Re: Puzzled about KDE or GNOME or what?

Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:
Jean-David Beyer wrote:

I do not know enough about real magick to have an opinion.

Over thousands of years, no proof of "real magick" leads me to believe
it's a subject best left for children's books and kooks.

The reason I have trouble with arguments like that are several.

There are a lot of things that escaped proof for centuries (e.g., Fermat's Last Theorem, The Four Color Problem) that were later found to be true.

There are other things that were obviously true for millennia that turned out to be false (e.g., the earth is flat, the earth is at the center of the earth, solar system, etc.)

And recently, a class of things are known that are provably unprovable has been discovered; they are not necessarily true, nor are they necessarily false. Kurt Friedrich Gödel, Alan Turing, and Whitehead & Russell proved essentially equivalent theorems about this.

In the last 40 years or so, a lot of things that scientists consider so far beyond the pale have been pretty much shown to exist, with the odds against these results being due to chance are pretty phenomenal. See Dean Radin's book, "The Intelligent Universe" for example. I have first-hand experience with a little of this, though what any of this has to do with KDE or GNOME escapes me.

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