Two snipers with the.50 cal upgrade can chase a heli away. That rifle actually does a decent little chunk of damage, plus the shots go through the glass. Two snipers can injure the pilot and scare him away or whittle away at the heli till it has to leave. Combine that with an anti-tank troop spotting the heli and making his missile warning alarm go off and you negate the effectiveness of the heli.
The second you insert an omnipotent being into the equation you eliminate the ability of science to deal with it. That's why creationism is not science and is not a theory and should not be taught in school as science. Science is the study of observable phenomena. An omnipotent being is not observable so it cannot exist in anything even remotely resembling science. Your argument proves this point very well.
Writing music is an art, whether it's for top 40 radio, games, or theater. Most of the time you don't get hired to write music as a permanent job, though there are a few out there. If you want to get into the industry, start writing music and TONS of it. Get some games and re-write the music for them. Make some videos showing the game with your music behind it. Offer to write music for free for ANYONE who is willing. The best way to make money writing music for games is to get known as a game musician.
Another thing to do is learn how to write music on as many different audio apps as possible, as well as with physical instruments like guitar, keyboard, drums, etc. If someone asks you to come in and write music using a Jeskola Buzz Machine http://www.buzzmachines.com/, you need to already know how. You also need to understand mixing and mastering and need to know how to use analog and digital recording equipment. Mixing isn't too difficult but mastering really takes talent and skill.
Basically, he needs to shell out some cash on music equipment and software instead of on a degree. If he insists on going to school, he needs to go to a school like Full Sail http://www.fullsail.com/ that actually offers courses that would be relevant to the field.
No, it's not. Sound has to pass through too many places to ever have a low enough latency to work as a sound cancelling device. I have a 3GHz system with a good sound card and I have to set my latency to 0.04 seconds in audio apps to avoid chopping. That's way too long for sound cancellation. A 40ms cycle equates to a 25Hz tone. You'd be able to cancel anything below 25Hz. To cancel anything below 10kHz you would have to have less than 0.0001 seconds of latency.
I've worked for several companies that use these giant 8-track tapes for muzak. Each one held 4 hours of music. While those are going by the wayside some have upgraded to specially encoded cd's. That way you can't play a regular cd in the player and (god forbid) you can't pirate the muzak.
Not since the new winzips. Previous versions were easy to crack because they stored the password in each file. All you had to do was look for matching code in each file and you had the pass. The new one is much better. If you use a long enough password you can make it pretty secure. These are pictures anyway, not government secrets.
I worked for a network security business in Denver. We did good work but found something very interesting. Most businesses were not concerned with actual security but more interested in what name they could put on their website that says "Secured by _______" Because of this the business died since we hadn't made a name for ourselves. Sure some people were genuinely interested in security, but not enough to support a business. If you're going to deal with security, keep it on the down low and offer it as a secondary service. As expensive as security audits are, name means more than anything. If your company isn't widely known for security, you'll find doing security jobs hard to get as a primary offering.
Symantec stopped producing effective software a long time ago. There was a time though when any self-respecting geek had a copy of Norton Utils, you know, the ones with all two-letter file names like NU.EXE. Brand familiarity and name recognition are suitable substitutes for quality when it comes to business and profits. I wouldn't touch any of their software with a 10 foot IDE cable anymore, and haven't for the past few years.
That is just overkill. The big boys have been messing with RFID and say that chances are they'll never RFID every single item. It's practical when marking containers and boxes but not on individual items. Second, EDI is something very few people ever mess with because there are too many companies out there that can handle it for you. The trucking company I work with does EDI with some of our larger customers and it's completely automated and tied into our dispatching software. A company called TSi handles the transactions for us. Don't re-invent what's already been invented. I'm betting whatever software your company uses for accounting already has a module that handles EDI.
On my P4-3gig with 1gig ram box and SATA drives, XP boots faster than FF comes back up after being minimized for a while. There's no way that the wait it simply reloading from paging file.
I'm the entire IT dept. at work. I do it all. Planning, repairs, security, network maint, application support, etc. We have 85 trucks around the nation all tied in with GPS and email. I manage and support the whole damn thing.
I have 25 users and 1 server. When trying to figure out what my salary should be, they never have an entry called "dumbass who takes a job as the entire IT dept."
Does anyone have any idea what someone like that should be making?
I remember a story some time ago about a plan to deploy blimps for cell and wi-fi service. I wonder if that plan might be viable now? They could fly away for the storm then fly back shortly afterwards.
Dragon voice recognition software might surprise you. When I worked at a school district I got a pc set up for a disabled student. He could barely speak and unless you'd spent a few months with him learning to listen you couldn't understand him. Dragon picked up on it just fine and after a few weeks of training it was working beautifully. This was a number of years ago so I imagine the software has only gotten better.
I had a dream/nightmare once about cellphones in theaters. This one theater set up RF detectors and spotlights and if your phone went off the spotlights lit you up until you hung up. I hated waking up from that one.
I've avoided linux on the desktop for one reason...the complexity of the setup. Installing it is a pain in the ass if you run into any problems. The installs that go smoothly are easy. Those are no concern. It's the ones where you have to choose the right option for video or something that are a major pain.
I just made a Knoppix cd and tried it out. Here is my question now. Why would anyone need to actually install linux if they aren't doing specialized tasks like designing the next skyscraper? A knoppix cd and an external usb hard drive is all you need and you can use ANY computer you want as long as it's not 20 years old and has a usb port. Could you install your games and apps onto the external hard drive and access them that way?
I just feel that if you could completely remove the "install" process you would find a whole lot of people that would be willing to adopt. Everyone loves to turn on a machine and have it just work without having to do anything.
Watch baseball on tv and tell me how often each of the outfielders actually has to move and do something, then tell me if you want to sit in front of your pc doing the same thing. Why in the hell would anyone want to play online baseball and spend 90% of their time sitting and waiting for something to happen? Maybe the dugout will be like a singles chat room or something.
There's no point in further discussing ID because you've completely removed all the science from it. ID has absolutely nothing to do with *your* definition of God nor does it have anything to do with what you *believe* is possible or not. That is religion, not science. The unverse does not consult anyone before it exists so what you believe is completely and totally irrelevant.
You're still making a massive assumption about "God". Anyone that is sufficiently more technologically capable than us can appear to be a God. The Native Americans thought that the explorers on the huge ships with the giant white sails were gods. It really doesn't take a very big leap in technology to convince people that you are a God. God could be some omniscient, all powerful being, or he could be a group of people with the ability to modify life here on this planet. Either way, if someone is sufficiently more advanced technologically from you, you can percieve them as being all powerful. Your perceptions do not dictate how the universe exists. The universe does not consult you before it exists. One can believe in God all they want and they can imagine him any way they want but it is still nothing more than imagination until actual scientific evidence is found that supports his existance.
Either way, whatever it is, it still had to have a creator of it's own. It still had to have some kind of origin.
There's your problem. The "Theory of Gravity" includes Newton's law of Gravitation along with other laws, theories, and hypotheses. The "Theory of Gravity" itself is not a law.
Gauss' law is PART of the Theory of Electromagnetism. It's just ONE PIECE. Electromagnetism as a whole is a theory. Pieces of the theory have been proven and are laws.
Evolution is a theory. Parts of it are laws. Parts of it have been proven to be fact. Other parts are theories and others are merely hypotheses.
Your original statement "Gravity and Electromagnetism are both laws, not theories." is simply not true. While they do have some laws contained in them, they themselves are theories.
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Two snipers with the .50 cal upgrade can chase a heli away. That rifle actually does a decent little chunk of damage, plus the shots go through the glass. Two snipers can injure the pilot and scare him away or whittle away at the heli till it has to leave. Combine that with an anti-tank troop spotting the heli and making his missile warning alarm go off and you negate the effectiveness of the heli.
The second you insert an omnipotent being into the equation you eliminate the ability of science to deal with it. That's why creationism is not science and is not a theory and should not be taught in school as science. Science is the study of observable phenomena. An omnipotent being is not observable so it cannot exist in anything even remotely resembling science.
Your argument proves this point very well.
Writing music is an art, whether it's for top 40 radio, games, or theater. Most of the time you don't get hired to write music as a permanent job, though there are a few out there. If you want to get into the industry, start writing music and TONS of it. Get some games and re-write the music for them. Make some videos showing the game with your music behind it. Offer to write music for free for ANYONE who is willing. The best way to make money writing music for games is to get known as a game musician.
Another thing to do is learn how to write music on as many different audio apps as possible, as well as with physical instruments like guitar, keyboard, drums, etc. If someone asks you to come in and write music using a Jeskola Buzz Machine http://www.buzzmachines.com/, you need to already know how. You also need to understand mixing and mastering and need to know how to use analog and digital recording equipment. Mixing isn't too difficult but mastering really takes talent and skill.
Basically, he needs to shell out some cash on music equipment and software instead of on a degree. If he insists on going to school, he needs to go to a school like Full Sail http://www.fullsail.com/ that actually offers courses that would be relevant to the field.
No, it's not. Sound has to pass through too many places to ever have a low enough latency to work as a sound cancelling device. I have a 3GHz system with a good sound card and I have to set my latency to 0.04 seconds in audio apps to avoid chopping. That's way too long for sound cancellation.
A 40ms cycle equates to a 25Hz tone. You'd be able to cancel anything below 25Hz.
To cancel anything below 10kHz you would have to have less than 0.0001 seconds of latency.
I've worked for several companies that use these giant 8-track tapes for muzak. Each one held 4 hours of music. While those are going by the wayside some have upgraded to specially encoded cd's. That way you can't play a regular cd in the player and (god forbid) you can't pirate the muzak.
Not since the new winzips. Previous versions were easy to crack because they stored the password in each file. All you had to do was look for matching code in each file and you had the pass. The new one is much better. If you use a long enough password you can make it pretty secure. These are pictures anyway, not government secrets.
It happens on FF 1.0.7 too. Nifty!
I worked for a network security business in Denver. We did good work but found something very interesting.
Most businesses were not concerned with actual security but more interested in what name they could put on their website that says "Secured by _______"
Because of this the business died since we hadn't made a name for ourselves. Sure some people were genuinely interested in security, but not enough to support a business.
If you're going to deal with security, keep it on the down low and offer it as a secondary service. As expensive as security audits are, name means more than anything. If your company isn't widely known for security, you'll find doing security jobs hard to get as a primary offering.
Symantec stopped producing effective software a long time ago. There was a time though when any self-respecting geek had a copy of Norton Utils, you know, the ones with all two-letter file names like NU.EXE.
Brand familiarity and name recognition are suitable substitutes for quality when it comes to business and profits. I wouldn't touch any of their software with a 10 foot IDE cable anymore, and haven't for the past few years.
That is just overkill. The big boys have been messing with RFID and say that chances are they'll never RFID every single item. It's practical when marking containers and boxes but not on individual items.
Second, EDI is something very few people ever mess with because there are too many companies out there that can handle it for you. The trucking company I work with does EDI with some of our larger customers and it's completely automated and tied into our dispatching software. A company called TSi handles the transactions for us.
Don't re-invent what's already been invented. I'm betting whatever software your company uses for accounting already has a module that handles EDI.
On my P4-3gig with 1gig ram box and SATA drives, XP boots faster than FF comes back up after being minimized for a while. There's no way that the wait it simply reloading from paging file.
I'm the entire IT dept. at work. I do it all. Planning, repairs, security, network maint, application support, etc. We have 85 trucks around the nation all tied in with GPS and email. I manage and support the whole damn thing.
I have 25 users and 1 server. When trying to figure out what my salary should be, they never have an entry called "dumbass who takes a job as the entire IT dept."
Does anyone have any idea what someone like that should be making?
I remember a story some time ago about a plan to deploy blimps for cell and wi-fi service. I wonder if that plan might be viable now? They could fly away for the storm then fly back shortly afterwards.
If I give you my boss' phone number will you tell him that? I'm the entire IT dept here at work on an all windows network.
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Having trouble finding support? Use Windows and you'll have a million windows techs begging for a minimum wage job.
Hire an assistant. If they ever forget anything, fire them. Problem solved and you also have a nice scapegoat.
Dragon voice recognition software might surprise you. When I worked at a school district I got a pc set up for a disabled student. He could barely speak and unless you'd spent a few months with him learning to listen you couldn't understand him. Dragon picked up on it just fine and after a few weeks of training it was working beautifully. This was a number of years ago so I imagine the software has only gotten better.
I had a dream/nightmare once about cellphones in theaters. This one theater set up RF detectors and spotlights and if your phone went off the spotlights lit you up until you hung up. I hated waking up from that one.
I've avoided linux on the desktop for one reason...the complexity of the setup. Installing it is a pain in the ass if you run into any problems. The installs that go smoothly are easy. Those are no concern. It's the ones where you have to choose the right option for video or something that are a major pain.
I just made a Knoppix cd and tried it out. Here is my question now. Why would anyone need to actually install linux if they aren't doing specialized tasks like designing the next skyscraper? A knoppix cd and an external usb hard drive is all you need and you can use ANY computer you want as long as it's not 20 years old and has a usb port. Could you install your games and apps onto the external hard drive and access them that way?
I just feel that if you could completely remove the "install" process you would find a whole lot of people that would be willing to adopt. Everyone loves to turn on a machine and have it just work without having to do anything.
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Watch baseball on tv and tell me how often each of the outfielders actually has to move and do something, then tell me if you want to sit in front of your pc doing the same thing.
Why in the hell would anyone want to play online baseball and spend 90% of their time sitting and waiting for something to happen?
Maybe the dugout will be like a singles chat room or something.
He can't take a photograph because his other archaic recording device takes 110 film and he can't find it anywhere.
There's no point in further discussing ID because you've completely removed all the science from it. ID has absolutely nothing to do with *your* definition of God nor does it have anything to do with what you *believe* is possible or not. That is religion, not science.
The unverse does not consult anyone before it exists so what you believe is completely and totally irrelevant.
You're still making a massive assumption about "God".
Anyone that is sufficiently more technologically capable than us can appear to be a God. The Native Americans thought that the explorers on the huge ships with the giant white sails were gods. It really doesn't take a very big leap in technology to convince people that you are a God.
God could be some omniscient, all powerful being, or he could be a group of people with the ability to modify life here on this planet. Either way, if someone is sufficiently more advanced technologically from you, you can percieve them as being all powerful. Your perceptions do not dictate how the universe exists. The universe does not consult you before it exists. One can believe in God all they want and they can imagine him any way they want but it is still nothing more than imagination until actual scientific evidence is found that supports his existance.
Either way, whatever it is, it still had to have a creator of it's own. It still had to have some kind of origin.
There's your problem. The "Theory of Gravity" includes Newton's law of Gravitation along with other laws, theories, and hypotheses. The "Theory of Gravity" itself is not a law.
Gauss' law is PART of the Theory of Electromagnetism. It's just ONE PIECE. Electromagnetism as a whole is a theory. Pieces of the theory have been proven and are laws.
Evolution is a theory. Parts of it are laws. Parts of it have been proven to be fact. Other parts are theories and others are merely hypotheses.
Your original statement "Gravity and Electromagnetism are both laws, not theories." is simply not true. While they do have some laws contained in them, they themselves are theories.