The only relation to the Senate is that the author of that BLOG entry is does PR work for the majority chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
The link location might be considered a "relation".
In any case, the entry is unintentionally hilarious.
My favorite quote is:
The alarmists also enjoy a huge financial advantage over the skeptics with numerous foundations funding climate research
True: climate research has been assisting the "alarmists". Hmmmm....
Note the cited summary does not claim that the leg-length change is due to evolution:
However, another alternative is that lizards growing in different environments grow different length legs. To test this hypothesis, we raised baby anoles on two different surfaces at the St. Louis Zoo--either on 2x4's or on narrow (1/4") dowels. At the end of three months, the lizards raised on broader surfaces had longer limbs than the lizards on narrower surfaces! This suggests that the results observed in the field may be the result of a phenotypic plasticity in limb growth, rather than genetic differentiation.
That is, the response of body shape to behavior was already built into the anoles genotype.
As an aside,
those who have emphasized random mutation as the primary basis for evolutionary change are completely off base.
The whole point of sex (whoa!)
is to produce adaptive variation.
Mutt installation is still a pain for Windows users. A nice cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and supposedly Mac) IMAP client with excellent support for an external editor is Mahogany. (Also supports Python scripting.) I love Pine, but Mahogany even beats Pine on single-stroke keyboard access to most used commands.
Re:None do what is required to displace Exchange.
on
What is the Best Calendar?
·
· Score: 2, Informative
What about Chandler?
It seems largely to meet your criteria. It is multplatform.
It includes individual and workgroup calendars that can be
shared across platforms. It includes overlayed multiple calendars
(crucial in my view, and poorly handled by Exchange)
and manages a single event across calendars.
There is also Scooby
for sharing Chandler calendar information with others.
But PDA synching is not yet available.
Here is a possible letter body that is less tendentious than that linked in the article.
--
Dear Copyright Office:
I am responding to your August 4 notice on Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims (37 CFR Part 202 [Docket No. RM 2005-9]), in which you ask whether potential preregistrants will unable or unwilling to use Internet Explorer 5.1 or higher with the new electronic form. I am one of an estimated 20% of browser users who does not use Internet Explorer.
I understand that the problem is that you will not be able to upgrade to Siebel 7.8 in time for the October 24 launch, and that Siebel 7.7 offers inadequate guarantees of multiple browser support. I understand that you plan to offer multiple browser support "in the future".
I commend your for developing an electronic form and allowing preregistration. However your announcement of this implementation limitation is worrisome for three reasons.
- You do not identify the source of the limitation. If the electronic form will be compliant with modern web standards (http://www.w3.org/) but will not have been fully tested with other browsers, that is a minor concern. In this case there is high likelihood that all modern browsers will work with the site. If on the other hand the electronic form will actively block other browsers or will contain IE specific code in violation of web standards, this is a larger concern. - You do not explicitly address section 508 compliance, which as I understand it is a legal requirement upon the Copyright Office. http://www.section508.gov/ It is hard to understand how section 508 compliant website would be unusable with essentially any modern browser. - You do not identify a time frame for removal of this limitation. If you will fix things in a few weeks, fewer users will be affected than if you will take a couple years.
"[US] court rulings raise a very interesting question in cases where source code is not judged as crucial to enablement. If writing the necessary code is 'normally' within the skill of the art, can the software invention still pass the test of non-obviousness? This suggests that there should be a substantial burden of proof for any patent applicant who claims non-obviousness for a software-related invention but simultaneously insists that source code provision is unnecessary. The ability of a programmer to do without the source code suggests that any skilled programmer approaching the same problem might produce the same solution: i.e., it suggests that the invention is obvious to someone with normal skill in the art. Thus software patents appear to create a quandary: either the system is permitting the patents of some obvious things or it is relaxing the enablement requirement."
A different assessment of desktop share: "IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux' PC market share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple... the researcher expects Linux to capture 6% of this market by 2007."
SuperChuck69 (702300) on Monday May 31, @05:09PM (#9298439) writes > I think a better question is "what does she want to accomplish?"
Or, "what might she enjoy?" If Mom enjoys drawing, consider whether PostScript might be fun for her. It is very simple to get started, provides immediate visual feedback (using GSView), and the language will take her as far in programming as she wants to go.
I don't think Congress should be regulating the Internet at all; besides the fact that any American laws have little to no effect outside of the US, letting Congress decide what information can flow freely seems like the start of a slippery slope.
Please define INFORMATION.
I read this bill as simply outlawing a kind of fraud: false or misleading subject headers or transmission headers. (Read
US Senate Bill 877.)
What exactly is the objection to this?
Express your view of this legislation by writing a US Senator.
If you have US Senate representation, please :
write your senators
Encourage others to write.
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet is in print and still a delight. Amazon has it for $7.15.
Sabine said: ``I'm thrilled to see that the same reprint house carries The Shy Stegasaurus of Cricket Creek. I loved that book. Now if only they'd bring Secret Under the Sea and The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet back into print.''
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The link location might be considered a "relation". In any case, the entry is unintentionally hilarious. My favorite quote is:
True: climate research has been assisting the "alarmists". Hmmmm....
As an aside, those who have emphasized random mutation as the primary basis for evolutionary change are completely off base. The whole point of sex (whoa!) is to produce adaptive variation.
Mutt installation is still a pain for Windows users. A nice cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and supposedly Mac) IMAP client with excellent support for an external editor is Mahogany. (Also supports Python scripting.) I love Pine, but Mahogany even beats Pine on single-stroke keyboard access to most used commands.
What about Chandler? It seems largely to meet your criteria. It is multplatform. It includes individual and workgroup calendars that can be shared across platforms. It includes overlayed multiple calendars (crucial in my view, and poorly handled by Exchange) and manages a single event across calendars.
There is also Scooby for sharing Chandler calendar information with others. But PDA synching is not yet available.
I use Thunderbird and Mahogany with an external editor (Vim).
Mahogany is also cross-platform and user friendly.
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Although not as widely known, the daily user experience on Mahogany
is incomparably better than with Thunderbird, especially for POP.
Here is a possible letter body that is less tendentious than that linked in the article.
--
Dear Copyright Office:
I am responding to your August 4 notice on Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims (37 CFR Part 202 [Docket No. RM 2005-9]), in which you ask whether potential preregistrants will unable or unwilling to use Internet Explorer 5.1 or higher with the new electronic form. I am one of an estimated 20% of browser users who does not use Internet Explorer.
I understand that the problem is that you will not be able to upgrade to Siebel 7.8 in time for the October 24 launch, and that Siebel 7.7 offers inadequate guarantees of multiple browser support. I understand that you plan to offer multiple browser support "in the future".
I commend your for developing an electronic form and allowing preregistration. However your announcement of this implementation limitation is worrisome for three reasons.
- You do not identify the source of the limitation. If the electronic form will be compliant with modern web standards (http://www.w3.org/) but will not have been fully tested with other browsers, that is a minor concern. In this case there is high likelihood that all modern browsers will work with the site. If on the other hand the electronic form will actively block other browsers or will contain IE specific code in violation of web standards, this is a larger concern.
- You do not explicitly address section 508 compliance, which as I understand it is a legal requirement upon the Copyright Office. http://www.section508.gov/ It is hard to understand how section 508 compliant website would be unusable with essentially any modern browser.
- You do not identify a time frame for removal of this limitation. If you will fix things in a few weeks, fewer users will be affected than if you will take a couple years.
from: Isaac, Alan G. and Walter G. Park, "On Intellectual Property Rights: Patents vs. Free and Open Development" chapter 18 of the Elgar Companion to the Economics of Property Rights.
A different assessment of desktop share: "IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux' PC market share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple ... the researcher expects Linux to capture 6% of this market by 2007."
SuperChuck69 (702300) on Monday May 31, @05:09PM (#9298439) writes
> I think a better question is "what does she want to accomplish?"
Or, "what might she enjoy?" If Mom enjoys drawing, consider whether PostScript might be fun for her. It is very simple to get started, provides immediate visual feedback (using GSView), and the language will take her as far in programming as she wants to go.
Please define INFORMATION. I read this bill as simply outlawing a kind of fraud: false or misleading subject headers or transmission headers. (Read US Senate Bill 877.) What exactly is the objection to this?
Express your view of this legislation by writing a US Senator. If you have US Senate representation, please : write your senators Encourage others to write.
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet is in print and still a delight. Amazon has it for $7.15.
Sabine said: ``I'm thrilled to see that the same reprint house carries The Shy Stegasaurus of Cricket Creek. I loved that book. Now if only they'd bring Secret Under the Sea and The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet back into print.''