In other words, there are known knowns, that is, we know that people applied, and there are known unknowns, that is we know they made scary remarks, but we don't know what they were, and then there are unknown unknowns that we don't know about at all.
No, you never said that you based it on God. But if you say that an atheist can't help but have arbitrary rules, as opposed to a theist, I really can't imagine what else could possibly be implied.
You don't have to believe that Jesus rose from the dead to believe that he was capable of wearing a shroud. While from what I know, the Shroud of Turin seems like so much horsehockey, it's not at all impossible for such a piece of clothing to exist.
Saying that an atheist's rules are arbitrary because anything not of God is arbitrary is merely begging the question. If you're an atheist, you might indeed believe that rules are arbitrary. But you might not. In either case, atheists aren't going to be making religious assumptions, so it is unfair to cast their beliefs in a religious light.
As an atheist, I could easily claim that religious rules are arbitrary because they are based on the whim of a nonexistent being, rather than reality. But obviously, religious people would disagree because they believe in God. Neither this argument, nor the analogous one which you made, is relevant.
We don't pay ungodly sums of money. We pay very little money at all. But "we" are a lot of people. Actors get very little money for each person they entertain, but the big ones entertain a lot of people. In reality, though, most actors are poor anyway.
Teachers are almost infinitely more useful than actors. But I pay lot more for tuition than going to the movies. Now, if we had superstar teachers whose lectures were all over the media and people paid to watch, they'd be millionaires too. I'm sure there are at least a few making good money doing lecture tours already.
Actually, this is an excellent analogy, just not in the way the grandparent intended. As a producer of bottled water, Evian is held to lower standards than communities are for providing tap water. Tap water may not be free, but it's sure cheaper than bottled water, and the bottled water companies exist only because they convince people that their product is better, when in many cases it is objectively not.
Is the general point just to free up main CPU time by offloading desktop rendering to the GPU, then?
Basically, yes. Quartz and Quartz Extreme already offload some things to the GPU. Tiger will also introduce CoreImage and CoreVideo, which will be able to offload basically everything to the GPU. (At the WWDC demo, they were doing things like applying multiple filters to live video without any slowdown). If you don't have a good video card, you won't get effects like the spinning box animation for fast user switching, or crossfading if your timed desktop picture changes. I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't be able to do live resizing of QuickTime movies, or see the cool ripple effect from launching new Dashboard gadgets, which Tiger will have. But stuff like transparency works okay even in software if, like you said, you have a shitload of RAM.
Panther already uses Quartz instead of Quartz Extreme if your card can't handle it. They aren't turning up the eyecandy much, just the acceleration. Not benefitting from acceleration != going slower.
Apple doesn't want to replace Office. For a lot of people, Office is the killer app. If MS stopped making Office for Mac, no amount of "switch" campaigns would make up for it.
Overpopulation is another word for underproduction. I'm not saying that there are infinite resources at any point in time, but we are hardly exploiting the Earth to its fullest. Also, the amount of naturals resources can actually increase, since technological advances can render once useless raw materials (which in the aggregate basically are infinite) into useful resources.
Malthus thought we would starve because population grows faster than farms. Only we can make crops that produce more, can grow in previously unarable land, and implement other more efficient agricultural methods. People may be starving, but there are enough resources in the world today to grow more food than we need.
I would never use "virii" in formal or even semi-formal speech or writing. It would be ludicrous. However, that does not mean that it is "not a word." People use it.
I certainly don't like seeing diminishing language skills, but that doesn't mean that people always have to be anal retentive. Frankly, it's narrow minded to simply tell someone "YOU ARE WRONG" because you want to force them into a context in which they aren't speaking. APA style isn't the same as MLA style, does that make it wrong? This is a site with "News for Nerds," I don't see why nerd jargon shouldn't be passable.
This isn't an English class, it's Slashdot. Slang exists. Deal with it. I don't say "alright" but I've come to terms with the fact that it will inevitably become an accepted word.
If Moore's law holds (and we have no reason to think it won't)
At the current rate of miniaturization (which is slowing down anytway), eventually processors will reach a quantum scale, where they no longer operate deterministically.
Japanese is phonetic? Then why do they spell tsunami tu-na-mi? Or futon hu-to-n? Seriously though, nobody wants phonetic writing, or else people with different accents would spell things differently. Phonemic writing wouldn't be too bad, although that doesn't rule out words like "phonetic" as long as they're consistent.
P.S.: Please Slashdot, add UTF-8 support. I'm not asking for quintuple bucky bits, just a reasonable, mostly backwards-compatible standard that extends functionality significantly.
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In other words, there are known knowns, that is, we know that people applied, and there are known unknowns, that is we know they made scary remarks, but we don't know what they were, and then there are unknown unknowns that we don't know about at all.
Pretty much everyone willing to learn new languages to the point where they'll learn a conlang, already speaks English.
No, you never said that you based it on God. But if you say that an atheist can't help but have arbitrary rules, as opposed to a theist, I really can't imagine what else could possibly be implied.
This should definitely be an anime.
You don't have to believe that Jesus rose from the dead to believe that he was capable of wearing a shroud. While from what I know, the Shroud of Turin seems like so much horsehockey, it's not at all impossible for such a piece of clothing to exist.
As an atheist, I could easily claim that religious rules are arbitrary because they are based on the whim of a nonexistent being, rather than reality. But obviously, religious people would disagree because they believe in God. Neither this argument, nor the analogous one which you made, is relevant.
Teachers are almost infinitely more useful than actors. But I pay lot more for tuition than going to the movies. Now, if we had superstar teachers whose lectures were all over the media and people paid to watch, they'd be millionaires too. I'm sure there are at least a few making good money doing lecture tours already.
Actually, this is an excellent analogy, just not in the way the grandparent intended. As a producer of bottled water, Evian is held to lower standards than communities are for providing tap water. Tap water may not be free, but it's sure cheaper than bottled water, and the bottled water companies exist only because they convince people that their product is better, when in many cases it is objectively not.
I hear the next Perfect Dark game is expected to come out "some time before Duke Nukem Forever."
Basically, yes. Quartz and Quartz Extreme already offload some things to the GPU. Tiger will also introduce CoreImage and CoreVideo, which will be able to offload basically everything to the GPU. (At the WWDC demo, they were doing things like applying multiple filters to live video without any slowdown). If you don't have a good video card, you won't get effects like the spinning box animation for fast user switching, or crossfading if your timed desktop picture changes. I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't be able to do live resizing of QuickTime movies, or see the cool ripple effect from launching new Dashboard gadgets, which Tiger will have. But stuff like transparency works okay even in software if, like you said, you have a shitload of RAM.
"Hurd will be out in a year..."
Somehow I don't think that leaders of the open source movement are the paragon of prescience :-)
Panther already uses Quartz instead of Quartz Extreme if your card can't handle it. They aren't turning up the eyecandy much, just the acceleration. Not benefitting from acceleration != going slower.
Apple doesn't want to replace Office. For a lot of people, Office is the killer app. If MS stopped making Office for Mac, no amount of "switch" campaigns would make up for it.
So people should ignore Google? Yeah, I'm sure that's going to make them wads of cash.
In Latin, virus is a singular fourth declension noun. As such, the plural nominative is virus with a long u. "Viruses" is the English plural.
Malthus thought we would starve because population grows faster than farms. Only we can make crops that produce more, can grow in previously unarable land, and implement other more efficient agricultural methods. People may be starving, but there are enough resources in the world today to grow more food than we need.
I certainly don't like seeing diminishing language skills, but that doesn't mean that people always have to be anal retentive. Frankly, it's narrow minded to simply tell someone "YOU ARE WRONG" because you want to force them into a context in which they aren't speaking. APA style isn't the same as MLA style, does that make it wrong? This is a site with "News for Nerds," I don't see why nerd jargon shouldn't be passable.
This isn't an English class, it's Slashdot. Slang exists. Deal with it. I don't say "alright" but I've come to terms with the fact that it will inevitably become an accepted word.
In America, you make stupid "In Soviet Russia..." jokes. In Soviet Russia, you get thrown into a gulag for bad jokes.
Most people who attempt to commit suicide don't really want to die. But there are some who do, and it's their right to kill themselves.
At the current rate of miniaturization (which is slowing down anytway), eventually processors will reach a quantum scale, where they no longer operate deterministically.
How else are they going to program COBOL or AppleScript?
P.S.: Please Slashdot, add UTF-8 support. I'm not asking for quintuple bucky bits, just a reasonable, mostly backwards-compatible standard that extends functionality significantly.
I for one do not welcome our new alien overlords, and feel that we should indeed endorse and reward those who repel their attacks.
Think older. Douglas Engelbart's OnLine System.