Sorry, but doesn't this just make the program run in the system tray (windows only)? It will load pretty fast, but it will use the same amount of ram when you're not using it as when you are. Maybe it did more in mozilla. In mozilla it was built in (not extension) and kept only part preloaded. But then mozilla really needs it:-)
You make four points in four sentences in the first paragraph. You have only connected the first two.
I will admit that it is very strange about the physical constants, but we do not yet know that they are not connected in some unknown way. Lets let the physicists look into that for a few decades before jumping to conclusions shall we? Also, that looks like tuning for maximum complexity, rather than an attempt to produce humanity.
Furthermore, the anthropic principle can be taken too far, but isn't it fair enough to say that life evolved in this solar system because this one was suitable? There is a reason I can't say "Look at this planet, completely unsuitable for life, this disproves creation", and it's that we didn't evolve there. And plants are green because there is a lot of green light about, not the other way around.
In response to your last paragraph: show me the maths!
But there is about 6000 years of (semi) recorded history of human settlement (i.e. large scale settlement in cities), and the fossil record shows that recognisable modern humans have been around several times longer than that.
And anyway, the universe is definitely more than a week older than humanity. Although a creationist geek should be capable of working out something convincing envolving a decreasing speed of light and some kind of gravitational lensing to discount all astronomical observation...
This is an error which really gets on my nerves, along with "theory of relativity" and others. You are confusing the popular and scientific meanings of the word "theory". The normal use of the word "theory" is to mean what a scientist would call a "theorem": an untested idea that someone just thought of. The scientific usage of "theory" is an idea that is believed because it explains some observation and has not yet contradicted any observations.
The thing about evolution specificly is that now that Darwin has suggested it it is obvious.
1) You must believe in the inheritance of some characteristics because you see that people look like their parents. Many diseases run in families. Very obvious changes are brought about by selective breeding in dogs.
2) If everyone with a certain characteristic doesn't produce offspring for whatever reason then that characteristic is not inherited by anyone. The next generation doesn't have it.
Don't the above points demonstrate that selection must take place? And that is before even considering the fossil record.
P.S. If you want another "FACT", the earth is really not 6000 years old.
I was unaware that children could cause harm to violence, or even that anyone cares if they do. Violence is bad, so what is wrong with children harming it?
Oh, wait... Did you mean "since this exposes children to violence"?
I am more and more of the opinion that MS doesn't care much about piracy. First the lack of copy protection in SP2, then this. I think they actually prefere people to use pirate copies of Windows XP than to use Linux/BSD/OS X. Their monopoly and the money from large corporations is much more important than money from home users.
I don't understand all this hype about web browsers. They take too much of my system resources away from compiling the latest kernel release (I use Gentoo). I prefere to use telnet. I can do HTML rendering in my head (it's more standards compliant that way).
"P2P should be banned because there is no potential legal use for it, therefore anyone using it is intending to break the law."
Oh, wait, a legal use for P2P?
"This legal use must stop because it encourages illegal use..."
I've tried it and abandoned it. Everything is too customized, for example you can't turn that desktop off and revert to the standard KDE theme unless you install it manually (this presumably means that their KDE package is rather different from what KDE releases; this is probably true of many other packages). There is too much Red Hat branding around the place. And packages like make and gcc are missing from the default install, as if they want to force you to use RPMs.
Yeah, you can network install.
FTP/HTTP always seem to corrupt large files. I have never had a broken ISO (i.e. doesn't match MD5 checksum) via bittorrent, because it has built-in checking of each chunk.
Ok, most machines can use some WD-40 from time to time. But computers do not nead WD-40. As well as being a lubricant, it is mildly corrosive so that it can be used to remove rust and generally clean metal. If used in computers, it will eat the tracks off the motherboard.
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Er... how?
With Concorde withdrawn, the only way I can think of would be if they're in the air force.
Oh, wait... The US armed forces are mostly teenagers...
Sorry, but doesn't this just make the program run in the system tray (windows only)? It will load pretty fast, but it will use the same amount of ram when you're not using it as when you are. Maybe it did more in mozilla. In mozilla it was built in (not extension) and kept only part preloaded. But then mozilla really needs it :-)
You make four points in four sentences in the first paragraph. You have only connected the first two.
I will admit that it is very strange about the physical constants, but we do not yet know that they are not connected in some unknown way. Lets let the physicists look into that for a few decades before jumping to conclusions shall we? Also, that looks like tuning for maximum complexity, rather than an attempt to produce humanity.
Furthermore, the anthropic principle can be taken too far, but isn't it fair enough to say that life evolved in this solar system because this one was suitable? There is a reason I can't say "Look at this planet, completely unsuitable for life, this disproves creation", and it's that we didn't evolve there. And plants are green because there is a lot of green light about, not the other way around.
In response to your last paragraph: show me the maths!
But there is about 6000 years of (semi) recorded history of human settlement (i.e. large scale settlement in cities), and the fossil record shows that recognisable modern humans have been around several times longer than that.
And anyway, the universe is definitely more than a week older than humanity. Although a creationist geek should be capable of working out something convincing envolving a decreasing speed of light and some kind of gravitational lensing to discount all astronomical observation...
This is an error which really gets on my nerves, along with "theory of relativity" and others. You are confusing the popular and scientific meanings of the word "theory". The normal use of the word "theory" is to mean what a scientist would call a "theorem": an untested idea that someone just thought of. The scientific usage of "theory" is an idea that is believed because it explains some observation and has not yet contradicted any observations.
The thing about evolution specificly is that now that Darwin has suggested it it is obvious.
1) You must believe in the inheritance of some characteristics because you see that people look like their parents. Many diseases run in families. Very obvious changes are brought about by selective breeding in dogs.
2) If everyone with a certain characteristic doesn't produce offspring for whatever reason then that characteristic is not inherited by anyone. The next generation doesn't have it.
Don't the above points demonstrate that selection must take place? And that is before even considering the fossil record.
P.S. If you want another "FACT", the earth is really not 6000 years old.
Oh, wait... Did you mean "since this exposes children to violence"?
Link your home computer to the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico
/.ers have done that, surely?
Plenty of
They use idle CPU cycles to analyze radio telescope observations for extraterrestrial signals.
SETI@home main page
Spread Firefox team .
IIRC, something almost the same as this was on ./ front page several months ago.
Those pictures look very familiar.
I am more and more of the opinion that MS doesn't care much about piracy. First the lack of copy protection in SP2, then this. I think they actually prefere people to use pirate copies of Windows XP than to use Linux/BSD/OS X. Their monopoly and the money from large corporations is much more important than money from home users.
Yes, you're right. And BTW, I knew that someone would do a "Stop talking about Gentoo compile times" post. But it's true, I am using Gentoo.
Yes, but my point is that it is stupid to object to the legal use of something because others use it illegally.
To clarify, I am talking about Fedora. I have never used SuSE.
"P2P should be banned because there is no potential legal use for it, therefore anyone using it is intending to break the law."
Oh, wait, a legal use for P2P?
"This legal use must stop because it encourages illegal use..."
I've tried it and abandoned it. Everything is too customized, for example you can't turn that desktop off and revert to the standard KDE theme unless you install it manually (this presumably means that their KDE package is rather different from what KDE releases; this is probably true of many other packages). There is too much Red Hat branding around the place. And packages like make and gcc are missing from the default install, as if they want to force you to use RPMs.
Yeah, you can network install.
FTP/HTTP always seem to corrupt large files. I have never had a broken ISO (i.e. doesn't match MD5 checksum) via bittorrent, because it has built-in checking of each chunk.
And you noticed this/minded why?
C'mon, you were looking at screenshots too, weren't you?
Oh SHIT!
You must be very weird, unless you meant to say that the other way round.
No, not that video.
As of now this is modded (Score:5, Insightful).
Damn mods must be drunk again...
Isn't it just a mispronounciation of "racer"?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
The coloum overlap bug is being worked on, and I think they have it fixed for the next release.
see this Bugzilla page.
Ok, most machines can use some WD-40 from time to time. But computers do not nead WD-40. As well as being a lubricant, it is mildly corrosive so that it can be used to remove rust and generally clean metal. If used in computers, it will eat the tracks off the motherboard.