Creationism is the idea of where life the universe an everything came from... and it started with God.
Evolution is the idea of where life came from and the big bang describes where the possibility for that life came from.
God and the big bang are more equatable than God and evolution. I have yet to see many scholarly creationists which deny micro-evolution happens... in fact many also are fine with macro-evolution. In the end the argument is... did God create the whole shebang... or did a pre-cosmic burp of proto-matter/energy create the whole shebang.
So... you only give a woman your full attention if you know if she got her awesome body and bodacious rack from her mom or dads side?
Snide remarks aside...
Evolution is also just as much of a form of infinite logical regression... Special conditions existed and we got the big bang... well how did those conditions come about? Well there was this precurser... well where did the precurser come from and why was it triggered?
In the end... both views take faith... do you have faith in a certain arrangement of proto-matter or in an immortal, omnipotent being.
Either one is impossible to prove and fairly hard to have faith in... but that's what makes our existence fun!
I agree with you totally that it is all theories... my main complaint these days is that if the theory happens to have any form of the word 'god' or 'religion' even semi-associated with it then we must ban it.
If we can stop something from being discussed just because 100% of the people don't believe it then we can just about wipe out every single part of life. Yet for some reason they get away with it to keep a 'seperation of church and state'. The framers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights tried their best to make sure that they wouldn't get oppressed for religion ever again... yet their very rule is being used to do it again.
In public schools keep religion out of science class... it doesn't belong there. But don't repress students minds by saying that evolution is 100% the only possibility. If a student has an inquiring mind... then by all means talk about other theories of how this old world spins.
If for no other reason than to make sure that your students have an understanding that not everything that is spoonfed to them should be 100% believed.
God or no God... science or creationism... the biggest gift you can give a person is that of a flexible and inquisitive mind.
Who knows... maybe someday one of your students will fix one of those flaws.
Data for my area was taken in July or August of 2003 at about 9-10am on a Saturday morning.:}
Take a look at the image and you can derive the time easily... The white blob in the very middle at the top is our water tower. Makes a great sundial to get the time.:}
Then take the fact that this is a Seventh-day Adventist institution and I know by the fact that campus is empty except for the horde of cars at the church (the grey roofed structure just north of the road circle) that it is a Saturday.
Now... the July/August?:} I know that from the image near my house and you can just barely makeout the 'Hi' mowed into the field north of the big white roof.:} I had done that for a friend that was taking flight training to see.
Give up your land line... these days it is safe because they are required by law to maintain a dial tone for 911 even on deactivated lines.
I use to pay SBC 30$/month for phone service... now I pay them nothing but still have a phone (painted red of course) that I can dial 911 in an emergency.
If you want to get really fancy a couple of the VoIP providers now provide ATA bricks that have an FXO interface also just for attaching to your unpaid for land line to dial 911 in an emergency.
Most ethernet cable used today is UTP... which stands for 'Unshielded Twisted Pair'. Their is no 'EM protection' built into the cable other than the arrangement of the wires to prevent crosstalk in the individual strands.
If they can provide enough 'twists' and correct pair placement then they can easily provide just as much protection as standard Cat-5/Cat-6 that we use today.
PS People should also NOT use shielded twisted pair... in most environments it actually hurts signal quality do to it's jacket effectively being a single strand of conductor to pick up stray noise from 110V, ballasts, etc...
You really have to wonder why when posting an article on slashdot about a MIDI output that you would post an MP3 of it and not the MIDI file generated.
They still do not dictate how the devices most perform... They simply say "This is the most amount of harm they can do to the spectrum" which is their right as they are the protectors of that area.
You can't broadcast more than Xmw with this device... we don't care how you do it... but that is the limit.
The manufacturer can choose how to "protect" it's emmissions to that level.
f=ma and with those cars you were a lot smaller part of the 'm' in the equation than in modern cars. Plus wonderful things like THICK all steel body panels meant that a lot more of the intertia was spent in the deformation of the materials of the vehicle than in attempting to toss you out.
Airbags and seatbelts are a good idea... they would have been great back then. However they are WAY more necessary on todays vehicles that weigh 1/3 - 1/2 what those did.
My logic is not atrocious... it is succint and overstated just like the original post. <hint>Maybe even a bit facetious</hint>
Programming in C is like driving around in a car from the fifties, with no seat belts, no airbags, no head rests, no ABS.
So... it's roomier... it will last longer... accelerate faster... brake faster... and be MUCH tougher thus negating many of the reasons airbags and seatbelts save lives?
And BTW... many cars did have seatbelts in the 50s.
Every code has a purpose... NO programming language or programming ideal is ever perfect or the end of the evolution.
If programmers in all languages would do appropriate input checking and cowardly refuse to use any function that would allow an input buffer overflow the world would be a better place for EVERY language.
We have used solaris since well before it was called SunOS... our moves to linux have been slow but have quickened as we have learned how much easier it is to keep a group of machines up to date and functionally exact matches.
Keeping large groups of Solaris machines up to date and in a state where users don't notice a difference from machine to machine besides the host name is VERY hard. Whereas with Debian we can do stuff as simple as: (ssh setupmachine dpkg --get-selections) | dpkg --set-selections && apt-get dist-upgrade
As an educational institution we have even had the Solaris source code for many... many...many years. (late 80s) Was that a cool move on Sun's part? yes! Am I staying with Solaris? Nope... sorry!
We already have many ways of administrating Solaris boxes that have taken care of a lot of the issues. But Linux... out of the box... without us having to keep our "cloning" tools up to date does a WAY better job that Solaris even with our tools.
I'll buy their v40z and v20z line... and run linux on it.
Sun just needs to realize that their OS is not what people want to deal with. We love their hardware and their Java (well some do:} ) and no matter what they say we are not going to love their OS as it is.
Why someone would subject themselves to the administration nightmare that is Solaris I have no idea and Debian seems to work just great on those swanky Opterons.
Come on Sun... you are already bragging about executable compatibility with Linux... why not just make the OS linux and get those OS programmers helping out the team!
VoIP companies can and do provide E911 addressing. Vonage for example has a web page that you can tell them your home address and that will be sent with any calls to 911.
The only place where VoIP does have a downfall in this area is for wireless VoIP phones. Since these phones have no idea where they are your company will be providing your home address as the 911 address even if you are in a hotel halfway around the world.
Hence we hear the cry "Put GPSs in all of them like newer cellphones". Only problem with this is that most of these are used indoors and GPS signals are horrible at penetrating structures.
Then we hear the cry "Place the location in all the access points". Once again the problem with this is... you have to tell the access point the location and you know that someone is going to forget to set/change it. This would also take a LARGE overhaul of how access points work since they would then have to inject this location into the datastream as it passes instead of being a passive bridge of the data.
I think people are just going to have to be taught what the inherent risks are and how they can avoid them beyond that we start getting into the stupid world of blatantly obvious warning labels and such.
Everything has an inherent risk... learn to deal with it people!
Obviously you havn't tried running vmware and a PCHDTV card at the same time for mythtv....
While vmware is valid it also severely berates the CPU scheduling... which makes near realtime processes have serious hickups.
Plus it is again $$$$$...
We have already heard quite a few users on here say their countries taxes are done in a Java app and it works just fine under almost any OS... why can't we have the same thing in the good old US?
Then while I am in windows I have no routing for my neighborhood wireless I source... my wife gets pissed because she can't get to the ogg share drive for her music... and my Mythtv can't record any programs...
Yes I could get more computers... but then again a computer + a copy of windows + a tax program... you might as well have a CPA do it for you so you at least have the time free to do something else... the cost sure isn't gonna be different.
Remember... dual boot is only an option on a machine that is 100% a workstation... and when you have linux not many people treat their "workstations" like 100% workstations.
Heh... well if you have ever seen a wingsuit you would know that a "failed opening" entails you've broken either your arms or your legs... and even then it will partially open on it's own.
You are correct though that a parachute should be used in case surface winds or other factors change and prevent a safe landing.
Unfortunate problem is that with raid one head can't write while the other is reading. Since they don't exist on the same physical storage media. Especially in mail servers and the like you would get a tremendous gain from being able to do contiguous read/write operations. Plus... what is so hard about the engineering? Just make another head array on the other side of the disk, that is trivial. The only added hardship is the software to maintain a correct state on the drive during write operations and stealing that code from RAID would solve that.
I still want to know why hard disks... dvds.. floppies etc have never had multiple heads per platter and side. I mean come on people.. the slowest parts of disk usage are seek time and read rate. If we build 2 independant heads that can read the same side of the same disk at the same time we make the device able to handle double the read rate with the potential of lower seek times.
Also means you can read 2+ files at the same time or read with one head and write with the other.
Stop the size wars guys and start making hard disks faster.
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Creationism is the idea of where life the universe an everything came from... and it started with God.
Evolution is the idea of where life came from and the big bang describes where the possibility for that life came from.
God and the big bang are more equatable than God and evolution. I have yet to see many scholarly creationists which deny micro-evolution happens... in fact many also are fine with macro-evolution. In the end the argument is... did God create the whole shebang... or did a pre-cosmic burp of proto-matter/energy create the whole shebang.
So... you only give a woman your full attention if you know if she got her awesome body and bodacious rack from her mom or dads side?
Snide remarks aside...
Evolution is also just as much of a form of infinite logical regression... Special conditions existed and we got the big bang... well how did those conditions come about? Well there was this precurser... well where did the precurser come from and why was it triggered?
In the end... both views take faith... do you have faith in a certain arrangement of proto-matter or in an immortal, omnipotent being.
Either one is impossible to prove and fairly hard to have faith in... but that's what makes our existence fun!
I agree with you totally that it is all theories... my main complaint these days is that if the theory happens to have any form of the word 'god' or 'religion' even semi-associated with it then we must ban it.
If we can stop something from being discussed just because 100% of the people don't believe it then we can just about wipe out every single part of life. Yet for some reason they get away with it to keep a 'seperation of church and state'. The framers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights tried their best to make sure that they wouldn't get oppressed for religion ever again... yet their very rule is being used to do it again.
In public schools keep religion out of science class... it doesn't belong there. But don't repress students minds by saying that evolution is 100% the only possibility. If a student has an inquiring mind... then by all means talk about other theories of how this old world spins.
Yes!
If for no other reason than to make sure that your students have an understanding that not everything that is spoonfed to them should be 100% believed.
God or no God... science or creationism... the biggest gift you can give a person is that of a flexible and inquisitive mind.
Who knows... maybe someday one of your students will fix one of those flaws.
At least with sound they don't have to stick a heavily wired icepick into my brain.
:}
See technology is already passing Sci-Fi up.
Data for my area was taken in July or August of 2003 at about 9-10am on a Saturday morning. :}
:}
:} I know that from the image near my house and you can just barely makeout the 'Hi' mowed into the field north of the big white roof. :} I had done that for a friend that was taking flight training to see.
Take a look at the image and you can derive the time easily... The white blob in the very middle at the top is our water tower. Makes a great sundial to get the time.
Then take the fact that this is a Seventh-day Adventist institution and I know by the fact that campus is empty except for the horde of cars at the church (the grey roofed structure just north of the road circle) that it is a Saturday.
Now... the July/August?
Give up your land line... these days it is safe because they are required by law to maintain a dial tone for 911 even on deactivated lines.
I use to pay SBC 30$/month for phone service... now I pay them nothing but still have a phone (painted red of course) that I can dial 911 in an emergency.
If you want to get really fancy a couple of the VoIP providers now provide ATA bricks that have an FXO interface also just for attaching to your unpaid for land line to dial 911 in an emergency.
Most ethernet cable used today is UTP... which stands for 'Unshielded Twisted Pair'. Their is no 'EM protection' built into the cable other than the arrangement of the wires to prevent crosstalk in the individual strands.
If they can provide enough 'twists' and correct pair placement then they can easily provide just as much protection as standard Cat-5/Cat-6 that we use today.
PS People should also NOT use shielded twisted pair... in most environments it actually hurts signal quality do to it's jacket effectively being a single strand of conductor to pick up stray noise from 110V, ballasts, etc...
In San Jose for VON conference and wow... hundreds of buildings with 'For lease/Sale' or 'Office space available' signs out front.
.com burst is still a very present thing.
The swanky office buildings now have such occupants as 'Bad Boys Bail Bonds' (no I am not making this up).
For the heart of silicon valley the
You really have to wonder why when posting an article on slashdot about a MIDI output that you would post an MP3 of it and not the MIDI file generated.
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People... this is why we need broadband
They still do not dictate how the devices most perform... They simply say "This is the most amount of harm they can do to the spectrum" which is their right as they are the protectors of that area.
You can't broadcast more than Xmw with this device... we don't care how you do it... but that is the limit.
The manufacturer can choose how to "protect" it's emmissions to that level.
f=ma and with those cars you were a lot smaller part of the 'm' in the equation than in modern cars. Plus wonderful things like THICK all steel body panels meant that a lot more of the intertia was spent in the deformation of the materials of the vehicle than in attempting to toss you out.
Airbags and seatbelts are a good idea... they would have been great back then. However they are WAY more necessary on todays vehicles that weigh 1/3 - 1/2 what those did.
My logic is not atrocious... it is succint and overstated just like the original post.
<hint>Maybe even a bit facetious</hint>
So... it's roomier... it will last longer... accelerate faster... brake faster... and be MUCH tougher thus negating many of the reasons airbags and seatbelts save lives?
And BTW... many cars did have seatbelts in the 50s.
Every code has a purpose... NO programming language or programming ideal is ever perfect or the end of the evolution.
If programmers in all languages would do appropriate input checking and cowardly refuse to use any function that would allow an input buffer overflow the world would be a better place for EVERY language.
We have used solaris since well before it was called SunOS... our moves to linux have been slow but have quickened as we have learned how much easier it is to keep a group of machines up to date and functionally exact matches.
Keeping large groups of Solaris machines up to date and in a state where users don't notice a difference from machine to machine besides the host name is VERY hard. Whereas with Debian we can do stuff as simple as:
(ssh setupmachine dpkg --get-selections) | dpkg --set-selections && apt-get dist-upgrade
As an educational institution we have even had the Solaris source code for many... many...many years. (late 80s) Was that a cool move on Sun's part? yes! Am I staying with Solaris? Nope... sorry!
We already have many ways of administrating Solaris boxes that have taken care of a lot of the issues. But Linux... out of the box... without us having to keep our "cloning" tools up to date does a WAY better job that Solaris even with our tools.
I'll buy their v40z and v20z line... and run linux on it.
:} ) and no matter what they say we are not going to love their OS as it is.
Sun just needs to realize that their OS is not what people want to deal with. We love their hardware and their Java (well some do
Why someone would subject themselves to the administration nightmare that is Solaris I have no idea and Debian seems to work just great on those swanky Opterons.
Come on Sun... you are already bragging about executable compatibility with Linux... why not just make the OS linux and get those OS programmers helping out the team!
Incorrect!
VoIP companies can and do provide E911 addressing. Vonage for example has a web page that you can tell them your home address and that will be sent with any calls to 911.
The only place where VoIP does have a downfall in this area is for wireless VoIP phones. Since these phones have no idea where they are your company will be providing your home address as the 911 address even if you are in a hotel halfway around the world.
Hence we hear the cry "Put GPSs in all of them like newer cellphones". Only problem with this is that most of these are used indoors and GPS signals are horrible at penetrating structures.
Then we hear the cry "Place the location in all the access points". Once again the problem with this is... you have to tell the access point the location and you know that someone is going to forget to set/change it. This would also take a LARGE overhaul of how access points work since they would then have to inject this location into the datastream as it passes instead of being a passive bridge of the data.
I think people are just going to have to be taught what the inherent risks are and how they can avoid them beyond that we start getting into the stupid world of blatantly obvious warning labels and such.
Everything has an inherent risk... learn to deal with it people!
*scratches out his equation on a napkin*
Great... where are we going to get 30 million liters of snow-cone syrup this quick?
Obviously you havn't tried running vmware and a PCHDTV card at the same time for mythtv....
:}
While vmware is valid it also severely berates the CPU scheduling... which makes near realtime processes have serious hickups.
Plus it is again $$$$$...
We have already heard quite a few users on here say their countries taxes are done in a Java app and it works just fine under almost any OS... why can't we have the same thing in the good old US?
Ohh yeah... politicians...
Then while I am in windows I have no routing for my neighborhood wireless I source... my wife gets pissed because she can't get to the ogg share drive for her music... and my Mythtv can't record any programs...
Yes I could get more computers... but then again a computer + a copy of windows + a tax program... you might as well have a CPA do it for you so you at least have the time free to do something else... the cost sure isn't gonna be different.
Remember... dual boot is only an option on a machine that is 100% a workstation... and when you have linux not many people treat their "workstations" like 100% workstations.
wait... is that a bad thing or a good thing? :}
I mean of any place to hit on the earth the people there would be the least missed. Well... maybe a certain place in Utah also...
ohh... if you are gonna reprimand him at least get more than 1 error fixed... no hot-grits... or evil goatse... and a severe lack of petrification!
Heh... well if you have ever seen a wingsuit you would know that a "failed opening" entails you've broken either your arms or your legs... and even then it will partially open on it's own.
You are correct though that a parachute should be used in case surface winds or other factors change and prevent a safe landing.
Unfortunate problem is that with raid one head can't write while the other is reading. Since they don't exist on the same physical storage media. Especially in mail servers and the like you would get a tremendous gain from being able to do contiguous read/write operations. Plus... what is so hard about the engineering? Just make another head array on the other side of the disk, that is trivial. The only added hardship is the software to maintain a correct state on the drive during write operations and stealing that code from RAID would solve that.
I still want to know why hard disks... dvds.. floppies etc have never had multiple heads per platter and side. I mean come on people.. the slowest parts of disk usage are seek time and read rate. If we build 2 independant heads that can read the same side of the same disk at the same time we make the device able to handle double the read rate with the potential of lower seek times.
Also means you can read 2+ files at the same time or read with one head and write with the other.
Stop the size wars guys and start making hard disks faster.
Ahh yes... but the Amish also wouldn't have a TV and that was a measly ~2% that didn't have one of those.