"a house", points out the fact that language and numbers intersect
Only if your language has different words for definite and indefinite articles. Also, only if your language defferentiated between 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.
... A state-funded educational system for a democratic society should probably reflect the values of its constituents...
Except when it comes to religion (It would cause too many conflicts) otherwise we would be teaching Paganism, Devil Worship, Christianity, Buddhism etc... and the entire curriculum would be taken up with just religion. And who would decide what religions are "worthy" of being taught.
Church and state should be separate (they are currently not in the UK. They are supposed to be in the US but that appears to be disappearing.
p.s. I initially used the beetle analogy in jest, but it's just as silly as having in God we trust. Which God? You have immediately excluded atheists and polytheists (and, thinking about it, agnostics because, even if they think there is something, they certainly don't, by definition, trust in it).
If bacteria can evolve to digest citrate, an entirely new chemical (new to them at least) in just 15 or 20 years, just think how much they could evolve in 20 million years, 200 million, 2 billion even.
My first thought was OMG! Then I realised it was from The Telegraph. They have a well known tendency to exaggerate any story that has anything to do with legislation of any sort.
It keeps their ranting right-wing readers happy.
Flash is only proprietary in the sense that Flash studio is written by adobe. Anyone can write a piece of software that creates an swf file. Some already exist.
Also, don't mix up "open source" and "web standards". Web Standards are put in place (eg XHTML) as a guide to site developers and browser developers to allow the browser to interpret the info from the site. Open source is any application where the developers allow anyone to compile/change/add to the code.
You assume that the body is there to keep the brain alive. Our genes don't "care" whether we have a brain or not. As long as we can stay alive long enough to reproduce.
In this sense, single cell organisms are probably the most evolutionary succesful. Having to rely on keeping a large brain functioning is, in fact, an evolutionary disadvantage.
There was a really interesting program on a while back about head transplants. They talked to a doctor that had carried one out on 2 monkeys (unethical, and the mokeys ended up paralysed/dead, of course).
But, they had a really interesting philosophical discussion on, assuming the spinal column could be repaired, whether one person's brain would be able to understand the body of anothers.
Sorry, that was off the point, but I think the human brain would find it extra-ordinarily difficult to adapt to the world without a body. Actually, Stephen Hawking has just come to mind. Maybe I'm talking myself round to your way of thinking.
What makes anyone think that the brain can exist as an entity on it's own? (As a working entity Im mean, i.e. capable of conscious thought).
The brain is not just the big blob inside our skulls, it includes all the neurones in our bodies and all the chemical messengers(hormones), all of which need the rest of the body to work.
The mind-body separation is a philisophical separation, not a physical one. (Not to be confused with the blod brain barrier which arises purely from the fact that the brain is slightly more fat soluble than the constituents of blood).
The brain has developed through evolution as part of our body, not as a separate entity. Of all the organs in the body, it is the one that relies on the rest of the body for it's existence. A kidney or the heart can function on it's own for a while (with a little help).
... The location bar is for URLs. Not page titles. Not search queries. Just addresses...
Yeh, let's just go back to, like, netscape 1 or something. After all, the display part of the browser is for text. Not images. You should download pesky images to your hard drive first, and as for JavaScript, css or, OMG AJaX!!!
Nice to see new ideas are welcomed on/. or am I still just a noob?
... Opera has a Back button and a Forward button. The first thing I noticed in FF3 was the shitty IE7 styled "Back Forward" control...
The only difference I can see is that the FF back forward control has added functionality that you can choose to use (or not) if you click on the down arrow.
Slashdot Mirror
Ahhh, so the sytem used by the US electronic voting machines finally comes to light.
Only if your language has different words for definite and indefinite articles. Also, only if your language defferentiated between 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.
plus or minus many
This is slashdot. Mother in law? puh-leeease!
To be fair he won it for raising awareness, not for proving it.
Erm, the title has an error.
It is exclusive as in the people who attend/give speeches.
Biggest as in it probably covers the widest range of topics.
Unless it's terrorism ;-)
So, what you are saying is, if your car is stolen, you get charged with not knowing who was driving it? I hope you were being sarcastic.
The G...GP said citrate. They weren't able to deal with it before, but now they can, which is what I meant by "new to them".
Except when it comes to religion (It would cause too many conflicts) otherwise we would be teaching Paganism, Devil Worship, Christianity, Buddhism etc... and the entire curriculum would be taken up with just religion. And who would decide what religions are "worthy" of being taught.
Church and state should be separate (they are currently not in the UK. They are supposed to be in the US but that appears to be disappearing.
p.s. I initially used the beetle analogy in jest, but it's just as silly as having in God we trust. Which God? You have immediately excluded atheists and polytheists (and, thinking about it, agnostics because, even if they think there is something, they certainly don't, by definition, trust in it).
If bacteria can evolve to digest citrate, an entirely new chemical (new to them at least) in just 15 or 20 years, just think how much they could evolve in 20 million years, 200 million, 2 billion even.
It does if the "good", paying job is paid in dollars with "In the beetle we trust" on it. And what does the beetle regard as good.
Just a link to shed light on Intelligent Falling.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pandemics.html
The above talk is 26 minutes long and talks about using web activity monitoring to find possible outbreaks of pandemics before WHO.
My first thought was OMG! Then I realised it was from The Telegraph. They have a well known tendency to exaggerate any story that has anything to do with legislation of any sort. It keeps their ranting right-wing readers happy.
Flash is only proprietary in the sense that Flash studio is written by adobe. Anyone can write a piece of software that creates an swf file. Some already exist.
Also, don't mix up "open source" and "web standards". Web Standards are put in place (eg XHTML) as a guide to site developers and browser developers to allow the browser to interpret the info from the site. Open source is any application where the developers allow anyone to compile/change/add to the code.
You assume that the body is there to keep the brain alive. Our genes don't "care" whether we have a brain or not. As long as we can stay alive long enough to reproduce.
In this sense, single cell organisms are probably the most evolutionary succesful. Having to rely on keeping a large brain functioning is, in fact, an evolutionary disadvantage.
There was a really interesting program on a while back about head transplants. They talked to a doctor that had carried one out on 2 monkeys (unethical, and the mokeys ended up paralysed/dead, of course).
But, they had a really interesting philosophical discussion on, assuming the spinal column could be repaired, whether one person's brain would be able to understand the body of anothers.
Sorry, that was off the point, but I think the human brain would find it extra-ordinarily difficult to adapt to the world without a body. Actually, Stephen Hawking has just come to mind. Maybe I'm talking myself round to your way of thinking.
I need to do a lot more thinking on this one! :-)
What makes anyone think that the brain can exist as an entity on it's own? (As a working entity Im mean, i.e. capable of conscious thought).
The brain is not just the big blob inside our skulls, it includes all the neurones in our bodies and all the chemical messengers(hormones), all of which need the rest of the body to work.
The mind-body separation is a philisophical separation, not a physical one. (Not to be confused with the blod brain barrier which arises purely from the fact that the brain is slightly more fat soluble than the constituents of blood).
The brain has developed through evolution as part of our body, not as a separate entity. Of all the organs in the body, it is the one that relies on the rest of the body for it's existence. A kidney or the heart can function on it's own for a while (with a little help).
CrystalFox Modern. You still have that little drop down on the right hand side but the buttons are the same size.
I'm still not convinced there is a lot of difference.
Yeh, let's just go back to, like, netscape 1 or something. After all, the display part of the browser is for text. Not images. You should download pesky images to your hard drive first, and as for JavaScript, css or, OMG AJaX!!!
Nice to see new ideas are welcomed on /. or am I still just a noob?
The only difference I can see is that the FF back forward control has added functionality that you can choose to use (or not) if you click on the down arrow.
Erm..., themes?
Nah, not any more. Bush is touring Europe now. He's best buddies with all of us, apparently.
Bah, Filter Coffee every time. Pot, Filter, kettle. Done.