"Either it does or it doesn't." Excellent insight, genius. There is no direct observation of subatomic particles existing, either. None. Only observations that support the theory that they exist.
The existence of hoaxes does not make all other claims invalid, especially when those claims are made with REAL evidence that an ape did exist in North America.
There is very much credible evidence that the giant ape 'Gigantopithecus blacki', which once flourished in Asia, made its way to North America, and this is the main theory that the scientists, yes, _real_ scientists, have been going on.
At the same time period, Homo Sapiens crossed the land bridge from Asia, as did thousands of other species. Many primate anthropologists agree that is very possible that the Gigantopithecus made it to North America, and some say that it's almost unlikely that they *didn't* make it here.
The existence of hoaxes does not make all other claims invalid. There have been hundreds of discoveries made by cryptozoologists in the past decade of species, up until which there has NEVER been evidence of them existing.
Actually, no. There is very much credible evidence that the giant ape 'Gigantopithecus blacki', which once flourished in Asia, made its way to North America, and this is the main theory that the scientists, yes, _real_ scientists, have been going on.
At the same time period, Homo Sapiens crossed the land bridge from Asia, as did thousands of other species. Many primate anthropologists agree that is very possible that the Gigantopithecus made it to North America, and some say that it's almost unlikely that they *didn't* make it here.
The existence of hoaxes does not make all other claims invalid.
Hmm. Fossils of "Gigantopithecus blacki" ? www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/93/7/3016.pdf ?
the evidence exists (and has for many years) of the same species of apes in Asia in the same time period, and along with many other species found both in Asia and North America.
The people at the conference aren't weekend scientists with tinfoil hats, they are people who know a lot more about the subject than you or I.
Cryptozoology has had many many successful discoveries in recent years about species that we have never known existed, this is no different.
"Whether or not something exists is merely a quality of something, just as color is."
whoa. That's deep, dude. Please enlighten us more with specific circumstances where it is possible to prove the non-existence of an animal in a territory as large as North America.
no, but there is evidence of a creature called an "ape", and that they did live in North America at one time. The jump of faith required to believe it's possible that a handful are still around isn't that far. We're not talking about Blue Elephants in Manhattan, for christ sake.
Apes did once live in the Americas. That is an undisputed fact.
Here's some help: "Ape" is a term that is commonly used to describe things like "gorillas", "chimpanzees", and "orangutans".
what truth ? you have truth that bigfoot doesn't exist ? is your 'truth' based on one guy making big feet and a fake video ? what a scientist, you are.
better call those folks and tell them they're wasting their time.
"yet absolutely not one iota of compelling evidence to prove it."
please inform us of how much evidence you have reviewed in order to deem it not "compelling", as well as your background to warrant your opinion to be credible. if you could cite the interviews, lab testing of scat, and foot/finger print forensics that you base this on, that'd be great.
Thanks.
They could make those cars you're describing, for the same reason why they don't make flying cars or more electric/hydrogen cars: they don't think that they can make money from them.
there is not technological reason why those things aren't there.
"Attempts to make linux GUI driven is doomed to failure."
Just because what you have seen isn't what you like, doesn't mean that it's "doomed to failure". What you say in these 3 points can be used on all versions of "Unix", too, except for the GUI remark: OS X has proven it to be different.
Knowing Chad Dickerson, who is the CTO of InfoWorld, very well...I can say that not only does he "get it"...he gets it better than anyone in his position.
if your knowledge is enough to get the job, then you shouldn't have any problem explaining that you don't know anything.
I'm sure Linus Torvalds doesn't have nearly as much security knowledge as someone like Stephen Northcutt, but saying so shouldn't stop the presses or kill the contract.
admitting knowledge holes readily is different than admitting that you don't know the answer to a particular problem at hand.
In fact, I have been more impressed with people's troubleshooting skills when they _don't_ know and find out, then someone who says they know and then waste a lot of time protecting their image as a "master".
this works great until something needs to get done quickly, you really DON'T know what you're talking about, rack up the timesheet for thousands because you're flailing, and then have another consultant tell the guy writing the checks that you didn't know the 5 minute answer.
Hiring people because they are cocky (even if they have skills to back it up) is so 1999. I'm so glad that the Age of Primadonnas is over.
are you assuming that the people reading the article have been trained for years only to work in a less-skilled position ?
or do you think it's possible that some people reading the article are fresh out of college history majors who like computers and would make excellent money doing technical support ?
some people like (and make LOTS of money) doing technical support.
"2. Never admit that you don't know something - act like you know everything that has to do with computing"
Terrible idea. Every dweeb out there has enough ego to support pretending that they know everything. I keep my clients by being able to admit I don't know, then find out. They appreciate the honesty, instead of the pseudo-consultants that talk up a storm.
Marcus Ranum (author of NFR and someone who knows what he's talking about):
"IPV6 is insane overcomplexity if that was the only problems we wanted to solve. We could have doubled the address size of V4, bumped the version number, and left-filled from zero. As far as the "route glut" problems that stimulated the original design of IPV6, we could have used conventions (e.g. something like CIDR addressing which hadn't been thought of when the V6 effort started) that could easily have solved those issues.
Basically, the standards pukes are having fun playing their little games but none of it's really going to solve real problems. IPV6 is gonna be like ISO protocols all over again: what if they gave a protocol and nobody came?"
yeah, I feel the same way about Aston Martin's...I looked into getting one a while back, but my local car dealership didn't have one.
if they would only drop their prices and marketed their stuff through the coupon booklet I get in the mail, then they'd have a chance of being more than a niche market highly-engineered premium luxury car manufacturer, but maybe that's all they care about anyway.
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"Either it does or it doesn't."
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Excellent insight, genius. There is no direct observation of subatomic particles existing, either. None. Only observations that support the theory that they exist.
The existence of hoaxes does not make all other claims invalid, especially when those claims are made with REAL evidence that an ape did exist in North America.
Gigantopithecus blacki.
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/00
There is very much credible evidence that the giant ape 'Gigantopithecus blacki', which once flourished in Asia, made its way to North America, and this is the main theory that the scientists, yes, _real_ scientists, have been going on.
At the same time period, Homo Sapiens crossed the land bridge from Asia, as did thousands of other species. Many primate anthropologists agree that is very possible that the Gigantopithecus made it to North America, and some say that it's almost unlikely that they *didn't* make it here.
The existence of hoaxes does not make all other claims invalid. There have been hundreds of discoveries made by cryptozoologists in the past decade of species, up until which there has NEVER been evidence of them existing.
Actually, no. There is very much credible evidence that the giant ape 'Gigantopithecus blacki', which once flourished in Asia, made its way to North America, and this is the main theory that the scientists, yes, _real_ scientists, have been going on.
At the same time period, Homo Sapiens crossed the land bridge from Asia, as did thousands of other species. Many primate anthropologists agree that is very possible that the Gigantopithecus made it to North America, and some say that it's almost unlikely that they *didn't* make it here.
The existence of hoaxes does not make all other claims invalid.
Hmm. Fossils of "Gigantopithecus blacki" ?
www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/93/7/3016.pdf ?
the evidence exists (and has for many years) of the same species of apes in Asia in the same time period, and along with many other species found both in Asia and North America.
The people at the conference aren't weekend scientists with tinfoil hats, they are people who know a lot more about the subject than you or I.
Cryptozoology has had many many successful discoveries in recent years about species that we have never known existed, this is no different.
"Whether or not something exists is merely a quality of something, just as color is."
whoa. That's deep, dude. Please enlighten us more with specific circumstances where it is possible to prove the non-existence of an animal in a territory as large as North America.
no, but close.
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I mean this:
http://cryptozoology.freeservers.com/success.ht
no, but there is evidence of a creature called an "ape", and that they did live in North America at one time. The jump of faith required to believe it's possible that a handful are still around isn't that far. We're not talking about Blue Elephants in Manhattan, for christ sake.
Apes did once live in the Americas. That is an undisputed fact.
Here's some help:
"Ape" is a term that is commonly used to describe things like "gorillas", "chimpanzees", and "orangutans".
"Even when faced with the truth"
what truth ? you have truth that bigfoot doesn't exist ? is your 'truth' based on one guy making big feet and a fake video ? what a scientist, you are.
better call those folks and tell them they're wasting their time.
"why haven't we got more than 1-2 pieces of video footage of the damn thing?"
are YOU going to pay for it ? will YOU spend the time to convince funders to fund such a thing ?
welcome to the world of cryptozoology.
please disprove both theories, and I'm sure they'll take it out of the category.
"yet absolutely not one iota of compelling evidence to prove it." please inform us of how much evidence you have reviewed in order to deem it not "compelling", as well as your background to warrant your opinion to be credible. if you could cite the interviews, lab testing of scat, and foot/finger print forensics that you base this on, that'd be great. Thanks.
They could make those cars you're describing, for the same reason why they don't make flying cars or more electric/hydrogen cars: they don't think that they can make money from them. there is not technological reason why those things aren't there.
"Stay out of other peoples computers"
yeah, you tell 'em! while you're at it: stop doing terrorism! yeah! stop running red lights, too!
p.s. you have no idea what you're talking about.
"Attempts to make linux GUI driven is doomed to failure." Just because what you have seen isn't what you like, doesn't mean that it's "doomed to failure". What you say in these 3 points can be used on all versions of "Unix", too, except for the GUI remark: OS X has proven it to be different.
Knowing Chad Dickerson, who is the CTO of InfoWorld, very well...I can say that not only does he "get it"...he gets it better than anyone in his position.
"They just use "Linux" as a catchy term to summarize all free UNIX replacements." no...in this article, they mean Linux to mean Linux, and not *BSD.
" I think it's kind of sad that all that matter is money."
it doesn't. but in a business, it does. And in business, yes, you can put a pricetag on anything. It's naive to think otherwise.
if your knowledge is enough to get the job, then you shouldn't have any problem explaining that you don't know anything.
I'm sure Linus Torvalds doesn't have nearly as much security knowledge as someone like Stephen Northcutt, but saying so shouldn't stop the presses or kill the contract.
admitting knowledge holes readily is different than admitting that you don't know the answer to a particular problem at hand.
In fact, I have been more impressed with people's troubleshooting skills when they _don't_ know and find out, then someone who says they know and then waste a lot of time protecting their image as a "master".
"2. Never admit that you don't know something"
this works great until something needs to get done quickly, you really DON'T know what you're talking about, rack up the timesheet for thousands because you're flailing, and then have another consultant tell the guy writing the checks that you didn't know the 5 minute answer.
Hiring people because they are cocky (even if they have skills to back it up) is so 1999. I'm so glad that the Age of Primadonnas is over.
are you assuming that the people reading the article have been trained for years only to work in a less-skilled position ?
or do you think it's possible that some people reading the article are fresh out of college history majors who like computers and would make excellent money doing technical support ?
some people like (and make LOTS of money) doing technical support.
"2. Never admit that you don't know something - act like you know everything that has to do with computing" Terrible idea. Every dweeb out there has enough ego to support pretending that they know everything. I keep my clients by being able to admit I don't know, then find out. They appreciate the honesty, instead of the pseudo-consultants that talk up a storm.
Blue Cross of California. works fine for me. cheap.
Marcus Ranum (author of NFR and someone who knows what he's talking about):
"IPV6 is insane overcomplexity if that was the only problems we wanted to solve. We could have doubled the address size of V4, bumped the version number, and left-filled from zero. As far as the "route glut" problems that stimulated the original design of IPV6, we could have used conventions (e.g. something like CIDR addressing which hadn't been thought of when the V6 effort started) that could easily have solved those issues.
Basically, the standards pukes are having fun playing their little games but none of it's really going to solve real problems. IPV6 is gonna be like ISO protocols all over again: what if they gave a protocol and nobody came?"
yeah, I feel the same way about Aston Martin's...I looked into getting one a while back, but my local car dealership didn't have one. if they would only drop their prices and marketed their stuff through the coupon booklet I get in the mail, then they'd have a chance of being more than a niche market highly-engineered premium luxury car manufacturer, but maybe that's all they care about anyway.
here's the real link: http://www.osafoundation.org/
the effort to kill 1000 emails in a day is easier than pulling out 1000 catalogues out of a mailbox, given the right filtering.