The main problem with your rant can be seen by simply replacing the word 'science' with 'religion' and vice versa:-
This museum represents a direct attack on religion. I give a shit because I happen to think that religion and religious literacy are important. The stuff presented in this museum is blatantly wrong, and ridiculous, and is a menace to the public understanding and enlightenment even without government support (though, I would not be surprised if the museum has not benefited at least indirectly from the tax breaks our government is too happy to give scientific institutions.) The only educational value it has to serve as a case-in-point as to how excessive scientific faith can obliterate any trace of rationality in an otherwise intelligent individual.
Also, some schools (hopefully only private/scientific schools) are undoubtedly planning field trips to this museum (an earlier article I read noted the parking lot which was designed to comfortably accommodate school buses). It's bad enough that parents and science (ok..no direct replacement here but deal with it) poison impressionable, helpless children's minds with this garbage, but now they'll have a multi-million dollar, Universal Studios caliber set of displays and presentations to even more thoroughly inculcate kids to this backwards, pre-medieval nonsense.
While i agree with the spirit of your commments, i think we should refrain from arguments that blatantly sound like religious discourse.
I would normally agree with you, but how does that justify yahoo at number two?.
The only reason yahoo is at number two (if i understand the highlighting correctly) is because it is catching the ".com" in yahoo.com.
If fact, (i dont know what they call these...sublinks...the ones that are tabbed away and below the main link) the sublink to the microsoft link (which is about COM at number 1) is to microsoft.com, again found by the *drum roll please* ".com" in "microsoft.com".
If anyone makes a "com again" joke just because they are confused by what i said,....its wholly justified.
Here is something that should be more of interest.
Search for ".com" in google. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=.com&btnG=Goo gle+Search&meta=
The first site found is microsoft, the second site found is yahoo.
Now if i understand the pagerank system correctly, and i find this reasonably hard to believe, this means that more people link to yahoo and microsoft than google itself?
Further down the page you find amazon, and even ask.com
On the other hand, i think this is reasonable proof that google isnt doctoring it's search results to lower the page rank of its main rivals. Or in Google's eyes...is this a bug?
Am i the only one who thinks this? Isnt believing "Each disc will hold more, so they will release more episodes of my favorite show on each disc" very naive.
The way they make money on these discs is by volume of discs sold. If they were to sell fewer discs, then even with a few dollars more per disc, it would be a major loss to the companies.
An easy present example is the anime dvd's out there. Even with dual layer 18 GB DVD's out there, you are still stuck with 3 episodes per dvd. These anime cartoons probably dont even take up 1-2 GB.
Which is probably why most of the hype only revolves around resolution and HDTV. Not about that amount of extra material you are going to get in the disc.
Is it just me or does it not seem that wrong that the "correlation" of statistics and baseball players does indeed belong to the players themselves as far as commercial purposes go.
While the average person should have the right to memorize and discuss any statistics, however, why should a company use the name and statistics together to make money , without the player getting a cut of it.
Isnt this sort of like advertising? This is not something like news reporting. you are not doing this for public information. This is being done so that a select group of people (the members of the fantasy league) can make use of the statistics, and then pay you money for it. In fact the only draw for such a fantasy league is in fact the idea thta you are playing with real statistics.
Now if this was for news reporting purposes, i can understand that it hsould not be copyrighted.
If it is not news, and it is being used for commercial purposes, then it should come under the realm of something like advertising. Which makes sense because of the above argument.
just my two bits.
What OS's are supported?
I suspect it will only be supported on Linux, *BSD and other Unix operating systems. We all know that microsoft software finds its biggest market on those.
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Uhmm, Mod me offtopic if you want, but i actually wanted to know if you have a link to the essay. It sounds interesting.
While i agree with the spirit of your commments, i think we should refrain from arguments that blatantly sound like religious discourse.
Uhhhh....Bangladesh is not India.
it is a seperate country.
I would normally agree with you, but how does that justify yahoo at number two?. ...sublinks...the ones that are tabbed away and below the main link) the sublink to the microsoft link (which is about COM at number 1) is to microsoft.com, again found by the *drum roll please* ".com" in "microsoft.com".
....its wholly justified.
The only reason yahoo is at number two (if i understand the highlighting correctly) is because it is catching the ".com" in yahoo.com.
If fact, (i dont know what they call these
If anyone makes a "com again" joke just because they are confused by what i said,
Here is something that should be more of interest.
o gle+Search&meta=
Search for ".com" in google.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=.com&btnG=Go
The first site found is microsoft, the second site found is yahoo. Now if i understand the pagerank system correctly, and i find this reasonably hard to believe, this means that more people link to yahoo and microsoft than google itself? Further down the page you find amazon, and even ask.com
On the other hand, i think this is reasonable proof that google isnt doctoring it's search results to lower the page rank of its main rivals. Or in Google's eyes...is this a bug?
Did it happen during english class when they were teaching the word "throw"?
Am i the only one who thinks this? Isnt believing "Each disc will hold more, so they will release more episodes of my favorite show on each disc" very naive.
The way they make money on these discs is by volume of discs sold. If they were to sell fewer discs, then even with a few dollars more per disc, it would be a major loss to the companies.
An easy present example is the anime dvd's out there. Even with dual layer 18 GB DVD's out there, you are still stuck with 3 episodes per dvd. These anime cartoons probably dont even take up 1-2 GB.
Which is probably why most of the hype only revolves around resolution and HDTV. Not about that amount of extra material you are going to get in the disc.
Is it just me or does it not seem that wrong that the "correlation" of statistics and baseball players does indeed belong to the players themselves as far as commercial purposes go.
While the average person should have the right to memorize and discuss any statistics, however, why should a company use the name and statistics together to make money , without the player getting a cut of it.
Isnt this sort of like advertising? This is not something like news reporting. you are not doing this for public information. This is being done so that a select group of people (the members of the fantasy league) can make use of the statistics, and then pay you money for it. In fact the only draw for such a fantasy league is in fact the idea thta you are playing with real statistics. Now if this was for news reporting purposes, i can understand that it hsould not be copyrighted.
If it is not news, and it is being used for commercial purposes, then it should come under the realm of something like advertising. Which makes sense because of the above argument.
just my two bits.
What OS's are supported? I suspect it will only be supported on Linux, *BSD and other Unix operating systems. We all know that microsoft software finds its biggest market on those.