Ok, thanks, so help me out here. What are the "theories of the development of inanimate matter up to the first living creature capable of reproduction"? Every book I have read skips over this question.
That's a great idea. Like all scientific claims, they should be put to the test. However Flew may be only the beginning I suspect. The ID DVD I saw was very convincing. But then I am physicist, not a biologist.
My creationist friends would (I think) reply that the origin problem is a biggie, but also the addition of vast ammounts of information (e.g in the DNA etc.) required to evolve is just as difficult if not impossible.
One lent me an ID DVD recently and I must say I found the presentation very convincing. I could not see how the required complexity could possibly be achieved without a guiding intelligence.
Dear Monopoly rip-off merchants whoever you are......
I see the new Mac Mini is $499 USD which translates to about $704 NZD.
But I see Apple NZ is charging almost $950 NZD for the same machine. That is, um, almost $250 ABOVE the USA price.
Wow, that is a great margin.
I was thinking of buying one of these machines but not from NZ. Ok, so I risk the warranty but at that inflated rip-off price it is a gamble well worth taking.
Perhaps one of the monopolists would like to explain or are they too busy counting all their money?!
Seriously though, I would love to know why we are expected to pay such an overhead here in NZ.
Flew has looked at evidence for many years and has now concluded that life cannot come from non-life.
That is the point... ask an evolutionist HOW the first cell came into being. As far as I can tell, this is a total mystery to those who attend the Origin of Life conferences and is exactly the reason the "Intelligent Design" is making such inroads. ID and people like Flew are just giving creationists more ammunition.
Leading Atheist Philosopher Concludes God's Real
Thursday, 16 December 2004
NEW YORK -- A British philosophy professor who has been a leading
champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind.
He now believes in God -- more or less -- based on scientific evidence,
and says so on a video released Thursday.
At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony
Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must
have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good
explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew
said in a telephone interview from England.
The loss of focus drives me up the wall. One moment I can scroll up and down the page using the arrow keys, then the next moment they don't work anymore. So where the hell is the focus (pulling out hair and hitting keyboard). Find mouse, click on window again with no apparent change an it works again. Hurrah!
Well, I have certainly had problems with the import facility in both Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird. I put up with the problems because I love the applications but at times they are a nuisance.
Importing csv or tab delimited files always seems very confusing compared to trying it in Outlook Express - I had to use OE recently as an intermediate step between getting email addresses from OS X to Thunderbird. (Importing directly from OS X would be really useful too.)
As an aside, if dragging and dropping addresses from addr. book onto Thunderbird's Send-To section, it works great except that dropping addresses onto a BCC field subsequently changes the 'next entry' field back to "To:" which is a nuisance.
Also, the scroll wheel seems to corrupt a long list of addresses entered in the 'Send-To' section.
I hope this is of some use to a developer somewhere!
What is MacOS X currently compiled with? Is it GCC? If so, the new IBM compiler would presumably speed up the entire OS somewhat if it were recompiled via IBM's compiler?
I'm sure this material is great news for many all around the world. I am looking forward to MIT putting more video lecture material online. The Linear Algebra videos are excellent; certainly better than my university lectures were.
For those interested in Christian Theology, I note another website attempting a similiar thing to MIT but on a much smaller scale. They have good lecturers on various topics including Biblical Greek. They are at http://www.biblicaltraining.org/
I've been using Mozilla for about 5 years......and happy with it for most of that time. I have used it exclusively for about the last 4 years. I still have no use for 'local folders' in the email client....what are they for? Now looking forward to Firebird and Thunderbird!
Good point. I should have read what I wrote eh?! What I meant was that NOT having OO available for Mac is a point AGAINST me buying a Powerbook (over against buying an x86 based laptop). At present it is a nuisance not having OO on our iBook.
I think that is a good idea, but is it possible? I have used OOo for the past three years with great success. Having it run as a 'proper' KDE app would be a good reason to move to Linux/FreeBSD.
Why should they go open source anyway? Do you expect Toyota to open source their car designs? Yeah, many slashdotters don't like MS, but I bet most are reading this using Windows. Where can we get the browser stats for/.?
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, thanks, so help me out here. What are the "theories of the development of inanimate matter up to the first living creature capable of reproduction"? Every book I have read skips over this question.
That's a great idea. Like all scientific claims, they should be put to the test. However Flew may be only the beginning I suspect. The ID DVD I saw was very convincing. But then I am physicist, not a biologist.
My creationist friends would (I think) reply that the origin problem is a biggie, but also the addition of vast ammounts of information (e.g in the DNA etc.) required to evolve is just as difficult if not impossible.
One lent me an ID DVD recently and I must say I found the presentation very convincing. I could not see how the required complexity could possibly be achieved without a guiding intelligence.
Dear Monopoly rip-off merchants whoever you are......
I see the new Mac Mini is $499 USD which translates to about $704 NZD.
But I see Apple NZ is charging almost $950 NZD for the same machine. That is, um, almost $250 ABOVE the USA price.
Wow, that is a great margin.
I was thinking of buying one of these machines but not from NZ. Ok, so I risk the warranty but at that inflated rip-off price it is a gamble well worth taking.
Perhaps one of the monopolists would like to explain or are they too busy counting all their money?!
Seriously though, I would love to know why we are expected to pay such an overhead here in NZ.
Thanks and regards,
Robocopper
Flew has looked at evidence for many years and has now concluded that life cannot come from non-life.
... ask an evolutionist HOW the first cell came into being. As far as I can tell, this is a total mystery to those who attend the Origin of Life conferences and is exactly the reason the "Intelligent Design" is making such inroads. ID and people like Flew are just giving creationists more ammunition.
That is the point
At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone interview from England.
Source: Many sources here...
The loss of focus drives me up the wall. One moment I can scroll up and down the page using the arrow keys, then the next moment they don't work anymore. So where the hell is the focus (pulling out hair and hitting keyboard). Find mouse, click on window again with no apparent change an it works again. Hurrah!
Well, I have certainly had problems with the import facility in both Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird. I put up with the problems because I love the applications but at times they are a nuisance.
Importing csv or tab delimited files always seems very confusing compared to trying it in Outlook Express - I had to use OE recently as an intermediate step between getting email addresses from OS X to Thunderbird. (Importing directly from OS X would be really useful too.)
As an aside, if dragging and dropping addresses from addr. book onto Thunderbird's Send-To section, it works great except that dropping addresses onto a BCC field subsequently changes the 'next entry' field back to "To:" which is a nuisance.
Also, the scroll wheel seems to corrupt a long list of addresses entered in the 'Send-To' section.
I hope this is of some use to a developer somewhere!
Thanks.
Most of my workmates use Firefox and love it!
Good riddance to the idiot. He needs a brain transplant!
Obviously Apple are not charging their usual outside-USA rip-off prices to those in Australia. Oh wait, government sales.....no I take that back.
What is MacOS X currently compiled with? Is it GCC? If so, the new IBM compiler would presumably speed up the entire OS somewhat if it were recompiled via IBM's compiler?
This is excellent. I have extensively used rc3 and rc4, both of which were rock solid. Export to PDF! Excellent!
I'm sure this material is great news for many all around the world. I am looking forward to MIT putting more video lecture material online. The Linear Algebra videos are excellent; certainly better than my university lectures were.
For those interested in Christian Theology, I note another website attempting a similiar thing to MIT but on a much smaller scale. They have good lecturers on various topics including Biblical Greek. They are at http://www.biblicaltraining.org/
Regards from New Zealand.
No obvious problems or improvements on my iBook G3 500.
I guess it would be nice to be able to turn the 'local folders' thing off somehow.
I've been using Mozilla for about 5 years......and happy with it for most of that time. I have used it exclusively for about the last 4 years. I still have no use for 'local folders' in the email client....what are they for? Now looking forward to Firebird and Thunderbird!
Nice work Dru!
Good point. I should have read what I wrote eh?! What I meant was that NOT having OO available for Mac is a point AGAINST me buying a Powerbook (over against buying an x86 based laptop). At present it is a nuisance not having OO on our iBook.
Try this : www.archos.com and the open source version... http://rockbox.haxx.se/
I think that is a good idea, but is it possible? I have used OOo for the past three years with great success. Having it run as a 'proper' KDE app would be a good reason to move to Linux/FreeBSD.
4.7 installed beautifully on my box here. Even the bootloader is excellent and simple. Have not tried 4.8 yet.
4.7 worked very well on the (KDE) desktop. Haven't tried 4.8 yet.
Why should they go open source anyway? Do you expect Toyota to open source their car designs? Yeah, many slashdotters don't like MS, but I bet most are reading this using Windows. Where can we get the browser stats for /.?
Phoenix is one cool browser. It is also my primary browser these days!