There are a vast number of things science cannot reproduce, observe, or explain. To outright dismiss even the possibility of Someone greater than what our finite human brain can fathom, to me is small minded. There are many educated people such as myself who also believe in God when evaluating the evidence of our awe inspiring universe and all that is within it.
Even something as simple as H20 is extraordinary. Not only is it essential to our very ability to live, but every time it comes out your faucet, consider that we have about 326 quintillion gallons of water on our planet, and science still isn't sure how the earth got it. It's one of the great mysteries of our universe.
Actually, the Senate doesn't technically require 60 votes. Even in today's Senate, one avenue available is for the majority leader to announce he is reverting from a dual-track system back to a single track system, allow the minority to follow through on an actual filibuster, rather than merely threaten one, and let the public voice who they most agree with, thereby causing the losing side of whatever issue to relent.
But they choose to continue with the relatively recent invention of the dual-track system so business can get done, and nothing really holds up the show. After all, they have to spend most of their time attending fundraising events for their next campaigns.
It's amazing how much hoopla goes into picking and voting for a particular party, when government is so much bigger than just one man (or woman). It makes you wonder if anything will ever, or can ever, change.
It wasn't a coincidence. I had activated my windows many months ago. And this was the only change I made before rebooting. I didn't say it asked me to reboot, but I did reboot, and that was the result.
If you feel inclined to disprove it, try it, and let us know if you get a different result.
I recently tried changing my IP from auto assigned to a static ip on my win 7 box, and after it rebooted, it said it needed me to activate windows. What doofus would make your network settings tied to windows activation? Or anything that might change after you've already activated it?
Some of these advertisers are ruining a programmer's ability to create a modern web application. They abuse technology that freaks out users who then block it, and prevents legitimate sites and it's users from being able to leverage that technology.
First it was cookie blockers. Maintaining state is absolutely essential to every modern web application. According to REST architecture design patterns, you're not supposed to maintain state on the server side, so that leaves you with the client. And cookies are the only durable option.
Then it was pop-up blockers. There are times when you don't want the user to have to move to another page, and still be able to input or view a sub-set of data specific to that page, but there's no more room on the page. So you have to pop up a child window. Nowadays we create modals with hidden divs, and while that is a better user experience, it does add to the initial load time unless you embed an iframe.
Now some are disabling Javascript. Seriously, if you don't have javascript enabled, any sort of web application is rendered helpless entirely.
If we are to have any hope of building enterprise class applications on the web, we need a way for legitimate sites to be able to leverage the full depth and breadth of technology, without advertisers abusing our tools that causes end users to block the technology altogether.
Reckless? Please. Everyone likes to hate on IE, but that's because we all have short memories. Back in the day, when IE 6 was released, it was easily the best browser around. And IE 5, and IE4. It is naive to think any software company can prevent every security hole at the time of release. There will *always* be a determined and clever attacker who finds a way after it enters the market. And being the biggest in the market obviously makes them the biggest target.
IE also takes a lot of heat for "standards", but that's because sometimes they are inventing the thing that will turn into the standard, like the XMLHttpRequest object, the foundation of AJAX.
Believe me, supporting IE6 in 2010 is the bane of my existence, but I don't think it's fair to assign blame years later, for something that was created so long ago. In fact, I am thankful they put so much work into backwards compatibility, otherwise I think things would be even worse.
Ultimately, IE6 will be replaced by IE8 in the next 1-2 years as the corporate world rolls out Win7 deploys.
I think you could say the demographic of the average Apple customer might lean a little left and possibly drive a Prius. So it seems to be prudent marketing to highlight how "green" they are, as well as have Gore on their board.
But personally, I think someone should chuck an Apple at Gore. He's framed the issue solely on fear (ironically) instead of taking the lead on driving innovation on finding the solution. Conservation is nice and all, but we need energy miracles. Wind and solar just don't have the energy density, portability, or reliability of fossil fuels. You'd think a community of scientists would be more realistic about that.
Everyone knows we need a Manhattan project for energy, but it won't happen until there's a real crisis.
What amazes me is their Senate voting to effectively shut down the source of over 1/3 of their power generation *before* they have even found a source to replace it. This is the kind of reactionary short-term thinking that leads to poor policy decisions. It's not like they can build a coal power plant over night.
Maybe they can drop a few hundred mill on some Bloom boxes. =^)
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There are a vast number of things science cannot reproduce, observe, or explain. To outright dismiss even the possibility of Someone greater than what our finite human brain can fathom, to me is small minded. There are many educated people such as myself who also believe in God when evaluating the evidence of our awe inspiring universe and all that is within it. Even something as simple as H20 is extraordinary. Not only is it essential to our very ability to live, but every time it comes out your faucet, consider that we have about 326 quintillion gallons of water on our planet, and science still isn't sure how the earth got it. It's one of the great mysteries of our universe.
Actually, the Senate doesn't technically require 60 votes. Even in today's Senate, one avenue available is for the majority leader to announce he is reverting from a dual-track system back to a single track system, allow the minority to follow through on an actual filibuster, rather than merely threaten one, and let the public voice who they most agree with, thereby causing the losing side of whatever issue to relent. But they choose to continue with the relatively recent invention of the dual-track system so business can get done, and nothing really holds up the show. After all, they have to spend most of their time attending fundraising events for their next campaigns.
It's amazing how much hoopla goes into picking and voting for a particular party, when government is so much bigger than just one man (or woman). It makes you wonder if anything will ever, or can ever, change.
Sweet fancy Moses! Somebody actually licensed "1-click"? Are you kidding me, world?!!
It wasn't a coincidence. I had activated my windows many months ago. And this was the only change I made before rebooting. I didn't say it asked me to reboot, but I did reboot, and that was the result. If you feel inclined to disprove it, try it, and let us know if you get a different result.
I recently tried changing my IP from auto assigned to a static ip on my win 7 box, and after it rebooted, it said it needed me to activate windows. What doofus would make your network settings tied to windows activation? Or anything that might change after you've already activated it?
I really wish America would at least have this conversation. A discussion of the hard choices. Rather than an irrational frenzy over "death panels".
Some of these advertisers are ruining a programmer's ability to create a modern web application. They abuse technology that freaks out users who then block it, and prevents legitimate sites and it's users from being able to leverage that technology.
First it was cookie blockers. Maintaining state is absolutely essential to every modern web application. According to REST architecture design patterns, you're not supposed to maintain state on the server side, so that leaves you with the client. And cookies are the only durable option.
Then it was pop-up blockers. There are times when you don't want the user to have to move to another page, and still be able to input or view a sub-set of data specific to that page, but there's no more room on the page. So you have to pop up a child window. Nowadays we create modals with hidden divs, and while that is a better user experience, it does add to the initial load time unless you embed an iframe.
Now some are disabling Javascript. Seriously, if you don't have javascript enabled, any sort of web application is rendered helpless entirely.
If we are to have any hope of building enterprise class applications on the web, we need a way for legitimate sites to be able to leverage the full depth and breadth of technology, without advertisers abusing our tools that causes end users to block the technology altogether.
Reckless? Please. Everyone likes to hate on IE, but that's because we all have short memories. Back in the day, when IE 6 was released, it was easily the best browser around. And IE 5, and IE4. It is naive to think any software company can prevent every security hole at the time of release. There will *always* be a determined and clever attacker who finds a way after it enters the market. And being the biggest in the market obviously makes them the biggest target. IE also takes a lot of heat for "standards", but that's because sometimes they are inventing the thing that will turn into the standard, like the XMLHttpRequest object, the foundation of AJAX. Believe me, supporting IE6 in 2010 is the bane of my existence, but I don't think it's fair to assign blame years later, for something that was created so long ago. In fact, I am thankful they put so much work into backwards compatibility, otherwise I think things would be even worse. Ultimately, IE6 will be replaced by IE8 in the next 1-2 years as the corporate world rolls out Win7 deploys.
I think you could say the demographic of the average Apple customer might lean a little left and possibly drive a Prius. So it seems to be prudent marketing to highlight how "green" they are, as well as have Gore on their board. But personally, I think someone should chuck an Apple at Gore. He's framed the issue solely on fear (ironically) instead of taking the lead on driving innovation on finding the solution. Conservation is nice and all, but we need energy miracles. Wind and solar just don't have the energy density, portability, or reliability of fossil fuels. You'd think a community of scientists would be more realistic about that. Everyone knows we need a Manhattan project for energy, but it won't happen until there's a real crisis.
What amazes me is their Senate voting to effectively shut down the source of over 1/3 of their power generation *before* they have even found a source to replace it. This is the kind of reactionary short-term thinking that leads to poor policy decisions. It's not like they can build a coal power plant over night. Maybe they can drop a few hundred mill on some Bloom boxes. =^)