They may not be financial ones in the sense of requiring paid licenses to use the code, but users pay a considerable amount in time spent making it work the way they wish.
As opposed to the amount of time I would have to spend getting Microsoft Windows to work the way I wish? Having to get GNU Emacs, LaTeX, multiple desktops, Apache, PostgreSQL, and others isn't trivial.
And if you're comparing Linux to OS X, well the software may be reasonably priced, but what about the hardware?
That begs the question, where did physical law come from.
It comes from the objects of physics themselves. Things do what they do because they are what they are.
Science cannot tell you what happened in the past.
You don't believe in forensics, do you? And if science can't tell you what happened in the past, then why should we believe Bronze Age writers?
(and I'm coming at this from a Biblical aspect of the view)
The God of the Bible? I would expect more from a deity capable of creating an entire spacetime.
the Bible says that everything was created according to its kind and that there was a large flood that covered the earth which killed many animals. Therefore you think you would find animals, each reproducing within its kind, and that we would find many fossils of animals, buried in layers of earth that could only have been laid down in a very short amount of time, covering the earth.
What is the relation between kinds and species? And why do we have higher-order classification of organisms?
According to Evolution, you are a product of chance. If you are a product of chance, your brain is also a product of chance. Therefore, the thought patterns that determine your logic are also products of chance.
No. Evolution is not chance. Mutations occur by chance, but natural selection does not. Our brains evolved to cognize the world.
Interesting digression: there never was division in the government about how to treat Native Americans.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee could not be evicted from their land. President Jackson simply did so anyway. Sounds like a disagreement to me.
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But if the planet doesn't have a magnetic field, maybe the organisms are used to the radiation.
Diameter, not radius. The Milky Way has a diameter of 100,000-120,000 light years, so that would be 8-10%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
The fact that our chemistry is suited to life doesn't mean that alternative chemistries are not.
I am saying even if you can travel at 10% light speed or a hundred thousand times that,
A hunrded thousand times 10% is 10,000. If we could travel 10,000 times the speed of light, we could cross about 4-5% of the galaxy in one year.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in it.
Is there an infinite amount of space in our spacetime?
They skip to 12/31.
I read that they actually skip 12/31/2011, not 1/1/2012.
Not on Joe Nacchio's watch!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nacchio#Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act.2C_and_granting_of_a_new_trial
Is part of paying $4 for coffee getting to enjoy the ambience, or perhaps the wifi?
They may not be financial ones in the sense of requiring paid licenses to use the code, but users pay a considerable amount in time spent making it work the way they wish.
As opposed to the amount of time I would have to spend getting Microsoft Windows to work the way I wish? Having to get GNU Emacs, LaTeX, multiple desktops, Apache, PostgreSQL, and others isn't trivial.
And if you're comparing Linux to OS X, well the software may be reasonably priced, but what about the hardware?
I've had many varieties of Starbucks fluids (on the company nickel) and while it's less bad than McDonalds
I prefer McDonald's strawberry shakes to Starbuck's strawberry frappucinos.
Which Starbuck, Dirk Benedict or Katee Sackhoff?
No, I haven't. Is asking such a question an example of your so-called "manners"?
Oops, about 1.2 US gallons.
Except that the US doesn't use Imperial units. An Imperial gallon is about 1.21 US gallons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units#Volume
I've read Atlas Shrugged. I'm not sure that you understood it.
Did they teach you that social cohesion trumped facts?
That begs the question, where did physical law come from.
It comes from the objects of physics themselves. Things do what they do because they are what they are.
Science cannot tell you what happened in the past.
You don't believe in forensics, do you? And if science can't tell you what happened in the past, then why should we believe Bronze Age writers?
(and I'm coming at this from a Biblical aspect of the view)
The God of the Bible? I would expect more from a deity capable of creating an entire spacetime.
the Bible says that everything was created according to its kind and that there was a large flood that covered the earth which killed many animals. Therefore you think you would find animals, each reproducing within its kind, and that we would find many fossils of animals, buried in layers of earth that could only have been laid down in a very short amount of time, covering the earth.
What is the relation between kinds and species? And why do we have higher-order classification of organisms?
According to Evolution, you are a product of chance. If you are a product of chance, your brain is also a product of chance. Therefore, the thought patterns that determine your logic are also products of chance.
No. Evolution is not chance. Mutations occur by chance, but natural selection does not. Our brains evolved to cognize the world.
It seems to be a Samsung ad. Does Microsoft have editorial control?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ciQ4vdsGvA
Interesting digression: there never was division in the government about how to treat Native Americans.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee could not be evicted from their land. President Jackson simply did so anyway. Sounds like a disagreement to me.
False alternative. Lack of design does not imply mere chance. The formation of solar systems is not by chance, but happens according to physical law.
Outside of the mother's (or in the case of Thomas Beattie father's) body?
I am bored to tears with all the "Does XXX mean the death of YYY" articles
Does John Wilkes Booth's ownership of a derringer mean the death of Abraham Lincoln?
discreet mathematics course
Should you be talking about discreet mathematics?
IF she lives as long as her parents have, her total retirement income will be in the area of 2 million.
How much per year for how many years?