I wish the operating systems I use had a registry so I could remotely manage them as well. How very insightful of you to pinpoint the exact technology that enables this.
This notion that religious views are not related to education level directly contradicts my experience. From what I've seen, the more religious people are, the less critical thinking they do. Getting a degree from a theological seminary might be technically be called 'education', but the right term for it is actually 'indoctrination'. Would you call graduates of a madrasa 'educated'?
Would the people you cite as examples call themselves young earth creationists, if you asked them? Would they say that global warming is hoax perpetuated by Al Gore? Your post provides little to support the hypothesis that ignorance and education level are not proportional.
It looks to me like you are co-opting them for your argument. If I found you members of clergy who were atheists or agnostics, would you accept that to support the position that religion and ignorance are directly related?
In my experience, there is a direct correlation between ignorance and level of dedication to a religion. The more pious and devout people are, the less room there is for critical thinking.
In that sense, being against religion is being against ignorance and bigotry.
What are you saying? Will your system still boot if you something like this? $ rm/lib/libc-2.5.so $ rm/boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.img
Does that make the 'rm' command 'fucking stupid'? ESR has dodged a few questions. Go read https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/ 2007-February/msg01006.html the whole thread. No one forced him to do stupid things. He chose to do the stupidest possible thing and you didn't take time to understand it. Your comments are uninformed, inflammatory and spread FUD. Perfect for a moderation of "Score:5, Insightful"
With my Fedora 4 DVD, after an install, _all_ of my hardware is supported. Gigabit ethernet, sound on the motherboard. I don't get accelerated nvidia support, but one invocation of yum will fix that. A few more invocations of yum, and I have drivers for the TV tuner cards my MythTV machine uses.
I have an xp cd. It installed, but didn't recognise several pieces of hardware. How is that support "out of the box?" And, it takes a lot of reboots for the stupid service packs and drivers to get updated. This takes hours upon hours by smart and professional geeks. I know most people buy their machines with windows preloaded and up-to-date, so I'm trying to not be a troll here, but the point still remains, that you don't necessarily get more support from windows than Linux.
What's more, when I smoked my machine, I chose a replacement motherboard with a more recent chipset. It booted first time, all my file systems mounted, and there was zero configuration involved in getting my MythTV machine running again. By contrast, windows requires a complete re-install in that situation.
To the point about dell insisting on open source drivers, I'm totally in agreement. That's all it would take, the community could do the rest for all the distributions of Linux and for the BSDs as well.
You made a very good point about stereotyping people. And you're a brave man admitting to voting republican. I'm sorry you're getting so roasted over this.
But I do want to make the point that if you voted republican in 2004, you're neither agnostic nor libertarian. In that case, you cowed to the extremists and fundamentalists the same that that your average, decent muslim is cowed by the extremists when s/he doesn't speak out against them for fear of reprisal.
Lighten up, people. I agree that exercise and nutrition and balance is important. For me, balance includes the occasional bender and the occasional all-nighter. It's good for you.
When I go to a LAN party and I know it's going to go late, I bring with me a couple of starbucks double shots in a can, and some peanut-butter & honey sandwiches, made with dark or whole grain bread. Peanut butter for the protein, honey for the sugar and the flavour. It tastes great, goes well with coffee or tea of any kind. I can go for a long time on this, and it seems to kick my brain into overdrive. Store the sandwich in a cooler so the honey doesn't run.
I've also used the PB&H sandwiches for snowboarding cuz the food at the resorts is usually crappy and overpriced.
Man, even giving you the benefit of the doubt, I cannot separate the fundamentalists from 'scientifically trained' christians. Seriously, there might be an ID argument that doesn't devolve down to "It's all really complicated and I don't understand it therefore it must have been intelligently designed and created; but don't ask me any questions about the creator^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdesiger cuz I don't know and I don't understand" I haven't seen it. Every ID proponent I've met, when pushed, devolved down to this, and I can't separate that from the fundamentalists.
As for lumping me with the atheists, anarchists et al, that might be good company. Go ahead!:-) Better company than I've met on the ID side.
Actually, they are whacko. Believing so strongly in a myth that you are willing to lie and deceive to make your point makes you whacko. This has been my personal experience and the judge in the case made the point that the people with the deep religious convictions were liars. As a wise man once told me, jesus is just santa claus for grownups.
If you want to be in the camp that seeks to push id, you're in for some very bad company.
Speaking of whackos, you've got some whackiness showing of your own. (Thanks for the google suggestion, I'd never have thought of that:-) If by Behe you're referring to the 'irreducibly complex' crap, at least read this: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe.html
As for your misappropriation of Crick, read http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/steve/. The Project Steve pages made me laugh a coupla times and the reference to Crick gets a Steve-o-meter rating of 9.
I agree with you. To be pedantic though, I think scientific objection to ID is Falsifiability. The ID pushers make few claims that we can observe. Fortunately, they do say that the earth is only ~6000 years old, something we can measure objectively.
The social problem with ID is that the people doing the pushing are religious bigots. Make no mistake about it. They're as open-minded as the taliban. They don't care whether it's scientific. They're not interested in a dialog or the truth. They have a message for you and their only interest in you depends on your acceptance of that message.
What I find funny is that the people that say that global warming has not been scientifically proven strongly believe in a mythical creature they call 'god' and that they expect you to prove that god doesn't exist. Sweet irony, that.
I just can't stand it when they don't post whether it's a windows-based or a unix/linux-based implementation. I need to know whether I can indulge in schadenfreude or whether I have to make excuses.
Notice how it's called "climate change" and not "global warming" any more? PBS did a great show about the advertising biz. Apparantly the Bush regime worked really hard to remove the meme "global warming" and insert "climate change" so the likes of you will be less scared of it. Seems to have worked well on everyone, especially the 'mainstream media'.
I'm not that afraid of nuclear power plants, but if Bush is involved, then "nukulur power plant" is probaly a euphimism for Domestic Terrorst Watch Tower. Read this. I got that link from metafilter.
Can you be specific? I'm kind of interested in this subject, and this thread has generated a couple of vague complaints about the UI and usability, but few specific complaints.
Which open source products do you use daily? Have you filed any bugs? Please do. For the case of the Gimp, info on filing bugs is here.
What makes you think they're going to fund the PearPC project or pay the developers anything? This looks like scummy behaviour to me and if they're comfortable with that kind of behaviour, I'd be apoplectic with shock if they decided to pay any money to the developers at all.
For what's it's worth, most of us Clear Channel programmers would love to have deep, eclectic playlists loaded with interesting songs and artists.
The problem is that not enough people would listen to our stations for us to keep the lights on.
I call bullshit.
I have a lot more money and a lot more liking for music than those stupid punk teenagers that you pander to. You have spent no time or energy to find out what I like. Your industry has created these vacuous 'artists' for only a tiny fraction of the listening audience, that audience that will buy the cheap shit you put together. I don't believe that of all the people putting together music, you play the most 'pop'ular stuff. There is a lot of good music out there, easy to find and would have mainstream appeal IF YOU WOULD PLAY IT!!
I do not want to listen to the manufactured boy bands. Don't take that to mean that you have to play 'World Music' to get me.
That's music. The DJs are another issue. I would like to listen to a smart/vulgar/irreverant/funny DJ during my commute, but the ones you put on are so damn STOOPID!!! Howard Stern? The Mikey Show? How insipid can you get? Is the the best that's out there? If it is, put me on!
And don't get me started on those painfully smarmy supermarket ads, or for that matter, all insultingly stupid ads in general. You still can't see why, the older people get (read: people with jobs and MONEY!) the more insulted they are by things like Clear Channel, and the less they pay attention to it?
Go XM! Go Sirius! (Even if they picked up Howard Stern, at least there are more choices!)
How do you stitch these frames together? I'm not a graphic artist type, so I guess I'll end up trolling the GIMP menus and plugins to find something that will allow me to stitch a bunch of pictures together into a movie. I'll try this when my new 2GB high-speed compact flash arrives. Maybe I can get something pretty at 800x600. The 20D is supposed to have good throughput to its storage.
I think I understand why the image would disappear from the viewfinder for the time the shutter is open. I don't understand why you can't write out the image that the sensors are sensing 640x480 30times/second, or whatever bandwidth the hardware supports.
I think of it this way: I'd like to set it so that it samples the CCD 30 times per second rather than 5 times per second. I'll hold the shutter open as long as I want, and I'll be responsible for setting the aperture and white balance and ISO speed, but just read the CCD often and send it to the storage device.
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I wish the operating systems I use had a registry so I could remotely manage them as well. How very insightful of you to pinpoint the exact technology that enables this.
This notion that religious views are not related to education level directly contradicts my experience. From what I've seen, the more religious people are, the less critical thinking they do. Getting a degree from a theological seminary might be technically be called 'education', but the right term for it is actually 'indoctrination'. Would you call graduates of a madrasa 'educated'?
Would the people you cite as examples call themselves young earth creationists, if you asked them? Would they say that global warming is hoax perpetuated by Al Gore? Your post provides little to support the hypothesis that ignorance and education level are not proportional.
It looks to me like you are co-opting them for your argument. If I found you members of clergy who were atheists or agnostics, would you accept that to support the position that religion and ignorance are directly related?
In my experience, there is a direct correlation between ignorance and level of dedication to a religion. The more pious and devout people are, the less room there is for critical thinking.
In that sense, being against religion is being against ignorance and bigotry.
I couldn't see any way to do this in subversion.
We had someone commit a bunch of DVD .iso files to our repo, and I cannot figure out how to go back and permanently remove them from the repo.
http://strongdynamic.blogspot.com/2007/08/expunging-problem-file-from-mercurial.html
It seems mercurial can do this.
When using CVS, I can just log onto the server and rm -rf the relevant directory. I really miss that feature in subversion.
Has anyone tried the OBM offering yet? http://www.obm.org/doku.php
I saw them at LinuxWorld in San Francisco recently. Looked very nice.
I can't tell from their front page whether they do MAPI.
...ask a question to make the GOP candidates look bad...
Wait, so you're saying their answer to this question will make them look bad?
WTF is wrong with that? If they answer the question with a dumb answer, why wouldn't you want to hear that?
What are you saying? Will your system still boot if you something like this?
/lib/libc-2.5.so /boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.img
/ 2007-February/msg01006.html the whole thread. No one forced him to do stupid things. He chose to do the stupidest possible thing and you didn't take time to understand it. Your comments are uninformed, inflammatory and spread FUD. Perfect for a moderation of "Score:5, Insightful"
$ rm
$ rm
Does that make the 'rm' command 'fucking stupid'?
ESR has dodged a few questions. Go read https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list
WTF is insightful about this comment?
Walt Disney would never have been able to create Micky Mouse if had to live in your world.
http://www.authorama.com/free-culture-4.html
With my Fedora 4 DVD, after an install, _all_ of my hardware is supported. Gigabit ethernet, sound on the motherboard. I don't get accelerated nvidia support, but one invocation of yum will fix that. A few more invocations of yum, and I have drivers for the TV tuner cards my MythTV machine uses.
I have an xp cd. It installed, but didn't recognise several pieces of hardware. How is that support "out of the box?" And, it takes a lot of reboots for the stupid service packs and drivers to get updated. This takes hours upon hours by smart and professional geeks. I know most people buy their machines with windows preloaded and up-to-date, so I'm trying to not be a troll here, but the point still remains, that you don't necessarily get more support from windows than Linux.
What's more, when I smoked my machine, I chose a replacement motherboard with a more recent chipset. It booted first time, all my file systems mounted, and there was zero configuration involved in getting my MythTV machine running again. By contrast, windows requires a complete re-install in that situation.
To the point about dell insisting on open source drivers, I'm totally in agreement. That's all it would take, the community could do the rest for all the distributions of Linux and for the BSDs as well.
You made a very good point about stereotyping people. And you're a brave man admitting to voting republican. I'm sorry you're getting so roasted over this.
But I do want to make the point that if you voted republican in 2004, you're neither agnostic nor libertarian. In that case, you cowed to the extremists and fundamentalists the same that that your average, decent muslim is cowed by the extremists when s/he doesn't speak out against them for fear of reprisal.
Lighten up, people. I agree that exercise and nutrition and balance is important. For me, balance includes the occasional bender and the occasional all-nighter. It's good for you.
When I go to a LAN party and I know it's going to go late, I bring with me a couple of starbucks double shots in a can, and some peanut-butter & honey sandwiches, made with dark or whole grain bread. Peanut butter for the protein, honey for the sugar and the flavour. It tastes great, goes well with coffee or tea of any kind. I can go for a long time on this, and it seems to kick my brain into overdrive. Store the sandwich in a cooler so the honey doesn't run.
I've also used the PB&H sandwiches for snowboarding cuz the food at the resorts is usually crappy and overpriced.
Man, even giving you the benefit of the doubt, I cannot separate the fundamentalists from 'scientifically trained' christians. Seriously, there might be an ID argument that doesn't devolve down to "It's all really complicated and I don't understand it therefore it must have been intelligently designed and created; but don't ask me any questions about the creator^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdesiger cuz I don't know and I don't understand" I haven't seen it. Every ID proponent I've met, when pushed, devolved down to this, and I can't separate that from the fundamentalists.
:-) Better company than I've met on the ID side.
As for lumping me with the atheists, anarchists et al, that might be good company. Go ahead!
Actually, they are whacko. Believing so strongly in a myth that you are willing to lie and deceive to make your point makes you whacko. This has been my personal experience and the judge in the case made the point that the people with the deep religious convictions were liars. As a wise man once told me, jesus is just santa claus for grownups.
:-) If by Behe you're referring to the 'irreducibly complex' crap, at least read this: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe.html
If you want to be in the camp that seeks to push id, you're in for some very bad company.
Speaking of whackos, you've got some whackiness showing of your own. (Thanks for the google suggestion, I'd never have thought of that
As for your misappropriation of Crick, read http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/steve/. The Project Steve pages made me laugh a coupla times and the reference to Crick gets a Steve-o-meter rating of 9.
I agree with you. To be pedantic though, I think scientific objection to ID is Falsifiability. The ID pushers make few claims that we can observe. Fortunately, they do say that the earth is only ~6000 years old, something we can measure objectively.
The social problem with ID is that the people doing the pushing are religious bigots. Make no mistake about it. They're as open-minded as the taliban. They don't care whether it's scientific. They're not interested in a dialog or the truth. They have a message for you and their only interest in you depends on your acceptance of that message.
What I find funny is that the people that say that global warming has not been scientifically proven strongly believe in a mythical creature they call 'god' and that they expect you to prove that god doesn't exist. Sweet irony, that.
I just can't stand it when they don't post whether it's a windows-based or a unix/linux-based implementation. I need to know whether I can indulge in schadenfreude or whether I have to make excuses.
Yeah, like that's the whole story.
Whatever.
Notice how it's called "climate change" and not "global warming" any more? PBS did a great show about the advertising biz. Apparantly the Bush regime worked really hard to remove the meme "global warming" and insert "climate change" so the likes of you will be less scared of it. Seems to have worked well on everyone, especially the 'mainstream media'.
I'm not that afraid of nuclear power plants, but if Bush is involved, then "nukulur power plant" is probaly a euphimism for Domestic Terrorst Watch Tower. Read this. I got that link from metafilter.
Can you be specific? I'm kind of interested in this subject, and this thread has generated a couple of vague complaints about the UI and usability, but few specific complaints.
Which open source products do you use daily? Have you filed any bugs? Please do. For the case of the Gimp, info on filing bugs is here.
Can you be specific?
What I mean is, have you filed any bugs? Here you can learn about a bug's life cycle.
Please, document those inconsistencies.
What makes you think they're going to fund the PearPC project or pay the developers anything? This looks like scummy behaviour to me and if they're comfortable with that kind of behaviour, I'd be apoplectic with shock if they decided to pay any money to the developers at all.
What would jesus click?
Why do torrent clikders hate america?
This was off-topic, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
For what's it's worth, most of us Clear Channel programmers would love to have deep, eclectic playlists loaded with interesting songs and artists.
The problem is that not enough people would listen to our stations for us to keep the lights on.
I call bullshit.
I have a lot more money and a lot more liking for music than those stupid punk teenagers that you pander to. You have spent no time or energy to find out what I like. Your industry has created these vacuous 'artists' for only a tiny fraction of the listening audience, that audience that will buy the cheap shit you put together. I don't believe that of all the people putting together music, you play the most 'pop'ular stuff. There is a lot of good music out there, easy to find and would have mainstream appeal IF YOU WOULD PLAY IT!!
I do not want to listen to the manufactured boy bands. Don't take that to mean that you have to play 'World Music' to get me.
That's music. The DJs are another issue. I would like to listen to a smart/vulgar/irreverant/funny DJ during my commute, but the ones you put on are so damn STOOPID!!! Howard Stern? The Mikey Show? How insipid can you get? Is the the best that's out there? If it is, put me on!
And don't get me started on those painfully smarmy supermarket ads, or for that matter, all insultingly stupid ads in general. You still can't see why, the older people get (read: people with jobs and MONEY!) the more insulted they are by things like Clear Channel, and the less they pay attention to it?
Go XM! Go Sirius! (Even if they picked up Howard Stern, at least there are more choices!)
(Too bad I cannot email you this in private...)
How do you stitch these frames together? I'm not a graphic artist type, so I guess I'll end up trolling the GIMP menus and plugins to find something that will allow me to stitch a bunch of pictures together into a movie. I'll try this when my new 2GB high-speed compact flash arrives. Maybe I can get something pretty at 800x600. The 20D is supposed to have good throughput to its storage.
John
I think I understand why the image would disappear from the viewfinder for the time the shutter is open. I don't understand why you can't write out the image that the sensors are sensing 640x480 30times/second, or whatever bandwidth the hardware supports.
I think of it this way: I'd like to set it so that it samples the CCD 30 times per second rather than 5 times per second. I'll hold the shutter open as long as I want, and I'll be responsible for setting the aperture and white balance and ISO speed, but just read the CCD often and send it to the storage device.
BTW, nice ride.