No, it isn't a straw man attack. My point was that using Penrose as an authority (and he is used ex auctoritate here) is pointless because he isn't an expert in the field the poster is discussing. Sure it called Penrose a physicist; it simply failed to recognize the significance of that fact to its argument. If the argument were not ex auctoritate, Penrose's field would be irrelevant.
Anyway, you're right about one thing, it should have stayed at 2, and not been modded up to 3. It was a throwaway comment. But the moderators have corrected that, no? And I don't care about karma so long as I have a +1 bonus.
Zip drives versus Jaz drives was not a product war won by the inferior technology. 1. They're both Iomega products. 2. Jaz drives are less reliable than Zip drives.
Perfectly sensible paper; for the kind of user who wrote the paper, BSD is a better choice. Makes sense that someone in the server group would write something like this to give the other people in the group a goal to shoot for: make Windows good for Windows users and good for UNIX users. And eat your own dogfood is a common expression for "use the software you developed in your own production environment."
All in all, this makes me more rather than less impressed with MS as an organization.
Ok, anyone who quotes Ramanujan in his sig deserves to be modded up.
But this rumor is as likely as the claim that series 5 was going to be "Starfleet Academy."
It's getting tiring to see all this sarcasm, like open source is so free of bugs or something.
Sarcasm directed at success can be quite healthy for those who wish to motivate themselves to compete against and surpass that success - and to make sure that they do not repeat the mistakes of that success.
Which is exactly my point. My understanding is that caste more and more is coming to operate something like "nationality" (in the American sense of ethnicity, rather than the more European sense of citizenship) did in the US in the earlier part of the 20th century.
"A major technological effort at this time is probably ill conceived because our children will be so much better at it," said Dr. Alan W. Harris of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
Not if one hits before they're old enough to build one without an erector set, Dr. Harris. The odds that we will need it are the same as the odds that they will need it.
Maggard, you have a reference for that comment on there being multiple impacts at the K-T boundary? I remember at least one fellow having a contest looking for any ammonite (I think it was ammonite) fossil above the iridium layer on the K-T boundary, an noone winning.
After all that pigging out at MacDonald's, do your Sims end up weighing a simulated 300 pounds each? Do they get simulated atherosclerosis? Sim diabetes? Sim strokes? Sim food poisoning? Do Sim children come down with simulated ADHD?
Not entirely accurate then, is it?
No worse than the borrow-and-spend economics of SimCity, where even a 0.1% raise in taxes will lower your ratings dramatically.
As it is, are these peoples lives so meaningless, that they have to get themselves worked up over a game?
Or even more sadly, are these people's lives so meaningless that in a virtual reality game they can't think of anything more exciting to do than to go to McDonalds? (Or worse yet, that they can't think of anything more exciting to do than to go to McDonalds in a virtual reality game?)
Umm, that's rationale and plague, folks.
A plaque is a small sign. Rational means reasonable or relating to reason. A plague is a widespread disease (and metaphorically a lot of something unpleasant). A rationale is an excuse or reason for doing something.
Explorer is in most ways superior to Mo and especially to Chimera. The most important difference is that IE runs faster, considering that I'm seeing typing lag as I write this post in Chimera. It's only a couple tenths of a second, but still quite annoying and totally unexcusable on a 700MHz machine. Also remember that IE mac is much better than IE windows for some reason (I've heard Office X is also much better than Office XP, but never tried either).
Ok, you said that IE for Windows is in most ways superior to Mo[zilla] and then provided exactly one example: a couple of tenths of a second difference in load time! Apparently you don't care about standards support, popup blocking, consistency across platforms, or any of the other features that make Mozilla the better choice for most users. (The type lag in text boxes I've seen, but not for a while in Mozilla). I'll leave aside the way you're describing Office X as better than Office XP when you've never used it (I have used both, and disagree). Maybe you should refrain from adding this kind of editorial comment in the future.
MS isn't evil. They've got problems, but they aren't evil. They're just pushing the outside of the [legal] envelope, and aren't keeping up the kind of quality folks would like to see in mature software products (perhaps because they're too big).
If I pay for a piece of copyrighted content, I have a right to fair use of that content. DRM keeps me from that.
Which is exactly what Apple is talking about with their "user experience" line. If someone can come up with a rights management system that doesn't interfere with fair use, I'm sure that Apple (and some of the folks around here) will be all for it. The question is : is this a technological problem, or a social one?
So nothing. It's worthwhile for critics to see the debts. That doesn't mean that Lucas is a bad boy for not putting up a huge sign: "Hey, this was influenced by Herbert," any more than Herbert was being a bad boy by not putting in a note "Hey, I read Seven Pillars of Wisdom as a youngster." It's interesting is all.
Except "The White Goddess" is considered at best suspect by most mainstream scholars of mythology. Graves was a hell of a writer, but his arguments are full of holes.
What's actually happening here is that the physicists are using metaphors to explain their mathematics that were used in the past by poets. Because the metaphors are part of our common literary inheritance, they are easier for us to understand than other, equally valid metaphors/models representing the same mathematical facts.
Far more interesting to me is Kant's "prediscovery" of the shape of the galaxy, and the idea of other galaxies.
Doesn't matter. IANAL, but I suspect that you can copy a space all you want to; you just can't use the actually physical location without the owner's permission
...though I would think a comment like this would make more sense if it referred to Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress"
Lucas has, I believe, acknowledged both debts. Certainly to Hidden Fortress, though he does seem to claim that he borrowed not the "General saves the Princess" theme but rather the characters of R2D2 and C3PO from the two sidekicks in HF. Anyway, he's acknowledged HF's influence on his work. And the influence of Dune on the visuals has been long accepted, even if Lucas has never said anything.
Frankly, I don't see why anyone thinks any of these influences (including the Long Room) needs to be made much over. Do you really think that the Star Wars DVDs should have footnotes like Eliot's Waste Land, pointing the viewer to all of the allusions in the films? Isn't it better to let the viewers discover them for themselves?
Rare first editions are mainly for bragging rights anyway
Actually, first editions are very valuable for textual criticism, as they were usually proofread by the author and so tend to be very, very close to the author's intentions. While this is less true for Newton's time than for today, it is also true that in Newton's time there tended to be more correction in the middle of print runs than there are today, so the text of one first edition might be slightly different from that of another first edition. Any textual critic preparing a modern scholarly edition of the Principia would likely want to collate as many copies of the first edition as possible along with any MSS that might survive (in, e.g., Cambridge).
Actually, Microsoft does produce a quality product, despite what the Linux-obsessed masses seem to think.
Linux-obsessed masses? What planet is this on? On my planet, Earth, nobody knows about Linux except a bunch of long-haired badly shaven socially-inept geeks (self included).
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No, it isn't a straw man attack. My point was that using Penrose as an authority (and he is used ex auctoritate here) is pointless because he isn't an expert in the field the poster is discussing. Sure it called Penrose a physicist; it simply failed to recognize the significance of that fact to its argument. If the argument were not ex auctoritate, Penrose's field would be irrelevant.
Anyway, you're right about one thing, it should have stayed at 2, and not been modded up to 3. It was a throwaway comment. But the moderators have corrected that, no? And I don't care about karma so long as I have a +1 bonus.
Zip drives vs. Jazz drives...
Zip drives versus Jaz drives was not a product war won by the inferior technology. 1. They're both Iomega products. 2. Jaz drives are less reliable than Zip drives.
Perfectly sensible paper; for the kind of user who wrote the paper, BSD is a better choice. Makes sense that someone in the server group would write something like this to give the other people in the group a goal to shoot for: make Windows good for Windows users and good for UNIX users. And eat your own dogfood is a common expression for "use the software you developed in your own production environment."
All in all, this makes me more rather than less impressed with MS as an organization.
Ok, anyone who quotes Ramanujan in his sig deserves to be modded up.
But this rumor is as likely as the claim that series 5 was going to be "Starfleet Academy."
What, does the Solaris Ocean do something to prevent MS operating systems from sucking? Man, that's wild.
(Gratuitous Lem joke)
It's getting tiring to see all this sarcasm, like open source is so free of bugs or something.
Sarcasm directed at success can be quite healthy for those who wish to motivate themselves to compete against and surpass that success - and to make sure that they do not repeat the mistakes of that success.
The closest one got was the constuction of a polio virus from regeants earlier this year. The virus appeared viable,
Viruses are not usually considered to be organisms. And Roger Penrose is not usually considered to be a biologist.
Which is exactly my point. My understanding is that caste more and more is coming to operate something like "nationality" (in the American sense of ethnicity, rather than the more European sense of citizenship) did in the US in the earlier part of the 20th century.
I find this quote quite fascinating. India is a nation-state where the top 5% of the population own all the wealth
Unlike the US, where the top 5% of the population own something like 80% of the stocks, bonds and real estate.
essentially they have a monopoly on the other lower castes.
I'd be very careful about using the word "caste" if I were you; there's a lot of misinformation about what "caste" means.
All the public infrastructure is publicly owned (trains, electricity).
Unlike, say, Europe?
"A major technological effort at this time is probably ill conceived because our children will be so much better at it," said Dr. Alan W. Harris of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
Not if one hits before they're old enough to build one without an erector set, Dr. Harris. The odds that we will need it are the same as the odds that they will need it.
Maggard, you have a reference for that comment on there being multiple impacts at the K-T boundary? I remember at least one fellow having a contest looking for any ammonite (I think it was ammonite) fossil above the iridium layer on the K-T boundary, an noone winning.
After all that pigging out at MacDonald's, do your Sims end up weighing a simulated 300 pounds each? Do they get simulated atherosclerosis? Sim diabetes? Sim strokes? Sim food poisoning? Do Sim children come down with simulated ADHD? Not entirely accurate then, is it?
No worse than the borrow-and-spend economics of SimCity, where even a 0.1% raise in taxes will lower your ratings dramatically.
As it is, are these peoples lives so meaningless, that they have to get themselves worked up over a game?
Or even more sadly, are these people's lives so meaningless that in a virtual reality game they can't think of anything more exciting to do than to go to McDonalds? (Or worse yet, that they can't think of anything more exciting to do than to go to McDonalds in a virtual reality game?)
Umm, that's rationale and plague, folks. A plaque is a small sign. Rational means reasonable or relating to reason. A plague is a widespread disease (and metaphorically a lot of something unpleasant). A rationale is an excuse or reason for doing something.
Explorer is in most ways superior to Mo and especially to Chimera. The most important difference is that IE runs faster, considering that I'm seeing typing lag as I write this post in Chimera. It's only a couple tenths of a second, but still quite annoying and totally unexcusable on a 700MHz machine. Also remember that IE mac is much better than IE windows for some reason (I've heard Office X is also much better than Office XP, but never tried either).
Ok, you said that IE for Windows is in most ways superior to Mo[zilla] and then provided exactly one example: a couple of tenths of a second difference in load time! Apparently you don't care about standards support, popup blocking, consistency across platforms, or any of the other features that make Mozilla the better choice for most users. (The type lag in text boxes I've seen, but not for a while in Mozilla). I'll leave aside the way you're describing Office X as better than Office XP when you've never used it (I have used both, and disagree). Maybe you should refrain from adding this kind of editorial comment in the future.
MS isn't evil. They've got problems, but they aren't evil. They're just pushing the outside of the [legal] envelope, and aren't keeping up the kind of quality folks would like to see in mature software products (perhaps because they're too big).
If I pay for a piece of copyrighted content, I have a right to fair use of that content. DRM keeps me from that.
Which is exactly what Apple is talking about with their "user experience" line. If someone can come up with a rights management system that doesn't interfere with fair use, I'm sure that Apple (and some of the folks around here) will be all for it. The question is : is this a technological problem, or a social one?
So nothing. It's worthwhile for critics to see the debts. That doesn't mean that Lucas is a bad boy for not putting up a huge sign: "Hey, this was influenced by Herbert," any more than Herbert was being a bad boy by not putting in a note "Hey, I read Seven Pillars of Wisdom as a youngster." It's interesting is all.
Except "The White Goddess" is considered at best suspect by most mainstream scholars of mythology. Graves was a hell of a writer, but his arguments are full of holes.
What's actually happening here is that the physicists are using metaphors to explain their mathematics that were used in the past by poets. Because the metaphors are part of our common literary inheritance, they are easier for us to understand than other, equally valid metaphors/models representing the same mathematical facts.
Far more interesting to me is Kant's "prediscovery" of the shape of the galaxy, and the idea of other galaxies.
Doesn't matter. IANAL, but I suspect that you can copy a space all you want to; you just can't use the actually physical location without the owner's permission
The setting of Tatooine owes a little to Arrakis. That's been acknowledged by critics since the late seventies.
Lucas has, I believe, acknowledged both debts. Certainly to Hidden Fortress, though he does seem to claim that he borrowed not the "General saves the Princess" theme but rather the characters of R2D2 and C3PO from the two sidekicks in HF. Anyway, he's acknowledged HF's influence on his work. And the influence of Dune on the visuals has been long accepted, even if Lucas has never said anything.
Frankly, I don't see why anyone thinks any of these influences (including the Long Room) needs to be made much over. Do you really think that the Star Wars DVDs should have footnotes like Eliot's Waste Land, pointing the viewer to all of the allusions in the films? Isn't it better to let the viewers discover them for themselves?
Yes, back in the days before Apple discovered UNIX.
Good posting, but one quick correction:
Rare first editions are mainly for bragging rights anyway
Actually, first editions are very valuable for textual criticism, as they were usually proofread by the author and so tend to be very, very close to the author's intentions. While this is less true for Newton's time than for today, it is also true that in Newton's time there tended to be more correction in the middle of print runs than there are today, so the text of one first edition might be slightly different from that of another first edition. Any textual critic preparing a modern scholarly edition of the Principia would likely want to collate as many copies of the first edition as possible along with any MSS that might survive (in, e.g., Cambridge).
If only there weren't as many bad indie bands as there are bad mainstream bands.
Sturgeon's Law strikes again.
Actually, Microsoft does produce a quality product, despite what the Linux-obsessed masses seem to think.
Linux-obsessed masses? What planet is this on? On my planet, Earth, nobody knows about Linux except a bunch of long-haired badly shaven socially-inept geeks (self included).