Yes, that is the answer! Bad things never happened... lalalalalalalalalala!:: sticks fingers in ears::
Furthermore, what part about blindly following a leader who is willing to lie about causes for going to war (christ, people die in those things!), who then later says "I haven't made any mistakes." I see nothing constructive about this stance at all. I'm an independent and not much of a fan of the democrats either, but seriously - get a clue. Or is Bush lying just a part of the liberal conspiracy to destroy America?
What could possibly be the benefit of OS X as a desktop computer?
Wow. I mean... wow.
You act like you're trying to be reasonable, but I can't think of many ways to make that sentence sound any more like a troll. I'll let someone else bite.
a lot of it has to do with attracting reservations. As I said, many stores are receiving 4 times as many copies as are reserved, so if that 40% discount is enough to attract 5 registrations from customers who would normally buy from another store, that's another 20 copies actually shipped for release. When the book goes on sale everywhre at the same time, it forces competition based on how much the store has to offer its customers.
Most of this is going to sound redundant, but I'm something of an insider for Barnes & Noble at least so maybe someone will find this enlightening.
The book IS going to be hugely popular. Nobody is denying that. And 15 leaked copies on the other side of the world aren't going to hurt any of your local bookstores.
BUT... Harry Potter is huge. Many B&N stores are receiving 4 times as many copies as are reserved, and the number of reserved copies per store is freakin' huge. Keep in mind some stores are getting considerably more than just 4 times as many. When the book goes on sale at midnight, stores will be in the midst of a whole Harry Potter festival of sorts - games and activies based on the books, other areas of the stores (music) will be closed, etc etc. The book is going at 40% off, and it's expected to sell out almost instantly regardless of the seemingly obscene number of books being shipped. We're talking multicolored wristbands designate lines that stretch outside of stores, fire marshall occupancy limits (which doesn't happen too often in the bookstore world), and full staffs working into the wee hours of the morning and starting again the next day.. The release of this book is as big as Star Wars, and I don't say that jokingly.
So back to the problem - it's been said many times already that if the strict on sale dates didn't exist, some stores would get crushed and others reap huge rewards based purely on shipping or handling that may or may not have been under their control. Imagine if Star Wars was slated for 8 theaters in your area, but only 2 of them had it for the first 2 weeks - that would have huge effects on those theaters for a long time to come. Same idea. I won't even get into the price premium that could be charged by the few stores that, by chance, got HP early.
So for those 15 leaked copies on the other side of the world, in and of themselves they are a non-issue. However, if nothing is done, it sets a precedent for the strict on sale date being unimportant, and then you've got the fiasco mentioned above, and THAT is why they can't be ignored.
Of course there are marketing and hype concerns, that's a given, but this is much about protections for stores (of all sizes) as anything else.
Personally, I think it's just the comunist party making an attempt at trying to look like they are a competent government rather than the pack of stupid greedy thugs that they are.
What, you mean like every other government in every other country? A close friend of mine has spent almost 10 months of the past two years in China, from what he says the truth about how China handles its citizens lies somewhere between what China or the US would have you believe. Take what you hear from US-gov supplied press reports with a grain of salt.
There are exceptions, but a general rule of thumb is that the people in power got there because they put a lot of effort into gaining power. I don't care if they're democrats, republicans, communists, or whatever - most are greedy bastards.
MY GOD, WE HAVE A GAP IN OUR AERSONAL OF GIANT SPACE ROCKS!
Then in Myth: the Fallen Lords, there's the highly controversial practice of Carpet Bombing, or using lighting to hurl molotov cocktails across the map.
Alternately known as the most awesome thing in the whole world. Fire, pan across the map watching the molotivs arc across the map, then their impact marked by bloody stumps and an "oh FUCK!" screamed by your opponent.
I wouldn't call myself h4x0r paranoid (although I guess that's for others to decide), but in terms of helping your sister turn out ok - what about instilling a Big Brother mentality? What about teaching responsibility and a sense of ethics, even in situations where an authority figure is absent and there's no fear of direct punishment?
I'm not saying that this system couldn't help prevent parents keep track of eating habits to try to prevent/fix an eating disorder. As others have pointed out the tracking is fairly easy to circumvent, but I personally don't think this is a bad idea for countering that one particular problem. I just worry about how it's attempt at a fix for one problem could cause more, and not just for someone with an eating disorder but all of the other students who haven't done anything of note but are nevertheless forced to grow increasingly comfortable and familiar with the details of their lives being tracked and published. Call me h4x0r paranoid, but that just doesn't sit right with me.
first off, i just want to get it out there that i'm not in favor of steroids in sports. that said...
some enhancements, like e.g. steroids, are very effective and also very bad for the athletes's health
granted it's hard to know the long-term effects of any drug, regardless of how well tested, but I'm willing to bet that Barry Bonds will have access to considerably higher quality steroids than what you can buy on the street. Add that to the professional staff of doctors keeping an eye on him, and I'd venture to guess that a pro athlete is safer taking steroids than I am taking tylenol.
Of course this brings up the issue of competitive athletes who don't have the financial/scientific backing to use steroids safely, but if you're looking purely at pros in the big leagues their risk is fairly minimal.
If those sports were dominated by drug-enhanced cyborgs, it would be pointless for me to watch them, since there is no connection anymore to how I do the sport.
I'm a pretty sporty guy. On any given week I'm generally playing in 2 to 3 competitive events for my college. That said, the connection between me playing football and NFL players playing football is already completely non-existant when you look at how they play the sport. I play with people who run a damn fast 40, and I play with people who are huge, but I play with hardly anyone who runs a fast 40 and is huge - and keep in mind that I'm talking about sports at the college level. There are some excellents players who will never even come close to making it big. Pro sports is a whole new ballgame, no matter how you look at it.
do you want to see competition based on the hard work of the athlete or the hard work of his doctors and technicians?
if everyone is using performance enhancing contacts/gatorade/drugs then the edge they provide is negated. it's all relative, and whatever personal motivation or smarts an athlete has will be the deciding factor. I'd use examples of athletically gifted people who failed to compare to more experienced but lesser talented atheletes, but they'd probably be lost on the slashdot crowd and we can all think of times when someone superior on paper simply doesn't live up the intangible qualities, such as leadership or motivation, of a lesser-talented individual.
there are a lot of fine lines I'm not even going to attempt to place, but my point is that if everyone is enhanced then the enhancements cease to be deciding factors.
I'm not going to outline how to do it, but from a purely technical standpoint the gist of it is you can completely ignore the "install mac os x" app that you're supposed to use. that app isn't the installer, it just sets the OS X DVD as your startup disk and restarts.
this is the case with Tiger, Panther, and probably jaguar (can't remember that far back, but i'd be surprised if it's different), but the actual installer is buried within the installer packages elsewhere on the DVD/dmg. Just by looking at the names it's generally not hard to find the "umbrella" installer that would be launched had you restarted with the DVD.
as is the case with many installers of complex applications in OS X, the "umbrella" installer (as I call it, don't know the real term) is in fact a collection of installers for different components. For example, the OS X CD has individual installers for iTunes, iCal, etc etc, which can be run independently if you do them manually, or automatically from within the "umbrella".
As another reply mentioned (but i'm too lazy to respond to multiple messages), installing without burning/booting with a DVD does mean you need to already have a sperate partition or hard drive to be installed on. A hurdle, but not a huge one.. owning multiple hard drives isn't uncommon.
actually, when you get right down to it there are a hundred ways to trick "anti-piracy" measures like these. You could transfer/expand the installer.dmg to your ipod, for example, and boot from that as if it were the installer DVD with all of its abilities. that's the problem with trying to stop piracy through methods like only selling a DVD version - it pisses off people who don't have DVD players and are legitimately trying to buy it, while people who wanted to pirate it are going to find a way to do it anyway, and probably not with much more annoyance than doing it the way it was intended.
If you have more than one hard drive or partitions, it's trivial to run the installer from the opened dmg without ever having to burn or run a DVD.
it cuts down on people who don't feel comfortable poking around in the installer packages, but simply putting it on a DVD isn't going to stop anyone who's determined.
How did you gather statistical evidence suggesting the ratio of useful to bad CSS is 1:1000? Most people don't notice CSS at all when it's done well, so opinions tend to be skewed here, I suspect. But I'd be very interested to see some independent research in this area.
Quite simply, people should just not know if a site uses CSS or not without looking at the source. CSS is designed to separate structure and style, which has more advantages than I care to list. Really, the only time people look at a site and say "oh, this must use CSS" is when it's one of those cookie-cutter blogs covered with rectangles and sharp corners. And while some sites abuse CSS or do only basic things with it, others like ESPN.com make you wonder how they pulled it all off using nothing but divs.
check out Adium. It's a full-fledged OS X app running gaim to connect to the various IM networks. I'm not sure if it's in the latest public build or not (i build from source whenever there are significant updates), but encryption is definitely a feature.
What I'm not getting is why every one here seems convinced that saying that "X has a moral responsibility to..." and "If X doesn't..., the government oughta put him in jail." are interchangeable ideas.
The two are just a step away from each other. If someone says Mr X has a responsibility to do Y, but Mr X says screw it, "responsibility" becomes a meaningless word without some method of enforcement. Where that comes from varies (could be a business association, etc), but provided that there's a strong enough push for "morality" it always comes down to one thing - a watchdog committee of some sort saying what is and is not kosher. I was overly glib in my first comment (trying to beat the rush), but this is what I meant by the term government.
Leave the morality lessons to the parents because they do a good job? I'd say that really depends on the parent, and a fair number don't do a good job. That doesn't give the government a free pass to define morality, though.
Since keyboard commands can be controlled through speech, and it's adding a whole bunch more for universal access, I'd assume that the new stuff could be controlled by voice commands. So I guess you're right, it's not as cool as I thought it was at first, but it will still be an improvement.
I don't have enough experience with iListen or ViaVoice for my opinion on them to matter, but I found the built-in speech recognition for 10.2 and 10.3 to be more annoying than anything else. It would work just often enough for me to think it was doing its job, but fail just often enough to be a consistent pain in the ass. I'm looking forward to the complete rewrite in 10.4, aka VoiceOver. Here's the apple hype page for it: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/voiceover.html.
Gaming was always the exclusive realm of the social misfits. Tabletop RPGs, 36-hour NES sessions trying to learn and beat a rented game before its return date, comparing obscure stat points of characters from one game to the next in a series - all of these things were blissfully done away from the world of birds, bees, and football. Now the rest of the world has caught on that gaming doesn't completely suck, and the nerds are all upset that they're going to have to find a new corner away from the crowd.
Of course they could just use their newfound shared interests with the rest of the world to actually make some friends, but who wants to do that?
Yes, yes... you're right. I am the one to attack here.
If YOU weren't so pigheaded to believe that everyone in the country thought going to war was a good idea, maybe I wouldn't think you're a pighead.
I'm anti-war. I'm pro-environment. I'm pro-choice. I'm pro equal rights for gays. By definition, these all make me anti-Bush. Just because I happen to think that giving the rest of the world a leg up on the US is something that will negatively effect me, as a citizen living in the US dealing with the effects of a shitty economy, does not even give you the right to jump on your high horse to say that I am the cause of problems around the globe. Christ.
Agreed. A look through my post history would show I'm anti-Bush, pro-environment, basically your typical bleeding heart liberal. But I also try to keep informed, and the thing that just seemed so obvious to me even when I had first started researching it was that the Kyoto treaty is very, very bad for the US economy. Not just the short term costs of trying to meet its demands (which I don't find that unreasonable), but the long term gains of a more environmentally sustainable economy are offset by the handicaps put on the US compared to the vast majority of the rest of the world. I might be on the left, but damnit our country isn't doing so hot right now in the money department, so now is not the proper time. If this were 1998 it would be a different story, but Bush made the right call on this one.
Kevlar is pretty much useless against a knife attack - it's designed to collapse in front of an object with at least a little bit of distributed pressure (like a bullet), whereas a blade can slice right through it. By that logic, Kevlar-like armor to protect against a dinosaur's teeth would be just about as effective as a firm pillow. Meanwhile, fiberglass is damn near impossible to stab a knife through, while its effectiveness against bullets varies greatly depending on how it's made. In other words, pretty much exactly the opposite of Kevlar.
So I guess I must be missing something here... how is this dinosaur's armor similar to both Kevlar and fiberglass? Or is it really nothing at all like either of them except that it's strong and light?
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Yes, that is the answer! Bad things never happened... lalalalalalalalalala! :: sticks fingers in ears ::
Furthermore, what part about blindly following a leader who is willing to lie about causes for going to war (christ, people die in those things!), who then later says "I haven't made any mistakes." I see nothing constructive about this stance at all. I'm an independent and not much of a fan of the democrats either, but seriously - get a clue. Or is Bush lying just a part of the liberal conspiracy to destroy America?
What could possibly be the benefit of OS X as a desktop computer?
Wow. I mean... wow.
You act like you're trying to be reasonable, but I can't think of many ways to make that sentence sound any more like a troll. I'll let someone else bite.
a lot of it has to do with attracting reservations. As I said, many stores are receiving 4 times as many copies as are reserved, so if that 40% discount is enough to attract 5 registrations from customers who would normally buy from another store, that's another 20 copies actually shipped for release. When the book goes on sale everywhre at the same time, it forces competition based on how much the store has to offer its customers.
Most of this is going to sound redundant, but I'm something of an insider for Barnes & Noble at least so maybe someone will find this enlightening.
The book IS going to be hugely popular. Nobody is denying that. And 15 leaked copies on the other side of the world aren't going to hurt any of your local bookstores.
BUT... Harry Potter is huge. Many B&N stores are receiving 4 times as many copies as are reserved, and the number of reserved copies per store is freakin' huge. Keep in mind some stores are getting considerably more than just 4 times as many. When the book goes on sale at midnight, stores will be in the midst of a whole Harry Potter festival of sorts - games and activies based on the books, other areas of the stores (music) will be closed, etc etc. The book is going at 40% off, and it's expected to sell out almost instantly regardless of the seemingly obscene number of books being shipped. We're talking multicolored wristbands designate lines that stretch outside of stores, fire marshall occupancy limits (which doesn't happen too often in the bookstore world), and full staffs working into the wee hours of the morning and starting again the next day.. The release of this book is as big as Star Wars, and I don't say that jokingly.
So back to the problem - it's been said many times already that if the strict on sale dates didn't exist, some stores would get crushed and others reap huge rewards based purely on shipping or handling that may or may not have been under their control. Imagine if Star Wars was slated for 8 theaters in your area, but only 2 of them had it for the first 2 weeks - that would have huge effects on those theaters for a long time to come. Same idea. I won't even get into the price premium that could be charged by the few stores that, by chance, got HP early.
So for those 15 leaked copies on the other side of the world, in and of themselves they are a non-issue. However, if nothing is done, it sets a precedent for the strict on sale date being unimportant, and then you've got the fiasco mentioned above, and THAT is why they can't be ignored.
Of course there are marketing and hype concerns, that's a given, but this is much about protections for stores (of all sizes) as anything else.
Personally, I think it's just the comunist party making an attempt at trying to look like they are a competent government rather than the pack of stupid greedy thugs that they are.
What, you mean like every other government in every other country? A close friend of mine has spent almost 10 months of the past two years in China, from what he says the truth about how China handles its citizens lies somewhere between what China or the US would have you believe. Take what you hear from US-gov supplied press reports with a grain of salt.
There are exceptions, but a general rule of thumb is that the people in power got there because they put a lot of effort into gaining power. I don't care if they're democrats, republicans, communists, or whatever - most are greedy bastards.
MY GOD, WE HAVE A GAP IN OUR AERSONAL OF GIANT SPACE ROCKS!
rofl
Then in Myth: the Fallen Lords, there's the highly controversial practice of Carpet Bombing, or using lighting to hurl molotov cocktails across the map.
Alternately known as the most awesome thing in the whole world. Fire, pan across the map watching the molotivs arc across the map, then their impact marked by bloody stumps and an "oh FUCK!" screamed by your opponent.
God I loved Myth.
I wouldn't call myself h4x0r paranoid (although I guess that's for others to decide), but in terms of helping your sister turn out ok - what about instilling a Big Brother mentality? What about teaching responsibility and a sense of ethics, even in situations where an authority figure is absent and there's no fear of direct punishment?
I'm not saying that this system couldn't help prevent parents keep track of eating habits to try to prevent/fix an eating disorder. As others have pointed out the tracking is fairly easy to circumvent, but I personally don't think this is a bad idea for countering that one particular problem. I just worry about how it's attempt at a fix for one problem could cause more, and not just for someone with an eating disorder but all of the other students who haven't done anything of note but are nevertheless forced to grow increasingly comfortable and familiar with the details of their lives being tracked and published. Call me h4x0r paranoid, but that just doesn't sit right with me.
first off, i just want to get it out there that i'm not in favor of steroids in sports. that said...
some enhancements, like e.g. steroids, are very effective and also very bad for the athletes's health
granted it's hard to know the long-term effects of any drug, regardless of how well tested, but I'm willing to bet that Barry Bonds will have access to considerably higher quality steroids than what you can buy on the street. Add that to the professional staff of doctors keeping an eye on him, and I'd venture to guess that a pro athlete is safer taking steroids than I am taking tylenol.
Of course this brings up the issue of competitive athletes who don't have the financial/scientific backing to use steroids safely, but if you're looking purely at pros in the big leagues their risk is fairly minimal.
If those sports were dominated by drug-enhanced cyborgs, it would be pointless for me to watch them, since there is no connection anymore to how I do the sport.
I'm a pretty sporty guy. On any given week I'm generally playing in 2 to 3 competitive events for my college. That said, the connection between me playing football and NFL players playing football is already completely non-existant when you look at how they play the sport. I play with people who run a damn fast 40, and I play with people who are huge, but I play with hardly anyone who runs a fast 40 and is huge - and keep in mind that I'm talking about sports at the college level. There are some excellents players who will never even come close to making it big. Pro sports is a whole new ballgame, no matter how you look at it.
do you want to see competition based on the hard work of the athlete or the hard work of his doctors and technicians?
if everyone is using performance enhancing contacts/gatorade/drugs then the edge they provide is negated. it's all relative, and whatever personal motivation or smarts an athlete has will be the deciding factor. I'd use examples of athletically gifted people who failed to compare to more experienced but lesser talented atheletes, but they'd probably be lost on the slashdot crowd and we can all think of times when someone superior on paper simply doesn't live up the intangible qualities, such as leadership or motivation, of a lesser-talented individual.
there are a lot of fine lines I'm not even going to attempt to place, but my point is that if everyone is enhanced then the enhancements cease to be deciding factors.
excuse me for my ignorance... why would these sports-tweaked contacts be more useful than normal contacts for you?
agreed. I don't see anything new that these "dock apps" offer over apps I've been using since I got OS X at 10.1.
move along, nothing to see here...
I'm not going to outline how to do it, but from a purely technical standpoint the gist of it is you can completely ignore the "install mac os x" app that you're supposed to use. that app isn't the installer, it just sets the OS X DVD as your startup disk and restarts.
.dmg to your ipod, for example, and boot from that as if it were the installer DVD with all of its abilities. that's the problem with trying to stop piracy through methods like only selling a DVD version - it pisses off people who don't have DVD players and are legitimately trying to buy it, while people who wanted to pirate it are going to find a way to do it anyway, and probably not with much more annoyance than doing it the way it was intended.
this is the case with Tiger, Panther, and probably jaguar (can't remember that far back, but i'd be surprised if it's different), but the actual installer is buried within the installer packages elsewhere on the DVD/dmg. Just by looking at the names it's generally not hard to find the "umbrella" installer that would be launched had you restarted with the DVD.
as is the case with many installers of complex applications in OS X, the "umbrella" installer (as I call it, don't know the real term) is in fact a collection of installers for different components. For example, the OS X CD has individual installers for iTunes, iCal, etc etc, which can be run independently if you do them manually, or automatically from within the "umbrella".
As another reply mentioned (but i'm too lazy to respond to multiple messages), installing without burning/booting with a DVD does mean you need to already have a sperate partition or hard drive to be installed on. A hurdle, but not a huge one.. owning multiple hard drives isn't uncommon.
actually, when you get right down to it there are a hundred ways to trick "anti-piracy" measures like these. You could transfer/expand the installer
If you have more than one hard drive or partitions, it's trivial to run the installer from the opened dmg without ever having to burn or run a DVD.
it cuts down on people who don't feel comfortable poking around in the installer packages, but simply putting it on a DVD isn't going to stop anyone who's determined.
How did you gather statistical evidence suggesting the ratio of useful to bad CSS is 1:1000? Most people don't notice CSS at all when it's done well, so opinions tend to be skewed here, I suspect. But I'd be very interested to see some independent research in this area.
Quite simply, people should just not know if a site uses CSS or not without looking at the source. CSS is designed to separate structure and style, which has more advantages than I care to list. Really, the only time people look at a site and say "oh, this must use CSS" is when it's one of those cookie-cutter blogs covered with rectangles and sharp corners. And while some sites abuse CSS or do only basic things with it, others like ESPN.com make you wonder how they pulled it all off using nothing but divs.
check out Adium. It's a full-fledged OS X app running gaim to connect to the various IM networks. I'm not sure if it's in the latest public build or not (i build from source whenever there are significant updates), but encryption is definitely a feature.
What I'm not getting is why every one here seems convinced that saying that "X has a moral responsibility to..." and "If X doesn't ..., the government oughta put him in jail." are interchangeable ideas.
The two are just a step away from each other. If someone says Mr X has a responsibility to do Y, but Mr X says screw it, "responsibility" becomes a meaningless word without some method of enforcement. Where that comes from varies (could be a business association, etc), but provided that there's a strong enough push for "morality" it always comes down to one thing - a watchdog committee of some sort saying what is and is not kosher. I was overly glib in my first comment (trying to beat the rush), but this is what I meant by the term government.
Leave the morality lessons to the parents because they do a good job? I'd say that really depends on the parent, and a fair number don't do a good job. That doesn't give the government a free pass to define morality, though.
Since keyboard commands can be controlled through speech, and it's adding a whole bunch more for universal access, I'd assume that the new stuff could be controlled by voice commands. So I guess you're right, it's not as cool as I thought it was at first, but it will still be an improvement.
I don't have enough experience with iListen or ViaVoice for my opinion on them to matter, but I found the built-in speech recognition for 10.2 and 10.3 to be more annoying than anything else. It would work just often enough for me to think it was doing its job, but fail just often enough to be a consistent pain in the ass. I'm looking forward to the complete rewrite in 10.4, aka VoiceOver. Here's the apple hype page for it: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/voiceover.html.
Funny, but for every time someone says something like that and it really is their last words, there are a billion times nothing happens at all.
Of course, a life where nothing ever happens might be worse than death.
:: awards funny mod points :: ...or at least I would if I could.
Gaming was always the exclusive realm of the social misfits. Tabletop RPGs, 36-hour NES sessions trying to learn and beat a rented game before its return date, comparing obscure stat points of characters from one game to the next in a series - all of these things were blissfully done away from the world of birds, bees, and football. Now the rest of the world has caught on that gaming doesn't completely suck, and the nerds are all upset that they're going to have to find a new corner away from the crowd.
Of course they could just use their newfound shared interests with the rest of the world to actually make some friends, but who wants to do that?
Yes, yes... you're right. I am the one to attack here.
If YOU weren't so pigheaded to believe that everyone in the country thought going to war was a good idea, maybe I wouldn't think you're a pighead.
I'm anti-war. I'm pro-environment. I'm pro-choice. I'm pro equal rights for gays. By definition, these all make me anti-Bush. Just because I happen to think that giving the rest of the world a leg up on the US is something that will negatively effect me, as a citizen living in the US dealing with the effects of a shitty economy, does not even give you the right to jump on your high horse to say that I am the cause of problems around the globe. Christ.
Agreed. A look through my post history would show I'm anti-Bush, pro-environment, basically your typical bleeding heart liberal. But I also try to keep informed, and the thing that just seemed so obvious to me even when I had first started researching it was that the Kyoto treaty is very, very bad for the US economy. Not just the short term costs of trying to meet its demands (which I don't find that unreasonable), but the long term gains of a more environmentally sustainable economy are offset by the handicaps put on the US compared to the vast majority of the rest of the world. I might be on the left, but damnit our country isn't doing so hot right now in the money department, so now is not the proper time. If this were 1998 it would be a different story, but Bush made the right call on this one.
Kevlar is pretty much useless against a knife attack - it's designed to collapse in front of an object with at least a little bit of distributed pressure (like a bullet), whereas a blade can slice right through it. By that logic, Kevlar-like armor to protect against a dinosaur's teeth would be just about as effective as a firm pillow. Meanwhile, fiberglass is damn near impossible to stab a knife through, while its effectiveness against bullets varies greatly depending on how it's made. In other words, pretty much exactly the opposite of Kevlar.
So I guess I must be missing something here... how is this dinosaur's armor similar to both Kevlar and fiberglass? Or is it really nothing at all like either of them except that it's strong and light?