wouldn't it be better to say 6 subspecies of giraffe? IAAB, and yes, that's absolutely correct. They're subspecies.
You get the same thing with the house mouse, mus musculus -- subspecies that are genetically distinct and geographically isolated, but which will interbreed in captivity (and in bordering zones in the wild). It's presumed that a lower fitness in the offspring of cross-subspecies matings in bordering zones keeps the subspecies separate.
I came accross this information. Seems if light is slowing down why not time? Australian physicist Barry Setterfield and mathematician Trevor Norman examined all of the available experimental measurements to date and have announced a discovery: the speed of light appears to have been slowing down over the years. Not enough ns, presumably highly vague estimates of error. You can't write that c is decreasing based on three measurements, which is probably why only 16 dodgy publications have cited this work since it was published in 1987.
I'm also slightly disturbed by the fact that you copied your post paragraph verbatim from http://www.khouse.org/articles/1995/58/, a web site that has as its mission statement, "To create, develop, and distribute materials to stimulate, encourage, and facilitate serious study of the Bible as the inerrant Word of God." Probably not the best source for a discussion of theoretical physics, methinks...
Slashdot: Apple never, ever, do anything wrong. Ever. They're just poor, misunderstood geeks working hard to make this world a better place for you and me.
Truth: Apple are just another company, with the same evil practices as everyone else. Deal with it.
GNOME running WITHOUT Compiz requires a good 256MB.
That's WITHOUT the eyecandy. Hmmm... I would have thought that the eye-candy uses the GPU, and as such really isn't related to the main RAM. But don't let that stop you starting a flame war...
Personally I think both KDE and GNOME are sucky bloatware and use IceWM. However, if forced I'd take GNOME over KDE any day because of its reliance on a friendlier and more widely used toolkit, and also because there's no such thing as "kdeinit" under GNOME. (Maybe KDE's killed kdeinit by now? Here's hoping...)
Those images do not look like images representative of cloned GFP containing animals that I have seen. That's coz they're RFP (red fluorescent protein) cats, not GFP cats...
But if you're rich, odds are you're not dumb. And if you're poor, odds are you're stupid. Actually, if you're rich the odds are you had rich parents. And if you're poor, you either had poor parents or else you squandered your fortune buying useless shit like the Amazon Kindle...
...Also, TM is not confined to the Finder per say. if you're in Address Book and lost a contact, type in the filter string to locate it. Still... It's PER SE, goddamnit! And it means "intrinsically!" You saying "TM is not confined to the Finder per se" would imply that either it IS somehow confined to finder (but not intrinsically) or you just like to use big-person words you don't understand. Hmmm... I think the interpretation would be, "TM is not confined to the Finder by itself, but also relates to the Address Book and other applications." The use in this sense is actually most correct - the literal translation is "by itself", and this has been adapted in English to mean "in and of itself" or "intrinsically". Nevertheless, dictionaries still list the definition as "by, of, for, or in itself; intrinsically" (e.g. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=per%20se, and see http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=per+se&searchmode=none).
If modern use of "per se" decides to move back to "by itself", that's fine by me. But even if society decides to start using "per se" to mean "fucked if I know" - and uses it consistently in this fashion - there would be nothing inherently wrong with this. Language evolves and is fluid, and we everyday use hundreds of words whose current meanings have no relation to their original etymology. We even use words that now mean the exact opposite of their roots - such as "philanderer", for example (see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=philanderer).
Language is a means of communication. If people understand what you're saying, the rest is simply semantics...:)
Wow, I wish this was even close to being an issue in one of our campaigns here in the USA. Can you imagine having an issue like this on the national agenda here? Don't worry, broadband really isn't an issue in the election campaign down here in Oz. In fact, we're have a very US-style personality-based campaign, with precious little policy detail in any area.
And for what it's worth, if the howard turd gets re-elected once more you're welcome to move here and take my place. Give him another three years and every last one of the old Australian values will have been replaced by fear, xenophobia and selfishness.
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you - I think the command-line is a wonderful thing, and that typing commands is not at all difficult to learn (witness the old Apple ][/IBM PC days - nobody had trouble running programs back then) Both a command-line and a GUI have their place and use...
I was just having a chuckle at how far the Mac user-base has come from the dark days of completely-CLI-free 1984...:)
The power of OS X comes from being usable as pure GUI or a pure Terminal or mix of both without losing anything. That is how Apple manages to sell Mach/FreeBSD/NeXT hybrid to general public. That's fine, but do you realise that the very same comment applies to linux, don't you? I don't think anyone's arguing with the virtues of MacOSX - we're just amused that after twenty-something years of dissing the command-line, now it's suddenly the latest and greatest thing about the Mac.:)
This is a feature that should be high on anyone's list: the ability to direct someone else to change system settings without having to give them a long GUI script along the lines of "Open this, click here, click there, this should say X, type Y". I just love being able to package up these types of changes into a command-line like that. Whoa! So now Mac users are advocating the command-line as an 'ease-of-use' feature?? Now I've seen it all!:)
From "Good Omens":
Archbishop James Usher (1580-1656) published Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti in 1654, which suggested that the Heaven and the Earth were created in 4004 B.C. One of his aides took the calculation further, and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth was created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004 B.C., at exactly 9:00 A.M., because God liked to get work done early in the morning while he was feeling fresh.
This too was incorrect. By almost a quarter of an hour.
The whole business with the fossilized dinosaur skeletons was a joke the paleontologists haven't seen yet.
This proves two things:
Firstly, that God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
But don't try to bring it into science, for faith requires belief without proof, and science requires proof before belief *laughs*... you clearly haven't met many scientists!
Faith (not in a god, but in one's own personal theory) is a big problem. Show me a scientist who's truly objective, and I'll show you someone who's deluding themselves...
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And I'm supposed to use Linux why?.
Ignoring the obvious Wallmart greeter jokes, does anyone even know what this means? Sure - the greeter application is the graphical logon screen when you start up. Why it should be crashing, though, I really don't know. Try googling for the error message.
As for upgrades - my philosophy is to treat the upgrade process with the same respect as typing "sudo rm -rf/" - make sure you've backed up *everything* and can recover from bare metal if need be. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but the one sure thing is that once you start, you can't go back without a backup.
And why are you supposed to use Linux? No reason at all - there are pluses and minuses to every system, and if you don't like it, go back to Windows. Seriously. If you're happier with Windows, stick with Windows - it's not *that* bad a system these days! Of course, you'll have problems and issues with Windows, too... it's just the nature of the os beast.
I think a lot of people see linux as some sort of magic bullet to all their Windows woes. They think that installing it will take them to a land where nothing ever crashes and hippies dance across their laptop screen with flowers in their hair. It's not that simple. Like any OS, linux needs to be learnt and needs to be tamed to get it to work for you.
Those of us that enjoy using linux do so in the same way some people like working on their cars. We can get under the hood, take everything apart, put it back together and make it work better (or more the way we want). But the end result is just a part of it - it's the hobbyist mentality, and getting our hands dirty is all part of the fun.
If you just want an OS to take you from A to B, linux probably isn't for you. And there's nothing wrong with that attitude, and there's nothing wrong with you if you don't happen to like linux!
Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick is so powerful, it can be seen from outer space by the naked eye. Just shows you what a good teacher Bruce Schneier is, then, don't it?
No "security through obscurity" there - that's good ol' plain "security through kicking the shit out of everyone else"...
Mine's called Jane*, but that's besides the point. I also hate it when people call things a "USB."
*After my love: Jane Eyre I hate to break it to you, but your Jane's got a conspicuous male bit poking out of her... (which is fine, if you happen to like women in that Crying-Game sorta way, I guess...)
Of course, there is nothing to stop those lesser-known artists from releasing some taster material, or even their entire collection, for free and legal file-sharing if they think it's in their interests (other than any agreements they have with uncooperative record labels, but that's a separate issue). But in doing so, I think they should then accept that they will not be guaranteed any income from the material afterwards. Leaking it for the exposure, but then screwing the people who copied the content when you get to court, is unethical. If you'd read the article I'd linked to, you would have discovered that Janis Ian actually did put her money where her mouth was, and released her material for free download. After doing so, she experienced a 300% increase in her sales.
Seriously, read the text, rather than merely commenting on what you think is there - you might be surprised. The point is that actual damages in this case are minimal, and that's what people are up in arms about here. Very few people dispute that copyright infringement is wrong, but that doesn't give the RIAA leave to rack up completely inappropriate fines by way of damages.
But that's a far cry from claiming that today's freebie file-sharing culture is really a good thing for the music business and doesn't cost them anything, particularly if your only evidence for this is that you asked some file sharers and they told you so. How about something written by an artist on the effect filesharing had on her own music sales:
Many lesser artists see filesharing of their songs as a positive means of promotion, not as something that warrants damages. That's not to say that filesharing copyrighted music is right, mind you - only that the arguments regarding damages and penalties are certainly not as clear cut as the RIAA would have you believe...
As for your original idea, that of punishing the ones who get caught far in excess of the damages they've caused, in order to set an example - well, I don't know about you, but I rather like the idea of a system where the punishment fits the crime. If you take your argument to its logical conclusion, we'll end up giving out $100K fines for jay-walking...
Is there a company that does give a shit about how they treat their customers provided said pay up? No, there isn't. But in most cases their customers recognise this fact... that's not the case with Apple.
Be careful of typical knee-jerk Slashdot reactions that say Microsoft == Evil and Google == Good. There is a legitimate privacy point here. If I click on a context-sensitive advertisement that's based on the content of my emails, the advertiser now knows something about me that he didn't know before. That gives the advertiser the opportunity to treat me differently from other enquirers.
Well, that's assuming a lot of rather unlikely stuff which would be in direct contravention of Google's privacy policy, for example, the idea that google sends any personal information to the advertiser when you click on a link. It's dubious that the advertiser knows anything about you other than your IP address and that you came from a gmail ad... and considering how context insensitive those gmail ads are anyway, I doubt that this tells them much!
In any case, you can bypass that issue by simply not clicking on the ads. I don't even notice them anymore...
Any scientific journal worth its salt has some a mandatory peer review process, no matter how obscure the topic may be to the mainstream. And any non-peer-reviewed journal will be judged accordingly...
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You get the same thing with the house mouse, mus musculus -- subspecies that are genetically distinct and geographically isolated, but which will interbreed in captivity (and in bordering zones in the wild). It's presumed that a lower fitness in the offspring of cross-subspecies matings in bordering zones keeps the subspecies separate.
I'm also slightly disturbed by the fact that you copied your post paragraph verbatim from http://www.khouse.org/articles/1995/58/, a web site that has as its mission statement, "To create, develop, and distribute materials to stimulate, encourage, and facilitate serious study of the Bible as the inerrant Word of God." Probably not the best source for a discussion of theoretical physics, methinks
Actually, it's more like this ...
Slashdot: Apple never, ever, do anything wrong. Ever. They're just poor, misunderstood geeks working hard to make this world a better place for you and me.
Truth: Apple are just another company, with the same evil practices as everyone else. Deal with it.
That's WITHOUT the eyecandy. Hmmm
Personally I think both KDE and GNOME are sucky bloatware and use IceWM. However, if forced I'd take GNOME over KDE any day because of its reliance on a friendlier and more widely used toolkit, and also because there's no such thing as "kdeinit" under GNOME. (Maybe KDE's killed kdeinit by now? Here's hoping
How about taking matters into your own hands? i.e.
nice -n 19 some_pdf_reader
Hmmm ... I don't think you've quite grasped the notion that smart != rich ... Maybe you should take a walk round a university sometime?
...Also, TM is not confined to the Finder per say. if you're in Address Book and lost a contact, type in the filter string to locate it. Still... It's PER SE, goddamnit! And it means "intrinsically!" You saying "TM is not confined to the Finder per se" would imply that either it IS somehow confined to finder (but not intrinsically) or you just like to use big-person words you don't understand. HmmmIf modern use of "per se" decides to move back to "by itself", that's fine by me. But even if society decides to start using "per se" to mean "fucked if I know" - and uses it consistently in this fashion - there would be nothing inherently wrong with this. Language evolves and is fluid, and we everyday use hundreds of words whose current meanings have no relation to their original etymology. We even use words that now mean the exact opposite of their roots - such as "philanderer", for example (see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=philanderer).
Language is a means of communication. If people understand what you're saying, the rest is simply semantics
And for what it's worth, if the howard turd gets re-elected once more you're welcome to move here and take my place. Give him another three years and every last one of the old Australian values will have been replaced by fear, xenophobia and selfishness.
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you - I think the command-line is a wonderful thing, and that typing commands is not at all difficult to learn (witness the old Apple ][/IBM PC days - nobody had trouble running programs back then) Both a command-line and a GUI have their place and use ...
... :)
I was just having a chuckle at how far the Mac user-base has come from the dark days of completely-CLI-free 1984
This too was incorrect. By almost a quarter of an hour.
The whole business with the fossilized dinosaur skeletons was a joke the paleontologists haven't seen yet.
This proves two things:
Firstly, that God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Secondly, the Earth's a Libra.
Faith (not in a god, but in one's own personal theory) is a big problem. Show me a scientist who's truly objective, and I'll show you someone who's deluding themselves
Ignoring the obvious Wallmart greeter jokes, does anyone even know what this means? Sure - the greeter application is the graphical logon screen when you start up. Why it should be crashing, though, I really don't know. Try googling for the error message.
As for upgrades - my philosophy is to treat the upgrade process with the same respect as typing "sudo rm -rf
And why are you supposed to use Linux? No reason at all - there are pluses and minuses to every system, and if you don't like it, go back to Windows. Seriously. If you're happier with Windows, stick with Windows - it's not *that* bad a system these days! Of course, you'll have problems and issues with Windows, too
I think a lot of people see linux as some sort of magic bullet to all their Windows woes. They think that installing it will take them to a land where nothing ever crashes and hippies dance across their laptop screen with flowers in their hair. It's not that simple. Like any OS, linux needs to be learnt and needs to be tamed to get it to work for you.
Those of us that enjoy using linux do so in the same way some people like working on their cars. We can get under the hood, take everything apart, put it back together and make it work better (or more the way we want). But the end result is just a part of it - it's the hobbyist mentality, and getting our hands dirty is all part of the fun.
If you just want an OS to take you from A to B, linux probably isn't for you. And there's nothing wrong with that attitude, and there's nothing wrong with you if you don't happen to like linux!
No "security through obscurity" there - that's good ol' plain "security through kicking the shit out of everyone else"
*After my love: Jane Eyre I hate to break it to you, but your Jane's got a conspicuous male bit poking out of her
Seriously, read the text, rather than merely commenting on what you think is there - you might be surprised. The point is that actual damages in this case are minimal, and that's what people are up in arms about here. Very few people dispute that copyright infringement is wrong, but that doesn't give the RIAA leave to rack up completely inappropriate fines by way of damages.
http://janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
Many lesser artists see filesharing of their songs as a positive means of promotion, not as something that warrants damages. That's not to say that filesharing copyrighted music is right, mind you - only that the arguments regarding damages and penalties are certainly not as clear cut as the RIAA would have you believe
As for your original idea, that of punishing the ones who get caught far in excess of the damages they've caused, in order to set an example - well, I don't know about you, but I rather like the idea of a system where the punishment fits the crime. If you take your argument to its logical conclusion, we'll end up giving out $100K fines for jay-walking
Be careful of typical knee-jerk Slashdot reactions that say Microsoft == Evil and Google == Good. There is a legitimate privacy point here. If I click on a context-sensitive advertisement that's based on the content of my emails, the advertiser now knows something about me that he didn't know before. That gives the advertiser the opportunity to treat me differently from other enquirers.
Well, that's assuming a lot of rather unlikely stuff which would be in direct contravention of Google's privacy policy, for example, the idea that google sends any personal information to the advertiser when you click on a link. It's dubious that the advertiser knows anything about you other than your IP address and that you came from a gmail adIn any case, you can bypass that issue by simply not clicking on the ads. I don't even notice them anymore