In other news, more and more women complain about a severe shortage of men who can talk about more things than Counter Strike...
Whoo, score! Soon, scifi geeks like myself will become prized commodities on the meat market now that former jocks have turned into pathetic gaming geeks.^-^
Actually, I suspect that both William Shatner and Grey Davis would agree that petitions are the last resort of the helpless attempting to achieve the impossible through the ridiculous. It's just that this is a poetic kind of impossible that is sometimes achieved and not the the physical kind that isn't.;)
He measures 'eminence' by taking a number of comprehensive sources on each field and counting the references to each person and how many paragraphs they get. The sources are from as many different languages as possible and Murray does a good job of avoiding the distorting effects of ethnocentrism. He uses sharp cutoff dates at 800 B.C. and 1950 A.D. to limit the data.
The last section of Human Accomplishment is somewhat surprising. When adjusted for population, Murray's numbers show a decline in accomplishment after 1800. When numbers are used that take not only total population in account, but also urban population and educated population, the decline has brought us down to nearly pre-Renaissance levels. For example, we have 65 playwrights alive today for every one in Elizabethan England. Yet do we have dozens of Shakespeares? The picture is even more stark when the 12,000 members of the screen Writers Guild are taken into account.
In other words, because Galileo got ten references in a comprehensive source written by Newton and Max Planck got zero, Max Planck accomplished far less. Riiiight...
It's not reasonable to expect important figures who were mentioned in 150 years worth of comprehensive sources to have as many references as those mentioned in 1150 years worth of comprehensive sources.
Biology is a hard science. It follows proper hard science standards of evidence and experimental control.
Palaeontology and Anthropology, the two other big sciences dependent on evolution, are fairly soft (because it's hard to be hard without the opportunity to do proper experiments).
Psst, Iran. Don't hire anyone with 20 years experience working at a nuclear power plant if they agree to be paid in donuts and keep saying "d'oh". It's a trick of the Great Shaitan to irrevocably sabotage your "nukular" programme.;)
Evolution - This is a good name? Why? What does this thing do? Gene splicing maybe.... This one is definitely out of the pages of some marketing cookbook - vaugue and sonorous.
Well, it does sound cooler than Outlook. What does Outlook do? Sell binoculars over the web?:)
...the funding by President Kennedy of the longest-running terrorist campaign against any nation (Operation Mongoose, against Cuba...
Nice twist of logic. Regime's like Castro's have no right to exist. Kennedy was justifed to go after him. Especially because he turned his island into a Soviet launch pad.
Uhm, I am all against letting Java applets check what's installed on my computer and that's pretty much the only way they could make the check more universal.
I also dislike it when ActiveX does it, but they'd have to entirely restructure and linearize their patch release process in order to make a static webpage accomplish the same tasks.
that you choose to ignore the fact that we are WW3, against the exact same sort of fascist minds that we were in 60 years ago is not Pres. Bush's fault.
Do you mean fascist minds like that of Franco in Spain who kept ruling well past WW2? US still hasn't recognized the volunteers who valiantly tried to stop his takeover of power in the Spanish Civil War by granting them veterans' rights.
that... the frogs and krauts... agreed that saddam... had WMD's...
Well, it looks as though the "frogs" and the "krauts" were wrong about that.;)
it is the same religious fanaticism that drives the islamicists to blow up buildings with airplanes.
Yes, all people who have opinions different from yours are driven by them to blow up buildings with airplanes.;)
You know the internal company number from call display and that's enough for a proper low-level format; ergo, mlk must be a hot chick with a sexy voice and we both know that I am the one who gets to talk with such lusers (and record their voice for use later in emptying their bank account).
This is what I thought of immediately after reading the headline. Of course, a space race is certainly preferable to nuclear proliferation.:)
Who's Next by Tom Lehrer
First we got the bomb and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's O.K.,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way!
Who's next?
France got the bomb, but don't you grieve,
'Cause they're on our side (I believe).
China got the bomb, but have no fears;
They can't wipe us out for at least five years!
Who's next?
Then Indonesia claimed that they
Were gonna get one any day.
South Africa wants two, that's right:
One for the black and one for the white!
Who's next?
Egypt's gonna get one, too,
Just to use on you know who.
So Israel's getting tense,
Wants one in self defense.
"The Lord's our shepherd," says the psalm,
But just in case, we better get a bomb!
Who's next?
Luxembourg is next to go
And, who knows, maybe Monaco.
We'll try to stay serene and calm
When Alabama gets the bomb!
Who's next, who's next, who's next?
Who's next?
Slashdot Mirror
I liked Alien Resurrection too. The plot was a bit weak, but the acting, cinematography, and the last scene were spectacular.:)
In other news, more and more women complain about a severe shortage of men who can talk about more things than Counter Strike...
Whoo, score! Soon, scifi geeks like myself will become prized commodities on the meat market now that former jocks have turned into pathetic gaming geeks.^-^
Just because certain quaint notions are no longer held as fact does not mean that they cannot be used as a metaphor.;)
For example, I don't believe in Good and Evil, but I am still perfectly willing to call your post EVIL EVIL EVIL.:P
Actually, I suspect that both William Shatner and Grey Davis would agree that petitions are the last resort of the helpless attempting to achieve the impossible through the ridiculous. It's just that this is a poetic kind of impossible that is sometimes achieved and not the the physical kind that isn't.;)
A BS filter cannot add in unreported news. It can only subtract misreported news.
It's not reasonable to expect important figures who were mentioned in 150 years worth of comprehensive sources to have as many references as those mentioned in 1150 years worth of comprehensive sources.
:: Either way, I highly commend the article's author for using both "Libraries of Congress" and "feet of books" as measurement units.
Even though it knows the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything and number of feet in 10 metres, it can't convert 10 libraries of congress into feet of books.:(
I demand that this be fixed immediately!;)
Biology is a hard science. It follows proper hard science standards of evidence and experimental control.
Palaeontology and Anthropology, the two other big sciences dependent on evolution, are fairly soft (because it's hard to be hard without the opportunity to do proper experiments).
Psst, Iran. Don't hire anyone with 20 years experience working at a nuclear power plant if they agree to be paid in donuts and keep saying "d'oh". It's a trick of the Great Shaitan to irrevocably sabotage your "nukular" programme.;)
On the plus side, you are allowed to sell them in Canada and we are ripped off up here almost as much as our poor southern neighbours.;)
Evolution - This is a good name? Why? What does this thing do? Gene splicing maybe.... This one is definitely out of the pages of some marketing cookbook - vaugue and sonorous.
Well, it does sound cooler than Outlook. What does Outlook do? Sell binoculars over the web?:)
FLAC (you can derive the purpose from the name)
Are you saying that FLAC shoots down airplanes and unpopular individuals?:)
...the funding by President Kennedy of the longest-running terrorist campaign against any nation (Operation Mongoose, against Cuba...
Nice twist of logic. Regime's like Castro's have no right to exist. Kennedy was justifed to go after him. Especially because he turned his island into a Soviet launch pad.
Are you saying it's a freedom fighter campaign?:P
Uhm, I am all against letting Java applets check what's installed on my computer and that's pretty much the only way they could make the check more universal.
I also dislike it when ActiveX does it, but they'd have to entirely restructure and linearize their patch release process in order to make a static webpage accomplish the same tasks.
Here's a good site and here's a lousy site about Bush lies. I am sure there are more.
... the frogs and krauts ... agreed that saddam ... had WMD's...
that you choose to ignore the fact that we are WW3, against the exact same sort of fascist minds that we were in 60 years ago is not Pres. Bush's fault.
Do you mean fascist minds like that of Franco in Spain who kept ruling well past WW2? US still hasn't recognized the volunteers who valiantly tried to stop his takeover of power in the Spanish Civil War by granting them veterans' rights.
that
Well, it looks as though the "frogs" and the "krauts" were wrong about that.;)
it is the same religious fanaticism that drives the islamicists to blow up buildings with airplanes.
Yes, all people who have opinions different from yours are driven by them to blow up buildings with airplanes.;)
Humanitarians eat humanitables.;)
French unemployment will never drop into the single digits,
Neither would the American one if you were honest and counted everyone who's not employed...
You know the internal company number from call display and that's enough for a proper low-level format; ergo, mlk must be a hot chick with a sexy voice and we both know that I am the one who gets to talk with such lusers (and record their voice for use later in emptying their bank account).
Nah, that was Eugenia's config on 10.2. She had given it a custom background (presumably through a hack?). 10.3 isn't letting her do that.
How would a scientist claim that he removed a deity from the control group?
He?;)
Yay for your fundamentalism. However, Eugenia wants it to still allow http://img.osnews.com/img/3131/osx.png and I agree with her.
My dock clone of choice on Windows allows me to keep apps under it (action screenshot). There is no reason for the real Dock to be inferior.:P
The way things are going, the X Windowing System will still be used in 2500+ years by millions of users.;)
To be fair, Opera isn't open-source yet and it blocks popups very effectively...
3. thy have a right to vote *anonymously*
Hmm... Non-anonymous Internet + Internet Voting == Non-anonymous Voting. Eeep!