Originally, the scientists thought that they changed to become less apealing to predators, then when predator population died out, they changed back.
The researchers found that the specimens in the lab changed and then later changed back, just as fossil records had shown.
If anything this disproves evolution as the cause.
Did they have predators and competition in the lab? It wasn't mentioned and I highly doubt they recreated the lake.
They removed the predators and the same thing still happened. This disproves their theory.
So why is it so hard to say that the DNA of the specimen was programmed to change in this way over time which had the nice side effect that the predators didn't like the change?
What really pissed me off (thus no more cable) is that I'm paying for cable channels and after prime time almost all of them are infomercials!
Why should I pay for content that I'm not getting while these TV spammers pay to show their commercials all night?
I think we deserve 50% off for those 12 hours of infomercials.
Don't even get me started on 8 minutes of content between commercials. You barely get interested again before the next break. Then they run another lower third animated graphic over the top of the current show telling what comes on later.
Installing mysql is easy. Configuring MythTV and mysql to work right isn't. I do video for a living, not database servers, so I would rather not configure a database server if I don't have to.
It sounds like you are advocating a Windows like approach.
This is one single point of failure for the whole PVR system. Relying on the database for everything in MythTV is like relying on the registry on Windows.
When I backup a folder full of movies the information files tag right along. If I ever had a bad backup medium I could still recover most of the data.
If I lose the database on a backup I lose the whole file.
Media Portal looks great. The features look just about perfect.
The problem is that every time I install it, it's incredibly unstable. That isn't a Windows bashing remark, I think Windows XP is stable enough for this use. Media Portal is just plain buggy.
I've used both for a long time and I currently use Freevo.
Both do a great job at playback on video files. Both have similar features for photos.
Freevo has a better music playback system IMHO. Myth requires an overly complicated two step process of making a playlist using a badly designed menuing system in one screen and then going to another section of Myth to play back your currently selected playlist. With Freevo you have the option of selecting a folder to playback as a complete album or making a playlist. 99% of the time I want the album so this works better for me. I guess my life isn't random.
Neither is very good at playing DVDs. If you do get DVD playback functioning, the menus will either kinda work or not at all. Don't throw away that $30 DVD player just yet.
Myth has more polish and extra features such as background ripping and VOIP.
The main problem with Myth is the complexity of the application. It uses a MySQL database to hold almost all of its information on movies, music and settings. This makes setup, even on a Debian system very complicated. Using a specialized distro such as Knoppmyth helps, but even the Knoppmyth installer is a bear to get fully functioning.
With Freevo, details about each movie are kept in a single text file located in the directory with the movie. If I move the files around, the data never gets lost. With Myth, losing the database will lose any work you have done entering movie info. I know I could backup the database, but why should I have to? Think Windows registry vs. Unix text configuration files. Why use a database when a simple directory listing will suffice? The developers never heard of KISS, that is certain.
Compared to Freevo, MythTV crashes a lot. IMHO, the overhead of the database and the complexity of C++ make MythTV harder to debug. At one point, one of my Myth installs lost the ability to add more files to the listing. I have quite a few full series on the drives and I wonder if I didn't hit some limit in the software. I finally gave up on Myth at that point and went with Freevo.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like to use MythTV. It's the instability and the dread of configuring MythTV that keeps me using Freevo instead.
First off, WORST. RAP. EVER. Seriously, that's horrible. Any Casio-carrying crack-head could do better.
Second, Einstein flip? Um, last I checked, that is just a flip. Invented by Jose Yanez in about 1985 and performed in the novice class at contests these days. It's only exciting to the uninformed spectators anymore.
As for the education aspect, how about (GASP) making education a priority instead of sports? Schools in here (Texas) are built on football, not education.
How about having a zero-tolerence policy on picking on other (usually smarter) kids in school instead of waiting until they crack and threaten to gun down said bullies? Oh, BTW, they punish the victim and the bully is made into a celebrity if he survives.
What a way to completely waste money and ignore the problem.
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Sure, we voted the lawmakers in didn't we?
It's the will of the people or something like that.
If we labeled the commercial breaks with "Part 1", etc. even Joe Redneck would figure out how badly the broadcasters are screwing him.
Assuming he could count that high...
Every network affiliate around here has an HD broadcast also. I think it's been a requirement for a while now.
I don't understand why most "HDTV's" are actually HD monitors with no tuners though. That pisses me off.
They planned this out TEN years ago?
By July 1, 2005 all new TVs 36 inches or larger and half of all TVs 25 inches or larger must be HD.
July 1, 2006 all new TVs 25 inches or larger must be HD.
Broadcast cutoff date of Dec 31 2006.
July 1, 2007 all new TVs 13 inches or larger must be HD.
WTF were they thinking not making all TV's sold be HD BEFORE the cutoff date?
Originally, the scientists thought that they changed to become less apealing to predators, then when predator population died out, they changed back.
The researchers found that the specimens in the lab changed and then later changed back, just as fossil records had shown.
If anything this disproves evolution as the cause.
Did they have predators and competition in the lab? It wasn't mentioned and I highly doubt they recreated the lake.
They removed the predators and the same thing still happened. This disproves their theory.
So why is it so hard to say that the DNA of the specimen was programmed to change in this way over time which had the nice side effect that the predators didn't like the change?
That's the pain of trying to use binary packages on an OS that has never had and never will have a stable ABI.
It is a source based OS, plain and simple.
Gentoo isn't perfect, but it's the closest to "right" we have ATM.
God is dead, right?
What really pissed me off (thus no more cable) is that I'm paying for cable channels and after prime time almost all of them are infomercials!
Why should I pay for content that I'm not getting while these TV spammers pay to show their commercials all night?
I think we deserve 50% off for those 12 hours of infomercials.
Don't even get me started on 8 minutes of content between commercials. You barely get interested again before the next break. Then they run another lower third animated graphic over the top of the current show telling what comes on later.
Greedy bastards.
It looks like you might be.
Now they're rebelling
BSG will be one of the biggest series this year in the UK.
BSG will be cancelled in the US due to low ratings.
Why low ratings in the US? Because everyone who is interested has already downloaded the UK versions 3-4 months before they air in the US.
Why can't the networks think globally?
ATI can't even make a remotely stable driver for anything except Windows.
I don't see them porting an OS to it...
Twice the SPEED, not twice the price.
Dollars are only a valid measurement of speed in government agencies.
I think you lost all credibility at "anywayz"
What a shame, I was following along until that point.
Apple only seems to sue their biggest supporters.
VIA couldn't even get PCI working right.
Now you can have PCI lockups and DMA errors many times faster with VIA PCI Express!
Installing mysql is easy. Configuring MythTV and mysql to work right isn't. I do video for a living, not database servers, so I would rather not configure a database server if I don't have to.
It sounds like you are advocating a Windows like approach.
This is one single point of failure for the whole PVR system. Relying on the database for everything in MythTV is like relying on the registry on Windows.
When I backup a folder full of movies the information files tag right along. If I ever had a bad backup medium I could still recover most of the data.
If I lose the database on a backup I lose the whole file.
Media Portal looks great. The features look just about perfect.
The problem is that every time I install it, it's incredibly unstable. That isn't a Windows bashing remark, I think Windows XP is stable enough for this use. Media Portal is just plain buggy.
I've used both for a long time and I currently use Freevo.
Both do a great job at playback on video files. Both have similar features for photos.
Freevo has a better music playback system IMHO. Myth requires an overly complicated two step process of making a playlist using a badly designed menuing system in one screen and then going to another section of Myth to play back your currently selected playlist. With Freevo you have the option of selecting a folder to playback as a complete album or making a playlist. 99% of the time I want the album so this works better for me.
I guess my life isn't random.
Neither is very good at playing DVDs. If you do get DVD playback functioning, the menus will either kinda work or not at all. Don't throw away that $30 DVD player just yet.
Myth has more polish and extra features such as background ripping and VOIP.
The main problem with Myth is the complexity of the application. It uses a MySQL database to hold almost all of its information on movies, music and settings. This makes setup, even on a Debian system very complicated. Using a specialized distro such as Knoppmyth helps, but even the Knoppmyth installer is a bear to get fully functioning.
With Freevo, details about each movie are kept in a single text file located in the directory with the movie. If I move the files around, the data never gets lost. With Myth, losing the database will lose any work you have done entering movie info. I know I could backup the database, but why should I have to? Think Windows registry vs. Unix text configuration files. Why use a database when a simple directory listing will suffice? The developers never heard of KISS, that is certain.
Compared to Freevo, MythTV crashes a lot. IMHO, the overhead of the database and the complexity of C++ make MythTV harder to debug. At one point, one of my Myth installs lost the ability to add more files to the listing. I have quite a few full series on the drives and I wonder if I didn't hit some limit in the software. I finally gave up on Myth at that point and went with Freevo.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like to use MythTV. It's the instability and the dread of configuring MythTV that keeps me using Freevo instead.
Freevo is simple and functional.
It happened to Farscape.
And Farscape didn't even suck.
That boot ROM is solely used to lock the OS to licensed hardware.
Otherwise the Pegasus board or any Mac could potentially run this OS.
Stupid move #4875674 from Amiga.
Um, yeah, that is exactly what it means.
They will be making money (generating revenue) from people who whould never have bought the product, i.e. getting a bigger piece of the pie.
When you can make more money at McDonalds than teaching you get teachers that can't flip a burger, much less explain the physics behind it.
First off, WORST. RAP. EVER.
Seriously, that's horrible. Any Casio-carrying crack-head could do better.
Second, Einstein flip? Um, last I checked, that is just a flip. Invented by Jose Yanez in about 1985 and performed in the novice class at contests these days. It's only exciting to the uninformed spectators anymore.
As for the education aspect, how about (GASP) making education a priority instead of sports? Schools in here (Texas) are built on football, not education.
How about having a zero-tolerence policy on picking on other (usually smarter) kids in school instead of waiting until they crack and threaten to gun down said bullies? Oh, BTW, they punish the victim and the bully is made into a celebrity if he survives.
What a way to completely waste money and ignore the problem.
Are you being realistic or giving up?
It isn't too late to kill software patents. Just because the law makers are owned right now doesn't mean that they always will be. Unless we give up.