Not to mention this gem, where they say that Pons & Fleischmann claimed to have produced cold fusion, which was important because, quote, "the heat of such reactions has reserved them for hydrogen bombs." Pfft.
You sound like someone who would have an opinion on this... What kind of keyboard do you use?
I've got a Northgate Omni keyboard at work (purchased right before they tanked) and a Unicomp knockoff of the old IBM Model M keyboards at home. Both are better than your standard throwaway crap keyboard, but neither one quite feels perfect. Any recommendations?
I have my mozilla shortcuts point to this shellscript. Note that it will only work correctly if there is only one instance of moz running on your machine... shouldn't be too hard to fix, if needed. Change the paths as appropriate.
#!/bin/bash MOZ=`grep -e '^/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin'/proc/[1-9]*/cmdline | head -1`; if [ -n "$MOZ" ] then /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote "openURL($1,new-window)" else /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla $1 fi
We used an older version of HEAT where I used to trudge the help desk. I sure hope they've improved it since '97, because it was a truly wretched piece of software then. Non-native widgets with bizarre behavior. Crashed all the time. Constantly corrupted the database (granted, we were using Access). And it was really slow, and not very feature-ful.
Same here. I've registered it twice, once to renew it for version 7. And I've used it to successfully edit binary files that were more than 500M, on an NT machine with only about 32 megs of ram.
Now if Ian would just release a Unix version, I could get rid of this byzantine Emacs thing. Unfortunately nothing but Emacs can replace UE under Unix. Using Wine almost works, but then I'm out of luck on the Solaris boxen.:-)
Actually, once you get through the first chapter, things aren't so bad.
You say that now. Wait till you get to chapter 9. I only read the parts I could convince myself I understood, and my brain still hurts.
Mini-review: I thought Wolfram was full of it at first. After more reading, (currently in the middle of ch. 11) and thinking, I'm not so sure. He definitely is on to something. Whether it's what he thinks it is, I'm not sure:-)
That confused me for a second too, but the "1000 liters" measurement is probably really "1000 liters at standard temperature and pressure". Probably it's under rather more pressure than that at 2 miles down, and who knows what the temperature is. Also, it may be that the hydrogen is dissolved (at pressure) in microscopic bubbles in the rock, which would explain why you have to crush the rock to extract the hydrogen.
In Opera you hit F8. In IE you hit Alt-D. I'm sure Mozilla must have this really obvious feature or people would go insane, but I just can't seem to find it.
F6 works for me under Linux. Same key works in IE 5. I have no idea if that works in Moz under Win32.
I'm sure Mozilla supports them, but there doesn't seem to be a way to turn on mouse gestures through the preferences.
Optimoz does this. I don't think Mozilla has it natively.
Ah... I'm not as well-informed on the history of paleontology as I'd like to be, but there have been many fossils found that were predicted to exist before anything like them was found. Examples that spring to mind immediately include a common ancestor of lagomorphs (rabbits) and rodents, which was predicted before it was found recently in Asia, and Darwin's prediction that Africa was where humanity evolved. Before fossils like Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, etc. were found, the prevailing opinion was that Homo sapiens evolved in Asia. Sorry, this is just from memory, I don't remember the source for the rodent/rabbit thing, but the second bit is from Richard Leakey's Origins Reconsidered. I'm sure that better examples exist.
It's not true at all that evolution doesn't make predictions. See the the Talk.Origins archive for more information than I can possibly provide, particularly this article.
Mmm hmm. I asked the grunt at Best Buy the other day if they had any SCSI CD/RW drives... he said "try a Macintosh store, SCSI is their deal". Dimwits. At least he was aware of SCSI on some level:-)
If we've learned one thing from the 20th century, it is that big government is inefficient. Therefore, the killings should be handled by the private sector.
Actually, I believe the 20th century taught us that big government is only efficient at the task of killing people.
Not if you can't or don't want to crack the encryption first.
E-books packaged in the Gemstar, Adobe, or Microsoft formats are encrypted and only decryptable with their special client software which doesn't allow for save-as-text, printing, or any such other useful feature that they think might allow users to violate their copyrights.
Microsoft's is especially bad, as it doesn't even allow screen readers to operate. Blind? Want to read books available electronically but not in Braille? Too bad. Furthermore, they encrypt the ebook against your Passport ID, so it can only be read on computers or PDAs that have been set up with that passport.
Adobe's is a special encrypted PDF that has similar "features", but I don't think it's quite as onerous.
In any case, you won't be getting any newly released books published (officially:-) in any format you can actually use.
I was more arguing that it can be perfectly rational to be a Creationist and be a scientist.
Well, I'd agree that it's not inconsistent, anyway.:-)
I'd be careful using the word "creationist" though, as in my experience people usually associate it with antievolutionist/6 day creation types. Especially when you say things like "Creationism really *is* scientific!":-)
Slashdot Mirror
http://download.kde.org/unstable/kde-3.1-beta2/Deb ian/woody/
suitable for placement in your apt-sources.
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I'd be willing to bet it's something like ANTICMOS, at least where Win95 is still afflicting users.
Not to mention this gem, where they say that Pons & Fleischmann claimed to have produced cold fusion, which was important because, quote, "the heat of such reactions has reserved them for hydrogen bombs." Pfft.
$190? Yikes... I thought $50 for the Unicomp was too much. The Northgate I have at work is better, though.
I've got a Northgate Omni keyboard at work (purchased right before they tanked) and a Unicomp knockoff of the old IBM Model M keyboards at home. Both are better than your standard throwaway crap keyboard, but neither one quite feels perfect. Any recommendations?
I have my mozilla shortcuts point to this shellscript. Note that it will only work correctly if there is only one instance of moz running on your machine... shouldn't be too hard to fix, if needed. Change the paths as appropriate.
/proc/[1-9]*/cmdline | head -1`;
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote "openURL($1,new-window)"
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla $1
#!/bin/bash
MOZ=`grep -e '^/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin'
if [ -n "$MOZ" ]
then
else
fi
but check this out:
Caveman Chemistry
I reckon the average mindless slashdot addict is definitely an above average asshole.
I'm feeling a bit drained....
We used an older version of HEAT where I used to trudge the help desk. I sure hope they've improved it since '97, because it was a truly wretched piece of software then. Non-native widgets with bizarre behavior. Crashed all the time. Constantly corrupted the database (granted, we were using Access). And it was really slow, and not very feature-ful.
Same here. I've registered it twice, once to renew it for version 7. And I've used it to successfully edit binary files that were more than 500M, on an NT machine with only about 32 megs of ram.
:-)
Now if Ian would just release a Unix version, I could get rid of this byzantine Emacs thing. Unfortunately nothing but Emacs can replace UE under Unix. Using Wine almost works, but then I'm out of luck on the Solaris boxen.
You say that now. Wait till you get to chapter 9. I only read the parts I could convince myself I understood, and my brain still hurts.
Mini-review: I thought Wolfram was full of it at first. After more reading, (currently in the middle of ch. 11) and thinking, I'm not so sure. He definitely is on to something. Whether it's what he thinks it is, I'm not sure :-)
Wish I'd written something like that. Asshole.
That confused me for a second too, but the "1000 liters" measurement is probably really "1000 liters at standard temperature and pressure". Probably it's under rather more pressure than that at 2 miles down, and who knows what the temperature is. Also, it may be that the hydrogen is dissolved (at pressure) in microscopic bubbles in the rock, which would explain why you have to crush the rock to extract the hydrogen.
F6 works for me under Linux. Same key works in IE 5. I have no idea if that works in Moz under Win32.
I'm sure Mozilla supports them, but there doesn't seem to be a way to turn on mouse gestures through the preferences.
Optimoz does this. I don't think Mozilla has it natively.
Simple. They just hired Mindcraft to do the benchmarking. :-)
Ah... I'm not as well-informed on the history of paleontology as I'd like to be, but there have been many fossils found that were predicted to exist before anything like them was found. Examples that spring to mind immediately include a common ancestor of lagomorphs (rabbits) and rodents, which was predicted before it was found recently in Asia, and Darwin's prediction that Africa was where humanity evolved. Before fossils like Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, etc. were found, the prevailing opinion was that Homo sapiens evolved in Asia. Sorry, this is just from memory, I don't remember the source for the rodent/rabbit thing, but the second bit is from Richard Leakey's Origins Reconsidered. I'm sure that better examples exist.
It's not true at all that evolution doesn't make predictions. See the the Talk.Origins archive for more information than I can possibly provide, particularly this article.
Mmm hmm. I asked the grunt at Best Buy the other day if they had any SCSI CD/RW drives... he said "try a Macintosh store, SCSI is their deal". Dimwits. At least he was aware of SCSI on some level :-)
Cool! High-res maps of propellers in motion!
Actually, I believe the 20th century taught us that big government is only efficient at the task of killing people.
Very cool. I was not aware of that. I wish more publishers were as enlightened as Baen is.
Not if you can't or don't want to crack the encryption first.
:-) in any format you can actually use.
E-books packaged in the Gemstar, Adobe, or Microsoft formats are encrypted and only decryptable with their special client software which doesn't allow for save-as-text, printing, or any such other useful feature that they think might allow users to violate their copyrights.
Microsoft's is especially bad, as it doesn't even allow screen readers to operate. Blind? Want to read books available electronically but not in Braille? Too bad. Furthermore, they encrypt the ebook against your Passport ID, so it can only be read on computers or PDAs that have been set up with that passport.
Adobe's is a special encrypted PDF that has similar "features", but I don't think it's quite as onerous.
In any case, you won't be getting any newly released books published (officially
Well, I'd agree that it's not inconsistent, anyway. :-)
I'd be careful using the word "creationist" though, as in my experience people usually associate it with antievolutionist/6 day creation types. Especially when you say things like "Creationism really *is* scientific!" :-)