My personal belief is that everything, with the exclusion of miracles, can be explained through science, and that God did this so that people really can have a choice between believing and not believing.
Just out of curiosity, why shouldn't miracles be explainable by science? It seems that an all-powerful God should easily be able to create a self-consistant universe whereby miracles are just another part of the whole picture. I mean, turning water into, say ICE, could be seen as something absolutly miraculous if you've lived in the desert your whole life, where nothing every freezes, while it would seem mundane to those of us who have live entire lives with freezers in our houses. Maybe the water-into-wine trick will someday seem exactly the same, when we understand the science enough.
Intelligent Design (or ID) is a highly controversial claim holding that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent designer, rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.
The most uncreative thing about ID is right there, in that the proponents of it are so uncreative that they can't consider the possibility that natural selection itself could be "directed". I mean, who decides what is fit and what is not? Who deices that having blue eys makes you more fit in one are and less fit in another? There is your perfect marriage of ID and evolution right there.
But seriously I hope they send some of these things over to other labs for investigation (like mine!) I would start with universal primers, PCR can amplify the tiniest amount of DNA, all they did was dunk the `cells' in Edithium bromide.
In the interst of science they took the remaining samples and finally subjected them to a 4 million degree inferno created in a supercollider, just to see what would happen.
Fear not, the IRS will take your money, no matter how you obtained it. They don't really even care of the source was illegal, just as long as you report it accurately.
And yet, ironically, if you decide to ignore your tax return, becuase you don't care about getting a few hundred bucks back at the end of the year, and consider the loss part of the "convience cost for not filing a tax return", they will hunt you down and FORCE you to fill it out just so they can give you the money that you are owed. Happened to me three times already.
That was is SO ironic considering teriyaki is something that Japanese resturants, almost exclusively, do not serve. It exists, it's a real Japanese word, but you won't find Teriyaki ANYTHING *except* at McDonalds.
It gets far worse. Let's say a GM crop was planted next to your farm. Due to wind, bees, eh, nature the GM plants spread to your field, and soon you're growing GM plants. And then you're sued for stealing the GM crop.
Naw, that's just uncreativity on the part of the farmer... He should have charged rent, say $150,000 per day per plant, for hosting other people's seedlings. Put a sign up stating this, and if you wish to participate, just allow your seeds to blow into the area.
The earliest known pottery, some 20~30,000 years old, is found in Japan and China (every couple of years one side or the other finds an even older one). Pottery indicates civilization, simply because nomadic hunter gatherer type people don't have a lot of time to sit down, find suitable clay, mold it, and build a firing kiln, and pottery doesn't trvel particularly well to boot.
If the first civilization arrose in Asia, then it is not a completely abberational jump to say that humans started around there. Still would need a lot of investigation, of course.
What support is there in Unix operating systems for running common library code with only the privileges it needs?
SE Linux can do exactly this. It can be as granular as saying that it can read only from file A but only write to socket C, or as open as a windows box... just got to configure ti right.
There are generations of Koreans (and other Southeast Asians) who were born in Japan, have lived in Japan for their entire lives, and speak, read, and write Japanese fluently, but are denied citizenship because they aren't 'Japanese'.
This is a common misconception that has been around for years. While at one time this was true, today it is not. Those Koreans CAN become Japanese citizens, but first they have to give up thier Korean citizenship and Korean names, both fairly reasonable, considering it's asked of everyone else who is to become a citizern as well. Many have been raised by many generations of Korean parents who have taught them that thier name and Korean-ness needs to be preserved at all costs, and thus they don't see the benifit to losing it just so they can get a vote for candidates they don't care about.
I actually think it is an thought-cop-out to just declare a "designer" did something instead of coming to grips with the idea of trillions and trillions of stars and infinity.
Oh, coming to grips with infinity means a little bit more than you seem to think. Infinity, true infinity, means that there IS a designer... Because even if the possibility of him/her/it existing is one in infinity, then guess what... It's infinity we are dealing with.
Of course the fact that there is also NOT a designer is also part of the while "coming to grips with infinity" thing too. Infinity is fun.
look forward to a few years from now when Japan and other countries in Asia will have cheap, and abundant bandwith (at least 100Mb/s, probably wireless to boot) and I'll still have a 1.5Mb/s DSL line and be paying MORE for it. Yeah, that'll be great.
Sooo, you are saying, in a few years, you think places like Japan will have LOWER internet speeds than it does now? I had 112 Mbit fiber to my home when I was in Tokyo LAST year... Of course, if cost an ungodly $40 a month and installation was nearly $100 (with only a measly 80% "special price" reduction, I had to pay close to $20! The horrors!);)
After living in Tokyo for three years, New York City seems a little, well, provincial.
Very interesting. Care to elaborate? (I live in NYC). just curious - never been to japan...
Well, part of it is simply population. New York has somewhere between 10-20 million people, from what I last remember, while tokyo is closer to 50 million. Until you've seen Shibuya crossing at noon on a weekday, you simply don't understand the meaning of crowded. It's simply surreal. (Another good anecdote, When the apple store first opened in Japan, for example, the line went something like 15 blocks long. You may see crowd in New York from time to time, you you don't see 15-block lines.)
In Tokyo, you really get a sense of how *massive* the city is. From any building downtown you can go to the top floor observation deck and for as far as you can see on the horizon in any direction you see the vast gray sheet of city.
You also get a sense of the magic and energy that just radiates around it. There are clubs in Roppongi that you can go party at, literally, for days because they never close, 24 hours a day, every day. And yet, right behind the neon and garishness you're guaranteed to find a tiny shinto shrine that somehow exists in this gulf of time, where you feel transported back a thousand years... Speed frenzy metropolis on one side of the massive wodden doors and quiet contemplation on the other...
Anyway, just go and spend a year or two there and come back to New York. You'll suddenly wonder where all these hicks came from... God help you if you go to Los Angeles.
The big lie that the media and attorneys general want you to believe is that all the retailers and manufacturers are crooked and the reason [they] do rebates is breakage, which is people not turning them in.
No, the real reason is...INTEREST. That extra time that they are holding on to your money, they have it in the bank, which means they are collecting interest on it.
Imagine asking your billionaire friend to loan you $100,000,000 for four months. You put it in the bank, do nothing, and once your time is up, give it back... Now suddenly you have $4 million bucks and he hasn't lost a dime... well except for the interest that HE sould have been making.
LET the cd install it's crap, just don't agree to thier EULA... But before you do, make yourself a EULA for your own machine, authorizing you to make unlimited copies of ALL music owned by any company and (put them up FOR SALE) if they write anything to your disk after you have *rejected* thier EULA. Then watch thier CD do exactly that, thus agreeeing to your EULA, and dance for joy know that you legally have the right to redistribute ALL sony music as you see fit, even for profit.
I dunno, there aren't too many software companies been around 35 years and still going strong. I'd say go with what's been working. The best "coding standards" are: simplicty, adaptability and readability.
Let programers do what they want. When somone complains that XYZ is hard to read, then it's his job to refactor that code into something that is easy for him to read. Assuming you have the tests you should have written, he'ss have no trouble doing this. If the tests aren't there, then write the tests first so you know if you broke what's already there.
Don't comment your code. Make the code so damn readable that a comment is superfluos.
Above all, don't make rules you can't break on a whim, but do make rules as you find them helpful. Go with what feels right until it stops feeling right and then fix it.
The first person who says something unhelpful as "your code doesn't comform to our company mandated brace alignment standard" gets fired, but only after he's shown what a modern IDE looks like and how well it autoformats the code to any brace standard he cares to think of.
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My personal belief is that everything, with the exclusion of miracles, can be explained through science, and that God did this so that people really can have a choice between believing and not believing.
Just out of curiosity, why shouldn't miracles be explainable by science? It seems that an all-powerful God should easily be able to create a self-consistant universe whereby miracles are just another part of the whole picture. I mean, turning water into, say ICE, could be seen as something absolutly miraculous if you've lived in the desert your whole life, where nothing every freezes, while it would seem mundane to those of us who have live entire lives with freezers in our houses. Maybe the water-into-wine trick will someday seem exactly the same, when we understand the science enough.
Intelligent Design (or ID) is a highly controversial claim holding that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent designer, rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.
The most uncreative thing about ID is right there, in that the proponents of it are so uncreative that they can't consider the possibility that natural selection itself could be "directed". I mean, who decides what is fit and what is not? Who deices that having blue eys makes you more fit in one are and less fit in another? There is your perfect marriage of ID and evolution right there.
Researchers at CalTech have discovered how bees fly
Should of asked me and I would have told them a long time ago: With wings!
But seriously I hope they send some of these things over to other labs for investigation (like mine!) I would start with universal primers, PCR can amplify the tiniest amount of DNA, all they did was dunk the `cells' in Edithium bromide.
In the interst of science they took the remaining samples and finally subjected them to a 4 million degree inferno created in a supercollider, just to see what would happen.
It's a little depressing how little you hear about Duke Nukem Forever these days...
Fear not, the IRS will take your money, no matter how you obtained it. They don't really even care of the source was illegal, just as long as you report it accurately.
And yet, ironically, if you decide to ignore your tax return, becuase you don't care about getting a few hundred bucks back at the end of the year, and consider the loss part of the "convience cost for not filing a tax return", they will hunt you down and FORCE you to fill it out just so they can give you the money that you are owed. Happened to me three times already.
Imaging a whole new world of money laundering... Invest your cocaine money into The Cup Of Dorgama (+23 charisma AND can cast Holy Fire).
That was is SO ironic considering teriyaki is something that Japanese resturants, almost exclusively, do not serve. It exists, it's a real Japanese word, but you won't find Teriyaki ANYTHING *except* at McDonalds.
Wow, if there ever was a candidtae for Gentoo, you are it. You'll love it, it's exactly what you are looking for.
It gets far worse. Let's say a GM crop was planted next to your farm. Due to wind, bees, eh, nature the GM plants spread to your field, and soon you're growing GM plants. And then you're sued for stealing the GM crop.
Naw, that's just uncreativity on the part of the farmer... He should have charged rent, say $150,000 per day per plant, for hosting other people's seedlings. Put a sign up stating this, and if you wish to participate, just allow your seeds to blow into the area.
The earliest known pottery, some 20~30,000 years old, is found in Japan and China (every couple of years one side or the other finds an even older one). Pottery indicates civilization, simply because nomadic hunter gatherer type people don't have a lot of time to sit down, find suitable clay, mold it, and build a firing kiln, and pottery doesn't trvel particularly well to boot.
If the first civilization arrose in Asia, then it is not a completely abberational jump to say that humans started around there. Still would need a lot of investigation, of course.
You try rubbing your face on a domain name.
What support is there in Unix operating systems for running common library code with only the privileges it needs?
SE Linux can do exactly this. It can be as granular as saying that it can read only from file A but only write to socket C, or as open as a windows box... just got to configure ti right.
There are generations of Koreans (and other Southeast Asians) who were born in Japan, have lived in Japan for their entire lives, and speak, read, and write Japanese fluently, but are denied citizenship because they aren't 'Japanese'.
This is a common misconception that has been around for years. While at one time this was true, today it is not. Those Koreans CAN become Japanese citizens, but first they have to give up thier Korean citizenship and Korean names, both fairly reasonable, considering it's asked of everyone else who is to become a citizern as well. Many have been raised by many generations of Korean parents who have taught them that thier name and Korean-ness needs to be preserved at all costs, and thus they don't see the benifit to losing it just so they can get a vote for candidates they don't care about.
I actually think it is an thought-cop-out to just declare a "designer" did something instead of coming to grips with the idea of trillions and trillions of stars and infinity.
Oh, coming to grips with infinity means a little bit more than you seem to think. Infinity, true infinity, means that there IS a designer... Because even if the possibility of him/her/it existing is one in infinity, then guess what... It's infinity we are dealing with.
Of course the fact that there is also NOT a designer is also part of the while "coming to grips with infinity" thing too. Infinity is fun.
But for a business, work can still go on even if the Internet connection is down. In such a case, lack of e-mail access could likely be killer.
I'm curious how a normal email client will be able to receive mail while the internet connectivity is down?
look forward to a few years from now when Japan and other countries in Asia will have cheap, and abundant bandwith (at least 100Mb/s, probably wireless to boot) and I'll still have a 1.5Mb/s DSL line and be paying MORE for it. Yeah, that'll be great.
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Sooo, you are saying, in a few years, you think places like Japan will have LOWER internet speeds than it does now? I had 112 Mbit fiber to my home when I was in Tokyo LAST year... Of course, if cost an ungodly $40 a month and installation was nearly $100 (with only a measly 80% "special price" reduction, I had to pay close to $20! The horrors!)
After living in Tokyo for three years, New York City seems a little, well, provincial.
Very interesting. Care to elaborate? (I live in NYC). just curious - never been to japan...
Well, part of it is simply population. New York has somewhere between 10-20 million people, from what I last remember, while tokyo is closer to 50 million. Until you've seen Shibuya crossing at noon on a weekday, you simply don't understand the meaning of crowded. It's simply surreal. (Another good anecdote, When the apple store first opened in Japan, for example, the line went something like 15 blocks long. You may see crowd in New York from time to time, you you don't see 15-block lines.)
In Tokyo, you really get a sense of how *massive* the city is. From any building downtown you can go to the top floor observation deck and for as far as you can see on the horizon in any direction you see the vast gray sheet of city.
You also get a sense of the magic and energy that just radiates around it. There are clubs in Roppongi that you can go party at, literally, for days because they never close, 24 hours a day, every day. And yet, right behind the neon and garishness you're guaranteed to find a tiny shinto shrine that somehow exists in this gulf of time, where you feel transported back a thousand years... Speed frenzy metropolis on one side of the massive wodden doors and quiet contemplation on the other...
Anyway, just go and spend a year or two there and come back to New York. You'll suddenly wonder where all these hicks came from... God help you if you go to Los Angeles.
Guess Japan is not like NYC.
Take it from somone who has lived in both places... After living in Tokyo for three years, New York City seems a little, well, provincial.
The big lie that the media and attorneys general want you to believe is that all the retailers and manufacturers are crooked and the reason [they] do rebates is breakage, which is people not turning them in.
No, the real reason is...INTEREST. That extra time that they are holding on to your money, they have it in the bank, which means they are collecting interest on it.
Imagine asking your billionaire friend to loan you $100,000,000 for four months. You put it in the bank, do nothing, and once your time is up, give it back... Now suddenly you have $4 million bucks and he hasn't lost a dime... well except for the interest that HE sould have been making.
THAT is the point of mail-in rebates.
LET the cd install it's crap, just don't agree to thier EULA... But before you do, make yourself a EULA for your own machine, authorizing you to make unlimited copies of ALL music owned by any company and (put them up FOR SALE) if they write anything to your disk after you have *rejected* thier EULA. Then watch thier CD do exactly that, thus agreeeing to your EULA, and dance for joy know that you legally have the right to redistribute ALL sony music as you see fit, even for profit.
I am sure they were worried about a boycott if they donated... why don't we boycott them now that they haven't? Don't buy American!
Two years with no bugs, new features rolled out every week says it works well...
You'll never be suprised by the performance of a windows box. It will crash each and every time, on time.
I dunno, there aren't too many software companies been around 35 years and still going strong. I'd say go with what's been working. The best "coding standards" are: simplicty, adaptability and readability.
Let programers do what they want. When somone complains that XYZ is hard to read, then it's his job to refactor that code into something that is easy for him to read. Assuming you have the tests you should have written, he'ss have no trouble doing this. If the tests aren't there, then write the tests first so you know if you broke what's already there.
Don't comment your code. Make the code so damn readable that a comment is superfluos.
Above all, don't make rules you can't break on a whim, but do make rules as you find them helpful. Go with what feels right until it stops feeling right and then fix it.
The first person who says something unhelpful as "your code doesn't comform to our company mandated brace alignment standard" gets fired, but only after he's shown what a modern IDE looks like and how well it autoformats the code to any brace standard he cares to think of.