Nicely said, but fundamentally flawed. For science to be a superior knowledge base it would have to prove there is no God, which is proving a negative, which math and science itself says cannot be done. Where science and religion collide is in the acceptance of theories, evolution for example. Evolution is a theory, a widely accepted and highly plausible one, but still a theory. Even if evolution is historically accurate science cannot prove God was not a guiding factor in its direction, i.e. evolution being God's mechanism of creation. A "day" in genesis not being the 24-hour period we know and love. God was after all communicating with primitive sheep herders when Genesis was written, he would probably use different words when communicating with a modern biologist. When you say science and religion are incomaptible, especially when you speak of the future, you are exercising a leap of faith just like the most fundamentalist literal interpreter of the bible. I think neither extreme has it right. Of course I have no proof.;-)
Maybe you should read a bit of history. Roosevelt passed legislation in 1939 that kept the US out of the war until attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
I think I am a little farther along than you in the readings. You confuse what FDR said and what FDR did. He desparately wanted to aid Britain and stretched the limits of the law as far as he could, lend-lease for example, and actually authorized US Naval attacks on German submarines prior to Pearl Harbor. The laws were passed to fulfill campaign promises and FDR soon, if not all along, considered them to be obstacles to doing what is right.
To compare Bush and Roosevelt...
Actually my post included something like "by your logic, not mine".
The reasons for the invasion are many and complicated but what it boils down to is an oil grab by the US.
How can it be an oil grab if the oil is not in our hands, and if the money is going to an elected Iraqi governmant rather than Saddam, the UN, the French, and various others?
PS: I am decidedly not anti-US. Far from it, I stayed for a while in that fine country in 1996, and loved every minute of it. I am however appalled at what the Bush Administration has turned it into.
You can't imagine how funny that is to us old farts who recall the same end-of-the-world nonsense when Reagan was president. The lunatic left said Reagan would turn the US into a theocracy, much as they do with Bush today, the lunatic right said Clinton would turn the US in a godless socialist centrally planned state,...
By your logic, not mine, FDR was an oil/religion wacko too. FDR often used the word 'God' in speeches and he fought a war, the Pacific Campaign against Japan, over oil too. We used our oil exports to pressure Japan over their invasion of China, they decided to invade some local oil producers and attack us since we were on the supply line home. Now that I think of it oil was pretty important in the European campaign as well, we suffered heavy casualties trying to knock out oil fields.
Oh BTW, your full of crap, the Iraqi oil fields are being run by the Iraqi's. As opposed to before the war when it was run by the U.N. and siphoning money back to Saddam, via the French and others. Things are far more complicated than whatever you heard in some campus rally. You really need to get past the politics, be it from the left or right, pro-US or anti-US, and do a little more research and read a little more history. Then you'll start to understand how incomprehensibly complicated things really are.
"This is our way of finding God," said Consolmagno, author of Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist, published in February by McGraw-Hill.
The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical institutes in the world and the only research group directly supported by the Holy See. The church funds the observatory to the tune of about $1 million a year, leaving its operation to the Jesuits, a religious order whose "charism," or special gift to the church, is scholarship.
Perhaps the fundies should visit the Vatican Observatory:
"Analyzing the space rocks, or training the Vatican Observatory's $3 million Arizona telescope on a distant galaxy, are both ways of gaining 'a closer appreciation of the personality of the creator', he said in an interview."
FWIW, my local parish priest was the Dean of Chemistry at a local State University. I mention this because I would like readers to be aware that the pro-science side has its own lunatic fringe that likes to pretend that hard science and religion are incompatible.
The reason that high school and university classes are of a certain length is that it has been found that most people can't concentrate on a particular thing for more than about 1.5 hours. After you reach that limit your productivity decreases rapidly. Most people need some form of regular distraction. Once they have this "reset" they go back to being a lot more productive.
And that is why the "standard" 8-hour day is broken into four two-hour segments by two breaks and a lunch. Sorry, most desk jockeys f-off because they can not because they need to in order to maximize productivity.
Well not everyone has the ability to take a vacation, holiday, or weekend...
And the intersection of that population with the population that has access to a computer and can casually sit around playing solitaire without being noticed is how close to zero?
I assume that there are dozens of online solitaire games avaiable. Unless they take the extra step of blocking all game related websites, the whole thing is pointless.
You are overanalyzing the problem. All you have to do is have the official poilicy of "no games" and then you are free to fire someone playing at work. OK, maybe they have to get a warning first.
The "no games" policy should be accompanied with a "no unauthorized installs" policy.
I'm sorry but there is nothing new here, you were just unaware of it. Banks and retailers have been required to report certain transactions, or patterns of transactions, for years. IIRC it all started decades ago in an attempt to find organized crime and drug dealers.
Similarly your air traverl has been monitored for decades. People who fit certain travel profiles have been stopped and interviewed. Happened to a coworker in the 80s who did on-site tech support and did a lot of flying with short stays.
Each generation thinks that they discovered that the government is spying on the public, it is very much like each generation thinking they discovered kinky sex. The truth is that each generation merely starts out ignorant of what went on before.
Did you really mean AMD64/EM64T? AMD's current and Intel's upcoming 64-bit extension of IA-32? IA-64 is regrettably something completely different, Itanium.
WinNT PPC was finished, I believe the retail WinNT4 CD includes MIPS, x86, PowerPC, and Alpha. I recall dual 604 boxes being advertised in Byte magazine for a while. A review in Byte compared dual 604 against dual Pentium, pointing out dual 604 scaled better. Win2000 PPC was never finished.
The most probable reason for this might be code portability. If you force yourself to write code on a PPC machine then the odds are much better that you'll end up with portable code (as you already know a bazillion x86 users will be testing your code anyway.)
No, using only a PPC does not really help you write portable code. It is pretty much the same as using only an x86. To write portable code you have to use more than one architecture during development. If you write on PPC and wait for x86 users to find problems you are not writing portable code, you are fixing the non-portable code that you wrote and distributed.
The 70s version of the show was pretty good in its day. It was terribly expensive to produce and as time went on they tried various cost saving measures, ex. same flight/combat scene every episode. They re-run on SciFi every once in a while, it might be worth it to check it out in order to get some perspective(1). You may need to watch two or three episodes in case you get one of the weeker ones.
(1) I think one of the things that makes the new show so popular is the contrast with the old. A darker more realistic feel. At least for us old farts who remember the 70s.:-)
New for the current re-envisioned show. In the 70s they were all chrome.
wing-commander-like military comradery
A major theme of the original show, which predated WC and which has a basis in the real world. I read a little on WW1 pilots, people are about the same, much of the tactics are the same, the technology changes.
I've set my MythTV box to record anything battlestar-related
If it every records anything with 1980 in the name delete it without viewing. If you somehow miss the title, or if they had changed it, and you see earth and boy scouts, stop, delete immediately.:-)
I hate to break it to you, but Star Trek and the universe it portrays is fiction. Thus, the future as seen in this work of fiction is quite probably also not going to happen. Which means that we won't end up with a "Prime Directive".
You are probably wrong. If we get off our rock and if there is anything else out there, something heading in the general direction of the "prime directive" would be likely if current western social values continue. Attitudes embracing environmentalism and endangered species protection are not necessarily confined to Earth. Similarly attitudes towards respecting "primitive" cultures would not be confined. And on the less respectul side there is also the "practical" angle of leaving "primitives" in their "primitive" state. Less likely to be a threat and more easily controlled, there is some historical precedent for that too.
The real world is far more complex than fiction and far more difficult to make prediction about. Definitive statement like yours are foolish.
Not really, you are confusing what they are famous for and what they make money from. Their software is bundled with their hardware, it does not really stand alone. Retail MacOS X packages are merely upgrades.
I'm a geezer too so I get the title, but the analogy is off. Mac OS X has no secondary/alternative use, it's pure dessert topping.:-)
Apple might be a hardware company, but it should be noted that the software is still top-notch
It had to be to justify the relatively expensive hardware, at least until the Mac Mini came along. Only few and highly specialized applications really benefitted from PowerPC with respect to performance. For the majority the "user experience" had to justify the hardware sale.
Jobs is right when he says Apple is a software company, you just don't understand what he means by that.
Neither do you, that is spin from a marketting/sales person, Jobs' specialty. Apple is a hardware company. Software, including Mac OS X, merely exists to get people to buy Apple hardware. That Mac hardware is pointless without Mac OS X is irrelevant. Follow the money, where does it come from. More importantly look at history, the Mac clones. If Apple were a software company Mac clones would have benefitted Apple. The fact that Apple terminated Mac clone hardware demonstrates that Apple is a hardware company.
Your info is 4-5 years out of date. Things have been essentially equivalent for years, but DirectX does have an advantage with respect to access to new hardware capabilities. Its a little cleaner than having to deal with various OpenGL vendor extensions.
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Nicely said, but fundamentally flawed. For science to be a superior knowledge base it would have to prove there is no God, which is proving a negative, which math and science itself says cannot be done. Where science and religion collide is in the acceptance of theories, evolution for example. Evolution is a theory, a widely accepted and highly plausible one, but still a theory. Even if evolution is historically accurate science cannot prove God was not a guiding factor in its direction, i.e. evolution being God's mechanism of creation. A "day" in genesis not being the 24-hour period we know and love. God was after all communicating with primitive sheep herders when Genesis was written, he would probably use different words when communicating with a modern biologist. When you say science and religion are incomaptible, especially when you speak of the future, you are exercising a leap of faith just like the most fundamentalist literal interpreter of the bible. I think neither extreme has it right. Of course I have no proof. ;-)
Maybe you should read a bit of history. Roosevelt passed legislation in 1939 that kept the US out of the war until attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
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I think I am a little farther along than you in the readings. You confuse what FDR said and what FDR did. He desparately wanted to aid Britain and stretched the limits of the law as far as he could, lend-lease for example, and actually authorized US Naval attacks on German submarines prior to Pearl Harbor. The laws were passed to fulfill campaign promises and FDR soon, if not all along, considered them to be obstacles to doing what is right.
To compare Bush and Roosevelt
Actually my post included something like "by your logic, not mine".
The reasons for the invasion are many and complicated but what it boils down to is an oil grab by the US.
How can it be an oil grab if the oil is not in our hands, and if the money is going to an elected Iraqi governmant rather than Saddam, the UN, the French, and various others?
PS: I am decidedly not anti-US. Far from it, I stayed for a while in that fine country in 1996, and loved every minute of it. I am however appalled at what the Bush Administration has turned it into.
You can't imagine how funny that is to us old farts who recall the same end-of-the-world nonsense when Reagan was president. The lunatic left said Reagan would turn the US into a theocracy, much as they do with Bush today, the lunatic right said Clinton would turn the US in a godless socialist centrally planned state,
By your logic, not mine, FDR was an oil/religion wacko too. FDR often used the word 'God' in speeches and he fought a war, the Pacific Campaign against Japan, over oil too. We used our oil exports to pressure Japan over their invasion of China, they decided to invade some local oil producers and attack us since we were on the supply line home. Now that I think of it oil was pretty important in the European campaign as well, we suffered heavy casualties trying to knock out oil fields.
Oh BTW, your full of crap, the Iraqi oil fields are being run by the Iraqi's. As opposed to before the war when it was run by the U.N. and siphoning money back to Saddam, via the French and others. Things are far more complicated than whatever you heard in some campus rally. You really need to get past the politics, be it from the left or right, pro-US or anti-US, and do a little more research and read a little more history. Then you'll start to understand how incomprehensibly complicated things really are.
Rather than respond to a bunch of similarly themed posts I would simply like to point out that Religion and Hard Science are compatible. For example:
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/v
"This is our way of finding God," said Consolmagno, author of Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist, published in February by McGraw-Hill.
The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical institutes in the world and the only research group directly supported by the Holy See. The church funds the observatory to the tune of about $1 million a year, leaving its operation to the Jesuits, a religious order whose "charism," or special gift to the church, is scholarship.
Perhaps the fundies should visit the Vatican Observatory:
a tican_observe_000716.html
"Analyzing the space rocks, or training the Vatican Observatory's $3 million Arizona telescope on a distant galaxy, are both ways of gaining 'a closer appreciation of the personality of the creator', he said in an interview."
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/v
FWIW, my local parish priest was the Dean of Chemistry at a local State University. I mention this because I would like readers to be aware that the pro-science side has its own lunatic fringe that likes to pretend that hard science and religion are incompatible.
The reason that high school and university classes are of a certain length is that it has been found that most people can't concentrate on a particular thing for more than about 1.5 hours. After you reach that limit your productivity decreases rapidly. Most people need some form of regular distraction. Once they have this "reset" they go back to being a lot more productive.
And that is why the "standard" 8-hour day is broken into four two-hour segments by two breaks and a lunch. Sorry, most desk jockeys f-off because they can not because they need to in order to maximize productivity.
Well not everyone has the ability to take a vacation, holiday, or weekend...
And the intersection of that population with the population that has access to a computer and can casually sit around playing solitaire without being noticed is how close to zero?
... playing solitaire (or other games) may provide workers with a way to burn off some stress ...
Relieving stress? That's what breaks, lunch, workday evenings, weekends, holidays, and vacations are for.
I assume that there are dozens of online solitaire games avaiable. Unless they take the extra step of blocking all game related websites, the whole thing is pointless.
You are overanalyzing the problem. All you have to do is have the official poilicy of "no games" and then you are free to fire someone playing at work. OK, maybe they have to get a warning first.
The "no games" policy should be accompanied with a "no unauthorized installs" policy.
I'm sorry but there is nothing new here, you were just unaware of it. Banks and retailers have been required to report certain transactions, or patterns of transactions, for years. IIRC it all started decades ago in an attempt to find organized crime and drug dealers.
Similarly your air traverl has been monitored for decades. People who fit certain travel profiles have been stopped and interviewed. Happened to a coworker in the 80s who did on-site tech support and did a lot of flying with short stays.
Each generation thinks that they discovered that the government is spying on the public, it is very much like each generation thinking they discovered kinky sex. The truth is that each generation merely starts out ignorant of what went on before.
Did you really mean AMD64/EM64T? AMD's current and Intel's upcoming 64-bit extension of IA-32? IA-64 is regrettably something completely different, Itanium.
WinNT PPC was finished, I believe the retail WinNT4 CD includes MIPS, x86, PowerPC, and Alpha. I recall dual 604 boxes being advertised in Byte magazine for a while. A review in Byte compared dual 604 against dual Pentium, pointing out dual 604 scaled better. Win2000 PPC was never finished.
The most probable reason for this might be code portability. If you force yourself to write code on a PPC machine then the odds are much better that you'll end up with portable code (as you already know a bazillion x86 users will be testing your code anyway.)
No, using only a PPC does not really help you write portable code. It is pretty much the same as using only an x86. To write portable code you have to use more than one architecture during development. If you write on PPC and wait for x86 users to find problems you are not writing portable code, you are fixing the non-portable code that you wrote and distributed.
The Linux Increase Can Be Attributed to none other than IBM I would presume.
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RedHat, HP,
The 70s version of the show was pretty good in its day. It was terribly expensive to produce and as time went on they tried various cost saving measures, ex. same flight/combat scene every episode. They re-run on SciFi every once in a while, it might be worth it to check it out in order to get some perspective(1). You may need to watch two or three episodes in case you get one of the weeker ones.
:-)
(1) I think one of the things that makes the new show so popular is the contrast with the old. A darker more realistic feel. At least for us old farts who remember the 70s.
doppleganger race
:-)
New for the current re-envisioned show. In the 70s they were all chrome.
wing-commander-like military comradery
A major theme of the original show, which predated WC and which has a basis in the real world. I read a little on WW1 pilots, people are about the same, much of the tactics are the same, the technology changes.
I've set my MythTV box to record anything battlestar-related
If it every records anything with 1980 in the name delete it without viewing. If you somehow miss the title, or if they had changed it, and you see earth and boy scouts, stop, delete immediately.
I hate to break it to you, but Star Trek and the universe it portrays is fiction. Thus, the future as seen in this work of fiction is quite probably also not going to happen. Which means that we won't end up with a "Prime Directive".
You are probably wrong. If we get off our rock and if there is anything else out there, something heading in the general direction of the "prime directive" would be likely if current western social values continue. Attitudes embracing environmentalism and endangered species protection are not necessarily confined to Earth. Similarly attitudes towards respecting "primitive" cultures would not be confined. And on the less respectul side there is also the "practical" angle of leaving "primitives" in their "primitive" state. Less likely to be a threat and more easily controlled, there is some historical precedent for that too.
The real world is far more complex than fiction and far more difficult to make prediction about. Definitive statement like yours are foolish.
... Now plans for using the Genesis Device on Mars are out ...
Since the "Prime Directive" is centuries in our future we are free to f' over anything we find there as we terraform.
In talking to one of the Hollywood types, he told me that "Intel has struck exactly the perfect balance between fear and greed."
:-)
Just to be clear the "fear and greed" is on the part of the Hollywood exec's not Intel.
Why will the leak kill the market? Sorry, I'm still waking up and things don't make sense yet.
Most companies think of Europe being "just some" market after the US and Asia.
;-)
One would hope that Vivendi, the French owner of Blizzard, would not think that way.
Apple is BOTH a hardware AND a software company
/alternative use, it's pure dessert topping. :-)
Not really, you are confusing what they are famous for and what they make money from. Their software is bundled with their hardware, it does not really stand alone. Retail MacOS X packages are merely upgrades.
I'm a geezer too so I get the title, but the analogy is off. Mac OS X has no secondary
Apple might be a hardware company, but it should be noted that the software is still top-notch
It had to be to justify the relatively expensive hardware, at least until the Mac Mini came along. Only few and highly specialized applications really benefitted from PowerPC with respect to performance. For the majority the "user experience" had to justify the hardware sale.
Jobs is right when he says Apple is a software company, you just don't understand what he means by that.
Neither do you, that is spin from a marketting/sales person, Jobs' specialty. Apple is a hardware company. Software, including Mac OS X, merely exists to get people to buy Apple hardware. That Mac hardware is pointless without Mac OS X is irrelevant. Follow the money, where does it come from. More importantly look at history, the Mac clones. If Apple were a software company Mac clones would have benefitted Apple. The fact that Apple terminated Mac clone hardware demonstrates that Apple is a hardware company.
Your info is 4-5 years out of date. Things have been essentially equivalent for years, but DirectX does have an advantage with respect to access to new hardware capabilities. Its a little cleaner than having to deal with various OpenGL vendor extensions.
IBM says PowerPC is an architecture: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardw are/whitepapers/power/ppc_arch.html.
IIRC RS6000s have shipped with using both the POWER architecture and the PowerPC architecture.