Evolution, on the other hand, is a belief that information (that's what DNA is - information) has the ability to become both more complex, and more orderly over a period of time.
Dead wrong. Evolution is a change in the frequency of alleles from one generation to the next. (That definition comes almost verbatim from my anthropology textbook. Dictionary.com has a similar definition.) It can also be described as natural selection acting on mutation. Nothing requires that changes be in the direction of complexity or order.
At any rate, we are only beginning to map the genetic aspect of evolution. In time, theories that describe evolution on a genetic level will be more refined.
Hmm... you're right. I wasn't thinking, and everything I would have described as "universally available" would more accurately go in with "trasnparent." Still, that transparency is pretty darn useful.
Staikos sort of hinted at this in the article when he mentioned that pop3:/ isn't terribly useful in a web browser and is more designed for internal use. You can use pop3:/ for easy inclusion of POP support in an app you're writing. Sure, you could use a POP library directly, but the point of abstraction layers like this is to make things easier and more consistent.
The key advantage of KDE's IOSlaves over protocol handlers in Windows is that in KDE they are transparent and available to every application. This is not the case in Windows or OSX. Gnome-VFS does have this advantage as well, but is nowhere near as extensive.
I was afraid of that, and quite frankly, it's stupid. Do they really think that just because they taught some of their viewers about BT that little to none of them had never encountered it before? The DVD would have appeared on BT and been downloaded just as much anyway.
Yeah, that would be Windows. In my experience with XP, standard anti-aliasing rarely worked. I was actually shocked the first time I booted my computer and fonts looked nice.
ClearType always worked properly, but looking at it for just a few seconds gave me a headache. To this day I'm not sure why, especially since I don't particularly notice a problem with sub-pixel hinting in KDE. (I've only used it for testing though, since regular anti-aliasing actually *works* and I'm not on an LCD so I have no need for it.)
Per the letter, Penn is not saying that people should all go and vote without being informed -- he's saying people should be ashamed that are uninformed, and that Parker and Stone should encourage them to get informed, not just sit there.
What makes you say that? Deletion of traits is part of evolution just as much as the introduction of new traits is.
You're sort of right in the sense that *any* mutation by itself is not "evolution" per se. Evolution is the change in gene frequency over time through the processes of mutation and natural selection. Also, if attempts to create a cure or vaccine from this are successful, evolution will have been circumvented as those without the allele for no CCR-5 or CXCR-4 will survive, removing the selective pressure. But you're still wrong that evolution only means adding new things.
That would be correct. The immunity has been known of for a few years. I'm sort of disappointed the article didn't make that clearer, or explain how it works at all.
My biology teacher covered it as part of our lesson on HIV, about 3 years ago. Basically, it has to do with the structure of their white blood cells. Specifically, they lack the CCR-5 protein for the virus to latch on to. The best part is that people can function just fine without this protein, so there don't appear to be any ill effects. The trick now is figuring out how to confer the immunity on those not born with it.
A simple search for "ccr-5" will give a whole bunch of articles for anyone who's interested.
A screenshot or saved copy of the page would be a start. Not proof, as either could be fairly easily faked, but still evidence. If censorship were actually going on, the obvious first step would be to document it.
Wow. Pan & Scan is the worst invention ever, and your idea is even worse. At least with P&S they well... pan and scan, to give the "best" part of the image most of the time. Well, they probably get lazy, but they usually don't let something crucial on the side of the screen get left out. But you've outshone them with your brilliance. Why even bother checking what you're cropping? Cut it out anyway!
I do live in CA but I don't plan on following it either, if only because I can't figure out for the life of me what exactly I'm "required" to do.
I'm serious here. I read the article, and I really don't have any idea what compliance might entail, say on BitTorrent for example, but really on any P2P network.
I agree, this doesn't seem to be anything new at all. From my Psych textbook (Invitation to Psychology, 3rd Edition, Carole Wade and Carol Tavris):
Deaf children who have never learned a standard language, either signed or spoken, have made up their
own sign languages, and across cultures these languages show similarities in sentence structure (Goldin-Meadow & Mylander, 1998; Senghas & Coppola, 2001).
So this type of study not only has been done in the past, it has been done enough times to notice definite similarities.
You have to sign up to get the binaries. That is 100% allowed under the GPL. They then make the source available for anyone to whom they distributed the binaries.
Now, it is also 100% allowed under the GPL for the Club members to redistribute binaries/source, but Mandrake is under no obligation to do so.
As far as I can tell from the article, Norton marks it as a potential threat and suggests removing it. If that is indeed the case, I'm inclined to agree with you. If Freegate were being specifically targetted, I imagine they'd just remove/disable it silently.
I knew about the lack of official GTK1 builds, but I didn't know that they were more or less busted. I was just going by the bug comments there, but I suppose those were referring only to SeaMonkey in that case.
Firefox was finally fixed to use the proper GTK2 keybindings by bug 257405. (No link, b.m.o blocks them from Slashdot) So for example, Ctrl-A finally selects all. If you don't like it, I think you're supposed to change your GTK prefs to use emacs-style, or use a GTK1 build which still has the old configuration.
Personally, I prefer shortcuts that actually make sense and match every other GUI app in existence.
With the overhaul of update.mozilla.org combined with a recent build, extension updates actually *work* for me. My biggest issue is that u.m.o frequently takes a while to get the most recent stuff.
Also, I don't like the new toolbar button for update notification instead of the statusbar item, partially because I can't figure out how it works. It seems to have 3 states -- blue (which I think means there are updates), green, and completely nonexistent. By "nonexistent" I mean it takes up no space on the toolbar so that I can't even move it back to the Customize Toolbar dialog or anything. It's always visible when looking at browser.xul in the DOM Inspector however, so I can't figure out what the problem is that way.
The update checker always finds the DOM Inspector and Talkback as available Optional Components to install, even though I already have both as I installed via tarball instead of installer. Ah well.
My little sister pulled out my old Nintendo at the beginning of the summer, and spent most of the time doing just that. It's hard to believe what we put up with just to save that damn princess again.
Sadly, I think her drive to play came more out of her extremely conformist nature (she saw the "Know Your Roots" shirts and decided she had to play Nintendo to be cool) instead of an actual appreciation of the system.:/
I could never get past the airport in that game, even with a walkthrough and Game Genie. It was HARD. I think the lack of save was part of the problem, as I simply never had the time needed to do everything in one go.
I picked a Gamepad Pro up a few years back, and I've had the exact same problem, both in Windows (98 and XP) and Linux. I've noticed it's more likely to hit the diagonals when I'm using the X-axis than the Y-axis, but that may just be the way my thumb hits it.
Still, it's a nice controller, and more comfortable than the old NES one.
If I were going to go for a controller adapter, I'd have to pick the PS2.
That's what generated content is for. Unfortunately, since IE does not and may not ever support it, ugly hacks such as background images are used instead.
Background images should be used for background images only. Anything else breaks most of the normal user operations that can be performed on content images.
Honestly, I'm not sure it's even necessary to take this step on the Mozilla website anyway. I imagine that most of the users browsing without CSS would be browsing without images as well, i.e. text browsers such as Lynx.
Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised if I got a flood of indignant responses to the effect of "I use graphical browsing without CSS all the time, you insensitive clod!"
Reading through the bug comments, it appears that the fix caused an unpleasant regression (bug 246382) so it was backed out of the 1.7 and Aviary branches.
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Evolution, on the other hand, is a belief that information (that's what DNA is - information) has the ability to become both more complex, and more orderly over a period of time.
Dead wrong. Evolution is a change in the frequency of alleles from one generation to the next. (That definition comes almost verbatim from my anthropology textbook. Dictionary.com has a similar definition.) It can also be described as natural selection acting on mutation. Nothing requires that changes be in the direction of complexity or order.
At any rate, we are only beginning to map the genetic aspect of evolution. In time, theories that describe evolution on a genetic level will be more refined.
Hmm... you're right. I wasn't thinking, and everything I would have described as "universally available" would more accurately go in with "trasnparent." Still, that transparency is pretty darn useful.
Staikos sort of hinted at this in the article when he mentioned that pop3:/ isn't terribly useful in a web browser and is more designed for internal use. You can use pop3:/ for easy inclusion of POP support in an app you're writing. Sure, you could use a POP library directly, but the point of abstraction layers like this is to make things easier and more consistent.
The key advantage of KDE's IOSlaves over protocol handlers in Windows is that in KDE they are transparent and available to every application. This is not the case in Windows or OSX. Gnome-VFS does have this advantage as well, but is nowhere near as extensive.
I was afraid of that, and quite frankly, it's stupid. Do they really think that just because they taught some of their viewers about BT that little to none of them had never encountered it before? The DVD would have appeared on BT and been downloaded just as much anyway.
Yeah, that would be Windows. In my experience with XP, standard anti-aliasing rarely worked. I was actually shocked the first time I booted my computer and fonts looked nice.
ClearType always worked properly, but looking at it for just a few seconds gave me a headache. To this day I'm not sure why, especially since I don't particularly notice a problem with sub-pixel hinting in KDE. (I've only used it for testing though, since regular anti-aliasing actually *works* and I'm not on an LCD so I have no need for it.)
Per the letter, Penn is not saying that people should all go and vote without being informed -- he's saying people should be ashamed that are uninformed, and that Parker and Stone should encourage them to get informed, not just sit there.
What makes you say that? Deletion of traits is part of evolution just as much as the introduction of new traits is.
You're sort of right in the sense that *any* mutation by itself is not "evolution" per se. Evolution is the change in gene frequency over time through the processes of mutation and natural selection. Also, if attempts to create a cure or vaccine from this are successful, evolution will have been circumvented as those without the allele for no CCR-5 or CXCR-4 will survive, removing the selective pressure. But you're still wrong that evolution only means adding new things.
That would be correct. The immunity has been known of for a few years. I'm sort of disappointed the article didn't make that clearer, or explain how it works at all.
My biology teacher covered it as part of our lesson on HIV, about 3 years ago. Basically, it has to do with the structure of their white blood cells. Specifically, they lack the CCR-5 protein for the virus to latch on to. The best part is that people can function just fine without this protein, so there don't appear to be any ill effects. The trick now is figuring out how to confer the immunity on those not born with it.
A simple search for "ccr-5" will give a whole bunch of articles for anyone who's interested.
A screenshot or saved copy of the page would be a start. Not proof, as either could be fairly easily faked, but still evidence. If censorship were actually going on, the obvious first step would be to document it.
Wow. Pan & Scan is the worst invention ever, and your idea is even worse. At least with P&S they well... pan and scan, to give the "best" part of the image most of the time. Well, they probably get lazy, but they usually don't let something crucial on the side of the screen get left out. But you've outshone them with your brilliance. Why even bother checking what you're cropping? Cut it out anyway!
I do live in CA but I don't plan on following it either, if only because I can't figure out for the life of me what exactly I'm "required" to do.
I'm serious here. I read the article, and I really don't have any idea what compliance might entail, say on BitTorrent for example, but really on any P2P network.
So this type of study not only has been done in the past, it has been done enough times to notice definite similarities.
Well, the K3b news page says 0.11.5 (mostly) fixes writer detection in 2.6.9 and up, though I'm not sure why 2.6.8 isn't included there.
You have to sign up to get the binaries. That is 100% allowed under the GPL. They then make the source available for anyone to whom they distributed the binaries.
Now, it is also 100% allowed under the GPL for the Club members to redistribute binaries/source, but Mandrake is under no obligation to do so.
As far as I can tell from the article, Norton marks it as a potential threat and suggests removing it. If that is indeed the case, I'm inclined to agree with you. If Freegate were being specifically targetted, I imagine they'd just remove/disable it silently.
I knew about the lack of official GTK1 builds, but I didn't know that they were more or less busted. I was just going by the bug comments there, but I suppose those were referring only to SeaMonkey in that case.
Firefox was finally fixed to use the proper GTK2 keybindings by bug 257405. (No link, b.m.o blocks them from Slashdot) So for example, Ctrl-A finally selects all. If you don't like it, I think you're supposed to change your GTK prefs to use emacs-style, or use a GTK1 build which still has the old configuration.
Personally, I prefer shortcuts that actually make sense and match every other GUI app in existence.
With the overhaul of update.mozilla.org combined with a recent build, extension updates actually *work* for me. My biggest issue is that u.m.o frequently takes a while to get the most recent stuff.
Also, I don't like the new toolbar button for update notification instead of the statusbar item, partially because I can't figure out how it works. It seems to have 3 states -- blue (which I think means there are updates), green, and completely nonexistent. By "nonexistent" I mean it takes up no space on the toolbar so that I can't even move it back to the Customize Toolbar dialog or anything. It's always visible when looking at browser.xul in the DOM Inspector however, so I can't figure out what the problem is that way.
The update checker always finds the DOM Inspector and Talkback as available Optional Components to install, even though I already have both as I installed via tarball instead of installer. Ah well.
My little sister pulled out my old Nintendo at the beginning of the summer, and spent most of the time doing just that. It's hard to believe what we put up with just to save that damn princess again.
:/
Sadly, I think her drive to play came more out of her extremely conformist nature (she saw the "Know Your Roots" shirts and decided she had to play Nintendo to be cool) instead of an actual appreciation of the system.
I could never get past the airport in that game, even with a walkthrough and Game Genie. It was HARD. I think the lack of save was part of the problem, as I simply never had the time needed to do everything in one go.
I picked a Gamepad Pro up a few years back, and I've had the exact same problem, both in Windows (98 and XP) and Linux. I've noticed it's more likely to hit the diagonals when I'm using the X-axis than the Y-axis, but that may just be the way my thumb hits it.
Still, it's a nice controller, and more comfortable than the old NES one.
If I were going to go for a controller adapter, I'd have to pick the PS2.
I thought that Overrated didn't touch karma, to balance out the immunity from Metamods. I can't confirm or deny this from the FAQ though.
That's what generated content is for. Unfortunately, since IE does not and may not ever support it, ugly hacks such as background images are used instead.
Background images should be used for background images only. Anything else breaks most of the normal user operations that can be performed on content images.
Honestly, I'm not sure it's even necessary to take this step on the Mozilla website anyway. I imagine that most of the users browsing without CSS would be browsing without images as well, i.e. text browsers such as Lynx.
Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised if I got a flood of indignant responses to the effect of "I use graphical browsing without CSS all the time, you insensitive clod!"
Reading through the bug comments, it appears that the fix caused an unpleasant regression (bug 246382) so it was backed out of the 1.7 and Aviary branches.
Hmm... I see what you mean about the page without styles. I still think it's an ugly hack though.