ya, the article is really short on detail. it just seems from the summary that the director, asfaw, keeps going on about having 'proved' evolution, as though it hadnt already been 'proven' to the satisfaction of anyone that mattered, or as though human evolution is the only evolution there is, or even as though finding a link between ardapithecus and australopithecus somehow cements them in the homo sapien line. im sure asfaw had much more to say though, given his credentials and his history in the industry.
Activa claims the website has caused damage to its reputation and launched the lawsuit only after Lanteigne refused to apologize and take down the site.
suing housewives for millions of dollars to save the reputation... well if we have to, we have to.
the book Languages of Pao explores the concept in even more detail. 3 castes are created on the planet Pao: warrior; mercantile and academic. the warrior language for example, would describe simple actions in terms of one force overcoming another. the academic language was very technical in its conjugations and construction.
you have to be very careful about acquired characterstics or else you sound like you are advocating lamarckism, the evolutionary equivalent of the flat-earth theory. the whole discussion sounds a little larmackian. evolution is NOT a learning process, it is genetic. however, a much more conventional evolutionary theory, called the "baldwin effect" does allow learned characteristics to come into play somewhat, bridging the gap left when a genetic evolution gets 'close enough' to a fitness characteristic.
to generalize, reading is but one way to receive information, with its own pros and cons. depending on the information and the situation, it may be my best choice. but since the net age, i have many more choices and use books less often when it is not the most appropriate. (e.g. programming manuals - a very rare purchase nowadays)
this is not a new question. why do you think we take such pains to remove any biological contaminants from martian spacecraft? dont worry. we have much less chance of contaminating titan.
dude, use view selection source in mozilla and save yourself the trouble. its pretty bad tho isnt? just using webmail and the html doesnt even layout right.... talk about trying to cash in with minimal effort
I like the Kuhn point too. I personally think Kuhn's idea of paradigms is brilliantly insightful and i make use of the concept constantly. At the same time, i totally disagree with the degree to which he takes it, as described well here. If Kuhn were right all science would be a subjective social construction.
Along with agents from the State Department, U.S. Customs and the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI began their search at Infocom Corporation, based in Richardson, Texas earlier this morning.
FBI> find subversive islamic web server
> I don't see any subversive islamic web server here.
i glanced at this puzzle and set to work only to find that i had misread the move as fxg8 instead of gxf8. it took me longer to solve the wrong one than the right one. probably cause i was warmed tho rather than it being harder. --
Id like some updating. when i was there last year, theyd had almost zero penetration. Id have to get a sales clerk to go into the back room to find the one Rio they had after explaining what it was in my broken Japanese, only sometimes successfully. amazing really since the size of handheld mp3 players is a huge plus. of course the problem is lack of home internet presence and especially broadband, but there seemed such a huge push to catch up there even last year that i wonder how things have changed in a year...
Ive often wondered, as a wed administrator, how _badly_ is it really possible for a web admin to screwup. I mean its not like a construction company or a lawyer or a doctor or other well-paid professionals that screw-up and u _know_ it, and are liable for vast amounts of damage.
If this isn't handled well, it could be a big screw-up. To think of all the NDA'd staff who are in on the secret and have done such a good job of keeping it, imagine that a web admin blows it...
Certainly this is possible, but the difference between those images where an X is found is that they are part of a set of x'ed and non-x'ed images. whereas the mysterious missing x image is not. there is only one set. when the whole site is revealed it would have 11 x'ed images and one not. I think they are on to something. --
This is not the fight to take to the public. The issues are too esoteric to inflame public opinion. Networking standards and licenses and somesuch. The core issue of freedom vs control is not easily discerned by the casual reader.
Slashdot Mirror
"There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch." - Marc Andreessen
Could his big idea be a browser with Skype and Google Wave components built in?
ya, the article is really short on detail. it just seems from the summary that the director, asfaw, keeps going on about having 'proved' evolution, as though it hadnt already been 'proven' to the satisfaction of anyone that mattered, or as though human evolution is the only evolution there is, or even as though finding a link between ardapithecus and australopithecus somehow cements them in the homo sapien line. im sure asfaw had much more to say though, given his credentials and his history in the industry.
the book Languages of Pao explores the concept in even more detail. 3 castes are created on the planet Pao: warrior; mercantile and academic. the warrior language for example, would describe simple actions in terms of one force overcoming another. the academic language was very technical in its conjugations and construction.
you have to be very careful about acquired characterstics or else you sound like you are advocating lamarckism, the evolutionary equivalent of the flat-earth theory. the whole discussion sounds a little larmackian. evolution is NOT a learning process, it is genetic. however, a much more conventional evolutionary theory, called the "baldwin effect" does allow learned characteristics to come into play somewhat, bridging the gap left when a genetic evolution gets 'close enough' to a fitness characteristic.
to generalize, reading is but one way to receive information, with its own pros and cons. depending on the information and the situation, it may be my best choice. but since the net age, i have many more choices and use books less often when it is not the most appropriate. (e.g. programming manuals - a very rare purchase nowadays)
this is not a new question. why do you think we take such pains to remove any biological contaminants from martian spacecraft? dont worry. we have much less chance of contaminating titan.
dude, use view selection source in mozilla and save yourself the trouble. its pretty bad tho isnt? just using webmail and the html doesnt even layout right.... talk about trying to cash in with minimal effort
no, msn messenger will come bundled with windows, and along with it will be hotmail integration.
*gasp* horror of horrors, i can see it all now
the surprise ending is that otzi, his injured friend, and both assailants are all in fact, the same schizophrenic person.
he mustve got in a fight with that damned chimera twin. theyre everywhere!
I like the Kuhn point too. I personally think Kuhn's idea of paradigms is brilliantly insightful and i make use of the concept constantly. At the same time, i totally disagree with the degree to which he takes it, as described well here. If Kuhn were right all science would be a subjective social construction.
Along with agents from the State Department, U.S. Customs and the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI began their search at Infocom Corporation, based in Richardson, Texas earlier this morning.
FBI> find subversive islamic web server
> I don't see any subversive islamic web server here.
taka
"My God.... it's full of stars... Oh. No, wait... No, it's just bird poop."
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i glanced at this puzzle and set to work only to find that i had misread the move as fxg8 instead of gxf8. it took me longer to solve the wrong one than the right one. probably cause i was warmed tho rather than it being harder.
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[this comment posted from Netscape6]
Why is gecko so fast but the application itself so sluggish? is this more noticable with the windows app do you think?
actually this feels a bit more responsive than even PR3...
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huh? comment got cut off.
stuff like this makes me feel for these guys. but why leave Mozilla? if they would only leave in the image filtering feature i would be ok with it.
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I feel bad not supporting netscape more, i mean jeez the guys are trying and stuff like this
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Id like some updating. when i was there last year, theyd had almost zero penetration. Id have to get a sales clerk to go into the back room to find the one Rio they had after explaining what it was in my broken Japanese, only sometimes successfully. amazing really since the size of handheld mp3 players is a huge plus. of course the problem is lack of home internet presence and especially broadband, but there seemed such a huge push to catch up there even last year that i wonder how things have changed in a year...
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msCLI> delete all my useless files
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... deleting
msCLI> error: command.com not found
msCLI> error: C:\Windows\ not found... shutting down.
finally they get something right!
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> Typo sites should be allowed (and I even get flame mail because of the various Slashdot typo sites!)
funny use of a typo site...
http://slsahdot.org
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Ive often wondered, as a wed administrator, how _badly_ is it really possible for a web admin to screwup. I mean its not like a construction company or a lawyer or a doctor or other well-paid professionals that screw-up and u _know_ it, and are liable for vast amounts of damage.
If this isn't handled well, it could be a big screw-up. To think of all the NDA'd staff who are in on the secret and have done such a good job of keeping it, imagine that a web admin blows it...
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Certainly this is possible, but the difference between those images where an X is found is that they are part of a set of x'ed and non-x'ed images. whereas the mysterious missing x image is not. there is only one set. when the whole site is revealed it would have 11 x'ed images and one not. I think they are on to something.
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practical, easy-to-use, ready-made GUI, some quirkiness but some OOP concepts and linguistically in the c/java family.
and OS-independant. whoohoo.
This is not the fight to take to the public. The issues are too esoteric to inflame public opinion. Networking standards and licenses and somesuch. The core issue of freedom vs control is not easily discerned by the casual reader.
The correct time to fight will come.