This article mentioned something about PC's that only run Windows. I don't think this is a problem. People that want to run Linux usually build their own PC anyway. The common pc users who buy PC's off the shelf only know Windows, so they aren't going to care about Linux. Personally, wheither I run Windows or Linux, I'll only own a PC that I build myself. The real threat comes when us geeks want to run Windows for compatibility reasons and they change Windows to only work on PC's that only work with Windows. That might actually help their competition though because it would force people to use Linux on their home built machines.
Why not just drop the empty blob of iron to the center of the earth, wait until it stops, and then send the probe down the hole it created? That way the probe doesn't have to be encased in molten iron.
Drat! They're really making it hard for us time travelers aren't they! How am I suppose to go back to the 80's to sell them future technology when no one will take future money?
This article does little good without an ISO image to download so we can play it.
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We agree on some things. Adaptation and variety does happen and that doesn't rely on mutation. Mutation is usually harmful. Also there are many features in lifeforms that are very similar and are modified versions of the other, such as skin,feathers,scales etc. A creationist would say that simply means they were made from the same general template. I suppose evolutionists would say the same. As for the way things are designed being flawed, well things now are obviously not the way they were originally designed. I could go on and on about that but Slashdot is hardly the place. As for other species that have no basis for evolution, there are plenty. I suggest that if you would like to conitinue the discussion further you give me permission to visit your site and send you an email.
"What is it that keeps such an old platform going?"
Simple. It's really cool to get an old machine to do something new. Like internet for example, or 3D graphics.
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"what prevents lots of microevolution from adding up to macroevolution?"
Micro-evolution doesn't produce new organs, make a reptile into a mammal or a fish into an amphibian. It doesn't mean that one day a reptile happen to be born with feathers so it was a bird. It's a small variation of what's already there. A change in color or size perhaps, or for example in turtles, the shape of a water turtles' feet are good for swimming while a land turtle's feet are good for walking.
Micro-evolution doesn't neccisarily mean a genetic change either. Some believe that, for example in dogs, the first dogs in creation had the genetic makeup of all breeds of dog, and that those genetic traits began to pass down and seperate over the generations. This can be represented by a giant punit square, in which a set of original dogs from the beginning of time are the parents, and you can see by making this punit square that the genetic traits of all breeds can be traced back to an original breed of dog, even so much as a fox which can not normally backwards breed with a dog. Were the first dogs big or small? Were the first cats big like lions? probably, But one thing is fairly certain, they were still cats.
This theory easily fits with natural selection, as the cats that were born with stripes could hide in the grass, and easily populate grassy areas, while cats that were born plain aren't suited for such areas and probably died off in such a setting.
What Macro-evolution doesn't explain is species that can not advance without certain features, for example the giraffe. The giraffe has a very long neck, which is designed not only to reach tall trees, but also so that the giraffe can bend down and drink without his brain being gorged with blood and exploding. The giraffe has a very powerful heart for getting blood up its long neck, but when he bends down to drink blood is going very powerfully downhill with the added force of gravity. There is a spongy tissue around his brain that holds blood until he is done drinking, and, valvues in his blood vessles to keep more blood from coming into his head. If these things were not in place in the first species of giraffe at the dawn of time, the first species of giraffe would have died as a result of too much blood going to his head and there would simply be no more giraffes. Yet according to Macro-evolution it took a long amount of time for these complex things to develope. Were there ever short neck giraffes? Could be, but, would they be designed in such a way? These things are specifically designed for an animal with a very long neck. The powerful heart would kill a short neck giraffe. He'd die of high blood preasure, yet if the first long necked giraffe was born without a strong heart, it would have died from not having enough blood to its brain. So how did this complex animal come to be? There are many different species such as this that defy the theory of Macro-evolution, species with features that have to be in place in their full form for the species to simply exist and advance because without them they will simply die.
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You would also assume that all creationists are anti-evolutionists. This is not always the case. There are some that believe that Micro-evolution is not only possible but conforms to their sacred writings (the bible). Micro-evolution being that all the different variety of one kind of animal all began with the first ancestor of the same kind, for example, cocker spaniels, poodles and wolves and even foxes all came from a common ancestor, but that common ancestor was in fact a dog. What isn't accepted is Macro-evolution, or that cats, dogs, and lizards, being of a different kind, have a common ancestor. In this way of thinking an antibiotic resistant Staph would be very possible because even though the Staph has now become resistant to modern medicine it is still a Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. We discover a new virus all the time, but one thing remains the same, it's still a virus.
I once saw some cheesy scientist on the tonight show or letterman or whatever get light from a pickle! He stuck two forks in each end and connected each fork to the AC and the pickle lit up! I'm not sure what this has to do with computers but it was pretty cool!
There is no reason to fear for your brain privacy, in fact there is no such thing as a brain scan! It is all lies! Even if there were those who could perform a brain scan, there aren't, but if their were, they have all commited suicide under the walls of Baghdad! We are not afraid of the brain scan, allah has condemned them, they are stupid. They are stupid..... and they are condemned. We welcome them with bullets and shoes!
-Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
it's good to see that his behavior isn't just at the store I worked at. They blamed me for not charging a man for sending his stereo to service, even though the STAR paperwork didn't have a signature on it and I always signed my paper work as soon as it came out of the printer. They canned me just because I worked the same day it happened. Of all 5 of the service techs that I worked with at the time, 1 did not get fired, and they all worked there 2+ years. I got a good job for 3 months doing tech support on the phone but when that ran out I had to load trucks! I just quit that job cause it sucked. It just seems like they'd rather pay a 17 year old $7 an hour to do o.k. work then a real certified tech with a degree a little more for quality work. I had a friend call the supervisor of the tech department and pretend to be someone interested in hiring me. he was telling people I was slow and didn't work hard but had great computer knowledge. The manager who fired me moved to another store and didn't even remember why she fired me.
I use to work at.. (I don't want to mention any names since they fired me for no reason, which they have a reputation for if you work there for too long, so we'll just call them Bestbye..) for 3 years, when I lost that job it took me 6 Months to find another job, and then it was just a 3 month temp.
Well, I won't touch anything with the letters "XP" voluntarily
Not even an Athlon XP? What if they made a Linux XP? If they made a Vasaline XP would you stop jacking off? Or would you need Viagra XP? What if your girl's coochie had the letters XP tattooed on it?
I saw on the discovery health channel once where a man had to have his pancreas removed and they havested his beta cells and injected them into his liver so his body could produce insulin.
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This article mentioned something about PC's that only run Windows. I don't think this is a problem. People that want to run Linux usually build their own PC anyway. The common pc users who buy PC's off the shelf only know Windows, so they aren't going to care about Linux. Personally, wheither I run Windows or Linux, I'll only own a PC that I build myself. The real threat comes when us geeks want to run Windows for compatibility reasons and they change Windows to only work on PC's that only work with Windows. That might actually help their competition though because it would force people to use Linux on their home built machines.
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Why not just drop the empty blob of iron to the center of the earth, wait until it stops, and then send the probe down the hole it created? That way the probe doesn't have to be encased in molten iron.
Drat! They're really making it hard for us time travelers aren't they! How am I suppose to go back to the 80's to sell them future technology when no one will take future money?
This article does little good without an ISO image to download so we can play it.
We agree on some things. Adaptation and variety does happen and that doesn't rely on mutation. Mutation is usually harmful. Also there are many features in lifeforms that are very similar and are modified versions of the other, such as skin,feathers,scales etc. A creationist would say that simply means they were made from the same general template. I suppose evolutionists would say the same. As for the way things are designed being flawed, well things now are obviously not the way they were originally designed. I could go on and on about that but Slashdot is hardly the place. As for other species that have no basis for evolution, there are plenty. I suggest that if you would like to conitinue the discussion further you give me permission to visit your site and send you an email.
"What is it that keeps such an old platform going?"
Simple. It's really cool to get an old machine to do something new. Like internet for example, or 3D graphics."what prevents lots of microevolution from adding up to macroevolution?"
Micro-evolution doesn't produce new organs, make a reptile into a mammal or a fish into an amphibian. It doesn't mean that one day a reptile happen to be born with feathers so it was a bird. It's a small variation of what's already there. A change in color or size perhaps, or for example in turtles, the shape of a water turtles' feet are good for swimming while a land turtle's feet are good for walking.
Micro-evolution doesn't neccisarily mean a genetic change either. Some believe that, for example in dogs, the first dogs in creation had the genetic makeup of all breeds of dog, and that those genetic traits began to pass down and seperate over the generations. This can be represented by a giant punit square, in which a set of original dogs from the beginning of time are the parents, and you can see by making this punit square that the genetic traits of all breeds can be traced back to an original breed of dog, even so much as a fox which can not normally backwards breed with a dog. Were the first dogs big or small? Were the first cats big like lions? probably, But one thing is fairly certain, they were still cats.
This theory easily fits with natural selection, as the cats that were born with stripes could hide in the grass, and easily populate grassy areas, while cats that were born plain aren't suited for such areas and probably died off in such a setting.
What Macro-evolution doesn't explain is species that can not advance without certain features, for example the giraffe. The giraffe has a very long neck, which is designed not only to reach tall trees, but also so that the giraffe can bend down and drink without his brain being gorged with blood and exploding. The giraffe has a very powerful heart for getting blood up its long neck, but when he bends down to drink blood is going very powerfully downhill with the added force of gravity. There is a spongy tissue around his brain that holds blood until he is done drinking, and, valvues in his blood vessles to keep more blood from coming into his head. If these things were not in place in the first species of giraffe at the dawn of time, the first species of giraffe would have died as a result of too much blood going to his head and there would simply be no more giraffes. Yet according to Macro-evolution it took a long amount of time for these complex things to develope. Were there ever short neck giraffes? Could be, but, would they be designed in such a way? These things are specifically designed for an animal with a very long neck. The powerful heart would kill a short neck giraffe. He'd die of high blood preasure, yet if the first long necked giraffe was born without a strong heart, it would have died from not having enough blood to its brain. So how did this complex animal come to be? There are many different species such as this that defy the theory of Macro-evolution, species with features that have to be in place in their full form for the species to simply exist and advance because without them they will simply die.
You would also assume that all creationists are anti-evolutionists. This is not always the case. There are some that believe that Micro-evolution is not only possible but conforms to their sacred writings (the bible). Micro-evolution being that all the different variety of one kind of animal all began with the first ancestor of the same kind, for example, cocker spaniels, poodles and wolves and even foxes all came from a common ancestor, but that common ancestor was in fact a dog. What isn't accepted is Macro-evolution, or that cats, dogs, and lizards, being of a different kind, have a common ancestor. In this way of thinking an antibiotic resistant Staph would be very possible because even though the Staph has now become resistant to modern medicine it is still a Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. We discover a new virus all the time, but one thing remains the same, it's still a virus.
... and it was actually pretty cool. They tied it into the movie pretty well.
You should remind him that unless he watches it in widescreen he's chopping off both sides of the movie, thereby wasting part of the movie.
I once saw some cheesy scientist on the tonight show or letterman or whatever get light from a pickle! He stuck two forks in each end and connected each fork to the AC and the pickle lit up! I'm not sure what this has to do with computers but it was pretty cool!
It won't be long until we have www.pr0n.mars
There is no reason to fear for your brain privacy, in fact there is no such thing as a brain scan! It is all lies! Even if there were those who could perform a brain scan, there aren't, but if their were, they have all commited suicide under the walls of Baghdad! We are not afraid of the brain scan, allah has condemned them, they are stupid. They are stupid..... and they are condemned. We welcome them with bullets and shoes!
-Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Actually I had the first post, but I chose not to use it to trol.
Typo!
Crunchbacca?
it's good to see that his behavior isn't just at the store I worked at. They blamed me for not charging a man for sending his stereo to service, even though the STAR paperwork didn't have a signature on it and I always signed my paper work as soon as it came out of the printer. They canned me just because I worked the same day it happened. Of all 5 of the service techs that I worked with at the time, 1 did not get fired, and they all worked there 2+ years. I got a good job for 3 months doing tech support on the phone but when that ran out I had to load trucks! I just quit that job cause it sucked. It just seems like they'd rather pay a 17 year old $7 an hour to do o.k. work then a real certified tech with a degree a little more for quality work. I had a friend call the supervisor of the tech department and pretend to be someone interested in hiring me. he was telling people I was slow and didn't work hard but had great computer knowledge. The manager who fired me moved to another store and didn't even remember why she fired me.
AOL sucks monkey nuts.
Woooow that's almost another button. Next thing you know they'll be trying to add a second button. Might confuse some folks.
I use to work at.. (I don't want to mention any names since they fired me for no reason, which they have a reputation for if you work there for too long, so we'll just call them Bestbye..) for 3 years, when I lost that job it took me 6 Months to find another job, and then it was just a 3 month temp.
Now your computer IS windows!
Well, I won't touch anything with the letters "XP" voluntarily
Not even an Athlon XP? What if they made a Linux XP? If they made a Vasaline XP would you stop jacking off? Or would you need Viagra XP? What if your girl's coochie had the letters XP tattooed on it?
I saw on the discovery health channel once where a man had to have his pancreas removed and they havested his beta cells and injected them into his liver so his body could produce insulin.
I agree you do have to be careful on pricewatch.