For what it's worth, none of the Christians I know personally have any problem at all with evolution or abiogenesis. Nowhere near all Christians are creationists.
Broder's point was that the low temperatures (from 20F down to 10F) seriously impaired the battery performance. Valdes-Dapena doesn't seem to mention what the weather was like for his trip, so it's irrelevant.
Yes, they do! (As long as the basement has an outside door.) In fact, most large UK supermarkets do home delivery for a modest charge, and I know people who do all of their grocery shopping on-line. They do leave the house, but not for grocery shopping.
When I had milk deliveries from a milkman -- quite a few years ago now -- I managed the deliveries over the internet. I no longer get that delivery, but I do get a recurring vegetable box delivery and a recurring snack box delivery, both of which I manage over the internet. This is in the UK, though, and the US Patent Office might not be aware that we exist.
Some. Not all. Beware of generalising from the noisy ones. I've little experience of Judaism. but your link is about Orthodox Judaism. Is that the most critically reflective strand of Judaism? The name certainly suggests otherwise.
But you assume that there is an intellectual problem with believing. You might not be able to see how religious belief can be rationally justified, but that doesn't mean that they can't. William Rowe is probably one of the best atheist philosophers of religion, and smarter than anybody I've seen on slashdot (including myself, of course), and he argues that religious belief can be legitimately and rationally held, even though he considers it wrong.
All of the religion v. science debate I have seen on/. and on the popular shelves in the bookstores has been hopelessly naive on both -- barely good enough to scrape a pass on a freshman philosophy of religion or philosophy of science course. And ok, the real debate can get pretty esoteric, and certainly goes beyond me. But the simple fact of the matter is that many great thinkers, including many major scientists, do square their religion with reason. The mature response to that is to say "well, maybe it's more complicated than I thought", not to say "I don't understand it so they must be wrong". "I don't understand it so they must be wrong" is actually the anti-rational position.
For what it's worth, I'm agnostic. I have no problem at all seeing that (some) religious belief can be rationally justified, but for me it isn't sufficiently justified. And the "for me" is important. Different people who make different assumptions and have access to different evidence can rationally come to different conclusions.
I can't speak for the prof, but most of the religious people I know do question and critically examine their faith. If your mileage varies, perhaps you need to mix with more thoughtful religious people.
Similarly I've seen advocates of scientism reject all mathematics on the grounds that it's not empirical. I assume (hope!) that they were bandwagon-riders, not real scientists.
Then everything would come up "disputed". Even the claim that the Earth is round is disputed by flat-Earthers. Heck, even this claim will probably be disputed by somebody.
Infecting sick people with flu where your job is to make them better seriously inhibits your ability to do your job.
Did you actually read the item? "There is no evidence showing that vaccinated workers are less likely to transmit virus". In other words, the hospital just wants to stick needles into the workers out of superstition.
To complicate things further, fresh milk is usually sold by the pint. Long-life (UHT) milk is usually sold by the litre. The UK is -- ahem -- transitional at the moment.
Moreover the "Wintel" PC is dying. In 2013, more devices on the net will be phone/tablet than desktop/laptop. Not that more are sold, but more in absolute numbers will be online. That is only predicted to accelerate going forward until the Wintel PC is effectively dead. You can't argue with the economy of scale, just like Sun 68020 workstations couldn't stop the dominance of the Wintel PC.
The "Wintel" PC might not be the device of choice for surfing the net or making phone calls, but looking at number of devices on the net or overall sales is not a particularly good indicator of whether something is dead, Desktop/Laptop machines still dominate in some areas -- I'd hate to have to write a serious technical report on my tablet, never mind my smartphone. I'd hate to develop software on my tablet or my smartphone. But neither of those activities makes my desktop/laptop appear (much) on the net, and because pretty much everybody who wants a desktop/laptop already has a desktop/laptop, they only translate into replacement sales, like washing machines and central heating boilers, whilst phones and tablets are still developing markets. Washing machines, central heating boilers and desktop/laptop computers are not dead, they're just not sexy any more.
They still ship locked down and no one is boycotting Amazon or B&N to try and force them to unlock them.
Not boycotting them perhaps, but that's one of the main reasons I never bought a Kindle (but installed the Kindle app onto my Android phone, and eventually onto my general purpose Android tablet that was part-funded by not buying a Kindle).
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It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...
For what it's worth, none of the Christians I know personally have any problem at all with evolution or abiogenesis. Nowhere near all Christians are creationists.
Oh yes, so he did, sorry. So it was considerably warmer on Valdes-Dapena's drive, so it's not a fair comparison (as I said).
Broder's point was that the low temperatures (from 20F down to 10F) seriously impaired the battery performance. Valdes-Dapena doesn't seem to mention what the weather was like for his trip, so it's irrelevant.
I don't know whose the single computer will be, but it won't be mine.
Do they deliver to basements?
Yes, they do! (As long as the basement has an outside door.) In fact, most large UK supermarkets do home delivery for a modest charge, and I know people who do all of their grocery shopping on-line. They do leave the house, but not for grocery shopping.
What, none of them are alive yet? We still have milkmen (and women, I assume) around here.
When I had milk deliveries from a milkman -- quite a few years ago now -- I managed the deliveries over the internet. I no longer get that delivery, but I do get a recurring vegetable box delivery and a recurring snack box delivery, both of which I manage over the internet. This is in the UK, though, and the US Patent Office might not be aware that we exist.
The general rule is that it's metric if you're buying (1000 bytes to the kilobyte) and not metric if you're selling (1024 bytes to the kilobyte).
Yes.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
What, again?
Some. Not all. Beware of generalising from the noisy ones. I've little experience of Judaism. but your link is about Orthodox Judaism. Is that the most critically reflective strand of Judaism? The name certainly suggests otherwise.
But you assume that there is an intellectual problem with believing. You might not be able to see how religious belief can be rationally justified, but that doesn't mean that they can't. William Rowe is probably one of the best atheist philosophers of religion, and smarter than anybody I've seen on slashdot (including myself, of course), and he argues that religious belief can be legitimately and rationally held, even though he considers it wrong.
All of the religion v. science debate I have seen on /. and on the popular shelves in the bookstores has been hopelessly naive on both -- barely good enough to scrape a pass on a freshman philosophy of religion or philosophy of science course. And ok, the real debate can get pretty esoteric, and certainly goes beyond me. But the simple fact of the matter is that many great thinkers, including many major scientists, do square their religion with reason. The mature response to that is to say "well, maybe it's more complicated than I thought", not to say "I don't understand it so they must be wrong". "I don't understand it so they must be wrong" is actually the anti-rational position.
For what it's worth, I'm agnostic. I have no problem at all seeing that (some) religious belief can be rationally justified, but for me it isn't sufficiently justified. And the "for me" is important. Different people who make different assumptions and have access to different evidence can rationally come to different conclusions.
Or maybe they're brighter than you are...
I can't speak for the prof, but most of the religious people I know do question and critically examine their faith. If your mileage varies, perhaps you need to mix with more thoughtful religious people.
Why do you assume that all Christians are Biblical literalists?
I have no idea what scientism is.
Let me Google that for you.
That's not to say we don't have to be cautious about the claims we make of human reason
Similarly I've seen advocates of scientism reject all mathematics on the grounds that it's not empirical. I assume (hope!) that they were bandwagon-riders, not real scientists.
Then everything would come up "disputed". Even the claim that the Earth is round is disputed by flat-Earthers. Heck, even this claim will probably be disputed by somebody.
Nah. This is a cunning ploy by the anti-gun lobby. The NRA can still have their guns, but because they run Unity nobody will be able to fire them.
I am a "mph" kind-of-guy, & haven't performed the conversion from kph->mph
Let me Google that for you.
Infecting sick people with flu where your job is to make them better seriously inhibits your ability to do your job.
Did you actually read the item? "There is no evidence showing that vaccinated workers are less likely to transmit virus". In other words, the hospital just wants to stick needles into the workers out of superstition.
To complicate things further, fresh milk is usually sold by the pint. Long-life (UHT) milk is usually sold by the litre. The UK is -- ahem -- transitional at the moment.
Moreover the "Wintel" PC is dying. In 2013, more devices on the net will be phone/tablet than desktop/laptop. Not that more are sold, but more in absolute numbers will be online. That is only predicted to accelerate going forward until the Wintel PC is effectively dead. You can't argue with the economy of scale, just like Sun 68020 workstations couldn't stop the dominance of the Wintel PC.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c4#/video/business/2012/12/26/pkg-lake-is-the-pc-dead.cnn
Eventually, there WILL BE no other choice.
The "Wintel" PC might not be the device of choice for surfing the net or making phone calls, but looking at number of devices on the net or overall sales is not a particularly good indicator of whether something is dead, Desktop/Laptop machines still dominate in some areas -- I'd hate to have to write a serious technical report on my tablet, never mind my smartphone. I'd hate to develop software on my tablet or my smartphone. But neither of those activities makes my desktop/laptop appear (much) on the net, and because pretty much everybody who wants a desktop/laptop already has a desktop/laptop, they only translate into replacement sales, like washing machines and central heating boilers, whilst phones and tablets are still developing markets. Washing machines, central heating boilers and desktop/laptop computers are not dead, they're just not sexy any more.
They still ship locked down and no one is boycotting Amazon or B&N to try and force them to unlock them.
Not boycotting them perhaps, but that's one of the main reasons I never bought a Kindle (but installed the Kindle app onto my Android phone, and eventually onto my general purpose Android tablet that was part-funded by not buying a Kindle).
It's a Turing machine
Wow, infinite storage? I've been waiting for this!