First, there is no such law. We have yet to prove exactly how life began but we know that before life was only nonlife (think binary states, either there is life or there isn't). Second, evolution is a theory and thus does not have all of the loose ends tied up. Otherwise it would be law. Third, if by some stroke of luck someone proved definitavely that evolution was 100% false it does not prove ID true. ID is currently more conjecture than science. Further, true ID does NOT eliminate evolution as a possibility for the method of creation. Only Creationism does that. For the love of Pete if you are going to argue a point of view you should learn its key points first.
Hold on for a moment while I calm the spasms of laughter...
Ok, first, the study for which he applied for the grant was flawed. ID does not in any way claim that evolution did not happen, only that it may be the method through which an intelligent entity created us. To study the effects of a belief in a socialogical sense one must first understand the real belief, not the view of the uneducated on the topic. ID offers evolution as one of the possible methods of Intelligent Design. I will grant here that much of ID is conjecture and more hypothesis than theory. Creationists of late have been twisting ID to fit their view that nothing evolved but was created. The grant therefore should have studied Creationism and its negative effects on the study of evolution. True ID still allows for the study of evolution and Darwin's theories. It merely attempts to give an explanation of the catalyst for it. Anything that calls itself ID but eliminates evolution is Creationism.
Now before the Creationists and followers of Darwin on this site try to have me drawn and quartered, I personally withhold my opinion. I merely wish to state that parties on all sides of this debate are fond of not taking the time to understand each other's arguments.
Let the flaming by those who don't take the time to read my entire post begin...
Everything from an old copy of PCPro to the latest Professional Diagnostics from Ultra-X. All of the RAM was factory Crucial RAM recommended specifically for that board. That said, it is not entirely unheard of.
I can agree with that. I had an old Gateway box with an Athlon 650 (I lost it in a divorce) that had this weird glitch on the board. Every few times I would boot it the keyboard and mouse would stop working. I called support and the tech said to swap the ps/2 ports they were plugged into. I did and all of a sudden they worked with the keyboard plugged into the mouse port and vice versa. After a while the mouse stopped working so I replaced it with a USB mouse and never had a problem again.
I get that alot when I relate my story. I also understand that I am a sys-admin and don't always have time to research every detail of each core. It is very possible the board-chip combination I picked was not optimal and thus created detrimental performance. I would often use supplier recommendations and seeing as they are there to sell me something they might not have taken the time to choose the best combinations. All the Intel board/chip combinations I picked using the Intel recommendations and they also tended to be higher end than the AMD systems I built. Like I said, this is in my experience only and not to be taken as enough information to judge AMD poorly.
As you fear a beating from the Intel side after what I say I fear I will receive a beating from both.
In my personal experience the AMD chips have been the fastest systems I have ever owned. My problem with them is the boards made for them (this is personal experience only) tend to become unstable after a couple of years. Intel boards, in my experience, stay stable longer.
For example, I have two 5 year old systems, one with a Gigabyte AMD Athlon board, and one with a true Intel P3 board. Both run Slackware. Both have insane cooling so the board temps never go over 100 degrees. The Athlon board system will occasionally reboot for no reason. The Intel board system has run for months without ever needing to be touched. The last time I brought it down was for a power outage that lasted longer than the battery on my UPS. I have tested everything on the Athlon system. The power supply is solid, the hard drive is new and the second one I have installed, none of the controllers test bad, and while it is running nothing tests bad using diagnostics. Then it suddenly reboots.
One would think this an isolated incident but I have build 6 Athlon systems in the last 5 years for friends and only two are still stable. All of the Intel systems I have built with true Intel boards in the last 15 years are still running including a 486 DX/2 66. I know this is personal experience only and not a good enough sample to make any real judgement but as for me, I pick Intel. That said, I believe the problems I have had with AMD come from the fact that none of the boards are made by AMD. If AMD made a board up to the same standards as its CPU I believe my opinion would change in a heartbeat.
LJ good. Blogger better. That is if blogging is your interest. Myspace is good for social networking with the non-geeks. Granted some of the layouts would make anyone who follows http://www.catb.org/~esr/html-hell.html rules religiously want to hurl but when most of your friends are unable to discern a hard drive from a rock Myspace is a good option.
Blogging and social networking sites feed our society's need for three things. For the Bloggers it feeds our need for attention and validation. As a blogger, I readily admit to that. For the readers, it gives us glances into the lives and minds of others feeding the voyeuristic tendancy that reality television has brought out in our culture. How else can you explain the popularity of sites like http://dooce.com/, a site where Dooce writes about her everyday life? Just like the rise of reality shows that follow around regular people 24/7, blogging feeds the inner voyeur in all of us. Finally, the social networking sites make us feel connected to other people, a need often unfulfilled in real life where we work all day and never really connect with anyone. Speaking of connected, I have a Myspace message...
There is a high level of fear-mongering going on in the media. I have users come to me asking, "Should I block my child from Myspace? A reporter on the news last night said my kid is in grave danger using Myspace. Is he right?"
The problem with getting your technical info from *insert popular news show here* is they are rarely getting their info from real net savvy people. Add to that, fear makes good ratings. There is a risk of children seeing objectionable content. The truth is there is far more objectionable stuff on good old porn sites than there ever will be on Myspace or Blogger. I have both Blogger and Myspace accounts. I also have a six year old that I am preparing to enter the realm of the net. We have to teach kids that it is never OK to give out their real name, address, or phone number online to someone they have never met in real life. Parents, bookmark their blog and monitor their internet habits. You wouldn't let a child roam the streets without some guidance. Do the same for the internet.
At the same time, learn what these sites really are. They are tools for global communication with the possibility to elighten, expand horizons, or just blow a few hours reading funny stories. Children will find their way into the Blogsphere with or without help. If parents can just get their info from solid sources and pass it on to thier children we can make the Blogsphere safe and possibly educational.
Who am I kidding...Bloggers posting something educational...am I out of my mind...
Not so. AOL Broadband service, sold in most areas for $55, is a repackaged RR connection with AOL as the frontend. If you call tech support for connection they hand you to Time Warner Cable tech support.
On that note, I had a client recently get her account temporarily blocked for "spamming" on rr.com when she sent pics of her grandchild to 50 of her friends. Yet my corporate server's blacklist contains more active RR and AOL addresses than I can count. A poor old lady gets shut down while millions of infected RR and AOL users act as spambots completely unchecked.
I also agree that the corporate xenophobia some American companies have adopted is ludicrous at best. While most spam headers point to non-american IP's if the true source is traced the spammer is more often than not right here in the good old USA.
Hate to break it to you but Road Runner is owned by Time Warner, or should I say AOL/Time Warner... While Time Warner has yet to do any real filtering you can assume it is coming down the pipe.
This is why I use my own web server to host my corporate email and GMail for my personal stuff. ISP's are under pressure to filter junk mail while not annoying advertisers. If they can let some advertising through while making a quick buck to them it is win-win. Looking at it from an ISP stand point it is far easier to whitelist a few corporate clients while blocking all others. They would only get complaints from the few people who actually know they are missing out instead of the myriad of SPAM complaints they get now. With hosting your own email, you decide what gets filtered. Of course this is not a viable solution for non-sysadmin types.
It is our job as the educated on the topic to protect the end user by speaking out against stupid decisions made by pencil pushers looking only at the bottom line. In "protecting" the client from "spam" they whore themselves to the highest bidder.
I was browsing the web yesterday and found an interesting article on the legality of referring to your product as spyware. After contemplating this concept I have come to the conclusion that you are correct. Gator is not spyware. It is a virus. I spent the last month removing the damage it has done to the corporate networks I manage. The cost to my clients has reached the thousands in my fees and lost time from downed systems. Now you are suing technicians for calling your software the softer term spyware? Fine, from now on I will list your software as a virulent virus.
It's a virus. It is installed covertly. It does damage to your OS, sometimes irreversible. It fills your drive with garbage you don't want and sends your browsing information, along with other info that no one has any business nosing into, back to them and other third parties. I just spent the last month removing Gator and its fellow virusware cronies off of a corporate network I now manage. My first order of business was to block any url containing gator related products at the firewall. I also recommend a class action lawsuit be filed against Gator for the damage it has caused. But lets not stop there. Lets take down New Dot Net, Bonzai Buddy, and all other forms of VIRUSWARE.
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First, there is no such law. We have yet to prove exactly how life began but we know that before life was only nonlife (think binary states, either there is life or there isn't). Second, evolution is a theory and thus does not have all of the loose ends tied up. Otherwise it would be law. Third, if by some stroke of luck someone proved definitavely that evolution was 100% false it does not prove ID true. ID is currently more conjecture than science. Further, true ID does NOT eliminate evolution as a possibility for the method of creation. Only Creationism does that. For the love of Pete if you are going to argue a point of view you should learn its key points first.
Hold on for a moment while I calm the spasms of laughter...
Ok, first, the study for which he applied for the grant was flawed. ID does not in any way claim that evolution did not happen, only that it may be the method through which an intelligent entity created us. To study the effects of a belief in a socialogical sense one must first understand the real belief, not the view of the uneducated on the topic. ID offers evolution as one of the possible methods of Intelligent Design. I will grant here that much of ID is conjecture and more hypothesis than theory. Creationists of late have been twisting ID to fit their view that nothing evolved but was created. The grant therefore should have studied Creationism and its negative effects on the study of evolution. True ID still allows for the study of evolution and Darwin's theories. It merely attempts to give an explanation of the catalyst for it. Anything that calls itself ID but eliminates evolution is Creationism.
Now before the Creationists and followers of Darwin on this site try to have me drawn and quartered, I personally withhold my opinion. I merely wish to state that parties on all sides of this debate are fond of not taking the time to understand each other's arguments.
Let the flaming by those who don't take the time to read my entire post begin...
Thank you. You articulated my point better than I would have.
Everything from an old copy of PCPro to the latest Professional Diagnostics from Ultra-X. All of the RAM was factory Crucial RAM recommended specifically for that board. That said, it is not entirely unheard of.
I can agree with that. I had an old Gateway box with an Athlon 650 (I lost it in a divorce) that had this weird glitch on the board. Every few times I would boot it the keyboard and mouse would stop working. I called support and the tech said to swap the ps/2 ports they were plugged into. I did and all of a sudden they worked with the keyboard plugged into the mouse port and vice versa. After a while the mouse stopped working so I replaced it with a USB mouse and never had a problem again.
I get that alot when I relate my story. I also understand that I am a sys-admin and don't always have time to research every detail of each core. It is very possible the board-chip combination I picked was not optimal and thus created detrimental performance. I would often use supplier recommendations and seeing as they are there to sell me something they might not have taken the time to choose the best combinations. All the Intel board/chip combinations I picked using the Intel recommendations and they also tended to be higher end than the AMD systems I built. Like I said, this is in my experience only and not to be taken as enough information to judge AMD poorly.
As you fear a beating from the Intel side after what I say I fear I will receive a beating from both.
In my personal experience the AMD chips have been the fastest systems I have ever owned. My problem with them is the boards made for them (this is personal experience only) tend to become unstable after a couple of years. Intel boards, in my experience, stay stable longer.
For example, I have two 5 year old systems, one with a Gigabyte AMD Athlon board, and one with a true Intel P3 board. Both run Slackware. Both have insane cooling so the board temps never go over 100 degrees. The Athlon board system will occasionally reboot for no reason. The Intel board system has run for months without ever needing to be touched. The last time I brought it down was for a power outage that lasted longer than the battery on my UPS. I have tested everything on the Athlon system. The power supply is solid, the hard drive is new and the second one I have installed, none of the controllers test bad, and while it is running nothing tests bad using diagnostics. Then it suddenly reboots.
One would think this an isolated incident but I have build 6 Athlon systems in the last 5 years for friends and only two are still stable. All of the Intel systems I have built with true Intel boards in the last 15 years are still running including a 486 DX/2 66. I know this is personal experience only and not a good enough sample to make any real judgement but as for me, I pick Intel. That said, I believe the problems I have had with AMD come from the fact that none of the boards are made by AMD. If AMD made a board up to the same standards as its CPU I believe my opinion would change in a heartbeat.
You may commence my flogging now...
LJ good. Blogger better. That is if blogging is your interest. Myspace is good for social networking with the non-geeks. Granted some of the layouts would make anyone who follows http://www.catb.org/~esr/html-hell.html rules religiously want to hurl but when most of your friends are unable to discern a hard drive from a rock Myspace is a good option.
Blogging and social networking sites feed our society's need for three things. For the Bloggers it feeds our need for attention and validation. As a blogger, I readily admit to that. For the readers, it gives us glances into the lives and minds of others feeding the voyeuristic tendancy that reality television has brought out in our culture. How else can you explain the popularity of sites like http://dooce.com/, a site where Dooce writes about her everyday life? Just like the rise of reality shows that follow around regular people 24/7, blogging feeds the inner voyeur in all of us. Finally, the social networking sites make us feel connected to other people, a need often unfulfilled in real life where we work all day and never really connect with anyone. Speaking of connected, I have a Myspace message...
This is true. Education is definately the key.
There is a high level of fear-mongering going on in the media. I have users come to me asking, "Should I block my child from Myspace? A reporter on the news last night said my kid is in grave danger using Myspace. Is he right?"
The problem with getting your technical info from *insert popular news show here* is they are rarely getting their info from real net savvy people. Add to that, fear makes good ratings. There is a risk of children seeing objectionable content. The truth is there is far more objectionable stuff on good old porn sites than there ever will be on Myspace or Blogger. I have both Blogger and Myspace accounts. I also have a six year old that I am preparing to enter the realm of the net. We have to teach kids that it is never OK to give out their real name, address, or phone number online to someone they have never met in real life. Parents, bookmark their blog and monitor their internet habits. You wouldn't let a child roam the streets without some guidance. Do the same for the internet.
At the same time, learn what these sites really are. They are tools for global communication with the possibility to elighten, expand horizons, or just blow a few hours reading funny stories. Children will find their way into the Blogsphere with or without help. If parents can just get their info from solid sources and pass it on to thier children we can make the Blogsphere safe and possibly educational.
Who am I kidding...Bloggers posting something educational...am I out of my mind...
Not so. AOL Broadband service, sold in most areas for $55, is a repackaged RR connection with AOL as the frontend. If you call tech support for connection they hand you to Time Warner Cable tech support.
True. That said, AOL and Time Warner still maintain their corporate connections.
Copied straight from the first paragraph of http://www.corp.aol.com/whoweare/index.shtml:
"America Online, Inc., a division of Time Warner Inc., is a leader in interactive services."
To paraphrase the great bard, "A pile of crap by any other name would smell as bad."
On that note, I had a client recently get her account temporarily blocked for "spamming" on rr.com when she sent pics of her grandchild to 50 of her friends. Yet my corporate server's blacklist contains more active RR and AOL addresses than I can count. A poor old lady gets shut down while millions of infected RR and AOL users act as spambots completely unchecked. I also agree that the corporate xenophobia some American companies have adopted is ludicrous at best. While most spam headers point to non-american IP's if the true source is traced the spammer is more often than not right here in the good old USA.
Hate to break it to you but Road Runner is owned by Time Warner, or should I say AOL/Time Warner... While Time Warner has yet to do any real filtering you can assume it is coming down the pipe.
This is why I use my own web server to host my corporate email and GMail for my personal stuff. ISP's are under pressure to filter junk mail while not annoying advertisers. If they can let some advertising through while making a quick buck to them it is win-win. Looking at it from an ISP stand point it is far easier to whitelist a few corporate clients while blocking all others. They would only get complaints from the few people who actually know they are missing out instead of the myriad of SPAM complaints they get now. With hosting your own email, you decide what gets filtered. Of course this is not a viable solution for non-sysadmin types.
It is our job as the educated on the topic to protect the end user by speaking out against stupid decisions made by pencil pushers looking only at the bottom line. In "protecting" the client from "spam" they whore themselves to the highest bidder.
Try http://chroot.net/s/lists/
I was browsing the web yesterday and found an interesting article on the legality of referring to your product as spyware. After contemplating this concept I have come to the conclusion that you are correct. Gator is not spyware. It is a virus. I spent the last month removing the damage it has done to the corporate networks I manage. The cost to my clients has reached the thousands in my fees and lost time from downed systems. Now you are suing technicians for calling your software the softer term spyware? Fine, from now on I will list your software as a virulent virus.
Got a better one...
Bravo...made the switch myself recently. Mandrake good.
It's a virus. It is installed covertly. It does damage to your OS, sometimes irreversible. It fills your drive with garbage you don't want and sends your browsing information, along with other info that no one has any business nosing into, back to them and other third parties. I just spent the last month removing Gator and its fellow virusware cronies off of a corporate network I now manage. My first order of business was to block any url containing gator related products at the firewall. I also recommend a class action lawsuit be filed against Gator for the damage it has caused. But lets not stop there. Lets take down New Dot Net, Bonzai Buddy, and all other forms of VIRUSWARE.