They're all ideas, and we can evaluate the possibility of their correctness but we can never prove for certain what is true and what is false. All "fact" begins with some assumption. It doesn't matter if you're talking about gravity or you're talking about Christ.
1) If you're going to play the word game "philosophy" has different meanings in different contexts. Even if you're not going to play the word game there are many branches of philosophy, your comparison is not accurate within this context.
2) Science is not an idea, it is an approach to answering questions.
3) The difference between the scientific approach and religion is that science can falsify information. By using the scientific approach we can determine what is most likely to be true by process of elimination.
4) Again, a major difference between the scientific approach and religion is that religion assumes the answer. The scientific approach is to make as few assumptions as possible and distance the assumptions from the solution, requiring logical arguments in order to "prove" the solution. This means that any invalid assumption or logical argument can be used to disprove the solution. Since religion assumes the solution, and provides no logical arguments, the solution cannot be disproven through falsification.
I'm not going to pick apart the rest of your post, but if you look carefully then you will find that some of your statements are incongruent. Also watch for appealing to an authority and appealing to emotion.
I think it was Heretic 2 (based on the Quake engine) where you type "GOD" in the game console, you got a message saying, "So you think you're God?" and bad guys would appear out of nowhere to kill you. I don't remember what the code word was for god mode. Maybe it was "DOG".
I don't know about Heretic 2 - but in the original Heretic if you typed "IDDQD" (invincibility in Doom) then it would kill you instantly. I don't remember what the message was, but it did say something just before it killed you.
Don't worry, most of our community doesn't embrace back. It's kinda like the girls we slashdotters chase after - no matter how hard we try they're NEVER going to embrace us. Sure, we might get mixed signals from a couple but it's nothing serious.
I say he should make his add-in for Eclipse - especially since he's a Java programmer - and suggest people that like his add-in to move to that IDE instead.
Corporate, government and financial databases aren't enough of an incentive? There's millions of dollars worth of information tied up there for anyone who figures out how to get at it.
You forgot all of Google and most of the major domain registrars. Think of Google's entire world-wide cluster as a botnet - now that IS scary.
it's nothing more then me checking on how my creation is going, if i saw a problem i'd probably report it to my old boss with a suggested fix.
I would imagine that a lot of employers have actually made the conscious choice to keep people like you online after "termination". After all, who knows when they may need you to fix your creation?
...but refuse to get sucked in to the time and money sink that is an MMORPG...
And that's exactly why the game producers don't care about people like you or I anymore. Everything's about maximizing profits and the game studios can make more money off of people who pay a monthly fee for their games. That's not to say they don't make a profit off of traditional games but they don't make as much profit.
If you compile different versions, or if a machine automatically translates for you, that doesn't mean you don't have to test on different platforms. If you expect to have a robust product that runs on linux, windows, and mac, you have to test it on all 3. I think people are confused that this will somehow eliminate that step, so you'd save yourself some time.
It sounds to me like they've setup a fully functional linux distribution running in a VM, so as long as they've debugged all of the differences that they've introduced then you wouldn't run into a porting problem. They don't have a lot of details, but it looks to me like this is something similar to throwing a linux distro in VMware and launching all your programs through that no-matter what OS you're using.
I hope they provide instructions, or perhaps a script that runs the first time you boot into your Linux box that can auto-install these codecs, otherwise this will piss off a lot of people.
Supposedly they'll be shipping 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) which has a codec wizard
It's not that uncommon. Here in SC you have to pay to have access to the law. It is copyrighted and the state vigorously protects that copyright.
I don't know if a state counts as an entity of the United States Government, but it seems to me like it would. So, your state cannot copyright anything because of an over-riding federal law. My understanding was that the reason for that law was to prevent the exact problem you're experiencing.
I'm not so sure they would want an "uptight" person as their kid's teacher, but how about someone who might be coming to work all hung over, or at a minimum, "unfocused" on occasion?
I know plenty of people that are just about to go into the workforce as engineers that have WAY worse photos on facebook. What if they go to work all hung over and build a building that falls down and kills a bunch people? Most people realize that those kind of activities occur after the work week is over. People need to realize that many people have lives outside of their jobs and that it is inappropriate to judge them based on their personal life.
Their current designs are reaching their limits, and no feasible new ones are on the horizon.
So the "K10" coming out this summer doesn't count? We keep hearing every week how it's got a 40-50% performance lead over Intel's chips. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised - Intel may have more research potential but AMD has consistently proved to me that they are actually able to deliver.
I've been keeping my eye out for a program that will compute a check-sum (CRC, MD5, etc.) for my files so that when I rerun the program it will let me know if any data has changed so that I can recover files from an alternate backup.
Since you're not familiar with the answer to this question, I'm going to assume you're running Windows (other operating systems are commonly distributed with the instructions and application for checking/creating an MD5 key). There's a nifty little program called "md5sum" which you can get from http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LQ_ISO /Checking_the_md5sum_in_Windows.
md5sum is used to create or check the MD5 key of a file. I would recommend writing a batch script that uses this program to create a ".md5" of all the files on the drive you care about, if one does not exist, but if the ".md5" file does exist then you would have the script call the program to check the MD5 and report any errors.
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2) Science is not an idea, it is an approach to answering questions.
3) The difference between the scientific approach and religion is that science can falsify information. By using the scientific approach we can determine what is most likely to be true by process of elimination.
4) Again, a major difference between the scientific approach and religion is that religion assumes the answer. The scientific approach is to make as few assumptions as possible and distance the assumptions from the solution, requiring logical arguments in order to "prove" the solution. This means that any invalid assumption or logical argument can be used to disprove the solution. Since religion assumes the solution, and provides no logical arguments, the solution cannot be disproven through falsification.
I'm not going to pick apart the rest of your post, but if you look carefully then you will find that some of your statements are incongruent. Also watch for appealing to an authority and appealing to emotion.
It's not as hard as you make it sound.
Switch to someone that provides IPv6 (or use a 4-to-6 connection), IPv6 mandates support for multicast.
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md5sum is used to create or check the MD5 key of a file. I would recommend writing a batch script that uses this program to create a ".md5" of all the files on the drive you care about, if one does not exist, but if the ".md5" file does exist then you would have the script call the program to check the MD5 and report any errors.