-- "Yes, I am aware that science is an out growth of Materialistic Philosophy; but, if you want to argue that this makes it invalid then you need to try harder." --
I was not aware that I was making that argument. In my original post, I was merely arguing that the entire idea of even repeatable experimentation is invalid when talking about the past. I'm all for the advancing of our body of knowledge, but in this area, there's _no_ _way_ to prove _anyone_ wrong. Being able to disprove a theory is one of the foundations of the scientific method. Not "freshman philosophy", just the idea that you can't prove OR disprove history.
-- "Evolution is not about creation, it is about the changing of species, the way that species seperate from each other. Evolution is not only a historical endeavor, it is an ongoing process that changes life around us, it effects every part of this world. To deny the reality of evolution is as absurb as denying that the humans are having a negative effect upon the environment." --
Did I write anything about evolution? In case I was unclear, my final paragraph was about Christians that think the theory is correct, not about the seven-day people.
-- "If it pleases you to sit around and wax philosophical about the "true nature" of the world, fine, I can do that; but, if you actually wish to learn things you need to realize that there is a shared physical reality. By denying that reality you make youself sound absurd and manage to gloss over the real argument." --
My argument was not philosophical (although I see how one could take it as such) as I note above. It was merely to state that any theory that cannot be proved nor disproved is worthless to argue about: it comes down to belief. The theory of relativity could potentially be disproved with a repeatable experiment. The theory of ID (or the FSM, for that matter) cannot. I hope that clears up a few things.
"show us possible experiments that can prove or disprove ID."
This is the problem with/any/ sort of creation theory, or historical theory in general. There is/no way/ to prove that/anything/ happened before the current moment. All history is just belief. Sure, something happened a couple minutes ago, but you can't prove it - you can only believe it beyond any reasonable doubt.
However, it's possible that the universe was formed ten minutes ago, with all of this in place. It's possible that the FSM (and Its noodly appendage) created that midget, or whatever it was. There are no experiments that you can perform to/prove/ otherwise. It's a waste of time.
That said, there is a growing number of Christians that believe in a combination of both: God creates the laws of physics, and sets off the bang. Either way, don't bother looking for proof of/anything/ historical. You'll only disappoint yourself.
The Slashdot effect is a drop in the bucket. When I worked for IMDB, they quoted me the statistics from Amazon (this was several years ago): Amazon gets more hits every hour or so than Slashdot gets every day (or something like that).
The effect only really affects those servers that aren't used to a large load.
Just trying to fix the semantics - thanks for the RFC correction (thought that the port was standardized, but I guess testing is usually done on 8080 anyway, so perhaps not).
Port 80 == http => a transfer protocol.
html ~ xml ~ rss => file formats.
You send information over the transfer protocol, and the other end translates it. You can send whatever you want over most protocols (http and ftp especially), so stop talking about "blocking RSS." An ISP (internet service provider, which the airport is at least a proxy to) blocks HTTP, which keeps you from getting your RSS.
It means that it's easier to hack on, which means that new features should be easier to code, which means that they should come to the end user faster and with less bugs.
Emphasis on the shoulds.
Basically, this is a clean-up for the devs, which helps the end users indirectly.
Rails requires you do a lot of stuff like... write literal SQL strings in your code... that could, with some creative ruby, be done automatically. On the count of SQL, and at the risk of self-promotion, check out Criteria, which lets you write literal Ruby statements that are transformed into SQL, all in a ruby-esque manner.
Sure, you can write SQL in Ruby, but why would you want to? SQL was a language designed for database queries. Taking one of your examples:
Ah, but you're missing the point: this wasn't a formula to see how good a movie will be, but how much money it will make. Two completely seperate issues.
IMHO, it's very possible to determine the latter with this degree of success just by figuring out how many individuals are going to see the movie once. It's those people who go seven times that give it the error margin, and how do you quantify the quality of the movie?
I guess you missed the satire in this: "Just ask Britain and France! If anyone understands that national standing on the international scene, once established, is permanent... it's them!"
Google Maps around Seattle don't take the ferries into consideration either - the routes are shown on the map, but directions don't use them, even for something as obvious as this.
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One quick problem with that: nobody plays DVDs for free. On Windows you have to buy the codec. On the Mac I assume you either have to purchase a codec, a player, or it's included in the price of the OS.
There is a workaround, client-side: you still have your hosts file, and you can still host your own DNS servers. Honestly, it's a terrible thing to have to do, but...
Makes you wish there was a better naming system.:)
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-- "Yes, I am aware that science is an out growth of Materialistic Philosophy; but, if you want to argue that this makes it invalid then you need to try harder." --
I was not aware that I was making that argument. In my original post, I was merely arguing that the entire idea of even repeatable experimentation is invalid when talking about the past. I'm all for the advancing of our body of knowledge, but in this area, there's _no_ _way_ to prove _anyone_ wrong. Being able to disprove a theory is one of the foundations of the scientific method. Not "freshman philosophy", just the idea that you can't prove OR disprove history.
-- "Evolution is not about creation, it is about the changing of species, the way that species seperate from each other. Evolution is not only a historical endeavor, it is an ongoing process that changes life around us, it effects every part of this world. To deny the reality of evolution is as absurb as denying that the humans are having a negative effect upon the environment." --
Did I write anything about evolution? In case I was unclear, my final paragraph was about Christians that think the theory is correct, not about the seven-day people.
-- "If it pleases you to sit around and wax philosophical about the "true nature" of the world, fine, I can do that; but, if you actually wish to learn things you need to realize that there is a shared physical reality. By denying that reality you make youself sound absurd and manage to gloss over the real argument." --
My argument was not philosophical (although I see how one could take it as such) as I note above. It was merely to state that any theory that cannot be proved nor disproved is worthless to argue about: it comes down to belief. The theory of relativity could potentially be disproved with a repeatable experiment. The theory of ID (or the FSM, for that matter) cannot. I hope that clears up a few things.
"show us possible experiments that can prove or disprove ID."
/any/ sort of creation theory, or historical theory in general. There is /no way/ to prove that /anything/ happened before the current moment. All history is just belief. Sure, something happened a couple minutes ago, but you can't prove it - you can only believe it beyond any reasonable doubt.
/prove/ otherwise. It's a waste of time.
/anything/ historical. You'll only disappoint yourself.
This is the problem with
However, it's possible that the universe was formed ten minutes ago, with all of this in place. It's possible that the FSM (and Its noodly appendage) created that midget, or whatever it was. There are no experiments that you can perform to
That said, there is a growing number of Christians that believe in a combination of both: God creates the laws of physics, and sets off the bang. Either way, don't bother looking for proof of
The Slashdot effect is a drop in the bucket. When I worked for IMDB, they quoted me the statistics from Amazon (this was several years ago): Amazon gets more hits every hour or so than Slashdot gets every day (or something like that).
The effect only really affects those servers that aren't used to a large load.
You stole my post. We've taken the first step into a larger world.
Reminds me of a Paul Graham article.
The article is just PR for a game called "The Outsider." Don't bother.
"I guess I'm the only one on Slashdot who thinks it's reasonable for record labels to want to make some money."
I'd much rather the labels leave us alone and let the artists make some money. Check out http://www.magnatune.com/
Just trying to fix the semantics - thanks for the RFC correction (thought that the port was standardized, but I guess testing is usually done on 8080 anyway, so perhaps not).
html ~ xml ~ rss => file formats.
You send information over the transfer protocol, and the other end translates it. You can send whatever you want over most protocols (http and ftp especially), so stop talking about "blocking RSS." An ISP (internet service provider, which the airport is at least a proxy to) blocks HTTP, which keeps you from getting your RSS.
My editor takes 6M with a small text file. And it's not even the console version.
You forgot one other reason: the average person doesn't know that OOo exists.
"Buy a cheap used XBOX and a good modchip."
Or, when the Revolution comes, get it.It means that it's easier to hack on, which means that new features should be easier to code, which means that they should come to the end user faster and with less bugs.
Emphasis on the shoulds.
Basically, this is a clean-up for the devs, which helps the end users indirectly.
Card was a playwright before he was an author.
Ah, but you're missing the point: this wasn't a formula to see how good a movie will be, but how much money it will make. Two completely seperate issues.
IMHO, it's very possible to determine the latter with this degree of success just by figuring out how many individuals are going to see the movie once. It's those people who go seven times that give it the error margin, and how do you quantify the quality of the movie?
No, it's how much they can lift.
Seriously - most of these parameters aren't very quantitative. I want to see some code.
You know, there are games like that... Take a look at RetroMUD, for example.
I guess you missed the satire in this: "Just ask Britain and France! If anyone understands that national standing on the international scene, once established, is permanent... it's them!"
True, however, it would be nice if it at least knew about the routes it shows on the map, you know?
Google Maps around Seattle don't take the ferries into consideration either - the routes are shown on the map, but directions don't use them, even for something as obvious as this.
One quick problem with that: nobody plays DVDs for free. On Windows you have to buy the codec. On the Mac I assume you either have to purchase a codec, a player, or it's included in the price of the OS.
That is all.
There is a workaround, client-side: you still have your hosts file, and you can still host your own DNS servers. Honestly, it's a terrible thing to have to do, but... Makes you wish there was a better naming system. :)