By the time any headway is made with a Win32 clone, Win32 will be out of style. WINE is really cool because it's taken so much to get a Win32 API implementation running in Linux, but it's mostly only cool from an intellectual achievement standpoint. It's not very practical to use.
The best perk from this is that it will now be possible to have both GTK and QT apps look the same. Too bad the announcement encourages people not to make new GTK themes for it. It would be nice if there was a standardized theming system used by all widget libraries. Of course this would be a lot of work, but I think it would be worth it to make things look a little more uniform.
I think that we'll be able to connect to it directly from our minds... ala The Matrix... and information can just be uploaded to our memory, and we can walk around in a virtual world and talk to each other as if it were real... except without physical limitations. Then no one would want to leave that world. And i think that we'll communicate with Artificial Life beings too, and they will be no different from real humans. Who would need drugs to cope? Although, the people who could not rectify this virtually real world with the real world in their mind would probably go insane or something.
I can see this as also being benificial. The adveratisements will probably lessen the cost of service, which is cool by me. It will go to further the spread of the technology, and it will become more common. We will all be more connected.
This could lead to even larger battles between those who stand for Creationism and those who stand for Evolutionism. Since we have whole states as the key players, it could become very serious, and even more so due to the small amount of mediocrity on either side.
Isn't it a more common strategy to patent a product idea as early as possible in developement to beat out other companies that may be developing similar technologies?
Obviously if it were that tiresome, nothing would be posted about it. I'm still very interested in knowing what's going on at Transmeta and so are a lot of other people.
Perhaps Transmeta knows this too, and we're their target adience.
Why is every piece of evidence found that is linked to evolution always treated as proof. It's evidence, they even call it that, but then they treat it as proof.
Science is not the end all of everything. I think that the scientific world as a whole is quite arrogant.
Many people would say, "that's not logical. science is the system of logical truth finding, and is the basis of solid understanding."
That's true from the perspective of us looking out at everything, but in the perspective of everything out there and then how small we are, we are far to meek.
It's cool to search for truth, but don't think that you know.
that's just the warning that is played over and over in my head every time I watch Linux take another step into the comercial world. Even when talking about these sites being funded by companies now.
All too ironic. My theory (which is only based on my observation;) is that many of the people shunning those who do not believe in evolution were probably also shunned for their belief in evolution, or were responding to the fact that others have been shunned for the same thing... and in the same way those who have shunned those who believe in evolution were once shunned or were responding to the fact that other's have been shunnded for not believing too. However there are also those of us who want peace.
You are right that I do not have a good knowledge of the Phylosophy of Science. I have made my own assumptions. I appologize.
My comments were more directed at those who become angry with people who do not believe in evolution. Definitely not at those who believe in evolution, because that's cool with me.
If no reputable scientists would treat evidence of a theory as proof, what I wish is that they would make that very known to the public because some people would state it as fact that we evolved from more primitave organisms, and then shun those who don't believe it.
Thank you for your reply, it definitely refined me
I wasn't questioning the scientific facts, I was questioning man's ability to understand. I am saying that we shouldn't say that we know something when there are so many possibilities, as obscure as many of them may be.
Before the flame rage begins below this one... To address the question more directly, if you ask the question of what happened to the little pieces in between evolutional steps, there are a lot of things to consider.
First of all, think about what a species eats. If there is an evolutional step in an animal that causes it to survive more succesfully, why havn't all of the steps before that one been extinct? There are many factors to this, like food, and habitat. The migration of a species evolving to another climate, while it predecessor survived somewhere else could be on argument. So who knows? No one, that's the point;)
This is a good question and I feel it is good to not be so arragant and just believe what is popularly accepted.
There are other arguments also that reveal flaws in the theory of evolution. For example, the sun continues to decrease in size at a steady rate. If we consider the amount of time that evolution was said to have begun, the sun would have been larger in diameter than the orbit of Earth today. This means that gravitational pull and many other physical factors such as heat would not have allowed for an even remotly simular environment to today's.
However there is so much we don't know, and that's kind of what I'm getting at. The sun may have been decreasing in size faster at one point or something, or anything for that matter. The truth is the Universe is far to extensive for us to know.
I believe it is impossible for us to understand where we came from scientifically. Science is the mere analysis of elements we gather and seperate from our senses.
Don't be so quick to call a religious person ignorant, because if you think about it, you believe a lot of things with little ground to.
Have you ever been to Antarctica? Do you believe it exists? How do you know? You don't, you just believe....
This idea has been stated before here on slashdot. It could be benificial to do so (give it a new term) but the problem is we are not a democracy. There is no "official" term, and there will always be people who dissagree with the idea. So call it what you want, and everyone else will call it what they want.
Here's a cool one. When Internet Explorer 5 came out for win98, you couldn't use Microsofts Windows Update unless you upgraded to it. Then after you did, if you neaded to reinstall win98, your computer would not work anymore because of conflicting files from IE 4 and IE 5. Real neat. I love these features.
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But I really think it's going to be a gold-fish.
By the time any headway is made with a Win32 clone, Win32 will be out of style. WINE is really cool because it's taken so much to get a Win32 API implementation running in Linux, but it's mostly only cool from an intellectual achievement standpoint. It's not very practical to use.
The best perk from this is that it will now be possible to have both GTK and QT apps look the same. Too bad the announcement encourages people not to make new GTK themes for it. It would be nice if there was a standardized theming system used by all widget libraries. Of course this would be a lot of work, but I think it would be worth it to make things look a little more uniform.
I think that we'll be able to connect to it directly from our minds... ala The Matrix... and information can just be uploaded to our memory, and we can walk around in a virtual world and talk to each other as if it were real... except without physical limitations. Then no one would want to leave that world. And i think that we'll communicate with Artificial Life beings too, and they will be no different from real humans. Who would need drugs to cope? Although, the people who could not rectify this virtually real world with the real world in their mind would probably go insane or something.
I can see this as also being benificial. The adveratisements will probably lessen the cost of service, which is cool by me. It will go to further the spread of the technology, and it will become more common. We will all be more connected.
This could lead to even larger battles between those who stand for Creationism and those who stand for Evolutionism. Since we have whole states as the key players, it could become very serious, and even more so due to the small amount of mediocrity on either side.
Isn't it a more common strategy to patent a product idea as early as possible in developement to beat out other companies that may be developing similar technologies?
Nature. Science. Who has the ultimate control in the end?
"What's with all the tiresome secrecy?"
Obviously if it were that tiresome, nothing would be posted about it. I'm still very interested in knowing what's going on at Transmeta and so are a lot of other people.
Perhaps Transmeta knows this too, and we're their target adience.
Why is every piece of evidence found that is linked to evolution always treated as proof. It's evidence, they even call it that, but then they treat it as proof.
Science is not the end all of everything. I think that the scientific world as a whole is quite arrogant.
Many people would say, "that's not logical. science is the system of logical truth finding, and is the basis of solid understanding."
That's true from the perspective of us looking out at everything, but in the perspective of everything out there and then how small we are, we are far to meek.
It's cool to search for truth, but don't think that you know.
What the heck is a "server farm"?
that's just the warning that is played over and over in my head every time I watch Linux take another step into the comercial world. Even when talking about these sites being funded by companies now.
All too ironic. My theory (which is only based on my observation ;) is that many of the people shunning those who do not believe in evolution were probably also shunned for their belief in evolution, or were responding to the fact that others have been shunned for the same thing... and in the same way those who have shunned those who believe in evolution were once shunned or were responding to the fact that other's have been shunnded for not believing too. However there are also those of us who want peace.
You are right that I do not have a good knowledge of the Phylosophy of Science. I have made my own assumptions. I appologize.
My comments were more directed at those who become angry with people who do not believe in evolution. Definitely not at those who believe in evolution, because that's cool with me.
If no reputable scientists would treat evidence of a theory as proof, what I wish is that they would make that very known to the public because some people would state it as fact that we evolved from more primitave organisms, and then shun those who don't believe it.
Thank you for your reply, it definitely refined me
Yeah. I should of guesed I'd get this reply. I guess we all act on some form of faith, aye?
I wasn't questioning the scientific facts, I was questioning man's ability to understand. I am saying that we shouldn't say that we know something when there are so many possibilities, as obscure as many of them may be.
just an oppinion.
What if it's a hologram of a duck and someone figured out how to bounce the sound so it sounded like it was coming from the hologram. ;)
Thanks. Yeah, that is a good argument.
You are right that I judged too broadly.
Before the flame rage begins below this one... To address the question more directly, if you ask the question of what happened to the little pieces in between evolutional steps, there are a lot of things to consider.
;)
First of all, think about what a species eats. If there is an evolutional step in an animal that causes it to survive more succesfully, why havn't all of the steps before that one been extinct? There are many factors to this, like food, and habitat. The migration of a species evolving to another climate, while it predecessor survived somewhere else could be on argument. So who knows? No one, that's the point
This is a good question and I feel it is good to not be so arragant and just believe what is popularly accepted.
There are other arguments also that reveal flaws in the theory of evolution. For example, the sun continues to decrease in size at a steady rate. If we consider the amount of time that evolution was said to have begun, the sun would have been larger in diameter than the orbit of Earth today. This means that gravitational pull and many other physical factors such as heat would not have allowed for an even remotly simular environment to today's.
However there is so much we don't know, and that's kind of what I'm getting at. The sun may have been decreasing in size faster at one point or something, or anything for that matter. The truth is the Universe is far to extensive for us to know.
I believe it is impossible for us to understand where we came from scientifically. Science is the mere analysis of elements we gather and seperate from our senses.
Don't be so quick to call a religious person ignorant, because if you think about it, you believe a lot of things with little ground to.
Have you ever been to Antarctica? Do you believe it exists? How do you know? You don't, you just believe....
I feel the same way, friend. I feel the same way.
"Who is watching 10 hours of TV a day?"
;)
Who is on the internet 24 hours a day
This idea has been stated before here on slashdot. It could be benificial to do so (give it a new term) but the problem is we are not a democracy. There is no "official" term, and there will always be people who dissagree with the idea. So call it what you want, and everyone else will call it what they want.
I think this is cool. Epitaph has always rocked.
Here's a cool one. When Internet Explorer 5 came out for win98, you couldn't use Microsofts Windows Update unless you upgraded to it. Then after you did, if you neaded to reinstall win98, your computer would not work anymore because of conflicting files from IE 4 and IE 5. Real neat. I love these features.