Re:Scientific faith is different than religious fa
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You are misunderstanding the meaning of the word "faith".
Faith is belief without evidence. See also the definition of the word "irrational."
It is not faith to believe in the scientific method or logic. In fact, I can point to 10,000 years of scientific progress, and in particular, the last 500 years or so, as evidence that the scientific method works. All of this knowlege and technology that we have is a direct result of the scientific method.
So, one need not have faith to believe in the scientific method. There is overwhelming evidence that it works.
If your STL is from SGI, or based on one from SGI, then you are OK. The GCC STL is OK too. Only worry if you have the HP STL. That's a problem. Of course, MS uses the HP STL. WTF?
If there's a little robot inside my arteries I think I'd rather that it DIDN'T have the capability to cut through meat. That could play real havoc with various sphincters I think. Suppose the things takes it's bearings, discovers it's in the heart, but really wanted to be in my liver. The most direct route might not be the one that is the best.
On the other hand, it would be cool to attach a little wire to this thing and have it run around my torso and limbs just under the surface of the skin. Voila! My very own subdermal chain mail! That would be very cool.
I think that beautiful saying is written on the giant Statue of NataliePortman that stands at the entrance of Halifax Harbor. Not many people know this, but that statue was a gift from the people of Israel, to the people of Canada. At first, the Canadians didn't really like it. After all, it wasn't a blanket, it couldn't make fire, and you couldn't eat it. But now, the people of Canada love their statue, and would never part with it. This is probably because of the millions of immigrants who passed through McEllis island on their way to live their dream of a free, if freezing, life in Canada. Long live the Queen! Amidala, that is.
Raytheon's competitors say they are sticking with metal airframes because carbon fiber is unproven. Excuse me? Carbon fiber has properties that are well known. It's superior in many ways to metal airframes. I'm making a guess here, but perhaps the business jet market is a wee bit too conservative for their own good. Perhaps it was the highly visible market failure of the Beechcraft Starship. But saying that carbon fiber is unproven implies that the technology is unproven, which is untrue. The problem seems to lie with the marketers and salesman who are afraid of change.
Spiders aren't poisonous. They are venemous. A poisonous animal would be something that causes illness from contact, or by ingesting it, such as those odd frogs and toads that emit a toxic slime from their bodies.
A venemous animal, like a spider or a rattlesnake, has a bite or other means of delivering a toxin to their target.
And, not to put too fine a point on it, all spiders are venemous. It goes with the territory. Saying that a new species of venemous spider has been found is like saying that a new species of fish that lives in water has been found.
Based on the description of the article, I looked up some things. What can I say? Somebody modded me down, so I'm at 49, and I'm incomplete without that karma point.
On Windows, the libs are called Dynamic Linked Libraries. On UNIX, they are called SHARED libraries. Of course, we all know they are the same thing, but apparently on Windows many people don't understand their purpose.
Part of the DLL hell is the vast amount of them that are unnecessarily created by people who don't understand when static linking will work just fine. I still hear people claim that DLL's magically keep the executable size small. DUH! All it does is unnecessarily chunk up your program, increase file count, and increase loading time.
So far under Linux I have hardly seen any abuses of this. Shared libraries are generally reserved for geniunely sharable code, and the rest is statically linked the way it should be.
It sounds like GNU Cash is using shared libs correctly and once the distros catch up we'll wonder what the fuss was about.
Amen, brotha! But I have to admit that I'm still using Microsoft Word for Windows version 3.0. That program does everything that I could possibly want in a MS product.
Everyone knows that you don't send valuable things in the mail. The postman might take it. You might as well put a hundred dollar bill in there with the check.
It's called fusion. And don't worry about it. It's still 50 years in the future. Ask again in 30 years, and I'll tell you again that it's 50 years in the future.
Freedom of speech is absolute. There are currently no limits to what you can say with your mouth, except that you can't slander or libel someone. If you're telling the truth, it's not slander or libel. Also, obscene speech is not protected. Indecent speech IS protected.
Child porn is obscene, and therefore is not protected.
The hydrogen in the Hindenburg wasn't stored in a tank with walls 1/4 inch thick either. A tank of hydrogen is safer than a plastic or paper thin metal 10 gallon gas tank.
Salesmen want to sell. Any sales person that talks to me either figures out in the first 5 seconds that he will have to answer my question, or he doesn't get the sale.
Marketing people NEVER answer questions. Their purpose is to manipulate my opinion.
You nailed down my exact reasons why marketing is annoying to me. The goal of marketing is to cause me to buy something that I normally wouldn't have by subverting my reasoning process. If the product was the best, and I required that product, then marketing wouldn't be needed because I would have chosen that product.
My dislike for marketing doesn't spill over into sales. Sales is essential for a couple reasons. First, salesmen can answer my questions, or run around like mad trying to answer my questions. They provide information to me that I can use to make my decision. Second, if I have technical support that is lousy, professional sales people are always a great point of contact. I just call them up, tell them that I am disappointed with my technical support. After I hang up, the sales person walks back to the tech support people and kicks their ass for me, because they want to sell to me in the future.
Wow. You must be about 20 years old if you think that. The games that people play to get their judges elected were happening WAY before Bork. Of course I understand where you're coming from. I, too, have the odd perception that nothing existed before I was born 32 years ago.
I'm glad he redesigned his rocket. His old design was unstable and would have killed him. He was relying on the same thing that Goddard used in 1924 on the first liquid fuel rocket: put the nozzle at the top. Problem is, if your design isn't stable, it won't matter where the thrust comes from. Unstable rockets tumble, unless they have thrust vectoring and active stabilization.
1) People tend to get them at the same time. This is probably because of some kind of "mass hysteria".
2) All of the people striken with colds have had their colds "go away".
If carpal tunnel is a hoax, then so is the common cold.
Good job moderators, you moderated my previous post as flamebait. That's exactly what it was. Ashcroft is a fucking idiot.
Thanks again,
Re:Your use of "Liberal Myth" is a generalization
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Actually, I wasn't even really talking about money in that sense. Of course, they are all about money:
The Democrats and Republicans are both corporate parties, neither conservative, nor liberal. They are both run according to the bottom line, and concern themselves chiefly with the process of getting votes, getting funding, spending money, collecting money, protecting money interests, and other fiscal planning issues.
Ideology has fallen by the wayside. The only remnant of it is (unfortunately) the fundamentalist faction of the Republican party. Everything else is purely functional.
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You are misunderstanding the meaning of the word "faith".
Faith is belief without evidence. See also the definition of the word "irrational."
It is not faith to believe in the scientific method or logic. In fact, I can point to 10,000 years of scientific progress, and in particular, the last 500 years or so, as evidence that the scientific method works. All of this knowlege and technology that we have is a direct result of the scientific method.
So, one need not have faith to believe in the scientific method. There is overwhelming evidence that it works.
If your STL is from SGI, or based on one from SGI, then you are OK. The GCC STL is OK too. Only worry if you have the HP STL. That's a problem. Of course, MS uses the HP STL. WTF?
If there's a little robot inside my arteries I think I'd rather that it DIDN'T have the capability to cut through meat. That could play real havoc with various sphincters I think. Suppose the things takes it's bearings, discovers it's in the heart, but really wanted to be in my liver. The most direct route might not be the one that is the best.
On the other hand, it would be cool to attach a little wire to this thing and have it run around my torso and limbs just under the surface of the skin. Voila! My very own subdermal chain mail! That would be very cool.
I think that beautiful saying is written on the giant Statue of NataliePortman that stands at the entrance of Halifax Harbor. Not many people know this, but that statue was a gift from the people of Israel, to the people of Canada. At first, the Canadians didn't really like it. After all, it wasn't a blanket, it couldn't make fire, and you couldn't eat it. But now, the people of Canada love their statue, and would never part with it. This is probably because of the millions of immigrants who passed through McEllis island on their way to live their dream of a free, if freezing, life in Canada. Long live the Queen! Amidala, that is.
Are you an entymologyst, or an entymophagyst, or both?
Raytheon's competitors say they are sticking with metal airframes because carbon fiber is unproven. Excuse me? Carbon fiber has properties that are well known. It's superior in many ways to metal airframes. I'm making a guess here, but perhaps the business jet market is a wee bit too conservative for their own good. Perhaps it was the highly visible market failure of the Beechcraft Starship. But saying that carbon fiber is unproven implies that the technology is unproven, which is untrue. The problem seems to lie with the marketers and salesman who are afraid of change.
Can we use this to write more configuration programs just like ESR did with the Linux Kernel? Sure would be nice to set up a printer that way.
Spiders aren't poisonous. They are venemous. A poisonous animal would be something that causes illness from contact, or by ingesting it, such as those odd frogs and toads that emit a toxic slime from their bodies.
A venemous animal, like a spider or a rattlesnake, has a bite or other means of delivering a toxin to their target.
And, not to put too fine a point on it, all spiders are venemous. It goes with the territory. Saying that a new species of venemous spider has been found is like saying that a new species of fish that lives in water has been found.
Based on the description of the article, I looked up some things. What can I say? Somebody modded me down, so I'm at 49, and I'm incomplete without that karma point.
Amdahl's law
Amdahl's law
On chip multiprocessing
Simultaneous multithreading
You forget the other part of the equation.
On Windows, the libs are called Dynamic Linked Libraries. On UNIX, they are called SHARED libraries. Of course, we all know they are the same thing, but apparently on Windows many people don't understand their purpose.
Part of the DLL hell is the vast amount of them that are unnecessarily created by people who don't understand when static linking will work just fine. I still hear people claim that DLL's magically keep the executable size small. DUH! All it does is unnecessarily chunk up your program, increase file count, and increase loading time.
So far under Linux I have hardly seen any abuses of this. Shared libraries are generally reserved for geniunely sharable code, and the rest is statically linked the way it should be.
It sounds like GNU Cash is using shared libs correctly and once the distros catch up we'll wonder what the fuss was about.
Amen, brotha! But I have to admit that I'm still using Microsoft Word for Windows version 3.0. That program does everything that I could possibly want in a MS product.
Everyone knows that you don't send valuable things in the mail. The postman might take it. You might as well put a hundred dollar bill in there with the check.
It's called fusion. And don't worry about it. It's still 50 years in the future. Ask again in 30 years, and I'll tell you again that it's 50 years in the future.
Freedom of speech is absolute. There are currently no limits to what you can say with your mouth, except that you can't slander or libel someone. If you're telling the truth, it's not slander or libel. Also, obscene speech is not protected. Indecent speech IS protected.
Child porn is obscene, and therefore is not protected.
The hydrogen in the Hindenburg wasn't stored in a tank with walls 1/4 inch thick either. A tank of hydrogen is safer than a plastic or paper thin metal 10 gallon gas tank.
Salesmen want to sell. Any sales person that talks to me either figures out in the first 5 seconds that he will have to answer my question, or he doesn't get the sale.
Marketing people NEVER answer questions. Their purpose is to manipulate my opinion.
You nailed down my exact reasons why marketing is annoying to me. The goal of marketing is to cause me to buy something that I normally wouldn't have by subverting my reasoning process. If the product was the best, and I required that product, then marketing wouldn't be needed because I would have chosen that product.
My dislike for marketing doesn't spill over into sales. Sales is essential for a couple reasons. First, salesmen can answer my questions, or run around like mad trying to answer my questions. They provide information to me that I can use to make my decision. Second, if I have technical support that is lousy, professional sales people are always a great point of contact. I just call them up, tell them that I am disappointed with my technical support. After I hang up, the sales person walks back to the tech support people and kicks their ass for me, because they want to sell to me in the future.
Wow. You must be about 20 years old if you think that. The games that people play to get their judges elected were happening WAY before Bork. Of course I understand where you're coming from. I, too, have the odd perception that nothing existed before I was born 32 years ago.
I'm glad he redesigned his rocket. His old design was unstable and would have killed him. He was relying on the same thing that Goddard used in 1924 on the first liquid fuel rocket: put the nozzle at the top. Problem is, if your design isn't stable, it won't matter where the thrust comes from. Unstable rockets tumble, unless they have thrust vectoring and active stabilization.
Consider the facts:
1) People tend to get them at the same time. This is probably because of some kind of "mass hysteria".
2) All of the people striken with colds have had their colds "go away".
If carpal tunnel is a hoax, then so is the common cold.
Good job moderators, you moderated my previous post as flamebait. That's exactly what it was. Ashcroft is a fucking idiot.
Thanks again,
Actually, I wasn't even really talking about money in that sense. Of course, they are all about money:
The Democrats and Republicans are both corporate parties, neither conservative, nor liberal. They are both run according to the bottom line, and concern themselves chiefly with the process of getting votes, getting funding, spending money, collecting money, protecting money interests, and other fiscal planning issues.
Ideology has fallen by the wayside. The only remnant of it is (unfortunately) the fundamentalist faction of the Republican party. Everything else is purely functional.
as God intended them
Are you sure you aren't mistaken? God specifically wrote that he wanted an IP on every tree, every toad, yea verily, every stone shall have an IP.
Your god must be a false god. A god who doesn't have a good fiber connection isn't a very good god, don't you think?
Your leap of logic reminds me of an old joke.
Step 1) Collect 12 boxes of women's underwear
Step 2) ?????????
Step 3) Take over the world.
It's a long long way from wearable computers to the Borg.
That's like saying if we made a law that all couches must be X size MAXIMUM, then somehow a 450lb man will seem less, um, bloated?
Face it. We're bloated right now. If processors never got any faster ever, we'd still be bloated.