Dude I am not a creationist. Evolution is a theory. It is best working theory we have and I that just like in the school I was in that should be taught as the excepted theory. But you will also hear many people state that Evolution is the explanation of the origin of life. Which as you stated and I stated is incorrect. Your are correct in that I could have and should have stated it better but I am not a wordsmith by profession. I actually remember when I finally got a good biology teacher that actually taught it well. It was great and made perfect sense. Frankly it was the only part of biology outside of RNA/DNA synthesis that I liked. The rest was all just slimy plumbing.
Please. Biology and Physics are both full of theory. They still do not know how life even got started so there Evolution as the origin of life is still a theory. It is the best current theory with a lot of evidence but still a theory. Now the fact that life does evolve over time is actually a fact because bacteria evolve resistance to drugs as well as many other examples. Now so far 100% of creation science that tries to disprove evolution that I have seen has been bunk. Or to put it another way it has been just wrong.
Physics? Don't even get me started on how much we still do not know about physics. Grand unified theory? I am still waiting on that one. And some of the "science" that they teach still ticks me off. I knew a well educated person that had a degree in chemistry that still thought airplanes flew because of the Bernoulli principle! They finally asked me at an air show when they saw a plane do an outside loop. They turned to me and said, "That is impossible!" Then you have the pro and anti global warming faithful that both don't know the difference between climate and weather. I swear I am going to punch someone the next time we have a cold winter tell that is proof of global warming or proof that global warming is a fraud.
If you make science a religion than it stops being science. Every idea in science can and should be honestly questioned. There is nothing wrong with questioning global warming, evolution, super symmetry, or string theory it is done honestly and with an open mind. The thing is that you have to be honest about it and not stupid. Aka it is one thing to question if getting hit by a bus is fatal. It is stupid to jump in front of one to find out.
Hey I am all for standards and I am all for not teaching creation science. My niece is home schooled and gets exposed to a lot of it from her home schooled peers. I spend a lot of time explaining how they are wrong.
Actually you need to take at look at what the constitution says. This is the exact text. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." It actually does not prevent any state from establishing a religion. It specifically restricts congress but not the states. States may or may not have additional protections and restrictions on religion in their constitutions. What you want to do is actually in violation of the law because you are penalizing a religious school from getting federal grants. If Yale wants to apply for a grant for research do you want to restrict them? Notre Dame? Yale is the largest Episcopal seminary in the US BTW. In effect you are discriminating which is in violation of the first amendment. It is like the city that got sued because they refused to allow a Church to have a booth at a Holiday fair because they had a banner that said "Keep Christ in Christmas". The judge ruled that was discrimination since they allows Banks, stores, and other groups to have free booths.
But in those cases it becomes the best tool for the job and that is why it is being used to this day. Zmodem is a very optimized tool for doing one thing and it does it well. The problem is that problem that it solved is now extremely rare. Very few people use dial up modems to transfer files to and from BBSs and or from PC to PC. Now we use TCP/IP and SCP, sftp, maybe ftp, dropbox, NFS, and a number of other tools. Kermit solves a number of problems so it is still being used. But even those problems are getting rare. It isn't about which is the better file transfer protocol it is which is still in use.
Hey there are teachers at universities that teach that the 9/11 attacks where a plot by the US government and they get defended on the grounds of Academic freedom. http://media.www.smithsophian.com/media/storage/paper587/news/2007/09/20/News/Umass.Professor.Supports.911.Conspiracy.Theory-2984244.shtml Where do you draw the line? I agree that Creation science isn't but then I have heard teachers spout all sorts of tripe over the years. I know of one child that actually had a teacher that when she found out that she was a member of a certain religion start teaching a course about the history of the religion from a very negative view point and full of miss information. The school defended her teachers right to teach history how she saw fit and that was in high school. So do you want the government to tell teachers what they can and can not teach?
I want to try this out and see how they do. Every other geoplocation service I have tried puts me miles from where I am at. I take that back infosniper.com may have gotten it exactly right. They only show the town but the marker was right one my office.
For downloading a file from a BBS to a computer you are correct. But Kermit is still being used on things like floating sensors and was used on the space station. It has to do with use cases.
I have been an EAA member since 1978 and soloed in a 2-33 glider at 16 many years ago. I have been involved in aviation for a very long time and I have never heard a single reference to nuclear aircraft or submarines in reference to IFR flight. What documentary was this? I am asking for some hard reference because it makes no sense. The ocean is very large and the total number of submarines has always been pretty small compared to aircraft. You never have 100 subs coming into port on any single day. Not even during WWII. I doubt that you would even have 10 in a day. Before nuclear subs subs spent most of their time on the surface anyway. The would transit to and from their patrol areas on the surface because they had to use diesels to move any real distance at speed and they where actually more trackable on sonar when snorkeling than on the surface because more of the sound would get transmitted to the water.
Since the first nuclear submarine was not launched until 1954-55 It is far more probable that submarine operating procedures where influenced by IFR rules. And in now real way where they influenced by the single test aircraft with a nuclear reactor. Oh and as to aviation documentaries they are often terrible sources of information. You have no idea how many times I have seen crap on the Military channel or History channel that makes me want to beat people.
So again do you have any references? Some documentary isn't one and I can find no reference to what you are saying in any history of IFR fight I have access to. A lot of aviation practices have been derived form maritime practices but your suggestion that IFR rules where put into place because of the low outward visibility of nuclear bombers that where never built and submarines doesn't make a lot of sense and I can not find any supporting documentation. Now in an interesting aviation to submarine cross over when the US built the first teardrop shaped sub named the Albacore which lead to the Skipjack class of really fast nuclear subs the navy used bimps to train the helmsmen. It was so maneuverable that it was much more like a blimp than any ship. Reference http://www.amazon.com/U-S-Submarines-Since-1945-Illustrated/dp/1557502609
I do get it. Thing is I want my nation to have the biggest stick. I may help to keep the real wackos under control. History has shown time and time again that when democratic nations disarm the none democratic nation decide to start wars. No one starts a war they think they can not win. What is funny is that you are doing nothing but trying to make yourself feel superior. "Look at me I am not going to help develop weapons I am so enlightened". But you pay our taxes so you are still helping to develop weapons or will at some point in time. I will probably not play that game because I lack the time to even try it. I may because ASW is an interesting field of study and I like tactics and strategy. In the end it is you that do not get it. Your living in a fantasy world. Even if you live is Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, Japan, or Germany you are involved in weapons development because you are now or will be paying taxes and some of those taxes got to buy weapons and some of the profits of those weapons sales goes to improve weapons. You are just living in a your own little smug world of self delusion. Even just by using a PC or Mac to get on the internet you are helping. Those companies pay taxes that go to defense and the tech they develop and your purchase helps to lower the cost of goes into making weapons better and cheaper. You are just playing a role and lying to yourself at this point. BTW the good thing about ASW is only combatants die when a sub is sunk. At least there is almost no risk of civilan casualties. Unlike what happens when a sub isn't sunk and it can fire SLBMs, Nuclear armed cruise missiles, regular cruise missiles, or even torpedos at merchant men. Just keep up your little fantasy it will make you feel better while doing nothing of any value.
Yea the first think I thought was Holly Last Starfighter Batman. Reminds me of a friend of mine that loved to play Red Storm Rising on his C64. We joked that he was going to have the Navy knock on his door one day.
Except that keyboard is worse than the one on the C-64. Let me guess, your in the UK? I always wanted to have a ZX but they where hard to come by in the US. I did sell a few Timex Sinclairs when I worked at a computer store. I always thought that one of those would be fun to hack into a robot back in the 80s but I never had the time to play with one.
Actually yes and doesn't that make a lot of sense? The C-64 was used to play games as well as do some useful work. Take the Wii and add support for HD-Video, drop the drive or have it be an option, and add USB-3 or ESATA and an wired network port. If you could write software for it and get say Open Office and a mondern browser it would be a modern C-64.
Well it is about $100 too expensive, Atom is too slow now that we have the AMD Neo and the new Llano APU. Drop the SSD and out in an SD slot. If people want more storage you could include ESATA or USB 3 for an external HD. Build in wifi and your good to go.
Reference? Airliners where forced to always fly IFR after a collision between two airliners over the Grand Canyon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-air_collision#Catalyst_for_change The NB-36 test plane only flew between 1955 and 1957. Since the Grand Canyon crash happened right in the middle of the test flights I would say that the rules couldn't have been put into place for the test flights. Also the NB-36 always flew with chase planes to warn the pilots about anything that in the area and as you can see from this picture http://www.aviation-history.com/articles/nuke-american.htm the NB-36 did have a windscreen. Also the reactor was at the back of the plane so there would not need to be much shielding in windscreen area if any at all.
You do know that SSL does take a lot more CPU power and electrical power than just sending it in the clear. While each connection is some tiny fraction of a watt billions of connections do add up.
I went with the computer in keyboard because people wanted an all in one and it kept the with the 64 feel. You could have a small box version as well of course but in that case I would add an IR remote and Bluetooth so it could be used as media PC and or a gaming console.
1. It is too expensive for Nostalgia. 2. It is too thick to be comfortable to type on.
I really think they are blowing this. I would love to see a modern C-64 but this isn't it. If I was building one I would start with one of the new AMD fusion chips. Put that into a a thin all in one keyboard that is no thicker than a Notebook. Include an HDMI port so you can hook it to a TV. Install a small Flash drive and no hard drives or CD/DVD. Include few USB 3 ports and maybe a Firewire port for people to add mass storage, and throw on a network port and possibly include wifi. Put A good Linux on it and a price of $100 to $200.
If you want a DVD and or windows that will be extra. Schools would love it because it is cheap and should have no moving parts. Kids could use it with a TV in their room and it would actually work out. Of course many people could live with just a monitor anyway since cable boxes have HDMI out anyway. Don't make a copy of the C-64 make an new C-64. A cheap computer that will do what most people want it to do.
I enjoy the show. It is entertaining and informative. I work at a software development firm and I still have to deal with co workers that believe that the shows on how they faked the moon landings are interesting and or that artificial sweeteners are biological weapons! Not to mention that Airborne prevents colds! Mythbusters is a nice break from the stupid stuff I see everyday. It is a million times better than the reality TV shows and may actually get some kids interested in Science and engineering. So they could be one eyed Episcopalian kangaroos as far as I am concerned. It is a good show so the nit pickers can bit Bender's butt for all I care.
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Dude I am not a creationist. Evolution is a theory. It is best working theory we have and I that just like in the school I was in that should be taught as the excepted theory. But you will also hear many people state that Evolution is the explanation of the origin of life.
Which as you stated and I stated is incorrect. Your are correct in that I could have and should have stated it better but I am not a wordsmith by profession. I actually remember when I finally got a good biology teacher that actually taught it well. It was great and made perfect sense. Frankly it was the only part of biology outside of RNA/DNA synthesis that I liked. The rest was all just slimy plumbing.
Please. Biology and Physics are both full of theory. They still do not know how life even got started so there Evolution as the origin of life is still a theory. It is the best current theory with a lot of evidence but still a theory. Now the fact that life does evolve over time is actually a fact because bacteria evolve resistance to drugs as well as many other examples. Now so far 100% of creation science that tries to disprove evolution that I have seen has been bunk. Or to put it another way it has been just wrong.
Physics? Don't even get me started on how much we still do not know about physics. Grand unified theory? I am still waiting on that one. And some of the "science" that they teach still ticks me off. I knew a well educated person that had a degree in chemistry that still thought airplanes flew because of the Bernoulli principle! They finally asked me at an air show when they saw a plane do an outside loop. They turned to me and said, "That is impossible!"
Then you have the pro and anti global warming faithful that both don't know the difference between climate and weather. I swear I am going to punch someone the next time we have a cold winter tell that is proof of global warming or proof that global warming is a fraud.
If you make science a religion than it stops being science. Every idea in science can and should be honestly questioned. There is nothing wrong with questioning global warming, evolution, super symmetry, or string theory it is done honestly and with an open mind. The thing is that you have to be honest about it and not stupid. Aka it is one thing to question if getting hit by a bus is fatal. It is stupid to jump in front of one to find out.
Try infosniper.com it was only a few hundred meters off.
Hey I am all for standards and I am all for not teaching creation science. My niece is home schooled and gets exposed to a lot of it from her home schooled peers. I spend a lot of time explaining how they are wrong.
Actually you need to take at look at what the constitution says.
This is the exact text.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It actually does not prevent any state from establishing a religion. It specifically restricts congress but not the states. States may or may not have additional protections and restrictions on religion in their constitutions. What you want to do is actually in violation of the law because you are penalizing a religious school from getting federal grants. If Yale wants to apply for a grant for research do you want to restrict them? Notre Dame? Yale is the largest Episcopal seminary in the US BTW. In effect you are discriminating which is in violation of the first amendment.
It is like the city that got sued because they refused to allow a Church to have a booth at a Holiday fair because they had a banner that said "Keep Christ in Christmas". The judge ruled that was discrimination since they allows Banks, stores, and other groups to have free booths.
But in those cases it becomes the best tool for the job and that is why it is being used to this day. Zmodem is a very optimized tool for doing one thing and it does it well. The problem is that problem that it solved is now extremely rare. Very few people use dial up modems to transfer files to and from BBSs and or from PC to PC. Now we use TCP/IP and SCP, sftp, maybe ftp, dropbox, NFS, and a number of other tools. Kermit solves a number of problems so it is still being used. But even those problems are getting rare. It isn't about which is the better file transfer protocol it is which is still in use.
a. a Sunday school is be definition not a public school.
b. that would depend on the church.
c. Are you a Sunday school teacher.
BTW I am and one of my lessons for the ages 12 to 14 was on the value of education including science, math, history, and literature.
Hey there are teachers at universities that teach that the 9/11 attacks where a plot by the US government and they get defended on the grounds of Academic freedom.
http://media.www.smithsophian.com/media/storage/paper587/news/2007/09/20/News/Umass.Professor.Supports.911.Conspiracy.Theory-2984244.shtml
Where do you draw the line? I agree that Creation science isn't but then I have heard teachers spout all sorts of tripe over the years. I know of one child that actually had a teacher that when she found out that she was a member of a certain religion start teaching a course about the history of the religion from a very negative view point and full of miss information. The school defended her teachers right to teach history how she saw fit and that was in high school.
So do you want the government to tell teachers what they can and can not teach?
I want to try this out and see how they do. Every other geoplocation service I have tried puts me miles from where I am at. I take that back infosniper.com may have gotten it exactly right. They only show the town but the marker was right one my office.
For downloading a file from a BBS to a computer you are correct. But Kermit is still being used on things like floating sensors and was used on the space station. It has to do with use cases.
They had IFR before WWII. Jimmy Doolittle made the first blind take off, flight, and landing back in 1929 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jimmy_Doolittle#Instrument_flight here is a brief history of the airway system that started around the same time http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Government_Role/navigation/POL13.htm
I have been an EAA member since 1978 and soloed in a 2-33 glider at 16 many years ago. I have been involved in aviation for a very long time and I have never heard a single reference to nuclear aircraft or submarines in reference to IFR flight. What documentary was this? I am asking for some hard reference because it makes no sense. The ocean is very large and the total number of submarines has always been pretty small compared to aircraft. You never have 100 subs coming into port on any single day. Not even during WWII. I doubt that you would even have 10 in a day. Before nuclear subs subs spent most of their time on the surface anyway. The would transit to and from their patrol areas on the surface because they had to use diesels to move any real distance at speed and they where actually more trackable on sonar when snorkeling than on the surface because more of the sound would get transmitted to the water.
Since the first nuclear submarine was not launched until 1954-55 It is far more probable that submarine operating procedures where influenced by IFR rules. And in now real way where they influenced by the single test aircraft with a nuclear reactor. Oh and as to aviation documentaries they are often terrible sources of information. You have no idea how many times I have seen crap on the Military channel or History channel that makes me want to beat people.
So again do you have any references? Some documentary isn't one and I can find no reference to what you are saying in any history of IFR fight I have access to. A lot of aviation practices have been derived form maritime practices but your suggestion that IFR rules where put into place because of the low outward visibility of nuclear bombers that where never built and submarines doesn't make a lot of sense and I can not find any supporting documentation.
Now in an interesting aviation to submarine cross over when the US built the first teardrop shaped sub named the Albacore which lead to the Skipjack class of really fast nuclear subs the navy used bimps to train the helmsmen. It was so maneuverable that it was much more like a blimp than any ship. Reference http://www.amazon.com/U-S-Submarines-Since-1945-Illustrated/dp/1557502609
Kermit was and may still be useful when your connection is terrible. I am willing to bet that today it is used more than zmodem or xmodem.
I do get it. Thing is I want my nation to have the biggest stick. I may help to keep the real wackos under control. History has shown time and time again that when democratic nations disarm the none democratic nation decide to start wars. No one starts a war they think they can not win. What is funny is that you are doing nothing but trying to make yourself feel superior. "Look at me I am not going to help develop weapons I am so enlightened". But you pay our taxes so you are still helping to develop weapons or will at some point in time. I will probably not play that game because I lack the time to even try it. I may because ASW is an interesting field of study and I like tactics and strategy. In the end it is you that do not get it. Your living in a fantasy world. Even if you live is Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, Japan, or Germany you are involved in weapons development because you are now or will be paying taxes and some of those taxes got to buy weapons and some of the profits of those weapons sales goes to improve weapons. You are just living in a your own little smug world of self delusion. Even just by using a PC or Mac to get on the internet you are helping. Those companies pay taxes that go to defense and the tech they develop and your purchase helps to lower the cost of goes into making weapons better and cheaper.
You are just playing a role and lying to yourself at this point. BTW the good thing about ASW is only combatants die when a sub is sunk. At least there is almost no risk of civilan casualties. Unlike what happens when a sub isn't sunk and it can fire SLBMs, Nuclear armed cruise missiles, regular cruise missiles, or even torpedos at merchant men.
Just keep up your little fantasy it will make you feel better while doing nothing of any value.
Yea because nobody else is building weapons. It is a nice fantasy land you live in too bad that it isn't real.
Way too low of a bandwidth for any type of remote control.
Yea the first think I thought was Holly Last Starfighter Batman. Reminds me of a friend of mine that loved to play Red Storm Rising on his C64. We joked that he was going to have the Navy knock on his door one day.
Just put in an emulator. They are common and work very well.
Except that keyboard is worse than the one on the C-64. Let me guess, your in the UK? I always wanted to have a ZX but they where hard to come by in the US. I did sell a few Timex Sinclairs when I worked at a computer store. I always thought that one of those would be fun to hack into a robot back in the 80s but I never had the time to play with one.
Actually yes and doesn't that make a lot of sense? The C-64 was used to play games as well as do some useful work. Take the Wii and add support for HD-Video, drop the drive or have it be an option, and add USB-3 or ESATA and an wired network port. If you could write software for it and get say Open Office and a mondern browser it would be a modern C-64.
Well it is about $100 too expensive, Atom is too slow now that we have the AMD Neo and the new Llano APU. Drop the SSD and out in an SD slot. If people want more storage you could include ESATA or USB 3 for an external HD. Build in wifi and your good to go.
Reference? Airliners where forced to always fly IFR after a collision between two airliners over the Grand Canyon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-air_collision#Catalyst_for_change
The NB-36 test plane only flew between 1955 and 1957. Since the Grand Canyon crash happened right in the middle of the test flights I would say that the rules couldn't have been put into place for the test flights. Also the NB-36 always flew with chase planes to warn the pilots about anything that in the area and as you can see from this picture http://www.aviation-history.com/articles/nuke-american.htm the NB-36 did have a windscreen. Also the reactor was at the back of the plane so there would not need to be much shielding in windscreen area if any at all.
You do know that SSL does take a lot more CPU power and electrical power than just sending it in the clear. While each connection is some tiny fraction of a watt billions of connections do add up.
I went with the computer in keyboard because people wanted an all in one and it kept the with the 64 feel. You could have a small box version as well of course but in that case I would add an IR remote and Bluetooth so it could be used as media PC and or a gaming console.
1. It is too expensive for Nostalgia.
2. It is too thick to be comfortable to type on.
I really think they are blowing this. I would love to see a modern C-64 but this isn't it. If I was building one I would start with one of the new AMD fusion chips. Put that into a a thin all in one keyboard that is no thicker than a Notebook. Include an HDMI port so you can hook it to a TV. Install a small Flash drive and no hard drives or CD/DVD. Include few USB 3 ports and maybe a Firewire port for people to add mass storage, and throw on a network port and possibly include wifi.
Put A good Linux on it and a price of $100 to $200.
If you want a DVD and or windows that will be extra.
Schools would love it because it is cheap and should have no moving parts. Kids could use it with a TV in their room and it would actually work out. Of course many people could live with just a monitor anyway since cable boxes have HDMI out anyway. Don't make a copy of the C-64 make an new C-64. A cheap computer that will do what most people want it to do.
I enjoy the show. It is entertaining and informative. I work at a software development firm and I still have to deal with co workers that believe that the shows on how they faked the moon landings are interesting and or that artificial sweeteners are biological weapons! Not to mention that Airborne prevents colds! Mythbusters is a nice break from the stupid stuff I see everyday. It is a million times better than the reality TV shows and may actually get some kids interested in Science and engineering.
So they could be one eyed Episcopalian kangaroos as far as I am concerned. It is a good show so the nit pickers can bit Bender's butt for all I care.