I'm fed up with hearing this shit from Christians, now I have to put up with it on slashdot? Anyhow, evolution and creationism are NOT polar opposites. Evolution does not describe where life originated from, although some might argue it implies this much. Evolution describes the process by which animals change to better suit their environment, which is a scientifically documented phenomenon. This isn't questionable, and it doesn't even conflict with creationism because it DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE ORIGIN OF LIFE! Sorry if I'm coming off as a little trollish, but I'm getting really sick of misinformation and ignorance relating to evolution.
What's even more amazing is that I saw it progressing from its infancy. I remember first hearing about it from the guy who wrote it on the now defunct os-dev.isa.net.au message board. It wasn't much to begin with, but even at the time I was always impressed by how much they had accomplished. It's been a long time since I've checked its progress and I can say with some certainty that I would never have expected it to progress as far as it has.
I apologize if I came across too strongly, but in response to your response: I still don't think that the coolant water is nearly as toxic as the other wastes. I was mainly responding to the fact that the grandparent poster had a fundamental misunderstanding of the way a nuclear reactor worked. To say that the reason nuclear waste is dangerous is because the water is heated by irradiation and is therefor radioactive is simply false.
You are absolutely, 100% wrong. A nuclear reactor does not simply operate by a radioactive substance increasing the temperature of water; a nuclear reaction has to occur. This means the atoms are actually split, releasing the energy of the atomic bonds. What results is a huge amount of heat and, when the reactor is submersed in water, this creates high pressure steam sufficient to turn a turbine. The water is absolutely NOT radioactive and it in fact vents off into the atmosphere. The radioactive bit is the spent fuel (IANANP, but I believe this is plutonium and other wastes).
I don't think you understand, they created absolutely rediculously perfect mixtures of gasoline and a closed environment to try to do it. It simply did not work. Common sense should prevail regardless; where in a cell phone is there a large enough voltage to cause a spark? I don't know about you, but I don't like my portable devices sparking on me.
That's exactly his point. He doesn't think it legitimate, he opposes it. His point was that the BSA's statistics are bullshit, and they are. The fact that someone wouldn't buy it does in fact have a whole hell of a lot to do with the fact that the $170 billion is insanely exaggerated.
INSIGHTFUL??! You'd rather brainwash kids than arrest them? That's utter bullshit! Arresting small kids has given the industry a bad image and, at least, the kids still have their brains and some capacity for reason. How dare anyone taint our young kids' minds with coporate propaganda? I grow sick at the thought that our children might be programmed like little corporate drones to believe their bullshit. The industry can't completely subvert american ideals because it is politically and socially unacceptable? Great, let's CHANGE what's acceptable by brainwashing our youth. When they mature, don't expect any fair use rights. This is just sickening and I find it startling that someone could give them any credit for this stunt.
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It's a common misconception, that's the source. Everyone remembers the hindenburg, right, and how its demise was the direct result of the combustion of its hydrogen, right?
Anyhow, I still think you're not quite getting it. I've explained it, but let me try again. The software in question was not intentionally designed to be insecure, but it's a product of its poor design. It WAS intentionally designed the way it is and the design lends itself to insecurity. I somehow doubt some microsoft engineer stopped and though, "hmm, let's design this software to be insecure so people constantly have to upgrade to get the latest security patches," conspiracy theorists excepted. This is not straying from any definition of "design." What you're trying to argue is that the statement implies insecurity was one of windows's design goals; I disagree. I think anybody can agree that the way windows is designed is insecure, therefor "insecure by design." Anyhow, arguing semantics is stupid on a technology site.
I think people are resorting to pedantry when it isn't necessary. The headline does not say windows is designed to be insecure, it says that it was designed and as a result of this design it's insecure. Again, it does NOT say it was designed to be insecure; THAT would imply intent as the other poster is suggesting. To extend upon another posters analogies: a car was not designed to kill, but you could still say it is dangerous by design. It WAS designed to go over 100 MPH, and that is dangerous. Or even the hammer; it was designed to drive nails into wood, but it, as any other blunt object, is dangerous by design because it is designed to hit things with a very large force. Anyhow, some people seem to have serious reading comprehension skills on this site. It isn't that hard, people.
No, it is not a screw up. It is caused by the fact that the earth does not finish its 366th rotation by the time it completes one revolution around the sun.
On another note, kuro5hin.org is moving to text ads (from no ads). It works under the principle that annoying your readership until they're so pissed that they don't come back anymore is not a good idea. Maybe slashdot could learn a lessons from this...
If I remember correctly, a lot of his books weren't as polished as you may believe. He heavily procrastinated the completion of the first book in the series and worked to just finish it up.
They didn't do any harm. They didn't optimize the game at the expense of features, or use any other subversive method to gain benchmark points without actually making it faster. If you like quake3, you know you have a video card optimized for it.
The difference here is that you own the CD (as opposed to using someone else's CD). You seem to be hinting that the recod label, in fact, owns the CD which is NOT the case.
In my school, the students hold these prayer sessions and maintain a school endorsed bible club. The catcher is that they have made it against school rules to wear anything that this christian town would view as sacrilage. For example, you can't wear all black, dragon shirts/jewelry, or pentagrams. However, it is perfectly alright to wear a big cross on your T-Shirt and carry around a bible. I believe that this is more of the problem and shows why religion of any sort in school should not be allowed. You also have to remember, you have no constitutional rights as a minor and it's debatable how much the public school system should be considered part of the government.
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I'm fed up with hearing this shit from Christians, now I have to put up with it on slashdot? Anyhow, evolution and creationism are NOT polar opposites. Evolution does not describe where life originated from, although some might argue it implies this much. Evolution describes the process by which animals change to better suit their environment, which is a scientifically documented phenomenon. This isn't questionable, and it doesn't even conflict with creationism because it DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE ORIGIN OF LIFE! Sorry if I'm coming off as a little trollish, but I'm getting really sick of misinformation and ignorance relating to evolution.
What's even more amazing is that I saw it progressing from its infancy. I remember first hearing about it from the guy who wrote it on the now defunct os-dev.isa.net.au message board. It wasn't much to begin with, but even at the time I was always impressed by how much they had accomplished. It's been a long time since I've checked its progress and I can say with some certainty that I would never have expected it to progress as far as it has.
I apologize if I came across too strongly, but in response to your response: I still don't think that the coolant water is nearly as toxic as the other wastes. I was mainly responding to the fact that the grandparent poster had a fundamental misunderstanding of the way a nuclear reactor worked. To say that the reason nuclear waste is dangerous is because the water is heated by irradiation and is therefor radioactive is simply false.
You are absolutely, 100% wrong. A nuclear reactor does not simply operate by a radioactive substance increasing the temperature of water; a nuclear reaction has to occur. This means the atoms are actually split, releasing the energy of the atomic bonds. What results is a huge amount of heat and, when the reactor is submersed in water, this creates high pressure steam sufficient to turn a turbine. The water is absolutely NOT radioactive and it in fact vents off into the atmosphere. The radioactive bit is the spent fuel (IANANP, but I believe this is plutonium and other wastes).
I don't think you understand, they created absolutely rediculously perfect mixtures of gasoline and a closed environment to try to do it. It simply did not work. Common sense should prevail regardless; where in a cell phone is there a large enough voltage to cause a spark? I don't know about you, but I don't like my portable devices sparking on me.
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There's simply no legal basis for that argument.
That's exactly his point. He doesn't think it legitimate, he opposes it. His point was that the BSA's statistics are bullshit, and they are. The fact that someone wouldn't buy it does in fact have a whole hell of a lot to do with the fact that the $170 billion is insanely exaggerated.
INSIGHTFUL??! You'd rather brainwash kids than arrest them? That's utter bullshit! Arresting small kids has given the industry a bad image and, at least, the kids still have their brains and some capacity for reason. How dare anyone taint our young kids' minds with coporate propaganda? I grow sick at the thought that our children might be programmed like little corporate drones to believe their bullshit. The industry can't completely subvert american ideals because it is politically and socially unacceptable? Great, let's CHANGE what's acceptable by brainwashing our youth. When they mature, don't expect any fair use rights. This is just sickening and I find it startling that someone could give them any credit for this stunt.
All things you would know if you watched the movies.
It's a common misconception, that's the source. Everyone remembers the hindenburg, right, and how its demise was the direct result of the combustion of its hydrogen, right?
He's talking about the user interface. Everything is rasterized there and that's where you notice huge performance gains from 3d hardware.
Yeah, really ironic.
Anyhow, I still think you're not quite getting it. I've explained it, but let me try again. The software in question was not intentionally designed to be insecure, but it's a product of its poor design. It WAS intentionally designed the way it is and the design lends itself to insecurity. I somehow doubt some microsoft engineer stopped and though, "hmm, let's design this software to be insecure so people constantly have to upgrade to get the latest security patches," conspiracy theorists excepted. This is not straying from any definition of "design." What you're trying to argue is that the statement implies insecurity was one of windows's design goals; I disagree. I think anybody can agree that the way windows is designed is insecure, therefor "insecure by design." Anyhow, arguing semantics is stupid on a technology site.
I think people are resorting to pedantry when it isn't necessary. The headline does not say windows is designed to be insecure, it says that it was designed and as a result of this design it's insecure. Again, it does NOT say it was designed to be insecure; THAT would imply intent as the other poster is suggesting. To extend upon another posters analogies: a car was not designed to kill, but you could still say it is dangerous by design. It WAS designed to go over 100 MPH, and that is dangerous. Or even the hammer; it was designed to drive nails into wood, but it, as any other blunt object, is dangerous by design because it is designed to hit things with a very large force. Anyhow, some people seem to have serious reading comprehension skills on this site. It isn't that hard, people.
No, it is not a screw up. It is caused by the fact that the earth does not finish its 366th rotation by the time it completes one revolution around the sun.
But I won't buy the watch-sized cell phone.
Or, perhaps, it could just be a device you pin to your shirt and tap to talk, a la star trek.
On another note, kuro5hin.org is moving to text ads (from no ads). It works under the principle that annoying your readership until they're so pissed that they don't come back anymore is not a good idea. Maybe slashdot could learn a lessons from this...
If I remember correctly, a lot of his books weren't as polished as you may believe. He heavily procrastinated the completion of the first book in the series and worked to just finish it up.
They didn't do any harm. They didn't optimize the game at the expense of features, or use any other subversive method to gain benchmark points without actually making it faster. If you like quake3, you know you have a video card optimized for it.
For all intents and purposes, the kernel is the OS , just without any of the tools essential to run the OS.
Who says that by downloading the lyrics you didn't already buy the CD?
I can assure you he didn't have NT in mind.
The difference here is that you own the CD (as opposed to using someone else's CD). You seem to be hinting that the recod label, in fact, owns the CD which is NOT the case.
In my school, the students hold these prayer sessions and maintain a school endorsed bible club. The catcher is that they have made it against school rules to wear anything that this christian town would view as sacrilage. For example, you can't wear all black, dragon shirts/jewelry, or pentagrams. However, it is perfectly alright to wear a big cross on your T-Shirt and carry around a bible. I believe that this is more of the problem and shows why religion of any sort in school should not be allowed. You also have to remember, you have no constitutional rights as a minor and it's debatable how much the public school system should be considered part of the government.
Notice the mirko writes part. Taco isn't the culprit, it's mirko.