You do know The Prince was meant as satire, right?
That's very much a minority view, and certainly not as obvious as your sarcastic tone implies. Most people do not subscribe to that view at all, and reading the book shows exactly why: it doesn't come across as a satire at all. The satirical interpretation is based largely on extrapolating from biographical details and making a lot of tenuous assumptions.
No, not possibly at all. That would be a case of traits produced through behaviour being inherited genetically, which is not how inheritance of traits works. Evolution can only happen through *selection* of traits (e.g. those who already have certain traits having more children), not by training/creating traits. See my reply to the OP for more details.
Also, evolution is undirected: there is no such thing as "reverse" evolution, only adaptation to whatever the environment is.
No. Evolution works only on traits produced by genetic mutation, NOT traits acquired through behaviour. This was one of the flaws in early theories of evolution: it was believed that actions of the parent could influence the genetics of the child, which is not the case. The standard example is giraffes: under the incorrect theory, one could say "they developed longer necks because they stretched them to reach high leaves", but the correct interpretation is instead "the ones with longer-than-average necks could feed better, and hence had more children".
The reason for this is that the genetic material passed on through reproduction comes entirely from the cells in your reproductive organs, so no matter how much you train your neck (or stomach, in your case), none of those changes can in any way get passed to your children, because those cells just aren't involved in the process.
Amen! I hunted around for ages before finding a device with the features I wanted, and that little bugger has them all. Compared to similar offerings (in terms of storage anyway, because the feature set sure as hell is unmatched) it is damn cheap too. I really hope they consider sales of it to be a success so that they keep pushing OGG.
Exactly -- although what Congress and the President are attempting to do is blatantly wrong, this is actually a case of the system working more or less as intended: a power struggle between the branches is the reason for the existence of branches in the first place! By having them fight each other, none of them can really go berserk and do whatever they want.
Side note: I hate to play the pedant, but I believe your "nigh duty" should be "nay, duty." "Nigh" means approaching or drawing near, "nay" means no. All the best!
Hey, I'm sorry to sound like a pedant here, but you might be interested in knowing that the expression is "cutting off your nose to spite your face."
Anyway, interesting story, and I'd be really interested to know where you took your business, since any competitor to eBay would be an interesting place to explore.
Although the parent is obviously a troll, there is one related true point: In Canada, you are not an Engineer. Here it is a legally regulated profession, much like medicine or law, and only members of the relevant provincial association may use the title. Depending on your job you may be eligible for membership, but my understanding is that most of those sorts of jobs are not considered engineering -- not to say they're not cool or difficult or anything, they just don't fit what the law defines as engineering.
You missed the ~ at the end of the sentence. In case you haven't seen the sigs and small discussions about it, the tilde (~) has been repurposed to indicate sarcasm.
On top of which, for some reason both this style and the atrocious crap that is "idle" both prevent Firefox from scrolling the page smoothly on my machine. Everything is horrible and jumpy and hard to follow.
(Core duo, 1GB RAM, 2.6 kernel, Firefox 2.0.0.13)
I think you meant to say "the whole idle section is horrible." Seriously, I try to avoid this corner of the site as much as possible, but I mistakenly thought that since this article concerned genuine technology advances it might be real news. Please, for the love of God, get rid of idle. If I want juvenile bullshit, I'll go read Fark or just look at lolcats or something. I hate it I hate it I hate it.
How is that a troll? The parent points out the rather important fact that many, including (arguably) the summary, seem to miss: The study has shown a correlation between cat ownership and decreased risk of heart problems. That does not mean that cats are good for your heart, only that there is a connection. It could be something entirely different, like that (warning: the following hypothetical scenario is sourced right out of my arse) people who like cats tend to be calmer people who stress their hearts less.
"The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these primitive African tribes that exist by chasing the wildebeest on foot, and they have to go around largely naked, because, as the old tribal saying goes: "N'wam k'honi soit qui mali," which means, "If you think you can catch a wildebeest in this climate and wear clothes at the same time, then I have some beach front property in the desert region of Northern Mali that you may be interested in."So it's not considered pornographic when National Geographic publishes color photographs of these people hunting the wildebeest naked, or pounding one rock onto another rock for some primitive reason naked, or whatever. But if National Geographic were to publish an article entitled "The Girls of the California Junior College System Hunt the Wildebeest Naked," some people would call it pornography."
So no, just having certain areas exposed doesn't make an image pornographic (if it did, most biology and sociology textbooks would be 18+ only).
Also, maybe I'm being trolled, but did you just say that you find children in bikinis hot? Your argument makes perfect sense if you used adults instead of children, so I can only assume you specifically intended to clarify that you find children sexually attractive./me shudders.
Worst troll ever, yet here I am feeding it:
1. If the bootloader fails to install, the computer isn't bricked, just without a bootloader. And what did you expect? If the bootloader fails to install, install a bootloader? Nonsense.
2. That is most certainly not required. I assume you are familiar with how to switch to a virtual terminal, or at least with booting into a lower, gui-less, runlevel.
3. Don't know what could be the cause of your problem here, but if we're going with anecdotal evidence I'll trow in that I've never seen that happen.
4. Are you for real? Do you really think nobody has implemented WPA support?
5 & 6. Again, can't comment on your situation, but I'll include some anecdotal evidence once more: I once had a router issue while installing, and installed an extremely minimalist system without any problems whatsoever.
If you're having problems installing, you could always try the alternate install CD; I hear it works better in some cases.
It's a bit of a different issue though. Try this experiment instead: type http://www.google.ca/ig. Now type http://search.yahoo.com./ Sure, each site has picked a different one to be their default, but that's just a matter of taste.
I don't see it that way. In my view, they're not "threatening damage" but promising results. They're essentially saying "Hey Real, if you hire us to do a security audit, we can guarantee we will find at least one serious vulnerability, and your money will have been well spent." It's a bit disingenuous to phrase it this way, but it essentially boils down to the same thing.
Think of it as "we guarantee value for your money" rather than "give us money or we guarantee you'll wish you had," which, if you consider missed opportunities valuable, mean the same thing.
I heard from corporate counsel at a previous job that, at least up here in Canada, it is *not* legally binding. The company still used them, but they viewed it more as a request ("please delete this"), with maybe a little scare tactic ("or legal consequences may apply") thrown in for good measure.
I trust the power companies wants to sell you as much electricity as they possibly can... Well that right there is one way they could abuse it. Imagine your thermostat altering your settings by a few degrees around the time most people go to sleep, and setting itself back before they expect you to wake up: all of a sudden your power bill is a fair bit higher, for reasons unknown to you...
I'm not saying I think that's all too likely, but I just want to point out that it is possible.
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You do know The Prince was meant as satire, right?
That's very much a minority view, and certainly not as obvious as your sarcastic tone implies. Most people do not subscribe to that view at all, and reading the book shows exactly why: it doesn't come across as a satire at all. The satirical interpretation is based largely on extrapolating from biographical details and making a lot of tenuous assumptions.
No, not possibly at all. That would be a case of traits produced through behaviour being inherited genetically, which is not how inheritance of traits works. Evolution can only happen through *selection* of traits (e.g. those who already have certain traits having more children), not by training/creating traits. See my reply to the OP for more details.
Also, evolution is undirected: there is no such thing as "reverse" evolution, only adaptation to whatever the environment is.
No. Evolution works only on traits produced by genetic mutation, NOT traits acquired through behaviour. This was one of the flaws in early theories of evolution: it was believed that actions of the parent could influence the genetics of the child, which is not the case. The standard example is giraffes: under the incorrect theory, one could say "they developed longer necks because they stretched them to reach high leaves", but the correct interpretation is instead "the ones with longer-than-average necks could feed better, and hence had more children".
The reason for this is that the genetic material passed on through reproduction comes entirely from the cells in your reproductive organs, so no matter how much you train your neck (or stomach, in your case), none of those changes can in any way get passed to your children, because those cells just aren't involved in the process.
We are extremely excited.
Not as excited as the lasers, I'll bet.
... should have been disbarred for that ruling ...
Dismembered. The word you are looking for is dismembered.
Amen! I hunted around for ages before finding a device with the features I wanted, and that little bugger has them all. Compared to similar offerings (in terms of storage anyway, because the feature set sure as hell is unmatched) it is damn cheap too. I really hope they consider sales of it to be a success so that they keep pushing OGG.
He also would have known it's "curricula," not "curriculums."
(Yes, the summary gets it right, but not the "sight" itself)
Exactly -- although what Congress and the President are attempting to do is blatantly wrong, this is actually a case of the system working more or less as intended: a power struggle between the branches is the reason for the existence of branches in the first place! By having them fight each other, none of them can really go berserk and do whatever they want.
Side note: I hate to play the pedant, but I believe your "nigh duty" should be "nay, duty." "Nigh" means approaching or drawing near, "nay" means no. All the best!
Hey, I'm sorry to sound like a pedant here, but you might be interested in knowing that the expression is "cutting off your nose to spite your face."
Anyway, interesting story, and I'd be really interested to know where you took your business, since any competitor to eBay would be an interesting place to explore.
I think you mean "what is Slashdot either coming to, or not coming to, these days?"
Although the parent is obviously a troll, there is one related true point: In Canada, you are not an Engineer. Here it is a legally regulated profession, much like medicine or law, and only members of the relevant provincial association may use the title. Depending on your job you may be eligible for membership, but my understanding is that most of those sorts of jobs are not considered engineering -- not to say they're not cool or difficult or anything, they just don't fit what the law defines as engineering.
Almost there, but I think you meant:
In Soviet England, bus waits for you.
You missed the ~ at the end of the sentence. In case you haven't seen the sigs and small discussions about it, the tilde (~) has been repurposed to indicate sarcasm.
On top of which, for some reason both this style and the atrocious crap that is "idle" both prevent Firefox from scrolling the page smoothly on my machine. Everything is horrible and jumpy and hard to follow. (Core duo, 1GB RAM, 2.6 kernel, Firefox 2.0.0.13)
I think you meant to say "the whole idle section is horrible." Seriously, I try to avoid this corner of the site as much as possible, but I mistakenly thought that since this article concerned genuine technology advances it might be real news. Please, for the love of God, get rid of idle. If I want juvenile bullshit, I'll go read Fark or just look at lolcats or something. I hate it I hate it I hate it.
Oh my God... your sig! It's so friggin' appropriate right now!
How is that a troll? The parent points out the rather important fact that many, including (arguably) the summary, seem to miss: The study has shown a correlation between cat ownership and decreased risk of heart problems. That does not mean that cats are good for your heart, only that there is a connection. It could be something entirely different, like that (warning: the following hypothetical scenario is sourced right out of my arse) people who like cats tend to be calmer people who stress their hearts less.
Not quite. As Dave Barry put it:
/me shudders.
"The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these primitive African tribes that exist by chasing the wildebeest on foot, and they have to go around largely naked, because, as the old tribal saying goes: "N'wam k'honi soit qui mali," which means, "If you think you can catch a wildebeest in this climate and wear clothes at the same time, then I have some beach front property in the desert region of Northern Mali that you may be interested in."So it's not considered pornographic when National Geographic publishes color photographs of these people hunting the wildebeest naked, or pounding one rock onto another rock for some primitive reason naked, or whatever. But if National Geographic were to publish an article entitled "The Girls of the California Junior College System Hunt the Wildebeest Naked," some people would call it pornography."
So no, just having certain areas exposed doesn't make an image pornographic (if it did, most biology and sociology textbooks would be 18+ only).
Also, maybe I'm being trolled, but did you just say that you find children in bikinis hot? Your argument makes perfect sense if you used adults instead of children, so I can only assume you specifically intended to clarify that you find children sexually attractive.
Worst troll ever, yet here I am feeding it:
1. If the bootloader fails to install, the computer isn't bricked, just without a bootloader. And what did you expect? If the bootloader fails to install, install a bootloader? Nonsense.
2. That is most certainly not required. I assume you are familiar with how to switch to a virtual terminal, or at least with booting into a lower, gui-less, runlevel.
3. Don't know what could be the cause of your problem here, but if we're going with anecdotal evidence I'll trow in that I've never seen that happen.
4. Are you for real? Do you really think nobody has implemented WPA support?
5 & 6. Again, can't comment on your situation, but I'll include some anecdotal evidence once more: I once had a router issue while installing, and installed an extremely minimalist system without any problems whatsoever.
If you're having problems installing, you could always try the alternate install CD; I hear it works better in some cases.
It's a bit of a different issue though. Try this experiment instead: type http://www.google.ca/ig. Now type http://search.yahoo.com./ Sure, each site has picked a different one to be their default, but that's just a matter of taste.
I don't see it that way. In my view, they're not "threatening damage" but promising results. They're essentially saying "Hey Real, if you hire us to do a security audit, we can guarantee we will find at least one serious vulnerability, and your money will have been well spent." It's a bit disingenuous to phrase it this way, but it essentially boils down to the same thing.
Think of it as "we guarantee value for your money" rather than "give us money or we guarantee you'll wish you had," which, if you consider missed opportunities valuable, mean the same thing.
What does "BushCo" mean?
Actually, don't tell me. Using phrases likes that makes me think you are an idiot and I don't want to hear your opinion.
I heard from corporate counsel at a previous job that, at least up here in Canada, it is *not* legally binding. The company still used them, but they viewed it more as a request ("please delete this"), with maybe a little scare tactic ("or legal consequences may apply") thrown in for good measure.
I'm not saying I think that's all too likely, but I just want to point out that it is possible.
Whooooshhh...
For your edification, he is referring to the four freedoms that RMS likes software to have.