You are bascially implying that facts don't exist with a second more dagerous implication that therefore you can believe anything you want... (I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader. Note the use of the word implying)
What seperates a science from pure voodoo is a rigerous method of proof. Concequently you can say any one of these things is true within that context. Math for example has the most rigorous proof method.. As a result math people react quite badly when you say that pythagrous is just a theory. (He's a greek and it's a theorem not theory.. Slight difference there).
NOTE: there are also implicit bounds on scientific claims. We assume that relations hold true for all *measurable* situations. IT MAKES NO SENCE TO MAKE A CLAIM ON A NON MEASURABLE PHENOMENON. These types of claims are called none scientific, just BTW... There are other implicit bounds to do with causality and making sure you've rigorously defining things as well. But anyways..
Conclusion: You can accept theories as fact so long as you're aware of how they've been prooven, the scope (or bounds) of the claim and the measurability / amount of valid data availible for the claim.
Evolution: Evolution is a perticularly fun one. People are always bitching that it's just a theory.. Geeze, everything is science is a theory. No surprises there.. The thing is science is unbelivably sure that evolution happens. I mean scientists simply cannot see how you can stop it happening.. The thing is there's not sure about some of the specifics or if evolution, as it's currently understood, is responsible for all the life we see. The thing is the answer is surely in this direction. Probably involving meta-evolution.
Is not being responsible for your own behavior because you're insane or drunk or "weak" a defence for having done something bad?
The way I have always seen it is that if someone is prone to violence or drunkeness, then this should be an additional insentive to remove this persone from sociaty. What I'd like to see is a criminal lawyer work really hard to proove his client is sane to avoid being condemended as a lost cause (and turned into soykent green or soimething).. I mean that would be nice because it would make being responsible for your actions important.. Sort of a if-your-not-responsible-for-your-own-actions-and-a re-a-public-menace-you-might-as-well-be-dead philosophy.. I bet fewer people would drink too. Hell, it's one of the reasones I don't.
Forget giving into greed.. When will these companies make a profit? I bet it's hard to make a profit when you're selling free software. Egad, what a concept.
If you think about it, what differentiates distributions is the installer and documentation. God help them if Linux suddenly develops a half decent interface and becomes as easy to install.
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You know, I bet the democratic greeks went democratic just to be as different as possible from the Spartans.
.. and generally anything whose musical complexity is in the notes rather than beat. Complex beats make me very angry. Simple beat; widly complex music. Mozart also has it's good bits as does most mainstream alternaive stuff. Teleman and Baroque stuff iz gud 2.
Here's a complete, full solution. Computer: Since you're in education you canpick up a G4 cheap, so you'll be getting a good deal if you go with the G4. Plus, since the G4 is arguably overkill for your current applications, you'll have lots of room to manuver when it comes to addig additional services. If you want to spend even less ans still have the same quality you can go with any G3 based Mac since Linux is not yet optimized for Altivec.. Hell, the iMac, with it's 400Mhz G3, has oodles of pressing power for this type of thing.. The problem with the iMac is it's a bit difficult to add on another HD or other such things. Come to think of it, that's the only real drawback... If you get some other server service to do the streaming for you (see below) then you can get by with a 3 year old computer, like a P133 or a PowerMac 8100/100 since streaming's the only part that requires a big computer. Encoding: As for streaming MP3... Don't do it yourslef, it's daft.. You'll need to allocate a huge blob of bandwith and processing and ram to the task. If you go with QT streaming, you can get all the software for free, run the encoder on any computer you want and have a company like www.themusicweb.com do the actual broadcasting for cheap. It's cheap too. All you really need is a computer capable of running sorenson broadcaster and you're set. Plus, this setup has the advantage that your mail, web etc.. can go down wihtout your streaming going down and vice versa. QT Streaming: In Qt streaming you have a computer do the encoding (compressing) this computer then sends it's compressed stream over any connection (even a 14.4 modem) to the streaming server which does all the streaming (it has to be this way:-( ). THis mean that if you have a half decent laptop with a wireless modem you can broadcast from anywhere on earth and have total control over your stream. Cool. Then there's are the traditional reasones for QT stream: good quality, massive choice of CODECs (!), open source server (which I think has a Linux client), free...... Finally... Of course, if you get the badwidth for free, then go the the G4 and run Linux and maybe that MP3 encoding thing. The G4 will run everything today with processing room left over and when they do a build of Linux and the encoding tools, optimized for Altivec, it'll really fly. Plus, it's fun to have a fast computer. Other readers: Feel free to correct me if I mentioned something slightly off. I'm running off memory here.
Metroworks is problably the most kcik ass company out there right now. Being bought by Motorola could be a bad thing, if mot messes with a good thing. It could also be a good thing for metrowowrks if it can get access to some of that mot capital. My Page: http://www.polarbeartravels.com/spacedata/TrivialA pplet.html
Even if you did have Apple ROMs and ASICs you're still doomed since the MacOS isn't hardware abstracted so any small changes in hardware require a new version of the MacOS.
Why do you think the computers that are introduced after a the latest version of the MacOS have enablers? -> the reasone? Apple hasen't included support for that model in the MacOS yet.
You're confusing Mac users with PC users. Mac user typically really like their OS. I happen to love my mac and it's OS. Tecnically speaking-is irrelevent since Linux's "technical supriority" doesn't offer *me* any advantages. In fact Linux's technical supiriority is somewhat overated since many of these high tech goodies rarely come into play in ordinairy use.
It's not like I'm going to program for the OS or anything; I use it. The MacOS is by far the most *usefull* and *usable* OS out there. I mean what can I say, you just gotta try it.
As for the hardware. It's good, very good, but that's not the reasone I use a Mac. In fact this good hardware is a bit of a pain since it's typically requires a greater capital investement.
A PPC base linux box is not in the cards for me because Linux is generaly not very usefull. My guess is a G3 based PPC box would be much of a threat to Apple's Mac sales since it couldn't run the MacOS. (as it currently stands).
Speciation occures to any population in isolation. There have been quite a few cases of this happening. A few that stick out in my mind are almost every species on the hawayan islands..
Here's the memeory break down. Note: Since the mac reserves continuous blocks of memory you can actually find out how much ram each ting has at any time..
System 8.6 -> 10->13 megs of ram. Browser, iCab 1.6 -> 2 megs of ram. Claris E-mailer -> ~3.5 megs Better telnet -> 1 meg Code Warriror pro 3 -> 5 megs Java VM overhead 3 megs Clairs Homepage: 8
These are the only apps I ever run (in a given work day) and are loaded all at once (rarely happens). It take up 35.5, which means I'm using 3.5 megs of Virtual memory. I can live with that.
Yes. QT is a big bundle of code for dealing with fileformats. Imagine a large, widely supported library for dealing with/ parsing HTML docs. Call this lib HTML and make it the only real way of looking at HTML fields and you have an analogy. Now make this thing support PDFs, RTF, Sorenson text docs, Textipac etc.. and you ahve a better analogy. Now make this thing 15 megs and contain a large proportion of the mac toolbox and you have a practically perfect analogy...
Personaly, making a HTML decoder into a standard LIB would be so kick ass and problably very possible since the MOZILLA project. wooo, use movie player to surf the web.. funky..
Hear here! I know someone who was using their internet setup for 2 weeks before he realized the thing that was making his computer slugish all the time was he was acting as his own DNS server.
He then maintained that he kept it this way because he like the responsive DNS lookups, but I think he just couldn't figure out how to stop it.:)
Ahh, Linux, everything's a little brain teaser..:)
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You are bascially implying that facts don't exist with a second more dagerous implication that therefore you can believe anything you want... (I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader. Note the use of the word implying)
What seperates a science from pure voodoo is a rigerous method of proof. Concequently you can say any one of these things is true within that context. Math for example has the most rigorous proof method.. As a result math people react quite badly when you say that pythagrous is just a theory. (He's a greek and it's a theorem not theory.. Slight difference there).
NOTE: there are also implicit bounds on scientific claims. We assume that relations hold true for all *measurable* situations. IT MAKES NO SENCE TO MAKE A CLAIM ON A NON MEASURABLE PHENOMENON. These types of claims are called none scientific, just BTW... There are other implicit bounds to do with causality and making sure you've rigorously defining things as well. But anyways..
Conclusion: You can accept theories as fact so long as you're aware of how they've been prooven, the scope (or bounds) of the claim and the measurability / amount of valid data availible for the claim.
Evolution: Evolution is a perticularly fun one. People are always bitching that it's just a theory.. Geeze, everything is science is a theory. No surprises there.. The thing is science is unbelivably sure that evolution happens. I mean scientists simply cannot see how you can stop it happening.. The thing is there's not sure about some of the specifics or if evolution, as it's currently understood, is responsible for all the life we see. The thing is the answer is surely in this direction. Probably involving meta-evolution.
The problems come when people don't understand.
Is not being responsible for your own behavior because you're insane or drunk or "weak" a defence for having done something bad?
a re-a-public-menace-you-might-as-well-be-dead philosophy.. I bet fewer people would drink too. Hell, it's one of the reasones I don't.
The way I have always seen it is that if someone is prone to violence or drunkeness, then this should be an additional insentive to remove this persone from sociaty. What I'd like to see is a criminal lawyer work really hard to proove his client is sane to avoid being condemended as a lost cause (and turned into soykent green or soimething).. I mean that would be nice because it would make being responsible for your actions important.. Sort of a if-your-not-responsible-for-your-own-actions-and-
Forget giving into greed.. When will these companies make a profit? I bet it's hard to make a profit when you're selling free software. Egad, what a concept.
If you think about it, what differentiates distributions is the installer and documentation. God help them if Linux suddenly develops a half decent interface and becomes as easy to install.
:-)
You know, I bet the democratic greeks went democratic just to be as different as possible from the Spartans.
LEt's open source everything! That way, micrsoft can take over the world without doing a thing. mouhahaha!
Reminds me of that famous trust exercise when some one falls and the other catches them:
Netscpace: Hey this falling and being caught thing looks fun. HEY GUYS CATCH ME!
Weeeeeee thud
Programers: What the hell was that?
LEt's open source everything! That way, micrsoft can take over the world without doing a thing. mouhahaha!
Reminds me of that famous trust exercise when some one falls and the other catches them:
Netscpace: Hey this falling and being caught thing looks fun. HEY GUYS CATCH ME!
Weeeeeee
Programers: What the hell was that?
I listen to Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach Bach.
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J.S. and J.C.
.. and generally anything whose musical complexity is in the notes rather than beat. Complex beats make me very angry. Simple beat; widly complex music. Mozart also has it's good bits as does most mainstream alternaive stuff. Teleman and Baroque stuff iz gud 2.
anyways..
Here's a complete, full solution. Computer: Since you're in education you canpick up a G4 cheap, so you'll be getting a good deal if you go with the G4. Plus, since the G4 is arguably overkill for your current applications, you'll have lots of room to manuver when it comes to addig additional services. If you want to spend even less ans still have the same quality you can go with any G3 based Mac since Linux is not yet optimized for Altivec.. Hell, the iMac, with it's 400Mhz G3, has oodles of pressing power for this type of thing.. The problem with the iMac is it's a bit difficult to add on another HD or other such things. Come to think of it, that's the only real drawback... If you get some other server service to do the streaming for you (see below) then you can get by with a 3 year old computer, like a P133 or a PowerMac 8100/100 since streaming's the only part that requires a big computer. Encoding: As for streaming MP3... Don't do it yourslef, it's daft.. You'll need to allocate a huge blob of bandwith and processing and ram to the task. If you go with QT streaming, you can get all the software for free, run the encoder on any computer you want and have a company like www.themusicweb.com do the actual broadcasting for cheap. It's cheap too. All you really need is a computer capable of running sorenson broadcaster and you're set. Plus, this setup has the advantage that your mail, web etc.. can go down wihtout your streaming going down and vice versa. QT Streaming: In Qt streaming you have a computer do the encoding (compressing) this computer then sends it's compressed stream over any connection (even a 14.4 modem) to the streaming server which does all the streaming (it has to be this way :-( ). THis mean that if you have a half decent laptop with a wireless modem you can broadcast from anywhere on earth and have total control over your stream. Cool. Then there's are the traditional reasones for QT stream: good quality, massive choice of CODECs (!), open source server (which I think has a Linux client), free...... Finally... Of course, if you get the badwidth for free, then go the the G4 and run Linux and maybe that MP3 encoding thing. The G4 will run everything today with processing room left over and when they do a build of Linux and the encoding tools, optimized for Altivec, it'll really fly. Plus, it's fun to have a fast computer. Other readers: Feel free to correct me if I mentioned something slightly off. I'm running off memory here.
Metroworks is problably the most kcik ass company out there right now. Being bought by Motorola could be a bad thing, if mot messes with a good thing. It could also be a good thing for metrowowrks if it can get access to some of that mot capital. My Page: http://www.polarbeartravels.com/spacedata/TrivialA pplet.html
Not without the Apple ROMs and ASICs you're not.
No way in hell.
Even if you did have Apple ROMs and ASICs you're still doomed since the MacOS isn't hardware abstracted so any small changes in hardware require a new version of the MacOS.
Why do you think the computers that are introduced after a the latest version of the MacOS have enablers? -> the reasone? Apple hasen't included support for that model in the MacOS yet.
fun, eh?
You're confusing Mac users with PC users. Mac user typically really like their OS. I happen to love my mac and it's OS. Tecnically speaking-is irrelevent since Linux's "technical supriority" doesn't offer *me* any advantages. In fact Linux's technical supiriority is somewhat overated since many of these high tech goodies rarely come into play in ordinairy use.
It's not like I'm going to program for the OS or anything; I use it. The MacOS is by far the most *usefull* and *usable* OS out there. I mean what can I say, you just gotta try it.
As for the hardware. It's good, very good, but that's not the reasone I use a Mac. In fact this good hardware is a bit of a pain since it's typically requires a greater capital investement.
A PPC base linux box is not in the cards for me because Linux is generaly not very usefull. My guess is a G3 based PPC box would be much of a threat to Apple's Mac sales since it couldn't run the MacOS. (as it currently stands).
Speciation occures to any population in isolation. There have been quite a few cases of this happening. A few that stick out in my mind are almost every species on the hawayan islands..
Here's the memeory break down. Note: Since the mac reserves continuous blocks of memory you can actually find out how much ram each ting has at any time..
System 8.6 -> 10->13 megs of ram.
Browser, iCab 1.6 -> 2 megs of ram.
Claris E-mailer -> ~3.5 megs
Better telnet -> 1 meg
Code Warriror pro 3 -> 5 megs
Java VM overhead 3 megs
Clairs Homepage: 8
These are the only apps I ever run (in a given work day) and are loaded all at once (rarely happens). It take up 35.5, which means I'm using 3.5 megs of Virtual memory. I can live with that.
Yes. QT is a big bundle of code for dealing with fileformats. Imagine a large, widely supported library for dealing with/ parsing HTML docs. Call this lib HTML and make it the only real way of looking at HTML fields and you have an analogy. Now make this thing support PDFs, RTF, Sorenson text docs, Textipac etc.. and you ahve a better analogy. Now make this thing 15 megs and contain a large proportion of the mac toolbox and you have a practically perfect analogy...
Personaly, making a HTML decoder into a standard LIB would be so kick ass and problably very possible since the MOZILLA project. wooo, use movie player to surf the web.. funky..
Cool, orb drives are shipping, pigs are flying and the cows came home.
This is a highly improbable week end.
Shut up... just.. shut.. up.....
Hear here! I know someone who was using their internet setup for 2 weeks before he realized the thing that was making his computer slugish all the time was he was acting as his own DNS server.
:)
:)
He then maintained that he kept it this way because he like the responsive DNS lookups, but I think he just couldn't figure out how to stop it.
Ahh, Linux, everything's a little brain teaser..