""" 1) It would come as a kit along with a copy of CAR HOWTO which would be six months out of date. """
I recently had a console problem which wasn't covered in the HOWTO. When I worked out how to fix the problem I mailed the maintainer of the HOWTO with my suggestions for additions to it, and within 2 hours he'd added those and the new version was available from his site immediately.
I grew up on Vax, and we had _3 WAY_ "phone", which was way cooler than simple Unix 2-way "talk". However, I think that Unix's "ytalk" gained that feature before too long. Back in the days before ubiquitous stupid patents, of course.
Of course, IRC quickly came in and made all of those redundant back in the early 90s.
It's posters like you that make slashdot a _community_. Nice work.
I ain't US, so I'll have no part in the shenanighans, but those who responsibly (i.e. once) call or otherwise contact those suits get my wholehearted support.
""" you don't gain any information from an experiment whose results agree with your theory """
Taking that logic to the extreme no scientist need ever take more than one measurement.
I was under the impression that you'd find scientists trying to reproduce their and other's results, but maybe the scientific world has become fat and lazy in recent years.
You said: """ talking about *special relativity*. It is not in any way at odds with quantum mechanics; """ and: """ "general relativity", which is obviously as much at odds with quantum mechanics as any classical theory is. """
So special relativity, being non-quantum, is also as much at odds with quantum mechanics as any classical theory too?
So it's not in any way at odds with quantum mechanics, and yet it's at odds with quantum mechanics.
Yes, it falsifies Newtonian mechanics, which came before, though.
I have a mate, who when we play 9-ball, if he racks the balls himself can _always_ pot the 9 on he break. I believe, or theorise, that he has a special way of racking up, and of breaking.
Every time he does it, does it fail to falsify my beliefs, or does it confirm them. It takes a brave man to say it _only_ fails to falsify.
So yup, it's just another data point to give a bit more confidence in theories that are previously held with reasonable conviction anyway. However, fairly generated data points that are not to be sniffed at (if you're a proponent of the theory).
""" I've remarked before, it's only Americans that have this idea that a "law" is better than a "theory", etc. Can someone explain to me why that is? Is this taught in schools? Is it caused by Creationists...? """
Not proven, yet. The time scales involved do not lend themselves to direct observation. """
Absolute bollocks. Viruses and bacteria can be seen to evolve in only days, and simple multi-celled organisms can be seen to evolve in weeks. All you need's a few dozen generations if the weakness being biased against is effective enough.
That also means that disease resistance, or other resistances such as lactose intolerance can be seen in _humans_. (Lactose intolerance is the default, resistance is a relatively modern trait that some humans, noticably western Europeans (and thence Americans) have evolved).
That's evolution.
Sure, you can't demonstrate speciation in humans, but you certainly can with simpler organisms. And if speciation is such an important issue, how do you explain that there are types of canines such that different types can interbreed with _different_ subsets of the other canines? Have they speciated, or have they not? Either way you answer there'll be a follow-up question that you can't answer without contradicting yourself. There's nothing in the Darwinist theories that insists that there's a concrete speciation cutoff point, in fact the exact opposite if anything.
Ignoring the technical error (IP vs. delegation), which has already been addressed, I'll skip to "I hope more people bring lawsuits against Verisign"
Boycott google.
Yup, you heard what I said - boycott google.
Why? Because then google might do their best to sit on this new "getting people to the right web-pages" service over which they used to probably have the de-facto monopoly.
Google are a business, they're in it for profit, and they're big. Make verisign hurt them, see them lash back.
Yup. Even as a _strong_ Open Source and Linux proponent, I think this is a bad idea. I wouldn't want my "blank" TDK cassettes with Plastic Bertrand pre-recorded on them.
Linux, and all the other options, chould be _chosen_.
Here on the Baltic we get freeze-thaw every year. I go out for strolls on the ice, walking to or round some of the islands in the archipelago even up to late April and early May. As spring draws on (we don't really have a spring, winter to summer is only a couple of weeks) the whole sea groans and cries quietly as it slowly rides up onto the land and tears under its own weight. I've never heard a violent crack from it, but the creaking is unearthy for the first few times you hear it. (Oh, and you make Devils Lake sound divine!) YAW.
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You're just quivering because GWB might accidentally select Kanukistan as the next target...
YAW.
"super-font-res technology."
w ho.htm
Let's not forget that Microsoft's patent is a crock, as clear prior art can be found in Apple and Xerox systems, for example.
http://grc.com/cleartype.htm
http://grc.com/ct
YAW.
"""
1) It would come as a kit along with a copy of CAR HOWTO which would be six months out of date.
"""
I recently had a console problem which wasn't covered in the HOWTO. When I worked out how to fix the problem I mailed the maintainer of the HOWTO with my suggestions for additions to it, and within 2 hours he'd added those and the new version was available from his site immediately.
So they can be extremely up to date.
YAW.
I grew up on Vax, and we had _3 WAY_ "phone", which was way cooler
than simple Unix 2-way "talk". However, I think that Unix's "ytalk" gained that feature before too long. Back in the days before ubiquitous stupid patents, of course.
Of course, IRC quickly came in and made all of those redundant back in the early 90s.
YAW.
There's no adherence to Godwin's Law here on Slashdot...
YAW.
It's posters like you that make slashdot a _community_.
Nice work.
I ain't US, so I'll have no part in the shenanighans, but those who responsibly (i.e. once) call or otherwise contact those suits get my wholehearted support.
YAW.
"""
you don't gain any information from an experiment whose results agree with your theory
"""
Taking that logic to the extreme no scientist need ever take more than one measurement.
I was under the impression that you'd find scientists trying to reproduce their and other's results, but maybe the scientific world has become fat and lazy in recent years.
YAW.
Exactly. That was the first thing that jumped out at me too.
Do you reckon there's cold fusion going on in those crystals instead, perhaps?
YAW.
You said:
"""
talking about *special relativity*. It is not in any way at odds with quantum mechanics;
"""
and:
"""
"general relativity", which is obviously as much at odds with quantum mechanics as any classical theory is.
"""
So special relativity, being non-quantum, is also as much at odds with quantum mechanics as any classical theory too?
So it's not in any way at odds with quantum mechanics, and yet it's at odds with quantum mechanics.
Woh, deep!
"""
Trust me, I know what I'm doing
"""
Maybe, but your explanations aren't the clearest.
Care to disambiguate what you wrote, olkaa hyvaa?
YAW.
Yes, it falsifies Newtonian mechanics, which came before, though.
I have a mate, who when we play 9-ball, if he racks the balls himself can _always_ pot the 9 on he break. I believe, or theorise, that he has a special way of racking up, and of breaking.
Every time he does it, does it fail to falsify my beliefs, or does it confirm them. It takes a brave man to say it _only_ fails to falsify.
So yup, it's just another data point to give a bit more confidence in theories that are previously held with reasonable conviction anyway. However, fairly generated data points that are not to be sniffed at (if you're a proponent of the theory).
YAW.
"""
I've remarked before, it's only Americans that have this idea that a "law" is better than a "theory", etc.
Can someone explain to me why that is? Is this taught in schools? Is it caused by Creationists...?
"""
They don't have laws, they have commandments!
YAW.
He's gonna have to practice saying "Deveropers, deveropers deveropers" surely?
YAW.
(whose g/f comes from S.Korea, and she says it's not bad taste to make such a comment!)
"""
ICANN was set up to oversee all the registrars
"""
There's a fine line between oversee, and oversight...
YAW.
Your gun's too big. All you need's a pea-shooter:
h eis$&.com"' < /usr/share/dict/words
perl -ne 'm/\w+/&&system"wget http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.apac
add options (-w etc.) to taste.
Wow, www.apacheisabyssmal.com runs on apache -- hypocrites.
YAW.
"email has spell-check"
You're nearly as confused as the 404/NXDOMAIN guys.
Oh, I get it - _your_ e-mail client has a spelling checker, therefore _everyone's_ e-mail client must ipso facto have a spelling checker.
YAW.
"""
>Evolution is a scientifically proven fact.
Not proven, yet. The time scales involved do not lend themselves to direct observation.
"""
Absolute bollocks. Viruses and bacteria can be seen to evolve in only days, and simple multi-celled organisms can be seen to evolve in weeks. All you need's a few dozen generations if the weakness being biased against is effective enough.
That also means that disease resistance, or other resistances such as lactose intolerance can be seen in _humans_. (Lactose intolerance is the default, resistance is a relatively modern trait that some humans, noticably western Europeans (and thence Americans) have evolved).
That's evolution.
Sure, you can't demonstrate speciation in humans, but you certainly can with simpler organisms. And if speciation is such an important issue, how do you explain that there are types of canines such that different types can interbreed with _different_ subsets of the other canines? Have they speciated, or have they not? Either way you answer there'll be a follow-up question that you can't answer without contradicting yourself. There's nothing in the Darwinist theories that insists that there's a concrete speciation cutoff point, in fact the exact opposite if anything.
YAW.
It's a crime that that hasn't been moderated up.
YAW.
Ignoring the technical error (IP vs. delegation), which has already been addressed, I'll skip to
"I hope more people bring lawsuits against Verisign"
Boycott google.
Yup, you heard what I said - boycott google.
Why? Because then google might do their best to sit on this new "getting people to the right web-pages" service over which they used to probably have the de-facto monopoly.
Google are a business, they're in it for profit, and they're big. Make verisign hurt them, see them lash back.
YAW.
Whatever happened to FILE uploads?
YAW.
Ditto my w3m happily calling jed. I could configure it to call xemacs instead, of course (and lynx could likewise).
Wait a second - we're supposed to be the crippled text-mode guys, how come we're the ones who are laughing?
YAW.
Yup. Even as a _strong_ Open Source and Linux proponent, I think this is a bad idea.
I wouldn't want my "blank" TDK cassettes with Plastic Bertrand pre-recorded on them.
Linux, and all the other options, chould be _chosen_.
YAW.
"Could this be the beginning of a new era in processor development?"
It'll have to join the queue, _behind_ optical computers and quantum computers, I'm still waiting for what they promised...
YAW.
I guess that makes the goatse man the equivalent of a beowolf cluster.
Do I have to mention grits too?
YAW
Here on the Baltic we get freeze-thaw every year. I go out for strolls on the ice, walking to or round some of the islands in the archipelago even up to late April and early May. As spring draws on (we don't really have a spring, winter to summer is only a couple of weeks) the whole sea groans and cries quietly as it slowly rides up onto the land and tears under its own weight. I've never heard a violent crack from it, but the creaking is unearthy for the first few times you hear it.
(Oh, and you make Devils Lake sound divine!)
YAW.
It's was probably just a baffin overrun.
YAW.