I can list scientific Theories that have been proven false; what's your point, exactly? If a cliche was based on empirical evidence and so are scientific theories and laws, what exactly makes them so very different? Do the people involved have to be wearing white lab coats and be government funded before their conclusions are legitimate?
This study no more proves the theory than the decades or hundreds of years of observation that led to the coining of that cliche. I'm glad MY tax dollars weren't wasted on this... I attached a note to the IRS asking them not to put it in that kitty, and I'm sure they heeded my request.
Is there ANY in which you will believe, when it's obvious there must be at least one? I don't know what the conspiracy actually is, but I damned sure know that it ain't about spreading democracy or fighting "terrorists": we're doing more harm to those causes by our actions there than otherwise, AND ANY REASONABLE HUMAN WOULD HAVE ANTICIPATED THAT IN ADVANCE, so there IS a conspiracy of another sort. Take your pick. You might have to yank your feathered head out of the sand first, though.
... when those "newly" discovered mineral resources could be worth trillions to the right corporation to exploit them. What, you thought our presence there was to fight the Taliban and spread "democracy"? You must be new here.
If that's the way you're spec'ing and building your systems, you're doing it poorly; you're not buying the right components to plan for progressive upgrades. Case in point: my Asus AM2 motherboard started out with an Athlon 64 in it, later an Athlon X2, but now it's actually sporting a Phenom X4 9850, and I just recently discovered that Asus once again updated the BIOS to support even most of the AM3 CPUs. Sure, I don't get ALL the functionality of those CPUs from this motherboard, but then later I can toss that motherboard and replace it with one that does, and I'll already have the CPU (and been using it).
The submitter is currently in Europe, according to his blog, so perhaps he's in do-as-the-Romans mode? He reads every number as if it has a European unit of measure attached to it. Hey, it's a lot easier than actually doing the conversion and ending up with inconvenient fractions....
And so the use of force to perpetrate democracy, freedom, and capitalism continues unabated, it seems. Brought to you by the same group of people responsible for the fair-minded genius of ACTA.
Wait a minute... if photons exert that much force and there are millions or billions of them hitting me in full daylight, shouldn't I feel lighter at night??? Granted I'm a Slashdotter who lives in Mom's basement and plays WoW nonstop and doesn't see the light of day much, but still. I should feel so much lighter that I can fly like a vampire.
You haven't got the memo about epigenetics and RNA yet, huh? Sorry, you're actually incorrect. Some of how you experience life does in fact get passed along to your offspring... well, it does if you're one of those few lucky Slashdotters to wean yourself off of here and WoW and escape Mom's basement and find a woman with low standards and all that.
Did we really need peer-reviewed research to confirm that it exists? Where have you been living? Why do you think there are STILL people refusing to take vaccines, even after Andrew Wakefield has been utterly discredited? Why do you suppose there were still people who thought Piltdown Man was real, even after the hoax was exposed? Why do you suppose it is that so many people mindlessly "vote the party line" in direct opposition to observable reality?
Dogmatism and its kid brother groupthink are huge threats to meaningful progress in just about every facet of human civilization.
"Open source doesn't mean free and was never really meant to mean free," Martin Schneider, senior director of communications at SugarCRM, said. "Open source runs through everything we do, it enables us to be transparent and gives customers more power. We are an open source company and it's why we're better than proprietary companies."
Translation: What "open source" apparently means to the Martin Schneiders of the world is freely given code and other contributions to THEIR product from others for which they don't have to pay a dime, i.e. leeching off the "community". Their version of open source is apparently a one-way street with all the signs taken down. It might be giving them more power than it does their customers.
Since that combination of high intelligence and ambition is so often NOT socially beneficial, it's a damned good thing that this one wound up becoming a nerd and distracted with science....
The only harm that filesharing causes is emotional harm: it makes some people in suits butt-hurt because their speculated sales and profits didn't materialize. Nothing was stolen, because those profits never existed in the first place. What corporations now call "piracy" is once again nothing more than creative bookkeeping - at which they are notoriously proficient - that seeks to mislead people into giving them what they want (our money transferred to their bank accounts) without a fight.
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Not hard, and yes: winged micro-sharks with lasers. Genentech is working on them right now.
If you read it 94 times then I can see why you might think that....
I very much like your insightful deductions, sir, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. To whom may I make out the money order?
I can list scientific Theories that have been proven false; what's your point, exactly? If a cliche was based on empirical evidence and so are scientific theories and laws, what exactly makes them so very different? Do the people involved have to be wearing white lab coats and be government funded before their conclusions are legitimate?
Go smack yourself with your CRC Handbook.
That cliche WAS based on empirical evidence.
This study no more proves the theory than the decades or hundreds of years of observation that led to the coining of that cliche. I'm glad MY tax dollars weren't wasted on this... I attached a note to the IRS asking them not to put it in that kitty, and I'm sure they heeded my request.
Is there ANY in which you will believe, when it's obvious there must be at least one? I don't know what the conspiracy actually is, but I damned sure know that it ain't about spreading democracy or fighting "terrorists": we're doing more harm to those causes by our actions there than otherwise, AND ANY REASONABLE HUMAN WOULD HAVE ANTICIPATED THAT IN ADVANCE, so there IS a conspiracy of another sort. Take your pick. You might have to yank your feathered head out of the sand first, though.
... when those "newly" discovered mineral resources could be worth trillions to the right corporation to exploit them. What, you thought our presence there was to fight the Taliban and spread "democracy"? You must be new here.
If that's the way you're spec'ing and building your systems, you're doing it poorly; you're not buying the right components to plan for progressive upgrades. Case in point: my Asus AM2 motherboard started out with an Athlon 64 in it, later an Athlon X2, but now it's actually sporting a Phenom X4 9850, and I just recently discovered that Asus once again updated the BIOS to support even most of the AM3 CPUs. Sure, I don't get ALL the functionality of those CPUs from this motherboard, but then later I can toss that motherboard and replace it with one that does, and I'll already have the CPU (and been using it).
Your comment makes it equally easy to spot the undiagnosed autistic with a raging case of literalism.
The submitter is currently in Europe, according to his blog, so perhaps he's in do-as-the-Romans mode? He reads every number as if it has a European unit of measure attached to it. Hey, it's a lot easier than actually doing the conversion and ending up with inconvenient fractions....
So will Andrew Wakefield be using his copious free time in forced retirement to mount a pseudo-religious campaign against these patches, too?
And so the use of force to perpetrate democracy, freedom, and capitalism continues unabated, it seems. Brought to you by the same group of people responsible for the fair-minded genius of ACTA.
Wait a minute... if photons exert that much force and there are millions or billions of them hitting me in full daylight, shouldn't I feel lighter at night??? Granted I'm a Slashdotter who lives in Mom's basement and plays WoW nonstop and doesn't see the light of day much, but still. I should feel so much lighter that I can fly like a vampire.
Are there really ten? Seems too large a number.
When Chrissie Hynde wrote about putting up parking lots and breaking up concrete, do you suppose she had PLASTIC parking lots in mind?
You haven't got the memo about epigenetics and RNA yet, huh? Sorry, you're actually incorrect. Some of how you experience life does in fact get passed along to your offspring... well, it does if you're one of those few lucky Slashdotters to wean yourself off of here and WoW and escape Mom's basement and find a woman with low standards and all that.
WoW, seems like Blizzard should be packing up and relocating to China. There's some sorta meeting of the minds going on there.
Ummm... guys, it's called dogmatism.
Did we really need peer-reviewed research to confirm that it exists? Where have you been living? Why do you think there are STILL people refusing to take vaccines, even after Andrew Wakefield has been utterly discredited? Why do you suppose there were still people who thought Piltdown Man was real, even after the hoax was exposed? Why do you suppose it is that so many people mindlessly "vote the party line" in direct opposition to observable reality?
Dogmatism and its kid brother groupthink are huge threats to meaningful progress in just about every facet of human civilization.
Translation: What "open source" apparently means to the Martin Schneiders of the world is freely given code and other contributions to THEIR product from others for which they don't have to pay a dime, i.e. leeching off the "community". Their version of open source is apparently a one-way street with all the signs taken down. It might be giving them more power than it does their customers.
Hmmmm... are you really wishing Texas or Arizona were more relevant?
Right now some of us in California are looking for ways to make Meg Whitman less relevant.
Quite coincidentally, The Simpsons debuted in 1989. Hmmmm....
Since that combination of high intelligence and ambition is so often NOT socially beneficial, it's a damned good thing that this one wound up becoming a nerd and distracted with science....
The only harm that filesharing causes is emotional harm: it makes some people in suits butt-hurt because their speculated sales and profits didn't materialize. Nothing was stolen, because those profits never existed in the first place. What corporations now call "piracy" is once again nothing more than creative bookkeeping - at which they are notoriously proficient - that seeks to mislead people into giving them what they want (our money transferred to their bank accounts) without a fight.