To even be considered a valid scientific theory they have to be able to explain the most basic and fundamental observations. Electric Universe can't do that. I can't explain anything. It says that a comet's tail is charged particles arcing away from the comet as it comes closer to the sun, and this is why you get an anti-tail, the opposite charged particles go the other way. Why? Where does this magical charge come from? Why don't the solar winds work this way? Solar winds are always moving away from the sun, and contain both positive and negative charged particles. What is the source of the neutrinos we have detected coming from the Sun?
EU Cannot give an explanation for any of these questions, and the stuff that it apparently does give an explanation for we already know and have an answer for. It isn't science.
...that is so bad it doesn't even deserve to be called pseudo-science. I'll just finish the quote for you. You obviously fell off your chair before you could get to the end.
Electric Universe is not an alternate theory. To be alternative it needs to be based in reality somehow, but most of it's claims are easily disproved by just about every single observation we have ever made about the solar system.
Electric Universe is a scientific theory that is so bad it doesn't even deserve to be called pseudo-science.
Auto-update would be interesting. How do you keep the data up to date without downloading the entire 2.9G again? Is there some sort of diff file you can download?
Doesn't anyone read the article any more? Shift doesn't use an Offset Cursor. Your finger is the cursor, shift just displays the area of the screen under it so you can do precision 'mouse-like' functions with your finger. This solves the problem of not being able to access the area at the bottom of the screen.
Now you may say that this just solves a problem caused by bad UI, but there will always be a need for precision actions, like highlighting text.
They never said that at all. In fact they said in the article
"Free will is essentially an oxymoron -- we would not consider it 'will' if it were completely random and we would not consider it 'free' if it were entirely determined," Brembs said.
I never said Quicker and easier was the same as intuitive, I just said that a GUI is not necessarily intuitive, especially if all the options are there. Just because it's displayed on a GUI doesn't tell you what it does, and often requires reading several pages of text. What the hell do you put in the box that is labeled "Unified Messaging Dial Plan"?
Besides, the PS command line can give you ALL the options if you want it.
get-mailbox -identity bob.smith | format-list
That will get you the mailbox of bob.smith and will give you a list of all the settings that can be manipulated.
Want something more general? Try 'get-command', although that will return a lot of stuff, so you can be a bit more specific by trying 'get-command get-*' to return only a subset of commands.
Power users want so many features in all their server applications that if you were to put all of them into a GUI the GUI would become so difficult to use to be rendered almost usless. So you leave the most common activities in the GUI keeping it simple, and then as you become more experienced and need the advanced options you learn the shell.
I don't really understand why people seem to think a GUI is the be all and end all of intuitive user interfaces. It's not. It's very unintuitive. In many ways a command line can be easier and quicker. All admin work I do on linux is done through the command line. Powershell makes this possible for Windows servers as well. The command line only version of Longhorn will actually have a purpose because everything on Windows will now be able to be done through the command line.
That is indeed how things are starting to go with MS products. Exchange 2007 is fully scriptable. The GUI is really nothing but an interface on top of the PS commands. Whenever you do anything in the gui it tells you what PS commands it executed.
A lot of it's functionatly can't even be done through the GUI any more. For example to enable an imap mailbox for a specific user you need to execute the PS command set-casmailbox username -imapenabled $true
It's stuff like this that makes the complaints I read earlier about the | not piping plain text through stdin and stdout like bash does a moot point. Why execute new processes that needs to parse text when you can just interface directly with the application and modify it's settings through a real programing interface?
Look at the industry, it's extremely broad. Two people can say 'I work in the IT industry', but their job descriptions would be completely different, and they may not even have any idea how to do the other person's job. Why does an industry so varied drive them away?
You can't say "It's because women aren't interested in Maths type jobs", because that is crap. There are plenty of other Maths/Logic/"Male Oriented" jobs that have plenty of females. I can't think of any other profession where the ratios are so unbalanced.
I don't think I could ever condone using children in pornography. At that age it's impossible to tell how such things will affect an individual. Maybe some of them won't be harmed, but you will never really know until they grow up.
However, a better way would be computer generated imagery. We are getting to a point where CGI is almost photo real. Should such images be considered illegal? No one was harmed in the making of them.
Warm and silky? I suppose a freshly laid coil is pretty warm and silky.
Then they really enforce the whole "this came directly from someone's rectum" look with the slightly green tinge to the edges so that it looks like they ate a bad curry the night before.
Oblivion has great Writing and that is it. Fantastic depth to the world, and the characters that you interact with on the missions.
Gameplay is something different, and it's gameplay is distinctly average. Combat is tedious and overly simplistic. The way you interact with the world is tedious and overly simplistic. In fact almost everything gameplay is tedious and overly simplistic.
The mistake they made was trying to put everything into the game and what they got is a Jack of All trades, but master of none.
This has to be one of the worst reviews I have ever seen.
Let's look at his major arguments.
Photoshop doesn't work.- Well maybe the fact that photoshop pops up an alert when installing saying it's not compatable with Vista is a clue that maybe it's photoshop's problem and they are working to fix it.
IE doesn't work with his website. - MS have been very clear that they are making a lot of changes with IE7, and this is why they has been released to the general public to allow web developers to update their sites and be ready for the final release. Besides, any website that only works for IE deserves to be screwed by this.
That leaves a slow loading network places, a recent documents that doesn't seem to order properly, and some occasional com errors. All of which are hardly surprising in beta software.
And what if they don't sell as many copies of the first episode as they wanted. Do they cancel, and are you left in the lurch without ever knowing what happens next?
You just didn't understand did you? He isn't bagging out Zelda, and Final Fantasy. He says they are good. He is critisising the 'episodic' games like Half-Life: Episode 1, and Sin:Episode 1 where you pay $20 for half a game.
But you don't rent your copy of windows. Forcing them to stop trading will not stop your current copy from working so your computer will not stop on that day. All it will mean is MS won't be able to sell Vista etc in EU countries, something that will hurt MS more than anyone else.
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Um... Promise me you aren't one of the writers on the new series.
My reply was in response to the GP's post suggesting Phil Hartman was one of the actors who worked on Futurama. He wasn't.
The character Zapp Branigan was written for him, but he died before they started production, so Billy West took the part instead and happen to play the character in a similar way to Phil Hartman's audition.
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Phil Hartman was never in Futurama. He died in 1998. Futurama started in 1999.
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Screw the low UID. I want a large UID. There are heaps of people with 2 and 3 digit UIDs. I want a googol sized UID.
A UID 102 characters long is sure to get you noticed.
To even be considered a valid scientific theory they have to be able to explain the most basic and fundamental observations. Electric Universe can't do that. I can't explain anything. It says that a comet's tail is charged particles arcing away from the comet as it comes closer to the sun, and this is why you get an anti-tail, the opposite charged particles go the other way. Why? Where does this magical charge come from? Why don't the solar winds work this way? Solar winds are always moving away from the sun, and contain both positive and negative charged particles. What is the source of the neutrinos we have detected coming from the Sun?
EU Cannot give an explanation for any of these questions, and the stuff that it apparently does give an explanation for we already know and have an answer for. It isn't science.
...that is so bad it doesn't even deserve to be called pseudo-science. I'll just finish the quote for you. You obviously fell off your chair before you could get to the end.Oh please someone mod this down!
Electric Universe is not an alternate theory. To be alternative it needs to be based in reality somehow, but most of it's claims are easily disproved by just about every single observation we have ever made about the solar system.
Electric Universe is a scientific theory that is so bad it doesn't even deserve to be called pseudo-science.
It's my understanding they do. Just extremely basic.
There was one not long ago that was able to do simple arithmetic using 7 atoms. Not exactly code cracking capable, but still interesting.
Auto-update would be interesting. How do you keep the data up to date without downloading the entire 2.9G again? Is there some sort of diff file you can download?
$150 for a SATA disk maybe. These would be Fiber Channel whose price would easily be about $600 per disk
I can't remember how I got it, but my favorite is
"Do you want to copy or move these files?
Yes, No"
Doesn't anyone read the article any more? Shift doesn't use an Offset Cursor. Your finger is the cursor, shift just displays the area of the screen under it so you can do precision 'mouse-like' functions with your finger. This solves the problem of not being able to access the area at the bottom of the screen.
Now you may say that this just solves a problem caused by bad UI, but there will always be a need for precision actions, like highlighting text.
They never said that at all. In fact they said in the article
"Free will is essentially an oxymoron -- we would not consider it 'will' if it were completely random and we would not consider it 'free' if it were entirely determined," Brembs said.
I never said Quicker and easier was the same as intuitive, I just said that a GUI is not necessarily intuitive, especially if all the options are there. Just because it's displayed on a GUI doesn't tell you what it does, and often requires reading several pages of text. What the hell do you put in the box that is labeled "Unified Messaging Dial Plan"? Besides, the PS command line can give you ALL the options if you want it. get-mailbox -identity bob.smith | format-list That will get you the mailbox of bob.smith and will give you a list of all the settings that can be manipulated. Want something more general? Try 'get-command', although that will return a lot of stuff, so you can be a bit more specific by trying 'get-command get-*' to return only a subset of commands.
Power users want so many features in all their server applications that if you were to put all of them into a GUI the GUI would become so difficult to use to be rendered almost usless. So you leave the most common activities in the GUI keeping it simple, and then as you become more experienced and need the advanced options you learn the shell.
I don't really understand why people seem to think a GUI is the be all and end all of intuitive user interfaces. It's not. It's very unintuitive. In many ways a command line can be easier and quicker. All admin work I do on linux is done through the command line. Powershell makes this possible for Windows servers as well. The command line only version of Longhorn will actually have a purpose because everything on Windows will now be able to be done through the command line.
That is indeed how things are starting to go with MS products. Exchange 2007 is fully scriptable. The GUI is really nothing but an interface on top of the PS commands. Whenever you do anything in the gui it tells you what PS commands it executed.
2 9/virtual-machine-manager-s-powershell-support.asp x
A lot of it's functionatly can't even be done through the GUI any more. For example to enable an imap mailbox for a specific user you need to execute the PS command
set-casmailbox username -imapenabled $true
It's stuff like this that makes the complaints I read earlier about the | not piping plain text through stdin and stdout like bash does a moot point. Why execute new processes that needs to parse text when you can just interface directly with the application and modify it's settings through a real programing interface?
Take a look at this comparison of a bash script, and PS script here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/01/
But why aren't they interested??
Look at the industry, it's extremely broad. Two people can say 'I work in the IT industry', but their job descriptions would be completely different, and they may not even have any idea how to do the other person's job. Why does an industry so varied drive them away?
You can't say "It's because women aren't interested in Maths type jobs", because that is crap. There are plenty of other Maths/Logic/"Male Oriented" jobs that have plenty of females. I can't think of any other profession where the ratios are so unbalanced.
I don't think I could ever condone using children in pornography. At that age it's impossible to tell how such things will affect an individual. Maybe some of them won't be harmed, but you will never really know until they grow up. However, a better way would be computer generated imagery. We are getting to a point where CGI is almost photo real. Should such images be considered illegal? No one was harmed in the making of them.
Warm and silky? I suppose a freshly laid coil is pretty warm and silky.
Then they really enforce the whole "this came directly from someone's rectum" look with the slightly green tinge to the edges so that it looks like they ate a bad curry the night before.
Oblivion has great Writing and that is it. Fantastic depth to the world, and the characters that you interact with on the missions.
Gameplay is something different, and it's gameplay is distinctly average. Combat is tedious and overly simplistic. The way you interact with the world is tedious and overly simplistic. In fact almost everything gameplay is tedious and overly simplistic.
The mistake they made was trying to put everything into the game and what they got is a Jack of All trades, but master of none.
Let's look at his major arguments.
Photoshop doesn't work.- Well maybe the fact that photoshop pops up an alert when installing saying it's not compatable with Vista is a clue that maybe it's photoshop's problem and they are working to fix it.
IE doesn't work with his website. - MS have been very clear that they are making a lot of changes with IE7, and this is why they has been released to the general public to allow web developers to update their sites and be ready for the final release. Besides, any website that only works for IE deserves to be screwed by this.
That leaves a slow loading network places, a recent documents that doesn't seem to order properly, and some occasional com errors. All of which are hardly surprising in beta software.
And what if they don't sell as many copies of the first episode as they wanted. Do they cancel, and are you left in the lurch without ever knowing what happens next?
You just didn't understand did you? He isn't bagging out Zelda, and Final Fantasy. He says they are good. He is critisising the 'episodic' games like Half-Life: Episode 1, and Sin:Episode 1 where you pay $20 for half a game.
But you don't rent your copy of windows. Forcing them to stop trading will not stop your current copy from working so your computer will not stop on that day. All it will mean is MS won't be able to sell Vista etc in EU countries, something that will hurt MS more than anyone else.
I see...
Um... Promise me you aren't one of the writers on the new series.
My reply was in response to the GP's post suggesting Phil Hartman was one of the actors who worked on Futurama. He wasn't.
The character Zapp Branigan was written for him, but he died before they started production, so Billy West took the part instead and happen to play the character in a similar way to Phil Hartman's audition.
Phil Hartman was never in Futurama. He died in 1998. Futurama started in 1999.
What? You actually read the source code for every application you install on your machine?