> I don't think you understand how evolution works.
> It doesn't require, predict, or imply half-anythings.
Oh, I am sure you know better, young man. But let me know how you became a Homosapiens, being a crocodile->monkey->IT-programmer "millions of years" ago? You know, even when dried bacteria delivered to the Earth constituted a full explanation for the origin of all life on Earth, the origin of those bacteria is still not solved...
> Your problem is that you concieve of a modern,
> highly complex thing and imagine taking huge chunks
> away from that existing system.
Ah well, you push me to forget physics, spit on all science laws and starting to believe that chaos can produce order or any ultra-primitive thing can produce complex, well-designed systems?.. (For God sake, don't start speak about nano-systems unless you know the topic really).
Remember Fred Hoyle's Boeing story? -- a great argument that uses logic and probability:
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing-747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there?
Simply buy a LEGO constructor for kids, put it into a plastic bag an shake. Only once you get a fully featured toy assembled, please reply here again. But you know what? You will have a complete fiasco due to lack of knowledge of termodinamics: LEGO details will be destroyed instead to connect into something useful. Now consider billions molecules connects into a well-designed system just by that random way...
Finally, I will tell you some more about random things you truly believe (just in case, maybe it will help you-and-other-people to think actually):
On Sunday 8 January 1989 a brand-new Boeing 737-400 crashed, killing 47 of the 126 people on board. The ultimate cause was a design flaw in the CFM56 engine. It was an upgraded version of a previous model but was only tested on the ground, not in flight. That flaw caused damage of the left motor at high altitude. Subsequent fatal decisions were caused by the design of the human-machine interface and the unfamiliarity of the pilots with the improved display of instruments. The captain shutdown the right-hand motor while the left motor was on fire. They completely depended on the display of their instruments and simply could not see from the cockpit which motor was on fire. Some passengers could see fire in the engine with their own eyes, but trusted that the pilots knew what they were doing. Tragically, despite the state of the art technology in the cockpit, some passengers in the plane knew more than the captain. Knowledge on which their lives depended. So, the direct cause of the crash was shutting down a well-functioning motor and later, after a second explosion, the malfunctioning motor, which left the plane with no upward power. Although there was apparently still some power on board to power the instruments, the machine was going down before they could reach a save place for an emergency landing and the pilots thought they could not do anything about it. They tried but failed to restart the intact motor.
Oh really. So you want to wow me by the fact you're frequently eating chicken with clear differences in color and mass? Better show me a creature which is half crocodile, half human, half monkey, half pig and half an idiot. Well, reading/. I can though...
Ever heard something about amino acids, proteins? It is such a chemical stuff, you know... If you are so great in mind (if not, online Darwin will probably assist you), show to the World how you reproduce homochilarity by random process with L-molecules-only in proteins and billions R-molecules-only in DNA in your chemical lab and you will get a Nobel Prize (or maybe even two, due to inflation)...
And you probably never heard about repair mechanism of DNA, where enzyme removes wrong nucleotides from DNA structure. If no such mechanism, any DNA will disintegrate into foam yet only one opposite nucleotide were found, since DNA spiral will be no longer valid. Yet there is no problem how such a mechanism works -- everything is quite "trivial" and "understandable". Well, the real problem is how the very World First DNA, (made by random explosion of random chemical reaction of random... blah-blah-blah) suddenly "knew" of such mechanism is actually required.
BTW, ever hear about how entropy and thermodinamics works? -- (well, if not yet, try some wget + grep on some.edu instead) -- will helps a lot, unless you make your brain offline...
I will believe Darwin's theory of evolution, if an absence of discrete species was proven with clear evidence of continuous intermediary forms all around the world instead. Yet his theory suffers hard due to obvious opposite facts.
Ubuntu has none of support. Slackware or Debian either. SLES is cheaper than RHEL, BTW.
GTK+ has none of support. Big guys at big companies needs a paper, hands down.:(
Slashdot has none of Structured Text in replies available, forcing people write annoying HTML tags, neither WYSIWYG editor, damn!:(
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> I would immediately (tomorrow morning, before breakfast and shower)
> buy a X61s tablet with resolution > 1024x768, core 2 duo and 3rd generation
> mobile data service (e.g. HSDPA).
OSX yet best desktop and really easy to use. Of course, Linux eyecandy isn't that bad and sometimes even outperforms OSX or Windows in some areas. You can not theme OSX so much, unless you install commertial software. However, the main reason is why OSX wins -- it is how stuff integrated together and fits into one monolitic system.
I can not agree with the author of "Linux burial" for Linux will be only embedded systems. It is VERY good server for computions etc. However, I don't see Linux desktop so far, though I use it more than 7 years daily. Instead, I see completed professional mess of distinct ideas. And I see none of revolution ideas. Even look for the presentation of Leopard, and you will find Spaces much better implemented and integrated, than any virtual desktops available in any Linux desktop so far.
NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua even much better than native OpenOffice.org under Linux and does not screws up my fonts while I am typing my documents.
Ohreally? So can I run that ultra-cool IE 7 beta 3 on my MacOSX and Solaris? Or you just forget to mention of which feature is better in IE 7 over Firefox?
Excellent! (corporate evening: white shirts, *fizz*, *choko*, *music*, *fireworks*...)
Errm... Guys, now is there any AutoCAD killer, Photoshop Killer, DreamWeaver killer and MS Word killer now... e... e......except Esc Meta Alt Control Shift... ?
However, e.g. here in Japan, nobody who is working for Toyota is allowed to buy non-Toyota car. If some worker works @ Toyota and use Honda -- he/she is going to be fired. Seriously.
Yes, Oracle DB core is really great. However, who really need bazillion of terabytes database? The answer is -- only few hundreds companies, no more. Usually people are fine with PgSQL and MySQL.
Ah, there are Sybase: cheaper than Oracle, 100x times better developer tools than Oracle offers and it keeps the world biggest database.
Story is a lame bullcrap and sounds the same as efforts of random idiots to install Windoze on Macs. I understand that Windows is on its place, but compare OSX with Linux?.. OSX can run everything what Linux runs, but it never happens vice versa.
So where Solaris is in that silly review? Maybe Solaris even more sucks, because nor Windoze, neither Linux is running Tokyo City Bank (actually, we did some efforts to run RedHat, but it simply crashes so often, asking fsck the FS randomly)?
*sigh*
Tired to reading such a moronic bullshit: "My $Foo is better your $Bar". All toys on their place!:-(
It isn't bad itself: still better than keep previous (totally unusable) one.
But it just shows me over and over again: no brand new ideas but still only follows up by OSX or Windows. GNOME had copied Expocity from OSX, KDE wants to do the same and announced plans on Dashboard support, now Martin stole iWork ideas.
Sorry for my blindness. But does somebody can point me the difference in the principle between this proposal and Apple iWorks already developed? I see the same style drawer, same page thumbnailer and so on. Currently I see worse iWorks clone, since iWorks/Pages2 offers you better working space since you use only the tools you need actually.
IMHO, @ KDE there was much better proposals than this one.
You're definitely mixing up goblins and trolls. Read the books of Tolkien.;-) Trolls usually 6 meters high, powerfull and terrible. Goblins are small, green and funny.
Their "Highly reliable" site is "highly ugly", awkward, irregular on my 1.5.0.1 Firefox and uses ugly 256 color animated GIF's. Will they sue me for my Firefox had cached their clutterish artwork on my hard disk as a proprietary GIF's?
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> I don't think you understand how evolution works.
> It doesn't require, predict, or imply half-anythings.
Oh, I am sure you know better, young man. But let me know how you became a Homosapiens, being a crocodile->monkey->IT-programmer "millions of years" ago? You know, even when dried bacteria delivered to the Earth constituted a full explanation for the origin of all life on Earth, the origin of those bacteria is still not solved...
> Your problem is that you concieve of a modern,
> highly complex thing and imagine taking huge chunks
> away from that existing system.
Ah well, you push me to forget physics, spit on all science laws and starting to believe that chaos can produce order or any ultra-primitive thing can produce complex, well-designed systems?.. (For God sake, don't start speak about nano-systems unless you know the topic really).
Remember Fred Hoyle's Boeing story? -- a great argument that uses logic and probability:
Simply buy a LEGO constructor for kids, put it into a plastic bag an shake. Only once you get a fully featured toy assembled, please reply here again. But you know what? You will have a complete fiasco due to lack of knowledge of termodinamics: LEGO details will be destroyed instead to connect into something useful. Now consider billions molecules connects into a well-designed system just by that random way...
Finally, I will tell you some more about random things you truly believe (just in case, maybe it will help you-and-other-people to think actually):
Got the point?
Oh really. So you want to wow me by the fact you're frequently eating chicken with clear differences in color and mass? Better show me a creature which is half crocodile, half human, half monkey, half pig and half an idiot. Well, reading /. I can though...
Ever heard something about amino acids, proteins? It is such a chemical stuff, you know... If you are so great in mind (if not, online Darwin will probably assist you), show to the World how you reproduce homochilarity by random process with L-molecules-only in proteins and billions R-molecules-only in DNA in your chemical lab and you will get a Nobel Prize (or maybe even two, due to inflation)...
And you probably never heard about repair mechanism of DNA, where enzyme removes wrong nucleotides from DNA structure. If no such mechanism, any DNA will disintegrate into foam yet only one opposite nucleotide were found, since DNA spiral will be no longer valid. Yet there is no problem how such a mechanism works -- everything is quite "trivial" and "understandable". Well, the real problem is how the very World First DNA, (made by random explosion of random chemical reaction of random... blah-blah-blah) suddenly "knew" of such mechanism is actually required.
BTW, ever hear about how entropy and thermodinamics works? -- (well, if not yet, try some wget + grep on some .edu instead) -- will helps a lot, unless you make your brain offline...
I will believe Darwin's theory of evolution, if an absence of discrete species was proven with clear evidence of continuous intermediary forms all around the world instead. Yet his theory suffers hard due to obvious opposite facts.
P.S. Well, Slashdot is maybe an exception... :-)
I am sorry, please correct me: this war appeared just because of this icon? http://engtech.wordpress.com/files/2006/10/th_hump ingiceweaselst6.gif Quite nice icon as for Debian users, what the problem is...
Well, actually even less: hopefully Ubuntu will not go nuts along with Debial.
I am sorry inserting my two cents, but probably:
> I would immediately (tomorrow morning, before breakfast and shower)
> buy a X61s tablet with resolution > 1024x768, core 2 duo and 3rd generation
> mobile data service (e.g. HSDPA).
It is called a "MacBook".
What is really not serious -- is your posting.
OSX yet best desktop and really easy to use. Of course, Linux eyecandy isn't that bad and sometimes even outperforms OSX or Windows in some areas. You can not theme OSX so much, unless you install commertial software. However, the main reason is why OSX wins -- it is how stuff integrated together and fits into one monolitic system.
I can not agree with the author of "Linux burial" for Linux will be only embedded systems. It is VERY good server for computions etc. However, I don't see Linux desktop so far, though I use it more than 7 years daily. Instead, I see completed professional mess of distinct ideas. And I see none of revolution ideas. Even look for the presentation of Leopard, and you will find Spaces much better implemented and integrated, than any virtual desktops available in any Linux desktop so far.
NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua even much better than native OpenOffice.org under Linux and does not screws up my fonts while I am typing my documents.
Better throw away your 14.400 analog modem...
Ohreally? So can I run that ultra-cool IE 7 beta 3 on my MacOSX and Solaris? Or you just forget to mention of which feature is better in IE 7 over Firefox?
Errm... Guys, now is there any AutoCAD killer, Photoshop Killer, DreamWeaver killer and MS Word killer now... e... e...
... *shrug* ...
Oscar Wilde isn't "everything". PHP is a thing.
"Everything populair is wrong" -- Oscar Wilde
> Firefox and OpenOffice are the most bloated, shittiest open source programs around Agree. Point me for better!
...what time is it now?.. *blink*
However, e.g. here in Japan, nobody who is working for Toyota is allowed to buy non-Toyota car. If some worker works @ Toyota and use Honda -- he/she is going to be fired. Seriously.
You mean a feature. Well, PgSQL is promising project with Sun Microsystems support, so who knows?..
Yes, Oracle DB core is really great. However, who really need bazillion of terabytes database? The answer is -- only few hundreds companies, no more. Usually people are fine with PgSQL and MySQL.
Ah, there are Sybase: cheaper than Oracle, 100x times better developer tools than Oracle offers and it keeps the world biggest database.
Story is a lame bullcrap and sounds the same as efforts of random idiots to install Windoze on Macs. I understand that Windows is on its place, but compare OSX with Linux?.. OSX can run everything what Linux runs, but it never happens vice versa.
So where Solaris is in that silly review? Maybe Solaris even more sucks, because nor Windoze, neither Linux is running Tokyo City Bank (actually, we did some efforts to run RedHat, but it simply crashes so often, asking fsck the FS randomly)?
*sigh*
Tired to reading such a moronic bullshit: "My $Foo is better your $Bar". All toys on their place! :-(
It isn't bad itself: still better than keep previous (totally unusable) one.
But it just shows me over and over again: no brand new ideas but still only follows up by OSX or Windows. GNOME had copied Expocity from OSX, KDE wants to do the same and announced plans on Dashboard support, now Martin stole iWork ideas.
What's next?
Sorry for my blindness. But does somebody can point me the difference in the principle between this proposal and Apple iWorks already developed? I see the same style drawer, same page thumbnailer and so on. Currently I see worse iWorks clone, since iWorks/Pages2 offers you better working space since you use only the tools you need actually.
IMHO, @ KDE there was much better proposals than this one.
Am I missing something?..
You're definitely mixing up goblins and trolls. Read the books of Tolkien. ;-) Trolls usually 6 meters high, powerfull and terrible. Goblins are small, green and funny.
Goblin? You want to say _a troll_.
Honestly, I don't think so.
Their "Highly reliable" site is "highly ugly", awkward, irregular on my 1.5.0.1 Firefox and uses ugly 256 color animated GIF's. Will they sue me for my Firefox had cached their clutterish artwork on my hard disk as a proprietary GIF's?
Oh, and their site has a damn wrong HTML.
Nice student's work!