Read the book Man, see for your self, the talk of "the other people" who existed at the same time.
Could these be the same "other people" as the Others from the Lost TV series?? After all, the Others speak Latin, follow their provisional leaders blindly, get their instructions from a near-immortal guy named Jacob who protects them from a nameless abomination, and fear outsiders... they sure seem like an ancient religious caste...
...and better health, diet, and educational conditions produce more invested members of society. Let's focus on what we can do to help those now in need, while providing for a future where there won't be so many people lost and hopeless.
Unless your plan is to nuke all the MLK Drives in the world.
I love to bash Windows as much as the next guy, but their bashing was pretty lame. Apple has real strengths and they should emphasize them. Mac OS X and iPhone OS have great APIs and it sounds like they've done many improvements for Snow Leopard. We've known forever what Windows users have to contend with, and we don't need to hear it repeated again. Though a little Linux and NetBSD bashing would have been refreshing.
Better yet, let them finally catch up with the other OS manufacturers and release an OS that can be used on a machine besides the ones that Apple sells.
So, disempowerment encourages rebellion? Gee whiz, who'd a thunk it?
Great thing about capitalists, they can just ignore the lessons of history and the realities of the market, and use control and coercion to accomplish their aims. When will this world start to realize that the market is a power branch, and must be separated and regulated as such, and not allowed to corrupt government and culture with its survival-at-all-cost ambitions?
Cheap processed foods almost completely devoid of value, mind-poisoning media, pharmaceuticals to mediate the symptoms of our sickness and addiction, lies, damned lies... someone tell me the great benefits left to us at this time in history by these maggots?
If a company authorized by The People to do business for our benefit goes out and instead defrauds The People, then We have every right and reason to revoke their charter and relegate them to oblivion. And we should!
Yeah, it would mean the loss of some jobs and revenue for the various entities in their web, but it will do more good in the long run. First, the talented people working for this shoddy operation would be freed up to pursue their own eithical enterprises, and second, it would set the proper example and scare the shit out of other companies that might be contemplating or engaged in similar kinds of folly.
Honestly, this is an issue where a company didn't care that it might kill us all so long as they profited, and as far as I'm concerned that's no less than treason.
So precisely what is it we eat that causes arthritis (the most common indication for Vioxx)?
I have no idea, but I'd lay even money on it being either animal-derived or processed food, and not fruits, vegetables, legumes, or whole grain cereals.
Yep, I learned my first Assembly Language on the 6502 back in 1983 or so, and had just started writing cool, fast game and utility software on the Atari 800 around 1985 using the very nice Atari Macro Assembler, when *boom* the era of Atari was over.
So I moved to the Amiga and programmed that lovely machine in 680x0 assembler using the slick "DevPac" programming environment by HiSoft. Bad geek that I was, I never learned Intuition or any of the Amiga system calls, but went straight to the hardware for the titles I worked on, namely "Dino Wars" and "Bill 'n' Ted's Excellent Adventure" (apologies for both). Then *boom* the Amiga was dead.
After a long hiatus from programming I got a PowerMac. On the Mac the first software I bought was the fringe macro assembler "Fantasm" by Lightsoft, thinking I'd be a Mac Assembler guru, but alas, Apple had moved from 680x0 to the PowerPC by that time, and only insane maniacs program that chip directly in Assembler.
So finally, in 1995 I finally learned C, and a few years later C++.
Of course nowadays I learn a new programming language every year and an entirely new framework or API every couple of months.
As long as MS is getting into integrated virtualization, they might as well reconsider their OS strategy and get onboard with *nix as their core technology. It might seem unthinkable now, but if MS doesn't move to a Unix or Linux-based system they're going to remain the odd-man-out and as such will become less and less relevant to the interconnected computing world.
Inevitably, people will realize that Unix and Linux make better use of - and run faster - on the same hardware, and that chasing down viruses on a regular basis actually does add to cost and frustration of running Windows - and that it just isn't worth it for the added "interoperability" you get.
And honestly, what does Windows even do anymore that systems like Mac OS X, BSD, and Ubuntu don't? What is the special value of running that creaky old thing, when you can use WINE or VMWare on a decent system?
Libertarians believe in a free marketplace and goverment based solidly on our Constitution
Well that's good, because that's what we have.
Of course, "free" doesn't mean "unregulated." If you have a 500 foot man living next door, you've just got to set a few ground rules about where he steps and where he shits.
As for the Constitution, well some would say "the Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid dog fighting, so get off my back!" Gotta watch out for those folks who think it embodies the whole of the law. It may form the root principles, but the whole of the law is a living thing, constantly evolving through precedent and experience.
And there is nothing inherently laissez-faire Capitalist about the Constitution either, nor should it be. If Capitalism turns out to be yet another avenue for tyranny, the Constitution would suggest we cut it off, since its primary aim is to establish protection for the powerless from the powerful, the have-nots from the haves, the minority from the majority, and to keep any emerging power from monopolizing the government, which is by, for, and of the people.
If anything, the Constitution points towards anarchist syndicalism or some form of socialism. Unfortunately it's easier and more lucrative for the programmers of culture to harness our fears and vices than to motivate our hopes and virtues.
Me too, which is why I stopped owning a car about 20 years ago. When I need to get somewhere that I can't get to by foot, bike, or bus, or if I just feel the need to get away, I'll rent a car. Mostly I bike, and this has been great for my health and well being. So imagine, you could give up your car and your gym membership!
Before we start this discussion, everyone should read the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Programming languages, like human languages, express rules and patterns, but in philosophy we talk about how and when to employ rules, where to look for patterns. There are certainly general principles that apply to all programming languages, such as the trade-off between clarity and concision, whether it's better to own or reference an object in a given instance, etc. But does C++ really have a different "philosophy" than Objective-C, or are we just talking about the problem-solving intent and domain of the language and its suitability to a given problem? Do those really constitute philosophy, or are they just functional artifacts of the form?
Evolution we know occurred and continues. The various theories attached to that, such as punctuated equilibrium and theories about the rate of change, are certainly good areas for exploration.
Theories about abiogenesis, which is the emergence of complex organisms from self-replicating organic molecules, is a different area of exploration which has a whole different set of theories. Natural selection is certainly a part of it, but the competition for energy and the evolution of molecules has its own vernacular.
If by "possible alternatives" you mean, maybe animals and plants didn't evolve from single-celled organisms, I wouldn't bet on those.
That we organisms evolved on this planet from organic molecules is pretty much a given at this point. We know already that given certain conditions you can coax inert gases into self-assembling into amino acids, and that self-copying molecules do arise spontaneously. It is now simply a matter of understanding how the competition for energy - and the various ways it is converted by molecules - gives rise to such intricate systems of energy-exchange. That is to say, the vast diversity of the biological world.
Even if this planet was seeded from the outside, we still know abiogenesis is real, had to have happened somewhere, and still happens. Most likely it's exactly what happened here, and probably many times, all over the planet.
The scientific implications of theories of abiogenesis are the very things that drive experimental testing. Each implication has to be explored to see where it leads. The most tricky question of biology may be, how did the DNA molecule arise? How did the instructions that code for proteins end up gathered together into such a huge master molecule? There are already several theories on that, and it will undoubtedly be explained one day. Every DNA molecule itself contains vestiges of its ancestry and each segment tells its own story.
The philosophical implications of abiogenesis, it seems to me, would only be challenging to minds which are predisposed to incredulity about the notion that the laws of nature could - in themselves - give rise to life just given a good set of conditions. But that is unambiguously the picture so far. The more we learn about biochemistry and DNA the more this picture is reinforced.
There are certainly metaphysical implications like, how did it come to be that a universe favorable to life exists? (Well, to be fair, this universe seems at most "favorable" to bacteria - complex life took billions of years to get started). But for that matter, how can there be a universe at all? What came before? Why does everything get annihilated in the end? Does any information escape? Etc., etc.
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It is not at all impossible that all people on Earth today descended from the three sons of Noah.
Considering Noah is a fictional character in a fable, yes, it is impossible.
Read the book Man, see for your self, the talk of "the other people" who existed at the same time.
Could these be the same "other people" as the Others from the Lost TV series?? After all, the Others speak Latin, follow their provisional leaders blindly, get their instructions from a near-immortal guy named Jacob who protects them from a nameless abomination, and fear outsiders... they sure seem like an ancient religious caste...
Wink-wink. Someday...
Going from XP to Win7 is like going from OSX 10.1 to Tiger.
There, fixed that for you.
This kid is obviously the love child of Dean Kamen and HRP-4C.
There, fixed that for you.
If you've ever been to the Indian subcontinent you would know, the monkeys are already taking over.
This seems to be working:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jacek_utko_asks_can_design_save_the_newspaper.html
...and better health, diet, and educational conditions produce more invested members of society. Let's focus on what we can do to help those now in need, while providing for a future where there won't be so many people lost and hopeless.
Unless your plan is to nuke all the MLK Drives in the world.
Who do you think was the first person to buy the "I Am Rich" iPhone app?
But to be fair to your comment, I do see myself as Jobs' natural spiritual successor at Apple. Is that so wrong?
Could this be the beginning of the end for SCO?
I love to bash Windows as much as the next guy, but their bashing was pretty lame. Apple has real strengths and they should emphasize them. Mac OS X and iPhone OS have great APIs and it sounds like they've done many improvements for Snow Leopard. We've known forever what Windows users have to contend with, and we don't need to hear it repeated again. Though a little Linux and NetBSD bashing would have been refreshing.
Better yet, let them finally catch up with the other OS manufacturers and release an OS that can be used on a machine besides the ones that Apple sells.
At this time it's only true that they don't support it.
Ditto. That's what I came here to post. It really ought to be incorporated into every console within 5 years. It totally changes the game experience.
You're telling us it's a sham? Wow!
So, disempowerment encourages rebellion? Gee whiz, who'd a thunk it?
Great thing about capitalists, they can just ignore the lessons of history and the realities of the market, and use control and coercion to accomplish their aims. When will this world start to realize that the market is a power branch, and must be separated and regulated as such, and not allowed to corrupt government and culture with its survival-at-all-cost ambitions?
Cheap processed foods almost completely devoid of value, mind-poisoning media, pharmaceuticals to mediate the symptoms of our sickness and addiction, lies, damned lies... someone tell me the great benefits left to us at this time in history by these maggots?
Okay, that's just plain treasonous.
If a company authorized by The People to do business for our benefit goes out and instead defrauds The People, then We have every right and reason to revoke their charter and relegate them to oblivion. And we should!
Yeah, it would mean the loss of some jobs and revenue for the various entities in their web, but it will do more good in the long run. First, the talented people working for this shoddy operation would be freed up to pursue their own eithical enterprises, and second, it would set the proper example and scare the shit out of other companies that might be contemplating or engaged in similar kinds of folly.
Honestly, this is an issue where a company didn't care that it might kill us all so long as they profited, and as far as I'm concerned that's no less than treason.
End them. End them now.
So precisely what is it we eat that causes arthritis (the most common indication for Vioxx)?
I have no idea, but I'd lay even money on it being either animal-derived or processed food, and not fruits, vegetables, legumes, or whole grain cereals.
Yep, I learned my first Assembly Language on the 6502 back in 1983 or so, and had just started writing cool, fast game and utility software on the Atari 800 around 1985 using the very nice Atari Macro Assembler, when *boom* the era of Atari was over.
So I moved to the Amiga and programmed that lovely machine in 680x0 assembler using the slick "DevPac" programming environment by HiSoft. Bad geek that I was, I never learned Intuition or any of the Amiga system calls, but went straight to the hardware for the titles I worked on, namely "Dino Wars" and "Bill 'n' Ted's Excellent Adventure" (apologies for both). Then *boom* the Amiga was dead.
After a long hiatus from programming I got a PowerMac. On the Mac the first software I bought was the fringe macro assembler "Fantasm" by Lightsoft, thinking I'd be a Mac Assembler guru, but alas, Apple had moved from 680x0 to the PowerPC by that time, and only insane maniacs program that chip directly in Assembler.
So finally, in 1995 I finally learned C, and a few years later C++.
Of course nowadays I learn a new programming language every year and an entirely new framework or API every couple of months.
As long as MS is getting into integrated virtualization, they might as well reconsider their OS strategy and get onboard with *nix as their core technology. It might seem unthinkable now, but if MS doesn't move to a Unix or Linux-based system they're going to remain the odd-man-out and as such will become less and less relevant to the interconnected computing world.
Inevitably, people will realize that Unix and Linux make better use of - and run faster - on the same hardware, and that chasing down viruses on a regular basis actually does add to cost and frustration of running Windows - and that it just isn't worth it for the added "interoperability" you get.
And honestly, what does Windows even do anymore that systems like Mac OS X, BSD, and Ubuntu don't? What is the special value of running that creaky old thing, when you can use WINE or VMWare on a decent system?
Libertarians believe in a free marketplace and goverment based solidly on our Constitution
Well that's good, because that's what we have.
Of course, "free" doesn't mean "unregulated." If you have a 500 foot man living next door, you've just got to set a few ground rules about where he steps and where he shits.
As for the Constitution, well some would say "the Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid dog fighting, so get off my back!" Gotta watch out for those folks who think it embodies the whole of the law. It may form the root principles, but the whole of the law is a living thing, constantly evolving through precedent and experience.
And there is nothing inherently laissez-faire Capitalist about the Constitution either, nor should it be. If Capitalism turns out to be yet another avenue for tyranny, the Constitution would suggest we cut it off, since its primary aim is to establish protection for the powerless from the powerful, the have-nots from the haves, the minority from the majority, and to keep any emerging power from monopolizing the government, which is by, for, and of the people.
If anything, the Constitution points towards anarchist syndicalism or some form of socialism. Unfortunately it's easier and more lucrative for the programmers of culture to harness our fears and vices than to motivate our hopes and virtues.
I hate owning a car.
Me too, which is why I stopped owning a car about 20 years ago. When I need to get somewhere that I can't get to by foot, bike, or bus, or if I just feel the need to get away, I'll rent a car. Mostly I bike, and this has been great for my health and well being. So imagine, you could give up your car and your gym membership!
Before we start this discussion, everyone should read the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Programming languages, like human languages, express rules and patterns, but in philosophy we talk about how and when to employ rules, where to look for patterns. There are certainly general principles that apply to all programming languages, such as the trade-off between clarity and concision, whether it's better to own or reference an object in a given instance, etc. But does C++ really have a different "philosophy" than Objective-C, or are we just talking about the problem-solving intent and domain of the language and its suitability to a given problem? Do those really constitute philosophy, or are they just functional artifacts of the form?
Discuss.
Evolution we know occurred and continues. The various theories attached to that, such as punctuated equilibrium and theories about the rate of change, are certainly good areas for exploration.
Theories about abiogenesis, which is the emergence of complex organisms from self-replicating organic molecules, is a different area of exploration which has a whole different set of theories. Natural selection is certainly a part of it, but the competition for energy and the evolution of molecules has its own vernacular.
If by "possible alternatives" you mean, maybe animals and plants didn't evolve from single-celled organisms, I wouldn't bet on those.
That we organisms evolved on this planet from organic molecules is pretty much a given at this point. We know already that given certain conditions you can coax inert gases into self-assembling into amino acids, and that self-copying molecules do arise spontaneously. It is now simply a matter of understanding how the competition for energy - and the various ways it is converted by molecules - gives rise to such intricate systems of energy-exchange. That is to say, the vast diversity of the biological world.
Even if this planet was seeded from the outside, we still know abiogenesis is real, had to have happened somewhere, and still happens. Most likely it's exactly what happened here, and probably many times, all over the planet.
The scientific implications of theories of abiogenesis are the very things that drive experimental testing. Each implication has to be explored to see where it leads. The most tricky question of biology may be, how did the DNA molecule arise? How did the instructions that code for proteins end up gathered together into such a huge master molecule? There are already several theories on that, and it will undoubtedly be explained one day. Every DNA molecule itself contains vestiges of its ancestry and each segment tells its own story.
The philosophical implications of abiogenesis, it seems to me, would only be challenging to minds which are predisposed to incredulity about the notion that the laws of nature could - in themselves - give rise to life just given a good set of conditions. But that is unambiguously the picture so far. The more we learn about biochemistry and DNA the more this picture is reinforced.
There are certainly metaphysical implications like, how did it come to be that a universe favorable to life exists? (Well, to be fair, this universe seems at most "favorable" to bacteria - complex life took billions of years to get started). But for that matter, how can there be a universe at all? What came before? Why does everything get annihilated in the end? Does any information escape? Etc., etc.
Well, my first Mac was an Amiga - so there!