Slashdot runs noticeably faster on v10 than on v9. It's close to being "snappy" -- for Slashdot. Never really had any rendering problems under 9 -- sluggishness yes, but no rendering problems I can recall.
Perhaps it's a question of the headroom left in steam technology. Perhaps it took modern materials/techniques to get even a 10% boost in speed. Considering the need for boilers (water=weight) there must be a fairly firm limit on the amount of speed you'll be able to reach even with modern materials/techniques. Perhaps 10% is a pretty good margin.
Why is an infrastructure tax anything to do with filesharers?
Nothing, other than it was also part of the Digital Britain report and was changed at the same time as the filesharing stuff. Although, they'll probably roll out the argument that filesharing acounts for X huge percent of all traffic and therefore is an impediment to the BB infrastructure's health.
It also propsed a £6 a year tax to upgrade the BB infrastructure. Apparently the tax along with the weaker proposed penalty (throttling connection) have been axed -- with throttling being replaced with disconnection and nothing to replace the tax.
I wonder if this is an attempt to make the tax and throttling more acceptable. i.e. "Okay, okay we hear you. We'll roll back the plan to the previous state (tax and throttling)." In the end, getting what they want with less opposition to push through.
Mandelson has no problem being seen as "the evil" in order to get policy through. It's not like his image could get much worse.
Your supposed honour, our industries do not cause global warming. Think about this:
Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
An argument's validity has to do with its form -- if it has a valid logical form. Whereas, the soundness of an argument has to do with the truth of its premises when its form is valid.
You seem to be talking about soundness and not validity. My post above discusses why the argument from design's form is not valid.
The interesting thing about the argument for ID is that it's an argument from analogy. It takes the form of, "if the complex entity "A" (i.e a watch) had a designer, then another complex entity "B" (the world) must also have a designer". It's completely flawed from the get go. I believe it was Hume who pointed out that for an argument from analogy to be valid every single tiny detail of both entities being compared must map onto eachother perfectly or else the attempted argument collapses:
But wherever you depart, in the least, from the similarity of the cases, you diminish proportionably the evidence: and may at last bring it to a very weak analogy, which is confessedly liable to error and uncertainty.
As someone who's educational background is in Philosophy, I find it very odd to see ID rolled out at all. The whole notion was put to bed for philosophers a long time ago (2nd year Phil. of Religion dealt with this, for me). The fact that it's being dressed as science these days is lamentable. The argument from design wasn't good philosophy and changing its clothes won't make it science.
Analogies are great explanatory tools, but they are not arguments in the vast majority of cases.
An electronic cigarette http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ might be the solution for your brother. It mimics almost all of the actions of smoking -- it produces a vapour which is inhaled instead of smoke. I've used one since Jan. and dropped cigarettes completely the day I got it. I smoked about 20 a day for 20 years previous to Jan. Seriously, I got the e-cig and literally have not smoked any tobacco from the day it arrived.
Might be something to look at for your brother if he wants/needs to stay on nicotine, but would like to avoid the inherent risks of inhaling smoke. They are not without controversy as we are talking about a product which threatens big tobacco as well as big pharma. I won't go into that here as you can research it yourself, but if you got to the forum I linked to you can find pretty much all the information there and judge for yourself. All I can say is that I dropped tobacco in a day and feel much better for it.
Don't confuse smoking with nicotine -- the former is a delivery mechanism for the latter. One need not smoke to take nicotine -- they are not inextricably linked.
Yeah no kidding -- in order to turn the thing off you need to catch it in a contradiction whose logical consequence is self termination. Bit of a chore each night before heading to bed.
I was responding to the assertion that, "About the worst they can reasonably be accused of is encouraging bright people to remain celibate." I pointed out a counter-example to that assertion which clearly shows the church doing a lot more than encouraging Galileo to "keep it in his pants".
And yes, you're correct -- that happened about 100 years after the period in time known as "the middle ages". But that doesn't change the inaccuracy of the original assertion that all the church really did was encourage bright people to be celibate. The church clearly used its power to stifle thought that conflicted with its world view.
With the loss of many of his defenders in Rome because of Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo was ordered to stand trial on suspicion of heresy in 1633. The sentence of the Inquisition was in three essential parts:
1) Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy," namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.
2) He was ordered imprisoned; the sentence was later commuted to house arrest.
3) His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.
Technology in food production isn't just for processed food, it's having a tractor to work your ground instead of a digging stick. Even organic farming uses technology, the question is which technologies to accept and which to reject. Personally I'm not a big fan of poisons sprayed on my food regardless of what this study says.
Precisely. Something even as simple as crop rotation is a technology. As soon as humans stopped simply gathering food and turned to producing their food it became a technological activity.
Bah. He came up with that cool electric hammer that was recently discovered as well as the extra hinged legs on chairs to stop you falling over if you lean back too far.
Considering that Phorm is supposed to generate revenue for the ISP by using deep packet inspection at the ISP level to snoop on customers traffic in order to serve "targeted ads", it seems dubious to think they would drop it for reasons of "resources and priority". One would think that generating revenue would be a high priority and that money coming in would be seen as an increase in resources.
C'mon BT, you spied on your customers, got caught and now you're back peddling -- admit it, you gave no thought to privacy until the secret trials were exposed. It's precisely because of the backlash over privacy that you're backing away now.
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That sounds closer to the way v9 of Opera was for me. I'm on WinXP, though, so that might have something to do with it.
Slashdot runs noticeably faster on v10 than on v9. It's close to being "snappy" -- for Slashdot. Never really had any rendering problems under 9 -- sluggishness yes, but no rendering problems I can recall.
Perhaps it's a question of the headroom left in steam technology. Perhaps it took modern materials/techniques to get even a 10% boost in speed. Considering the need for boilers (water=weight) there must be a fairly firm limit on the amount of speed you'll be able to reach even with modern materials/techniques. Perhaps 10% is a pretty good margin.
Bah, I'm having a bad day. I read that as "What has an infrastructure tax to do with filesharers?". Even when I quoted it. Doh is me.
Why is an infrastructure tax anything to do with filesharers?
Nothing, other than it was also part of the Digital Britain report and was changed at the same time as the filesharing stuff. Although, they'll probably roll out the argument that filesharing acounts for X huge percent of all traffic and therefore is an impediment to the BB infrastructure's health.
It also propsed a £6 a year tax to upgrade the BB infrastructure. Apparently the tax along with the weaker proposed penalty (throttling connection) have been axed -- with throttling being replaced with disconnection and nothing to replace the tax.
I wonder if this is an attempt to make the tax and throttling more acceptable. i.e. "Okay, okay we hear you. We'll roll back the plan to the previous state (tax and throttling)." In the end, getting what they want with less opposition to push through.
Mandelson has no problem being seen as "the evil" in order to get policy through. It's not like his image could get much worse.
Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense#Origin
What's your point?
C'mon, he even made sure his conclusion was the very last sentence of his post -- right where you'd expect it to be:
Rather than shouting down or marginalizing the minority who disagree, we should be promoting their dissent so long as it's scientific in nature.
Nietzsche made a similar point in the following aphorism:
Corruption. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in high esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
... the fact that narcotics is an integral part of human culture.
Fixed that for you.
Thanks for that. As well as to the others who posted following up (including the original AC).
Someone give this AC an informative cookie or two.
That doesn't make it old news. Can you provide evidence the principle has previously been articulated?
Perhaps next time you could provide some actual examples/citations/references rather than just effectively saying, "I knew that".
I've seen plenty of obstacles in place to route/control footfall traffic, but none that I can think of to speed up egress. You have examples of those?
If ID is magic, then it's not science, therefore ID is magic. :)
Now this is a perfect example of begging the question -- you assume the thing you want to prove as a premise in your argument.
You seem to have mistaken your internet connection for your penis -- which you have then confused with a marker of your own self worth.
An argument's validity has to do with its form -- if it has a valid logical form. Whereas, the soundness of an argument has to do with the truth of its premises when its form is valid.
You seem to be talking about soundness and not validity. My post above discusses why the argument from design's form is not valid.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/#4
But wherever you depart, in the least, from the similarity of the cases, you diminish proportionably the evidence: and may at last bring it to a very weak analogy, which is confessedly liable to error and uncertainty.
As someone who's educational background is in Philosophy, I find it very odd to see ID rolled out at all. The whole notion was put to bed for philosophers a long time ago (2nd year Phil. of Religion dealt with this, for me). The fact that it's being dressed as science these days is lamentable. The argument from design wasn't good philosophy and changing its clothes won't make it science.
Analogies are great explanatory tools, but they are not arguments in the vast majority of cases.
An electronic cigarette http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ might be the solution for your brother. It mimics almost all of the actions of smoking -- it produces a vapour which is inhaled instead of smoke. I've used one since Jan. and dropped cigarettes completely the day I got it. I smoked about 20 a day for 20 years previous to Jan. Seriously, I got the e-cig and literally have not smoked any tobacco from the day it arrived.
Might be something to look at for your brother if he wants/needs to stay on nicotine, but would like to avoid the inherent risks of inhaling smoke. They are not without controversy as we are talking about a product which threatens big tobacco as well as big pharma. I won't go into that here as you can research it yourself, but if you got to the forum I linked to you can find pretty much all the information there and judge for yourself. All I can say is that I dropped tobacco in a day and feel much better for it.
Don't confuse smoking with nicotine -- the former is a delivery mechanism for the latter. One need not smoke to take nicotine -- they are not inextricably linked.
Dr. Daystrom found out that this was a bad thing.
Yeah no kidding -- in order to turn the thing off you need to catch it in a contradiction whose logical consequence is self termination. Bit of a chore each night before heading to bed.
I was responding to the assertion that, "About the worst they can reasonably be accused of is encouraging bright people to remain celibate." I pointed out a counter-example to that assertion which clearly shows the church doing a lot more than encouraging Galileo to "keep it in his pants".
And yes, you're correct -- that happened about 100 years after the period in time known as "the middle ages". But that doesn't change the inaccuracy of the original assertion that all the church really did was encourage bright people to be celibate. The church clearly used its power to stifle thought that conflicted with its world view.
Galileo begs to differ that, "the worst they can reasonably be accused of is encouraging bright people to remain celibate."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Church_controversy
With the loss of many of his defenders in Rome because of Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo was ordered to stand trial on suspicion of heresy in 1633. The sentence of the Inquisition was in three essential parts:
1) Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy," namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.
2) He was ordered imprisoned; the sentence was later commuted to house arrest.
3) His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.
Technology in food production isn't just for processed food, it's having a tractor to work your ground instead of a digging stick. Even organic farming uses technology, the question is which technologies to accept and which to reject. Personally I'm not a big fan of poisons sprayed on my food regardless of what this study says.
Precisely. Something even as simple as crop rotation is a technology. As soon as humans stopped simply gathering food and turned to producing their food it became a technological activity.
Bah. He came up with that cool electric hammer that was recently discovered as well as the extra hinged legs on chairs to stop you falling over if you lean back too far.
How else are they going to win the Nigerian lottery? You can't win if you don't enter.
Run away! Run away!
I try to tell them. Just look at the bones!
Considering that Phorm is supposed to generate revenue for the ISP by using deep packet inspection at the ISP level to snoop on customers traffic in order to serve "targeted ads", it seems dubious to think they would drop it for reasons of "resources and priority". One would think that generating revenue would be a high priority and that money coming in would be seen as an increase in resources.
C'mon BT, you spied on your customers, got caught and now you're back peddling -- admit it, you gave no thought to privacy until the secret trials were exposed. It's precisely because of the backlash over privacy that you're backing away now.