Are you trolling today?
Even though I have some doubts about the "not a troll post", I will provide some answers to your question.
Creationism basically says the world was created by God because we believe that way and any evidence proofing us wrong must not be shown because we find it offensive.
Evolution basically says the world evolved through natural selection and we can proof it. Just look at this line species over the course of time.
In science it is OK to have different point of view, but once your point is proven to be wrong, you are expected to change (or at least adapt) it. Otherwise you are no longer participating in a scientific discussion. Earth is no longer the center of the universe, it is not flat, there are more than 4 elements, heavier than air flight is possible and so on. Once an idea is disproved you stop force feeding it to children no matter how comforting it was.
Also creationism is (by the very definition) not science and should not be called such. It is a religious standpoint found mostly in some more fundamental flavors of american Christianity. If not even the rather conservative catholic church is on your side and openly rejects intelligent design it might be the time to rethink what one calls "science"
Yeah I always liked the power users best. Normal users problems could usually fixed bey tweaking some settings while the "tech savvy" power users usually needed a complete OS reinstall. These are the people who will plug in their own private unsecured hotspot into the company network, because it was easier than to connect their phone this way.
The more you know, the more damage you can cause by not knowing that important little bit more.
It's bad, but not that bad. The usual consumer grade Parmigiano is only stored for a few months before it can be shipped. It does affect gourmet grade Parmigiano up to a certain point, but still it's only a temporary problem. The production facility still exists and the damage to the storage unit itself is minor. That said the value of the destroyed cheese is immense.
Do you know how often a help desk call involves accurate descriptions of the real issue at hand? How many times have issues like "OMG the mailserver is down!!!!" resolved be plugging in the f*cking network cable or switching the wireless switch on someones laptop back on?
It is somewhat fascinating to see how people get through traffic everyday alive just to switch their brains of at work.
You should have picked the UK, because Germany didn't believe that WMD crap the last time and has Pirate Party members sitting in state parliaments. The Germans get along quite well with the dutch as long as no football is involved.
Then why in the name of the noodle don't they change their scientists contracts? "Any paper created while receiving funds from the university must be made available to members of the university free of charge." The publishers didn't fund the research, they didn't pay the staff so why should they, and not the university profit from it?
And it would be ridiculously easy and cheap to set up and kept running considering all the resources already available to universities. If you start deducting costs for even a single journal package over a year, you might even start saving money. All it would take is one prestigious university to assign a few grad students and endorse it. You could even limit access only to those universities that would submit papers (well pdfs) themselves. Bonus points if you require all your staff to submit a copy of any paper to this repository no matter where else they want to publish it. Make it a requirement to receive funding.
Thank good apple stepped in to fill this gap. Who else should we have violent discussions over these days? The recording industry? Nay - we all hate them. Copyright? Maybe but the issue has to many overlapping layers for a proper pro contra hate fest. Politics? A tricky one, but not techno enough for my taste. Apple on the other hand should perform good in this position with devoted fans and dire haters. Apple it shall be for now.
Btw: This is (probably) not flaming. I am simply considering who our choice target of hate and worship will be in the years to come.
I would consider overall health and future outlook to be far more interesting. Has the company lost market share? No. Is it profitable? Yes. Could it make more money? Maybe. Could it have gone down the drain like RIM, Nokia partly IBM, the banking or automotive sector? No. Is there any major threat to the company in the future? No. Is buying their stock risky? No. Has Linux or MacOS cost it any significant market share? No.
The had several more or less expensive "toy projects" (compared to overall revenue) of which some failed (ie bing) and some prosper (xbox).
There are so many morally challenged bastards and or idiot CEOs that drove their companies (and in some cases the whole economy) into the ground, lost billions of money and then left with loads of cash. Bashing Microsoft is always a fun sport, but in this case there are far more worthy targets.
So they've built an EMP bomb which doesn't require setting off a nuclear bomb as well?
Why don't we start worrying that the UK is ineffectively protected against ray-guns and lightsabers as well?
And plants! Do not underestimate the triffids or the Happening. Though plants could be our allies against the zombies and we should treat them politely.
Seriously who is going to detonate an EMP over UK? That'll piss off nearby countries like France and Ireland too. A country crazy enough to do it better be prepared for a nuclear response.
Beware the green clovers wrath: drunken brawling, green rivers and red haired tap-dancers. The reason Hulk is green is not the gamma rays but his Irish inheritance.
Seriously once you pissed of England (owns nukes), France (owns nukes) and probably the rest of Nato (more nukes) enough for a nuclear payback, Ireland (no nukes) should be the least of your worries.
Has anyone, anywhere, managed to build a serious one yet? One you can actually deploy without also triggering a nuclear holocaust in the process? Because in that case we have bigger problems than a few fried bits of kit.
There are some small scale versions but I think the bigger reasons to research protective measures would be natural events (like solar flares) or the fear of an rogue nuclear device. The later is rather improbable (apart from the primary issues of having a nuke exploding in a major city) and the later usually not strong enough to cause widespread serious damage. Still it might be a field worth at in order to protect sensitive and expensive electronics.
The military grade EMP hardened chips provide probably more protection than you really need and are much slower and more expensive than standard industrial grade hardware.
Car analogy: A reinforced frame, airbags and seat belts provide enough protection for the more common scenarios, even though driving a tank would offer more.
virtual desktop != second monitor. Plugging in secondary monitors has been working on Windows since 2000 at least. Can't remember if 98, 95 or 3.11 could do it though it wouldn't surprise me.
Used that a lot a couple of years ago in the physics department computer lab. The fun part was they didn't properly set the security in the default wm so you could use other computers X while other people where logged in. Popping up random windows on other peoples screen can be very funny. About five minutes after I noticed this I had a new wm installed.
More importantly, the records they found at the site indicate that the Mayans viewed the calendar as CYCLICAL and just like our Bad Girls of Linux Wall Calendar, the world doesn't end when the last day of the Calendar is reached.
Notably absent was the Thirteenth Crystal Skull and ancient UFO instruction manual.
I was so terribly disappointed when I googled for the Bad Girls of Linux calendar and didn't find anything. Sadist.
Unless you are gay or are performing abortions... Ok, actually not even then at least mostly. There used to be a time when Islamic countries where the sanctuaries of science and enlightenment whereas christian Europe made an excursion into a dark age that would make even the Taliban shudder with disgust.
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Well the theory would hold true for gasoline powered models or electric fans powered by a diesel generator in the same (closed) room.
Are you trolling today?
Even though I have some doubts about the "not a troll post", I will provide some answers to your question.
Creationism basically says the world was created by God because we believe that way and any evidence proofing us wrong must not be shown because we find it offensive.
Evolution basically says the world evolved through natural selection and we can proof it. Just look at this line species over the course of time.
In science it is OK to have different point of view, but once your point is proven to be wrong, you are expected to change (or at least adapt) it. Otherwise you are no longer participating in a scientific discussion. Earth is no longer the center of the universe, it is not flat, there are more than 4 elements, heavier than air flight is possible and so on. Once an idea is disproved you stop force feeding it to children no matter how comforting it was.
Also creationism is (by the very definition) not science and should not be called such. It is a religious standpoint found mostly in some more fundamental flavors of american Christianity. If not even the rather conservative catholic church is on your side and openly rejects intelligent design it might be the time to rethink what one calls "science"
Yeah I always liked the power users best. Normal users problems could usually fixed bey tweaking some settings while the "tech savvy" power users usually needed a complete OS reinstall. These are the people who will plug in their own private unsecured hotspot into the company network, because it was easier than to connect their phone this way.
The more you know, the more damage you can cause by not knowing that important little bit more.
It's bad, but not that bad. The usual consumer grade Parmigiano is only stored for a few months before it can be shipped. It does affect gourmet grade Parmigiano up to a certain point, but still it's only a temporary problem. The production facility still exists and the damage to the storage unit itself is minor. That said the value of the destroyed cheese is immense.
Do you know how often a help desk call involves accurate descriptions of the real issue at hand? How many times have issues like "OMG the mailserver is down!!!!" resolved be plugging in the f*cking network cable or switching the wireless switch on someones laptop back on?
It is somewhat fascinating to see how people get through traffic everyday alive just to switch their brains of at work.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of backup tapes.
They did not limit their citizens access to it, they just didn't want to be Europe's official drug shopping mall anymore.
You should have picked the UK, because Germany didn't believe that WMD crap the last time and has Pirate Party members sitting in state parliaments. The Germans get along quite well with the dutch as long as no football is involved.
Then why in the name of the noodle don't they change their scientists contracts? "Any paper created while receiving funds from the university must be made available to members of the university free of charge." The publishers didn't fund the research, they didn't pay the staff so why should they, and not the university profit from it?
And it would be ridiculously easy and cheap to set up and kept running considering all the resources already available to universities. If you start deducting costs for even a single journal package over a year, you might even start saving money. All it would take is one prestigious university to assign a few grad students and endorse it. You could even limit access only to those universities that would submit papers (well pdfs) themselves. Bonus points if you require all your staff to submit a copy of any paper to this repository no matter where else they want to publish it. Make it a requirement to receive funding.
Thank good apple stepped in to fill this gap. Who else should we have violent discussions over these days? The recording industry? Nay - we all hate them. Copyright? Maybe but the issue has to many overlapping layers for a proper pro contra hate fest. Politics? A tricky one, but not techno enough for my taste.
Apple on the other hand should perform good in this position with devoted fans and dire haters. Apple it shall be for now.
Btw: This is (probably) not flaming. I am simply considering who our choice target of hate and worship will be in the years to come.
I would consider overall health and future outlook to be far more interesting. Has the company lost market share? No. Is it profitable? Yes. Could it make more money? Maybe. Could it have gone down the drain like RIM, Nokia partly IBM, the banking or automotive sector? No. Is there any major threat to the company in the future? No. Is buying their stock risky? No. Has Linux or MacOS cost it any significant market share? No.
The had several more or less expensive "toy projects" (compared to overall revenue) of which some failed (ie bing) and some prosper (xbox).
There are so many morally challenged bastards and or idiot CEOs that drove their companies (and in some cases the whole economy) into the ground, lost billions of money and then left with loads of cash. Bashing Microsoft is always a fun sport, but in this case there are far more worthy targets.
So does Japan. For an overview http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf122_heavy_manufacturing_of_power_plants.html (scroll down a page to see the table)
But is far easier to use for baking... On the other hand it seems like part of the nation is starting to convert:
Metric System Thriving In Nation's Inner Cities
So they've built an EMP bomb which doesn't require setting off a nuclear bomb as well?
Why don't we start worrying that the UK is ineffectively protected against ray-guns and lightsabers as well?
And plants! Do not underestimate the triffids or the Happening. Though plants could be our allies against the zombies and we should treat them politely.
Seriously who is going to detonate an EMP over UK? That'll piss off nearby countries like France and Ireland too. A country crazy enough to do it better be prepared for a nuclear response.
Beware the green clovers wrath: drunken brawling, green rivers and red haired tap-dancers. The reason Hulk is green is not the gamma rays but his Irish inheritance.
Seriously once you pissed of England (owns nukes), France (owns nukes) and probably the rest of Nato (more nukes) enough for a nuclear payback, Ireland (no nukes) should be the least of your worries.
Even if you where truly paranoid, a safely stored replacement system for some key infrastructures would do. Which wouldn't be such a bad idea anyway.
Has anyone, anywhere, managed to build a serious one yet? One you can actually deploy without also triggering a nuclear holocaust in the process? Because in that case we have bigger problems than a few fried bits of kit.
There are some small scale versions but I think the bigger reasons to research protective measures would be natural events (like solar flares) or the fear of an rogue nuclear device. The later is rather improbable (apart from the primary issues of having a nuke exploding in a major city) and the later usually not strong enough to cause widespread serious damage. Still it might be a field worth at in order to protect sensitive and expensive electronics.
The military grade EMP hardened chips provide probably more protection than you really need and are much slower and more expensive than standard industrial grade hardware.
Car analogy: A reinforced frame, airbags and seat belts provide enough protection for the more common scenarios, even though driving a tank would offer more.
So that's what happened in Tunguska
virtual desktop != second monitor. Plugging in secondary monitors has been working on Windows since 2000 at least. Can't remember if 98, 95 or 3.11 could do it though it wouldn't surprise me.
Used that a lot a couple of years ago in the physics department computer lab. The fun part was they didn't properly set the security in the default wm so you could use other computers X while other people where logged in. Popping up random windows on other peoples screen can be very funny. About five minutes after I noticed this I had a new wm installed.
More importantly, the records they found at the site indicate that the Mayans viewed the calendar as CYCLICAL and just like our Bad Girls of Linux Wall Calendar, the world doesn't end when the last day of the Calendar is reached.
Notably absent was the Thirteenth Crystal Skull and ancient UFO instruction manual.
I was so terribly disappointed when I googled for the Bad Girls of Linux calendar and didn't find anything. Sadist.
Well there is your business idea.
Unless you are gay or are performing abortions... Ok, actually not even then at least mostly. There used to be a time when Islamic countries where the sanctuaries of science and enlightenment whereas christian Europe made an excursion into a dark age that would make even the Taliban shudder with disgust.
Very nice. Thank you for the links.
The Mayans where obviously above DST. Not that you would need this construct without non solar based timekeeping systems (clocks)