The Intelligent Design crew don't argue from silence. They argue that we have now accumulated enough observations to positively state that evolution cannot possibly have achieved certain things.
If you claim that they argue from silence, you're going to look like a complete 'tard the first time you meet one.
...overclocking his fingernail computer by swapping the green CMD (Cuticle Mount Device) LED in it for a blue one. Geeks could have nail-size competitions and "hand clusters". The mind boggles.
With a name like that, plasmonics doesn't have to have any point as long as it also looks cool. (-:
...that many early ForTran compilers didn't check too closely to see if what they were assigning to was an LValue, and since a float was six bytes and a pointer to a float was 2 bytes, a compiler would typically store a copy of a constant somewhere and refer to is using the pointer, just as if it was a variable. The end result is that if you did a typoe and executed something that said:
PI = R * R 2 = PI
then from that point onwards, both 2 and PI would assume the value of R squared, so if R started out being 42, then either of
TYPE *,2 TYPE *,PI
would print 1764, not 2.
If you executed 2 = 2.5 then the statement "two plus two does not equal five, even for large values of 2" would be proven false in any following code.
It's sad that it takes a joke to get AciAm to ask serious questions. As you'll see, pseudo-religious hysteria suffuses both sides. I loathe "football team theology" where you're condemned not on merit but because you're on the wrong side.
The answers to SciAm's questions are:
Where were the answering articles presnting the powerful case for scientific creationism?
SciAm won't publish them. SciAm's founding author, Rufus Porter, was a Creationist, and SciAm won't publish them. On religious and political grounds. Nor will any other magazine that values any appearance of scientific orthodoxy.
Consider what happened to Dr Richard Sternberg when he let an Intelligent Designer's paper slip past him (and three peer reviewer and a Council member), which was so raw that it even got a mention in the Wall Street Journal. There are many such tales. Robert V Gentry even had articles ripped from Arxiv on suspicion of heresy. Index Librorum Prohibitorum, anybody? Welcome back to the Dark Ages.
Why were we so unwilling to suggest that dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago[?]
Policy, pure and simple. Mary Higby Schweitzer recently found fresh flesh, bone structures, blood vessels etc in a 68 million year old fossilised T Rex bone in Montana. The news is sensational, in part because "it can't happen". Of course it can't. The 68 million years are a myth. And where's "Dinosaur Jack", Mary's supervisor in all of this? I'm guessing that her data is too close to being heresy, so he's taken a step back in case anything splashes on himself.
or that a cataclysmic flood carved the Grand Canyon?
Policy again. Religion. Materialism. That the canyon was carved by water, nobody contests, but if it was carved slowly, where are the sediments? The silt deposits at Pierce Ferry are not only too small, but the wrong type. The only situation which fits is if the canyon were carved essentially all in one horrendous rush, which carried most of the silt out to sea. Palouse Canyon was so formed in a couple of days, why not the Grand Canyon in a week or so? Perhaps as much as 50% of the world's sedimentary rock is turbidite - formed all in one go, in minutes or hours not megayears.
There is more than one set of religious idiots about. Materialists are just as bad as any other religion, given their druthers. Islam hands out ricketts and suicide bombing assignments, Catholicism burns anyone they don't like as "a witch" or a "heathen" (yes, it still happens in some places), Materialism muffles any dissent and dismisses bulk unfairness as "evolution in action". Materialists like Stalin and Mao have murdered more people in the name of religion than all of the Inquisitions and Crusades rolled together. Not that the Crusaders - or their opponents - came away anything like clean-handed either.
The answer is not to avoid religion (it's essentially unavoidable anyway), but to avoid being an idiot. That's often much harder than going on a Jihad. Of any kind.
It'll be interesting to see if SciAm answers. At all, let alone sensibly.
Under no circumstances does any GPLed project have to accept any changes, you moron! And you moron moderators!
The GPL works the other way around: if you want to ship binaries, you must also ship the source. This means that anyone is free to fork the GIMP. However, with one notable exception, you're all too lazy.
Sorry, should have shopped harder. It was certainly over $1300 (for a legal copy, anyway) at the time she first went looking.
For some reason, every single MS Windows guru I know is much happier installing Pro than Home. One actually prefers 2003 Server, except that the free AVG scanner won't install on it 'coz it's a "workstation only" edition. He doesn't seem to mind reinstalling AVG every few months.
...money for a virus scanner, a firewall, and frequent call-outs to fix stuff which breaks at random, remove spyware which gets in despite the scanners... and so on.
Not near as bad as 9X/ME, but it's still there.
The only real reasons for wanting MS Windows these days are specific vertical market apps (e.g. PhotoShop), or games/edutainment. IPOF, PhotoShop 7 runs under WINE, too, which kind of enmootifies half of that point. I haven't tried later versions.
Even if it hadn't, I don't know of any modern cameras that won't pretend to be a slab of digital storage. In fact, that's how I scraped the photos out of my original Sony camera when I first got one many years ago.
...is the TOFU of window management. The only real advantage to it is familiarity.
Full Disclosure: I have loathed and despised Microsoft's idea of MDI since Windows 3.1. It's not a virtue, it's a hangover from the days when windows had trouble overlapping.
Sven Neumann AKA neo is working on real Colour Management as one of the many, many plates he has in the air. Expect to see it surface before GIMP 2.4.
Arbitrary colour channel depths is something of an elephant in the room at the moment. It was supposed to be inherent in a particular supporting library, but development on that library seems ot have petered out.
The people who are actually doing stuff do have this in mind, though, and regularly get asked about it, so it will happen, even if only to stop the whining.
Computer: AUD$450 Monitor: AUD$300 Windows XP Pro OEM: AUD$240 [PLE] PhotoShop: AUD$1399 [Adobe.au] MS Office Basic OEM: AUD$240 [PLE] TOTAL: AUD$2629
DELTA: AUD$1879 or 250% extra.
Note that PS is more than half of the total system cost and cashing in either MS Win XP Pro or MS Office Basic would almost equal a second screen. Cashing in both would allow a second computer sans screen. Buying a virus scanner and a few other MS Windows necessaries would drive that past AUD$2000 easily.
The basic startup choice she was facing was: shall I buy software or a second camera? At each step along the way, the choice has been things like shall I buy software or a long-distance lens? or shall I buy software or backup my work?
The short story is, if she'd had to save an extra AUD$1879 before she got started, she wouldn't have got started.
Now she's so used to The GIMP that PS feels very awkward. There's a zillion little things which are easy to do in PS and hard in The GIMP, but there are another zillion little things which are easy in The GIMP and hard in PS.
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The Intelligent Design crew don't argue from silence. They argue that we have now accumulated enough observations to positively state that evolution cannot possibly have achieved certain things.
If you claim that they argue from silence, you're going to look like a complete 'tard the first time you meet one.
...Collapsar, appropriately enough a collapsed form of "Collapsed Star".
And yes, it does reach through a General Dynamics hull, why do you ask? (-:
The cryogenic captain, the Silver Surfer wannabee, the smart bomb, it's all coming back to me now. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhgggggggggghhhhh! (-:
...thanks, Naken. I'd like to see VB2Ruby one day, please, if any of y'all have some free time.
...or gram, supercomputing clusters measured in kilolitres. Do your upgrades with a plastic jug and a funnel. I can't wait! (-:
...overclocking his fingernail computer by swapping the green CMD (Cuticle Mount Device) LED in it for a blue one. Geeks could have nail-size competitions and "hand clusters". The mind boggles.
With a name like that, plasmonics doesn't have to have any point as long as it also looks cool. (-:
If you executed 2 = 2.5 then the statement "two plus two does not equal five, even for large values of 2" would be proven false in any following code.
The answers to SciAm's questions are:
SciAm won't publish them. SciAm's founding author, Rufus Porter, was a Creationist, and SciAm won't publish them. On religious and political grounds. Nor will any other magazine that values any appearance of scientific orthodoxy.
Consider what happened to Dr Richard Sternberg when he let an Intelligent Designer's paper slip past him (and three peer reviewer and a Council member), which was so raw that it even got a mention in the Wall Street Journal. There are many such tales. Robert V Gentry even had articles ripped from Arxiv on suspicion of heresy. Index Librorum Prohibitorum, anybody? Welcome back to the Dark Ages.
Policy, pure and simple. Mary Higby Schweitzer recently found fresh flesh, bone structures, blood vessels etc in a 68 million year old fossilised T Rex bone in Montana. The news is sensational, in part because "it can't happen". Of course it can't. The 68 million years are a myth. And where's "Dinosaur Jack", Mary's supervisor in all of this? I'm guessing that her data is too close to being heresy, so he's taken a step back in case anything splashes on himself.
Policy again. Religion. Materialism. That the canyon was carved by water, nobody contests, but if it was carved slowly, where are the sediments? The silt deposits at Pierce Ferry are not only too small, but the wrong type. The only situation which fits is if the canyon were carved essentially all in one horrendous rush, which carried most of the silt out to sea. Palouse Canyon was so formed in a couple of days, why not the Grand Canyon in a week or so? Perhaps as much as 50% of the world's sedimentary rock is turbidite - formed all in one go, in minutes or hours not megayears.
There is more than one set of religious idiots about. Materialists are just as bad as any other religion, given their druthers. Islam hands out ricketts and suicide bombing assignments, Catholicism burns anyone they don't like as "a witch" or a "heathen" (yes, it still happens in some places), Materialism muffles any dissent and dismisses bulk unfairness as "evolution in action". Materialists like Stalin and Mao have murdered more people in the name of religion than all of the Inquisitions and Crusades rolled together. Not that the Crusaders - or their opponents - came away anything like clean-handed either.
The answer is not to avoid religion (it's essentially unavoidable anyway), but to avoid being an idiot. That's often much harder than going on a Jihad. Of any kind.
It'll be interesting to see if SciAm answers. At all, let alone sensibly.
...The CRIPPLE?
Not everyone in the world uses Yankee slang terms.
...for great justice, of course. (-:
Dev: quit'cha bitchin' 'n' get t'tha kitchin! (-:
Under no circumstances does any GPLed project have to accept any changes, you moron! And you moron moderators!
The GPL works the other way around: if you want to ship binaries, you must also ship the source. This means that anyone is free to fork the GIMP. However, with one notable exception, you're all too lazy.
...subtle as ever. (-:
Sorry, should have shopped harder. It was certainly over $1300 (for a legal copy, anyway) at the time she first went looking.
For some reason, every single MS Windows guru I know is much happier installing Pro than Home. One actually prefers 2003 Server, except that the free AVG scanner won't install on it 'coz it's a "workstation only" edition. He doesn't seem to mind reinstalling AVG every few months.
...money for a virus scanner, a firewall, and frequent call-outs to fix stuff which breaks at random, remove spyware which gets in despite the scanners... and so on.
Not near as bad as 9X/ME, but it's still there.
The only real reasons for wanting MS Windows these days are specific vertical market apps (e.g. PhotoShop), or games/edutainment. IPOF, PhotoShop 7 runs under WINE, too, which kind of enmootifies half of that point. I haven't tried later versions.
gphoto2 loves Canon [12]0Ds.
Even if it hadn't, I don't know of any modern cameras that won't pretend to be a slab of digital storage. In fact, that's how I scraped the photos out of my original Sony camera when I first got one many years ago.
Welcome to the 21st century.
...coming, and more, but not this month.
...is the TOFU of window management. The only real advantage to it is familiarity.
Full Disclosure: I have loathed and despised Microsoft's idea of MDI since Windows 3.1. It's not a virtue, it's a hangover from the days when windows had trouble overlapping.
...is still a few months off, but it will read CMYK files and do CMYK separations today.
Sven Neumann AKA neo is working on real Colour Management as one of the many, many plates he has in the air. Expect to see it surface before GIMP 2.4.
Arbitrary colour channel depths is something of an elephant in the room at the moment. It was supposed to be inherent in a particular supporting library, but development on that library seems ot have petered out.
The people who are actually doing stuff do have this in mind, though, and regularly get asked about it, so it will happen, even if only to stop the whining.
I must confess great amusement when Winky Dink got five votes in one of the local council elections a while back.
Look for someone who would rather spend a couple of grand (AUD$2000) or more on a better lens or more Compact Flash than on software. Consider this:
Computer (AMD 2400, 1GB RAM, 200GB HDD): AUD$450
19" CRT monitor: AUD$300
Linux: AUD$0
The GIMP: AUD$0
OpenOffice.org: AUD$0
TOTAL: AUD$750 vs
Computer: AUD$450
Monitor: AUD$300
Windows XP Pro OEM: AUD$240 [PLE]
PhotoShop: AUD$1399 [Adobe.au]
MS Office Basic OEM: AUD$240 [PLE]
TOTAL: AUD$2629
DELTA: AUD$1879 or 250% extra.
Note that PS is more than half of the total system cost and cashing in either MS Win XP Pro or MS Office Basic would almost equal a second screen. Cashing in both would allow a second computer sans screen. Buying a virus scanner and a few other MS Windows necessaries would drive that past AUD$2000 easily.
The basic startup choice she was facing was: shall I buy software or a second camera? At each step along the way, the choice has been things like shall I buy software or a long-distance lens? or shall I buy software or backup my work?
The short story is, if she'd had to save an extra AUD$1879 before she got started, she wouldn't have got started.
Now she's so used to The GIMP that PS feels very awkward. There's a zillion little things which are easy to do in PS and hard in The GIMP, but there are another zillion little things which are easy in The GIMP and hard in PS.
Looking for a hack to make PhotoShop look like The GIMP. Tearoff menus would be a nice start.
Please number up to three candidates in order of preference
[ _ ] Miguel de Icaza
[ _ ] Linus Torvalds
[ _ ] Eric Raymond
[ _ ] William Henry "Trey" Gates III
[ _ ] Steve Ballmer
[ _ ] Vinod Valloppillil
[ _ ] Steve Jobs
[ _ ] Carly Fiorina
[ _ ] Andrew Tridgell
[ _ ] Rasmus Lerdorf
[ _ ] Jeff Waugh
[ _ ] Scott McNealy
[ _ ] D'Ohl MacBride
[ _ ] Alan Bond
[ _ ] Alexander Downer
[ _ ] Hilary Clinton
[ _ ] Jacques Chirac
[ _ ] Klaus Hauptman
[ _ ] Aldona Anisimovna
[ _ ] _____________________________ (add choices to taste)