The motion of molecules is not random - as far as we can determine to date, nothing in the universe is random, everything follows physical rules. So we can either arbitrarily "BELIEVE" (based on nothing but an umpteeth generation lossy copy-of-a-copy of (often demonstrably incorrect) claims of a primitively superstitious and ignorant people) that a conscious entity designed and constructed the universe in such as way as to produce its current state as an end goal, or we can accept the overwhelming and ever-growing evidence gathered over the past couple of hundred years that the non-random nature of the constituent parts of the universe has caused them to self-organise into the structures existing today, and will continue to self-organise into new structures until such times as the universe can no longer sustain itself.
In the end however, we have to BELIEVE that either randomness or God made the first living things. I find it much easier to have faith in an eternal, intelligent God making life, than to believe it came about by the random motions of molecules in the primordial ooze.
Your massively premature conclusion is shamelessly rife with glaring LogicalFallacies. You openly admit that you personally want or need to believe that a conscious entity created the universe, and starting from that arbitrary assumption you have come up with extremely flimsy but apparently sufficient self-justification, but beyond that you are blissfully unaware of the gaping holes in your logic. By the number of replies i see from people stating that they've rebutted your logic in the past and you are still trotting out the same arguments, I'm pretty sure that you're happy for it to stay that way.
Professors want to be reimbursed for their many hours of work
in what way do the public funds not reimburse them already? Do they really need to be paid twice? Seems to me they're getting a sweet no-risk payment-in-advance book deal.
If some professors aren't prepared to write the text books for the money offered by the government, then the government will either up the money or find a professor who is prepared to do it for less. Either way, the creative commons (not "open source", that doesn't make any sense in this context) text book will be printed and then Professor Proprietary is left with only the more affluent students as customers, which reduces the potential revenue on his premium book, perhaps giving him more incentive to just work on the book the government wanted him to work on in the first place, or perhaps just driving up the cover price of his book.
However you imagine this playing out, there are many distinct individuals that are capable of writing these text books, and plenty of them will be prepared to take public money to do so.
the last star trek game i played was the Amiga game by Tobias Richter - it involved going warp 14 till the engines explode... the instructions were all in german so i couldn't figure anything else out. oh and firing on freindly ships for amusing results.
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i seem to remember the electron version loaded off the tape in an astonishingly quick time. Faster than all the other acornsoft games... maybe my memory is faulty...
"Microsoft" isn't an OS. It's a high profile brand name. As opposed to Linux, which is an obscure piece of software, the mention of which does nothing to raise the profile of a piece of hardware.
As inflammatory as that remarks sounds, Linux is my OS of choice, but from the general public's point of view it is totally obscure.
The argument is being addressed too discretely. It's not a case of either it's certain death or utterly flawless. The safety of nuclear reactors falls along a 2-d continuum in terms of consequences of failure and likelihood of failure. The question is do modern reactors fall far enough into the safe corner to warrant widespread deployment? Jet liners have the potential to kill hundreds of people if they go wrong, or are willfully misused - but they're ubiquitous, despite being subject to the same classes of pitfalls (human error, willful abuse, design flaws, etc).
As with cars - thousands die in traffic accidents every year but people regard the risk/benefit ratio to be worth the deaths. It's impossible to evaluate this kind of situation without appreciating that the risks/rewards lie on a continuum and that despite it being distasteful to admit some number of deaths are acceptable, since pretty much everything has some way of killing people if deployed widely enough.
If you compare the number of people likely to be killed by reactor malfunctions to the number of people saved by some consequence of the reactors existing does it compare favourably? I have no idea, but with a low enough failure rate it might be a slam dunk.
yeah but you're missing his point - those things that you described aren't "IP". They are just secrets. IP law prevents people from stealing IP. Copyright and patents enable you to protect IP without having to hide it.
How is this insightful? The GP is talking about time from when the bug is discovered, and the manner in which it is discovered. The fact that the bug has been there from 2001 is totally irrelevant. There are likely to be more than a handful of undiscovered ancient bugs in the kernels of any OS you might mention. There's not a lot anyone can do about something they aren't aware of. I'm sure the post is likely a joke - it's the stupid mod I'm complaining about.
It's self confidence that gets you laid, not being a bastard. Arrogance is a kind of self confidence so it can get you laid with girls who have low ~ medium self esteem, but being a nice guy and still having self confidence gets you the 10's. Being nice is not the same thing as being a doormat.
Assholes can hide from their bad reputations but that isn't much fun compared to being a nice guy who gets everything the assholes get plus a good reputation and a network of people who'll support them, rather than enemies they have to hide from. And again it's an important distinction - altruism is not the same thing as letting people take advantage of you.
Feeling good has a lot of relevance in the evolutionary scheme of things because the way things make you feel is a fundamental behavioural regulator. Feeling good doesn't in and of itself alter the chance of your genes being replicated, but it does motivate behaviour that alters the chance of your genes being replicated.
Being the asshole gets you a Pyhrric "victory" in the short term, but being the generous, helpful guy makes your life so much easier in the medium-long term. When the chips are down everyone rallies round to help you. People are also prepared to trust you in ways the asshole couldn't even imagine. People just give you stuff.
Altruism begets altruism. Especially if you genuinely help people out of empathy/compassion rather than expecting something in return. (Most) People can tell when they're being manipulated. I know it's corny but helping people out really is it's own reward. Making people happy is a real buzz. Then you usually get another reward later from their gratitude. Talk about having your cake and eating it. Altruism dumps all over selfishness from a great height. Assholes don't know what they're missing.
if the satellite did establish that the moon has no atmosphere then that would be a legitimate advancement of scientific knowledge, because at the moment the consensus is that it does have one.
Those instructions are clearly designed to mislead and confuse. How are you supposed to realise the "PDFCreater Browser add-on" is in fact a yahoo toolbar and 404 redirector? If I was installing some software called PDF creator that creates PDFs and part of it was called "PDFCreater Browser add-on" i'd assume it was some kind of necessary component to enable the creation of PDF files. Especially since just before you get the option to not install it, there is a nice piece of decoy hand-waving about opting out of some yahoo related bullshit to distract your attention away from the innocuously labelled real malware payload.
The only reason i use OpenOffice is because it's a free mimic of ms office. It's slow and buggy as all hell, but it doesn't cost hundreds of pounds. Eventually I will be arsed to learn how KOffice works or something else but right now i know ms office inside out and need to collaberate with msoffice users.
Any younger users who cut their teeth on ms office 2007 are going to get the same value out of openoffice with the ribbon ui. If all they know is the ribbon ui and want a free mimic of msoffice, this will be an essential step in openoffice's development.
in terms of openoffice pulling away from ms office and doing it better, there's no hope of that ever. openoffice is turgid lash up of bloated buggy legacy shit that would be better to delete and start again than fuck around trying to make it into something new.
and the ribbon ui is no more unintuitive than the office 97 ui. It's just different. It's like having to learn the winxp control panel after getting used to win 2k or the vista one after learning xp. It's just laid out differently which jars with what you've already learnt. If you havent already learnt where all the buttons are, it's no different than when you had to learn where all the buttons were in Office 6.
I've just searched youtube and all i got was sensationalist close-up footage of isolated pieces of garbage rapidly edited together, and some other wider shots mixed in that showed single pieces of garbage in large areas of open sea. I'm with this guy. That fact that there is a shockingly unnaceptable level of trash floating in this area of the ocean does not justify crafting misleading footage and concocting silly stories about "gigantic floating trash islands" that simply do not exist. It just makes the side arguing for doing something about the trash look deluded, ignorant and hysterical, thus undermining their very important case, and giving the bury-your-head-in-the-sand brigade something to dismiss the whole issue with.
You're confusing the words that the media puts into the mouths of "scientists", with what scientists actually discover. We should be channeling our frustration at the media for the hysteria and chicken-littlism.
a treatment to rectify the abnormality would render this quandary moot. a bit like the embryonic stem cell issue gets sidestepped by finding a way to convert adult stem cells back into pluripotent cells.
when something is targeted specifically at developing countries, it means that there are more expensive or infrastructure reliant solutions in the developed world that give more bang/buck. This shit generator is probably pointless if you have the capacity to run a nuke/wind/solar/coal power station.
There is a flip-side to organic/local food though - it costs more because it consumes more resources to produce, resources like energy. Perversely, there is significant environmental impact involved in organic/local food production in terms of land usage and fuel consumption. This article has some interesting info about the counter-intuitive costs of buying local.
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i've seen that exact troll several times - it's copy/pasted probably from some alt.coprophagia newsgroup or something
The motion of molecules is not random - as far as we can determine to date, nothing in the universe is random, everything follows physical rules. So we can either arbitrarily "BELIEVE" (based on nothing but an umpteeth generation lossy copy-of-a-copy of (often demonstrably incorrect) claims of a primitively superstitious and ignorant people) that a conscious entity designed and constructed the universe in such as way as to produce its current state as an end goal, or we can accept the overwhelming and ever-growing evidence gathered over the past couple of hundred years that the non-random nature of the constituent parts of the universe has caused them to self-organise into the structures existing today, and will continue to self-organise into new structures until such times as the universe can no longer sustain itself.
In the end however, we have to BELIEVE that either randomness or God made the first living things. I find it much easier to have faith in an eternal, intelligent God making life, than to believe it came about by the random motions of molecules in the primordial ooze.
Your massively premature conclusion is shamelessly rife with glaring Logical Fallacies. You openly admit that you personally want or need to believe that a conscious entity created the universe, and starting from that arbitrary assumption you have come up with extremely flimsy but apparently sufficient self-justification, but beyond that you are blissfully unaware of the gaping holes in your logic. By the number of replies i see from people stating that they've rebutted your logic in the past and you are still trotting out the same arguments, I'm pretty sure that you're happy for it to stay that way.
Professors want to be reimbursed for their many hours of work
in what way do the public funds not reimburse them already? Do they really need to be paid twice? Seems to me they're getting a sweet no-risk payment-in-advance book deal.
If some professors aren't prepared to write the text books for the money offered by the government, then the government will either up the money or find a professor who is prepared to do it for less. Either way, the creative commons (not "open source", that doesn't make any sense in this context) text book will be printed and then Professor Proprietary is left with only the more affluent students as customers, which reduces the potential revenue on his premium book, perhaps giving him more incentive to just work on the book the government wanted him to work on in the first place, or perhaps just driving up the cover price of his book.
However you imagine this playing out, there are many distinct individuals that are capable of writing these text books, and plenty of them will be prepared to take public money to do so.
the last star trek game i played was the Amiga game by Tobias Richter - it involved going warp 14 till the engines explode... the instructions were all in german so i couldn't figure anything else out. oh and firing on freindly ships for amusing results.
i seem to remember the electron version loaded off the tape in an astonishingly quick time. Faster than all the other acornsoft games... maybe my memory is faulty...
"Microsoft" isn't an OS. It's a high profile brand name. As opposed to Linux, which is an obscure piece of software, the mention of which does nothing to raise the profile of a piece of hardware.
As inflammatory as that remarks sounds, Linux is my OS of choice, but from the general public's point of view it is totally obscure.
The argument is being addressed too discretely. It's not a case of either it's certain death or utterly flawless. The safety of nuclear reactors falls along a 2-d continuum in terms of consequences of failure and likelihood of failure. The question is do modern reactors fall far enough into the safe corner to warrant widespread deployment? Jet liners have the potential to kill hundreds of people if they go wrong, or are willfully misused - but they're ubiquitous, despite being subject to the same classes of pitfalls (human error, willful abuse, design flaws, etc).
As with cars - thousands die in traffic accidents every year but people regard the risk/benefit ratio to be worth the deaths. It's impossible to evaluate this kind of situation without appreciating that the risks/rewards lie on a continuum and that despite it being distasteful to admit some number of deaths are acceptable, since pretty much everything has some way of killing people if deployed widely enough.
If you compare the number of people likely to be killed by reactor malfunctions to the number of people saved by some consequence of the reactors existing does it compare favourably? I have no idea, but with a low enough failure rate it might be a slam dunk.
All thoses causes were then possible, most (if not all) for sure are and probably will.
No matter how i break it down, I just can't parse that sentence.
The BSD licence offers more freedom to developers. The GPL offers more freedom to end users.
yeah but you're missing his point - those things that you described aren't "IP". They are just secrets. IP law prevents people from stealing IP. Copyright and patents enable you to protect IP without having to hide it.
How is this insightful? The GP is talking about time from when the bug is discovered, and the manner in which it is discovered. The fact that the bug has been there from 2001 is totally irrelevant. There are likely to be more than a handful of undiscovered ancient bugs in the kernels of any OS you might mention. There's not a lot anyone can do about something they aren't aware of. I'm sure the post is likely a joke - it's the stupid mod I'm complaining about.
It's self confidence that gets you laid, not being a bastard. Arrogance is a kind of self confidence so it can get you laid with girls who have low ~ medium self esteem, but being a nice guy and still having self confidence gets you the 10's. Being nice is not the same thing as being a doormat.
Assholes can hide from their bad reputations but that isn't much fun compared to being a nice guy who gets everything the assholes get plus a good reputation and a network of people who'll support them, rather than enemies they have to hide from. And again it's an important distinction - altruism is not the same thing as letting people take advantage of you.
Feeling good has a lot of relevance in the evolutionary scheme of things because the way things make you feel is a fundamental behavioural regulator. Feeling good doesn't in and of itself alter the chance of your genes being replicated, but it does motivate behaviour that alters the chance of your genes being replicated.
Being the asshole gets you a Pyhrric "victory" in the short term, but being the generous, helpful guy makes your life so much easier in the medium-long term. When the chips are down everyone rallies round to help you. People are also prepared to trust you in ways the asshole couldn't even imagine. People just give you stuff.
Altruism begets altruism. Especially if you genuinely help people out of empathy/compassion rather than expecting something in return. (Most) People can tell when they're being manipulated. I know it's corny but helping people out really is it's own reward. Making people happy is a real buzz. Then you usually get another reward later from their gratitude. Talk about having your cake and eating it. Altruism dumps all over selfishness from a great height. Assholes don't know what they're missing.
why not do both? as i'm sure will happen.
if the satellite did establish that the moon has no atmosphere then that would be a legitimate advancement of scientific knowledge, because at the moment the consensus is that it does have one.
Those instructions are clearly designed to mislead and confuse. How are you supposed to realise the "PDFCreater Browser add-on" is in fact a yahoo toolbar and 404 redirector? If I was installing some software called PDF creator that creates PDFs and part of it was called "PDFCreater Browser add-on" i'd assume it was some kind of necessary component to enable the creation of PDF files. Especially since just before you get the option to not install it, there is a nice piece of decoy hand-waving about opting out of some yahoo related bullshit to distract your attention away from the innocuously labelled real malware payload.
The only reason i use OpenOffice is because it's a free mimic of ms office. It's slow and buggy as all hell, but it doesn't cost hundreds of pounds. Eventually I will be arsed to learn how KOffice works or something else but right now i know ms office inside out and need to collaberate with msoffice users.
Any younger users who cut their teeth on ms office 2007 are going to get the same value out of openoffice with the ribbon ui. If all they know is the ribbon ui and want a free mimic of msoffice, this will be an essential step in openoffice's development.
in terms of openoffice pulling away from ms office and doing it better, there's no hope of that ever. openoffice is turgid lash up of bloated buggy legacy shit that would be better to delete and start again than fuck around trying to make it into something new.
and the ribbon ui is no more unintuitive than the office 97 ui. It's just different. It's like having to learn the winxp control panel after getting used to win 2k or the vista one after learning xp. It's just laid out differently which jars with what you've already learnt. If you havent already learnt where all the buttons are, it's no different than when you had to learn where all the buttons were in Office 6.
I've just searched youtube and all i got was sensationalist close-up footage of isolated pieces of garbage rapidly edited together, and some other wider shots mixed in that showed single pieces of garbage in large areas of open sea. I'm with this guy. That fact that there is a shockingly unnaceptable level of trash floating in this area of the ocean does not justify crafting misleading footage and concocting silly stories about "gigantic floating trash islands" that simply do not exist. It just makes the side arguing for doing something about the trash look deluded, ignorant and hysterical, thus undermining their very important case, and giving the bury-your-head-in-the-sand brigade something to dismiss the whole issue with.
You're confusing the words that the media puts into the mouths of "scientists", with what scientists actually discover. We should be channeling our frustration at the media for the hysteria and chicken-littlism.
a treatment to rectify the abnormality would render this quandary moot. a bit like the embryonic stem cell issue gets sidestepped by finding a way to convert adult stem cells back into pluripotent cells.
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when something is targeted specifically at developing countries, it means that there are more expensive or infrastructure reliant solutions in the developed world that give more bang/buck. This shit generator is probably pointless if you have the capacity to run a nuke/wind/solar/coal power station.
i bought this printer but for the life of me i couldn't get the drivers to work under ubuntu - what distro are you using?
There is a flip-side to organic/local food though - it costs more because it consumes more resources to produce, resources like energy. Perversely, there is significant environmental impact involved in organic/local food production in terms of land usage and fuel consumption. This article has some interesting info about the counter-intuitive costs of buying local.
I think the point was that the guy had sunk to the GP's level and thus undermined his response which up to that point had avoided pettiness.