"Get off your high horse and stop pretending you're better than others."
The fact is that there are people who are better than others, every human is not the same. In this case, those who are intelligent enough to not believe fantasy/religion over reality are absolutely and completely better than those who do not. That's reality.
99% of the people in the US do not even known where their state is on a map, much less how many states there are in the US. And the US is supposed to be a leader in the world. LOL.
PS - I am from the US and it makes me sick how stupid the US citizens are as a whole.
"Mac people will still likely continue to buy their hardware, as their hardware is 'fashionable'"
That is a completely ignorant and asinine statement. Get a grip with reality kid. You read Slashdot bullshit and believe it way too much. I couldn't care if Apple computers were all black and shapeless. Apple simply makes a better product and that is why I will purchase an Apple in the future.
"I want specialized devices, not a "jack of all trades, master of none" device and I don't think I am alone in this. So I think to say that a "good integrated cell/pda/mp3 player" is long overdue just isn't true."
That complete bullsh*t. That is a highly overused, incorrect, and often repeated phrase on Slashdot. In a world of 10,000 different gadgets to do 10,000 different things, it gets more and more ridiculous and annoying to carry around 10,000 gadgets, to say the least.
Let's look at this from a realistic point of view. When I bought my plasma HD monitor, I got a great picture on the screen. But, I also had to get an HDTV tuner for the cable, a seperate DVD player, a seperate stereo receiver system, speakers, and shelving/stand for all of it that couldn't be mounted on the wall. Plus, I now had 3 seperate remotes to use, one for each system. Seriously, WTF? Why isn't there a plasma HD monitor that contains a built-in HDTV tuner, built-in DVD player, built-in powered external antenna outputs, etc. so that I can just buy it and mount it on my wall and I don't have to buy all the extra "specialized" shit just to watch some HDTV and a couple of movies? And hey, maybe it is out there somewhere, but it sure wasn't at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or anywhere else local that I checked. I could have just bought a rear projection HDTV floor stand model with all of that built-in, and have one fully functional remote, because I sure as hell am not saving any space with the plasma display.
Another example is exactly as stated above. When I go to work in the morning, I have to make sure I have my laptop, PDA, cellphone, laser pointing device, presentation remote control, iPod, etc. along with about 20 other things just to lug around all day. Complete bullshit. It would be great to be able to combine most of them into one unit so that I would only have to carry one or two devices around all of the time when I need to get work done. A cellphone/MP3/PDA would be perfect for that.
Just because something does more than one thing does not mean it is a master of none. It is rare in this society that such things occur, but not impossible, and for many things would be absolutely great.
That's because you are used to using Windows. The Finder is actually extremely useful and productive, you simply have to learn how to use Finder properly.
Value is subjective and therefore your argument is false. What I find value in others may not. It does not mean that it is valueless simply because you personally do not find value in it. I am sure that there are plenty of things in your life I would also find valueless.
And by the tone of your comment, you should keep your pompous and arrogant comments to yourself.
Exactly. How many people who post about AMD's using tons of electrical energy are actually using devices that can measure the usage? About 0% of the people. They assume because it is hot, it must be using a lot of electricity. Right. The entire computer system itself uses electricity and that is what should be measured. For example, how much power does it take to keep a huge 15,000RPM multiple HDD RAID array up and running for these rendering farms? Much more than the processors doing the rendering.
It just like the old 'my CPU causes my laptop to only run for 2 hours on batteries". Sure, and the 17" super-bright widescreen LCD panel, 80GB multi-platter HDD, and wireless network card have nothing to do with it?
Essentially, you are pointing out your knowledge of the subject to someone else who posted with absolutely no knowledge of the subject at all. Talk about a typical Slashdot posting thread. It is unfortunate, isn't it?
Why the sarcasm? The AMD64 IS an awesome processor and the dual-core units are even more impressive. If you have never really used an AMD64 processor, you wouldn't have the first clue why they better, but that is your fault and not the fault of AMD.
Even in this article alone, there are a few posts referring to the superiority of AMD64 processors in production environments: Slashdot
ALL buffer and heap overflows in individual programs are the fault of bad programming, not bad programming languages. If a programmer is not competent enough to test their code, and then blame the programming language when there is a problem, should not be coding. It is simply irresponsible.
You forgot to add Java to your list of programming languages which goes out of its way to assist in preventing and avoiding both buffer and heap overflows/errors (i.e. bounds checking and similiar technology).
Your post is nothing except drivel of scientific and logical ignorance.
Fact: Religion was invented by humans for humans. Fact: The concepts of God, Gods, Goddess, Goddesses, Earth Mother, etc. are all completely human inventions. Fact: There is no basis for religion whatsoever except human fantasy. Fact: Since religion was invented by humans, it will of course have connections with the world around humans and contain human events. That is the same of any fantasy.
If you are a scientist and religious you are a joke. What you are doing is using false logic to be purposely 'intellectually ignorant' of reality. A scientist seeks to completely understand everything exactly as it is without bias or preconceptions. If the universe confounds you and it makes you feel better to explain it away using human invented fantasy, then that is your loss. But it is a damn shame that people who claim to be scientists, yet are not intelligent enough to think logically, critically, and analytically are allowed to claim that they are even scientists. What is an even bigger shame are the religious people who claim to be scientists and cannot even see the flaws in their logic.
For example, the most common religious drivel is the reasoning that the universe is too complex to have happened on its own. You are unfortunately one of these people. The argument is logically false from the beginning, and because of that could lead to any conclusion you wish, but people don't think logically if they are religious anyways. So, the usual argument is that because the universe is complex and defined by rules, for some unknown reason there MUST have been someone or something that created those laws. Okay, using that logic it is concluded that those rules must have been created by a God of some sort. Okay, continuing to use the logic that anything complex and governed by rules MUST have been created by someone or something else would mean that this God would have to have been created by someone or something else. Okay, at this point people abandon the prior logic and proceed to new logic that claims that this God is now something else. They claim that this God is above all physical laws and just exists. Okay, then using that logic couldn't the universe just exist as well? And since this God exists without any higher power then itself, couldn't the universe also exist without any higher power as well? At this point the logic is not working out at all. Does this mean the universe could have simply existed without any other influence and no higher existence other than itself?
While it is entertaining to argue religion with people whose minds are too weak to see the forest for the trees, it is a damn shame when it is with people who claim to be scientists. What is truly sad is that people believe religion is any more true than reading a comic book or fantasy novel.
I am not any more atheist than I am any of other kind of religious label. I am a scientist. I observe, study, and seek to understand the universe and all of its mysteries for exactly what they are. Some day all of the universe's mysteries will be solved. It is unfortunate that everyone else is content to believe whatever fantasy their minds are too weak to overcome.
This paper is only about medical studies and does not claim that all scientific studies are false. This is also essentially a duplication of another story misquoted, misunderstood, and posted on Slashdot a couple of months ago.
Not quite. The scientific process needs, at its fundamental level, the following three things:
1) Reproducable 2) Disprovable 3) Predictable
What you are talking about is empirical science. Without Mathematics and fundamental understanding, the science you talk about is all that would ever be understood. Fortunately, empirical science is no longer the only scientific understanding of the universe.
False. Science is a process of understanding and defining the finite rules which govern our universe. You cannot make a true statement stating that all models will always be incomplete forever as there is no evidence that there is such a limitation.
Your post and the parent post to yours are both absolutely excellent and spot-on. Thank you, it is refreshing to read intelligent posts from other people in the scientific field.
Not all universities and colleges. The university I attended and the college I studied in did not treat student work at all like your college did. As a matter of fact, content, correctness, and clarity counted more than anything else.
Your experience was unfortunate, but I fear too common.
I just completed two years of college coursework in Genetics. Do you have any links or information which would lead me directly to the work you are speaking of in your post? I have read volumes of scientific work and have spent years of my life studying and working with genetic mutations and variation amongst different species. I have not read anything close to what you have spoke of in your post. Unless you have significant scientific proof otherwise, your entire post should be discredited.
Someday these gaps in our knowledge will be explained rather than merely explained away, but the worst and most dangerous kind of pseudoscience comes from those who claim that science is already complete and attack those who point out evidence which isn't explained by current theories. Evolution is a fact, but it is not one single theory, but rather a changing assortment of related hypotheses, many of which will never be scientifically verified in the most rigorous sense of the term, and even if they were, would not categorically disprove hypotheses such as that intelligence is inherent in the universe and started the ball of life rolling or that life originally evolved on another planet and was seeded here by accident or on purpose, or any of hundreds of speculative variations on our current orthodox conjectures.
There is no logical conclusion nor scientific evidence that intelligence of any kind is inherent in any system whatsoever. What your paragraph clearly says to anyone reading it is that you are a religious person without one bit of scientific understanding. You should at the very least look up the foundations of the scientific process. One hint: disprovable, repeatable, and predictable. Also, look up the definitions of fact, theory, hypothesis, conjecture, fiction, fantasy, and make-believe.
The moderators on this forum really need to moderate posts they understand or have experience enough to understand. Otherwise, posts like yours are going to continue to get moderated up even though they are completely false.
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"Get off your high horse and stop pretending you're better than others."
The fact is that there are people who are better than others, every human is not the same. In this case, those who are intelligent enough to not believe fantasy/religion over reality are absolutely and completely better than those who do not. That's reality.
The stupid keyboard is not working with my fingers and the word "known" should have been "know".
99% of the people in the US do not even known where their state is on a map, much less how many states there are in the US. And the US is supposed to be a leader in the world. LOL.
PS - I am from the US and it makes me sick how stupid the US citizens are as a whole.
Because someone is making good points in favor of Apple makes them a fanboy? That's just as ignorant of a position as the one you are arguing against.
Although I disagree with the usage of your second sentence in connection with this article, I do agree with your second sentence as a whole.
"Mac people will still likely continue to buy their hardware, as their hardware is 'fashionable'"
That is a completely ignorant and asinine statement. Get a grip with reality kid. You read Slashdot bullshit and believe it way too much. I couldn't care if Apple computers were all black and shapeless. Apple simply makes a better product and that is why I will purchase an Apple in the future.
I meant to write "built-in powered external speaker outputs" not "built-in powered external antenna outputs".
"I want specialized devices, not a "jack of all trades, master of none" device and I don't think I am alone in this. So I think to say that a "good integrated cell/pda/mp3 player" is long overdue just isn't true."
That complete bullsh*t. That is a highly overused, incorrect, and often repeated phrase on Slashdot. In a world of 10,000 different gadgets to do 10,000 different things, it gets more and more ridiculous and annoying to carry around 10,000 gadgets, to say the least.
Let's look at this from a realistic point of view. When I bought my plasma HD monitor, I got a great picture on the screen. But, I also had to get an HDTV tuner for the cable, a seperate DVD player, a seperate stereo receiver system, speakers, and shelving/stand for all of it that couldn't be mounted on the wall. Plus, I now had 3 seperate remotes to use, one for each system. Seriously, WTF? Why isn't there a plasma HD monitor that contains a built-in HDTV tuner, built-in DVD player, built-in powered external antenna outputs, etc. so that I can just buy it and mount it on my wall and I don't have to buy all the extra "specialized" shit just to watch some HDTV and a couple of movies? And hey, maybe it is out there somewhere, but it sure wasn't at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or anywhere else local that I checked. I could have just bought a rear projection HDTV floor stand model with all of that built-in, and have one fully functional remote, because I sure as hell am not saving any space with the plasma display.
Another example is exactly as stated above. When I go to work in the morning, I have to make sure I have my laptop, PDA, cellphone, laser pointing device, presentation remote control, iPod, etc. along with about 20 other things just to lug around all day. Complete bullshit. It would be great to be able to combine most of them into one unit so that I would only have to carry one or two devices around all of the time when I need to get work done. A cellphone/MP3/PDA would be perfect for that.
Just because something does more than one thing does not mean it is a master of none. It is rare in this society that such things occur, but not impossible, and for many things would be absolutely great.
That's because you are used to using Windows. The Finder is actually extremely useful and productive, you simply have to learn how to use Finder properly.
Value is subjective and therefore your argument is false. What I find value in others may not. It does not mean that it is valueless simply because you personally do not find value in it. I am sure that there are plenty of things in your life I would also find valueless.
And by the tone of your comment, you should keep your pompous and arrogant comments to yourself.
Exactly. Journalists, Linux advocates, etc.
Exactly. How many people who post about AMD's using tons of electrical energy are actually using devices that can measure the usage? About 0% of the people. They assume because it is hot, it must be using a lot of electricity. Right. The entire computer system itself uses electricity and that is what should be measured. For example, how much power does it take to keep a huge 15,000RPM multiple HDD RAID array up and running for these rendering farms? Much more than the processors doing the rendering.
It just like the old 'my CPU causes my laptop to only run for 2 hours on batteries". Sure, and the 17" super-bright widescreen LCD panel, 80GB multi-platter HDD, and wireless network card have nothing to do with it?
Essentially, you are pointing out your knowledge of the subject to someone else who posted with absolutely no knowledge of the subject at all. Talk about a typical Slashdot posting thread. It is unfortunate, isn't it?
Why the sarcasm? The AMD64 IS an awesome processor and the dual-core units are even more impressive. If you have never really used an AMD64 processor, you wouldn't have the first clue why they better, but that is your fault and not the fault of AMD.
Even in this article alone, there are a few posts referring to the superiority of AMD64 processors in production environments: Slashdot
ALL buffer and heap overflows in individual programs are the fault of bad programming, not bad programming languages. If a programmer is not competent enough to test their code, and then blame the programming language when there is a problem, should not be coding. It is simply irresponsible.
You forgot to add Java to your list of programming languages which goes out of its way to assist in preventing and avoiding both buffer and heap overflows/errors (i.e. bounds checking and similiar technology).
Proving once again that you and 99% of the Slashdot crowd have no real clue what you are talking about.
Trying programming in Java sometime outside of a website applet, kid, and maybe you will learn something.
Please.
Your post is nothing except drivel of scientific and logical ignorance.
Fact: Religion was invented by humans for humans.
Fact: The concepts of God, Gods, Goddess, Goddesses, Earth Mother, etc. are all completely human inventions.
Fact: There is no basis for religion whatsoever except human fantasy.
Fact: Since religion was invented by humans, it will of course have connections with the world around humans and contain human events. That is the same of any fantasy.
If you are a scientist and religious you are a joke. What you are doing is using false logic to be purposely 'intellectually ignorant' of reality. A scientist seeks to completely understand everything exactly as it is without bias or preconceptions. If the universe confounds you and it makes you feel better to explain it away using human invented fantasy, then that is your loss. But it is a damn shame that people who claim to be scientists, yet are not intelligent enough to think logically, critically, and analytically are allowed to claim that they are even scientists. What is an even bigger shame are the religious people who claim to be scientists and cannot even see the flaws in their logic.
For example, the most common religious drivel is the reasoning that the universe is too complex to have happened on its own. You are unfortunately one of these people. The argument is logically false from the beginning, and because of that could lead to any conclusion you wish, but people don't think logically if they are religious anyways. So, the usual argument is that because the universe is complex and defined by rules, for some unknown reason there MUST have been someone or something that created those laws. Okay, using that logic it is concluded that those rules must have been created by a God of some sort. Okay, continuing to use the logic that anything complex and governed by rules MUST have been created by someone or something else would mean that this God would have to have been created by someone or something else. Okay, at this point people abandon the prior logic and proceed to new logic that claims that this God is now something else. They claim that this God is above all physical laws and just exists. Okay, then using that logic couldn't the universe just exist as well? And since this God exists without any higher power then itself, couldn't the universe also exist without any higher power as well? At this point the logic is not working out at all. Does this mean the universe could have simply existed without any other influence and no higher existence other than itself?
While it is entertaining to argue religion with people whose minds are too weak to see the forest for the trees, it is a damn shame when it is with people who claim to be scientists. What is truly sad is that people believe religion is any more true than reading a comic book or fantasy novel.
I am not any more atheist than I am any of other kind of religious label. I am a scientist. I observe, study, and seek to understand the universe and all of its mysteries for exactly what they are. Some day all of the universe's mysteries will be solved. It is unfortunate that everyone else is content to believe whatever fantasy their minds are too weak to overcome.
This paper is only about medical studies and does not claim that all scientific studies are false. This is also essentially a duplication of another story misquoted, misunderstood, and posted on Slashdot a couple of months ago.
There is nothing new here, move on.
Not quite. The scientific process needs, at its fundamental level, the following three things:
1) Reproducable
2) Disprovable
3) Predictable
What you are talking about is empirical science. Without Mathematics and fundamental understanding, the science you talk about is all that would ever be understood. Fortunately, empirical science is no longer the only scientific understanding of the universe.
False. Science is a process of understanding and defining the finite rules which govern our universe. You cannot make a true statement stating that all models will always be incomplete forever as there is no evidence that there is such a limitation.
Your post and the parent post to yours are both absolutely excellent and spot-on. Thank you, it is refreshing to read intelligent posts from other people in the scientific field.
Not all universities and colleges. The university I attended and the college I studied in did not treat student work at all like your college did. As a matter of fact, content, correctness, and clarity counted more than anything else.
Your experience was unfortunate, but I fear too common.
Those people give a bad name to true scientific professors who are brilliant and true to their work. That's terrible and unfortunate.
The people you work with give a bad name to true scientific professors who are brilliant and true to their work. That's terrible and unfortunate.
Completely correct.
I just completed two years of college coursework in Genetics. Do you have any links or information which would lead me directly to the work you are speaking of in your post? I have read volumes of scientific work and have spent years of my life studying and working with genetic mutations and variation amongst different species. I have not read anything close to what you have spoke of in your post. Unless you have significant scientific proof otherwise, your entire post should be discredited.
Someday these gaps in our knowledge will be explained rather than merely explained away, but the worst and most dangerous kind of pseudoscience comes from those who claim that science is already complete and attack those who point out evidence which isn't explained by current theories. Evolution is a fact, but it is not one single theory, but rather a changing assortment of related hypotheses, many of which will never be scientifically verified in the most rigorous sense of the term, and even if they were, would not categorically disprove hypotheses such as that intelligence is inherent in the universe and started the ball of life rolling or that life originally evolved on another planet and was seeded here by accident or on purpose, or any of hundreds of speculative variations on our current orthodox conjectures.
There is no logical conclusion nor scientific evidence that intelligence of any kind is inherent in any system whatsoever. What your paragraph clearly says to anyone reading it is that you are a religious person without one bit of scientific understanding. You should at the very least look up the foundations of the scientific process. One hint: disprovable, repeatable, and predictable. Also, look up the definitions of fact, theory, hypothesis, conjecture, fiction, fantasy, and make-believe.
The moderators on this forum really need to moderate posts they understand or have experience enough to understand. Otherwise, posts like yours are going to continue to get moderated up even though they are completely false.