Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't recall the ACLU acting against the 2nd Amendment, nor do I recall the NRA acting against the other Amendments (unspecified "socially-conservative positions" notwithstanding). Therefore, I don't see the problem with supporting both.
He's exactly right. For all we know, "Intelligent Design" could be "correct," in the same way any particular religion could be "correct." But because it explicitly concerns itself with "proving a negative" (i.e., that evolution couldn't have happened randomly and thus required a "designer"), it cannot be evaluated scientifically. Because of that, it is not science, in the same way that poetry or religion or literature are not science. Maybe it deserves a place in school and maybe it doesn't, but if it does then it belongs next to discussions of Greek mythology or something, not in biology class!
ID cannot be falsified using the Scientific Method. Therefore, regardless of it's "truthfulness," it doesn't belong in science class. Period!
And, of course, all the above is giving the ID proponents a huge benefit of the doubt. In reality, ID is nothing more than a scheme by which theocrats attempt to subvert our secular educational system. But it's not likely advisable to point that out to them in a debate; instead, the best strategy is to just keep driving home the point that "science" depends on the Scientific Method, and "Intelligent Design" doesn't fit within that framework of thought.
Having said that, if they decide the damage is minimal, and the shuttle has a catastrophic event, it could spell the last shuttle flights ever, and most certainly derail manned spaceflight in general.
If you mean "derail manned spaceflight at NASA," you have to admit that it would be for good reason. If NASA proved themselves to be that incompetent then they really shouldn't be doing manned spaceflight! (And I say that as an ardent supporter of the space program.)
The key point to remember here is that Microsoft acting friendly towards Linux is not the same thing as Microsoft acting friendly towards Free Software. If this Silverlight stuff -- even the Mono implmentation -- is actually open enough that it could have been released under the GPLv3 without somebody getting sued, I'll eat my hat!
Actually, if the dome has no seams, that should make it more likely to crack. This is because different parts of it could heat up at different rates (e.g. because half was shaded and half was sunlit, or the outside heats up faster than the inside), causing internal stresses.
Besides, no matter how it's shaped or how many seams there are, the point I was trying to make is that there will always be cracks, even if only due to the differential heating during curing (concrete doesn't "dry;" it actually undergoes an exothermic chemical change as it sets).
Actually, the reason the Pantheon is standing isn't because it's massive. In fact, a modern structure of the same design would barely be able to hold itself up at all, let alone last two millennia. The Romans actually had some kind of fancy high-strength concrete and/or construction method that we still don't know how to reproduce.
Yes, the Romans had plenty of cheap labor. But don't let that fool you into thinking they didn't have some damn good engineers too!
Well, obviously. Plus there's the small matter of the fact that the Pantheon has an oculus -- a 7.8 meter diameter hole in the roof. I'm pretty sure the rest of it's roof doesn't leak, though, or else the water would have worn away the cement (and therefore induced failure) a very long time ago.
Between the facts that I'm a senior and that that's one of the most basic facts a person could possibly learn about concrete, I had better know it already or else I shouldn't have passed my materials class!
It wasn't "all life" that came from the B Ark, only humans. And it's been a while since I've read the Guide (forgive me...), but I think it was pretty clear that modern humans were the descendents of the B Ark people, not the cavemen.
Any boom is a win, but one that proves the SCO attack succeeded will be fuel for the next M$ anti-trust case.
But in the meantime, it would also be confirmation to Microsoft that it's attacks are working, and thus encouragement to continue.
I do agree with you, though... seeing a usually pro-MS business publication being bullish on Linux really is something to celebrate. I can only hope that more (e.g. the WSJ) follow Forbes' lead.
No, no, no... I mean that it sounds almost fraudulent that the original company marked an account "delinquent" in the first place when he didn't owe any money on it! In a just and sane world, the original company should have been forced to fix his screwed-up credit (including not only removing the error from his credit reports, but also convincing the other companies to lower his interest rates agan).
Not all PDFs are created equal. For example, say you have a textual document that you want to be turned into a PDF. There are three distinct possibilities: a PDF containing the (ASCII, UTF, whatever) text characters and metadata describing where they are to be placed on the page, a big list of the lines and arcs that make up the decomposed font characters, or even a rasterization. Obviously, these results vary considerably in terms of both the amount of (machine-readable) semantic meaning retained, file size, and quality. The first could be 50kb while the last could be 2mb, for the exact same content. The first could have the text within selected, copied, and pasted, while with the last you could only paste pixels. Big difference.
Anyway, commands like "save as PDF" or "export to PDF" likely do the first or second alternative, while commands like "print to PDF" tend to do the second or third. So, even if you're using OS X, with built-in PDF-printing functionality (or are using PDFCreator on Windows), you can still get different -- and generally, better -- results by using an individual program's export to PDF function instead.
Extra tip: what this also means is that if you try to export to PDF and the result is unsatisfactory (e.g. formatting is garbled or embedded objects aren't visible -- this kind of bug has happened to me), printing to PDF instead might make a more correct (albeit larger filesize and maybe rasterized) result.
Does iWork support OpenDocument? If not, and it does support MS's proprietary XML, then I will both refuse to buy it myself and bad-mouth it to others on principle!
They'll partially implement it, then extend it so that their version doesn't work with everyone else's.
No, you've got that backwards: they already have implemented it, because instead of actually designing a standard, all they did was document MS Office's current functionality. By the same token, everybody else will only be able to partially implement it, because to do so fully would be equivalent to making a perfect, bug-for-bug reimplementation of MS Office.
The simple fact is that using DirectX gives you access to the largest marketshare - the vast majority of PC desktops, AND a lesser majority of consoles
No. The sum of the Xbox and Xbox 360 is a plurality of consoles, but not a majority (even only counting recent ones -- PS2s and 3s, Gamecubes, and Wiis). In fact, according to this (scroll to the end), the Xbox and 360 have together sold about 20 million units, compared to the PS2's almost 40 million (as of April 2007).
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"Proprietary versus Proprietary"? I don't get it; what's your point? Unless I'm reading it wrong you just repeated the same word twice.
Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't recall the ACLU acting against the 2nd Amendment, nor do I recall the NRA acting against the other Amendments (unspecified "socially-conservative positions" notwithstanding). Therefore, I don't see the problem with supporting both.
Well, you could join the ACLU and the NRA -- the latter will handle your 2nd Amendment rights, and the former will handle the rest.
He's exactly right. For all we know, "Intelligent Design" could be "correct," in the same way any particular religion could be "correct." But because it explicitly concerns itself with "proving a negative" (i.e., that evolution couldn't have happened randomly and thus required a "designer"), it cannot be evaluated scientifically. Because of that, it is not science, in the same way that poetry or religion or literature are not science. Maybe it deserves a place in school and maybe it doesn't, but if it does then it belongs next to discussions of Greek mythology or something, not in biology class!
ID cannot be falsified using the Scientific Method. Therefore, regardless of it's "truthfulness," it doesn't belong in science class. Period!
And, of course, all the above is giving the ID proponents a huge benefit of the doubt. In reality, ID is nothing more than a scheme by which theocrats attempt to subvert our secular educational system. But it's not likely advisable to point that out to them in a debate; instead, the best strategy is to just keep driving home the point that "science" depends on the Scientific Method, and "Intelligent Design" doesn't fit within that framework of thought.
If you mean "derail manned spaceflight at NASA," you have to admit that it would be for good reason. If NASA proved themselves to be that incompetent then they really shouldn't be doing manned spaceflight! (And I say that as an ardent supporter of the space program.)
Actually, people in that situation would be locked away for failing to pay off ASCAP, not the RIAA.
He fell into the sarchasm.
The key point to remember here is that Microsoft acting friendly towards Linux is not the same thing as Microsoft acting friendly towards Free Software. If this Silverlight stuff -- even the Mono implmentation -- is actually open enough that it could have been released under the GPLv3 without somebody getting sued, I'll eat my hat!
Actually, if the dome has no seams, that should make it more likely to crack. This is because different parts of it could heat up at different rates (e.g. because half was shaded and half was sunlit, or the outside heats up faster than the inside), causing internal stresses.
Besides, no matter how it's shaped or how many seams there are, the point I was trying to make is that there will always be cracks, even if only due to the differential heating during curing (concrete doesn't "dry;" it actually undergoes an exothermic chemical change as it sets).
Actually, the reason the Pantheon is standing isn't because it's massive. In fact, a modern structure of the same design would barely be able to hold itself up at all, let alone last two millennia. The Romans actually had some kind of fancy high-strength concrete and/or construction method that we still don't know how to reproduce.
Yes, the Romans had plenty of cheap labor. But don't let that fool you into thinking they didn't have some damn good engineers too!
Well, obviously. Plus there's the small matter of the fact that the Pantheon has an oculus -- a 7.8 meter diameter hole in the roof. I'm pretty sure the rest of it's roof doesn't leak, though, or else the water would have worn away the cement (and therefore induced failure) a very long time ago.
Between the facts that I'm a senior and that that's one of the most basic facts a person could possibly learn about concrete, I had better know it already or else I shouldn't have passed my materials class!
Have you ever heard of the Pantheon, in Rome? Made of concrete, been standing 2000 years. I'd say that's a "working solution," wouldn't you?
All you have to do is reverse-engineer it (and, I suppose, fill in the oculus)...
I'm a civil engineering student, so I'm qualified to know: ALL concrete cracks.
Whether the cracks are a problem, on the other hand, is a different issue.
The Protoss are a lot like the Orcs -- "my wife is a whore!" and all that.
It wasn't "all life" that came from the B Ark, only humans. And it's been a while since I've read the Guide (forgive me...), but I think it was pretty clear that modern humans were the descendents of the B Ark people, not the cavemen.
But in the meantime, it would also be confirmation to Microsoft that it's attacks are working, and thus encouragement to continue.
I do agree with you, though... seeing a usually pro-MS business publication being bullish on Linux really is something to celebrate. I can only hope that more (e.g. the WSJ) follow Forbes' lead.
Only if you use it to fry pancakes!
No, no, no... I mean that it sounds almost fraudulent that the original company marked an account "delinquent" in the first place when he didn't owe any money on it! In a just and sane world, the original company should have been forced to fix his screwed-up credit (including not only removing the error from his credit reports, but also convincing the other companies to lower his interest rates agan).
Hello, broken window fallacy!
That sounds almost fraudulent. Wasn't there some kind of recourse you could have taken?
Not all PDFs are created equal. For example, say you have a textual document that you want to be turned into a PDF. There are three distinct possibilities: a PDF containing the (ASCII, UTF, whatever) text characters and metadata describing where they are to be placed on the page, a big list of the lines and arcs that make up the decomposed font characters, or even a rasterization. Obviously, these results vary considerably in terms of both the amount of (machine-readable) semantic meaning retained, file size, and quality. The first could be 50kb while the last could be 2mb, for the exact same content. The first could have the text within selected, copied, and pasted, while with the last you could only paste pixels. Big difference.
Anyway, commands like "save as PDF" or "export to PDF" likely do the first or second alternative, while commands like "print to PDF" tend to do the second or third. So, even if you're using OS X, with built-in PDF-printing functionality (or are using PDFCreator on Windows), you can still get different -- and generally, better -- results by using an individual program's export to PDF function instead.
Extra tip: what this also means is that if you try to export to PDF and the result is unsatisfactory (e.g. formatting is garbled or embedded objects aren't visible -- this kind of bug has happened to me), printing to PDF instead might make a more correct (albeit larger filesize and maybe rasterized) result.
Does iWork support OpenDocument? If not, and it does support MS's proprietary XML, then I will both refuse to buy it myself and bad-mouth it to others on principle!
No, you've got that backwards: they already have implemented it, because instead of actually designing a standard, all they did was document MS Office's current functionality. By the same token, everybody else will only be able to partially implement it, because to do so fully would be equivalent to making a perfect, bug-for-bug reimplementation of MS Office.
Okay, what do they use then?
No. The sum of the Xbox and Xbox 360 is a plurality of consoles, but not a majority (even only counting recent ones -- PS2s and 3s, Gamecubes, and Wiis). In fact, according to this (scroll to the end), the Xbox and 360 have together sold about 20 million units, compared to the PS2's almost 40 million (as of April 2007).