So you're angry because they don't censor their books? Do you also think they're Nazis because they sell Mein Kampf? Oh and they must be communists too!
As much as I like it when people defend science from pseudoscience, please stop making crap up.
Evolution is not a hypothesis, the shear amount of data regarding evolution is staggering and does not fit the scientific model of a hypothesis. A hypothesis(literally: less than a premise in an argument) is one minor true or false statement that defines a logical rule that can be disproven by experimentation or sufficiently careful observation. A large number of reasonably demonstrated hypotheses on a related field of study is what creates a theory. A theory is a mechanism that allows for sensible creation, control, and testing of new hypotheses in that area. Theories also tend to include points such as formal definitions, statistical correlations(which are themselves comprised of hypotheses), physical tools used in experimentations, and useful models for predicting things in the "real world" outside of experiments. Evolutionary theory has every one of these things in abundance. Intelligent design can muster pathetic excuses for few if any of these. There are a few areas of science that are lacking one of these qualities, but outright absence is a near certain sign of pseudoscience.
Wildcards in strings "apple * macintosh" will return pages with the word macintosh shortly following apple. Not reversable, but still quite useful for that kind of search.
I imagine if you put your fax number on the "do not call" registry, there's some legal compunction not to perform any sort of unsolicited transactions using that number.
Way to go stuffing words in my mouth. I was complaining that it was a freaking version increment of a not-particularly-notable game. The only reason I could come up with for this to matter was if it was a GPL or other open source license game, as they are actually pretty rare. There are litterally hundreds of still-updated freeware 2d games out there, and why a version increment of this one was treated as news, I just don't get.
It's not even open source. I ran the installer after seeing on slashdot expecting to see the friendly "GPL v2.0" message. No such luck. I don't know why a version increment of some freeware game gets to the main page.
That child pornography accounts for 1% of all internet crime. Yet, somehow, this seems to be the only crime I've heard of the FBI cracking down on. Is this because of skewed news reporting? Or is it because of the relative severity of child pornography? Or is it "thinkofthechildren"ism?
Because that's punishing someone for having an (admittedly stupid) opinion. You defend games as free speech, then wish to deny Thompson the right to free speech? Hypocrite much? He should perhaps bear the costs of any lawsuits he was personally involved in, but you can't hold him responsible for the idiocy of elected officials.
Yeah, but we're different! It's not like the United States ever tried to punish a world renowned chess grand master for doing something the government disagreed with politically.
Yeah, I agree. As a means of learning, wikipedia is perhaps the single best webpage there is. I can start off not knowing anything about a subject, and after a quick jump to wikipedia, I can have a solid understanding of what it is and what's related to it. Schools that block it are likely headed by the paranoid, control-freak administrators we've all seen one of. I've had professors hand out extra reading information they consider pertinent that's just printed out copies of articles on wikipedia.
I said hope, not certainty. I'm not falling for an fallacy of optimism, just saying that there are at least some ways in which good things are arriving in this day and age and it helps me fight off my relentless cynicism.
The political situation in many countries makes me concerned for the future, nanotechnology gives me hope that humanity is still progressing in its development.
Also, we're seeing more and more of these "something useful from nanotech" articles. I'm hoping this means the original rounds of research are beginning to come to fruition, and we'll see consumer products in 4-10 years.
I spent about a week or so writing some simple programs(bmp to transparent gif converter, hex editor) and adding a few registry hacks to make them context menu accessible. I'd imagine my case is a bit different from the normal person's, but for me it's about where I want it in a week.
Majority of people does not refer to the majority of any given subset of people. I would hazard a guess that the average slashdotter in spite of their inclination towards silly cliches and bad sci-fi references has a higher capacity to discern sense from nonsense. Further you associated going to youtube with thinking youtube was cool. That was not part of my premise at all.
Well, sadly, the vast majority of 12-30 year olds. Not everyone is intelligent enough to discern the difference between advertising and things people actually like.
That's called moral relativism, and it entirely fails to acknolwedge ideas like equality( the fact that I can recognize that others may object to the same things I would, and therefor not do them). Just pointing out that that notion is not new, and it's not widely considered correct(certainly some irony in there).
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No, he supported his arguments with the things following that. Being indignant is no way to prove him wrong either.
No, no. You misunderstood. The new law caught female deer suicide bombers.
So you're angry because they don't censor their books? Do you also think they're Nazis because they sell Mein Kampf? Oh and they must be communists too!
Your title was "1.0 ** -64 seconds". That's still 1 second.
Yeah, it's not like anyone would consider throwing a slander lawsuit at wikimedia...
As much as I like it when people defend science from pseudoscience, please stop making crap up. Evolution is not a hypothesis, the shear amount of data regarding evolution is staggering and does not fit the scientific model of a hypothesis. A hypothesis(literally: less than a premise in an argument) is one minor true or false statement that defines a logical rule that can be disproven by experimentation or sufficiently careful observation. A large number of reasonably demonstrated hypotheses on a related field of study is what creates a theory. A theory is a mechanism that allows for sensible creation, control, and testing of new hypotheses in that area. Theories also tend to include points such as formal definitions, statistical correlations(which are themselves comprised of hypotheses), physical tools used in experimentations, and useful models for predicting things in the "real world" outside of experiments. Evolutionary theory has every one of these things in abundance. Intelligent design can muster pathetic excuses for few if any of these. There are a few areas of science that are lacking one of these qualities, but outright absence is a near certain sign of pseudoscience.
Wildcards in strings "apple * macintosh" will return pages with the word macintosh shortly following apple. Not reversable, but still quite useful for that kind of search.
I imagine if you put your fax number on the "do not call" registry, there's some legal compunction not to perform any sort of unsolicited transactions using that number.
Way to go stuffing words in my mouth. I was complaining that it was a freaking version increment of a not-particularly-notable game. The only reason I could come up with for this to matter was if it was a GPL or other open source license game, as they are actually pretty rare. There are litterally hundreds of still-updated freeware 2d games out there, and why a version increment of this one was treated as news, I just don't get.
It's not even open source. I ran the installer after seeing on slashdot expecting to see the friendly "GPL v2.0" message. No such luck. I don't know why a version increment of some freeware game gets to the main page.
Sony's marketing department.
Yes, it's several hundred dollars worth of hardware. I can still find uses for old Pentium one machines for running a network raid drive.
And I just read that it will be both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
That child pornography accounts for 1% of all internet crime. Yet, somehow, this seems to be the only crime I've heard of the FBI cracking down on. Is this because of skewed news reporting? Or is it because of the relative severity of child pornography? Or is it "thinkofthechildren"ism?
Because that's punishing someone for having an (admittedly stupid) opinion. You defend games as free speech, then wish to deny Thompson the right to free speech? Hypocrite much? He should perhaps bear the costs of any lawsuits he was personally involved in, but you can't hold him responsible for the idiocy of elected officials.
Jeez, 19551960, it doesn't take Einstein to figure that one out.
Yeah, but we're different! It's not like the United States ever tried to punish a world renowned chess grand master for doing something the government disagreed with politically.
Yeah, I agree. As a means of learning, wikipedia is perhaps the single best webpage there is. I can start off not knowing anything about a subject, and after a quick jump to wikipedia, I can have a solid understanding of what it is and what's related to it. Schools that block it are likely headed by the paranoid, control-freak administrators we've all seen one of. I've had professors hand out extra reading information they consider pertinent that's just printed out copies of articles on wikipedia.
I said hope, not certainty. I'm not falling for an fallacy of optimism, just saying that there are at least some ways in which good things are arriving in this day and age and it helps me fight off my relentless cynicism.
The political situation in many countries makes me concerned for the future, nanotechnology gives me hope that humanity is still progressing in its development.
Also, we're seeing more and more of these "something useful from nanotech" articles. I'm hoping this means the original rounds of research are beginning to come to fruition, and we'll see consumer products in 4-10 years.
About a week ago.
I spent about a week or so writing some simple programs(bmp to transparent gif converter, hex editor) and adding a few registry hacks to make them context menu accessible. I'd imagine my case is a bit different from the normal person's, but for me it's about where I want it in a week.
Majority of people does not refer to the majority of any given subset of people. I would hazard a guess that the average slashdotter in spite of their inclination towards silly cliches and bad sci-fi references has a higher capacity to discern sense from nonsense. Further you associated going to youtube with thinking youtube was cool. That was not part of my premise at all.
That's true now, but there are C-like languages cropping up for shaders these days.
That's called moral relativism, and it entirely fails to acknolwedge ideas like equality( the fact that I can recognize that others may object to the same things I would, and therefor not do them). Just pointing out that that notion is not new, and it's not widely considered correct(certainly some irony in there).