Nahh, giving money is often a very good option. Especially for highly trained, highly paid professionals... you know the type, lawyers, plastic surgeons, et al. These people can easily make more than $100 per hour. They will do a lot more good for society if they work an hour and donate that $100 rather than donating an hour of their time handing out food for the homeless or cleaning up a park or whatever. Their donations of an hour's earnings could easily pay for fifteen people to do an hour of good work. Remember, money makes the world go round... a donation of money is often the best thing you can do to help people.
In fact, if you collect all of the Ph.D's who believe in ID and all of the Ph.D's named "Steve" who agree that evolution is well-supported and the best explainer and predictor of our observations, the Ph.D's named "Steve" will outnumber the Ph.D's who believe in ID.
It's not called the Theory of Evolution because some guy just thought it up, it's called such because it has not yet been authoritively proven. That doesn't discredit its merit; every field of science generally agrees that all life evolved from single-celled organisms. But since there are still a few holes to be patched up, scienctists refer to it as a theory.
You have no idea what an actual scientific theory is. See Wikipedia for the full explanation. In addition, you don't know how science works either if you think science "proves" things. Again, see Wikipedia.
"Intelligent Design is the idea that God manipulated and brought upon evolution. Creation theory is the litteral interpretation of Genesis."
First of all, creationism is not a theory. And second of all, you don't know what intelligent design is. You may want to check out TalkDesign to see what ID actually is, and then you might want to read The Wedge Document.
You are using the wrong definition of theory. Nothing is ever "just" a theory; a theory is the very pinnacle of truth, explaining numerous facts, data, and observations.
I was reading your site and thinking to myself, "Okay, so this is different than the usual take on the universe from creationists..."
And then I hit on the following line, and I realized you're taken in with the frauds just like the rest of your ilk.
The answer is as clear here as it is in dealing with the irreducible complexity and specified complexity that shatter the flawed theory of evolution.
It is clear that this inaccurate and defective theory is being pushed by secular scientists seeking to further their anti-religious agenda.
Nice whine. "Ohhh no! The scientists are persecuting us Christians!" Look at what is ACTUALLY happening in government and you'll see that the real truth is that the religious people in power are using the government to further their anti-science agenda. They've attacked science education, environmental preservation, global warming, stem-cell research, and sex education, amongst many others.
Does this bill only mention it being violent games that cannot be sold to minors? What about sexuality? If it doesn't mention sex - hooray! Finally a law that realizes that violence is worse than a normal human activity!
Algorithms are *not* maths. Why should they be? Anyone can derive something like a bubble sort from first principles without the use of a calculator. A binary search is intuitively obvious - people do something like it all the time in things like interviews (the game of 20 questions as it's known). I could go on..
So according to you, if you don't need a calculator to do it, it's not math? Of course algorithms are math! The way to display most algorithms is with pseudocode, which uses VARIABLES. That sure as hell is math. And I suppose you could write out an algorithm longhand without even mentioning variables, but it's still math... aren't those logn annoying word problems in algebra also still math?
It should be simple. You buy it, you own it. Period. If you that means you want to smash it in with a sledgehammer, go right ahead. It's yours! If you want to mess around with the electronics inside, go right ahead. If you want to add liquid to it, whether it's supposed to be there or not, no one can stop you.
Whatever happened to the sensible days? How is this supposed to be enforced anyway? Does this give the ink cartridge company the right to spy on me in my own home so as to make sure I'm not *gasp* refilling their cartridges?!
Don't be so nit-picky, you know what he meant. And thousands of kilograms of mass takes a lot of fuel to accelerate in space regardless of the fact that it weighs zero newtons there.
Private American spaceflight would be completely permissable on the grounds that telemetry, observations, and research conducted on such flights be made available to NASA for internal use (not republication).
The vast majority of research in space isn't done by NASA but by universities and other agencies. NASA is sort of the vehicle that allows these experiments to be put into space. Just allowing the data to be internally studied by NASA without re-publication isn't very useful. It would have to be published in a scientific journal or made available for it to be of much use. Also, many people have problems with research that is partly or wholey funded by the government being kept secret.
I didn't donate because I at least like something in return for my money, but I did give them $20 for a one-year membership (student discount). Hopefully some of my money will go towards this essential mission. I've long thought about joining the Planetary Society; this was my final impetus to do it.
Yeah, I go to the University of Maryland, and this is kind of embarrassing for us, but... why exactly is this news? It's not as if this kind of thing doesn't happen hundreds of times a day. Is it a VERY slow news day?
From a community rep on the Blizzard Official WoW Forum, the scheduled weekly maintenance will be extended while they investigate the dupe bug.
Presumably they aren't going to bring the servers back up until the dupe bug is fixed, which might take awhile, because it appears that the bug is a result of a race condition and crappy servers (the bug occurs when the instance server spazzes and the character reverts to a previous instance).
So... who wants to take bets on how long until the WoW servers will come back up? And will they refund their customers for the days of server outages?
Also... what is going to be done about all of the gold and items duped already before they took down the servers? A rollback seems like the only sure bet, but it would definitely piss off a lot of people.
Network spam is bad in ALL of its forms. Ideally, the network would be nothing but 100% legitimate consensual traffic. Of course, that is impossible what with the huge amount of spam sent. But if we reply to spam by essentially sending out even more spam, we just overload the network with even more junk traffic. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind, and if everyone resolved their net issues by sending out a massive number of unsolicited packets the whole thing would collapse under the traffic. We simply must remain mature and handle the spammers in a manner that does not have such a detrimental effect to overall network health.
As long as you have the entire file containing the data there is always going to be a way to view that data in the way that you want to. Unfortunately, if the restrictions are built into the operating system, it might be rather hard to get around. Operating systems should simply be an abstraction layer between the hardware and the user that allows him to do more things more easily. It shouldn't restrict what he can do. If Microsoft does indeed go down this path then I think a lot of people will either refuse to upgrade or try some other operating system.
This article was entered as part of an article-writing contest with real life rewards such as a video card or DVD writers. This article is just written by some guy trying to win a contest, not by anyone influential. What he says is true, but obvious.
SETI is a lot more than just the SETI@home software you're thinking about. And this has implications for all radio astronomy, not just SETI.
The solution is clear - don't let consumer-level technology get in the way of truly ground-breaking discoveries.
My prediction of when you'll be able to run Mac OS X on an x86 machine is still: never.
Apple isn't a software company. They're a hardware company. Just because they're changing their processor does not mean you're going to be able to run it on your hardware.
Haha great idea, I just did this. Unfortunately the home index finger keys (f and j) have raised indentations that also make them not fit into other key slots, so I rearranged everything on my keyboard but f and j. It's still pretty funny!
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Nahh, giving money is often a very good option. Especially for highly trained, highly paid professionals ... you know the type, lawyers, plastic surgeons, et al. These people can easily make more than $100 per hour. They will do a lot more good for society if they work an hour and donate that $100 rather than donating an hour of their time handing out food for the homeless or cleaning up a park or whatever. Their donations of an hour's earnings could easily pay for fifteen people to do an hour of good work. Remember, money makes the world go round ... a donation of money is often the best thing you can do to help people.
In fact, if you collect all of the Ph.D's who believe in ID and all of the Ph.D's named "Steve" who agree that evolution is well-supported and the best explainer and predictor of our observations, the Ph.D's named "Steve" will outnumber the Ph.D's who believe in ID.
Ain't that the truth!
I must apologize, for up until this point I didn't know that I was a man of God.
It's not called the Theory of Evolution because some guy just thought it up, it's called such because it has not yet been authoritively proven. That doesn't discredit its merit; every field of science generally agrees that all life evolved from single-celled organisms. But since there are still a few holes to be patched up, scienctists refer to it as a theory.
You have no idea what an actual scientific theory is. See Wikipedia for the full explanation. In addition, you don't know how science works either if you think science "proves" things. Again, see Wikipedia.
"Intelligent Design is the idea that God manipulated and brought upon evolution. Creation theory is the litteral interpretation of Genesis."
First of all, creationism is not a theory. And second of all, you don't know what intelligent design is. You may want to check out TalkDesign to see what ID actually is, and then you might want to read The Wedge Document.
You joke, but gravity is just a theory.
You are using the wrong definition of theory. Nothing is ever "just" a theory; a theory is the very pinnacle of truth, explaining numerous facts, data, and observations.
I was reading your site and thinking to myself, "Okay, so this is different than the usual take on the universe from creationists..."
And then I hit on the following line, and I realized you're taken in with the frauds just like the rest of your ilk.
The answer is as clear here as it is in dealing with the irreducible complexity and specified complexity that shatter the flawed theory of evolution.
Why irreducible complexity is wrong
Why specified complexity is wrong
It is clear that this inaccurate and defective theory is being pushed by secular scientists seeking to further their anti-religious agenda.
Nice whine. "Ohhh no! The scientists are persecuting us Christians!" Look at what is ACTUALLY happening in government and you'll see that the real truth is that the religious people in power are using the government to further their anti-science agenda. They've attacked science education, environmental preservation, global warming, stem-cell research, and sex education, amongst many others.
Nevermind, the bill also mentions "explicit sexuality". Nice job with the article summary there, Slashdot.
Does this bill only mention it being violent games that cannot be sold to minors? What about sexuality? If it doesn't mention sex - hooray! Finally a law that realizes that violence is worse than a normal human activity!
Algorithms are *not* maths. Why should they be? Anyone can derive something like a bubble sort from first principles without the use of a calculator. A binary search is intuitively obvious - people do something like it all the time in things like interviews (the game of 20 questions as it's known). I could go on..
... aren't those logn annoying word problems in algebra also still math?
So according to you, if you don't need a calculator to do it, it's not math? Of course algorithms are math! The way to display most algorithms is with pseudocode, which uses VARIABLES. That sure as hell is math. And I suppose you could write out an algorithm longhand without even mentioning variables, but it's still math
Light instead of gamma? Alpha or beta? What in the hell are you talking about?
Gamma radiation IS light. As is visible light, infrared, radio, etc. There is no such thing as "alpha" or "beta" radiation.
It should be simple. You buy it, you own it. Period. If you that means you want to smash it in with a sledgehammer, go right ahead. It's yours! If you want to mess around with the electronics inside, go right ahead. If you want to add liquid to it, whether it's supposed to be there or not, no one can stop you.
Whatever happened to the sensible days? How is this supposed to be enforced anyway? Does this give the ink cartridge company the right to spy on me in my own home so as to make sure I'm not *gasp* refilling their cartridges?!
Slashdot, being completely free of any and all dynamic individuals, will be completely immune to anything Epicrealm can throw at it.
Don't be so nit-picky, you know what he meant. And thousands of kilograms of mass takes a lot of fuel to accelerate in space regardless of the fact that it weighs zero newtons there.
Private American spaceflight would be completely permissable on the grounds that telemetry, observations, and research conducted on such flights be made available to NASA for internal use (not republication).
The vast majority of research in space isn't done by NASA but by universities and other agencies. NASA is sort of the vehicle that allows these experiments to be put into space. Just allowing the data to be internally studied by NASA without re-publication isn't very useful. It would have to be published in a scientific journal or made available for it to be of much use. Also, many people have problems with research that is partly or wholey funded by the government being kept secret.
I didn't donate because I at least like something in return for my money, but I did give them $20 for a one-year membership (student discount). Hopefully some of my money will go towards this essential mission. I've long thought about joining the Planetary Society; this was my final impetus to do it.
Yeah, I go to the University of Maryland, and this is kind of embarrassing for us, but ... why exactly is this news? It's not as if this kind of thing doesn't happen hundreds of times a day. Is it a VERY slow news day?
From a community rep on the Blizzard Official WoW Forum, the scheduled weekly maintenance will be extended while they investigate the dupe bug.
... who wants to take bets on how long until the WoW servers will come back up? And will they refund their customers for the days of server outages?
... what is going to be done about all of the gold and items duped already before they took down the servers? A rollback seems like the only sure bet, but it would definitely piss off a lot of people.
Presumably they aren't going to bring the servers back up until the dupe bug is fixed, which might take awhile, because it appears that the bug is a result of a race condition and crappy servers (the bug occurs when the instance server spazzes and the character reverts to a previous instance).
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Network spam is bad in ALL of its forms. Ideally, the network would be nothing but 100% legitimate consensual traffic. Of course, that is impossible what with the huge amount of spam sent. But if we reply to spam by essentially sending out even more spam, we just overload the network with even more junk traffic. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind, and if everyone resolved their net issues by sending out a massive number of unsolicited packets the whole thing would collapse under the traffic. We simply must remain mature and handle the spammers in a manner that does not have such a detrimental effect to overall network health.
As long as you have the entire file containing the data there is always going to be a way to view that data in the way that you want to. Unfortunately, if the restrictions are built into the operating system, it might be rather hard to get around. Operating systems should simply be an abstraction layer between the hardware and the user that allows him to do more things more easily. It shouldn't restrict what he can do. If Microsoft does indeed go down this path then I think a lot of people will either refuse to upgrade or try some other operating system.
This article was entered as part of an article-writing contest with real life rewards such as a video card or DVD writers. This article is just written by some guy trying to win a contest, not by anyone influential. What he says is true, but obvious.
SETI is a lot more than just the SETI@home software you're thinking about. And this has implications for all radio astronomy, not just SETI. The solution is clear - don't let consumer-level technology get in the way of truly ground-breaking discoveries.
My prediction of when you'll be able to run Mac OS X on an x86 machine is still: never. Apple isn't a software company. They're a hardware company. Just because they're changing their processor does not mean you're going to be able to run it on your hardware.
It'd be very foolish to put all of your data on one on of these discs, wouldn't it? Just make lots of copies!
All of the storage capacity in my entire house could fit on two of these things. Awesome!
Haha great idea, I just did this. Unfortunately the home index finger keys (f and j) have raised indentations that also make them not fit into other key slots, so I rearranged everything on my keyboard but f and j. It's still pretty funny!