Seeing as extremely good programmers are rare by definition, I would, if I were hiring, have a better likelihood of rejecting incompetent people than of offending prima donnas. A 100 sufficiently competent people are preferable to a group of 10 ubercoders and 90 asswipes with the ability to lie and interview well.
I do not believe that. In fact a lot of scientific explanations depend on axioms that cannot be explained. Maybe science CAN explain everything. I am not certain of it though.
Even if it was ammo, would you really listen to someone who believed that humans were formed from dust or a clot of blood and continue to believe the parlor tricks of old mystical texts?
I wouldn't, but some of my friends, relatives do (In addition to several of our lawmakers). I also do not avoid being an evangelist for what I consider rational thought. Therefore, I do care what BS is flowing through the collective minds of the religious crowd. It is akin to me knowing a lot more about homoeopathy than several of my acquaintances who actually believe in its efficacy. These people actually feed their babies sugar pills (I do not see how placebo effect can help babies even if that is the one part of homoeopathy that works) instead of treating them as they should. The ignorant are not the problem though. It is the irrational minds who corrupt the ignorant minds that we need to be wary of.
Evaluating whether this supports evolution is a personal experience,you insensitive clod!
On a more serious note, this is not my only response. In fact, the first part of my post queries if these 'mutaitons' are the same ones that contribute to evolution. And no, I sincerely do not know the answer from the information given in the article.
Also, the reason for worrying about this being ammo for ID proponents is because high on their agenda is to sound legitimate by using scientific data to mask the hand waving that lies underneath their explanation. It matters a lot because a significant part of the society I live in believes in this bullshit including courts. If I am going to hear this argument in a discussion, I would like to explain it scientifically.
Lastly, you are perfectly correct that I am dogmatic about my refutation of ID and creationism. Not because of the statement of those theories, but because of the irrational way in which they are 'proven'.
If someone told me that there exists an even prime number other than 2, I would find it rather incredulous and be very highly skeptical about it since I can disprove it logically. I would, however, dogmatically dismiss the person if their explanation was that I should unquestioningly believe in it so that I may be rewarded for my trust when I die. Since I cannot disprove an illogical argument logically, the only way to refute it is rather dogmatically. It's not about not believing the statement. It is about not having sufficient reason to believe in it.
Ummm.. First off, aren't these 'mutations' coupled with the principle of survival of the fittest what leads to evolution? (Not a rhetorical question - simply curious)
Secondly, I am not willing to do the calculations necessary (they are definitely NOT back of the envelope), but can any biologist tell me if this rate is slow enough for the ID crowd to use this as ammunition to forward their propaganda? Just want to brace myself:)
Desecrating the dead may be a crime, but aren't humans the only ones who can be help responsible for war crimes? If I carpet bomb an enemy military installation, can I be held responsible for a war crime if that installation had any dead bodies that get vaporized? Similarly, if I set loose this robot in a war one and program it to eat the dead (maybe only dead enemies), would I be held responsible for the actions of the robot? As someone above asked, who enforces this anyway? Can't they just make 'killing people' and 'destroying stuff' war crimes?
Get them to follow F1. The competitive nature and the inherent coolness of racing cars will get them hooked. The breadth in sciences covered by the sport is pretty cool ranging from the biology of weight loss from dehydration of the drivers to the electronics behind precision timing. It is a breathtakingly awesome sport even when none of the competitors are performing well.
P.S. Be very careful to make sure they do not start watching any other programming on SpeedTV!
When friends give me a list of notebooks with similar specs and ask me to tell them which one to buy, my answer is always to open notepad or whatever is installed, type a few sentences and buy the one that felt best, even if it doesn't have the best specs or the best price of the lot. Incidentally, the chance that that they WILL use the delete key is quite high, and a big one you can hit easily with your pinky without looking for it is, in lack of any other word, awesome.
Amen to that. My desktop suffers from horrendous input devices thanks to my indifference to it, but I've been clocking a good portion of my computing time on ultraportables (A 10" Vaio T240P and a 9" Fujitsu P1510D). Before buying my first one, I had enough trouble with regular sized laptops having the 'usual' keys in unusual positions. When I got the Vaio, I was essentially not looking at laptops with a incorrectly placed 'delete' key. Once I got used to the smaller keyboard of the Vaio and decided to retire it for somethign smaller, I was exclusively looking at laptops with the PgUp, Home, PgDn, End cluster mapped to Fn + arrows. Several people used to tell me that it would be terrible to type on these keyboards. And they would be right about most of the ultraportables I have seen. With the latest netbook craze, my recommendation would be to find one that has input devices you are comfortable using. I know that I use my Fujitsu a less than the Vaio for certain tasks because the former does not have a touchpad. Since the processing power of Netbooks is usually much less of a factor in the purchase, I'd say input devices, display type and quality and portability are factors that a lot of these manufacturers can sway users with.
Homoeopathic medication consists of almost only inactive ingredients. The so-called active ingredients are typically diluted beyond the point of having any real effect. In this case, that could be an excellent defense for Matrixx.
mentions an official stating his name will be reverted "in due time"
What are they waiting for? Oh! That's right... an anonymous application!
On the note of applications, this article will probably precipitate a flood of similar immature requests. Maybe the department should suspend applications for a short while until appropriate changes in the procedure are put in place. Hopefully, it doesn't require any legislation and is simply a directive from some official to change the policies.
God help us! Now their productivity will double and everything will become cheaper as China takes over the world!
One a more serious note, I'd think that in a communist framework, it would be reasonable to restrict sites that drain significant amounts of time from your life. The Chinese govt. simply thinks that the benefits are outweighed by the drop in productivity due to social networking sites.
Although I am against censorship, this is a cultural thing. I can imagine how shocked people in some societies would be to find out that pornography is covered by free speech in the USA.
Are you ready to give up your car keys and your other stuff, so they can live better there? You had your fun, now it's their turn.
Nobody gives up anything. Those who can live better will and the world will reach an equilibrium. You aren't worried about competing with Indians, are you?
I thought it was the USA who were proponents of freedom and capitalism. I didn't know that some of those who lived here thought it only applied to the contiguous states.
Slashdot Mirror
... less then ...
I commend your efforts to avoid infringing my patent on spelling comparative phrases correctly.
*Applauds*
... and I doubt I'm alone.
...I do sometimes need people to tell me if my dress makes me look fat, but I think that is a different story entirely.
I don't doubt that you are alone....
Seeing as extremely good programmers are rare by definition, I would, if I were hiring, have a better likelihood of rejecting incompetent people than of offending prima donnas. A 100 sufficiently competent people are preferable to a group of 10 ubercoders and 90 asswipes with the ability to lie and interview well.
Not sure I believe that in my experience of working with and interviewing CS undergraduates and graduates in a top !0 program (according to USNews)
MIT makes you write an essay and do a personal interview even for candidates for an SB from foreign countries.
I do not believe that. In fact a lot of scientific explanations depend on axioms that cannot be explained. Maybe science CAN explain everything. I am not certain of it though.
Even if it was ammo, would you really listen to someone who believed that humans were formed from dust or a clot of blood and continue to believe the parlor tricks of old mystical texts?
I wouldn't, but some of my friends, relatives do (In addition to several of our lawmakers). I also do not avoid being an evangelist for what I consider rational thought. Therefore, I do care what BS is flowing through the collective minds of the religious crowd. It is akin to me knowing a lot more about homoeopathy than several of my acquaintances who actually believe in its efficacy. These people actually feed their babies sugar pills (I do not see how placebo effect can help babies even if that is the one part of homoeopathy that works) instead of treating them as they should.
The ignorant are not the problem though. It is the irrational minds who corrupt the ignorant minds that we need to be wary of.
Evaluating whether this supports evolution is a personal experience,you insensitive clod!
On a more serious note, this is not my only response. In fact, the first part of my post queries if these 'mutaitons' are the same ones that contribute to evolution. And no, I sincerely do not know the answer from the information given in the article.
Also, the reason for worrying about this being ammo for ID proponents is because high on their agenda is to sound legitimate by using scientific data to mask the hand waving that lies underneath their explanation. It matters a lot because a significant part of the society I live in believes in this bullshit including courts. If I am going to hear this argument in a discussion, I would like to explain it scientifically.
Lastly, you are perfectly correct that I am dogmatic about my refutation of ID and creationism. Not because of the statement of those theories, but because of the irrational way in which they are 'proven'.
If someone told me that there exists an even prime number other than 2, I would find it rather incredulous and be very highly skeptical about it since I can disprove it logically. I would, however, dogmatically dismiss the person if their explanation was that I should unquestioningly believe in it so that I may be rewarded for my trust when I die. Since I cannot disprove an illogical argument logically, the only way to refute it is rather dogmatically. It's not about not believing the statement. It is about not having sufficient reason to believe in it.
Ummm.. First off, aren't these 'mutations' coupled with the principle of survival of the fittest what leads to evolution? (Not a rhetorical question - simply curious)
Secondly, I am not willing to do the calculations necessary (they are definitely NOT back of the envelope), but can any biologist tell me if this rate is slow enough for the ID crowd to use this as ammunition to forward their propaganda? Just want to brace myself :)
I feel memetic today...
1. Not dude. Not even close.
In Soviet Russia, KillerBob you?
Also, seeing as you're on /., you're not gonna be close to a dude in the foreseeable future...
*rimshot*
Was down for me in Seoul. West coast troubles perhaps?
Was out for about an hour here in Seoul. All rosy now. I'm not sure how local this outage was.
1010010101010100... oh ones!
pytos fixed.
Desecrating the dead may be a crime, but aren't humans the only ones who can be help responsible for war crimes? If I carpet bomb an enemy military installation, can I be held responsible for a war crime if that installation had any dead bodies that get vaporized? Similarly, if I set loose this robot in a war one and program it to eat the dead (maybe only dead enemies), would I be held responsible for the actions of the robot? As someone above asked, who enforces this anyway? Can't they just make 'killing people' and 'destroying stuff' war crimes?
Cheers!
Get them to follow F1. The competitive nature and the inherent coolness of racing cars will get them hooked. The breadth in sciences covered by the sport is pretty cool ranging from the biology of weight loss from dehydration of the drivers to the electronics behind precision timing. It is a breathtakingly awesome sport even when none of the competitors are performing well.
P.S. Be very careful to make sure they do not start watching any other programming on SpeedTV!
Cheers!
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Vig
When friends give me a list of notebooks with similar specs and ask me to tell them which one to buy, my answer is always to open notepad or whatever is installed, type a few sentences and buy the one that felt best, even if it doesn't have the best specs or the best price of the lot. Incidentally, the chance that that they WILL use the delete key is quite high, and a big one you can hit easily with your pinky without looking for it is, in lack of any other word, awesome.
Amen to that. My desktop suffers from horrendous input devices thanks to my indifference to it, but I've been clocking a good portion of my computing time on ultraportables (A 10" Vaio T240P and a 9" Fujitsu P1510D). Before buying my first one, I had enough trouble with regular sized laptops having the 'usual' keys in unusual positions. When I got the Vaio, I was essentially not looking at laptops with a incorrectly placed 'delete' key. Once I got used to the smaller keyboard of the Vaio and decided to retire it for somethign smaller, I was exclusively looking at laptops with the PgUp, Home, PgDn, End cluster mapped to Fn + arrows. Several people used to tell me that it would be terrible to type on these keyboards. And they would be right about most of the ultraportables I have seen. With the latest netbook craze, my recommendation would be to find one that has input devices you are comfortable using. I know that I use my Fujitsu a less than the Vaio for certain tasks because the former does not have a touchpad. Since the processing power of Netbooks is usually much less of a factor in the purchase, I'd say input devices, display type and quality and portability are factors that a lot of these manufacturers can sway users with.
Cheers!
Homoeopathic medication consists of almost only inactive ingredients. The so-called active ingredients are typically diluted beyond the point of having any real effect. In this case, that could be an excellent defense for Matrixx.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd23gBkhf9A
Cheers!
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mentions an official stating his name will be reverted "in due time"
What are they waiting for? Oh! That's right... an anonymous application!
On the note of applications, this article will probably precipitate a flood of similar immature requests. Maybe the department should suspend applications for a short while until appropriate changes in the procedure are put in place. Hopefully, it doesn't require any legislation and is simply a directive from some official to change the policies.
Cheers!
Actually that would probably be a better choice as long as he doesn't get board.
He's only 11 and you want him to starve through college like the rest of us?
Cheers!
God help us! Now their productivity will double and everything will become cheaper as China takes over the world!
One a more serious note, I'd think that in a communist framework, it would be reasonable to restrict sites that drain significant amounts of time from your life. The Chinese govt. simply thinks that the benefits are outweighed by the drop in productivity due to social networking sites.
Although I am against censorship, this is a cultural thing. I can imagine how shocked people in some societies would be to find out that pornography is covered by free speech in the USA.
Cheers!
Useless until he figured out the protocol for the handshake.
I'm willing to do that temporarily to see if a lighter device like the Viliv S5 or an n810 can eventually replace my phone.
Are you ready to give up your car keys and your other stuff, so they can live better there? You had your fun, now it's their turn.
Nobody gives up anything. Those who can live better will and the world will reach an equilibrium. You aren't worried about competing with Indians, are you?
I thought it was the USA who were proponents of freedom and capitalism. I didn't know that some of those who lived here thought it only applied to the contiguous states.
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