Which is exactly why they add value by building in an HD content delivery system...
Why buy a TV, and a Blu-Ray player, and a load of discs when you can buy AppleTV and rent/buy your content without levering your fat ass off the couch?
Now how much would you pay...?:)
Sure, the margins on LCD TVs are low, but if someone says they can save $300 or more by not needing an HD source, they might pay almost that for a shiny Apple logo...
Creation Science doesn't try to test God's involvement, only the actual physical events described in the Bible (for example, that there was a global Flood around 2,000 BC or so that wiped out all humans and animals that couldn't fit in a really big boat).
So it's not science at all, it's history. Or archaeology, in some cases.
Now while archaeology is doubtless a scientific endeavour, often the required evidence for a speculative idea is missing. If evidence shows that many of the Greek islands were inundated at around the same time, it's evidence for a catastrophic flooding event, at least locally. If you try extrapolating the data to justify the idea 'I believe this was a huge flood covering the entire planet', then the evidence isn't there. Does it mean it's wrong? No. Does it mean it's not scientific? No. And you say as much in your posting.
Does this mean it's unproven, and therefore shouldn't be taken as confirmation of the bible? Absolutely. Nor can it disprove the bible, but science is based on the principle that you can't prove a negative. I say there's a giant, invisible, pink teapot circling the earth. Prove me wrong.
It doesn't look at whether the events described in Genesis were really caused by God, only whether or not they occurred as described (and the mechanics behind how they occurred).
If someone comes to me with a fossil record or other evidence for the earth being created and life as complex as man evolving (or just flat-out appearing) in 6 days, then I'd have to re-assess the idea of the Creation. That's the scientific method.
If, as seems to be the case, all the evidence suggests the earth is 4.5 billion years old, life is around 3.5 billion years old and mankind around 100,000 years old, then your Creation Science has just disproved book 1 of the bible. A real scientist would admit that and create a new theory to test. The 'flat earthers' moved on, those who believed the earth was hollow packed up and left when they realised the evidence was against them.
Many 'Creation Scientists' however do not. They come up with more and more theories to explain why the evidence doesn't quite line up with their ideas, and many resort to 'Well, God can make the evidence look however He wants. It's a test of faith."
ID'ers go even further - constantly trying to find a new example of something that can't have evolved, to 'disprove' evolution. Every time one is debunked, they pop up another. We can't prove God didn't create every life form in the universe - and Science admits that. However no-one has yet proved that he did - and that's the crux of this 'debate'.
If you want to call yourself a science, play by the rules. Otherwise it's philosophy.
I have a good excuse to buy one of these. Never got round to it during Live 8, and worried I'd missed the bandwagon. Pretty sure it'll come round again now!
Note: Many, many more people are killed by dangerous/drunk/stupid drivers in the UK than by murderers, disturbed burglars and demented rapists.
And many, many of those are killed by people under the speed limit. And so wouldn't have been caught by a camera. And a camera will take a photo, which will lead to a fine within 15 days - but they can't tell if you're drunk or stupid, only if you're going too fast.
That's cool... I do the same when I'm working night shift. Admittedly, putting the backup disks into the production system by mistake won't kill anyone, but I bet I would get shouted at just as much. Post-it notes with 'NO!' written on got me laughed at until that movie came out:)
My car is smarter than me... If the full beams are on, stopping the engine turns them off. But if I only have the sidelights on, they stay on when I get out (and it bings to tell me).
I assume it's so that you can leave some low level of illumination on to prevent people driving into your parked car - but not leave your main lights on to drain the battery.
It seems that there isn't an 'Open Source Solution' at all - 'Solution' implies it fixes the problem. They had a choice:
Buy a true 'solution' from a closed source vendor
Pay you to develop a solution from open source components.
If there was a solution to sell to 'upper management', you can bet your ass it'd be pushed. As it stands, you're wasting time and money trying to kludge together something that won't work as well as the purchased solution - and management have decided not to gamble on you coming in cheaper, faster and better than the commerical offering (or even the usual "pick two"). Plus, if you get hit by a bus, who'll support it?
Mark
For the uninitiated, Jackrabbit is a Java Content Repository, while Lucene is a search engine: both are built on Apache. I think it's safe to say they're components rather than 'solutions', no matter how polished they might be.
You are my first manager, and I claim my five pounds:)
Great write-up, but you missed one: 123. This is a major requirement.
123.1. This is a minor.
123.01. This is a critical one, note that it's NOT the same as 123.1, or 123.10.
Mark
PS now just use Word for the requirements doc, and some requirements are auto-numbered as paragraphs so they move, and others aren't, so you can easily get:
Hear hear. All the friends of mine who were/are teachers either got out or are about to get out of the profession. Why? Because they can no longer 'just teach the kids'.
They have to deal with politics, administration and so many things that should not be relevant to engaging and educating children, that they're burning out on the whole idea.
And the kids suffer - the teachers who leave for other areas of employment are the brightest, most motivated ones - they're smart enough and enthusiastic enough to want to make best use of their talents, so they go first. The ones who knuckle down and just work for the paycheque tend not to be the best of the best. All you can hope is that the ones in between are the ones teaching your kids.
Paying more might attract a few (in the UK they offer up to £5,000 - almost $10,000 at today's exchange rate) as a tax free lump sum for people who joined the teaching profession as science or maths teachers. I'd love to see how many just worked the minimum term required to qualify for the hand-out - and how many honestly went in thinking 'I could do that for a living' not 'I could use the cash'...
The higher execs at the company wanted Vista to be a revolution and had a clear and concise goal that they wanted this operating system to achieve.
I suspect the problem is more that the higher execs wanted Vista to be a revolution, and didn't have a clear and concise goal. Unless 'make it better than Mac OS' is clear (it's sure concise).
It sounds like the way it was developed, there was no over-arching idea or target behind it (apart from TFA's comment 'improve the experience') - if someone sat down and said 'here's what we want' they might have had a better chance.
I'd love to see the same article from Apple's developers - how much do they talk to other groups in the OS developement? Who decided that user switching goes on the right, and shutdown/sleep/log off are the only options on the Apple menu? I suspect it wasn't the Shell UI team, in concert with the Finder UI team and the Kernel Team. (I also suspect it wasn't Steve Jobs himself, but I imagine they had an Architect to refer to).
No, no no - I'm sick of people misinterpreting the new laws in the US in this way:
merely accuse you of being a terrorist (no proof required) and on that pretext lock you up, torture you, ship you off to god-knows what hell-hole - and all without any right of trial or appeal?
They have to accuse you, lock you up, ship you off to god-knows what hell-hole, and ONLY THEN can they torture you.
Please stop spreading these malicious slanders, or the terrorists win.
Mark
PS Please check your irony-meter before moderating this post, thank you.
Most of the Americans I meet are intelligent, well travelled and well informed on world affairs. Of course, I meet most of them not as tourists, but as people who've chosen to move to the UK to work here, so there's a lot of self-selection going on.
My favourite story told by one (who was working in Budapest at the time) was when he tried to hide on a subway because he heard the stereotypical 'brash, obnoxious tourist' nattering away in the next row of seats.
Naturally they heard he was American, asked where he was from... (if memory serves, the tourists were Texan).
When he said 'Seattle' the response was (in all seriousness) - "Oh, a treehugger".
So believe me when I say that I agree with both points!
Mark
PS It cuts both ways - as a Brit abroad (especially during the world cup) I'm always happier to be mistaken for Dutch, Scottish or Irish than English (which I am) because we have our own stereotypes to live down.
They got in with a developer's password, then used a local exploit to get root permissions.
I.e. they didn't know (or need to know) the root password. So in this case, having two 8 character passwords was exactly as secure as having one 8 character password.
The help files and FAQ are a bit US-Centric, but I use GnuCash in the UK and I just created 'Current Account' instead of 'Checking Account' and it seems to be working OK;) All the accounts and features are user-definable by name, so you don't need to worry about 'Federal Taxes' and 'Purchase Tax' confusing you.
I've not noticed anything in the application itself that's US biased - certainly not enough to be confusing...
Although it seems that it might be able to calculate taxes for you, if you're a USian; hardly necessary as I do my tax return online from the UK, and it's a doddle - works on Mac, PC and Linux as it's a web-page form.
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Which is exactly why they add value by building in an HD content delivery system...
Why buy a TV, and a Blu-Ray player, and a load of discs when you can buy AppleTV and rent/buy your content without levering your fat ass off the couch?
Now how much would you pay...? :)
Sure, the margins on LCD TVs are low, but if someone says they can save $300 or more by not needing an HD source, they might pay almost that for a shiny Apple logo...
Maybe someone thought of the children?
But if they fine you $50 they've paid for the next 5-10 tests...
Creation Science doesn't try to test God's involvement, only the actual physical events described in the Bible (for example, that there was a global Flood around 2,000 BC or so that wiped out all humans and animals that couldn't fit in a really big boat).
So it's not science at all, it's history. Or archaeology, in some cases.
Now while archaeology is doubtless a scientific endeavour, often the required evidence for a speculative idea is missing.
If evidence shows that many of the Greek islands were inundated at around the same time, it's evidence for a catastrophic flooding event, at least locally.
If you try extrapolating the data to justify the idea 'I believe this was a huge flood covering the entire planet', then the evidence isn't there. Does it mean it's wrong? No. Does it mean it's not scientific? No. And you say as much in your posting.
Does this mean it's unproven, and therefore shouldn't be taken as confirmation of the bible? Absolutely. Nor can it disprove the bible, but science is based on the principle that you can't prove a negative. I say there's a giant, invisible, pink teapot circling the earth. Prove me wrong.
It doesn't look at whether the events described in Genesis were really caused by God, only whether or not they occurred as described (and the mechanics behind how they occurred).
If someone comes to me with a fossil record or other evidence for the earth being created and life as complex as man evolving (or just flat-out appearing) in 6 days, then I'd have to re-assess the idea of the Creation. That's the scientific method.
If, as seems to be the case, all the evidence suggests the earth is 4.5 billion years old, life is around 3.5 billion years old and mankind around 100,000 years old, then your Creation Science has just disproved book 1 of the bible. A real scientist would admit that and create a new theory to test. The 'flat earthers' moved on, those who believed the earth was hollow packed up and left when they realised the evidence was against them.
Many 'Creation Scientists' however do not. They come up with more and more theories to explain why the evidence doesn't quite line up with their ideas, and many resort to 'Well, God can make the evidence look however He wants. It's a test of faith."
ID'ers go even further - constantly trying to find a new example of something that can't have evolved, to 'disprove' evolution. Every time one is debunked, they pop up another. We can't prove God didn't create every life form in the universe - and Science admits that. However no-one has yet proved that he did - and that's the crux of this 'debate'.
If you want to call yourself a science, play by the rules. Otherwise it's philosophy.
Mark
Yeah, but he never has anything new...
I have a good excuse to buy one of these. Never got round to it during Live 8, and worried I'd missed the bandwagon. Pretty sure it'll come round again now!
Mark
Note: Many, many more people are killed by dangerous/drunk/stupid drivers in the UK than by murderers, disturbed burglars and demented rapists.
And many, many of those are killed by people under the speed limit. And so wouldn't have been caught by a camera. And a camera will take a photo, which will lead to a fine within 15 days - but they can't tell if you're drunk or stupid, only if you're going too fast.
Mark
That's cool... I do the same when I'm working night shift. Admittedly, putting the backup disks into the production system by mistake won't kill anyone, but I bet I would get shouted at just as much. :)
Post-it notes with 'NO!' written on got me laughed at until that movie came out
Mark
Agreed. Wisdom of crowds would be if it took everyone's actual routes and used them to advise other people heading the same way.
For example, I know a shortcut which reduced journey time, and your GPS would take you that way in future because it saw I did it all the time...
Mark
Not yet, but it wioll haven be soon....
Mark
My car is smarter than me... If the full beams are on, stopping the engine turns them off. But if I only have the sidelights on, they stay on when I get out (and it bings to tell me).
I assume it's so that you can leave some low level of illumination on to prevent people driving into your parked car - but not leave your main lights on to drain the battery.
Mark
If there was a solution to sell to 'upper management', you can bet your ass it'd be pushed. As it stands, you're wasting time and money trying to kludge together something that won't work as well as the purchased solution - and management have decided not to gamble on you coming in cheaper, faster and better than the commerical offering (or even the usual "pick two"). Plus, if you get hit by a bus, who'll support it?
Mark
For the uninitiated, Jackrabbit is a Java Content Repository, while Lucene is a search engine: both are built on Apache. I think it's safe to say they're components rather than 'solutions', no matter how polished they might be.
You are my first manager, and I claim my five pounds :)
...
Great write-up, but you missed one:
123. This is a major requirement.
123.1. This is a minor.
123.01. This is a critical one, note that it's NOT the same as 123.1, or 123.10.
Mark
PS now just use Word for the requirements doc, and some requirements are auto-numbered as paragraphs so they move, and others aren't, so you can easily get:
1. Introduction
2. Requirements
2.1 Important requirements
2.1.1 Requirement 1.
2.1.2 2.1-Requirement 2.2
Hear hear. All the friends of mine who were/are teachers either got out or are about to get out of the profession. Why? Because they can no longer 'just teach the kids'.
They have to deal with politics, administration and so many things that should not be relevant to engaging and educating children, that they're burning out on the whole idea.
And the kids suffer - the teachers who leave for other areas of employment are the brightest, most motivated ones - they're smart enough and enthusiastic enough to want to make best use of their talents, so they go first. The ones who knuckle down and just work for the paycheque tend not to be the best of the best. All you can hope is that the ones in between are the ones teaching your kids.
Paying more might attract a few (in the UK they offer up to £5,000 - almost $10,000 at today's exchange rate) as a tax free lump sum for people who joined the teaching profession as science or maths teachers. I'd love to see how many just worked the minimum term required to qualify for the hand-out - and how many honestly went in thinking 'I could do that for a living' not 'I could use the cash'...
And if you're willing to train in Wales then the deal's even better!
Mark
At least I multipled my UID by 10 and rounded. You had the balls to go for 1.5-2x. Awesome.
Hmm, I'm posting in a thread mentioning penises, and someone just said my balls are awesome.
Slashdot's changed since I joined up....
Mark
Yeah, bloody newbies. 100,000? Johnny-come-latelies, the lot of them.
And don't get me started on the 10,000 wannabes. It all went downhill after about 2,000 if you ask me.
(and every time I do this, someone with a 3 digit UID pops up to say it was better in their day, you watch)
Mark
MS can't be blamed for everything, you know.
They can't? Damn. I thought I was reading Slashdot, I shouldn't have taken that left turn at digg.com.
Mark
The higher execs at the company wanted Vista to be a revolution and had a clear and concise goal that they wanted this operating system to achieve.
I suspect the problem is more that the higher execs wanted Vista to be a revolution, and didn't have a clear and concise goal. Unless 'make it better than Mac OS' is clear (it's sure concise).
It sounds like the way it was developed, there was no over-arching idea or target behind it (apart from TFA's comment 'improve the experience') - if someone sat down and said 'here's what we want' they might have had a better chance.
I'd love to see the same article from Apple's developers - how much do they talk to other groups in the OS developement? Who decided that user switching goes on the right, and shutdown/sleep/log off are the only options on the Apple menu? I suspect it wasn't the Shell UI team, in concert with the Finder UI team and the Kernel Team. (I also suspect it wasn't Steve Jobs himself, but I imagine they had an Architect to refer to).
Mark
Actually, the dig was at Windows XP SP2 in particular - not just Windows generally.
If these bots have control over 'the most secure Windows yet', then that is worthy of note.
Mark
PS Yes, I know the link is from 2004 - but they've not released anything since, so it must still be true, right?
No, no no - I'm sick of people misinterpreting the new laws in the US in this way:
merely accuse you of being a terrorist (no proof required) and on that pretext lock you up, torture you, ship you off to god-knows what hell-hole - and all without any right of trial or appeal?
They have to accuse you, lock you up, ship you off to god-knows what hell-hole, and ONLY THEN can they torture you.
Please stop spreading these malicious slanders, or the terrorists win.
Mark
PS Please check your irony-meter before moderating this post, thank you.
Well of course it's warm, someone wii'd in it :)
No, I couldn't resist another wii/wee pun. And you smiled, admit it....
Mark
Absolutely true.
Most of the Americans I meet are intelligent, well travelled and well informed on world affairs. Of course, I meet most of them not as tourists, but as people who've chosen to move to the UK to work here, so there's a lot of self-selection going on.
My favourite story told by one (who was working in Budapest at the time) was when he tried to hide on a subway because he heard the stereotypical 'brash, obnoxious tourist' nattering away in the next row of seats.
Naturally they heard he was American, asked where he was from... (if memory serves, the tourists were Texan).
When he said 'Seattle' the response was (in all seriousness) - "Oh, a treehugger".
So believe me when I say that I agree with both points!
Mark
PS It cuts both ways - as a Brit abroad (especially during the world cup) I'm always happier to be mistaken for Dutch, Scottish or Irish than English (which I am) because we have our own stereotypes to live down.
Not in this case - if you read the summary, even.
They got in with a developer's password, then used a local exploit to get root permissions.
I.e. they didn't know (or need to know) the root password. So in this case, having two 8 character passwords was exactly as secure as having one 8 character password.
Mark
I'd rather be cut off by my ISP for sharing my connection without authorisation, than 'aiding and abetting terrorists, paedophiles and '.
:)
A far as I know, contravening an AUP doesn't lead to rendition
Mark
The help files and FAQ are a bit US-Centric, but I use GnuCash in the UK and I just created 'Current Account' instead of 'Checking Account' and it seems to be working OK ;) All the accounts and features are user-definable by name, so you don't need to worry about 'Federal Taxes' and 'Purchase Tax' confusing you.
I've not noticed anything in the application itself that's US biased - certainly not enough to be confusing...
Although it seems that it might be able to calculate taxes for you, if you're a USian; hardly necessary as I do my tax return online from the UK, and it's a doddle - works on Mac, PC and Linux as it's a web-page form.
Mark