I'll sing to him, each spring to him,
And worship the trousers that cling to him.
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered am I
When he talks, he is seeking words to get off his chest
Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best.
Lorenz Hart
To hear this song rendered by perhaps the greatest jazz/show tune voice of the 20th Century, check out Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook.
Here's a better example for you, as I see that others have (rather rudely) pointed out that seeing only one side of the moon is pretty easy to explain. It is a wonderful coincidence that the moon and sun are the same apparent size in our sky - no particular reason AFAIK, but it gives us dramatic lunar and solar eclipses.
I would not take this as evidence of divine intervention - my own take (not that anyone asked) is that we have no idea what, if anything, the universe is "for", but it is surely not about us - our role is so miniscule.
You're referring to the "Deep Hot Biosphere" theory of Thomas Gold, the Cornell theorist known for a number of controversial stands in the past, some of which have been vindicated and some assuredly not. The jury's still out on the theory in question, and while I'm in no position to judge, it's safe to say that it isn't widely embraced so far.
But it's a compelling story nevertheless. Check out
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/DHB.html
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr.ht ml
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr.ht ml
Consistency could be more easily achieved if some reference applications were published by this UI group, with common UI decisions (skins, keyboard shortcuts) encoded in say an XML configuration file. This approach is not bulletproof - it depends on the application writers' compliance, and desire to imitate the reference - but it avoids the daunting problem of developing an interface available to all languages that applications are written in.
Perhaps there would finally be a consistent way to cut and paste, instead of the 3 or 4 ways that currently appear.
The analogy is interesting but logically flawed. If weapons are the analog of books, then what is the analog of "well-schooled"? It would have to be "highly skilled" or something implying facility. But "well regulated" has a different sense entirely, which is antithetical to the argument that the 2nd Amendment supports unfettered use of lethal weapons.
Tense disagreement, misspellings, and the horror of "... a valid arguement that justify..." - I share your pain. But ending a sentence with a preposition? Sheesh - that particular taboo was a 19th century invention of anal-retentive grammarians who were trying to foist Latin conventions on English in order to sound more upper-class. That particular shibboleth has been ridiculed at least since Fowler's 1926 edition, for good reason - it makes for terribly convoluted sentence structure.
OK, maybe I'm getting a bit off-topic here...
http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/prepositions2.html
This is the sort of impertinence up with which I will not put. -- Winston Churchill, to an editor who undangled one of his prepositions.
In a nutshell: the naive fauna of the paleolithic Middle East included numerous herd animals suitable for domestication. Far more than other parts of the world (zebras, for example, are poor candidates compared to wild horses). Living in proximity to herd animals and their herd diseases gave the progenitors of Western civilization some immunity to an array of diseases (by virtue of natural selection) which native Americans did not enjoy.
Much more in Diamond's excellent book.
Take another look at the example bug, which is a problem in Java and C++ - you overlooked the buggy variable name change in the assignment("theVal" instead of "theval"), which means the method argument is ignored. You can introduce the bug in your code thusly:
void setA (int A) { this->a = a; }
though of course it's more insidious when the case shift is hidden in an intercap. Hmm. A single character variable is better. Let's not go there.
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I'll sing to him, each spring to him,
And worship the trousers that cling to him.
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered am I
When he talks, he is seeking words to get off his chest
Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best.
Lorenz Hart
To hear this song rendered by perhaps the greatest jazz/show tune voice of the 20th Century, check out Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook.
When DNA died, Richard Dawkins wrote and delivered a funny/sad/bitter/grateful eulogy, included as one of the essays in his book A Devil's Chaplain, which is well worth reading in any event. http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins -archive/Dawkins/Biography/bio.shtml/
Here's a better example for you, as I see that others have (rather rudely) pointed out that seeing only one side of the moon is pretty easy to explain. It is a wonderful coincidence that the moon and sun are the same apparent size in our sky - no particular reason AFAIK, but it gives us dramatic lunar and solar eclipses.
I would not take this as evidence of divine intervention - my own take (not that anyone asked) is that we have no idea what, if anything, the universe is "for", but it is surely not about us - our role is so miniscule.
You're referring to the "Deep Hot Biosphere" theory of Thomas Gold, the Cornell theorist known for a number of controversial stands in the past, some of which have been vindicated and some assuredly not. The jury's still out on the theory in question, and while I'm in no position to judge, it's safe to say that it isn't widely embraced so far.
t ml
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr.ht ml
But it's a compelling story nevertheless. Check out
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/DHB.html
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr.h
Consistency could be more easily achieved if some reference applications were published by this UI group, with common UI decisions (skins, keyboard shortcuts) encoded in say an XML configuration file. This approach is not bulletproof - it depends on the application writers' compliance, and desire to imitate the reference - but it avoids the daunting problem of developing an interface available to all languages that applications are written in.
Perhaps there would finally be a consistent way to cut and paste, instead of the 3 or 4 ways that currently appear.
The analogy is interesting but logically flawed. If weapons are the analog of books, then what is the analog of "well-schooled"? It would have to be "highly skilled" or something implying facility. But "well regulated" has a different sense entirely, which is antithetical to the argument that the 2nd Amendment supports unfettered use of lethal weapons.
Tense disagreement, misspellings, and the horror of "... a valid arguement that justify ..." - I share your pain. But ending a sentence with a preposition? Sheesh - that particular taboo was a 19th century invention of anal-retentive grammarians who were trying to foist Latin conventions on English in order to sound more upper-class. That particular shibboleth has been ridiculed at least since Fowler's 1926 edition, for good reason - it makes for terribly convoluted sentence structure.
OK, maybe I'm getting a bit off-topic here...
http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/prepositions2 .html
This is the sort of impertinence up with which I will not put. -- Winston Churchill, to an editor who undangled one of his prepositions.
If history is a guide, we'll have all too many major wars before space technology is developed enough for a decent skirmish.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. Lawrence Summers (president of Harvard)
In a nutshell: the naive fauna of the paleolithic Middle East included numerous herd animals suitable for domestication. Far more than other parts of the world (zebras, for example, are poor candidates compared to wild horses). Living in proximity to herd animals and their herd diseases gave the progenitors of Western civilization some immunity to an array of diseases (by virtue of natural selection) which native Americans did not enjoy. Much more in Diamond's excellent book.
Not to pile on or anything, but dust settles very quickly on the moon because, as you may have heard, there's NO ATMOSPHERE there.
Take another look at the example bug, which is a problem in Java and C++ - you overlooked the buggy variable name change in the assignment("theVal" instead of "theval"), which means the method argument is ignored. You can introduce the bug in your code thusly:
void setA (int A) { this->a = a; }
though of course it's more insidious when the case shift is hidden in an intercap. Hmm. A single character variable is better. Let's not go there.