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Yet -- another cool feature I found out recently is that whenever your search query yields no results and google thinks you misspelled something, it automagically retries your query with the spell-checked result (and points very clearly out that it did so).
It is often suggested (a.o. on the Discovery Channel) that animals have superiour senses compared to humans. This statement is IMO a bit blunt; there is no such group as "the animals" compared to "the humans". One could as easily argue that the sense of animals (including humans) have a superiour sense to say, dogs.
Instead some (or many) animals have senses which our superiour to ours but other senses which are less developed than ours. For example, apes are capable of 3D color vision, but nocturnal bats equipped with sonar barely use their eyes.
Which is not to say that there are some very exciting sensory systems in the animal kingdom. There is a great variety in sensory systems over in animals. But I think that a more proper way to look at that is by understanding why an animal posesses such an organ in relation to its life-style, instead of just saying "animals" are better equipped than "humans".
if you can't explain the first self-replicating life form, then the argument that life appeared from nothing (as opposed to being created) doesn't hold water.
Evolutionary theory does not try to explain the origins of life. B.T.W. these hard-core christians don't try to explain anything, they just say it's so because the bible says so (if you interpret it this or that way)
This point of view is a lame excuse for not willing to see that the environment gets wasted, or for not wanting to act to to it. There is nothing to worry about if species die out, but species die out with a rate which is several orders of magnitude higher than what is "natural", and that is something to worry about.
As for the condor one could ask whether it is a real important species in the ecosystem. Apparently it isn't. However, there are some other reasons which justify the protection of this bird; it is the largest flying bird on earth, and a very special bird.
Salamanders, and "lower animals" in general, is quite a different story than mammals. We've lost our ability to regenerate, probably by introducing a system which limits the maximum amount of cell divisions normal cells can have.
Now, smearing stem cells on a wound would probably have no effect at all, because mammals are completely formed in their developmental stage. Once (for example) an arm has formed, the signalling to form an arm stops. So to regrow an arm, the right signalling compounds have to be applied next to the stem cells, and then a new arm can theoretically be formed, but only by gowing through complete embryonic development.
Ok, my mistake. Guess I watched Austin Powers one too many times. Anyway, I was referring to the missile defency system the US is developing, which is indeed not located in space.
Still, my point stands; why should Japan worry about what what the world thinks, if the US does not (both specific and generic). And no, contrary to what the US government wants people to think, I'm not a terrorist because I don't agree with the US government.
But why should they care about resistance from the entire world? The US doesn't when they want to actually put weapons in space.
Anyway, for some reason the word "vapor" kept spooking around in my head reading this article. Maybe it has something to do with hydrogen gas. The again, maybe not.
So, if practically random data can be compressed, I can compress the result again, and the result again, until I end up with one bit of data in the end? That's great! Imagine the implications: for example, every ordinary lamp is now a computer, because it holds exactly one bit of data, on or off. No wait, that can't be right.
So I think one of the real reasons that these applications won is because not by themselves, but as a group they make something bigger and stronger.
Funny thing to say. When I used Gnome I wanted everything to be look like GTK. Now I don't use a desktop environment anymore, just IceWM, and I couldn't care less about the consistency of the looks of the apps. You recognize a "cut" icon anyway if you see one, whether it's Qt or GTK or anything else (although some toolkits are just plain ugly, but that's a matter of taste). Anyway, if you don't stick to one toolkit, you have a lot more apps to use.
That is not to say that the desktop environments can offer some great advantages, but I have yet to see them.
Oh... and does anyone else find it Ironic that the theme of WindowsXP, displayed in a big GIF on the MSN homepage is... "YES YOU CAN!"
I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in the Netherlands this slogan is already used by Canon. So for me this whole XP thing is just another printer or scanner thingie or something...
On my P100/48Mb linux box, ImageJ, the only Java program I need to run, runs pretty fast. Startup is a bit slower, and it consumes relatively much memory, but once it runs, it runs as fast as a native program. I use the Sun SDK, but I also used Kaffe and the IBM JRE, with comparable results.
Everybody keeps yelling that Netscape is soooo unstable, but un my personal experience that's absolutely not true. It hardly ever crashed on me (I used navigator only).
However, those were the old days, now I only use galeon or skipstone (hard to choose, galeon has this cool tricks but skipstone is very fast).
From what I understand, it is not like a everybody can tap in to "the grid", but certain organizations can link their computers to form their own grid.
You can't hurt me with the things that you do,
I pick up dandelions and I give them to you.
From the Yahoo! article: Unusual life forms called Archaea have been found around traditional oceanic vent systems and these animals have been placed near the bottom of the evolutionary time scale. Scientists believe life around Lost City might be even more primitive.
"Archeae" is the name for the huge group of the first primitive bacteria, and have nothing to do with animals.
Couldn't this product activation be a major boost for Free OS'ses? A lot of people I know only have pirated versions of M$ products, and are not willing to pay for it. If they cannot pirate it, they have to stick to old versions or seek something else.
And if.Net pay-services replace the normal M$ programs (I don't know if this is the case), and people actually have to pay for their normally pirated programs, wouldn't they just look for something else?
Boa Constructor offers an interface builder and IDE and stuff. I don't have much (or actually any real) experience with it, so I don't really know how good it is.
Nowadays almost everybody is using some illegal copy of Windows/Office at home. What will happen with this.NET thing? Can you still do that? If not, what does this mean for the M$ market share?
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There is a Free AudioGalaxy client: get it here.
Yet -- another cool feature I found out recently is that whenever your search query yields no results and google thinks you misspelled something, it automagically retries your query with the spell-checked result (and points very clearly out that it did so).
Will these people never stop improving?
It is often suggested (a.o. on the Discovery Channel) that animals have superiour senses compared to humans. This statement is IMO a bit blunt; there is no such group as "the animals" compared to "the humans". One could as easily argue that the sense of animals (including humans) have a superiour sense to say, dogs.
Instead some (or many) animals have senses which our superiour to ours but other senses which are less developed than ours. For example, apes are capable of 3D color vision, but nocturnal bats equipped with sonar barely use their eyes.
Which is not to say that there are some very exciting sensory systems in the animal kingdom. There is a great variety in sensory systems over in animals. But I think that a more proper way to look at that is by understanding why an animal posesses such an organ in relation to its life-style, instead of just saying "animals" are better equipped than "humans".
Evolutionary theory does not try to explain the origins of life. B.T.W. these hard-core christians don't try to explain anything, they just say it's so because the bible says so (if you interpret it this or that way)
This point of view is a lame excuse for not willing to see that the environment gets wasted, or for not wanting to act to to it. There is nothing to worry about if species die out, but species die out with a rate which is several orders of magnitude higher than what is "natural", and that is something to worry about.
As for the condor one could ask whether it is a real important species in the ecosystem. Apparently it isn't. However, there are some other reasons which justify the protection of this bird; it is the largest flying bird on earth, and a very special bird.
You're right. It reminds me of this interesting bbspot news item.
Anyway, congratulations and good luck.
Sounds cool. I almost wished that I had windows or some other OS besides linux to dual boot
So, if I compile Free code with a non-Free compiler, would people regard it still Free software? This is meant serious, not as a troll.
As for me, it would not matter very much if with which compiler a program is compiled. But maybe someone has a good opinion on this.
Salamanders, and "lower animals" in general, is quite a different story than mammals. We've lost our ability to regenerate, probably by introducing a system which limits the maximum amount of cell divisions normal cells can have.
Now, smearing stem cells on a wound would probably have no effect at all, because mammals are completely formed in their developmental stage. Once (for example) an arm has formed, the signalling to form an arm stops. So to regrow an arm, the right signalling compounds have to be applied next to the stem cells, and then a new arm can theoretically be formed, but only by gowing through complete embryonic development.
Ok, my mistake. Guess I watched Austin Powers one too many times. Anyway, I was referring to the missile defency system the US is developing, which is indeed not located in space.
Still, my point stands; why should Japan worry about what what the world thinks, if the US does not (both specific and generic). And no, contrary to what the US government wants people to think, I'm not a terrorist because I don't agree with the US government.
But why should they care about resistance from the entire world? The US doesn't when they want to actually put weapons in space.
Anyway, for some reason the word "vapor" kept spooking around in my head reading this article. Maybe it has something to do with hydrogen gas. The again, maybe not.
So, if practically random data can be compressed, I can compress the result again, and the result again, until I end up with one bit of data in the end? That's great! Imagine the implications: for example, every ordinary lamp is now a computer, because it holds exactly one bit of data, on or off. No wait, that can't be right.
So I think one of the real reasons that these applications won is because not by themselves, but as a group they make something bigger and stronger.
Funny thing to say. When I used Gnome I wanted everything to be look like GTK. Now I don't use a desktop environment anymore, just IceWM, and I couldn't care less about the consistency of the looks of the apps. You recognize a "cut" icon anyway if you see one, whether it's Qt or GTK or anything else (although some toolkits are just plain ugly, but that's a matter of taste). Anyway, if you don't stick to one toolkit, you have a lot more apps to use.
That is not to say that the desktop environments can offer some great advantages, but I have yet to see them.
Oh... and does anyone else find it Ironic that the theme of WindowsXP, displayed in a big GIF on the MSN homepage is... "YES YOU CAN!"
I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in the Netherlands this slogan is already used by Canon. So for me this whole XP thing is just another printer or scanner thingie or something...
A TCL plugin exists, but that's about everything I know of it.
Oh my god, you're having critics on America. This means that you're not pro America, so you're against America, so you're a terrorist!.
Guess this is why about everybody in Europe hoped Bush would not win the elections...
That's weird.
On my P100/48Mb linux box, ImageJ, the only Java program I need to run, runs pretty fast. Startup is a bit slower, and it consumes relatively much memory, but once it runs, it runs as fast as a native program. I use the Sun SDK, but I also used Kaffe and the IBM JRE, with comparable results.
Just my personal experience.
Have you tried linux from scratch?
Everybody keeps yelling that Netscape is soooo unstable, but un my personal experience that's absolutely not true. It hardly ever crashed on me (I used navigator only).
However, those were the old days, now I only use galeon or skipstone (hard to choose, galeon has this cool tricks but skipstone is very fast).
According to the NewsForge article:
No community contributed code will be included with the retail product, according to Patry.
You can't hurt me with the things that you do,
I pick up dandelions and I give them to you.
From what I understand, it is not like a everybody can tap in to "the grid", but certain organizations can link their computers to form their own grid.
You can't hurt me with the things that you do,
I pick up dandelions and I give them to you.
From the Yahoo! article:
Unusual life forms called Archaea have been found around traditional oceanic vent systems and these animals have been placed near the bottom of the evolutionary time scale. Scientists believe life around Lost City might be even more primitive.
"Archeae" is the name for the huge group of the first primitive bacteria, and have nothing to do with animals.
Couldn't this product activation be a major boost for Free OS'ses? A lot of people I know only have pirated versions of M$ products, and are not willing to pay for it. If they cannot pirate it, they have to stick to old versions or seek something else.
.Net pay-services replace the normal M$ programs (I don't know if this is the case), and people actually have to pay for their normally pirated programs, wouldn't they just look for something else?
And if
Boa Constructor offers an interface builder and IDE and stuff. I don't have much (or actually any real) experience with it, so I don't really know how good it is.
Nowadays almost everybody is using some illegal copy of Windows/Office at home. What will happen with this .NET thing? Can you still do that? If not, what does this mean for the M$ market share?