Hum, you have obviously never seen some rich old lady and their dogs. They would not give a penny to a begger in the street ("get a job" is their moto) but they buy premium meat for their little puppy.
When someone starts talking about his race/species superiority, you can hear marching troops in the background... because you are smarter than a dog doesn't mean you have all rights over dogs.
School promotes agnosticim, not atheism. Atheism is the believing that God does not exist, while agnosticism is the believing that, without conclusive evidence of the existence or non existence of God, we can't and shouldn't settle for a conclusion.
Not so, most people in favor of Evolution support this theory because it is the best explanation right now, and that explanation refering to a "big daddy God with a white beard" creating the world during a week of holiday is just plain silly. Darwin might be wrong, but the world wasn't created in 7 days by a big powerful guy.
You can bet that if the bible said "there is no gravity, we all float above the surface of earth", there would be masses of American religious zealots opposing the teaching of Newton's law (which would have been burnt and died prematurely).
It is not so much that there are enough or not enough evidences in support of Darwin law, it is just that it massively contradict the bible and some people still belive the ultimate truth is in this book and none in the trillions of scientif studies here and there.
What amaze me about religious people (especially christians) is their arrogance as a specy : "We are humans, we are the superior race of nature". Although this is an open door to racism and hate, it is also plain stupid. Love and hate are very animal feelings, most mamals express attitudes controlled by love (reproduction, group behaviors) or hate (aggression, fights). It is really arrogant to think only humans have feelings...
I agree with you, every religion is based on ideas generated by the religious leaders that the followers must accept as if they were facts. From this point everything insane is possible, including violent hate...
The most important thing is not to learn a trillion language but to learn things such as Object programming concepts, Database architecture, network protocols and clusturing. 2 or 3 language on top of it and one can handle about any situation in its computer scientist work.
Some French scientist managed a few days ago to make circuits of 0,02 micron size (last record was 0,04 by Toshiba). This leaves plenty of room to increase speed for some years...
I think people should register with a non-US registrar - expecially if they are not American either. Since most people who get sued by large companies over their domain names are sued by US companies, having the registrar abroad will put them out of reach from the US laws, and make the trial complex, long and costly. In many countries your familly name is yours, no matter if it is copyrighted, so a US company with your familly name would be in trouble to get it back if you happen to have a registrar in one of those friendly nations.
BTW Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer a domain from a registrar to another one ? I want to leave NSI as soon as possible.
I think the copyrights laws have gone crazy. At first it was supposed to protect the names of legitimate business to prevent any competitor to abuse customers by using the same names. It was a protection against unlawful business tactics.
Now it is just a way for monopolies to control whatever is said about them. Write "XXX Corp is crap", and you can get sued because you wrote "XXX Corp" without their consent. This has nothing to do with unlawful business anymore, it is just the megacorpo taking away free speech, to make more money.
In France I think everyone has full ownership of its name, which means you can call your business with your name and can't be sued even if it is a tradermark. I dunno how this would stand in a trial over a.com domain name, because the trial would take place in US with different trademarks laws. What a legal mess !
I don't think the problem is about natural selection... the question is about having compassion for the others who suffer very serious pain with no hope of things getting better.
He is certainly not moral, but to quote S. Hardin in one of Asimov's book "Never let your sense of moral preventing you from doing what is right". Is it right to save a kid a lifelong agony ? Maybe.
Alpha is great, but nobody at Digital or Compaq has ever understood that it is not enough to get cheap cpu, we need cheap motherboards too ! When Asus or Abit comes up with an Alpha motherboard, every Linux user will go Alpha. We have yet to see this happen...
Do you really want another layer ? Graphic apps on Linux are plagued by layers, there are so many layers of API on each others over X-Windows that it makes it a real memory and cpu hog. Damn, at least ONE good thing with Windows is that there is a consistent way of drawing widget without 24687 abtraction layers below.
Somebody ought to design a new UI that talks straight to the graphic driver...
That, and the fact that most average americans have a very little knowledge that there is a world outside their borders (and most of them believe it is just a bunch of underdevelopped dictatorship countries...)
The "measurement inept" argument is going to be a hard sell 'round these parts, given the fact that the US is the only nation that put people on the moon.
Thirty years ago.
With the heavy help of foreign scientists, including Nazi ones who were offered immunity against their help... I doubt they worked in anything else than metrics...
As far as Web developpment is concerned, I'll stick to PHP... the new PHP4 is mouth watering and I kind of like having the code and the HTML in the same file.
Yup, Edison claimed the invention of a few stuff created by other people (but some of them didn't even had the money to apply for a patent, so Edison stole the idea).
Delphi or GCC, if you have a licence to run the compiler then YOU can decide what is the licence of your programs... there's no problem making free software with Delphi (which doesn't require any specific runtimes BTW)
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Hum, you have obviously never seen some rich old lady and their dogs. They would not give a penny to a begger in the street ("get a job" is their moto) but they buy premium meat for their little puppy.
When someone starts talking about his race/species superiority, you can hear marching troops in the background... because you are smarter than a dog doesn't mean you have all rights over dogs.
This is all a scheme of satan trying to cybersquat god.com domain name. Hopefully the new ICANN will solve this issue :)
School promotes agnosticim, not atheism. Atheism is the believing that God does not exist, while agnosticism is the believing that, without conclusive evidence of the existence or non existence of God, we can't and shouldn't settle for a conclusion.
Logic is the basic of science. There is no science without logic.
logic has problems in the real world.
Which ones ? Logic has had no problem ever.
Not so, most people in favor of Evolution support this theory because it is the best explanation right now, and that explanation refering to a "big daddy God with a white beard" creating the world during a week of holiday is just plain silly. Darwin might be wrong, but the world wasn't created in 7 days by a big powerful guy.
You can bet that if the bible said "there is no gravity, we all float above the surface of earth", there would be masses of American religious zealots opposing the teaching of Newton's law (which would have been burnt and died prematurely).
It is not so much that there are enough or not enough evidences in support of Darwin law, it is just that it massively contradict the bible and some people still belive the ultimate truth is in this book and none in the trillions of scientif studies here and there.
What amaze me about religious people (especially christians) is their arrogance as a specy : "We are humans, we are the superior race of nature". Although this is an open door to racism and hate, it is also plain stupid. Love and hate are very animal feelings, most mamals express attitudes controlled by love (reproduction, group behaviors) or hate (aggression, fights). It is really arrogant to think only humans have feelings...
I agree with you, every religion is based on ideas generated by the religious leaders that the followers must accept as if they were facts. From this point everything insane is possible, including violent hate...
The most important thing is not to learn a trillion language but to learn things such as Object programming concepts, Database architecture, network protocols and clusturing. 2 or 3 language on top of it and one can handle about any situation in its computer scientist work.
Some French scientist managed a few days ago to make circuits of 0,02 micron size (last record was 0,04 by Toshiba). This leaves plenty of room to increase speed for some years...
I think people should register with a non-US registrar - expecially if they are not American either. Since most people who get sued by large companies over their domain names are sued by US companies, having the registrar abroad will put them out of reach from the US laws, and make the trial complex, long and costly. In many countries your familly name is yours, no matter if it is copyrighted, so a US company with your familly name would be in trouble to get it back if you happen to have a registrar in one of those friendly nations.
BTW Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer a domain from a registrar to another one ? I want to leave NSI as soon as possible.
I think the copyrights laws have gone crazy. At first it was supposed to protect the names of legitimate business to prevent any competitor to abuse customers by using the same names. It was a protection against unlawful business tactics.
Now it is just a way for monopolies to control whatever is said about them. Write "XXX Corp is crap", and you can get sued because you wrote "XXX Corp" without their consent. This has nothing to do with unlawful business anymore, it is just the megacorpo taking away free speech, to make more money.
In France I think everyone has full ownership of its name, which means you can call your business with your name and can't be sued even if it is a tradermark. I dunno how this would stand in a trial over a .com domain name, because the trial would take place in US with different trademarks laws. What a legal mess !
I don't think the problem is about natural selection... the question is about having compassion for the others who suffer very serious pain with no hope of things getting better.
He is certainly not moral, but to quote S. Hardin in one of Asimov's book "Never let your sense of moral preventing you from doing what is right". Is it right to save a kid a lifelong agony ? Maybe.
Alpha is great, but nobody at Digital or Compaq has ever understood that it is not enough to get cheap cpu, we need cheap motherboards too ! When Asus or Abit comes up with an Alpha motherboard, every Linux user will go Alpha. We have yet to see this happen...
Do you really want another layer ? Graphic apps on Linux are plagued by layers, there are so many layers of API on each others over X-Windows that it makes it a real memory and cpu hog. Damn, at least ONE good thing with Windows is that there is a consistent way of drawing widget without 24687 abtraction layers below.
Somebody ought to design a new UI that talks straight to the graphic driver...
That, and the fact that most average americans have a very little knowledge that there is a world outside their borders (and most of them believe it is just a bunch of underdevelopped dictatorship countries...)
I agree... and we have to consider the savings with a standard metric systems (space probes saved, etc... ;)
The "measurement inept" argument is going to be a hard sell 'round these parts, given the fact that the US is the only nation that put people on the moon.
Thirty years ago.
With the heavy help of foreign scientists, including Nazi ones who were offered immunity against their help... I doubt they worked in anything else than metrics...
As far as Web developpment is concerned, I'll stick to PHP... the new PHP4 is mouth watering and I kind of like having the code and the HTML in the same file.
Reminds me of how often I wish I could "save the game" IRL before attempting something risky ("hum, I wonder if brute force will fix the problem" ;)
Maybe the stars we see are just painted on the walls around the solar system ;)
Yup, Edison claimed the invention of a few stuff created by other people (but some of them didn't even had the money to apply for a patent, so Edison stole the idea).
Delphi or GCC, if you have a licence to run the compiler then YOU can decide what is the licence of your programs... there's no problem making free software with Delphi (which doesn't require any specific runtimes BTW)