If God is perfect and all knowing, why does he make mistakes every generation requiring constant revisions of his design? Why didn't he just design what he wanted instead of having to constantly manipulate the DNA of every single species for all eternity?
Also, given how many obvious flaws there are in the human design, isn't it an insult to God to say that he created us? Take the human eye alone. The retina isn't attached to the back of the eye, allowing spontaneous blindness. The veins and other "wiring" are on top of the retina instead of under it, hindering our vision and creating blind spots. Only an idiot would "design" us like that, and if we were designed like that, why do invertibrates have the "wiring" under the retina?
All of those flaws can be explained with evolution, but to say someone designed us like that is not saying much for the designer...
I seem to recall reading stories that most cyber-nanny type products block access to liberal sites like NOW and PETA and bloack access to democratic candidates, but never block traffic to sites like the NRA...
Most good items are Bind-On-Pickup, so you can't dupe them, and even if you could you can't sell them or trade them.
You can dupe a billion gold but what are you going to do with it? Buy the very best of the marginal items, since all the good items are BOP? I don't know about other classes, but the mage epic item is made from BOP components, so no duping or buying of those.
Anyway, once i hit lvl 60 in the game it went from addictive to boring in about 5 minutes.
The irony is that cities DESIGN THEMSELVES to accomodate walking - if a lot of people live in an area and there isn't a grocery/cafe/bar/bakery/bookstore/etc. then some smart enterprizer notices the void and fills it and makes money.
Then we invented zoning laws.
Now, I get in my car and a I drive 4 miles from my residential zone in San Antonio to the commercial zone to buy some milk or drive 8 miles to a coffee/bookshop or 15 miles to get to work. God help me if I want to some fresh bread to eat with fresh soup and hot coffee, whatever I buy first will be cold when I but the last. And if I wanted to walk/bike any of this way? Ha! Even if I was Lance Armstrong it wouldn't matter as I would get killed trying to cross a highway.
Anyway, if it really was the vaccines (which I find higly unlikely) then shouldn't we have had a HUGE drop off in autsim rates over the last few years?
I learned the hard way from Lockheed Martin to get things in writing. I was promised tuition paid up front, time off for class, and a large choice of area schools (MIT, etc.). After a year of working there I finally qualified for these benefits only to find out I had pay tuition out of pocket and get reimbursed at the end of the semester, 0 time for class, and a choice of two schools (Lowell and Worcester) the better one being abut an hour drive from work. I later filed a confidential ethics complaint that was leaked within hours to my boss, so I complained about that to HR, which made me a trouble maker and led to me being let go.
I learned from another company to ask about IP/Invention rules. After moving across country for a job I was informed I had to sign a document that states any ideas I have, work related at not, wether I had them at work or not, belong to General Dynamics and even 6 months after I quit they own all my thoughts.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/07/citigroup_ lost_tape/ The retail finance division of Citigroup has admitted that a backup tape containing personal information on almost 4 million customers has gone missing. The United Parcel Service lost the tape on May 2nd, and it hasn't been seen since. CitiFinancial only noticed the tape was missing on May 20. The tape contains Social Security numbers and transaction histories on both open and closed accounts at the bank's lending branches.
Citigroup says it has no reason to believe the tape has been stolen, but alarmingly, the tape hasn't shown up at any UPS depot despite six weeks of searching.
The company admitted that it doesn't use encryption on its electronic transmissions, nor explained why it took so long to notify the public.
Earlier this year a backup tape belonging to Ameritrade went astray, with personal information on 200,000 customers; Time Warner lost a tape containing information on 600,000 individuals, and Bank of America and Wachovia suffered a data breach affecting 100,000 customers each in May.
I guarantee they used no encryption, because none of these firms use encryption, because they are run by MBAs and accountants for MBAs and accountants.
At the very least, I hope one of the bean counters was smart enough to insure that package for how much it will cost if it gets lost. Assuming an average theft of $1,000 per account, that is 3.9 billion dollars.
More power/wight = same power with less weight = longer range.
Besides, everyone knows batteries are not up to snuff, yet. Battery capacity has more than quadrupled in the last 15 years or so, and I imagine it will continue to get better. Technology advances, that's what it does. In the meanwhile, we have hybrids that generate electricity from gas and use just electric motors (every modern train uses this technology), fuels cells are being developed, I read an article about using flywheels and just trading them with charged ones to refuel, then there is always the hydrogen pipe-dream.
Expecting technology to be 100% mature the moment it is released and calling it "stupid" when it isn't, is, well, nevermind.
I have a A7N8X-DX and a 9700 non pro, and I get those bars at boot-up sometimes and I get a boot-up to a black screen often. About 80% of the time before I ran registry mechanic and now it's down to about 20%.
I am this close to buying a X800 XT AIW for $340. Is it a VIA problem or an ATI problem or what? Should I go with 6800GT?
Humans are far from perfect. Take the human eye: the veins go over the retina instead of under it and abscure vision, the retina isn't attached to the back of the eye and can spontaneously come lose causing permanent blindness, there is a blind spot in the middle of out vision because of the "wiring" being on top of the retina, and there are many other flaws.
Evolution explains all of these flaws.
To say that God designed such a poorly designed eye is to say that God is a fool.
To say that God makes so many mistakes that he constantly has to meddle with every generation to fix previous mistakes and then create more mistakes that need to be fixed in the next generation... well then maybe we need to rewrite the term "to err is human."
Hmmm... People running SP1 or SP2 68% People running SP2 or SP1 32%
The best part of this survey is that in 2 catagories I am in 4 postitions: I have 512MB-1GB AND 1GB-1.5GB of RAM I have a 30GB-40GB and a 40GB-50GB drive
Also, my network speed is not an option, no matter what we are measuring, be it my 100Mb local network or my 3Mb net connection.
That's not completely true. Traffic is said to behave like ice flowing in a stream - it does not jam up in a linear fashion related to increase in traffic/ice. There is a range where it is mostly free flowing, then there is a range where it can, but wont always, jam. When it is in that range, chaos takes over and the "betterfly affect" is invoked. A single person hitting thier brakes can change traffic pattern for hours by creating a "standing wave" in heavy traffic, etc.
Anyway, my point is by more people making intelligent choices to avoid traffic problems, some traffic problems may disappear.
If only there was some device that would shock people in the genitals if they slowed down to gawk at an accident.
I don't know about "preserving" science. They were the only ones who developed any during out "dark ages" and they invented cryptanalysis and thus modern cryptography.
"Most "damning" probably is the loss of American Positivism: the idea that a rational society can make "progress". We are actively dismantling that progress of the last century every day."
I think I can pinpoint the day where I lost my optimism: the day I learned that we officially saction torture, by our own forces and by "rendition" (outsourcing), is the day something in me died.
"This is a battle between good and evil" Bush said.
If nothing else, at least they explained the rest of the Trouble with Tribbles. DS9 explained why Tribbles kept falling on Kirk's head at the end of the episode - Dax was chucking them - but brought up the question of why Klingons were white. Worf simply said it was something they do not talk about.
Well, Enterprise explains it: genetically modified Klingons had some human genes mixed in which makes them look more human.
That sticks out as the main piece of history of Trek in Enterprize... There are hints all over the place of who's Spocks parents are, but that's it. I love when they cope up with everthing but "red alert," but I was hoping for more. I like the aspect of engineering, and I love the building of a new universe from the foundation, but it's really not grabbing me.
It needs more character development, but not just for the characters. It needs it for the universe, for the different races, for alliances and enemies. It needs intrigue like in DS9. I loved not knowing if Garak could be trusted, and my favorite epsisode was the one where they trick the Romulans into joining the alliance. I loved the complex, more-than-one-dimentional relationship between Odo and Quark. Enterprise is missing that.
They start out as a good idea that can be explained in several paragraphs. But that doesn't look like a paper, so you need to word it up. You look at other papers filled with big words of ambiguous meaning, so you use those, whatever they mean. Then you add gibberish to camoflauge the areas you are a little fuzzy on. In the end your computer science paper is unreadable by your target audience, but it doesn't matter because what little code you did include doesn't actually compile thanks to all the typos you missed when wording up your paper.
Okay, that floor kicks serious ass. I want to build one now.
But they certainly did things the hard way. They hand-soldered thousands of surface mounts when they could have used paste and a toaster oven. Even worse, they somehow found solder that still contains lead and sent one of their students to the doctor with lead poisoning. And finally, they used matlab of all things to make the patterns when it would have been simple to make much more complex and fascinating patterns using simple algorithms in their control code. I did it in old demos on a 486 after being inspired by an "acid" demo. I'd link to it, but tripod seems to block the download of exes now.
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Well, that proves it. 200 years ago they didn't have the answer to a scientific question, so there can be no answer today...
I've downloaded more than that in a single file in one night, and I hardly ever download anything.
Thank you puretna...
If God is perfect and all knowing, why does he make mistakes every generation requiring constant revisions of his design? Why didn't he just design what he wanted instead of having to constantly manipulate the DNA of every single species for all eternity?
Also, given how many obvious flaws there are in the human design, isn't it an insult to God to say that he created us? Take the human eye alone. The retina isn't attached to the back of the eye, allowing spontaneous blindness. The veins and other "wiring" are on top of the retina instead of under it, hindering our vision and creating blind spots. Only an idiot would "design" us like that, and if we were designed like that, why do invertibrates have the "wiring" under the retina?
All of those flaws can be explained with evolution, but to say someone designed us like that is not saying much for the designer...
I seem to recall reading stories that most cyber-nanny type products block access to liberal sites like NOW and PETA and bloack access to democratic candidates, but never block traffic to sites like the NRA...
h tml
Can't find an original story right now, but http://www.washingtonfreepress.org/46/urban_work.
Most good items are Bind-On-Pickup, so you can't dupe them, and even if you could you can't sell them or trade them.
You can dupe a billion gold but what are you going to do with it? Buy the very best of the marginal items, since all the good items are BOP? I don't know about other classes, but the mage epic item is made from BOP components, so no duping or buying of those.
Anyway, once i hit lvl 60 in the game it went from addictive to boring in about 5 minutes.
The irony is that cities DESIGN THEMSELVES to accomodate walking - if a lot of people live in an area and there isn't a grocery/cafe/bar/bakery/bookstore/etc. then some smart enterprizer notices the void and fills it and makes money.
Then we invented zoning laws.
Now, I get in my car and a I drive 4 miles from my residential zone in San Antonio to the commercial zone to buy some milk or drive 8 miles to a coffee/bookshop or 15 miles to get to work. God help me if I want to some fresh bread to eat with fresh soup and hot coffee, whatever I buy first will be cold when I but the last. And if I wanted to walk/bike any of this way? Ha! Even if I was Lance Armstrong it wouldn't matter as I would get killed trying to cross a highway.
there was a direct correlation between the amount of mecury pollution in the area and the rate of autism in the area. Here's a randomly chosen link:
1 F1-4677-9A24-CEB4FA637690.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/34AD7ABA-F
Anyway, if it really was the vaccines (which I find higly unlikely) then shouldn't we have had a HUGE drop off in autsim rates over the last few years?
$ make love
make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.
[((R x D + V) x F) + S]/A
Ok, lets say everything about th show is miserable, make everything a 1, but have people fall 1000 times an episode.
[((1 x 1 + 1) x 1000) + 1]/1 = 2001
I have just created the greatest show Britain has ever seen.
Three stooges reruns must KILL in the UK.
I learned the hard way from Lockheed Martin to get things in writing. I was promised tuition paid up front, time off for class, and a large choice of area schools (MIT, etc.). After a year of working there I finally qualified for these benefits only to find out I had pay tuition out of pocket and get reimbursed at the end of the semester, 0 time for class, and a choice of two schools (Lowell and Worcester) the better one being abut an hour drive from work. I later filed a confidential ethics complaint that was leaked within hours to my boss, so I complained about that to HR, which made me a trouble maker and led to me being let go.
I learned from another company to ask about IP/Invention rules. After moving across country for a job I was informed I had to sign a document that states any ideas I have, work related at not, wether I had them at work or not, belong to General Dynamics and even 6 months after I quit they own all my thoughts.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/07/citigroup_ lost_tape/
The retail finance division of Citigroup has admitted that a backup tape containing personal information on almost 4 million customers has gone missing. The United Parcel Service lost the tape on May 2nd, and it hasn't been seen since. CitiFinancial only noticed the tape was missing on May 20. The tape contains Social Security numbers and transaction histories on both open and closed accounts at the bank's lending branches.
Citigroup says it has no reason to believe the tape has been stolen, but alarmingly, the tape hasn't shown up at any UPS depot despite six weeks of searching.
The company admitted that it doesn't use encryption on its electronic transmissions, nor explained why it took so long to notify the public.
Earlier this year a backup tape belonging to Ameritrade went astray, with personal information on 200,000 customers; Time Warner lost a tape containing information on 600,000 individuals, and Bank of America and Wachovia suffered a data breach affecting 100,000 customers each in May.
Customers are advised to call 866-452-2484 ®
I guarantee they used no encryption, because none of these firms use encryption, because they are run by MBAs and accountants for MBAs and accountants.
At the very least, I hope one of the bean counters was smart enough to insure that package for how much it will cost if it gets lost. Assuming an average theft of $1,000 per account, that is 3.9 billion dollars.
More power/wight = same power with less weight = longer range.
Besides, everyone knows batteries are not up to snuff, yet. Battery capacity has more than quadrupled in the last 15 years or so, and I imagine it will continue to get better. Technology advances, that's what it does. In the meanwhile, we have hybrids that generate electricity from gas and use just electric motors (every modern train uses this technology), fuels cells are being developed, I read an article about using flywheels and just trading them with charged ones to refuel, then there is always the hydrogen pipe-dream.
Expecting technology to be 100% mature the moment it is released and calling it "stupid" when it isn't, is, well, nevermind.
Doom3 simply crashes when I play it after about 5 minutes. I have 3 case fans and my system is rock-solid in WOW.
Doom3 is the only game I have that
1) does not believe my SB Live has 4 speakers
2) makes me restart to change a video setting
3) crashes
Maybe it's a Doom3 problem?
I have a A7N8X-DX and a 9700 non pro, and I get those bars at boot-up sometimes and I get a boot-up to a black screen often. About 80% of the time before I ran registry mechanic and now it's down to about 20%.
I am this close to buying a X800 XT AIW for $340. Is it a VIA problem or an ATI problem or what? Should I go with 6800GT?
Humans are far from perfect. Take the human eye: the veins go over the retina instead of under it and abscure vision, the retina isn't attached to the back of the eye and can spontaneously come lose causing permanent blindness, there is a blind spot in the middle of out vision because of the "wiring" being on top of the retina, and there are many other flaws.
Evolution explains all of these flaws.
To say that God designed such a poorly designed eye is to say that God is a fool.
To say that God makes so many mistakes that he constantly has to meddle with every generation to fix previous mistakes and then create more mistakes that need to be fixed in the next generation... well then maybe we need to rewrite the term "to err is human."
"Not only that but they process 1920 lines of horizontal resolution (scaled down to 1280 for a 720p display), which is quite a bit more than 640."
Except that nobody actually transmits 1080x1920. You're lucky if they even broadcast 1600 pixels wide instead of 1200.
Hmmm...
People running SP1 or SP2 68%
People running SP2 or SP1 32%
The best part of this survey is that in 2 catagories I am in 4 postitions:
I have 512MB-1GB AND 1GB-1.5GB of RAM
I have a 30GB-40GB and a 40GB-50GB drive
Also, my network speed is not an option, no matter what we are measuring, be it my 100Mb local network or my 3Mb net connection.
That's not completely true. Traffic is said to behave like ice flowing in a stream - it does not jam up in a linear fashion related to increase in traffic/ice. There is a range where it is mostly free flowing, then there is a range where it can, but wont always, jam. When it is in that range, chaos takes over and the "betterfly affect" is invoked. A single person hitting thier brakes can change traffic pattern for hours by creating a "standing wave" in heavy traffic, etc.
Anyway, my point is by more people making intelligent choices to avoid traffic problems, some traffic problems may disappear.
If only there was some device that would shock people in the genitals if they slowed down to gawk at an accident.
I don't know about "preserving" science. They were the only ones who developed any during out "dark ages" and they invented cryptanalysis and thus modern cryptography.
"Most "damning" probably is the loss of American Positivism: the idea that a rational society can make "progress". We are actively dismantling that progress of the last century every day."
I think I can pinpoint the day where I lost my optimism: the day I learned that we officially saction torture, by our own forces and by "rendition" (outsourcing), is the day something in me died.
"This is a battle between good and evil" Bush said.
I'm not sure which side is which anymore.
If nothing else, at least they explained the rest of the Trouble with Tribbles. DS9 explained why Tribbles kept falling on Kirk's head at the end of the episode - Dax was chucking them - but brought up the question of why Klingons were white. Worf simply said it was something they do not talk about.
Well, Enterprise explains it: genetically modified Klingons had some human genes mixed in which makes them look more human.
That sticks out as the main piece of history of Trek in Enterprize... There are hints all over the place of who's Spocks parents are, but that's it. I love when they cope up with everthing but "red alert," but I was hoping for more. I like the aspect of engineering, and I love the building of a new universe from the foundation, but it's really not grabbing me.
It needs more character development, but not just for the characters. It needs it for the universe, for the different races, for alliances and enemies. It needs intrigue like in DS9. I loved not knowing if Garak could be trusted, and my favorite epsisode was the one where they trick the Romulans into joining the alliance. I loved the complex, more-than-one-dimentional relationship between Odo and Quark. Enterprise is missing that.
The biggest downside is that firefox crashes, a lot, and just about every time I visit a site with java.
Worse still, this crash-prone browser takes all it's windows with it (unlike IE) and does not remember what you had opened (unlike opera).
They start out as a good idea that can be explained in several paragraphs. But that doesn't look like a paper, so you need to word it up. You look at other papers filled with big words of ambiguous meaning, so you use those, whatever they mean. Then you add gibberish to camoflauge the areas you are a little fuzzy on. In the end your computer science paper is unreadable by your target audience, but it doesn't matter because what little code you did include doesn't actually compile thanks to all the typos you missed when wording up your paper.
Okay, that floor kicks serious ass. I want to build one now.
But they certainly did things the hard way. They hand-soldered thousands of surface mounts when they could have used paste and a toaster oven. Even worse, they somehow found solder that still contains lead and sent one of their students to the doctor with lead poisoning. And finally, they used matlab of all things to make the patterns when it would have been simple to make much more complex and fascinating patterns using simple algorithms in their control code. I did it in old demos on a 486 after being inspired by an "acid" demo. I'd link to it, but tripod seems to block the download of exes now.