That was the moment of conception; the birth took a little longer.
The internet as we know it was born when Jack Rickard and his army of sysops burned the AUP, tore what was an exclusionary research and education network from the cold dead fingers of its institutional guardians, and made it available to anyone with a computer and a modem. That would have been around 1990 when it was all made possible by UUNet's introduction of AlterNet.
It's interesting to note how many of the people celebrated as internet heroes fought the commercialization of the net, the internet as we know it today, tooth and nail.
We had mobile phones during the second world war. All that's happened is that they got smaller, cheaper, and more reliable. One step backward is that they no longer communicate with each other but depend on an expensive infrastructure with centralized control—basically 2m ham radio for the masses. Perhaps that's a small price to pay for portability and world-wide range.
Yes, but firearm-related accident rates are dramatically higher than anyplace else in the Western world due to easy access to firearms.
Numerically impaired?
Repeat: The firearm-related accident rate is declining while availability of guns is increasing. This means that there appears to be an inverse relationship between accidents and availability. In fact Internationally, there is no pattern.
There is, shall we say, some tension, between that and your contention that higher accident rates are due to easy access to firearms (as opposed, perhaps, to greater frequency of use of firarms.)
Americans spend a great deal more time hunting and target shooting than any other country. On a per-capita basis, they use up more than 5 times as much ammo than Canadians, who come second.
Bicycle accident rates in the US and Canada are climbing due to increased use of bicycles. This is not a reason to cut back on bicycling.
If you had been paying attention, you'd know that they did shoot it a couple of times, safely.
One of the more reproducible results of studies on the topic is that kids who are brought up with legal guns are less likely to get into trouble than kids who have never been exposed at all, and much less likely than kids who get hold of illegal guns. The obvious reason is that they spend a lot of supervised time using them safely and they know what they can do. The mystery is removed.
What's not a mystery is that, in the US, firearm-related accident rates are plummeting as legal gun ownership steadily increases. Parents are teaching their kids safe handling, and those kids aren't involved in tragedies.
First-off, like me, you aren't cool enough to have an iphone. That said, the iphone isn't even in the N900's league.
You get a souped-up N810 (ipod on steroids and linux, $200), 3G phone ($250), GPS ($200), Five-megapixel camera with Zeiss Lens ($250), all for $700. I'd say a great deal better.
It depends on where you are. Here in Canada, unless I'm sorely mistaken, the default regarding work for hire is that you still own the copyright but your client or employer has an unrestricted license to use it. I've seen this time and again in government contracts (they have to spell it out for foreign bidders) and you know they wouldn't do that if they weren't forced.
Hey, the fact that it works at all is the miracle here.
Something that bears repeating. The point is that there is no "Home" edition of any linux distribution. Linux is to consumer computing what Quadratec is to four-wheeling. Quadratec will sell you everything you need to build your own jeep from the rubber up—if you have the right skill set.
It's interesting that a technical writer wouldn't bother to learn anything about his toolkit. Word doesn't do anything to backticks, but it will, by default, change straight quotes to curly quotes.
You can turn off the straight quote to curly quote autoformat feature, as well as a bunch of others.
For people who "don't understand those funny symbols", Word is the ideal tool for producing draft or camera-ready. It just takes different setups and an understanding of styles. RTFM or spend some time with someone who knows how to drive it and can set you up with a few.dot files, each of which is ideal for one purpose.
What evidence? Certainly no evidence of consensus. Does the phrase "cherry picking" mean anything to you?
A peripheral observation: the earth's climate is a complex adaptive system. I know of no computer model that takes this into account. That's why they can't predict the past, much less the future. Even if they did, the best they could produce is probabilities with wide multimodal distributions. They'd be useless for decision making. All the data we have on climate history falls nicely onto a power curve. There's no way to predict whether anything we do will have any effect or, if it does, whether it would make things better or worse.
The climate may warm--the best thing we can do is prepare for it. The absurdity that we can not only predict the climate but we can also control it has to be the most extreme case of hubris in human history.
I still feel that given the long odds, the 'completely random permutation moderated by natural selection' isn't wholly sufficient to explain all life either
No biologist believes otherwise. You are leaning on your ignorance of biology to justify a comfortable belief.
Random permutation is only one (relatively minor) mechanism in evolution. When you look at the whole picture, at mechanisms like feedback, auto-catalysis and the ease with which atoms and molecules adopt lower-energy states to make complex chemicals, the mysteries disappear.
If there were no evolution, that would require explanation. Filters would work in some contexts and not in others, new genomes would wink out of existence, modern bluejay carcasses would be found in billion-year-old shales, the formation of stars would be without explanation, we'd still be eating nearly indigestible grains, there would be no oranges, no apples, no roses, no cows, no poodles.
Talk about speaking and leaving no doubt....the correct term is "Christianity" and its defining belief is that Christ (Jesus) is/was God (or the Son of God) with the underlying assumptions that (a) God exists, and (b) that "God exists" is a meaningful statement.
The rest is decoration. A "Christian Atheist" is a contradiction in terms.
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The strategy has its risks...
Interesting that the first thing Edwards (Business Week) thinks of are the cliché arguments for gun control.
That was the moment of conception; the birth took a little longer.
The internet as we know it was born when Jack Rickard and his army of sysops burned the AUP, tore what was an exclusionary research and education network from the cold dead fingers of its institutional guardians, and made it available to anyone with a computer and a modem. That would have been around 1990 when it was all made possible by UUNet's introduction of AlterNet.
It's interesting to note how many of the people celebrated as internet heroes fought the commercialization of the net, the internet as we know it today, tooth and nail.
why on earth would you bother putting Linux on a PS3
Because it gives me a Cell computer with the trimmings for a quarter of the cost of the components to build one myself.
We had mobile phones during the second world war. All that's happened is that they got smaller, cheaper, and more reliable. One step backward is that they no longer communicate with each other but depend on an expensive infrastructure with centralized control—basically 2m ham radio for the masses. Perhaps that's a small price to pay for portability and world-wide range.
Facebook is a BBS with a GUI interface and the internet instead of fidonet. No breakthrough there.
Yes, but firearm-related accident rates are dramatically higher than anyplace else in the Western world due to easy access to firearms.
Numerically impaired?
Repeat: The firearm-related accident rate is declining while availability of guns is increasing. This means that there appears to be an inverse relationship between accidents and availability. In fact Internationally, there is no pattern.
There is, shall we say, some tension, between that and your contention that higher accident rates are due to easy access to firearms (as opposed, perhaps, to greater frequency of use of firarms.)
Americans spend a great deal more time hunting and target shooting than any other country. On a per-capita basis, they use up more than 5 times as much ammo than Canadians, who come second.
Bicycle accident rates in the US and Canada are climbing due to increased use of bicycles. This is not a reason to cut back on bicycling.
If you had been paying attention, you'd know that they did shoot it a couple of times, safely.
One of the more reproducible results of studies on the topic is that kids who are brought up with legal guns are less likely to get into trouble than kids who have never been exposed at all, and much less likely than kids who get hold of illegal guns. The obvious reason is that they spend a lot of supervised time using them safely and they know what they can do. The mystery is removed.
What's not a mystery is that, in the US, firearm-related accident rates are plummeting as legal gun ownership steadily increases. Parents are teaching their kids safe handling, and those kids aren't involved in tragedies.
...says the one who has never been more than a few yards from pavement.
Now that is funny! British wit at its best.
In short, they found no evidence of ecological harm, but they're going to go back, and keep going back, until they find some.
All financial contributions gratefully accepted.
First-off, like me, you aren't cool enough to have an iphone. That said, the iphone isn't even in the N900's league.
You get a souped-up N810 (ipod on steroids and linux, $200), 3G phone ($250), GPS ($200), Five-megapixel camera with Zeiss Lens ($250), all for $700. I'd say a great deal better.
It depends on where you are. Here in Canada, unless I'm sorely mistaken, the default regarding work for hire is that you still own the copyright but your client or employer has an unrestricted license to use it. I've seen this time and again in government contracts (they have to spell it out for foreign bidders) and you know they wouldn't do that if they weren't forced.
Nice thing about the Berne Convention—Your work is born yours unless you've signed away your rights to it.
You may be right—Now convince my mother and all her friends.
A laptop is not a netbook.
Why would I want to install on my laptop an OS that's been crippled to work on a netbook?
Hey, the fact that it works at all is the miracle here.
Something that bears repeating. The point is that there is no "Home" edition of any linux distribution. Linux is to consumer computing what Quadratec is to four-wheeling. Quadratec will sell you everything you need to build your own jeep from the rubber up—if you have the right skill set.
You mean with one of these?
Killing your body by removing a required nutrient
Sorry. There's a long list of essential fatty and amino acids, but there is no such thing as an essential sugar or starch.
Yes--your brain needs glucose, and your body can turn protein and fat into as much glocose as it needs.
It's interesting that a technical writer wouldn't bother to learn anything about his toolkit. Word doesn't do anything to backticks, but it will, by default, change straight quotes to curly quotes.
You can turn off the straight quote to curly quote autoformat feature, as well as a bunch of others.
For people who "don't understand those funny symbols", Word is the ideal tool for producing draft or camera-ready. It just takes different setups and an understanding of styles. RTFM or spend some time with someone who knows how to drive it and can set you up with a few .dot files, each of which is ideal for one purpose.
What evidence? Certainly no evidence of consensus. Does the phrase "cherry picking" mean anything to you?
A peripheral observation: the earth's climate is a complex adaptive system. I know of no computer model that takes this into account. That's why they can't predict the past, much less the future. Even if they did, the best they could produce is probabilities with wide multimodal distributions. They'd be useless for decision making. All the data we have on climate history falls nicely onto a power curve. There's no way to predict whether anything we do will have any effect or, if it does, whether it would make things better or worse.
The climate may warm--the best thing we can do is prepare for it. The absurdity that we can not only predict the climate but we can also control it has to be the most extreme case of hubris in human history.
It's usually a bad idea to quarrel with somebody's religion, but what the hell:
One or two scientists disagree
Sorry. I obviously misread your post.
I still feel that given the long odds, the 'completely random permutation moderated by natural selection' isn't wholly sufficient to explain all life either
No biologist believes otherwise. You are leaning on your ignorance of biology to justify a comfortable belief.
Random permutation is only one (relatively minor) mechanism in evolution. When you look at the whole picture, at mechanisms like feedback, auto-catalysis and the ease with which atoms and molecules adopt lower-energy states to make complex chemicals, the mysteries disappear.
If there were no evolution, that would require explanation. Filters would work in some contexts and not in others, new genomes would wink out of existence, modern bluejay carcasses would be found in billion-year-old shales, the formation of stars would be without explanation, we'd still be eating nearly indigestible grains, there would be no oranges, no apples, no roses, no cows, no poodles.
Talk about speaking and leaving no doubt....the correct term is "Christianity" and its defining belief is that Christ (Jesus) is/was God (or the Son of God) with the underlying assumptions that (a) God exists, and (b) that "God exists" is a meaningful statement.
The rest is decoration. A "Christian Atheist" is a contradiction in terms.
Help! I'm being oppressed!