Humans are natural, hence they are part of natural selection. This false dichotomy between nature and man is, frankly, just so much hippie bullshit.
That's entirely the wrong way around. It is the exploiters of the natural world who see us as separate and so don't care if we fsck it up. Hippies see us all as part of the cosmic oneness (or whatever) and get upset when we break bits of it.
I recently began to wonder what the consequence of a (very small) error would be in a computer simulation.
Have you ever done any serious mathematical modelling? Do you imagine you just put in one set of values and say "that's the answer"? Take a look at this to see how it's really done.
You don't need to send you old analogue TV to the land-fill just yet. Like many people in the UK, I have a digital to analogue converter that sits between the aerial and the TV.
Actually I have a VCR that sits between the converter and the aerial so I can record analogue while watching digital. I'll get a PVR when they turn off the analogue signal.
I think there should be an international treaty banning all lethal weapons without a brain attached to the trigger.
Such naïve belief in human nature is just so sweet.
Get a life. You don't need dust removal technology. When's the last time *anyone* has complained about dust on their digital sensor? NEVER.
Anybody with a DSLR who's ever changed a lens will suffer from dust. Dust on the sensor is a real problem producing specs on shots above f/16. And it's not one of those minor things - we're talking large grey dots at random over your beautiful sky shots.
Yes I own a DSLR (and an SLR, a midsize compact and a pocket camera). I do love the DSLR.
Next time at the super, buy farm raised fish. Every little bit helps, and not supporting the trawler factories that empty the ocean is a good small step you can take yourself.
What do you think farmed fish feed on? Water? They're fed on ground up bits of the wild fish that humans won't eat. It takes over three tonnes of wild fish to produce one tonne of salmon
... had everything to do with touch screen calibration
So why don't they use buttons like on ATMs? Display the proposition and list the valid choices next to real buttons?
We have had incredible advances in technology yet we keep using HTML and JavaScript as our base for no other reason than tradition and because that is what people expect.
No, it's not tradition. It's all about installed-base inertia - many millions of online platforms that already grok html and javascript. Anything new faces the twin hurdles of fear and sloth or consumer resistance in marketing terms.
One does not light a Molotov Cocktail and place it on a porch. One lights a Molotov Cocktail and throws it through a window... THAT is how one firebombs a house correctly.
Not wishing to appear to be sympathising with the terrorists, but their intention was persumably not to burn the house at that time. Just like you can't kill someone by sending them a letter with a bullet in it - but it would scare the hell out of them.
Yes, I understand it is hard work, and it is much easier to sit at home instead of trying to change the system, but at least folks like you should have the courtesy not to stop being a whiney little bitch!
I think the poster is suffering under the usual delusion that the USA is a democracy. It is not. It is controlled by politicians funded by the corporations. Any dissent is stiffled or ridiculed by their mass media.
Point 2: Technically we are subjects not citizens. (We have a monarch as head of state not a president)
Actually you're a bit out of date there. Brits have been "citizens" since the British Nationality Act 1981. But if you want to carry on prostrating yourself in front of some German bint, that's your choice.
Speed is one thing. But which language would you want to write a web browser in? A major retail web site? A SQL server? A CAD tool?
This speed obsession is just one giant premature optimisation.
Think about the way you talk to a passenger - there are gaps when the driving is tricky and your passenger can see that you're busy. On the phone, the other party just keeps talking.
It was this hot 400 years ago? Global warming indeed...
That's "insightful". Jesus! RTFA - it has this neat bullets for the lazy:
HEATING UP: The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400, maybe more.
SCIENTISTS AGREE: The National Academy of Sciences studied tree rings, corals and other natural formations, in part, to conclude that the heat is unprecedented for potentially the last several millennia.
HUMAN FAULT: Human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming, the Academy says.
But with this guy on the phone, there was a certain 'condescending' manner about him and the way he said certain things that really riled me up. I believe it's just the way their local language mannerisms translate to english.
Well of course the Indians sound condescending. They learnt their English from their English colonial masters - world leaders in condescension.
Also English is the language of the educated, better off Indian. In Europe or N America, it's a working class job to be a call centre drone - in India they're a privileged minority.
I'm an old hand *nix pro who has installed various distos over the years. I decided to give Ubuntu a whirl at home.
I installed it on a middle spec laptop and it ran ok. Still took me an hour to get wifi working and I still haven't got it to play a DVD.
I also installed it dual bootable with XP on my top-of-the-range desktop with the intention of doing some development. The install is slick with a fixed wire connection. But in use, first subjective impressions - slow. Applications take longer to start and are less responsive than on XP. And the fonts are ugly. There's a desktop preference to use anti-aliasing but most apps seem to ignore this.
To be honest, if this is the best distro around then Linux is still not ready for the for the desktop end user.
ls, rm, df, du, etc . . . did any of the engineers at Bell Labs type 10-fingered?
I guess you've never typed on one of those old
teletypes.
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"It's illegal to post a non real estate, political or garage sale sign in your own front yard."
And you think that's a good thing in a supposedly free country? I should have the right to put whatever I want in my yard as long as it doesn't violate "community standards" for obscenity.
So everyone should be free to rent out their front yard for billboards the size of their property? There have to be limits: it's just a case of setting them at the right level.
Anyone remember London's "Wobbly Bridge"? A bridge with a bug which cost a shed load to fix. Then, of course, there was the infamous SHM bug on Tacoma Narrows...
Anyone remember Sun 10 years ago banging on about Java thin clients and the end of the PC? I'm certainly seeing more and more customers who don't want to install software on their users' PCs. Centralised browser-accessed apps will eventually become the norm for commercial use.
My Java tip for the near future is Echo2 or something like it. Sophisticated AJAX without writing a line of HTML or JavaScript.
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That's entirely the wrong way around. It is the exploiters of the natural world who see us as separate and so don't care if we fsck it up. Hippies see us all as part of the cosmic oneness (or whatever) and get upset when we break bits of it.
Have you ever done any serious mathematical modelling? Do you imagine you just put in one set of values and say "that's the answer"? Take a look at this to see how it's really done.
You don't need to send you old analogue TV to the land-fill just yet. Like many people in the UK, I have a digital to analogue converter that sits between the aerial and the TV.
Actually I have a VCR that sits between the converter and the aerial so I can record analogue while watching digital. I'll get a PVR when they turn off the analogue signal.
That would really help the war on terror, wouldn't it? Large sections of the world already believe that the USA is run by zionist business men.
I think there should be an international treaty banning all lethal weapons without a brain attached to the trigger.
Such naïve belief in human nature is just so sweet.
Get a life. You don't need dust removal technology. When's the last time *anyone* has complained about dust on their digital sensor? NEVER.
Anybody with a DSLR who's ever changed a lens will suffer from dust. Dust on the sensor is a real problem producing specs on shots above f/16. And it's not one of those minor things - we're talking large grey dots at random over your beautiful sky shots. Yes I own a DSLR (and an SLR, a midsize compact and a pocket camera). I do love the DSLR.
Next time at the super, buy farm raised fish. Every little bit helps, and not supporting the trawler factories that empty the ocean is a good small step you can take yourself.
What do you think farmed fish feed on? Water? They're fed on ground up bits of the wild fish that humans won't eat. It takes over three tonnes of wild fish to produce one tonne of salmon
... had everything to do with touch screen calibration
So why don't they use buttons like on ATMs? Display the proposition and list the valid choices next to real buttons?
Correct the misunderstanding ...
that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11.
We have had incredible advances in technology yet we keep using HTML and JavaScript as our base for no other reason than tradition and because that is what people expect.
No, it's not tradition. It's all about installed-base inertia - many millions of online platforms that already grok html and javascript. Anything new faces the twin hurdles of fear and sloth or consumer resistance in marketing terms.
One does not light a Molotov Cocktail and place it on a porch. One lights a Molotov Cocktail and throws it through a window ... THAT is how one firebombs a house correctly.
Not wishing to appear to be sympathising with the terrorists, but their intention was persumably not to burn the house at that time. Just like you can't kill someone by sending them a letter with a bullet in it - but it would scare the hell out of them.
I think the poster is suffering under the usual delusion that the USA is a democracy. It is not. It is controlled by politicians funded by the corporations. Any dissent is stiffled or ridiculed by their mass media.
Actually you're a bit out of date there. Brits have been "citizens" since the British Nationality Act 1981. But if you want to carry on prostrating yourself in front of some German bint, that's your choice.
Speed is one thing. But which language would you want to write a web browser in? A major retail web site? A SQL server? A CAD tool?
This speed obsession is just one giant premature optimisation.
It might have finite resources but it has more than we could consume in billions of generations.
Think about the way you talk to a passenger - there are gaps when the driving is tricky and your passenger can see that you're busy. On the phone, the other party just keeps talking.
That's "insightful". Jesus! RTFA - it has this neat bullets for the lazy:
HEATING UP: The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400, maybe more.
SCIENTISTS AGREE: The National Academy of Sciences studied tree rings, corals and other natural formations, in part, to conclude that the heat is unprecedented for potentially the last several millennia.
HUMAN FAULT: Human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming, the Academy says.
According to another report on this, the fossils even showed webbed feet.
Well of course the Indians sound condescending. They learnt their English from their English colonial masters - world leaders in condescension.
Also English is the language of the educated, better off Indian. In Europe or N America, it's a working class job to be a call centre drone - in India they're a privileged minority.
Great. So now google wants my pin. (Don't most people only have one?) What's wrong with a password?
I'm an old hand *nix pro who has installed various distos over the years. I decided to give Ubuntu a whirl at home.
I installed it on a middle spec laptop and it ran ok. Still took me an hour to get wifi working and I still haven't got it to play a DVD.
I also installed it dual bootable with XP on my top-of-the-range desktop with the intention of doing some development. The install is slick with a fixed wire connection.
But in use, first subjective impressions - slow. Applications take longer to start and are less responsive than on XP. And the fonts are ugly. There's a desktop preference to use anti-aliasing but most apps seem to ignore this.
To be honest, if this is the best distro around then Linux is still not ready for the for the desktop end user.
ls, rm, df, du, etc . . . did any of the engineers at Bell Labs type 10-fingered?
I guess you've never typed on one of those old teletypes.
And you think that's a good thing in a supposedly free country? I should have the right to put whatever I want in my yard as long as it doesn't violate "community standards" for obscenity.
So everyone should be free to rent out their front yard for billboards the size of their property? There have to be limits: it's just a case of setting them at the right level.
Anyone remember London's "Wobbly Bridge"? A bridge with a bug which cost a shed load to fix. Then, of course, there was the infamous SHM bug on Tacoma Narrows ...
My Java tip for the near future is Echo2 or something like it. Sophisticated AJAX without writing a line of HTML or JavaScript.