Even if Lomborg was dishonest -- and you have no evidence of that -- the AGW side has been dishonest too, so by your own argument, anyone else could say, "grant-receiving scentists pushing AGW feel they can profitably resort to dishonesty to prove their point."
Here we speak of Lomborg, and you immediately begin talking about un-cited "other people" who somehow make Lomborg's mistakes disappear in a puff of equivalency.
This is, of course, not evidence that Anthropogenic Climate Change is real, but that public critics of ACC feel they can profitably resort to dishonesty to prove their point, since newspapers "report the controversy" instead of doing their own independent work, and most climate change deniers are happy to adopt any useful argument.
There was an excellent PBS production of the play with Daniel Craig as Heisenberg and Stephen Fry as Bohr. Though I felt like I understood it much better in the reading.
If Hitler was strongly against atheists, somebody must have been hiding Himmler and Rosenberg from him... When the Nazi's found a Christian who actually believed in the Ten Commandments and followed their conscience, they generally saw an enemy. Their interest in the traditional religions of Germany existed insofar as it provided them with handy symbols for propaganda. They had no use for people who actually believed in things beyond what they were ordered to do.
"Gott mit uns" was stamped on the belt buckles of the German Army in World War One. This schlagworte (that's the word, isn't it?) isn't often mentioned or attested in the history of the WW2 German Wehrmacht.
Everybody should read "Copenhagen" at some point, it's really the first and last word on this issue. There's very little in the historical record to guide us to the 'right' answer to the question of what Bohr or Heisenberg were trying to accomplsh, the best we can do is consider the different possibilities.
Whatever happened, thank G-d Bohr didn't ask Heisenberg if he'd double checked his reaction cross-section radius...
The issue of Heisenberg, and any theoretical physicist being treated like a pariah (and thus dooming Nazi Germany's atom bomb program) is very instructive. The Nazi's made a political and ideological decision, to wit:
Quantum mechanics and general relativity is all about 'relativism' and 'ambiguity,' and is unworthy of Aryan science. It's emphasis on relative physical laws and indeterminacy are endemic of its moral turpitude and obvious Jewish origins.
They would then cast about trying to find every white atheist physicist who had doubts about 20th century physics, and then give them huge grants, fat think tank jobs, and would promote their work to the moon and back. On the other hand they would work to suppress the contributions of people like Lise Meitner, who used the 'Jewish physics' to provide them with proof of the first lab fission reaction.
I suppose there's some sort of argument pro or con of climate change in this... exercise for the reader.
Fun trivia: Joachimsthal mine is where we get the modern word "dollar." Silver extracted from this mine was minted to attest its purity and the coin thus produced was called a "thaler." TH is a relatively unusual consonant sound in many languages, and corrupts to D in romance languages like French, and here we are.
By that standard wouldn't a lot of GPLd software be proprietary, since the copyright on the code is owned by the licensing party? Only public-domain source code would meet a "non-proprietary" standard in this case.
Palm and Winmo supported downloadable apps forever, they just didn't move. Vendors were fighting rampant piracy, end users often didn't know what was available except through rumor, and stuff that you could download frankly sucked half the time.
The store concept is the killer app that makes the whole third-party app concept worth the phone OS vendor's time. I remember having innumerable problems keeping my the various junk on my Treo 650 working and compatible, and migrating from one phone to another while keeping app vendors serial numbers entered. I also remember downloading lots of different PRCs and them not working for my OS revision, or phone model, or carrier firmware. It was a mess, and the app store concept is a solution. They just took the concept of a package manager and put a credit card slot on it.
Regardless of how you may feel about taxes, it really isn't at issue. Here we have a company breaking the law, and using its influence to avoid the consequences, and to seek special treatment under the law.
I don't know what world is being referred here, probably the marketing and fairy tale world. Last time I checked, Apple was a marginal player in the real world (i.e., not some particular geography or some fashionable pundits).
Neither the iPhone nor the Windows-7-Series-Social-Squirt phone will probably ever be the dominant one in terms of share.
The iPhone will continue to be utterly dominant in terms of mentions and mindshare, because on its introduction it instantly became the benchmark against which all touch-appstore-smartphones were judged. This is just a function of the fact that it was the first to market and delivered a product that was so different from everything else at the time. Every smartphone that comes out now is compared to either the iPhone or the Blackberry, is judged worth your time or not in comparison to those, and phone vendors now all try to ape the features that iPhone was first-to-market with. By this standard, the friggin Newton was the dominant tablet PDA, since always seemed to get mentioned in comparison to other feature-limited table-touchscreen-stylus computers, even though it never really sold and disappeared unlamented. It was just very new and made a big impression, and everyone wrote about it and compared other offerings to it, and it was the one to beat.
In this regard, this Windows phone will go nowhere, since it doesn't seem to really be trying to differentiate itself from the iPhone, but just give a different take on the same sort of gadget. It might sell a lot, but no one will ever talk about how revolutionary or new it was, since it seems to basically do what an iPhone does, just with buttons in different places and different fonts.
I sortof agree-- the style is very "loud" in the sense that it's overly personal, and they haven't really demonstrated if you can change it to suit. Of course, if they just used Helvetica (er Arial or whatever) and UI layouts with a less Vogue-magazine-style composition, they probably have something general that would have worked for everyone.
Pedantic-- Apple never announced ZFS for OS X. Some people at Sun mentioned that Apple was looking at ZFS, and Disk Utility had an undocumented facility for mounting ZFS drives as read-only, which had the effect of feulling a lot of speculation, but at no time did Apple ever announce that they were going to use or support ZFS.
This is different from the WinFS case, since MS had been putting WinFS in its product literature and presentations up until the Longhorn reboot. Apple fanboy rumors != Apple announcement.
So that you can connect an external keyboard/mouse? You can step into any generic computer store and buy a cheapo disposable keyboard and work on the device as opposed to being forced to carry apple accessories.
I think the point is that when you buy a bunch of desktop accessories for your tablet, doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of buying a tablet? The only reason you buy a tablet form factor over a netbook is because a tablet doesn't require a table and can be operated by a standing human, and if you buy a bunch of peripherals that require you to put the thing on a table to use, why didn't you just buy a netbook? A tablet with keyboard and mouse attached, will never fit a desk as well as a netbook.
And besides, in the specific case of the iPad it connects to Bluetooth keyboards and mice, so the ports are just another thing to break or collect schmutz in.
IANAP, but I seem to recall that images that depict gravitational lenses tend to show stars near the lens deforming into arcs; in this movie stars in the background remain points, even though at least some of them would deform into arcs as they passed behind the object.
You think cutting NASA is hard, guess how hard it might get if anyone ever seriously dared try cutting defense.
Or the deficit for that matter. Banks and wealthy people LOVE treasury bills, and the higher the interest rate the better: that 20% of our budget we pay to service the national debt is just a check we write to investors, and mostly accrews to the very wealthy.
People make a lot more cash voting themselves money out of the treasury, then acheiving a "balanced budget.". The money the government wastes goes to someone, and at this juncture it usually goes to someone who can afford a lobbyist. Welfare and AFDC and SCHIP get cut immediately, even though they cost almost no money, because their beneficiaries don't run full page ads in the Washington Post, don't write million dollar checks to defense think tanks, don't sponsor the Washington Nationals, and don't fund congressmen's campaigns.
And just to bring it home: what people say they believe should basically be ignored most of the time. What matters is what actions they take: how they vote, how they spend their money and time, how they behave around mixed company...
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Here we speak of Lomborg, and you immediately begin talking about un-cited "other people" who somehow make Lomborg's mistakes disappear in a puff of equivalency.
This is, of course, not evidence that Anthropogenic Climate Change is real, but that public critics of ACC feel they can profitably resort to dishonesty to prove their point, since newspapers "report the controversy" instead of doing their own independent work, and most climate change deniers are happy to adopt any useful argument.
Sorry, Stephen Rea, I get them confused. :D
There was an excellent PBS production of the play with Daniel Craig as Heisenberg and Stephen Fry as Bohr. Though I felt like I understood it much better in the reading.
I am willing to stipulate s/atheist/gentile/ if that will suffice?
If Hitler was strongly against atheists, somebody must have been hiding Himmler and Rosenberg from him... When the Nazi's found a Christian who actually believed in the Ten Commandments and followed their conscience, they generally saw an enemy. Their interest in the traditional religions of Germany existed insofar as it provided them with handy symbols for propaganda. They had no use for people who actually believed in things beyond what they were ordered to do.
"Gott mit uns" was stamped on the belt buckles of the German Army in World War One. This schlagworte (that's the word, isn't it?) isn't often mentioned or attested in the history of the WW2 German Wehrmacht.
Everybody should read "Copenhagen" at some point, it's really the first and last word on this issue. There's very little in the historical record to guide us to the 'right' answer to the question of what Bohr or Heisenberg were trying to accomplsh, the best we can do is consider the different possibilities.
Whatever happened, thank G-d Bohr didn't ask Heisenberg if he'd double checked his reaction cross-section radius...
The issue of Heisenberg, and any theoretical physicist being treated like a pariah (and thus dooming Nazi Germany's atom bomb program) is very instructive. The Nazi's made a political and ideological decision, to wit:
They would then cast about trying to find every white atheist physicist who had doubts about 20th century physics, and then give them huge grants, fat think tank jobs, and would promote their work to the moon and back. On the other hand they would work to suppress the contributions of people like Lise Meitner, who used the 'Jewish physics' to provide them with proof of the first lab fission reaction.
I suppose there's some sort of argument pro or con of climate change in this... exercise for the reader.
Fun trivia: Joachimsthal mine is where we get the modern word "dollar." Silver extracted from this mine was minted to attest its purity and the coin thus produced was called a "thaler." TH is a relatively unusual consonant sound in many languages, and corrupts to D in romance languages like French, and here we are.
By that standard wouldn't a lot of GPLd software be proprietary, since the copyright on the code is owned by the licensing party? Only public-domain source code would meet a "non-proprietary" standard in this case.
Palm and Winmo supported downloadable apps forever, they just didn't move. Vendors were fighting rampant piracy, end users often didn't know what was available except through rumor, and stuff that you could download frankly sucked half the time.
The store concept is the killer app that makes the whole third-party app concept worth the phone OS vendor's time. I remember having innumerable problems keeping my the various junk on my Treo 650 working and compatible, and migrating from one phone to another while keeping app vendors serial numbers entered. I also remember downloading lots of different PRCs and them not working for my OS revision, or phone model, or carrier firmware. It was a mess, and the app store concept is a solution. They just took the concept of a package manager and put a credit card slot on it.
Regardless of how you may feel about taxes, it really isn't at issue. Here we have a company breaking the law, and using its influence to avoid the consequences, and to seek special treatment under the law.
On your linked page: "All features are subject to change." So I guess no one can win this.
Neither the iPhone nor the Windows-7-Series-Social-Squirt phone will probably ever be the dominant one in terms of share.
The iPhone will continue to be utterly dominant in terms of mentions and mindshare, because on its introduction it instantly became the benchmark against which all touch-appstore-smartphones were judged. This is just a function of the fact that it was the first to market and delivered a product that was so different from everything else at the time. Every smartphone that comes out now is compared to either the iPhone or the Blackberry, is judged worth your time or not in comparison to those, and phone vendors now all try to ape the features that iPhone was first-to-market with. By this standard, the friggin Newton was the dominant tablet PDA, since always seemed to get mentioned in comparison to other feature-limited table-touchscreen-stylus computers, even though it never really sold and disappeared unlamented. It was just very new and made a big impression, and everyone wrote about it and compared other offerings to it, and it was the one to beat.
In this regard, this Windows phone will go nowhere, since it doesn't seem to really be trying to differentiate itself from the iPhone, but just give a different take on the same sort of gadget. It might sell a lot, but no one will ever talk about how revolutionary or new it was, since it seems to basically do what an iPhone does, just with buttons in different places and different fonts.
I sortof agree-- the style is very "loud" in the sense that it's overly personal, and they haven't really demonstrated if you can change it to suit. Of course, if they just used Helvetica (er Arial or whatever) and UI layouts with a less Vogue-magazine-style composition, they probably have something general that would have worked for everyone.
Pedantic-- Apple never announced ZFS for OS X. Some people at Sun mentioned that Apple was looking at ZFS, and Disk Utility had an undocumented facility for mounting ZFS drives as read-only, which had the effect of feulling a lot of speculation, but at no time did Apple ever announce that they were going to use or support ZFS.
This is different from the WinFS case, since MS had been putting WinFS in its product literature and presentations up until the Longhorn reboot. Apple fanboy rumors != Apple announcement.
I think the point is that when you buy a bunch of desktop accessories for your tablet, doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of buying a tablet? The only reason you buy a tablet form factor over a netbook is because a tablet doesn't require a table and can be operated by a standing human, and if you buy a bunch of peripherals that require you to put the thing on a table to use, why didn't you just buy a netbook? A tablet with keyboard and mouse attached, will never fit a desk as well as a netbook.
And besides, in the specific case of the iPad it connects to Bluetooth keyboards and mice, so the ports are just another thing to break or collect schmutz in.
EWWW!! DRM is COOTIES!!!!
Sigh. Can't wait for the Grindr iPad app :D
Competiton causes actors to not do evil things? That's a fascinating conclusion.
IANAP, but I seem to recall that images that depict gravitational lenses tend to show stars near the lens deforming into arcs; in this movie stars in the background remain points, even though at least some of them would deform into arcs as they passed behind the object.
You think cutting NASA is hard, guess how hard it might get if anyone ever seriously dared try cutting defense.
Or the deficit for that matter. Banks and wealthy people LOVE treasury bills, and the higher the interest rate the better: that 20% of our budget we pay to service the national debt is just a check we write to investors, and mostly accrews to the very wealthy.
People make a lot more cash voting themselves money out of the treasury, then acheiving a "balanced budget.". The money the government wastes goes to someone, and at this juncture it usually goes to someone who can afford a lobbyist. Welfare and AFDC and SCHIP get cut immediately, even though they cost almost no money, because their beneficiaries don't run full page ads in the Washington Post, don't write million dollar checks to defense think tanks, don't sponsor the Washington Nationals, and don't fund congressmen's campaigns.
It says I keep my mouth shut unless I have first-hand knowledge or something to gain or lose, or at least something entertaining to say :D
And just to bring it home: what people say they believe should basically be ignored most of the time. What matters is what actions they take: how they vote, how they spend their money and time, how they behave around mixed company...