I actually work for a company that does this. The crab will only bleed a certain amount of blood (usually ~30%), then stop. We also don't bleed them if they're wounded or lethargic. I will agree, though, that I find the claim of a 'forgettable' creature dubious.
Of course, this practice is the alternative of using rabbits to to check for bacterial endotoxins, so take your pick.
Agreed. Just yesterday I had to change extensions for a bunch of files in a directory, and each of those files was in its own sub directory. Using a little for loop and the handy '*', everything was changed and I could continue on with my life.
The CLI is a tool like any other. Would I want to work with it as my sole means for using my computer? Most definitely not. But I couldn't image working without it, either.
Maybe this is the goal. If people stop buying the DVDs, then there will be no one to rip them and upload the files to The Pirate Bay or some other torrent site.
Piracy problem solved!
Not any more. It started out on Arch, but recently Mint started using it as an optional DE for those who didn't want to use Gnome 3. The project is still pretty young, but with Mint (hopefully) helping out the development, maybe it will become more usable.
The one thing that most people seem to forget is that religion (and their associated texts) were never meant to be records of "literal facts". Religion and religious texts are really allegories, symbolic stories that often have a deeper, underlying meaning. Joseph Campbell, a writer who spent his life digging into the symbolism of religion (and finding surprising connections between seemingly disparate belief systems), made the point, once, that taking religion as literal fact is at the very least ridiculous. In his example, he used Jesus' resurrection and supposed physical ascension to heaven in his body. Now, the first thing to establish is that heaven, obviously, is not a part of our universe, that (despite the claims of some cult groups), heaven isn't residing on a distant planet or galaxy in the realms known to man. Further, Campbell pointed out, assuming that Jesus could somehow move himself at the speed of light (he is the son of God, after all), even after 2,000 years, Jesus would still be somewhere within our solar system.
The problem isn't with the story, but with the human interpretation of it as some sort of historical record, that the allegory is actually literal fact.
As with the creation myth in Genesis, the old story of Adam and Eve. As long as we keep interpreting the story as a record of an actual historical event, the tale will always seems "ridiculous", as "nonsense", or as one commenter called it here, "poppycock". Taken another way, though, as a symbolic tale of mankind and what seems to set him apart from every other living thing on this planet (that would be the knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong), we can realize that this tale actually has some hidden, philosophic merit to it.
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I actually work for a company that does this. The crab will only bleed a certain amount of blood (usually ~30%), then stop. We also don't bleed them if they're wounded or lethargic. I will agree, though, that I find the claim of a 'forgettable' creature dubious. Of course, this practice is the alternative of using rabbits to to check for bacterial endotoxins, so take your pick.
That the editors would, you know, edit?
Yeah, I'm starting to think that on Slashdot, the word 'editor' has a far different meaning than the one I'm familiar with...
Agreed. Just yesterday I had to change extensions for a bunch of files in a directory, and each of those files was in its own sub directory. Using a little for loop and the handy '*', everything was changed and I could continue on with my life.
The CLI is a tool like any other. Would I want to work with it as my sole means for using my computer? Most definitely not. But I couldn't image working without it, either.
Maybe this is the goal. If people stop buying the DVDs, then there will be no one to rip them and upload the files to The Pirate Bay or some other torrent site. Piracy problem solved!
"Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word." --Boondock Saints
Not any more. It started out on Arch, but recently Mint started using it as an optional DE for those who didn't want to use Gnome 3. The project is still pretty young, but with Mint (hopefully) helping out the development, maybe it will become more usable.
Aren't all bugs just "design flaws"?
The one thing that most people seem to forget is that religion (and their associated texts) were never meant to be records of "literal facts". Religion and religious texts are really allegories, symbolic stories that often have a deeper, underlying meaning. Joseph Campbell, a writer who spent his life digging into the symbolism of religion (and finding surprising connections between seemingly disparate belief systems), made the point, once, that taking religion as literal fact is at the very least ridiculous. In his example, he used Jesus' resurrection and supposed physical ascension to heaven in his body. Now, the first thing to establish is that heaven, obviously, is not a part of our universe, that (despite the claims of some cult groups), heaven isn't residing on a distant planet or galaxy in the realms known to man. Further, Campbell pointed out, assuming that Jesus could somehow move himself at the speed of light (he is the son of God, after all), even after 2,000 years, Jesus would still be somewhere within our solar system. The problem isn't with the story, but with the human interpretation of it as some sort of historical record, that the allegory is actually literal fact. As with the creation myth in Genesis, the old story of Adam and Eve. As long as we keep interpreting the story as a record of an actual historical event, the tale will always seems "ridiculous", as "nonsense", or as one commenter called it here, "poppycock". Taken another way, though, as a symbolic tale of mankind and what seems to set him apart from every other living thing on this planet (that would be the knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong), we can realize that this tale actually has some hidden, philosophic merit to it.