First of all, this is all allowed remotely. Second of all, if you 777 your drive, any major service will refuse to start. Most good and properly coded servers like apache and ssh check their permissions and if something is out of wack, they just won't run. A self-audit helps to prevent against even loose OS security. Regards, Steve
But can you place icons and folders on the dekstop? It seems like alot of these less popular but sometimes more feature filled window managers are lacking something as basic as a desktop. Xfce looks real nice but if i can't just drag an icon onto my main screen, then forget it. Regards, Steve
Err last I checked gravity became weaker as you got closer to the center of the earth. You sure its gravity causing it? My understanding was that it is radioactive decay and other similar factors causing it to be molten. And it is also my understanding that yes it is enough to heat the earth. Regards, Steve
Everyone keeps commenting on the Sun heating the earth. Err I think they are all missing the larger factor and source of heat, you know...that big molten ball in the core of the earth. Its not in that form because its cold down there. Most of the heat the earth has is generated by itself. Sure the Sun is very important for many reasons and yes it contributes to our temperatures but without it, the world would be more like Alaska and the arctic, maybe even warmer. The earth wouldn't suddenly drop to ridiculously low temperatures. However,the effects of losing the sun are far worse then a temperature decrease so I'll stop arguing the point. Regards, Steve
Okay so you believe in microevolution, thats a good start. Afterall your obviously different than your parents and it is easily showable that your DNA is more or less a combination of theirs with some randomness thrown in (in the form of mutations etc...). For the sake of argument we will ignore the genes that were transferred 100% by your parents (we'll focus on the mutations instead) because although it does cause a unique combination and therefore a unique individual, you could argue that it is simply a recombination and reordering of two half-sets of DNA.
So for the sake of argument we'll focus on those typically few random mutations of which about 90% tend to be neutral, 5% tend to be harmful and in severe cases the individual will die extremely premature or the individual will not reproduce. The other 5% are good mutations. So starting right there, Bad genes, by design of evolution, are weeded out slowly but surely (more or less). This is the premise of evolution on any scale. Now you try to differentiate between Micro and Macro evolution. This is akin to stating that because the atom is so small, and made up of nothing but a few basic particles, that they couldn't obviously combine to form something unique and different on a much larger scale. What I'm getting at is that your correct in stating that microevolution is accurate, but your missing the bigger picture. Micro and Macro evolution are the same thing just as matter is matter on any level you look at it.
Perhaps numbers will help to better illustrate the point. Lets say that instead of having a perfect 50/50 split of genes from your parents, you instead had nearly a 50/50 split with.0001% variation due to random genetic mutations. That is 1 part in 1 million, a very small amount. Now you go on to reproduce 2 children, one dies from a genetic disease, the other reproduces also with a 50/50 split and.0001% variation. Over the course of 40,000,000 years (more accurately, generations) this comes out to a 4000% difference amongst the initial parents and the newest generation of offspring. That is a huge difference and our genes are not nearly close to being 4000% different than pigs and apes, so clearly although the mathematical model provides an ideal scenario, it shows that with even very minor variations, over the course of time different species will emerge.
Over the course of speaking with many individuals, it appears that the biggest obstacle to most people believing this is simply that they can't comprehend such a large amount of time. And it is indeed extremely hard to grasp, but none the less, evolution is evolution. I think I should end this by noting that I am a religious and God-fearing man that practices his faith (Roman Catholic to be exact). Regards, Steve
Yea, instead they based it on selling devices to get free long distance calls, esentially stealing from the phone companies. At least the Think Secret guy isn't stealing anything. Regards, Steve
My brother-in-law was a marine and is now a presidential guard and he's always had to write a will (even while in the marine corp). I think they are supposed to update it every 3 months or something like that. They way he described it, it seemed mandatory but that could have just been my interpretation. Regards, Steve
This isn't just CAD! It's used for ballistic testing. i.e. A tank gets hit with a shell, how does the energy transfer throughout the tank and how can we design it better to not blow up. Regards, Steve
Yes, prior to this you had to be faxed a contract, sign it, fax it back, hope the intended recipient accepts it. Then after they did whatever they did, they'd give you a key to the encrypted source files. I know because I was discussing doing this with someone on the project but realized it wasn't worth the hassle. Regards, Steve
I tested this out in work, it found 2 problems, something like Squirrel Search and something else. Squirrel search turned out to be a spybot utility that was misidentified and the other thing I believe was also related to spybot or adaware (think it may have been the tea timer). Microsoft's product also didn't find a DSO exploit found by adaware and spybot. So as of right not its been 100% false positives for me and missed 100% of the adware on my machine. Granted these numbers may be a little skewed because I keep my machine fairly clean and restricted and use firefox. Regardless, I've never seen a false positive before testing this product, I'll try it again when it's out of beta, but something tells me those extra 2/3 of files that it found in the review were probably wrong. Regards, Steve
Wow dude you need to reevaluate priorities. We are humans, we need to eat. We are either going to kill vegetation or animals. It is perfectly natural for us to eat meat, as it is for many other species. We've found an efficient way to feed billions of people without majorly affecting the environment (using warehouse farming techniques). The animals may not live the best lives but usually its quick and over with. Personally if I were a cow, I'd rather a pole get rammed through my brain then get chased down by a tiger or something and get eaten alive. Besides, an animal would eat you in heart beat if put in a position to do so, it just so happens that we won:) Regards, Steve
So essentially your saying death to the indie programmer. The Mac is successful mainly because of the huge number of dedicated and skillful indie programmers for it. As long as the mac doesn't go this way I'll be fine. I've never owned a Mac in my life but if Intel and Microsoft start telling me what to run... well did we ever need them in the first place? Regards, Steve
The reason is because they are standardized programs. Just about every root server uses bind and most major mail gateways use sendmail. They've been tested and proven and can handle crazy loads, others are nice for personal mail servers and small to medium business, but any larger and you need to bring out the big boy toys. Btw, bind and sendmail aren't as bad as people make them out to be, especially not in this day and age. Regards, Steve
Did you read the security alerts? They only affect Firefox 0.9.3 and earlier. They have been fixed since 1.0 ( not sure if it was intentional or not, but whatever code caused this no longer causes it). Regards, Steve
In that case, next time you write a hello world program, make sure you write a custom OS with it and don't forget the thousands of drivers you'll need. Sharing or reusing code is a common and necessary practice. Regards, Steve
If you can code in C++ than you can code in Java. Use netbeans for an amazing RAD IDE. Or if your looking for something a bit more lightweight, go with eclipse and its visual editor plugin. Regards, Steve
1 meg of ram in the early 80's cost over $1500, in most cases at least $2000. The other estimates in this thread are ebing way too optimistic. Regards, Steve
Everything is accounted for. But when it comes to National Security you have to look in different places or under vague terms like "General Defense Expenses" or "Golden toilets x 20". Regards, Steve
Think asp.net is nice? Give Java Server Pages a try. With the Java Standard Tag Libraries, Struts, and other tools, writing a complete, scalable, efficient web application isn't much more complicated than knowing html and its ten times easier to maintain. Regards, Steve
Ummm.... less gravity, less distance, and at a drastically slower speed. The wear and tear can't be that bad. I mean on earth you've got things alot worse by a couple of magnitudes. Not to mention, NASA engineers are pretty damn near the smartest beings you'll find on the planet. Regards, Steve
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First of all, this is all allowed remotely. Second of all, if you 777 your drive, any major service will refuse to start. Most good and properly coded servers like apache and ssh check their permissions and if something is out of wack, they just won't run. A self-audit helps to prevent against even loose OS security.
Regards,
Steve
But can you place icons and folders on the dekstop? It seems like alot of these less popular but sometimes more feature filled window managers are lacking something as basic as a desktop. Xfce looks real nice but if i can't just drag an icon onto my main screen, then forget it.
Regards,
Steve
Read this comment.
Regards,
Steve
Err last I checked gravity became weaker as you got closer to the center of the earth. You sure its gravity causing it? My understanding was that it is radioactive decay and other similar factors causing it to be molten. And it is also my understanding that yes it is enough to heat the earth.
Regards,
Steve
Everyone keeps commenting on the Sun heating the earth. Err I think they are all missing the larger factor and source of heat, you know...that big molten ball in the core of the earth. Its not in that form because its cold down there. Most of the heat the earth has is generated by itself. Sure the Sun is very important for many reasons and yes it contributes to our temperatures but without it, the world would be more like Alaska and the arctic, maybe even warmer. The earth wouldn't suddenly drop to ridiculously low temperatures. However,the effects of losing the sun are far worse then a temperature decrease so I'll stop arguing the point.
Regards,
Steve
Okay so you believe in microevolution, thats a good start. Afterall your obviously different than your parents and it is easily showable that your DNA is more or less a combination of theirs with some randomness thrown in (in the form of mutations etc...). For the sake of argument we will ignore the genes that were transferred 100% by your parents (we'll focus on the mutations instead) because although it does cause a unique combination and therefore a unique individual, you could argue that it is simply a recombination and reordering of two half-sets of DNA.
.0001% variation due to random genetic mutations. That is 1 part in 1 million, a very small amount. Now you go on to reproduce 2 children, one dies from a genetic disease, the other reproduces also with a 50/50 split and .0001% variation. Over the course of 40,000,000 years (more accurately, generations) this comes out to a 4000% difference amongst the initial parents and the newest generation of offspring. That is a huge difference and our genes are not nearly close to being 4000% different than pigs and apes, so clearly although the mathematical model provides an ideal scenario, it shows that with even very minor variations, over the course of time different species will emerge.
So for the sake of argument we'll focus on those typically few random mutations of which about 90% tend to be neutral, 5% tend to be harmful and in severe cases the individual will die extremely premature or the individual will not reproduce. The other 5% are good mutations. So starting right there, Bad genes, by design of evolution, are weeded out slowly but surely (more or less). This is the premise of evolution on any scale. Now you try to differentiate between Micro and Macro evolution. This is akin to stating that because the atom is so small, and made up of nothing but a few basic particles, that they couldn't obviously combine to form something unique and different on a much larger scale. What I'm getting at is that your correct in stating that microevolution is accurate, but your missing the bigger picture. Micro and Macro evolution are the same thing just as matter is matter on any level you look at it.
Perhaps numbers will help to better illustrate the point. Lets say that instead of having a perfect 50/50 split of genes from your parents, you instead had nearly a 50/50 split with
Over the course of speaking with many individuals, it appears that the biggest obstacle to most people believing this is simply that they can't comprehend such a large amount of time. And it is indeed extremely hard to grasp, but none the less, evolution is evolution. I think I should end this by noting that I am a religious and God-fearing man that practices his faith (Roman Catholic to be exact).
Regards,
Steve
Yea, instead they based it on selling devices to get free long distance calls, esentially stealing from the phone companies. At least the Think Secret guy isn't stealing anything.
Regards,
Steve
My brother-in-law was a marine and is now a presidential guard and he's always had to write a will (even while in the marine corp). I think they are supposed to update it every 3 months or something like that. They way he described it, it seemed mandatory but that could have just been my interpretation.
Regards,
Steve
This isn't just CAD! It's used for ballistic testing. i.e. A tank gets hit with a shell, how does the energy transfer throughout the tank and how can we design it better to not blow up.
Regards,
Steve
Yes, prior to this you had to be faxed a contract, sign it, fax it back, hope the intended recipient accepts it. Then after they did whatever they did, they'd give you a key to the encrypted source files. I know because I was discussing doing this with someone on the project but realized it wasn't worth the hassle.
Regards,
Steve
I tested this out in work, it found 2 problems, something like Squirrel Search and something else. Squirrel search turned out to be a spybot utility that was misidentified and the other thing I believe was also related to spybot or adaware (think it may have been the tea timer). Microsoft's product also didn't find a DSO exploit found by adaware and spybot. So as of right not its been 100% false positives for me and missed 100% of the adware on my machine. Granted these numbers may be a little skewed because I keep my machine fairly clean and restricted and use firefox. Regardless, I've never seen a false positive before testing this product, I'll try it again when it's out of beta, but something tells me those extra 2/3 of files that it found in the review were probably wrong.
Regards,
Steve
Wow dude you need to reevaluate priorities. We are humans, we need to eat. We are either going to kill vegetation or animals. It is perfectly natural for us to eat meat, as it is for many other species. We've found an efficient way to feed billions of people without majorly affecting the environment (using warehouse farming techniques). The animals may not live the best lives but usually its quick and over with. Personally if I were a cow, I'd rather a pole get rammed through my brain then get chased down by a tiger or something and get eaten alive. Besides, an animal would eat you in heart beat if put in a position to do so, it just so happens that we won:)
Regards,
Steve
So essentially your saying death to the indie programmer. The Mac is successful mainly because of the huge number of dedicated and skillful indie programmers for it. As long as the mac doesn't go this way I'll be fine. I've never owned a Mac in my life but if Intel and Microsoft start telling me what to run... well did we ever need them in the first place?
Regards,
Steve
The reason is because they are standardized programs. Just about every root server uses bind and most major mail gateways use sendmail. They've been tested and proven and can handle crazy loads, others are nice for personal mail servers and small to medium business, but any larger and you need to bring out the big boy toys. Btw, bind and sendmail aren't as bad as people make them out to be, especially not in this day and age.
Regards,
Steve
Yes especially considering that these flaws are a few months too late. They don't affect 1.0,only 0.9.3 and before.
Regards,
Steve
Did you read the security alerts? They only affect Firefox 0.9.3 and earlier. They have been fixed since 1.0 ( not sure if it was intentional or not, but whatever code caused this no longer causes it).
Regards,
Steve
In that case, next time you write a hello world program, make sure you write a custom OS with it and don't forget the thousands of drivers you'll need. Sharing or reusing code is a common and necessary practice.
Regards,
Steve
As with most things in life, its not the science that is bad, its the human factor.
Regards,
Steve
http://www.go-mono.com/mbas.html
Regards,
Steve
If you can code in C++ than you can code in Java. Use netbeans for an amazing RAD IDE. Or if your looking for something a bit more lightweight, go with eclipse and its visual editor plugin.
Regards,
Steve
1 meg of ram in the early 80's cost over $1500, in most cases at least $2000. The other estimates in this thread are ebing way too optimistic.
Regards,
Steve
Hands down you want Fedora. It takes care of everything for you.
Regards,
Steve
Everything is accounted for. But when it comes to National Security you have to look in different places or under vague terms like "General Defense Expenses" or "Golden toilets x 20".
Regards,
Steve
Think asp.net is nice? Give Java Server Pages a try. With the Java Standard Tag Libraries, Struts, and other tools, writing a complete, scalable, efficient web application isn't much more complicated than knowing html and its ten times easier to maintain.
Regards,
Steve
Ummm.... less gravity, less distance, and at a drastically slower speed. The wear and tear can't be that bad. I mean on earth you've got things alot worse by a couple of magnitudes. Not to mention, NASA engineers are pretty damn near the smartest beings you'll find on the planet.
Regards,
Steve