Byron J. Scullin

Science and faith: two flowcharts: “Cory Doctorow:

Wellington Grey has two flowcharts, explaining the scientific method and the ‘faith’ method. For science, you get an idea, try it out empirically, evaluate it in the face of new evidence, and modify your idea accordingly. For faith, you get an idea, you believe in it.

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Holy Crap!

So M$ have announced Vienna – the follow up to Vista already! Cop these choice quotes from the bottom of the above linked article.

So what will be the coolest new feature in Vienna?

According to Fathi, that’s still being worked out. “We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don’t know what it is,” he said. “Maybe it’s a new user interface paradigm for consumers.”

“It’s too early for me to talk about it,” he added. “But over the next few months I think you’re going to start hearing more and more.”

I think it’s soon enough for me to say that maybe you’re talking out of your ass Fathi.

Ballmer: “OK Fathi, my little corporate man-bitch, get out there and tell them some crapola about the “new” shit we’ve got coming OK? Lay some kinda funky Star Trek shit on their asses so that they think we’re gonna out-cool Apple, OK? I gotta stay busy here putting out fires with all of these crits panning the crap outta Vista.”

Personally, I think I’d prefer to spend a few hours staring directly at the midday sun, than trust my peepers to a (doctor evil voice + quotes fingers) ‘hyper-visorrrr’ running any code from M$.

I think maybe Ultravox said it best in the last lines of their classic song….

“This means nothing to me

This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna.”