I'm hostile because people want to throw out Evolution and put forth an "alternative theory". Go ahead and believe in a God. I don't care. The point is that Evolution is a valid, well-supported scientific theory, AND THERE IS NO CREDIBLE CHALLENGE TO THE EVIDENCE. None. Whatsoever. Period, end of story.
Go ahead and pontificate about a prime mover, a God, whatever. That has NOTHING to do with teaching of the mechanism of Evolution in a science classroom. Evolution has nothing to say about the origins of life, or the universe. Don't say "teach the controversy" because there is no valid controversy. There are only idiots wanting to force the government to support their religion, and scientists.
Evolution doesn't claim to, either. Your ignorance is showing again. You should really keep it zipped up better.
Evolution simply describes the change of organisms from one to another, from one species to another, and gives mechanisms for the "order and complexity" you mention. The sun is a very powerful force. But Evolution says nothing about the beginning of time or life. That's a question for another theory, such as the Big Bang and so on.
A brief Google of your chaos bullshit would disprove it. But you don't want to be educated. Please do us a favor and keep your willful ignorance to yourself, so it doesn't contaminate someone who wants to learn.
It's disingenuous to call that "long day" pontification a theory, as if it's on equal ground with scientific theories. There is no way to test it, ergo, not a theory. Call it a guess, an interpretation, a "stuffing God into a gap" argument, but don't call it a theory. Doing so only dilutes science more in the mind of the public, and allows these nutjobs a foothold for pushing this kind of anti-science into the classroom.
So let's remove gravity, most of physics, and genetics from the science classroom as well. Those are all theories. You don't prove a theory. You find evidence either for or against it. As soon as you find some evidence against Evolution, we can reconsider it. But being as ALL of the evidence gathered since Darwin was pontificating points to Evolution being the mechanism by which life changes, science (and the science classroom) should stick with that.
It doesn't matter what an individual scientist believes. That's immaterial, an argument from authority which is of no worth. I can point to priests who believe in evolution. Shit, the CATHOLIC CHURCH is ok with evolution. That is NOT a reason to accept it. The reason to accept it is that the facts we have about genetics and fossils and such all point to Evolution.
The only reason you would have even posted this is because you're ignorant of science, which makes your opinion of it uninformed and therefore worthless.
It was explicitly allowed in the original StarCraft to spawn copies like that. The spawned copies couldn't play the single-player game or on Battle.net, but you could still play on the LAN.
Stop being a troll. It's advertising, not "borrowing". Getting your friends to play and want this awesome game so they can play online with you as well as on the LAN.
They're security people. Do you really think that a terrorist is going to be so fucking stupid as to call attention to themselves in that way? They're going to hide the explosives under their coats, where they can get close to people. A good security agent should be able to tell the difference.
You are right, you have the duty to protect yourself. But the problem is that she wasn't doing anything that should be considered wrong. At the VERY most a security agent should have walked up to her and told her she was making people nervous, not arrested her and made a spectacle of it. But what do we expect... this is Boston, where they also all but shut down the city over some lite-brites.
The problem is that it's not her job to worry about idiots holding guns. It shouldn't be her job. It should be THEIR job to respond appropriately to threats. Otherwise, why in the fuck are we even paying them? We can get any asshole with a superiority complex to harass people randomly just as well and probably for less money.
It's still annoying as hell that the original one let you use one copy to install multiples, and play with them all on a LAN. Now we've gotta all have our own copies. Add on top of that the "expansions" that will eventually be "required" if someone has all 3, EVERYONE has to have all 3, and you end up being nothing more than a wallet to Blizzard.
I'm sure the game might be fun. But given that Blizzard has ripped out local LAN play (which is part of what made the original great), and made it into 3 $60 games instead of a single game with all 3 campaigns... fuck them. I am not a wallet, I am a customer. I used to be a Blizzard fan, and I may get this game eventually when it hits the bargain bins. PC games are losing ground to consoles because the fucking game manufacturers keep trying to turn the PC into a console.
Which takes a lot of clicking and dragging and bullshit instead of just maximizing the browser, putting the other window on top, and then moving the mouse to be back over the browser. Then I can use pgup/pgdown, tab, whatever I want to navigate in the browser and I still have my reference on top. Really. There's no way to make that kind of thing more efficient without having two monitors.
Like Grygus says. Focus follows mouse does not mean that the application has to come to the front. It just means that they keyboard input and such goes to that application. I hate it when the application comes to the front, and if that's your only experience with focus follows mouse, I can't blame you. But the proper, more efficient and elegant method of doing it is not that. It allows a window to accept keystrokes while not being the top window on the screen.
I like my desktop too. But I can't carry it on the plane with me, it's a pain in the ass to haul to a friend's house when we want to do some LAN play, and I can't bring it other places I go so I still have a place to offload photos and such.
Desktops are great as long as you never leave your house, or never need or want a computer when you do so.
I only reach for the mouse once. I can tab between form fields, and my reference is always on top. The point is that I don't have to hit Alt+Tab OR use the mouse all the time OR just remember what was on the other document.
It doesn't seem that you actually understand what I'm talking about. The "source" window STAYS ON TOP, but the one I'm typing in is below it, BUT STILL HAS FOCUS.
What are you talking about, typing text directly onto an image? You have to click the Text tool, then place it, but then typing goes right in. Always has as far as I know with the GIMP. Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.
Really? I love focus follows mouse. I turn it on whenever possible. I hate having to have whatever window I'm wanting to type in having to be at the top. If I'm trying to fill out a web form and have some notes in another window, I have to shrink the window down and keep switching between them back and forth if I want to do it without focus-follows-mouse. With it, I just keep the browser open below the "source" window, and it still has focus. I can't imagine people working efficiently without it.
I've always thought that GIMP much more geared to be a photo-editing application, not as much a "paint"-style application with simple shapes and color fills and such. Maybe something like Krita would give you more appropriate functionality for your intended output? Or are you working down at the actual pixel level and then expanding images with no scaling algorithm in order to get your comics? I can see GIMP being ok in that working sense.
Anybody that does anything other than consume media for a hobby can claim at least a passing level of geekiness, IMHO and to take this even further off-topic. It's really only the people who are leeches, who consume but never produce except to enable more consumption, that are not geeks. Making and changing and fixing things for the sake of doing so and improving one's knowledge and skills is what I would think is the hallmark of being a geek, whether it be PCs, software, furniture, cars, electronics, whatever.
Were you not around when Microsoft bribed and stacked the ISO meetings when voting for OOXML as a "standard"? Not only that, but it doesn't pass any kind of rigorous review as a standard... it is all but an XML representation of the original.doc format, just re-jiggered around, and is so convoluted that nobody but Microsoft has a hope of actually interoperating with it properly. And by the time someone might do so, they've got the next version out.
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I'm hostile because people want to throw out Evolution and put forth an "alternative theory". Go ahead and believe in a God. I don't care. The point is that Evolution is a valid, well-supported scientific theory, AND THERE IS NO CREDIBLE CHALLENGE TO THE EVIDENCE. None. Whatsoever. Period, end of story.
Go ahead and pontificate about a prime mover, a God, whatever. That has NOTHING to do with teaching of the mechanism of Evolution in a science classroom. Evolution has nothing to say about the origins of life, or the universe. Don't say "teach the controversy" because there is no valid controversy. There are only idiots wanting to force the government to support their religion, and scientists.
Evolution doesn't claim to, either. Your ignorance is showing again. You should really keep it zipped up better.
Evolution simply describes the change of organisms from one to another, from one species to another, and gives mechanisms for the "order and complexity" you mention. The sun is a very powerful force. But Evolution says nothing about the beginning of time or life. That's a question for another theory, such as the Big Bang and so on.
A brief Google of your chaos bullshit would disprove it. But you don't want to be educated. Please do us a favor and keep your willful ignorance to yourself, so it doesn't contaminate someone who wants to learn.
It's disingenuous to call that "long day" pontification a theory, as if it's on equal ground with scientific theories. There is no way to test it, ergo, not a theory. Call it a guess, an interpretation, a "stuffing God into a gap" argument, but don't call it a theory. Doing so only dilutes science more in the mind of the public, and allows these nutjobs a foothold for pushing this kind of anti-science into the classroom.
And the terrorists who flew the planes into the WTC were taught how to fly in America.
So let's remove gravity, most of physics, and genetics from the science classroom as well. Those are all theories. You don't prove a theory. You find evidence either for or against it. As soon as you find some evidence against Evolution, we can reconsider it. But being as ALL of the evidence gathered since Darwin was pontificating points to Evolution being the mechanism by which life changes, science (and the science classroom) should stick with that.
It doesn't matter what an individual scientist believes. That's immaterial, an argument from authority which is of no worth. I can point to priests who believe in evolution. Shit, the CATHOLIC CHURCH is ok with evolution. That is NOT a reason to accept it. The reason to accept it is that the facts we have about genetics and fossils and such all point to Evolution.
The only reason you would have even posted this is because you're ignorant of science, which makes your opinion of it uninformed and therefore worthless.
You know that an external USB DVD drive is what, $50 at Best Buy? Cheaper online?
It was explicitly allowed in the original StarCraft to spawn copies like that. The spawned copies couldn't play the single-player game or on Battle.net, but you could still play on the LAN.
Stop being a troll. It's advertising, not "borrowing". Getting your friends to play and want this awesome game so they can play online with you as well as on the LAN.
They're security people. Do you really think that a terrorist is going to be so fucking stupid as to call attention to themselves in that way? They're going to hide the explosives under their coats, where they can get close to people. A good security agent should be able to tell the difference.
You are right, you have the duty to protect yourself. But the problem is that she wasn't doing anything that should be considered wrong. At the VERY most a security agent should have walked up to her and told her she was making people nervous, not arrested her and made a spectacle of it. But what do we expect... this is Boston, where they also all but shut down the city over some lite-brites.
Bet she was REALLY glad that she had the printout, even if she tossed it. If she didn't...
The problem is that it's not her job to worry about idiots holding guns. It shouldn't be her job. It should be THEIR job to respond appropriately to threats. Otherwise, why in the fuck are we even paying them? We can get any asshole with a superiority complex to harass people randomly just as well and probably for less money.
It's still annoying as hell that the original one let you use one copy to install multiples, and play with them all on a LAN. Now we've gotta all have our own copies. Add on top of that the "expansions" that will eventually be "required" if someone has all 3, EVERYONE has to have all 3, and you end up being nothing more than a wallet to Blizzard.
I'm sure the game might be fun. But given that Blizzard has ripped out local LAN play (which is part of what made the original great), and made it into 3 $60 games instead of a single game with all 3 campaigns... fuck them. I am not a wallet, I am a customer. I used to be a Blizzard fan, and I may get this game eventually when it hits the bargain bins. PC games are losing ground to consoles because the fucking game manufacturers keep trying to turn the PC into a console.
Which takes a lot of clicking and dragging and bullshit instead of just maximizing the browser, putting the other window on top, and then moving the mouse to be back over the browser. Then I can use pgup/pgdown, tab, whatever I want to navigate in the browser and I still have my reference on top. Really. There's no way to make that kind of thing more efficient without having two monitors.
Like Grygus says. Focus follows mouse does not mean that the application has to come to the front. It just means that they keyboard input and such goes to that application. I hate it when the application comes to the front, and if that's your only experience with focus follows mouse, I can't blame you. But the proper, more efficient and elegant method of doing it is not that. It allows a window to accept keystrokes while not being the top window on the screen.
Then they're not really floating windows inside the main window, are they?
Yes. But for pixel comics, that wouldn't necessarily be the case. Hence why I wanted to clarify.
I like my desktop too. But I can't carry it on the plane with me, it's a pain in the ass to haul to a friend's house when we want to do some LAN play, and I can't bring it other places I go so I still have a place to offload photos and such.
Desktops are great as long as you never leave your house, or never need or want a computer when you do so.
I only reach for the mouse once. I can tab between form fields, and my reference is always on top. The point is that I don't have to hit Alt+Tab OR use the mouse all the time OR just remember what was on the other document.
It doesn't seem that you actually understand what I'm talking about. The "source" window STAYS ON TOP, but the one I'm typing in is below it, BUT STILL HAS FOCUS.
Because some of us have more than one monitor, and we like being able to keep tools on different monitors than the image we're working on?
What are you talking about, typing text directly onto an image? You have to click the Text tool, then place it, but then typing goes right in. Always has as far as I know with the GIMP. Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.
Really? I love focus follows mouse. I turn it on whenever possible. I hate having to have whatever window I'm wanting to type in having to be at the top. If I'm trying to fill out a web form and have some notes in another window, I have to shrink the window down and keep switching between them back and forth if I want to do it without focus-follows-mouse. With it, I just keep the browser open below the "source" window, and it still has focus. I can't imagine people working efficiently without it.
I've always thought that GIMP much more geared to be a photo-editing application, not as much a "paint"-style application with simple shapes and color fills and such. Maybe something like Krita would give you more appropriate functionality for your intended output? Or are you working down at the actual pixel level and then expanding images with no scaling algorithm in order to get your comics? I can see GIMP being ok in that working sense.
Anybody that does anything other than consume media for a hobby can claim at least a passing level of geekiness, IMHO and to take this even further off-topic. It's really only the people who are leeches, who consume but never produce except to enable more consumption, that are not geeks. Making and changing and fixing things for the sake of doing so and improving one's knowledge and skills is what I would think is the hallmark of being a geek, whether it be PCs, software, furniture, cars, electronics, whatever.
Were you not around when Microsoft bribed and stacked the ISO meetings when voting for OOXML as a "standard"? Not only that, but it doesn't pass any kind of rigorous review as a standard... it is all but an XML representation of the original .doc format, just re-jiggered around, and is so convoluted that nobody but Microsoft has a hope of actually interoperating with it properly. And by the time someone might do so, they've got the next version out.
Seriously, just google around a bit:
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/10/norwegian-standards-body-implodes-over-ooxml-controversy.ars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML