The overwhelming evidence for proving natural selection is the fossil record. To test evolution you look at the data from the fossil record to prove or disprove your hypothesis. Not one fossil has disproven natural selection so far. Given how many millions of fossils have been found so far, I'd say that theory is pretty well tested.
Yahoo! and AOL are are now closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations.Microsoft. And of course, this morning's new was that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is apparently in talks for a joint bid for Yahoo!
Seriously, I've always seen red and blue on monitors as having a slightly 3D effect, with the blue receding and the red popping out. Green seems neutral. I once asked an eye doctor and he said it was because of the different wavelengths of light, but that doesn't happen with print. Are there any physicists who can confirm this?
You can still tweak to your heart's content. That was my point about installing alternative OSes. When the Mac switched to Intel a large portion of the Silicon Valley Unix programming geeks started using OS X because they could have the stable eye candy in addition to the power of Unix without the driver headaches. And my point about geeks being vulnerable to their consumer culture, well, how many geeks do you know WITHOUT an iPod? It's naive to suggest that anyone--including geeks--are not swayed by or are somehow invulnerable to consumer culture.
Part of the problem you're running into here is that the popular concept of 'geek' has diverged from 'nerd', much like the popular concept of hacker has changed from its respected origins to mean something sinister today. Today you can be a geek and wear fashionable clothing (and have piercings and tattoos), a point which the geeky "I'm a Mac" guy in the Apple commercial proves. Hip geeks are cool, but nerdy geeks are still nerds.
Why? Because it's got nice specs, its native OS is based on BSD, you can install whatever other OSes you want on it (including Windows, god forbid, and Linux), AND it's part fashion-accessory. You think geeks are invulnerable to their consumer culture?
Your post smells trollish, but I'll answer anyway. The ACLU statement was that they'd like to see the use of these things regulated so they aren't used to violate your rights. They are not categorically opposed to its use.
The goal of the ACLU isn't to make it easier to commit crimes, it is to ensure that you don't lose your rights to the pursuit of criminals. Sure, a police state would be easier to run and traditional crime might plummet, but is that really the kind of country you want to call your own?
OS X is used by most design professionals because of the way it handles color profiles and color spaces. Windows has yet to come anywhere close to the Mac in this area, and is unlikely to as it is a niche they gave over to Apple long ago. I'm sure your point is still valid and lots of designers choose to use it because most other designers have to, but it actually IS better for design.
You do realize that you forgot to check the 'Post Anonymously' box here, though. Kind of defeats the purpose. Though I'm sure your identity is safe through the sheer numbers of anonymous emails Rep. Couch is getting. I'd hate to be his secretary this week.
Just because GIMP can open the file doesn't mean it doesn't lose a lot of file information (layer effects, type effects, layer groups, and so on). On anything other than a damn simple Photoshop file GIMP gimps it so much as to be unusable. It's not like I'm expecting GIMP to open CS3 files or anything, just anything after Photoshop 5. It's so far behind Photoshop's current file formats that it might as well not allow you the option to open them.
I'd be willing to take on the learning curve of GIMP if it could just deal with text in a halfway decent manner.
I really like the Sansa e280 running Rockbox. The stock Sansa firmware is gimpy and Rockbox is so easy to install and customizable. The 4GB version is the e260 which you should be able to find easily for under $100. Pros: the best sound quality I've ever heard from a portable (though you need Rockbox to get the best sound); about the same dimensions as the Nano but thicker (it feels very comfortable) and is significantly cheaper. Cons: not an iPod; scrollwheel is not touch-sensitive, but rather a piece of moving plastic (which doesn't bother me, but bothers some people); you have to use Rockbox to get better sound quality than the stock firmware.
They're in the position of monks making a living from hand-writing bibles, a year -after- the printing-press has been invented. Sure, neither ignoring the problem, nor trying to sue every user of a printing-press is likely to solve the problem.
So is it like they're still running tollbooths after flying cars had been invented? I don't really understand metaphors unless they feature automobiles.
Hold your horses. 'Barbaric in the extreme'? It sounds like you're mad at the false imprisonment more than the actual OP's odd suggestions. I'm not saying that I agree with the OP, but which part is extreme barbarism? What I consider extreme barbarism is cutting people's heads off to make a point. Ratchet down your hyperbole because it doesn't help your case. The OP never said that Gitmo prisoners (why do we call them detainees like Bush wants--they're in prison, legally or not) shouldn't be allowed to pray or read the Koran, just that Gitmo should schedule Baywatch to run during prayer times, so if the detainees want to catch the thrilling end they'd have to skip prayers. And that they'd get a paperback or xeroxed copy of the Koran. You'll have to help me understand why any of that would be barbaric in the extreme. I'm not a particularly religious person, so use small words.
I have to say, your extreme reaction to the OP's post either shows that I'm pretty ignorant of Islam, or that you're reading something into the OP's post that isn't there. I am open to discovering that I am more ignorant of Islam than I thought, but that kind of hate you're displaying isn't helping me understand Islam any better, quite the opposite: if you're a normal moderate muslim and you get this mad then I'd suggest that normal moderate muslims need to lighten up a wee bit and quit taking their dogma so seriously. Then again, I think that about all religions so don't think I'm singling you out.
I always thought it looked like a baked potato wrapped in aluminum foil. Speaking of hideous Minneapolis buildings, does anyone else think the new Walker Art Center building looks like the head of a giant evil Transformer?
With a network delivery model, you can offer something much more modular. If it's actually working live across the wire, as the quotes in TFS imply, then you can also upgrade people's application across all customers simultaneously.
Adobe applications already work this way, with automatic updates. Whether you download a new web-based version of the app or download updates to your desktop app you're still downloading something, so where's real the benefit in an online-based application? The only reason left is a software rental scheme to force users to upgrade or lose the use of their app. Which borders on a protection racket.
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The overwhelming evidence for proving natural selection is the fossil record. To test evolution you look at the data from the fossil record to prove or disprove your hypothesis. Not one fossil has disproven natural selection so far. Given how many millions of fossils have been found so far, I'd say that theory is pretty well tested.
I'm glad they stopped measuring chip speed in Hertz and are now using the simpler metric fingertip-to-knuckle units.
They have a button where you can check if your current IP address is in a black hole. Anyone else find that ironic?
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
Seriously, I've always seen red and blue on monitors as having a slightly 3D effect, with the blue receding and the red popping out. Green seems neutral. I once asked an eye doctor and he said it was because of the different wavelengths of light, but that doesn't happen with print. Are there any physicists who can confirm this?
But it goes to eleven.
Hell, if we guess instead of actually counting then it shouldn't cost anything at all.
You can still tweak to your heart's content. That was my point about installing alternative OSes. When the Mac switched to Intel a large portion of the Silicon Valley Unix programming geeks started using OS X because they could have the stable eye candy in addition to the power of Unix without the driver headaches. And my point about geeks being vulnerable to their consumer culture, well, how many geeks do you know WITHOUT an iPod? It's naive to suggest that anyone--including geeks--are not swayed by or are somehow invulnerable to consumer culture.
Part of the problem you're running into here is that the popular concept of 'geek' has diverged from 'nerd', much like the popular concept of hacker has changed from its respected origins to mean something sinister today. Today you can be a geek and wear fashionable clothing (and have piercings and tattoos), a point which the geeky "I'm a Mac" guy in the Apple commercial proves. Hip geeks are cool, but nerdy geeks are still nerds.
Why? Because it's got nice specs, its native OS is based on BSD, you can install whatever other OSes you want on it (including Windows, god forbid, and Linux), AND it's part fashion-accessory. You think geeks are invulnerable to their consumer culture?
As opposed to the imperial unit, a long crap load. A metric crap load is only slightly smaller, but by just enough to make Americans pissy.
Your post smells trollish, but I'll answer anyway. The ACLU statement was that they'd like to see the use of these things regulated so they aren't used to violate your rights. They are not categorically opposed to its use.
The goal of the ACLU isn't to make it easier to commit crimes, it is to ensure that you don't lose your rights to the pursuit of criminals. Sure, a police state would be easier to run and traditional crime might plummet, but is that really the kind of country you want to call your own?
In the same way that Islam is a Christian religion.
Would that make this guy a Fender bender?
OS X is used by most design professionals because of the way it handles color profiles and color spaces. Windows has yet to come anywhere close to the Mac in this area, and is unlikely to as it is a niche they gave over to Apple long ago. I'm sure your point is still valid and lots of designers choose to use it because most other designers have to, but it actually IS better for design.
If any story deserves a getoffmylawn tag, this is it.
You do realize that you forgot to check the 'Post Anonymously' box here, though. Kind of defeats the purpose. Though I'm sure your identity is safe through the sheer numbers of anonymous emails Rep. Couch is getting. I'd hate to be his secretary this week.
Just because GIMP can open the file doesn't mean it doesn't lose a lot of file information (layer effects, type effects, layer groups, and so on). On anything other than a damn simple Photoshop file GIMP gimps it so much as to be unusable. It's not like I'm expecting GIMP to open CS3 files or anything, just anything after Photoshop 5. It's so far behind Photoshop's current file formats that it might as well not allow you the option to open them.
I'd be willing to take on the learning curve of GIMP if it could just deal with text in a halfway decent manner.
A little of both. It's a malformed link coupled with the Safari Webkit application framework.
I really like the Sansa e280 running Rockbox. The stock Sansa firmware is gimpy and Rockbox is so easy to install and customizable. The 4GB version is the e260 which you should be able to find easily for under $100. Pros: the best sound quality I've ever heard from a portable (though you need Rockbox to get the best sound); about the same dimensions as the Nano but thicker (it feels very comfortable) and is significantly cheaper. Cons: not an iPod; scrollwheel is not touch-sensitive, but rather a piece of moving plastic (which doesn't bother me, but bothers some people); you have to use Rockbox to get better sound quality than the stock firmware.
Hold your horses. 'Barbaric in the extreme'? It sounds like you're mad at the false imprisonment more than the actual OP's odd suggestions. I'm not saying that I agree with the OP, but which part is extreme barbarism? What I consider extreme barbarism is cutting people's heads off to make a point. Ratchet down your hyperbole because it doesn't help your case. The OP never said that Gitmo prisoners (why do we call them detainees like Bush wants--they're in prison, legally or not) shouldn't be allowed to pray or read the Koran, just that Gitmo should schedule Baywatch to run during prayer times, so if the detainees want to catch the thrilling end they'd have to skip prayers. And that they'd get a paperback or xeroxed copy of the Koran. You'll have to help me understand why any of that would be barbaric in the extreme. I'm not a particularly religious person, so use small words.
I have to say, your extreme reaction to the OP's post either shows that I'm pretty ignorant of Islam, or that you're reading something into the OP's post that isn't there. I am open to discovering that I am more ignorant of Islam than I thought, but that kind of hate you're displaying isn't helping me understand Islam any better, quite the opposite: if you're a normal moderate muslim and you get this mad then I'd suggest that normal moderate muslims need to lighten up a wee bit and quit taking their dogma so seriously. Then again, I think that about all religions so don't think I'm singling you out.
I always thought it looked like a baked potato wrapped in aluminum foil. Speaking of hideous Minneapolis buildings, does anyone else think the new Walker Art Center building looks like the head of a giant evil Transformer?
Cyclogyro is just his lame American name. When the character was originated in Japan in 1981 Cyclogyro's name was Gyro Robo.
N = 1. Solved! I can't believe they weren't able to figure that out.