> Just because the murderers didn't utter the phrase, "I kill you in the name of my god, 'None'" doesn't mean they weren't murdered to advance atheism.
Actually, if you completely fail to find any connection between the act and atheism, then they weren't in fact murdered to advance atheism.
The church hasn't gone on killing sprees since the crusades, bravo. Now let's see them stop murdering the human spirit. I don't give a tinker's damn that others might do the same, we're working on them too.
> What is the hypothesis that is proposed as the serious scientific alternative to evolution?
Why, there isn't one. They simply want to create doubt about the established theories, with nothing but vague illusions to "design" that must naturally include a designer. Or perhaps they're all really Zen Buddhists, who just pose koans to us to create that Great Doubt that when broken, brings us to a state of Satori.
Greg Bear had an interesting take on the idea in Darwin's Radio, suggesting that perhaps there is some intelligent design going on, but that the design itself is an evolved mechanism. The eventual expression of the design "toolkit" that surfaces in humanity in is of course waaaay Out There sci-fi stuff in the books, but there's a nugget of truth to it. The stimuli might be random, but it appears that evolution has a trick or two in directing itself. No outside designer needed.
The schism is largely between Catholics and Evangelicals. From the literature, the extreme evangelicals largely consider Catholics to be something akin to Satanists. More mainstream, they just consider them a little too ecumenical (the very word "catholic" has a connotation of universality) and "squishy" in their beliefs. Dogma vs accomodation.
Galileo was around while the Catholic church was starting up the Counter Reformation, which simultaneously punished any threats to its authority (like Galileo) while tolerating minor deviations in order to prevent further schisms. Obviously Galileo got the wrong end of the stick.
> IMHO, the GPL is a BAD license precisely because it causes fights like this to break out with regularity.
I don't necessarily think it's a bad license, I just don't think it's a one-size-fits-all thing. When you bring together a group of intelligent, opinionated, and (in large part) socially awkward people, fights are going to break out. Now it's true that things like religion and licenses tend to act as amplifiers (thus why I don't buy the classic "people will kill each other anyway" argument about religion) but I think this is just a pretty isolated case of Linus having another tirade. Reportedly he's already backing off.
What an apropos phrase. Reminds me of those androids in that Star Trek episode, where Kirk poses a very simple logical puzzle to them, and their hardwired inflexibility of thought causes those stupid computers to go up in smoke at the very thought.
Man, even gun nuts and gear heads will latch onto *some* technical detail to lambast the products from some manufacturer they don't like. The discussion here is... well I guess this is what political geeks sound like.
Everything you do on this project, whether just asking a question on a forum or posting a small patch will give MS more momentum, and takes away the same momentum from true free software. So you are not only giving your time away for free, you are also adding value too a commercial research project.
Microsoft finally innovates something, and this is the response.
Of course people who are actually interested don't much care for your tribalist attitude. Hey maybe in 20 more years the open source world can reinvent another Unix.
There's an RFC floating around from 1970-ish that announces an OS based on channel abstractions, which is effectively capabilities security.
And no, Singularity doesn't work like that. Far as I've heard, it's based on safety through proofs, themselves based on advanced type theory. Nothing like KeyKOS, which basically had to arbitrate everything through the MMU with page faults (or maybe that's just EROS).
Feh.. clearly I don't quite understand what GPLONLY is about. Looks to me like he's trying to claim that a driver adaptor shim around non-GPL'd drivers can't qualify the kernel as GPL. I'm not entirely sure I buy that, assuming the driver has the purpose of opening up a driver's use (like NDISWrapper appears to do) rather than closing one off (like binary-blob drivers). But interpreting intent is a slippery slope that leads to GPLv3 and worse...
And despite his tone, it does look like he's willing to be convinced otherwise.
Try the other way around. The NDISWrapper folks are trying to GPL something that Linus doesn't believe merits it. They're the ones trying to add the restrictions, and Linus isn't having it.
The difference is module and program. One is considered part of the kernel, the other isn't.
Linus was a bit brusque about it but I do see his point. Of course if all the kernel symbols needed to make wireless drivers work are GPLONLY, then well, Linux has a bigger problem, doesn't it.
> Do you think the US would snuggle up to China if they wouldn't have nukes?
Absolutely. The amount of U.S. debt they hold is a gun pointed at our head that could wipe out our power as effectively as any nuke.
Mind you, we'd take them and the rest of the world down in the process. When you owe the bank ten million dollars, you have a problem. When you owe the bank ten trillion dollars, the bank has a problem.
> J.K. Rowling took the idea of Voldemort from the same lore Orochimaru was taken from.
I severely doubt she ever read it. It's not like even the likeness of Yamata no Orochi is exactly "original" unless you're saying the Greeks copied the Hydra from them.
Manga otaku get worked up over the silliest things.
When you've got mappers configured right -- which is undeniably cumbersome, but you get a lot of power from it -- SA really is as orthogonal as AR or SQLObject. More, really, since you don't have to use special datatypes or declarations for your fields (they're in the mapper).
The only difference is that it isn't set up to autocommit by default, so you do have to manually flush the session, but even that could be done with a simple wrapper, be it WSGI middleware or a context manager or what have you.
Storm's probably worth looking at too. It's also a mapper pattern ORM, but it has a claim to fame of supporting multiple databases simultaneously. I don't believe it has the same kind of sophistication that SA has in its low-level DB access though.
Out of all the other countries whose educational systems are kicking our asses, how many of them have corporal punishment?
It's really a good thing this whole "debate" is confined to internet fora. Even the most back-to-basics charter schools don't even vaguely entertain the notion of whipping the kids in their care.
Yeah, the solution to the education problem is spanking. Gosh, why didn't we think of that.
Yunno, I'm all for homeschooling if it keeps 18th century nitwits from thinking they should be running the public schools. Sad that it doesn't seem to work out that way.
> You could have used a generator comprehension instead of a list comprehension.
Sure, but something would have to consume it or it would never start. At that point you may as well just use a loop. I think the OP was just showing off syntax -- no one would ever actually write real world python like that.
Take a look at SQLAlchemy. You'll cry at how primitive ActiveRecord is by comparison. If you really need to get your ActiveRecord pattern on (it's the name of a pattern, not a product), there's always the much less powerful, but much simpler and still popular SQLObject.
Then there's Django's ORM, GeniuSQL, Storm, Axiom...
Considering how Temple of Elemental Evil was such a flop, and EA/BioWare is quite happy now with their console franchise and homegrown systems, do they have any licensees left? Not that it gets them any royalties, but does Hasbro Interactive even have anything in the pipe vis a vis the D&D franchise?
Oh yeah there's a MMO, which I actually managed to forget... as did the rest of the market.
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> This view of the Galileo trial was generally held until the Protestant Reformation
Whah?
Martin Luther: 1483 - 1546
Galileo Galilei: 1564 - 1642
> Just because the murderers didn't utter the phrase, "I kill you in the name of my god, 'None'" doesn't mean they weren't murdered to advance atheism.
Actually, if you completely fail to find any connection between the act and atheism, then they weren't in fact murdered to advance atheism.
The church hasn't gone on killing sprees since the crusades, bravo. Now let's see them stop murdering the human spirit. I don't give a tinker's damn that others might do the same, we're working on them too.
> What is the hypothesis that is proposed as the serious scientific alternative to evolution?
Why, there isn't one. They simply want to create doubt about the established theories, with nothing but vague illusions to "design" that must naturally include a designer. Or perhaps they're all really Zen Buddhists, who just pose koans to us to create that Great Doubt that when broken, brings us to a state of Satori.
Greg Bear had an interesting take on the idea in Darwin's Radio, suggesting that perhaps there is some intelligent design going on, but that the design itself is an evolved mechanism. The eventual expression of the design "toolkit" that surfaces in humanity in is of course waaaay Out There sci-fi stuff in the books, but there's a nugget of truth to it. The stimuli might be random, but it appears that evolution has a trick or two in directing itself. No outside designer needed.
The schism is largely between Catholics and Evangelicals. From the literature, the extreme evangelicals largely consider Catholics to be something akin to Satanists. More mainstream, they just consider them a little too ecumenical (the very word "catholic" has a connotation of universality) and "squishy" in their beliefs. Dogma vs accomodation.
Galileo was around while the Catholic church was starting up the Counter Reformation, which simultaneously punished any threats to its authority (like Galileo) while tolerating minor deviations in order to prevent further schisms. Obviously Galileo got the wrong end of the stick.
> IMHO, the GPL is a BAD license precisely because it causes fights like this to break out with regularity.
I don't necessarily think it's a bad license, I just don't think it's a one-size-fits-all thing. When you bring together a group of intelligent, opinionated, and (in large part) socially awkward people, fights are going to break out. Now it's true that things like religion and licenses tend to act as amplifiers (thus why I don't buy the classic "people will kill each other anyway" argument about religion) but I think this is just a pretty isolated case of Linus having another tirade. Reportedly he's already backing off.
> Technically, Singularity is intellectual masturbation
I'll take that over the anti-intellectual masturbation going on throughout 90% of the responses to this article.
Unless you burn it into silicon, technically everything's interpreted.
Dr Von Neumann, please pick up line 1.
> does not compute
... well I guess this is what political geeks sound like.
What an apropos phrase. Reminds me of those androids in that Star Trek episode, where Kirk poses a very simple logical puzzle to them, and their hardwired inflexibility of thought causes those stupid computers to go up in smoke at the very thought.
Man, even gun nuts and gear heads will latch onto *some* technical detail to lambast the products from some manufacturer they don't like. The discussion here is
Everything you do on this project, whether just asking a question on a forum or posting a small patch will give MS more momentum, and takes away the same momentum from true free software. So you are not only giving your time away for free, you are also adding value too a commercial research project.
Microsoft finally innovates something, and this is the response.
Of course people who are actually interested don't much care for your tribalist attitude. Hey maybe in 20 more years the open source world can reinvent another Unix.
There's an RFC floating around from 1970-ish that announces an OS based on channel abstractions, which is effectively capabilities security.
And no, Singularity doesn't work like that. Far as I've heard, it's based on safety through proofs, themselves based on advanced type theory. Nothing like KeyKOS, which basically had to arbitrate everything through the MMU with page faults (or maybe that's just EROS).
Feh .. clearly I don't quite understand what GPLONLY is about. Looks to me like he's trying to claim that a driver adaptor shim around non-GPL'd drivers can't qualify the kernel as GPL. I'm not entirely sure I buy that, assuming the driver has the purpose of opening up a driver's use (like NDISWrapper appears to do) rather than closing one off (like binary-blob drivers). But interpreting intent is a slippery slope that leads to GPLv3 and worse...
And despite his tone, it does look like he's willing to be convinced otherwise.
Try the other way around. The NDISWrapper folks are trying to GPL something that Linus doesn't believe merits it. They're the ones trying to add the restrictions, and Linus isn't having it.
The difference is module and program. One is considered part of the kernel, the other isn't.
Linus was a bit brusque about it but I do see his point. Of course if all the kernel symbols needed to make wireless drivers work are GPLONLY, then well, Linux has a bigger problem, doesn't it.
> Do you think the US would snuggle up to China if they wouldn't have nukes?
Absolutely. The amount of U.S. debt they hold is a gun pointed at our head that could wipe out our power as effectively as any nuke.
Mind you, we'd take them and the rest of the world down in the process. When you owe the bank ten million dollars, you have a problem. When you owe the bank ten trillion dollars, the bank has a problem.
Sorry, but those accoutrements are reserved for evil geniuses.
Sorry to tell you, but the truth doesn't really care if it offends your religious sensibilities.
BTW, not apes either. Try to keep up with what I'm saying.
> J.K. Rowling took the idea of Voldemort from the same lore Orochimaru was taken from.
I severely doubt she ever read it. It's not like even the likeness of Yamata no Orochi is exactly "original" unless you're saying the Greeks copied the Hydra from them.
Manga otaku get worked up over the silliest things.
When you've got mappers configured right -- which is undeniably cumbersome, but you get a lot of power from it -- SA really is as orthogonal as AR or SQLObject. More, really, since you don't have to use special datatypes or declarations for your fields (they're in the mapper).
The only difference is that it isn't set up to autocommit by default, so you do have to manually flush the session, but even that could be done with a simple wrapper, be it WSGI middleware or a context manager or what have you.
Storm's probably worth looking at too. It's also a mapper pattern ORM, but it has a claim to fame of supporting multiple databases simultaneously. I don't believe it has the same kind of sophistication that SA has in its low-level DB access though.
Out of all the other countries whose educational systems are kicking our asses, how many of them have corporal punishment?
It's really a good thing this whole "debate" is confined to internet fora. Even the most back-to-basics charter schools don't even vaguely entertain the notion of whipping the kids in their care.
Yeah, the solution to the education problem is spanking. Gosh, why didn't we think of that.
Yunno, I'm all for homeschooling if it keeps 18th century nitwits from thinking they should be running the public schools. Sad that it doesn't seem to work out that way.
What the sam hell are you blathering about? We didn't evolve from modern monkeys.
> You could have used a generator comprehension instead of a list comprehension.
Sure, but something would have to consume it or it would never start. At that point you may as well just use a loop. I think the OP was just showing off syntax -- no one would ever actually write real world python like that.
> Does Python have something equivalent?
Take a look at SQLAlchemy. You'll cry at how primitive ActiveRecord is by comparison. If you really need to get your ActiveRecord pattern on (it's the name of a pattern, not a product), there's always the much less powerful, but much simpler and still popular SQLObject.
Then there's Django's ORM, GeniuSQL, Storm, Axiom...
Books aren't exactly printed on rainforest hardwood either. Primarily it's cattle ranching that destroys rain forests.
Considering how Temple of Elemental Evil was such a flop, and EA/BioWare is quite happy now with their console franchise and homegrown systems, do they have any licensees left? Not that it gets them any royalties, but does Hasbro Interactive even have anything in the pipe vis a vis the D&D franchise?
... as did the rest of the market.
Oh yeah there's a MMO, which I actually managed to forget