This is like people who have cancer, undergo treatment for a while then stop. Then they resort to prayer to cure them. If they're cured they claim it was the prayer that did the work. However, since they had already undergone treatment, we can't say for sure which helped the person. The results are contaminated by their original treatment.
I'm sure that, with a little persuasion, you'd be able to get them to conduct the experiment properly.
Or being gay and walking down the street in a lot of cities in America, for that matter.:-\
Why? Aren't gay people, you know, just like you and me only with a different preference? How would anybody know unless a gay person wore a sign or shouted it out to everyone around him?
I just know some moderator is going to take this literally.
It's the web browser. When Mozilla (and I suspect IE) shrinks an image, it uses nearest-neighbor interpolation without bothering to low-pass filter the image first. It's where those characteristic "ringing" artifacts (which translates into missing lines in text) come from.
It's best to shrink it yourself first with decent image editing software than let the web browser handle it. That way you don't give up presentation control, and the image is smaller to download in the first place.
I suspect you already knew that, though. Listening, Rob?:D
The oddballs: The round-half-up crowd(Half or greater is filled) The round-half-down crowd(Half or less is empty) The round toward zero types(Always empty) The round away from zero groupies(Always Full) The round alternate weirdos(They get interesting when you give them two glasses) The round random subset(Carry around a coin or die to decide such problems)
Don't forget:
The banker's rounders (round toward even: 0.5 is 0, 1.5 is 2) The politicians (it's half a glass) The "it's all relative" crowd (the glass is too big)
I lean to the right, and I'd be happy to put my 3 college degrees, SAT, and IQ score up against any of the dimwits who consider that a reasonable line of logic.
Great idea! Put it up! Let our Slashdot lefties see that they're not the only smart ones.
IQ: 145, ACT: 32, GPA: 3.78, GRE: 800/600, BS in Computer Science, starting the PhD program in January, and I already have a published paper on image interpolation in the proceedings of IJCNN'05.
Oh, and I lean left. Just kidding! Libertario-Republican-ish conservative, actually.
Card's anti-gay rants are saddening, since he is otherwise a voice of tolerance and sanity in the LDS - he has no knee-jerk distrust of science, for example.
Most of us have no knee-jerk distrust of science, actually. If you'd bother to open your little box and peer out for a moment, you'd see it - Utah, predominantly Mormon, is one of the most educated states in the U.S.
There's nothing homophobic about not having lone men in black robes conducting huge social experiments on your society. (That's pretty much all Card has talked about publicly.) We've never, ever seen societies so successful as those that endorse the "nuclear family" - so there's ample reason to be "afraid" of changing it. At very least, we should watch Norway for a couple of generations.
Card has his hypotheses about why this is so - yes, informed by his biases, but whose aren't? (and don't argue with me on this, I do machine learning research, and you'll lose) - and they predict bad outcomes from these proposed social experiments. It's right and proper for him to communicate this.
Your name-calling, by the way, identifies you as someone who hasn't thought about an opposing point of view very seriously.
Answers? You don't know. If you don't know, then whatever theory you guys have must be accepted by faith/belief in the absence of facts and evidence.
I've been calling this a "science of the gaps" for some time now. I saw someone else use the term in an article the other day - maybe it's time to spread this meme.
I don't think believing in a "tree of life" isn't that far-fetched. Abiogenesis, on the other hand, requires a measure of faith equal to a Bible-thumping pastor's, yet it's in our science books, not often properly labeled as conjecture. That's a science of the gaps.
Quantum mechanics gets abused the same way all the time.
I imagine in real life that you're much more pleasant. Perhaps in such a circumstance you would have said something along the lines of, "You may have missed that they will be releasing the source code, they just haven't done it yet."
It's probably more along the lines of, "You may have missed that they will be releasing the source code, they just haven't done it yet. Can I buy some pot?"
no, no, keep going, get to the part about how the temple was used for animal sacrifice, and how when the messiah comes and the temple is rebuilt, judaism will once again become a temple religion and the animal sacrifices will recommence. You know how there is only one true G-d, and He is just waiting till animal blood will be shed in His name again! Oh, not all primitive like those darn pagans, oh no!
Is it morally wrong if the animals are eaten afterward by the priests?
If it is, put down that hamburger.
The idea of offering a religious statement upon the slaughter of an animal really isn't that strange. A little ceremony is appropriate. That animal gave its life so you could live. I'm seeing shades of Christianity - aren't you?
As we all know, how pretty your user interface looks is the best barometer of how easy it is to use, how simple it is to program for, how much leverage applications get from the underlying API, and how powerful applications written using the underlying toolkit will be.
American readers should append the word "NOT" onto the end of the last paragraph.
No wonder I've been nodding off at wo...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Amazing! Your head hit just the 'z' key, and held down the SHIFT key simultaneously for the first one! And then, somehow, your computer submitted your comment. How do you do that?
I wish I could do that.
Anyway, more seriously: Why is this story tagged as humor? I read the article, and there's really nothing funny in it.
Not that that stops us from taking it lightly, of course.
But there are also some pretty bad amateurs there, but many see that as a feature, not a bug.
It's a feature if you, yourself, know how to spot the amateurs, and can recognize what it is that makes it amateur. If you can't, you might get infected, thinking that what you've seen is good writing.:D
Thanks for the links - I'm going to check them out now.
Sorry for the self-reply - but I forgot to add that $10/year isn't bad. Which is why I'm glad the GP wrote "more free/cheap sci-fi and fantasy" - but I think the $10 deal needs pointing out.
The problem is, cheap is too often the operative word. I've been reading them as well, and it's rather hit-and-miss. There are some real gems, of course, don't get me wrong.
On the other hand, I really liked every story in the first issue of the Medicine Show. It is one data point - but it's the first, and it shows real promise.
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Are they ill-tempered?
Do they have frickin' laser beams on their heads?
That was awesome.
This is like people who have cancer, undergo treatment for a while then stop. Then they resort to prayer to cure them. If they're cured they claim it was the prayer that did the work. However, since they had already undergone treatment, we can't say for sure which helped the person. The results are contaminated by their original treatment.
I'm sure that, with a little persuasion, you'd be able to get them to conduct the experiment properly.
Yep.
How many Utah public schools teach cosmology and biology according to Mormon, not scientific, principles?
None, as far as I know. Often our morality and thus school rules and such are informed by religious principles, but never science.
As someone else pointed out, BYU, the only private Mormon university, teaches evolution in biology class. The public schools do the same.
That's a great joke, but we all know that "smart religious" is an oxymoron.
Hello, moderators. Flamebait, please.
It's a shame I have to point this out, as so many moderators would just skip right over it as a factual assertion.
I think Evolution is just too unbelievable. It is right up their with the Toothfairy and the Easter Bunny.
It needs an imaginary mascot. How about the Evolution Troll?
Since there is no absolute normal, it sounds like your argument applies to everyone...
Ever hear of distributions and thresholds?
Seriously, you're being silly.
Or being gay and walking down the street in a lot of cities in America, for that matter. :-\
Why? Aren't gay people, you know, just like you and me only with a different preference? How would anybody know unless a gay person wore a sign or shouted it out to everyone around him?
I just know some moderator is going to take this literally.
I think you need to sue your proofreader, mate...
That's not the open-source way.
If you think it's rediculous, go jump in a lake. That's the open-source way.
(For the sig-impaired: the speeling si intenshonal.)
It's the web browser. When Mozilla (and I suspect IE) shrinks an image, it uses nearest-neighbor interpolation without bothering to low-pass filter the image first. It's where those characteristic "ringing" artifacts (which translates into missing lines in text) come from.
:D
It's best to shrink it yourself first with decent image editing software than let the web browser handle it. That way you don't give up presentation control, and the image is smaller to download in the first place.
I suspect you already knew that, though. Listening, Rob?
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I'm curious. By posting an address and phone number, are you suggesting that we give them a manual Slashdotting?
The oddballs:
The round-half-up crowd(Half or greater is filled)
The round-half-down crowd(Half or less is empty)
The round toward zero types(Always empty)
The round away from zero groupies(Always Full)
The round alternate weirdos(They get interesting when you give them two glasses)
The round random subset(Carry around a coin or die to decide such problems)
Don't forget:
The banker's rounders (round toward even: 0.5 is 0, 1.5 is 2)
The politicians (it's half a glass)
The "it's all relative" crowd (the glass is too big)
I lean to the right, and I'd be happy to put my 3 college degrees, SAT, and IQ score up against any of the dimwits who consider that a reasonable line of logic.
Great idea! Put it up! Let our Slashdot lefties see that they're not the only smart ones.
IQ: 145, ACT: 32, GPA: 3.78, GRE: 800/600, BS in Computer Science, starting the PhD program in January, and I already have a published paper on image interpolation in the proceedings of IJCNN'05.
Oh, and I lean left. Just kidding! Libertario-Republican-ish conservative, actually.
Who's next?
Card's anti-gay rants are saddening, since he is otherwise a voice of tolerance and sanity in the LDS - he has no knee-jerk distrust of science, for example.
Most of us have no knee-jerk distrust of science, actually. If you'd bother to open your little box and peer out for a moment, you'd see it - Utah, predominantly Mormon, is one of the most educated states in the U.S.
There's nothing homophobic about not having lone men in black robes conducting huge social experiments on your society. (That's pretty much all Card has talked about publicly.) We've never, ever seen societies so successful as those that endorse the "nuclear family" - so there's ample reason to be "afraid" of changing it. At very least, we should watch Norway for a couple of generations.
Card has his hypotheses about why this is so - yes, informed by his biases, but whose aren't? (and don't argue with me on this, I do machine learning research, and you'll lose) - and they predict bad outcomes from these proposed social experiments. It's right and proper for him to communicate this.
Your name-calling, by the way, identifies you as someone who hasn't thought about an opposing point of view very seriously.
Answers? You don't know. If you don't know, then whatever theory you guys have must be accepted by faith/belief in the absence of facts and evidence.
I've been calling this a "science of the gaps" for some time now. I saw someone else use the term in an article the other day - maybe it's time to spread this meme.
I don't think believing in a "tree of life" isn't that far-fetched. Abiogenesis, on the other hand, requires a measure of faith equal to a Bible-thumping pastor's, yet it's in our science books, not often properly labeled as conjecture. That's a science of the gaps.
Quantum mechanics gets abused the same way all the time.
Excellent. Maybe this same technology can be applied to a refrigerator so we can see what happens when the door is closed.
Elephants. Elephants marching around in the butter.
It's not source code. It's just code. "Source code" is defined as the prefered form of the program for making modifications. Obviously this aint it.
Does this mean the authors can't release this code under the GPL?
Or would that disqualify way too much Perl?
I imagine in real life that you're much more pleasant. Perhaps in such a circumstance you would have said something along the lines of, "You may have missed that they will be releasing the source code, they just haven't done it yet."
It's probably more along the lines of, "You may have missed that they will be releasing the source code, they just haven't done it yet. Can I buy some pot?"
no, no, keep going, get to the part about how the temple was used for animal sacrifice, and how when the messiah comes and the temple is rebuilt, judaism will once again become a temple religion and the animal sacrifices will recommence. You know how there is only one true G-d, and He is just waiting till animal blood will be shed in His name again! Oh, not all primitive like those darn pagans, oh no!
Is it morally wrong if the animals are eaten afterward by the priests?
If it is, put down that hamburger.
The idea of offering a religious statement upon the slaughter of an animal really isn't that strange. A little ceremony is appropriate. That animal gave its life so you could live. I'm seeing shades of Christianity - aren't you?
As we all know, how pretty your user interface looks is the best barometer of how easy it is to use, how simple it is to program for, how much leverage applications get from the underlying API, and how powerful applications written using the underlying toolkit will be.
American readers should append the word "NOT" onto the end of the last paragraph.
Why? Is it different elsewhere in the world?
No wonder you're all screwed up.
No wonder I've been nodding off at wo...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Amazing! Your head hit just the 'z' key, and held down the SHIFT key simultaneously for the first one! And then, somehow, your computer submitted your comment. How do you do that?
I wish I could do that.
Anyway, more seriously: Why is this story tagged as humor? I read the article, and there's really nothing funny in it.
Not that that stops us from taking it lightly, of course.
But there are also some pretty bad amateurs there, but many see that as a feature, not a bug.
:D
It's a feature if you, yourself, know how to spot the amateurs, and can recognize what it is that makes it amateur. If you can't, you might get infected, thinking that what you've seen is good writing.
Thanks for the links - I'm going to check them out now.
Sorry for the self-reply - but I forgot to add that $10/year isn't bad. Which is why I'm glad the GP wrote "more free/cheap sci-fi and fantasy" - but I think the $10 deal needs pointing out.
Want to read more free/cheap sci-fi and fantasy?
The problem is, cheap is too often the operative word. I've been reading them as well, and it's rather hit-and-miss. There are some real gems, of course, don't get me wrong.
On the other hand, I really liked every story in the first issue of the Medicine Show. It is one data point - but it's the first, and it shows real promise.
Don't forget that in the winter, people spend more time indoors, around other germy people.