I use Digikam which does edit the files. I use Quod Libet for music for the same reason - if I correct or add metadata I want it kept regardless of what app I use or even if I transfer it to another machine.
It would be preferable to have the originals automatically backed up as well though.
1) no one uses (not a single user checked the hash of the download over seven months), 2) is not in the repos of most distros, 3) was not included in the Debain repos, despite there being a willing maintainer, because of poor code quality- see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515130
completely refutes all the different arguments in favour of open source (many eyeballs, multiple vendors to provide free market competition, no lock in, etc).
We all know that not one single proprietary app has ever had a security issue.
Because being abused in a factory is still better than living in a farm, the same reason why Europeans left farms during the Industrial Revolution to work in factories.
What about the effect of enclosure (i.e. legalised theft of common land) creating a huge class of landless labourers?
It is not the UK, it is EU law that the UK has to comply with.
That gives the government a great excuse "its not our fault, the EU made us do it", and its difficult to bring public pressure on the EU because its most important legislators are unelected.
Postgres is a lot harder to use. I recently started using it (because its the safest option with Django) and I made a lot of mistakes that I would not have made with MySQL, mostly with privileges.
Yes, Postgres is probably better, but if MySQL works for you (and with an engine that enforces foreign keys now a common option, it does everything I really need), is cheaper (which it is for web stuff because every host has it installed), and easier, why not use it?
Have you seen how much has changed since Office2000?
You missed his point. If you are going to switch too a new version of MS Office that requires that much training, then the cost of retraining is not a valid objection to switching to Open Office.
Communist states within democratic federations have not necessarily been oppressive - e.g. the Indian state of Kerala, which was rather well run by communists.
There's another way to look at this: the more times an article like this shows up in a respected blog or publication, the more seriously people will take it
Unfortunately, so far its mostly been mentioned on "publications" like Slashdot.
All those, and you still missed out the mainstream Christian one:
God created the entire universe, including space and time, and therefore intended evolution to happen as it did.
Incidentally, God is outside time, and therefore knows the future, but does not experience it as the future, anymore than you would by looking at a sequence of video frames.
Which suggests a certain confusion as there are contradictions between the beliefs of the two religions (try reconciling redemption through Jesus, reincarnation, and karma).
I think the exercise you suggest is brilliant, but it is unlikely to be done widely because it is too challenging. Once you encourage people to apply critical thinking to religion you are going to get a lot of them changing their minds about their beliefs, which upsets things too much. In the case of kids, parents will not like it, but it is not liked in wider society either - why do you think politicians like to treat religion as a matter of affiliation rather than belief?
I am not picking on religious parents either. How would most atheist parents react if their kids announced that they were becoming a Christian or a Muslim?
That is interesting, especially as it offers an explanation of why creationism is still so widespread in the US - the US seems far more inclined to social Darwinism than anywhere else.
One thing that makes me doubt it is that it is a cause taken up by the right. If it is a reaction to "uber-capitalism", then surely to would have appealed to to the left and be opposed by the right?
However, it seems to me ancient history is a perfectly fine place to present the fact that people have believed in ID historically. While ID in its current form is a fairly modern interpretation, the notion of an intelligent designer has been around for quite a while, and has had a profound influence on our world (for better or for worse).
They are teaching it in a history class.
The problem with intelligent design, as it is defined in this context is that it confuses several ideas:
1) The universe has a designer 2) The universe bears evidence of a designer 3) The above two somehow disprove evolution
I believe 1). I think 2) is sort of true (but not in the way the ID people mean), and 3) simply does not follow. Evolution is the instrument of an intelligent designer.
People may sincerely believe it, but there is, at the least, a lot of dishonesty in how it is presented.
I never understood why evolution is such a threat to religion.
It is not a threat to religions per se. The vast majority of Christians have no problem with evolution. The largest Christian church has never opposed the theory, has commented on it as proven, and regards ID as "not science".
The people who have a problem with evolution are biblical literalists - i.e. nutters. The US seems to produce a lot of them.
To be fair, its not just Muslims: I live in a country where you can go to jail for insulting the Buddha.
Its not just religions either: lots of countries have laws against insulting the flag or president, or whatever.
The basic conflict is over a "right not to be offended" vs a right to free speech. Unfortunately things seem to be drifting (in the West as well) towards peace is more important: we can all have a "harmonious society".
As for extensions, it has more than any browser other than FF. The average user does not use extensions - a good many Firefox users either do not know, or do not care, and never install a single extension. That is what Firefox now includes feature that could be provided by extensions.
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I use Digikam which does edit the files. I use Quod Libet for music for the same reason - if I correct or add metadata I want it kept regardless of what app I use or even if I transfer it to another machine.
It would be preferable to have the originals automatically backed up as well though.
When did they make me sign the agreement. How are they going to enforce it on me? I did not breach the patent as I did not make the camera.
Yes, because a single trojan in a server that:
1) no one uses (not a single user checked the hash of the download over seven months),
2) is not in the repos of most distros,
3) was not included in the Debain repos, despite there being a willing maintainer, because of poor code quality- see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515130
completely refutes all the different arguments in favour of open source (many eyeballs, multiple vendors to provide free market competition, no lock in, etc).
We all know that not one single proprietary app has ever had a security issue.
Because being abused in a factory is still better than living in a farm, the same reason why Europeans left farms during the Industrial Revolution to work in factories.
What about the effect of enclosure (i.e. legalised theft of common land) creating a huge class of landless labourers?
It is not the UK, it is EU law that the UK has to comply with.
That gives the government a great excuse "its not our fault, the EU made us do it", and its difficult to bring public pressure on the EU because its most important legislators are unelected.
Postgres is a lot harder to use. I recently started using it (because its the safest option with Django) and I made a lot of mistakes that I would not have made with MySQL, mostly with privileges.
Yes, Postgres is probably better, but if MySQL works for you (and with an engine that enforces foreign keys now a common option, it does everything I really need), is cheaper (which it is for web stuff because every host has it installed), and easier, why not use it?
Exactly. That actually works very well for dominant players like MS as it leaves people frightened of learnings curves.
Have you seen how much has changed since Office2000?
You missed his point. If you are going to switch too a new version of MS Office that requires that much training, then the cost of retraining is not a valid objection to switching to Open Office.
So what happens when the next version of IE changes things?
You could write to standards, you could use toolkits that hide browser incompatibilities.
The real solution is education. You cannot simplify everything, and someone with maths that bad probably misunderstands lots of things.
Even if this cannot be reversed through the Spanish courts or legislators, it is certain to be overruled by the EU.
Communist states within democratic federations have not necessarily been oppressive - e.g. the Indian state of Kerala, which was rather well run by communists.
maybe it is your setup, and not Windows.
Very likely it is, but most people would much rather use an OS that "just works" rather than spend hours or days configuring one that does not.
There's another way to look at this: the more times an article like this shows up in a respected blog or publication, the more seriously people will take it
Unfortunately, so far its mostly been mentioned on "publications" like Slashdot.
All those, and you still missed out the mainstream Christian one:
God created the entire universe, including space and time, and therefore intended evolution to happen as it did.
Incidentally, God is outside time, and therefore knows the future, but does not experience it as the future, anymore than you would by looking at a sequence of video frames.
They are not copying the Americans: the British had that system before the US existed.
you get kids who are Half-Christian Half-Buddhist
Which suggests a certain confusion as there are contradictions between the beliefs of the two religions (try reconciling redemption through Jesus, reincarnation, and karma).
I think the exercise you suggest is brilliant, but it is unlikely to be done widely because it is too challenging. Once you encourage people to apply critical thinking to religion you are going to get a lot of them changing their minds about their beliefs, which upsets things too much. In the case of kids, parents will not like it, but it is not liked in wider society either - why do you think politicians like to treat religion as a matter of affiliation rather than belief?
I am not picking on religious parents either. How would most atheist parents react if their kids announced that they were becoming a Christian or a Muslim?
That is interesting, especially as it offers an explanation of why creationism is still so widespread in the US - the US seems far more inclined to social Darwinism than anywhere else.
One thing that makes me doubt it is that it is a cause taken up by the right. If it is a reaction to "uber-capitalism", then surely to would have appealed to to the left and be opposed by the right?
However, it seems to me ancient history is a perfectly fine place to present the fact that people have believed in ID historically. While ID in its current form is a fairly modern interpretation, the notion of an intelligent designer has been around for quite a while, and has had a profound influence on our world (for better or for worse).
They are teaching it in a history class.
The problem with intelligent design, as it is defined in this context is that it confuses several ideas:
1) The universe has a designer
2) The universe bears evidence of a designer
3) The above two somehow disprove evolution
I believe 1). I think 2) is sort of true (but not in the way the ID people mean), and 3) simply does not follow. Evolution is the instrument of an intelligent designer.
People may sincerely believe it, but there is, at the least, a lot of dishonesty in how it is presented.
I never understood why evolution is such a threat to religion.
It is not a threat to religions per se. The vast majority of Christians have no problem with evolution. The largest Christian church has never opposed the theory, has commented on it as proven, and regards ID as "not science".
The people who have a problem with evolution are biblical literalists - i.e. nutters. The US seems to produce a lot of them.
The only ebooks I have bought (from Baen Free Library) are HTML and that works fine for me, apart from not being able to bookmark at any point.
ABout is right: Japan is an archipelago, not a single island.
Its total land area is less than that of Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagasgar, Baffin Island, or Sumatra.
It is pretty big, with the biggest island slightly bigger than Britain (with close to twice the population)
To be fair, its not just Muslims: I live in a country where you can go to jail for insulting the Buddha.
Its not just religions either: lots of countries have laws against insulting the flag or president, or whatever.
The basic conflict is over a "right not to be offended" vs a right to free speech. Unfortunately things seem to be drifting (in the West as well) towards peace is more important: we can all have a "harmonious society".
Chrome can't even provide a non X86 version of browser
So compile Chromium yourself, or use an OS that has Chromium for ARM available
As for extensions, it has more than any browser other than FF. The average user does not use extensions - a good many Firefox users either do not know, or do not care, and never install a single extension. That is what Firefox now includes feature that could be provided by extensions.
How much of that 26% is Youtube and other sites that offer both H264 and Flash? What is the equivalent percentage for Flash?
I have yet to see a single video H264 on the web. MOst web video seems to be Youtube hosted ON the other hand, I see Flash video everywhere.
It would be more true to say "Flash is a problem for Ipad and Iphone that can not be wished away". IT does not seem to be hurting their sales much.