Two axioms of evolution: 1. Evolution relies upon death of unfit species. 2. Evolution requires m/billions of years.
Two problems reconciling this with scripture: 1. Death did not occur until *after* the fall of Adam and Eve. If Adam and Eve were merely the first sentient primates, they would have been standing on a planet that had already seen the death of millions of creatures prior to their arrival. In no way could Eve have been formed from Adams side using evolutionary theory.
2. The universe was created in six days. I don't believe this can be twisted to make 1 day a few million years, as the author is very careful to define the hebrew word 'day' in an earlier paragraph as the period when the sun is in the sky. ie 1 rotation of the Earth. The only way this could be equated to millions of years is if the rotation of the earth was incredibly slow. Anyone care to do the math?
I hope they don't mean only 88% of the genes will match. This would tell us nothing.
Bearing in mind that, genetically speaking, humans are 50% pure banana, is there really any chance that whatever comes out will resemble an actual mammoth? Maybe just a furry elephant.
In other news, the once monolithic software giant Microsoft has been forced to make good on prior rulings by the US supreme court, which declared Microsoft an illegal monopoly and a threat to national security. The groundbreaking trial lasted three months, as witness after witness presented evidence on the 874 claims made against the corporation, ranging from freelance programmers whos works had been stolen, to governments and schools who had been forced to submit to Microsofts "bully tactics" with software licensing.
The judgement was effective immediately: All trading by Microsoft is to cease and the company is to be completely dissolved. At 9am eastern time, all assets held by Microsoft, including reserves, were confiscated and distributed to the beneficiaries of the Gates Foundation and other charities.
All patents and other Intellectual Property owned by Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiaries which were issued under the old "stop-people-using-it" system are to be released to the Free Software Foundation under the new GPL Patent, preventing the withholding the technology from other developers.
The board of directors and lead programmers of Microsoft, now unemployable in the technology industry, have been offered positions in parking lots and soup kitchens around the country. All other employees have been given redundancy of 1 years salary, and some have already started rebuilding their former businesses which were bought out or squashed by Microsoft over the last twenty years.
This news follows eight years of steadily dwindling interest in Microsoft, as the corporation has not managed to adapt to new markets, insisting on an archaic business model. Their policies on such software as their legacy flagship "Windows" has steadily been replaced with the Open Source business model. Their latest offering, "Windows SX", released six months ago, sold a mere 400 copies.
William Henry Gates III, who has been under house arrest since June for attempting to bribe the Chief Justice with a large Hawiian island, was unavailable for comment.
Ah, but it isn't *just* taking the Devil's money, is it?
They're encouraging people to purchase the Devil's products, effectively endorsing them.
Even if/. has no knowledge of what ads are being put on their site, people will (and do) still say to the sponsor, "I saw your ad on Slashdot"
It doesn't appear that/. is selling out, but I would have thought they would have a bit of say as to what vendors are and aren't allowed to advertise on their site.
WTF is an inline advertisement for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET doing in this article?
Is Slashdot really accepting sponsorship from the devil? Times must really be tough.
Or is there some kind of generic advertisement reseller who says "I'll pay you $nnnnn.nn to put ads from my sources on your site". Anyone know how this works?
...that this money is going to actually free the code? Please bear with me, but how do we know this group isn't going to keep Blender for themselves. This could be a ploy by everyone's favourite Evil Empire, get the Open Source crowd to pay for their acquisition of a 3D modeller. Genius!
Mostly fixed, especially with distros that use CUPS.
Here's a question - how do you do a batch update on your CUPS configuration?
One of the strongest advantages of Unix-based systems is the script-processing capabilities. I have changes the CUPS configuration on my test machine so often, and grepping on the printer names in the/etc/directory turns up nothing!
If CUPS cannot be managed without a graphical front-end, what use is it, except for the most simple tasks?
"changing X to be more Windows-like (i.e. no virtual desktop, color depth switch on-the-fly, no X stream but direct drawing instead)"
Colour-depth switching on the fly? How do you manage that? I know you can switch resolutions with the CTRL-ALT-+/- sequences, but I've not been able to find a way to dynamically change the colour depth.
I really wish they would give less priority to dollying up the interface and putting more effort into stability.
Last night when I was sorting through some archive folders on my hard drive the konqueror segfaulted on me no less than three times within an hour; and that was just doing bog-standard folder move and delete operations!!!
Until such show-stoppers like this are rectified, kde CANNOT become a viable alternative to a bash prompt.
Also I would like the ability to control exactly what needs to be double-clicked (desktop icons, konqueror objects) and what doesn't (menu branches), but that's just me.
All this is now relatively moot - the RIAA has little time left before they become irrelevant and they know it.
Let's have a look at what they actually provide for artists:
1. Studios/Recording equipment - Said equipment costs a lot less than in the past, all you really need these days is a room with egg cartons on the walls, some mics, mixers, and a PC with a better than average sound card. How long until these amateur studios regularly produce music rivalling professional outfits? It's already happened with a few chart toppers.
2. Distribution channels - Getting music 'out there' used to require knowing the right people in the right places with the right evil secret handshakes, but now all it takes is a kid with a bit of web hosting space and bandwidth. Physically pressing CDs and shipping them to music stores is becoming less important. Sure CDs will be available on demand for those who want them, but I don't think it will be many. As it is, I very rarely listen to CDs per se - my entire music collection resides in ogg vorbis form on a networked hard drive at home, which I can listen to from any number of points in the house. (and yes, all the music is ripped from CDs that I have legitimatly purchased)
I think artists should certainly be paid for their efforts, but don't know of a truly effective business model. The closest I can think of is charge $0.15 per song downloaded via a system like paypal, or a gratitude-based payment system such as, that site you make voluntary payments to artists if you appreciate their work, can't find the url.
... is it's standards compliance. Try the cool demos, using nothing but fully w3c-compliant HTML/CSS code.
Try that with IE. Honestly, IE still won't even support transpartent PNG's, effectively rendering (no pun intended) it useless as a serious web browser. No matter how popular it is.
Who said anything about Windows Media player or Real Player? Of course they're no more open.
I'm talking about FILE formats, not players, if you can comprehend that. Have a look at DivX sometime, or MPEG-4. File formats that don't require you to own a particular player by a particular vendor to play or create them.
...that the competition was too tough for them? Harden up.
They say that the machine was running a version of Smoothwall linux with Apache running on a non-standard port and a minimum of other services.
Now their complaint is that this does not reflect a real-world situation. What is a real-world situation? A Windows machine running IIS? A default Red Hat install with all firewalling turned off and all services turned on?
I know I wouldn't run Telnet, SMB, Rlogin, Xdmcp and other "please hack me" services on my public webserver. I also would be inclined to put my webserver on a port where hackers wouldn't normally look. It's just common sense.
I thought the purpose of a hacking contest was to say "Here's a machine we think is unbreakable, now go break it". These jokers seem to be saying "hey, you've made it unbreakable, what gives?" I somehow get the feeling that kill9 and m0rla have missed the point.
You must also consider the amount of energy used in the production of these devices.
I don't have any figures, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the amount of energy saved in a lifetime of using these leds is more than absorbed in their manufacturing.
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Except you, obviously. ...and anyone else who has a clue about the difference between free and proprietary file formats.
Does anyone know the details of this patent?
When it was granted?
When it expires?
I don't want to re-compress all my mp3s to Ogg because this will reduce quality.
So just re-rip them from your CD collection.
You do own the original CDs, don't you?
We do have royalty-free formats such as ogg vorbis, I mean who still uses mp3 these days?
I pity the poor fools who still keep their CD collection solely in mp3.
Two axioms of evolution:
1. Evolution relies upon death of unfit species.
2. Evolution requires m/billions of years.
Two problems reconciling this with scripture:
1. Death did not occur until *after* the fall of Adam and Eve. If Adam and Eve were merely the first sentient primates, they would have been standing on a planet that had already seen the death of millions of creatures prior to their arrival. In no way could Eve have been formed from Adams side using evolutionary theory.
2. The universe was created in six days. I don't believe this can be twisted to make 1 day a few million years, as the author is very careful to define the hebrew word 'day' in an earlier paragraph as the period when the sun is in the sky. ie 1 rotation of the Earth. The only way this could be equated to millions of years is if the rotation of the earth was incredibly slow. Anyone care to do the math?
I hope they don't mean only 88% of the genes will match. This would tell us nothing.
Bearing in mind that, genetically speaking, humans are 50% pure banana, is there really any chance that whatever comes out will resemble an actual mammoth?
Maybe just a furry elephant.
Or do you reckon a version will come out for Playstation 2/3?
If Doom]I[ is coming to consoles, iD may as well port it to a good one.
"And those genes are to be found, logically, within the fraction of a 100th percent that separates us from them."
Do not make the mistake of thinking that that is all that separates us from them.
Recall that 50% of our genes are identical to bananas, but that doesn't make me half banana, either from the waist up or the waist down.
In other news, the once monolithic software giant Microsoft has been forced to make good on prior rulings by the US supreme court, which declared Microsoft an illegal monopoly and a threat to national security. The groundbreaking trial lasted three months, as witness after witness presented evidence on the 874 claims made against the corporation, ranging from freelance programmers whos works had been stolen, to governments and schools who had been forced to submit to Microsofts "bully tactics" with software licensing.
The judgement was effective immediately: All trading by Microsoft is to cease and the company is to be completely dissolved. At 9am eastern time, all assets held by Microsoft, including reserves, were confiscated and distributed to the beneficiaries of the Gates Foundation and other charities.
All patents and other Intellectual Property owned by Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiaries which were issued under the old "stop-people-using-it" system are to be released to the Free Software Foundation under the new GPL Patent, preventing the withholding the technology from other developers.
The board of directors and lead programmers of Microsoft, now unemployable in the technology industry, have been offered positions in parking lots and soup kitchens around the country. All other employees have been given redundancy of 1 years salary, and some have already started rebuilding their former businesses which were bought out or squashed by Microsoft over the last twenty years.
This news follows eight years of steadily dwindling interest in Microsoft, as the corporation has not managed to adapt to new markets, insisting on an archaic business model. Their policies on such software as their legacy flagship "Windows" has steadily been replaced with the Open Source business model. Their latest offering, "Windows SX", released six months ago, sold a mere 400 copies.
William Henry Gates III, who has been under house arrest since June for attempting to bribe the Chief Justice with a large Hawiian island, was unavailable for comment.
Ah, but it isn't *just* taking the Devil's money, is it?
/. has no knowledge of what ads are being put on their site, people will (and do) still say to the sponsor, "I saw your ad on Slashdot"
/. is selling out, but I would have thought they would have a bit of say as to what vendors are and aren't allowed to advertise on their site.
They're encouraging people to purchase the Devil's products, effectively endorsing them.
Even if
It doesn't appear that
WTF is an inline advertisement for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET doing in this article?
Is Slashdot really accepting sponsorship from the devil? Times must really be tough.
Or is there some kind of generic advertisement reseller who says "I'll pay you $nnnnn.nn to put ads from my sources on your site". Anyone know how this works?
...that this money is going to actually free the code?
Please bear with me, but how do we know this group isn't going to keep Blender for themselves.
This could be a ploy by everyone's favourite Evil Empire, get the Open Source crowd to pay for their acquisition of a 3D modeller. Genius!
</paranoia>
3. Printing needs to be easier to configure.
/etc/directory turns up nothing!
Mostly fixed, especially with distros that use CUPS.
Here's a question - how do you do a batch update on your CUPS configuration?
One of the strongest advantages of Unix-based systems is the script-processing capabilities.
I have changes the CUPS configuration on my test machine so often, and grepping on the printer names in the
If CUPS cannot be managed without a graphical front-end, what use is it, except for the most simple tasks?
"changing X to be more Windows-like (i.e. no virtual desktop, color depth switch on-the-fly, no X stream but direct drawing instead)"
Colour-depth switching on the fly?
How do you manage that?
I know you can switch resolutions with the CTRL-ALT-+/- sequences, but I've not been able to find a way to dynamically change the colour depth.
I really wish they would give less priority to dollying up the interface and putting more effort into stability.
Last night when I was sorting through some archive folders on my hard drive the konqueror segfaulted on me no less than three times within an hour; and that was just doing bog-standard folder move and delete operations!!!
Until such show-stoppers like this are rectified, kde CANNOT become a viable alternative to a bash prompt.
Also I would like the ability to control exactly what needs to be double-clicked (desktop icons, konqueror objects) and what doesn't (menu branches), but that's just me.
All this is now relatively moot - the RIAA has little time left before they become irrelevant and they know it.
Let's have a look at what they actually provide for artists:
1. Studios/Recording equipment - Said equipment costs a lot less than in the past, all you really need these days is a room with egg cartons on the walls, some mics, mixers, and a PC with a better than average sound card. How long until these amateur studios regularly produce music rivalling professional outfits? It's already happened with a few chart toppers.
2. Distribution channels - Getting music 'out there' used to require knowing the right people in the right places with the right evil secret handshakes, but now all it takes is a kid with a bit of web hosting space and bandwidth. Physically pressing CDs and shipping them to music stores is becoming less important. Sure CDs will be available on demand for those who want them, but I don't think it will be many. As it is, I very rarely listen to CDs per se - my entire music collection resides in ogg vorbis form on a networked hard drive at home, which I can listen to from any number of points in the house. (and yes, all the music is ripped from CDs that I have legitimatly purchased)
I think artists should certainly be paid for their efforts, but don't know of a truly effective business model. The closest I can think of is charge $0.15 per song downloaded via a system like paypal, or a gratitude-based payment system such as, that site you make voluntary payments to artists if you appreciate their work, can't find the url.
you speak of Duke Nukem Forever like it isn't vaporware.
Do you know something that the rest of us don't?
1. In ANH Special Edition, many of the XWing shots are CG.
2. In some parts of AOTC, R2D2 is CG (eg flying)
... is it's standards compliance.
Try the cool demos, using nothing but fully w3c-compliant HTML/CSS code.
Try that with IE. Honestly, IE still won't even support transpartent PNG's, effectively rendering (no pun intended) it useless as a serious web browser. No matter how popular it is.
Who said anything about Windows Media player or Real Player? Of course they're no more open.
I'm talking about FILE formats, not players, if you can comprehend that.
Have a look at DivX sometime, or MPEG-4. File formats that don't require you to own a particular player by a particular vendor to play or create them.
Now why don't more sites start using it?
Possibly due to it being a proprietry, CLOSED FORMAT!
...that the competition was too tough for them? Harden up.
They say that the machine was running a version of Smoothwall linux with Apache running on a non-standard port and a minimum of other services.
Now their complaint is that this does not reflect a real-world situation. What is a real-world situation? A Windows machine running IIS? A default Red Hat install with all firewalling turned off and all services turned on?
I know I wouldn't run Telnet, SMB, Rlogin, Xdmcp and other "please hack me" services on my public webserver. I also would be inclined to put my webserver on a port where hackers wouldn't normally look. It's just common sense.
I thought the purpose of a hacking contest was to say "Here's a machine we think is unbreakable, now go break it". These jokers seem to be saying "hey, you've made it unbreakable, what gives?" I somehow get the feeling that kill9 and m0rla have missed the point.
(btw, anything related to Smoothwall should be avoided at all costs)
Well said, assuming you were being sarcastic.
Mod parent up!
You must also consider the amount of energy used in the production of these devices.
I don't have any figures, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the amount of energy saved in a lifetime of using these leds is more than absorbed in their manufacturing.
</cynicism>
I think two quotes are relevant here, wish I could remember who they came from:
"All those in favor of losing your liberty please stay silent"
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing"