Links With Your Coffee - Wednesday
The Top Ten Differences Between Vietnam and Iraq by Don Davis
Delay Limericks from Mad Kane
Harvard Takes On the Israel Lobby
What was interesting about the paper was its authorship and the reaction it elicited from Israel's many U.S. supporters. Those supporters inadvertently proved Walt and Mearsheimer correct on at least one point: the Israel Lobby doesn't tolerate debate about the relationship between the United States and its favorite client state, and it's quick to accuse dissenters of having the vilest of intent.
The Case for Evolution, in Real Life via 3QD
Noting the role of the Royal Air Force in saving his country during the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill observed that never had so many owed so much to so few. We owe a great deal — indeed, literally everything — to evolution, and yet never have so many said and written so much about something they understood so poorly. Not that evolution is all that difficult to understand. Rather, so many people have such strong feelings about it, often connected to so many regrettable stock phrases, that clear thought has often been obscured. This is especially unfortunate in today's intellectual — or, more to the point, anti-intellectual — climate, with the Bush administration persistently seeking to trump science with ideology.
At the bottom of much opposition to evolution, I suspect, lies a deeper anxiety, that of acknowledging our kinship with "lower" life forms.
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"Apple hopes to draw people who want Macs, considered by many as easier to use and more stylish, but prefer the Windows operating system."
The Apple spokesman continued, "We believe that this will allow us to access the important demographic who prefer to buy beautiful crystal glassware and then drink goat piss out of it."
That was one of the best articles on evolution I've read in awhile. Hit on a lot of bases.
I loved when it was talking about Human evolution and it said it was selectively advantageous to 'be positively attracted to ideologies that are unsympathetic to birth control'. L Gold.
Here's a new type of social research--academic papers which are proved correct through the outrageous reaction to them. Norm, we can at least be thankful that those who complained of the "anti-Jewish stuff" on this site didn't accuse us of being in league with David Duke and Hamas.
The fact is that guilt-by-association works very well. It's the glue that sticks on you but not me. If I say you're a wicked bigot, perhaps I'll be accused of being uncharitable. But if I say that violent anti-semites are promoting your article, then at worst I am misinformed. In absence of evidence, most people don't conclude that willful deception has taken place.
First, the only people who want to run Windows on a Mac are gamers.
Second, after reading the links, I'd add one more difference between Iraq and Vietnam: In Vietnam they trust in evolution; in Iraq they believe in intelligent design. Not funny, though.
ummm. Am I the only one who thought it completely bizarre and possible in mistaste to compare the British sacrifice in WWII to evolution?
"First, the only people who want to run Windows on a Mac are gamers."
Gamers won't care about Windows on a Mac until there's an Intel Mac desktop with a video card meant for gaming. Until then, there are the millions of people who would really like to switch but need Windows for certain tasks.
Gaming... I'm not a gamer, but I thought I'd take a look around the web for info on gaming on the new Intel Macs.
The Apple Intel Core Duos come with ATI Radeon X1600 graphics with 128MB GDDR3 memory. ATI says it's great for gaming, thought not as good as the X1900 series, which has twice the memory. Seems like a powerful graphics card to me.
In telling the war's a mess, Mistakes; thousands I guess. From a position sublime, Cried Rummy "Non mine" But thought, one or two, non the less.
Regarding Apples "Boot camp"...This is great news...also...one of the most important and ground breaking Apple events in the last 30 years. There's absolutely no reason now for not buying a mac. I've owned macs for the last 9 years and love the superior Mac OS X platform...still I welcome this move. Being a biology student I occationally come across win-only programs that I need,- I can now run these programs. Architects and students in design have not been able no run Autocad on their mac...they can now. Statistics programs...not a problem anymore....The list is endless. I also work as a teacher...I can now go to the school board and tell to buy mac the next time...They come with an incredible sw bundle and...the kids can still boot into XP if needed. In short...this means a tremendous boost for mac hardware sales. If you do not want to run Win on your mac...well then don't. OS X will still be my main OS, but it's absolutely fantastic that I'm now able to run those few Win-only programs I need.
Also...Check out this link:
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/
Quote:
"Parallels is proud to launch the Beta program the first virtualization solution specifically designed to work with Intel-powered Apple computers! Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta for Mac OS X is NOT simply a "dual-boot" solution; rather, it empowers users the ability to use Windows, Linux and any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X, enabling users to enjoy the comfort of their Mac OS X desktop while still being able to use critical applications from other OSes."
I agree great news, this will attract the I'd love to use a Mac, but, crowd.
"The Apple spokesman continued, "We believe that this will allow us to access the important demographic who prefer to buy beautiful crystal glassware and then drink goat piss out of it."
Absolutely hilarious, and so true....
Norm said I agree great news, this will attract the I'd love to use a Mac, but, crowd.
Ha ha ha! Yes, this conversation is never ending. I have seen this debate before. Similar to whether or not the clips should be on Quicktime or YouTube or whatever. Guess it depends upon the user, as we all do different things and have different needs. And just imagine how reading all of this confuses the people like me who are computer hardware challenged.
John Gruber has some great insights into the Boot Camp news:
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/windowsthenew_classic