Interestingly it has found out about Jesus Christ and has concluded he is a member of the Godhead, and will return in glory.
Unfortunately it thinks "Godhead" is his band, and "Glory" is his next film! I think they have some disambiguation problems.
The proof for BBC independence is that whatever government is in power, their supporters always claim the BBC is a puppet of the opposition.
??? Since when is that the case. I think most people would perceive the BBC as being a slightly left-leaning organization. And while it has publicized things the governing Labour party would prefer it didn't, I don't think anyone claims it is a puppet of the Conservatives.
So if evolutionary processes can be observed in a system where design is clearly involved (e.g. making canoes), where does that leave arguments that the observation of evolution must imply a lack of a designer?
Faith is subjective, mystical, and can have the appearance of utter hogwash to someone not participating therein.
That is not true. That is how people like Dawkins define faith (and in all fairness how post-modern, liberal Christians define faith), but is not how Christians traditionally have define it.
Faith, as traditionally defined by Christians, is closer in definition to trust. Faith is defined as, because of objective past experience of God's action, trusting his promises of future action. Christianity claims God has objectively acted in history and have this as the basis of faith, not some subjective feeling.
Christianity is not subjective, it makes objective historical claims (most importantly that Christ rose from the dead). You may objectively disagree with them, but you can claim they are subjective: either they did or didn't happen.
I've always held that asking what came before the Big Bang is like asking what is North of the North Pole? It's a grammatically correct question but we can't expect it to mean anything.
That depends what you view of time is. If you view time as merely a sequence of ordered events (which is how philosophers tend to view it), then there is no reason there can't be anything before the Big Bang. If you view time as part of space-time created at the Big Bang (as physicists tend to) then you can't have before the Big Bang.
If I recall correctly, one of the assumptions for relativity is that there are no instantaneous events, therefore time in space-time can be considered a sequence of ordered events, therefore there is no reason to assume there is no super-sequence containing the sequence of events which happen in space-time. In this super-sequence it is perfectly feasible to have an event before the big-bang.
The EU isn't standing up for its laws as long as it fails to prosecute any airlines for handing over data.
As far as I'm aware, all airlines are deciding to possibility violate EU laws, rather than infringe US laws. They have said they plan to continue to hand over data.
Presumably this is because the US has a functioning government, which can realisticaly threaten immediate action. Ths EU doesn't, so the airlines know that if the violate EU agreements it will be a long time before it has any consequences for them.
Uh, uh. No way, no how. In case of an emergency onboard an aircraft I will literally bet my life on the instincts of a human being over the computational prowess of machine.
Except almost all recent aircraft near misses have been caused when the pilots have disabled or ignored automatic devices for avoiding collisions and judged using their own instincts. Computers these days are quite effective and making important decisions.
I was thinking. Wouldn't it make alot of sense to use these things in the defence shield the US is building? They seem to be having a lot of problems hitting the incoming missile with a convential exploding warheads, but something which could kill the electronics in the missile from within 300m could work better. (I must admit I don't know what sort of radius the convential warheads can destroy missiles over)
I've never quite understood why people will only use technological solutions which can achieve a logical limit, eg. a system where it is impossible to work out how you voted, etc. , when you don't have that in the current low-tech solutions.
With a paper ballot it isn't too hard to check the ballots for your fingerprints, get the person who gives you your ballot to mark them beforehand. Or do many other things to make sure you don't have zero knowledge. If someone really wanted to they could find out how you voted.
Not too sure if it an improvement, but I know some people use languages in which programs can be proven to work like ML. Of course if you actually want to write a program which *does* something it is probably not for you.
How many people have internet access, but no access to TV, radio, or other broadcast recievers? For major news stories boardcast medium will always be the main method of disseminating information to the masses, client-server systems aren't really designed for this purpose.
Personally I don't think the physics winner (Demonstration
of the Exponential Decay Law Using Beer Froth) satisfies the awards criteria for achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced." I know once I finish work to today I plan to try to reproduce it!
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Interestingly it has found out about Jesus Christ and has concluded he is a member of the Godhead, and will return in glory. Unfortunately it thinks "Godhead" is his band, and "Glory" is his next film! I think they have some disambiguation problems.
The proof for BBC independence is that whatever government is in power, their supporters always claim the BBC is a puppet of the opposition.
??? Since when is that the case. I think most people would perceive the BBC as being a slightly left-leaning organization. And while it has publicized things the governing Labour party would prefer it didn't, I don't think anyone claims it is a puppet of the Conservatives.
So if evolutionary processes can be observed in a system where design is clearly involved (e.g. making canoes), where does that leave arguments that the observation of evolution must imply a lack of a designer?
Faith is subjective, mystical, and can have the appearance of utter hogwash to someone not participating therein.
That is not true. That is how people like Dawkins define faith (and in all fairness how post-modern, liberal Christians define faith), but is not how Christians traditionally have define it.
Faith, as traditionally defined by Christians, is closer in definition to trust. Faith is defined as, because of objective past experience of God's action, trusting his promises of future action. Christianity claims God has objectively acted in history and have this as the basis of faith, not some subjective feeling.
Christianity is not subjective, it makes objective historical claims (most importantly that Christ rose from the dead). You may objectively disagree with them, but you can claim they are subjective: either they did or didn't happen.
Actually, it was Gordon Brown who said he had the Beatles on his iPod.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1582428.ece
But then later removed it when he was informed it was illegal.
(In Britain there is no concept of "Fair Use" in copyright law)
Hummmmm. I wonder why no main stream news outlets seem to be picking up such a ground-breaking story?
I've always held that asking what came before the Big Bang is like asking what is North of the North Pole? It's a grammatically correct question but we can't expect it to mean anything.
That depends what you view of time is. If you view time as merely a sequence of ordered events (which is how philosophers tend to view it), then there is no reason there can't be anything before the Big Bang. If you view time as part of space-time created at the Big Bang (as physicists tend to) then you can't have before the Big Bang.
If I recall correctly, one of the assumptions for relativity is that there are no instantaneous events, therefore time in space-time can be considered a sequence of ordered events, therefore there is no reason to assume there is no super-sequence containing the sequence of events which happen in space-time. In this super-sequence it is perfectly feasible to have an event before the big-bang.
The one I found most useful was:
79. The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
I wonder what the worst is?
The EU isn't standing up for its laws as long as it fails to prosecute any airlines for handing over data.
As far as I'm aware, all airlines are deciding to possibility violate EU laws, rather than infringe US laws. They have said they plan to continue to hand over data.
Presumably this is because the US has a functioning government, which can realisticaly threaten immediate action. Ths EU doesn't, so the airlines know that if the violate EU agreements it will be a long time before it has any consequences for them.
D'oh. Obviously, I need to watch it again, as I meant to say "Harrrrr"!
Clearly you haven't watched the video, otherwise you would know that "Yarrrr" is the correct response!
D'oh! Just realised I read 10 minutes rather than 10 months!
The Archive is 22 Terabytes in size and doubling every ten months.
I doubt that. Surely that means by the end of the day it will be:
22 * 2^144 Terabytes = 5*10^44 Terabytes
in size.....I don't even know what you call that!
Other news sources are quite adament it is not an April fool joke
Times
Uh, uh. No way, no how. In case of an emergency onboard an aircraft I will literally bet my life on the instincts of a human being over the computational prowess of machine.
Except almost all recent aircraft near misses have been caused when the pilots have disabled or ignored automatic devices for avoiding collisions and judged using their own instincts. Computers these days are quite effective and making important decisions.
Yes the proof is quite a simple application of the famous halting problem proof.
Imagine you made the program go into an infinite loop whenever the program it was analysing did not have an infinite loop.
Them run the program on itself......
If the game lasts forever then it will probably be sold on a subscription basis.
I was thinking. Wouldn't it make alot of sense to use these things in the defence shield the US is building? They seem to be having a lot of problems hitting the incoming missile with a convential exploding warheads, but something which could kill the electronics in the missile from within 300m could work better. (I must admit I don't know what sort of radius the convential warheads can destroy missiles over)
I've never quite understood why people will only use technological solutions which can achieve a logical limit, eg. a system where it is impossible to work out how you voted, etc. , when you don't have that in the current low-tech solutions.
With a paper ballot it isn't too hard to check the ballots for your fingerprints, get the person who gives you your ballot to mark them beforehand. Or do many other things to make sure you don't have zero knowledge. If someone really wanted to they could find out how you voted.
> Surely a conservative decisionmaker will choose
> a desktop-agnostic Mozilla or OpenOffice over
> the KDE-specific versions.
You mean like those people at Apple who chose KHTML for Safari?
Not too sure if it an improvement, but I know some people use languages in which programs can be proven to work like ML. Of course if you actually want to write a program which *does* something it is probably not for you.
The 5510 is your friend! Ok, only a 64Mb MP3 player, but also has an FM radio.
If any one is interested about how the BBC's network can handle a /.ing there are network diagrams here
How many people have internet access, but no access to TV, radio, or other broadcast recievers? For major news stories boardcast medium will always be the main method of disseminating information to the masses, client-server systems aren't really designed for this purpose.
Personally I don't think the physics winner (Demonstration of the Exponential Decay Law Using Beer Froth) satisfies the awards criteria for achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced." I know once I finish work to today I plan to try to reproduce it!