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I thought that "Darwinism" was a term thought up by the religious anti-evolution side.
I don't know if it was but it wouldn't surprise me.
Why? I suspect that it is because they associate their beliefs with an entity, God in this case, and thus cannot see how other people don't need to also do that. Thus they ultimately project this viewpoint that people who believe in evolution are actually believing in a false God as part of their propaganda against evolution.
Actually I would argue that any belief held too zealously (religiously) to is indeed a god or idol. I can't tell you the number of scientist I know who reject logic when it contradicts their theory. Global warming/cooling/agnostics come to mind.
Darwin, of course, studied theology at Cambridge University. He was also a depressive, presumably because of how stupid (and stubbornly-so) most people were. I think he would be depressed today. Especially if he saw the creationism museum.
I didn't know he studied theology but it doesn't surprise me considering how the society he lived in viewed religion. I suspect his depression was brought on by the lack of camaraderie the average person enjoys by interaction with his peers. Darwin probably didn't have any "peers" he could really discuss his discoveries with. So yes, stupid people (both scientists and religious zealots) probably contributed to his melancholy
BTW I have studied Darwin's work and it always struck me as more of a theory of adaptation rather than evolution. Also, Choosing to believe in a supreme being is not mutually exclusive of scientific intelligence any more than a high IQ ensures maturity. I know Christians who happen to be scientists who hang their heads in shame at the creationists and ID and I know numerous geniuses who can't go out in public without making a total ass of themselves.
Any theory that does not provide a method to falsify and validate its claims is a useless theory.
Example; if someone said a watermelon is blue on the inside, but turns red when you cut it open, how could you prove them wrong? How could they prove they're right?
Exactly! My electronics theory professor theorized that electronic devices work by the flow of magic smoke. He then proved his theory by releasing the smoke from an electronic device and showing us it no longer worked.
I remember reading articles about Microsoft's attempts to shoehorn HoTMaiL onto NT 4.0 and repeatedly switching back. Ahhh, those were good times. Well except for the fact I had to switch from my HotMaiL account to a Yahoo account:(
Lexx "jumped the shark" the minute it was conceived. The fact that it got written down, presented to a producer, and greenlighted are truly amazing feats of daring. I remember thinking how cool the special effects were and hoping at some point I would figure out what was going on. Then they went to the alternate reality and I gave up all hope.
You see you put Black Adder as an incredible work of comic art but I have painfully watched and scratched my head and said "Why do people think this is funny?" The same with The Office (admittedly I've only seen the version here in the colonies). Maybe it's because I know the idiots being portrayed and have no desire to watch them on the tele. OTOH I really like Are You Being Served. I've only ever worked retail in the restaurant industry as a teen so I never had to endure any of the personalities being parodied and thus find them funny. If I'd actually had to spend long hours/weeks/years working with some of these people I doubt it would be nearly as funny. I enjoyed watching Red Dwarf and look forward to the new endeavor but I know everyone's tastes are a little different.
When will these companies realize who their customers are? It is the subscriber.
You sir are incorrect!
Thank you for playing.
Their customers are and always will be....the shareholder. Now if you happen to be a customer who has a sizable amount of shares by all means help us lowly customers out.
ISPs know the majority of their customers are quite happy with their 768/384 or slower connection and that the evil minority actually using their full 6Mbps connection 24/7 are so small if they could get rid of all of them they can sell 5x more accounts to the 768/384 set which means more revenue which means happy shareholders.
I'm trying to think of something witty to put here but I can't stop laughing long enough to breathe. Almost everything I come up with starts with In Soviet Russia.....
Windows XP = lean Windows Vista = fat Windows 7 = leaner than Vista = Windows XP
Actually I think it is more like this
Windows XP = Coke Windows Vista = New Coke Windows 7 = Classic Coke
Sales of "Classic" Coke skyrocketed when it was RE-introduced to the market. People hoarded it just in case Coca Cola discontinued it again. I see sales of 7 to be quite brisk at launch. Whether you like Vista or not prevailing public opinion is not favorable so anything that replaces it should do well.
When Chase bought Texas Commerce I took my money out and moved it to WAMU because I had several bad experiences with Chase. Now I am looking for a bank AGAIN! Oh, and I worked for Bank One for a year before Chase merged with them and I was "let go". What do you do when you have bad bank karma?
It reduces the risk of Alzheimer by shortening your life span. You can't get the disease if you die before it has a chance to set in.
My dad went to a nutritionist and had a complete profile done. On his followup visit to the nutritionist's office the nutritionist told him that he wanted him to not even worry about curbing his 2 pack a day smoking habit. What he wanted him to do was stop drinking coffee. (my dad had an old tall orange Tupperware cup that had coffee in it all day long) I think it helped him for the short time he cut out the coffee but it proved to be a stronger addiction than smoking which he was able to quit. He still died of emphysema though.
I couldn't agree more. Three of the companies I have worked at for more than a year closed their doors shortly after I decided to leave. That's the way I remember it anyway.
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By comparing it to Netflix wouldn't I have to fill out a form of what web sites I want to browse to and if the site that's highest on my list isn't "available" I'll be redirected to a site lower on my list?
I was working for Compaq during their merger and one thing that came to light during that time was that one of the HD suppliers was charging hp more (about $0.80 more if memory serves) for the same drives they sold Compaq. Not a lot for one device but in bulk it's huge. I heard there were some pretty heated "discussions" with the vendor shortly thereafter. This is why manufacturers do not like having their pricing known.
Unless they genuinely don't know what they are using breaks compatibility. There are plenty of examples (J++, MS' implementation of kerberos, etc.) where the implementation was "based" on a standard and marketed as compatible but "extended" the capabilities making them non-standard. These changes weren't obvious in the beginning and only became evident after problems began to arise. Thus MS' triple EEE label.
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I thought that "Darwinism" was a term thought up by the religious anti-evolution side.
I don't know if it was but it wouldn't surprise me.
Why? I suspect that it is because they associate their beliefs with an entity, God in this case, and thus cannot see how other people don't need to also do that. Thus they ultimately project this viewpoint that people who believe in evolution are actually believing in a false God as part of their propaganda against evolution.
Actually I would argue that any belief held too zealously (religiously) to is indeed a god or idol. I can't tell you the number of scientist I know who reject logic when it contradicts their theory. Global warming/cooling/agnostics come to mind.
Darwin, of course, studied theology at Cambridge University. He was also a depressive, presumably because of how stupid (and stubbornly-so) most people were. I think he would be depressed today. Especially if he saw the creationism museum.
I didn't know he studied theology but it doesn't surprise me considering how the society he lived in viewed religion. I suspect his depression was brought on by the lack of camaraderie the average person enjoys by interaction with his peers. Darwin probably didn't have any "peers" he could really discuss his discoveries with. So yes, stupid people (both scientists and religious zealots) probably contributed to his melancholy
BTW
I have studied Darwin's work and it always struck me as more of a theory of adaptation rather than evolution.
Also, Choosing to believe in a supreme being is not mutually exclusive of scientific intelligence any more than a high IQ ensures maturity. I know Christians who happen to be scientists who hang their heads in shame at the creationists and ID and I know numerous geniuses who can't go out in public without making a total ass of themselves.
Any theory that does not provide a method to falsify and validate its claims is a useless theory.
Example; if someone said a watermelon is blue on the inside, but turns red when you cut it open, how could you prove them wrong? How could they prove they're right?
Exactly!
My electronics theory professor theorized that electronic devices work by the flow of magic smoke. He then proved his theory by releasing the smoke from an electronic device and showing us it no longer worked.
Actually it was BSD variant and SUN Solaris.
Hotmail originally ran on a mixture of FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems.[12] Microsoft initially tried to move the FreeBSD portion of the architecture to a Windows NT 4.0 based system, but this failed. Later a project was started to move the system to Windows 2000. In June 2001 Microsoft claimed this had been completed; a few days later they retracted this and admitted that in fact some functions of the Hotmail system were still reliant on FreeBSD.[13]
I remember reading articles about Microsoft's attempts to shoehorn HoTMaiL onto NT 4.0 and repeatedly switching back. Ahhh, those were good times. Well except for the fact I had to switch from my HotMaiL account to a Yahoo account :(
Lexx "jumped the shark" the minute it was conceived. The fact that it got written down, presented to a producer, and greenlighted are truly amazing feats of daring. I remember thinking how cool the special effects were and hoping at some point I would figure out what was going on. Then they went to the alternate reality and I gave up all hope.
That's why opinions are like....
You see you put Black Adder as an incredible work of comic art but I have painfully watched and scratched my head and said "Why do people think this is funny?" The same with The Office (admittedly I've only seen the version here in the colonies). Maybe it's because I know the idiots being portrayed and have no desire to watch them on the tele. OTOH I really like Are You Being Served. I've only ever worked retail in the restaurant industry as a teen so I never had to endure any of the personalities being parodied and thus find them funny. If I'd actually had to spend long hours/weeks/years working with some of these people I doubt it would be nearly as funny. I enjoyed watching Red Dwarf and look forward to the new endeavor but I know everyone's tastes are a little different.
When will these companies realize who their customers are? It is the subscriber.
You sir are incorrect!
Thank you for playing.
Their customers are and always will be....the shareholder. Now if you happen to be a customer who has a sizable amount of shares by all means help us lowly customers out.
ISPs know the majority of their customers are quite happy with their 768/384 or slower connection and that the evil minority actually using their full 6Mbps connection 24/7 are so small if they could get rid of all of them they can sell 5x more accounts to the 768/384 set which means more revenue which means happy shareholders.
Keep this up and the mighty Slashdot will be nothing more than a niche site frequented by sticky men who proudly use pocket protectors.
What do you mean.....WILL BE?
I'm trying to think of something witty to put here but I can't stop laughing long enough to breathe. Almost everything I come up with starts with In Soviet Russia.....
Windows XP = lean
Windows Vista = fat
Windows 7 = leaner than Vista = Windows XP
Actually I think it is more like this
Windows XP = Coke
Windows Vista = New Coke
Windows 7 = Classic Coke
Sales of "Classic" Coke skyrocketed when it was RE-introduced to the market. People hoarded it just in case Coca Cola discontinued it again. I see sales of 7 to be quite brisk at launch. Whether you like Vista or not prevailing public opinion is not favorable so anything that replaces it should do well.
When Chase bought Texas Commerce I took my money out and moved it to WAMU because I had several bad experiences with Chase. Now I am looking for a bank AGAIN! Oh, and I worked for Bank One for a year before Chase merged with them and I was "let go". What do you do when you have bad bank karma?
I'll be sure to let my dad know. I'm sure he'll be relieved.
I don't think McAfee or Symantec would like Microsoft worming in on their territory.
It reduces the risk of Alzheimer by shortening your life span. You can't get the disease if you die before it has a chance to set in.
My dad went to a nutritionist and had a complete profile done. On his followup visit to the nutritionist's office the nutritionist told him that he wanted him to not even worry about curbing his 2 pack a day smoking habit. What he wanted him to do was stop drinking coffee. (my dad had an old tall orange Tupperware cup that had coffee in it all day long) I think it helped him for the short time he cut out the coffee but it proved to be a stronger addiction than smoking which he was able to quit. He still died of emphysema though.
I see a very bright outlook for Apogee Telecom's ISP business this year.
I couldn't agree more. Three of the companies I have worked at for more than a year closed their doors shortly after I decided to leave. That's the way I remember it anyway.
many of you are amongst the most intelligent human beings in the world
Intelligence is not an indication of maturity.
"layoffs are being used as a way of culling the bottom 10 or 20% of performers"
Ballmer should be nervous.
I don't get it????
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x is rubbish
I disagree. I don't think that OS X is rubbish at all.
By comparing it to Netflix wouldn't I have to fill out a form of what web sites I want to browse to and if the site that's highest on my list isn't "available" I'll be redirected to a site lower on my list?
Actually Linux's biggest problem is the vast majority of it's coders complete and utter contempt for "the user".
I was working for Compaq during their merger and one thing that came to light during that time was that one of the HD suppliers was charging hp more (about $0.80 more if memory serves) for the same drives they sold Compaq. Not a lot for one device but in bulk it's huge. I heard there were some pretty heated "discussions" with the vendor shortly thereafter. This is why manufacturers do not like having their pricing known.
Unless they genuinely don't know what they are using breaks compatibility. There are plenty of examples (J++, MS' implementation of kerberos, etc.) where the implementation was "based" on a standard and marketed as compatible but "extended" the capabilities making them non-standard. These changes weren't obvious in the beginning and only became evident after problems began to arise. Thus MS' triple EEE label.