I'm "pro-choice." If I want to own one, it should be my choice. (and my responsibility) Thus, freedom to chose. Are you saying you want to limit my freedom of choice? All freedoms have thier limits. If you choose to say stock pile plutonium dust in your basement, I'd very well limit your freedom to do so. Or on the more mundane level, If I have good reason to believe that it's very likely you're going to kill someone on the road, I'd be looking into measures to have your driving license revoked. And if you use your freedom of speech to cause a stampede which leaves injuries or death, you darn well will learn the consequences of such actions.
Freedom is not license, it is a restraint on the actions that government can bring to bear upon you. The oft miquoted "Freedom of Religion" clause is not designed to support the exercise of any particular religious practise which includes in some traditions practises that range from cruel to downright murderous. The Clause is simply designed to prevent government from imposing any religion by fiat.
As I understand it, The saga of the family of Hurin was inspired by the Greek tales of the House of Atreus, a set of Greek tragedies. (something that Frank Herbet would eventually attach to be the root of his Atreides family in Dune)
This is all my plan to get the human race into space. Better fire up the SUV and start polluting then. Humans are a lazy species and won't leave this planet until it becomes uninhabitable. And where will they go? If the Human race can't survive on Earth, where can it survive? If we learn anything from the fiasco of Biosphere 2, it'll be that creating a sealed ecology that's sustainable over the long term requires more than we know so far.
What is termed "contradictions" here is merely conflicting interests. One of the nice properties of a market system is the ability to resolve these conflicts of interest via the market. Capitalism doesn't really solve the "low wage" vs "high consumer spending" contradiction it usually tries to defer the problem (much like the way US communities defer maintennce) by outsourcing the "low wage" to a country where everyone is poor and not counted on to spend the company's products and assuming that thier will be "high wage" buyers from somewhere else to be it's market. The inevitable problems arise when everyone has outsourced the same way and there simply isn't anyone left in the "high wage" category to buy the product. (it's an oversimplified argument, but the the fact that much of the American Rust Belt is indeed being left to rust illustrates the point.) Similarly ordered systems can decrease thier own internal entropy only at the cost of greater increased entropy outside the system. The American capitalist system has been running on the assumption that consumers will simply keep spending no matter what the situation. (As Bush urged Americans to do while gearing us to war, a total reversal on the personal belt-tightening and rationing Americans went through through the Great War), now being pressed agaisnt the wall, most Americans are finding staying in the mid-income lifestyle tough enough that they're pinching thier pennies and holding off thier luxury purchases just to pay rents, mortagages, utilities, and have enough left over to put food on the table, hoping to hell that no one in the family gets catstrophically sick.
Just remember that checkboxes aren't always obvious, especially to the technicaly unschooled.
Getting a preloaded Linux box with support is a looad of difference from handing a neophyte a disc from a Linux magazine sitting on a Barnes and Nobles shelf. Linux has improved a good deal from the old days of Debian and Slackware, but I'd still be hesitant to recommend it to someone who wasn't going to have some form of knowledgeable tech support available. But mileages do vary and so do cases.
Heroforge is a famous Excel spreadsheet series for creating character sheets for D20 a macro filled creation that had grown to about 6 megabytes before data is put in. Right now it's cross platform but the end of VBA might spell the end of this gaming classic.
It seems that you live among some very interesting, and atypical neighbors. The folks here in my neighborhood use Comcast for Internet on a $600 Windows machine purchased from a place like Best Buy or Walmart. I don't think that your history is as indicative of the average American user as you seem to imply. They don't "image edit" they manage thier photos with either the Adobe freebie included with thier camera of whatever Vista is shoving on them. And it's guaranteed that none of the folks who live in my neighborhood are using Linux, although at least one uses OS X. in pretty much the same way save that I know he's got particular intersts in creating his own music.
The folks around here certainly are not the types that would be interested in the work in both getting Linux to server thier basic needs, nor managing WINE to run the programs they won't part from in Windows.
Face it folks like you and me who remember MS-DOS are OLD compared to the growing segments of computer users. Most of them aren't willing to suffer inconveninces or the "roll your own engine" mentality of the Linux set. They don't want to spend time building either their computers or thier OS, nor compiling stuff from sort. They just want to turn on thier box and have it work.
The wireless CD drive sharing Apple's doing is cool. About a year ago, mainly as a demonstration to some coworkers, I used Toast 8 on a desktop G4 to burn a CD wirelessly on a white iBook which also had it installed. Worked just as if it were directly connected to the machine.
Yeah, unfortunately, as a desktop OS, Linux is still only 90% there. It may be "90 percent" there for a gearhead user, but that's an extremely generous asssessement for the average home user, where I'd peg it at around 40-50 percent, if I wanted to be generous, less than half that if I was thinking about people like my neighbors.
No fan based organisation is going to have the bucks to bid for what is proably one of the highest profile domain names in history. I really doubt that CBS is going to forgoe paying the 20 bucks a year to keep the domain theres. or until it's sold back to Viacom/Paramount.
Problem is the site simply does not generate the income needed to justify the expenses incurred in keeping it online. That's the plain simple truth. Welcome to America where by our national credo, money talks and everyone else walks.
Every time I sit down at a Mac I inevitably end up swearing at the lack of a util I'm used to having (why no wget?). And why are folders like/etc so hard to find in finder? Maybe I'm just giving up to easy, but I have a hard time getting over the single mouse button. Mainly because those folders are hidden from those folks who have no buisness being there. Those folders and others can be made visible through either command line geek moves or 3rd party GUI utilities available on Versiontracker.
The subject is personal computing. They day I have to go into gear head mode to just to get my "my Nintendo DS, my DSL modem, my wireless access point, my bar code reader, my cat" etc. into usable condition are the days I replace said items. I consider myself a fairly technically savvy person, but I can think of better ways to spend my time than to have to hotwire a basic tool out of the box not to tune it up, just to get it working at an acceptable level.
By the way, OSX now operates on a phone, (the iPHONE) and the new series iPod Touch)
As I understand it, they are changing or adding material to try to make as if the scientists are presenting supporting evidence for Creationist dogma. Technically this might even spread into considerations of libel.
There's a major difference between parody and outright misrepresentation. When John Stewart puts up a phony news announcer and a phony news cast it's quite clear it's a comedic act and not representing itself as the real thing.
Taking a published scientific work, editing it and inserting your own material which subverts the purpose of the original and marketing it as THE ORIGINAL work is outright misrepresntation and actionable.
1) Accelerate to approx. 35 times the speed of sound 2) Release (preferably in an upward direction)
Sheesh. Jules Verne already knew that.;) Of course if you release it straight up it's going to come straight down.:) That's why rockets tip over after they leave the pad... you want that velocity in radial mode.
People that buy apple products aren't technical enough to know if leopard is better than any past build revision of FreeBSD that apple leeched. They buy apple because it looks cute and they can remain oblivious to technology. The author is a clueless monkey if he thinks people suddenly want to buy apple crap because it's build 10.3.1. That's a comment that makes sense only to someone who's entire OS life is spent underneath a command prompt. FreeBSD while an important part of X is only part of the foundation. It's everything else that's on top and underneath that makes the OS something other than a gearhead toy. And since when is making use of Open Source some sort of moral crime? Apple makes it's acknowledgements and last time I checked it's changes are open sourced back in the form of Darwin. Have you tried Darwin and made any real comparison? Or are you just some Linux Nazi who is lashing out with unsubstantive bile for the simple reason that it's not Linux. If so, you're no different than Mac Nazis, or Windows Nazis, or Amiga Zombies that still think there's a future for that last platform, you're acting from unreason.
Actually what he said that applications would only be installed through iTunes. He never actually said that the web interface would be the ONLY interface ever, just what was available at iPhones rollout.
That's the nature of physics in general. the pioneering work you do is generally done in the pre-40 range with most of the rest of your life spent refining your own work or others. I think someone on Nova once categorised the Institute of Advanced Physics at Princeton as a "retirement home for great minds".
As to the answer on your resume. I think the "once was" is still bs despite what I said. People like Einstein, Sagan, and Tyson in thier dotage still manage better than many in thier prime. It's not a label worth hanging yourself about. I would advised that if you do have a significant professional career, you should get professional help in composing your resume.
At this point, I think we've both have come to the unbridgeable gulf wherein no further progress can be made in this thread, so I'll simply agree to disagree.
Then there's the bigotry of "minimum expectations" an issue does not need to be of cosmic dire significance to be a learning opportunity. There's a tremendous amount of public interest in Pluto's status, irregardless of it's scientific significance. As an institution of public learning, it's an appropriate forum for this issue. Tyson had Pluto removed from the planetary display in response to the IAU stance on Pluto. This led to a lot of local and not so local response to his action. It would be the height of hubris to ignore it just because it's "not worthy enough" to merit response.
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Freedom is not license, it is a restraint on the actions that government can bring to bear upon you. The oft miquoted "Freedom of Religion" clause is not designed to support the exercise of any particular religious practise which includes in some traditions practises that range from cruel to downright murderous. The Clause is simply designed to prevent government from imposing any religion by fiat.
As I understand it, The saga of the family of Hurin was inspired by the Greek tales of the House of Atreus, a set of Greek tragedies. (something that Frank Herbet would eventually attach to be the root of his Atreides family in Dune)
Techies and Trekkies (of which Slashdot is full of) in my experience tend to lean towards the right.
Just remember that checkboxes aren't always obvious, especially to the technicaly unschooled.
Getting a preloaded Linux box with support is a looad of difference from handing a neophyte a disc from a Linux magazine sitting on a Barnes and Nobles shelf. Linux has improved a good deal from the old days of Debian and Slackware, but I'd still be hesitant to recommend it to someone who wasn't going to have some form of knowledgeable tech support available. But mileages do vary and so do cases.
Heroforge is a famous Excel spreadsheet series for creating character sheets for D20 a macro filled creation that had grown to about 6 megabytes before data is put in. Right now it's cross platform but the end of VBA might spell the end of this gaming classic.
It seems that you live among some very interesting, and atypical neighbors. The folks here in my neighborhood use Comcast for Internet on a $600 Windows machine purchased from a place like Best Buy or Walmart. I don't think that your history is as indicative of the average American user as you seem to imply. They don't "image edit" they manage thier photos with either the Adobe freebie included with thier camera of whatever Vista is shoving on them. And it's guaranteed that none of the folks who live in my neighborhood are using Linux, although at least one uses OS X. in pretty much the same way save that I know he's got particular intersts in creating his own music.
The folks around here certainly are not the types that would be interested in the work in both getting Linux to server thier basic needs, nor managing WINE to run the programs they won't part from in Windows.
Face it folks like you and me who remember MS-DOS are OLD compared to the growing segments of computer users. Most of them aren't willing to suffer inconveninces or the "roll your own engine" mentality of the Linux set. They don't want to spend time building either their computers or thier OS, nor compiling stuff from sort. They just want to turn on thier box and have it work.
If you want to use Linux on pre-Intel Macs, the distro hands down is Yellow Dog Linux from Terrasoft.
No fan based organisation is going to have the bucks to bid for what is proably one of the highest profile domain names in history. I really doubt that CBS is going to forgoe paying the 20 bucks a year to keep the domain theres. or until it's sold back to Viacom/Paramount.
Problem is the site simply does not generate the income needed to justify the expenses incurred in keeping it online. That's the plain simple truth. Welcome to America where by our national credo, money talks and everyone else walks.
Everything dies.... even Star Trek.
One other item, OS X does support multibutton mice out of the box. (I'm using a Intellimouse on mine). And current Mac mice are multi touch now.
The subject is personal computing. They day I have to go into gear head mode to just to get my "my Nintendo DS, my DSL modem, my wireless access point, my bar code reader, my cat" etc. into usable condition are the days I replace said items. I consider myself a fairly technically savvy person, but I can think of better ways to spend my time than to have to hotwire a basic tool out of the box not to tune it up, just to get it working at an acceptable level.
By the way, OSX now operates on a phone, (the iPHONE) and the new series iPod Touch)
Profit!
As I understand it, they are changing or adding material to try to make as if the scientists are presenting supporting evidence for Creationist dogma. Technically this might even spread into considerations of libel.
There's a major difference between parody and outright misrepresentation. When John Stewart puts up a phony news announcer and a phony news cast it's quite clear it's a comedic act and not representing itself as the real thing.
Taking a published scientific work, editing it and inserting your own material which subverts the purpose of the original and marketing it as THE ORIGINAL work is outright misrepresntation and actionable.
2) Release (preferably in an upward direction)
Sheesh. Jules Verne already knew that.
Actually what he said that applications would only be installed through iTunes. He never actually said that the web interface would be the ONLY interface ever, just what was available at iPhones rollout.
Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and many other respected astronomers of thier time paid thier rent as professional astrologers.
That's the nature of physics in general. the pioneering work you do is generally done in the pre-40 range with most of the rest of your life spent refining your own work or others. I think someone on Nova once categorised the Institute of Advanced Physics at Princeton as a "retirement home for great minds".
As to the answer on your resume. I think the "once was" is still bs despite what I said. People like Einstein, Sagan, and Tyson in thier dotage still manage better than many in thier prime. It's not a label worth hanging yourself about. I would advised that if you do have a significant professional career, you should get professional help in composing your resume.
At this point, I think we've both have come to the unbridgeable gulf wherein no further progress can be made in this thread, so I'll simply agree to disagree.
Then there's the bigotry of "minimum expectations" an issue does not need to be of cosmic dire significance to be a learning opportunity. There's a tremendous amount of public interest in Pluto's status, irregardless of it's scientific significance. As an institution of public learning, it's an appropriate forum for this issue. Tyson had Pluto removed from the planetary display in response to the IAU stance on Pluto. This led to a lot of local and not so local response to his action. It would be the height of hubris to ignore it just because it's "not worthy enough" to merit response.