- The actual certifications matter to the employer. Unlike many longer established professions such as for instance law, medicine, architecture, which by law require professional accreditation before you can practice it professionally, IT so far has few if any such legal requirements. But the trend in industry regulation and quality improvement (such as ISO 9001) makes certification of your staff an easy, objective metric to "prove" a (minimal) level of staff competency. Without certification you simply won't be considered.
- The actual certifications don't really matter to the employer. It's about the actual skill level, but by using any number of common industry certificates in the job description you convey skill levels and areas that are important to the role. Your CV should make it glaringly obvious then that you're the right candidate.
As the candidate you don't know beforehand which is the case...:( although you can always try to inquire beforehand.
My personal opinion for a good number of certificates is that if you've been working with that particular technology for some time (and maybe with some self-study) you can simply show up for the exam and pass, without an expensive training beforehand. When a current employer doesn't want to pay, you can often qualify for some tax deductions when you pay for them yourself.
Or more bluntly; if you think you're THAT good and so much better then somebody who "only" has the piece of paper, then getting the actual certificate should be trivial for you and why don't you?
In the Netherlands there's the website run by the branch organisation for real-estate agents, www.nvm.nl. On it you can find nearly any piece of residential or commercial real-estate currently for sale or to let in The Netherlands.
Mandatory for membership is that a member shares his/her listings with the other 3000 members. Combined with a range of statistics about the region this gives you quite a good picture of a local market.
This listings network is also what makes it quite difficult to avoid using a realtor. But that makes that most people sell by their homes via a realtor in Holland, and nearly everyone also buys with a realtor. A Buyers agent knows the area, is experienced with the information gathering processes. He/she can tell you that that nice open space at the backyard is in the process of becoming a high-rise development zone, that the small crack you overlooked in the wall will most likely continue to grow, because of the high subsidence in the area and not all foundations were made equal etc. That experience is invaluable. You will most likely only buy a handfull of homes during your lifetime, and will look with different eyes at a house, then a professional agent. You see yourself working in the lovely study with a roaring fire in the fireplace, the agents points out the milldew in the corner. Your agent can tell you about the schools, shopping crime-rate and trends. Are a few unmaintained houses the beginning of the down-fall of the area, or the last vestiges of the renewal of teh area? Of course you can find out such things yourself, but not nearly as easyly nor as quickly. The fact that you've always lived in a home doesn't make you an expert, just like driving a car doesn't make you a mechanic.
In The Netherlands most voting booths are now using electric voting machines. Simply a large panel with a number of buttons (1" x 3"), one for each of the candidates, with their names, and party affiliation printed on top, and a white one for those who do vote, but don't support any of the candidates. Pushing the button for your choice lights the button you pushed, making it quite clear which you selected. To correct a mistake simply press another button, the previous selection is switched off, and now the new selection is switched on.
Your vote isn't finalised 'till you press the "VOTE" button, and the vote is successfully recorded on indendant recording devices. You can not press VOTE without having made a selection for either one of the candidates, or a "white" vote. (which means in.NL that your vote goes to the winner).
The advantages are of course are plenty
The results are available nearly the minute the booths close.
The voting machine is larger then you could ever conveniantly make ballot papaers, allowing for larger print.
In contrast to using paper ballot forms, you can easily correct mistakes.
The system makes incorrect votes impossible.
One disadvantage is the cost of the devices, especially since they will be used so rarely.
PostgreSQL has some more advanced features like user-defined types, triggers, rules and some transaction support. However, PostgreSQL lacks many of the standard types and functions from ANSI SQL and ODBC. See the database comparison with crash-mefor a complete list of limits and which types and functions are supported or unsupported.
Normally, PostgreSQL is a magnitude slower than MySQL. This is due largely to their transactions system which is not as sofisticated as Berkely DB's. In MySQL you can decide per table if you want the table to be fast or take the speed penalty of making it transaction safe. If you really the rich type system PostgreSQL offers and you can afford the speed penalty, you should take a look at PostgreSQL.
I can imagine with the loads on slashdot on order of magnitude speed difference makes a world of difference. Second there's already an complete MySQL code base for slash, so you get stuck with "industrial inertia".
Add to that the number of lusers who don't listen to the touch-tone options (I suspect some of them just press buttons at random until a human answers) and end up in a completely different group that doesn't have a clue how to handle their support. I'm sure this sounds familiar to some..
The worst is when you even press all the correct options and someone picks up the phone with:"Customer Service how can we help you?". They should know by now how they can help you, you want $SPECIFIC_HELP for $RANDOM_PROBLEM as per $SERVICE_AGREEMENT, as should be obvious by now with all the questions you answered already to the automated touch-tone system!!!
You can record (from the vim help function): q{0-9a-zA-Z"} Record typed characters into register {0-9a-zA-Z"} (uppercase to append). The 'q' command is disabled while executing a register, and it doesn't work inside a mapping. @{0-9a-z".=*} Execute the contents of register {0-9a-z".=*}
A second way would be to remap certain keys to certain scripted tasks, fi noremap:so `~/bin/vimspell %` allows me to press F6 and execute the vimspell script which does spellchecking.
www.slayerfanfic.com got the request not to host transcripts of the show anymore. The fact that they didn't request the fanfic to be removed suggest that de facto the use of the characters is condoned. OTOH All stories begin with a #include non_standard_disclaimer.txt that it's fanfiction and that they don't own any of the characters yada yada ya.
The article/book by Bruce Sterling Hacker Crackdown gives a quite interesting background to the raid. For different printable formats, go to the EFF 's Bruce Sterling - Hacker Crackdown - Archive.
b) It looks (God forgive me) like something you'd buy in a shop with a name like "Pure Pleasures" or "Sex World" and use for something other than a couple hours of music.
Totally irrelevant to the main story, but this reminds me of the latest and the greatest: the iBrator ! (Now available in candy colors)
in debian apt-get install realplayer otherwise download the RedHat package and use rpm. Then it's a simple matter of starting netscape; edit -- preferences -- netscape -- applications and new/edit the mimetype; Description: Realplayer streaming audio/video Mime-type: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: rm,ra,ram Application:/usr/X11/bin/realplayer %u (whatever the output of ``which realplayer'')
The thing is probably likely to cause motion sickness in those people susceptible to that. Which for such devices would actually be a significant number since most people can not completely decouple the stationary visual imput to the motion they sense in their middle ear. Fi reading/. on board of a ship in heavy seas would create a huge discrepancy between the staionary visual imput and the rolling and bucking you would feel, rather like those completely covered rollercoasterrides in amusement parks. On the other hand, if I read the specs correctly the lenses/projection-screens can be made clear. With a small gyroscope built in you could project an artificial horizon in your surroundings which would actually be a decent antidote against motionsickness.
Our planet on the other hand would become more and more heavy and flying out of orbit into deep space.
Actually an increasing orbit would be a good side-effect, since it is one possible solution to the greenhouse effect. (earth further from the sun, receives less radiation, but retains more energy => keep our current climate) Besides it will make the years longer so we can get more things done !
The Linux Administartor's Security Guide by Kurt Seinfried is a pretty expansive online reference on securing linux systems. As an answer to your question it has a long description on log-files, how to use them and suggested tools for automaticly checking them, but it is still mostly aimed at prevention rather then finding out how they got in in the first place. For a list of exploits try bugtrack or rootshell. The second good thing about LASG is the extensive list of references (also online) for more detailed information.
Why does everything have to be regulated?Why can't we have even one little island of freedom in this world?
Because that freedom gets abused. And to people in general that abuse stands out more than the good qualities. Nobody cares about all the sunny days in fi Florida, but one big storm makes national headlines
Besides would you trust unregulated companies? All the data most people are willing to give for their free internet use, the personal details that are collected by companies like doubleclick, the address/email/phone data needed by online stores/stock-brokers etc. I am quite sure that most people rather have laws or regulations that prevent companies from reselling that data, than absolute freedom. I for one would not appreciate it when fi my ISP would record all my online activity, and then sell it together with my home address and telephone number to anyone interested. I can imagine that without legislation/regulation that could well be possible and most likely be quite profitable. It is only that most companies do not think it is in THEIR best interest to sell your details, or it would be happening at large scale already.
Regulation isn't out there to threaten your anonimity, it is meant to ensure your privacy! And we will all benefit from clear and enforced policies about the return of merchandise bought online, a clear warranty policy etc.
The only demonstration of such a car killler I have seen was on discovery channel. The only difficulty lied in the fact that it was mounted on a sled, and had to launched from the police car, to slide under the car running away. The design of all police cars with the engine up front does not allow for a large parabolic antenna to direct the pulse, and the police do not want to take out all the cars on the road. The only requirement is of course that the car you want to shut down has electronic fuel injection, and other electronics to shut down.
GA's are not all that well understood. They have been relatively widelly applied, but on a theoretical level we don't have much more aparatus than the schema theorem (Holland) at our disposal.
Well, we are probably talking about different things here. You are talking about understading in terms of proving theorems about. I am talking understanding in a more practical way -- having an idea what usually works, what never works, and what has never been tried yet. Compared to 4-5 years ago we understand much more about GAs, their uses and limitations.
The thing is without proof of convergence, the solution you find using GA may very likely be something you hadn't thought of, and even be a better one at that too, but not the optimal one! And optimisation is exactly where GA's are being used, admittedly very succesfully in some applications, but using a blackbox that does some semi-random bit-shifting and then provides a solution, and often a different one with each run, is not what I would trust an industry scale process to. I'd rather use a more expensive, but garanteed, method instead. But those are hard to come by too.
Building jammers should be quite trivial to do, Just generate "white noise" in the em spectrum. Jammers that respond actively are a lot harder, I'd recon. But fcc regulations would not allow you to sell them, as they would be have to wide spectrum which is just the problem the manufacturers are experiencing in getting approaval.
Besides, aren't active rf-jammers outlawed? I know for sure that in most parts of europe they are. That became an issue when restaurants, theathers and cinemas started to use them, to block the signal of cellular phones, don't you just hate when the person in front of you gets called or paged!
Alluminium walls will shield some of the electronic radiation, but most buildings aren't designed to shield, besides the windows and doors are still open, most people will notice that their radios and televisions receive a clear signal indoors. Most buildings are already grounded, btw. Either as protection against lightning, or just via the plumbing.
A decision like this basically means that evolution theory is not reuired teaching anymore. It means that students, who have problems with the evolution theory (most likely their parents..) will not be required to learn things they find offending, simply to able to pass statewide tests governing the quality of education.
But there is more at stake here, then simply biology, astronomy is at stake to, the light of stars in galaxies far away (millions of light years) is also millions of years old, rather in conflict with the creation of the universe five to then thousand years ago (depending on who you ask) by a Supreme being.
Geology, which finds that the earth is not a mere 10'000 years old, but shows that with the scientific evidence found today (the gps measurements that have determined the velocities at which the continents move, the dating of minerals, by radiogenic decay etc.) can reconstruct the earth as it looked > 500 Million years ago. Oil and gas is found in places which with their current climate, never could have sustained the amounts of vegetation necessary to create those fossil fuels, fi northern Alaska and Canada and in the Antarctic. Rocks have been determined to hav eages up to 4 Billion years. So now we need to go and censor the geography school books to?
Which others theories should be included, since apparently that is the criterium in this reasoning, evolution theory, the theory of creation. The wide spread belief that aliens exist and were the ones to fertilize the earth? The scientific method is to formulate a theory that agrees with your obeservations. As long as you do not make any observations which contradict with the theory it remains valid. One very scientifically sound method would be: * read the Bible ==> your theory * look yourself indoors do not look around ==> no conflicting observations * theory holds !! But others have kept their eyes open, and made progress in our understanding of how the world works. That leads to putting a man on the moon, vacination against polio, and other diseases, finding the (ages old) oil to drive your car and that's what shaped the world to what it looks like now. (And all problems associated with that) I agree that evolution is hard to prove, but it is the theory most consistent with observations of the world around us.
What I think these people (the ones who want creationism incorporated in the curriculum) fear is that the whole Bible is untrue, because it does not completely agree with scientific progress. The thing is, it's not about what the Bible literally says, it is about the ideas contained in it, and the guiding it offers. It should be a positive influence about how to treat other people, with respect and how to lead your spiritual life.
Still doesn't make clear why Be is licensing out their OS almost for free.
That is the only way to world domination. If i recall correctly that is the method used by microsoft in the 80's to gain marketshare. As we all know a piece of hardware is useless without software to control it. Manufactures prefer to ship working products, ergo they need an OS. And as cheap as possible. So licensing Be for a token fee is not as dumb as it seems. It is the first step towards public recognition and acceptance.
Besides isn't the second step in softwar evolution not to make money from the software itself, but rather to sell support?
Files which contain fuck in the linux source tree:
/usr/src/linux/lib/vsprintf.c
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/sunhme.c:821 /* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface like this. Good job guys...
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/cmd640.c:15 * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver * to work on every motherboard design that uses this screwed chip seems * bloody well impossible. However, we're still trying.
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c:2420 /* I think I have things working here correctly. Even partial transfers * within a buffer or sub-buffer should not upset us at all no matter * how bad the target and/or ESP fucks things up. */
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c:2589 /* Be careful, we could really get fucked during synchronous * data transfers if we try to flush the fifo now.
/usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c:4827 /* take out our request so no other */ /* task can fuck it up GTL */
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/process.c
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/sunos_ioctl.c:65 /* Binary compatibility is good American knowhow fuckin' up. */
/usr/src/linux/arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:813 /* XXX No fucking way dude... */
/usr/src/linux/arch/mips/kernel/irixioctl.c * irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...
/usr/src/linux/arch/mips/sgi/kernel/setup.c
/usr/src/linux/arch/mips/sgi/prom/tags.c /* XXX This tag thing is a fucking rats nest, I'm very inclined to completely
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c
/usr/src/linux/fs/binfmt_aout.c
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:285 /* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:335 /* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32 .c:286 /* Fuck me plenty... */
/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c:797 /* Fucking losing PROM has more mappings in the TLB, but * it (conveniently) fails to mention any of these in the * translations property.
English is not my 1st language, but AFAIK these are common expressions of frustration
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What you want and think is immaterial.
It is all about what your future employer values.
The options are:
- The actual certifications matter to the employer. Unlike many longer established professions such as for instance law, medicine, architecture, which by law require professional accreditation before you can practice it professionally, IT so far has few if any such legal requirements. But the trend in industry regulation and quality improvement (such as ISO 9001) makes certification of your staff an easy, objective metric to "prove" a (minimal) level of staff competency. Without certification you simply won't be considered.
- The actual certifications don't really matter to the employer. It's about the actual skill level, but by using any number of common industry certificates in the job description you convey skill levels and areas that are important to the role. Your CV should make it glaringly obvious then that you're the right candidate.
As the candidate you don't know beforehand which is the case... :( although you can always try to inquire beforehand.
My personal opinion for a good number of certificates is that if you've been working with that particular technology for some time (and maybe with some self-study) you can simply show up for the exam and pass, without an expensive training beforehand. When a current employer doesn't want to pay, you can often qualify for some tax deductions when you pay for them yourself.
Or more bluntly; if you think you're THAT good and so much better then somebody who "only" has the piece of paper, then getting the actual certificate should be trivial for you and why don't you?
Despair posters are excellent. The Mistakes one was a big hit at our help desk.
Cluelessness
and Problems may be quite appropriate for a CS Department.
Or just watch them All .
In the Netherlands there's the website run by the branch organisation for real-estate agents, www.nvm.nl. On it you can find nearly any piece of residential or commercial real-estate currently for sale or to let in The Netherlands.
Mandatory for membership is that a member shares his/her listings with the other 3000 members. Combined with a range of statistics about the region this gives you quite a good picture of a local market.
This listings network is also what makes it quite difficult to avoid using a realtor. But that makes that most people sell by their homes via a realtor in Holland, and nearly everyone also buys with a realtor. A Buyers agent knows the area, is experienced with the information gathering processes. He/she can tell you that that nice open space at the backyard is in the process of becoming a high-rise development zone, that the small crack you overlooked in the wall will most likely continue to grow, because of the high subsidence in the area and not all foundations were made equal etc. That experience is invaluable. You will most likely only buy a handfull of homes during your lifetime, and will look with different eyes at a house, then a professional agent. You see yourself working in the lovely study with a roaring fire in the fireplace, the agents points out the milldew in the corner. Your agent can tell you about the schools, shopping crime-rate and trends. Are a few unmaintained houses the beginning of the down-fall of the area, or the last vestiges of the renewal of teh area? Of course you can find out such things yourself, but not nearly as easyly nor as quickly. The fact that you've always lived in a home doesn't make you an expert, just like driving a car doesn't make you a mechanic.
In The Netherlands most voting booths are now using electric voting machines. Simply a large panel with a number of buttons (1" x 3"), one for each of the candidates, with their names, and party affiliation printed on top, and a white one for those who do vote, but don't support any of the candidates. .NL that your vote goes to the winner).
Pushing the button for your choice lights the button you pushed, making it quite clear which you selected. To correct a mistake simply press another button, the previous selection is switched off, and now the new selection is switched on.
Your vote isn't finalised 'till you press the "VOTE" button, and the vote is successfully recorded on indendant recording devices. You can not press VOTE without having made a selection for either one of the candidates, or a "white" vote. (which means in
The advantages are of course are plenty
- The results are available nearly the minute the booths close.
- The voting machine is larger then you could ever conveniantly make ballot papaers, allowing for larger print.
- In contrast to using paper ballot forms, you can easily correct mistakes.
- The system makes incorrect votes impossible.
One disadvantage is the cost of the devices, especially since they will be used so rarely.I can imagine with the loads on slashdot on order of magnitude speed difference makes a world of difference. Second there's already an complete MySQL code base for slash, so you get stuck with "industrial inertia".
The worst is when you even press all the correct options and someone picks up the phone with:"Customer Service how can we help you?".
They should know by now how they can help you, you want $SPECIFIC_HELP for $RANDOM_PROBLEM as per $SERVICE_AGREEMENT, as should be obvious by now with all the questions you answered already to the automated touch-tone system!!!
You can record (from the vim help function):
q{0-9a-zA-Z"} Record typed characters into register {0-9a-zA-Z"} (uppercase to append). The 'q' command is disabled while executing a register, and it doesn't work inside a mapping.
@{0-9a-z".=*} Execute the contents of register {0-9a-z".=*}
A second way would be to remap certain keys to certain scripted tasks, fi noremap :so `~/bin/vimspell %` allows me to press F6 and execute the vimspell script which does spellchecking.
www.slayerfanfic.com got the request not to host transcripts of the show anymore. The fact that they didn't request the fanfic to be removed suggest that de facto the use of the characters is condoned. OTOH All stories begin with a #include non_standard_disclaimer.txt that it's fanfiction and that they don't own any of the characters yada yada ya.
would you have any links for that?
The article/book by Bruce Sterling Hacker Crackdown gives a quite interesting background to the raid.
For different printable formats, go to the EFF 's Bruce Sterling - Hacker Crackdown - Archive.
in debian apt-get install realplayer otherwise download the RedHat package and use rpm. ; /usr/X11/bin/realplayer %u (whatever the output of ``which realplayer'')
Then it's a simple matter of starting netscape;
edit -- preferences -- netscape -- applications and new/edit the mimetype
Description: Realplayer streaming audio/video
Mime-type: audio/x-pn-realaudio
Suffixes: rm,ra,ram
Application:
Source code available at the Human Genome Projects Genome database
*smile*
The thing is probably likely to cause motion sickness in those people susceptible to that. Which for such devices would actually be a significant number since most people can not completely decouple the stationary visual imput to the motion they sense in their middle ear. Fi reading /. on board of a ship in heavy seas would create a huge discrepancy between the staionary visual imput and the rolling and bucking you would feel, rather like those completely covered rollercoasterrides in amusement parks.
On the other hand, if I read the specs correctly the lenses/projection-screens can be made clear. With a small gyroscope built in you could project an artificial horizon in your surroundings which would actually be a decent antidote against motionsickness.
well if you hit the refresh button once or twice the images will actually appear.....
The Linux Administartor's Security Guide by Kurt Seinfried is a pretty expansive online reference on securing linux systems.
As an answer to your question it has a long description on log-files, how to use them and suggested tools for automaticly checking them, but it is still mostly aimed at prevention rather then finding out how they got in in the first place.
For a list of exploits try bugtrack or rootshell.
The second good thing about LASG is the extensive list of references (also online) for more detailed information.
Because that freedom gets abused. And to people in general that abuse stands out more than the good qualities. Nobody cares about all the sunny days in fi Florida, but one big storm makes national headlines
Besides would you trust unregulated companies?
All the data most people are willing to give for their free internet use, the personal details that are collected by companies like doubleclick, the address/email/phone data needed by online stores/stock-brokers etc. I am quite sure that most people rather have laws or regulations that prevent companies from reselling that data, than absolute freedom.
I for one would not appreciate it when fi my ISP would record all my online activity, and then sell it together with my home address and telephone number to anyone interested. I can imagine that without legislation/regulation that could well be possible and most likely be quite profitable.
It is only that most companies do not think it is in THEIR best interest to sell your details, or it would be happening at large scale already.
Regulation isn't out there to threaten your anonimity, it is meant to ensure your privacy!
And we will all benefit from clear and enforced policies about the return of merchandise bought online, a clear warranty policy etc.
The only demonstration of such a car killler I have seen was on discovery channel.
The only difficulty lied in the fact that it was mounted on a sled,
and had to launched from the police car, to slide under the car running
away. The design of all police cars with the engine up front does not
allow for a large parabolic antenna to direct the pulse, and the police do
not want to take out all the cars on the road.
The only requirement is of course that the car you want to shut down has
electronic fuel injection, and other electronics to shut down.
Well, we are probably talking about different things here. You are talking about understading in terms of proving theorems about. I am talking understanding in a more practical way -- having an idea what usually works, what never works, and what has never been tried yet. Compared to 4-5 years ago we understand much more about GAs, their uses and limitations.
The thing is without proof of convergence, the solution you find using GA may very likely be something you hadn't thought of, and even be a better one at that too, but not the optimal one!
And optimisation is exactly where GA's are being used, admittedly very succesfully in some applications, but using a blackbox that does some semi-random bit-shifting and then provides a solution, and often a different one with each run, is not what I would trust an industry scale process to. I'd rather use a more expensive, but garanteed, method instead. But those are hard to come by too.
Just generate "white noise" in the em spectrum.
Jammers that respond actively are a lot harder, I'd recon.
But fcc regulations would not allow you to sell them,
as they would be have to wide spectrum which is just
the problem the manufacturers are experiencing in getting approaval.
Besides, aren't active rf-jammers outlawed?
I know for sure that in most parts of europe they are.
That became an issue when restaurants, theathers and
cinemas started to use them, to block the signal of cellular phones,
don't you just hate when the person in front of you gets called or paged!
Alluminium walls will shield some of the electronic radiation,
but most buildings aren't designed to shield, besides
the windows and doors are still open, most people will notice that
their radios and televisions receive a clear signal indoors.
Most buildings are already grounded, btw. Either as protection
against lightning, or just via the plumbing.
A decision like this basically means that evolution theory is not reuired teaching anymore. It means that students, who have problems with the evolution theory (most likely their parents..) will not be required to learn things they find offending, simply to able to pass statewide tests governing the quality of education.
But there is more at stake here, then simply biology, astronomy is at stake to, the light of stars in galaxies far away (millions of light years) is also millions of years old, rather in conflict with the creation of the universe five to then thousand years ago (depending on who you ask) by a Supreme being.
Geology, which finds that the earth is not a mere 10'000 years old, but shows that with the scientific evidence found today (the gps measurements that have determined the velocities at which the continents move, the dating of minerals, by radiogenic decay etc.) can reconstruct the earth as it looked > 500 Million years ago. Oil and gas is found in places which with their current climate, never could have sustained the amounts of vegetation necessary to create those fossil fuels, fi northern Alaska and Canada and in the Antarctic. Rocks have been determined to hav eages up to 4 Billion years. So now we need to go and censor the geography school books to?
Which others theories should be included, since apparently that is the criterium in this reasoning, evolution theory, the theory of creation. The wide spread belief that aliens exist and were the ones to fertilize the earth? The scientific method is to formulate a theory that agrees with your obeservations. As long as you do not make any observations which contradict with the theory it remains valid. One very scientifically sound method would be:
* read the Bible ==> your theory
* look yourself indoors do not look around ==> no conflicting observations
* theory holds !!
But others have kept their eyes open, and made progress in our understanding of how the world works. That leads to putting a man on the moon, vacination against polio, and other diseases, finding the (ages old) oil to drive your car and that's what shaped the world to what it looks like now. (And all problems associated with that)
I agree that evolution is hard to prove, but it is the theory most consistent with observations of the world around us.
What I think these people (the ones who want creationism incorporated in the curriculum) fear is that the whole Bible is untrue, because it does not completely agree with scientific progress. The thing is, it's not about what the Bible literally says, it is about the ideas contained in it, and the guiding it offers. It should be a positive influence about how to treat other people, with respect and how to lead your spiritual life.
Total access 65 counts ('99/7/1) (at 1:20 PM mountain Time) /. effect ;-)
Wonder what it will be after the
That is the only way to world domination. If i recall correctly that is the method used by microsoft in the 80's to gain marketshare.
As we all know a piece of hardware is useless without software to control it. Manufactures prefer to ship working products, ergo they need an OS. And as cheap as possible. So licensing Be for a token fee is not as dumb as it seems.
It is the first step towards public recognition and acceptance.
Besides isn't the second step in softwar evolution not to make money from the software itself, but rather to sell support?
/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface like this. Good job guys...
* These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
* to work on every motherboard design that uses this screwed chip seems
* bloody well impossible. However, we're still trying.
* within a buffer or sub-buffer should not upset us at all no matter
* how bad the target and/or ESP fucks things up.
*/
* data transfers if we try to flush the fifo now.
* irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...
/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
* it (conveniently) fails to mention any of these in the
* translations property.
English is not my 1st language, but AFAIK these are common expressions of frustration