Newton's Laws are only called laws because most people find it reassuring to do so. In the scientific sense there really are no scientific laws, only theories which have yet to be disproven and are accepted as being an accurate portrayal of the universe around us. Though Newton's "Laws" are generally accurate in nearly every observation that most people make daily, that does not changed the fact that as normally stated the "laws" are flawed and are therefore not true scientific laws. Of course nearly everyone will continue to call them laws because they are true in the vast majority of cases and calling them Newton's pretty good theories of motion is a major pain.
yes I agree completely about the convenince factor, but this articles is assuming that that the book would be distributed in some kind of ebook format. No publisher (even the electronic ones) will ever go along with it unless it employs some kind of copy-protection to keep people from emailing a copy to ever single one of their friends. Now of course people in the know ("completely honest people" of course) will immediately set about breaking any copy-protection or limited distribution scheme and I'll be one of them (not with that particular title of course). My biggest problem with current ebook proposals is that nobody has figured out how to protect the publishers/authors and still allow the end-user enough freedom that the things are convenient. I love ebooks on my palm, I find myself just reading in situations where I'd never carry a paper book with me. I don't care about copy-protection so long as it doesn't bother me. But under most current schemes, I can't have a copy on my palm and on my desktop machine at the same time or they want you to go buy a dedicated reader device which I would never carry because I don't want yet another device to worry about. I have to much stuff in my pockets as is.
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The shuttles were inside the hangars. Those buildings were not damaged; therefore the hurricane did not damage the shuttles.
Barring some weirdness that I'm not able to forsee I think that argument holds up.
maybe he's implying that the FAT filesytem is in and of itself an offense
Newton's Laws are only called laws because most people find it reassuring to do so. In the scientific sense there really are no scientific laws, only theories which have yet to be disproven and are accepted as being an accurate portrayal of the universe around us. Though Newton's "Laws" are generally accurate in nearly every observation that most people make daily, that does not changed the fact that as normally stated the "laws" are flawed and are therefore not true scientific laws. Of course nearly everyone will continue to call them laws because they are true in the vast majority of cases and calling them Newton's pretty good theories of motion is a major pain.
yes I agree completely about the convenince factor, but this articles is assuming that that the book would be distributed in some kind of ebook format. No publisher (even the electronic ones) will ever go along with it unless it employs some kind of copy-protection to keep people from emailing a copy to ever single one of their friends. Now of course people in the know ("completely honest people" of course) will immediately set about breaking any copy-protection or limited distribution scheme and I'll be one of them (not with that particular title of course). My biggest problem with current ebook proposals is that nobody has figured out how to protect the publishers/authors and still allow the end-user enough freedom that the things are convenient. I love ebooks on my palm, I find myself just reading in situations where I'd never carry a paper book with me. I don't care about copy-protection so long as it doesn't bother me. But under most current schemes, I can't have a copy on my palm and on my desktop machine at the same time or they want you to go buy a dedicated reader device which I would never carry because I don't want yet another device to worry about. I have to much stuff in my pockets as is.