This stupid Kraut needs to have a few rounds of hot lead pumped into his head, be burned alive with some flaming napalm, and have his limbs removed not-too-gently with a dull butter knife
...instead of getting things done and interacting with the rest of the world, these kids will have the pleasure of fucking around with RPM dependencies and libc incompatibilities. Great, principled move fellas.
RyoShin, here's where you're misguided. I am not addressing your faith, just your assertions.
"I'm no scientist, and I don't have any deep knowledge of evolution and the proof and theory behind it (at least that hasn't stuck with me from 10th grade biology,) but to my knowledge, evolution has deep scientific background, despite not being a proven fact."
I am a scientist with a B.S in Physics and Ph.D in Biology, and let me assure you that evolution is as solidly supported, scientifically, as the so-called Theory of Gravity. In fact, gravity is probably less-well understood, from a mechanistic standpoint.
"In an alternative vein, Intelligent Design/Creationism does have a few specs here and there that support it, but not nearly enough that would indicate the theory without some religious notion already in place."
I must pipe up here and ask for peer-reviewed citations from respected, accepted journals or conference proceedings to substantiate this claim. If you can't provide any, you can't go around saying this. This statement is the nucleus of the entire problem. ID is entirely a matter of faith with no empirical factual evidence to the contrary. It is nothing but Abrahamic Creation mythology dolled up for the 21st century.
As a matter of fact, and this would make a lot of ID folks' heads explode to truly consider this, if we could set up an experimental test sufficiently powerful to PROVE Divine intervention, such a test would be capable of DISPROVING it as well. Assuming for a moment that such an experiment could take place, the results, like the obscene revalations of Copernicus, would be probably end up being quite a demotion to the "we're the most special matter in the Universe" crowd. Luckily, no such falsifiable Hypothesis can be constructed and tested experimentally, leaving those folks to their faith.
At an average cost of $15,000 per kilogram to launch materials into space, I estimate the British will save loads by not sending toothpaste or toothbrushes into space with their astronauts. In fact, it might give them a competitive advantage!!
Oh no, the non-native predators kill one out of every ten native animals!!!!
Reason #10: Firefox updates are a pain in the @ss
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I know a lot of Windows users (and even me as a Mac OS X user) are annoyed by the fact that Firefox cannot auto-update itself, in place. If we assume that the mozilla.org servers are pretty secure, there is NO reason why Firefox can't download the necessary updates to patch this week's security vulnerability, install them in place while the browser is running, then pipe up when finished and ask the user to restart the browser. Hell, when it restarts, it could come back up to the same page the user was browsing when he/she quit a few seconds ago. This is a major flaw in Firefox and one that will invariably lead to people still surfing with Firefox 1.01 in 2007. It also just looks stupid, in contrast the the slickness of Apple's Software Update or even (gak) Microsoft's Windows Update.
Firefox devs... any comments?
Flaky operating system, that's the #1 mistake
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I think this has been addressed already in other comments, but I have to vent anyway. From what I can see, a major mistake on Palm's part has been shipping one flaky-assed operating system. Let me illustrate: I was in the market for a new PDA. It HAD to have 802.11 and decent Mac OS support. I settled on a Sony CLIE TJ-37 running PalmOS 5.x. This machine was GREAT! It could surf the web, get my email, monitor RSS feeds, take photos, play MP3s, act as a bookreader, AND sync with my Mac OS X addressbook and calendar. I was happy with this machine for about a week, until I got the first hard crash. While using wireless, the OS would grind to a halt with some crazy error in Datamanager.c line 9052 or something like that. Turns out the only way to recover from this is to hard reset the machine (ie Erase it) and restore from backup. Fine, whatever, it's like owning a really flaky pre-OSX Mac. Until the crash returns. And returns. And returns AGAIN. There is NO rhyme or reason to how this error comes about - not that one certain website, email address, RSS feed, wireless network, or anything. There is NO information about it on the web. Calls to Palm and Sony are equivalent to running into a brick wall. So, I have abandoned using networking functions on the damned thing because its TCP/IP stack is apparently less capable than WinSock. Brilliant move, guys.
Because I'm an idiot, "the religious side of me revels in the prospect that evolution may be proved impossible" because mah preacher done tol' me that "the Darwinian view of evolution through slow mutation was proved wrong long ago by the fossil record".
Well, it's not free or totally open-source, but Mac OS X has some pretty darned good PDF functionality (like printing directly to PDF). I am sure Apple have held back some of the really good stuff to make nice with Adobe, though.
Probably oldies like 'Flash Gordon' and all the great radio dramas that played when they were younger. Maybe they even read Jules Verne or H.G. Wells! I didn't actually look this up, but if your thrust here is that the men who went to the moon didn't have any sci-fi inspiration, I am pointing out here that you could be quite wrong.
If you happened upon nj.com in the last month, you might have noticed a clucking penguin waddling across the computer screen, stumbling over text as it promoted a local utility company.
On a cricket league chat board in New Zealand, exasperated users have been deluged with floating squares that try to interest them in mattresses, dating services and officially licensed trinkets from the
omputer's Macromedia Flash Player to run, overlay the content of the page rather than spawning new windows. They have been around since 2001, but their rise has been abetted by the growing use of high-speed Internet connections, allowing them to play with greater ease.
Piracy? TV Piracy? I call bullshit. This is time and geography shifting, pure and simple and as such has not been determined illegal. I am sure that there are television executives just slavering at the concept of declaring TV recording and commercial skipping to be acts of criminal nature subject to the harshest penalty. But that's not today.
Seriously, slashdot editors make editorial comments and changes all the time in the stories published here. You really should have done the obligatory s/piracy/sharing here.
This new connector will only be a standard when Apple includes it on their Powerbooks as the standard video output port AND when I take said laptop to give a seminar. The room in which I give the seminar will have a video projector from 1994 and will thus have VGA input only. I will whip out my laptop-VGA adapter and promptly be heckled by the audio-visual people because 'MACS can't connect to a projector'. Of course, from there on out the presentation will go flawlessly, but only at the aforementioned point will this new adapter be a 'standard'
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OK, are you trolling or are you *actually* this willfully ignorant and/or stupid?
This stupid Kraut needs to have a few rounds of hot lead pumped into his head, be burned alive with some flaming napalm, and have his limbs removed not-too-gently with a dull butter knife
...instead of getting things done and interacting with the rest of the world, these kids will have the pleasure of fucking around with RPM dependencies and libc incompatibilities. Great, principled move fellas.
RyoShin, here's where you're misguided. I am not addressing your faith, just your assertions.
"I'm no scientist, and I don't have any deep knowledge of evolution and the proof and theory behind it (at least that hasn't stuck with me from 10th grade biology,) but to my knowledge, evolution has deep scientific background, despite not being a proven fact."
I am a scientist with a B.S in Physics and Ph.D in Biology, and let me assure you that evolution is as solidly supported, scientifically, as the so-called Theory of Gravity. In fact, gravity is probably less-well understood, from a mechanistic standpoint.
"In an alternative vein, Intelligent Design/Creationism does have a few specs here and there that support it, but not nearly enough that would indicate the theory without some religious notion already in place."
I must pipe up here and ask for peer-reviewed citations from respected, accepted journals or conference proceedings to substantiate this claim. If you can't provide any, you can't go around saying this. This statement is the nucleus of the entire problem. ID is entirely a matter of faith with no empirical factual evidence to the contrary. It is nothing but Abrahamic Creation mythology dolled up for the 21st century.
As a matter of fact, and this would make a lot of ID folks' heads explode to truly consider this, if we could set up an experimental test sufficiently powerful to PROVE Divine intervention, such a test would be capable of DISPROVING it as well. Assuming for a moment that such an experiment could take place, the results, like the obscene revalations of Copernicus, would be probably end up being quite a demotion to the "we're the most special matter in the Universe" crowd. Luckily, no such falsifiable Hypothesis can be constructed and tested experimentally, leaving those folks to their faith.
At an average cost of $15,000 per kilogram to launch materials into space, I estimate the British will save loads by not sending toothpaste or toothbrushes into space with their astronauts. In fact, it might give them a competitive advantage!!
back to WoW for me!
"...Those native animals BECOME DECIMATED..."
Oh no, the non-native predators kill one out of every ten native animals!!!!
I know a lot of Windows users (and even me as a Mac OS X user) are annoyed by the fact that Firefox cannot auto-update itself, in place. If we assume that the mozilla.org servers are pretty secure, there is NO reason why Firefox can't download the necessary updates to patch this week's security vulnerability, install them in place while the browser is running, then pipe up when finished and ask the user to restart the browser. Hell, when it restarts, it could come back up to the same page the user was browsing when he/she quit a few seconds ago. This is a major flaw in Firefox and one that will invariably lead to people still surfing with Firefox 1.01 in 2007. It also just looks stupid, in contrast the the slickness of Apple's Software Update or even (gak) Microsoft's Windows Update.
Firefox devs... any comments?
I think this has been addressed already in other comments, but I have to vent anyway. From what I can see, a major mistake on Palm's part has been shipping one flaky-assed operating system. Let me illustrate: I was in the market for a new PDA. It HAD to have 802.11 and decent Mac OS support. I settled on a Sony CLIE TJ-37 running PalmOS 5.x. This machine was GREAT! It could surf the web, get my email, monitor RSS feeds, take photos, play MP3s, act as a bookreader, AND sync with my Mac OS X addressbook and calendar. I was happy with this machine for about a week, until I got the first hard crash. While using wireless, the OS would grind to a halt with some crazy error in Datamanager.c line 9052 or something like that. Turns out the only way to recover from this is to hard reset the machine (ie Erase it) and restore from backup. Fine, whatever, it's like owning a really flaky pre-OSX Mac. Until the crash returns. And returns. And returns AGAIN. There is NO rhyme or reason to how this error comes about - not that one certain website, email address, RSS feed, wireless network, or anything. There is NO information about it on the web. Calls to Palm and Sony are equivalent to running into a brick wall. So, I have abandoned using networking functions on the damned thing because its TCP/IP stack is apparently less capable than WinSock. Brilliant move, guys.
Up next on Lifetime.. "True Stories of Cancer Babies in Danger from Mad, Unfaithful Husbands"
On edit, perhaps VPC would be good, too, perhaps with a side of OpenStep...
No, the question we are asking is if we can run the QEMU PowerPC emulator well enough to install Mac OS X 10.2...
If Starbuck needs help with that repopulation thing... /all I'm saying is that I'm here to help
"In any case, the only person who through a logic puzzle at me"
For heaven's sake, man. It's 'THREW' - you didn't turn down the position at Microsoft: they bonged you for misusage of the English language!
Because I'm an idiot, "the religious side of me revels in the prospect that evolution may be proved impossible" because mah preacher done tol' me that "the Darwinian view of evolution through slow mutation was proved wrong long ago by the fossil record".
No, actually, they generalized it to lots of other genes.
Well, it's not free or totally open-source, but Mac OS X has some pretty darned good PDF functionality (like printing directly to PDF). I am sure Apple have held back some of the really good stuff to make nice with Adobe, though.
Probably oldies like 'Flash Gordon' and all the great radio dramas that played when they were younger. Maybe they even read Jules Verne or H.G. Wells! I didn't actually look this up, but if your thrust here is that the men who went to the moon didn't have any sci-fi inspiration, I am pointing out here that you could be quite wrong.
If you happened upon nj.com in the last month, you might have noticed a clucking penguin waddling across the computer screen, stumbling over text as it promoted a local utility company.
On a cricket league chat board in New Zealand, exasperated users have been deluged with floating squares that try to interest them in mattresses, dating services and officially licensed trinkets from the
omputer's Macromedia Flash Player to run, overlay the content of the page rather than spawning new windows. They have been around since 2001, but their rise has been abetted by the growing use of high-speed Internet connections, allowing them to play with greater ease.
No way I'm getting arrested just to avoid floaters!
Piracy? TV Piracy? I call bullshit. This is time and geography shifting, pure and simple and as such has not been determined illegal. I am sure that there are television executives just slavering at the concept of declaring TV recording and commercial skipping to be acts of criminal nature subject to the harshest penalty. But that's not today.
Seriously, slashdot editors make editorial comments and changes all the time in the stories published here. You really should have done the obligatory s/piracy/sharing here.
This new connector will only be a standard when Apple includes it on their Powerbooks as the standard video output port AND when I take said laptop to give a seminar. The room in which I give the seminar will have a video projector from 1994 and will thus have VGA input only. I will whip out my laptop-VGA adapter and promptly be heckled by the audio-visual people because 'MACS can't connect to a projector'. Of course, from there on out the presentation will go flawlessly, but only at the aforementioned point will this new adapter be a 'standard'
That and their software is probably infinitely cooler than yours was. Have you ever used or seen Delicious Library?
Tens of thousands of /. geeks will now rush to check out teh new comet, sending it up in a puff of vapor. Oh, wait a minute...
Yeah, you heard me. This is a noble idea but who wants to play Ktris, Gtris, ChrisTris, etc?