Well said. Faith is not diminished by learning more truth, it is enhanced by it. The more intensely I've scrutinized my own faith, the stronger it has become. One of the things I love about the church I belong to (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) is that we are encouraged to seek learning and understand others' points of view. The Internet facilitates that.
It seems that there is a growing philosophy that science and education are incompatible with a belief in God. The prevalence of this idea (evidenced in many comments here) is widespread across the Internet (and the world generally), and influences to that effect persuade many to abandon both their religion and, in many cases, their belief in God. A worldwide culture emphasizing this artificial division, spread via the Internet and other means, could be at the heart of the phenomenon described in the article.
If you are running 64-bit linux already, you will get some performance advantage to running as many apps as possible in 64-bit mode. This is because your shared libraries can actually be shared. Otherwise you end up loading the same shared libraries twice (once for the 64-bit version and once for the 32-bit version). There's noticably longer startup time when you do that.
It should be very easy though to handle common mistakes made in <A HREF="http://www.iana.org/gtld/gtld.htm">top-level domains</A>. For example, switching.rog to.org,.cmo to.com, etc. The same thing as when you type "teh" in a word processor and it will switch it to "the", except in this case you can be much more certain what the typist actually meant, because there are only about a dozen valid possiblilities.<BR><BR>
I find it kind of annoying when I make a simple, common mistake like that and the browser starts shooting me off to search engines. It's such an obvious typo, I think the browser should be able to catch and correct it.<BR><BR>
I agree, you can't make assumptions about any other part of the domain, like duat.com vs. duats.com.
I've wished for a long time that browsers would correct misspellings in top level domains. It would be great if I could hastily type "slashdot.rog" and it would figure out that I meant "slashdot.org".
It's interesting that you suggest a VM that starts at boot time. One of the things in the somewhat near future of Java (currently being prototyped) is a sharable VM, which will run as a daemon. Each new java program will connect to the daemon and run within a single VM, rather than starting a new VM for each app. This would be done through the Isolation API (JSR 121 )
It will be interesting to see how this changes the usage patterns of Java. The claim at JavaOne this year is that jumping into an already running VM reduces startup time by 96% for non-GUI apps, and 66% for GUI apps.
If this actually works, someone should write a version of it that runs through the soundcard. It would give a much better frequency response and have the ability to emit multiple tones simultaneously.
I have wondered from time to time how Darwinian evolutionary theory works in respect to the law of thermodynamics. Ordinary particles tend to break down into simpler forms, approaching equilibrium, not develop into increasingly complex forms of their own accord. Quantum evolution appears to address this issue, and I think it should be addressed. One thing I would like a better explanation of is how exactly the DNA "chooses" which variant to keep after entering a quantum state. This is a critical concept to the whole theory, and the article didn't explain it to my satisfaction. Perhaps the book describes it more fully.
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Well said. Faith is not diminished by learning more truth, it is enhanced by it. The more intensely I've scrutinized my own faith, the stronger it has become. One of the things I love about the church I belong to (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) is that we are encouraged to seek learning and understand others' points of view. The Internet facilitates that.
It seems that there is a growing philosophy that science and education are incompatible with a belief in God. The prevalence of this idea (evidenced in many comments here) is widespread across the Internet (and the world generally), and influences to that effect persuade many to abandon both their religion and, in many cases, their belief in God. A worldwide culture emphasizing this artificial division, spread via the Internet and other means, could be at the heart of the phenomenon described in the article.
If you are running 64-bit linux already, you will get some performance advantage to running as many apps as possible in 64-bit mode. This is because your shared libraries can actually be shared. Otherwise you end up loading the same shared libraries twice (once for the 64-bit version and once for the 32-bit version). There's noticably longer startup time when you do that.
It should be very easy though to handle common mistakes made in <A HREF="http://www.iana.org/gtld/gtld.htm">top-level domains</A>. For example, switching .rog to .org, .cmo to .com, etc. The same thing as when you type "teh" in a word processor and it will switch it to "the", except in this case you can be much more certain what the typist actually meant, because there are only about a dozen valid possiblilities.<BR><BR>
I find it kind of annoying when I make a simple, common mistake like that and the browser starts shooting me off to search engines. It's such an obvious typo, I think the browser should be able to catch and correct it.<BR><BR>
I agree, you can't make assumptions about any other part of the domain, like duat.com vs. duats.com.
I've wished for a long time that browsers would correct misspellings in top level domains. It would be great if I could hastily type "slashdot.rog" and it would figure out that I meant "slashdot.org".
It's interesting that you suggest a VM that starts at boot time. One of the things in the somewhat near future of Java (currently being prototyped) is a sharable VM, which will run as a daemon. Each new java program will connect to the daemon and run within a single VM, rather than starting a new VM for each app. This would be done through the Isolation API (JSR 121 )
It will be interesting to see how this changes the usage patterns of Java. The claim at JavaOne this year is that jumping into an already running
VM reduces startup time by 96% for non-GUI apps, and 66% for GUI apps.
If this actually works, someone should write a version of it that runs through the soundcard. It would give a much better frequency response and have the ability to emit multiple tones simultaneously.
I have wondered from time to time how Darwinian evolutionary theory works in respect to the law of thermodynamics. Ordinary particles tend to break down into simpler forms, approaching equilibrium, not develop into increasingly complex forms of their own accord. Quantum evolution appears to address this issue, and I think it should be addressed.
One thing I would like a better explanation of is how exactly the DNA "chooses" which variant to keep after entering a quantum state. This is a critical concept to the whole theory, and the article didn't explain it to my satisfaction. Perhaps the book describes it more fully.