Quite right. It is not the religious leaders that take advantage (although some may do so) but the meme complex itself that propagates by fear of death, the need for meaning, etc...
The particular hook varies from religion to religion, of course.
That may be the colloquial useage to some, but the first dictionary that I checked does not mention life-saving at all. It mentioned courage, nobility, fighting for a cause...but nothing explicitly about saving lives.
And let's not forget the Greek mathematician "Hero" famous for devising a way to determine the area of a triangle....definately a geek.
Though your skepticism may be warranted, it appears that you have no understanding of what it means to work on a large team engineering effort. The article mentions in the first paragraph that there are hundreds of engineers working on the POWER processors. Wouldn't cooperation be an essential aspect of making that work? Do you think everybody stands around sucking their thumb while one hotshot at the top makes the design decisions? It's more likely that experimentation and lively debates lead to design decisions, don't you think?
Yes, and the rapid prototyping fever is particularly troubling in the context of a write-only language like perl. (I do love perl; don't get me wrong.) The true test of your system is not how quickly you can make it stand up, but by how well it can be maintained by someone who did not write it. Optimizing for the prototyping phase is is like making sure that the first iteration of your loop runs in a nanosecond while ignoring the cost of every other iteration.
I think it's more likely that you did not understand my post.
Robert McHenry's criticisms are orthogonal to the issue of what edit McHenry could have made, had he chosen to participate, and to the question of whether McHenry ought to participate.
Answering cperciva's question about that topic should not be taken to imply agreement with mfh's post, which is superficially compelling, but hinges on using the word "resolve" in a different sense that Robert McHenry intended.
That said: Wikipedias flaws are plentiful, yet it has great utility. Moreover, spotlighting Wikipedia's flaws should not be taken to mean that other encyclopedias have no flaws, or merit greater trust.
I tell my children to be skeptical of any source of information, which is why I was more interested in the practical matter of how the hypothetical edit could have been made. McHenry's thesis (that the open content model is not flawless) strikes me as too obvious to be interesting.
Emphasis on the "ish". It was not yet capable of multiple, simultaneous users. I think Apple did the right thing by going with a mature kernel. It meant that there was a metric shit-ton of work that they did not have to do.
fractal image compression is a separate and distinct technique from wavelet transforms. I do recall that there was a company called Iterated Systems that had a browser plugin for viewing their proprietary image filetype. It looks like they've dropped off the face of the planet. Anyway, here's a nice bibliography on the subject.
A piece of open source software aint born on the day that it reaches version 1.0, sonny. I was usin' milestone 13 of the mozilla codebase when you wuz shittin' yer britches. Kids these days.
I know my odds are not good here, but I'm a long-time user of MH (now using nmh, in particular) and I have a large amount of mail in the MH directory format that I would like to import into Thunderbird.
Has anybody managed to migrate from MH to Thunderbird? In fact, has anybody managed to migrate from MH to anything else? (Maybe I could use some other mail program as a stepping stone to Thunderbird.)
What you need to do is to stop terrorists at their source not after they've gotten their goods into the harbours.
But what if one were to discover that the biggest font of terrorist sentiment has been decades of US foreign policy in the middle east? What exactly would it mean to address the root cause?
If I had to choose, I'd probably say that extending MediaWiki would result in the best option. MediaWiki is clean, easy to use, and (always important) extremely feature rich.
I second this wholeheartedly. It can't be emphasized enough that the default style is so easy to read that people will actually use it. We've had a tough time getting people to maintain our internal twiki installation because the default style makes it unreadable. It doesn't
help that the tagging language sucks too. MediaWiki is much better in both respects. I'd
like to see it support different database back ends, though.
First you ignore them, Then you laught at them, Then you fight them, Then they win.
I wonder if this works backwards. It sure seems like it does: I've gone all the way from the last stage back to the first stage over the last 5 years.
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The wife, kids, and I went out and bought a Dremel last night and carved pumpkins using the drywall bit...inside...no mess. It could be the bit that you used, or it could be your technique. I had a blast, and I intend to do it again.
Funny timing this slashdot article. I hadn't heard of using a Dremel for this until a friend suggested it about a week ago.
The gene sequence that you have posted is protected
intellectual property of the Monsanto corporation.
Your post infringes upon our god-given right to
excusively exploit this gene sequence. Lower your
shields and prepare to be boarded.
That would put a limit on the number of tests per unit of time you could perform. The server-side script does not necessarily needs to be in C. Any server-side scripting language would be fine, and would be no more difficult than the launch script you describe.
I remember crashme, and I just checked the debian packages and anybody can "apt-get install crashme" to give it a whirl.
I'd like to second the AC's suggesting of taking these HTML test cases and constructing an apache module that creates garbage HTML like this. The result would be a great contribution all browsers.
The mozilla project did have a test that sent the browser to random pages accross the web, which exposed it to all sorts of garbaged HTML, I'm sure, but generating randomly garbaged HTML would probably be a more strenuous test.
I've been doing it for a few months now, except that my constraints are even more extreme: I'm only consuming music by those bands from my city (Lincoln, Nebraska), and only those bands that create original material. (No cover bands.) I've discovered some cool stuff...entire genres that I had never encountered. I'm curious how long it takes me to exhaust this pool. When I do, I'll just widen the scope to include other cities.
The one feature that I'd love to see in any jabber client is the ability to have multiple, simultaneous jabber connections open at the same time. I have yet to find a jabber client that does this well, and I floated the idea to more than one. The reason that I'd like this feature is that I have one jabber id for communicating with my wife (on a public server) and another one for communicating with my coworkers (on a private jabber server inside the firewall.) Currently, I have to run two instances of Gabber and hope that they don't have an argument about config files and logs. No project seems to be willing to complicate the user interface by adding this feature, sadly.
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The particular hook varies from religion to religion, of course.
That may be the colloquial useage to some, but the first dictionary that I checked does not mention life-saving at all. It mentioned courage, nobility, fighting for a cause...but nothing explicitly about saving lives.
And let's not forget the Greek mathematician "Hero" famous for devising a way to determine the area of a triangle....definately a geek.
Though your skepticism may be warranted, it appears that you have no understanding of what it means to work on a large team engineering effort. The article mentions in the first paragraph that there are hundreds of engineers working on the POWER processors. Wouldn't cooperation be an essential aspect of making that work? Do you think everybody stands around sucking their thumb while one hotshot at the top makes the design decisions? It's more likely that experimentation and lively debates lead to design decisions, don't you think?
Yes, and the rapid prototyping fever is particularly troubling in the context of a write-only language like perl. (I do love perl; don't get me wrong.) The true test of your system is not how quickly you can make it stand up, but by how well it can be maintained by someone who did not write it. Optimizing for the prototyping phase is is like making sure that the first iteration of your loop runs in a nanosecond while ignoring the cost of every other iteration.
You sure about that? I did a search on the entry for radiocarbon dating, and I couldn't find the word "guess" anywhere.
I think it's more likely that you did not understand my post.
Robert McHenry's criticisms are orthogonal to the issue of what edit McHenry could have made, had he chosen to participate, and to the question of whether McHenry ought to participate.
Answering cperciva's question about that topic should not be taken to imply agreement with mfh's post, which is superficially compelling, but hinges on using the word "resolve" in a different sense that Robert McHenry intended.
That said: Wikipedias flaws are plentiful, yet it has great utility. Moreover, spotlighting Wikipedia's flaws should not be taken to mean that other encyclopedias have no flaws, or merit greater trust.
I tell my children to be skeptical of any source of information, which is why I was more interested in the practical matter of how the hypothetical edit could have been made. McHenry's thesis (that the open content model is not flawless) strikes me as too obvious to be interesting.
In that case the correct edit would be one that acknowledges the uncertainty regarding the year. (That seems obvious to me.)
Emphasis on the "ish". It was not yet capable of multiple, simultaneous users. I think Apple did the right thing by going with a mature kernel. It meant that there was a metric shit-ton of work that they did not have to do.
fractal image compression is a separate and distinct technique from wavelet transforms. I do recall that there was a company called Iterated Systems that had a browser plugin for viewing their proprietary image filetype. It looks like they've dropped off the face of the planet. Anyway, here's a nice bibliography on the subject.
Second Anniversary?
You keep-uh usin' dat word. I do not-uh think it means what you think it means.
Here's a quotation that I just can't get enough of... "developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, DEVELOPERS!, DEVELOPERS!, DEVELOPERS!, DEVELOPERS!, DEVELOPERS!, DEVELOPERS!, DEVELOPERS!"
A piece of open source software aint born on the day that it reaches version 1.0, sonny. I was usin' milestone 13 of the mozilla codebase when you wuz shittin' yer britches. Kids these days.
I know my odds are not good here, but I'm a long-time user of MH (now using nmh, in particular) and I have a large amount of mail in the MH directory format that I would like to import into Thunderbird.
Has anybody managed to migrate from MH to Thunderbird? In fact, has anybody managed to migrate from MH to anything else? (Maybe I could use some other mail program as a stepping stone to Thunderbird.)
But what if one were to discover that the biggest font of terrorist sentiment has been decades of US foreign policy in the middle east? What exactly would it mean to address the root cause?
I second this wholeheartedly. It can't be emphasized enough that the default style is so easy to read that people will actually use it. We've had a tough time getting people to maintain our internal twiki installation because the default style makes it unreadable. It doesn't help that the tagging language sucks too. MediaWiki is much better in both respects. I'd like to see it support different database back ends, though.
First you ignore them,
Then you laught at them,
Then you fight them,
Then they win.
I wonder if this works backwards. It sure seems like it does: I've gone all the way from the last stage back to the first stage over the last 5 years.
The wife, kids, and I went out and bought a Dremel last night and carved pumpkins using the drywall bit...inside...no mess. It could be the bit that you used, or it could be your technique. I had a blast, and I intend to do it again. Funny timing this slashdot article. I hadn't heard of using a Dremel for this until a friend suggested it about a week ago.
The gene sequence that you have posted is protected intellectual property of the Monsanto corporation. Your post infringes upon our god-given right to excusively exploit this gene sequence. Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded.
That would put a limit on the number of tests per unit of time you could perform. The server-side script does not necessarily needs to be in C. Any server-side scripting language would be fine, and would be no more difficult than the launch script you describe.
I remember crashme, and I just checked the debian packages and anybody can "apt-get install crashme" to give it a whirl.
I'd like to second the AC's suggesting of taking these HTML test cases and constructing an apache module that creates garbage HTML like this. The result would be a great contribution all browsers.
The mozilla project did have a test that sent the browser to random pages accross the web, which exposed it to all sorts of garbaged HTML, I'm sure, but generating randomly garbaged HTML would probably be a more strenuous test.
The new standard should go back to the 25-pin D-shaped subminiature physical connector, which would make such insertion painful and dangerous.
I've been doing it for a few months now, except that my constraints are even more extreme: I'm only consuming music by those bands from my city (Lincoln, Nebraska), and only those bands that create original material. (No cover bands.) I've discovered some cool stuff...entire genres that I had never encountered. I'm curious how long it takes me to exhaust this pool. When I do, I'll just widen the scope to include other cities.
Thank you both so much. This is excellent news.
The one feature that I'd love to see in any jabber client is the ability to have multiple, simultaneous jabber connections open at the same time. I have yet to find a jabber client that does this well, and I floated the idea to more than one. The reason that I'd like this feature is that I have one jabber id for communicating with my wife (on a public server) and another one for communicating with my coworkers (on a private jabber server inside the firewall.) Currently, I have to run two instances of Gabber and hope that they don't have an argument about config files and logs. No project seems to be willing to complicate the user interface by adding this feature, sadly.