To me stuff like this is what proves evolution. There is no one in their right mind who could sit there and convince me that such an obtuse solution to move from point A to point B is "by design", vs. random evolution.
As a scientist who happens to also believe in a creator, I don't understand why evolution and intelligent design have to be mutually exclusive. Why can't a creator have designed evolution?
The fact that life on this planet has undergone -- and continues to undergo -- evolution is undeniable. That doesn't prove that God doesn't exist. A system that is not only capable of propagating itself indefinitely but also continually updates itself over centuries and millennia.. now that's a pretty impressive hack if you ask me.
A common refrain from those who want to disprove intelligent design is "this creature's adapted behavior isn't the most efficient way to accomplish this task, so therefore it was not designed by an all-knowing, all-powerful creator". Just because this spider's means of locomotion is an "obtuse solution" also doesn't mean it's not "by design".
Who says God doesn't have a bit of Rube Goldberg in him? You're presuming that he's trying to create the perfect organism and he just can't quite get it right. Maybe he realizes that if he created the perfect spider it'll freak the hell out of his humans who will then wipe it off the planet.
I'm sure most readers here "got" it. It just wasn't funny.
I'm sure the first person to ever make a pun about ReiserFS was probably pretty funny. Maybe it even had a funny follow-up. At this point they're like that awkward friend you have who isn't quite clever enough to make a funny joke on his own so he just repeats others' jokes and hopes no one has heard them.
Given that Fosters has something like a 45% share of the Australian market, some combination of this must be true: it still has fans, remains a guilty pleasure that isn't admitted to, or nobody can find enough export victims.
...it's hard to see how they would be a good choice for any new project today.
MySQL is a good choice because I can log in to my Amazon Web Services account, provision a new RDS instance, and be done with it. I have no interest in managing an RDBMS and am willing to pay someone else to do it for me. Until AWS supports Postgres, I'll stick with MySQL.
Their FAQ says that and Android client is in the works and will be demoed very soon. As for Apple they claim that Apple's restrictions shuts them out of iOS - but if you have Apple you already have access to FaceTime for all your Apple devices, not that FT can do multi person calls though.
The release page also indicates that it can already make video calls to Google Talk users on Android. Guess that's the whole point of using a standard like XMPP...
I'm not sure how much your labor is worth but you can buy a built server on the cheap ($599).
Plus you'll be supporting a vendor who "officially" supports Linux. It looks like Dell has their motherboards custom-made by Intel, which is another open-source-friendly company.
If Asus and Gigabyte don't want your money, then don't give it to them.
The prototype had a watch-sized wristband that had to be behind the gun for it to be able to fire. This was maybe 10-15 years ago. The fact that it is still not out shows how difficult these kinds of countermeasures are to bring into practice.
Hold on, Mr. Intruder, while I put on my little bracelet here...
Those people probably didn't need an automatic.223-caliber rifle.
There was a time not too long ago in our nation's history when fully automatic machine guns were perfectly legal. Yet, they were not used to commit mass killings inside schools.
The shooter in this case (apparently) used two 9mm pistols.
This seems to suggest it's not the mere availability of "assault" weapons which is the problem, and banning them won't prevent nutjobs from having the will or the means to kill lots of people. The problem needs a different approach.
Seriously, the only people who still bring this up (and mod it "Insightful" on/.) are those who are utterly ignorant of reality and just want to gripe about Apple (while ignoring all the other app stores operating under the same terms).
My friend, you are either "utterly ignorant of reality" or intentionally muddying the waters. We're talking about two entirely different things here: 1) buying an app from an app store, and 2) paying for digital goods within that app (or free apps).
Everyone agrees 30% seems to be a fair, market based price for the former. Microsoft's problem is with the latter. Niether Google Play nor Windows Marketplace nor Amazon nor RIM force all developers on their platform to give 30% of everything sold within their apps.
Apple has NOTHING TO DO with providing SkyDrive service to Microsoft's customers, yet they are demanding that Microsoft give them a 30% cut of it merely to have an app on their platform.
But if you want to reach 90%+ of all devices you'll have it on the play store.
Humble Bundle seems to be doing just fine bypassing the Play store (and Google's fees) entirely.
Of which very few people are going to ever do.
Again, this is what Humble Bundle does.
Nope. Google prohibits using 3rd party payment processors for in-app purchases. Google is acting no different than Apple.
Again, this is only for apps sold via the Play Store. You're welcome to bypass the Google ecosystem entirely. And they take a very small percentage of the transaction, which is more in line with typical credit card fees, nowhere near close to the 30% Apple charges.
This is the problem that Nexus devices are designed to solve. You get updates directly from Google as soon as they're released; no carrier to get in the way. (Well, unless you're on a CDMA carrier, since they still withhold the signed CDMA drivers. Which is why Google has stopped releasing CDMA versions of Nexus devices).
So buy a Nexus device directly from Google Play, hook it up to an uber-cheap T-Mobile prepaid plan, and you'll be up-to-date for as long as your hardware can physically run the latest version of Android.
It's based on a business technique that's as old as the hills: Give away free stuff to crush the competition until people become dependent on your free stuff, then you put on the squeeze. Google is just a private company trying to make money, not freaking Santa Clause
You put on the squeeze by... letting them keep using it for free? No one is being "squeezed" here; people who aren't using it already aren't dependent on it either.
I used to run all my own email etc. on a server in my house, but a year or so ago I moved it all onto a 'google apps for business' account.
A year ago?? Good Lord man, how did you put up with it for so long? I ran my own SMTP server until about 10 years ago but between constant break-in attempts, keeping on top of the latest spam-filtering techniques, outgoing mail not getting delivered because of the # of hosts that just silently drop email from residential IPs... it just wasn't worth it.
Specifically to your post though, with the rate at which they're integrating Google+ and Circles into all their web apps, I imagine that's their solution for families who want to have "trusted groups" of users. Yeah you don't have the admin control though which is a shame.
I don't really enjoy telling some random company out there that I'm currently trying to find a condom and doggy treats. Especially if they don't know that I have to occupy my dog somehow while I have someone in my bed so he doesn't bark, it kinda kills my mood.
But now you just told the whole world you date guys who like to bark like a dog in bed? Kind of a strange way to make a case for privacy. Wait, let me read that again...
Ten feet from where I am sitting right now, a man is watching videos of packaging machines in operation and drawing the mechanisms on a CAD program. He is in the R&D department.
When it comes to mobile phones, the US market is highly controlled and restricted, the China market is open. Yes, you heard that correctly: communist China's market is much more open than capitalist US's market. In China, like most of the rest of the world outside the US, you buy a phone, and then you buy a subscription to a network. They don't come bundled. So it's much easier for newcomers to put a model on the market - they don't need to care about having a carrier's blessing.
You can do the same thing here in the U.S on GSM carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile being the big ones). You don't need the "carrier's blessing" to put any phone on their network. Now for whatever reason most people seem to prefer subsidized phones but that's a different matter.
But it's still the free market at play, not some nefarious "control & restrictions". Anyone can buy a top of the line Android phone for $300 and use it contract free on whatever network they choose. If more people did that then you'd see more carriers promote that model but as long as people willingly choose to support carrier lock-in (because it lets you pay slightly less up front) that's what we're stuck with.
I've wished for a long time that Google would buy T-Mobile. I'm wondering if they'll take a major stake in them once they go public as a separate entity as a result of their merger with MetroPCS. Here's hoping...
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To me stuff like this is what proves evolution. There is no one in their right mind who could sit there and convince me that such an obtuse solution to move from point A to point B is "by design", vs. random evolution.
As a scientist who happens to also believe in a creator, I don't understand why evolution and intelligent design have to be mutually exclusive. Why can't a creator have designed evolution?
The fact that life on this planet has undergone -- and continues to undergo -- evolution is undeniable. That doesn't prove that God doesn't exist. A system that is not only capable of propagating itself indefinitely but also continually updates itself over centuries and millennia.. now that's a pretty impressive hack if you ask me.
A common refrain from those who want to disprove intelligent design is "this creature's adapted behavior isn't the most efficient way to accomplish this task, so therefore it was not designed by an all-knowing, all-powerful creator". Just because this spider's means of locomotion is an "obtuse solution" also doesn't mean it's not "by design".
Who says God doesn't have a bit of Rube Goldberg in him? You're presuming that he's trying to create the perfect organism and he just can't quite get it right. Maybe he realizes that if he created the perfect spider it'll freak the hell out of his humans who will then wipe it off the planet.
You certainly can!
Visit your repo page +"/compare" to setup the revisions you want to diff.
Or just construct the url:
https://github.com/gunn/ember.js/compare/emberjs:8446b121d8c635ebf...ember-libraries.diff
In other words, using GitHub is every bit as transparent and consistent as the git command line! It's a feature...
I'm sure most readers here "got" it. It just wasn't funny.
I'm sure the first person to ever make a pun about ReiserFS was probably pretty funny. Maybe it even had a funny follow-up. At this point they're like that awkward friend you have who isn't quite clever enough to make a funny joke on his own so he just repeats others' jokes and hopes no one has heard them.
Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah...
http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add_strip.php?iid=83812
...to do the needful...
I'm seriously LOLing over here. Thanks for the Friday laugh...
Given that Fosters has something like a 45% share of the Australian market, some combination of this must be true: it still has fans, remains a guilty pleasure that isn't admitted to, or nobody can find enough export victims.
Okay, but no true Australian drinks it.
...it's hard to see how they would be a good choice for any new project today.
MySQL is a good choice because I can log in to my Amazon Web Services account, provision a new RDS instance, and be done with it. I have no interest in managing an RDBMS and am willing to pay someone else to do it for me. Until AWS supports Postgres, I'll stick with MySQL.
"Using next-generation sequencing..."
I see what you did there.
Pass. Who uses a full PC to make calls?
Their FAQ says that and Android client is in the works and will be demoed very soon. As for Apple they claim that Apple's restrictions shuts them out of iOS - but if you have Apple you already have access to FaceTime for all your Apple devices, not that FT can do multi person calls though.
The release page also indicates that it can already make video calls to Google Talk users on Android. Guess that's the whole point of using a standard like XMPP...
https://jitsi.org/index.php/Main/News
Except most parents have no idea how to work the wireless router settings and can't exactly ask the kids to help them set it up :)
I'm not sure how much your labor is worth but you can buy a built server on the cheap ($599).
Plus you'll be supporting a vendor who "officially" supports Linux. It looks like Dell has their motherboards custom-made by Intel, which is another open-source-friendly company.
If Asus and Gigabyte don't want your money, then don't give it to them.
GNU is for steers and queers. And I don't see any steers around here.
Good lord, you can't even troll right. "And programmers don't have horns" might have been slightly better. Please try harder next time.
The prototype had a watch-sized wristband that had to be behind the gun for it to be able to fire. This was maybe 10-15 years ago. The fact that it is still not out shows how difficult these kinds of countermeasures are to bring into practice.
Hold on, Mr. Intruder, while I put on my little bracelet here...
Those people probably didn't need an automatic .223-caliber rifle.
There was a time not too long ago in our nation's history when fully automatic machine guns were perfectly legal. Yet, they were not used to commit mass killings inside schools.
The shooter in this case (apparently) used two 9mm pistols.
This seems to suggest it's not the mere availability of "assault" weapons which is the problem, and banning them won't prevent nutjobs from having the will or the means to kill lots of people. The problem needs a different approach.
Seriously, the only people who still bring this up (and mod it "Insightful" on /.) are those who are utterly ignorant of reality and just want to gripe about Apple (while ignoring all the other app stores operating under the same terms).
My friend, you are either "utterly ignorant of reality" or intentionally muddying the waters. We're talking about two entirely different things here: 1) buying an app from an app store, and 2) paying for digital goods within that app (or free apps).
Everyone agrees 30% seems to be a fair, market based price for the former. Microsoft's problem is with the latter. Niether Google Play nor Windows Marketplace nor Amazon nor RIM force all developers on their platform to give 30% of everything sold within their apps.
Apple has NOTHING TO DO with providing SkyDrive service to Microsoft's customers, yet they are demanding that Microsoft give them a 30% cut of it merely to have an app on their platform.
But if you want to reach 90%+ of all devices you'll have it on the play store.
Humble Bundle seems to be doing just fine bypassing the Play store (and Google's fees) entirely.
Of which very few people are going to ever do.
Again, this is what Humble Bundle does.
Nope. Google prohibits using 3rd party payment processors for in-app purchases. Google is acting no different than Apple.
Again, this is only for apps sold via the Play Store. You're welcome to bypass the Google ecosystem entirely. And they take a very small percentage of the transaction, which is more in line with typical credit card fees, nowhere near close to the 30% Apple charges.
Google is acting nothing like Apple.
Amen!! Forget sharks, I want a goddamn pigeon-eating catfish with a laser on its head!
This is the problem that Nexus devices are designed to solve. You get updates directly from Google as soon as they're released; no carrier to get in the way. (Well, unless you're on a CDMA carrier, since they still withhold the signed CDMA drivers. Which is why Google has stopped releasing CDMA versions of Nexus devices).
So buy a Nexus device directly from Google Play, hook it up to an uber-cheap T-Mobile prepaid plan, and you'll be up-to-date for as long as your hardware can physically run the latest version of Android.
It's based on a business technique that's as old as the hills: Give away free stuff to crush the competition until people become dependent on your free stuff, then you put on the squeeze. Google is just a private company trying to make money, not freaking Santa Clause
You put on the squeeze by... letting them keep using it for free? No one is being "squeezed" here; people who aren't using it already aren't dependent on it either.
I used to run all my own email etc. on a server in my house, but a year or so ago I moved it all onto a 'google apps for business' account.
A year ago?? Good Lord man, how did you put up with it for so long? I ran my own SMTP server until about 10 years ago but between constant break-in attempts, keeping on top of the latest spam-filtering techniques, outgoing mail not getting delivered because of the # of hosts that just silently drop email from residential IPs... it just wasn't worth it.
Specifically to your post though, with the rate at which they're integrating Google+ and Circles into all their web apps, I imagine that's their solution for families who want to have "trusted groups" of users. Yeah you don't have the admin control though which is a shame.
I don't really enjoy telling some random company out there that I'm currently trying to find a condom and doggy treats. Especially if they don't know that I have to occupy my dog somehow while I have someone in my bed so he doesn't bark, it kinda kills my mood.
But now you just told the whole world you date guys who like to bark like a dog in bed? Kind of a strange way to make a case for privacy. Wait, let me read that again...
Ten feet from where I am sitting right now, a man is watching videos of packaging machines in operation and drawing the mechanisms on a CAD program. He is in the R&D department.
Using a fully licensed copy of AutoCAD, no doubt.
When it comes to mobile phones, the US market is highly controlled and restricted, the China market is open. Yes, you heard that correctly: communist China's market is much more open than capitalist US's market. In China, like most of the rest of the world outside the US, you buy a phone, and then you buy a subscription to a network. They don't come bundled. So it's much easier for newcomers to put a model on the market - they don't need to care about having a carrier's blessing.
You can do the same thing here in the U.S on GSM carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile being the big ones). You don't need the "carrier's blessing" to put any phone on their network. Now for whatever reason most people seem to prefer subsidized phones but that's a different matter.
But it's still the free market at play, not some nefarious "control & restrictions". Anyone can buy a top of the line Android phone for $300 and use it contract free on whatever network they choose. If more people did that then you'd see more carriers promote that model but as long as people willingly choose to support carrier lock-in (because it lets you pay slightly less up front) that's what we're stuck with.
Sounds like 2013 will be the year of the Windows desktop!
I've wished for a long time that Google would buy T-Mobile. I'm wondering if they'll take a major stake in them once they go public as a separate entity as a result of their merger with MetroPCS. Here's hoping...