Nobody (or at least nobody sensible) ever said that the Clockmaker hypthesis, or really any form of intelligent design, is supposed to be a scientific theory; it's all a matter of philosophy and/or theology. Why? It's inherently unfalsifiable.
If you're working at-will (as is usually the case) with no contract preventing it, yes. The First Amendment only applies to the government.
(DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE. Contact a licensed lawyer in your jurisdiction if you need legal advice.)
First off, the issue of sui iuris or not isn't the issue here. Secondly, it's not a First Amendment issue any more than your (private-sector) boss firing you for similar activities, again legal. The Constitution doesn't protect ANYONE from the Man, just the G-Man.
The iPod has a calendar and address book; hook up a voice recorder and you can dictate stuff you can type in later. Why have a PDA if you can have a device that is also a usable backup hard drive and plays music (and now video)?
So he's afraid that technology journalists soon won't be able to figure out how to use Windows? It's not that bad just to use, as long as you have a competent IT staff. Anyone who can figure out OS X can figure it out, and in fact any small child. If a point comes about where most tech journalists have never had any serious experience with Windows, that probably would reflect many other segments of the population;
At any rate, his argument is the same as "Since Brian Williams is not from Nebraska, he is inherently biased against it and would not report the Second Coming of the Lord if it happened in Omaha." Or perhaps "Many people drive Toyotas. There are people who have never driven a Chevrolet. These people cannot competently discuss an Impala if the need arises, even if they have read about them." Just makes no sense.
And of course, Dvorak (most likely tapping away on a PowerBook or an iMac) seems perfectly capable of discussing Windows.
Jon Bruning, eh?
He's been sending out all sorts of letters on the matter and running TV ads in Nebraska.
I smell aspirations to be something besides AG of Nebraska -- perhaps he is contemplating running against Ben Nelson or something.
If you want sex and violence in togas, might I suggest Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars? I don't get HBO, so it works for me, and while it's not the most accurate book in the world, it's mostly good and reads well.
Good translations (Graves and Edwards) are cheap; the original Latin and maybe some older translations are floating around on the Internet. Enjoy the actual Romans if you don't get HBO.
Perhaps its historical value as the first private-sector product to cross the threshold qualifies it for museum display. If it blew up on another flight(accidents happen) they couldn't very well give it to the Smithsonian.
It looks like you need to take your sarcasm meter in for a servicing.
The point is that I don't intend to buy Vista, but I'd think about using it if they gave it to me.
And I'll think about it...if the reviews are good and it isn't the "train wreck" Thurrott said it will be. Even if I used Windows more than I do, I see no truly compelling reason yet why anyone would want to upgrade from XP.
But for now, I'm happy with XP SP2 for Windows and DOS games (well, at least the ones that will run on XP -- I have to use 98 for some, still) and Tiger for everything serious.
They're remodeling soon -- the website for it talks about primarily about seating space improvements (huh, what lack of seating? Usually most people in the library are standing, in my experience) despite that there is a shortage of book space. Further, I've heard a rumor from a respected faculty member that they're going to send all the journals that are otherwise available electronically (no doubt for a recurring fee - what happens if they have to quit paying?) to the "flagship" campus fifty miles down the road that already has them. Mind you, they've already quit taking paper delivery on some of these, turning students at the large campus I attend (as opposed to the slightly larger one down the road) into second-class citizens who have to rely on interlibrary loan (if we know the title of the article we want) to get anything that's still under a journal's electronic publication embargo, which often lasts a year after print publication.
Most college campuses of any respectable size have a student union or similar facility that provides plenty of places to sit around and shoot bull. Further, most colleges and universities generally provide adequate computer lab space (except maybe during finals week or other high-demand times), and of course wireless networking is almost to be expected these days. There are chairs and computers elsewhere -- but only a library has massive quantities of books available for perusal.
What's "expect open source to develop within their organizations' IT strategy" supposed to mean?
Does it mean modification of software? A Linux or BSD server? Use of a commercial product such as Mac OS or TiVo that is a combination of free and proprietary elements?
Open source being present in your IT strategy could just mean encouraging people to use Firefox.
Same reasons I've seen certain academics say "blogosphere" with a straight face when I know they know as well as I do that there is already a name for the connected totality of HTML documents served over the Internet on HTTP servers -- the "World Wide Web" comes to mind.
It makes some Guardian (from whence the word came, according to Wikipedia) and New York Times readers feel satisfied that they've read some technology and mass media news for the week.
One time an accountant in my town was arrested (later acquitted for whatever white-collar offense of which he was accused).
When the police raided his office, they actually carried out his computer monitor along with his actual computer, file cabinets, loose papers, et cetera.
What value the police department would find evidence-wise in a CRT is beyond me -- maybe the FBI has wised up and realized a hard drive (or in some cases a copy thereof) is all you need for investigative purposes and the rest is like seizing the microwave as evidence.
Ask that anonymous sources do a dead drop in an unmonitored location on a piece of paper that has been run through a typewriter and handled with rubber gloves.
Then you don't know who your sources are, you just went down to one of your tip deposit locations and picked up an envelope. There are no tracking signatures, nothing digital, no handwriting, no fingerprints, and no information about the source except what the source wants you to know at the source's own peril.
It's not the Sci-Fi that makes the Shuttle look like a hunk of junk.
It's the memory of the Saturn V and the present-day versatility of the Soyuz (though admittedly Soyuz can't carry as much of a payload as the shuttle).
NASA's bumbling makes the Pentagon look like the paragon of efficiency -- time for space exploration to be returned to the Air Force. That or just sell ISS to the Russians and back out of the whole thing except maybe satellite launching, which we still know how to do the old-fashioned way with a single-use multistage.
Actually, not to harm your joke any, but academic institutions seem to be using groupware these days -- my university has Lotus Notes and it causes untold numbers of student and faculty headaches.
Maybe twenty people use the calendar -- for most, it's just 100-500MB e-mail and an address book, like could be done with IMAP, a generic webmail system, and LDAP.
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Nobody (or at least nobody sensible) ever said that the Clockmaker hypthesis, or really any form of intelligent design, is supposed to be a scientific theory; it's all a matter of philosophy and/or theology. Why? It's inherently unfalsifiable.
Recall, however, the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
The idea is essentially the same as that of a seal; it adds one more relatively difficult to forge component to a document.
If you're working at-will (as is usually the case) with no contract preventing it, yes. The First Amendment only applies to the government. (DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE. Contact a licensed lawyer in your jurisdiction if you need legal advice.)
First off, the issue of sui iuris or not isn't the issue here. Secondly, it's not a First Amendment issue any more than your (private-sector) boss firing you for similar activities, again legal. The Constitution doesn't protect ANYONE from the Man, just the G-Man.
The iPod has a calendar and address book; hook up a voice recorder and you can dictate stuff you can type in later. Why have a PDA if you can have a device that is also a usable backup hard drive and plays music (and now video)?
So he's afraid that technology journalists soon won't be able to figure out how to use Windows? It's not that bad just to use, as long as you have a competent IT staff. Anyone who can figure out OS X can figure it out, and in fact any small child. If a point comes about where most tech journalists have never had any serious experience with Windows, that probably would reflect many other segments of the population;
At any rate, his argument is the same as "Since Brian Williams is not from Nebraska, he is inherently biased against it and would not report the Second Coming of the Lord if it happened in Omaha." Or perhaps "Many people drive Toyotas. There are people who have never driven a Chevrolet. These people cannot competently discuss an Impala if the need arises, even if they have read about them." Just makes no sense.
And of course, Dvorak (most likely tapping away on a PowerBook or an iMac) seems perfectly capable of discussing Windows.
Jon Bruning, eh? He's been sending out all sorts of letters on the matter and running TV ads in Nebraska. I smell aspirations to be something besides AG of Nebraska -- perhaps he is contemplating running against Ben Nelson or something.
If you want sex and violence in togas, might I suggest Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars? I don't get HBO, so it works for me, and while it's not the most accurate book in the world, it's mostly good and reads well. Good translations (Graves and Edwards) are cheap; the original Latin and maybe some older translations are floating around on the Internet. Enjoy the actual Romans if you don't get HBO.
How about labelling it "Formosa"? Perfectly neutral, if slightly obsolete.
Perhaps its historical value as the first private-sector product to cross the threshold qualifies it for museum display. If it blew up on another flight(accidents happen) they couldn't very well give it to the Smithsonian.
There are two kinds of companies TiVo can call in for situations like that -- they're called "collection agencies" and "law firms."
The simple answer is that Mr. Bronfman simply doesn't know what he is talking about.
That man simply does not know the word "iTunes" and was substituting "iPod" for "iTunes Music Store."
It looks like you need to take your sarcasm meter in for a servicing. The point is that I don't intend to buy Vista, but I'd think about using it if they gave it to me.
And I'll think about it...if the reviews are good and it isn't the "train wreck" Thurrott said it will be. Even if I used Windows more than I do, I see no truly compelling reason yet why anyone would want to upgrade from XP.
But for now, I'm happy with XP SP2 for Windows and DOS games (well, at least the ones that will run on XP -- I have to use 98 for some, still) and Tiger for everything serious.
They're remodeling soon -- the website for it talks about primarily about seating space improvements (huh, what lack of seating? Usually most people in the library are standing, in my experience) despite that there is a shortage of book space. Further, I've heard a rumor from a respected faculty member that they're going to send all the journals that are otherwise available electronically (no doubt for a recurring fee - what happens if they have to quit paying?) to the "flagship" campus fifty miles down the road that already has them. Mind you, they've already quit taking paper delivery on some of these, turning students at the large campus I attend (as opposed to the slightly larger one down the road) into second-class citizens who have to rely on interlibrary loan (if we know the title of the article we want) to get anything that's still under a journal's electronic publication embargo, which often lasts a year after print publication.
Most college campuses of any respectable size have a student union or similar facility that provides plenty of places to sit around and shoot bull. Further, most colleges and universities generally provide adequate computer lab space (except maybe during finals week or other high-demand times), and of course wireless networking is almost to be expected these days. There are chairs and computers elsewhere -- but only a library has massive quantities of books available for perusal.
What's "expect open source to develop within their organizations' IT strategy" supposed to mean?
Does it mean modification of software? A Linux or BSD server? Use of a commercial product such as Mac OS or TiVo that is a combination of free and proprietary elements?
Open source being present in your IT strategy could just mean encouraging people to use Firefox.
Same reasons I've seen certain academics say "blogosphere" with a straight face when I know they know as well as I do that there is already a name for the connected totality of HTML documents served over the Internet on HTTP servers -- the "World Wide Web" comes to mind.
It makes some Guardian (from whence the word came, according to Wikipedia) and New York Times readers feel satisfied that they've read some technology and mass media news for the week.
One time an accountant in my town was arrested (later acquitted for whatever white-collar offense of which he was accused).
When the police raided his office, they actually carried out his computer monitor along with his actual computer, file cabinets, loose papers, et cetera.
What value the police department would find evidence-wise in a CRT is beyond me -- maybe the FBI has wised up and realized a hard drive (or in some cases a copy thereof) is all you need for investigative purposes and the rest is like seizing the microwave as evidence.
Ask that anonymous sources do a dead drop in an unmonitored location on a piece of paper that has been run through a typewriter and handled with rubber gloves.
Then you don't know who your sources are, you just went down to one of your tip deposit locations and picked up an envelope. There are no tracking signatures, nothing digital, no handwriting, no fingerprints, and no information about the source except what the source wants you to know at the source's own peril.
IANAL, FWIW.
It's not the Sci-Fi that makes the Shuttle look like a hunk of junk.
It's the memory of the Saturn V and the present-day versatility of the Soyuz (though admittedly Soyuz can't carry as much of a payload as the shuttle).
Pronounce that "Planet Ten," and it'll seem a bit more modern, but there's still not much of a vista to experience if you're living on Earth.
NASA's bumbling makes the Pentagon look like the paragon of efficiency -- time for space exploration to be returned to the Air Force. That or just sell ISS to the Russians and back out of the whole thing except maybe satellite launching, which we still know how to do the old-fashioned way with a single-use multistage.
Actually, not to harm your joke any, but academic institutions seem to be using groupware these days -- my university has Lotus Notes and it causes untold numbers of student and faculty headaches.
Maybe twenty people use the calendar -- for most, it's just 100-500MB e-mail and an address book, like could be done with IMAP, a generic webmail system, and LDAP.