Ubuntu Feisty: Go to opera.com, download the Windows installer. (This is chosen automatically, so you just have to click 'Download' on the front page, and then 'Download Opera' on the next page.) Save it to the desktop. Double click on the new file on the desktop. Click... No wait,
You really are a fscking moron. Aside from it being simpler to install on Linux from the applications menu, it's easier than Windows on the Opera website. I go to the Opera website and click download and it immediately comes up with: "Opera 9.23 for Linux i386" and has "Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn" already selected.
Guess what it has correctly detected from Firefox that I am running Linux on the Intel 32 bit architecture and have Ubuntu Feisty Fawn installed. So all I have to do now is hit the download button and I get a new little package icon on the desktop. So I now double click on it and the Gdebi installer starts. I click on the Install Package button and it installs.
The Novell OOo group have already produced a plugin in for docx. The reports on it are that it doesn't work very well yet. Currently it is supposed to only work with the Novell hacked version of OOo, but the Novell people as part of OOo are working on a filter as part of the next official release of OOo.
There is a port of the Novell plugin for Ubuntu Feisty at Getdeb:
I have installed it and tried it out on various random.docx files I have been able to find on the web. The results have varied from total failure (nothing is imported) through poor (formatting is obviously screwed up) to excellent (results look perfect even if I haven't got the Office2007 available to compare the result).
It is more than hot enough in Ontario in the summer. The reason it is legal in Ontario is about ten years ago the police tried to prosecute a women for walking down the street topless. She defended it on the constitutional grounds that since men are allowed to walk down the street topless that it was sex discrimination for women not to be able to do the same. She won her case and that is why it is legal.
That being said I have yet to see a women topless in public here in Ontario. Unlike London, England where I lived in the eighties and it was not uncommon to see women sunbathing topless in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.
It still makes no sense. What is "observer". When is a system complex enough to be called observer. If I shoot the observation with a camera, the "interpretation" says this video is undefined until I see it. But if someone else sees it and I don't see it, is it collapsed? What if he dies after he observed and before he told me.
You see where this is heading. Mind has nothing to do with this. Macro and micro systems is where it's at
You still don't get it. The scenario you describe is a variant of one known as "Wigner's friend" (google it). Yes it does show the absurdity of the official physics community interpretation of quantum mechanics, known as the Copenhagen Interpretation proposed by Bohr and Heisenberg and opposed by Einstein and Schrodinger.
I, like you, don't believe it and I too believe that "Macro and micro systems is where it's at". The study of the interaction of a quantum system (microsystem) with its environment (macrosystem) a process known as decoherence has been widely studied over the last couple of decades. Many physicists argue that the mathematics of this process leads inevitably to some form of the many worlds interpretation. Among those physicists we can probably include as a shortlist:
David Deutsch, Max Tegmark, Martin Rees, Frank Wilczek, Bryce DeWitt and Steven Weinberg and many others. This is not intended as an arguement from authority but to demostrate that the offical view on the interpretation of quantum mechanics is rejected by a number of leading physicists including several Nobel prizewinners who support a many worlds interpretation.
I would argue that the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum is the only real alternative to state vector collapse that does not involve new and unkown physics (like Roger Penrose's OR hypothesis) and to the absurdity of the Copenhagen Interpretation that abolishes physical reality. The Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is the only alternative for a physical realist who believes in the existence of external reality.
Many people mix those up. Our "mind" doesn't have anything to do with it.
Wrong as far as Bohr and Heisenberg argued in the "Official" Copenhagen interpretation it the act of observation by an observer i.e. a human mind that causes the wave function to collapse.
The wave function collapses when a particle interacts with a macrosystem. When two macrosystems are separate from each other, we have to assume the other macrosystem is not coherent with us until contact.
Modern decoherence theory which examines the interaction of a quantum system with its environment or macrosystem, explains why the quantum superpositions that constitute the off diagonal elements of the density matrix are destroyed leaving the the diagonal states which are quasi classical states equivalent to the real world. We therefore have to treat these states as ontologically equal. Thus we arrive at the many worlds. If you wish to recover external reality you have to accept the many worlds interpretation.
Only every single one I've ever worked for. Some government offices here in Canada also provide PDF forms
The multinational corporation I work for doesn't. I have yet to receive a government PDF form here in Canada.
The Evince developers are working on a form filling function for it. So I hope I never have the need to install Acrobat Reader on my home Linux system. At work on XP I use Foxit reader as my Acrobat Reader installation is so fucked up.
Linus's father was a Finnish communist journalist and a leading figure in the Communist Party of Finland who spent a lot of time living in Russia. I gather from Linus's book that these long absences in part contributed to the break up of his parents marriage.
Vista isn't the most popular operating system, XP is. The point is however that they should implement a non proprietary cross platform player without out releasing it for any "preferred" platform first. In these days of cross platform internet applications and cross platform development toolkits there is no reseaon to release a player that is designed first for a specific operating system and then later on whim ported to other operating systems
To Noam Chomsky, it's probably true that CNN is very conservative. On his own scale, he's the zero point, and CNN is right of him, and Fox even further right of that.
Noam Chomsky is to the right of me and most people I respect. I guess you must be to the right of Attila the Hen.
All the humans whose genomes have been studied studied by molecular geneticists have ancestors. For all of the hominid and pongid fossils studied by paleoanthopologists, there is no direct evidence that they have contemporary descendants.
Paleoanthropologists can be very subjective over the interpretation of teeth (qua the controversy over the interpretation of the "Peking Man" Homo erectus teeth". Here the don't even have any bones let alone a full specimen they only have a few teeth. I personally place more reliance on the objective scientific methods of the molecular geneticists than than the subjective guess work of the paleontologists. I still think that a recent split in the hominid and ape lines about six million years ago is the most probable scenario. There is not the slightest evidence for hominids before that date but but there is plenty of evidence for hominids younger than five million years old.
And you ignore that three of the four experiments were negative, and the one that was positive could be explained through a nonliving process.
Wrong two experiments were negative, one inconclusive (positive both on sample and sterilized control) and one positive. The pyrolytic release experiment was specific for photosynthetic organism so its negative result does not necessarily conflict with a positive result for the labeled release experiment which was conducted in the dark.
None of the non-living chemistries proposed to explain the lr results could reproduce the observed Martian lr results. The lr result alone together with all the subsequent testing on lunar samples, antarctic cores and alternative chemistries is enough to be categorized as evidence for life on Mars.
As for the GCMS results, as an analytical chemist who has spent the past 32 years working with GCMS systems, I am yet to be convinced that Viking GCMS systems were either sensitive enough or reliably functional enough to exclude the presence of microbial life on Mars. Everything since the Viking expedition, the new knowledge about the ubiquitous spread of extremophile microorganisms on earth, the evidence for widespread surface water in the past on Mars and evidence for the existence of liquid phase water currently on Mars all support the likelihood of the presence of microbial life on Mars. It is time to check it out properly and send a chiral labeled release experiment there.
Yes I am a analytical chemist who had just started working with GCMS systems then, at that time Professor Klaus Bieman was regarded as an almost god like figure by those of us involved in gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, the hyphenated technique he founded and he was a figure of great stature in the chemistry community overall. Dr. Gilbert Levin on the other hand was a scientist/entrepreneur little known outside the specialist area of environmental engineering where he developed the labeled release technique.
The chemists were determined to prove that if their experiment couldn't show the existence of life on Mars no-one else's experiment could and they used their considerable pull in the academic community to influence the outcome of the debate.
Also I believe Levin has suggested that there may have been fundamentalist Christians in positions of influence in NASA at the time who held deep theological opinions against the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
He certainly seemed to be fighting against heavy odds. It not only
has to be viewed as a huge strategic failure of the US space effort but also as a failure of the science community to work in the objective manner it is supposed to.
I could never understand why one of the biological researchers didn't just say, "we have detected life, by our published criteria, but we don't understand it." However, none did.
Dr. Gilbert Levin leader of the labeled release experiment did just that:
For years Dr. Gilbert Levin, leader of the labeled release biology experiment of the Viking project. Has been arguing that the experiment produced strong evidence for life on Mars.
In 1997 he presented a paper showing that after 21 years of study of the data he felt that:
Objective application of the scientific process to 21 years of continued research and to new developments on Mars and Earth forced this conclusion. Of all the many hypotheses offered over the years to explain the LR Mars results, the only possibility fitting all the relevant data is that microbial life exists in the top layer of the Martian surface.
The main argument against Levin's conclusions was that the Viking lander's Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) experiment showed no evidence for the presence of organic compounds in the Martian soil. As an analytical chemist who has worked in the field of GCMS since before the time of the Viking probes, I have my doubts about the Viking GCMS experiment having enough sensitivity and reliability to exclude the low level presence of organic material in the Martian soil.
In 2000, Dr. Steven A. Benner published a paper concluding that the Viking GCMS was insensitive to certain organic molecules including those left behind by any microbial life that might have been on Mars. At the same time Dr Joseph Miller reanalyzed the original Viking labelled release experiment data and concluded that it showed circadian rhythms thus supporting the case for Martian life.
Now Joop Houtkooper proposes further evidence that Levin was right. I think Levin will go down in scientific history like Wigner the proposer of the continental drift theory in the 1920's, as a researcher whose ideas were scorned by large sections of the scientific community at the time, but that were eventually proved right.
Are you saying that Washington or Jefferson were bad presidents because they believed in creationism?
You ignore the minor point of fact that Washington and Jefferson were dead when Darwin and Wallace proposed the theory of evolution, consequently they could not have an alternative to believing in creationism at that time.
Jefferson held the most advanced religious views of the time. He was a deist not a theist and was a unitarian. That is he did not believe in a personal god but rather a god that defined the initial laws of the universe and set it in motion. After that everything worked on the basis of god given physical law. Consequently Jefferson's religious belief would not have contradicted the theory of evolution.
If Jefferson had still been alive at the time Darwin first proposed the theory, I am sure he would have bee a supporter.
I work for a small to medium size multinational corporation, about 10,000 desktops world wide. We have not installed the MS OOXML converter plugin. Why ? I guess there is no demand for it. No one from outside the company has sent me an email with a.docx attachment. Mostly I get pdf's with the occasional.doc file
For those interested in why the tornado in a junkyard assembling a 747 is a useless analogy for the process of evolution, the simple explanation is that evolution works by a ratcheting effect: improvements are made one tiny step at a time, in sequence, for a cumulative effect of complexity
Ironically the "junkyard assembling a 747" analogy is applicable to Hoyle and Wikramsinghe's hypothesis that viral pandemics are due to viruses from space. Since there is no pathogen host co-evolution, there is no evolutionary rachet effect. The space evolved "virus" has to be randomly "lucky" to act as a pathogen to a complex organism that has not evolved to infect.
Wikramsinghe has made a contribution to scientific knowledge in his work showing that organic molecules are widespread in space. Unfortunately though he is a distinguished scholar in mathematics, physics and astronomy he and the late Sir Fred Hoyle have not have even a basic understanding of biology. Both the evolution of life from abiogenic materials on earth and in space in comets are possible and not totally mutually exclusive hypotheses. But to claim that the evidence points extremely strongly to life on earth having evolved from cometary origins is highly contentious to say the least.
Warning Pedantry Alert - Tongue Troopers (Yes I am Canadian) in action!
Arent all those les afaire capitalists complaining about arbitrary limitation of the market forces?
You can have all "les afaire" you want but in this context it is "laissez faire" literally "let do". I guess you are one of those people still eating "freedom fries".
I wasn't aware of that, but 0.1c/year on average would almost certainly require FTL. See there aren't many (any?) of habitable planets within 10 ly, so to even get this colonization going you're going to need FTL.
100 year 20 light year hop at 0.2c, 100 year colonization and preparation before next hop. Average rate of expansion 0.1c. No FTL required.
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You really are a fscking moron. Aside from it being simpler to install on Linux from the applications menu, it's easier than Windows on the Opera website. I go to the Opera website and click download and it immediately comes up with: "Opera 9.23 for Linux i386" and has "Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn" already selected.
Guess what it has correctly detected from Firefox that I am running Linux on the Intel 32 bit architecture and have Ubuntu Feisty Fawn installed. So all I have to do now is hit the download button and I get a new little package icon on the desktop. So I now double click on it and the Gdebi installer starts. I click on the Install Package button and it installs.
Simple eh?
There is a port of the Novell plugin for Ubuntu Feisty at Getdeb:
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=OpenOffice.org+OpenXML+Translator
I have installed it and tried it out on various random .docx files I have been able to find on the web. The results have varied from total failure (nothing is imported) through poor (formatting is obviously screwed up) to excellent (results look perfect even if I haven't got the Office2007 available to compare the result).
That being said I have yet to see a women topless in public here in Ontario. Unlike London, England where I lived in the eighties and it was not uncommon to see women sunbathing topless in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.
You still don't get it. The scenario you describe is a variant of one known as "Wigner's friend" (google it). Yes it does show the absurdity of the official physics community interpretation of quantum mechanics, known as the Copenhagen Interpretation proposed by Bohr and Heisenberg and opposed by Einstein and Schrodinger.
I, like you, don't believe it and I too believe that "Macro and micro systems is where it's at". The study of the interaction of a quantum system (microsystem) with its environment (macrosystem) a process known as decoherence has been widely studied over the last couple of decades. Many physicists argue that the mathematics of this process leads inevitably to some form of the many worlds interpretation. Among those physicists we can probably include as a shortlist:
David Deutsch, Max Tegmark, Martin Rees, Frank Wilczek, Bryce DeWitt and Steven Weinberg and many others. This is not intended as an arguement from authority but to demostrate that the offical view on the interpretation of quantum mechanics is rejected by a number of leading physicists including several Nobel prizewinners who support a many worlds interpretation.
I would argue that the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum is the only real alternative to state vector collapse that does not involve new and unkown physics (like Roger Penrose's OR hypothesis) and to the absurdity of the Copenhagen Interpretation that abolishes physical reality. The Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is the only alternative for a physical realist who believes in the existence of external reality.
Wrong as far as Bohr and Heisenberg argued in the "Official" Copenhagen interpretation it the act of observation by an observer i.e. a human mind that causes the wave function to collapse.
Modern decoherence theory which examines the interaction of a quantum system with its environment or macrosystem, explains why the quantum superpositions that constitute the off diagonal elements of the density matrix are destroyed leaving the the diagonal states which are quasi classical states equivalent to the real world. We therefore have to treat these states as ontologically equal. Thus we arrive at the many worlds. If you wish to recover external reality you have to accept the many worlds interpretation.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2593
If you really want your mind blown try reading this paper by Tegmark:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646
The Mathematical Universe
The multinational corporation I work for doesn't. I have yet to receive a government PDF form here in Canada.
The Evince developers are working on a form filling function for it. So I hope I never have the need to install Acrobat Reader on my home Linux system. At work on XP I use Foxit reader as my Acrobat Reader installation is so fucked up.
Linus's father was a Finnish communist journalist and a leading figure in the Communist Party of Finland who spent a lot of time living in Russia. I gather from Linus's book that these long absences in part contributed to the break up of his parents marriage.
\. is for Windows users while /. is for *nix users.
Vista isn't the most popular operating system, XP is. The point is however that they should implement a non proprietary cross platform player without out releasing it for any "preferred" platform first. In these days of cross platform internet applications and cross platform development toolkits there is no reseaon to release a player that is designed first for a specific operating system and then later on whim ported to other operating systems
Wrong
Swedes are more intelligent (and better looking) than americans. So I guess the Swedish grandma wouldn't have much problem.
https://www.linux-foundation.org/images/6/6e/Dam4_ google.pdf
The shitty looking fonts on the web page are due to poor scaling of the original images that are linked from Phoronix:
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=751&image=goo gle_new_preview
where the fonts still look good.
Noam Chomsky is to the right of me and most people I respect. I guess you must be to the right of Attila the Hen.
Paleoanthropologists can be very subjective over the interpretation of teeth (qua the controversy over the interpretation of the "Peking Man" Homo erectus teeth". Here the don't even have any bones let alone a full specimen they only have a few teeth. I personally place more reliance on the objective scientific methods of the molecular geneticists than than the subjective guess work of the paleontologists. I still think that a recent split in the hominid and ape lines about six million years ago is the most probable scenario. There is not the slightest evidence for hominids before that date but but there is plenty of evidence for hominids younger than five million years old.
Wrong two experiments were negative, one inconclusive (positive both on sample and sterilized control) and one positive. The pyrolytic release experiment was specific for photosynthetic organism so its negative result does not necessarily conflict with a positive result for the labeled release experiment which was conducted in the dark.
None of the non-living chemistries proposed to explain the lr results could reproduce the observed Martian lr results. The lr result alone together with all the subsequent testing on lunar samples, antarctic cores and alternative chemistries is enough to be categorized as evidence for life on Mars.
As for the GCMS results, as an analytical chemist who has spent the past 32 years working with GCMS systems, I am yet to be convinced that Viking GCMS systems were either sensitive enough or reliably functional enough to exclude the presence of microbial life on Mars. Everything since the Viking expedition, the new knowledge about the ubiquitous spread of extremophile microorganisms on earth, the evidence for widespread surface water in the past on Mars and evidence for the existence of liquid phase water currently on Mars all support the likelihood of the presence of microbial life on Mars. It is time to check it out properly and send a chiral labeled release experiment there.
The chemists were determined to prove that if their experiment couldn't show the existence of life on Mars no-one else's experiment could and they used their considerable pull in the academic community to influence the outcome of the debate.
Also I believe Levin has suggested that there may have been fundamentalist Christians in positions of influence in NASA at the time who held deep theological opinions against the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
He certainly seemed to be fighting against heavy odds. It not only
has to be viewed as a huge strategic failure of the US space effort but also as a failure of the science community to work in the objective manner it is supposed to.Dr. Gilbert Levin leader of the labeled release experiment did just that:
http://mars.spherix.com/
http://mars.spherix.com/
In 1997 he presented a paper showing that after 21 years of study of the data he felt that:
The main argument against Levin's conclusions was that the Viking lander's Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) experiment showed no evidence for the presence of organic compounds in the Martian soil. As an analytical chemist who has worked in the field of GCMS since before the time of the Viking probes, I have my doubts about the Viking GCMS experiment having enough sensitivity and reliability to exclude the low level presence of organic material in the Martian soil.
In 2000, Dr. Steven A. Benner published a paper concluding that the Viking GCMS was insensitive to certain organic molecules including those left behind by any microbial life that might have been on Mars. At the same time Dr Joseph Miller reanalyzed the original Viking labelled release experiment data and concluded that it showed circadian rhythms thus supporting the case for Martian life.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-life-00g.html
Now Joop Houtkooper proposes further evidence that Levin was right. I think Levin will go down in scientific history like Wigner the proposer of the continental drift theory in the 1920's, as a researcher whose ideas were scorned by large sections of the scientific community at the time, but that were eventually proved right.
You ignore the minor point of fact that Washington and Jefferson were dead when Darwin and Wallace proposed the theory of evolution, consequently they could not have an alternative to believing in creationism at that time.
Jefferson held the most advanced religious views of the time. He was a deist not a theist and was a unitarian. That is he did not believe in a personal god but rather a god that defined the initial laws of the universe and set it in motion. After that everything worked on the basis of god given physical law. Consequently Jefferson's religious belief would not have contradicted the theory of evolution.
If Jefferson had still been alive at the time Darwin first proposed the theory, I am sure he would have bee a supporter.
I work for a small to medium size multinational corporation, about 10,000 desktops world wide. We have not installed the MS OOXML converter plugin. Why ? I guess there is no demand for it. No one from outside the company has sent me an email with a .docx attachment. Mostly I get pdf's with the occasional .doc file
Ironically the "junkyard assembling a 747" analogy is applicable to Hoyle and Wikramsinghe's hypothesis that viral pandemics are due to viruses from space. Since there is no pathogen host co-evolution, there is no evolutionary rachet effect. The space evolved "virus" has to be randomly "lucky" to act as a pathogen to a complex organism that has not evolved to infect.
Wikramsinghe has made a contribution to scientific knowledge in his work showing that organic molecules are widespread in space. Unfortunately though he is a distinguished scholar in mathematics, physics and astronomy he and the late Sir Fred Hoyle have not have even a basic understanding of biology. Both the evolution of life from abiogenic materials on earth and in space in comets are possible and not totally mutually exclusive hypotheses. But to claim that the evidence points extremely strongly to life on earth having evolved from cometary origins is highly contentious to say the least.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
You can have all "les afaire" you want but in this context it is "laissez faire" literally "let do". I guess you are one of those people still eating "freedom fries".
100 year 20 light year hop at 0.2c, 100 year colonization and preparation before next hop. Average rate of expansion 0.1c. No FTL required.