No one has ever observed it in a controlled setting.
What if your controlled setting is the issue? I can design an experiment to show there is no moon, just go outside before the moon has risen, after it has set, or during the dark of the moon. This "proves" nothing. You are right the traditional ways of measuring things don't seem to work.
"and what explanations you get tend to be woo-woo word salad, e.g. "quantum vibrations", "positive energies" etc. Meaningless terms."
Meaningless for you perhaps. But you have not experienced what they have. It is the same as calling my "large, grey, tusky" as meaningless when you have never seen an elephant. Yes, hadron, fermion, quark, antiquark, boson, gluon, not woo-woo salad at all. They describe the indesribable. I do not know what a gluon is, nor could I describe it, I could not come up with an experiment to say whether they exist or not, and frankly, I don't have the math skills (and probably never could) to understand them, very few people actually do. Do they exist? Sure. I take it on faith that those who know about them know what they are talking about. Science as a whole has a lot of "taking it on faith" that people dont ever want to talk about. They tend to point at a talking head sitting on a stack of journals and PhDs as 'proof'. Sure there are charlatans, but for every one I can raise you a Piltdown Man, and a Congressmanman's Internet Tubes.
After how many centuries of anecdotes but not a single shred of proof do you give up?
How many centuries was it believed that the Universe revoled around the Earth? At least the ESP folk have anectodes, Galileo didn't even have that.
I will finish my rant at you (sorry) with this. It has always amazed me the lack of vision in people that claim the scientific process as thier own. Sure it makes for wonderful, slow, plodding progress. But the great leaps in thought and science were by people who were not afraid to think out of the box, and go against the grain of currrent thought. Even when science as a whole told them they just had to be wrong.
I know a lot of F-ed up teachers that cripple the education of their students that you can't do anything about.
....And I know good teachers that educate thier students who have F-ed up parents who would see them fired for teaching "evolution" and "history". The blade cuts both ways....
No what he is saying is that you have generalized your experience to all high schools, as are your fellow slashdotters. Also I question wether your year and a half counts as experience. Your saw less than one third of high school in one of the most turbulent times in your life. You have no basis to judge the rest of high school, other than "Mine too" posts on slashdot. Yeesh, freshman year sucks for everyone, always has always will. Also assuming that the average (then teen) slashdotter is anything like the average teen high schooler is equally as bad. If you could find a larger selection of square pegs that have more than likely been pounded into round holes on the internet, well, I would love to see the link. Like the AC I had a great high school experience - even as a known nerd. When ever I see this come up on slashdot I see posts like yours and think of the hubris of 15 year olds outraged by a world they dont control, and the fact that after all these years they have never let the bone get out of thier teeth. Sure, it may have sucked, and truthfully, it may have never gotten better, and you were right to bail. But the other side of the coin that no one ever wants to mention is that maybe you were a snot nosed punk who can't let something slide, while expecting the same from other people.
The posts that get lost in all of this are the ones from the instructors who try to point out that it is the one in a dozen rotten eggs that are dragging this kind of crap on the rest of the student body. And yep, it means that everyone gets treated like an inmate. How about placing the blame where it belongs, on the students that are being little idiots, the parents that sue at the drop of a hat, and the politicos that lament ever dollar spent on education. Tell you what, how about calling up the local high school and going around with an administrator for a day, ask them why they do what they do. My bet is that you will come away with a new understanding of why the modern school is run the way it is.
"I've seen the flash of recognition when people get this point, but only
a few times. The first was at a conference of federal judges in California.
The judges were gathered to discuss the emerging topic of cyber-law. I
was asked to be on the panel. Harvey Saferstein, a well-respected lawyer
from an L.A. firm, introduced the panel with a video that he and a
friend, Robert Fairbank, had produced.
The video was a brilliant collage of film from every period in the
twentieth century, all framed around the idea of a 60 Minutes episode.
The execution was perfect, down to the sixty-minute stopwatch. The
judges loved every minute of it.
When the lights came up, I looked over to my copanelist, David
Nimmer, perhaps the leading copyright scholar and practitioner in the
nation. He had an astonished look on his face, as he peered across the
room of over 250 well-entertained judges.Taking an ominous tone, he
began his talk with a question: "Do you know how many federal laws
were just violated in this room?""
These are ominous, deep and dark waters that you want to wade through. Get a lawyer, a very good lawyer.
Just did this in elinks. If by "graceful degredation" you mean no map and no link to find the map - then yeah, I can still zoom in and out on a blank slate.
No, you're not, but in my case it is old installs. When I reinstall the OS from scratch I always grab my home folder and archive it then after the new system is up and running I toss the archive on the Desktop so I can get out old config files and other sundry. Last I checked I have 5 nested old Home folders....Though I am trying to clean them out.
So to sum up then - You know windows well, and know how to tweak it. You dont know linux well or know how to tweak it, therefor you see no reason to switch. I agree, don't. But don't lay your inexperience at linux's feet. You put in a heck of a lot of time to get as familiar as you are with windows, don't expect any less of linux.
Cool! But let me ask this then - how do you map those extra buttons to do something? let us say that I have a 5 (plus wheel = 7) button mouse. How do I get those extra buttons to do what I want? Can I get the second button to act as say "F1" or "Tab" or "Return" or even better something like - "Return Return " ? I would looooove to macro my extra mouse buttons. <p>Sera
Yeah...msfanboi2...or msfanboi http://slashdot.org/~MSFanBoi/journal Odd that his predecessor got temp banned. I fed a troll, silly me, maybe he will get his old nick back.
...and if you had bothered to read I said 3+ OS's, so - if I get to count *versions* then how many solaris/unix/linux versions and point releases are there?
You're claiming a win because you have 7 admins for 75 servers 0n 3+ different OS's vs 15 for 1000 of the same OS? Hmm...tell you what, why don't you give them your glorious homogenious enviroment and see how they do? I also notice that you are very willing to point out the hour status of your Win admins but not your unix ones...why is that?
oh, I dunno, several times in my youth I had to back pay on auto insurance, in one case 4 months worth. The other part about the insurance analogy is that this would be way to tempting to tier. notepad:$5/M, wordpad:$6.50, basic Word:$8, Word:$10, WordPro $15. I can see it for some things - heck tax software is essentially already there, they should be a subscription. But for basic stuff, blech. I agree with the ownership thing though. More than half the l33t pirates (music, movies, software, etc) I know get a lot more kicks out of downloading everything and anything they can rather than using it in some meaningful fashion. 4 years ago or so when 10 g hard drives were huge I knew a guy that had 80g of music he had gotten off the web, even better he had carved it inot a university network for his storage. I figured out from what he said that he could listen to that 80g 24/7 for months. I asked him if he did. Nope, he listened to like 2 hours of music a day - the big deal was getting/owning a huge music resource.
And let us look at the other model you so willingly to miss. I type up my mother's will on great software for $20/M. Why? Because - Insert 20 year old girl voice - "Everything is typed up in Word - it has been that way for ^ages^!" Do I pay that in perpetuity to keep that document upgraded? Or do I find out years from now the rules (and fees) have changed? That is a *person's* POV - and as a company it is scarier yet. All your data, all your corespondence, all your spreadsheets, visio digrams, publisher handouts.... **ALL** not available if you miss a payment. No thanks. 20 years later, you go to show your daughter your thoughts - but, darn, they ar a.doc, and the late fees are well, discount of 20% if you sign up now, 20 years later....hmmm..carry the one....ow. "Dear, it would cost me $1400 dollars to resubscribe at this point, sorry - here have the file, maybe you can get it cheaper in the future". Pretty far fetched eh? Not really - look up the original Software Assurance lic. It is exactly that in a nutshell. You would be an idiot to sign your company up for this.
And before you say it, yeah, OS tools are 80% as good in the office.. I would take 80% and free over 100% and locked. Every time.
Meh - My mouse works different under 6.06 - I didn't expect it to ever work like I wanted it to, but under 5.10 it did *exactly* that. I have looked into every mouse config file on both distros - and they read line for line the same. Why they behave differently I have no idea. All I can say is - in 5.10 my mouse works like I want. Oh - and mouse config in linux blows major chow. If it doesn't autoconfig and isn't a standard mouse - good luck, welcome to the 'bad old days' of standard hardware. I never had to look into it before - never had a need. I would have thought though that a mouse would be like every other part of a linux system, customizable to the nth degree. I was hoping that you could edit a config file and map a mouse button to anything...{sniff}...aint so.
No you are not. When you get to make a race of the singular, alert the Gandalfs; Wizards of great renown, The Conans; Barbarian Kings, and the Bushes; a group of presidents that...nah, lets not do that one.
You might be missing the point, but it is a good one to miss. But again if you would like the other side, consider that after the Trilogy of Tolkien was on film I had to drag out the Silmarillion to convince someone that 'Balrog' was a race not a name.
Lastly, No, dont care that you are missing the point. I will set next to you and your pedantary and bring hot chocolate and sandwiches.
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Hello World! That works in IE6 and FF1.5 :)
Which two extentions do you use?
Works under IE6 and FF1.5
And for the blind, and poor of sight you would do what? Beg them to recode flash so it supports them?
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I will finish my rant at you (sorry) with this. It has always amazed me the lack of vision in people that claim the scientific process as thier own. Sure it makes for wonderful, slow, plodding progress. But the great leaps in thought and science were by people who were not afraid to think out of the box, and go against the grain of currrent thought. Even when science as a whole told them they just had to be wrong.
Ask and ye shall be given
Everyone knows the sharpest thing in the world is a Mother-in-Law's tongue.
No what he is saying is that you have generalized your experience to all high schools, as are your fellow slashdotters. Also I question wether your year and a half counts as experience. Your saw less than one third of high school in one of the most turbulent times in your life. You have no basis to judge the rest of high school, other than "Mine too" posts on slashdot. Yeesh, freshman year sucks for everyone, always has always will. Also assuming that the average (then teen) slashdotter is anything like the average teen high schooler is equally as bad. If you could find a larger selection of square pegs that have more than likely been pounded into round holes on the internet, well, I would love to see the link. Like the AC I had a great high school experience - even as a known nerd. When ever I see this come up on slashdot I see posts like yours and think of the hubris of 15 year olds outraged by a world they dont control, and the fact that after all these years they have never let the bone get out of thier teeth. Sure, it may have sucked, and truthfully, it may have never gotten better, and you were right to bail. But the other side of the coin that no one ever wants to mention is that maybe you were a snot nosed punk who can't let something slide, while expecting the same from other people.
The posts that get lost in all of this are the ones from the instructors who try to point out that it is the one in a dozen rotten eggs that are dragging this kind of crap on the rest of the student body. And yep, it means that everyone gets treated like an inmate. How about placing the blame where it belongs, on the students that are being little idiots, the parents that sue at the drop of a hat, and the politicos that lament ever dollar spent on education. Tell you what, how about calling up the local high school and going around with an administrator for a day, ask them why they do what they do. My bet is that you will come away with a new understanding of why the modern school is run the way it is.
These are ominous, deep and dark waters that you want to wade through. Get a lawyer, a very good lawyer.
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Cool! But let me ask this then - how do you map those extra buttons to do something? let us say that I have a 5 (plus wheel = 7) button mouse. How do I get those extra buttons to do what I want? Can I get the second button to act as say "F1" or "Tab" or "Return" or even better something like - "Return Return " ? I would looooove to macro my extra mouse buttons.
<p>Sera
Yeah ...msfanboi2...or msfanboi http://slashdot.org/~MSFanBoi/journal Odd that his predecessor got temp banned. I fed a troll, silly me, maybe he will get his old nick back.
...and if you had bothered to read I said 3+ OS's, so - if I get to count *versions* then how many solaris/unix/linux versions and point releases are there?
You're claiming a win because you have 7 admins for 75 servers 0n 3+ different OS's vs 15 for 1000 of the same OS? Hmm...tell you what, why don't you give them your glorious homogenious enviroment and see how they do? I also notice that you are very willing to point out the hour status of your Win admins but not your unix ones...why is that?
oh, I dunno, several times in my youth I had to back pay on auto insurance, in one case 4 months worth. The other part about the insurance analogy is that this would be way to tempting to tier. notepad:$5/M, wordpad:$6.50, basic Word:$8, Word:$10, WordPro $15. I can see it for some things - heck tax software is essentially already there, they should be a subscription. But for basic stuff, blech. I agree with the ownership thing though. More than half the l33t pirates (music, movies, software, etc) I know get a lot more kicks out of downloading everything and anything they can rather than using it in some meaningful fashion. 4 years ago or so when 10 g hard drives were huge I knew a guy that had 80g of music he had gotten off the web, even better he had carved it inot a university network for his storage. I figured out from what he said that he could listen to that 80g 24/7 for months. I asked him if he did. Nope, he listened to like 2 hours of music a day - the big deal was getting/owning a huge music resource.
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Same happened with friends who went to Medical School. One friend, over dinner, remarked that he saw it as indoctrination, not education.
And let us look at the other model you so willingly to miss. I type up my mother's will on great software for $20/M. Why? Because - Insert 20 year old girl voice - "Everything is typed up in Word - it has been that way for ^ages^!" Do I pay that in perpetuity to keep that document upgraded? Or do I find out years from now the rules (and fees) have changed? That is a *person's* POV - and as a company it is scarier yet. All your data, all your corespondence, all your spreadsheets, visio digrams, publisher handouts .... **ALL** not available if you miss a payment. No thanks. 20 years later, you go to show your daughter your thoughts - but, darn, they ar a .doc, and the late fees are well, discount of 20% if you sign up now, 20 years later....hmmm..carry the one....ow. "Dear, it would cost me $1400 dollars to resubscribe at this point, sorry - here have the file, maybe you can get it cheaper in the future". Pretty far fetched eh? Not really - look up the original Software Assurance lic. It is exactly that in a nutshell. You would be an idiot to sign your company up for this.
And before you say it, yeah, OS tools are 80% as good in the office.. I would take 80% and free over 100% and locked. Every time.
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Your are right He is singular, thank goodness.
No you are not. When you get to make a race of the singular, alert the Gandalfs; Wizards of great renown, The Conans; Barbarian Kings, and the Bushes; a group of presidents that...nah, lets not do that one.
You might be missing the point, but it is a good one to miss. But again if you would like the other side, consider that after the Trilogy of Tolkien was on film I had to drag out the Silmarillion to convince someone that 'Balrog' was a race not a name.
Lastly, No, dont care that you are missing the point. I will set next to you and your pedantary and bring hot chocolate and sandwiches.
Sera