it's about time the decibel level of drives is also looked at - what now with super silent SATA HDs and PSUs, the loudest component turns out to be the DVD drive. currently the user reviews from newegg are all we have for noise levels of the drives...
"login as invisible" feature remains lacking in the new GAIM...i believe this is the one feature that's not available on any of the open IM clients out there...(not even Kopete)...
this move is not about making money off licensing, it's about opening information for everyone. what if a treatment that's been known for centuries suddenly becomes closed because of patent infringement? the OSS community here wouldn't have a problem empathizing with the cause.
it wouldn't be entirely offtopic to bring to your attention Dr. Vandana Shiva, a known activist against biopiracy, who has won among others two major cases - the move to patent Basmati (a strain of rice) in US and the case of patenting a Neem-derived fungicide in Munich. this is a step in the right direction.
wouldn't an unknown new name on the buddy list sending you a package with the message "lol no its not a virus" be a dead giveaway?
Re:The Colour of Magic is a weird choice...
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i guess its because it was the first of the discworld series...they couldn't choose which was the best so they picked the first one! i love all of them, but 'interesting times' and 'lost continent' are readable ad infinitum sans nauseam!
yea this is nothing new...pretty much everything in India eats grass at some point in it's life.didn't need a team of scientists going thru fossilized shit to come up with this...
the tricks that can be played on eyes...
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is it just me or does it look like the tarsier is looking away in the last (different lighting) photo of TFA?!
hmmm...how about the time zone is set automatically by finding the location of the machine from its IP? this way it can even configure for different time zones if you are a frequent traveller...
The issue of ID has been unnecessarily belabored in light of the ruling - the Kansas board has not decided to substitute the science textbook with the Bible! All the ruling says is that Darwinism cannot be taken as the golden rule of evolution and that alternate theories have to be studied too - especially because Darwinism cannot (yet) explain, ironically, the origin of species - it only explains the evolution of it.
I have no respect for ID either, but then is Darwinism all its glorified to be? it can explain why giraffes having long necks survived while those that didn't perished, but it cannot explain why giraffes had long necks in the first place. anatomically, a giraffe and a mole both have 8 vertebrae in their necks. Darwin explains that the tall-necked giraffes survived because they were able to eat food, and the short-necked moles survived because they could burrow better - but then there is Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics which says that the giraffe's neck evolved into a longer version after generations of stretching. both theories are equally logical - and a fossil of a short giraffe would prove both theories right! so which one is correct then?!
In questioning the veracity of Darwinism (or in teaching to question its veracity), the Kansas Ed Board have done a commendable job. to redefine science and to teach ID is definitely a bad move, but to let the kids keep their minds open and not hesistate to think unconventionally (and until explained, unscientifically) about such concepts is a good thing. isn't that what science is all about, believing in a theory but always inviting and accomodating a new one that explains a few ideas more?
Would Darwin have come up with his theory if the Lamarckian thought had been hammered as throughly into his brain as Darwinism was into ours?
The issue is not about Gmaps showing where the structures are - but the resolution which shoes how they look inside. you can know the location of a government building from a cheap tourist map too but what lies beyond the gates and compound walls is not public domain. terrorists don't even need a map - they can get into a cab and ask the driver to take them to the parliament - but when you are planning to attack a 5 acre compound with 4 people and a few pounds of RDX, it cetainly helps if you know the inner layout!
and for all those who complacently say the president is exaggerating the terrorist threat - the threat is very real, and there has already been a terrorist attack on the Parliament building when 12 people were killed, including 5 terrorists. the casualties were low was because the terrorists did not know how the inner compound layout, so they couldn't get into the compoud in the first place, and when they did finally break in they stormed the complex unplanned and were taken down after a shootout.
the president's remarks must've been spurred by the fact that while the US capitolis blurred out, why is the Indian parliament house visible in maximum zoom?!
FYI, the president of India is nominated by members of parliament based on his credentials and experience and is not elected by popular vote so he doesn't have to release crowd-pleasing remarks to save his face. his concern would most likely be genuine because there is no political mileage that he can get out of making a controversial statement.
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it's about time the decibel level of drives is also looked at - what now with super silent SATA HDs and PSUs, the loudest component turns out to be the DVD drive. currently the user reviews from newegg are all we have for noise levels of the drives...
"login as invisible" feature remains lacking in the new GAIM...i believe this is the one feature that's not available on any of the open IM clients out there...(not even Kopete)...
this move is not about making money off licensing, it's about opening information for everyone. what if a treatment that's been known for centuries suddenly becomes closed because of patent infringement? the OSS community here wouldn't have a problem empathizing with the cause. it wouldn't be entirely offtopic to bring to your attention Dr. Vandana Shiva, a known activist against biopiracy, who has won among others two major cases - the move to patent Basmati (a strain of rice) in US and the case of patenting a Neem-derived fungicide in Munich. this is a step in the right direction.
wouldn't an unknown new name on the buddy list sending you a package with the message "lol no its not a virus" be a dead giveaway?
i guess its because it was the first of the discworld series...they couldn't choose which was the best so they picked the first one! i love all of them, but 'interesting times' and 'lost continent' are readable ad infinitum sans nauseam!
yea this is nothing new...pretty much everything in India eats grass at some point in it's life.didn't need a team of scientists going thru fossilized shit to come up with this...
is it just me or does it look like the tarsier is looking away in the last (different lighting) photo of TFA?!
hmmm...how about the time zone is set automatically by finding the location of the machine from its IP? this way it can even configure for different time zones if you are a frequent traveller...
IBM, Sony and Philips have come together to form the Open Invention NetworK, fondly known as OINK!
I have no respect for ID either, but then is Darwinism all its glorified to be? it can explain why giraffes having long necks survived while those that didn't perished, but it cannot explain why giraffes had long necks in the first place. anatomically, a giraffe and a mole both have 8 vertebrae in their necks. Darwin explains that the tall-necked giraffes survived because they were able to eat food, and the short-necked moles survived because they could burrow better - but then there is Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics which says that the giraffe's neck evolved into a longer version after generations of stretching. both theories are equally logical - and a fossil of a short giraffe would prove both theories right! so which one is correct then?!
In questioning the veracity of Darwinism (or in teaching to question its veracity), the Kansas Ed Board have done a commendable job. to redefine science and to teach ID is definitely a bad move, but to let the kids keep their minds open and not hesistate to think unconventionally (and until explained, unscientifically) about such concepts is a good thing. isn't that what science is all about, believing in a theory but always inviting and accomodating a new one that explains a few ideas more?
Would Darwin have come up with his theory if the Lamarckian thought had been hammered as throughly into his brain as Darwinism was into ours?
and for all those who complacently say the president is exaggerating the terrorist threat - the threat is very real, and there has already been a terrorist attack on the Parliament building when 12 people were killed, including 5 terrorists. the casualties were low was because the terrorists did not know how the inner compound layout, so they couldn't get into the compoud in the first place, and when they did finally break in they stormed the complex unplanned and were taken down after a shootout. the president's remarks must've been spurred by the fact that while the US capitolis blurred out, why is the Indian parliament house visible in maximum zoom?!
FYI, the president of India is nominated by members of parliament based on his credentials and experience and is not elected by popular vote so he doesn't have to release crowd-pleasing remarks to save his face. his concern would most likely be genuine because there is no political mileage that he can get out of making a controversial statement.