It seems no matter where you go, what you buy, or what internet service you get, if you're in the US you're getting ripped off.
Not quite true... If you're getting a T1 or T3, you're still probably ok. Prices have actually fallen (a little) for these lines, due to lowered demand. Small businesses no longer get T1's, they just get "Business DSL" (which is the same as residential DSL).
I've thought about trying to get my homeowners association to go in on a T3. (There are 200 units in this complex, so it would be neither overpriced nor overly fast if everyone was using it simultaneously). Unfortunately, that would cause all kinds of other headaches. It's bad enough trying to find an office manager, much less a network admin. I could do it, but I'm a programmer. I would probably screw up admin-type stuff. (Error 1609 - Wrong Type of Geek.)
I think he's referring to the fact that tracert is the Windows version of traceroute, meaning that you can only run tracert if you have a (Windows) GUI.
That's because unlike BellSouth (former sole owner of the AT&T brand name), SBC wasn't all that evil. Sure, they were a Big Telco, and had their greedy moments, but it wasn't until the BellSouth merger took place (just prior to the "The New AT&T" marketing blitz) that it became the asstastic pile of telco we know and hate.
SBC had sane billing. The New AT&T does not.
SBC had decent customer service. The New AT&T does not.
SBC had actually expanded their capacity in recent years. The New AT&T has ceased to do that, but sure as anything, they're bragging about expanded capacities that were put in place before they were in this area.
SBC never blocked ports for any reason. The New AT&T blocked outbound 25 ASAFP, with more to follow if my guess is right.
SBC never hinted at being anything but a carrier. In fact, their marketing was all geared toward "we build and maintain the lines and you get to use them". The New AT&T instantly started grumbling about not being paid on both ends of a connection and started making threats about port blocking and traffic shaping.
Just give TNATT some time. They'll be as evil as everyone says they are. Too bad SBC got mixed up with these idiots. The rest of the nation could've done just fine without BellSouth/TNATT.
You may get your wish soon enough. You don't think the governments of the world are going to put up with these violent, racist, wingnut religious idiots forever, do you? Sooner or later, they'll abolish it all.
Congress shall make no law establishing a state religion. But congress may make a law abolishing religion. It's not out of the question. The sooner the better. From there it's just a hop, skip, and a jump until sanity returns to the earth.
No, the smart ones are always bored with school. They make their own education. Unfortunately, the schools aren't allowing that, much less encouraging it.
Mediocre people lap up the "education" they get from school without concern for their own welfare. They learn what the book or teacher tells them to learn. They don't teach themselves to think. They do so at their own peril.
The real world will place you into a special hell called "middle management" if you're mediocre. The smart ones just burn in slavery or, if they're really smart, reach escape velocity and start their own business.
Uhhhh... I'm no expert with Access (I avoid it as much as possible), but I'm pretty sure OpenOffice Base does the same damn thing. I've avoided Base for the most part too (I use real databases now), but why don't you try messing with it and see if it meets your needs. It can't hurt, can it?
the instant I type a newline I'll be told that I forgot a semicolon the line above
C# shares this in common with C: whitespace is irrelevant. That semicolon could be eleventy-thousand lines later in the file and it wouldn't matter. It just can't have any non-whitespace in the middle.
The text box does pattern matching and camel casing (ie: I can type in IOU and it'll suggest the file InputOutputUtil if it exists in my project). Does VS.NET have anything like this?
There's a third-party add-on for that. I forget what it's called, though.
it doesn't tell you about unused variables for example.
Yes it does. They're in the warnings section of the Error List.
VS.NET does not highlight local and instance variables differently. Is there any way to turn this on in VS.NET?
Not that I've found.
If I'm looking at some code that says "foo.bar();" and I want to know the implementation of bar(), I can...
Right-click, "Go To Definition". If it can find it (in a reference with debug info or in your source), it will open the file for you.
Ghost had crashed as it finished the last disk, but luckily the disk was readable. How likely is that? Crashed AFTER the the last sector wrote.
I'd say pretty darned likely. Every time I've ever run Ghost it does that. It must be buggy in the cleanup and exit code. The images are just fine, but Ghost dies with mysterious circumstances every time. Maybe that's why they call it Ghost.
It also works on any of the tool palettes that adorn the side-tab area of your screen. I do that with Properties when I'm working on the visual layout portion of a Windows app project.
Seriously, does anyone use DirectSound or DirectInput anymore? I thought those mostly went away after DirectX 7, leaving only Direct3D and DirectDraw, with DirectDraw mostly absorbed into the texturing functions of D3D.
You end up scrolling through dozens of warnings (if you're not compiling with the equivilent of -ferror) to find relevant errors.
I see you haven't discovered the "Error List" window. View > Error List (Alt-V-I or Ctrl-/-E). It has 3 toolbar buttons at the top (checked-state type) one for errors, one for warnings, one for messages.
I asked them why they can't just write a shell script (or dos shell script, whatever the hell windows has) and they said that it would take too long to develop that. Idiots.
Idiots, indeed. Create a new installer project. Tell it to use the output of one or more of the other projects in your solution. (Solutions are multi-project binders, projects are apps, libraries, services, sites, etc.) You can even add wizards and (*shudder*) registry entries in addition to the regular file copying functions. You can specify new files/folders/shortcuts in the program files, start menu, or any other place in the filesystem. From nothing to a functional (but ugly) installer takes little more than 5 minutes. And it handles all the uninstall stuff (and install-new-version-in-place-of-the-old-one stuff) for you too (your program will appear in the Add/Remove Programs panel automatically).
Why, if the OS is called Windows, am I only allowed to have one of them in my development environment?... Why does Visual Studio insist on cramming them into one single pane?
Again, you didn't actually learn to use the tool. Tools > Options (Alt-T-O) shows you the typically huge (and rightfully so) options pane of an IDE. It's no larger or more complex than Eclipse's, if you want to get into comparisons. But notably, the first option on the first pane of the first item listed in the tree-control on the left (Environment > General) is called "Window Layout". It has a set of two radio buttons. The first one is the default, labelled "Tabbed documents". The second one is labelled "Multiple Documents". I'm guessing you want the second one.
Can someone please describe what is so great about visual studio? I've heard other people say it, but I really don't see it. (Please compare and contrast to Eclipse and/or Xcode.)
Personally, I find the all-in-one IDE (Eclipse and VS) much more usable than the everything-spread-over-hell-and-creation IDE (Xcode).
VS has advantages in working with.Net because it's optimized for that. The code-assist, templates, and help files are all geared toward.Net development. If you're doing.Net, there's nothing better. That's where VS's advantages stop, though.
Eclipse kicks VS's ass in supporting eleventy-thousand languages and has a slightly less developed template system, probably due to most of those languages' plugins being in perpetual beta. Code-assist is nearly non-existent in anything other than Java, and is mostly useless because of that. Help files are also non-existent.
Xcode is geared toward C and Objective-C. Ugh. Screw that crap. It complains if you try to use Java, and it seems to ignore your commands if you try to use C++. You aren't doing it The One True Way With The One True Programming Language (Obj-C), thus you aren't worthy of, well, anything. Get off its lawn. I'm not wild about Xcode, mostly for that reason. Apple includes PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (?), and probably a half-dozen other nice little languages with their systems, but they don't get off their ass and add the necessary meta-code to make Xcode work properly for those languages.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that if Microsoft would give Windows up as a good try and focus on bringing.Net and VS to other platforms, as well as keeping up Office and Visio, they could still dominate the software industry without the headaches that Windows brings. I want VS and.Net for the Mac!
ActiveX is dead. Microsoft doesn't do anything with it, and there certainly isn't an interoperability push for.Net-to-ActiveX. There's a tiny amount of support for COM interop in the full.Net library. In case you don't know, COM is the mid-90's ugly-hack programming "standard" that Microsoft pushed for library (dll) programming.
DirectX is simply "the Windows graphics API". Microsoft has stopped trying to make it more than that. Once upon a time, they wanted to go up against OpenGL, but when they realized they'd have to play nice on other platforms and give up some "superiority" in the gaming market (read: the only thing people "need" Windows for), they dropped the idea and moved on.
Silverlight is a subset of.Net. It's going to be.Net-by-the-ECMA-standard instead of.Net-direct-from-R&D-in-Redmond. Which is basically Mono anyway. It wouldn't be wise for Microsoft to attempt to kill Silverlight after getting everyone to use it, either. Web designers and programmers move from one technology to another very quickly. Ajax already is losing ground to better stuff. Perl isn't as popular as it once was. Neither is PHP. Nor Tomcat. And since much of the Silverlight development for non-Windows platforms is done by the Mono project, I'd guess that Microsoft has minimal control of whether or not updates are issued. And that's ignoring the fact that it's all based on a published standard.
I don't think Microsoft can get away with the same shenanigans they pulled in times past.
I'm not sure anyone else noticed, though. Nobody responded in haiku, which leaves me in doubt.
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So you're saying that Ubuntu is especially open to insecurity by association?
Perhaps that's an attack vector that needs more attention. Sure, you can focus on FTP, but a system is more than the sum of its parts. How insecure is it to leave a system accessible to Windows users on any front?
I've never gotten into the habit of using the built-in search boxes in any browser, so, yes, someone (me) still uses the Google homepage for searching.
I also tend to memorize URL's and type them directly into the URL box in my browser rather than searching and clicking or using bookmarks. And there's a bonus: I never have to import bookmarks or sync them between browsers.
The Bible says the earth is a circle, i.e. flat. NASA says the earth is an oblate spheroid
Isaiah 40:22 uses the Hebrew word "chugh", which can be translated as either "circle" or "ball". A ball is not a two dimentional object, but it is, in fact, the only object that projects upon your retina as a circle when viewed from any angle. And seeing as how Isaiah penned that passage nearly 3000 years ago, I doubt he had the instruments available to him to measure that the Earth is an oblate spheroid rather than a plain ol' sphere.
What 6 phases are those?
1) The universe, then the Earth itself (Gen. 1:1, "heavens" - above the earth, "earth" - planet). At this phase, the earth is covered with water and a thick cloud layer. Light cannot penetrate the cloud layer (Gen. 1:2, "darkness upon the surface of the watery deep"). The cloud layer progressively thins due to natural atmospheric water cycling, eventually to the point that light can penetrate the layer (Gen. 1:3, "there came to be light"). Obviously this will cause daily visibility changes on the surface (Gen. 1:4, "division between the light and the dark").
2) Breathable atmosphere (Gen. 1:5, "expanse", "between the waters and the waters", air between the sea and the water vapor layer).
3) Land appears (Gen. 1:9), plants grow (Gen. 1:10).
4) Sun, Moon, and stars are finally visible through the cloud layer. (Gen. 1:14, "luminaries"). This is probably due to the lesser abundance of water, seeing as how much of that is now in constant use in the cells of plant life and is absorbed into the ground.
5) Fish and birds (Gen. 1:20).
6) Land animals (Gen. 1:24), including humans (Gen. 1:26).
It's helpful to remember that the Bible's creation account is told from the perspective of someone living on the earth for the purpose of instructing people who live on the earth. Observations that sound "out of whack" are probably due to that shift in perspective. It wasn't until the last 50 years that humans have had a perspective that didn't stay within 30,000 ft. of solid ground. Only recently did we as a group start thinking about things in a universal perspective rather than an earth-based one. Even now we have trouble convincing most people to use measurements that aren't earth-based ("weight" instead of "mass", anyone?). It should come as no surprise that ancient people told the creation story from an earth-dweller's perspective. "First the space around earth was made, then earth. Then some air. Then some plants. Then you could see stars, the moon, and the sun. Then fish and birds. Then animals. Then us. Got it? Good. Now go plant some crops so we don't all starve, k?" Nobody cared to even write it down until 3500 years ago. It just wasn't a priority.
science say the sun revolves around the earth
No, the earth revolves around its axis. It orbits the sun. And depending on the mathematical model you choose, anything (including the earth) can be the center of everything. It's just that the math is simplest when the earth orbits the sun, the moon orbits the earth, and so on.
And honestly, NO2 would probably work almost as well, with the drawback that it might produce some sort of ammonia. (10 years since chemistry classes, so, no, I don't know the formulas and outcomes of such a reaction.)
I don't doubt that most of the zealots on one side or another will mod you down as flamebait. Unfortunately, they would be wrong, as your post is an excellent example of what is wrong with the whole ID vs. evolution debate.
ID is not science. It's an argument (against no-one) about who created the universe and/or something in it. The how of the matter is not considered. Scientists don't care, since they want to know how. And worst of all, the ID-ers misquote, misread, and malign the Bible in all of their stupid shenanigans. The Bible says the Earth is round. So does NASA. The Bible says that the Earth was created in 6 distinct phases. So do most geologists, biologists, and anyone else with half a clue about science. Only the idiot ID-ers say that the Earth was created in 144 hours, and they do so without any biblical backing. These people deserve the verbal beatdowns they get. They are stupid zealots.
Evolution is science. Perhaps faulty, but still science. Correct or not, it does conform to the scientific method. It's a study of how the universe came to be. Unfortunately, it hasn't been kept current, and it has attracted as much zealotry as any religion would. The word "theory" used to mean "an unproven idea, still in its 'best guess' phase", basically, what we now call a "hypothesis". Evolution was a theory. Now it's a hypothesis. But the evolution zealots won't give up the word "theory" to describe their chosen faith, even though the word "theory" now means something else. These people deserve the verbal beatdowns they get. They are stupid zealots.
I see a pattern here... Perhaps everyone should focus on gaining knowledge and focus less on drawing unprovable conclusions. Eventually, the mass of knowledge will draw its holders to a fully-formed, unmistakable conclusion. Real scientists know not to let stupid ideology get in the way of real progress.
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It seems no matter where you go, what you buy, or what internet service you get, if you're in the US you're getting ripped off.
Not quite true... If you're getting a T1 or T3, you're still probably ok. Prices have actually fallen (a little) for these lines, due to lowered demand. Small businesses no longer get T1's, they just get "Business DSL" (which is the same as residential DSL).
I've thought about trying to get my homeowners association to go in on a T3. (There are 200 units in this complex, so it would be neither overpriced nor overly fast if everyone was using it simultaneously). Unfortunately, that would cause all kinds of other headaches. It's bad enough trying to find an office manager, much less a network admin. I could do it, but I'm a programmer. I would probably screw up admin-type stuff. (Error 1609 - Wrong Type of Geek.)
I think he's referring to the fact that tracert is the Windows version of traceroute, meaning that you can only run tracert if you have a (Windows) GUI.
That's because unlike BellSouth (former sole owner of the AT&T brand name), SBC wasn't all that evil. Sure, they were a Big Telco, and had their greedy moments, but it wasn't until the BellSouth merger took place (just prior to the "The New AT&T" marketing blitz) that it became the asstastic pile of telco we know and hate.
SBC had sane billing.
The New AT&T does not.
SBC had decent customer service.
The New AT&T does not.
SBC had actually expanded their capacity in recent years.
The New AT&T has ceased to do that, but sure as anything, they're bragging about expanded capacities that were put in place before they were in this area.
SBC never blocked ports for any reason.
The New AT&T blocked outbound 25 ASAFP, with more to follow if my guess is right.
SBC never hinted at being anything but a carrier. In fact, their marketing was all geared toward "we build and maintain the lines and you get to use them".
The New AT&T instantly started grumbling about not being paid on both ends of a connection and started making threats about port blocking and traffic shaping.
Just give TNATT some time. They'll be as evil as everyone says they are. Too bad SBC got mixed up with these idiots. The rest of the nation could've done just fine without BellSouth/TNATT.
I wish there were no religions at all
You may get your wish soon enough. You don't think the governments of the world are going to put up with these violent, racist, wingnut religious idiots forever, do you? Sooner or later, they'll abolish it all.
Congress shall make no law establishing a state religion. But congress may make a law abolishing religion. It's not out of the question. The sooner the better. From there it's just a hop, skip, and a jump until sanity returns to the earth.
No, the smart ones are always bored with school. They make their own education. Unfortunately, the schools aren't allowing that, much less encouraging it.
Mediocre people lap up the "education" they get from school without concern for their own welfare. They learn what the book or teacher tells them to learn. They don't teach themselves to think. They do so at their own peril.
The real world will place you into a special hell called "middle management" if you're mediocre. The smart ones just burn in slavery or, if they're really smart, reach escape velocity and start their own business.
MTV is still on the air? I hadn't noticed.
Every overcaffienated nerd I know has a digital TV tuner and discovered The Tube long ago.
Uhhhh... I'm no expert with Access (I avoid it as much as possible), but I'm pretty sure OpenOffice Base does the same damn thing. I've avoided Base for the most part too (I use real databases now), but why don't you try messing with it and see if it meets your needs. It can't hurt, can it?
So nobody can write a compatible office suite with OOXML? Funny, I swear I just heard about someone that did it.
It'll work better if you call it "full-strength hydroxylic acid". That'll kill those germs for sure.
the instant I type a newline I'll be told that I forgot a semicolon the line above
C# shares this in common with C: whitespace is irrelevant. That semicolon could be eleventy-thousand lines later in the file and it wouldn't matter. It just can't have any non-whitespace in the middle.
The text box does pattern matching and camel casing (ie: I can type in IOU and it'll suggest the file InputOutputUtil if it exists in my project). Does VS.NET have anything like this?
There's a third-party add-on for that. I forget what it's called, though.
it doesn't tell you about unused variables for example.
Yes it does. They're in the warnings section of the Error List.
VS.NET does not highlight local and instance variables differently. Is there any way to turn this on in VS.NET?
Not that I've found.
If I'm looking at some code that says "foo.bar();" and I want to know the implementation of bar(), I can...
Right-click, "Go To Definition". If it can find it (in a reference with debug info or in your source), it will open the file for you.
Ghost had crashed as it finished the last disk, but luckily the disk was readable. How likely is that? Crashed AFTER the the last sector wrote.
I'd say pretty darned likely. Every time I've ever run Ghost it does that. It must be buggy in the cleanup and exit code. The images are just fine, but Ghost dies with mysterious circumstances every time. Maybe that's why they call it Ghost.
It also works on any of the tool palettes that adorn the side-tab area of your screen. I do that with Properties when I'm working on the visual layout portion of a Windows app project.
Seriously, does anyone use DirectSound or DirectInput anymore? I thought those mostly went away after DirectX 7, leaving only Direct3D and DirectDraw, with DirectDraw mostly absorbed into the texturing functions of D3D.
Thank you for the fix
I'm no good at making these
Haiku eludes me.
GDI for Windows 9x/ME, GDI+ for Windows NT/2k/XP. Vista uses DirectX for everything.
What I meant was "DirectX is simply the Windows 3D graphics API" as opposed to it being a real cross-platform replacement for OpenGL.
You end up scrolling through dozens of warnings (if you're not compiling with the equivilent of -ferror) to find relevant errors.
... Why does Visual Studio insist on cramming them into one single pane?
.Net because it's optimized for that. The code-assist, templates, and help files are all geared toward .Net development. If you're doing .Net, there's nothing better. That's where VS's advantages stop, though.
.Net and VS to other platforms, as well as keeping up Office and Visio, they could still dominate the software industry without the headaches that Windows brings. I want VS and .Net for the Mac!
I see you haven't discovered the "Error List" window. View > Error List (Alt-V-I or Ctrl-/-E). It has 3 toolbar buttons at the top (checked-state type) one for errors, one for warnings, one for messages.
I asked them why they can't just write a shell script (or dos shell script, whatever the hell windows has) and they said that it would take too long to develop that. Idiots.
Idiots, indeed. Create a new installer project. Tell it to use the output of one or more of the other projects in your solution. (Solutions are multi-project binders, projects are apps, libraries, services, sites, etc.) You can even add wizards and (*shudder*) registry entries in addition to the regular file copying functions. You can specify new files/folders/shortcuts in the program files, start menu, or any other place in the filesystem. From nothing to a functional (but ugly) installer takes little more than 5 minutes. And it handles all the uninstall stuff (and install-new-version-in-place-of-the-old-one stuff) for you too (your program will appear in the Add/Remove Programs panel automatically).
Why, if the OS is called Windows, am I only allowed to have one of them in my development environment?
Again, you didn't actually learn to use the tool. Tools > Options (Alt-T-O) shows you the typically huge (and rightfully so) options pane of an IDE. It's no larger or more complex than Eclipse's, if you want to get into comparisons. But notably, the first option on the first pane of the first item listed in the tree-control on the left (Environment > General) is called "Window Layout". It has a set of two radio buttons. The first one is the default, labelled "Tabbed documents". The second one is labelled "Multiple Documents". I'm guessing you want the second one.
Can someone please describe what is so great about visual studio? I've heard other people say it, but I really don't see it. (Please compare and contrast to Eclipse and/or Xcode.)
Personally, I find the all-in-one IDE (Eclipse and VS) much more usable than the everything-spread-over-hell-and-creation IDE (Xcode).
VS has advantages in working with
Eclipse kicks VS's ass in supporting eleventy-thousand languages and has a slightly less developed template system, probably due to most of those languages' plugins being in perpetual beta. Code-assist is nearly non-existent in anything other than Java, and is mostly useless because of that. Help files are also non-existent.
Xcode is geared toward C and Objective-C. Ugh. Screw that crap. It complains if you try to use Java, and it seems to ignore your commands if you try to use C++. You aren't doing it The One True Way With The One True Programming Language (Obj-C), thus you aren't worthy of, well, anything. Get off its lawn. I'm not wild about Xcode, mostly for that reason. Apple includes PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (?), and probably a half-dozen other nice little languages with their systems, but they don't get off their ass and add the necessary meta-code to make Xcode work properly for those languages.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that if Microsoft would give Windows up as a good try and focus on bringing
There's no need to port all that stuff.
.Net-to-ActiveX. There's a tiny amount of support for COM interop in the full .Net library. In case you don't know, COM is the mid-90's ugly-hack programming "standard" that Microsoft pushed for library (dll) programming.
.Net. It's going to be .Net-by-the-ECMA-standard instead of .Net-direct-from-R&D-in-Redmond. Which is basically Mono anyway. It wouldn't be wise for Microsoft to attempt to kill Silverlight after getting everyone to use it, either. Web designers and programmers move from one technology to another very quickly. Ajax already is losing ground to better stuff. Perl isn't as popular as it once was. Neither is PHP. Nor Tomcat. And since much of the Silverlight development for non-Windows platforms is done by the Mono project, I'd guess that Microsoft has minimal control of whether or not updates are issued. And that's ignoring the fact that it's all based on a published standard.
ActiveX is dead. Microsoft doesn't do anything with it, and there certainly isn't an interoperability push for
DirectX is simply "the Windows graphics API". Microsoft has stopped trying to make it more than that. Once upon a time, they wanted to go up against OpenGL, but when they realized they'd have to play nice on other platforms and give up some "superiority" in the gaming market (read: the only thing people "need" Windows for), they dropped the idea and moved on.
Silverlight is a subset of
I don't think Microsoft can get away with the same shenanigans they pulled in times past.
+1, Haiku
I'm not sure anyone else noticed, though. Nobody responded in haiku, which leaves me in doubt.
So you're saying that Ubuntu is especially open to insecurity by association?
Perhaps that's an attack vector that needs more attention. Sure, you can focus on FTP, but a system is more than the sum of its parts. How insecure is it to leave a system accessible to Windows users on any front?
Unfortunately, this isn't RIAA v. Foster, it's Capitol v. Foster. Capitol Records is going to have to pony up or face the wrath of a spurned judge.
Time for more popcorn. This is gonna get interesting.
I've never gotten into the habit of using the built-in search boxes in any browser, so, yes, someone (me) still uses the Google homepage for searching.
I also tend to memorize URL's and type them directly into the URL box in my browser rather than searching and clicking or using bookmarks. And there's a bonus: I never have to import bookmarks or sync them between browsers.
The Bible says the earth is a circle, i.e. flat. NASA says the earth is an oblate spheroid
Isaiah 40:22 uses the Hebrew word "chugh", which can be translated as either "circle" or "ball". A ball is not a two dimentional object, but it is, in fact, the only object that projects upon your retina as a circle when viewed from any angle. And seeing as how Isaiah penned that passage nearly 3000 years ago, I doubt he had the instruments available to him to measure that the Earth is an oblate spheroid rather than a plain ol' sphere.
What 6 phases are those?
1) The universe, then the Earth itself (Gen. 1:1, "heavens" - above the earth, "earth" - planet). At this phase, the earth is covered with water and a thick cloud layer. Light cannot penetrate the cloud layer (Gen. 1:2, "darkness upon the surface of the watery deep"). The cloud layer progressively thins due to natural atmospheric water cycling, eventually to the point that light can penetrate the layer (Gen. 1:3, "there came to be light"). Obviously this will cause daily visibility changes on the surface (Gen. 1:4, "division between the light and the dark").
2) Breathable atmosphere (Gen. 1:5, "expanse", "between the waters and the waters", air between the sea and the water vapor layer).
3) Land appears (Gen. 1:9), plants grow (Gen. 1:10).
4) Sun, Moon, and stars are finally visible through the cloud layer. (Gen. 1:14, "luminaries"). This is probably due to the lesser abundance of water, seeing as how much of that is now in constant use in the cells of plant life and is absorbed into the ground.
5) Fish and birds (Gen. 1:20).
6) Land animals (Gen. 1:24), including humans (Gen. 1:26).
It's helpful to remember that the Bible's creation account is told from the perspective of someone living on the earth for the purpose of instructing people who live on the earth. Observations that sound "out of whack" are probably due to that shift in perspective. It wasn't until the last 50 years that humans have had a perspective that didn't stay within 30,000 ft. of solid ground. Only recently did we as a group start thinking about things in a universal perspective rather than an earth-based one. Even now we have trouble convincing most people to use measurements that aren't earth-based ("weight" instead of "mass", anyone?). It should come as no surprise that ancient people told the creation story from an earth-dweller's perspective. "First the space around earth was made, then earth. Then some air. Then some plants. Then you could see stars, the moon, and the sun. Then fish and birds. Then animals. Then us. Got it? Good. Now go plant some crops so we don't all starve, k?" Nobody cared to even write it down until 3500 years ago. It just wasn't a priority.
science say the sun revolves around the earth
No, the earth revolves around its axis. It orbits the sun. And depending on the mathematical model you choose, anything (including the earth) can be the center of everything. It's just that the math is simplest when the earth orbits the sun, the moon orbits the earth, and so on.
That's where the "boom" tag comes from.
And honestly, NO2 would probably work almost as well, with the drawback that it might produce some sort of ammonia. (10 years since chemistry classes, so, no, I don't know the formulas and outcomes of such a reaction.)
Theo DeRaadt goes on a rampage in 5... 4... 3... 2...
I don't doubt that most of the zealots on one side or another will mod you down as flamebait. Unfortunately, they would be wrong, as your post is an excellent example of what is wrong with the whole ID vs. evolution debate.
ID is not science. It's an argument (against no-one) about who created the universe and/or something in it. The how of the matter is not considered. Scientists don't care, since they want to know how. And worst of all, the ID-ers misquote, misread, and malign the Bible in all of their stupid shenanigans. The Bible says the Earth is round. So does NASA. The Bible says that the Earth was created in 6 distinct phases. So do most geologists, biologists, and anyone else with half a clue about science. Only the idiot ID-ers say that the Earth was created in 144 hours, and they do so without any biblical backing. These people deserve the verbal beatdowns they get. They are stupid zealots.
Evolution is science. Perhaps faulty, but still science. Correct or not, it does conform to the scientific method. It's a study of how the universe came to be. Unfortunately, it hasn't been kept current, and it has attracted as much zealotry as any religion would. The word "theory" used to mean "an unproven idea, still in its 'best guess' phase", basically, what we now call a "hypothesis". Evolution was a theory. Now it's a hypothesis. But the evolution zealots won't give up the word "theory" to describe their chosen faith, even though the word "theory" now means something else. These people deserve the verbal beatdowns they get. They are stupid zealots.
I see a pattern here... Perhaps everyone should focus on gaining knowledge and focus less on drawing unprovable conclusions. Eventually, the mass of knowledge will draw its holders to a fully-formed, unmistakable conclusion. Real scientists know not to let stupid ideology get in the way of real progress.