Well, the trouble is creationism is NOT science, and has no place being taught in a science class. Scientific theories have to be some testable, provable (or disprovable) predictions that can be verified (or disproved) by observation. Creationism isn't that.
People can teach creationism, but it should be taught in religious education classes and not science classes. To teach it in science classes is the whole problem - it's highly misleading, and misteaches (and you have been mislead and mistaught because you think it's OK) what science actually is.
Your Mac will ALREADY run Linux - it's not Intel only. Several distros have a macppc version. If you're of the RedHat persuasion, try CentOS or Fedora Core 4, both have PPC support.
Of course, MS Virtual Earth really isn't; it's really virtual United States. There's hardly any images for anything outside the US. Omitting most of the world seems more like a more significant issue than having an old picture of where the Apple campus is currently.
I think you're misunderstanding what a scientific theory is - you're treating it as if it's a "hunch" or a "guess".
Field theory (i.e. propogation of things like light and radio waves) is a theory, but no one would deny their existence. A theory doesn't mean "well it's just our best guess" or "we're not sure" - a scientific theory is generally a set of predictions that can be tested by observation (either experimentally, or just looking outside or both). A theory is actually a very strong thing as it is something that can be proven or disproven and refined. This latest story is about an observation that confirms more of evolution theory.
The mistake the creationists are making when they say "it's just a theory" is that they totally misunderstand what a theory is. They are thinking that a theory is merely a hunch or a guess. A scientific theory can be (and often is) something that contains many established facts or may be entirely made up by established facts. Creationists are trying to make out that a theory is a guess, and they are so wrong in their understanding of what a theory is that they aren't even wrong.
Those who say a scientific theory is "just a theory" generally do so because they don't actually know what a theory is. They understand a theory to be a guess or a hunch (that's a hypothesis not a theory).
In science, a theory isn't a guess or a hunch - it's something a great deal stronger than that. A scientific theory makes testable predictions that can be verified by observation.
I fly planes (and I'm instrument rated) yet I don't know Morse. The navaid ident morse code is always printed on the chart or approach plate next to the navaid.
Dvorak is such a tool (and not a useful one). Please, Slashdot editors - stop posting John Dvorak stories. The man is so wrong he isn't even wrong. This is the man who moaned about Windows saying the performance sucked because the idle process was using 98% of CPU. The guy is incredibly ignorant. I bet his rant on the CC licenses is from a position of total ignorance, too.
I won't even go into the fact that modern humans are not ADULTS at 18 or 22 or even 24 anymore... as a society we've pretty much pushed the age back to the early 30s by now, at least in America.
I don't think you're right. Just because someone's not totally ossified does not mean they are not adult and responsible (and know they are responsible) for their own actions. Most normal functioning people today are adults by 18, certainly by 21. Most of my friends (and myself included) had moved out of home by 18. I had moved to another frickin' continent to live and work by my early twenties. You may say "Well what's your point?" - my point is that myself and the majority of my peers were taking responsibility for themselves and responsibility for their own decisions (and their consequences) by age 18, and that is what adults do - not kids (who are shielded from that by parental responsibility).
The only thing you can really say about most young adults is that they will lack experience (of course they will!) and it's therefore inevitable some of them will do things that in hindsight are terribly misjudged. That doesn't mean they are kids. The infantisation (is that a word?) of young adults is I think a particularly American pheonmeon too, and I think it's misplaced and wrong.
To go to your other point (socialization et al.) at universities, these places aren't monasteries. People will generally learn much better in an environment they enjoy being in (regardless of their age).
Part of it is you quite often DON'T need to create threads. When using Windows, some things (particularly processing many input signals from many different devices) are easier done with a bunch of threads. With Unix, the same task is easier done with a single call to select(). Although it does depend on the application in question and how much processing you need to get done.
I've written single threaded programs on Windows, and massively multithreaded programs on Unix. However, I think people should think carefully about whether a new thread is the best way to get something done - a multithreaded program introduces many issues and you have to decide whether the cost of dealing with those issues is worth the expense.
What does baseball/football/basketball et al. have to do with higher education? What does a nice looking campus have to do with higher education? Perhaps we should just turn universities into monasteries, since it's such a waste of taxpayers money to provide any kind of entertainment!
China could essentially destroy the US without damaging a single building, or directly killing a single person. Consider China exploding their entire nuclear arsenal at strategic points, high in the atmosphere above the US - an EMP attack. The results? No buildings destroyed but:
- no more computers - no transport (cars, trains, aircraft would all stop working) - no agriculture (see no transport - all that high tech farm machinery would be borked) - no food distribution (see no transport) - no factories - no commerce - no electricity
The only machines that would still work would be EMP hardened military equipment (not enough to go around) and old mechanically injected diesel engines (again not enough to go around, and besides, the oil refineries and oil distribution system would have been fucked by the EMP).
but 270 million mouths to feed. The US would fall into anarchy within days, followed by a famine of enormous scale (and that would go for Canada and Mexico as collateral damage).
It would be decades before North America would be able to recover.
I'd advise this for Houston, Texas too. When I first moved there after living in North Carolina, I got the squits for weeks. Of course, I got immune to the bad water fairly quickly, but it wasn't fun.
What distro are you running? It must be an old one if you're not editing xorg.conf - but even in older distros like Fedora Core 2, installing a USB mouse is a matter of plugging it in. Changing resolution is a matter of clicking on Applications -> Preferences -> Display Resolution. Printer support works fine for any printer I've used (even ancient GDI printers like my old HP DeskJet 722), including network printers. This stuff has all been working fine for at least two years. Even getting network auth via LDAP has been a matter of checking a couple of check boxes and specifying the server.
IMO, MacTel could be a Linux killer, or at least help keep it a niche OS instead of a major mainstream competitor.
Mactel won't make any more difference than MacPPC. The vast majority of Mac users *don't care* what processor is inside, they like the design and the OS. Since OS X is only going to be available for the Mac, and not a random parts bin PC, it won't spread any more than MacPPC is likely to spread.
The only OS that Mactel can hurt is OS X. If people end up buying Mactel systems because they can run Windows (macppc already runs Linux and *BSD), then proprietary software makers may decide that since Mac users are now using Windows, there's no point making software for OS X - and eventually, bye bye OS X.
Mactel will make absolutely no difference compared to MacPPC.
No, not really. Don't forget Germany is still trying to integrate the former DDR (East Germany). They took on a large region which was almost totally destroyed. Bringing the former DDR up to scratch still has many years to go.
Great Britain and Ireland have LOWER unemployment rates than the United States (US is 5.5% unemployment, GB has 4.8%, Ireland 4.3%). Ireland's growth rate is slightly higher than the US, and Great Britain's is slightly lower than the US.
Remember, it was not that long ago when families only needed one person to work, to pay the bills, to feed the family.
In those days though, we didn't feel the need to max out our credit cards, fill our huge houses with consumer goods and own two SUVs.
If you are prepared to live a 1950s/1960s lifestyle (not necessarily meaning you don't have a dishwasher, but meaning you don't pig out on credit, have only one car, live in a small house) it's easier than ever to have a family where only one person needs to work.
No single LCF (launch control facility) or single person can launch an ICBM.
An enable code must be put in at both LCFs (which are the capsules with two personnel inside - see "The Day After" for how one would be used), both keys must be turned simultaneously in the LCF, and a second LCF must do the same. One missile crew taking over an LCF *cannot* launch a missile.
Why would the machine be unusable? The spammer just needs to run their process at low priority, so it only runs when nothing else is ready to run. The CPU will be pegged at 100%, but just like with Folding@Home, the user won't be impacted.
The trouble is many spammers are now using networks (say, 50,000 or more) of pwned Windows zombies. They are doing it on a huge distributed network - they don't care if calculating a hash slows them down. If each zombie only sends 100 emails per day, that's 5 million spam emails sent. You'd have to have an insanely long calculation time to make a dent on a zombie network.
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Well, the trouble is creationism is NOT science, and has no place being taught in a science class. Scientific theories have to be some testable, provable (or disprovable) predictions that can be verified (or disproved) by observation. Creationism isn't that.
People can teach creationism, but it should be taught in religious education classes and not science classes. To teach it in science classes is the whole problem - it's highly misleading, and misteaches (and you have been mislead and mistaught because you think it's OK) what science actually is.
Your Mac will ALREADY run Linux - it's not Intel only. Several distros have a macppc version. If you're of the RedHat persuasion, try CentOS or Fedora Core 4, both have PPC support.
Of course, MS Virtual Earth really isn't; it's really virtual United States. There's hardly any images for anything outside the US. Omitting most of the world seems more like a more significant issue than having an old picture of where the Apple campus is currently.
I think you're misunderstanding what a scientific theory is - you're treating it as if it's a "hunch" or a "guess".
Field theory (i.e. propogation of things like light and radio waves) is a theory, but no one would deny their existence. A theory doesn't mean "well it's just our best guess" or "we're not sure" - a scientific theory is generally a set of predictions that can be tested by observation (either experimentally, or just looking outside or both). A theory is actually a very strong thing as it is something that can be proven or disproven and refined. This latest story is about an observation that confirms more of evolution theory.
The mistake the creationists are making when they say "it's just a theory" is that they totally misunderstand what a theory is. They are thinking that a theory is merely a hunch or a guess. A scientific theory can be (and often is) something that contains many established facts or may be entirely made up by established facts. Creationists are trying to make out that a theory is a guess, and they are so wrong in their understanding of what a theory is that they aren't even wrong.
Those who say a scientific theory is "just a theory" generally do so because they don't actually know what a theory is. They understand a theory to be a guess or a hunch (that's a hypothesis not a theory).
In science, a theory isn't a guess or a hunch - it's something a great deal stronger than that. A scientific theory makes testable predictions that can be verified by observation.
Ironically, it seems to run very well on Safari on Mac OS X.
Except it's not really Virtual Earth - it's more Virtual United States. There's very little detail outside north America (just like Google)
I fly planes (and I'm instrument rated) yet I don't know Morse. The navaid ident morse code is always printed on the chart or approach plate next to the navaid.
I dunno what you're using, but any distro I've used since 2.6 came out has consistently used ALSA.
Dvorak is such a tool (and not a useful one). Please, Slashdot editors - stop posting John Dvorak stories. The man is so wrong he isn't even wrong. This is the man who moaned about Windows saying the performance sucked because the idle process was using 98% of CPU. The guy is incredibly ignorant. I bet his rant on the CC licenses is from a position of total ignorance, too.
I don't think you're right. Just because someone's not totally ossified does not mean they are not adult and responsible (and know they are responsible) for their own actions. Most normal functioning people today are adults by 18, certainly by 21. Most of my friends (and myself included) had moved out of home by 18. I had moved to another frickin' continent to live and work by my early twenties. You may say "Well what's your point?" - my point is that myself and the majority of my peers were taking responsibility for themselves and responsibility for their own decisions (and their consequences) by age 18, and that is what adults do - not kids (who are shielded from that by parental responsibility).
The only thing you can really say about most young adults is that they will lack experience (of course they will!) and it's therefore inevitable some of them will do things that in hindsight are terribly misjudged. That doesn't mean they are kids. The infantisation (is that a word?) of young adults is I think a particularly American pheonmeon too, and I think it's misplaced and wrong.
To go to your other point (socialization et al.) at universities, these places aren't monasteries. People will generally learn much better in an environment they enjoy being in (regardless of their age).
The power never failed?
:-)
I beg to differ
http://www.alioth.net/tmp/vaxen.html
Englightening and very amusing story about the mainframe room and a VAX admin's experience of an IBM one.
Part of it is you quite often DON'T need to create threads. When using Windows, some things (particularly processing many input signals from many different devices) are easier done with a bunch of threads. With Unix, the same task is easier done with a single call to select(). Although it does depend on the application in question and how much processing you need to get done.
I've written single threaded programs on Windows, and massively multithreaded programs on Unix. However, I think people should think carefully about whether a new thread is the best way to get something done - a multithreaded program introduces many issues and you have to decide whether the cost of dealing with those issues is worth the expense.
What does baseball/football/basketball et al. have to do with higher education? What does a nice looking campus have to do with higher education? Perhaps we should just turn universities into monasteries, since it's such a waste of taxpayers money to provide any kind of entertainment!
China could essentially destroy the US without damaging a single building, or directly killing a single person. Consider China exploding their entire nuclear arsenal at strategic points, high in the atmosphere above the US - an EMP attack. The results? No buildings destroyed but:
- no more computers
- no transport (cars, trains, aircraft would all stop working)
- no agriculture (see no transport - all that high tech farm machinery would be borked)
- no food distribution (see no transport)
- no factories
- no commerce
- no electricity
The only machines that would still work would be EMP hardened military equipment (not enough to go around) and old mechanically injected diesel engines (again not enough to go around, and besides, the oil refineries and oil distribution system would have been fucked by the EMP).
but 270 million mouths to feed. The US would fall into anarchy within days, followed by a famine of enormous scale (and that would go for Canada and Mexico as collateral damage).
It would be decades before North America would be able to recover.
I'd advise this for Houston, Texas too. When I first moved there after living in North Carolina, I got the squits for weeks. Of course, I got immune to the bad water fairly quickly, but it wasn't fun.
What distro are you running? It must be an old one if you're not editing xorg.conf - but even in older distros like Fedora Core 2, installing a USB mouse is a matter of plugging it in. Changing resolution is a matter of clicking on Applications -> Preferences -> Display Resolution. Printer support works fine for any printer I've used (even ancient GDI printers like my old HP DeskJet 722), including network printers. This stuff has all been working fine for at least two years. Even getting network auth via LDAP has been a matter of checking a couple of check boxes and specifying the server.
Mactel won't make any more difference than MacPPC. The vast majority of Mac users *don't care* what processor is inside, they like the design and the OS. Since OS X is only going to be available for the Mac, and not a random parts bin PC, it won't spread any more than MacPPC is likely to spread.
The only OS that Mactel can hurt is OS X. If people end up buying Mactel systems because they can run Windows (macppc already runs Linux and *BSD), then proprietary software makers may decide that since Mac users are now using Windows, there's no point making software for OS X - and eventually, bye bye OS X.
Mactel will make absolutely no difference compared to MacPPC.
No, not really. Don't forget Germany is still trying to integrate the former DDR (East Germany). They took on a large region which was almost totally destroyed. Bringing the former DDR up to scratch still has many years to go.
Great Britain and Ireland have LOWER unemployment rates than the United States (US is 5.5% unemployment, GB has 4.8%, Ireland 4.3%). Ireland's growth rate is slightly higher than the US, and Great Britain's is slightly lower than the US.
In those days though, we didn't feel the need to max out our credit cards, fill our huge houses with consumer goods and own two SUVs.
If you are prepared to live a 1950s/1960s lifestyle (not necessarily meaning you don't have a dishwasher, but meaning you don't pig out on credit, have only one car, live in a small house) it's easier than ever to have a family where only one person needs to work.
See Magnatune. http://www.magnatune.com/ - the music is under the Creative Commons license.
No single LCF (launch control facility) or single person can launch an ICBM.
An enable code must be put in at both LCFs (which are the capsules with two personnel inside - see "The Day After" for how one would be used), both keys must be turned simultaneously in the LCF, and a second LCF must do the same. One missile crew taking over an LCF *cannot* launch a missile.
Why would the machine be unusable? The spammer just needs to run their process at low priority, so it only runs when nothing else is ready to run. The CPU will be pegged at 100%, but just like with Folding@Home, the user won't be impacted.
The trouble is many spammers are now using networks (say, 50,000 or more) of pwned Windows zombies. They are doing it on a huge distributed network - they don't care if calculating a hash slows them down. If each zombie only sends 100 emails per day, that's 5 million spam emails sent. You'd have to have an insanely long calculation time to make a dent on a zombie network.
I wonder if any of these ATM machines still run the Microsoft MS-DOS Operating System.