I think you lost track of the original discussion, you were insinuating that evolution violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
This is not the case because entropy is increasing in the universe as a whole. It is permitted for local decreases in entropy in a system.
Life on Earth lives and evolves thanks to the energy input of our sun. The sun is gaining entropy by transforming hydrogen into helium.
Of course our universe is more than just our sun and the Earth. All the other stars are also contributing to the increase.
(If you don't understand what I meant by : "The sun is gaining more entropy than the Earth is gaining order so in the universe as a whole, entropy is increasing." Here's an explanation: if the Earth was ganing order but not at the expense of anything else, then other regions of the uninverse could gain order the same way and thus the whole of the universe could be decreasing in entropy.)
As you said, in a closed system. The Earth is not a closed system. It is receiving usable energy from the sun. Or if you prefer, matter is acquiring order on Earth at the expense of the sun gaining more entropy.
Whether you like it or not, evolution and the 2nd law of thermodynamics do not contradict each other.
If you're going to criticize something, you should a least inform yourself about it.
First, the big bang did not start in a small confined space or 'dot'. That would imply that the universe has an edge which is not what science says.
Second, we use the term explosion as an anology, the big bang was not an actual explosion. An explosion is the rapid expension of gas in a space, the big bang is the rapid expansion of space itself in a period of high density.
Third, the big bang theory is not based on some dogma or made up story, it shows up in Enstein's equations, it was observered with telescopes that our universe is expanding and the background radition that floods the entire cosmos is a leftover of the big bang.
Doesn't Nullsoft's page on WASTE say " An unauthorized copy of Nullsoft's copyrighted software was briefly posted on this website... Any reproduction, distribution, display or other use of the Software by you is unauthorized and an infringement of Nullsoft's copyright" ?
Thirty thousand hours? I don't thinks so 30000/24/365 = 3.4 years. He would have to be shooting 24/7 for three and a half years to get that much.
Even taking into account that he had 3 shooting teams when he made the movies, they would have to be filming for 1.14 years 24/7. The principal photography took one and a half years and I doubt that they were shooting non-stop during that period.
Mandrake, the french software publisher of the Linux distribution of the same name, have been ordered, by the TGI of Paris, to pay 70,000 euros to the american companies Hearst Holdings and King Fearture Syndicate, owners of the trademark "Mandrake le magicien" and publishers of a comic book carring the same name. The latters had filed a complaint regarding the misuse of their trademark.
The french court has forbiden Mandrake to keep using their name and ordered them to transfer their domains to the american companies. This sentence could prove fatal for the software publishes whose recongnition rests solely on its distro's name.
At the moment, Mandrake has apealed thereby suspending the decision and allowing it to keep using its name.
An early court decision in favour of the two american companies had already forced them to revise their logo.
* Increased performance and standards compliance
o Lowered start up times for applications and hundreds of optimizations make KDE 3.2 the fastest KDE ever!
o Working in concert with Apple Computer Inc.'s Safari web browser team, KDE's web support has seen huge performance boosts as well as increased compliance with widely accepted web standards
o Increased support for FreeDesktop.org standards in KDE 3.2 strengthens interoperability with other Linux and UNIX software.
* New applications
o JuK: a jukebox-style music player
o Kopete: an instant messenger with support for AOL Instant Messenger, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, IRC, SMS and WinPopup
o KWallet: providing integrated, secure storage of passwords and web form data
o Kontact: a unified interface that draws KDE's email, calendaring, address book, notes and other PIM features together into a familiar configuration
o KGpg: providing an easy-to-use KDE interface to industry-standard encryption tools
o KIG: an interactive geometry program
o KSVG: a viewer for SVG files
o KMag, KMouseTool and KMouth: accessibility tools for KDE
o KGoldRunner: a new riff on a classic game
o... and many more!
* Thousands of incremental improvements and bug fixes
o During the development of KDE 3.2 nearly 10,000 bug reports were processed via the KDE Bug Tracking System
o Approximately 2,000 feature requests were also processed, with hundreds of requested features added to KDE applications and components
o An improved configuration system that opens the door to new installation management possibilities, improved roaming support and many improvements to the "KDE Kiosk" environment management system
o Inline spell checking for web forms and emails
o Improved email and calendaring support
o Powerful tabbed interface for the Konqueror file manager and web browser
o Support for Microsoft Windows desktop sharing protocol (RDP)
* Improved Usability
o Reduced clutter in many menus and toolbars
o Many applications, dialogs and control panels reworked for clarity and utility
* Enhanced appearance
o Plastik, a tastefully understated new look, debuts in KDE 3.2
o Hundreds of new icons improve the consistency and beauty of KDE
o Tweaks to the default look including new splash screens, (optionally) animated progress bars, styled panels and more!
* New Tools for Software Developers
o Comprehensive API documentation extended for 3.2
o Language bindings for ECMAScript (aka Javascript), Python, Java and Ruby
o New versions of the powerful KDevelop IDE and Quanta web development suite
o Umbrello brings UML modeling for 11 different languages including C++, Java, SQL, PHP, Python and Perl to KDE
What the fudge are you talking about? There's been an PPC mac emulator out for a while now. It's the x86 Linux port of SheepShaver. It emulates a G3 mac at good speeds on my Athlon XP 2700+ but can only run up to MacOS 8.6.
And you think the English system isn't arbitrary. At least the metric system is based on multiples of 10 just like are numeral system making calculations easier.
E.g.: 1/23 = 0.0435, so how much is a 23rd of 1 km? 43.5 m. But how much is a 23rd of a mile, that demands a bit more computation.
You forgot something, ATI took it upon themselves to compensate for an amd bug in the int __ke_amd_adv_spec_cache_feature(void) function (in the firegl_public.c file) which linux 2.6.0 already compensates for so the whole content of that function has to be replaced by only return 0; for proper functionning (on AMD plateforms).
I just finished downloading 2.6.0-test11 1.5 hours ago and then I see this. Anyhow, I downloaded the path test11->final, recompiled, and rebooted: Linux boxor 2.6.0 #3 Wed Dec 17 23:53:09 EST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
My Radeon binary drivers wouldn't work at first with it on my nforce2 motherboard but I've just found patches in Gentoo's portage tree. I'm currentely running Linux 2.6.0 final on an nforce2 computer with hw 3d acceleration enabled on my Radeon 9600 pro!
Let's settle this one in for all. The Internet is NOT a babysitter. There is nothing that inherentely makes it meant for children.
Just because some parents start to let their kids freely roam the web, doesn't mean we can prevent people from freeely posting whatever they want (ass long as copyrights are respected). It is their responsibiliry to supervise their children, not the web's. Like Mark Twain said: Censorship is like telling a man cannot have a steak because a baby cannot chew it.
Try their FireGL drivers for Linux. They're meant for professionals so OpenGL support should be good and they work on regular Radeons (8500, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800).
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This is not the case because entropy is increasing in the universe as a whole. It is permitted for local decreases in entropy in a system.
Life on Earth lives and evolves thanks to the energy input of our sun. The sun is gaining entropy by transforming hydrogen into helium.
Of course our universe is more than just our sun and the Earth. All the other stars are also contributing to the increase.
(If you don't understand what I meant by : "The sun is gaining more entropy than the Earth is gaining order so in the universe as a whole, entropy is increasing." Here's an explanation: if the Earth was ganing order but not at the expense of anything else, then other regions of the uninverse could gain order the same way and thus the whole of the universe could be decreasing in entropy.)
The sun is gaining more entropy than the Earth is gaining order so in the universe as a whole, entropy is increasing.
Whether you like it or not, evolution and the 2nd law of thermodynamics do not contradict each other.
First, the big bang did not start in a small confined space or 'dot'. That would imply that the universe has an edge which is not what science says.
Second, we use the term explosion as an anology, the big bang was not an actual explosion. An explosion is the rapid expension of gas in a space, the big bang is the rapid expansion of space itself in a period of high density.
Third, the big bang theory is not based on some dogma or made up story, it shows up in Enstein's equations, it was observered with telescopes that our universe is expanding and the background radition that floods the entire cosmos is a leftover of the big bang.
Bah, I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and I dropped in a vanilla 2.6.0 kernel. Everything works fine.
Doesn't Nullsoft's page on WASTE say " An unauthorized copy of Nullsoft's copyrighted software was briefly posted on this website ... Any reproduction, distribution, display or other use of the Software by you is unauthorized and an infringement of Nullsoft's copyright" ?
Its Connectix Virtual Game Station that worked only with original disks (unless cracked).
I wonder then how they avoid the patent issue.
It's dual layered not double sided.
I can't believe it, their main server is slashdotted, you can still access their page at this address:
http://www20.tomshardware.com/
Thirty thousand hours? I don't thinks so 30000/24/365 = 3.4 years. He would have to be shooting 24/7 for three and a half years to get that much.
Even taking into account that he had 3 shooting teams when he made the movies, they would have to be filming for 1.14 years 24/7. The principal photography took one and a half years and I doubt that they were shooting non-stop during that period.
That flash-video thing sucks, a link to an AVI of the trailer.
It can also generate SVG animation.
Yeah, but unfortunately its only playable in multiplayer mode.
Mandrake, the french software publisher of the Linux distribution of the same name, have been ordered, by the TGI of Paris, to pay 70,000 euros to the american companies Hearst Holdings and King Fearture Syndicate, owners of the trademark "Mandrake le magicien" and publishers of a comic book carring the same name. The latters had filed a complaint regarding the misuse of their trademark.
The french court has forbiden Mandrake to keep using their name and ordered them to transfer their domains to the american companies. This sentence could prove fatal for the software publishes whose recongnition rests solely on its distro's name.
At the moment, Mandrake has apealed thereby suspending the decision and allowing it to keep using its name.
An early court decision in favour of the two american companies had already forced them to revise their logo.
I had not trouble installing it in Mandrake 9.1, all I had to do is two changes in ATI's wrapper.
As for other drivers I need, they're all already included in the kernel.
Slashdotted alreay?
... and many more!
Here are some of the new features:
* Increased performance and standards compliance
o Lowered start up times for applications and hundreds of optimizations make KDE 3.2 the fastest KDE ever!
o Working in concert with Apple Computer Inc.'s Safari web browser team, KDE's web support has seen huge performance boosts as well as increased compliance with widely accepted web standards
o Increased support for FreeDesktop.org standards in KDE 3.2 strengthens interoperability with other Linux and UNIX software.
* New applications
o JuK: a jukebox-style music player
o Kopete: an instant messenger with support for AOL Instant Messenger, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, IRC, SMS and WinPopup
o KWallet: providing integrated, secure storage of passwords and web form data
o Kontact: a unified interface that draws KDE's email, calendaring, address book, notes and other PIM features together into a familiar configuration
o KGpg: providing an easy-to-use KDE interface to industry-standard encryption tools
o KIG: an interactive geometry program
o KSVG: a viewer for SVG files
o KMag, KMouseTool and KMouth: accessibility tools for KDE
o KGoldRunner: a new riff on a classic game
o
* Thousands of incremental improvements and bug fixes
o During the development of KDE 3.2 nearly 10,000 bug reports were processed via the KDE Bug Tracking System
o Approximately 2,000 feature requests were also processed, with hundreds of requested features added to KDE applications and components
o An improved configuration system that opens the door to new installation management possibilities, improved roaming support and many improvements to the "KDE Kiosk" environment management system
o Inline spell checking for web forms and emails
o Improved email and calendaring support
o Powerful tabbed interface for the Konqueror file manager and web browser
o Support for Microsoft Windows desktop sharing protocol (RDP)
* Improved Usability
o Reduced clutter in many menus and toolbars
o Many applications, dialogs and control panels reworked for clarity and utility
* Enhanced appearance
o Plastik, a tastefully understated new look, debuts in KDE 3.2
o Hundreds of new icons improve the consistency and beauty of KDE
o Tweaks to the default look including new splash screens, (optionally) animated progress bars, styled panels and more!
* New Tools for Software Developers
o Comprehensive API documentation extended for 3.2
o Language bindings for ECMAScript (aka Javascript), Python, Java and Ruby
o New versions of the powerful KDevelop IDE and Quanta web development suite
o Umbrello brings UML modeling for 11 different languages including C++, Java, SQL, PHP, Python and Perl to KDE
What the fudge are you talking about? There's been an PPC mac emulator out for a while now. It's the x86 Linux port of SheepShaver. It emulates a G3 mac at good speeds on my Athlon XP 2700+ but can only run up to MacOS 8.6.
And you think the English system isn't arbitrary. At least the metric system is based on multiples of 10 just like are numeral system making calculations easier.
E.g.: 1/23 = 0.0435, so how much is a 23rd of 1 km? 43.5 m. But how much is a 23rd of a mile, that demands a bit more computation.
You forgot something, ATI took it upon themselves to compensate for an amd bug in the int __ke_amd_adv_spec_cache_feature(void) function (in the firegl_public.c file) which linux 2.6.0 already compensates for so the whole content of that function has to be replaced by only return 0; for proper functionning (on AMD plateforms).
I just finished downloading 2.6.0-test11 1.5 hours ago and then I see this. Anyhow, I downloaded the path test11->final, recompiled, and rebooted:
Linux boxor 2.6.0 #3 Wed Dec 17 23:53:09 EST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
My Radeon binary drivers wouldn't work at first with it on my nforce2 motherboard but I've just found patches in Gentoo's portage tree. I'm currentely running Linux 2.6.0 final on an nforce2 computer with hw 3d acceleration enabled on my Radeon 9600 pro!
FF: Chronicles looks sweet. This may be the trailer they're talking about.
Just because some parents start to let their kids freely roam the web, doesn't mean we can prevent people from freeely posting whatever they want (ass long as copyrights are respected). It is their responsibiliry to supervise their children, not the web's. Like Mark Twain said: Censorship is like telling a man cannot have a steak because a baby cannot chew it.
What recent Radeon card don't they support? They have a Linux driver for the 8500, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700 and 9800.
Try their FireGL drivers for Linux. They're meant for professionals so OpenGL support should be good and they work on regular Radeons (8500, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800).
Wouldn't that be a bit stupid since there's a UnixWare port of Apache.