Lol, even better. Well, in any case I never bought it. I just went to see it in the cinema, which I haven't done for more recent disney movies/cartoons. I saw Atlantis on a div-x (it sucked), and for the rest I haven't even seen them as far as I can remember (wait, I saw that insect movie which was made to compete with Antz... saw it on vcd though, when I saw Antz in the cinema:-) )... And before that I didn't buy them, I rented them. Hopefully with all the good dreamworks movies, targetted both at adults and kids, they can somewhat wrestle the market away from Disney's less creative stuff.
So let's drive Disney and their trademark out of business, if that's what's required to recover our rights. I for one haven't bought anything even remotely disney-related in years. The last film I saw by them was Toy Story (a while ago). Vote with your wallets:-)
Daniel
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My bet is that the writer of the article didn't really understand it himself, so made a fudge of the explanation. Looks like a jumble of familiar jargon to me.
Just bringing my 2 cents - it's been real slow lately for me as well. I was thinking the first-posters must be gutted, waiting madly for the bloody comment box to load for a whole 2 minutes:-P
There's more evidence towards evolution (cosmic and biologic) than towards creationism, that's for sure. So no, it's not as much of a religion.
If you need evidence about the hydrogen stuff, go do a degree in physics (at a decent university). I just did, and trust me that's not mere fantasy. As for the biological evolution, darwinian selection works fine in every other system... why shouldn't it work in biology?
They do already have a similar system, to mod down people who are off-topic and redundant... but I agree that receiving an electric shock every time one of your posts (anonymous or not) gets modded down would sure calm first-posters down!:-)
It was slow, ugly, and just not up to the standard of KDE I was used to, so I bew it away and went back to KDE.
Oh well... I just installed RH8 a couple of weeks back and I love the smooth interface. It really rocks in 1600x1200 once you've made the sidebar "tiny" at the bottom. I also like the little checkbox/exclamation mark applet which tells me when updates are out without me having to bother looking myself. That's probably available in KDE too though.
Bottom line is: use what you like/want. Program for what you like/want. Variety is good.
That was part of one of the articles I read about this: They said that the same genes control whether wings or legs are well-formed, so when the wing is switched off, the genes in it are still protected from too much mutation until the wings are switched on again.
Then again, I'm by far no expert on the subject...
Researchers assumed wings could not come back once lost as the genes needed to create them would mutate beyond repair once the wings disappeared. But Whiting says there is evidence from the fruit fly Drosophila that the same genes contain instructions for forming wings and legs.
If the same were true for stick insects, there would be an evolutionary pressure to stop wing genes from mutating, even in the insects that did not have wings. Those genes could then be turned back on in the future.
Unlikely. The genetic difference between an insect leg and insect wing (according to these articles, see Google News for a lot more sources that came out with this days ago) is very slight, the result of a single set of genes that switch between a leg and a wing. The difference between hairy quadruped apes and intelligent biped humans is a bit more pronounced... and there's no evolutionary pressure to make us devolve back to being quadrupeds (apart from that coming from the direction of good ole' Dubya).
Checking with regex's isn't that hard either. If you get stuck with ASP (sometimes the choice isn't yours) and you find the type checking a bit wanting, you can always use regexes - they're supported even by ASP. Just get the matches for "^[XXX]*" and check if the match is equal to the input, where XXX can be, depending on what you want (and you can put several of them:
Alphabetic: A-Za-z
Numeric: 0-9
Underscore: \_
hyphen: \-
any other char: \yourchar
etc...
You can do this yourself easily without even thinking about it in any language with regex support, if you ever find you need custom, flexible input-validating functions.
Tip: Don't move to Geneva, there's fuck all jobs around here. Been looking for the last 8 months or so. Every single job has about 200 qualified people applying. Zurich is more lively, on the other hand, from what I've heard. I'm thinking of moving there if I find a job in the area.
If you think a BS requires any form of intelligence, I'd have to conclude you're either an idiot or an ignoramus.
Oh yeah, a degree requires NO work at all, you're totally right. I mean, what are exams? Nothing. Surely, having 6 3-hour exams in a week ranging all over subjects you've learnt in the last 3 years does not require any intelligence whatsoever. And maths is piss, too. What is it with these people and Legendre polynomials, that they think they're so hard... they must all be completely brainless.
Grow up: You've clearly got some sort of jealousy towards degrees... obviously you don't have one.
What do degrees prove? Depends on the university, but from a good uni in a sience subject (I did physics at Oxford Uni in England) they certainly prove that:
1) You can work a fuckload when you need to
2) You can learn very complex stuff - ie there won't be anything you will meet in your working life that you can't learn
Those two alone seem to me to be quite crucial for your working life. Who wants to hire someone when they don't know whether that person will be able to evolve and be worth keeping in the future? No one likes to lay off people (well, except the sadists, but those are rare).
Yes, there was another era I can remember reading about when everyone really felt the government should not interfere in big businesses. That was back at the beginning of the 20th century, when big pharmaceutical firms like Bayer managed to get away with marketting Heroin as a "non-addictive cure for cough".
Governments (in theory anyway) are mandated by the people. Who better than the people to decide whether a company has misbehaved and should be ordered to behave differently?
I don't think that analogy works very well in this case. If you look at the history of the case, you'll see that the whole point of Java was to have a write-once, run-anywhere platform. Java published the specs to that, and Microsoft, having identified this as a great danger to its OS monopoly, hurried to try to break it as much as possible. Hence their coming out with a Microsoft VM which is, on purpose, incompatible with the Sun VM. As Sun owns the Java language and virtual machine specs, that's not only unfair but also illegal.
The fact that Microsoft, after bashing Sun's "Network Computers" initiative a few years back, is now coming out with its very own.NET (which is basically a repackaging of Java + network computers), should clue you in to the dishonesty with which they have been acting. Given all that bad behaviour, it's only fair to give Sun a few brownie points and a chance to get back on top with their excellent Java language, especially now that Micro$oft has had all the time they needed to come out with their competing version (.NET).
Oh, and by the way, we're not talking about the Java compiler (which would be comparable to gcj which you mentioned), but about the Java Virtual Machine, which allows Java programs compiled elsewhere to run on your machine.
There's about two billion examples I could point out. Here's one:
In semiconductors, you may have heard of "holes" that carry charge. They can be treated as particles when you do the maths, as if they really existed. Yet all they are is electrons that are missing from filled conduction bands. So in this case, lack of existence IS most definitely something. If it wasn't computers would not exist.
But that's a trivial example. On the more philosophical side, existence is defined by non-existence. If there were electrons everywhere, it would be meaningless to say that there are electrons somewhere. Just like at the moment, because there is spacetime everywhere that is somewhere, it's meaningless to say that there's a bit of spacetime here or there. Anywhere which exists is spacetime. However the discreteness of the existence of particles in that spacetime is a core concept to understand the universe.
Of course, if you dig a bit deeper it all gets a whole lot more confusing when you find that those "discrete" particles are probability distributions smeared out across the entire universe. Still, I don't think that diminishes in any way the importance of non-existence.
That's the sense in which I thought of it when I posted the previous post.
Yet another event trying to make it look like hacking into computers is really cool and a fun activity... when in fact it's long, boring, solitary and quite pointless for most people when you think about it (especially pointless for those 14 year olds with too much time who would do better to go out and get laid than to DoS someone they don't like on IRC with one of the boxes they got into courtesy of code red or whatever).
Daniel
Everyone, thanks for your responses. They have made me realise the importance, when designing anything that attempts to use public key crypto as an authentication/signature method, of providing a good and workable mechanism for updating the keys in other people's caches.
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Lol... add to that the fact that they produce fewer artists/CDs than they did in previous years and it's a surprise they haven't gone bankrupt yet!
Daniel
Lol, even better. Well, in any case I never bought it. I just went to see it in the cinema, which I haven't done for more recent disney movies/cartoons. I saw Atlantis on a div-x (it sucked), and for the rest I haven't even seen them as far as I can remember (wait, I saw that insect movie which was made to compete with Antz... saw it on vcd though, when I saw Antz in the cinema :-) )... And before that I didn't buy them, I rented them. Hopefully with all the good dreamworks movies, targetted both at adults and kids, they can somewhat wrestle the market away from Disney's less creative stuff.
Daniel
So let's drive Disney and their trademark out of business, if that's what's required to recover our rights. I for one haven't bought anything even remotely disney-related in years. The last film I saw by them was Toy Story (a while ago). Vote with your wallets :-)
Daniel
My bet is that the writer of the article didn't really understand it himself, so made a fudge of the explanation. Looks like a jumble of familiar jargon to me.
Daniel
Just bringing my 2 cents - it's been real slow lately for me as well. I was thinking the first-posters must be gutted, waiting madly for the bloody comment box to load for a whole 2 minutes :-P
Daniel
Yeah, how evil is that? People like you should be shot!!
Daniel
Lol, creationists are such a funny lot :-)
There's more evidence towards evolution (cosmic and biologic) than towards creationism, that's for sure. So no, it's not as much of a religion.
If you need evidence about the hydrogen stuff, go do a degree in physics (at a decent university). I just did, and trust me that's not mere fantasy. As for the biological evolution, darwinian selection works fine in every other system... why shouldn't it work in biology?
Daniel
Yeah, you'd get into legal problems otherwise. What about doctors who have to be callable by their patients in case of emergency?
Daniel
They do already have a similar system, to mod down people who are off-topic and redundant... but I agree that receiving an electric shock every time one of your posts (anonymous or not) gets modded down would sure calm first-posters down! :-)
Frist Pos..*ffsshhhhhht*
Daniel
It was slow, ugly, and just not up to the standard of KDE I was used to, so I bew it away and went back to KDE .
Oh well... I just installed RH8 a couple of weeks back and I love the smooth interface. It really rocks in 1600x1200 once you've made the sidebar "tiny" at the bottom. I also like the little checkbox/exclamation mark applet which tells me when updates are out without me having to bother looking myself. That's probably available in KDE too though.
Bottom line is: use what you like/want. Program for what you like/want. Variety is good.
Daniel
That was part of one of the articles I read about this: They said that the same genes control whether wings or legs are well-formed, so when the wing is switched off, the genes in it are still protected from too much mutation until the wings are switched on again.
9 93269.
Then again, I'm by far no expert on the subject...
Here it is: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99
Researchers assumed wings could not come back once lost as the genes needed to create them would mutate beyond repair once the wings disappeared. But Whiting says there is evidence from the fruit fly Drosophila that the same genes contain instructions for forming wings and legs.
If the same were true for stick insects, there would be an evolutionary pressure to stop wing genes from mutating, even in the insects that did not have wings. Those genes could then be turned back on in the future.
Daniel
Erm, I meant dragging knuckles of course.
*kicks self*
Daniel
Unlikely. The genetic difference between an insect leg and insect wing (according to these articles, see Google News for a lot more sources that came out with this days ago) is very slight, the result of a single set of genes that switch between a leg and a wing. The difference between hairy quadruped apes and intelligent biped humans is a bit more pronounced... and there's no evolutionary pressure to make us devolve back to being quadrupeds (apart from that coming from the direction of good ole' Dubya).
Daniel
Trust in google.
: www.explosivelabs.com/reviews/barracudav_sata/+%22 %2Bwww.explosivelabs.%2Bcom/reviews/barracudav_sat a/%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:AXz0ph7JjFsJ
Daniel
Ah, so that's what I've been doing wrong. And there I was blaming myself...
Daniel
Checking with regex's isn't that hard either. If you get stuck with ASP (sometimes the choice isn't yours) and you find the type checking a bit wanting, you can always use regexes - they're supported even by ASP. Just get the matches for "^[XXX]*" and check if the match is equal to the input, where XXX can be, depending on what you want (and you can put several of them:
Alphabetic: A-Za-z
Numeric: 0-9
Underscore: \_
hyphen: \-
any other char: \yourchar
etc...
You can do this yourself easily without even thinking about it in any language with regex support, if you ever find you need custom, flexible input-validating functions.
Regular expressions are powerful stuff.
Daniel
Or maybe they just decided to go play golf instead. Or poured some coffee on the prototype.
:-)
Maybe not.
If you look for meaning, you'll always find it
Daniel
Switzerland 0wnz j00... :-)
Tip: Don't move to Geneva, there's fuck all jobs around here. Been looking for the last 8 months or so. Every single job has about 200 qualified people applying. Zurich is more lively, on the other hand, from what I've heard. I'm thinking of moving there if I find a job in the area.
Daniel
If you think a BS requires any form of intelligence, I'd have to conclude you're either an idiot or an ignoramus.
Oh yeah, a degree requires NO work at all, you're totally right. I mean, what are exams? Nothing. Surely, having 6 3-hour exams in a week ranging all over subjects you've learnt in the last 3 years does not require any intelligence whatsoever. And maths is piss, too. What is it with these people and Legendre polynomials, that they think they're so hard... they must all be completely brainless.
Grow up: You've clearly got some sort of jealousy towards degrees... obviously you don't have one.
What do degrees prove? Depends on the university, but from a good uni in a sience subject (I did physics at Oxford Uni in England) they certainly prove that:
1) You can work a fuckload when you need to
2) You can learn very complex stuff - ie there won't be anything you will meet in your working life that you can't learn
Those two alone seem to me to be quite crucial for your working life. Who wants to hire someone when they don't know whether that person will be able to evolve and be worth keeping in the future? No one likes to lay off people (well, except the sadists, but those are rare).
Daniel
Yes, there was another era I can remember reading about when everyone really felt the government should not interfere in big businesses. That was back at the beginning of the 20th century, when big pharmaceutical firms like Bayer managed to get away with marketting Heroin as a "non-addictive cure for cough".
Governments (in theory anyway) are mandated by the people. Who better than the people to decide whether a company has misbehaved and should be ordered to behave differently?
Daniel
I don't think that analogy works very well in this case. If you look at the history of the case, you'll see that the whole point of Java was to have a write-once, run-anywhere platform. Java published the specs to that, and Microsoft, having identified this as a great danger to its OS monopoly, hurried to try to break it as much as possible. Hence their coming out with a Microsoft VM which is, on purpose, incompatible with the Sun VM. As Sun owns the Java language and virtual machine specs, that's not only unfair but also illegal.
.NET (which is basically a repackaging of Java + network computers), should clue you in to the dishonesty with which they have been acting. Given all that bad behaviour, it's only fair to give Sun a few brownie points and a chance to get back on top with their excellent Java language, especially now that Micro$oft has had all the time they needed to come out with their competing version (.NET).
The fact that Microsoft, after bashing Sun's "Network Computers" initiative a few years back, is now coming out with its very own
Oh, and by the way, we're not talking about the Java compiler (which would be comparable to gcj which you mentioned), but about the Java Virtual Machine, which allows Java programs compiled elsewhere to run on your machine.
Daniel
There's about two billion examples I could point out. Here's one:
In semiconductors, you may have heard of "holes" that carry charge. They can be treated as particles when you do the maths, as if they really existed. Yet all they are is electrons that are missing from filled conduction bands. So in this case, lack of existence IS most definitely something. If it wasn't computers would not exist.
But that's a trivial example. On the more philosophical side, existence is defined by non-existence. If there were electrons everywhere, it would be meaningless to say that there are electrons somewhere. Just like at the moment, because there is spacetime everywhere that is somewhere, it's meaningless to say that there's a bit of spacetime here or there. Anywhere which exists is spacetime. However the discreteness of the existence of particles in that spacetime is a core concept to understand the universe.
Of course, if you dig a bit deeper it all gets a whole lot more confusing when you find that those "discrete" particles are probability distributions smeared out across the entire universe. Still, I don't think that diminishes in any way the importance of non-existence.
That's the sense in which I thought of it when I posted the previous post.
Daniel
What people actually install RealAudio on their machine?
;-)
Oh, those people...
Don't they deserve to be spammed until they learn??
Daniel
Yet another event trying to make it look like hacking into computers is really cool and a fun activity... when in fact it's long, boring, solitary and quite pointless for most people when you think about it (especially pointless for those 14 year olds with too much time who would do better to go out and get laid than to DoS someone they don't like on IRC with one of the boxes they got into courtesy of code red or whatever). Daniel
Everyone, thanks for your responses. They have made me realise the importance, when designing anything that attempts to use public key crypto as an authentication/signature method, of providing a good and workable mechanism for updating the keys in other people's caches.
Daniel