Yet I have yet to see somebody find any credible transitional animals
Australopithecus afarensis, Homo erectus, and many of the increasingly rich finds of hominid fossils. Intelligent design is the blind leading the blind.
What I understand by 'theistic evolution' is that evolution proceeds naturally, but that God intervenes from time to time to adjust its direction, like an alien with a Monolith, with some ultimate aim in mind.
There is a more rigorous form of 'theistic evolution' which takes into account quantum mechanics. From quantum theory we know that the world we live in is one of many possible worlds and that there are many possible futures. There are three possible explanations for this. The first is that the universe if fundamentally stochastic and governed by chance this is essentially Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation. The second approach is that all possible universes are physically real which is the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The third approach is that God chooses which of the possible worlds is made manifest.
The third position is quite rational and consistent with modern science and does give rise to a 'theistic evolution'. It is quite different from intelligent design which is the last refuge of those that have a primitive and fundamentalist theology but who are sophisticated enough to try to pass it of as "science".
By the way there is a combination of the last two interpretations that leads to a modern form of Bishop Berkeley,s idealist philosophy and can be summed up in popular terms that we are living in God's matrix. The interesting question is are these different approaches mere metaphysics or do they ultimately lead to experimental tests. In which case an experiment to determine the existence of God would be possible.
Exactly - I have Firefox 2.0 RC2 installed on my Dapper system and use it instead of the default Firefox 1.5.0.7. I will always install the latest Firefox version before Ubuntu gets around to releasing an update
It comes with Firefox, Abiword, Gimp, Gnumeric, Ekiga for videoconferencing, email, internet messaging, Xine for multimedia etc. in a pretty complete stack which uses 168 MB of the 512 MB Flash memory leaving 344 MB for your personal files that you don't want to store online. It has three graphical interfaces:
Easy: For beginners with large functional icons for areas of interest. Ergo: Designed for kids Expert: For the computer literate and with an OSX type dock that looks a bit like E17.
It shoul fill the old minitel niche, which was itself very cool in its day. And of course it can be used a an internet telephone. Oh and if anything goes wrong people won't blame Linux - they will use the free online support "Docteur Ordinateur" where they will remotely diagnose and repair your system.
I agree wholeheartedly. I find it infuriating that OOo doesn't support SVG. As a chemist I often prepare drawings of molecules and reaction pathways from specialist programs whose best output is in SVG. At least Abiword with a plugin inserts SVG graphics with a plugin that internally converts them to PNG. Not an optimal solution since they don't scale as they internally as bitmaps, but still its better than nothing.
I just ripped the Long Blondes - Separated by Motorways remix mp3 from MySpace. I just used the VideoDownloader extension for Firefox. Rips sound as well as video. Should work as well in Windows as it does in Linux
"if someone would make a ubuntu package and drop it in the repository that is called "fix ubuntu multimedia" that had everything in it and all the tweaks it would absolutely rock."
Besides, what sort of freakshow would rather run Windows NT 3.51 on MIPs over Linux? The most sophisticated piece of software that is likely to run on such a system is notepad.exe.
There is always someone who will do it and when asked why will reply:
Pink Floyd music has long degenerated form its early pre fame level into boring pretentious dinofart crap. Anyone who treats their pointless garbage as art is descending into a mire of their own filth.
I write this as someone who saw Pink Floyd in '67 before anyone had heard of them and they were still innovative.
Thats all I have to say.
One place to find people with management skills is at a label. They'll take care of calling radio stations for airplay, sending promotional versions out, arrange tour dates, and getting your name known in the business. All you have to do is be creative.
Wrong the aim of the big labels is not to promote creativity but stifle it. They are only interested in producing "product" and ripping off artists. They try to force artists in to producing what they regard as fitting into a percieved market. Their aim is to destroy any creativity the band has.
As for getting radio plays on mainstream corporate radio - they don't play anything new now anyway. The only place on air to hear new music nowadays are the college radio stations
The real reason for the rejection of evolution among a large section of the US population was recognized by the band Devo in the 1970's, for many in the US evelution has gone into reverse and they are descended from more evolved beings called humans. The proof of this can be seen in the simian appearance and behavour of their president.
At the time, Libranet were doing the same but did much less. Xandros came along later, Lindows/Linspire bought code from Xandros. The annoying thing is that they didn't release a WP / Corel Draw etc. for "vanilla" Debian or Red Hat.
Xandros is the continuation of Corel Linux. The company was formed by the Corel Linux OS people who formed the company after Microsoft made Corel "an offer it can't refuse" and Corel shutdown its Linux operation. I had an rpm of Wordperfect 8 that came with Caldera Openlinux. It later installed fine on Red Hat and Mandrake after installing the libc5 libraries.
Corel is a Canadian company based in Ottawa and founded by Dr. Michael Cowpland back in 1985. He was a flamboyant combination of computer scientist and entrepreneur. The company became a great success in the late 80's with Corel draw but into the nineties it began to falter. It tried to expand its product base by buying Wordperfect. Cowpland then came to the view that way forward was to become the major Linux commercial software company. The Corel Linux distribution was developed and and WP and Corel Draw were ported to Linux. As I remember it they also developed the interesting Netwinder Linux based network appliance.
The company faced increasing financial problems, probably more part due to financial mismanagement than due to the Linux division. Michael Cowpland was forced out after MS made an offer to inject a large amount of money into the company. Corel dropped Linux and Cowpland was later charged with insider trading. I think in the end he made a large multimillion dollar settlement the largest in Canadian history for insider trading.
Xandros with the only successful spin off from its Linux division.
RTF comment - He knows that. he is talking about the commercial arrangements with IBM as a major purchaser of Lenovo laptops and desktops.
In addition since IBM sets up deals with companies purchasing IBM servers and services, IBM is in a position to give recommendations on the sourcing of desktop and laptop purchasing.
They bundle has an integrated Gecko engine together with the patched Wine and the Picassa binary in the release. The Gecko engine is presumably to replace the IE5+ requirement.
In Europe, there are still some old social rules that you cannot patronize certain restaurants if a member of the lower class even if you can afford to go there.
You have obviously never visited Europe let alone lived there. The reasons why Europeans and most people in the world hate America (i.e. the US administation and its military/industrial complex) is because of its attempt to unilaterally control the entire world. This has involved over the past century the US killing millions of innocent civilians putting, it on a par with Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia.
Europeans don't hate americans, in fact they even quite like individual americans. However europeans have a contempt and pity for a lot of americans as the widespread hypocrisy and double standards applied by the US administration is reflected in the views of a lot of americans. These americans are stupid enough to blame their own problems on "liberalism" rather than on US capitalism and imperialism.
Out in the rest of the world (the real world) a lot of people are out fighting the real evil "liberalism" that is the neoliberalism which is the ideology behind the global economic policies promoted by US capitalism.
So to sum up we don't really hate you we just pity you.
New Labour is not even leftish or centre left. It's leaders are bunch of neocon war criminals just like their masters' in the US administration. When I lived in Britain I was a Labour Patry member. If I still lived there I would have burned my party card on the day they joined in the illegal invasion of Iraq.
My only beef with Linux distributions is the bloat of useless apps included with the distro. Why do I need five CDs to install the operating system when Windows XP only takes one?
The first "open a shell" in there is a showstopper. End of installation. So, you say you don't need tutorials, you just pop the installation CD in and the graphical installer does it all.
Exactly you don't need to "open a shell" to install Mandrake.
Well, go to a home banking website and witness what being in a fringe group means when they reject your not-so-IE browser (this is improving, admittedly)
Yes it is getting better. Here in Canada most home banking sites will work with Firefox on Linux. The Canadian Government is different, many of their sites are deliberately blocking Linux even though they are using Java technologies that should be cross platform (deliberate deprivation of civil rights).
Watch a CSS-encrypted DVD.
Imstall the software from PLF (as easy as installing Windows software) and you have no problem.
Open a Word document (without having to completely recreate the formatting)
Never had to reformat a Word document sent to me, when I open it in OpenOffice 2.0x
Would Airbus try to bring the A380 to market if it couldn't sell to the good ol' USA? Probably not--wouldn't make the initial R & D outlay back.
As of April 6 2005 of the 159 orders placed for A380 Airbus aicraft, only 30 were for US airlines. This is about proportional to the the US's economic weight in the world, about 20% of the global economy. So I guess we don't need you and that Airbus would have gone ahead as a project even if there was no US.
Perhaps you didn't notice but the companies that complained to the EC about MS's anti-competitive activities, Oracle, Sun, Novell and Real are all US ones.
This is not about the EC being anti-american, it is about them trying to enforce european laws on competition. They are not that different from US anti-trust laws under which MS has been found guilty as an illegal monopoly. The US has the best justice system money can buy so MS bought a slap on the wrist. Europe is merely going where the US courts should have gone in trying provide redress for MS's anti-competitive practices.
Since this is a major integrated desktop and server deployment. It is an interesting question to ask is RH using its stateless Linux technology. It seems to me that the adoption of the approach is one factor that can drive a Windows to Linux desktop migration as is happening with LIC. The Fedora Project defines stateless Linux as:
The Stateless Linux project is an OS-wide initiative to ensure that Fedora computers can be set up as replaceable appliances, with no important local state.
For example, a system administrator can set up a network of hundreds of desktop client machines as clones of a master system, and be sure that all of them are kept synchronised whenever he or she updates the master system. We provide several technologies for doing this.
This is an obvious improvement over the situation now when a legion of MCSE services the networked MS Windows fat (in fact boated or obese) clients. By adopting this technology a large corporation can avoid the even greater bloat that will be enforced by the Vista upgrade.
It seems to me that there are three major approaches to the forthcoming corporate migrations to the Linux desktop by those corporations forward looking enough to want to avoid the cost and dislocations of the upcoming upgrades to Vista and who at the same time want to make cost savings and improve IT efficiency.
1. There is the Novell approach which is to replace the Windows fat client by a better more cost effective Linux fat client, i.e. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.
2. There is the IBM approach which uses a Java Rich Client Platform (the Eclipse RCP) that is OS agnostic and which allows a smooth transition from Windows to Linux. This involves the Websphere based Workplace technology, the OOo based IBM productivity editors and new Hannover Notes client which runs natively on Linux.
3. Finally there is the RH stateless Linux approach outlined above.
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Australopithecus afarensis, Homo erectus, and many of the increasingly rich finds of hominid fossils. Intelligent design is the blind leading the blind.
There is a more rigorous form of 'theistic evolution' which takes into account quantum mechanics. From quantum theory we know that the world we live in is one of many possible worlds and that there are many possible futures. There are three possible explanations for this. The first is that the universe if fundamentally stochastic and governed by chance this is essentially Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation. The second approach is that all possible universes are physically real which is the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The third approach is that God chooses which of the possible worlds is made manifest.
The third position is quite rational and consistent with modern science and does give rise to a 'theistic evolution'. It is quite different from intelligent design which is the last refuge of those that have a primitive and fundamentalist theology but who are sophisticated enough to try to pass it of as "science".
By the way there is a combination of the last two interpretations that leads to a modern form of Bishop Berkeley,s idealist philosophy and can be summed up in popular terms that we are living in God's matrix. The interesting question is are these different approaches mere metaphysics or do they ultimately lead to experimental tests. In which case an experiment to determine the existence of God would be possible.
Exactly - I have Firefox 2.0 RC2 installed on my Dapper system and use it instead of the default Firefox 1.5.0.7. I will always install the latest Firefox version before Ubuntu gets around to releasing an update
This is not pathetic it is a cool appliance.
u f.html
It comes with Firefox, Abiword, Gimp, Gnumeric, Ekiga for videoconferencing, email, internet messaging, Xine for multimedia etc. in a pretty complete stack which uses 168 MB of the 512 MB Flash memory leaving 344 MB for your personal files that you don't want to store online. It has three graphical interfaces:
Easy: For beginners with large functional icons for areas of interest.
Ergo: Designed for kids
Expert: For the computer literate and with an OSX type dock that looks a bit like E17.
http://www.easyneuf.fr/flash/presentation_easy_ne
It shoul fill the old minitel niche, which was itself very cool in its day. And of course it can be used a an internet telephone. Oh and if anything goes wrong people won't blame Linux - they will use the free online support "Docteur Ordinateur" where they will remotely diagnose and repair your system.
I agree wholeheartedly. I find it infuriating that OOo doesn't support SVG. As a chemist I often prepare drawings of molecules and reaction pathways from specialist programs whose best output is in SVG. At least Abiword with a plugin inserts SVG graphics with a plugin that internally converts them to PNG. Not an optimal solution since they don't scale as they internally as bitmaps, but still its better than nothing.
I just ripped the Long Blondes - Separated by Motorways remix mp3 from MySpace. I just used the VideoDownloader extension for Firefox. Rips sound as well as video. Should work as well in Windows as it does in Linux
"if someone would make a ubuntu package and drop it in the repository that is called "fix ubuntu multimedia" that had everything in it and all the tweaks it would absolutely rock."
Google Easyubuntu
There is always someone who will do it and when asked why will reply:
"bacause I can!"
Pink Floyd music has long degenerated form its early pre fame level into boring pretentious dinofart crap. Anyone who treats their pointless garbage as art is descending into a mire of their own filth. I write this as someone who saw Pink Floyd in '67 before anyone had heard of them and they were still innovative. Thats all I have to say.
Wrong the aim of the big labels is not to promote creativity but stifle it. They are only interested in producing "product" and ripping off artists. They try to force artists in to producing what they regard as fitting into a percieved market. Their aim is to destroy any creativity the band has.
As for getting radio plays on mainstream corporate radio - they don't play anything new now anyway. The only place on air to hear new music nowadays are the college radio stations
The real reason for the rejection of evolution among a large section of the US population was recognized by the band Devo in the 1970's, for many in the US evelution has gone into reverse and they are descended from more evolved beings called humans. The proof of this can be seen in the simian appearance and behavour of their president.
Oh so you mean the Mac fad is over now. Thats my view too.
Xandros is the continuation of Corel Linux. The company was formed by the Corel Linux OS people who formed the company after Microsoft made Corel "an offer it can't refuse" and Corel shutdown its Linux operation. I had an rpm of Wordperfect 8 that came with Caldera Openlinux. It later installed fine on Red Hat and Mandrake after installing the libc5 libraries.
Corel is a Canadian company based in Ottawa and founded by Dr. Michael Cowpland back in 1985. He was a flamboyant combination of computer scientist and entrepreneur. The company became a great success in the late 80's with Corel draw but into the nineties it began to falter. It tried to expand its product base by buying Wordperfect. Cowpland then came to the view that way forward was to become the major Linux commercial software company. The Corel Linux distribution was developed and and WP and Corel Draw were ported to Linux. As I remember it they also developed the interesting Netwinder Linux based network appliance.
The company faced increasing financial problems, probably more part due to financial mismanagement than due to the Linux division. Michael Cowpland was forced out after MS made an offer to inject a large amount of money into the company. Corel dropped Linux and Cowpland was later charged with insider trading. I think in the end he made a large multimillion dollar settlement the largest in Canadian history for insider trading.
Xandros with the only successful spin off from its Linux division.
RTF comment - He knows that. he is talking about the commercial arrangements with IBM as a major purchaser of Lenovo laptops and desktops.
In addition since IBM sets up deals with companies purchasing IBM servers and services, IBM is in a position to give recommendations on the sourcing of desktop and laptop purchasing.
They bundle has an integrated Gecko engine together with the patched Wine and the Picassa binary in the release. The Gecko engine is presumably to replace the IE5+ requirement.
You have obviously never visited Europe let alone lived there. The reasons why Europeans and most people in the world hate America (i.e. the US administation and its military/industrial complex) is because of its attempt to unilaterally control the entire world. This has involved over the past century the US killing millions of innocent civilians putting, it on a par with Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia.
Europeans don't hate americans, in fact they even quite like individual americans. However europeans have a contempt and pity for a lot of americans as the widespread hypocrisy and double standards applied by the US administration is reflected in the views of a lot of americans. These americans are stupid enough to blame their own problems on "liberalism" rather than on US capitalism and imperialism.
Out in the rest of the world (the real world) a lot of people are out fighting the real evil "liberalism" that is the neoliberalism which is the ideology behind the global economic policies promoted by US capitalism.
So to sum up we don't really hate you we just pity you.
New Labour is not even leftish or centre left. It's leaders are bunch of neocon war criminals just like their masters' in the US administration. When I lived in Britain I was a Labour Patry member. If I still lived there I would have burned my party card on the day they joined in the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Ubuntu only takes one.
When I saw the original Fly movie I had the feeling that I had met him as a post-doc at somewhere.
Exactly you don't need to "open a shell" to install Mandrake.
Well, go to a home banking website and witness what being in a fringe group means when they reject your not-so-IE browser (this is improving, admittedly)
Yes it is getting better. Here in Canada most home banking sites will work with Firefox on Linux. The Canadian Government is different, many of their sites are deliberately blocking Linux even though they are using Java technologies that should be cross platform (deliberate deprivation of civil rights).
Watch a CSS-encrypted DVD.
Imstall the software from PLF (as easy as installing Windows software) and you have no problem.
Open a Word document (without having to completely recreate the formatting)
Never had to reformat a Word document sent to me, when I open it in OpenOffice 2.0x
Install Skype
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ - Yes whats the problem ? There is a Mandrake RPM and it is included with the Mandrake 2006 distribution.
As of April 6 2005 of the 159 orders placed for A380 Airbus aicraft, only 30 were for US airlines. This is about proportional to the the US's economic weight in the world, about 20% of the global economy. So I guess we don't need you and that Airbus would have gone ahead as a project even if there was no US.
Short for Dr. Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell. Furthermore Dr. Tridgell is not hirsuite. In a business suit he could look quite respectable:
http://samba.org/~tridge/
I also gather that he was a very impressive witness before European Court.
This is not about the EC being anti-american, it is about them trying to enforce european laws on competition. They are not that different from US anti-trust laws under which MS has been found guilty as an illegal monopoly. The US has the best justice system money can buy so MS bought a slap on the wrist. Europe is merely going where the US courts should have gone in trying provide redress for MS's anti-competitive practices.
The Stateless Linux project is an OS-wide initiative to ensure that Fedora computers can be set up as replaceable appliances, with no important local state.
For example, a system administrator can set up a network of hundreds of desktop client machines as clones of a master system, and be sure that all of them are kept synchronised whenever he or she updates the master system. We provide several technologies for doing this.
This is an obvious improvement over the situation now when a legion of MCSE services the networked MS Windows fat (in fact boated or obese) clients. By adopting this technology a large corporation can avoid the even greater bloat that will be enforced by the Vista upgrade.
It seems to me that there are three major approaches to the forthcoming corporate migrations to the Linux desktop by those corporations forward looking enough to want to avoid the cost and dislocations of the upcoming upgrades to Vista and who at the same time want to make cost savings and improve IT efficiency.
1. There is the Novell approach which is to replace the Windows fat client by a better more cost effective Linux fat client, i.e. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.
2. There is the IBM approach which uses a Java Rich Client Platform (the Eclipse RCP) that is OS agnostic and which allows a smooth transition from Windows to Linux. This involves the Websphere based Workplace technology, the OOo based IBM productivity editors and new Hannover Notes client which runs natively on Linux.
3. Finally there is the RH stateless Linux approach outlined above.
I guess it won't be long before the Bichun Revolution.