You forgot a big part of Test 1: Randomly built blocks with outside pressure that selectively weed out all "insane" or "unintelligent" arrangements and have billions of years to work.
There is a fundimental flaw in your test procedure: You forgot to define intelligence. How will we know when we're looking at an intelligent agent? I'm betting you could wire up a Neural net to act like Eliza and have it get pretty good after awhile, but I wouldn't count that as Intelligence.
Also, Gravity isn't a theory (heck, we don't even have any good theories for Gravity yet), Gravity is a Law. Laws are observed repeatable phenomenons, theories are an attempt to explain Laws backed up by testing and observation.
It's terms like "Scientific Facts" that muddy the waters and make the ID proponents look like they're winning debates on TV (at least to people who don't really understand the scientific process) when in fact they're just spouting out jibberish left and right. Many also seem to think that if they can find a tiny little hole in the evolution of a species then Evolution can't be correct because it can't account for the hole. You see them harping again and again on points like feathers, eyeballs, and various stages of development for Man. IIRC some scientists have already figured out feathers and eyeballs, and we get more and more evidence over time on Man.
Intelligent Design is both an argument from evidence and falsifiable in principle. Thus it is a scientific theory. But I think it is premature to teach it below the graduate level until a basic facility in philosophy of science has been taught. Controversies such as this generally result from ignorance, and do not lead to enlightenment. Public education, rather than deciding such a controversy, will preclude it.
Wrong on both counts. What evidence do you have that "a wizard did it"? That stuff about "life is too complex to happen naturally" doesn't work either, because you've never built up a mathematical model of complexity over time to prove that evolution alone cannot result in that sort of complexity.
Falsifiable? How? What experiment could you devise that would test this? I can guarentee that anything you try to do I can just say "well, the Wizard made it look like that".
The biggest problem with ID is that it doesn't follow the scientific method. The result for these unfortuante schoolkids is that they take the first 3 weeks of class to learn about the scientific method and how wonderful it is and how it's the foundation of all science, then you throw it away and say "well, except for the origin of species stuff, in that case A Wizard Did It(tm)". Do you not see how this is dangerous and foolhardy?
You are still in denial. The DRM killed the Zodiac. Face it, compared to Nintendo, Sony, and even (choke) Nokia you were destined to be a niche player, at least with your first generation units. There was a Niche though, there is a strong Homebrew community with PalmOS, and if you put out a device that was reasonably easy to program you could have built a cult following with the device. I wouldn't be a massive GBA style success, but you would probably make enough to get by and develop a generation two product that could build on the success.
Face it, no major developer is going to look twice at your platform, and almost nobody buys a platform with no software support. Homebrew applications were going to have to be the bread and butter of your device. Profits wouldn't be grand, but hey, a niche is a niche. Once a large enough community built up around it, you could probably get some major deveopers interested, but from where you started there was no chance in getting much of anything out of a major player.
There was a potental for success here, but instead you went and DRMed the thing up, killing the homebrew community before it even got started. Now you're wondering why you went under and why people are complaining about the stupid DRM system. You built a device with no market.
On the flipside, you may not have survived with a completely open platform either. Homebrew communities are difficult to build up and can be fickle. You may never have reached critical mass even with an open approach. On the other hand, you'd probably have plenty of free stories on Slashdot when people did cool things with your device and at least some evangelical users bemoaning your passing.
Ouch. Not to rile you up any more, but outside of stuff like the Olympics and the Tour De France, NPR only covers sports once a week for 10-15 minutes or so on All Things Considered, and usually those segments are pretty interesting--they're not just a roundup of the scores and your usual fawning over an athlete.
I never really saw the point of podcasting the news. It'll be out of date by the time you get to your car and chances are there is a perfectly good NPR station available in your area that is willing to provide the news without the BS of most major radio stations.
Last time I checked DirectTV isn't a governmental body, they can't declare anything illegal any more than you can. What they can do is file civil suits against you.
What you're really saying is that you don't trust the Moderators on Slashdot, but you also don't want to see useless posts/spam? You can't have it both ways, you need to either accept someone else's opinions or you need to sift through all of the chaff yourself. There is no magical anti-spam faery that will do your work for you exactly the same way you would. Either invest some trust in the moderators, or stop complaining.
It's not like there was ever a questionarre you had to fill out for either client. It just happened that the technical and foreign users tended to choose ICQ while everyone else went with AIM.
Protocol wise they're pretty much a wash. The main difference in my mind was that AIM doesn't store messages when people are offline and it LOVES to pop up windows in front of whatever you're doing.
I've seen plenty of companies where most employees get Dells or whatnot, but the higher up managers have a few Macs scattered here and there.
Also, depending on what your company does it can make sense for some of the employees (like the graphics guys) to have Macs while the rest of the guys have PCs.
Sure, if you want your kids going to school in the dark (well, people in northern lattitudes are used to this, but still).
Every time this issue comes up the suggestion to go to DST only comes up, but in the end the kids-in-the-dark argument ends up trumping all other arguments time and time again.
I don't know about CT directly, but it is entirely possible that you were supposed to contest his dismissal of your evidence. You probably should have brought a lawyer with you too, otherwise the other guy will pull out all sorts of little barely legal half truths and walk all over you.
Uh, the only way I know to avoid playing is to build yourself your own little island out in international waters and try really hard not to catch the notice of any government or nongovernmental bodies anywhere.
The writeup mentioned that the chart had been bought by several schools, but I'm willing to bet that most of them are just putting them on the wall because they're pretty and sort of educational. The tiny dots for each element are going to be a lot harder to read (and stick additional information in) than a regular boxy chart.
Frankly, I liked the 1950s chart after it better. There was a certain beauty in the layout of that chart. The new chart is pretty much just the elements spiraled across a picture of a galaxy.
It's even better if you go to cons and stop by the industry panels and bring up Fansubbing. Even if you missed the introductions you can tell right away who the ADV guy is because he'll start foaming at the mouth and launch right into his "Fansubbers are a bunch of no good low down dirty pirates that are pulling the food right out of our babies mouthes!" speech. I especially love when he does this in a room full of Naruto and One Piece cosplayers.
At least Naruto and One Piece have finally been licensed and may be released in the States in a year or two.
That's because you choose a huge ass SUV for your vehicle. Obviously people with smaller vehicles will have less seating. The MITRE Meteor for instance only seats two because it's a Ford Ranger.
Cisco's IP phones can be powered by PoE, and they have giant displays on the front. We've been using them for a couple of years now. PoE for VoIP phones is nothing new.
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You forgot a big part of Test 1: Randomly built blocks with outside pressure that selectively weed out all "insane" or "unintelligent" arrangements and have billions of years to work.
There is a fundimental flaw in your test procedure: You forgot to define intelligence. How will we know when we're looking at an intelligent agent? I'm betting you could wire up a Neural net to act like Eliza and have it get pretty good after awhile, but I wouldn't count that as Intelligence.
What the hell is a "scientific fact"?
Also, Gravity isn't a theory (heck, we don't even have any good theories for Gravity yet), Gravity is a Law. Laws are observed repeatable phenomenons, theories are an attempt to explain Laws backed up by testing and observation.
It's terms like "Scientific Facts" that muddy the waters and make the ID proponents look like they're winning debates on TV (at least to people who don't really understand the scientific process) when in fact they're just spouting out jibberish left and right. Many also seem to think that if they can find a tiny little hole in the evolution of a species then Evolution can't be correct because it can't account for the hole. You see them harping again and again on points like feathers, eyeballs, and various stages of development for Man. IIRC some scientists have already figured out feathers and eyeballs, and we get more and more evidence over time on Man.
Falsifiable? How? What experiment could you devise that would test this? I can guarentee that anything you try to do I can just say "well, the Wizard made it look like that".
The biggest problem with ID is that it doesn't follow the scientific method. The result for these unfortuante schoolkids is that they take the first 3 weeks of class to learn about the scientific method and how wonderful it is and how it's the foundation of all science, then you throw it away and say "well, except for the origin of species stuff, in that case A Wizard Did It(tm)". Do you not see how this is dangerous and foolhardy?
What am I going to do now? My work uniform is Jeans and T-Shirt! :)
Bah
You are still in denial. The DRM killed the Zodiac. Face it, compared to Nintendo, Sony, and even (choke) Nokia you were destined to be a niche player, at least with your first generation units. There was a Niche though, there is a strong Homebrew community with PalmOS, and if you put out a device that was reasonably easy to program you could have built a cult following with the device. I wouldn't be a massive GBA style success, but you would probably make enough to get by and develop a generation two product that could build on the success.
Face it, no major developer is going to look twice at your platform, and almost nobody buys a platform with no software support. Homebrew applications were going to have to be the bread and butter of your device. Profits wouldn't be grand, but hey, a niche is a niche. Once a large enough community built up around it, you could probably get some major deveopers interested, but from where you started there was no chance in getting much of anything out of a major player.
There was a potental for success here, but instead you went and DRMed the thing up, killing the homebrew community before it even got started. Now you're wondering why you went under and why people are complaining about the stupid DRM system. You built a device with no market.
On the flipside, you may not have survived with a completely open platform either. Homebrew communities are difficult to build up and can be fickle. You may never have reached critical mass even with an open approach. On the other hand, you'd probably have plenty of free stories on Slashdot when people did cool things with your device and at least some evangelical users bemoaning your passing.
Ouch. Not to rile you up any more, but outside of stuff like the Olympics and the Tour De France, NPR only covers sports once a week for 10-15 minutes or so on All Things Considered, and usually those segments are pretty interesting--they're not just a roundup of the scores and your usual fawning over an athlete.
I never really saw the point of podcasting the news. It'll be out of date by the time you get to your car and chances are there is a perfectly good NPR station available in your area that is willing to provide the news without the BS of most major radio stations.
Last time I checked DirectTV isn't a governmental body, they can't declare anything illegal any more than you can. What they can do is file civil suits against you.
What you're really saying is that you don't trust the Moderators on Slashdot, but you also don't want to see useless posts/spam? You can't have it both ways, you need to either accept someone else's opinions or you need to sift through all of the chaff yourself. There is no magical anti-spam faery that will do your work for you exactly the same way you would. Either invest some trust in the moderators, or stop complaining.
Welcome to two days ago.
BR. Anyway, it's still fixed, but now it's against a basket of currencies instead of just the dollar.
It's not like there was ever a questionarre you had to fill out for either client. It just happened that the technical and foreign users tended to choose ICQ while everyone else went with AIM.
Protocol wise they're pretty much a wash. The main difference in my mind was that AIM doesn't store messages when people are offline and it LOVES to pop up windows in front of whatever you're doing.
I've seen plenty of companies where most employees get Dells or whatnot, but the higher up managers have a few Macs scattered here and there.
Also, depending on what your company does it can make sense for some of the employees (like the graphics guys) to have Macs while the rest of the guys have PCs.
This fight is for people who aren't technical and are in the US. I score very low because most of my friends (and their friends) are on ICQ.
Sure, if you want your kids going to school in the dark (well, people in northern lattitudes are used to this, but still).
Every time this issue comes up the suggestion to go to DST only comes up, but in the end the kids-in-the-dark argument ends up trumping all other arguments time and time again.
I don't know about CT directly, but it is entirely possible that you were supposed to contest his dismissal of your evidence. You probably should have brought a lawyer with you too, otherwise the other guy will pull out all sorts of little barely legal half truths and walk all over you.
Read the caption on that chart, it's the one from the 1950s that everyone was talking about.
The writeup mentioned that the chart had been bought by several schools, but I'm willing to bet that most of them are just putting them on the wall because they're pretty and sort of educational. The tiny dots for each element are going to be a lot harder to read (and stick additional information in) than a regular boxy chart.
Frankly, I liked the 1950s chart after it better. There was a certain beauty in the layout of that chart. The new chart is pretty much just the elements spiraled across a picture of a galaxy.
It's even better if you go to cons and stop by the industry panels and bring up Fansubbing. Even if you missed the introductions you can tell right away who the ADV guy is because he'll start foaming at the mouth and launch right into his "Fansubbers are a bunch of no good low down dirty pirates that are pulling the food right out of our babies mouthes!" speech. I especially love when he does this in a room full of Naruto and One Piece cosplayers.
At least Naruto and One Piece have finally been licensed and may be released in the States in a year or two.
That's because you choose a huge ass SUV for your vehicle. Obviously people with smaller vehicles will have less seating. The MITRE Meteor for instance only seats two because it's a Ford Ranger.
Why the hell would someone simplify LOGO? You can't get much simpler without just making a Turing machine already.
Cisco's IP phones can be powered by PoE, and they have giant displays on the front. We've been using them for a couple of years now. PoE for VoIP phones is nothing new.
Scientology isn't killing WoW, it's the annoying characters and enormous plot holes that are killing it.
I think if you replace the term windtunnel with windmill the answer will become clear.
That or if you bothered to read the article.