Yet another "if you don't subscribe to the current global warming facts you are an idiot" . As in, there is no room for debate, it has been decided, any contrary view is automatically wrong.
Honestly, if all you bring is outrage, then yes, you are an idiot. Climate science is not divided on this subject. This has been happening, and is happening increasingly: now. Because, you guessed it, of things we are doing to change this planet on a macro scale. No one cares if you don't like it. We only care if you have reproducible scientific experiments, or observations that have anything useful to add to the debate. And no, twonking on does not count as evidence.
That's why it is unwise to simply accept big subjects with many parts, like evolution, as true and inerrant. You wind up believing work from a scientist who may or may not have exhaustively researched the work, combined with many others, and accepting it all without question since it sounds reasonable and either agrees with your assumptions, or disagrees with a belief you dislike.
Okay, hold it.
That evolution occurs, almost no one in biological sciences doubts. None of those who doubt have produced a single observation or hypothesis to contradict it, and are presumably sticking to their anti-evolutionary stance out of sheer cussedness.
Do we know everything about the mechanisms involved in the various processes that resulted in observed behaviour? No, and indeed that is a good thing. What a sad world it would be if we nerds with a need to figure out why no longer had any questions.
The situation with human originated climate change is basically the same. That it is happening, almost no scientist working in the field doubts, and again, presumably cussedness is the cause of lingering recalcitrance in the remainder, since we are talking about _science_. Reproducible experiments, peer review, testing of hypotheses with what scientists proudly can describe as rigour.
If you find all this big brain talk too confusing, please, whatever you do, don't abrogate your vote to some preacher or politician, please, trust solid, peer reviewed science. Base what you consider scientific fact on the consensus of the scientists in the field; your preacher or politician, who almost certainly has less scientific training than even you is unlikely to be a useful resource in this regard.
This is all exactly what TFA was raising, which is that there is a pervading attitude among many people that their "gut feeling" or other irrational causes are perceived as being legitimate reasons to doubt and indeed decry the results of reproducible scientific observations, and in much the same way, to consider an uninformed opinion to hold as much or even more than an informed one.
Not sure how well versed you are in the causes of the last dark age, but trust me, the insistence in a consensus of reality based upon decree rather than falsification and experimental confirmation was definitely the wrong path, and one we seem to have people wanting to drag the world down again.
linuxconf broke more than it fixed. I had only tried it a handful of times at the urgings of other enthusiasts. I hated having to undue all of the errors it would make on my machine. The idea was great but I still think its just not possible to make a one-size be-all-to-beat-all admin tool for every distro without messing something up somewhere.
Pretty much what I remember of it too, bloody annoying thing that caused more problems than it fixed.
Just my opinion, I wouldnt touch Drupal with a barge pole. Really nasty set of code. Still , if you are forced into using it without looking at other PHP frameworks such as Symfony then maybe this book will help you find your way around it.
Sing it, sister!
The most horrible "framework" I have ever seen, and the worst "framework" code I have ever seen.
No clue about encapsulation. No clue about the object model at all. No clue about MVC. Core code that is random display, with inline SQL to make it look far less professional. There are reasons no one uses Cold Fusion anymore. This is just one of them.
Plus, if you find that tonk who wrote Drupal. Beat him with a typewriter until he says sorry.
Who knew the church who murdered free thinkers as heretics and forced Galelio to recant when he was demonstrably correct had a soft spot? Oh, right, I remember. No one. Religion is an anachronism. The sooner the poor benighted souls either accept they have nothing to do with scientific advancement and get with the programme, or simply die, the better for all. Religion is a disease. The quest for understanding is the cure.
Right, thank goodness the proper magical bullshit has been protected. Imagine doing your weird cult-like activity incorrectly! Thank you Vatican overseers!
I wish more people would explain to people that their deeply held beliefs are nothing but the end result of upbringing and a dysfunction in their brains. I really do. Would save me having to say the same thing to them over and over.
To quote radiohead, "just cause you feel it, doesn't mean it's there"
To be clear: that sense of a higher being you have, that is physiological. Once upon a time it had a significant evolutionary benefit to our distant ancestors. Now it has less benefit than our primate sense of vertigo. Nonetheless, neither effect is going to stop you reproducing, so your misbegotten notions can be passed on to your (is hyper-naive too cruel? No? Excellent) hyper-naive progeny.
And to be doubly clear, obviously none of this is directed at the parent poster, who though clearly an ass, is definitely my kind of ass:)
Unsurprisingly, the summary is wrong. 28% actively teach evolution as if it is a correct theory, 60% teach both evolution and ID and do not make claims as to their validity. The last 12% actually only teach creationism. All of this survey was done with biology highschool teachers.
Dude. Seriously. If 100% of teachers do not teach biology including evolutionary theory, that is an automatic fail.
Not quietly, or trying to be politically correct, but simply stating that the _only_ scientific theory that explains the biological diversity we observe is evolutionary theory.
Creationism, ID, not even scientific hypotheses, let alone theories. Needs to be that black and white.
What science is, needs to be part of the curriculum, so that students acquire non-scientific bullshit detectors. And this really isn't centered on biology. How do you expect a democracy to make informed political decisions about issues with a technical basis (global warming, oil spill cleanup, the potential loss medical breakthroughs from the loss of species to habitat loss, etc) if the populace wouldn't know science if it took them rudely from behind bellowing "Behold, 'tis I, the mightiness that is science"?
So using an MS or MS-compatible (thanks to years of aggressive marketing by MS) stack is less expensive in terms of training time than inserting a piece of open-source software into that stack and trying to make everything work? Interesting...next up, replacing my car's wheels with motorcycle wheels makes it take longer for me to get to places. Perhaps I should just get the entire motorcycle instead?
Exactly, this is the same complete bullshit TCO nonsense that MS has been pushing for years, which is that it only might just possibly maybe be more expensive to change if you have already invested in MS out the wazoo.
News flash to market droids at MS: 1) many of us are not using your "good enough" software, because "good enough" is code for kind of crappy 2) Kind of crappy for $$$$ versus just as good and with source so if you really need to make it do something else, you can for the cost of a decent programmer whose skill set involves actual skills and not the pseudo-skill of being able to press a button marked "Okay", really, why do we care about MSCE again? 3) You tried this tired old shit so many times, no one in a tech company actually going somewhere and not wallowing in shit believes a word of what you say anymore
Truth isn't slippery. Truth is absolute. The problem is that things are presented as truth when they are not. A scientist does a study and finds that cows fed fatty diets die of heart attacks more often than regular cows. That is truth.
To point one: Truth is Absolute.
Indeed it is, but you want to demonstrate to me any aspect of the Truth beyond "I think, therefore I am" and you are pushing shit uphill. In fact, why am I even talking to you? I have no way of proving your existence has anything to do with Truth.
Point two, and this is where almost everyone tends to get confused, mostly because they have been raised in a society formed by some religious dogma claiming to Know The Truth: Science is not the quest for The Truth.
Science is a method for constructing testable hypotheses which through reproducable testing leads to Scientific Theorems, which is a whole bunch more useful. We can use these things for Real Stuff, like making new flavours of cola and supercomputers and thumping great big bridges, rather than simply contemplating the Infinite.
Say it with me kids: Science is not the search for The Truth, it is way cooler than that.
I don't think in all fairness that anyone could have predicted that Microsoft would not only break compatibility with other browsers, but also break compatibility with their own.
Dude, seriously.
Clearly, you never did any web dev when there was IE 4.x, 5.0, 5.5, 5.0.1 for Mac, and 6.0 all out there, and all working fucking differently.
They _always_ broke compatibility with their own browser, every fucking release.
The whole point of IE was to try and stop a world where it didn't matter what OS or browser you used, web apps would "Just Work". So breaking compatibility was the actual goal, that way you could just convince your corporate drone customers to write some idiotic ActiveX crap and fuck the world wide web.
SQL Server is a piece of crap, the only reason I have ever seen people use it because they are MSCE fanboys, you want a real enterprise DB, SQL server ain't it. You want a cheap but reliable DB, it is still not it. SQL Server only exists because there are a sufficient number of dumb fucks who think they won't be fired for buying MS.
I have heard nothing but idiocy come out of his mouth for years, yet somehow people seem to keep giving him the time of day.
De Icaza is known for just one thing these days: he hasn't got a fucking clue. Been so long since he had one, seems he says something even vaguely sane, e.g. ".Net is a trap for the unwary" and it is newsworthy.
Without them, no Diablo, nor any of the 3D rogue-likes that followed
5) Dune II
First real RTS, and as far as I am concerned, one of the best, so many after that were mere imitators, and before you get on the feature bandwagon, I played Dune II on the Amiga 500. Probably before you were born, if you are actually arguing with me. And yes, Warcraft 2 was awesome, but it would never have existed were it not for Dune II. No, really.
Word on that, I drove my entire family insane with the sound track to that game.
That said, was an awesome game, only Ultima V has any claim to being as much fun. That said, I do still remember IV more fondly than any other in the Ultima series
Tau Ceti (ZX Spectrum, C64): just the complexity of the game, in a game that loads completely in 48k memory. I could have screamed when I finally won the game and all the game does it say 'mission accomplished, thank you' - but I did get the authors argument that he would have had to scrap part of the gameplay in order to put in some special effects to end the game...
There was a Gauntlet-esque game I played furiously on the C64 called "Into The Eagle's Nest". It had no save points, and in the style of Gauntlet required you to remember where the health and ammo dumps were, and use them judiciously. After many long months learning this silly game on and off, I finally got to the end, to be told:
Which is like saying, "when I think of vaporware, I am at odds with the rest of the world and choose to create my own definition". And having decided upon said definition that has squat to do with anyone else, you will now expound upon your definition as if anyone else gives a toss what is happening in bizzaroworld. I would now procede to insult you, but you seem to be doing just fine on your own.
Really? You actually believe that shit? Next you'll tell me there is a large breasted Goddess who makes it all so.
Hogshit. Nature is as Darwin described, survival of the fittest, but that in no way guarantees that one species cannot fuck the whole biosphere up for the rest of the residents. There is a reason no one was alive to explain the statues on Easter Island, and to foolishly imagine that we could not manage the same thing globally is to thumb your nose simultaneously at humanity's ability to invent and destroy. And guess what? Humanity does not give a fuck for your opinion, it will move along as the unstoppable force it has been for generations.
Don't get me wrong, I would love the sort of hippy nonsense you are spouting to be true, but the urge to survive is sadly very localised (i.e. you care about those you know), and the urge to say "like I give a fuck about them" is very very general.
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Really, how does this story rate posting here?
Yet another "if you don't subscribe to the current global warming facts you are an idiot" . As in, there is no room for debate, it has been decided, any contrary view is automatically wrong.
Honestly, if all you bring is outrage, then yes, you are an idiot. Climate science is not divided on this subject. This has been happening, and is happening increasingly: now. Because, you guessed it, of things we are doing to change this planet on a macro scale. No one cares if you don't like it. We only care if you have reproducible scientific experiments, or observations that have anything useful to add to the debate. And no, twonking on does not count as evidence.
That's why it is unwise to simply accept big subjects with many parts, like evolution, as true and inerrant. You wind up believing work from a scientist who may or may not have exhaustively researched the work, combined with many others, and accepting it all without question since it sounds reasonable and either agrees with your assumptions, or disagrees with a belief you dislike.
Okay, hold it.
That evolution occurs, almost no one in biological sciences doubts. None of those who doubt have produced a single observation or hypothesis to contradict it, and are presumably sticking to their anti-evolutionary stance out of sheer cussedness.
Do we know everything about the mechanisms involved in the various processes that resulted in observed behaviour? No, and indeed that is a good thing. What a sad world it would be if we nerds with a need to figure out why no longer had any questions.
The situation with human originated climate change is basically the same. That it is happening, almost no scientist working in the field doubts, and again, presumably cussedness is the cause of lingering recalcitrance in the remainder, since we are talking about _science_. Reproducible experiments, peer review, testing of hypotheses with what scientists proudly can describe as rigour.
If you find all this big brain talk too confusing, please, whatever you do, don't abrogate your vote to some preacher or politician, please, trust solid, peer reviewed science. Base what you consider scientific fact on the consensus of the scientists in the field; your preacher or politician, who almost certainly has less scientific training than even you is unlikely to be a useful resource in this regard.
This is all exactly what TFA was raising, which is that there is a pervading attitude among many people that their "gut feeling" or other irrational causes are perceived as being legitimate reasons to doubt and indeed decry the results of reproducible scientific observations, and in much the same way, to consider an uninformed opinion to hold as much or even more than an informed one.
Not sure how well versed you are in the causes of the last dark age, but trust me, the insistence in a consensus of reality based upon decree rather than falsification and experimental confirmation was definitely the wrong path, and one we seem to have people wanting to drag the world down again.
The endless march toward what the GNOME devs think the "average user" wants continues unabated.
I should be shocked, but somehow I no longer can.
The side note in TFA about dconf made me cry a little, but only a little. Alas for the GNOME of old.
linuxconf broke more than it fixed. I had only tried it a handful of times at the urgings of other enthusiasts. I hated having to undue all of the errors it would make on my machine. The idea was great but I still think its just not possible to make a one-size be-all-to-beat-all admin tool for every distro without messing something up somewhere.
Pretty much what I remember of it too, bloody annoying thing that caused more problems than it fixed.
Just my opinion, I wouldnt touch Drupal with a barge pole. Really nasty set of code. Still , if you are forced into using it without looking at other PHP frameworks such as Symfony then maybe this book will help you find your way around it.
Sing it, sister!
The most horrible "framework" I have ever seen, and the worst "framework" code I have ever seen.
No clue about encapsulation. No clue about the object model at all. No clue about MVC. Core code that is random display, with inline SQL to make it look far less professional. There are reasons no one uses Cold Fusion anymore. This is just one of them.
Plus, if you find that tonk who wrote Drupal. Beat him with a typewriter until he says sorry.
In neither this story nor the previous one announcing the app has anyone mentioned Father Guido Sarducci.
You move so slow, they said; "tiny steps".
Who knew the church who murdered free thinkers as heretics and forced Galelio to recant when he was demonstrably correct had a soft spot? Oh, right, I remember. No one. Religion is an anachronism. The sooner the poor benighted souls either accept they have nothing to do with scientific advancement and get with the programme, or simply die, the better for all. Religion is a disease. The quest for understanding is the cure.
Right, thank goodness the proper magical bullshit has been protected. Imagine doing your weird cult-like activity incorrectly! Thank you Vatican overseers!
I wish more people would explain to people that their deeply held beliefs are nothing but the end result of upbringing and a dysfunction in their brains. I really do. Would save me having to say the same thing to them over and over.
To quote radiohead, "just cause you feel it, doesn't mean it's there"
To be clear: that sense of a higher being you have, that is physiological. Once upon a time it had a significant evolutionary benefit to our distant ancestors. Now it has less benefit than our primate sense of vertigo. Nonetheless, neither effect is going to stop you reproducing, so your misbegotten notions can be passed on to your (is hyper-naive too cruel? No? Excellent) hyper-naive progeny.
And to be doubly clear, obviously none of this is directed at the parent poster, who though clearly an ass, is definitely my kind of ass :)
I wonder if they are still using the BSD backend that Hotmail originally used?
No dude, not for over a decade: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496985.aspx
Unsurprisingly, the summary is wrong. 28% actively teach evolution as if it is a correct theory, 60% teach both evolution and ID and do not make claims as to their validity. The last 12% actually only teach creationism. All of this survey was done with biology highschool teachers.
Dude. Seriously. If 100% of teachers do not teach biology including evolutionary theory, that is an automatic fail.
Not quietly, or trying to be politically correct, but simply stating that the _only_ scientific theory that explains the biological diversity we observe is evolutionary theory.
Creationism, ID, not even scientific hypotheses, let alone theories. Needs to be that black and white.
What science is, needs to be part of the curriculum, so that students acquire non-scientific bullshit detectors. And this really isn't centered on biology. How do you expect a democracy to make informed political decisions about issues with a technical basis (global warming, oil spill cleanup, the potential loss medical breakthroughs from the loss of species to habitat loss, etc) if the populace wouldn't know science if it took them rudely from behind bellowing "Behold, 'tis I, the mightiness that is science"?
It's ridiculous, but science is being bullied in our Western democracies...
Speak for your own democracy.
Hear, frickin' hear. Just because the US has given up on logic, does not mean the rest of us have.
Alas, for the dumbening of the US.
So using an MS or MS-compatible (thanks to years of aggressive marketing by MS) stack is less expensive in terms of training time than inserting a piece of open-source software into that stack and trying to make everything work? Interesting...next up, replacing my car's wheels with motorcycle wheels makes it take longer for me to get to places. Perhaps I should just get the entire motorcycle instead?
Exactly, this is the same complete bullshit TCO nonsense that MS has been pushing for years, which is that it only might just possibly maybe be more expensive to change if you have already invested in MS out the wazoo.
News flash to market droids at MS: 1) many of us are not using your "good enough" software, because "good enough" is code for kind of crappy 2) Kind of crappy for $$$$ versus just as good and with source so if you really need to make it do something else, you can for the cost of a decent programmer whose skill set involves actual skills and not the pseudo-skill of being able to press a button marked "Okay", really, why do we care about MSCE again? 3) You tried this tired old shit so many times, no one in a tech company actually going somewhere and not wallowing in shit believes a word of what you say anymore
Oh, and nice vehicular analogy :)
A non-squeamish person sometime in the future: "Hey wait a minute guys! This tastes just like chicken!"
In my experience, they tend to taste somewhat nutty.
next month will be 10 years since I uttered a profane word
Profane?
Really?
Do you also keep track of how many times you ward off the devil with hand gestures?
Oh, you do?
Well, I'll be fucked
I haven't seen an Australian made wine called champagne, chablis, burgundy or claret in many longs years.
Truth isn't slippery. Truth is absolute. The problem is that things are presented as truth when they are not. A scientist does a study and finds that cows fed fatty diets die of heart attacks more often than regular cows. That is truth.
To point one: Truth is Absolute.
Indeed it is, but you want to demonstrate to me any aspect of the Truth beyond "I think, therefore I am" and you are pushing shit uphill. In fact, why am I even talking to you? I have no way of proving your existence has anything to do with Truth.
Point two, and this is where almost everyone tends to get confused, mostly because they have been raised in a society formed by some religious dogma claiming to Know The Truth: Science is not the quest for The Truth.
Science is a method for constructing testable hypotheses which through reproducable testing leads to Scientific Theorems, which is a whole bunch more useful. We can use these things for Real Stuff, like making new flavours of cola and supercomputers and thumping great big bridges, rather than simply contemplating the Infinite.
Say it with me kids: Science is not the search for The Truth, it is way cooler than that.
I don't think in all fairness that anyone could have predicted that Microsoft would not only break compatibility with other browsers, but also break compatibility with their own.
Dude, seriously.
Clearly, you never did any web dev when there was IE 4.x, 5.0, 5.5, 5.0.1 for Mac, and 6.0 all out there, and all working fucking differently.
They _always_ broke compatibility with their own browser, every fucking release.
The whole point of IE was to try and stop a world where it didn't matter what OS or browser you used, web apps would "Just Work". So breaking compatibility was the actual goal, that way you could just convince your corporate drone customers to write some idiotic ActiveX crap and fuck the world wide web.
Dude, ignorant much?
SQL Server is a piece of crap, the only reason I have ever seen people use it because they are MSCE fanboys, you want a real enterprise DB, SQL server ain't it. You want a cheap but reliable DB, it is still not it. SQL Server only exists because there are a sufficient number of dumb fucks who think they won't be fired for buying MS.
Why do we care what this 'tard says anymore?
I mean, seriously, why?
I have heard nothing but idiocy come out of his mouth for years, yet somehow people seem to keep giving him the time of day.
De Icaza is known for just one thing these days: he hasn't got a fucking clue. Been so long since he had one, seems he says something even vaguely sane, e.g. ".Net is a trap for the unwary" and it is newsworthy.
I vote we all ignore this tool from here on in.
1. Rogue
2. Moria
3. Nethack
4. Angband
Without them, no Diablo, nor any of the 3D rogue-likes that followed
5) Dune II
First real RTS, and as far as I am concerned, one of the best, so many after that were mere imitators, and before you get on the feature bandwagon, I played Dune II on the Amiga 500. Probably before you were born, if you are actually arguing with me. And yes, Warcraft 2 was awesome, but it would never have existed were it not for Dune II. No, really.
I'd still prefer Ultima IV out of that list...
Word on that, I drove my entire family insane with the sound track to that game.
That said, was an awesome game, only Ultima V has any claim to being as much fun. That said, I do still remember IV more fondly than any other in the Ultima series
Tau Ceti (ZX Spectrum, C64): just the complexity of the game, in a game that loads completely in 48k memory. I could have screamed when I finally won the game and all the game does it say 'mission accomplished, thank you' - but I did get the authors argument that he would have had to scrap part of the gameplay in order to put in some special effects to end the game...
There was a Gauntlet-esque game I played furiously on the C64 called "Into The Eagle's Nest". It had no save points, and in the style of Gauntlet required you to remember where the health and ammo dumps were, and use them judiciously. After many long months learning this silly game on and off, I finally got to the end, to be told:
"THE CASTLE HAS BEEN DESTRAYED (sic)"
Worst. Ending. Ever.
Which is like saying, "when I think of vaporware, I am at odds with the rest of the world and choose to create my own definition". And having decided upon said definition that has squat to do with anyone else, you will now expound upon your definition as if anyone else gives a toss what is happening in bizzaroworld. I would now procede to insult you, but you seem to be doing just fine on your own.
4dos ruled, all the features of a real shell, as much as you could have in a DOS environment
Dude. Seriously.
Nature seeks states of equilibrium
Really? You actually believe that shit? Next you'll tell me there is a large breasted Goddess who makes it all so.
Hogshit. Nature is as Darwin described, survival of the fittest, but that in no way guarantees that one species cannot fuck the whole biosphere up for the rest of the residents. There is a reason no one was alive to explain the statues on Easter Island, and to foolishly imagine that we could not manage the same thing globally is to thumb your nose simultaneously at humanity's ability to invent and destroy. And guess what? Humanity does not give a fuck for your opinion, it will move along as the unstoppable force it has been for generations.
Don't get me wrong, I would love the sort of hippy nonsense you are spouting to be true, but the urge to survive is sadly very localised (i.e. you care about those you know), and the urge to say "like I give a fuck about them" is very very general.