According to the theory of Evolution, what eventually happens to a species that lacks genetic diversity when confronted with new viruses, and how does that apply to operating systems?
Kind of like the Bungee purchase. Take the strongest supporters of your competition and make them Windows only. Fortunately they make too much money off VPC to kill it.
Actually when you look for it with quotes like that you DO find exactly that sentence on over 5,000 pages Bill. Yes I do think we understand how search engines work.
"No party shall sell or distribute in interstate commerce a Covered Demodulator Product that does not comply with the Demodulator Compliance Requirements and Demodulator Robustness Requirements."
So for right now a loophole I see is to set up an open-source group that privately works on the demodulator among themselves, then a member in each state distributes the content only to residents of their own state. It would take 50 freakin mirrors though! At least this way the people who spread the code would be in full compliance with the FCC regulations. Once the code is out and being spread around by people on P2P the group members would not be responsible for that, individuals distributing it would be in more trouble.
Or just set up a disclaimer on the website that only residents of say California could legally download it, make a click-through validation of it and the distributors are not liable if the users lie. Hey it works for porn sites with age validation.;-)
It's not about conspiracy, it's not about "Mark of the Beast" it's simply a flawed concept.
How many of you have your credit card numbers written on the doorknob of your house? How many of you have etched your social security number on the handle of your car door? Perhaps you've taped a copy of your drivers license to the glass you drank from last night at that restaurant?
I guess you implicitly trust every person who has access to those things if you think this technology is a good idea.
Just wait til admins start blocking google at the proxy and leaving MSN Search open. You really don't think MS will eventually add a Net-Nanny to their service? Besides they don't have to remove sites from their ranking, just keep them down a few links on the list and most people won't notice them. It's just a matter of making the alternatives a tiny bit harder to find. After all anyone who searches MSN for Britney Spears is already going to be led to the MS sponsored sites.
I've heard of this tactic for several years now. What it leads me to wonder is, after doing this for so long how much of MS is still owned by the company? Carried on indefinitely eventually the company itself would hold ZERO percent. Could they continue and actually end up with a negative amount of shares in their hands? What I really want to know is what will happen when this whole practice nails them? Are there signs that it's ever going to happen, or can they just bury it under the books until it goes away?
An extended relative of mine recently had some serious problems come up and we wondered if she'd be able to afford keeping her house. Turns out her father already paid it off for her. He said he wanted to see his children enjoy their inheritance while he was still alive. I think that was a pretty sweet idea since many times by the time children get their inheritance they are too old to need it and already established, so the family's money collects with the old and is passed to the old when the very old die. Of course keep your money if you need it, but if you're very well settled why not hand out a chunk to your kids while you're still around? It'll also remove that guilt they feel for wondering how much they get when you die. Especially if someone really needs it, you don't want your kids waiting for you to die do ya?
If parents had a habit of doing this, imagine their kids getting their own house paid off at 30 instead of at 60, the huge head-start that would give them. Kind of like the discussions on "immortals" we have here every now and then, the ones that have already stabilized themselves financially can make huge gains with the extra years of their lives.
I shouldn't say this cuz I might be right but... my theory is:
Asteroid was it? Some kind of firewire breakout box? Big time secret... for just a firewire audio recorder? Woohoo.
I think it's actually a multi-channel output box with a dedicated HD playback chip on it. The 1.25GHz G4 in the Mac mini can't handle it in software. It's either this OR... the reason Apple hasn't released the hardware assisted DVD API is that it's still in the works and will allow slower G4's to playback HD movies.
Anyways... can anyone tell me what the 20 something channels of audio the new QT 7 supports are for? Just planning for the future with expandability? Or to hook up THREE 6.1 stereo systems to a single computer, Left Right and Rear with 7 channels each?;-)
Except that the earth is only about 4000 years old and fossils were put there to test our faith, right?
Only if you're a fundie.
If however you HAVE been taught such a thing, or similar... there's a few scriptural points you may want to consider.
1) A "day" in the bible can sometimes mean different spans of time.
Even in modern English we use the word day in a figurative sense. "Why back in MY day we didn't do things that way." I'm sure you can think of many other examples. Just quickly using the KJV here (because I know it's pretty well accepted) Gen.2:4 says, "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens" So which was it? The earth made in 6 days or one day? Clearly the term day was not meant to be taken literally here, if you insist that it is literal, then you have to explain an apparent contradiction... the answer would be that one of them was figurative and all the rest literal.
Also an interesting point came to mind since the parent poster chose 4,000 years as how long we've supposedly been on earth. As far as I was aware most people who believe in a literal 6 days of creation believe that we've been around just a bit over 6,000 years not 4,000 years. Of course he's probably remembering roughly 4,000 years of biblical history before Jesus was born. That 6,000 year time period and some scriptures I can't remember at the moment (ya know "1 day is for God 1,000 years and 1,000 years but a day") leads some to believe that we are now nearing the seventh "day" of earthly creation which would be a time of rest and peace on the earth. You may or may not think that's relevant, I just figured it was kind of interesting and related to the topic of "days".
Another point related to days is... by what sense of time is God governed? Prior to creating the physical universe we live in, the scriptures say that heaven and the angels were already around... so what sense of time did they go by? 24-hour earth days? In a place where the sun never sets so to speak? Bazillions of angels who never sleep? A God who never tires? It seems unlikely.
2) Heb.6:18 "it is impossible for God to lie". James 1:13 depending on your bible it is either "God does not put people to the test" or "He himself tempts no one" I'm paraphrasing here since the sentence structure varies. My point is... God is not a deceiver, he would not purposely set his own creation up in a way that would contradict his own teachings.
3) The devil did it! Okaaay... you mean before he actually rebelled against God by inciting Adam and Eve to eat some of the forbidden fruit? The very act that got A & E kicked out of the garden permanently? Or was it after this that he made all those fake fossils? I just get the feeling that if he made the bones first he wouldn't have had access to A&E. Besides this... you REALLY should study the fossil record more since it actually supports your faith quite well since it basically aligns with the idea of creation much better than the idea of slow change in animals over millions of years. There's been many distinguished scientists, who were also evolutionists who admitted that the fossil record did NOT (at least then) support their views. Shouldn't we be curious as to their findings? Christians involved in science is a good thing... it helps keep the common theories based on fact rather than conjecture. Many would like to see overwhelming evidence for their belief in evolution but it just hasn't happened yet. Wouldn't it be a good idea to scrutinize and verify their findings? That would really help BOTH sides since we both want to know the truth.
4) Faith is based on knowledge. Heb.11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." If you have a copy of Strong's or Vines... take a look at the meaning of those two words "substance" and "evidence" that are in other translations may be "as
The scientific validity of these pictures are pointless. All the space pics posted online by scientists are scientifically worthless as well. Pretty pictures are released intentionally to wow the audience. X-rays and ultraviolet light are turned into bright red and green shades, which destroys any data actually contained in the red or green visible spectrum. My point is there's nothing to complain about here since all they are doing is saving NASA the extra work of re-tweaking the images for public consumption. Now let the guys in the lab coats forget about press release images and focus on the science.
As someone who's involved with the deaf community I can say that this is very good news. One of the biggest problems for video relay services is the upstream caps. VRS is where a deaf person uses video conferencing to a remote interpreter to make phone calls in sign language. Most of them get around 218 or so upstream with overhead and everything, makes it a fair bit choppy. With sign language you need 30 fps if possible and the higher the resolution the better. The jump to 384 upstream will bring a noticeable quality improvement. I can't wait to try out some H.264 when Tiger comes out also, there's a few VRS services that support iChat. Wonder if those DLink videophone-type boxes can be flashed to use H.264 or if they'll soon be outdated.
You got it... the infinity of time that exists before us. No matter what you believe there's still that unanswerable question of how anything at all exists.
I had a Mormon missionary once tell me that belief in a single God doesn't make sense... after all, who made him? He felt their pyramid-scheme of gods answered that. The obvious answer is as I told him... okay, so this god made that god, and he was made by another, etc... you have the SAME PROBLEM.
People like to forget that prior to Hubble showing that the universe is expanding and must have had a beginning, the general scientific consensus was that the universe had always existed. Accepting that it had a beginning was uncomfortable for many since it implied perhaps there was something to Gen. 1:1 after all.
String theory, inflationary universe model, God... no matter what you believe there's a huge question that frankly seems outside the grasp of human comprehension. This sort of thinking is what leads many to believe there must be a God... even if they don't believe in any religious books or even consider him a real person. It gets kind of abstract when you remove the personality, you end up believing more or less what Einstein did.
Simply put, evolution in no way causes belief in a higher power to become irrational. It's simply a very small part of the big picture.
It is standard human psychology to overvalue something that was dificult to obtain.
It's also why lots of guys who are total jerks get the chicks. Overconfidence... it makes some think that he must have a reason to think he's awesome, maybe he IS awesome.
I love reading these comments like yours that somehow assume Slashdotters all agree with each other.
Or that the same people who post pro some idea are the same people that later post against it when problems arise.
I love when people angrily post how slashdot praises Apple's DRM and yet curses everyone elses.
This is called a forum, different people post with different opinions on the same subjects all the time. This is no hypocrisy, this is not being inconsistant... it's mearly a large body of individuals sharing their feelings.
As for moderation points... some days the evolutionists seem to all get modded up, sometimes the fundies do, just depends on who has the mod points that day. No conspiracy.
Unless Apple comes out with it soon this could be a huge feature for iPodLinux, iPod to iPod transfers are still being worked on however, maybe next year.
Set up a nice big TV with a DVD anime collection there. I took Japanese in HS but forgot most of it out of disuse and plain boredom. If I had access to that kind of stuff as a kid I would have been a LOT more motivated.
I'd also layer some artwork on top of various letters and let the kids make up their own stories for them.
ie: (That's Ku I think) drawn sort of like O and calling it a "Ku ku bird" makes the memorizing muuuch easier.
I'd also throw in some songs... my favorite was. Heh... Hitori, futari, sannin INDIANS. Yonin, gonin, rokunin INDIANS. Nananin, hachinin, kiyuunin INDIANS. Jiyuunin INDIAN BOOOOYS.
I'm a little confused by your post... are you implying that anything outside the realm of physical science doesn't exist? Or rather that it simply isn't scientific?
I suppose the cause of the Big Bang is unscientific then also... best to leave that question to the philosophers eh?
String theory isn't scientific... other dimensions aren't... only believe what you can see and touch.
Excuse me while I go shake hands with a black hole.
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According to the theory of Evolution, what eventually happens to a species that lacks genetic diversity when confronted with new viruses, and how does that apply to operating systems?
Kind of like the Bungee purchase. Take the strongest supporters of your competition and make them Windows only. Fortunately they make too much money off VPC to kill it.
Actually when you look for it with quotes like that you DO find exactly that sentence on over 5,000 pages Bill. Yes I do think we understand how search engines work.
-Don.
"No party shall sell or distribute in interstate commerce a Covered Demodulator Product that does not comply with the Demodulator Compliance Requirements and Demodulator Robustness Requirements."
;-)
So for right now a loophole I see is to set up an open-source group that privately works on the demodulator among themselves, then a member in each state distributes the content only to residents of their own state. It would take 50 freakin mirrors though! At least this way the people who spread the code would be in full compliance with the FCC regulations. Once the code is out and being spread around by people on P2P the group members would not be responsible for that, individuals distributing it would be in more trouble.
Or just set up a disclaimer on the website that only residents of say California could legally download it, make a click-through validation of it and the distributors are not liable if the users lie. Hey it works for porn sites with age validation.
-Don.
http://www.sheriff.co.st-clair.il.us/sexofax.asp/
Child molesters use ice cream to gain the trust of children.
You truly are an innocent person.
-Don.
It's not about conspiracy, it's not about "Mark of the Beast" it's simply a flawed concept.
How many of you have your credit card numbers written on the doorknob of your house? How many of you have etched your social security number on the handle of your car door? Perhaps you've taped a copy of your drivers license to the glass you drank from last night at that restaurant?
I guess you implicitly trust every person who has access to those things if you think this technology is a good idea.
-Don.
Is it not possible that bio-metric devices could be used for pure good?
First give me an example of ANYTHING that has been only used for pure good.
Sorry bud, human nature makes abuse inevitable.
-Don.
Just wait til admins start blocking google at the proxy and leaving MSN Search open. You really don't think MS will eventually add a Net-Nanny to their service? Besides they don't have to remove sites from their ranking, just keep them down a few links on the list and most people won't notice them. It's just a matter of making the alternatives a tiny bit harder to find. After all anyone who searches MSN for Britney Spears is already going to be led to the MS sponsored sites.
-Don.
They let us take back the browser market in exchange they will attempt to control the internet itself.
If you can't control the program that accesses the information, control the access to the information.
-Don.
I've heard of this tactic for several years now. What it leads me to wonder is, after doing this for so long how much of MS is still owned by the company? Carried on indefinitely eventually the company itself would hold ZERO percent. Could they continue and actually end up with a negative amount of shares in their hands? What I really want to know is what will happen when this whole practice nails them? Are there signs that it's ever going to happen, or can they just bury it under the books until it goes away?
-Don.
An extended relative of mine recently had some serious problems come up and we wondered if she'd be able to afford keeping her house. Turns out her father already paid it off for her. He said he wanted to see his children enjoy their inheritance while he was still alive. I think that was a pretty sweet idea since many times by the time children get their inheritance they are too old to need it and already established, so the family's money collects with the old and is passed to the old when the very old die. Of course keep your money if you need it, but if you're very well settled why not hand out a chunk to your kids while you're still around? It'll also remove that guilt they feel for wondering how much they get when you die. Especially if someone really needs it, you don't want your kids waiting for you to die do ya?
If parents had a habit of doing this, imagine their kids getting their own house paid off at 30 instead of at 60, the huge head-start that would give them. Kind of like the discussions on "immortals" we have here every now and then, the ones that have already stabilized themselves financially can make huge gains with the extra years of their lives.
-Don.
I shouldn't say this cuz I might be right but... my theory is:
;-)
Asteroid was it? Some kind of firewire breakout box? Big time secret... for just a firewire audio recorder? Woohoo.
I think it's actually a multi-channel output box with a dedicated HD playback chip on it. The 1.25GHz G4 in the Mac mini can't handle it in software. It's either this OR... the reason Apple hasn't released the hardware assisted DVD API is that it's still in the works and will allow slower G4's to playback HD movies.
Anyways... can anyone tell me what the 20 something channels of audio the new QT 7 supports are for? Just planning for the future with expandability? Or to hook up THREE 6.1 stereo systems to a single computer, Left Right and Rear with 7 channels each?
-Don.
Except that the earth is only about 4000 years old and fossils were put there to test our faith, right?
Only if you're a fundie.
If however you HAVE been taught such a thing, or similar... there's a few scriptural points you may want to consider.
1) A "day" in the bible can sometimes mean different spans of time.
Even in modern English we use the word day in a figurative sense. "Why back in MY day we didn't do things that way." I'm sure you can think of many other examples. Just quickly using the KJV here (because I know it's pretty well accepted) Gen.2:4 says, "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens" So which was it? The earth made in 6 days or one day? Clearly the term day was not meant to be taken literally here, if you insist that it is literal, then you have to explain an apparent contradiction... the answer would be that one of them was figurative and all the rest literal.
Also an interesting point came to mind since the parent poster chose 4,000 years as how long we've supposedly been on earth. As far as I was aware most people who believe in a literal 6 days of creation believe that we've been around just a bit over 6,000 years not 4,000 years. Of course he's probably remembering roughly 4,000 years of biblical history before Jesus was born. That 6,000 year time period and some scriptures I can't remember at the moment (ya know "1 day is for God 1,000 years and 1,000 years but a day") leads some to believe that we are now nearing the seventh "day" of earthly creation which would be a time of rest and peace on the earth. You may or may not think that's relevant, I just figured it was kind of interesting and related to the topic of "days".
Another point related to days is... by what sense of time is God governed? Prior to creating the physical universe we live in, the scriptures say that heaven and the angels were already around... so what sense of time did they go by? 24-hour earth days? In a place where the sun never sets so to speak? Bazillions of angels who never sleep? A God who never tires? It seems unlikely.
2) Heb.6:18 "it is impossible for God to lie". James 1:13 depending on your bible it is either "God does not put people to the test" or "He himself tempts no one" I'm paraphrasing here since the sentence structure varies. My point is... God is not a deceiver, he would not purposely set his own creation up in a way that would contradict his own teachings.
3) The devil did it! Okaaay... you mean before he actually rebelled against God by inciting Adam and Eve to eat some of the forbidden fruit? The very act that got A & E kicked out of the garden permanently? Or was it after this that he made all those fake fossils? I just get the feeling that if he made the bones first he wouldn't have had access to A&E. Besides this... you REALLY should study the fossil record more since it actually supports your faith quite well since it basically aligns with the idea of creation much better than the idea of slow change in animals over millions of years. There's been many distinguished scientists, who were also evolutionists who admitted that the fossil record did NOT (at least then) support their views. Shouldn't we be curious as to their findings? Christians involved in science is a good thing... it helps keep the common theories based on fact rather than conjecture. Many would like to see overwhelming evidence for their belief in evolution but it just hasn't happened yet. Wouldn't it be a good idea to scrutinize and verify their findings? That would really help BOTH sides since we both want to know the truth.
4) Faith is based on knowledge. Heb.11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." If you have a copy of Strong's or Vines... take a look at the meaning of those two words "substance" and "evidence" that are in other translations may be "as
The scientific validity of these pictures are pointless. All the space pics posted online by scientists are scientifically worthless as well. Pretty pictures are released intentionally to wow the audience. X-rays and ultraviolet light are turned into bright red and green shades, which destroys any data actually contained in the red or green visible spectrum. My point is there's nothing to complain about here since all they are doing is saving NASA the extra work of re-tweaking the images for public consumption. Now let the guys in the lab coats forget about press release images and focus on the science.
-Don.
As someone who's involved with the deaf community I can say that this is very good news. One of the biggest problems for video relay services is the upstream caps. VRS is where a deaf person uses video conferencing to a remote interpreter to make phone calls in sign language. Most of them get around 218 or so upstream with overhead and everything, makes it a fair bit choppy. With sign language you need 30 fps if possible and the higher the resolution the better. The jump to 384 upstream will bring a noticeable quality improvement. I can't wait to try out some H.264 when Tiger comes out also, there's a few VRS services that support iChat. Wonder if those DLink videophone-type boxes can be flashed to use H.264 or if they'll soon be outdated.
-Don.
You got it... the infinity of time that exists before us. No matter what you believe there's still that unanswerable question of how anything at all exists.
I had a Mormon missionary once tell me that belief in a single God doesn't make sense... after all, who made him? He felt their pyramid-scheme of gods answered that. The obvious answer is as I told him... okay, so this god made that god, and he was made by another, etc... you have the SAME PROBLEM.
People like to forget that prior to Hubble showing that the universe is expanding and must have had a beginning, the general scientific consensus was that the universe had always existed. Accepting that it had a beginning was uncomfortable for many since it implied perhaps there was something to Gen. 1:1 after all.
String theory, inflationary universe model, God... no matter what you believe there's a huge question that frankly seems outside the grasp of human comprehension. This sort of thinking is what leads many to believe there must be a God... even if they don't believe in any religious books or even consider him a real person. It gets kind of abstract when you remove the personality, you end up believing more or less what Einstein did.
Simply put, evolution in no way causes belief in a higher power to become irrational. It's simply a very small part of the big picture.
-Don.
It's soo darn stable
it can hold up my table
no booting this week.
A nice big square box
means my dinner rarely rocks
up solid all month!
Linux geeks trashing,
yet food is never crashing
Communists BEWARE!
-Don.
I think this can be achieved through the actualization of flux-capacitors running at a sustained 1.21 Jigawatts.
that this article is about to be a HUGE flamewar. I can't prove it yet however. Evidence is forthcoming.
It's also why lots of guys who are total jerks get the chicks. Overconfidence... it makes some think that he must have a reason to think he's awesome, maybe he IS awesome.
I love reading these comments like yours that somehow assume Slashdotters all agree with each other.
Or that the same people who post pro some idea are the same people that later post against it when problems arise.
I love when people angrily post how slashdot praises Apple's DRM and yet curses everyone elses.
This is called a forum, different people post with different opinions on the same subjects all the time. This is no hypocrisy, this is not being inconsistant... it's mearly a large body of individuals sharing their feelings.
As for moderation points... some days the evolutionists seem to all get modded up, sometimes the fundies do, just depends on who has the mod points that day. No conspiracy.
-Don.
Unless Apple comes out with it soon this could be a huge feature for iPodLinux, iPod to iPod transfers are still being worked on however, maybe next year.
For those of you like me with no pity for a webserver... there's a version for OS X on the front page of pacifict.com
Man I missed that program, having to start classic just to fool around with graphs wasn't worth it to me, now it's in my Apps folder WHEEE!
-Don.
P.S. The surface demo is still schaaawweeeeet. Amazing that it had exactly the same performance on 66MHz 601 chips!
Set up a nice big TV with a DVD anime collection there. I took Japanese in HS but forgot most of it out of disuse and plain boredom. If I had access to that kind of stuff as a kid I would have been a LOT more motivated.
:-)
I'd also layer some artwork on top of various letters and let the kids make up their own stories for them.
ie: (That's Ku I think) drawn sort of like O and calling it a "Ku ku bird" makes the memorizing muuuch easier.
I'd also throw in some songs... my favorite was. Heh...
Hitori, futari, sannin INDIANS.
Yonin, gonin, rokunin INDIANS.
Nananin, hachinin, kiyuunin INDIANS.
Jiyuunin INDIAN BOOOOYS.
(Slightly non-PC)
-Don.
I'm a little confused by your post... are you implying that anything outside the realm of physical science doesn't exist? Or rather that it simply isn't scientific?
I suppose the cause of the Big Bang is unscientific then also... best to leave that question to the philosophers eh?
String theory isn't scientific... other dimensions aren't... only believe what you can see and touch.
Excuse me while I go shake hands with a black hole.
-Don.