An fact often overlooked by both pro and anti evolution parties is that the Bible itself contradicts the assertion of six-day creationist-type people that the whole universe and the earth and everything in it arose in six days. It's opening sentence states that =first= God created the heavens and the earth. Only =after= that event do these six days occur, therefore there is the opportunity for billions of years to pass in the intervening time. These six (not necessarily literal 24 hour) days that follow *after* this long time period have nothing to do with the creation of the earth as such, but rather were the period where the raw earth was subsequently prepared in stages for habitation by various forms of life. The abovementioned biblical long time period as far as I can tell supports current science and, paradoxically, shoots creationists down in flames.
Hubble can see items of 50 metres size in UV wavelength on the moon's surface. Seems it's resolving power is related to the wavelength of the "light" it is using, same as in photolithography used in producing nanometre scale details on semiconductors.
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7 880
Quotes fron the article: 1/"In fact, "theory" is a misnomer, since unlike general relativity theory or quantum theory, string theory is not a concise set of solvable equations describing the behavior of the physical world. It's more of an idea or a framework." 2/"One physicist commented on Mr. Woit's blog that Ph.D. students who choose mathematical theory topics that "are non-string are seriously harming their career prospects." 3/"That string theory abandoned testable predictions may be its ultimate betrayal of science." Not trolling or trying to be flame bait here, but dang! that sounds *so* similar to evolution IMHO.
ENIAC with it's 5000 odd vacuum tubes was a potential reliability nightmare. People argued that it would break down on the average every 30 minutes. It did rather better than that through running the tube filaments at a quite reduced voltage. The comparison with multiple HDD's should be obvious though. The more you have, the more likely you are to have a system (not individual drive) failure.
The Bible doesn't say anything about hacking or intellectual property per se. What it does state is principles that cover these things, e.g. "You must love your neighbour as yourself". If you have that suitable regard for another you don't go hacking their stuff. Mind you, the Bible doesn't force anyone to do anything, but it does give them the scope to demonstrate what is in their hearts, which God notes and will use when his time comes to finally rid the earth of 1/ those who don't care about him, 2/ of politics, 3/ big business, and above all, 4/ religion.
...is that the total of all the efforts put into GNU/Linux is spread so thinly over several hundred distro's. If there were say half a dozen big ones then it would really move ahead. Doing anything in Linux is easy, but only after you have forgotten how hard it was to get to the point that it felt easy.
"The Christian religion is mighty big on ignoring that no killing bit." That's one of the defining lines between an organization that simply calls itself "Christian" and one that really is. So-called christianity historically has had no qualms about supporting governments and their wars, especially if it also furthered their own aims. The fact that religion is so involved with politics and wars hardly needs to be said. What's more, two world wars were fought mostly among "christian" nations. In Nazi Germany there was only *one* religion that stood up to Hitler and refused to join his armies (or those of the other country for that matter) or give any other kind of support. Because of this about 10,000 of them were rounded up and put into various concentration camps. Some 2,500 of that group were executed there. All camp inmates wore a specific coloured triangle for identification - they wore the purple ones. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holoca ust/markings.html/
God's wisdom -- name = "Adam". Human wisdom -- name = "wii".
Oh, this Nintendo we are talking about, not PS3?!?
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Get this. That stupid name threw me so much it has taken me a fortnight to realise we are talking about a Nintendo machine and not the PS3. 1/- That's a relief. 2/- duh...
"17 And to Adam [first occurrence of name] he said: "Because you listened to your wife's voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. 18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." 20 After this Adam called his wife's name Eve, [first occurrence of name] because she had to become the mother of everyone living."
Reminds me of when someone with their own skill and experience takes a truly wonderful photograph and someone tells them "Wow, you must have a *great* camera". They don't realise how insulting that may be until it is compared to someone that writes a great book and so it follows they must have a terrific typewriter etc. You don't need an Apple to be creative; if you have an Apple it doesn't mean you are creative. "Apple is the brand of people who are creative" sounds like a line from a cigarette ad. It's a tool, a machine. No matter what machine or what OS, it can only produce results as good as the person driving it.
Electronics Australia magazine really did do this
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EA was a magazine that ran from the 1920's till 2001. In it's heyday it was really something. Had articles like Ian Pogson's "Deltahet" in 1971, the world's first phase-locked loop communications receiver published for home construction, or in 1974 their EDUC-8 microcomputer that missed by 1 week (do'h!) as the world's first home construction PC article. (Congrats to Radio Electronic BTW). Barrowloads of construction articles that ran the gamut of electronics for the lives of several generations. Then someone in management who obviously new better, turned it in one issue from a world class mag to a glossy advertorial full of I-pods and home theatre stuff and game console stuff etc etc ad nauseum. It only ran 2 or 3 issues after this then crashed and burned.
I wonder whether the trade union phenomena will ever get a toe-hold in China? I've never been there but many have said that low pay, occupational health & safety issues, and sweatshop conditions abound. Of course, the desire to lord it over other people more than likely exists there as well. We'll see what the future brings.
...vapourware. I'll be great if they get it to go, but I'm not holding my breath. And if they do get it to go and then the West starts making unauthorised, unlicenced copies of it, will they feel entitled to complain?
Example: All you Slashdotters are out of your mind playing with GNU Linux and every other form of *NIX. The rest of the world knows that Microsoft both invented OS's and knows what's best for you. Get rid of that useless home-made crap! Get a *real* OS.
Would be just the stuff to construct a super-lightweight scatter blanket for a racecar transmission or similar. Anyone that has witnessed a major engine failure in a top fueller will appreciate this. http://www.wediditforlove.com/CHRR2005/Williamson- Q1-topend-1.jpg
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An fact often overlooked by both pro and anti evolution parties is that the Bible itself contradicts the assertion of six-day creationist-type people that the whole universe and the earth and everything in it arose in six days. It's opening sentence states that =first= God created the heavens and the earth. Only =after= that event do these six days occur, therefore there is the opportunity for billions of years to pass in the intervening time. These six (not necessarily literal 24 hour) days that follow *after* this long time period have nothing to do with the creation of the earth as such, but rather were the period where the raw earth was subsequently prepared in stages for habitation by various forms of life. The abovementioned biblical long time period as far as I can tell supports current science and, paradoxically, shoots creationists down in flames.
Hubble can see items of 50 metres size in UV wavelength on the moon's surface. Seems it's resolving power is related to the wavelength of the "light" it is using, same as in photolithography used in producing nanometre scale details on semiconductors. http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7 880
Quotes fron the article: 1/"In fact, "theory" is a misnomer, since unlike general relativity theory or quantum theory, string theory is not a concise set of solvable equations describing the behavior of the physical world. It's more of an idea or a framework." 2/"One physicist commented on Mr. Woit's blog that Ph.D. students who choose mathematical theory topics that "are non-string are seriously harming their career prospects." 3/"That string theory abandoned testable predictions may be its ultimate betrayal of science." Not trolling or trying to be flame bait here, but dang! that sounds *so* similar to evolution IMHO.
ENIAC with it's 5000 odd vacuum tubes was a potential reliability nightmare. People argued that it would break down on the average every 30 minutes. It did rather better than that through running the tube filaments at a quite reduced voltage. The comparison with multiple HDD's should be obvious though. The more you have, the more likely you are to have a system (not individual drive) failure.
The Bible doesn't say anything about hacking or intellectual property per se. What it does state is principles that cover these things, e.g. "You must love your neighbour as yourself". If you have that suitable regard for another you don't go hacking their stuff. Mind you, the Bible doesn't force anyone to do anything, but it does give them the scope to demonstrate what is in their hearts, which God notes and will use when his time comes to finally rid the earth of 1/ those who don't care about him, 2/ of politics, 3/ big business, and above all, 4/ religion.
It's 30 757 812.5 Newtons @ 1M = 39.37 inches ;-)
...is that the total of all the efforts put into GNU/Linux is spread so thinly over several hundred distro's. If there were say half a dozen big ones then it would really move ahead. Doing anything in Linux is easy, but only after you have forgotten how hard it was to get to the point that it felt easy.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holoca ust/markings.html
"The Christian religion is mighty big on ignoring that no killing bit."a ust/markings.html/
That's one of the defining lines between an organization that simply calls itself "Christian" and one that really is. So-called christianity historically has had no qualms about supporting governments and their wars, especially if it also furthered their own aims. The fact that religion is so involved with politics and wars hardly needs to be said. What's more, two world wars were fought mostly among "christian" nations. In Nazi Germany there was only *one* religion that stood up to Hitler and refused to join his armies (or those of the other country for that matter) or give any other kind of support. Because of this about 10,000 of them were rounded up and put into various concentration camps. Some 2,500 of that group were executed there. All camp inmates wore a specific coloured triangle for identification - they wore the purple ones.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holoc
God's wisdom -- name = "Adam".
Human wisdom -- name = "wii".
Get this. That stupid name threw me so much it has taken me a fortnight to realise we are talking about a Nintendo machine and not the PS3. 1/- That's a relief. 2/- duh...
"17 And to Adam [first occurrence of name] he said: "Because you listened to your wife's voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. 18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." 20 After this Adam called his wife's name Eve, [first occurrence of name] because she had to become the mother of everyone living."
Woefully idiotic insignia.
More info here from the official website http://www.watchtower.org/medical_care_and_blood.h tm
Yeah, the floppy disk pic that is actually back-to-front. Typical Microsoft...
Reminds me of when someone with their own skill and experience takes a truly wonderful photograph and someone tells them "Wow, you must have a *great* camera". They don't realise how insulting that may be until it is compared to someone that writes a great book and so it follows they must have a terrific typewriter etc. You don't need an Apple to be creative; if you have an Apple it doesn't mean you are creative. "Apple is the brand of people who are creative" sounds like a line from a cigarette ad. It's a tool, a machine. No matter what machine or what OS, it can only produce results as good as the person driving it.
EA was a magazine that ran from the 1920's till 2001. In it's heyday it was really something. Had articles like Ian Pogson's "Deltahet" in 1971, the world's first phase-locked loop communications receiver published for home construction, or in 1974 their EDUC-8 microcomputer that missed by 1 week (do'h!) as the world's first home construction PC article. (Congrats to Radio Electronic BTW). Barrowloads of construction articles that ran the gamut of electronics for the lives of several generations. Then someone in management who obviously new better, turned it in one issue from a world class mag to a glossy advertorial full of I-pods and home theatre stuff and game console stuff etc etc ad nauseum. It only ran 2 or 3 issues after this then crashed and burned.
I wonder whether the trade union phenomena will ever get a toe-hold in China? I've never been there but many have said that low pay, occupational health & safety issues, and sweatshop conditions abound. Of course, the desire to lord it over other people more than likely exists there as well. We'll see what the future brings.
Would the astronauts get paid for their local elapsed time or for the huge time that passes by on Earth?
Watch the fuss that erupts if a well-known Linux developer gets killed by one of these things.
...vapourware. I'll be great if they get it to go, but I'm not holding my breath. And if they do get it to go and then the West starts making unauthorised, unlicenced copies of it, will they feel entitled to complain?
Next thing you know they'll be doing it to all those dolphins they catch for "scientific research".
Example: All you Slashdotters are out of your mind playing with GNU Linux and every other form of *NIX. The rest of the world knows that Microsoft both invented OS's and knows what's best for you. Get rid of that useless home-made crap! Get a *real* OS.
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Would be just the stuff to construct a super-lightweight scatter blanket for a racecar transmission or similar. Anyone that has witnessed a major engine failure in a top fueller will appreciate this. http://www.wediditforlove.com/CHRR2005/Williamson- Q1-topend-1.jpg
D'oh! uhhh... sorry guys, just got carried away a bit :-(