So I guess if this baseless Iraq war doesn't boost the American economy, George W. Bush's next plan should be to introduce a plague among the populace?
"A theory is a scientific hypothesis that is consistent with observed and experimental data, and the observations and experiments must be able to be repeated. Darwin passes that test. His rival, creationism, is not a theory, but a belief. There is a big difference." -Roger Ebert
We'd be further along for sure... but I think one of the things that also would have held them back was the population at the time. A smaller population will have less or slower innovation in general. The Black Plague is probably as much to blame.
I always enjoyed the many numerous field trips to the Omnitheater at the Science Museum of Minnesota I went on as a kid... those movies were cool... and definitely sparked an interest in science.
I assume theaters like that would still show science movies obviously... but maybe the local Imax at the mall won't be showing it.
Sad. I would actually go to the Imax for the first time here if they showed a good science film.
I use a Pentium 166 MMX laptop with Windows 98 (98lite install) to do Java programming assignments for school.
I actually wrote a letter to the IT department of my school when they upgraded the OS on a lot of old computer lab PCs from WinNT 4 to WinXP... they run like molasses now. They didn't feel so slow just a few months ago.
Strange though how the iMacs tend to feel faster when they upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS X.
"Yeah. It's impossible that things so small that you can't even possibly see them except with a microscope could possibly make any difference to you."
That's just it though... if you read the article, they're saying that you wouldn't find any of these molecules in the water, even with the most powerful microscope, because these molecules simply aren't there (or likely to be) in a randomly chosen sample since it's been diluted so thin.
Tobacco smoke and germs are most definitely detectable, on the other hand. This is not the 1800's where we have only rudimentary scientific tools to detect such particles on such small scales. Now if you want to claim that you can get second hand smoke damage by being in a room where someone smoked a cigarette about ten years earlier, but the room somehow has been "imprinted" with the tobacco's harmful effects, even though no actual tobacco smoke particles physically exist in the room today... that would be more along the lines of what the homeopathists are claiming.
My point still stands though... how is it that this molecule is able to imprint the water, and none of the other things in our world which have touched the water over the years, didn't? How do they even know what might have imprinted their water before they got their hands on it for their purposes, such that they could give even the slightest guarantee what it would do?
Why do I not get random homeopathic effects when I drink from different drinking fountains? Are you observing this effect?
Someone else who replied to me seemed to get it, that the only possible explanation is that it's the human intent of the practitioners during the process which actually does the imprinting... which sounds even less plausible.
Sig. v4.0 Optimized: Law of Conservation of Matter...wait, what happened before the Big Bang? Maybe God?
What happened before God? It's the same problem either way... no one knows where it all began or with what... but one of these ideas at least tries to base itself in rational thought...
I don't get how they can claim that stuff like spider venom can be diluted in water to the point where the sample likely doesnt contain a single molecule of spider venom... but that it left an "imprint" on the water, whatever the hell that is.
If this were true, then what about the other things which got into the water and "imprinted" those water molecules over the years? Where do they get the water from to dilute in? How can they be sure the water they are using isn't "imprinted" with something bad... or is there some way to de-imprint the water before they imprint it with whatever they're selling...
This is nonsense that requires very, very minimal thought to realize it's flawed very fundamentally. If this stuff which isn't even present in the water, imprinted it... then what about all the other stuff which has touched the water over the years?
How do they come UP with these mind-boggling features out of thin air like that!?
Seriously though, is there anything actually new they've come up with and not just ripped off from Mozilla or Opera (or is a bug they should have fixed a long time ago, like their PNG support)?
Apple was not the first company to have online user identification... or the first company to have a hard drive mp3 player... or the first company to have an online music store... and others are well known... it's just that Apple right now is the biggest and most successful.
I thought part of the thing about having a patent is that you have to actively enforce it. If you know someone is infringing your patent and you take no action, then you lose rights to enforce your patent later... (IANAL, IRECTAL, etc...)
I had that happen so many times when I used to do creditcard customer service for NextCard... I would tell people to go to our website, and they always ended up typing everything into Yahoo. I had to explain to them to use the address bar above the page, and they seemed to have never used this thing before, ever. At least a couple of calls a month from people like that...
Slashdot Mirror
so just make like a really small index.html with one link in it to the PDF file if you know you will have to go to kinko's.
I found it here, Roger Ebert's review of "Aliens of the Deep".
So I guess if this baseless Iraq war doesn't boost the American economy, George W. Bush's next plan should be to introduce a plague among the populace?
Hell even Roger Ebert knows what a theory is...
"A theory is a scientific hypothesis that is consistent with observed and experimental data, and the observations and experiments must be able to be repeated. Darwin passes that test. His rival, creationism, is not a theory, but a belief. There is a big difference." -Roger Ebert
It's that same reverse-discrimination story all over again.
Don't you realize that straight white rich christian men are the REAL victims in america? where are their equal rights? they got it so tough.
We'd be further along for sure... but I think one of the things that also would have held them back was the population at the time. A smaller population will have less or slower innovation in general. The Black Plague is probably as much to blame.
exactly.
I always enjoyed the many numerous field trips to the Omnitheater at the Science Museum of Minnesota I went on as a kid... those movies were cool... and definitely sparked an interest in science.
I assume theaters like that would still show science movies obviously... but maybe the local Imax at the mall won't be showing it.
Sad. I would actually go to the Imax for the first time here if they showed a good science film.
too bad my mod points expired a few hours ago.
I'll be the second!
I use a Pentium 166 MMX laptop with Windows 98 (98lite install) to do Java programming assignments for school.
I actually wrote a letter to the IT department of my school when they upgraded the OS on a lot of old computer lab PCs from WinNT 4 to WinXP... they run like molasses now. They didn't feel so slow just a few months ago.
Strange though how the iMacs tend to feel faster when they upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS X.
"Yeah. It's impossible that things so small that you can't even possibly see them except with a microscope could possibly make any difference to you."
That's just it though... if you read the article, they're saying that you wouldn't find any of these molecules in the water, even with the most powerful microscope, because these molecules simply aren't there (or likely to be) in a randomly chosen sample since it's been diluted so thin.
Tobacco smoke and germs are most definitely detectable, on the other hand. This is not the 1800's where we have only rudimentary scientific tools to detect such particles on such small scales. Now if you want to claim that you can get second hand smoke damage by being in a room where someone smoked a cigarette about ten years earlier, but the room somehow has been "imprinted" with the tobacco's harmful effects, even though no actual tobacco smoke particles physically exist in the room today... that would be more along the lines of what the homeopathists are claiming.
My point still stands though... how is it that this molecule is able to imprint the water, and none of the other things in our world which have touched the water over the years, didn't? How do they even know what might have imprinted their water before they got their hands on it for their purposes, such that they could give even the slightest guarantee what it would do?
Why do I not get random homeopathic effects when I drink from different drinking fountains? Are you observing this effect?
Someone else who replied to me seemed to get it, that the only possible explanation is that it's the human intent of the practitioners during the process which actually does the imprinting... which sounds even less plausible.
Sig. v4.0 Optimized:
Law of Conservation of Matter...wait, what happened before the Big Bang? Maybe God?
What happened before God? It's the same problem either way... no one knows where it all began or with what... but one of these ideas at least tries to base itself in rational thought...
I don't get how they can claim that stuff like spider venom can be diluted in water to the point where the sample likely doesnt contain a single molecule of spider venom... but that it left an "imprint" on the water, whatever the hell that is.
If this were true, then what about the other things which got into the water and "imprinted" those water molecules over the years? Where do they get the water from to dilute in? How can they be sure the water they are using isn't "imprinted" with something bad... or is there some way to de-imprint the water before they imprint it with whatever they're selling...
This is nonsense that requires very, very minimal thought to realize it's flawed very fundamentally. If this stuff which isn't even present in the water, imprinted it... then what about all the other stuff which has touched the water over the years?
...after Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600.
...again!
How do they come UP with these mind-boggling features out of thin air like that!?
Seriously though, is there anything actually new they've come up with and not just ripped off from Mozilla or Opera (or is a bug they should have fixed a long time ago, like their PNG support)?
new architecture (Mac with PowerPC)? not a new os (still linux only)...
...that I had mod points today to mod down these stupid annoying Funny posts.
I guess even an American can get sick of the typical American attitude sometimes...
Apple was not the first company to have online user identification... or the first company to have a hard drive mp3 player... or the first company to have an online music store... and others are well known... it's just that Apple right now is the biggest and most successful.
I thought part of the thing about having a patent is that you have to actively enforce it. If you know someone is infringing your patent and you take no action, then you lose rights to enforce your patent later... (IANAL, IRECTAL, etc...)
" What the hell on a stick with a bag of chips and a large soda consisting of coke, mountain dew, and a splash of root beer?"
That's the lamest thing I've ever read.... I really hope you don't say that in real life.
Personally, I'd like to see dung beetle logic mimicked in robots... it would be fascinating to see robots form and roll a big sphere of poop.
Microsoft is the new IBM, Apple is the new Microsoft, Google is the new Apple... who's the new Google? ...and what's IBM become?
I had that happen so many times when I used to do creditcard customer service for NextCard... I would tell people to go to our website, and they always ended up typing everything into Yahoo. I had to explain to them to use the address bar above the page, and they seemed to have never used this thing before, ever. At least a couple of calls a month from people like that...
where is the word speach in the comment he was replying to?