world object. It's not that no learning is required, just that it was already done long ahead of time
mmm. Yeah. Linux has been providing a good user-friendly desktop that just works for so many years now that I can hardly remember.
A Palm device, with DateBk5 and ShadowPlan, with no synchronizing to anything, except for backup purposes.
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Java. Check.