I did not say that uncertainty rules out God, simply that it makes the existance of God [or at least the standard omniscient/omnipotent God] less likely as it requires more and more conditions for the Theory of God [oh I'm going to get flamed for that one!] to jibe with scientific law.
True enough -- the traditional infallible God is not supported by QM. OTOH, He's not supported by the bible, either.
All-knowing, all-loving, and all-powerful does not necessarily make him infallible. However, a God unbound by the universe (i.e., the traditional Christian God-as-seperate-thing view) may be able to see the deterministic principles underlying QM.
Not to mention that QM as an avenue to effect the newtonian world by non-newtonian beings who aren't necessearily God is nearly obvious, though wholly unscientific. (i.e., "if demons exist, how do they effect the world?" "through QM")
First off, Einstein refuted that quote. While he may have been religious, it was apparantly closer to deism than judaism.
Secondly, uncertainty doesn't rule out God -- it gives God a backdoor through which to influence the universe without having to do more than fix the dice. There are some physicissts who become MORE religious, not less, from their studies.
Public domain software IS "free", it's just that since PD (currently) allows the creation of non-free from free, it's not a good idea if you're trying to change how the world works.
you wouldn't have this problem is Stallman had chosen a verb rather than a noun, such as "free programming."
Open Source is "here's the source, you can see what it does, feel free to use the source to make something else."
Free Software is "everyone has the right to see what their computer's doing, and do whatever they want with the software on their computer."
(The headaches start because GPL'd "Free Software" is rather antagonistic to those that want to make a living selling software. It's hard to profit when anyone can copy your product and sell it for half price.)
quantum mechanics: the study of the underlying fabric of the universe.
there are discrete "threads" we call atoms -- knots in spacetime that are constant. When we start looking at the components of these knots, we can learn some interesting things, but not everything interesting about the wool translates to the yarn.
twenty years is more than enough time to deflect it. And energy weapons aren't what we'd use--maybe a series of rockets, but not the kind of energy weapons that we'd use on ICBMs.
let's not forget most modern vehicles easily reach that speed stock.
Most modern vehicles never reach that speed. Doing so usually results in hefty fines and/or jail time.
The highest speed limit in the country is (IIRC) 85 mph. Even if you allow for the "15 over" custom that became prevalanet during the national 55 mph limit, you're only at 100 mph. 130 is simply overkill.
For marketing purposes, the manufacturers lead the public to believe that they derive part of their energy from combustion of petrol and part "from electricity", which is meaningless but impressive to the average consumer, who doesn't stop to ask why, if that is so, he is not having to charge up his car every night.
The "average" consumer -- i.e., the nonexistant stereotypical fool -- no doubt just needs to hear the "45 mpg" figure.
The "geek" consumer -- the often arrogant know-it-all -- can easily find out that a hybrid does, in fact, contain an additional power source that collects energy from decelleration that would otherwise be wasted, thus including a second, albeit inferior and wholly derivitive, "power source."
And let's not forget that it's entirely possible to hook up a hybrid to an external power supply (the most famous example being a windmill), so that it is charged when not moving and, in fact, can run almost entirely on its electric motor.
If you are willing to drive only a few miles each day, at a low speed, with a 15 minute - 1/2 hour setup on either end, you CAN drive "for free." This is not only not a ludicrous proposition, but it's decades-old consumer technology.
Go ahead and say it. It's not a dirty word. It's not a filty word.
Today is Christmas Eve, believe in Jesus or not. Tomorrow is Christmas, live in a Christian country or not.
While something can be said for segregating the various holiday celebrations (Christmas, Haunukah, Kwanza, Yule, Saturnalia, and so forth), it's patently ludicrous to refuse to aknowledge each as they pass.
And, in all fairness, refusing to mention the holiday is as offensive to Christians as any other cultural infringment.
The engineers decided not to build something to shake off the solar panels, because that would make the darn thing heavier -- which woule mean they would have had to leave something else off.
He's going from playing a USAF pilot of an experimental vessel who gains knowledge of wormholes to fight aliens, to a USAF pilot who uses wormholes to fight aliens.
I think his entire character's a farscape reference.
. Besides, you're always running IE in the form of Active Desktop and so forth.
Active Desktop is rather easily turned off. In fact, for 2k and XP it's a good idea to go ahead and turn it off; even in non-NT systems, it's only left on because the user wants to be able to use compressed bitmaps for their wallpaper.
He doesn't care. Who's going to hax0r his computer for the information on it? At worst, they'll try to stick an open relay on, but he should have a firewall anyway, since there are more attack vectors than just IE.
A firewall won't stop you from an IE exploit, which will fill up your grandfather's PC with spam, pr0n, and generally make it run like crap.
Typeahead find is great for hyper teens whose brains work faster than their connection.
Wrong. TAF is for, you know, finding. It does nothing for a slow connection, but it does wonders to speed up the UI.
"nazi" should be lower-case, since you're using it as a generic noun and not a proper noun. (Spelling or grammar Nazis would be german-language, anyway.)
Decaf: Chemical-process decaf is horrid. Water-process less so, biological engineered decaf not all that horrid at all.
Average Coffee
Where DO you get coffe in Finland, anyway? Let's show soem frame of reference.
For the record, I get coffee either at the supermarket (and it tastes rather good, actually), at a local restaurant with coffee service (again, rather good), or at a chain-store that uses coffee like KFC used gravy (i.e., as the metric by which they keep themselves good.) All of these are my watermark for "good coffee."
(Oddly enough, the best coffee I've ever had was the stuff my parents used to get -- I have to remember to track down both brand and flavor next time I'm home)
Now, there are also plenty of places for really bad coffee -- chain-eateries whose coffee is often assembled via automatic process and left to burn. These are very bad instances of coffee, and only worth bearing if you absolutely must have caffeene in a higher concentration than a 40 oz. soda.
But even Starbucks, whose coffee is too strong, is able of making rather good coffee beverages.
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I did not say that uncertainty rules out God, simply that it makes the existance of God [or at least the standard omniscient/omnipotent God] less likely as it requires more and more conditions for the Theory of God [oh I'm going to get flamed for that one!] to jibe with scientific law.
True enough -- the traditional infallible God is not supported by QM. OTOH, He's not supported by the bible, either.
All-knowing, all-loving, and all-powerful does not necessarily make him infallible. However, a God unbound by the universe (i.e., the traditional Christian God-as-seperate-thing view) may be able to see the deterministic principles underlying QM.
Not to mention that QM as an avenue to effect the newtonian world by non-newtonian beings who aren't necessearily God is nearly obvious, though wholly unscientific. (i.e., "if demons exist, how do they effect the world?" "through QM")
Wrong on both parts.
First off, Einstein refuted that quote. While he may have been religious, it was apparantly closer to deism than judaism.
Secondly, uncertainty doesn't rule out God -- it gives God a backdoor through which to influence the universe without having to do more than fix the dice. There are some physicissts who become MORE religious, not less, from their studies.
Public domain software IS "free", it's just that since PD (currently) allows the creation of non-free from free, it's not a good idea if you're trying to change how the world works.
you wouldn't have this problem is Stallman had chosen a verb rather than a noun, such as "free programming."
Open Source is "here's the source, you can see what it does, feel free to use the source to make something else."
Free Software is "everyone has the right to see what their computer's doing, and do whatever they want with the software on their computer."
(The headaches start because GPL'd "Free Software" is rather antagonistic to those that want to make a living selling software. It's hard to profit when anyone can copy your product and sell it for half price.)
quantum mechanics: the study of the underlying fabric of the universe.
there are discrete "threads" we call atoms -- knots in spacetime that are constant. When we start looking at the components of these knots, we can learn some interesting things, but not everything interesting about the wool translates to the yarn.
Ok, Norway donated more to this than the US.
Who else has Norway donated to in the past year?
There's no evidence for that.
There's insufficient evidence for it. The mere fact that it was believed to be true by multiple institutions is evidence that it happened.
Throwing around absolutes just makes you look silly, and gives the wackos more ammunition. Please don't do it.
Sheesh.
twenty years is more than enough time to deflect it. And energy weapons aren't what we'd use--maybe a series of rockets, but not the kind of energy weapons that we'd use on ICBMs.
let's not forget most modern vehicles easily reach that speed stock.
Most modern vehicles never reach that speed. Doing so usually results in hefty fines and/or jail time.
The highest speed limit in the country is (IIRC) 85 mph. Even if you allow for the "15 over" custom that became prevalanet during the national 55 mph limit, you're only at 100 mph. 130 is simply overkill.
For marketing purposes, the manufacturers lead the public to believe that they derive part of their energy from combustion of petrol and part "from electricity", which is meaningless but impressive to the average consumer, who doesn't stop to ask why, if that is so, he is not having to charge up his car every night.
The "average" consumer -- i.e., the nonexistant stereotypical fool -- no doubt just needs to hear the "45 mpg" figure.
The "geek" consumer -- the often arrogant know-it-all -- can easily find out that a hybrid does, in fact, contain an additional power source that collects energy from decelleration that would otherwise be wasted, thus including a second, albeit inferior and wholly derivitive, "power source."
And let's not forget that it's entirely possible to hook up a hybrid to an external power supply (the most famous example being a windmill), so that it is charged when not moving and, in fact, can run almost entirely on its electric motor.
If you are willing to drive only a few miles each day, at a low speed, with a 15 minute - 1/2 hour setup on either end, you CAN drive "for free." This is not only not a ludicrous proposition, but it's decades-old consumer technology.
Nobody can order me to think otherwise.
Tomorrow (IIRC) is Boxing day. I don't celebrate it, I don't even know what it means.
But it's still boxing day.
Christmas.
Go ahead and say it. It's not a dirty word. It's not a filty word.
Today is Christmas Eve, believe in Jesus or not. Tomorrow is Christmas, live in a Christian country or not.
While something can be said for segregating the various holiday celebrations (Christmas, Haunukah, Kwanza, Yule, Saturnalia, and so forth), it's patently ludicrous to refuse to aknowledge each as they pass.
And, in all fairness, refusing to mention the holiday is as offensive to Christians as any other cultural infringment.
Sheesh.
The engineers decided not to build something to shake off the solar panels, because that would make the darn thing heavier -- which woule mean they would have had to leave something else off.
Politics had nothing to do with it.
read the article.
he is. He led the x-303 fight against Anubis last season.
He's going from playing a USAF pilot of an experimental vessel who gains knowledge of wormholes to fight aliens, to a USAF pilot who uses wormholes to fight aliens.
I think his entire character's a farscape reference.
When's the last time you played a game that could be played with one or two buttons and a joystick?
last time I turned on my gamecube.
. Besides, you're always running IE in the form of Active Desktop and so forth.
Active Desktop is rather easily turned off. In fact, for 2k and XP it's a good idea to go ahead and turn it off; even in non-NT systems, it's only left on because the user wants to be able to use compressed bitmaps for their wallpaper.
He doesn't care. Who's going to hax0r his computer for the information on it? At worst, they'll try to stick an open relay on, but he should have a firewall anyway, since there are more attack vectors than just IE.
A firewall won't stop you from an IE exploit, which will fill up your grandfather's PC with spam, pr0n, and generally make it run like crap.
Typeahead find is great for hyper teens whose brains work faster than their connection.
Wrong. TAF is for, you know, finding. It does nothing for a slow connection, but it does wonders to speed up the UI.
Well, I'll be darned.
So, instead of being the same process that crashes your main UI element, it's a seperate process that crashes your main UI element.
Four main benefits, in order, for Firefox over IE6
All my foes are spelling or grammar Nazis.
"nazi" should be lower-case, since you're using it as a generic noun and not a proper noun. (Spelling or grammar Nazis would be german-language, anyway.)
It's not what YOU want on you car.
It's what safeguards the rest of us want from you in that deadly weapon.
Yeah, that's what I meant by #2.
Silly me forgot about that. A 12-seed system divides into many useful qualities.
which others?
It doesn't divide evenly at all, it's not tied to either lunar or solar activity, and it's not easy to work with.
Decaf: Chemical-process decaf is horrid. Water-process less so, biological engineered decaf not all that horrid at all.
Average Coffee
Where DO you get coffe in Finland, anyway? Let's show soem frame of reference.
For the record, I get coffee either at the supermarket (and it tastes rather good, actually), at a local restaurant with coffee service (again, rather good), or at a chain-store that uses coffee like KFC used gravy (i.e., as the metric by which they keep themselves good.) All of these are my watermark for "good coffee."
(Oddly enough, the best coffee I've ever had was the stuff my parents used to get -- I have to remember to track down both brand and flavor next time I'm home)
Now, there are also plenty of places for really bad coffee -- chain-eateries whose coffee is often assembled via automatic process and left to burn. These are very bad instances of coffee, and only worth bearing if you absolutely must have caffeene in a higher concentration than a 40 oz. soda.
But even Starbucks, whose coffee is too strong, is able of making rather good coffee beverages.
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