The fact that evolution is taught in classrooms as mere fact is an affront to many Americans (85% believe in literal creationism/intelligent design guided evolution).
Your number of 85% seems high to me, but lets run with it anyway. Just because most people think that falls in better with their religious beliefs doesn't make it any more right (or wrong).
I bet a 1000 years ago more than 90% of all people believed the world was flat. That didn't make it true and neither does 85% of the population believing in ID/Creationsim make that true, or something that should be taught in schools.
Are there holes in evolutionary theory? Yes.
Does that mean we should fill those holes with the idea of an intelligent creator? No
The reason we should not do that is simple. It is saying we can never understand the how, so why bother. It is encouraging apathy by saying 'You cannot ever understand this, because it was done by some superbeing.' That is not an acceptable answer in science, even if it is correct.
How to type./configure && make && sudo make install in case of unpackaged apps; 3. Whether your distro uses sudo or su so you can modify Step 2 appropriately.
yea, because that is straight forward to someone who just wants to pick up linux...
I swear to god, you linux types will not get anywhere until you realize that having more than 1 step for getting the installation of programs going is too much.
I don't even know what the fuck those two steps are, but I do know that I installed linux on a machine I had at home and gave up on trying to get it to work because I couldn't get the drivers to work for my wireless network card and installing programs makes fuckall sense.
Why can't I just double click on the executable and have the installation process start? What is so hard about that? Linux works great for servers, but it is so far away from being ready for desktop use by most users it is amazing.
With windows xp, things just work. With 95 and 98 things were a pain, and you needed to know some tricks to get around problems you had and I learned those tricks. Now I'm spoiled. When I want to install a new program I like the fact that I can just pop the CD in my drive and it tells me to start the installation and walks me through it.
In short, there is a lot that is difficult about those 3 steps, mainly because THEY ARE NOT INTUATIVE. Explain to me how knowing how my distro deals with packages, then having to type some bullshit into a command line is easier than putting a CD in the drive and following the steps presented.
Linux may be a really nice OS, but some people just want their computer to be a tool where they are able to get things done quickly and effienctly with a low learning curve. Until linux can offer all those things it will remain a niche OS relegated to servers.
Open up any windows directory. Go to tools. Folder Options. Go to the view tab. Find the radio button that says show hidden files and folders. Click that button. Say OK.
Netflix intentionally slows down consumer rentals by claiming DVDs don't get received until several days after they actually arrive.
This has not been my experience at all. I mail my dvds back, and they receive them the very next day. Perhaps you live a long way from a distro center, or they are sending you movies from a distro center in another part of the country, and then it takes a few days for those movies to make it to you and to be returned.
we will scan your book, fill a form and tell us if you don't want us to do so
If you want to protect your work, this isn't that difficult, and something your publisher would probably do for you if you didn't want to do it yourself.
we will take sale comissions from amazon, buy.com, bn.com, etc. without sharing anything with you
Um... its not like they're not getting the money they normally would've received from the sale. In fact their sales probably increase do to more people finding out about their book.
if we show ads, we will share the profits with you
ya, i'm sure they're really moaning about extra money.
we will show excerpts of your book, so if a researcher is researching on a topic he can find what you have written about a topic without ever having to buy your book, too bad, heh heh, write a fiction book dude
If you are hoping to make lots of sales of your book based on a couple of paragraphs within your book, then you have a lot more to worry about than google.
we will cache your book in our servers and only we will reserve the right to profit from your scanned book
Dude, you just said they'll share profits with the author from ads...
Current speculation is that the 360 will be HD-DVD before the PS3 is released. That screws over the early adopters, but still beats Sony to market. In any case, it'll be HD-DVD in less than a year.
To me this is another reason to not get an xbox360. Why on earth would you release a console, then release another console a year later which accepts different media? All the sudden game producers have to produce 2 versions of games, HD DVDs and regular DVD versions. This will also destroy consumer loyalty. Nobody would be happy with buying a machine then get bent over again and have to puchase a 2nd version with a HD DVD player.
People are PISSED about the HD and no HD versions of the xbox360 (rightfully so) they will get irate when a 3rd version is released that has a HD DVD player. Honestly, i'm not excited at all about the xbox360. I haven't seen one new or innovative thing with it. Just prettier versions of the same games. Doing this will cause so much fragmentation in the xbox360 market that it might as well become a PC.
I honestly don't see a lot of people rushing out to buy a HD DVD player do you? With nothing out there it will take time for either new format to pick up market share. Blu-ray will have a _HUGE_ advantage in that market with the install base of PS3s.
I don't think people will jump to go and buy the nextgen DVDs or DVD players. I don't see a huge consumer advantage. Especially when HD tvs are still so expensive and their installbase is still small.
So knowing that when the HD tvs drop in price a bit more and there is a decent media library that takes advantage of nextgen dvd quality, there will be a huge installbase of blu-ray dvd players which is the ps3 market.
I'm not sure where you heard that the xbox360 will have a nextgen dvd player but that is wrong. The 300 dollar pricetag version is a marketing ploy and nothing more. Most people will be forced into buying the 400 version because it is a lot cheaper in the longrun.
Yes the HD DVDs are ready now, but they don't have the future installbase of the PS3 customers. It is a lot easier for me to justify a 500 ps3 purchase knowing it can also play nextgen dvds, than a 400 dollar xbox360 purchase that is just a console.
Call me a fanboi or whatever, that doesn't bother me. But I have really thought this through. blu-ray disks are ready, just not the 50 gig version. If that takes a year or two to come out, that isn't a huge deal, what is a big deal is the potential to get there, AND their future preinstalled base of consumers.
The only reason MS will back the HD DVD is because sony is using blu-ray in the PS3. They want that machine to become as obsolete as soon as possible. It scares MS to death that people will want a blu-ray DVD player because that is a HUGE valueadd to the PS3.
It becomes a lot easier to stomach a 500+ dollar game purchase when it will also play blu-ray dvds aswell, because people will want to watch the better quaility pictures.
It isn't that difficult to figure out why MS hates blu-ray and that is because their XBOX360 (which is really unimpressive) is still stuck on regular DVDs. If you have to buy an XBOX360 (400) + nextgen dvd player (200-300, maybe more) vs buying a ps3 (500, price is a guess, but I can't see it costing more than that. If it does its dead before it ships) people are SAVING money by buying the ps3.
I like the idea of trusted computing. It gives me this warm fuzzy feeling all the way down to my toes. Sure security is an ok word, but I like how the word trust makes me feel even more.
True. But even on cable or in print, big media and big business is heard a thousand times as loudly as othe folk. That's not freedom of speech, though for some strange reason it is seen as such in the USA.
It is because anyone has the potential to get rich and start expousing their views through any means that they have available to them.
the problem with that is, what about advertisements against a certian candidate from a different group.
Lets say that a privacy organization doesn't like a candidate because of their stance on privacy related issues. Are they allowed to create a commercial making the public aware of said candidate's stance? Under the constitution, this is the very definition of free speach, yet McCain-Finegold has rules against it.
If you had a lot of money and wanted to take out and add saying how X-candidate didn't uphold your view on the constitution or how they were horrible for america, that should be your right in our country. This is called soft money. Hard money is direct contributions to a person's campaign. Soft money is a contribution to a NPO where they expouse your views on the issues somewhere.
This is why campaign finance reform doesn't work. We have lots of corporations that are more than happy to spend a couple of million dollars on a candidate that agree's with their beliefs. They are able to do that by tearing down the other candidate. That is the true beauty of the 2 party system. You only have 1 real enemy and one target. If there were 8 viable candidates for an office it would become much more difficult to tear them all down in a cost effective manner.
"We should not shoot more meat than we can carry". Our field testing showed that this lesson was indeed effective."
Since they couldn't carry so much meat it probably taught the kids to eat everything they could while they could. Now our nation is wracked with startling rates of fatties.
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E is absolutely horrible for you. My friend is a doctor and he says its more like brain poison that makes you feel good than a drug.
Compared to heroine and coke, E is far worse.
The fact that evolution is taught in classrooms as mere fact is an affront to many Americans (85% believe in literal creationism/intelligent design guided evolution).
Your number of 85% seems high to me, but lets run with it anyway. Just because most people think that falls in better with their religious beliefs doesn't make it any more right (or wrong).
I bet a 1000 years ago more than 90% of all people believed the world was flat. That didn't make it true and neither does 85% of the population believing in ID/Creationsim make that true, or something that should be taught in schools.
Are there holes in evolutionary theory? Yes.
Does that mean we should fill those holes with the idea of an intelligent creator? No
The reason we should not do that is simple. It is saying we can never understand the how, so why bother. It is encouraging apathy by saying 'You cannot ever understand this, because it was done by some superbeing.' That is not an acceptable answer in science, even if it is correct.
How to type ./configure && make && sudo make install in case of unpackaged apps; 3. Whether your distro uses sudo or su so you can modify Step 2 appropriately.
yea, because that is straight forward to someone who just wants to pick up linux...
I swear to god, you linux types will not get anywhere until you realize that having more than 1 step for getting the installation of programs going is too much.
I don't even know what the fuck those two steps are, but I do know that I installed linux on a machine I had at home and gave up on trying to get it to work because I couldn't get the drivers to work for my wireless network card and installing programs makes fuckall sense.
Why can't I just double click on the executable and have the installation process start? What is so hard about that? Linux works great for servers, but it is so far away from being ready for desktop use by most users it is amazing.
With windows xp, things just work. With 95 and 98 things were a pain, and you needed to know some tricks to get around problems you had and I learned those tricks. Now I'm spoiled. When I want to install a new program I like the fact that I can just pop the CD in my drive and it tells me to start the installation and walks me through it.
In short, there is a lot that is difficult about those 3 steps, mainly because THEY ARE NOT INTUATIVE. Explain to me how knowing how my distro deals with packages, then having to type some bullshit into a command line is easier than putting a CD in the drive and following the steps presented.
Linux may be a really nice OS, but some people just want their computer to be a tool where they are able to get things done quickly and effienctly with a low learning curve. Until linux can offer all those things it will remain a niche OS relegated to servers.
obviously you didn't look too hard.
Open up any windows directory.
Go to tools.
Folder Options.
Go to the view tab.
Find the radio button that says show hidden files and folders.
Click that button.
Say OK.
Be sure to pack some wire coat hangers and it won't matter.
Quite a few people have appealed being forced to go to an AA class and won. I don't have any sources but I did see it on Penn and Teller's Bullshit!
I love that show.
Astronomers have traced the origin of short-duration gamma-ray bursts But I'd be pretty warry about making anyone from that region of space angry.
University of Wisconsin mad scientists say they are developing a new lithium battery technology
www.pricewatch.com
find your own components and slap them together.
Netflix intentionally slows down consumer rentals by claiming DVDs don't get received until several days after they actually arrive.
This has not been my experience at all. I mail my dvds back, and they receive them the very next day. Perhaps you live a long way from a distro center, or they are sending you movies from a distro center in another part of the country, and then it takes a few days for those movies to make it to you and to be returned.
Now that is my kinda ad!
repeat after me...
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Library
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If you want to protect your work, this isn't that difficult, and something your publisher would probably do for you if you didn't want to do it yourself.
we will take sale comissions from amazon, buy.com, bn.com, etc. without sharing anything with you
Um... its not like they're not getting the money they normally would've received from the sale. In fact their sales probably increase do to more people finding out about their book.
if we show ads, we will share the profits with you
ya, i'm sure they're really moaning about extra money.
we will show excerpts of your book, so if a researcher is researching on a topic he can find what you have written about a topic without ever having to buy your book, too bad, heh heh, write a fiction book dude
If you are hoping to make lots of sales of your book based on a couple of paragraphs within your book, then you have a lot more to worry about than google.
we will cache your book in our servers and only we will reserve the right to profit from your scanned book
Dude, you just said they'll share profits with the author from ads...
Is our children learning?
To me this is another reason to not get an xbox360. Why on earth would you release a console, then release another console a year later which accepts different media? All the sudden game producers have to produce 2 versions of games, HD DVDs and regular DVD versions. This will also destroy consumer loyalty. Nobody would be happy with buying a machine then get bent over again and have to puchase a 2nd version with a HD DVD player.
People are PISSED about the HD and no HD versions of the xbox360 (rightfully so) they will get irate when a 3rd version is released that has a HD DVD player. Honestly, i'm not excited at all about the xbox360. I haven't seen one new or innovative thing with it. Just prettier versions of the same games. Doing this will cause so much fragmentation in the xbox360 market that it might as well become a PC.
I don't think people will jump to go and buy the nextgen DVDs or DVD players. I don't see a huge consumer advantage. Especially when HD tvs are still so expensive and their installbase is still small.
So knowing that when the HD tvs drop in price a bit more and there is a decent media library that takes advantage of nextgen dvd quality, there will be a huge installbase of blu-ray dvd players which is the ps3 market.
I'm not sure where you heard that the xbox360 will have a nextgen dvd player but that is wrong. The 300 dollar pricetag version is a marketing ploy and nothing more. Most people will be forced into buying the 400 version because it is a lot cheaper in the longrun.
Yes the HD DVDs are ready now, but they don't have the future installbase of the PS3 customers. It is a lot easier for me to justify a 500 ps3 purchase knowing it can also play nextgen dvds, than a 400 dollar xbox360 purchase that is just a console.
Call me a fanboi or whatever, that doesn't bother me. But I have really thought this through. blu-ray disks are ready, just not the 50 gig version. If that takes a year or two to come out, that isn't a huge deal, what is a big deal is the potential to get there, AND their future preinstalled base of consumers.
It becomes a lot easier to stomach a 500+ dollar game purchase when it will also play blu-ray dvds aswell, because people will want to watch the better quaility pictures.
It isn't that difficult to figure out why MS hates blu-ray and that is because their XBOX360 (which is really unimpressive) is still stuck on regular DVDs. If you have to buy an XBOX360 (400) + nextgen dvd player (200-300, maybe more) vs buying a ps3 (500, price is a guess, but I can't see it costing more than that. If it does its dead before it ships) people are SAVING money by buying the ps3.
well, not really but you can spin it that way.
The waste could power its own disposal!
It is because anyone has the potential to get rich and start expousing their views through any means that they have available to them.
Lets say that a privacy organization doesn't like a candidate because of their stance on privacy related issues. Are they allowed to create a commercial making the public aware of said candidate's stance? Under the constitution, this is the very definition of free speach, yet McCain-Finegold has rules against it.
If you had a lot of money and wanted to take out and add saying how X-candidate didn't uphold your view on the constitution or how they were horrible for america, that should be your right in our country. This is called soft money. Hard money is direct contributions to a person's campaign. Soft money is a contribution to a NPO where they expouse your views on the issues somewhere.
This is why campaign finance reform doesn't work. We have lots of corporations that are more than happy to spend a couple of million dollars on a candidate that agree's with their beliefs. They are able to do that by tearing down the other candidate. That is the true beauty of the 2 party system. You only have 1 real enemy and one target. If there were 8 viable candidates for an office it would become much more difficult to tear them all down in a cost effective manner.
and I feel like I won the prize for best use of time on slashdot
Since they couldn't carry so much meat it probably taught the kids to eat everything they could while they could. Now our nation is wracked with startling rates of fatties.
Thanks for making our nation fat Oregon Trail!
9/9 = 1 .010101
.5
.5/5 = .1
.1 > .010101
1/99 =
11/22 =
So in essence this release is 10x greater than a 9/9/99 release.
Remove all the keys on your keyboard then put them back on at random!