Although, the Honda robot could squish it under its foot.
Maybe, but I would imagine the Sony robots will be cheaper and a relatively inexpensive beowulf cluster of them would be able to work together to topple the Honda robot (who [is that proper?] can't get back up on its own?).
Accusing me of pedantry simply for expressing myself clearly is quite low, BTW.
I think his point is well taken when you narrow the definition by your own words to 'the medical sense' of the word 'transplant'. Granted, the original poster was referring to a medical procedure, but his question was more philosophical than physiological. I am a 'transplant' in the sense that I moved to a different region of the country.
While your arguments are technically correct, I don't believe you missed the meaning behind the post you originally replied to. It may have been better to point out a better alternative for the word, 'transplant' in this case.
I don't see what the problem is. If we were to change this discussion to programs on television instead of buttons that take you to Netscape I'm sure a lot of the folks who are miffed about this would just say, "Don't like it? Don't watch it!" In this case it would be don't touch that button/bookmark/whatever if you don't like the "feature."
I use Netscape (I'm checking out Mozilla right now, but can't find info on how to transfer all my address book info, bookmarks, etc. from Netscape) and have never used the browser itself to do a search. I just go to Google. The rest of the functionality I ignore if I can't change. Besides, if you use the Search function in Mozilla's side panel you wind up at Netscape too.
This isn't for a business, or for a hardcore geek. It's meant as a security solution for your average Joe, who only has one computer, and wants to work from home on his broadband connection.
I don't think that's the case. Why the extra ports if it's intended to be a single box solution. Admittedly it's not targeting an Enterprise environment, but small business/networked home situations seem to be the actual target.
I stand corrected. That's one of the things I didn't like about it when checking things out earlier and must have missed the subsequent announcement. Thanks.
There's still the question of scalability. How does it fare in that category?
Anyone would think some sort of deliberate decision had been made to disenfranchise the poorer and less well-educated members of... oh! wait! that would mean... most of the black population, right?
That's a rather bigoted opinion. There are significant populations of poor, undereducated individuals of black, latino, and white backgrounds. Asians seem to be less well represented among them but I'm sure there are some. Your 'observation' also seems to fly in the face of the well-heeled, reasonably educated plaintiffs in Florida.
So, if Oracle were free it's abilities would change? I think your view is simplistic at best. For bigger, more intense stuff you'll be using one of the top-tier providers, but it's not just because they charge money and give you someone to blame when things go south (although that is a nice feature when you need some breathing space to get things working again), but because the technology, features, stability, etc. are there already and not around some bend in the future development curve. There are a lot of things PostgreSQL won't be suitable for until you can do a database backup online instead of having to bring the database down.
So, if I choose to filter my email I am a censor. You were kind enough to repeat it so I was sure of your answer. Is censorship subjective in that it is sometimes good and sometimes bad? You seem to indicate that this is the case. Don't we decide what other people should do all the time? Isn't a murder charge a decision that people should not kill others? Aren't you telling others they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions that affect others? Which is it?
Check out your grade school library, then check out your high school library, then check out the public library. You'll see the range of choices grow with each step. You should see a bigger change from grade school to high school than from high school to public. There is a difference between exercising discerning choices or even personal preferences and censorship. Censorship is seeing to it that your opinion never sees the light of day. I'm opposed to that. It might shock you to know that I oppose filtration software in its current form.
Perhaps I didn't communicate well enough in my prior post or you wouldn't have used example number two in your response. That's what happens today. A more fitting analogy might be:
2. You see that this is clearly labeled as an adult bookstore. You choose not to enter.
How does it sound when we change one word? Let's see: The idea itself (censoring the net) is good,...
I filter my email. Does that mean that I'm practicing censorship? I regulate what I watch on television. Am I a censor? I'd like a way to keep myself from accessing material I find offensive (and don't give me the argument that you can't stumble on this stuff by accident, having clicked on links that purported to take me to one place and landed in another too many times). I'd like to see more descriptive use of TLD's with filters based on that and the cooperation of the net community to restrict content to the appropriate.whatever so that age appropriate (among other considerations) filtering could be done in schools and libraries (public, taxpayer funded venues). That is not censorship since the material is still available. We may give people the right to say it, but we have always had constraints on what could be said where (yelling 'FIRE!' in the proverbial crowded theater). We have, as a society, lost the ability to defer to the sensitivities of others and I miss the civility that used to mark public discourse.
There are attempts to detect large amounts of flesh-tones (caucasian only I believe) but neither of these products do that yet. I doubt anyone is looking for 'soft focus' since a pixel is a pixel once it's saved to a file.
I don't think that the corporate world is uncomfortable with open source. For custom work clients often demand (and get) source code. Even if they don't know what to do with it at the time they know that they can hire someone to maintain/enhance the product if the company creating the software disappears. There is a prevailing perception that FREE=INFERIOR though.
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"An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive."
So, why do we need the term software now? Better yet, why don't we just call this 'the computer' since nobody buys a computer without something to run on it anymore?
I have the same problem with that as I do with newspapers that don't maintain church-and-state separation between writers and advertisers.
Huh? What church-and-state separation are you talking about? The press is neither church nor state. I think you've confused the press and congress in the first amendment. If your beef is that advertising revenues bias the press you should have picked the automakers since they often have whole multi-page sections of ads in local newspapers.
...US Air is paying to fly in reporters, and Busch is providing food and beverages at a nearby bar
Well, that might explain the media's inability to get the story straight....
We pay millions in campaign underwriting from our tax money. Why not set aside a small percentage of that to chip in for food and drink for the press corp, if this is somehow required?
I find it hard to believe that the major news outlets can't fly, feed or house their reporters. I don't think the taxpayer's ought to have to chip in for that.
Look, the 'sponsorship' thing has to do with advertising revenue for the outlets broadcasting the debates, not the debates themselves. "I supply 'X' for the reporters, crew, etc. and you mention my name in the credits." The major networks could instead satisfy some of their public service requirements by airing the debates and just eat the ad revenue they'd lose. The contenders can pay for their own flights out of their campaign funds and the reporters can buy their own munchies - just like real people.
And what is this "mother Earth's affairs" crap? Do you believe the Earth is sentient? That it has a plan for this bacteria, and we're screwing up this plan?
I believe we have stepped directly into Mother Earth's malevolent clutches. Patiently she has waited, salting away virulent strains of bacteria for the sole purpose of enslaving us all. Until now she has, been content, to belch up a little lava here and there, or to, flood a plain, or, to, bury random, villages in mud. But, now, for the love of, Paradise_Pete, wh,at have,we unleashed,,,? Feel,,, feverish,,, vision blur,,ring, can,'t control,, use of,,,, commas,,,, think I'm goi,ng commatos,e,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
And besides...I'd much rather clean streets and parks than sit in prison for a while...and I bet the better part of the middle to upper class population thinks the same.
Having worked with Community Service programs I can tell you that, although most 'say' they'd rather do community service, their actions don't back it up. Most don't complete their community service and when they do show up don't try very hard (you often have to redo the job or at least inspect it and have the probationer redo the work).
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Maybe, but I would imagine the Sony robots will be cheaper and a relatively inexpensive beowulf cluster of them would be able to work together to topple the Honda robot (who [is that proper?] can't get back up on its own?).
So, will the next one be Chiquita Bananda?
I think his point is well taken when you narrow the definition by your own words to 'the medical sense' of the word 'transplant'. Granted, the original poster was referring to a medical procedure, but his question was more philosophical than physiological. I am a 'transplant' in the sense that I moved to a different region of the country.
While your arguments are technically correct, I don't believe you missed the meaning behind the post you originally replied to. It may have been better to point out a better alternative for the word, 'transplant' in this case.
I use Netscape (I'm checking out Mozilla right now, but can't find info on how to transfer all my address book info, bookmarks, etc. from Netscape) and have never used the browser itself to do a search. I just go to Google. The rest of the functionality I ignore if I can't change. Besides, if you use the Search function in Mozilla's side panel you wind up at Netscape too.
I don't think that's the case. Why the extra ports if it's intended to be a single box solution. Admittedly it's not targeting an Enterprise environment, but small business/networked home situations seem to be the actual target.
That may be correct. I don't remember off-hand which product it sprang from but they've taken vastly divergent paths since then.
There's still the question of scalability. How does it fare in that category?
That's a rather bigoted opinion. There are significant populations of poor, undereducated individuals of black, latino, and white backgrounds. Asians seem to be less well represented among them but I'm sure there are some. Your 'observation' also seems to fly in the face of the well-heeled, reasonably educated plaintiffs in Florida.
So, if Oracle were free it's abilities would change? I think your view is simplistic at best. For bigger, more intense stuff you'll be using one of the top-tier providers, but it's not just because they charge money and give you someone to blame when things go south (although that is a nice feature when you need some breathing space to get things working again), but because the technology, features, stability, etc. are there already and not around some bend in the future development curve. There are a lot of things PostgreSQL won't be suitable for until you can do a database backup online instead of having to bring the database down.
You're forgetting Informix which runs many enterprise-class installations, 24/7, OLTP, Tbytes of data, all that rot.
Yep. Used to help a blind friend vote every election.
So, if I choose to filter my email I am a censor. You were kind enough to repeat it so I was sure of your answer. Is censorship subjective in that it is sometimes good and sometimes bad? You seem to indicate that this is the case. Don't we decide what other people should do all the time? Isn't a murder charge a decision that people should not kill others? Aren't you telling others they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions that affect others? Which is it?
Perhaps I didn't communicate well enough in my prior post or you wouldn't have used example number two in your response. That's what happens today. A more fitting analogy might be:
2. You see that this is clearly labeled as an adult bookstore. You choose not to enter.
I filter my email. Does that mean that I'm practicing censorship? I regulate what I watch on television. Am I a censor? I'd like a way to keep myself from accessing material I find offensive (and don't give me the argument that you can't stumble on this stuff by accident, having clicked on links that purported to take me to one place and landed in another too many times). I'd like to see more descriptive use of TLD's with filters based on that and the cooperation of the net community to restrict content to the appropriate .whatever so that age appropriate (among other considerations) filtering could be done in schools and libraries (public, taxpayer funded venues). That is not censorship since the material is still available. We may give people the right to say it, but we have always had constraints on what could be said where (yelling 'FIRE!' in the proverbial crowded theater). We have, as a society, lost the ability to defer to the sensitivities of others and I miss the civility that used to mark public discourse.
There are attempts to detect large amounts of flesh-tones (caucasian only I believe) but neither of these products do that yet. I doubt anyone is looking for 'soft focus' since a pixel is a pixel once it's saved to a file.
The point is it doesn't do what it is supposed to do and does things that it isn't supposed to do.
That's part of the problem, judges interpreting the constitution instead of interpreting our laws in light of the constitution.
Shouldn't that be mail-eh?
Basically, sheer pedanticism at its worst.
Shouldn't that be 'po-TAY-to' and 'po-TAH-to' (as long as we don't think we can get any more pedantic)?
I don't think that the corporate world is uncomfortable with open source. For custom work clients often demand (and get) source code. Even if they don't know what to do with it at the time they know that they can hire someone to maintain/enhance the product if the company creating the software disappears. There is a prevailing perception that FREE=INFERIOR though.
So, why do we need the term software now? Better yet, why don't we just call this 'the computer' since nobody buys a computer without something to run on it anymore?
Huh? What church-and-state separation are you talking about? The press is neither church nor state. I think you've confused the press and congress in the first amendment. If your beef is that advertising revenues bias the press you should have picked the automakers since they often have whole multi-page sections of ads in local newspapers.
Well, that might explain the media's inability to get the story straight....
We pay millions in campaign underwriting from our tax money. Why not set aside a small percentage of that to chip in for food and drink for the press corp, if this is somehow required?
I find it hard to believe that the major news outlets can't fly, feed or house their reporters. I don't think the taxpayer's ought to have to chip in for that.
Look, the 'sponsorship' thing has to do with advertising revenue for the outlets broadcasting the debates, not the debates themselves. "I supply 'X' for the reporters, crew, etc. and you mention my name in the credits." The major networks could instead satisfy some of their public service requirements by airing the debates and just eat the ad revenue they'd lose. The contenders can pay for their own flights out of their campaign funds and the reporters can buy their own munchies - just like real people.
I believe we have stepped directly into Mother Earth's malevolent clutches. Patiently she has waited, salting away virulent strains of bacteria for the sole purpose of enslaving us all. Until now she has, been content, to belch up a little lava here and there, or to, flood a plain, or, to, bury random, villages in mud. But, now, for the love of, Paradise_Pete, wh,at have ,we unleashed,,,? Feel,,, feverish,,, vision blur,,ring, can,'t control,, use of,,,, commas,,,, think I'm goi,ng commatos,e,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Having worked with Community Service programs I can tell you that, although most 'say' they'd rather do community service, their actions don't back it up. Most don't complete their community service and when they do show up don't try very hard (you often have to redo the job or at least inspect it and have the probationer redo the work).