The standard excuse for avoiding engaging in meaningful debate
...is posting AC. Your choice, your consequences. I guess I know who it is anyway, and I also guess you don't like to see me laughing. (-:
Update your info on the observations of Arp and others (thanks also for the ad hominem argument), which info was IPOF not cribbed from AiG, and against principle I'll also point out to an AC that it was not cribbed from ICR, GRI etc either. However, since you don't want the link...
Have they all been confirmed relative to other postulates, or confirmed absolutely? Or IOW, are the confirmations the only possible explanation, or is there another? Or many others?
Forex, dark mass and dark energy suddenly become superfluous if certain types of turbulence are taken into account. For another example, Big Bang predicted no quantum redshifts, and yet not only are they there, but their systematic imperfections give them a centre a little way from the Milky Way. Big Bang predicts no centre, either. These are direct contradictions of Big Bang by observation.
Now think carefully about the huge number assumptions and magic constants behind expansion redshift, most of them barely tested, and then think about this quasar as a classic example of its class.
...the idea that if the astronomers had simply got the distance to the host galaxy wrong? Say the gas is moving towards us a little, thus appearing hotter/faster in addition to the putative distance error, and the host galaxy is exhibiting a genuine doppler redshift in reaction to this, thus appearing further away?
Once the competition has been eliminated or marginilized MS raises their prices or holds them steady (see office).
This is one thing I really like about OpenOffice. It's steadily marginalising MS-Office in exactly the same way that MSO marginalised Lotus Office, WordPerfect etc. As Stevie Wonder^WBallmer once said, they're having a hard time figuring out how to undercut "free". How sad.
The monopoly also undermines the quality and the variety of the baking ecosystem, and killing off the local bakeries also kills of the local suppliers to those bakeries, diverting the demand to only distant bulk suppliers so it hits the whole economic ecosystem from keel to crowsnest.
This box only stops for hardware faults (specifically, dust deposited on the memory sticks by the CPU fan), and it runs DNS, web and other services for scores of domains and fends off at least three attacks a day. As well as being a workstation. It's x86 and very little effort has been put into locking it down. Updates are done rapidly and semi-automatically.
Microsoft are definitely chasing tail-lights here. Distant ones, too.
It takes half an hour to do an install of Mandrake Linux on modern hardware. Updates are set to happen on automatic, so zero time there. Presume you spend an hour every two years doing a distro upgrade. Mandrake Linux therefore costs you $100 up front and $100 a year.
There is no virus scanner. We just saved 15 minutes downloading and installing it. Installing XP takes at least half an hour as well, so we're up to $100 plus the cost of XP plus $50 for the initial virus scanner download, plus anything we pay for the scanner.
Additional software packages for Mandrake (or SuSE or Debian or Xandros or Ubuntu or... well, you get the idea) are a few clicks away rather than a major grovel around in cyberspace followed by DLL roulette. Presuming that you install either OpenOffice or MS-Office from CD and nothing else (unlikely), that's at least another 15 minutes ($50) down.
The Mandrake Linux machine does not get compromised, mail out your documents all over the ether, or instill in the operator a terror of clicking on new mail or links. I don't know how to cost that. Maybe a major intrusion every two years, at one hour for a careful reinstall plus three hours to clean up and migrate stuff? Kiss another $800 goodbye, but how do you cost out fear and hesitancy? How do you cost out embarrassment over revealed secrets? Lost goodwill? Random crashes? Shrug. Too hard for me, let's ignore it.
Anyway, we're up to $1000 plus the sticker price of software plus some difficult-to-quantify losses vs $300. The $1000+ install has access to a far wider range of software but it's harder to install and you have to pay for most of it. The $300 install has instant access to four thousand packages at no extra cost.
And the harder you look at it, the worse it gets.
For example, factor a Mac into the table, and even with higher hardware costs it might beat both other contenders in the long run (or maybe it'll only pound Microsoft into the financial sand), depending on how much use you make of Fink vs pay-for/black-box software.
When I deal with complicated HTML page layouts, they all Just Work in Konqueror and Safari (wish I could say the same about Konq's JavaScript, which still sucks as at 3.3.1).
Gecko (FireFox and friends) will sometimes require a gentle hint or two about stuff like heights.
MSIE requires its damn hand held tightly for every single agonising step of the journey down the page.
I too would be deeply interested in seeing examples of MSIE adhering to W3C standards where Gecko does not.
Download your copy from here. It's significantly non-trivial to install. Despite the URL, that's with native graphics, not through CygWin's X server, an implementation which also exists.
...but if I had it would have been for the phrase "a company" which while possibly correct in a non-obvious technical sense is quite misleading. I wanted to see a real company run that text with more G-rated text in the blanks, and was sadly disappointed.
Also, you're incorrect about the verbiage since "Nigger" is obscene in its own way, even when used by people without a melanin deficiency but sporting a chip on their collective shoulder.
However since 2000 and XP at least the reliability front has been much better. Still not up to snuff, but probably 1/10 of the effort involved with 9X/ME and to a lesser extent NT.
...to play in FireFox's sandbox, not to t0t411`/ 0wn3rz uR |-|4r|) |)15k or any other hardware you happen to have, which is the level of trust you're extending to ActiveX.
From IMDB: Edna 'E' Mode: It will be bold! Dramatic! Bob Parr: Yeah! Edna: Heroic! Bob: Yeah. Something classic - like Dynaguy. Oh, he had a great look - the cape and the boots... Edna: No capes! [Throws a wadded ball of paper at Bob's head] Bob: Isn't that my decision? Edna: Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids. Bob: Listen 'E'... Edna: November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved... when his cape snagged on a missile! Bob: Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb... Edna: Stratogirl! April 23rd, '57! Cape caught in a jet turbine! Bob: E, you can't generalize about these things... Edna: Metaman - express elevator! Dynaguy - snagged on takeoff! Splashdown - sucked into a vortex! NO CAPES!
His house sports quite a whizz-bang coffee-maker. And a truly excellent wooden frog.
On a serious note, like Linus, I don't think he'll ever be short of a job or a dime. He could have anything delivered that takes his fancy. However, he also likes to exercise - which is great from our PoV since it keeps him alive and healthy for longer - and to cook.
However, the ways-to-send-pizza will be missed. If it could be automated, they could put it back as a "Send Pizza" button, which queues up pizzas across the world for when Samba developers want one. (-:
...the same people that Indonesia won't let land and occasionally blow out of the water if they think they can get away with it? The ones rich enough in their home countries to fall prey to the even greedier scamsters who put them on the rotten hulks they sail in the first place? The ones who sail off to save themselves, leaving so many of their countrymen to be murdered behind them? The same ones who import their native triads to Oz and ramp up our local crime rates? The same ones for whom Australia is the only country soft enough to ever let them land at all?
So once your MS-Windows users are all using FireFox, OpenOffice, Evolution it's not such a big deal to swap the expensive, unreliable and difficult-to-maintain virus flypaper for an OS which is stable, easy to maintain and free of spyware.
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Update your info on the observations of Arp and others (thanks also for the ad hominem argument), which info was IPOF not cribbed from AiG, and against principle I'll also point out to an AC that it was not cribbed from ICR, GRI etc either. However, since you don't want the link...
...and I'll bother posting links.
Have they all been confirmed relative to other postulates, or confirmed absolutely? Or IOW, are the confirmations the only possible explanation, or is there another? Or many others?
Forex, dark mass and dark energy suddenly become superfluous if certain types of turbulence are taken into account. For another example, Big Bang predicted no quantum redshifts, and yet not only are they there, but their systematic imperfections give them a centre a little way from the Milky Way. Big Bang predicts no centre, either. These are direct contradictions of Big Bang by observation.
Now think carefully about the huge number assumptions and magic constants behind expansion redshift, most of them barely tested, and then think about this quasar as a classic example of its class.
...the idea that if the astronomers had simply got the distance to the host galaxy wrong? Say the gas is moving towards us a little, thus appearing hotter/faster in addition to the putative distance error, and the host galaxy is exhibiting a genuine doppler redshift in reaction to this, thus appearing further away?
Yes, please, a +1 Insightful for the parent, if you would be so kind? (-:
Another +1 Insightful for the parent please!
The monopoly also undermines the quality and the variety of the baking ecosystem, and killing off the local bakeries also kills of the local suppliers to those bakeries, diverting the demand to only distant bulk suppliers so it hits the whole economic ecosystem from keel to crowsnest.
Well-crafted sarcasm deserves a rating that contributes to its karma.
Either that or you're smoking something unseemly.
This box only stops for hardware faults (specifically, dust deposited on the memory sticks by the CPU fan), and it runs DNS, web and other services for scores of domains and fends off at least three attacks a day. As well as being a workstation. It's x86 and very little effort has been put into locking it down. Updates are done rapidly and semi-automatically.
Microsoft are definitely chasing tail-lights here. Distant ones, too.
Now go and get a life. (-:
It takes half an hour to do an install of Mandrake Linux on modern hardware. Updates are set to happen on automatic, so zero time there. Presume you spend an hour every two years doing a distro upgrade. Mandrake Linux therefore costs you $100 up front and $100 a year.
There is no virus scanner. We just saved 15 minutes downloading and installing it. Installing XP takes at least half an hour as well, so we're up to $100 plus the cost of XP plus $50 for the initial virus scanner download, plus anything we pay for the scanner.
Additional software packages for Mandrake (or SuSE or Debian or Xandros or Ubuntu or... well, you get the idea) are a few clicks away rather than a major grovel around in cyberspace followed by DLL roulette. Presuming that you install either OpenOffice or MS-Office from CD and nothing else (unlikely), that's at least another 15 minutes ($50) down.
The Mandrake Linux machine does not get compromised, mail out your documents all over the ether, or instill in the operator a terror of clicking on new mail or links. I don't know how to cost that. Maybe a major intrusion every two years, at one hour for a careful reinstall plus three hours to clean up and migrate stuff? Kiss another $800 goodbye, but how do you cost out fear and hesitancy? How do you cost out embarrassment over revealed secrets? Lost goodwill? Random crashes? Shrug. Too hard for me, let's ignore it.
Anyway, we're up to $1000 plus the sticker price of software plus some difficult-to-quantify losses vs $300. The $1000+ install has access to a far wider range of software but it's harder to install and you have to pay for most of it. The $300 install has instant access to four thousand packages at no extra cost.
And the harder you look at it, the worse it gets.
For example, factor a Mac into the table, and even with higher hardware costs it might beat both other contenders in the long run (or maybe it'll only pound Microsoft into the financial sand), depending on how much use you make of Fink vs pay-for/black-box software.
When I deal with complicated HTML page layouts, they all Just Work in Konqueror and Safari (wish I could say the same about Konq's JavaScript, which still sucks as at 3.3.1).
Gecko (FireFox and friends) will sometimes require a gentle hint or two about stuff like heights.
MSIE requires its damn hand held tightly for every single agonising step of the journey down the page.
I too would be deeply interested in seeing examples of MSIE adhering to W3C standards where Gecko does not.
Should have read "not like MS has a monopoly on banks yet".
Download your copy from here. It's significantly non-trivial to install. Despite the URL, that's with native graphics, not through CygWin's X server, an implementation which also exists.
What, do I really need to explain?
"There goes the doorbell again, Bella. If he's carrying a GPS, break his fingers in the door."
...but if I had it would have been for the phrase "a company" which while possibly correct in a non-obvious technical sense is quite misleading. I wanted to see a real company run that text with more G-rated text in the blanks, and was sadly disappointed.
Also, you're incorrect about the verbiage since "Nigger" is obscene in its own way, even when used by people without a melanin deficiency but sporting a chip on their collective shoulder.
Your experience is not typical.
However since 2000 and XP at least the reliability front has been much better. Still not up to snuff, but probably 1/10 of the effort involved with 9X/ME and to a lesser extent NT.
...to play in FireFox's sandbox, not to t0t411`/ 0wn3rz uR |-|4r|) |)15k or any other hardware you happen to have, which is the level of trust you're extending to ActiveX.
There's a slight difference.
From IMDB:
Edna 'E' Mode: It will be bold! Dramatic!
Bob Parr: Yeah!
Edna: Heroic!
Bob: Yeah. Something classic - like Dynaguy. Oh, he had a great look - the cape and the boots...
Edna: No capes! [Throws a wadded ball of paper at Bob's head]
Bob: Isn't that my decision?
Edna: Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids.
Bob: Listen 'E'...
Edna: November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved... when his cape snagged on a missile!
Bob: Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb...
Edna: Stratogirl! April 23rd, '57! Cape caught in a jet turbine!
Bob: E, you can't generalize about these things...
Edna: Metaman - express elevator! Dynaguy - snagged on takeoff! Splashdown - sucked into a vortex! NO CAPES!
I also like E doing "Fight! Win!".
His house sports quite a whizz-bang coffee-maker. And a truly excellent wooden frog.
On a serious note, like Linus, I don't think he'll ever be short of a job or a dime. He could have anything delivered that takes his fancy. However, he also likes to exercise - which is great from our PoV since it keeps him alive and healthy for longer - and to cook.
However, the ways-to-send-pizza will be missed. If it could be automated, they could put it back as a "Send Pizza" button, which queues up pizzas across the world for when Samba developers want one. (-:
...the same people that Indonesia won't let land and occasionally blow out of the water if they think they can get away with it? The ones rich enough in their home countries to fall prey to the even greedier scamsters who put them on the rotten hulks they sail in the first place? The ones who sail off to save themselves, leaving so many of their countrymen to be murdered behind them? The same ones who import their native triads to Oz and ramp up our local crime rates? The same ones for whom Australia is the only country soft enough to ever let them land at all?
The issues are not as cut and dried as you hope.
So once your MS-Windows users are all using FireFox, OpenOffice, Evolution it's not such a big deal to swap the expensive, unreliable and difficult-to-maintain virus flypaper for an OS which is stable, easy to maintain and free of spyware.