Microsoft has a monopoly, meaning that it can be held to higher standards to insure competition. IANAL, but I think the first complaint is part of the second complaint: If IE implemented standards other web browsers would be able to compete against it more effectively.
Your argument is an ad hominem. You are claiming that because some people are misinterpreting data that your opponent is too. Now, you stated that you do not dispute the data, yet argue that climate cannot be modeled or understood. Finally, we do not understand everything about the behavior of turbulent flows. Does this mean that a plumber cannot say that water hammer will destroy your pipes?
Do you want the subject-predicate-object relations of RDF to contain the mathematical theory, or just describe it? RDF is not powerful enough to contain FOL, so that won't work. If you are just using it to describe information, then it won't help with expressing proofs. It just becomes a bad syntax for lambda calculus. Isabelle theorem prover is more suited to this. Even if the core language is generic, the library of knowledge built on it won't be. It's hard to determine where ZFC needed to be used vs. where it was used to shorten the proof compared to ZF. This means that the effort will fracture into subefforts each devoted to their own little axiomization.
The problem with that is not all knowledge can be reduced to ZFC+FOL. Also you would get endless crises as the Platonists and the Formalists clash, the geometers demand coverage of geometry as a subject in its own right and the analysts say it's just algebra, the logicians argue over which logic to use, and the Supreme Fascist comes down and sues us for copying the Book.
Simple is very hard to define. For instance, the prime number theorem has an analytic and elementary proof. The elementary proof has many unmotivated steps that leave you scratching your head asking "why?". The analytic proof uses more complex concepts, but applies them in a more straightforwards manner.
Mumps kills, Chickenpox infects the nervous system and leads to shingles later in life. Hepatitis A is spread by the oral-fecal route. Remember the polio epidemic in NYC during the 1950s? Polio is oral-fecal transmitted, and it spread like wildfire. This is what happens in unvaccinated populations.
How much source code comes with windows applications? How well will windows perform in the limited hardware of the OLPC? Can you use Windows with limited literacy? Or to put it another way: Ford is bad because you can't use a car like a motorcycle. Everything has limitations, but the OLPC has a lot fewer limitations then a traditional laptop. Different design requirements, different design.
Most children are unable to learn reading until they are 6 or 7 because of brain development not progressing far enough. It has nothing to do with how much they are taught they just can't get it until they are that old.
How the US was established has no bearing on how it should be run now. To say otherwise is to make the essential conservative fallacy: That because it was always this way is a valid reason. 140 years ago we had slavery. Should we still have it today?
A capitalist will make a profit doing whatever he can that is profitable. If he can make a profit from working his workers 16 hours a day he will do so. If you want to work 7 hours a day then he will fire you and get one of the 4% of workers that are unemployed at the 'best' of times to replace you.
Well, corporations were good at preventing unions from forming until the government stepped in and said workers had a right to organize. Regulations have some advantages over unions(all employers get affected, no lengthy battle to cooperative bargaining), and some disadvantages (slow to change) but both are tools workers used in their battle to get some recognition.
Guerrilla warfare is never waged without the support of the people. Now that guerrillas have gotten so effective we should not fear any invasion, as it will be sent home with its tail between its legs in short order.
No. Garbage collection was invented in 1959 along with LISP. Digital audio is a species of the genus of digital sampling. See Shannon for more details. Verbose, self-descriptive, text-based file formats: what do you think MIME is? And the convention in MIME is ancient. If something is obvious it cannot be patented, regardless of how good or bad people think it is.
US companies conducted a work slowdown aimed at overthrowing Allende. They delayed payments, messed up shipments, fired people, destroyed equipment, and it worked.
The problem with small government is it can't do anything about big problems. How is a small government going to fight the second world war, put a man on the moon, end the Great Depression, or protect civil rights in the Deep South?
Salvador Allende never killed anyone. I haven't heard of genocides in Cuba either, or East Germany. The Western Powers were never under threat from Hitler the way Russia was. Hitler wanted to *exterminate* the Russians. He wanted the British to take their place as the master race. Russia and China took 90% of the allied casualties in WWII. The west never sent troops into Germany to oppose Hitler, but 18 foreign armies fought in the Russian Civil War. The US supported Franco during the entire life of his regime, and Franco was a fascist. Their opposition to Hitler was due to Pearl Harbor and Hitler's choice of allies.
I personally think that the slashdot moderations system works quite well. It avoids mod wars, and in my experience has generally promoted comments that deserve to be promoted and buried those that deserve to be burried, no matter what opinions they express. The fact that slashdot conversations are more lively then kuro5hin is worth the slightly less effective moderation system in my opinion.
The US has rarely been a beacon of light. Look at Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama(twice), and Chile for examples. What makes this different is they've turned on the population of the US. Every one of these actions has been conducted in the darkness of government secrecy, against the will of the people. Until the government is responsive to the will of the people, this kind of stuff will go on.
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Microsoft has a monopoly, meaning that it can be held to higher standards to insure competition. IANAL, but I think the first complaint is part of the second complaint: If IE implemented standards other web browsers would be able to compete against it more effectively.
Jerry Falwell thought the same way. Unfortunately the Supreme Court doesn't think so. See Falwell v.Hustler for details.
Slashdot uses HTML, not BBCode.
Later Reppy implemented a rendezvous based messaging system, but only the French really understood it.
Your argument is an ad hominem. You are claiming that because some people are misinterpreting data that your opponent is too. Now, you stated that you do not dispute the data, yet argue that climate cannot be modeled or understood. Finally, we do not understand everything about the behavior of turbulent flows. Does this mean that a plumber cannot say that water hammer will destroy your pipes?
Do you want the subject-predicate-object relations of RDF to contain the mathematical theory, or just describe it? RDF is not powerful enough to contain FOL, so that won't work. If you are just using it to describe information, then it won't help with expressing proofs. It just becomes a bad syntax for lambda calculus. Isabelle theorem prover is more suited to this. Even if the core language is generic, the library of knowledge built on it won't be. It's hard to determine where ZFC needed to be used vs. where it was used to shorten the proof compared to ZF. This means that the effort will fracture into subefforts each devoted to their own little axiomization.
The problem with that is not all knowledge can be reduced to ZFC+FOL. Also you would get endless crises as the Platonists and the Formalists clash, the geometers demand coverage of geometry as a subject in its own right and the analysts say it's just algebra, the logicians argue over which logic to use, and the Supreme Fascist comes down and sues us for copying the Book.
Simple is very hard to define. For instance, the prime number theorem has an analytic and elementary proof. The elementary proof has many unmotivated steps that leave you scratching your head asking "why?". The analytic proof uses more complex concepts, but applies them in a more straightforwards manner.
Mumps kills, Chickenpox infects the nervous system and leads to shingles later in life. Hepatitis A is spread by the oral-fecal route. Remember the polio epidemic in NYC during the 1950s? Polio is oral-fecal transmitted, and it spread like wildfire. This is what happens in unvaccinated populations.
How much source code comes with windows applications? How well will windows perform in the limited hardware of the OLPC? Can you use Windows with limited literacy? Or to put it another way: Ford is bad because you can't use a car like a motorcycle. Everything has limitations, but the OLPC has a lot fewer limitations then a traditional laptop. Different design requirements, different design.
Most children are unable to learn reading until they are 6 or 7 because of brain development not progressing far enough. It has nothing to do with how much they are taught they just can't get it until they are that old.
How the US was established has no bearing on how it should be run now. To say otherwise is to make the essential conservative fallacy: That because it was always this way is a valid reason. 140 years ago we had slavery. Should we still have it today?
A capitalist will make a profit doing whatever he can that is profitable. If he can make a profit from working his workers 16 hours a day he will do so. If you want to work 7 hours a day then he will fire you and get one of the 4% of workers that are unemployed at the 'best' of times to replace you.
Well, corporations were good at preventing unions from forming until the government stepped in and said workers had a right to organize. Regulations have some advantages over unions(all employers get affected, no lengthy battle to cooperative bargaining), and some disadvantages (slow to change) but both are tools workers used in their battle to get some recognition.
So do you have another Earth we can use as a control?
Guerrilla warfare is never waged without the support of the people. Now that guerrillas have gotten so effective we should not fear any invasion, as it will be sent home with its tail between its legs in short order.
No. Garbage collection was invented in 1959 along with LISP. Digital audio is a species of the genus of digital sampling. See Shannon for more details. Verbose, self-descriptive, text-based file formats: what do you think MIME is? And the convention in MIME is ancient. If something is obvious it cannot be patented, regardless of how good or bad people think it is.
How do you like those 16-hour workdays in unsafe conditions then?
US companies conducted a work slowdown aimed at overthrowing Allende. They delayed payments, messed up shipments, fired people, destroyed equipment, and it worked.
The problem with small government is it can't do anything about big problems. How is a small government going to fight the second world war, put a man on the moon, end the Great Depression, or protect civil rights in the Deep South?
Salvador Allende never killed anyone. I haven't heard of genocides in Cuba either, or East Germany. The Western Powers were never under threat from Hitler the way Russia was. Hitler wanted to *exterminate* the Russians. He wanted the British to take their place as the master race. Russia and China took 90% of the allied casualties in WWII. The west never sent troops into Germany to oppose Hitler, but 18 foreign armies fought in the Russian Civil War. The US supported Franco during the entire life of his regime, and Franco was a fascist. Their opposition to Hitler was due to Pearl Harbor and Hitler's choice of allies.
I personally think that the slashdot moderations system works quite well. It avoids mod wars, and in my experience has generally promoted comments that deserve to be promoted and buried those that deserve to be burried, no matter what opinions they express. The fact that slashdot conversations are more lively then kuro5hin is worth the slightly less effective moderation system in my opinion.
The US has rarely been a beacon of light. Look at Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama(twice), and Chile for examples. What makes this different is they've turned on the population of the US. Every one of these actions has been conducted in the darkness of government secrecy, against the will of the people. Until the government is responsive to the will of the people, this kind of stuff will go on.
The US would have little choice. The UK has nukes and subs, and protects Canada.
Won't the size of the fuse in the home circuit limit the charging rate?