You can't have a reasonable debate with some churches. Watch Religulous, with Bill Maher. Catholics may think you're wrong, but they tend to be pretty nice about it. And science is generally accepted... it has been that way with Catholics pretty much since that whole Galileo debacle:P
Blaise Pascal: "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Steven Weinberg: "I think that on the balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil -- that takes religion."
He's much more likely to speak at the Vatican than most religious institutions. Catholics are much more accepting of evolution than other Christian sects.
I agree with your stance in general, but I believe that many people have forgotten that freedom of religion in some cases implies a freedom from religion. If your religion forbids a caricature of your profit, er, prophet, that should never be even considered being supported by the legal system. You're free to not draw pictures of your prophet, but you have no right to forbid other people from doing so.
Good call. But it's more of "Crap... I closed that tab an hour ago, and now I need the info again" situation with me. Or I read an interesting article I want to send to a friend when they come online, in which case the "undo close tab" does me exactly jack squat.
It's nothing about eliminating trademarks. A trademark is simply for differentiation. It does NOT give you complete control over a word. It just means that if you have a trademark for "Coca-Cola", no one else can make a soft drink called "Coca-Cola" without infringing your trademark.
You have to consider fair use. I just used "Coca-Cola" in my post. Is that infringement of their trademark? You would say no, and you would be right. Buying an ad-word triggering on Coca-Cola would ALSO fall under fair use. If you searched for Coca-Cola and I made Pepsi, is there anything inherently confusing about seeing a competing product on the results page? Are you going to think that Ford started making Camry's if you searched for "Toyota" and saw an ad for a Ford dealer? The ONLY purpose for trademark is to prevent customer confusion over who is creating a product. If there's no confusion, there's no trademark issue.
Oh, and tagging it as Mormon is entirely appropriate because I'm pretty sure the entire state legislature is made of mormons. Religion is very much related to the laws that are passed in Utah, no matter how much you don't want it to be so. If the quote were from a black leader, I could quite easily see it being tagged "NAACP" or something along those lines.
What I've found is the best is if I accidentally close a tab and don't remember how I got there initially, if I can remember just a little bit about the page title or location, the awesome bar will let me find it again. That was never really an option with the old version.
Do you run 64bit? The flash plugin on http://labs.adobe.com/ is actually quite stable and quite good from my experience. I have never had a crash due to Flash with it, and JavaScript menus actually work right for a change (they properly overlay the flash object)
Try Swiftweasel. The native Linux firefox versions are all compiled completely unoptimized. Swiftweasel just enables some of the i686 and -O2 optimizations and it's still Firefox, all my plugins work, but it doesn't dog down like Firefox proper (I still have it installed, I've compared the two).
Those people dying on the roads and from cancer weren't trying to crash a plane into the Pentagon, though. The politicians are scared for their own safety, not that of the average American. They haven't given two shits about us since the late 1800's, if even then.
So if I know it's there, I have to hide it and basically call MORE attention to it, but if I don't know it's there, I don't have to hide it? What kind of retarded logic is that?
You have to have the stem cells before you can move to using them for something. As they are, they're really expensive, rare, and possibly dangerous to make so they have to be screened very well. This new process makes experimentation and trials more likely. Gotta lay the foundation before you build the building.
Yes. The fucking article said "less than two pounds". That is VERY imprecise. About 1kg is the ONLY reasonable conversion a person could make. Please, don't ever work on anything important to other people's safety.
He's converting the weight of a damn machine that was given in an article. The precision was NOT there in the initial measurement, so the extra precision on the conversion was unwarranted. Really... I know that there is a very precise conversion from pounds to kilograms. That's not what's at issue here.
...really? 0.90718474? Did you EVER take a science class? You can't add all that extra precision because it doesn't exist in the original measure.
It would have been easier and much more correct to say "around 1kg"
The problem is that legal theory and precedence don't typically follow moral trains of thought. Engineers are not only typically quite smart, they are also quite strongly moral, and when the law doesn't match what they view as right, it's obvious that the law is wrong. That's where the vitriol comes from.
If you're working with graphics, especially serious graphics, the storage on the laptop is basically nothing but temp storage. You'll put it on your desktop or your array or whatever when you get back into the office. I see no reason for "scratch" space and the OS to not be on the same disk, or even array. You load the OS, you load your app, most of it's in memory. You aren't going to get a lot of contention.
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You can't have a reasonable debate with some churches. Watch Religulous, with Bill Maher. Catholics may think you're wrong, but they tend to be pretty nice about it. And science is generally accepted... it has been that way with Catholics pretty much since that whole Galileo debacle :P
Hint: He was misled when he was approached about the film, and it was a "guerilla" style interview that will put anyone on the defensive.
What speaks more to me is how they treated the people they asked to be in the movie. Bunch of fucking hypocrites if you ask me.
Blaise Pascal: "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Steven Weinberg: "I think that on the balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil -- that takes religion."
He's much more likely to speak at the Vatican than most religious institutions. Catholics are much more accepting of evolution than other Christian sects.
I agree with your stance in general, but I believe that many people have forgotten that freedom of religion in some cases implies a freedom from religion. If your religion forbids a caricature of your profit, er, prophet, that should never be even considered being supported by the legal system. You're free to not draw pictures of your prophet, but you have no right to forbid other people from doing so.
He can use Craigslist to go after local criminals. He just shouldn't be allowed to get them to shut down a service that's legal elsewhere.
Hah. I don't want to compile everything ;) Just a few things that really need the optimization.
Good call. But it's more of "Crap... I closed that tab an hour ago, and now I need the info again" situation with me. Or I read an interesting article I want to send to a friend when they come online, in which case the "undo close tab" does me exactly jack squat.
It's nothing about eliminating trademarks. A trademark is simply for differentiation. It does NOT give you complete control over a word. It just means that if you have a trademark for "Coca-Cola", no one else can make a soft drink called "Coca-Cola" without infringing your trademark.
You have to consider fair use. I just used "Coca-Cola" in my post. Is that infringement of their trademark? You would say no, and you would be right. Buying an ad-word triggering on Coca-Cola would ALSO fall under fair use. If you searched for Coca-Cola and I made Pepsi, is there anything inherently confusing about seeing a competing product on the results page? Are you going to think that Ford started making Camry's if you searched for "Toyota" and saw an ad for a Ford dealer? The ONLY purpose for trademark is to prevent customer confusion over who is creating a product. If there's no confusion, there's no trademark issue.
Oh, and tagging it as Mormon is entirely appropriate because I'm pretty sure the entire state legislature is made of mormons. Religion is very much related to the laws that are passed in Utah, no matter how much you don't want it to be so. If the quote were from a black leader, I could quite easily see it being tagged "NAACP" or something along those lines.
I think he meant "if you consider Jeebus the son of God" ;) It's an easy mistake to make.
What I've found is the best is if I accidentally close a tab and don't remember how I got there initially, if I can remember just a little bit about the page title or location, the awesome bar will let me find it again. That was never really an option with the old version.
Do you run 64bit? The flash plugin on http://labs.adobe.com/ is actually quite stable and quite good from my experience. I have never had a crash due to Flash with it, and JavaScript menus actually work right for a change (they properly overlay the flash object)
Try Swiftweasel. The native Linux firefox versions are all compiled completely unoptimized. Swiftweasel just enables some of the i686 and -O2 optimizations and it's still Firefox, all my plugins work, but it doesn't dog down like Firefox proper (I still have it installed, I've compared the two).
Hell, you can buy a half-terabyte 2.5" drive for $100 any more. It's easily doable with the current gen of hardware (at least the 360 and the PS3).
I'll bet your kid likes that better than working with the group anyway ;)
Those people dying on the roads and from cancer weren't trying to crash a plane into the Pentagon, though. The politicians are scared for their own safety, not that of the average American. They haven't given two shits about us since the late 1800's, if even then.
So if I know it's there, I have to hide it and basically call MORE attention to it, but if I don't know it's there, I don't have to hide it? What kind of retarded logic is that?
You have to have the stem cells before you can move to using them for something. As they are, they're really expensive, rare, and possibly dangerous to make so they have to be screened very well. This new process makes experimentation and trials more likely. Gotta lay the foundation before you build the building.
Well, yes, it would. But the article said "less than two pounds", which makes "0.90718474 kg" asinine.
Yes. The fucking article said "less than two pounds". That is VERY imprecise. About 1kg is the ONLY reasonable conversion a person could make. Please, don't ever work on anything important to other people's safety.
He's converting the weight of a damn machine that was given in an article. The precision was NOT there in the initial measurement, so the extra precision on the conversion was unwarranted. Really... I know that there is a very precise conversion from pounds to kilograms. That's not what's at issue here.
Yea. Amigas can do anything!
That aside, Bones is actually a pretty good show if you can ignore the "scientific" leaps.
...really? 0.90718474? Did you EVER take a science class? You can't add all that extra precision because it doesn't exist in the original measure. It would have been easier and much more correct to say "around 1kg"
The problem is that legal theory and precedence don't typically follow moral trains of thought. Engineers are not only typically quite smart, they are also quite strongly moral, and when the law doesn't match what they view as right, it's obvious that the law is wrong. That's where the vitriol comes from.
If you're working with graphics, especially serious graphics, the storage on the laptop is basically nothing but temp storage. You'll put it on your desktop or your array or whatever when you get back into the office. I see no reason for "scratch" space and the OS to not be on the same disk, or even array. You load the OS, you load your app, most of it's in memory. You aren't going to get a lot of contention.