I fear I may be falling prey to Poe's Law here, but given your quote of choice from your sig, I don't think I am and you're actually serious.
Anyways, the reason you believe "God" is the simplest answer to the origin of life, the one meant to be assumed under Occam's Razor, your idea that evolution is a "web of lies" that scientists "believe in" because "otherwise their whole career is demolished" and that scientists need "faith", all of that is simply due to one factor: your own ignorance of science in its entirety.
Honestly, I could spend hours explaining to you all the myriad ways you fail Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Logic and Philosophy in a single post, but without the knowledge that comes with a formal education in sciences, chances are you won't get it and will instantly fall back upon your "no! God did it!" security blanket so I'd rather not waste my time. Really, study and you'll understand the world you live in far better than you currently do.
People are free to choose Apple, Linux and even Windows. Each has strong points and reasons why they are good at what they do
True, but according to the Apple loyalists, "build quality" and "getting what you paid for" were one of the things Apple was good for. Let's see how many jump ship with this, and how many try whatever half-arsed justification they can find to stay with Stevie.
Which should be hardly surprising, considering they're making a tool meant for *authoring* content, not merely display it.
Compare and contrast with HTML authoring tools, the best of which (Dreamweaver) has also been in the works for 12 years, a good portion of which was financed by a corporation as large, wealthy and experienced as Adobe, and yet allows you to use only a tiny subset of the current HTML+CSS standards using its 'visual' tools.
So really, once you get a bit of perspective into the matter, the devs behind Inkscape have done a pretty damn job all things considered.
Well, yes and no. The 3-sentence comment in a blog was merely the last one in a relatively long discussion on the possible errors in the algorithm, and while the 4-sentence blog post only directly referenced the final admission rather than the specific problems found, it provided not only a link to said discussion for those of us wanting to know more but also to an explanation of the "P=NP" problem, as well as provide some insight into the importance of the proof were it to be found valid.
In short no, it's not ideal, but it is better than linking directly to the original discussion and the subject matter is important enough to us geeks to warrant coverage even in a subpar form.
Not really. OS X is little more than a GUI on top of BSD, which is Posix compliant. So OS X IS Linux, for all practical purposes.
So... haven't used Linux, right? oh, don't worry, I can tell.
And by the way... I can play Everquest in a VM on my MacBook Pro as well as most people can on their native PC, and I even get better a better graphics frame rate, at the same quality setting, than most of them do.
Oh-Em-Gee, your $2000 computer gets better framerates on a game than most people's $300 machines!? say it isn't so!
Those are just facts. Not "fanboi-ism."
Your choice of facts however stinks of "fanboi-ism".
I'd really have to see the data with my own eyes, as in my experience (and more than a few studies back me up on this) Thinkpads are far and away the most reliable laptops in the market, MBPs included.
Your point being? there's a difference between recognizing your own ignorance and being actively proud of it, and if you wish to do something for which your knowledge is lacking, the wise response is to *study* and *learn*, not say "to hell with it" and pay somebody else to dumb it down to the press of a single button, until you wish to do something else and must pay all over again.
Technological masturbation is feeling content with having the ability to do something while lacking the knowledge to take advantage of it, since at that point features stop being such and start being nothing more than bulletpoints in a brochure.
Isn't it wonderful? that we, in today's age, have people actually proud of their own ignorance. Simply magnificent.
But I guess you're one of those that views driver's licenses as an useless invasion of privacy because if I paid for it I'm obviously able to use it, right?
You don't, instead you download the whole album and put it in your MP3 player of choice (or your dumbphone itself, if supported).
I know, a wild idea in the face of RIAA-style digital restrictions management, but it's perfectly legal here. And if you're looking to do it just to discover new artists, then simply download random albums of your choice genre and set your playlist on "Random" as well.
Because I do. Just putting it out there in case anybody wants some nice, freely-available indie music to replace the RIAA trash and stop giving those bloodsuckers free advertisement and/or money.
Because the media players Ubuntu includes have an integrated MP3 store, probably because the most popular media player in the US (read: Apple's) also has one.
Besides, if you wanted nothing but an OS with some basic general-purpose tools you'd be using Debian, not Ubuntu which has always prided itself in being the "everything and the kitchen sink" of Linux distros.
Oh, it gets worse. Insider sources tell me not only all of the scientists investigated, but also all members of the investigative team as well were all humans! really, you don't have to be a self-aware AI to smell something is fishy.
My point was that in the minds of the oil-burning crowd there's none because all of them are "dubious" due to them being under fire by "scientists" under they payroll and government investigations which they themselves initiate.
Was it really *that* obscure? I'm now afraid that some of the modpoints thrown my way were as result of a "he says there's no global warming, mod up!" reaction.
But most people in the open source community would be violently opposed to a "if you like it, pay a buck" attitude.
Not really. They would, however, be violently opposed to a "if you like it, don't you dare do anything with it including but not limited to giving copies to your friend, you dirty thief" attitude.
It's perfectly alright to ask for payment in exchange of support, as is asking for donations. Demanding you be the sole source of your software, however, and threatening anyone that dares not comply with the full strength of the law is a whole different matter.
If the questions are well-thought and made by an informed, educated person, sure.
The questions posed by the denialist crowd, however, seldom rise above the level of an user shouting "no, I don't want that nerdy, DOS-thingy on my PC, go back to the graphics!" when you open a terminal to debug his internet connection. The only thing it helps you find out is the threshold of your patience.
Pity the same doesn't apply to all the *other* chemicals oil burning puts in the air, though.
Global Warming has almost been a Godsend to the oil-abusing crowd, as its focused the media's attention on the least harmful side-effect of using their beloved product. Who cares if the world's vegetation is dying in a rain of sulfur? there's not enough data to ascertain the world is getting warmer (and as long as they continue pushing government investigations on anyone that has some, there'll never be), so continuing to burn oil should be perfectly OK.
Actually, he'd be a straight case of Lawful Evil given its attempts to deny one of his countrymen due process simply on the basis that he believes him to be a "traitor".
Lied? that article says exactly the same as TFS and TFA: CtR set their account up and started receiving money, PayPal asked them unrestricted access to their bank account in exchange for being recognized as a non-profit, CtR refused, PayPal blocked their account until they cave in. And since that they state nowhere just *why* do they require unrestricted access to non-profits' bank accounts, I'm still leaning on "bunch of amoral scumbags" as far as PayPal goes.
[I] don't think that Assange should be handled in any other way than you and me.
Neither do I, but I like to entertain the thought that my country wouldn't put on an international warrant for me for the (alleged) heinous crime of not putting on a condom--particularly when I'm also wanted by a corrupt superpower with a history of kidnapping and torturing people they don't like--and I'd like the same courtesy to be extended to Mr. Assange.
What I believe was the GP's point was that, if the law is going to treat the father as a glorified sperm donor, they should just go all the way. Hardly ideal, as I'd rather be considered a proper parent in the eyes of the law, but far more reasonable than the status quo.
Efficiency in coding is therefore the enemy of security in coding. Until we get back to the nuts and ensure that we can know where all the doors are and that we can check them to be sure they are all locked.
By which point hiring an army large enough to impose martial law in the whole city so you can do your business in peace comes out as the cheaper option.
Modern applications require thousands of man-hours to complete in spite of the practice you call "[importing] a whole new building behind a few new doors". If developers were forced to build them from the ground-up the cost would be almost unmeasurable, and that's even without considering the problems of auditing the damn thing, since even the best programmers make mistakes every once in a while.
True, but only once or twice a month and in the years I've been attending their concerts, my favorite orchestra is yet to play Beethoven's 3rd, my favorite symphony. Perhaps I should send them a letter.
For indie rock though I fully agree, and maybe it'll even get a few audiophiles out of the house.
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I fear I may be falling prey to Poe's Law here, but given your quote of choice from your sig, I don't think I am and you're actually serious.
Anyways, the reason you believe "God" is the simplest answer to the origin of life, the one meant to be assumed under Occam's Razor, your idea that evolution is a "web of lies" that scientists "believe in" because "otherwise their whole career is demolished" and that scientists need "faith", all of that is simply due to one factor: your own ignorance of science in its entirety.
Honestly, I could spend hours explaining to you all the myriad ways you fail Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Logic and Philosophy in a single post, but without the knowledge that comes with a formal education in sciences, chances are you won't get it and will instantly fall back upon your "no! God did it!" security blanket so I'd rather not waste my time. Really, study and you'll understand the world you live in far better than you currently do.
People are free to choose Apple, Linux and even Windows. Each has strong points and reasons why they are good at what they do
True, but according to the Apple loyalists, "build quality" and "getting what you paid for" were one of the things Apple was good for. Let's see how many jump ship with this, and how many try whatever half-arsed justification they can find to stay with Stevie.
Which should be hardly surprising, considering they're making a tool meant for *authoring* content, not merely display it.
Compare and contrast with HTML authoring tools, the best of which (Dreamweaver) has also been in the works for 12 years, a good portion of which was financed by a corporation as large, wealthy and experienced as Adobe, and yet allows you to use only a tiny subset of the current HTML+CSS standards using its 'visual' tools.
So really, once you get a bit of perspective into the matter, the devs behind Inkscape have done a pretty damn job all things considered.
Well, yes and no. The 3-sentence comment in a blog was merely the last one in a relatively long discussion on the possible errors in the algorithm, and while the 4-sentence blog post only directly referenced the final admission rather than the specific problems found, it provided not only a link to said discussion for those of us wanting to know more but also to an explanation of the "P=NP" problem, as well as provide some insight into the importance of the proof were it to be found valid.
In short no, it's not ideal, but it is better than linking directly to the original discussion and the subject matter is important enough to us geeks to warrant coverage even in a subpar form.
Not really. OS X is little more than a GUI on top of BSD, which is Posix compliant. So OS X IS Linux, for all practical purposes.
So... haven't used Linux, right? oh, don't worry, I can tell.
And by the way... I can play Everquest in a VM on my MacBook Pro as well as most people can on their native PC, and I even get better a better graphics frame rate, at the same quality setting, than most of them do.
Oh-Em-Gee, your $2000 computer gets better framerates on a game than most people's $300 machines!? say it isn't so!
Those are just facts. Not "fanboi-ism."
Your choice of facts however stinks of "fanboi-ism".
I'd really have to see the data with my own eyes, as in my experience (and more than a few studies back me up on this) Thinkpads are far and away the most reliable laptops in the market, MBPs included.
Your point being? there's a difference between recognizing your own ignorance and being actively proud of it, and if you wish to do something for which your knowledge is lacking, the wise response is to *study* and *learn*, not say "to hell with it" and pay somebody else to dumb it down to the press of a single button, until you wish to do something else and must pay all over again.
Technological masturbation is feeling content with having the ability to do something while lacking the knowledge to take advantage of it, since at that point features stop being such and start being nothing more than bulletpoints in a brochure.
Isn't it wonderful? that we, in today's age, have people actually proud of their own ignorance. Simply magnificent.
But I guess you're one of those that views driver's licenses as an useless invasion of privacy because if I paid for it I'm obviously able to use it, right?
You don't, instead you download the whole album and put it in your MP3 player of choice (or your dumbphone itself, if supported).
I know, a wild idea in the face of RIAA-style digital restrictions management, but it's perfectly legal here. And if you're looking to do it just to discover new artists, then simply download random albums of your choice genre and set your playlist on "Random" as well.
How about "I really love Jamendo"?
Because I do. Just putting it out there in case anybody wants some nice, freely-available indie music to replace the RIAA trash and stop giving those bloodsuckers free advertisement and/or money.
Because the media players Ubuntu includes have an integrated MP3 store, probably because the most popular media player in the US (read: Apple's) also has one.
Besides, if you wanted nothing but an OS with some basic general-purpose tools you'd be using Debian, not Ubuntu which has always prided itself in being the "everything and the kitchen sink" of Linux distros.
Oh, it gets worse. Insider sources tell me not only all of the scientists investigated, but also all members of the investigative team as well were all humans! really, you don't have to be a self-aware AI to smell something is fishy.
My point was that in the minds of the oil-burning crowd there's none because all of them are "dubious" due to them being under fire by "scientists" under they payroll and government investigations which they themselves initiate.
Was it really *that* obscure? I'm now afraid that some of the modpoints thrown my way were as result of a "he says there's no global warming, mod up!" reaction.
But most people in the open source community would be violently opposed to a "if you like it, pay a buck" attitude.
Not really. They would, however, be violently opposed to a "if you like it, don't you dare do anything with it including but not limited to giving copies to your friend, you dirty thief" attitude.
It's perfectly alright to ask for payment in exchange of support, as is asking for donations. Demanding you be the sole source of your software, however, and threatening anyone that dares not comply with the full strength of the law is a whole different matter.
If the questions are well-thought and made by an informed, educated person, sure.
The questions posed by the denialist crowd, however, seldom rise above the level of an user shouting "no, I don't want that nerdy, DOS-thingy on my PC, go back to the graphics!" when you open a terminal to debug his internet connection. The only thing it helps you find out is the threshold of your patience.
Pity the same doesn't apply to all the *other* chemicals oil burning puts in the air, though.
Global Warming has almost been a Godsend to the oil-abusing crowd, as its focused the media's attention on the least harmful side-effect of using their beloved product. Who cares if the world's vegetation is dying in a rain of sulfur? there's not enough data to ascertain the world is getting warmer (and as long as they continue pushing government investigations on anyone that has some, there'll never be), so continuing to burn oil should be perfectly OK.
Actually, he'd be a straight case of Lawful Evil given its attempts to deny one of his countrymen due process simply on the basis that he believes him to be a "traitor".
Lied? that article says exactly the same as TFS and TFA: CtR set their account up and started receiving money, PayPal asked them unrestricted access to their bank account in exchange for being recognized as a non-profit, CtR refused, PayPal blocked their account until they cave in. And since that they state nowhere just *why* do they require unrestricted access to non-profits' bank accounts, I'm still leaning on "bunch of amoral scumbags" as far as PayPal goes.
[I] don't think that Assange should be handled in any other way than you and me.
Neither do I, but I like to entertain the thought that my country wouldn't put on an international warrant for me for the (alleged) heinous crime of not putting on a condom--particularly when I'm also wanted by a corrupt superpower with a history of kidnapping and torturing people they don't like--and I'd like the same courtesy to be extended to Mr. Assange.
What I believe was the GP's point was that, if the law is going to treat the father as a glorified sperm donor, they should just go all the way. Hardly ideal, as I'd rather be considered a proper parent in the eyes of the law, but far more reasonable than the status quo.
Efficiency in coding is therefore the enemy of security in coding. Until we get back to the nuts and ensure that we can know where all the doors are and that we can check them to be sure they are all locked.
By which point hiring an army large enough to impose martial law in the whole city so you can do your business in peace comes out as the cheaper option.
Modern applications require thousands of man-hours to complete in spite of the practice you call "[importing] a whole new building behind a few new doors". If developers were forced to build them from the ground-up the cost would be almost unmeasurable, and that's even without considering the problems of auditing the damn thing, since even the best programmers make mistakes every once in a while.
True, but only once or twice a month and in the years I've been attending their concerts, my favorite orchestra is yet to play Beethoven's 3rd, my favorite symphony. Perhaps I should send them a letter.
For indie rock though I fully agree, and maybe it'll even get a few audiophiles out of the house.
Not really, they just don't spend their available time posting to Slashdot.
Disclaimer: as evident by my own post, I'm not one of them.
No, but neither did I have even a drink in celebration for the iPhone, iPad or iWhatever.