I do wish someone would write BorderArt and WordArt clone plugins plus an MS-Publisher import filter for OpenOffice Writer so that we could all forget MS-Publisher ever existed. Other than the "art" features, OOWriter seems to do pretty much everything that MS-Publisher ever did, only with stability and accuracy.
Dunno about getting you mod status quickly but after a little while that recipe will get you mod points at least weekly, usually every day or two. That happened to me essentially by accident, since I don't give a flying fandango how ignorami react to what I post and it turned out that a lot of people like it.
Then if you stray into a forbidden topic, post anything that sounds like it's from the wrong political party, casts to much doubt onto the Holy Creed of Evolutionism, could be construed as racist, gender-biassed et al if you squinched up your eyes just right (I have friends from all cultures, races etc), something which mocks conventional cosmologies, or pick any one of a dozen or so categories that I regularly trespass in, and sooner or later somebody will gather his furry little mates together and declare a jihad against you. Your posts will be moderated into the ground left and right, regardless of their value or topic (it's actually worse if they're good posts, because then they got modded up and down a lot, the nett effect being that you lose more points than if you started at 2 or 3 and simply lost them), and your buffer of 50 karma points will dry up like polystyrene before a blowtorch. Within hours, your account will be blocked from posting, and will remain that way for a random number of weeks. The administrators will refuse to do anything about that, despite your karma having been jammed against the stops since about six months after SlashDot opened their doors (I was up over 280 points when they put the karma cap on). You will be treated worse than a convicted sex offender (in fact, same would probably get modded up for sharing his "interesting" experiences).
It will take about a month after your account is unlocked again to first get mod points, then business as usual.
...that the crappy AOpen laptop that this one replaces has never had MS-Windows on it, and has never been crashed by software (even having the CPU fan fail only shut it down). If I hadn't had to glue a replacement fan to the outside of it to make it work and spend ~AUD$300 on a replacement battery that would only last 3.5 hours on a good day to make it portable, I wouldn't have bothered with a replacement.
I don't like MS-Windows. I've optioned it up to the eyeballs to make it half as livable as a Linux desktop and it still falls short. All the time mouse-to-keyboard-and-back. The touchpad scrolling only works with certain apps. I have to chase all over the web to find apps that are halfway reliable, safe and useful. So I don't like MS-Windows for having a crappy user experience.
And on this laptop it won't drive the wireless LAN card reliably (trashes about every 10th web page load), whereas Linux runs the link absolutely rock-steady. XP fails to restart fom hibernation occasionally, and often wakes up kind-of-asleep; that is, it resumes from cold into a semi-hibernated states and needs another nudge to really wake up. So I don't like MS-Windows for being unreliable.
Pity the manufacturer botched the ACPI DSDT, because something about it panics Linux about every two hours. If MS-Windows didn't exist, the laptop manufacturer would have to pay more attention to Linux, and this crap wouldn't happen. So I don't like MS-Windows for elbowing aside everything else, either.
Finally, I don't like MS-Windows because if I don't fix the DSDT before I put this thing on a public network, I'm going to need an intrusive an annying firewall to further degrade my user experience, plus a virus scanner of similar character -- neither of which, needless to say, are requirements for running Linux. So I don't like MS-Windows for being so rickety that you need to constantly prop it up.
Finally, I don't like the XP which came with the laptop for costing as much as a long-life battery or doubling the RAM. Looked at another way, if the laptop hadn't come with XP, the ACPI would be standard so it worked reliably with everything instead of just one OS, and I could have had a choice of upping the RAM from 512MB to 1024MB for free, or adding a 4.5-hour battery pack to the existing 3-hour battery pack.
Notice that there were zero religious issues in the above list, they are all practical reasons for detesting MS-Windows.
If you do like MS-Windows, there's a good chance that you have no clue about what you're really missing. So really, you can't even speak for yourself because you haven't really made a decision, you only like it because you've never been seriously exposed to any of the better alternatives.
On many (non-Linux-specific) sites it's up to 25% of the visitors. And counting! And how many of the "MSIE" users are running Opera, Safari or Konqueror (or in fact FireFox) with it permanently set to ID itself as MSIE?
Microsoft are supporting MS-Office on the Mac, because they can no longer afford to lose to any Open Source application, anywhere, ever. Which basically means that they're completely doomed, probably sooner rather than later, as their gargantuan cash-flow dips below the threshold needed to support their antisocial habits.
This is the place where science is completely wrong about the formation of really obvious things like craters, has no idea why the brightest object in the sky has a cool interior and blindingly hot atmosphere, can't explain why comets do stuff like sit way off-centre in their coma or emit material in thin jets, and wildly mis-predicts the positioning of heavily red-shifted objects?
The cosmos where we, half of the bats (but not the other half!) and a few things like octopi all have eyes that use the same mechanism? Where most of the basic body plans appear to have been all sorted out in a geological eyeblink? Where the very simplest organisms require large numbers of horrificly complicated organic molecules for their mere existence?
Just to triple-check: you speak of a cosmos containing a planet with tens of thousand of square kilometers of inverted strata? With continents standing proud that we know will be eroded to sea level in around ten mega-years? Which has totally homogeneous, kilometers-thick soft monoliths like Uluru just standing around in the sunshine?
Surely we can't be talking about the same place here?
ID arguments are like disk heads and helicopter blades. They don't work so well if you spin anything up backwards.
This is why so many baptised and confirmed Atheists like the original author keep thinking that they've beaten ID, then get all shocked and surprised, again and again, when ID continues right along. They've beaten nothing but a straw man. They've destroyed the foundations of the wrong building.
ID's premise is not that there're things science can't explain, but that there're specific things which science has explained... are impossible. Nevertheless, they exist.
My own take is that both ID and popular Evolutionism fail miserably through not going far enough. If ID can tell that intervention happened, then surely they can tell us something about how? Or why? It's all a bit too ineffable for me. Likewise, popular Evolution is just laced with references to insensate bacteria "striving" toward this or that goal, or "developing" some feature or other -- that is, the bits of PE which aren't simply unadulterated fairy stories. There's no workable driving mechanism, either, random mutations just aren't cutting the mustard.
For example, Big Bang cosmology dominates science and dictates a lot of our decisions one way or another, yet relies upon many unproven (in some cases disprovable, such as the matter of the highly redshifted quasar sitting between us and NGC 7319 in Stephan's Quintet [innermost of the pair at 3 o'clock]) assumptions.
There are also a number of Islamic scientists from a millennium ago (plus or minus) and Greeks from a couple of millennia ago who would be somewhat put out by your assertion that science as we know it is somehow new. They were probably a bit short on linear accelerators, electron microscopes and compute farms, but the principles were all there. I'm sure that if I was a better historian or archaeologist I could flood you with more examples, but I think two is enough to make the point.
Modulo the weight loss. My mass shifted from more fat/less muscle to less fat/more muscle, which I presume means that it call turns to fat again if I stop cycling. I would like to lose 15kg, however.
in Collie, Western Australia, Muja #1 plant burns 4 million tonnes of coal per year. Coal which is 3 parts per million Uranium. Simple arithmetic says that 12 tonnes of Uranium goes up the stack or into the ash every year. Muja has been operating for many years.
Tell me, O Zoltar, what would happen if a nuke plant mislaid 12 kilos of Uranium?
Yes, nuclear power plants suck. But they suck an awful lot less than any of the currently viable alternatives. If sticking in nukes now makes for a far-less-painful transition to solar or whatever in two decades, then I'm all for it. Even if it doesn't, I'm still all for it because of the coal, oil and gas plants (and mines, refineries, tailings dumps, transportation facilities etc) which won't get built because they weren't needed.
A chap named Chris MacDonald at the University of WA does it routinely.
But he's the only one I know.
The bits and pieces in MS-Windows are all heavily tied together not so much for technical as for marketing reasons. If everything is one great hairball, it's easier to argue that it can't be split. If you still have MSIE lurking even after you "uninstall" it, it will eventually work its way back to being used as a browser again. If MSIE "cheats" and uses little-known APIs to speed its operation, then other browsers look slow and clumsy on the same system. But most importantly, everything on the system is a kind of sales link to everything else on the system. As soon as one gets a foot in the door, the others get dragged in as dependencies.
Developers, developers, developers my ass. It's all about sales, sales, sales.
...was there any specific point to your post beyond the (obvious) emphasis of the lack of concrete answers? I'm left with a very I'm-being-blonde feeling that I missed something.
...then the plasma discharges probably will. Shuttles come in relatively slowly, yet at least one of them has been photographed with something that looks suspiciously like a "Blue" Jet (they aren't all blue) striking it, immediately before it blew up.
Interestingly, one of the analyses used to back statements that there was no lightning involved provides a fairly sound reason for it: there was no warning, no change in the Shuttle's acoustics right up to the point when it all came apart. A strike that high, coming down would be nearly soundless, quickly drowned in the breakup noises, and recovered pieces of the damaged wing show damage characteristic of a high-powered electrical discharge.
Anyone who wishes to assert that such things don't happen is invited to read up on Positive Giants, Rocket Lightning, Geophysical Meteors and Ball Lightning before replying.
...scientists trying to explain how bone-dry and dusty comets got to deliver water anywhere.
There are a lot of things about comets which it's fun watching armchair philosophers and myopic my-theory-fits-everything scientists trying to explain.
For a few interesting examples:
Why was Hubble able to see a flash from the Shoemaker-Levy components from below the horizon and before they were due to impact Jupiter?
Why was tiny little Hyakutake able to throw a "dusty" tail over half a billion kilometers to where it could wash over Ulysses?
Why do comets throw material asymmetrically from multiple jets instead of gentle clouds, evenly distributed?
Why are at least some comets offset from the head of their plume?
Why did Deep Space 1 see two separate flashes as its impactor hit Tempel 1?
Why was the resulting explosion much larger than expected?
Why are there no comets at all with hyperbolic orbits?
Not a GNOMEhead, but AFAIK you _can_ enter a path
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Try taking your hand off the mouse and hitting the oh-so-obvious Ctrl-L sequence.
Yes, I know it's about as intuitive as skinning a hedgehog -- remember the bit in the subject about "not a GNOMEhead" -- but so far I haven't seen anyone succeed in adding a clickety thing to do this.
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...here. With some uberkewl photos to back up what they're saying.
Then someone noticed that there were an awful lot of coincidences between clusters and dark spots on the map. Oh, well. Hello, Square One.
I do wish someone would write BorderArt and WordArt clone plugins plus an MS-Publisher import filter for OpenOffice Writer so that we could all forget MS-Publisher ever existed. Other than the "art" features, OOWriter seems to do pretty much everything that MS-Publisher ever did, only with stability and accuracy.
Dunno about getting you mod status quickly but after a little while that recipe will get you mod points at least weekly, usually every day or two. That happened to me essentially by accident, since I don't give a flying fandango how ignorami react to what I post and it turned out that a lot of people like it.
Then if you stray into a forbidden topic, post anything that sounds like it's from the wrong political party, casts to much doubt onto the Holy Creed of Evolutionism, could be construed as racist, gender-biassed et al if you squinched up your eyes just right (I have friends from all cultures, races etc), something which mocks conventional cosmologies, or pick any one of a dozen or so categories that I regularly trespass in, and sooner or later somebody will gather his furry little mates together and declare a jihad against you. Your posts will be moderated into the ground left and right, regardless of their value or topic (it's actually worse if they're good posts, because then they got modded up and down a lot, the nett effect being that you lose more points than if you started at 2 or 3 and simply lost them), and your buffer of 50 karma points will dry up like polystyrene before a blowtorch. Within hours, your account will be blocked from posting, and will remain that way for a random number of weeks. The administrators will refuse to do anything about that, despite your karma having been jammed against the stops since about six months after SlashDot opened their doors (I was up over 280 points when they put the karma cap on). You will be treated worse than a convicted sex offender (in fact, same would probably get modded up for sharing his "interesting" experiences).
It will take about a month after your account is unlocked again to first get mod points, then business as usual.
...that the crappy AOpen laptop that this one replaces has never had MS-Windows on it, and has never been crashed by software (even having the CPU fan fail only shut it down). If I hadn't had to glue a replacement fan to the outside of it to make it work and spend ~AUD$300 on a replacement battery that would only last 3.5 hours on a good day to make it portable, I wouldn't have bothered with a replacement.
I don't like MS-Windows. I've optioned it up to the eyeballs to make it half as livable as a Linux desktop and it still falls short. All the time mouse-to-keyboard-and-back. The touchpad scrolling only works with certain apps. I have to chase all over the web to find apps that are halfway reliable, safe and useful. So I don't like MS-Windows for having a crappy user experience.
And on this laptop it won't drive the wireless LAN card reliably (trashes about every 10th web page load), whereas Linux runs the link absolutely rock-steady. XP fails to restart fom hibernation occasionally, and often wakes up kind-of-asleep; that is, it resumes from cold into a semi-hibernated states and needs another nudge to really wake up. So I don't like MS-Windows for being unreliable.
Pity the manufacturer botched the ACPI DSDT, because something about it panics Linux about every two hours. If MS-Windows didn't exist, the laptop manufacturer would have to pay more attention to Linux, and this crap wouldn't happen. So I don't like MS-Windows for elbowing aside everything else, either.
Finally, I don't like MS-Windows because if I don't fix the DSDT before I put this thing on a public network, I'm going to need an intrusive an annying firewall to further degrade my user experience, plus a virus scanner of similar character -- neither of which, needless to say, are requirements for running Linux. So I don't like MS-Windows for being so rickety that you need to constantly prop it up.
Finally, I don't like the XP which came with the laptop for costing as much as a long-life battery or doubling the RAM. Looked at another way, if the laptop hadn't come with XP, the ACPI would be standard so it worked reliably with everything instead of just one OS, and I could have had a choice of upping the RAM from 512MB to 1024MB for free, or adding a 4.5-hour battery pack to the existing 3-hour battery pack.
Notice that there were zero religious issues in the above list, they are all practical reasons for detesting MS-Windows.
If you do like MS-Windows, there's a good chance that you have no clue about what you're really missing. So really, you can't even speak for yourself because you haven't really made a decision, you only like it because you've never been seriously exposed to any of the better alternatives.
On many (non-Linux-specific) sites it's up to 25% of the visitors. And counting! And how many of the "MSIE" users are running Opera, Safari or Konqueror (or in fact FireFox) with it permanently set to ID itself as MSIE?
Microsoft are supporting MS-Office on the Mac, because they can no longer afford to lose to any Open Source application, anywhere, ever. Which basically means that they're completely doomed, probably sooner rather than later, as their gargantuan cash-flow dips below the threshold needed to support their antisocial habits.
This is the place where science is completely wrong about the formation of really obvious things like craters, has no idea why the brightest object in the sky has a cool interior and blindingly hot atmosphere, can't explain why comets do stuff like sit way off-centre in their coma or emit material in thin jets, and wildly mis-predicts the positioning of heavily red-shifted objects?
The cosmos where we, half of the bats (but not the other half!) and a few things like octopi all have eyes that use the same mechanism? Where most of the basic body plans appear to have been all sorted out in a geological eyeblink? Where the very simplest organisms require large numbers of horrificly complicated organic molecules for their mere existence?
Just to triple-check: you speak of a cosmos containing a planet with tens of thousand of square kilometers of inverted strata? With continents standing proud that we know will be eroded to sea level in around ten mega-years? Which has totally homogeneous, kilometers-thick soft monoliths like Uluru just standing around in the sunshine?
Surely we can't be talking about the same place here?
ID arguments are like disk heads and helicopter blades. They don't work so well if you spin anything up backwards.
This is why so many baptised and confirmed Atheists like the original author keep thinking that they've beaten ID, then get all shocked and surprised, again and again, when ID continues right along. They've beaten nothing but a straw man. They've destroyed the foundations of the wrong building.
ID's premise is not that there're things science can't explain, but that there're specific things which science has explained... are impossible. Nevertheless, they exist.
My own take is that both ID and popular Evolutionism fail miserably through not going far enough. If ID can tell that intervention happened, then surely they can tell us something about how? Or why? It's all a bit too ineffable for me. Likewise, popular Evolution is just laced with references to insensate bacteria "striving" toward this or that goal, or "developing" some feature or other -- that is, the bits of PE which aren't simply unadulterated fairy stories. There's no workable driving mechanism, either, random mutations just aren't cutting the mustard.
For example, Big Bang cosmology dominates science and dictates a lot of our decisions one way or another, yet relies upon many unproven (in some cases disprovable, such as the matter of the highly redshifted quasar sitting between us and NGC 7319 in Stephan's Quintet [innermost of the pair at 3 o'clock]) assumptions.
There are also a number of Islamic scientists from a millennium ago (plus or minus) and Greeks from a couple of millennia ago who would be somewhat put out by your assertion that science as we know it is somehow new. They were probably a bit short on linear accelerators, electron microscopes and compute farms, but the principles were all there. I'm sure that if I was a better historian or archaeologist I could flood you with more examples, but I think two is enough to make the point.
Modulo the weight loss. My mass shifted from more fat/less muscle to less fat/more muscle, which I presume means that it call turns to fat again if I stop cycling. I would like to lose 15kg, however.
...even Osama can only afford about 8 tries.
+1, Appropriate Demonstration?
...after they've brought a SHINY brand camcorder with lettering that might have said SONY if you didn't look closely enough. Is that a counterfeit?
Hypothetically speaking. (-:
in Collie, Western Australia, Muja #1 plant burns 4 million tonnes of coal per year. Coal which is 3 parts per million Uranium. Simple arithmetic says that 12 tonnes of Uranium goes up the stack or into the ash every year. Muja has been operating for many years.
Tell me, O Zoltar, what would happen if a nuke plant mislaid 12 kilos of Uranium?
Yes, nuclear power plants suck. But they suck an awful lot less than any of the currently viable alternatives. If sticking in nukes now makes for a far-less-painful transition to solar or whatever in two decades, then I'm all for it. Even if it doesn't, I'm still all for it because of the coal, oil and gas plants (and mines, refineries, tailings dumps, transportation facilities etc) which won't get built because they weren't needed.
...but probably patented.
A chap named Chris MacDonald at the University of WA does it routinely.
But he's the only one I know.
The bits and pieces in MS-Windows are all heavily tied together not so much for technical as for marketing reasons. If everything is one great hairball, it's easier to argue that it can't be split. If you still have MSIE lurking even after you "uninstall" it, it will eventually work its way back to being used as a browser again. If MSIE "cheats" and uses little-known APIs to speed its operation, then other browsers look slow and clumsy on the same system. But most importantly, everything on the system is a kind of sales link to everything else on the system. As soon as one gets a foot in the door, the others get dragged in as dependencies.
Developers, developers, developers my ass. It's all about sales, sales, sales.
...to the point where finding them while attending is almost a Hallowed Tradition now.
...was there any specific point to your post beyond the (obvious) emphasis of the lack of concrete answers? I'm left with a very I'm-being-blonde feeling that I missed something.
...then the plasma discharges probably will. Shuttles come in relatively slowly, yet at least one of them has been photographed with something that looks suspiciously like a "Blue" Jet (they aren't all blue) striking it, immediately before it blew up.
Interestingly, one of the analyses used to back statements that there was no lightning involved provides a fairly sound reason for it: there was no warning, no change in the Shuttle's acoustics right up to the point when it all came apart. A strike that high, coming down would be nearly soundless, quickly drowned in the breakup noises, and recovered pieces of the damaged wing show damage characteristic of a high-powered electrical discharge.
Anyone who wishes to assert that such things don't happen is invited to read up on Positive Giants, Rocket Lightning, Geophysical Meteors and Ball Lightning before replying.
If the comment, it's a pre-emptive dupe. (-:
...Damned Alvaro's MesSeNger and see if the judge has a sense of humour.
There are a lot of things about comets which it's fun watching armchair philosophers and myopic my-theory-fits-everything scientists trying to explain.
For a few interesting examples:
Try taking your hand off the mouse and hitting the oh-so-obvious Ctrl-L sequence.
Yes, I know it's about as intuitive as skinning a hedgehog -- remember the bit in the subject about "not a GNOMEhead" -- but so far I haven't seen anyone succeed in adding a clickety thing to do this.