Amarok uses lib-xine and gxine obviously does, so your example isn't valid.
The point is kind of. Mostly this a problem that distros caused and are the ones that have to solve it. Really having a couple of implementations isn't a problem. The whole MP3 issue was brought on by patent paranoia, everything was fine before.
Being skeptical is fine and healthy. But only within limits. Skeptical of a politician: common sense. Skeptical of the moon landing: stupid.
As far as your explanation of the Theory of Evolution, its pretty much right, as long as you make it clear that your not a fan of Lamarckian evolution and that changes only occur at new generations. It is pretty amazing to think that there is a continuity of life from us back through our grandmothers to the organic soup we all originated from.
As far as your A's and B's, your argument would have perhaps been valid in Darwin's time. But now we have fossil evidence of evolution actually happening. Scientists can estimate how many generations ago two species diverged based on genetic similarity. Biologists use evolution daily in explaining how life works. In other words, much of "A" has been directly observed - life is in fact diverse and complex.
What makes the Theory of Evolution so impressive is that it was thought of before much of the evidence for it came to light. Before there was extensive fossil records. Before even Mendelian inheritance and far before the implementor of evolution - DNA - was discovered. This is a great show of validity for any theory, its a lot easier to fit a theory to the facts then the other way around.
Biology is an inductive science. You can't make a mathematical proof. A proof that the Earth isn't going to fall into the sun tomorrow can't be done deductively. You can't do anything in the real world deductively really, there are no made-up absolute postulates like in mathematics. However its not wildly speculative to think that the world will continue revolving around the sun. Through observation physics has theorized the rules governing the Earth's revolution. We can use these theories to make predictions (like that we won't fall into the sun).
Similarly evolution has been observed. For HIV patients its a fact of life; they rotate the drugs used as HIV in their body gains and loses resistance to the various drugs. And apparently you accept species evolution. So here's what we have:
A 4 billion year old planet
An observed process called evolution which is comprised of:
A combination of random and not-so-random mutations whereby an organisms offspring is different then it.
Natural selection, an entirely non-random process where the more fit are able to reproduce
An ecosystem with millions of species
So we deduce the diversity of life on Earth was caused by evolution. This was pretty much all the evidence that Darwin went on. And since then the fossil and genetic evidence is enormous. In the fossil record we can see the gradual evolution of hundreds of thousands of species. DNA and cell functions show how similar apparently quite different creatures are.
Of course compared to your pretend-world of deductive reasoning it might look like wild speculation. I'm a Computer Science major and I've dealt with anti-science math folks before.:) And yes, he would have denied being anti-science too. I would argue that deductive reasoning is more valid and quite different then the faith-based reasoning of religious people. They think believing in things without evidence is something to be proud of.
I think its funny how anti-evolutionists create their own vocabulary. Like how the term microevolution and macroevolution, are only ones I hear in the context or a anti-evolutionist. So anyways "cross-species", "cross-kingdom", terms you made up I think.:) I assume you mean evolution that crosses a threshold of species or kingdom, not some sort of kinky inter-species mating thing. (actually I just googled "cross-kingdom", and it is used in reference to more of the latter.)
First off species, kingdom, phylum are terms nomenclaturists made up. There was never really a point where a non-chicken had a chicken egg, since species aren't so neatly defined. A lot of proto-chickens having not-so-proto chicken eggs.
Your average chicken does have a dinosaur as a ancestor. The fact that dinosaurs eventually grew wings and feathers is now well documented. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuvuuia_deserti or just the scaly reptilian feet that birds have. So thats some cross-class evolution.
But the best evidence that evolution can allow develop a wide array of species and even a few kingdoms is of course the biological diversity we see every day.
As far as God using old materials, of course you can be given any sort of scientific problem and respond "God did it." Why is there thunder? God did it. Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west? God did it. Or maybe the sun god, if your so inclined. It really gets us nowhere. Trying to understand, say, how our biology works by trying to fathom how you think God would create us is an exercise in futility. Evolution has been driving biological and medical research that last 150 years because it works. Many Creationists are hypocrites, they take advantage of the life-saving technology that the Theory of Evolution has provided them while trying to teach bogus ID theories in our schools, theories that not only are dead wrong, they also have no practical use.
So Nissan plans to role this stuff out by 2015. So thats only 8 years away, but 2015 still sounds awfully like the "future" to me. Since it appears that we're not going to get flying-conversions for our cars any time soon, can't we at least have smart cars and smart highways? Why do people still have to drive their cars? Is this the 21st century or not?
Erm, but the BSD is GPL compatible. The fact that its GPL incompatible from only a handful of clauses (FSF mentions some notoriously GPL-incompatible extra advertisement clauses and something to do with patents) makes it more suspect.
In reality Andrew Morton in his Google Video when asked about ZFS (he sees filesystems as an area where Linux is going to lag behind in the future) mentioned that ZFS was not an option due to its license. But that also ZFS is much more then a filesystem so it could have been rejected from Linux due to design issues.
Google has been opening up offices in Prague, Australia etc etc. So they could be on a hiring binge while still not hiring enough in the USA. That gives them a lot of benefit of the doubt though...
Its always in these companies interests to have a larger pool to pick from, so that they can get more qualified workers cheaper.
e-voting has about 0 to do with the Internet. E-voting uses sneakernet to takes votes from ATM-like machines to a central counting machine. At most the machine might make a POTS call to the counting machine.
If they did use the Internet they'd probably be like "zOMG hackers!!!" and actually implement some encryption algo's that could potentially make voting more secure then ever before. As it is, they just put some un-signed numbers on memory cards that are then basically feed into an Excel spread sheet.
These shared_ptr's (or at least the KDE equivalent, KSharedPtr) are actually really easy to use. You can use them exactly like normal pointers. It wouldn't be a huge deal to switch, most just changing declarations.
I suppose the Lina or Java app itself might not be considered multiplatform, but the whole stack is. So its a silly distinction.
VLC recently switched to Qt from "WxWidgets". The last time I played around with it to develop it wasn't much good. Just went to its website right now, on Linux it seems to have decided that Gtk1 is the popular look. Being a KDE guy this is obviously a pretty big turn off. Qt, on the otherhand, has themes to make it blend into Gtk apps and actually has a glib event loop inside it so that you can embed Gtk widgets into Qt. And of course it looks good in KDE.:)
If its not GUI, it likely won't have to be retooled much at all. As complicated to target as any other Linux distro. Like the first example they used with a web app.
If it is GUI... I have no bloody idea how it works.:)
I suspect this is a magnitude faster then Java. No garbage collection, native x86 code running on x86 (doing something like what VMware does) so its essentially as fast as native. And a broader choice in programming languages to use.
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Nah, we'll have quantum computers that can zoom through any encryption we come up with today. :)
I'm sure the computers 70 years in the future will have no problem dealing with whatever "DRM" we put on our stuff now.
Granted eventually Moore's Law will end and that principal will no longer be true. Hopefully the charade of DRM will be over by then though...
Actually its lgpl, so probably not. Anyways...
You're right, glibc will be GPLv3, which is required to run anything on Linux.
But this whole thread has been kernel this and kernel that.
There's no reason to think the kernel is going to be GPLv3 ever.
Amarok uses lib-xine and gxine obviously does, so your example isn't valid.
The point is kind of. Mostly this a problem that distros caused and are the ones that have to solve it. Really having a couple of implementations isn't a problem. The whole MP3 issue was brought on by patent paranoia, everything was fine before.
Being skeptical is fine and healthy. But only within limits. Skeptical of a politician: common sense. Skeptical of the moon landing: stupid.
As far as your explanation of the Theory of Evolution, its pretty much right, as long as you make it clear that your not a fan of Lamarckian evolution and that changes only occur at new generations. It is pretty amazing to think that there is a continuity of life from us back through our grandmothers to the organic soup we all originated from.
As far as your A's and B's, your argument would have perhaps been valid in Darwin's time. But now we have fossil evidence of evolution actually happening. Scientists can estimate how many generations ago two species diverged based on genetic similarity. Biologists use evolution daily in explaining how life works. In other words, much of "A" has been directly observed - life is in fact diverse and complex.
What makes the Theory of Evolution so impressive is that it was thought of before much of the evidence for it came to light. Before there was extensive fossil records. Before even Mendelian inheritance and far before the implementor of evolution - DNA - was discovered. This is a great show of validity for any theory, its a lot easier to fit a theory to the facts then the other way around.
And there is simply not a better explanation.
In the last paragraph, "pretend-world of deductive reasoning it" should be "pretend world, deductive reasoning".
Similarly evolution has been observed. For HIV patients its a fact of life; they rotate the drugs used as HIV in their body gains and loses resistance to the various drugs. And apparently you accept species evolution. So here's what we have:
So we deduce the diversity of life on Earth was caused by evolution. This was pretty much all the evidence that Darwin went on. And since then the fossil and genetic evidence is enormous. In the fossil record we can see the gradual evolution of hundreds of thousands of species. DNA and cell functions show how similar apparently quite different creatures are.
Of course compared to your pretend-world of deductive reasoning it might look like wild speculation. I'm a Computer Science major and I've dealt with anti-science math folks before.
I think its funny how anti-evolutionists create their own vocabulary. Like how the term microevolution and macroevolution, are only ones I hear in the context or a anti-evolutionist. So anyways "cross-species", "cross-kingdom", terms you made up I think. :) I assume you mean evolution that crosses a threshold of species or kingdom, not some sort of kinky inter-species mating thing. (actually I just googled "cross-kingdom", and it is used in reference to more of the latter.)
First off species, kingdom, phylum are terms nomenclaturists made up. There was never really a point where a non-chicken had a chicken egg, since species aren't so neatly defined. A lot of proto-chickens having not-so-proto chicken eggs.
Your average chicken does have a dinosaur as a ancestor. The fact that dinosaurs eventually grew wings and feathers is now well documented. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuvuuia_deserti or just the scaly reptilian feet that birds have. So thats some cross-class evolution.
But the best evidence that evolution can allow develop a wide array of species and even a few kingdoms is of course the biological diversity we see every day.
As far as God using old materials, of course you can be given any sort of scientific problem and respond "God did it." Why is there thunder? God did it. Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west? God did it. Or maybe the sun god, if your so inclined. It really gets us nowhere. Trying to understand, say, how our biology works by trying to fathom how you think God would create us is an exercise in futility. Evolution has been driving biological and medical research that last 150 years because it works. Many Creationists are hypocrites, they take advantage of the life-saving technology that the Theory of Evolution has provided them while trying to teach bogus ID theories in our schools, theories that not only are dead wrong, they also have no practical use.
So Nissan plans to role this stuff out by 2015. So thats only 8 years away, but 2015 still sounds awfully like the "future" to me. Since it appears that we're not going to get flying-conversions for our cars any time soon, can't we at least have smart cars and smart highways? Why do people still have to drive their cars? Is this the 21st century or not?
She get Maddox's phone... they don't lock down the device.
Erm, but the BSD is GPL compatible. The fact that its GPL incompatible from only a handful of clauses (FSF mentions some notoriously GPL-incompatible extra advertisement clauses and something to do with patents) makes it more suspect.
In reality Andrew Morton in his Google Video when asked about ZFS (he sees filesystems as an area where Linux is going to lag behind in the future) mentioned that ZFS was not an option due to its license. But that also ZFS is much more then a filesystem so it could have been rejected from Linux due to design issues.
The CDDL was designed to be GPL incompatible, Solaris didn't want its crown jewels to be in Linux.
Google has been opening up offices in Prague, Australia etc etc. So they could be on a hiring binge while still not hiring enough in the USA. That gives them a lot of benefit of the doubt though...
Its always in these companies interests to have a larger pool to pick from, so that they can get more qualified workers cheaper.
e-voting has about 0 to do with the Internet. E-voting uses sneakernet to takes votes from ATM-like machines to a central counting machine. At most the machine might make a POTS call to the counting machine.
If they did use the Internet they'd probably be like "zOMG hackers!!!" and actually implement some encryption algo's that could potentially make voting more secure then ever before. As it is, they just put some un-signed numbers on memory cards that are then basically feed into an Excel spread sheet.
You are very confused. Why are you talking about the last.fm player?
These shared_ptr's (or at least the KDE equivalent, KSharedPtr) are actually really easy to use. You can use them exactly like normal pointers. It wouldn't be a huge deal to switch, most just changing declarations.
Ok so Java and Lina aren't multiplatform... o.O
x .xml
:)
Someone better tell Sun. http://www.sun.com/service/javamultiplatform/inde
I suppose the Lina or Java app itself might not be considered multiplatform, but the whole stack is. So its a silly distinction.
VLC recently switched to Qt from "WxWidgets". The last time I played around with it to develop it wasn't much good. Just went to its website right now, on Linux it seems to have decided that Gtk1 is the popular look. Being a KDE guy this is obviously a pretty big turn off. Qt, on the otherhand, has themes to make it blend into Gtk apps and actually has a glib event loop inside it so that you can embed Gtk widgets into Qt. And of course it looks good in KDE.
If its not GUI, it likely won't have to be retooled much at all. As complicated to target as any other Linux distro. Like the first example they used with a web app.
:)
If it is GUI... I have no bloody idea how it works.
I suspect this is a magnitude faster then Java. No garbage collection, native x86 code running on x86 (doing something like what VMware does) so its essentially as fast as native. And a broader choice in programming languages to use.
Well I don't have a Mac. I've certainly seen Qt apps that look good on Windows, my dad uses Adobe's photo manager.
I do know that Mac support was improved a lot in Qt 4.
Bedroom coders that aren't open source coders?
1994 faxed, it wants its shareware back.
With open source, if there's any demand for an OS X binary, an OS X developer could make the binary.
Erm. If your application isn't written in Java?
It uses Qt? Where does it say that?
I couldn't figure out how the GUI toolkit thing worked exactly, it didn't say in the FAQ.