If only someone had an estimate of how far away this one was, and had presented it in something that would describe this news item in detail. We could call it an "article".
I would still call it an article if it just contained the word "the".
No, it actually is one of the worse but Turkey is an even more extreme example, here's a quote from WP:
A study published in Science compared attitudes about evolution in the United States, 32 European countries (including Turkey) and Japan. The only country where acceptance of evolution was lower than in the United States was Turkey (25%).
Only the Abrahamic world religions in general and Protestant Christianity in particular has a big issue with evolution, this graph shows how in the US Buddhists and Hindus are the most accepting. The national figures for India are also very strong and in line with western Europe. Sure a lot other countries have other vices, but creationism is usually not one of them.
Judaism - *the founding Abrahamic religion* - has one of the HIGHEST acceptance rates for evolution - 77% (third highest in the graph).
*Abrahamic religion* is not the problem.
I suggest you look at the sociological factors in the newer religious varieties which feel marginalised and out of power and resentful of modern intellectual culture, rather than at the content of their religion. Rejection of evolution is part of a wider alienation from modern urban power and culture among various social groups (e.g. rural communities in America, Islamic people under US-supported dictatorships like Egypt until recently).
Being anti-evolution might tell you more about a community's deeper political status than about their religion. People can adjust the interpretation of their religion if they want to fit in with the mainstream (assuming they even need to make adjustments). Judaism has no trouble doing it, and ditto the Catholic church. So the problem is: some religous groups feel a deep-seated need to reject the modern mainstream world, feel that evolution is associated with "alien forces" in society (and I don't mean aliens from space).
It's a sociological question, not a theological one.
The majority of faults in all technology disappear when exposed to an engineer. Engineers exude technology friendly vibes.
I have often noticed this with user complaints about IT equipment. The PC or printer works fine as long as IT staff are looking at it, but plays up the minute they go away.
I reckon the device knows who is watching it - it only plays up if it knows you can't fix it.
The windows button finally has purpose. You can hit that button, start typing an app name and then space/enter to launch
So... It's just like DOS except you have to hit the windows key before you type the name of the program you want to launch.
We need a minimalist Windows. A plain black desktop and you just type the name of the program - and to make it easy, no need to press any "Windows" key first... and the program just starts.
We could call it: Desktop Only System, because there is no taskbar or start menu or icons... just the DOS.
No, he's laughing at the people who think assburgers is a defense for committing crimes.
It could be a defence if it is relevant to the matter of intent. Person A might buy a bomb to commit a violent crime. Person B might buy a bomb to see how they work - maintaining strict safety precautions for working with explosives at all times. Person B could well have Asperger's (there was such a case - including both Asperger's and all the safety precautions) - and the Asperger's diagnosis could be directly relevant to showing that there was no harmful intent or even negligence - just an unusual, rather than violent, hobby.
"Unusual hobbies" is part of the Asperger diagnostic crieria (unusual or intense interests). And people with Asperger's do not always have the same intent (motivation) that other people do. And they might be very meticulous in things like taking correct precautions because of their attention to details and tendency towards routine.
Psychiatric conditions might also be relevant during sentencing...
I am (pleasantly) surprised by how many of my friends have "come out," as it were, as atheists over the last few years. I'm a young person, and I suspect that the amount of closet atheists among younger people (in America at least) is much greater than that among older people. In general, how optimistic are you about humanity getting past religion in the next few decades?
So in the next generation after yours, to rebel against you and be cooler than you, they will have to be religious?
Debian -> DOSLinux/Slackware -> Red Hat -> Caldera -> Debian
I started with Debian back in 1997 - on an old spare PC
I wanted to run Linux inside my more powerful Windows box, so I moved to DOSLinux (I think it was), and got any extra packages I needed from its parent distro Slackware.
I wanted to run Linux in its own partition, so I moved to Red Hat.
I wanted StarOffice (predecessor of LibreOffice), so I bought and tried Caldera for a while - before they went evil.
I went back to Debian when Fedora began (this time, Debian testing) and have remained there ever since - starting with WindowMaker, then moving to Xfce.
I like Debian testing with Xfce - so I have stayed on that for years - now just moved to AMD64
Here on Slashdot, we should all be drinking rum since rum is what pirates drink and everyone knows nerds love pirates. And ninjas. But sake is nasty, i'll stick to the rum myself.
"We're not bombing civilians anymore. Fuck with us and we'll murder you in your sleep. One of your guards will have a price. A million US to poison your coffee? 500 million? At some point, they'll crack and you'll die. Quickly, painlessly, and then you're over."
Didn't some guy called von Stauffenberg assassinate Hitler like that in 1944?
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If only someone had an estimate of how far away this one was, and had presented it in something that would describe this news item in detail. We could call it an "article".
I would still call it an article if it just contained the word "the".
...or they were actually decent and genuinely nice people.
Let me be the first to introduce a new concept into the theory of evolution: the survival of the utter bastards.
So I guess we won't be welcoming our new, decent and genuinely nice Neanderthal overlords any time soon?
sure humans can breed but the result will always be a human, chickens breed chickens and horses breed horses
That's like saying: "Sure you can keep pulling single hairs out of your beard. But the result will always be a beard!"
Gradual changes accumulate.
No, it actually is one of the worse but Turkey is an even more extreme example, here's a quote from WP:
A study published in Science compared attitudes about evolution in the United States, 32 European countries (including Turkey) and Japan. The only country where acceptance of evolution was lower than in the United States was Turkey (25%).
Only the Abrahamic world religions in general and Protestant Christianity in particular has a big issue with evolution, this graph shows how in the US Buddhists and Hindus are the most accepting. The national figures for India are also very strong and in line with western Europe. Sure a lot other countries have other vices, but creationism is usually not one of them.
Judaism - *the founding Abrahamic religion* - has one of the HIGHEST acceptance rates for evolution - 77% (third highest in the graph).
*Abrahamic religion* is not the problem.
I suggest you look at the sociological factors in the newer religious varieties which feel marginalised and out of power and resentful of modern intellectual culture, rather than at the content of their religion. Rejection of evolution is part of a wider alienation from modern urban power and culture among various social groups (e.g. rural communities in America, Islamic people under US-supported dictatorships like Egypt until recently).
Being anti-evolution might tell you more about a community's deeper political status than about their religion. People can adjust the interpretation of their religion if they want to fit in with the mainstream (assuming they even need to make adjustments). Judaism has no trouble doing it, and ditto the Catholic church. So the problem is: some religous groups feel a deep-seated need to reject the modern mainstream world, feel that evolution is associated with "alien forces" in society (and I don't mean aliens from space).
It's a sociological question, not a theological one.
My money will go to the manufacturers who will provide "old school" displays.
Here's your VT100 sir.
Bah! A waste of good glass. What you want is one of these:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/What-is-teletype.jpg
State of the art in 1957.
tl;dr
All of that can easily be done on a cheep tablet.
...that doesn't have a spell checker
Keep deleting code from a program until it doesn't work. Then put the last bit back.
It is now as small as it can be, and it works. Voila!
The majority of faults in all technology disappear when exposed to an engineer. Engineers exude technology friendly vibes.
I have often noticed this with user complaints about IT equipment. The PC or printer works fine as long as IT staff are looking at it, but plays up the minute they go away.
I reckon the device knows who is watching it - it only plays up if it knows you can't fix it.
Well, that's all the Ada programmers accounted for.
Comments that describe what the code is doing are useless. Comments that describe why the code does what it does are invaluable.
The following comment would pass your invaluable comment test: // I am stupid
It certainly explains why some confusing piece of code does what it does. But it tells us nothing about what the code was meant to do.
The windows button finally has purpose. You can hit that button, start typing an app name and then space/enter to launch
So... It's just like DOS except you have to hit the windows key before you type the name of the program you want to launch.
We need a minimalist Windows. A plain black desktop and you just type the name of the program - and to make it easy, no need to press any "Windows" key first ... and the program just starts.
We could call it: Desktop Only System, because there is no taskbar or start menu or icons... just the DOS.
No, he's laughing at the people who think assburgers is a defense for committing crimes.
It could be a defence if it is relevant to the matter of intent. Person A might buy a bomb to commit a violent crime. Person B might buy a bomb to see how they work - maintaining strict safety precautions for working with explosives at all times. Person B could well have Asperger's (there was such a case - including both Asperger's and all the safety precautions) - and the Asperger's diagnosis could be directly relevant to showing that there was no harmful intent or even negligence - just an unusual, rather than violent, hobby.
"Unusual hobbies" is part of the Asperger diagnostic crieria (unusual or intense interests). And people with Asperger's do not always have the same intent (motivation) that other people do. And they might be very meticulous in things like taking correct precautions because of their attention to details and tendency towards routine.
Psychiatric conditions might also be relevant during sentencing...
Have you ever considered writing a text book on programming?
But you have to actually work at it—it's not enough to grouse about it on Slashdot.
Dang! That's my social activism career shot down in flames.
That's why all soldiers take the ASVAB and they don't let the low scorers enlist
Oh, so that's how they recruit officers. I always wondered why the officers were dumber than the enlisted soldiers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry
quote: "Markets with high entry barriers have few players and thus high profit margins."
Hmmm. Sounds like the hearing aid market.
The government should set up an agency whose sole function is to prosecute people who object to the setting up of this agency.
"What a stupid idea!" I hear you say? You're another dangerous malcontent who must be investigated!
I am (pleasantly) surprised by how many of my friends have "come out," as it were, as atheists over the last few years. I'm a young person, and I suspect that the amount of closet atheists among younger people (in America at least) is much greater than that among older people. In general, how optimistic are you about humanity getting past religion in the next few decades?
So in the next generation after yours, to rebel against you and be cooler than you, they will have to be religious?
Physics *relies* on math, big time, but observation of the material world is nowhere in math's scope.
See also xkcd: Fields arranged by Purity.
Where was the logician?
It boils down to "Microsoft may make a comeback so they matter".
I was watching Blade Runner yesterday - it is set in 2019.
One of the buildings had a sign "Atari". See? Even they can make a comeback.
Debian -> DOSLinux/Slackware -> Red Hat -> Caldera -> Debian
I started with Debian back in 1997 - on an old spare PC
I wanted to run Linux inside my more powerful Windows box, so I moved to DOSLinux (I think it was), and got any extra packages I needed from its parent distro Slackware.
I wanted to run Linux in its own partition, so I moved to Red Hat.
I wanted StarOffice (predecessor of LibreOffice), so I bought and tried Caldera for a while - before they went evil.
I went back to Debian when Fedora began (this time, Debian testing) and have remained there ever since - starting with WindowMaker, then moving to Xfce.
I like Debian testing with Xfce - so I have stayed on that for years - now just moved to AMD64
So I am back where I started in 1997 - Debian.
Here on Slashdot, we should all be drinking rum since rum is what pirates drink and everyone knows nerds love pirates.
And ninjas. But sake is nasty, i'll stick to the rum myself.
Looking forward to "Drink Like a Pirate" day.
If anyone accesses your PC without permission and destroys your data, that is a problem.
If they do it by installing some other OS, that is just the same problem. You weren't going to keep your compromised OS, were you?
If the other OS is Linux, that is no different to putting (say) MacOSX or BSD or MS-DOS even on the PC.
Heck, doing a clean install of an older version of WIndows would be just as bad.
Your data is gone. That is the news.
Or just allow for assassinations again.
"We're not bombing civilians anymore. Fuck with us and we'll murder you in your sleep. One of your guards will have a price. A million US to poison your coffee? 500 million? At some point, they'll crack and you'll die. Quickly, painlessly, and then you're over."
Didn't some guy called von Stauffenberg assassinate Hitler like that in 1944?
Sure glad we ended WW2 that way.