Why stick with a world? Everyone wants to have a huge swath of land. No, make planets and introduce space travel:). That way, smaller communities can buy their own planet and divide the continents; larger ones can buy a solar system.
I am convinced that nothing could cause scientists to 'reexamine their findings'.
I am convinced that you have a really weird idea about scientists.
Everyone has their biases, some just refuse to admit them.
Like, perhaps, the noble creationists who are out to bring their brand of religion into schoo^w^w^w^w expose the truth?
Evolutionary scientists don't want to ever consider the possibility that the soft tissue found could be less than six thousand years old because then they have to consider the possibility that God exists
You consider religious people and scientists to be mutually exclusive groups?
- and when your a pompous, arrogant, prideful person that can be a tough pill to swallow.
To me, the most pompous, arrogant and prideful person is the one that considers his religious beliefs to be so weak that they have to be force fed to others because they won't gain acceptance otherwise, and they have to be supported with outright lies and deceit.
Do tell, which of these two shows the incredible power and intellect in a deity - zapping stuff into existence like pulling rabbits out of a hat, or designing a masterplan that has been going on just like intended for 13 billion years?
Questioning the validity of a long and dearly held theory is often how REAL scientific progress is made.
Exactly. The accepted dogma of "God made everything in this and that order" was questioned. The original age of the earth, set at 6000 years was questioned. Remind me why exactly do we have to get back to this again and turn it around? You're being a pseudoskeptic here; you seem to be wanting to return to that long and dearly held theory.
It is unthinkable that perhaps, just maybe, the reason the soft tissues were preserved is simply that they are not as old as everybody says they are.
That's not unthinkable. What's unthinkable is the immense load of crap that is made up to explain an age that conveniently matches that of a holy book.
No convoluted explanations
Let's examine the explanations for getting all the animals on the ark, the geological evidence for a global flood, creating light in situ to explain far-away star systems, putting bones in the earth to test people's faith - that's not convoluted? Don't confuse "convoluted" with "complicated" - radiometric dating ain't easy.
How many scientific notions of the past, the 'accepted view' by the vast majority, have been overturned by new evidence?
You seem to have the idea that every time something new is discovered, previous science is completely invalidated. Here's news; it's not. Every new idea, every new theory has to explain the new phenomena, but also the existing ones.
Scientists are supposed to look at the evidence and then consider ALL avenues, even the unthinkable ones.
What makes you think they didn't? The unthinkable ones were shaky and based not on actual research but looking at the holy book and then selectively picking things out that match while ignoring the rest, and the thinkable ones work just fine.
All we can say is that IF certain assumptions (beliefs) are true, then the great ages of time care probably correct.
And that's exactly how it's supposed to work. Once we find evidence to the contrary, we'll have to reexamine our findings.
That was because it was intended as a rhetorical question;).
It's trying to address scammy domainnames like yourbank.com instead of bank.com, or 8ank.com, or the cyrillic URLs that are visually identical, or what have you.
Yeah, but how long will it take until the switch - and how many banks advertise with their regular URL? That's going to be a few years...
There is a reason computers get faster, so that they can accomplish more. PERIOD.
That'd be a nice reason except when applications like Adobe Reader or HP's printer drivers spoil it completely. What do they accomplish more than hogging memory, nestling themselves in the startup, and filling your harddisk?
I think in terms of productivity people don't hold up with Moore's law - because our productivity is what it's about. We use a computer so we can accomplish more in the end.
Being an ASP.Net programmer, I sometimes wish it were just easier to mix the code and presentation when making a quick page.
Dump everything in a Response.Write - or make a single Label called "test" you use to dump strings in (use a stringbuilder, though, concatenation is pure inefficient filth for everything bigger than 3 lines);)
Ha! I counter your evolution with irreducible complexity. Take out a part and it'll start to beep and won't do anything!
What good is half a graphics card, anyway? (and keep your heathen comments about SLI for yourself, please)
and I TOTALY blew him away by doing everything he could do in phototshop faster in GIMP
Transform > Distort (aka the Free transform). Using shapes copied out of Inkscape as "smart objects" - pixel-rendered but for all other intents and purposes vectors. Using Inkscape shapes at all - there's something called interoperability between Photoshop and Illustrator, and with any alternative I'd expect the same (and this is something a lot of GIMP advocates oversee, sadly enough). Proper font handling. The new lens blur filter. Layer effects (as in that they are tweakable afterwards)
Didn't find 'm in GIMP. Sorry. Playing with lensflares and filters - no, that doesn't make it an alternative to me.
If I need people to have a simple alternative for pictures and not the crippled bloatware most camera/scanner mfgs put on their disks, I install Paint.NET.
It's a tough one, how do you make a handheld that's ergonomic enough to play for hours on end, while at the same time being regularly enough shaped to be able to fit in a small space.
A (wireless?) remote control for the games that allow this. I'd love to have a DS, but I hate the joypad and the cramped interface. It may be kind of weird - but not so weird if you think that laptops also come with laptop mice; it's simply a better interface if you have a quiet enough environment for it (e.g. playing it in the back of a car). Distances are small anyway so no need to put in a battery-burning transmitter.
In several games (platformers) the stylus isn't needed and the touchscreen is just extra map space/overview, so having a SNES-like joystick (with better ergo of course) would be ideal for Sonic, Mario, etc.
But what if you can't be an artist without being something else?
If you could dedicate your life to completely mastering guitar or writing a complete oeuvre - you can't do that unless you make music your day job (lousy pay no matter what direction you try to take it) or unless you have another day job and do music on the side.
Even then, with the small investment in equipment, it doesn't make you a master. Engineers, technicians - they all are good in their job because they do it every day in a professional studio. John Q, the bedroom composer - he's got to be the jack of all trades and the master of none. Add to the fact that he's got a day job and you don't get the results you should - and everyone in the fan base accepts this.
Furthermore, a studio is a place for musicians to get together - and none of 'm have to worry about a thing because everything's recorded in the best way possible. Smaller studios have been dropping dead like flies - and bedrooms suck in terms of acoustics unless you start investing in that - and that can be very costly, especially if it's not your day job and just a hobby that sucks up money.
The fact that a lot of singles are bought means that your star of fame burns a few seconds, only to be forgotten when the next one comes along. No fame, no day job, and less of a lifespan than the earlier one-hit-wonders.
Would that make you feel appreciated as an artist?
The solution is naturally to bring out "Classic XP" again half a year after the New Taste of Vista, and use a corn-based substitute for the commandline.
OTOH, at work I have a marvellous 12-year old PC with Windows 98
What pointy-haired boss forces you to work with this abomination?
Windows is not easy to use, despite what marketeers parrot everyday.
Recently I was pondering on why Linux wasn't that obvious for me in a few cases, and I think I found out why; one's brain gets "wired" in a particular way after working for a longer time with either OS, and if it's miswired for what's in front of you things will be difficult.
I use the word "wired", but I think in the case of Windows most people here on/. would prefer the term "bent", or "warped".
I agree with your position on subject lines; I think just that the authors of short replies think filling in both makes the reply sort of redundant, since the subject usually summarizes it already.
The difference is that the meddling now can occur on a deeper level and with more control than what we used to do.
We've been (trying to) improving nature as long as we exist. That corn you think was created by nature is already the result of careful breeding for centuries.
Better yet, a version of photoshop for people in the news industry that has manipulative tools locked. Wouldn't something like that be more feasible?
As feasible as glued-shut DVD players and self-destructing iPods with a removed clickwheel. Whatever you can see or hear, you can duplicate; whatever shows up on the screen or goes through an output can be captured.
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Really short explanation: FLAC is like Winzip for.wav files.
Longer explanation: Why you want to do this? You want the originals on your harddisk without bothering about ISO files which you'd have to mount first using Daemon Tools or something (which means you can't play 'm back directly). You don't want the completely ludicrous space requirements.wav demands. This way, you still have the originals - well, at least more "original" if the CD is scratched or stolen or destroyed. It's not even an esoteric audiophile reason; it's just that it works well for archiving (which in turn begs the question why you want to archive something on a portable player that faces risk every day, but hey).
OK, someone please explain to me how a scrolling start menu is BETTER?
The way it scrolls differs a lot from the Win98 way of doing things; there you would need to navigate completely up or down, couldn't control the scrolling rate, had to click on the arrow bar for every entry up or down, and couldn't do anything useful with the keyboard; a scrollable iframe-like list works better because you get way more control, partially thanks to the scroll wheel.
How is it better? Try navigating in that huge list to a certain program in the middle where developers had the courtesy to put in a dozen useless subfolders. The "Start > Type to search something" is almost as good - and actually better - than using the Start > Run commandline thing, because it does away with the idea of paths (which is a special nightmare on its own, again thanks to developers who want to put stuff in subfolders for no good reason, usually ordered to do so by marketroids). The gall they have to assume that yes, of course you're going to install every product of them (which calls for C:\Program Files\Company name products\Application instead of just C:\Program Files\Application) is pretty insulting.
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More horrors than you want to imagine.
Why stick with a world? Everyone wants to have a huge swath of land. No, make planets and introduce space travel :). That way, smaller communities can buy their own planet and divide the continents; larger ones can buy a solar system.
Then, link it up to Spore.
Do tell, which of these two shows the incredible power and intellect in a deity - zapping stuff into existence like pulling rabbits out of a hat, or designing a masterplan that has been going on just like intended for 13 billion years?
Good to see I'm not the only one with this idea ;)
Count down to the first case where a .safe domain is corrupted because of nepotism, fraud, forgery, what-have-you.
.safe TLD mean, in that case?
A TLD does not solve this problem. An alert user does, aided by tools like regular check-ups, challenge-response systems or cryptography.
We've all heard how some corporations lose several thousands of records of personal data. What does that
Oh well, this proves that Microsoft is not the only one that can buy politicians. :)
Ye gods, I've rarely heard an idea that's more stupid. Now, if these were OLPCs... but that'd mean Michigan would be a developing part of the country.
I think that's spelled "Ook.".
I think in terms of productivity people don't hold up with Moore's law - because our productivity is what it's about. We use a computer so we can accomplish more in the end.
Also, remember Niklaus Wirth's words: "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster."
And the idea that if you rise all the waters you'll get a pressure-cooker of an atmosphere.
Not to mention the structural integrity of the boat.
You forgot the final ingredient: a stereo playing Barry White on low volume.
Ha! I counter your evolution with irreducible complexity. Take out a part and it'll start to beep and won't do anything!
What good is half a graphics card, anyway? (and keep your heathen comments about SLI for yourself, please)
Didn't find 'm in GIMP. Sorry. Playing with lensflares and filters - no, that doesn't make it an alternative to me.
If I need people to have a simple alternative for pictures and not the crippled bloatware most camera/scanner mfgs put on their disks, I install Paint.NET.
In several games (platformers) the stylus isn't needed and the touchscreen is just extra map space/overview, so having a SNES-like joystick (with better ergo of course) would be ideal for Sonic, Mario, etc.
But what if you can't be an artist without being something else?
If you could dedicate your life to completely mastering guitar or writing a complete oeuvre - you can't do that unless you make music your day job (lousy pay no matter what direction you try to take it) or unless you have another day job and do music on the side.
Even then, with the small investment in equipment, it doesn't make you a master. Engineers, technicians - they all are good in their job because they do it every day in a professional studio. John Q, the bedroom composer - he's got to be the jack of all trades and the master of none. Add to the fact that he's got a day job and you don't get the results you should - and everyone in the fan base accepts this.
Furthermore, a studio is a place for musicians to get together - and none of 'm have to worry about a thing because everything's recorded in the best way possible. Smaller studios have been dropping dead like flies - and bedrooms suck in terms of acoustics unless you start investing in that - and that can be very costly, especially if it's not your day job and just a hobby that sucks up money.
The fact that a lot of singles are bought means that your star of fame burns a few seconds, only to be forgotten when the next one comes along. No fame, no day job, and less of a lifespan than the earlier one-hit-wonders.
Would that make you feel appreciated as an artist?
The solution is naturally to bring out "Classic XP" again half a year after the New Taste of Vista, and use a corn-based substitute for the commandline.
I use the word "wired", but I think in the case of Windows most people here on
I agree with your position on subject lines; I think just that the authors of short replies think filling in both makes the reply sort of redundant, since the subject usually summarizes it already.
Perhaps you missed the word "or" in the subject?
Doesn't make the argument valid, though - if the money wouldn't go to space it still wouldn't go to helping poor countries.
The difference is that the meddling now can occur on a deeper level and with more control than what we used to do.
We've been (trying to) improving nature as long as we exist. That corn you think was created by nature is already the result of careful breeding for centuries.
Really short explanation: FLAC is like Winzip for .wav files.
.wav demands. This way, you still have the originals - well, at least more "original" if the CD is scratched or stolen or destroyed. It's not even an esoteric audiophile reason; it's just that it works well for archiving (which in turn begs the question why you want to archive something on a portable player that faces risk every day, but hey).
:).
Longer explanation: Why you want to do this? You want the originals on your harddisk without bothering about ISO files which you'd have to mount first using Daemon Tools or something (which means you can't play 'm back directly). You don't want the completely ludicrous space requirements
As usual, Wikipedia has a page on the subject
How is it better? Try navigating in that huge list to a certain program in the middle where developers had the courtesy to put in a dozen useless subfolders. The "Start > Type to search something" is almost as good - and actually better - than using the Start > Run commandline thing, because it does away with the idea of paths (which is a special nightmare on its own, again thanks to developers who want to put stuff in subfolders for no good reason, usually ordered to do so by marketroids). The gall they have to assume that yes, of course you're going to install every product of them (which calls for C:\Program Files\Company name products\Application instead of just C:\Program Files\Application) is pretty insulting.