There are so many flaws with the thinking (or lack of thinking) here. If two different castes of humans were to develop, there would still be a strong selective pressure in the "lower" caste to be smarter, to be better looking, and to develop any other qualities which increase fitness. What the article proposes here is that somehow, the "lower" caste would gain fitness by becoming dumb and ugly. It makes no sense at all.
I won't even go into the nonsense that people will split off in the first place.
From what I understand, this is at least in part a Qt 3.x issue, and will be fixed in Koffice 2.0 with the port to Qt 4.x. The big showstopper for me, and most people, is the lack of Microsoft Word support. See http://koffice.kde.org/filters/1.6/.
This idea is brought up many times, but is inherently flawed. The moment you allow people to take back physical records of how they voted, you open up the possibility (or even inevitability) that people will start selling votes, or start being forced to vote a certain way.
Additionally, if their machines are flawed, it is entirely possible that the printout that you get and the actual vote tally won't be the same anyway. So getting physical printouts really doesn't solve anything at all.
Using a computer algorithm to determine sentences is ridiculous. No two cases are the same, which means that there are an incredible number of variables. Furthermore, even if we could isolate all the variables, we still would have no idea how to make an algorithm that would take them all into account.
You are on the verge of trolling, but I'll bite. Your post makes a bunch of claims about what famous people said. According to your logic, because smart scientists say something, they must be right.
You then try to say that because some things presented at press conferences were fakes, that all things presented at press conferences were fakes. Logic 101, anyone?
The overwhelming evidence for the link between the presence of HIV antibodies in human beings and the development of AIDS is convincing enough.
Your arguments are so poor I don't know whether or not you are serious. I really hope you aren't.
I am no specialist in this area, but I believe much of the "green" part of green PCs is what is used to build the computer. There are a lot of metals in computer boards that aren't good for the environment. Green pcs replace these with other metals or with plastic etc.
what about safari? konqueror? camino? seamonkey?
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Interestingly enough, there is no mention of browsers such as Konqueror, Safari, Camino, SeaMonkey... Yes, this is a relevant point, because most of the discussion focuses on attributes such as bookmarks management, style, extensions, and the like, and not on the underlying rendering engine. Camino and SeaMonkey each take different approaches to the user interface but still use the same rendering engine as Firefox. And then we have both Konqueror and Safari, good web browsers that get very little mention. I would expect at *least* slashdot to discuss this more, but none was apparent in the slashback summary. Go figure.
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I understand that a cure is viewed as better than a treatment, but you can't just pick to find a cure, or pick to find a treatment. Reducing the costs of producing human insulin, and at the same time gaining additional scientific knowledge should be of great use. Who knows, perhaps a cure to type I diabetes is now one step closer?
I thought sports were about athletics, not equipment. How about everyone wears the same model swimsuit to even the playing field? Or is that too naive of me?
You are absolutely correct that the Senator is talking about a red herring.
You can also argue with him, claiming that those who cannot afford the money to purchase either OSX or Windows and a copy of MS Office are effectively 'disabled' and incapable of composing compatible documents.
Many beach/land crabs use the same system. They also have built-in abilities to make calculations on the quickest diagonal path to their burrow - ie the pythagorean theorem. One guy did some experiments where he would do things to mess up the step count of the crabs to their burrows, and they always were displaced by the exactly difference in step count. The crabs have no idea where their burrow is or what it looks like, they just know how to walk there. It must be the same in ants.
Most likely, they assume that people buying this will either already have a cdrom drive or have an extra slot for one. It's nice to have them in one drive, but then again, plenty of drives are still sold that can't burn cds.
As a child, my mother was in need of braces, and so she consulted the local doctor, who was a military doctor. The guy just said to rip out 4 teeth and not deal with braces. This is just one of many examples, I am sure, of where military doctors do not become appealing.
As to the president, I am sure that he gets the best of the best doctors from the naval center. He doesn't need to worry about his medical treatments like most people do.
I suppose it's true that if everyone is behind, then no one student is behind the other. Or is this a case where students must all be equal, but some can be more equal than others?
One of the main targets of this control is for things like myspace and facebook. Both of these let you post pictures of you and your friends doing whatever. One of the more popular choices is to post pictures of parties that involve alcohol. This is what the school board is going after in terms of 'inappropriate' behavior. All that needs to be done is to put the following caption for the pictures:
"My friends and I had another 'I-can't-wait-until-college' party. We put water in our beer cans because we're under 21, but it still was fun!' "
Now, the school can't prove that they are drinking alcohol, and the absurdity of the vague term "inappropriate" is ever more apparent.
You also have to look at the requirements to play chess: a brain, and a chessboard. Much like the Soviets were great at theoretical physics because it was cheap and just required smart people and pen and paper. Smart people exist everywhere, and in cases where they have fewer opportunities and less money, chess is a great way to prove yourself.
I want to see how they will implement this in X11 or Xgl-type desktops. When My icons collide into each other, I want it done realistically! When I kill Firefox because it's frozen, I want to see it shatter into a million pieces! And then have those pieces push around the rest of my desktop.
This isn't serious, of course, but the reason I say this is I wonder if there are applications for things other than video games.
You can also take a look at the patent itself at http://patft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm. Then search for patent US 3167440. Click the images button. They have a terrible viewing system, but it's there!
You raise interesting points, which lead me to this: what difference does it make if we label an object in space a planet, comet, meteor etc.? Objects in space that are not stars tend to be so different anyway that any label will not be informative. So calling one thing a planet and another an asteroid doesn't get us very far into understanding what they are. We only gain a vague sense of size. Then we have Pluto, which highlights the vagueness of our definitions in the first place.
Additionally, a reason we may have a hard time with adding planets to our solar system is that we were all brought up thinking our planets were special. There are only these planets, and no more! Science has no problems redefining itself over time, but individuals can have those problems. The naming system is a big controversy over nothing, and the more important things to do is study the objects and to understand them better. Calling it a planet doesn't change what it is.
The key these days is that there are plenty of people who can do computer science, but far fewer who can do computer science and something else. This means that computer science is extremely comptetitive, but if you also are good at biology, or chemistry, or economics, etc., that you can use your computer science skills and apply them to your other field. There are far fewer biologists who can code, so if you can do both then you can get the best of both worlds.
Computers are tools, and a tool needs an application. If you can apply it directly yourself, then you can do just fine. If you only know how to code, then you will find yourself with lots of other people in your shoes, and that's where it gets tough to get a job
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There are so many flaws with the thinking (or lack of thinking) here. If two different castes of humans were to develop, there would still be a strong selective pressure in the "lower" caste to be smarter, to be better looking, and to develop any other qualities which increase fitness. What the article proposes here is that somehow, the "lower" caste would gain fitness by becoming dumb and ugly. It makes no sense at all.
I won't even go into the nonsense that people will split off in the first place.
From what I understand, this is at least in part a Qt 3.x issue, and will be fixed in Koffice 2.0 with the port to Qt 4.x. The big showstopper for me, and most people, is the lack of Microsoft Word support. See http://koffice.kde.org/filters/1.6/.
This idea is brought up many times, but is inherently flawed. The moment you allow people to take back physical records of how they voted, you open up the possibility (or even inevitability) that people will start selling votes, or start being forced to vote a certain way.
Additionally, if their machines are flawed, it is entirely possible that the printout that you get and the actual vote tally won't be the same anyway. So getting physical printouts really doesn't solve anything at all.
Using a computer algorithm to determine sentences is ridiculous. No two cases are the same, which means that there are an incredible number of variables. Furthermore, even if we could isolate all the variables, we still would have no idea how to make an algorithm that would take them all into account.
Xerox must be using inspector Chief Quimby's (gadget's boss) technology: "This message will self-destruct in 5... 4... "
So much for being innocent before proven guilty!
You are on the verge of trolling, but I'll bite. Your post makes a bunch of claims about what famous people said. According to your logic, because smart scientists say something, they must be right.
You then try to say that because some things presented at press conferences were fakes, that all things presented at press conferences were fakes. Logic 101, anyone?
The overwhelming evidence for the link between the presence of HIV antibodies in human beings and the development of AIDS is convincing enough.
Your arguments are so poor I don't know whether or not you are serious. I really hope you aren't.
I am no specialist in this area, but I believe much of the "green" part of green PCs is what is used to build the computer. There are a lot of metals in computer boards that aren't good for the environment. Green pcs replace these with other metals or with plastic etc.
Interestingly enough, there is no mention of browsers such as Konqueror, Safari, Camino, SeaMonkey... Yes, this is a relevant point, because most of the discussion focuses on attributes such as bookmarks management, style, extensions, and the like, and not on the underlying rendering engine. Camino and SeaMonkey each take different approaches to the user interface but still use the same rendering engine as Firefox. And then we have both Konqueror and Safari, good web browsers that get very little mention. I would expect at *least* slashdot to discuss this more, but none was apparent in the slashback summary. Go figure.
I understand that a cure is viewed as better than a treatment, but you can't just pick to find a cure, or pick to find a treatment. Reducing the costs of producing human insulin, and at the same time gaining additional scientific knowledge should be of great use. Who knows, perhaps a cure to type I diabetes is now one step closer?
I thought sports were about athletics, not equipment. How about everyone wears the same model swimsuit to even the playing field? Or is that too naive of me?
You are absolutely correct that the Senator is talking about a red herring.
You can also argue with him, claiming that those who cannot afford the money to purchase either OSX or Windows and a copy of MS Office are effectively 'disabled' and incapable of composing compatible documents.
Many beach/land crabs use the same system. They also have built-in abilities to make calculations on the quickest diagonal path to their burrow - ie the pythagorean theorem. One guy did some experiments where he would do things to mess up the step count of the crabs to their burrows, and they always were displaced by the exactly difference in step count. The crabs have no idea where their burrow is or what it looks like, they just know how to walk there. It must be the same in ants.
Most likely, they assume that people buying this will either already have a cdrom drive or have an extra slot for one. It's nice to have them in one drive, but then again, plenty of drives are still sold that can't burn cds.
As a child, my mother was in need of braces, and so she consulted the local doctor, who was a military doctor. The guy just said to rip out 4 teeth and not deal with braces. This is just one of many examples, I am sure, of where military doctors do not become appealing.
As to the president, I am sure that he gets the best of the best doctors from the naval center. He doesn't need to worry about his medical treatments like most people do.
I suppose it's true that if everyone is behind, then no one student is behind the other. Or is this a case where students must all be equal, but some can be more equal than others?
One of the main targets of this control is for things like myspace and facebook. Both of these let you post pictures of you and your friends doing whatever. One of the more popular choices is to post pictures of parties that involve alcohol. This is what the school board is going after in terms of 'inappropriate' behavior. All that needs to be done is to put the following caption for the pictures:
"My friends and I had another 'I-can't-wait-until-college' party. We put water in our beer cans because we're under 21, but it still was fun!' "
Now, the school can't prove that they are drinking alcohol, and the absurdity of the vague term "inappropriate" is ever more apparent.
You also have to look at the requirements to play chess: a brain, and a chessboard. Much like the Soviets were great at theoretical physics because it was cheap and just required smart people and pen and paper. Smart people exist everywhere, and in cases where they have fewer opportunities and less money, chess is a great way to prove yourself.
I want to see how they will implement this in X11 or Xgl-type desktops. When My icons collide into each other, I want it done realistically! When I kill Firefox because it's frozen, I want to see it shatter into a million pieces! And then have those pieces push around the rest of my desktop.
This isn't serious, of course, but the reason I say this is I wonder if there are applications for things other than video games.
You can also take a look at the patent itself at http://patft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm. Then search for patent US 3167440. Click the images button. They have a terrible viewing system, but it's there!
I would argue that if users don't bother changing from MSN to Google they must not care. It's up to Google to make people want to use their product.
You are correct. "a là" means "belonging to there" whereas "à la" means "in this style." Quite different.
You raise interesting points, which lead me to this: what difference does it make if we label an object in space a planet, comet, meteor etc.? Objects in space that are not stars tend to be so different anyway that any label will not be informative. So calling one thing a planet and another an asteroid doesn't get us very far into understanding what they are. We only gain a vague sense of size. Then we have Pluto, which highlights the vagueness of our definitions in the first place.
Additionally, a reason we may have a hard time with adding planets to our solar system is that we were all brought up thinking our planets were special. There are only these planets, and no more! Science has no problems redefining itself over time, but individuals can have those problems. The naming system is a big controversy over nothing, and the more important things to do is study the objects and to understand them better. Calling it a planet doesn't change what it is.
The key these days is that there are plenty of people who can do computer science, but far fewer who can do computer science and something else. This means that computer science is extremely comptetitive, but if you also are good at biology, or chemistry, or economics, etc., that you can use your computer science skills and apply them to your other field. There are far fewer biologists who can code, so if you can do both then you can get the best of both worlds.
Computers are tools, and a tool needs an application. If you can apply it directly yourself, then you can do just fine. If you only know how to code, then you will find yourself with lots of other people in your shoes, and that's where it gets tough to get a job
He will be known as the Phantom of the Opera!
Sorry, that was in poor taste. My regards to someone who helped contribute to the diversity in web browsers.