Just out of curiosity, I would be interested in the statistics on how many are single mothers by choice (walked out on guy when he wasn't abusive, prevents guy seeing the children, and I hesitantly add not using birth control outside of marriage, and so on).
"I read a study a while back that suggested that women are better suited for field command roles because of their innate demeanor and communications skills. No one cryed "feminisim attacks!!". Why should you? Why can't you accept that different sets of people have different innate strengths?"
The trouble is this sort of thing can be quite dangerous. I would count myself as PC because I feel that I'm starting to understand the reason and they rhyme behind it.
For an example, here in the UK we tend to have a large amount of foreigners, particular in the cities. What people noticed at first is that blacks committed more crime. The reason isn't inherently because of their skin, but a range of reasons - in particular because blacks were more likely to be poor, less educated therefore got less paid jobs and so on.
Now do you really think it would have been a good idea for people, in particular people in power, to say the truth - i.e. blacks commit more crime, and therefore less trustworthy?
This is where 'positive discrimination' comes in. I really hate it, but it's the lesser of evils. It's discriminating in favour of the blacks. This has caused a fair amount of anger in the cities where the common joke is if your white, straight, not-disabled and fit to work, then you have no chance of getting a job.
Getting back to the women issue - it's not that the PC people are saying men and women are equal, it's that if you keep saying difference X is because of sex, then it makes it harder for male and females to be on an equal footing in the first place.
In this particular case, the Harvard president should never have said this, no more than he should have said "whites are better than blacks in school", whether it is true or not, because he is in a position of power and responsibility. Saying such things _does_ affect things.
I quote from the Guardian:
"During Dr Summers's presidency, the number of tenured jobs offered to women has fallen from 36% to 13%."
To answer this, I give a quick quote from The Guardian - a left, fairly well respected UK newspaper:
'Others said Dr Summers's comments were depressingly familiar. "I have heard men make comments like this my entire life and quite honestly if I had listened to them I would never have done anything."'
...treating women like shit......Look back at any./ conversation where we talk about women and video games, and you'll see plenty of immature posts talking about how the women should shut up...
Where is this anger coming from? I had a quick browse over the last few stories and don't see anything significant. But then I tend to be blind to these sorts of things.
Could you link to a few posts where posts talk about how women should shut up please.
Just because they are common it doesn't mean they are easily read. They are fantastically complicated to get right. Even Office corrupts them from time to time (Ever had word put big X's where your pictures should be? Ever had Access corrupt your database?)
So yes, OO's problem with handling Microsoft documents is because, gasp, of Microsoft.
The anonymous coward is totally correct. The mirc guys were on crack.
There is no official dcc protocol as such, only a reversed engineered one from mirc.
The anon is also right in that client ignore the wait before the ack. This is often does as an option, since there are still old mirc clients out there that need the ACK. This is what "fast dcc" option does in most irc clients.
I think the rules for game studios and publishers is totally different from the OSS world.
I'd say pre-alpha means it doesn't crash. Alpha probably means feature-freeze (big difference from 'all features have been implemented', if I'm interpreting right), and then release candidates for string-freeze and bug-freeze. I don't think I've ever seen a OSS program that's Final or Gold.
I'm an experienced OSS developer, but have never had to worry about most of these questions. And deciding alpha status? well that's just common-sense and randomness;) Generally the only rule is don't break ABI between minor releases (3.2.x) and don't break API between intermediate releases. (3.x)
It's a bit like the usual thing about we see the sun as it was 8 seconds ago, and that what it is 'now' we will see in 8 seconds time.
While sorta true, it's just wrong enough to be annoying. Spacetime isn't quite like that. It doesn't really make sense to talk about what the sun is like 'now', since 'now' is relative.
Feynman has a wonderful example to explain it. Imagine you keep your head fixed, and you see an object in space. You then see it having a width (angle it substends) and depth (say amount your eyes have to focus or something). Because you have now got different units, you might think the width and depth to be totally different (analogous to space (meters) and time (seconds)). But if you move your head, you suddenly realise width and depth are an aspect of the same thing.
It's the same for space and time.
In fact the famous E = mc^2 can be thought of mass being in the 'wrong' units, in the same way we got confused when measuring width and depth as an angle and a focus amount. If we measure mass in units of c, you get E = m.
Ah, for some reason I totally missed that link lol. A good write up, although it skips a few points (e.g. does that mean that literally everyone except Noah (and remarkably his sons +sons wives) was evil and deserved to die, including women and babies?)
I guess talking about that would be kinda offtopic for that page, but something I'm curious to know anyway;)
> that time and space have always been and will always be continuous
Problem: gravity.
Einstein worked for many years (20 iirc) trying to introduce the cosmological constant to show the universe wouldn't just collapse, and later claimed it to be the biggest mistake of his life.
One other way to get round the problem of the universe just collapsing is to have an infinitely big universe that is uniform. But this has it's own problems such as that means for any given point in the night sky, if you trace it out it will land on the surface of a sun. That means the night sky should look like a blaze of white.
But *sigh* of course such logic will be totally lost on people with beliefs, and no doubt you are shaking your head saying 'well that's what i believe, and I don't care what you say'.
"Try giving a straight (correct) answer to the question, "Is light a Partical(sic) or a Wave""
The answer is 'mu'. It doesn't mean the universe is inconsistent. We haven't yet found a single inconsistency of the universe. Only that our theories are wrong and need to be revised.
And, no, material isn't spewed out at the speed of light from a black hole (at least, no creditable scientist would say so).
Again, 'the laws of physics break down at the speed of light'. This isn't right or wrong, it's just a nonsense sentence. It's like saying 'can God create a rock that he cannot lift?'
Your post is not logical. Just because there are in different classifications, does not mean they cannot contradict each other.
In this particular case, this is because the bible talks about the physical (jesus, creationism, the flood) as well as the meta-physical (God). The physical is the realm of science, and thus the two overlap. And where there is overlap, there can be contradictions.
It's an expensive ohm-meter. It's just measuring the resistance across your body. Your resistance is affected by mood (because it affects the salt in your blood, iirc)
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Just out of curiosity, I would be interested in the statistics on how many are single mothers by choice (walked out on guy when he wasn't abusive, prevents guy seeing the children, and I hesitantly add not using birth control outside of marriage, and so on).
"I read a study a while back that suggested that women are better suited for field command roles because of their innate demeanor and communications skills. No one cryed "feminisim attacks!!". Why should you? Why can't you accept that different sets of people have different innate strengths?"
The trouble is this sort of thing can be quite dangerous.
I would count myself as PC because I feel that I'm starting to understand the reason and they rhyme behind it.
For an example, here in the UK we tend to have a large amount of foreigners, particular in the cities.
What people noticed at first is that blacks committed more crime. The reason isn't inherently because of their skin, but a range of reasons - in particular because blacks were more likely to be poor, less educated therefore got less paid jobs and so on.
Now do you really think it would have been a good idea for people, in particular people in power, to say the truth - i.e. blacks commit more crime, and therefore less trustworthy?
This is where 'positive discrimination' comes in. I really hate it, but it's the lesser of evils. It's discriminating in favour of the blacks. This has caused a fair amount of anger in the cities where the common joke is if your white, straight, not-disabled and fit to work, then you have no chance of getting a job.
Getting back to the women issue - it's not that the PC people are saying men and women are equal, it's that if you keep saying difference X is because of sex, then it makes it harder for male and females to be on an equal footing in the first place.
In this particular case, the Harvard president should never have said this, no more than he should have said "whites are better than blacks in school", whether it is true or not, because he is in a position of power and responsibility. Saying such things _does_ affect things.
I quote from the Guardian:
"During Dr Summers's presidency, the number of tenured jobs offered to women has fallen from 36% to 13%."
To answer this, I give a quick quote from The Guardian - a left, fairly well respected UK newspaper:
'Others said Dr Summers's comments were depressingly familiar. "I have heard men make comments like this my entire life and quite honestly if I had listened to them I would never have done anything."'
Get what I'm driving at?
...treating women like shit... ...Look back at any ./ conversation where we talk about women and video games, and you'll see plenty of immature posts talking about how the women should shut up...
Where is this anger coming from? I had a quick browse over the last few stories and don't see anything significant. But then I tend to be blind to these sorts of things.
Could you link to a few posts where posts talk about how women should shut up please.
I thought OO.org didn't use configure and make?
Doesn't it have its own complex build system?
Just because they are common it doesn't mean they are easily read. They are fantastically complicated to get right. Even Office corrupts them from time to time (Ever had word put big X's where your pictures should be? Ever had Access corrupt your database?)
So yes, OO's problem with handling Microsoft documents is because, gasp, of Microsoft.
Mirc has trouble with large packets unfortunetly. It has a maximum of 8kb, and even at that it frequently screws up the files.
The anonymous coward is totally correct. The mirc guys were on crack.
There is no official dcc protocol as such, only a reversed engineered one from mirc.
The anon is also right in that client ignore the wait before the ack. This is often does as an option, since there are still old mirc clients out there that need the ACK.
This is what "fast dcc" option does in most irc clients.
Mirc file transfer sends data in packets, and waits for an ack for each packet.
Over tcp.
TCP of course already does this, and this just makes sending files very very slow. It should have just sent it as a single stream.
I think the rules for game studios and publishers is totally different from the OSS world.
I'd say pre-alpha means it doesn't crash.
Alpha probably means feature-freeze (big difference from 'all features have been implemented', if I'm interpreting right), and then release candidates for string-freeze and bug-freeze.
I don't think I've ever seen a OSS program that's Final or Gold.
I'm an experienced OSS developer, but have never had to worry about most of these questions. ;)
And deciding alpha status? well that's just common-sense and randomness
Generally the only rule is don't break ABI between minor releases (3.2.x) and don't break API between intermediate releases. (3.x)
Actually I think it's more like him mailing bill gates directly.
Cool, me too. Wonder how many brightonese there are.
Go read a physics book sometime. I'm right, you are wrong.
Just change the units of force so that F=ma again.
And for relativistic KE, KE = mc^2 - m_0*c^2, which in the adjusted system is simply KE = m - m_0
m_0 being rest mass, and m being mass in your frame of reference
See how simple everything becomes?
It is common to do as I describe when working with relativity. I tried to google for references, but hard to get good search terms sorry.
It's a bit like the usual thing about we see the sun as it was 8 seconds ago, and that what it is 'now' we will see in 8 seconds time.
While sorta true, it's just wrong enough to be annoying. Spacetime isn't quite like that. It doesn't really make sense to talk about what the sun is like 'now', since 'now' is relative.
Feynman has a wonderful example to explain it.
Imagine you keep your head fixed, and you see an object in space. You then see it having a width (angle it substends) and depth (say amount your eyes have to focus or something). Because you have now got different units, you might think the width and depth to be totally different (analogous to space (meters) and time (seconds)).
But if you move your head, you suddenly realise width and depth are an aspect of the same thing.
It's the same for space and time.
In fact the famous E = mc^2 can be thought of mass being in the 'wrong' units, in the same way we got confused when measuring width and depth as an angle and a focus amount. If we measure mass in units of c, you get E = m.
"What happens to the U.S. when we are dependent on other countries, many not friendly, for basic things like IT, steel, textiles, electronics, etc?"
You invade them.
Ah, for some reason I totally missed that link lol.
;)
A good write up, although it skips a few points (e.g. does that mean that literally everyone except Noah (and remarkably his sons +sons wives) was evil and deserved to die, including women and babies?)
I guess talking about that would be kinda offtopic for that page, but something I'm curious to know anyway
Could you expand on this please.
> that time and space have always been and will always be continuous
Problem: gravity.
Einstein worked for many years (20 iirc) trying to introduce the cosmological constant to show the universe wouldn't just collapse, and later claimed it to be the biggest mistake of his life.
One other way to get round the problem of the universe just collapsing is to have an infinitely big universe that is uniform. But this has it's own problems such as that means for any given point in the night sky, if you trace it out it will land on the surface of a sun. That means the night sky should look like a blaze of white.
But *sigh* of course such logic will be totally lost on people with beliefs, and no doubt you are shaking your head saying 'well that's what i believe, and I don't care what you say'.
Shouldn't this be said as "on average", as I'm sure you could find an individual case where it's wrong?
(Like you help someone cross the road, but then you both get run over)
You are extremely confused.
"Try giving a straight (correct) answer to the question, "Is light a Partical(sic) or a Wave""
The answer is 'mu'. It doesn't mean the universe is inconsistent. We haven't yet found a single inconsistency of the universe. Only that our theories are wrong and need to be revised.
And, no, material isn't spewed out at the speed of light from a black hole (at least, no creditable scientist would say so).
Again, 'the laws of physics break down at the speed of light'. This isn't right or wrong, it's just a nonsense sentence. It's like saying 'can God create a rock that he cannot lift?'
Your post is not logical. Just because there are in different classifications, does not mean they cannot contradict each other.
In this particular case, this is because the bible talks about the physical (jesus, creationism, the flood) as well as the meta-physical (God). The physical is the realm of science, and thus the two overlap. And where there is overlap, there can be contradictions.
It's an expensive ohm-meter. It's just measuring the resistance across your body.
Your resistance is affected by mood (because it affects the salt in your blood, iirc)
Does gcc work on it? If so, you could put flite on it. ;)