1. I can't help bringing up a quote: "'Those are many questions, bother', said the monk, and that's why he didn't answer any of them." (the monk and his god, Bert Oosterhout)
2. You asked: "How can matter display both wave and particle properties?" Um, a medium ('ether') ?:) No serious, I never understood the problem, compare it to soundwaves going through a medium, like air. They are waves when you measure the pressure, and moving particles when you look at the individual molecules. Same for the waves in the sea, aren't they made out of particles?
I know proposing a medium is highly illegal after the old ether theories. But it would be so helpful, also in making models for gravity.
And if the scientists come up with strings, and/or a dimension extra for every problem, I don't see what's wrong with proposing a medium.
Well my Firefox Release Candidate (3) did react (on Windows XP). First i noted the square outline of (maybe) a popup, for a split-second, then it disappeared. Then my computer kept making noises, and the memory line went to 100%. However no sign of calc.exe. I was able to close all programs, and start them again. I don't know how the exploit works, maybe it uses a memory jam to be able to sneak past the security?
The short of it: Slashdot simply is not about being fair.
Other things: * Firefox attracts more geek attention with the possibility of making extensions, XUL, etc * Opera has been flying below the radar using the wrong UserAgent by default, only now changed in the specs you link to, so apparently a very low percentage of webusers seems to be using it, while Firefox seems to have taken a serious part of the market. Campaign among Opera users to change that, and stats may change radically. * if i read the specs you link to, many (not all) items are following what ff already did. Well actually they are very close. I like seeing they do Xpath, Canvas, and that they improve xmlhttprequest.
Very true. If you type in about:config and filter for idn, you will see that network.enableIDN is still set to false, if it was. I see a lot of country-based whitelist preferences appeared. I suppose you can trust them. I do not know what relation the preferences have, which one is higher in the hierarchy.
I cannot imagine PHP has much value on the userside, especially with security in mind. Check this project though:http://www.moztips.com/wiki/index.pcgi?page =XulPhpMySQL
Of course, the best place for support is not here... but most extensions describe for which versions they work, and usually this excludes the beta and the release candidates. And most extension developers have already changed their interest.
And they are even working on an amazing copy of the Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer, and some sort of GreaseMonkey userscript tool.
Well the best reason is of course to look cool and impress your family at birthday parties. A good second is MS-bashing, always fun.
For me, I love Firefox because
- I can start typing in a page and FIND things
- I can easily write userscripts for Greasemonkey to improve websites. For example on a forum I can keep my personal blacklist, reorder the page, detect trolls easily, etc.
- a very very easy search engine chooser built-in.
- a very clean RSS checker extension (Sage) without the need of nasty things.
As a developer:
- it actually gives meaningful errors, contrary to IE.
Yes to me that was the most noticable change. Especially the first time you run it is very fast. They also worked on the speed of going forward and backward.
Ah thanks for this clarification. At first i was under the impression that you were trying to defend every person who claimed he or she was in touch with God.
I would like to add one more possible cause to your list of internal causes, i once read about. I suppose your doctors ruled it out: stimulation of the angular gyrus of your brain. Well at least i read electrodes could trigger an out-of-body experience in (AFAIK) one experiment. Nature published it (http://www.nature.com/news/2002/020916/full/02091 6-8.html, need subscription, i don't have a subscription so i cannot read it now. As far as i remember it was a report from a brain surgery in Switzerland, a woman had an out of body experience while they were tracking locations of certain functional fields in the brain by stimulating them with electrodes. Reductionists craved that news.). This stimulation was done in an artificial way but i suppose scar tissue in the brain could also do this, as this can also cause epileptic seizures.
Anyway i wanted to add that i think you are dealing with this pretty rational, even though that's almost impossible with such things.
Thanks for checking your replies! Your line with the aliens and the government seems to be funny, was that intentional?
Your definition is unfortunately still very ambiguous. For some people getting a child might feel like that, to others a narrow escape. An intensive physical experience (I'm not (necessarily) referring to sex). Drugs. What's the autograph of God? Having no choice seems so vulnerable to naiveness and indoctrination.
Does God grant such religious experiences? If so to whom? Have you experiences such a thing?
Reread that and imagine it is about a group of totally different people studying a book, say, of another religion, or, say it is about the conservatives and the liberals trying to exegese what the founding fathers really meant to say. Suppose you are a conservative and a liberal tells you that he totally understands what they meant, much better than you...
"You differentiate the will of the holy spirit from a figment of your imagination by noting the qualitative difference. If you ever experienced the will of God you'll quickly understand the difference." Sorry for my late reaction, this is a huge topic and I can only concentrate on 50 messages at a time. But you really need to elaborate on that.
About a year ago i discussed with a christian who claimed he had felt God. I asked him to explain. He described feelings he had which made him feel in touch with God. I then answered that I had the exact same kind of feelings from simple experiments with kundalini as well as with harmless visualisation and yoga, and felt they were just coming out of my own brain. And that I was pretty sure there are muslims, jews and people from other religious backgrounds that also experience such feelings when praying or worshipping.
He then had the guts to tell me I must have been misled by some sort of evilness, as for sure a demon tried to mislead me.
For a Christian this may sound like good advice, for an ex-christian like me it sounded totally indoctrinated. Such self-righteousness is the root of intolerance of different cultures and religions and hence of holy wars.
I do not believe you can ever be sure it is God speaking to you. The human mind is rather capable of imagining, self suggestion, hallucinating.
"The members of the committee [...] a zoologist, a geologist, an aerospace engineer, a professor of radiology and biophysics, and an expert in radio metric dating to name a few. [...] I will not reveal their names [...]"
Most likely his friends from church.
I consider myself worth my salt and i see a page full of flawed logic, suggestive misleading phrasing and a not so hidden agenda: "Nearly all responses to my $250,000 offer go something like this: "Of course no one can prove evolution, can you prove creation?" This response is what I expected and wanted. Neither theory of origins can be proven. Both involve a great deal of faith in the unseen."
It is impossible to win that alleged pile of money by the conditions the doctor sets.
The DrDino challenge has carefully been crafted so it is impossible to win. "Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under "known options") is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence." He will always be able to say 'no i don't buy your proof, II have reasonable doubt, I say GOD is another option". Meanwhile he will walk around like a peacock believing he makes sense and baffled all scientists.
I think he manages to stash the most logical fallacies in one page I have ever seen. Start looking at what he calls 'Observed Phenomena'. Then he lists a very subjective list of values. Bah.
There are Christians claiming they are in contact with God. I spoke to 2, read from more. You may have heard also about the Book of Mormon, I think it is just a century old.
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1. I can't help bringing up a quote: "'Those are many questions, bother', said the monk, and that's why he didn't answer any of them." (the monk and his god, Bert Oosterhout)
:)
2. You asked: "How can matter display both wave and particle properties?"
Um, a medium ('ether') ?
No serious, I never understood the problem, compare it to soundwaves going through a medium, like air. They are waves when you measure the pressure, and moving particles when you look at the individual molecules.
Same for the waves in the sea, aren't they made out of particles?
I know proposing a medium is highly illegal after the old ether theories. But it would be so helpful, also in making models for gravity.
And if the scientists come up with strings, and/or a dimension extra for every problem, I don't see what's wrong with proposing a medium.
Well my Firefox Release Candidate (3) did react (on Windows XP). First i noted the square outline of (maybe) a popup, for a split-second, then it disappeared.
Then my computer kept making noises, and the memory line went to 100%.
However no sign of calc.exe. I was able to close all programs, and start them again.
I don't know how the exploit works, maybe it uses a memory jam to be able to sneak past the security?
He DID it, i SAW it in the MOVIE.
That's why Robin Hood is a HERO!
Aha, but the film did not answer such questions as: WHAT is Tom Bombadil http://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/Bombadil.html#Summ ary, and WE can feel really smug knowing what REALLY happened to Aragorn.
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Tired he is, thirsty he is, and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they say sneak sneak.
the pluin manager pushing plugins? no idea what you are talking about. But I could see some uses for chocolate underpants!
Sweety, you are trying out a Release Candidate, not a Release!
The short of it: Slashdot simply is not about being fair.
Other things:
* Firefox attracts more geek attention with the possibility of making extensions, XUL, etc
* Opera has been flying below the radar using the wrong UserAgent by default, only now changed in the specs you link to, so apparently a very low percentage of webusers seems to be using it, while Firefox seems to have taken a serious part of the market. Campaign among Opera users to change that, and stats may change radically.
* if i read the specs you link to, many (not all) items are following what ff already did. Well actually they are very close. I like seeing they do Xpath, Canvas, and that they improve xmlhttprequest.
http://greaseblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/firefox-15- compatible-greasemonkey.html
Sorry, i never heard of it. But the combi with canvas and being able to script to it as described on the link, that's surely new?
Very true.
If you type in about:config and filter for idn, you will see that network.enableIDN is still set to false, if it was. I see a lot of country-based whitelist preferences appeared. I suppose you can trust them. I do not know what relation the preferences have, which one is higher in the hierarchy.
I submit too fast, of course it does not give meaningful errors, but useful error messages.
You're not being very clear. What do you need those languages for exactly?
e =XulPhpMySQL
To work on the page, the xpath thingy is amazingly strong, for example (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/authoring.html).
And AJAX is quite fun, with the xmlhttpRequest method.
Did you see SVG for making 'living' scriptable images? http://overstimulate.com/projects/canvas/
I cannot imagine PHP has much value on the userside, especially with security in mind.
Check this project though:http://www.moztips.com/wiki/index.pcgi?pag
Of course, the best place for support is not here... but most extensions describe for which versions they work, and usually this excludes the beta and the release candidates. And most extension developers have already changed their interest.
b uildid/nightly.html, set it so it makes all extension versions working. Of course this is cheating so some extensions might not work.
One thing you can do is get the Nightly Tester Tools, http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/
An other usual problem with extensions is they have no proper ID. For this, check the extension homepage or the Firefox support fora.
And they are even working on an amazing copy of the Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer, and some sort of GreaseMonkey userscript tool.
Well the best reason is of course to look cool and impress your family at birthday parties. A good second is MS-bashing, always fun.
For me, I love Firefox because
- I can start typing in a page and FIND things
- I can easily write userscripts for Greasemonkey to improve websites. For example on a forum I can keep my personal blacklist, reorder the page, detect trolls easily, etc.
- a very very easy search engine chooser built-in.
- a very clean RSS checker extension (Sage) without the need of nasty things.
As a developer:
- it actually gives meaningful errors, contrary to IE.
As a geek:
- the wonderful new toy called Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG), check out the amazing 'living; images at http://overstimulate.com/projects/canvas/
For what purpose? Would XUL be cool?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/
Yes to me that was the most noticable change. Especially the first time you run it is very fast. They also worked on the speed of going forward and backward.
Ah thanks for this clarification. At first i was under the impression that you were trying to defend every person who claimed he or she was in touch with God.
1 6-8.html, need subscription, i don't have a subscription so i cannot read it now. As far as i remember it was a report from a brain surgery in Switzerland, a woman had an out of body experience while they were tracking locations of certain functional fields in the brain by stimulating them with electrodes. Reductionists craved that news.). This stimulation was done in an artificial way but i suppose scar tissue in the brain could also do this, as this can also cause epileptic seizures.
I would like to add one more possible cause to your list of internal causes, i once read about. I suppose your doctors ruled it out: stimulation of the angular gyrus of your brain. Well at least i read electrodes could trigger an out-of-body experience in (AFAIK) one experiment.
Nature published it (http://www.nature.com/news/2002/020916/full/0209
Anyway i wanted to add that i think you are dealing with this pretty rational, even though that's almost impossible with such things.
Thanks for checking your replies!
Your line with the aliens and the government seems to be funny, was that intentional?
Your definition is unfortunately still very ambiguous. For some people getting a child might feel like that, to others a narrow escape. An intensive physical experience (I'm not (necessarily) referring to sex). Drugs. What's the autograph of God? Having no choice seems so vulnerable to naiveness and indoctrination.
Does God grant such religious experiences? If so to whom?
Have you experiences such a thing?
Reread that and imagine it is about a group of totally different people studying a book, say, of another religion, or, say it is about the conservatives and the liberals trying to exegese what the founding fathers really meant to say. Suppose you are a conservative and a liberal tells you that he totally understands what they meant, much better than you...
"You differentiate the will of the holy spirit from a figment of your imagination by noting the qualitative difference. If you ever experienced the will of God you'll quickly understand the difference."
Sorry for my late reaction, this is a huge topic and I can only concentrate on 50 messages at a time. But you really need to elaborate on that.
About a year ago i discussed with a christian who claimed he had felt God. I asked him to explain. He described feelings he had which made him feel in touch with God. I then answered that I had the exact same kind of feelings from simple experiments with kundalini as well as with harmless visualisation and yoga, and felt they were just coming out of my own brain.
And that I was pretty sure there are muslims, jews and people from other religious backgrounds that also experience such feelings when praying or worshipping.
He then had the guts to tell me I must have been misled by some sort of evilness, as for sure a demon tried to mislead me.
For a Christian this may sound like good advice, for an ex-christian like me it sounded totally indoctrinated. Such self-righteousness is the root of intolerance of different cultures and religions and hence of holy wars.
I do not believe you can ever be sure it is God speaking to you. The human mind is rather capable of imagining, self suggestion, hallucinating.
You're serious?
"The members of the committee [...] a zoologist, a geologist, an aerospace engineer, a professor of radiology and biophysics, and an expert in radio metric dating to name a few. [...] I will not reveal their names [...]"
Most likely his friends from church.
I consider myself worth my salt and i see a page full of flawed logic, suggestive misleading phrasing and a not so hidden agenda:
"Nearly all responses to my $250,000 offer go something like this: "Of course no one can prove evolution, can you prove creation?" This response is what I expected and wanted. Neither theory of origins can be proven. Both involve a great deal of faith in the unseen."
It is impossible to win that alleged pile of money by the conditions the doctor sets.
I am interested in your response!
The DrDino challenge has carefully been crafted so it is impossible to win. "Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under "known options") is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence." He will always be able to say 'no i don't buy your proof, II have reasonable doubt, I say GOD is another option".
Meanwhile he will walk around like a peacock believing he makes sense and baffled all scientists.
I think he manages to stash the most logical fallacies in one page I have ever seen. Start looking at what he calls 'Observed Phenomena'. Then he lists a very subjective list of values. Bah.
Well the Book of Mormon is newer... and all those people being inspired by God writing stuff, and of course the Pope...
[yep. I'm a non-believer]
There are Christians claiming they are in contact with God. I spoke to 2, read from more. You may have heard also about the Book of Mormon, I think it is just a century old.