Actually, according to my Kool-Aid (Glowing Green Berry), Everything was invened at Xerox Park in the 60's & 70's. I've also heard of a Flaming Pink Grapefruit Kool-Aid that claims it was all invented in the UK by MI5 during the war. And don't forget the legendary Eyeball Blue Ambosia-Lotus Kool-Aid that may or may not claim that all technical knowlege came from ancient astronauts during the late neo-lithic period.
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Everything I know, I learned by groveling at the feet of the Internet Oracle!
Here is my favorite: Tabbrowser extensions http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index .html.en (beware of lamness filter's affect on URLs)
It is the only extension you'll ever need for customizing the behavior of tabs. Does anyone remember why it is no longer on the Mozilla site?
My other is the combination of "Adblock Filterset.G Updater" and "Adblock Plus".
These are kids. In my experience, kids have NO trouble moving from one OS to another. I have no doubt that they will eventually learn some future version of Windows. They have no need to be trained to use Windows. Adults need training; kids need education.
What do you mean mutated genes are never passed on? It all depends where and when those genes mutate. Both meiosis and mitosis provided great opportunities for mutations to occur. In single celled organisms a mitosis induced mutation that is beneficial will certainly be passed on. The same is true for meiosis in an asexually reproducing organism. You've got to be willfully blind not to see hereditary mutations all around you. Explain the existence of Chihuahua dogs without hereditary mutation. Selective breeding of mutations like big eyes, round heads, and tiny bodies made these dogs more "fit" to human breeders. In nature, natural selection, would certainly favor quite different mutations.
Explaining things like eyes, wings, and lungs are not as hard as you might think if you were to actually look for answers. Those "gaping holes" are growing smaller every day.
Oh, and while you're opening up your eyes and beginning to appreciate the wonder of the world around you, try looking up what the term "scientific theory" means. It does not mean "a yet to be proved fact", but rather a "yet to disproved explanation".
Oh, and while you're opening up your eyes and begining to apreciate the wonder of the worl around you, try looking up what the words "scientific theory mean". It does not mean "a yet to be proven fact", but rather a "yet to disproven explaination".
This sentence, which was inserted in an attempt to escape the "all caps" lameness filter should not be read by you or anyone else because it would be a waste of precoius time; which reminds me of a vingiet(sp?) from Goedel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golen Braid.
NTP?? Network Time Protocol via e-mail?!? Hey, combine this with IP over carrier pigeon (RFC 1499: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt) and your cell phone's clock will be SUPER precise!! You'll also have the coolest network stack around!
Libel law is as well known and accepted an exception to free speech as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. His complaint is that it is unenforceable on Wikipedia.
The pointers in Pascal came MUCH later. They may have been a Borland invention for all I know. Niklaus Wirth's oiginal Pascal was very strict and limiting. It was a teaching language. Man, I hated it!
On one monitor, I keep my mail client behind my browser window. Just enough of it shows to let me see the From: and Subject: of any new emails that arrive. The other monitor is full of overlapping xterms loggged into various servers (up to 12). The least recently used is at the bottom of the stack. The two or three I'm curently working with are on top. It works for me.
No, no, no! It's neither "suction" nor "air pressure". It works because Mother Nature abhors a vacuum. That along with the impetus generated the movement of the spheres through the celestial ether, makes this a highly efficient perpetual motion energy generator.
Now if you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow through the zero-point energy field, you can ripen base metals into gold, there by proving the Intelligent Design is not a theory, but a law of natural history.
I'll write more later. I've got to get back to my Philology dissertation.
Actually, those businesses didn't eperience ANY growth. That's why they failed. Only their stock price grew -- not like a hockeystick, but like a firework. Up...up...up...BANG!
As long as God doesn't ever break any of His/Her own rules, including his rules of probability, God is irrelevant to science. Science can be said to be about trying to find and understand God's rules, but as long as God plays fair, there will never be a need worry about God while doing science.
"Because God wants/planned it that way", is as useless to science as "Nature abhors a vacuum", or objects "fall to earth because they love the Mother Earth". All these ideas may be true, interesting and even useful in real life, but they are not science.
If I'm not making sense, blame it on my lack of coffee this morning.
What about the idiots who believe hook-line-and-sinker the false urban myth zeitgeist about other idiots cashing in big for their stupidity, and thereby destroying society, while the first idiots are working so hard just to.... Ah, forget it. Your canned, mass marketed BS isn't worth the price of a single run on sentence.
Science is complex. More often than not very well-trained and experienced scientists get it completely wrong.
Huh? What are you talking about? You sound like you are defining science as a huge collection of facts. too be memorized, sorted, collated, and finally be made sence of. Science is a method. It is a process of observing, speculating, finding fault with (via more observations) those speculations, and refining them. Do well-trained and experienced scientists get THAT completely wrong?
Or, perhaps, do you just not get it at all?
"....but the green people seem to get more pissed off at coal than every other fuel combined."
It's not just the Green People, it's the People With Lungs, and the Water Drinkers who get pissed off. If you can get enough of the hydrogen out of coal, without burning it, and do it cheaply, we'd be a lot less pissed.
A Typical PHB will buy it in a second, just to have something to wave at his contractors. He'll read the executive summary and skim a few choice paragraphs near the prettier diagrams so he can baffle his PHB with bull. He'll add a few words and phrases to his vocabulary and believe that it was the best $250 his company spent since buying him that unused health club membership.
Yes, I am feeling a bit cynical this morning. Why do you ask?
In my house there are screaming kids. Beacuse of them I don't have $2000-$3500 (or the space) for a home theatre. An occacional escape to the theater would be a great treat.... If only there were any good movies showing.
Funny. There is no reason to believe that the soft tissue inside their large skulls was arranged the same way as ours. They had occipital(sp?) buns -- a bulge at the back of the head. That may have been their to help balance their head on their neck. Surely our/their nice soft brains can slosh around to fit any reasonably shaped container.
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So you read this Cringely column too?
I think the G.P. was referring to the face that air is non-metallic, and lightening travels through it all the time.
Actually, according to my Kool-Aid (Glowing Green Berry), Everything was invened at Xerox Park in the 60's & 70's. I've also heard of a Flaming Pink Grapefruit Kool-Aid that claims it was all invented in the UK by MI5 during the war. And don't forget the legendary Eyeball Blue Ambosia-Lotus Kool-Aid that may or may not claim that all technical knowlege came from ancient astronauts during the late neo-lithic period. -- Everything I know, I learned by groveling at the feet of the Internet Oracle!
Here is my favorite: Tabbrowser extensionsx .html.en
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/inde
(beware of lamness filter's affect on URLs)
It is the only extension you'll ever need for customizing the behavior of tabs. Does anyone remember why it is no longer on the Mozilla site?
My other is the combination of "Adblock Filterset.G Updater" and "Adblock Plus".
These are kids. In my experience, kids have NO trouble moving from one OS to another. I have no doubt that they will eventually learn some future version of Windows. They have no need to be trained to use Windows. Adults need training; kids need education.
That's always been my favorite curse: "May you live in interesting times."
I also like, "May you nose drip like a faucet."
Jython.
Bottom up.
Top down.
Structured.
Object orientd.
Agile / Extreme. (I think we just made all the way around the block once.)
What do you mean mutated genes are never passed on? It all depends where and when those genes mutate. Both meiosis and mitosis provided great opportunities for mutations to occur. In single celled organisms a mitosis induced mutation that is beneficial will certainly be passed on. The same is true for meiosis in an asexually reproducing organism. You've got to be willfully blind not to see hereditary mutations all around you. Explain the existence of Chihuahua dogs without hereditary mutation. Selective breeding of mutations like big eyes, round heads, and tiny bodies made these dogs more "fit" to human breeders. In nature, natural selection, would certainly favor quite different mutations.
Explaining things like eyes, wings, and lungs are not as hard as you might think if you were to actually look for answers. Those "gaping holes" are growing smaller every day.
Oh, and while you're opening up your eyes and beginning to appreciate the wonder of the world around you, try looking up what the term "scientific theory" means. It does not mean "a yet to be proved fact", but rather a "yet to disproved explanation".
Oh, and while you're opening up your eyes and begining to apreciate the wonder of the worl around you, try looking up what the words "scientific theory mean". It does not mean "a yet to be proven fact", but rather a "yet to disproven explaination".
Got a link?
This sentence, which was inserted in an attempt to escape the "all caps" lameness filter should not be read by you or anyone else because it would be a waste of precoius time; which reminds me of a vingiet(sp?) from Goedel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golen Braid.
NTP?? Network Time Protocol via e-mail?!? Hey, combine this with IP over carrier pigeon (RFC 1499: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt) and your cell phone's clock will be SUPER precise!! You'll also have the coolest network stack around!
Libel law is as well known and accepted an exception to free speech as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. His complaint is that it is unenforceable on Wikipedia.
The pointers in Pascal came MUCH later. They may have been a Borland invention for all I know. Niklaus Wirth's oiginal Pascal was very strict and limiting. It was a teaching language. Man, I hated it!
On one monitor, I keep my mail client behind my browser window. Just enough of it shows to let me see the From: and Subject: of any new emails that arrive. The other monitor is full of overlapping xterms loggged into various servers (up to 12). The least recently used is at the bottom of the stack. The two or three I'm curently working with are on top. It works for me.
No, no, no! It's neither "suction" nor "air pressure". It works because Mother Nature abhors a vacuum. That along with the impetus generated the movement of the spheres through the celestial ether, makes this a highly efficient perpetual motion energy generator.
Now if you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow through the zero-point energy field, you can ripen base metals into gold, there by proving the Intelligent Design is not a theory, but a law of natural history.
I'll write more later. I've got to get back to my Philology dissertation.
Actually, those businesses didn't eperience ANY growth. That's why they failed. Only their stock price grew -- not like a hockeystick, but like a firework. Up...up...up...BANG!
As long as God doesn't ever break any of His/Her own rules, including his rules of probability, God is irrelevant to science. Science can be said to be about trying to find and understand God's rules, but as long as God plays fair, there will never be a need worry about God while doing science.
"Because God wants/planned it that way", is as useless to science as "Nature abhors a vacuum", or objects "fall to earth because they love the Mother Earth". All these ideas may be true, interesting and even useful in real life, but they are not science.
If I'm not making sense, blame it on my lack of coffee this morning.
I dodn't call because I subbed my toe.
I can't wait to see Nothing New: Nada . /dev/null .
I hope it's even half as good as Nothing New: Zilch and Nothing New: The Return of
What about the idiots who believe hook-line-and-sinker the false urban myth zeitgeist about other idiots cashing in big for their stupidity, and thereby destroying society, while the first idiots are working so hard just to.... Ah, forget it. Your canned, mass marketed BS isn't worth the price of a single run on sentence.
Science is complex. More often than not very well-trained and experienced scientists get it completely wrong.
Huh? What are you talking about? You sound like you are defining science as a huge collection of facts. too be memorized, sorted, collated, and finally be made sence of. Science is a method. It is a process of observing, speculating, finding fault with (via more observations) those speculations, and refining them. Do well-trained and experienced scientists get THAT completely wrong?
Or, perhaps, do you just not get it at all?
"....but the green people seem to get more pissed off at coal than every other fuel combined."
It's not just the Green People, it's the People With Lungs, and the Water Drinkers who get pissed off. If you can get enough of the hydrogen out of coal, without burning it, and do it cheaply, we'd be a lot less pissed.
A Typical PHB will buy it in a second, just to have something to wave at his contractors. He'll read the executive summary and skim a few choice paragraphs near the prettier diagrams so he can baffle his PHB with bull. He'll add a few words and phrases to his vocabulary and believe that it was the best $250 his company spent since buying him that unused health club membership.
Yes, I am feeling a bit cynical this morning. Why do you ask?
In my house there are screaming kids. Beacuse of them I don't have $2000-$3500 (or the space) for a home theatre. An occacional escape to the theater would be a great treat.... If only there were any good movies showing.
Funny. There is no reason to believe that the soft tissue inside their large skulls was arranged the same way as ours. They had occipital(sp?) buns -- a bulge at the back of the head. That may have been their to help balance their head on their neck. Surely our/their nice soft brains can slosh around to fit any reasonably shaped container.