The argument from implausibility that ID is, is because if your belief system says the world is 6,000 years old, evolution as an explanation for Nature is ridiculous on its face. Of course it's impossible for evolution to branch simple life out into a bush of various phyla if you've only got 6,000 years to do it in.
Scratch an IDer and you will find a Young Earth Creationist.
We are so far east in the Eastern time zone, which goes all the way from Western Indiana to Maine, that we should actually be in the Atlantic time zone with the Canadian Maritime provinces.
You are just so buttmad that you were caught out as a fucking shill.
If I go to winsupersite and shill for Linux (I don't, I am just using an example) I wouldn't expect to be received with open arms. Why do you expect to come to Slashdot and expect hugs and kisses shilling for Microsoft?
You're a fucking moron on top of being a shill. Wow.
"The telescope is so sensitive that it could even pick up television signals from distant worlds â" something that might aid in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence."
It'll be Hitler's speech for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
So not only are you an astroturfer, you're a busy astroturfer going from site to site dropping anything and everything to battle "bias" about Windows 8.
Because Windows 8 needs defenders, since it can't stand on its own on its merits.
There is no shortage of Microsoft PR sites. Go back to ZDNET.
Have you paid attention at all to the Microsoft astroturfing that has showed up here in the past few years?
Articles even slightly critical of anything Microsoft are met with a large copy-paste of some pre-written text within minutes. This is especially apparent when it becomes the first post. Like in this thread, itself. Go look at the first post.
>Which version did YOU beta? and on what platform?
I downloaded and installed both the developer and consumer previews and ran them. I still have the consumer preview loaded.
It is a nightmare of stupid UI decisions. Switching between both metro and the "traditional" desktop is a whole level of stupidity not seen in UI failure since Microsoft Bob. The total lack of consistency is jarring.
But hey, obviously i don't know what I'm talking about because I've never used it and this is not a screenshot.
Also, try to spend a few minutes learning shortcuts etc.
And Windows users accuse the *nix crowd of being arrogant because we say "rtfm" too often for their tastes.
A lot of people are flippin' lost without visual cues. 8 has taken visual cues and turned them invisible and put them in hot corners and stupid shit like that.
Metro on the desktop is a goddamned failure. Microsoft is doing this simply because they can, and there is almost a cult-like movement within Microsoft about metro that if you don't like it, then there is something wrong with you. This is exemplified by your statement here.
"We keep hearing different figures quoting the thousands of people who've been sued by RIAA "
The people actually sued by the RIAA for file sharing is actually zero.
nil.
Nobody.
Because they don't own the copyrights. It's the studios that do. These studios are members of the RIAA, but in the US, at least, to have standing to sue, you must have the actual copyright yourself. The press always confuses the RIAA with the studios, because the RIAA has the loudest mouth.
We saw lack of standing with SCO. They kept insisting that they owned the copyrights to SysV, but the plain language of the APA didn't say they do, and in order for copyright to change hands (in that case from Novell to SCO) there has to be a positive statement *in writing on paper* that the copyright is transfered.
The judge in the case and Novell eventually got SCO to fuck off, but it took 7 years.
Similarly in these cases, it's not "The RIAA vs Joe Blough," it's "IRS Records vs Jane Sawless" because the RIAA does not own the copyright to "I Stabbed A Monkey" but IRS Records does.
Just about any Police song with Stuart Copeland on the drums, which is nearly every Police song, which is why I referenced The Police in my earlier message. The song I quoted at the end is a good example.
Any time you've got a percussionist like Stuart who is in love with clanging metal (hi-hat, cymbals, glockenspiel, triangles, chimes, etc), you're going to have a lot of high-frequency harmonics that MP3 encoders fuck up every time. Indeed, I cannot point to a single song that I have that has high-frequency stuff in it that the encoder has not fucked up at 256Kbps and below.
I cannot describe the distortion outside of using the word "swishy."
A curious song that does not have clanging metal that MP3 encoders fuck up is "Sad To See The Season Go" by Cowboy Junkies. Encoders have problems with Margo Timmins' and her backup singers' voices on this song as they are nearly in phase and on the same frequency. I have yet to see an MP3 that has not fucked up the harmony at 192. The MP3 algorithm was tuned to the human voice (in particular Suzanne Vega's voice). There is something about this song that plays havoc with the algorithm.
>My understanding is that it's better to use CDs with gold reflective layers, rather than silver, as silver is prone to tarnishing. Is that correct?
Taking this question seriously because there is an actual serious answer to this.
No. A bit is a bit is a bit. Gold reflects infrared better, but not enough better that it makes a difference in the end.
The biggest risk to CDs is voids in the lacquer on the top. Any scratches or holes in the lacquer top, the aluminum layer underneath oxidizes and vanishes. Hold up an old CD to the light and look at the constellation of holes.
Screen printed CDs last much longer than "silver top" CDs that just have the lacquer layer.
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>For simple reasons: It is coherent
Windows 8 is about as coherent as a a drunk who has just finished his third bottle of Mad Dog 20/20.
Two competing UI paradigms powered up in the same OS simultaneously is not the definition of coherence and consistency in UI.
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The argument from implausibility that ID is, is because if your belief system says the world is 6,000 years old, evolution as an explanation for Nature is ridiculous on its face. Of course it's impossible for evolution to branch simple life out into a bush of various phyla if you've only got 6,000 years to do it in.
Scratch an IDer and you will find a Young Earth Creationist.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ
If you haven't seen Vi Hart's channel, you've been missing out.
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Researcher Takuya Umedachi of Hiroshima University has been perfecting his blob-bot for years,
>modeled after slime mold
We would do well to look to Nature.
Here's one of Nature's blob bots in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yUYDMtsfU&feature=related
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I always await DST with bated breath every year.
And I rue its passing every fall
We are so far east in the Eastern time zone, which goes all the way from Western Indiana to Maine, that we should actually be in the Atlantic time zone with the Canadian Maritime provinces.
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Go jump in a lake.
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Here, I'll sign it again.
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Don't bother replying to him. There's a reason why he gets modded into oblivion every time on Slashdot.
He's off his meds again.
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ctrl-f "alan"
You're the only person in this entire list of responses that even mentions Alan Kay.
So. Sad.
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You are just so buttmad that you were caught out as a fucking shill.
If I go to winsupersite and shill for Linux (I don't, I am just using an example) I wouldn't expect to be received with open arms. Why do you expect to come to Slashdot and expect hugs and kisses shilling for Microsoft?
You're a fucking moron on top of being a shill. Wow.
Stay mad.
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"The telescope is so sensitive that it could even pick up television signals from distant worlds â" something that might aid in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence."
It'll be Hitler's speech for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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So not only are you an astroturfer, you're a busy astroturfer going from site to site dropping anything and everything to battle "bias" about Windows 8.
Because Windows 8 needs defenders, since it can't stand on its own on its merits.
There is no shortage of Microsoft PR sites. Go back to ZDNET.
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It installed fine on mine in VB.
I picked "Solaris 10 after 10/09" or whatever the hell it said for the install.
The install was pretty painless. Timeslider is cool.
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Have you paid attention at all to the Microsoft astroturfing that has showed up here in the past few years?
Articles even slightly critical of anything Microsoft are met with a large copy-paste of some pre-written text within minutes. This is especially apparent when it becomes the first post. Like in this thread, itself. Go look at the first post.
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>Which version did YOU beta? and on what platform?
I downloaded and installed both the developer and consumer previews and ran them. I still have the consumer preview loaded.
It is a nightmare of stupid UI decisions. Switching between both metro and the "traditional" desktop is a whole level of stupidity not seen in UI failure since Microsoft Bob. The total lack of consistency is jarring.
But hey, obviously i don't know what I'm talking about because I've never used it and this is not a screenshot.
http://ompldr.org/vY3prZQ/stupid.png
And it's not like I try other operating systems out of curiosity and have nothing to compare to, like this:
http://ompldr.org/vY3prZg/naggers1.png
Or this:
http://ompldr.org/vY3praA/haiku.png
No, I don't ever try anything. I just talk shit because I've learned memes from other people.
Fuck you.
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Also, try to spend a few minutes learning shortcuts etc.
And Windows users accuse the *nix crowd of being arrogant because we say "rtfm" too often for their tastes.
A lot of people are flippin' lost without visual cues. 8 has taken visual cues and turned them invisible and put them in hot corners and stupid shit like that.
Metro on the desktop is a goddamned failure. Microsoft is doing this simply because they can, and there is almost a cult-like movement within Microsoft about metro that if you don't like it, then there is something wrong with you. This is exemplified by your statement here.
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no, no...
Clear Tab.
Clear Tab and Peeps.
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>No one has been sued for *downloading* music. You get sued for uploading/distributing/making available.
Please note the actual word I used.
Sharing, as in putting it in your share folder.
Thank you and have a nice day.
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"We keep hearing different figures quoting the thousands of people who've been sued by RIAA "
The people actually sued by the RIAA for file sharing is actually zero.
nil.
Nobody.
Because they don't own the copyrights. It's the studios that do. These studios are members of the RIAA, but in the US, at least, to have standing to sue, you must have the actual copyright yourself. The press always confuses the RIAA with the studios, because the RIAA has the loudest mouth.
We saw lack of standing with SCO. They kept insisting that they owned the copyrights to SysV, but the plain language of the APA didn't say they do, and in order for copyright to change hands (in that case from Novell to SCO) there has to be a positive statement *in writing on paper* that the copyright is transfered.
The judge in the case and Novell eventually got SCO to fuck off, but it took 7 years.
Similarly in these cases, it's not "The RIAA vs Joe Blough," it's "IRS Records vs Jane Sawless" because the RIAA does not own the copyright to "I Stabbed A Monkey" but IRS Records does.
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No, no, the words are...
"Ow my balls!"
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Any time you see a "scan image" that shows hair of any kind, it's fake.
The radiation penetrates clothing. Why would it not penetrate hair? Indeed, we all look lumpy *and* bald going through the scanner.
It was obvious the first time these images went 'round.
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Ok, I'll link.
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/371429905/the+police+flac?tab=summary
Just about any Police song with Stuart Copeland on the drums, which is nearly every Police song, which is why I referenced The Police in my earlier message. The song I quoted at the end is a good example.
Any time you've got a percussionist like Stuart who is in love with clanging metal (hi-hat, cymbals, glockenspiel, triangles, chimes, etc), you're going to have a lot of high-frequency harmonics that MP3 encoders fuck up every time. Indeed, I cannot point to a single song that I have that has high-frequency stuff in it that the encoder has not fucked up at 256Kbps and below.
I cannot describe the distortion outside of using the word "swishy."
A curious song that does not have clanging metal that MP3 encoders fuck up is "Sad To See The Season Go" by Cowboy Junkies. Encoders have problems with Margo Timmins' and her backup singers' voices on this song as they are nearly in phase and on the same frequency. I have yet to see an MP3 that has not fucked up the harmony at 192. The MP3 algorithm was tuned to the human voice (in particular Suzanne Vega's voice). There is something about this song that plays havoc with the algorithm.
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>Angry serious reply to a joke post
Have some tea.
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>My understanding is that it's better to use CDs with gold reflective layers, rather than silver, as silver is prone to tarnishing. Is that correct?
Taking this question seriously because there is an actual serious answer to this.
No. A bit is a bit is a bit. Gold reflects infrared better, but not enough better that it makes a difference in the end.
The biggest risk to CDs is voids in the lacquer on the top. Any scratches or holes in the lacquer top, the aluminum layer underneath oxidizes and vanishes. Hold up an old CD to the light and look at the constellation of holes.
Screen printed CDs last much longer than "silver top" CDs that just have the lacquer layer.
Honest to gawd literal bit rot, that is.
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"I'm not like other people. Pain hurts me" - Daffy Duck
I've been caught!
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