Yeah, several times I've sat down at my computer and saw the login screen for Suse (the default boot OS) even though I remember clearly having been in Windows the last time the computer was on. It's almost as if they are trying to tell me something...
He wasn't stating any opinion at all! He was merely stating the fact that you don't sign anything when you buy the iphone except for the credit card slip. You inferred an opinion where none was given and flamed him for it.
Besides, your link is bullshit anyway. Since when do Dell's terms and conditions pass for law? Remember "by opening this package you consent to our terms and conditions?"
Well the question is hypothetical so it doesn't really matter whether or not we'd encounter an intelligent alien race. This comment that started the discussion was about whether or not aliens could appreciate human art. I think that aliens could appreciate human architecture, even if they are way more advanced than us. We have a fascination with the Roman Colosseum, the pyramids at Giza, I don't think that ancient necessarily means uninteresting.
If they evolved on a planet with output similar to the sun's, then it is likely that they would see similar wavelengths of light. And color doesn't necessarily matter, what about gray scale art, or sculpture, or architecture? The question isn't whether an alien race could appreciate all of our culture, but whether they could appreciate any of it. It seems likely to me that they could, just as we could appreciate things about an alien race.
In my original post I referenced the huge list of fundamental features that are not yet working on the openmoko. That is a lot of things to fix in 3 months for an October release date. I'm just looking at the thing and it looks promising but nowhere near production ready. It seems that for this kind of device the software is a lot harder to get right than the hardware. Also, the type of person who will be developing for openmoko is probably a different type of individual than the iphone hacker. But even for a real developer, it is not realistic to say, "who cares about trying to get my app to work on the iphone, I'll just develop for this openmoko platform" when the platform is not even proven yet.
Yeah, but the parent was implying that this phone was better for developers because it has a supported toolkit, which it does not right now (If they had a toolkit, why wait until October to release it?) Maybe it will have one in the future, maybe the iphone will too.
* reliable means of making phone calls, esp. not from the UI
* reliable means of sending/receiving SMS, esp. not from the UI
* integrated GPRS data access
* bluetooth integration (basic bluez driver works)
* proper power management (i.e. no reasonable battery life yet)
* ringtone (or other) profile management
* network preferences (call deflection, manual operator selection,...) * a complete application framework where third party application developers can write apps that easily integrate with the OpenMoko world
Well if any book over 300 pages is going to suffer, then it can't really be because of the bonehead editors, can it? Surely they mustn't all be boneheads.
Sometimes studies get killed for political reasons. Sometimes this is a good thing. Try to find some research as to why black athletes excel more at certain sports than white athletes. Sometimes this type of study, although it has the ability to satisfy our curiosity, is not worth pursuing in our particular culture because of the divisive effect it can have.
Well you have to take the college math classes to get to the top, do you not? I paraphrased and perhaps over simplified his comments. Maybe I should have left that part out and said "I don't believe that it's due to an innate difference in ability" and perhaps avoided this shit storm.
"...he has provoked a new storm of controversy by suggesting that the shortage of elite female scientists may stem in part from 'innate' differences between men and women."
Yes this particular quote is about elite scientists but in general he was discussing reasons for why men excel more than women at math and science. Yes it was off-topic but I was merely saying that I disagree with the assessment that a difference in innate ability explains the gender gap and enjoying a little joke at the expense of women who stop enrolling in math in order to become more attractive to men. Lighten up.
I agree that's probably why they stop...at my high school though everyone had to take two years of math. In my college math classes, there were very few girls. It's not a lack of ability, as that Harvard president notoriously stated.
Yeah, you're right it doesn't really apply to socio-economics. I was being a bad contributer to the discussion and merely pointing out that the ant is free market from the right point of view.
You don't have to care about your genes. They can fend for themselves.
The ant may not be free market but its genes are. The actions of the ant can be described as selfish from the point of view of the gene for the social behavior. It is important not to forget this when describing what will "benefit and sustain the group." I mean this in all sincerity, not to be a smartass, you would benefit from reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
The idea behind patents is sound: encourage the sharing of information by guaranteeing that the inventor has a monopoly on the idea for a few years. Without such a system, companies would be more inclined to keep secrets. In some cases they still do because sometimes a secret can be kept longer than the term of a patent depending on how many people need access to the secret in order to create the product.
The same argument could be made for every single P2P service that's ever been shut down. From what I remember the reason Napster was shut down was that such a large majority of its use was for copyright infringement. The VCR was legal because it had substantial non-infringing uses. Napster did not. Bittorrent has substantial non infringing uses so it would seem to be much more difficult to shut down from a legal point of view, not to mention a technical one.
That's the cool thing though "crack-potiness" doesn't require links. Links wouldn't even be helpful because as we all know it is impossible to prove that time travel isn't possible (can't prove a negative!). Besides, what he is talking about isn't really science, it's philosophy.
Armchair scientists, armchair generals, armchair lawyers. This is slashdot.
Ok, since you've clearly got all this figured out, using your presupposition that Faster-than-light travel is possible, you travel to some far away planet at faster than the speed of light (say, at a rate of 10,000 light years/year) and look back at earth and see early man hunting mammoths. You get back in your spaceship and travel at the same speed back to earth. What do you see when you get back?
I'm not saying that I believe time travel is possible, I agree, it's doesn't seem possible. But it's kind of silly to mention FTL (something not accepted by scientific orthodoxy) when you've already stated you don't believe in (reverse) time travel (something else not accepted by scientific orthodoxy).
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I'm thinking that hopping does not scale all that well. Imagine the stresses that would be put on its legs if such a huge creature hopped.
Even if you were right that would be 1 plus 2 plus 1 plus 1, not 1 plus 1 plus 2 plus 1.
Yeah, several times I've sat down at my computer and saw the login screen for Suse (the default boot OS) even though I remember clearly having been in Windows the last time the computer was on. It's almost as if they are trying to tell me something...
You don't happen to know this guy, do you?
HIM: "I really like MS Paint for screenshots."
YOU: "MS Paint sucks. Buy a new computer so you can take screenshots more easily"
Ok, I'll bite.
He wasn't stating any opinion at all! He was merely stating the fact that you don't sign anything when you buy the iphone except for the credit card slip. You inferred an opinion where none was given and flamed him for it.
Besides, your link is bullshit anyway. Since when do Dell's terms and conditions pass for law? Remember "by opening this package you consent to our terms and conditions?"
Well the question is hypothetical so it doesn't really matter whether or not we'd encounter an intelligent alien race. This comment that started the discussion was about whether or not aliens could appreciate human art. I think that aliens could appreciate human architecture, even if they are way more advanced than us. We have a fascination with the Roman Colosseum, the pyramids at Giza, I don't think that ancient necessarily means uninteresting.
If they evolved on a planet with output similar to the sun's, then it is likely that they would see similar wavelengths of light. And color doesn't necessarily matter, what about gray scale art, or sculpture, or architecture? The question isn't whether an alien race could appreciate all of our culture, but whether they could appreciate any of it. It seems likely to me that they could, just as we could appreciate things about an alien race.
In my original post I referenced the huge list of fundamental features that are not yet working on the openmoko. That is a lot of things to fix in 3 months for an October release date. I'm just looking at the thing and it looks promising but nowhere near production ready. It seems that for this kind of device the software is a lot harder to get right than the hardware. Also, the type of person who will be developing for openmoko is probably a different type of individual than the iphone hacker. But even for a real developer, it is not realistic to say, "who cares about trying to get my app to work on the iphone, I'll just develop for this openmoko platform" when the platform is not even proven yet.
Yeah, but the parent was implying that this phone was better for developers because it has a supported toolkit, which it does not right now (If they had a toolkit, why wait until October to release it?) Maybe it will have one in the future, maybe the iphone will too.
What you CAN NOT expect yet
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Yeah, it sounds like a real winner!* reliable means of making phone calls, esp. not from the UI
* reliable means of sending/receiving SMS, esp. not from the UI
* integrated GPRS data access
* bluetooth integration (basic bluez driver works)
* proper power management (i.e. no reasonable battery life yet)
* ringtone (or other) profile management
* network preferences (call deflection, manual operator selection,
* a complete application framework where third party application developers can write apps that easily integrate with the OpenMoko world
Well if any book over 300 pages is going to suffer, then it can't really be because of the bonehead editors, can it? Surely they mustn't all be boneheads.
Sometimes studies get killed for political reasons. Sometimes this is a good thing. Try to find some research as to why black athletes excel more at certain sports than white athletes. Sometimes this type of study, although it has the ability to satisfy our curiosity, is not worth pursuing in our particular culture because of the divisive effect it can have.
Well you have to take the college math classes to get to the top, do you not? I paraphrased and perhaps over simplified his comments. Maybe I should have left that part out and said "I don't believe that it's due to an innate difference in ability" and perhaps avoided this shit storm.
Well, first, joining slashdot to "merely" get your two cents in about a particular article is nothing to be proud of.
1 81-2005Jan18.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19
"...he has provoked a new storm of controversy by suggesting that the shortage of elite female scientists may stem in part from 'innate' differences between men and women."
Yes this particular quote is about elite scientists but in general he was discussing reasons for why men excel more than women at math and science. Yes it was off-topic but I was merely saying that I disagree with the assessment that a difference in innate ability explains the gender gap and enjoying a little joke at the expense of women who stop enrolling in math in order to become more attractive to men. Lighten up.
I agree that's probably why they stop...at my high school though everyone had to take two years of math. In my college math classes, there were very few girls. It's not a lack of ability, as that Harvard president notoriously stated.
High school math, right? Girls stop taking math after high school.
Yeah, you're right it doesn't really apply to socio-economics. I was being a bad contributer to the discussion and merely pointing out that the ant is free market from the right point of view.
You don't have to care about your genes. They can fend for themselves.
The ant may not be free market but its genes are. The actions of the ant can be described as selfish from the point of view of the gene for the social behavior. It is important not to forget this when describing what will "benefit and sustain the group." I mean this in all sincerity, not to be a smartass, you would benefit from reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
The idea behind patents is sound: encourage the sharing of information by guaranteeing that the inventor has a monopoly on the idea for a few years. Without such a system, companies would be more inclined to keep secrets. In some cases they still do because sometimes a secret can be kept longer than the term of a patent depending on how many people need access to the secret in order to create the product.
The same argument could be made for every single P2P service that's ever been shut down. From what I remember the reason Napster was shut down was that such a large majority of its use was for copyright infringement. The VCR was legal because it had substantial non-infringing uses. Napster did not. Bittorrent has substantial non infringing uses so it would seem to be much more difficult to shut down from a legal point of view, not to mention a technical one.
You forgot to prove that copyright infringement == robbing
No, gruntled is similar to chuffed. Disgruntled would be the inverse of chuffed.
That's the cool thing though "crack-potiness" doesn't require links. Links wouldn't even be helpful because as we all know it is impossible to prove that time travel isn't possible (can't prove a negative!). Besides, what he is talking about isn't really science, it's philosophy.
Armchair scientists, armchair generals, armchair lawyers. This is slashdot.
Ok, since you've clearly got all this figured out, using your presupposition that Faster-than-light travel is possible, you travel to some far away planet at faster than the speed of light (say, at a rate of 10,000 light years/year) and look back at earth and see early man hunting mammoths. You get back in your spaceship and travel at the same speed back to earth. What do you see when you get back?
I'm not saying that I believe time travel is possible, I agree, it's doesn't seem possible. But it's kind of silly to mention FTL (something not accepted by scientific orthodoxy) when you've already stated you don't believe in (reverse) time travel (something else not accepted by scientific orthodoxy).