They're both right, Strauss says it's unlikely (neigh, impossible) that homo-sapiens will ever colonize a foreign start system; Hawking says homo-sapiens are doomed to extinction if we don't colonize foreign star systems. Actually, Strauss needs to be right for Hawking to be right - so how can the OP ask which is right?
Semantics aside, the fact that we've detected matter at near the speed of light could very well mean that we have our formulas wrong and that we can exceed the assumed maximum velocity. Science has been wrong before, and that's how science works. It's not religion, nothing is wrought in stone and eventually we always prove our "proven" theories wrong, or partially incorrect. Ask Newton.
Why flame? A different point of view can lead to a break through. You initial hypothesis doesn't have to be correct to discover something useful. And who knows, maybe some day God (pick your deity here) will reveal him/herself to us unbelieving humans and we'll be proven wrong. Unexpected things happen every day.
I hate to say it, but playing nice with M$ Exchange is going to be very important. My company uses Exchange for just about everything, which limits me to paying for a Goodlink license (Palm/Blackberry) or using Windows Mobile. Does anyone know if iPhone will play nice with Exchange Server?
The main difference between science and religion is that with science you never say it's absolute, you say it's the best theory we have now; and you put your "cards on the table" for everyone else to look at and try to disprove or make it better. With religion you say this is how it is and if you don't believe me you're against me.
One is a rational thought process that lacks arrogance, the other is full of it. The irony has always been to me that in order to adhere to religious doctrine you have to have pride in it, such sloth that you refuse to examine it with any real effort, and often use wrath to defend it. Three of the Seven Deadly Sins. Oh the irony.
One thing that worries me about this editorial is his constant reference to Linux being impervious. One quote that really scared me was "Ubuntu? It's Linux - no worries." While it is true Windows is a much larger target for hacks, bots, and viruses Linux is not immune, just more resistant (better coded to be honest). But the mentality that "it's Linux, fire up and forget" is going to cause heart ache down the road. People need to understand that no OS is perfect (not even FreeBSD) and they all have their flaws which need patching.
I'm sure I'll get modded troll, but I speak the truth and while I'm happy to see Linux being sold by Dell and starting to enter the mass consumer market, I just don't want people to set the bar impossibly high while setting themselves up for failure. As Ubuntu becomes more prevalent more and more targeted by hackers, bot writers, scammers, and viruses. Even with Linux's well built defenses any user can be tricked into installing software that compromises the machine, and there's just no defense for that.
The email service I use, name of the software escapes me at the moment, allows a box to be specified in the email address. For example [username]-[box]@[domain] send the email to the correct user, and places it in the specified box.
So when ever I sign up someplace I can just give them username-ameritrade@domain.com and I know what spam comes from where. It's really handy. I guess the limitation is that you cannot have a hyphen in your username. C'est la vie.
The new last night covered a story about American Spy Planes flying over Norther California and Silicon Valley. The military said that they're just running tests. I don't believe them. Seems like for all the attention the UK is getting about this, here in the US we're getting the same treatment. Seems Orwell was off by about two and half decades.
Well, that does a pretty good job of describing power struggles at Wikipedia after all. It's kind of like modern art in a way...
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And liberal California picked them up enmasse. I'd love to go one day without hearing the Dixie Chicks on the radio.
However, and this is off topic, good for the Dixie Chicks: they stood up for what they believed in despite it being unpopular and ended up being rewarded by being endeared to one of the largest and affluent populations in the world. Now they can charge $100 a seat at concerts and still complain about the president - except now pretty much everyone agrees.
As far as XM goes, they're just doing a typical knee-jerk reaction. Corporate America hasn't figured out yet that the neo-conservatives lost power and are "uncool" now, just give them a few years and they'll catch on. Then the pendulum will swing back the other way, and they'll be behind the curve again and we'll get Janette's (or insert other, younger star here) nipple on TV again with people protesting and corporate America coming up with some "wardrobe malfunction" excuse.
I believe this. My coworker has a daughter with a serious texting problem (he's mentioned cashing in her from collage savings to cover her mobile bill) and when he called Cingular to block her ability to send text messages they told him that they could not. Which we all know is a lie, but it only makes sense to lie because it's their revenue source.
Is it just me, or does it seem like every American company is just out to see how much they can rip-off their customers these days as opposed to... oh I don't know... just offering the best service?
.bank TLD has some merit. Unlike a lot of current online systems, this one could be well funded enough to actually use humans to decide if an institution is worthy of obtaining a domain with the.bank TLD. Which is a very un-Google way of doing this, so it's probably not cool, but when you have human intervention and those humans are naturally skeptical because it's their job to be so; you tend to get pretty good security. However, some have pointed out that by infecting the host file, hijackers could get around the.bank TLD. Agreed. Why not lock.bank and a few other 'secure' TLD's down to a specific A-block of IPs controlled by some international oversight body (heck, could be American national, but why exclude everybody else?).
Benefits: easy for neophytes to figure out, east for machines to figure out, and difficult to falsify.
As usual, the American government is looking to extend its control over things. "Oh noes, look what terrorists might have done. Homeland security needs more funding and less oversight to prevent this in the future." When will people learn to assume the government is lying first, then wait for them to prove themselves right later?
You're right magma + coolant (water) = rock. The mantle is a section of the planet, comprised of different materials than the crust. This an opportunity to look at those materials without having to drill do far. Trust me, not many scientists was to be looking at 2000 degree molten rock up close.
There's a lot of other cool things we can see while we're down there, like how the rock crystals formed under that kind of pressure and how fast they cooled. All kinds of cool things can be interpreted by the rocks crystalline structure.
How did I get marked down as flame bait? Thanks for the responses, honestly I wanted to know if I could use Groovy to script the very few things that I need to because I'm not allowed to install PERL on this Win2k3 box.
Copyrights are a good thing. They keep good song writers from being ripped off by big mega-corps. Without copyright law there wouldn't be a professional music industry like we have and have had for near a century now. Music writting would be a hobby only, because nobody could make a living doing it. Copyrights protect writers and artists against theft of their IP (real theft, not the kind music execs are worried about).
DRM is bad because DRM is not about protecting people, it's about controlling people. Control over the audience and control over the musicians who are dependent on audiences. There is basically nothing good about DRM. There is a lot good about copyrights.
IMO, it's the confusion between copyright and DRM that makes for bad laws and who could be decent politicians (oxymoron?) making really bad choices (DCMA anyone?). Somebody with a voice needs to get out there and point out the difference so that the audiences begin to get pissed and stop thinking DRM in software like iTunes is OK because it protects somebody. People should be really angry about DRM and refuse to use anything associated with it. They're not because they've been spoon fed that DRM is there to protect the artists that people "love".
There may have been a computer error that made things look interesting, the real culprit was China's bad day at the stock market. It created a World stock slump which drove down stock markets all over the globe. So for those of you who don't RTFA, there wasn't anything nefarious going on.
40% less fuel usage means less fuel needed to get into space, meaning a lighter rock; saving even more fuel. This will also drastically reduce the cost of getting into orbit as well, meaning more satellite based technology in the near future. This is an all around good thing.
I do wonder if this technology will go the route of the automobile or the bicycle. Staying at five gears or heading for twenty-one?
If Html+Css offered a better model instead of the box model (example the point-line model) and offered some way of doing basic data structures I'd agree. The current box model is very limiting in its layout abilities.
Modern documents have so many binary data types inserted in them (images, fonts, etc.) that Html+Css isn't enough. It isn't even enough on the web and that's why Javascript and Flash are so prevalent. There needs to be another specification to support all the needs/wants of the users (who are not willing to go backwards for any ISO standard).
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Semantics aside, the fact that we've detected matter at near the speed of light could very well mean that we have our formulas wrong and that we can exceed the assumed maximum velocity. Science has been wrong before, and that's how science works. It's not religion, nothing is wrought in stone and eventually we always prove our "proven" theories wrong, or partially incorrect. Ask Newton.
Why flame? A different point of view can lead to a break through. You initial hypothesis doesn't have to be correct to discover something useful. And who knows, maybe some day God (pick your deity here) will reveal him/herself to us unbelieving humans and we'll be proven wrong. Unexpected things happen every day.
I hate to say it, but playing nice with M$ Exchange is going to be very important. My company uses Exchange for just about everything, which limits me to paying for a Goodlink license (Palm/Blackberry) or using Windows Mobile. Does anyone know if iPhone will play nice with Exchange Server?
The main difference between science and religion is that with science you never say it's absolute, you say it's the best theory we have now; and you put your "cards on the table" for everyone else to look at and try to disprove or make it better. With religion you say this is how it is and if you don't believe me you're against me.
One is a rational thought process that lacks arrogance, the other is full of it. The irony has always been to me that in order to adhere to religious doctrine you have to have pride in it, such sloth that you refuse to examine it with any real effort, and often use wrath to defend it. Three of the Seven Deadly Sins. Oh the irony.
Amazing how well nature does when you remove humanity from the equation, isn't it?
-1 Off Topic? Oh right, this is /. bashing Microsoft = funny, bashing government failure = off topic.
Finally, a good excuse for forgetting my girlfriend's birthday: I'm remembering something "more important". Wait... that won't work.
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Yes, I post on slashdot. Yes, I have a real, live, breathing girlfriend.
And if FEMA is involved nothing will get done about it either.
I'm sure I'll get modded troll, but I speak the truth and while I'm happy to see Linux being sold by Dell and starting to enter the mass consumer market, I just don't want people to set the bar impossibly high while setting themselves up for failure. As Ubuntu becomes more prevalent more and more targeted by hackers, bot writers, scammers, and viruses. Even with Linux's well built defenses any user can be tricked into installing software that compromises the machine, and there's just no defense for that.
And mall security thought silly string wars were a mess...
So when ever I sign up someplace I can just give them username-ameritrade@domain.com and I know what spam comes from where. It's really handy. I guess the limitation is that you cannot have a hyphen in your username. C'est la vie.
The new last night covered a story about American Spy Planes flying over Norther California and Silicon Valley. The military said that they're just running tests. I don't believe them. Seems like for all the attention the UK is getting about this, here in the US we're getting the same treatment. Seems Orwell was off by about two and half decades.
Well, that does a pretty good job of describing power struggles at Wikipedia after all. It's kind of like modern art in a way...
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And liberal California picked them up enmasse. I'd love to go one day without hearing the Dixie Chicks on the radio.
However, and this is off topic, good for the Dixie Chicks: they stood up for what they believed in despite it being unpopular and ended up being rewarded by being endeared to one of the largest and affluent populations in the world. Now they can charge $100 a seat at concerts and still complain about the president - except now pretty much everyone agrees.
As far as XM goes, they're just doing a typical knee-jerk reaction. Corporate America hasn't figured out yet that the neo-conservatives lost power and are "uncool" now, just give them a few years and they'll catch on. Then the pendulum will swing back the other way, and they'll be behind the curve again and we'll get Janette's (or insert other, younger star here) nipple on TV again with people protesting and corporate America coming up with some "wardrobe malfunction" excuse.
I believe this. My coworker has a daughter with a serious texting problem (he's mentioned cashing in her from collage savings to cover her mobile bill) and when he called Cingular to block her ability to send text messages they told him that they could not. Which we all know is a lie, but it only makes sense to lie because it's their revenue source.
Is it just me, or does it seem like every American company is just out to see how much they can rip-off their customers these days as opposed to... oh I don't know... just offering the best service?
.bank TLD has some merit. Unlike a lot of current online systems, this one could be well funded enough to actually use humans to decide if an institution is worthy of obtaining a domain with the .bank TLD. Which is a very un-Google way of doing this, so it's probably not cool, but when you have human intervention and those humans are naturally skeptical because it's their job to be so; you tend to get pretty good security. However, some have pointed out that by infecting the host file, hijackers could get around the .bank TLD. Agreed. Why not lock .bank and a few other 'secure' TLD's down to a specific A-block of IPs controlled by some international oversight body (heck, could be American national, but why exclude everybody else?).
Benefits: easy for neophytes to figure out, east for machines to figure out, and difficult to falsify.
As usual, the American government is looking to extend its control over things. "Oh noes, look what terrorists might have done. Homeland security needs more funding and less oversight to prevent this in the future." When will people learn to assume the government is lying first, then wait for them to prove themselves right later?
There's a lot of other cool things we can see while we're down there, like how the rock crystals formed under that kind of pressure and how fast they cooled. All kinds of cool things can be interpreted by the rocks crystalline structure.
How did I get marked down as flame bait? Thanks for the responses, honestly I wanted to know if I could use Groovy to script the very few things that I need to because I'm not allowed to install PERL on this Win2k3 box.
Quick note to those who have seemed to miss this:
Copyrights are a good thing. They keep good song writers from being ripped off by big mega-corps. Without copyright law there wouldn't be a professional music industry like we have and have had for near a century now. Music writting would be a hobby only, because nobody could make a living doing it. Copyrights protect writers and artists against theft of their IP (real theft, not the kind music execs are worried about).
DRM is bad because DRM is not about protecting people, it's about controlling people. Control over the audience and control over the musicians who are dependent on audiences. There is basically nothing good about DRM. There is a lot good about copyrights.
IMO, it's the confusion between copyright and DRM that makes for bad laws and who could be decent politicians (oxymoron?) making really bad choices (DCMA anyone?). Somebody with a voice needs to get out there and point out the difference so that the audiences begin to get pissed and stop thinking DRM in software like iTunes is OK because it protects somebody. People should be really angry about DRM and refuse to use anything associated with it. They're not because they've been spoon fed that DRM is there to protect the artists that people "love".
</rant>So Goovy is like Mondad, I mean PowerShell, I mean PERL ripoff for Windows but not M$'s proprietary system? Groovy, I'll have to try that out.
Could somebody in the know let me know if Groovy has the flexibility of PowerShell? Thanks in advance.
There may have been a computer error that made things look interesting, the real culprit was China's bad day at the stock market. It created a World stock slump which drove down stock markets all over the globe. So for those of you who don't RTFA, there wasn't anything nefarious going on.
I have to agree with the parent. More than likely, people appreciate Microsoft's "help".
The real losers here are the domain squatters like pool.com
40% less fuel usage means less fuel needed to get into space, meaning a lighter rock; saving even more fuel. This will also drastically reduce the cost of getting into orbit as well, meaning more satellite based technology in the near future. This is an all around good thing.
I do wonder if this technology will go the route of the automobile or the bicycle. Staying at five gears or heading for twenty-one?
If Html+Css offered a better model instead of the box model (example the point-line model) and offered some way of doing basic data structures I'd agree. The current box model is very limiting in its layout abilities.
Modern documents have so many binary data types inserted in them (images, fonts, etc.) that Html+Css isn't enough. It isn't even enough on the web and that's why Javascript and Flash are so prevalent. There needs to be another specification to support all the needs/wants of the users (who are not willing to go backwards for any ISO standard).