...like it or not, scientific method dictates that creationism must be disproven before it can be dismissed.
You've got it backwards. Science dictates that creationism must provide evidence to show that it has any merit. To date, there has been no evidence whatsoever. Creationism is also not a theory in any scientific sense: it offers no hypothesis as to how anything was created nor does it make predictions that can be tested. "God did it" is not a hypothesis.
Remember, evolution is still a theory as well. Heck, if you want to go scientific method nazi on someone's ass, gravity is still a theory.
Many people, especially creationists, get this wrong. Evolution is a fact. Natural Selection is the current prevailing theory to explain that fact. Gravity is also a fact. Newton developed his theory of (what is now referred to as) Classical Mechanics. But then Einstein came along and that was replaced by General Relativity. At no time, however, was the fact of gravity ever called into question.
Again, the rotation rate of the Earth has nothing to do with how long the year is. The Earth's rotation rate could go to zero and it would still take the same 365.25 "days" to go around the sun.
A bunch more like this, and we can get rid of the leap year.
The leap year is to correct for the Earth's not revolving around the Sun in an even number of days. It has nothing to do with compensating for the Earth's rotation. The leap second, however, is used to compensate for the Earth's not rotating exactly 360 degrees in one "day."
Or you could just tell people not to pirate software and instead buy directly from the vendor. Closed-source software from reputable sources is just as safe.
Mars is one of the best places to look for nascent life outside of Earth.
Maybe, but whatever life may exist on Mars will be microscopic.
IMHO, a far more interesting place to look for life is under
Europa's ice
where we might actually see things swimming.
Now someone is going to be complaining about over the air updating...
I'm glad I have control over updates via my Mac and that the phones require a very reliable and stable cable.
My parents don't own a computer and don't "get" computers, either.
However, they'd occasionally like to do things that requires a computer
(Netflix, eBay, etc.).
In many ways, an iPad is the perfect device for older parents
who don't "get" computers.
However, since they don't own a desktop computer, there's nothing either to sync with or update from -- no place to plug a cable into.
I'd like the iPad to be able to be a completely stand-alone device.
As an side: if there's any company that could get over-the-air updating to "just work," it would be Apple.
You don't criticize General Motors for not making Ferraris, why criticize Microsoft for not making OS X?
Because, unlike GM and Ferrari, Microsoft and Apple largely overlap for the home and professional (not business) markets. Microsoft wants Windows to be more like OS X -- one look at the Aero UI should tell you that.
MS's problem is that Windows still has tons of baggage internally that MS is forced to keep for backwards compatibility. Apple finally made the break between OS 9 and OS X. If MS attempted such a break, their business customers would revolt.
If I'm going to respect copyright, tell me why I don't deserve to have these movies on my Nintendo DS, Netbook HDD, PS3, etc in whatever the latest resolution is
For the same reason you don't deserve to get a free leather-bound, gold-edged anniversary edition of all of Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy novels just because you bought the original books way back.
I loved that episode. Sutekh was quite malevolent and wonderfully voiced by Gabriel Woolf
who, incidentally, the BBC brought back to do the voice of the Beast in the 2-parter David Tennant story of
The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit.
I agree, but there's a wonderful moment when Tom Baker exclaims something like, "Wait a minute, you're Chinese," as if that visually obvious fact had eluded him up to that point.
Maybe he suddenly realized that Li H'sen Chang is Chinese as opposed to Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, or some other instance of Asian ancestry.
While this does not permit homosexuals to openly serve...
I can find nothing in the linked article that says that homosexuals can not openly serve. In fact, the very first sentence says:
The U.S. military will for the first time in history allow gays to serve openly after the Senate voted Saturday to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," the policy that has required such troops to hide their sexual identity or risk being expelled from the services.
I've been an Apple user since my Apple ][+ and lots of Macs since they came out and I've never heard of that site (yes, with the corrected link). It could be the greatest app store on the planet, but that means little if few have heard of it.
That aside, no other app store will have the same level of trust as Apple's for end users.
I'm asking precisely because I don't think he (or anyone) can come up with a brand new business model that the world has never seen before. There are ownership models, rental models, subscription models, and perhaps one or two others. That's pretty much it. Saying that the record labels or studios need to come up with a new business model is a disingenuous argument.
I'm asking you to pretend you personally are a major record label or movie-studio executive.
What would you do?
Anything short of a description of a new business model is still a cop-out
and simply a smoke-screen that you've got nothing.
How do you even know that such a "new business model" is possible?
If it's not possible, then you're being unrealistic.
Yeah, a step forward for keeping their business models from dying off, thus preventing them from having to actually work to come up with new ones.
I keep reading about "failed business models" and "finding new ones" but nobody ever suggests what such a new business model might actually be and how it would work.
In programming languages older than Algol (from which Pascal was derived) such as FORTRAN, the single '=' was good enough to designate both variable assignment AND logical equality.
Except things like:
X = X + 1
seem unnecessarily confusing for beginners.
Assignment should have its own token.
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You've got it backwards. Science dictates that creationism must provide evidence to show that it has any merit. To date, there has been no evidence whatsoever. Creationism is also not a theory in any scientific sense: it offers no hypothesis as to how anything was created nor does it make predictions that can be tested. "God did it" is not a hypothesis.
Many people, especially creationists, get this wrong. Evolution is a fact. Natural Selection is the current prevailing theory to explain that fact. Gravity is also a fact. Newton developed his theory of (what is now referred to as) Classical Mechanics. But then Einstein came along and that was replaced by General Relativity. At no time, however, was the fact of gravity ever called into question.
True, but that's why I put "days" in quotes. By "day" I still mean a 24-hour period which is has nothing to do with the Earth's rotation.
Again, the rotation rate of the Earth has nothing to do with how long the year is. The Earth's rotation rate could go to zero and it would still take the same 365.25 "days" to go around the sun.
The leap year is to correct for the Earth's not revolving around the Sun in an even number of days. It has nothing to do with compensating for the Earth's rotation. The leap second, however, is used to compensate for the Earth's not rotating exactly 360 degrees in one "day."
... a while ago.
Or you could just tell people not to pirate software and instead buy directly from the vendor. Closed-source software from reputable sources is just as safe.
Maybe, but whatever life may exist on Mars will be microscopic. IMHO, a far more interesting place to look for life is under Europa's ice where we might actually see things swimming.
My parents don't own a computer and don't "get" computers, either. However, they'd occasionally like to do things that requires a computer (Netflix, eBay, etc.). In many ways, an iPad is the perfect device for older parents who don't "get" computers. However, since they don't own a desktop computer, there's nothing either to sync with or update from -- no place to plug a cable into. I'd like the iPad to be able to be a completely stand-alone device. As an side: if there's any company that could get over-the-air updating to "just work," it would be Apple.
What you said supports my point.
Because, unlike GM and Ferrari, Microsoft and Apple largely overlap for the home and professional (not business) markets. Microsoft wants Windows to be more like OS X -- one look at the Aero UI should tell you that.
MS's problem is that Windows still has tons of baggage internally that MS is forced to keep for backwards compatibility. Apple finally made the break between OS 9 and OS X. If MS attempted such a break, their business customers would revolt.
For the same reason you don't deserve to get a free leather-bound, gold-edged anniversary edition of all of Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy novels just because you bought the original books way back.
I loved that episode. Sutekh was quite malevolent and wonderfully voiced by Gabriel Woolf who, incidentally, the BBC brought back to do the voice of the Beast in the 2-parter David Tennant story of The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit.
Maybe he suddenly realized that Li H'sen Chang is Chinese as opposed to Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, or some other instance of Asian ancestry.
In the end, it was (as is often the case) really bad management that killed Commodore.
I can find nothing in the linked article that says that homosexuals can not openly serve. In fact, the very first sentence says:
So is TFS wrong?
The Horta substituted carbon for silicon, not phosphorus for arsenic.
I've been an Apple user since my Apple ][+ and lots of Macs since they came out and I've never heard of that site (yes, with the corrected link). It could be the greatest app store on the planet, but that means little if few have heard of it. That aside, no other app store will have the same level of trust as Apple's for end users.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
One could do that previously using Lists. However, Groups adds a "group space" for shared group content and group chat.
I'm asking precisely because I don't think he (or anyone) can come up with a brand new business model that the world has never seen before. There are ownership models, rental models, subscription models, and perhaps one or two others. That's pretty much it. Saying that the record labels or studios need to come up with a new business model is a disingenuous argument.
Anything short of a description of a new business model is still a cop-out and simply a smoke-screen that you've got nothing. How do you even know that such a "new business model" is possible? If it's not possible, then you're being unrealistic.
And that's a cop-out.
I keep reading about "failed business models" and "finding new ones" but nobody ever suggests what such a new business model might actually be and how it would work.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Except things like:
seem unnecessarily confusing for beginners. Assignment should have its own token.