RedHat also comes with categories of software that aren't included with Windows, postscript manipulation tools and the like. I bet problems with those count against it as well whereas equivalent products that may be installed on Windows are not. This would be slightly more credible if it were apples to apples. OS+Web Server+Web Application Stack+Database or whatever mix of capabilities.
What the GP post was getting at is that we can have "trusted and credible" reviewers without involving the journal middlemen. Is your trust in the journal or in the reviewer for the journal? Why is it that the reviewer himself has credibility? If you say "Because he has been in the journal" then I'm going to say "circular reasoning". If you say because the reviewer is accomplished in his field and is consistently correct about the works of others then you can see where we are going with this.
Any given field has notables whose opinions on subjects within the field carry weight. I don't see why scientific fields can't function without these notables being channeled through journals. The important thing is that skeptical peer review happen. I never saw some scientific Law that says journals are essential to this. Review could just as easily happen through blog-like moderated sites. If said sites are run by the universities and linked to each other then there is the field's public channel of consensus and communication. I'll grant that current journals have a measure of prestige and that this in turn will cause some inertia. They can adapt or be slowly deprecated.
What I said about many prolific and rapid adaptation goes even more for microbes than insects. All it takes is one microbe that can survive in these new mosquitoes and the adaptation will likely occur more than once. Others have pointed out that it may buy time for vaccine research but I doubt this will eradicate malaria once and for all.
Insects are harder to extinct than most. They are prolific and have short breeding cycles. This allows far more opportunity for adaptive alterations to propagate.
It may help to understand a bit about just why they are so populated. Most countries with huge populations rely to a large extent on extended families for social support. Cultural mores in such places place a very high emphasis on respect and care of elderly...as in "You can't just ship them off to the old folks home or let them die. You have to feed, house, clothe, and clean as needed." Inversely, the obligation on the young is huge to point of being required to neglect yourself if that is what it takes to maintain the family unit as a whole. To a large extent, getting past a certain age is "Really Making It" because you promoted from being on the caregiving treadmill to being a beneficiary. Your odds of making it to an advanced age and then being cared for go up if you have lots and lots and lots of children and grandchildren. It is still tragic when the young die but it is a far more expected thing in these societies.
Anything that increases death pressure in these societies also increases breeding pressure. If malaria is killing off your descendents, you best get cracking on producing more kids if you want the 3rd world equivalent of Social Security. So even though there are often harsh spikes when disease, famine, and genocidal social unrest take a toll, the general trend will still be for population to go up.
Long term, the cure for this is increased personal wealth. As personal wealth goes up, the need for extended family style socal security goes down. In fact, it gets expensive. In developed societies having children is economically penalizing rather than being rewarded. Of course, fixing the economies in these places is also fraught with difficulties.....
I created a media box for my living room in early december. As of that time, it wasn't terribly in sync in Debian. Since the box has worked since, I haven't been following the new versions. (So there you are: something nice to say!) It has been a constant on Slashdot the past couple of years that everytime KnoppMyth is mentioned, someone complains that it is out of date. I merely proposed a solution to this.
Invariably when KnoppMyth is mentioned, several sombodies will complain it is out of date. Valid enough but pointing my newly installed machine at Debian Testing and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade took care of that.
He thrives on attention and absolutely delights in "proving" Linux users are raving fanatics, though that speech shows just who the raving fanatic is. Please don't give this guy any more web stats or attention.
The "Linux Discount Tactic" works because Linux is (like it or not) a credible and possible alternative to Windows. A Linux switchover doesn't necessarily have to be cheap or easy or even make everybody ecstatically happy when it is done. It simply has to be possible to get work done. If sufficient effort didn't make a Linux deployment possible then MS wouldn't take it seriously when customers announce a switch.
MS really doesn't dare call such a bluff. The reverse is also true: Don't threaten MS with a Linux switch unless you're prepared to follow through with it.
I'd like to believe such a thing is being seriously considered but it's probably just the same-ole same-ole. Some poor MS salesdroid is going to be thwacked bloody until he comes across with big discounts and free consulting services and training for a Vista deployment. Still Linux has to be a least a credible threat for that to work. I wonder how many Aerons have come to a splintery end because of Linux induced discounting.
All they have to do is wire up the sphincter and they can play Potty Pigeon for real. Infect the birds with something and it doesn't even have to be a joke.
Good question! While evolution is typically portrayed as explaining how life got from The First Cell to Modern Man, it doesn't seem to address where life came from in the first place. We could invoke a "God of the gaps" here, maybe justifying Deism. But we probably don't need to.
Evolution doesn't purport to do that. Darwin called his papers "Origin of Species" not "Origin of Life". Abiogenesis (life from non-life) is not the same thing as evolution. Many religious people that understand the distinction don't have a problem with evolution since questions about abiogenesis currently leave a large gap indeed.
Big scientific ideas have to be assimilated. The bigger they are, the more time it takes even basic ideas about them to permeate into common understanding. Very few people dispute things like Earth's place in the universe or even geologic time spans (many creationists accept an Old Earth. Arguing otherwise puts them in a very bad way indeed). In time to come, even most fervently religious people will accept evolution and theories and ideas around abiogenesis will become the big battleground.
SP1 is supposed to come out a few months from now. This means Vista is in a far worse state than when XP was released. SP1 will only bring Vista up to the level of XP at initial release. My workplace has already decided to wait for SP2 before any deployment.
The electron beam in the TV and refresh of the sensor on the camera aren't in sync. Hence the black lines. You may have better luck recording an LCD screen but even here moire patterns will probably bite you. To get acceptable results out of any "point a camera at the screen methods", you need a way to have common sync between the two devices. This usually means studio grade equipment.
In the third movie, Doc and Marty are trapped in the Old West without gasoline to get the DeLorean up to 88 MPH.
"But Doc, what about Mr. Fusion?"
"Mr. Fusion powers the flight circuitry and the Flux Capacitor but the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline. It always did."
While Doc was having the car converted for flight, he could have chucked the combustion engine and replaced it with a motor/generator. Mr. Fusion could have then powered all systems in the car. For that matter, a bigass electric motor wouldn't have been beyond his means in 1855. Course he may have needed longer than that week he had to live but then he came up with those charcoal briquettes from hell for the train's boiler.
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RedHat also comes with categories of software that aren't included with Windows, postscript manipulation tools and the like. I bet problems with those count against it as well whereas equivalent products that may be installed on Windows are not. This would be slightly more credible if it were apples to apples. OS+Web Server+Web Application Stack+Database or whatever mix of capabilities.
Morality got started when we finally figured out that it isn't nice to throw poop at one another.
What the GP post was getting at is that we can have "trusted and credible" reviewers without involving the journal middlemen. Is your trust in the journal or in the reviewer for the journal? Why is it that the reviewer himself has credibility? If you say "Because he has been in the journal" then I'm going to say "circular reasoning". If you say because the reviewer is accomplished in his field and is consistently correct about the works of others then you can see where we are going with this.
Any given field has notables whose opinions on subjects within the field carry weight. I don't see why scientific fields can't function without these notables being channeled through journals. The important thing is that skeptical peer review happen. I never saw some scientific Law that says journals are essential to this. Review could just as easily happen through blog-like moderated sites. If said sites are run by the universities and linked to each other then there is the field's public channel of consensus and communication. I'll grant that current journals have a measure of prestige and that this in turn will cause some inertia. They can adapt or be slowly deprecated.
This may have to be done for a whole rainbow of malaria carriers in many different local ecologies:
http://www.afrol.com/articles/24056
What I said about many prolific and rapid adaptation goes even more for microbes than insects. All it takes is one microbe that can survive in these new mosquitoes and the adaptation will likely occur more than once. Others have pointed out that it may buy time for vaccine research but I doubt this will eradicate malaria once and for all.
Insects are harder to extinct than most. They are prolific and have short breeding cycles. This allows far more opportunity for adaptive alterations to propagate.
It may help to understand a bit about just why they are so populated. Most countries with huge populations rely to a large extent on extended families for social support. Cultural mores in such places place a very high emphasis on respect and care of elderly...as in "You can't just ship them off to the old folks home or let them die. You have to feed, house, clothe, and clean as needed." Inversely, the obligation on the young is huge to point of being required to neglect yourself if that is what it takes to maintain the family unit as a whole. To a large extent, getting past a certain age is "Really Making It" because you promoted from being on the caregiving treadmill to being a beneficiary. Your odds of making it to an advanced age and then being cared for go up if you have lots and lots and lots of children and grandchildren. It is still tragic when the young die but it is a far more expected thing in these societies.
Anything that increases death pressure in these societies also increases breeding pressure. If malaria is killing off your descendents, you best get cracking on producing more kids if you want the 3rd world equivalent of Social Security. So even though there are often harsh spikes when disease, famine, and genocidal social unrest take a toll, the general trend will still be for population to go up.
Long term, the cure for this is increased personal wealth. As personal wealth goes up, the need for extended family style socal security goes down. In fact, it gets expensive. In developed societies having children is economically penalizing rather than being rewarded. Of course, fixing the economies in these places is also fraught with difficulties.....
Insert the watermark post compression. It wouldn't be that big a deal to sprinkle some extra frames into an MPEG file.
I created a media box for my living room in early december. As of that time, it wasn't terribly in sync in Debian. Since the box has worked since, I haven't been following the new versions. (So there you are: something nice to say!) It has been a constant on Slashdot the past couple of years that everytime KnoppMyth is mentioned, someone complains that it is out of date. I merely proposed a solution to this.
Invariably when KnoppMyth is mentioned, several sombodies will complain it is out of date. Valid enough but pointing my newly installed machine at Debian Testing and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade took care of that.
That's what checkinstall and alien are for. Even if you don't want to use those many packages can run out of local directory.
This man is both a professional troll and shill. His 2004 SCO Forum keynote speech is infamous:
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http://ipw.scofacts.org/ipw-2004-11-4-193122-475.
He thrives on attention and absolutely delights in "proving" Linux users are raving fanatics, though that speech shows just who the raving fanatic is. Please don't give this guy any more web stats or attention.
The "Linux Discount Tactic" works because Linux is (like it or not) a credible and possible alternative to Windows. A Linux switchover doesn't necessarily have to be cheap or easy or even make everybody ecstatically happy when it is done. It simply has to be possible to get work done. If sufficient effort didn't make a Linux deployment possible then MS wouldn't take it seriously when customers announce a switch.
MS really doesn't dare call such a bluff. The reverse is also true: Don't threaten MS with a Linux switch unless you're prepared to follow through with it.
I'd like to believe such a thing is being seriously considered but it's probably just the same-ole same-ole. Some poor MS salesdroid is going to be thwacked bloody until he comes across with big discounts and free consulting services and training for a Vista deployment. Still Linux has to be a least a credible threat for that to work. I wonder how many Aerons have come to a splintery end because of Linux induced discounting.
NeoOffice isn't a Universal but neooffice.org supplies both PPC and Intel builds. No big deal.
http://www.trikaliotis.net/cbm4win.shtml
All they have to do is wire up the sphincter and they can play Potty Pigeon for real. Infect the birds with something and it doesn't even have to be a joke.
Actually, it was the US that researched the bat bomb. It showed early promise but was back burnered by the A-Bomb.
Good question! While evolution is typically portrayed as explaining how life got from The First Cell to Modern Man, it doesn't seem to address where life came from in the first place. We could invoke a "God of the gaps" here, maybe justifying Deism. But we probably don't need to.
Evolution doesn't purport to do that. Darwin called his papers "Origin of Species" not "Origin of Life". Abiogenesis (life from non-life) is not the same thing as evolution. Many religious people that understand the distinction don't have a problem with evolution since questions about abiogenesis currently leave a large gap indeed.Big scientific ideas have to be assimilated. The bigger they are, the more time it takes even basic ideas about them to permeate into common understanding. Very few people dispute things like Earth's place in the universe or even geologic time spans (many creationists accept an Old Earth. Arguing otherwise puts them in a very bad way indeed). In time to come, even most fervently religious people will accept evolution and theories and ideas around abiogenesis will become the big battleground.
Put that way, it sounds more like an Intelligent Kludge.
Because PostgreSQL isn't licenced under the GNU GPL.
Unless MS is coming out with MS-Postgre++, I don't see how that matters much.SP1 is supposed to come out a few months from now. This means Vista is in a far worse state than when XP was released. SP1 will only bring Vista up to the level of XP at initial release. My workplace has already decided to wait for SP2 before any deployment.
IA is notorious for whimping out. They let the Scientologists bully them. xenu.net has the dope on that.
The electron beam in the TV and refresh of the sensor on the camera aren't in sync. Hence the black lines. You may have better luck recording an LCD screen but even here moire patterns will probably bite you. To get acceptable results out of any "point a camera at the screen methods", you need a way to have common sync between the two devices. This usually means studio grade equipment.
In the third movie, Doc and Marty are trapped in the Old West without gasoline to get the DeLorean up to 88 MPH.
"But Doc, what about Mr. Fusion?"
"Mr. Fusion powers the flight circuitry and the Flux Capacitor but the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline. It always did."
While Doc was having the car converted for flight, he could have chucked the combustion engine and replaced it with a motor/generator. Mr. Fusion could have then powered all systems in the car. For that matter, a bigass electric motor wouldn't have been beyond his means in 1855. Course he may have needed longer than that week he had to live but then he came up with those charcoal briquettes from hell for the train's boiler.