Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands" is an incredibly insightful and powerful story on the kind of world robots governed by the First Law would create.
Oh, for crying out loud. Are you seriously maintaining the asinine argument that putting a brutal, oppressive, murdering, dictatorial regime as the Chair of the Human Rights Commission is no big deal because there is no nation in the world with a perfect record on human rights?
And your point would be what? Are you advocating a surrender of national sovereignty to the UN?
Of course we only agree with the UN when it suits our national interests. And rightly so, considering most of the UN is peopled by third world thugs and does brilliant things like elect Syria to chair the Commission on Human Rights abuses and makes back-door deals with Saddam Hussein in oil-for-food scams.
I don't know which is worse, Bobby Fischer's fantasies, or the delusions slash dotters hold about the UN.
-- "There are no known ways for ammonia to be present in the Martian atmosphere that do not involve life," a US Space Agency (Nasa) scientist told BBC News Online. --
That's just bunk. Ammonia is a very common compound in the outer solar system. Ammonia can get formed like crazy without life being present; it's a very simple chemical to create abiotically.
A decent sized comet impact could deposit enough ammonia in the soil to account for the amounts being detected just from simple outgassing.
It's called.images or something obvious like that. I forget off the top of my head. To do it the gui way, install Tinker Tools and check the box to show hidden files and directories, then restart the Finder. You should be able to navigate directly to the directory on the restore disk from the Finder.
For crying out loud. This is all theoretical physics. What advancing science are you talking about? He's just going to present yet ANOTHER mathematical model to sit alongside string theory to explain away a paradox introduced by a DIFFERENT mathematical model (quantum preservation of information).
Until we can design an experiment to TEST which mathematical model is correct, we haven't advanced anything.
Theoretical physicists can sit and dream up pretty much anything they want to as long as the equations work out. It's the experimental physicists that actually advance science by actually figuring our whether or not the latest hare-brained idea from a theoretical physicist actually exists in reality.
When PC World reviewed OS X, they commented on how difficult it was for them to configure the machine to be seen by Windows PCs. They had spent about two hours looking for the configuration wizard, when one of them finally noticed a little checkbox in the Sharing pref panel that said: Windows Networking. They checked that and bam! All the PCs in the company could see their OS X box.
The reviewers themselves stated it took them so long because they weren't expecting it to be that easy or intuitive. They had come from the Windows mindset where network configuration required wizards.
All Macs still ship with a Classic environment installed. All the Classic environment is is a System Folder.
This isn't Windows, people, where you have to have dlls and registry keys.
Drag any System 9.2.2 System folder to your Mac's hard drive and you have installed Classic.
Your new Mac's System Restore DVD/CD will have a number of disk images in a hidden directory (.images or something like that.) One of them is a disk image of nothing more than an OS 9.2.2 System Folder and the Applications (Mac OS 9) directory. If you need to install the classic environment, just mount that image, and drag the system folder over.
Your classic environment is stored as a disk image in a hidden directory on your restore DVD/CD. You can just mount the image and drag the System Folder from it to your hard drive. Voilá, Classic system installed.
Silly you. You have not successfully deciphered the envirowacko mindset yet.
The answer, of course, is to force people to live closer to where they work. (Talk to an envirowacko long enough, and the word "make" or "force" always comes up). But, hey, it's all for the greater good, so stand in line, pal. Your federal fuel representative will stamp your gasoline purchase permit presently. After he inspects your car to make sure that it is on the list of federally approved vehicles.
But never fear, the socially conscious on slash dot will make sure that RFID tags never track your personal information.
An excellent point that bolsters Apple's numbers even more. Only a tiny minority of computer users (the self-proclaimed ubergeek crowd) are going to download 2 gigs worth of ISOs over a three day period, burn them to CD and then install the OS.
Face it, the number of nerds who download and install a freebie distribution of Linux are so small as to be statistically insignificant.
Apple slams Linux in number of installations. Denying reality doesn't change reality.
___ Now they're in a bind, because people have already coded sites based on the assumption that IE does X and Mozilla does Y. They can't become IE compatible without breaking stuff. ___
FUD. You put put a preference in Mozilla called IE compatibility mode. Turn it on, and Mozilla identifies itself as IE to web sites and renders pages identically to IE. Nothing breaks.
--- Remember, the internet only works because everyone agrees on a STANDARD. ---
That's right. What the standard is, and who implements it is irrelevant. IE is that standard. It is no more right or wrong than the W3C standards. You only think it is wrong because you don't like Microsoft.
Please re-read my original post, paying particular attention to the irrelevance of smelly geeks shouting about MS tyranny of the Internet.
No, it IS Firefox's fault. It's called barrier to entry. No one is going to use your product if that barrier is too high. Chanting W3C like some medieval monk isn't going to change the reality that IE IS a standard simply because it is so widely used.
Firefox developers, if they want their browser to be successful, need to have it render pages EXACTLY the same way IE does. WHEN THEY'VE DONE THAT, they can add W3C compliance and all the cool features that IE won't have because it's a stagnant product.
Users don't care WHY their page doesn't look right, they only care that it doesn't. And they don't care about some smelly wild-eyed geek screaming about Microsoft tyranny of the internet.
Now, since the Firefox people haven't done that, you have to find values that Firefox has that your boss will think are more important than page rendering.
The security concept is a bit too abstract. However, I've found that cookies can really be a strong selling point. Open up his cookie list in IE and point out all the cookies from advertisers and explain how they are tracking, cataloging and reporting his every web click.
Then introduce him to cookie management in Firefox.
Good grief. This is the MHz myth redux. Bit rate does not equal quality. It's the codec. Otherwise we'd all be saying that 2500 bps mpeg-2 is far superior to 1500 bps DIVX. You'd get laughed off any forum for preaching that, yet everyone goes around proclaiming it as gospel truth for audio.
Here's the real reason this nonsense keeps coming up: Competitors to iTMS are so far behind in terms of downloads it's laughable. So, what do they do? Smear the competition.
That's all this is, plain and simple. It's nothing more than competing download services spreading FUD to try and knock down the market leader, and folks here just drink it right down and think they're intelligent and discerning consumers for doing so.
Bush went to war in Afghanistan for an oil pipeline. Hey, it's a lie, but you know, that's just an insignificant nitpick.
Bush personaly approved flying Osama's family out of the country right after 9/11 when all other planes were grounded and without the FBI ever having the chance to question them. It's a lie, but, hey, you know, that's just an insignificant nitpick.
The amount of self-induced brainwashing the wingnuts on the left are doing over this film is absolutely amazing.
It's a fascinating study on how hatred can totally topple reason.
Yes you did. The moment you accused damns of messing up ecosystems, that's exactly what you said. Either you're being dishonest by trying to backpedal, or you're too stupid to realize what the environmentalist manifesto crap you regurgitate actually means.
A CHANGED ecosystem does not mean a DESTROYED ecosystem. I am so sick of this ignorant environmentalist prattle about some utopian static, eternally unchanging mythical ecosystem that exists nowhere except their deluded fanaticism.
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Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands" is an incredibly insightful and powerful story on the kind of world robots governed by the First Law would create.
Oh, for crying out loud. Are you seriously maintaining the asinine argument that putting a brutal, oppressive, murdering, dictatorial regime as the Chair of the Human Rights Commission is no big deal because there is no nation in the world with a perfect record on human rights?
And your point would be what? Are you advocating a surrender of national sovereignty to the UN?
Of course we only agree with the UN when it suits our national interests. And rightly so, considering most of the UN is peopled by third world thugs and does brilliant things like elect Syria to chair the Commission on Human Rights abuses and makes back-door deals with Saddam Hussein in oil-for-food scams.
I don't know which is worse, Bobby Fischer's fantasies, or the delusions slash dotters hold about the UN.
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"There are no known ways for ammonia to be present in the Martian atmosphere that do not involve life," a US Space Agency (Nasa) scientist told BBC News Online.
--
That's just bunk. Ammonia is a very common compound in the outer solar system. Ammonia can get formed like crazy without life being present; it's a very simple chemical to create abiotically.
A decent sized comet impact could deposit enough ammonia in the soil to account for the amounts being detected just from simple outgassing.
It's called .images or something obvious like that. I forget off the top of my head. To do it the gui way, install Tinker Tools and check the box to show hidden files and directories, then restart the Finder. You should be able to navigate directly to the directory on the restore disk from the Finder.
For crying out loud. This is all theoretical physics. What advancing science are you talking about? He's just going to present yet ANOTHER mathematical model to sit alongside string theory to explain away a paradox introduced by a DIFFERENT mathematical model (quantum preservation of information).
Until we can design an experiment to TEST which mathematical model is correct, we haven't advanced anything.
Theoretical physicists can sit and dream up pretty much anything they want to as long as the equations work out. It's the experimental physicists that actually advance science by actually figuring our whether or not the latest hare-brained idea from a theoretical physicist actually exists in reality.
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htf is something "too intuitive?"
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When PC World reviewed OS X, they commented on how difficult it was for them to configure the machine to be seen by Windows PCs. They had spent about two hours looking for the configuration wizard, when one of them finally noticed a little checkbox in the Sharing pref panel that said: Windows Networking. They checked that and bam! All the PCs in the company could see their OS X box.
The reviewers themselves stated it took them so long because they weren't expecting it to be that easy or intuitive. They had come from the Windows mindset where network configuration required wizards.
In other words, OS X was too intuitive for them.
All Macs still ship with a Classic environment installed. All the Classic environment is is a System Folder.
This isn't Windows, people, where you have to have dlls and registry keys.
Drag any System 9.2.2 System folder to your Mac's hard drive and you have installed Classic.
Your new Mac's System Restore DVD/CD will have a number of disk images in a hidden directory (.images or something like that.) One of them is a disk image of nothing more than an OS 9.2.2 System Folder and the Applications (Mac OS 9) directory. If you need to install the classic environment, just mount that image, and drag the system folder over.
Your classic environment is stored as a disk image in a hidden directory on your restore DVD/CD. You can just mount the image and drag the System Folder from it to your hard drive. Voilá, Classic system installed.
Bzzt. Wrong. SUVs are safer there, too. For the same reason a tank is safer than a jeep. Lots of nice, heavy metal to protect the occupants.
Only a fool would think that an entity that receives an income through government taxation would be editorially independent.
You can force an editorial viewpoint on the press, or you can buy one.
Typical. One vehicle is safer in a crash than another. What's the answer? Ban the safer vehicle, of course!
Nope. That pesky 2nd law of thermodynamics says that efficiency will ALWAYS be less than 100%.
You are correct. Increased fuel mileage today always comes at the expense of vehicle weight.
Silly you. You have not successfully deciphered the envirowacko mindset yet.
The answer, of course, is to force people to live closer to where they work. (Talk to an envirowacko long enough, and the word "make" or "force" always comes up). But, hey, it's all for the greater good, so stand in line, pal. Your federal fuel representative will stamp your gasoline purchase permit presently. After he inspects your car to make sure that it is on the list of federally approved vehicles.
But never fear, the socially conscious on slash dot will make sure that RFID tags never track your personal information.
An excellent point that bolsters Apple's numbers even more. Only a tiny minority of computer users (the self-proclaimed ubergeek crowd) are going to download 2 gigs worth of ISOs over a three day period, burn them to CD and then install the OS.
Face it, the number of nerds who download and install a freebie distribution of Linux are so small as to be statistically insignificant.
Apple slams Linux in number of installations. Denying reality doesn't change reality.
You're working for a state that doesn't force you to use Windows and you're COMPLAINING?!?
What a moron. But then, hatred never is rational.
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Now they're in a bind, because people have already coded sites based on the assumption that IE does X and Mozilla does Y. They can't become IE compatible without breaking stuff.
___
FUD. You put put a preference in Mozilla called IE compatibility mode. Turn it on, and Mozilla identifies itself as IE to web sites and renders pages identically to IE. Nothing breaks.
---
Remember, the internet only works because everyone agrees on a STANDARD.
---
That's right. What the standard is, and who implements it is irrelevant. IE is that standard. It is no more right or wrong than the W3C standards. You only think it is wrong because you don't like Microsoft.
Please re-read my original post, paying particular attention to the irrelevance of smelly geeks shouting about MS tyranny of the Internet.
No, it IS Firefox's fault. It's called barrier to entry. No one is going to use your product if that barrier is too high. Chanting W3C like some medieval monk isn't going to change the reality that IE IS a standard simply because it is so widely used.
Firefox developers, if they want their browser to be successful, need to have it render pages EXACTLY the same way IE does. WHEN THEY'VE DONE THAT, they can add W3C compliance and all the cool features that IE won't have because it's a stagnant product.
Users don't care WHY their page doesn't look right, they only care that it doesn't. And they don't care about some smelly wild-eyed geek screaming about Microsoft tyranny of the internet.
Now, since the Firefox people haven't done that, you have to find values that Firefox has that your boss will think are more important than page rendering.
The security concept is a bit too abstract. However, I've found that cookies can really be a strong selling point. Open up his cookie list in IE and point out all the cookies from advertisers and explain how they are tracking, cataloging and reporting his every web click.
Then introduce him to cookie management in Firefox.
Good grief. This is the MHz myth redux. Bit rate does not equal quality. It's the codec. Otherwise we'd all be saying that 2500 bps mpeg-2 is far superior to 1500 bps DIVX. You'd get laughed off any forum for preaching that, yet everyone goes around proclaiming it as gospel truth for audio.
Here's the real reason this nonsense keeps coming up: Competitors to iTMS are so far behind in terms of downloads it's laughable. So, what do they do? Smear the competition.
That's all this is, plain and simple. It's nothing more than competing download services spreading FUD to try and knock down the market leader, and folks here just drink it right down and think they're intelligent and discerning consumers for doing so.
Bush went to war in Afghanistan for an oil pipeline. Hey, it's a lie, but you know, that's just an insignificant nitpick.
Bush personaly approved flying Osama's family out of the country right after 9/11 when all other planes were grounded and without the FBI ever having the chance to question them. It's a lie, but, hey, you know, that's just an insignificant nitpick.
The amount of self-induced brainwashing the wingnuts on the left are doing over this film is absolutely amazing.
It's a fascinating study on how hatred can totally topple reason.
Money for Linux software? Blasphemer!
Yes you did. The moment you accused damns of messing up ecosystems, that's exactly what you said. Either you're being dishonest by trying to backpedal, or you're too stupid to realize what the environmentalist manifesto crap you regurgitate actually means.
A CHANGED ecosystem does not mean a DESTROYED ecosystem. I am so sick of this ignorant environmentalist prattle about some utopian static, eternally unchanging mythical ecosystem that exists nowhere except their deluded fanaticism.