- Galileo Galilei got the right for research into planetary motion from the Pope himself in 1623 and was allowed to publish his results even if they contradicted with the geocentric world view, provided he called his theses theories and not fact (anyone familiar with that phrase?;) )
- The trial papers together with the invitation to the court were sent to Galileo Galilei in October 1641, but he didn't come to the court until May 1642. During that time no one attempted to subpoena him to Rome even though it was just a two days ride from Florence to Rome.
- Galileo Galilei never was in prison. In fact he stayed in the Villa Medici in Rome during his trial, being court teacher to the Medici family of Florence at that time.
- After he withdraw all his papers during the trial (which was never requested according to the transcripts of the trial), he lost on formal grounds and had to be convicted of misteaching because of court rules and was thus forbidden to teach any further. To help with this hardship he got a monthly rent from the Vatican for the rest of his life (10 years!).
- He was indeed convicted and punished and had to stay in his home just outside of Florence, but when his health went worse he was allowed to move into Florence to be near his doctor. A quite comfortable punishment for someone convicted of deeds commanding death penalty.
But that's only because no one exactly knows how much the Sultan of Brunei really has. William III Gates has to declare his income every year to the U.S. authorities. The Sultan of Brunei has only himself to declare to. And he gets his money from energy resources.
Another problem with Ingvar Kamprad, which is not really owner of IKEA, just the person who controls the foundation which controls IKEA. There is no definite number for his fortune, just some guesstimates, which put him between US$ 18 bn and 50 bn. But no one really knows, how much he really earned by selling furniture.
It's as simple as this: As soon as a mutation proves to be useful, other mutations, that weren't usable before now might acutally support the usage of the new mutation (for instance with the advent of the eye mutations that color the skin like the ground prove to be a good idea). Soon those strands of livings that have both mutations gain an advantage above the animals which have only have. This might happen several times, and the evolution seems to go faster (which in fact it doesn't, just the multiplication of effects due to the interaction of mutations does).
With that comes an exploration of ecological niches that were barren for the livings before because the new mutation shifts the balances. So you not only get acceleration, you also get radiation. The new strand of livings moves into new niches and diversifies itself to adapt to those niches. After some time the balances are back, and the movement stops, and evolution seems to slow down, mutations do assemble further within the genome of the livings, but none of the mutations is disruptive enough to strike the balance and shift the weights.
The evolution of the eye for instance has happened in a very short time (guesses are about 2 mio years) about 440 mio years ago. You don't find any eyes in fossils older than 445 mio years, but they are abundant in fossils from 435 mio years ago. Because even small improvements in the eye prove to be so successful, you don't find many species yet which have something you could call an 'incomplete eye'. But they are still there, mostly in environments where eyesight is not that important. For instance there are animals which just have light sensitive cells on the skin, some water snails have small pits where those light sensitive cells are concentrated, which allows a sense of direction, some tube worms have deeper pits which allow already for spotting of movement. And then you have all those animals where those pits are closed with a cellular structure, that is transparent and acts as an optical lens: insects, cancers, arachnidae, cuttle fish, cordatae and vertebratae.
Restart Apache? There is always "bin/apachectl graceful". And if that doesn't work (I have taken over an installation where Apache isn't allowed to write a pid file...), "pkill -HUP httpd" still causes Apache to reread its configuration without a restart.
To be more exact: The conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity took place in 312-320 during the regentship of Emperor Constantinus the Great (285-337), and Emperor Julian Apostata was the only later Emperor who not endorsed the new christian belief. Rome itself was conquered first by the goths in 410, and all later Roman Emperors were just some puppets of the north italian East Goth Kingdom which was based in Ravenna and which finally fell to the conquest by Narses of Constantinople in 552, who made Emperor Iustinian the first East Roman (byzanthian) emperor of both Rome and Constantinople. At this time most of the old west roman provinces were occupied by german tribes: Hispania by the West Goths and Vandals, Gallia by the Franconians, and the Saxons were about to settle in Anglia. Hibernia (Ireland) was the last roman-catholic outpost, and the dark ages refer to the fact, that Christianity was nearly dead for most of Western Europe at this time. From Ireland started the missions to convert all those german tribes to Christianity again, starting with the foundation of Lindisfarne in England in the mid 7th century. Bonifacius (~675 - 754) started out in 715 first to Friesia, since 732 to the Franconians after Charles Martell overthrew the last of the Merowingian Kings which ruled Franconia since 482, and finally died in an friesian ambush 754. The grandson of Charles Martell, Charlesmagne, finalized the official conversion of Franconia to Christianity by his coronation to Roman Emperor in 800 by Pope Leo III.
I live in a town which has several layers of 'new' built on each other. When the town was founded, there was a small trader town named 'Drezdany' (old slawish for: those living at the river banks). To protect the bridge crossing the river, at the other bank a castle was built which subsequently attracted settlers around it. This small settlement was thus called Neuendresden (New Dresden), as opposed to the old trader town Drezdany, now called Altendresden (Old Dresden). After several heavy firestorms were destroying Old Dresden, it got a completely new designed block layout, with wide streets and firewalls between the single houses. This then was called Dresden-Neustadt (Dresden New Town), thus turning the former New Dresden into Dresden-Altstadt (Dresden Old Town). In the 19th century the town grow out of its city walls, creating new suburbs behind the old limits, so Dresden-Neustadt became two parts: Dresden-Innere Neustadt (Inner New Town) and Dresden-Aeussere Neustadt (Outer New Town). Dresden Altstadt kept its name, the new suburbs were instead called Vorstaedte (Suburbs) according to the direction they were: Pirnaische Vorstadt (suburb in direction to Pirna [another town]), Suedvorstadt (southern suburb) etc.pp. In WW II, most of Dresden's Old Town got destroyed, and except for solitude buildings re-erected because of their representative or historical value, most of Dresden-Altstadt now is in fact a new town, even with a new block layout. To see the historic, old downtown, you have to go to Dresden-Neustadt (New Town). As you can see: There is nothing impossible with naming a new town:)
Many men, on the other hand, prefer explicit/formal communication and either dismiss these non-verbal cues as unimportant, or (just as likely) are unable to reliably detect them at all.
If they can't detect them, those hints are unimportant. Telling someone something on a channel he is not tuned in is a waste of time and energy. You don't write 'I'll be back in two hours' memos in ancient egypt and stick them to the fridge, if the intended recipient never had shown any interest in archeology.
Yes, there are often completely understandable reasons why something is misleadingly called. It doesn't change the fact, that the naming is misleading.
As the Belgians are the inventors of French fries (they should in fact be called Belgian fries!), deal with the fact that they probably know how to handle fries correctly. I myself don't like either ketchup or mayonaise on my fries, just a little salt.
For the search terms bla, bla bla, bla bla bla etc.pp. the numbers at Google remain pretty stable (starting out at 2.040 mio, and later somewhere between 1.870 und 1.900 mio).
So the interesting question is: Why does it work with lawyer, but not with bla?
Modern popular music was at its lowest point in history from the beginning. That has to do with the fact that it is popular. Normally 90% of everything is second rate material. But only if it's popular the whole 100% gets full coverage. If a hype has faded, 50% gets wiped out immediately, and you are left with the 10% that was good and 40% that was secondrate. Without any stuff added the relative amount of good stuff has doubled:)
The highest speed I had ever a blowout was 140km/h (~85mph), and it was quite easy to maneuver the car over from the outmost left lane to the right border of the road. Luckily the road was straight, the weather was dry and the traffic around about my speed and not too tense. Going around a corner, maybe on a wet and slippery road or in heavy traffic the result of the blowout may have been less fortunate for me.
No. It doesn't necessarily say so. But you can argue that Microsoft got convicted once in a copyright infringment case, so if a second case is not decided yet there is still some non trivial probability that this time there is also infringment. It's the old 'who lied once...' argumentation, and a customer thus should be very wary.
But the whole SCO case amply demonstrates that Microsoft has a point. The GPL is certainly good for creating a SCO like FUD lawsuit that can be used to obtain discovery powers and burn huge quantities of legal fees.
But the point can be made in reverse too: Look at all those annoying copyright, trade secret or patent infringment lawsuits going on in the software world. You as an enduser of Microsoft products didn't have too much to worry about yet because Microsoft has settled most of them with huge sums of money and thus avoided recalls or retributions against its customers.
But in the EU there are currently ideas lurking around making copyright infringment a criminal offense, thus settling with money is furtherly out of question, because the prosecuters have a say and not the suing party. And then maybe the court clerks have to write everything with a type writer again because then you can file a complaint against every entity using infringing software, and that includes the courts, and then they have a prosecuter going against them. And then indemnification against those lawsuits is no longer possible, because in criminal cases Microsoft can't act on behalf of its customers.
And because Microsoft is a convicted copyright infringer (see SoftImage), you can't say you didn't know the software you were using were infringing someones copyrights.
*cough* Of course I can differentiate between Nokia, Finland, and Nokia, Suburb of Bochum, Germany. It just striked me once as odd, seing 'Bochum-Nokia' as the next train stop on a schedule.
Nokia has still activity left in Nokia, which is a suburb of Bochum (Germany). Feel free to use an Online Train Schedule for directions to Bochum-Nokia.
the higher frequency sounds require smaller features in the groove, and those small pieces are easy to wear off. After a few playings, ultrasonics, if they ever were present on the LP in the first place, are gone because the ridges that correspond to the ultrasonic frequencies are just too tiny (and therefore thin and weak) to stand up to the stress of colliding with the needle.
Not only that, they have never been there from the start. There is a physical upper limit to the frequencies you can put on a vinyl record, determined by the structural properties of the vinyl itself (it's elasticity... higher frequencies are just sucked up into the vinyl slightly bending when the crystal touches the little details) and the mass of the crystal: For the piezoelectric effect used to measure the crystal movement, the crystal itself has to bend a little, and there the mass of the crystal is the limit due to necessary accelerations.
So effectively the vinyl-crystal system cuts off all frequencies above 16kHz anyway, and (not only) here the CD with 22,1kHz is definitely better.
You never coded much, right? Reimplementing software from scratch is so much hassle that it is not done very often, and if, then only out of pure necessity. The intrinsic value of software is not so much the number of ideas implented than the number of traps stepped into and furtherly avoided. And differently than the features, those workarounds, sophisticated little one-line-codes and smart tricks are not specifically pointed out, and a clean room implementation of the same will have to learn them anew.
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There are enough facts to support this story:
;) )
- Galileo Galilei got the right for research into planetary motion from the Pope himself in 1623 and was allowed to publish his results even if they contradicted with the geocentric world view, provided he called his theses theories and not fact (anyone familiar with that phrase?
- The trial papers together with the invitation to the court were sent to Galileo Galilei in October 1641, but he didn't come to the court until May 1642. During that time no one attempted to subpoena him to Rome even though it was just a two days ride from Florence to Rome.
- Galileo Galilei never was in prison. In fact he stayed in the Villa Medici in Rome during his trial, being court teacher to the Medici family of Florence at that time.
- After he withdraw all his papers during the trial (which was never requested according to the transcripts of the trial), he lost on formal grounds and had to be convicted of misteaching because of court rules and was thus forbidden to teach any further. To help with this hardship he got a monthly rent from the Vatican for the rest of his life (10 years!).
- He was indeed convicted and punished and had to stay in his home just outside of Florence, but when his health went worse he was allowed to move into Florence to be near his doctor. A quite comfortable punishment for someone convicted of deeds commanding death penalty.
But that's only because no one exactly knows how much the Sultan of Brunei really has. William III Gates has to declare his income every year to the U.S. authorities. The Sultan of Brunei has only himself to declare to. And he gets his money from energy resources.
Another problem with Ingvar Kamprad, which is not really owner of IKEA, just the person who controls the foundation which controls IKEA. There is no definite number for his fortune, just some guesstimates, which put him between US$ 18 bn and 50 bn. But no one really knows, how much he really earned by selling furniture.
We just didn't expect any better, so the disappointment was limited ;)
And this invalidates the comment above how?
;)
PHP used to stand for Personal Home Page, and it has gone far. Even the name doesn't stand anymore for Personal Home Page
And what about the Foundry BigIron series?
It's as simple as this: As soon as a mutation proves to be useful, other mutations, that weren't usable before now might acutally support the usage of the new mutation (for instance with the advent of the eye mutations that color the skin like the ground prove to be a good idea). Soon those strands of livings that have both mutations gain an advantage above the animals which have only have. This might happen several times, and the evolution seems to go faster (which in fact it doesn't, just the multiplication of effects due to the interaction of mutations does).
With that comes an exploration of ecological niches that were barren for the livings before because the new mutation shifts the balances. So you not only get acceleration, you also get radiation. The new strand of livings moves into new niches and diversifies itself to adapt to those niches. After some time the balances are back, and the movement stops, and evolution seems to slow down, mutations do assemble further within the genome of the livings, but none of the mutations is disruptive enough to strike the balance and shift the weights.
The evolution of the eye for instance has happened in a very short time (guesses are about 2 mio years) about 440 mio years ago. You don't find any eyes in fossils older than 445 mio years, but they are abundant in fossils from 435 mio years ago. Because even small improvements in the eye prove to be so successful, you don't find many species yet which have something you could call an 'incomplete eye'. But they are still there, mostly in environments where eyesight is not that important. For instance there are animals which just have light sensitive cells on the skin, some water snails have small pits where those light sensitive cells are concentrated, which allows a sense of direction, some tube worms have deeper pits which allow already for spotting of movement. And then you have all those animals where those pits are closed with a cellular structure, that is transparent and acts as an optical lens: insects, cancers, arachnidae, cuttle fish, cordatae and vertebratae.
Restart Apache? There is always "bin/apachectl graceful".
And if that doesn't work (I have taken over an installation where Apache isn't allowed to write a pid file...), "pkill -HUP httpd" still causes Apache to reread its configuration without a restart.
That's why I called Iustinian the East Roman Emperor and put the reference to Byzanz in parentheses.
To be more exact: The conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity took place in 312-320 during the regentship of Emperor Constantinus the Great (285-337), and Emperor Julian Apostata was the only later Emperor who not endorsed the new christian belief.
Rome itself was conquered first by the goths in 410, and all later Roman Emperors were just some puppets of the north italian East Goth Kingdom which was based in Ravenna and which finally fell to the conquest by Narses of Constantinople in 552, who made Emperor Iustinian the first East Roman (byzanthian) emperor of both Rome and Constantinople.
At this time most of the old west roman provinces were occupied by german tribes: Hispania by the West Goths and Vandals, Gallia by the Franconians, and the Saxons were about to settle in Anglia. Hibernia (Ireland) was the last roman-catholic outpost, and the dark ages refer to the fact, that Christianity was nearly dead for most of Western Europe at this time. From Ireland started the missions to convert all those german tribes to Christianity again, starting with the foundation of Lindisfarne in England in the mid 7th century. Bonifacius (~675 - 754) started out in 715 first to Friesia, since 732 to the Franconians after Charles Martell overthrew the last of the Merowingian Kings which ruled Franconia since 482, and finally died in an friesian ambush 754. The grandson of Charles Martell, Charlesmagne, finalized the official conversion of Franconia to Christianity by his coronation to Roman Emperor in 800 by Pope Leo III.
I live in a town which has several layers of 'new' built on each other. When the town was founded, there was a small trader town named 'Drezdany' (old slawish for: those living at the river banks). To protect the bridge crossing the river, at the other bank a castle was built which subsequently attracted settlers around it. This small settlement was thus called Neuendresden (New Dresden), as opposed to the old trader town Drezdany, now called Altendresden (Old Dresden). :)
After several heavy firestorms were destroying Old Dresden, it got a completely new designed block layout, with wide streets and firewalls between the single houses. This then was called Dresden-Neustadt (Dresden New Town), thus turning the former New Dresden into Dresden-Altstadt (Dresden Old Town).
In the 19th century the town grow out of its city walls, creating new suburbs behind the old limits, so Dresden-Neustadt became two parts: Dresden-Innere Neustadt (Inner New Town) and Dresden-Aeussere Neustadt (Outer New Town). Dresden Altstadt kept its name, the new suburbs were instead called Vorstaedte (Suburbs) according to the direction they were: Pirnaische Vorstadt (suburb in direction to Pirna [another town]), Suedvorstadt (southern suburb) etc.pp.
In WW II, most of Dresden's Old Town got destroyed, and except for solitude buildings re-erected because of their representative or historical value, most of Dresden-Altstadt now is in fact a new town, even with a new block layout. To see the historic, old downtown, you have to go to Dresden-Neustadt (New Town).
As you can see: There is nothing impossible with naming a new town
Just buy a shrinter.
If they can't detect them, those hints are unimportant. Telling someone something on a channel he is not tuned in is a waste of time and energy. You don't write 'I'll be back in two hours' memos in ancient egypt and stick them to the fridge, if the intended recipient never had shown any interest in archeology.
Yes, there are often completely understandable reasons why something is misleadingly called. It doesn't change the fact, that the naming is misleading.
As the Belgians are the inventors of French fries (they should in fact be called Belgian fries!), deal with the fact that they probably know how to handle fries correctly. I myself don't like either ketchup or mayonaise on my fries, just a little salt.
For the search terms bla, bla bla, bla bla bla etc.pp. the numbers at Google remain pretty stable (starting out at 2.040 mio, and later somewhere between 1.870 und 1.900 mio).
So the interesting question is: Why does it work with lawyer, but not with bla?
Modern popular music was at its lowest point in history from the beginning. That has to do with the fact that it is popular. :)
Normally 90% of everything is second rate material. But only if it's popular the whole 100% gets full coverage. If a hype has faded, 50% gets wiped out immediately, and you are left with the 10% that was good and 40% that was secondrate. Without any stuff added the relative amount of good stuff has doubled
The highest speed I had ever a blowout was 140km/h (~85mph), and it was quite easy to maneuver the car over from the outmost left lane to the right border of the road. Luckily the road was straight, the weather was dry and the traffic around about my speed and not too tense.
Going around a corner, maybe on a wet and slippery road or in heavy traffic the result of the blowout may have been less fortunate for me.
No. It doesn't necessarily say so. But you can argue that Microsoft got convicted once in a copyright infringment case, so if a second case is not decided yet there is still some non trivial probability that this time there is also infringment. It's the old 'who lied once...' argumentation, and a customer thus should be very wary.
But the point can be made in reverse too: Look at all those annoying copyright, trade secret or patent infringment lawsuits going on in the software world. You as an enduser of Microsoft products didn't have too much to worry about yet because Microsoft has settled most of them with huge sums of money and thus avoided recalls or retributions against its customers.
But in the EU there are currently ideas lurking around making copyright infringment a criminal offense, thus settling with money is furtherly out of question, because the prosecuters have a say and not the suing party. And then maybe the court clerks have to write everything with a type writer again because then you can file a complaint against every entity using infringing software, and that includes the courts, and then they have a prosecuter going against them. And then indemnification against those lawsuits is no longer possible, because in criminal cases Microsoft can't act on behalf of its customers.
And because Microsoft is a convicted copyright infringer (see SoftImage), you can't say you didn't know the software you were using were infringing someones copyrights.
*cough*
Of course I can differentiate between Nokia, Finland, and Nokia, Suburb of Bochum, Germany. It just striked me once as odd, seing 'Bochum-Nokia' as the next train stop on a schedule.
Nokia has still activity left in Nokia, which is a suburb of Bochum (Germany). Feel free to use an Online Train Schedule for directions to Bochum-Nokia.
Collateral damage is, what it is: Damage. And as such it should be handled. If you damage something, it's YOUR fault. End of story.
You never coded much, right? Reimplementing software from scratch is so much hassle that it is not done very often, and if, then only out of pure necessity.
The intrinsic value of software is not so much the number of ideas implented than the number of traps stepped into and furtherly avoided.
And differently than the features, those workarounds, sophisticated little one-line-codes and smart tricks are not specifically pointed out, and a clean room implementation of the same will have to learn them anew.
What is wrong with using an editor and ftp to achieve this? :)