You miss my point entirely. Evolution is a scientific (hypothesis based on observations and testable) theory. Creationism is not based on observations, it's based on a book (or books) and a very few observations which are made which "fit" the story written in the book(s). Creationism is not open to debate or revision (God said it, I believe it and that's that). That's not science, it's religion. If you can't see the difference, it's not important.
I honestly don't see the issue with presenting all sides of an issue. I think going all evolution and excluding creationism is as bad as forcing only creationism to the exclusion of evolution. That said, I can only hope they use the Darwin Awards as the best proof we have of natural selection.
I'll assume you're not a troll, and I'll also assume you understand the concept of the "scientific method": observations -> hypothesis -> new observations -> modified hypothesis, etc.
One (evolution/natural selection) is a theory based on multiple observations by many scientists in different fields over many years. It's the "best" explanation that fits all the observed data.
Creationism is based on what's written in a single book (which some consider "the word of God" and others consider a fairy tale), as "interpreted" by those who can't even agree among themselves. It also conflicts (young earth) with geologic observations.
If your object is to teach science in schools, creationism has no place, ecept, perhaps, as an example of "what's not science" and why.
I thought it was the North Koreans who were printing perfect copies of $20 bills? Now we find out it's being done in Canada? These presses aren't cheap, so who was behind this scheme? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yeah, sorry, I got carried away with what *could* be. Seriously, though, what's wrong with this? Share all you want for $20/month. No prosecutions, because all the studios/publishers/artists get their cut from the subscription fee.
Pirate Bay manages the site, keeps the books and distributes the shares to the various companies on the basis of the proportion their properties make up out of the total downloads. The companies give up the hassle of distributing DVDs and/or running a subscription service, but get fairly compensated. Pirate Bay operators collect a bit to support the operation.
I'd happily pay $1.98 for each and every torrent I download from Pirate Bay. Upload anything you like, the download fees are split amongst the media companies on the basis of what percentage of the downloads are "theirs". Set it up a an open exchange, everyone wins.
Just do *something*, please, to give people what they want. For some reason, media companies think that witholding content is to their benefit. Look, if someone wants to pay you for something, shouldn't you just let them have it and take their money? I pay for Netflix, but every time I search for a movie, it's not available. So, I head for Pirate Bay. I'd rather not do this, and I'd rather pay for the movie, but I just can't. I don't want to buy a DVD, I just want to watch the movie...once, and right now, without going to a bunch of subscription-only apps to find it.
Example: Sherlock, season 4: shown last month on BBC, already available on Pirate Bay. Not available on Netflix. Why the delay?
It's not bad, as long as you can manage to claim a spot on the periphery (as I have).
If I had to work in the middle of the floor, I think I'd have a problem. I've done this, but as soon as I was offered an opportunity to move, I chose a place out of the mainstream. I'm an electrical engineer, I do circuit, firmware and programmable logic design. When I'm head-down, the office plan makes no difference at all. When I'm less busy, it's not really any more distracting than a cube farm. I am glad, however, for the carpeted floor and acoustic tile ceiling. Downstairs, it's a bare metal high-bay type ceiling and the noise reflected off it is so bad I couldn't stand it (I spent a short time desk-hopping as an experiment).
The only way to fight personal, noncommercial "sharing", is to provide a one-stop download center with reasonable prices. It has worked for Amazon and Apple, but the media companies stubbornly refuse to cooperate and make their complete catalogs available in one place...so Pirate Bay does it for them.
The market is speaking as loudly as it can, but the media companies refuse to listen.
With rare exceptions, you can't connect sensors or actuators directly to embedded processors. Someone needs to design those interface circuits.
Designs with multiple constraints (low power, small, low cost) willonly be successful if they're carefully designed.
I'll grant you that circuits are used less frequently to do the actual calculations, but there's still a spot for EEs. In the past few decades, though, lots of the computer and networking jobs have gone away. That probably accounts for a big chunk of the missing engineers.
just in case you were wondering, this is not a real device.
Interesting concept but this would need to be considerably more bulky to drive enough water through the filters.
About 200litres of water needs to be flowed through the device per minute.
For a working prototype for comparison see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D23HLDZvX2w which works with a compressor.
The poster should make it clear that the device mentioned is not an actual device, nor likely to be feasible without
a relatively large pump and power supply.
From the active minds of Yanko Design. Creators of impractical renderings for years.
In the late 70s, there was a push to get the US to go metric. Protests from the auto industry that the costs would force them out of business, IIRC, squashed the effort.
I don't really understand why we haven't gone metric -- $DEITY knows we all have metric tools to work on our Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas. And the industries (those that are left) have retooled several times since the 70s. It's frustrating being the last holdout, and for no good reason.
Tolkein - Lord of the Rings - a cornerstone of fantasy - and a Quest
Bernard Fall - Hell in a Very Small Place - those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
Mallory - La Morte d'Artur - or is it "Le Morte"? The Arthurian Legend
Arthur C Clarke - The Sentinel ( aka 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Asimov - I, Robot - the book is better than the movie
Homer - Illiad and Odyssey
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (yeah, I haven't read it -- I only got as far as "Omnia Gallia in partes tres divisa est.")
Two Years Before the Mast - Havahd boy ships out on a square rigger -- then discovers what work is.
Ransome - Swallows and Amazons - for tweens who yearn for freedom
Kerouac - On the Road
If you're in Software Development: Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month - and make sure your boss reads it, too.
Awww...heck, just pick it up and read it! Or walk into the library and pick a book at random.
There will be some whining, but swap in a new hard drive, keep the old one "in case they want to go back", and set up a VirtualBox Windows environment for iTunes and whatever other "Win-only" software they must have.
You'll both be happier in the long run.
// have done this for friends, and they are still happy 3 years later.
'The agency, from top to bottom, leadership to rank and file, feels that it is had no support from the White House even though it's been carrying out publicly approved intelligence missions,'
Well, golly! Maybe the agency should have looked a little harder at what they were slipping through the "public approval" process.
I'm pretty sure *I* didn't vote for the PATRIOT act (which should have expired long ago...camel nose in the tent, though). But in some warped way, I'm sure the NSA feels wronged. Perhaps they need to stop and look carefully at how what they are doing is perceived by the average US citizen, and how that perception came about.
It bothers me that folks are making such a big deal about the website, when it's only a small part of the ACA. A very important small part, yes, but one that can and will eventually be made to work. The other thing that amuses me about the Republican anger over the ACA, is that these millions of purchasers of health insurance policies will be putting their money into companies that are, for the most part, part of the Republican base. I don't understand how anyone in the US can believe that the current healthcare/insurance system is working. Something needs to be done...whether that "something" is the ACA or not, we'll have to wait and see. But the fact remains that ACA is at least an effort to fix the problem.
Working EE here. You definitely need a scope. They're like the multitool of the lab bench. In addition to mschiller's suggested uses:
See if logic signals are wiggling when your code tries to activate them
Measure frequency and amplitude of AC signals
Look for transients (using the trigger)
We have a nice Tektronix that also has 16 logic inputs. You also need a good DMM, we have a couple of the Fluke 280 series that can record for hours. That's ver nice whne we're trying to see how long a battery will last, or watching a charge cycle.
Get a binocular microscope, you'll need it to check circuit boards and to solder under. Ebay has some cheap ones from China that work OK, You can spend a lot on a really nice one.
Yeah..trying to feel for these guys, but it's not happening.
You'd think, being in the legal business, that they'd appreciate an independent record of their position, just in case it mattered in a case or something.
FedEx guys, UPS guys, snowplow drivers, ambulance, taxis, public transit...all are tracked by GPS. I'm trying to come up with a reason cops shouldn't be, but all I can come up with is reasons they *should* be.
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You miss my point entirely. Evolution is a scientific (hypothesis based on observations and testable) theory. Creationism is not based on observations, it's based on a book (or books) and a very few observations which are made which "fit" the story written in the book(s). Creationism is not open to debate or revision (God said it, I believe it and that's that). That's not science, it's religion. If you can't see the difference, it's not important.
I honestly don't see the issue with presenting all sides of an issue. I think going all evolution and excluding creationism is as bad as forcing only creationism to the exclusion of evolution. That said, I can only hope they use the Darwin Awards as the best proof we have of natural selection.
I'll assume you're not a troll, and I'll also assume you understand the concept of the "scientific method": observations -> hypothesis -> new observations -> modified hypothesis, etc.
One (evolution/natural selection) is a theory based on multiple observations by many scientists in different fields over many years. It's the "best" explanation that fits all the observed data.
Creationism is based on what's written in a single book (which some consider "the word of God" and others consider a fairy tale), as "interpreted" by those who can't even agree among themselves. It also conflicts (young earth) with geologic observations.
If your object is to teach science in schools, creationism has no place, ecept, perhaps, as an example of "what's not science" and why.
I thought it was the North Koreans who were printing perfect copies of $20 bills? Now we find out it's being done in Canada? These presses aren't cheap, so who was behind this scheme? Inquiring minds want to know.
In God We Trust, eh?
Yeah, sorry, I got carried away with what *could* be. Seriously, though, what's wrong with this? Share all you want for $20/month. No prosecutions, because all the studios/publishers/artists get their cut from the subscription fee.
Pirate Bay manages the site, keeps the books and distributes the shares to the various companies on the basis of the proportion their properties make up out of the total downloads. The companies give up the hassle of distributing DVDs and/or running a subscription service, but get fairly compensated. Pirate Bay operators collect a bit to support the operation.
$5 for the owners of Pirate Bay, $15 for the media companies to split.
My check for this month's in the mail. Now, go away, **AA, and leave me alone.
I'd happily pay $1.98 for each and every torrent I download from Pirate Bay. Upload anything you like, the download fees are split amongst the media companies on the basis of what percentage of the downloads are "theirs". Set it up a an open exchange, everyone wins.
Just do *something*, please, to give people what they want. For some reason, media companies think that witholding content is to their benefit. Look, if someone wants to pay you for something, shouldn't you just let them have it and take their money? I pay for Netflix, but every time I search for a movie, it's not available. So, I head for Pirate Bay. I'd rather not do this, and I'd rather pay for the movie, but I just can't. I don't want to buy a DVD, I just want to watch the movie...once, and right now, without going to a bunch of subscription-only apps to find it.
Example: Sherlock, season 4: shown last month on BBC, already available on Pirate Bay. Not available on Netflix. Why the delay?
It's not bad, as long as you can manage to claim a spot on the periphery (as I have). If I had to work in the middle of the floor, I think I'd have a problem. I've done this, but as soon as I was offered an opportunity to move, I chose a place out of the mainstream. I'm an electrical engineer, I do circuit, firmware and programmable logic design. When I'm head-down, the office plan makes no difference at all. When I'm less busy, it's not really any more distracting than a cube farm. I am glad, however, for the carpeted floor and acoustic tile ceiling. Downstairs, it's a bare metal high-bay type ceiling and the noise reflected off it is so bad I couldn't stand it (I spent a short time desk-hopping as an experiment).
The only way to fight personal, noncommercial "sharing", is to provide a one-stop download center with reasonable prices. It has worked for Amazon and Apple, but the media companies stubbornly refuse to cooperate and make their complete catalogs available in one place...so Pirate Bay does it for them.
The market is speaking as loudly as it can, but the media companies refuse to listen.
"What is there about you that you would rather I didn't know?"
"I'd be pretty stupid to tell you, wouldn't I?"
With rare exceptions, you can't connect sensors or actuators directly to embedded processors. Someone needs to design those interface circuits. Designs with multiple constraints (low power, small, low cost) willonly be successful if they're carefully designed.
I'll grant you that circuits are used less frequently to do the actual calculations, but there's still a spot for EEs. In the past few decades, though, lots of the computer and networking jobs have gone away. That probably accounts for a big chunk of the missing engineers.
just in case you were wondering, this is not a real device. Interesting concept but this would need to be considerably more bulky to drive enough water through the filters. About 200litres of water needs to be flowed through the device per minute. For a working prototype for comparison see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D23HLDZvX2w which works with a compressor. The poster should make it clear that the device mentioned is not an actual device, nor likely to be feasible without a relatively large pump and power supply.
From the active minds of Yanko Design. Creators of impractical renderings for years.
In the late 70s, there was a push to get the US to go metric. Protests from the auto industry that the costs would force them out of business, IIRC, squashed the effort. I don't really understand why we haven't gone metric -- $DEITY knows we all have metric tools to work on our Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas. And the industries (those that are left) have retooled several times since the 70s. It's frustrating being the last holdout, and for no good reason.
I'd like to know how they did that. Especially with a transmitter *inside* the computer...
...using an Aston Martin to chase an assassin motorcyclist through a built-in-middle-ages town on market day.
When will unlicenced use of a gyrocopter be permitted?
The book is almost always better than the movie...:-)
Tolkein - Lord of the Rings - a cornerstone of fantasy - and a Quest
Bernard Fall - Hell in a Very Small Place - those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
Mallory - La Morte d'Artur - or is it "Le Morte"? The Arthurian Legend
Arthur C Clarke - The Sentinel ( aka 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Asimov - I, Robot - the book is better than the movie
Homer - Illiad and Odyssey
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (yeah, I haven't read it -- I only got as far as "Omnia Gallia in partes tres divisa est.")
Two Years Before the Mast - Havahd boy ships out on a square rigger -- then discovers what work is.
Ransome - Swallows and Amazons - for tweens who yearn for freedom
Kerouac - On the Road
If you're in Software Development: Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month - and make sure your boss reads it, too.
Awww...heck, just pick it up and read it! Or walk into the library and pick a book at random.
I'm betting on a lost anchor or random pieces of cast iron from an old ship.
Is this the guy who thought the ribbon was a good idea?
There will be some whining, but swap in a new hard drive, keep the old one "in case they want to go back", and set up a VirtualBox Windows environment for iTunes and whatever other "Win-only" software they must have.
// have done this for friends, and they are still happy 3 years later.
You'll both be happier in the long run.
'The agency, from top to bottom, leadership to rank and file, feels that it is had no support from the White House even though it's been carrying out publicly approved intelligence missions,'
Well, golly! Maybe the agency should have looked a little harder at what they were slipping through the "public approval" process. I'm pretty sure *I* didn't vote for the PATRIOT act (which should have expired long ago...camel nose in the tent, though). But in some warped way, I'm sure the NSA feels wronged. Perhaps they need to stop and look carefully at how what they are doing is perceived by the average US citizen, and how that perception came about.
Fat chance of that ever happening...
Interesting timing, considering the recent exposure (and debunking?) of BadBIOS "acoustical networking".
It bothers me that folks are making such a big deal about the website, when it's only a small part of the ACA. A very important small part, yes, but one that can and will eventually be made to work. The other thing that amuses me about the Republican anger over the ACA, is that these millions of purchasers of health insurance policies will be putting their money into companies that are, for the most part, part of the Republican base. I don't understand how anyone in the US can believe that the current healthcare/insurance system is working. Something needs to be done...whether that "something" is the ACA or not, we'll have to wait and see. But the fact remains that ACA is at least an effort to fix the problem.
Working EE here. You definitely need a scope. They're like the multitool of the lab bench. In addition to mschiller's suggested uses:
See if logic signals are wiggling when your code tries to activate them
Measure frequency and amplitude of AC signals
Look for transients (using the trigger)
We have a nice Tektronix that also has 16 logic inputs. You also need a good DMM, we have a couple of the Fluke 280 series that can record for hours. That's ver nice whne we're trying to see how long a battery will last, or watching a charge cycle.
Get a binocular microscope, you'll need it to check circuit boards and to solder under. Ebay has some cheap ones from China that work OK, You can spend a lot on a really nice one.
Yeah..trying to feel for these guys, but it's not happening.
You'd think, being in the legal business, that they'd appreciate an independent record of their position, just in case it mattered in a case or something.
FedEx guys, UPS guys, snowplow drivers, ambulance, taxis, public transit...all are tracked by GPS. I'm trying to come up with a reason cops shouldn't be, but all I can come up with is reasons they *should* be.
Because * It's fun? * They can? * They want to? * To learn something? I'm sure there are a few more. Does anyone have not-boring questions?
* he's following in the great Finnish tradition of writing your own OS... :-)