So this is either a direct ancestor of humans OR...It's NOT! Great quote...There sure is nothing like providing some concrete evidence
The concrete evidence is in the Nature link.
You don't seem to understand probability. Even if she had said the chances are 99-1 this species could have been an early ancestor of human beings, then it still either is or isn't... it just so happens it is much more likely that it is rather than isn't (given 99-1). 50-50 doesn't mean "either-or"... it means "both are equally likely".
Now there are tools like Wing IDE, which is a development tool that is written in Python.
Ugh. How I tend to loathe IDEs (maybe because I have to use the worst of them all, Visual Crap++ at work all day). When working in any language at home in Linux, {X}Emacs is the IDE,
not "just an editor".
DeMatteis arrives back home. He calls his mother, who is speechless at first. Then she tells him, "I didn't like the name of that company anyway."
Two bad she didn't speak up sooner. Zethus and his twin brother Amphion are the sons of Zeus and Antiope. Zethus was a down-to-earth sort of guy, skilled in agriculture, cattle-breeding and war.
They were abondaned at birth.
Together the brothers built the walls around Thebes.
They both died in grief. Zethus died of a broken heart when his wife accidently killed their son.
Sounds kind of prophetic... maybe the company should have stuck to cattle-breeding:)
Source: Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Jenny March, 1998.
Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed.
While I understand the intention and rational of this requirement, it does have some issues:
Deliberately obfuscated code (like we see here at the IOCCC) should be able to qualify as Open Source somehow. You can learn a lot from those goofy programs.:)
Exactly how does one judge what has been deliberatly obfuscated, and what is just really shitty code? Frankly, I think the clause should say "no shitty code allowed", but hey... that's just me:)
I've used both Python and Perl, and I've always been happy with both. For the kinds of things the Disney guy was talking about, Python is the right tool (or so my experience has taught me).
For other kinds of work (processing/parsing text files, automating some task, etc.), Perl is the right tool.
There's complexity in installing Windows apps, but the above comments are completely out of touch. NT and 2K Administrators touch the registry quite often. Regular users don't.
I thought we were talking about the desktop here? How many people have "Administrators" in their closet they can call upon?
Honestly:
Another one of the reasons is that StarOffice ran unbelievably slow on that box, even with 128M of RAM and a 220 MHz processor ? old, but not so old as to be inoperable.
And Office is zippy on those specs? Please.
Right now, Linux is the flavor of the week. It is a hot and hip topic.
Huh? It's been around since '91 and has been "hot" for the last two years at least... hardly "flavour of the week".
There is certain simplicity to installing Microsoft products on a new computer system. There is a boot disk and a CD-ROM drive. The user slides the boot disk into slot A and the CD-ROM into slot B. Magically, the system installs itself.
YAMM (Yet Another Microsoft Myth). It is just as difficult to get everything going on Winblows as it is under Linux. "Upgrade this driver", "fiddle with this registry setting", etc etc. This myth persists only because the vast majority of people do not need to install Windows: it comes on their PC. If Linux came on their PC, people would comment about how easy *it* is to install.
Linux is in an endless beta. There is always another patch. There is always a new chunk of code.
Duh. Welcome to Free Software, babe. That's the whole *point*. So much better than "gee, I hope they make a hotfix at some point in the future to cure my woes".
The Linux desktop is intimidating. To the average user, looking at the Linux GUI is like scaling Mt. Everest.
I don't know what she's on, but the default Mandrake install, which boots into KDE, looks remarkably similar to other *cough*Windows*cough* GUIs.
Again, this person completely misses the entire point of Free Software. Typical, I suppose. Sad that it made it to the front page of/. Oh well.
Replying to myself... hmm....
Anyways, reading some of the replies here on/., where I would expect slightly better than average intelligence among the readership (or am I being too optimistic?) with people spouting the same tired claptrap that "evolution is just a theory", "speciation has never been observed", etc, pretty much proves my point: understanding of the biological sciences are in a woeful state among the general public.
If you have any doubts about the validity of evoltuion, 10 minutes at Talk origins arhive should set your right.
Latest Gallup poll shows 47% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form sometime in the last 10 000 years.
The sheer and basic ignorance of basic biological facts is astounding. America's schools are failing its public when it comes to the basic bedrock of all biology: evolution.
40% favour teaching creationism instead of evolution. That's a scary percentage.
More analysis at the Skeptic's Dictionary
I'm at work, so I have to use Exploder... clicking on that link created some kind of weird overlay... the law.com page overlaid on top of the Slashdot page. Anyway, the whole mess was totally unreadable. Anyone know a work-around?
Slashdot Mirror
Check out Observed Instances of Speciation and Some more Observed Speciation Events for the experimental evidence for "macroevolution".
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Together the brothers built the walls around Thebes.
They both died in grief. Zethus died of a broken heart when his wife accidently killed their son.
Sounds kind of prophetic... maybe the company should have stuck to cattle-breeding :)
Source: Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Jenny March, 1998.
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People who take the latest bleeding edge, then complain it doesn't work, don't really get it either. Here's my advice:
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The VB programming model for Linux
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