Better yet, send links to an online photo album website such as Flickr or Photobucket, or one of the many cheap hosting sites that use Gallery2 or whatever. Sending gazillion byte attachments via email is just rude.
Unfortunately, hijacking words to mean something entirely different given the context is the hallmark of the wonder that is the American English language:)
Slight clarification.. I would hesitate to say that ID is the *scientifically* backed version of creationism. There really isn't anything scientific about it; the group have merely co-opted the term for their own misuse.
The fact that creationists might support "micro-evolution" and not "macro-evolution" is ridiculous, because the mechanism behind evolution describes both of these invented terms. The only difference is the number of generations you are looking at. If creationists can accept evolution over a relatively small number of generations, what keeps them from accepting it happening over a large number of generations that lead to wider variation?
Ah, the tired old "well.. someone else did it, so that makes it okay!"
If someone did something objectionable in the past, it does not excuse someone new performing similarly objectionable behavior. What's wrong is wrong, whether it is the 1940's or the 2000's. But +troll points on the quick "lefty" smear in there.
Will it demand that CPU makers make their microcode free? Why not? It certainly holds with their "non-open software is unethical" mantra. Stallman's admitted goal is to remove ALL "proprietary" software from the world, which presumably would include microcode in any form if the source (useful or not) was not included.
As far as I know, "the masses" do not use dual-head cards or RAID controllers, which are considered by many people to be "advanced" hardware.
Your complaints are akin to saying "Ubuntu is crap because it did not automagically configure my networked coffeepot!!1" Dual-head graphics cards are definitely not advanced. Nearly any new card you buy (with the exception of the sub-$50 bargain cards in a bin at Fry's) has dual-head support. Nearly all laptops have built-in dual-head as well! How can this be advanced?
RAID should no longer be considered "advanced". Drive space is cheap and it's just sensible to install a RAID mirror in even consumer products as a "just in case" factor.
Right. And an install of OSX suddenly detects and works with wireless every single time? I don't think so. Actually.. yeah. It has for me and any Mac I've worked on.
Try plugging a random monitor into a Mac laptop. I'll bet 9 out of 10 of them show similar symptoms to your Ubuntu experience, just because 9 out of 10 monitors aren't made by Apple. What? I've never had any issues using a non-Apple monitor (CRT, LCD, etc) with a Mac. Right now, I'm using an LCD TV with my MacBook Pro and it works perfectly.
As for RAID, we're not talking OSX server here, wihtout that you're not doing RAID of any kind on OSX. Bzzt, three strikes and you're out. RAID functionality exists in non-server Mac OS X. Have you ever looked at Disk Utility.app? It supports multiple RAID types.
Don't get your undergarments in a tangle just because another product has accomplished something your favorite project hasn't.
Difficult when you CANNOT due to limitations of your provider. Anyone who has AT&T's U-verse product *must* run the 2WIRE box in router mode. There is no other choice.
What? Consumers aren't allowed to criticize a service they pay for when they notice other competing services provide better quality? What world do you live in? Nowhere did I say it was *easy*, I said it was possible, given money and desire to provide BETTER service than your competitors.
And for your information, I have provided city-wide Internet, TV and phone service before. No, not millions, but Comcast doesn't operate at that level either, if you had any clue as to how they actually operate. Most of their services operate sub-regionally, in loosely grouped clusters of service areas. They are moving in the direction of combining their service zones, which according to anyone familiar with basic economic theory would understand should decrease their cost of service, meaning more money in their coffers which should enable them to perform service upgrades mentioned by myself and others.
Boohoo. That's the cost of business, you have to improve your product in a competitive environment. Sorry, no sympathies here for Comcast (which recently took over my local cableco Insight, and promptly sent out flyers saying how much better it was going to be, oh and by the way, here's your next price increase). AT&T and DirecTV use more advanced codecs now, why can't Comcast? Heaven forbid they spend some of the money they get from their constant price increases on improving service instead of squashing in yet another batch of channels and degrading the quality of existing channels. What happened to quality over quantity?
It's best not to feed the troll known as "circletimessquare". He gets enough attention from his rambling grammar-mangled and punctuationless rants on kuro5hin.
Facts require citations. You have consistently provided NO citations on any of your "facts" anywhere in this discussion. Who are you that we should take your statements at face value without some kind of evidence of their factuality?
That begs the question, is the belief in evolution a religion? Some might say so. Sometimes it is argued just as illogically and dogmatically as some argue for creationism. Does that mean evolution should be kept out of the science classroom? Religion implies deity, which evolution does not call for. Dogma, in its most generic definition, is "an authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true". I just don't see this, sorry. Evolution can be stated in clear and concise facts in a scientific setting. There is no need for some authority to say "so it is written, so shall it be done".
Yes, I know it's heresy to admit being a Christian at slashdot, where athiesm is the site relgion and its proponents will stone with mod points anyone who dares believe that God exists, so mod me down. Arguing the existance of God with an athiest is like arguing the existance of red with a blind man. Nah. There appear to be plenty of pro-Christian moderators at Slashdot, given the amount of modding that took place the other day in a thread where a Slashdot "editor" commented heavily and all his posts were typically modded 3 or higher and as "Interesting" or "Insightful". Given the sheer amount of backslash against threads where evolution and other topics that contradict typically non-Christian dogma, I would say the Christian crowd is well represented.
I would also suggest that the argument analogy you presented is inaccurate and misleading, as most analogies often are. Such topics cannot be summed up or dumbed down in such simplistic manners. Case in point, the popular "let me explain this as a car" analogy given so often on Slashdot. Your analogy presents a pre-determined supposition that God does indeed exist, which is the point of the argument in the first place, yes?
You're an athiest because God wants you to be an athiest. "All we are is dust in the wind" - Kansas. I'm not sure what to make of this. Are you implying that atheism is a state at which humans arrive at, being theistic at first? I would propose that humans come out of the womb atheistic and them develop theism at a later date. This can probably be proven by the fact that there are plenty of religions out there that do not advocate "God" in a Christian fashion, or are monotheistic, or something completely different. Unless you're one of the "all paths lead to God" people, of course...
I, for example, can think of some extremely dangerous side effects of religion, like being brain washed since birth into believing nonsense... Shrug. None of that happened to me. Funny thing about the brainwashed.. they'll say all day long that they aren't brainwashed!
... or perhaps the worst of all: faith. Faith, as you know, is essentially a back-door into your mind, and it has been abused many many times. That is entirely false. You do not understand faith. Everyone has faith. You do, certainly, as everyone else does. Just walking down the street requires faith, as you never know if your foot might not touch street, but might fall into nothingness. Definition of faith: belief that is not based on proof. You seem to have your definitions mixed up. I do not require faith to know that when I walk down a sidewalk that I will not plunge into nothingness. Faith is not something we are born with, it is something that some humans acquire via careful ignoring our innate ability to question the world around us and look for solutions. Instead, faith is basically throwing up our hands and saying "(insert deity) did it!"
Faith is not bad, it is absolutely necessary in order to function. It is the object of faith that may be a problem. Good luck showing any object of my faith is a problem. Sorry, I function just fine without faith. Faith is bad in that it requires us to switch off part of our humanity, that which makes us QUESTION our environment. How can that be good? I imagine millions of others around the globe also operate similarly with no ill effects.
I wonder who is the idiot who modded you "Insightful". It should be noted that "pudge" works as a Slashdot "editor" and therefore any moderation given to him is likely to be suspect, as been suggested in the past with some rather rapid instantly appearing moderation points given to certain posts.
Read some of my other comments in this discussion, I already addressed your concerns. Actually, no. You don't typically address anyone's concerns. You either throw out "I stopped reading your post", or state "false" with no evidence to support your claim, or quote Christian dogma as if it were the final word on the matter. None of these methods address anyone's concerns.
Oh come on. Anything can be divisive. And in this discussion, for example, it is the atheists who are being divisive. I don't see any Christians saying "if you don't believe in Christ then you're an idiotic moron," but see a lot of "if you believe in Christ than you're an idiotic moron." Let's place the blame where it actually lies: with PEOPLE who are divisive. No, they just happen to say "if you don't believe in this Christ fellow then you're going to hell". Yeah, that's a lot better.
And please, no more anecdotal "evidence" about how you've never heard anybody say that. It's pretty accepted Christian doctrine that non-believers will be relegated to some kind of eternal suffering.
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Better yet, send links to an online photo album website such as Flickr or Photobucket, or one of the many cheap hosting sites that use Gallery2 or whatever. Sending gazillion byte attachments via email is just rude.
Unfortunately, hijacking words to mean something entirely different given the context is the hallmark of the wonder that is the American English language :)
What? Where did you get the idea that POTS requires more equipment than any other kind of service, say, PONS (Verizon)? Lunacy.
Slight clarification.. I would hesitate to say that ID is the *scientifically* backed version of creationism. There really isn't anything scientific about it; the group have merely co-opted the term for their own misuse.
The fact that creationists might support "micro-evolution" and not "macro-evolution" is ridiculous, because the mechanism behind evolution describes both of these invented terms. The only difference is the number of generations you are looking at. If creationists can accept evolution over a relatively small number of generations, what keeps them from accepting it happening over a large number of generations that lead to wider variation?
There are things you say, and there are things you keep in your head to yourself. Perhaps the president isn't aware of that fine distinction?
Ah, the tired old "well.. someone else did it, so that makes it okay!"
If someone did something objectionable in the past, it does not excuse someone new performing similarly objectionable behavior. What's wrong is wrong, whether it is the 1940's or the 2000's. But +troll points on the quick "lefty" smear in there.
One cite a habit does not make.
You make it sound like they had much to begin with.
Your complaints are akin to saying "Ubuntu is crap because it did not automagically configure my networked coffeepot!!1" Dual-head graphics cards are definitely not advanced. Nearly any new card you buy (with the exception of the sub-$50 bargain cards in a bin at Fry's) has dual-head support. Nearly all laptops have built-in dual-head as well! How can this be advanced?
RAID should no longer be considered "advanced". Drive space is cheap and it's just sensible to install a RAID mirror in even consumer products as a "just in case" factor.
Don't get your undergarments in a tangle just because another product has accomplished something your favorite project hasn't.
Difficult when you CANNOT due to limitations of your provider. Anyone who has AT&T's U-verse product *must* run the 2WIRE box in router mode. There is no other choice.
What? Consumers aren't allowed to criticize a service they pay for when they notice other competing services provide better quality? What world do you live in? Nowhere did I say it was *easy*, I said it was possible, given money and desire to provide BETTER service than your competitors.
And for your information, I have provided city-wide Internet, TV and phone service before. No, not millions, but Comcast doesn't operate at that level either, if you had any clue as to how they actually operate. Most of their services operate sub-regionally, in loosely grouped clusters of service areas. They are moving in the direction of combining their service zones, which according to anyone familiar with basic economic theory would understand should decrease their cost of service, meaning more money in their coffers which should enable them to perform service upgrades mentioned by myself and others.
Boohoo. That's the cost of business, you have to improve your product in a competitive environment. Sorry, no sympathies here for Comcast (which recently took over my local cableco Insight, and promptly sent out flyers saying how much better it was going to be, oh and by the way, here's your next price increase). AT&T and DirecTV use more advanced codecs now, why can't Comcast? Heaven forbid they spend some of the money they get from their constant price increases on improving service instead of squashing in yet another batch of channels and degrading the quality of existing channels. What happened to quality over quantity?
It's best not to feed the troll known as "circletimessquare". He gets enough attention from his rambling grammar-mangled and punctuationless rants on kuro5hin.
Facts require citations. You have consistently provided NO citations on any of your "facts" anywhere in this discussion. Who are you that we should take your statements at face value without some kind of evidence of their factuality?
I would also suggest that the argument analogy you presented is inaccurate and misleading, as most analogies often are. Such topics cannot be summed up or dumbed down in such simplistic manners. Case in point, the popular "let me explain this as a car" analogy given so often on Slashdot. Your analogy presents a pre-determined supposition that God does indeed exist, which is the point of the argument in the first place, yes? You're an athiest because God wants you to be an athiest. "All we are is dust in the wind" - Kansas. I'm not sure what to make of this. Are you implying that atheism is a state at which humans arrive at, being theistic at first? I would propose that humans come out of the womb atheistic and them develop theism at a later date. This can probably be proven by the fact that there are plenty of religions out there that do not advocate "God" in a Christian fashion, or are monotheistic, or something completely different. Unless you're one of the "all paths lead to God" people, of course...
... or perhaps the worst of all: faith. Faith, as you know, is essentially a back-door into your mind, and it has been abused many many times. That is entirely false. You do not understand faith. Everyone has faith. You do, certainly, as everyone else does. Just walking down the street requires faith, as you never know if your foot might not touch street, but might fall into nothingness. Definition of faith: belief that is not based on proof. You seem to have your definitions mixed up. I do not require faith to know that when I walk down a sidewalk that I will not plunge into nothingness. Faith is not something we are born with, it is something that some humans acquire via careful ignoring our innate ability to question the world around us and look for solutions. Instead, faith is basically throwing up our hands and saying "(insert deity) did it!" Faith is not bad, it is absolutely necessary in order to function. It is the object of faith that may be a problem. Good luck showing any object of my faith is a problem. Sorry, I function just fine without faith. Faith is bad in that it requires us to switch off part of our humanity, that which makes us QUESTION our environment. How can that be good? I imagine millions of others around the globe also operate similarly with no ill effects.And please, no more anecdotal "evidence" about how you've never heard anybody say that. It's pretty accepted Christian doctrine that non-believers will be relegated to some kind of eternal suffering.
Stars operation on fusion, not fission.