I don't know what kind of university you are at, but that certainly doesn't hold true at major science institution. You can't impress PhDs with 'abstract' and 'hard to understand' math, they don't believe in those descriptors.
Americans just suck at science. I'm an undergrad at what is considered to be one of the best science universities in the world, and many (not all) in the science majors aren't up to snuff. Science education in K-12 blows in America, so they can't succeed here, and it will eventually hurt us.
im good friends with the son of a major hollywood editor, and she has talked about the different systems she uses. final cut (she doesn't use it) is good at what it does, and its deeply embedded in the editing community. I've used premiere for a while (pc user), and it isn't amazing. i doubt this is a threat in the least.
this isn't unfair, and it certainly isn't evil. it would be evil if you tried to search for yahoo on google, and didn't get a page full of various yahoo domains (which is exactly what you get).
there isn't anything inherently anti-competitive about self-promotion.
Google isn't some public service that needs to be "fair." If consumers start to feel like google's self-promotion degrades the quality of the (free, bear in mind) service they provide, then they will stop using it.
People need to stop treating really good ideas like something that we have a right to have.
Leinbach: Well the holds were put in -- designed in the countdowns from the very beginning of the manned spaceflight program. And they are intended to be points in the countdown where the team can take a breather, essentially. There's not supposed to be much work going on during a hold. Again, it's a point where if work leading up to that built-in hold has run behind schedule for some reason, we can continue to work into the hold and then take the hold itself and then when we pick up the clock again, get back into work. So, really they are points in the timeline that allow catch-up time and also time for the team to take a breather and think about what's coming up next in the count. The last built-in hold we have is at T minus 9 minutes and for the current missions those are 40 minute long holds so that we can make sure that the vehicle is ready to pick up the clock at T minus 9 minutes and counting, because for 9 minutes on down is when the vehicle really starts to come to life. And so we want the team to be focused having just taken a short break as it were. We don't leave the control room, but we look forward to what's about to happen and we concentrate on our jobs. And so, it's really a time of reflection. It's a time to catch your breath and to think about what we're about to go do."
Oh pardon me, sir. I wasn't aware that, here, on the Internet, not capitalizing the first letter of the first word in a sentence was a faux pas.
My sense of humor is fine, you just aren't funny.
economics (n.) The social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems.
I get your point, I thought it would be funny to show that picture. Can you imagine if part of genesis said "And Lo, God spoke and the Earth's crust came to be, a continuous, stationary mass. And it was good."
I may be wrong, but I think I have heard a couple of peices of evidence to support evolution before Tiktaalik came along. You never know with those "scientists" though, they could just be trying to distract me.
Stupid comments? The MS bashers do what they do in all seriousness, my comment was a joke.
I don't know of many real scientists that believe that there is actually a debate, they know religion and science are completely seperate issues. However, when Christians inject their beliefs into public education systems that serve everyone's children, thats where the "at odds" comes in. I don't know what you mean by evolution on the "cosmic level", but there is absolutely no debate when it comes to evolution being the means by which each species arose from those before it. If you are one of those people that buys into the "it's only a theory!!!1111", then you arent a scientist. Science is a whole lot of "theories", but theories in a scientific sense are not the same as theories in a conventional layman sense. If evolution was a "hypothesis", then there would be room to argue, but in science if something is a theory, there is a lot of evidence to support it.
Anyone who takes any part of the Bible or any other religious text, especially those written before, oh lets say soap, was invented, has no place in science and especially no place in public educational policy. If you want your kid taught that the Earth is 6,000 years old, Noah put T. Rex on his ark, and that people who carbon date fossils have an agenda, there are plenty of private schools for you.
Well, since I don't believe in a god of any sort, I avoid a lot of that wishwash.
The problem with many people who advocate things like ID is that their agenda isn't to spread truth about science everywhere, or else they would be scientists with peer-reviewed articles. The "debate" over evolution isn't really a debate, it only exists because some people choose to call their refuting of a basic scientific principle a "debate". Sadly, evolution doesn't have equations that one could print out on a peice of paper and staple to every ID proponent.
Can you imagine if gravity was like evolution, in the sense that it couldn't be boiled down to a constant or simple equation? The Onion ran a peice about intelligent falling, which is exactly what would be out there if this was the case.
The way in which things flow is a process, not an object. Do you believe that god is reflected in nature or that he/she/it is actually present in rocks and trees and shrubbery?
Well, unfortunately human knowledge is so expansive and wide-ranging that we can't go through and think for ourselves at every step of the way if we want to build on the work of those before us. There is room for skeptics on both sides, but it should never be deconstructive skepticism.
Are you espousing the pantheistic "God is literally everything" or the Franciscan "God is mirrored in everything"?
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I don't know what kind of university you are at, but that certainly doesn't hold true at major science institution. You can't impress PhDs with 'abstract' and 'hard to understand' math, they don't believe in those descriptors.
Americans just suck at science. I'm an undergrad at what is considered to be one of the best science universities in the world, and many (not all) in the science majors aren't up to snuff. Science education in K-12 blows in America, so they can't succeed here, and it will eventually hurt us.
...back to finals....
brevity is the soul of wit.
dupe.
i guess zonk only got over his hangover just now
first dupe of the year?
im good friends with the son of a major hollywood editor, and she has talked about the different systems she uses. final cut (she doesn't use it) is good at what it does, and its deeply embedded in the editing community. I've used premiere for a while (pc user), and it isn't amazing. i doubt this is a threat in the least.
this isn't unfair, and it certainly isn't evil. it would be evil if you tried to search for yahoo on google, and didn't get a page full of various yahoo domains (which is exactly what you get). there isn't anything inherently anti-competitive about self-promotion.
yeah, but just because he co-founded firefox doesnt mean that what he has to say means squat.
Google isn't some public service that needs to be "fair." If consumers start to feel like google's self-promotion degrades the quality of the (free, bear in mind) service they provide, then they will stop using it.
People need to stop treating really good ideas like something that we have a right to have.
google is your friend:
m ission_leinbach_transcript.html :
From http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/115_ask
"Barrett: Why are there holds in the countdown and what is happening in the firing room during those holds?
Leinbach: Well the holds were put in -- designed in the countdowns from the very beginning of the manned spaceflight program. And they are intended to be points in the countdown where the team can take a breather, essentially. There's not supposed to be much work going on during a hold. Again, it's a point where if work leading up to that built-in hold has run behind schedule for some reason, we can continue to work into the hold and then take the hold itself and then when we pick up the clock again, get back into work. So, really they are points in the timeline that allow catch-up time and also time for the team to take a breather and think about what's coming up next in the count. The last built-in hold we have is at T minus 9 minutes and for the current missions those are 40 minute long holds so that we can make sure that the vehicle is ready to pick up the clock at T minus 9 minutes and counting, because for 9 minutes on down is when the vehicle really starts to come to life. And so we want the team to be focused having just taken a short break as it were. We don't leave the control room, but we look forward to what's about to happen and we concentrate on our jobs. And so, it's really a time of reflection. It's a time to catch your breath and to think about what we're about to go do."
congratulations, you fail high school chemistry regressively.
Oh pardon me, sir. I wasn't aware that, here, on the Internet, not capitalizing the first letter of the first word in a sentence was a faux pas.
My sense of humor is fine, you just aren't funny.
you really must not be a smart person. at all.
economics (n.) The social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems.
Stop wondering, it cant.
I get your point, I thought it would be funny to show that picture. Can you imagine if part of genesis said "And Lo, God spoke and the Earth's crust came to be, a continuous, stationary mass. And it was good."
I may be wrong, but I think I have heard a couple of peices of evidence to support evolution before Tiktaalik came along. You never know with those "scientists" though, they could just be trying to distract me.
Yes
By the way, judge people based on their comments, not their age. I'm 17, and I am sure that many of the MS bashes on here are a lot older than I am
Stupid comments? The MS bashers do what they do in all seriousness, my comment was a joke.
I don't know of many real scientists that believe that there is actually a debate, they know religion and science are completely seperate issues. However, when Christians inject their beliefs into public education systems that serve everyone's children, thats where the "at odds" comes in. I don't know what you mean by evolution on the "cosmic level", but there is absolutely no debate when it comes to evolution being the means by which each species arose from those before it. If you are one of those people that buys into the "it's only a theory!!!1111", then you arent a scientist. Science is a whole lot of "theories", but theories in a scientific sense are not the same as theories in a conventional layman sense. If evolution was a "hypothesis", then there would be room to argue, but in science if something is a theory, there is a lot of evidence to support it.
Anyone who takes any part of the Bible or any other religious text, especially those written before, oh lets say soap, was invented, has no place in science and especially no place in public educational policy. If you want your kid taught that the Earth is 6,000 years old, Noah put T. Rex on his ark, and that people who carbon date fossils have an agenda, there are plenty of private schools for you.
Well, since I don't believe in a god of any sort, I avoid a lot of that wishwash. The problem with many people who advocate things like ID is that their agenda isn't to spread truth about science everywhere, or else they would be scientists with peer-reviewed articles. The "debate" over evolution isn't really a debate, it only exists because some people choose to call their refuting of a basic scientific principle a "debate". Sadly, evolution doesn't have equations that one could print out on a peice of paper and staple to every ID proponent. Can you imagine if gravity was like evolution, in the sense that it couldn't be boiled down to a constant or simple equation? The Onion ran a peice about intelligent falling, which is exactly what would be out there if this was the case. The way in which things flow is a process, not an object. Do you believe that god is reflected in nature or that he/she/it is actually present in rocks and trees and shrubbery?
Well, unfortunately human knowledge is so expansive and wide-ranging that we can't go through and think for ourselves at every step of the way if we want to build on the work of those before us. There is room for skeptics on both sides, but it should never be deconstructive skepticism. Are you espousing the pantheistic "God is literally everything" or the Franciscan "God is mirrored in everything"?
it wouldnt surprise me in the least if you were found dead tomorrow, with signs of pirate related injuries
Clearly, His Noodliness is testing us.