Fires are part of the natural life cycle of a forest. Some species of plant and insect are actually dependant on fires, otherwise they won't/can't breed.
And yes, trees usually do die when they burn. For the most part the new forest grows from seeds which originate from surviving trees in nearby areas. Of course, some tree species are able to regenerate after a fire.
Am I the only one who is excited about this?? Think of the possibilities! We've already exhumed one mammoth from the ice in Siberia... think about how many more things we're going to find out about our ancestors, how many exciting possibilities there are. I'm really not worried.
I'm a paleontologist, and actually I'm not excited about this at all. Melting permafrost means melting carcasses of mammoth, woolly rhino and other fauna of the last glaciation. If nobody's there to pick them up at the exact time when they melt, it's buh-bye frozen fossils and welcome microbes.
It appears that before SCO even began its investigation, they were hoping to find a smoking gun, not believing that Linux could possibly not contain Unix code. Apparently, they ignored the advice of this consultant.
We all know Halliburton, but I didn't know the Bush admin also worked for SCO.
...how difficult this can be. Why don't they just come up with something like Pakcbycovjuch that somebody else doesn't have with 100% certainty.
Ubuntu is a good example. Or then they should try to come up with something that makes people think of the internet when they hear the browser's name. "Firefox" isn't exactly such a name.
Very good points, AKAImBatman. As a Joe Windoze-user who has tried Linux several times with various distros I can sign and verify each of those four claims.
1. The GUI is in many aspects better than that of Windows, but I still have to use text commands to unpack (or whatever it's called) a tar file? What the heck? Or have I somehow missed the app that handles tar packages thru a GUI? (This reminds me of another problem: the apps aren't named after their function, but instead have some "funny" names, vague acronyms or KThis and KThat, in the case of KDE.)
2. The programs are thrown hither and tither into folders located here and there. And to top that, the folders/directories names are vague, hard-to-remember (remember, I'm a Windows user) abbreviations. Confusion abounds. Of course, you could say that this gives you more freedom, you don't need to care about the location of the app. Well, I like to keep my file system orderly and uncluttered. And when I want to make a shortcut to an app I'd like to find it easily, preferably through knowing exactly where it is located. This is made easier by a Program Files style folder.
3. What I said about the naming of the folders, see point 2.
4. Yes. As if the installing of new apps wouldn't be enough of a pain in the @$$, with all those tar files and weirdly-named, weirdly-located folders (not to mention the fact that the "Install new programs" function on at least SuSE and Mandrake only includes those apps that came with the distro - why aren't the downloaded apps added to those lists?), I have to fight with ever-occurring library problems. Even on Windows people often don't know how to install applications. How do you think they could do that on Linux?
I must say that all the Linux distros I've used have improved in leaps and bounds since the first time I tried Linux (Red Hat in 1998 I think), but there are still some of these big issues that have to be solved before Linux can conquer (or should I say konquer) Joe User's desktop.
I went L0Lz0r on your version of Soviet Russia, so thanks for that. But Russia's not becoming a functioning democracy, quite the opposite. The Yeltsin years were chaotic and anarchy-filled. Now Putin is concentrating all power back to Kremlin. There are practically no independent TV channels in Russia anymore, at least not nation-wide channels. Free speech is getting more and more limited. Ethnic minorities (the Mari people, for example) are oppressed if they vote wrong. And there is very strong evidence that Putin rigged the elections the first time he was elected, just to make sure he wouldn't need to go to a second round of voting. And last time around there was a massive campaign for Putin and his party, openly supported by the state.
The old Soviet anthem was restored. And just like during the Soviet era, the Russian regime is getting increasingly paranoid. Everything and everyone is against them and their interests. They are not in fault, everyone else is. Unfortunately, this is very typical Russian thinking, which has rendered them unable to deal with their past, unlike Germans who have very succesfully dealt with their Nazi past. In Russia, the people, Putin included, still regard the USSR as being something great. Putin secretly idolizes Stalin, to whom he's known to toast at meetings.
You must be a republican or neocon, or both. Of course there's a lot of information that can't necessarily be applied to practical and "useful" purposes.
But the very basis of science is that all kind of information, whether the structure of T. rex bones or the knowledge of how to build a car, is worthwhile and should be studied. It all gives us more information about the world we live in and directly effects the way we look at it and behave in it.
The day when we start to classify scientific information into "necessary" & "useful" and "unnecessary" & "irrelevant", the civilized, intellectual society dies. Unfortunately, we can see there's a tendency towards a version of this scenario in corporate neocon America, in the rest of the world too. Also here in Europe there's increasing economic and social pressure on science that doesn't produce results measurable in $$$ (or, since I'm talking about Europe, ).
Heh. Yup, I take pride in being a bit primitive! Seriously speaking, the term wisdom teeth probably derives from the fact that when you get those, you're already of an older ("wiser") age.
But it's still not necessary - the human body has enough balance feedback nodes in its nervous system anyway.
But since there probably isn't any selective pressure to make the pinky toe disappear, it's safe to say we'll be hitting it around unintentionally with painful consequences for a long time onwards.
On the other hand, I was told that during the past couple of hundred of years the appearance of wisdom teeth (the cursed 3rd molar, I have all of them intact, though) in humans has been slowly but steadily decreasing. Dunno what's the evolutionary mechanism behind this, but considering our short(er) jaws it does make sense.
Here, "discover" means "described and classified scientifically" or, to put it in a simpler way, "known by science". Science is, after all, the dominant cultural system of accumulating, processing generating and archiving information, even though a local tribe somewhere already knew a certain creature.
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Fires are part of the natural life cycle of a forest. Some species of plant and insect are actually dependant on fires, otherwise they won't/can't breed.
And yes, trees usually do die when they burn. For the most part the new forest grows from seeds which originate from surviving trees in nearby areas. Of course, some tree species are able to regenerate after a fire.
Time to civilize yourself: he was right, it is 'spelt'.
How is this "redundant?" It's the frist fucking post!!!
Frist-fucking? Don't say that in public, you might get a swarm of angry Republicans on you!
Am I the only one who is excited about this?? Think of the possibilities! We've already exhumed one mammoth from the ice in Siberia... think about how many more things we're going to find out about our ancestors, how many exciting possibilities there are. I'm really not worried.
I'm a paleontologist, and actually I'm not excited about this at all. Melting permafrost means melting carcasses of mammoth, woolly rhino and other fauna of the last glaciation. If nobody's there to pick them up at the exact time when they melt, it's buh-bye frozen fossils and welcome microbes.
They probably consulted Emperor Palpatine. But as we can see, they still didn't get it quite right. Always in movement the future is!
Mandriva/SUSE is about the only respectable install base of KDE, and that's increasingly dead meat.
Huh? I thought Mandriva and SUSE are the biggest distros in that weird place known as Yurp.
*waves hand*
These are not the clichés you are looking for...
Spongebabies (rathergood.com)
;)
They are spongmonkeys you insensitive clod!
It appears that before SCO even began its investigation, they were hoping to find a smoking gun, not believing that Linux could possibly not contain Unix code. Apparently, they ignored the advice of this consultant.
We all know Halliburton, but I didn't know the Bush admin also worked for SCO.
And can we also bid for hot grits?
But the mods shouldn't. This is funny, not insightful (although it might be, in a sarcastic way).
...how difficult this can be. Why don't they just come up with something like Pakcbycovjuch that somebody else doesn't have with 100% certainty.
Ubuntu is a good example. Or then they should try to come up with something that makes people think of the internet when they hear the browser's name. "Firefox" isn't exactly such a name.
Your neo-con, FAUXnews-programmed troll brain might not like it, but I still recommend you to read this.
Very good points, AKAImBatman. As a Joe Windoze-user who has tried Linux several times with various distros I can sign and verify each of those four claims.
1. The GUI is in many aspects better than that of Windows, but I still have to use text commands to unpack (or whatever it's called) a tar file? What the heck? Or have I somehow missed the app that handles tar packages thru a GUI? (This reminds me of another problem: the apps aren't named after their function, but instead have some "funny" names, vague acronyms or KThis and KThat, in the case of KDE.)
2. The programs are thrown hither and tither into folders located here and there. And to top that, the folders/directories names are vague, hard-to-remember (remember, I'm a Windows user) abbreviations. Confusion abounds. Of course, you could say that this gives you more freedom, you don't need to care about the location of the app. Well, I like to keep my file system orderly and uncluttered. And when I want to make a shortcut to an app I'd like to find it easily, preferably through knowing exactly where it is located. This is made easier by a Program Files style folder.
3. What I said about the naming of the folders, see point 2.
4. Yes. As if the installing of new apps wouldn't be enough of a pain in the @$$, with all those tar files and weirdly-named, weirdly-located folders (not to mention the fact that the "Install new programs" function on at least SuSE and Mandrake only includes those apps that came with the distro - why aren't the downloaded apps added to those lists?), I have to fight with ever-occurring library problems. Even on Windows people often don't know how to install applications. How do you think they could do that on Linux?
I must say that all the Linux distros I've used have improved in leaps and bounds since the first time I tried Linux (Red Hat in 1998 I think), but there are still some of these big issues that have to be solved before Linux can conquer (or should I say konquer) Joe User's desktop.
I went L0Lz0r on your version of Soviet Russia, so thanks for that. But Russia's not becoming a functioning democracy, quite the opposite. The Yeltsin years were chaotic and anarchy-filled. Now Putin is concentrating all power back to Kremlin. There are practically no independent TV channels in Russia anymore, at least not nation-wide channels. Free speech is getting more and more limited. Ethnic minorities (the Mari people, for example) are oppressed if they vote wrong. And there is very strong evidence that Putin rigged the elections the first time he was elected, just to make sure he wouldn't need to go to a second round of voting. And last time around there was a massive campaign for Putin and his party, openly supported by the state.
The old Soviet anthem was restored. And just like during the Soviet era, the Russian regime is getting increasingly paranoid. Everything and everyone is against them and their interests. They are not in fault, everyone else is. Unfortunately, this is very typical Russian thinking, which has rendered them unable to deal with their past, unlike Germans who have very succesfully dealt with their Nazi past. In Russia, the people, Putin included, still regard the USSR as being something great. Putin secretly idolizes Stalin, to whom he's known to toast at meetings.
Cheers to functioning democracy in Russia, eh.
...can already do this.
Wonder if the patents of a galaxy far, far away can be enforced here?
We all know this is the decisive factor. Ask the makers of WWW and VHS.
Suspense = more clickthroughs = more ad views = more revenue
= ? = profit!
You must be a republican or neocon, or both. Of course there's a lot of information that can't necessarily be applied to practical and "useful" purposes.
But the very basis of science is that all kind of information, whether the structure of T. rex bones or the knowledge of how to build a car, is worthwhile and should be studied. It all gives us more information about the world we live in and directly effects the way we look at it and behave in it.
The day when we start to classify scientific information into "necessary" & "useful" and "unnecessary" & "irrelevant", the civilized, intellectual society dies. Unfortunately, we can see there's a tendency towards a version of this scenario in corporate neocon America, in the rest of the world too. Also here in Europe there's increasing economic and social pressure on science that doesn't produce results measurable in $$$ (or, since I'm talking about Europe, ).
Not to mention www.steve.jobs
Heh. Yup, I take pride in being a bit primitive! Seriously speaking, the term wisdom teeth probably derives from the fact that when you get those, you're already of an older ("wiser") age.
But it's still not necessary - the human body has enough balance feedback nodes in its nervous system anyway.
But since there probably isn't any selective pressure to make the pinky toe disappear, it's safe to say we'll be hitting it around unintentionally with painful consequences for a long time onwards.
On the other hand, I was told that during the past couple of hundred of years the appearance of wisdom teeth (the cursed 3rd molar, I have all of them intact, though) in humans has been slowly but steadily decreasing. Dunno what's the evolutionary mechanism behind this, but considering our short(er) jaws it does make sense.
Here, "discover" means "described and classified scientifically" or, to put it in a simpler way, "known by science". Science is, after all, the dominant cultural system of accumulating, processing generating and archiving information, even though a local tribe somewhere already knew a certain creature.
...welcome our new rodent overlords.
And can you imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these critters? The gnawing potential..!
It's not that Hovind believes what makes him wrong. He just haven't got his facts straight. But you're right, these discussions are rarely fruitful.