"This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use."
Aren't we jumping to conclusions here? Is there no other possible reason for a "spike" in questions like these on the weekend? Maybe Python and Ruby are used by hobbyists who code on the weekend. There could be countless reasons for an increase in the number of questions asked and "more fun to use" is pure conjecture.
In addition the chart in the linked blog provides no useful information. The units are not labeled on the chart or addressed anywhere within the article. A previous post seems to suggest the Y axis indicates the number of questions asked per hour. If that's the case, Python saw an increase of 1/4 of a question asked on the weekend. All this using a sample size of 1 week? With such a small sample size and an insignificant deviation in the data, it is ludicrous to try to draw any conclusions from this so called "experiment."
While the parent does an excellent job at explaining why one should not mix ammonia and bleach, and as much as I hate to admit (on slashdot) that I read the article, it must be mentioned that the article does not specify the chemicals used. So, we can't assume that it was this combination that caused the workers to need hospitalization.
It isn't the geekiest part of doing freelance web work (unless you are a finance nerd), but it would be wise to setup an LLC or to incorporate your home business.
Get an accountant involved that knows how to file for LLC status in your state. Should anything go drastically wrong (a bug in your code causes the site to be hacked and your client is out for blood), your personal assets will be safe.
As an added bonus, your accountant should be able to help you get all kinds of neat tax deductions from running your own business too.
If you feel like dabbling in the finances yourself, there are several online services out there that will help you fill out and file the forms on your own to either incorporate or form an LLC.
I spent six weeks in Russia this summer. Pirated movies, software and music are indeed rampant throughout the country, certainly not just in the big cities like Moscow or St. Petersburg. Perhaps most interesting is just how accepted this is. It is in fact very difficult to find legitimate movies or music, the upscale video and software shops only sold pirated material.
As common place as piracy is in Russia, I imagine this would be impossible to enforce and likely just ignored.
I did indeed send a reply back citing several legitimate uses (linux ISOs, legal large multimedia etc...). After which, I agreed to suspend my BitTorrent usage temporarily until the issue was resolved. However, the reply I received seemed less than understanding. Aside from being thanked for discontinuing my use of BT, I was told that what I was doing was potentially dagerous. To quote part of the e-mail: "I think the issue is potentially dangerous for you and the university. Thanks for suspending BitTorrent."
Which is why I bring the question to the community. Obviously using BT for legit purposes is not anymore dangerous than, say, browsing the web.
For those of us who don't have a premium subscription and don't want to watch an ad:
Car ports How those eerily beautiful bubble cars in "The Incredibles" may well appear in our not-too-distant future.
By Priya Jain
Nov. 19, 2004 | In "The Incredibles," the eponymous superhero family spends much of the movie trying to either escape or infiltrate the villain's high-tech island lair. Among the creepy sci-fi elements -- parrots with camera eyes, a destructive robot that can strategize -- is the beautifully eerie monorail that silently glides around the volcano, transporting the villain's henchmen in small round cars. The heroes occasionally hitch a ride on one of these moving pods while battling the forces of evil.
In real life, we may not have superheroes, but soon we will have those little monorail cars, zipping commuters and shoppers (and maybe an occasional henchman) from point A to point B. They're part of a system called Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT, which is poised to replace the more expensive, less environmentally friendly and frequently less convenient mass transit systems of old.
What really makes PRT different from mass transit is that it combines the convenience and luxury of a taxi with the efficiency of subway and bus travel: Rather than packing into a large carriage with a hundred smelly strangers, with PRT you get a private car. Instead of stopping at every station on the line, you zip straight to your final destination. And the visual impact -- replacing the bulky steel trains and buses with sleek bubbles that look like mid-century creations from the designer Arne Jacobsen -- appeals to any kid who dreamt of being a Jetson, or now, an Incredible.
Leading the way in the PRT revolution is the Minnesota-based Taxi 2000 Corporation, founded in 1983 by Dr. J. Edward Anderson, a former NASA engineer who turned his attention to transit in 1968. After studying the problems with conventional mass transit, he developed SkyWeb Express, which is poised to be the first commercial PRT system in the world.
Anderson claims SkyWeb Express beats mass transit in every way: It's greener, more convenient, safer and visually more acceptable, since the cars and rail are streamlined and small (observe this comparison between the New York subway and a SkyWeb system). The cars, unlike the round pods in "The Incredibles," are egg-shaped, and allow enough room for three to four people plus their shopping bags, luggage and wheelchair or bicycle. They run on synthetic rubber tires, which reduce noise pollution, along a monorail guideway that's 3 feet wide by 3 feet deep. And because the system is powered by 600-volt DC electricity, it produces no emissions.
As Taxi 2000 imagines the scenario, commuters would enter the station, purchase a fare card and head to the platform -- just as one does now with most rail systems. But instead of waiting for a train to come by, passengers would hop into one of the empty cars that are idling in the station, swipe their card and enter a destination code. Because stations are positioned "offline" -- that is, the rail runs next to the station, not through it -- cars can pull into stops without slowing down traffic.
SkyWeb Express may also be the answer to the seemingly impossible quandary that every environmental advocate faces: how to make green technologies cost-effective. Taxi 2000 estimates that installation of SkyWeb Express would cost $10 million per mile -- nearly five times less than the cost of light rail and 10 times less than heavy rail. And operating costs at 38 cents per passenger mile (compared to $3.43 for heavy rail and $1.42 for light rail) mean that SkyWeb Express could operate on a break-even basis -- and therefore without the government subsidies that mass transit, which operates at a loss, relies on. The guideway also weighs less and is easier to assemble than light or heavy rail, and in fact the guideway can be installed by an ordinary fork-lift truck, only minimally disrupting regular traffic and there
But what if one day we could have a phone that could actually recognize what people say and translate it into text? And then perhaps translate the text back into synthesised speech at the other end.
My phone does this already. Except the synthesized speech is in the same voice as the sender of the message! I think it's called voice mail or something.
This sounds exactly like a class I am currently taking. We chose a topic and researched it for the entire semester; now we are presenting our research and writing a paper on it. Perhaps most relevant to the slashdot community (and incidently my topic of research) is the issue of privacy and technology. While my research was to initially focus on how technology is affecting privacy, it has begun to look at how legislation is regulating privacy. Now I won't bore you with the details of my research, but some other topics that are being researched in my class include:
The implications of nanotechnology. The consequences of embedding microchips into humans. Is genetic engineering ethical; to what extent? Will gene therapy lead to ethical problems? There is a ton of stuff that could be done on A.I. (should it be pursued? what if it becomes too smart?) There is of course always the cliched cloning debate.
There are countless topics, many are in the field of biology but they extend into other fields as well. I would recommend looking into science fiction literature (Frankenstein, 1984 etc..). This can lead to some good discussion on the ethics of science (in fact, that is a large focus of my class).
At the risk of being labelled a troll, I will respond to this.
First off, yes, I am a creationist but I certainly am not going to try to PROVE to you that there is a god. Slashdot is not a place to have a theological debate.
Secondly, this simulation does nothing to prove or to disprove evolution. It is merley an attempt to simulate how complex life could have evolved from simpler organisms, so there is no reason in the first place to bring up the old creation vs. evolution debate.
Let me let you in on a little secret... no one was around when life came into existence. Therefore, I nor anyone else can tell you for sure anything about our origins. Sure, we can speculate and research but this proves nothing.
Your post has done nothing but stir up more animosity between these two opposing views. My question to you is what was the point of your post? Whatever it was, you sure went about it the wrong way. I sincerley hope that trolls like this are not creating false stereotypes of creationism. If anyone has any comments on their personal views of our origins, please save them for the appropriate time and place (slashdot is not that place).
As a senior in high school and one of three student administrators in my 2000+ student high school, I have seen (and helped) with many issues such as this. However, you are not going to be able to resolve this problem with technology only, there needs to be other policies in place.
Any actions you choose to take or network policies you implement will be very unpopular. Almost daily I get complaints from people who wonder why their 2 gigs of ISOs were deleted from their network drive, or why they can't download mp3s at school. It usually takes a week for someone to figure out a way around new policies or some alternative way to download mp3s or whatnot.
However, we do have an AUP that everyone must sign that states these activities will not be allowed and will result in disciplinary action. Unfortunatley, they are rarely enforced and as such people get away with just about anything.
After three years of helping resolve these issues and spending hours trying to limit network traffic to what it should be used for, we have adopted a new policy that I am very dissappointed in. Our computers previously all had their own public IP address, but we are now switching every computer to a private address. Not because we have run out of IPs, but for more control. The only network traffic allowed now is internal traffic, and the ONLY way out is through a private http proxy.
This means I can no longer telnet into my linux server at home, I can no longer download my computer science homework from my home computer... you get the idea.
So, I urge you to seek support from the district's administration, implement an AUP, make sure the consequences for violating it are clear and strictly enforce those. Once someone loses their account and computer access for a month, they will think twice before downloading that VCD at school again.
I'd find Creationists a bit more convincing if they didn't have to resort to blatant misinformation in their arguments again and again. Half-truths and distortions do nothing more than convince me that some of these Creationists don't even believe their own propaganda, since they can't stick to the facts.
It seems to me that this whole creationism vs. evolution debate is very childish. Both sides seem insecure that they must use "propaganda" to win believers in their theory. Surely the truth will eventually be revealed, but until then, what good does it do for either side to make up propaganda when it will ultimatley just turn people away from that theory?
The whole argument is stupid, anyhow. It's based on a mistaken belief that one must cling to a questionable interpretation of the Bible as a matter of faith. Has anyone noticed that only Creationists tie Evolution, Geology, and Atheism together? Those who research Evolution do not insist that one must be an atheist if one believes that evolution rather than recent creation is a better explanation for the development of life on Earth. Those who teach and research modern geology do not insist that one must be an atheist if one believes that geologic processes rather than recent creation is a better explanation for the current geology of Earth.
You say that the argument is stupid because one must cling to a questionable interpertation of the Bible, so surely you realize the Bible can be interperted many ways. With the many interpertations out there (just look at all the various Christian religions, Catholics, protestants and all the denominations) how can you say creationism relies on just one of those interpertations? You mention that this belief relies on faith, but yet you call it a "mistaken belief." None of us know what happened when the Earth was created, none of us were there. Everyone, evolutionists and creationists, are relying on faith if they believe what they teach. Without this faith we would not have such passionate arguments between either side. The point I'm trying to make is that neither side has the right to call the beliefs of the other "mistaken" we are all relying on faith if we believe anything about the creation of the earth.
However, since Creationists fallaciously tie acceptance of modern geology and evolutionary theory to disbelief that God created the Earth, and therefore disbelief in God (i.e., atheism), it has become a matter of faith to oppose evolutionary theory and modern geology as a false, atheistic (and thus, probably diabolic) doctrine by any and all means. If you don't believe me, go read articles and web sites by Creationists that are targetted toward Christians, as opposed to the general public.
You mention that Creationists tie evolution to disbelief in God; what you have just said is the equivilant of what these creationists do. Certainly there are many Creationists who teach what you have just said, yes, you can find articles if you look. However, you have just categorized all Creationists as doing this. With the many different beliefs today, how can you put all Creationists into this category?
To my mind, it is all very pointless because there is no contradiction between evolution and God; who are they to say how God created the universe and life? How can they know that evolution and geological processes are not just more tools in God's toolbox? They can't know, and they who presume to know how God created the universe or to put limits on the methods God used in creation are both small-minded and arrogant beyond belief!
I refer to what I wrote above about categorizing the millions of people who believe in God as one group.
To my mind, the power and grandeur of God is elevated, and not diminished by evolution and geology. To achieve His unknown goals, He started out at least 15 billion years ago with the Big Bang, and designed the entire process of star formation, planet formation, geological processes, evolution, etc! That's a lot bigger than POOF! The Earth was wished into existance a mere 6000-8000 years ago, complete with fake fossils and fake geology.
Since the focus of this debate seems to be on the Christian religion and evolution, I will reply to this from a Christian perspective. You are most certainly correct in saying that the power and grandeur of God would be elevated by evolution, but by doing so the validity of His word (the Bible) would be diminished, in fact pretty much nullified. The fundamental beliefs and principles of Christianity come from the Bible and should one begin to question any part of it, how can you say that any other part is true? If something as major as the creation of the Earth, the very first thing in the Bible, is false, how can anyone believe any other part of it?
I wonder if Creationists are afraid of the power and knowledge of the God who created evolution and the Big Bang; I wonder if they want to cut Him down to a size they can comprehend?
I refer to my previous statement. Perhaps the reason some Creationists are so afraid of evolution and the Big Bang is the reason I mentioned above.
"I actually did study Einstein," said Bill Hendershot, an Emmy-winning co-creator of the technology and founder of Prime Image. He's a physicist by education, so the concept of "time manipulation" is nothing new to him.
Since when does randomly removing frames from a film involve physics or Einstein? They aren't slowing down time or anything here.
I too will be entering college shortly. I am looking at the above options as well as computer engineering. How does a computer engineering degree compare to these?
Upon investigation of the original article printed in the Lexington Herald Leader on sunday, one will find dashes in their correct places. This is clearly a document translation issue as the article printed in the actual paper is punctuated correctly.
My former ISP was one of the first local ISPs in my area and they have survived to this day, but only because they have remained competitive. I was one of the early customers and my ISP's bandwidth consisted of about 3 T-1s. Today they have several T-3s with a connection well over 100mbit. With only about 50% bandwidth usage they provide many buisnesses in the area with their bandwidth and are one of the biggest DSL providers here.
At the advent of DSL, my ISP was the first to locally provide DSL service (other than GTE). Having the most bandwidth in my city makes them the main ISP to buisnesses and the largest local DSL provider.
I now use cable provided by @home because unfortunately DSL hasn't quite reached my neighborhood. After only one month of usage I can not believe the terrible service (slow connects, mail servers down) and the poor quality of their customer support. It really makes me miss my old ISP and I am ready to switch to DSL as soon as it is available.
I know most of my old ISP admins. Hell, I've been down to my ISP several times to do things such as buy some cheap CAT-5 for my network. I still talk to them regularly on IRC.
The key to their survival is simply because they can provide a better service than national ISPs. They never have any hold times and their admins know the service well so they can provide excelent customer support. They have more bandwidth than the phone company does here and can provide a better DSL service than the phone company.
As an AP CompSci student I felt inclined to post a response to this bit of information. I must say; what I have learned in the first semester of Computer Science, I taught myself in my first week of learning C++ before enrolling in the class. CompSci teaches the very basics of C++ and is more focused on the concepts of devlopment that could be applied to any language. Regardless of the language, the class will for the most part remain the same. New textbooks will be issued and perhaps we can now graduate from a DOS based compiler? Other than that the class will hardly be changed. So, is this a good thing? I am indifferent to the change, but personally I feel that the entire curriculum of the course needs to be changed, but that is an entirely different post:)
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"This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use."
Aren't we jumping to conclusions here? Is there no other possible reason for a "spike" in questions like these on the weekend? Maybe Python and Ruby are used by hobbyists who code on the weekend. There could be countless reasons for an increase in the number of questions asked and "more fun to use" is pure conjecture.
In addition the chart in the linked blog provides no useful information. The units are not labeled on the chart or addressed anywhere within the article. A previous post seems to suggest the Y axis indicates the number of questions asked per hour. If that's the case, Python saw an increase of 1/4 of a question asked on the weekend. All this using a sample size of 1 week? With such a small sample size and an insignificant deviation in the data, it is ludicrous to try to draw any conclusions from this so called "experiment."
While the parent does an excellent job at explaining why one should not mix ammonia and bleach, and as much as I hate to admit (on slashdot) that I read the article, it must be mentioned that the article does not specify the chemicals used. So, we can't assume that it was this combination that caused the workers to need hospitalization.
It isn't the geekiest part of doing freelance web work (unless you are a finance nerd), but it would be wise to setup an LLC or to incorporate your home business.
Get an accountant involved that knows how to file for LLC status in your state. Should anything go drastically wrong (a bug in your code causes the site to be hacked and your client is out for blood), your personal assets will be safe.
As an added bonus, your accountant should be able to help you get all kinds of neat tax deductions from running your own business too.
If you feel like dabbling in the finances yourself, there are several online services out there that will help you fill out and file the forms on your own to either incorporate or form an LLC.
I spent six weeks in Russia this summer. Pirated movies, software and music are indeed rampant throughout the country, certainly not just in the big cities like Moscow or St. Petersburg. Perhaps most interesting is just how accepted this is. It is in fact very difficult to find legitimate movies or music, the upscale video and software shops only sold pirated material.
As common place as piracy is in Russia, I imagine this would be impossible to enforce and likely just ignored.
I did indeed send a reply back citing several legitimate uses (linux ISOs, legal large multimedia etc...). After which, I agreed to suspend my BitTorrent usage temporarily until the issue was resolved. However, the reply I received seemed less than understanding. Aside from being thanked for discontinuing my use of BT, I was told that what I was doing was potentially dagerous. To quote part of the e-mail: "I think the issue is potentially dangerous for you and the university. Thanks for suspending BitTorrent."
Which is why I bring the question to the community. Obviously using BT for legit purposes is not anymore dangerous than, say, browsing the web.
For those of us who don't have a premium subscription and don't want to watch an ad:
Car ports
How those eerily beautiful bubble cars in "The Incredibles" may well appear in our not-too-distant future.
By Priya Jain
Nov. 19, 2004 | In "The Incredibles," the eponymous superhero family spends much of the movie trying to either escape or infiltrate the villain's high-tech island lair. Among the creepy sci-fi elements -- parrots with camera eyes, a destructive robot that can strategize -- is the beautifully eerie monorail that silently glides around the volcano, transporting the villain's henchmen in small round cars. The heroes occasionally hitch a ride on one of these moving pods while battling the forces of evil.
In real life, we may not have superheroes, but soon we will have those little monorail cars, zipping commuters and shoppers (and maybe an occasional henchman) from point A to point B. They're part of a system called Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT, which is poised to replace the more expensive, less environmentally friendly and frequently less convenient mass transit systems of old.
What really makes PRT different from mass transit is that it combines the convenience and luxury of a taxi with the efficiency of subway and bus travel: Rather than packing into a large carriage with a hundred smelly strangers, with PRT you get a private car. Instead of stopping at every station on the line, you zip straight to your final destination. And the visual impact -- replacing the bulky steel trains and buses with sleek bubbles that look like mid-century creations from the designer Arne Jacobsen -- appeals to any kid who dreamt of being a Jetson, or now, an Incredible.
Leading the way in the PRT revolution is the Minnesota-based Taxi 2000 Corporation, founded in 1983 by Dr. J. Edward Anderson, a former NASA engineer who turned his attention to transit in 1968. After studying the problems with conventional mass transit, he developed SkyWeb Express, which is poised to be the first commercial PRT system in the world.
Anderson claims SkyWeb Express beats mass transit in every way: It's greener, more convenient, safer and visually more acceptable, since the cars and rail are streamlined and small (observe this comparison between the New York subway and a SkyWeb system). The cars, unlike the round pods in "The Incredibles," are egg-shaped, and allow enough room for three to four people plus their shopping bags, luggage and wheelchair or bicycle. They run on synthetic rubber tires, which reduce noise pollution, along a monorail guideway that's 3 feet wide by 3 feet deep. And because the system is powered by 600-volt DC electricity, it produces no emissions.
As Taxi 2000 imagines the scenario, commuters would enter the station, purchase a fare card and head to the platform -- just as one does now with most rail systems. But instead of waiting for a train to come by, passengers would hop into one of the empty cars that are idling in the station, swipe their card and enter a destination code. Because stations are positioned "offline" -- that is, the rail runs next to the station, not through it -- cars can pull into stops without slowing down traffic.
SkyWeb Express may also be the answer to the seemingly impossible quandary that every environmental advocate faces: how to make green technologies cost-effective. Taxi 2000 estimates that installation of SkyWeb Express would cost $10 million per mile -- nearly five times less than the cost of light rail and 10 times less than heavy rail. And operating costs at 38 cents per passenger mile (compared to $3.43 for heavy rail and $1.42 for light rail) mean that SkyWeb Express could operate on a break-even basis -- and therefore without the government subsidies that mass transit, which operates at a loss, relies on. The guideway also weighs less and is easier to assemble than light or heavy rail, and in fact the guideway can be installed by an ordinary fork-lift truck, only minimally disrupting regular traffic and there
My phone does this already. Except the synthesized speech is in the same voice as the sender of the message! I think it's called voice mail or something.
This sounds exactly like a class I am currently taking. We chose a topic and researched it for the entire semester; now we are presenting our research and writing a paper on it. Perhaps most relevant to the slashdot community (and incidently my topic of research) is the issue of privacy and technology. While my research was to initially focus on how technology is affecting privacy, it has begun to look at how legislation is regulating privacy. Now I won't bore you with the details of my research, but some other topics that are being researched in my class include:
The implications of nanotechnology.
The consequences of embedding microchips into humans.
Is genetic engineering ethical; to what extent?
Will gene therapy lead to ethical problems?
There is a ton of stuff that could be done on A.I. (should it be pursued? what if it becomes too smart?)
There is of course always the cliched cloning debate.
There are countless topics, many are in the field of biology but they extend into other fields as well. I would recommend looking into science fiction literature (Frankenstein, 1984 etc..). This can lead to some good discussion on the ethics of science (in fact, that is a large focus of my class).
Watch the site get slashdoted in real time! If you refresh the page multiple times you can observe the counter increasing at about 5 hits/sec.
Hmm, or a million other geeks are all observing the same phenomena.
At the risk of being labelled a troll, I will respond to this.
First off, yes, I am a creationist but I certainly am not going to try to PROVE to you that there is a god. Slashdot is not a place to have a theological debate.
Secondly, this simulation does nothing to prove or to disprove evolution. It is merley an attempt to simulate how complex life could have evolved from simpler organisms, so there is no reason in the first place to bring up the old creation vs. evolution debate.
Let me let you in on a little secret... no one was around when life came into existence. Therefore, I nor anyone else can tell you for sure anything about our origins. Sure, we can speculate and research but this proves nothing.
Your post has done nothing but stir up more animosity between these two opposing views. My question to you is what was the point of your post? Whatever it was, you sure went about it the wrong way. I sincerley hope that trolls like this are not creating false stereotypes of creationism. If anyone has any comments on their personal views of our origins, please save them for the appropriate time and place (slashdot is not that place).
As a senior in high school and one of three student administrators in my 2000+ student high school, I have seen (and helped) with many issues such as this. However, you are not going to be able to resolve this problem with technology only, there needs to be other policies in place.
Any actions you choose to take or network policies you implement will be very unpopular. Almost daily I get complaints from people who wonder why their 2 gigs of ISOs were deleted from their network drive, or why they can't download mp3s at school. It usually takes a week for someone to figure out a way around new policies or some alternative way to download mp3s or whatnot.
However, we do have an AUP that everyone must sign that states these activities will not be allowed and will result in disciplinary action. Unfortunatley, they are rarely enforced and as such people get away with just about anything.
After three years of helping resolve these issues and spending hours trying to limit network traffic to what it should be used for, we have adopted a new policy that I am very dissappointed in. Our computers previously all had their own public IP address, but we are now switching every computer to a private address. Not because we have run out of IPs, but for more control. The only network traffic allowed now is internal traffic, and the ONLY way out is through a private http proxy.
This means I can no longer telnet into my linux server at home, I can no longer download my computer science homework from my home computer... you get the idea.
So, I urge you to seek support from the district's administration, implement an AUP, make sure the consequences for violating it are clear and strictly enforce those. Once someone loses their account and computer access for a month, they will think twice before downloading that VCD at school again.
I was starting to have flashbacks to that movie on the Disney channel "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century" or something.
It seems to me that this whole creationism vs. evolution debate is very childish. Both sides seem insecure that they must use "propaganda" to win believers in their theory. Surely the truth will eventually be revealed, but until then, what good does it do for either side to make up propaganda when it will ultimatley just turn people away from that theory?
You say that the argument is stupid because one must cling to a questionable interpertation of the Bible, so surely you realize the Bible can be interperted many ways. With the many interpertations out there (just look at all the various Christian religions, Catholics, protestants and all the denominations) how can you say creationism relies on just one of those interpertations? You mention that this belief relies on faith, but yet you call it a "mistaken belief." None of us know what happened when the Earth was created, none of us were there. Everyone, evolutionists and creationists, are relying on faith if they believe what they teach. Without this faith we would not have such passionate arguments between either side. The point I'm trying to make is that neither side has the right to call the beliefs of the other "mistaken" we are all relying on faith if we believe anything about the creation of the earth.
You mention that Creationists tie evolution to disbelief in God; what you have just said is the equivilant of what these creationists do. Certainly there are many Creationists who teach what you have just said, yes, you can find articles if you look. However, you have just categorized all Creationists as doing this. With the many different beliefs today, how can you put all Creationists into this category?
I refer to what I wrote above about categorizing the millions of people who believe in God as one group.
Since the focus of this debate seems to be on the Christian religion and evolution, I will reply to this from a Christian perspective. You are most certainly correct in saying that the power and grandeur of God would be elevated by evolution, but by doing so the validity of His word (the Bible) would be diminished, in fact pretty much nullified. The fundamental beliefs and principles of Christianity come from the Bible and should one begin to question any part of it, how can you say that any other part is true? If something as major as the creation of the Earth, the very first thing in the Bible, is false, how can anyone believe any other part of it?
I refer to my previous statement. Perhaps the reason some Creationists are so afraid of evolution and the Big Bang is the reason I mentioned above.
Since when does randomly removing frames from a film involve physics or Einstein? They aren't slowing down time or anything here.
I too will be entering college shortly. I am looking at the above options as well as computer engineering. How does a computer engineering degree compare to these?
Of course, maybe if you'd stop browsing all those warez and porn sites you may not be stuck with such ads?
Upon investigation of the original article printed in the Lexington Herald Leader on sunday, one will find dashes in their correct places. This is clearly a document translation issue as the article printed in the actual paper is punctuated correctly.
Are we forgetting how simply we could just encrypt our data and then no sniffer would know what it was?
My former ISP was one of the first local ISPs in my area and they have survived to this day, but only because they have remained competitive. I was one of the early customers and my ISP's bandwidth consisted of about 3 T-1s. Today they have several T-3s with a connection well over 100mbit. With only about 50% bandwidth usage they provide many buisnesses in the area with their bandwidth and are one of the biggest DSL providers here.
At the advent of DSL, my ISP was the first to locally provide DSL service (other than GTE). Having the most bandwidth in my city makes them the main ISP to buisnesses and the largest local DSL provider. I now use cable provided by @home because unfortunately DSL hasn't quite reached my neighborhood. After only one month of usage I can not believe the terrible service (slow connects, mail servers down) and the poor quality of their customer support. It really makes me miss my old ISP and I am ready to switch to DSL as soon as it is available.
I know most of my old ISP admins. Hell, I've been down to my ISP several times to do things such as buy some cheap CAT-5 for my network. I still talk to them regularly on IRC.
The key to their survival is simply because they can provide a better service than national ISPs. They never have any hold times and their admins know the service well so they can provide excelent customer support. They have more bandwidth than the phone company does here and can provide a better DSL service than the phone company.
As an AP CompSci student I felt inclined to post a response to this bit of information. I must say; what I have learned in the first semester of Computer Science, I taught myself in my first week of learning C++ before enrolling in the class. CompSci teaches the very basics of C++ and is more focused on the concepts of devlopment that could be applied to any language. Regardless of the language, the class will for the most part remain the same. New textbooks will be issued and perhaps we can now graduate from a DOS based compiler? Other than that the class will hardly be changed. So, is this a good thing? I am indifferent to the change, but personally I feel that the entire curriculum of the course needs to be changed, but that is an entirely different post :)