That is where the works... integrating with the rest of the business software.
I have written an html/cgi Point-Of-Sale for my wife's hot sauce retail shop. Works excellent and is integrated with a custom and much larger web store builder, order manager, and inventory control. This is the hard part and consists of several thousands of lines of perl code.
As far as bar code reading you just use a wedge or y cable and it acts just like keyboard input. A little javascript to ensure which form field is the active/default field and you are away. Input can come from a bar code scan or keyboard input for those items which are not bar coded.
Same mechanisms on vendor order receive for inventory maintenance.
Fine, then if people like Apple's intellectual property enough to make it a standard, then pay the licensing fee until the patent expires.
Yes but is it intellectual property? I mean is "the pinch" to zoom in/out is intellectual property? Or is this just the natural progression of human/machine interface. I would guess most engineers or engineering groups when given a flat surface as a machine input would naturally gravitate towards such gestures within the first day or week.
I see this more like Apple wanting to patent color. When all monitors where black and white would it be appropriate to patent the use of color in visual displays? Maybe a new method to generate color pixels, but not the use of color - the use of color in monitors was just the natural and obvious progression.
The so called singularity which is opposed by Fermi's paradox. The greatest argument against the singularity prediction is that if true we should have detected or have been contacted by singularity-acquiring-life elsewhere in the universe.
Yes..... Irreverence is one of the greatest assets in a society. Mocking irreverence exposes hypocrisy and dangerous religious or nationalistic overzealous philosophies that usually result in wars and genocide.
When I watched Colbert rip the most powerful man in American a new one, I was actually proud that I live in a society that tolerates such irreverence.
.The "nakedness of his father" has a specific meaning in the context of Mosaic law -- it refers to his father's wife.
I think this is weak.
The description of the brothers turning their faces so as not to see Noah in his condition strongly implies that seeing or not seeing was the essence of the situation....
yes they are assholes, thanks for providing me a public forum to air my discontent...
One year our purchasing department was slow in renewing our dozen or so Matlab licenses and we went 2-months beyond our expiration date. They jerks charged us for those two months (we have never used their tech support in over a decade) and still kept our renewal date as the original date. I explained to the salesman that we would be happy to pay for the 2-months support but i wanted the renewal date moved up since we paid full price for the renewal and the 2-months support. No-can-do!
I would support a Matlab switch in our shop to a different vendor in a heart beat when the opportunity becomes available - and maybe it has.
This sounds like some wishful thinking do you have any references?
Since most retrovirus markers are useless remnants and are just artifacts of past events. They are not a means of propagating "good ideas" since they are largely non-functional.
I wish what you say is true. Unfortunately I have a few applications (such as alarm security system software) that only works in windows. I would switch in a heartbeat if I could.
Numbers 31: Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.
What do you think "keep them for yourselves" mean.
The principle explicit message of the bible is believe in this invisible being and be rewarded with heavenly bliss or don't and experience pain and suffering for an eternity.
You can't take the parts of the Bible you like and ignore the rest
So you have no problems with the parts demanding Genocide (including women, infants and the unborn) and specifically condoning child rape and slavery?
Numbers 31: Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.
Deuteronomy 20: As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
Your response, which of course is the standard response, is totally and completely unsatisfactory and disintegrates upon a close inspection.
First is the age old question of free will/predestination. If God knew what was going to happen, or what any individual is going to do a priori, just how is that free will?
Second your comparison of parent-child relationship. What father would condemn his children to internal suffering just because of their lack of faith in the existence of an invisible being?
Or even just the wrong invisible being... There is a strong correlation between religious affiliation and prevailing culture. So those unlucky individuals born into Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist cultures are going to have a much higher likelihood of being "cast into the lake of fire". Geography apparently strongly determines the demographics of hell.
Next, why is freewill always associated with the propensity to disobey and unbelief? A rational creature can have freewill but still be inclined to obey or believe in a deity, especially with the presentation of some physical evidence. Likewise one can be inclined to disobey and not have free will. The whole freewill notion is a red herring.
And why does this god of yours desire to "bring even more glory to Himself"!!! Think about this for a while. The desire for Glory is one the more detestable qualities of megalomaniacs, despotic rulers and warrior kings.
Do you not think it is much more likely that this alleged desire for "glory" is just a transference of the manners of warrior kings to a blasphemous vision of God? A god made in man's image.
You are worshiping a bronze-age god and using dark-age apologetics to justify it. As Sam Harris has noted there is a new wine being poured why not catch it with a clean glass.
Their disobedience caused their fall which brought on death and corruption.
Disobedience is a flaw, hence God is flawed?
But nevertheless, why should "death and corruption" of all of creation be the result of a single impulsive decision of an individual thousands of generations ago? The whole concept is flawed and stems from a stern paternal model that forms the foundation of many bronze-age religions.
Further when you examine nature you see clearly that the "red in tooth and claw" component is a required consequence of natural selection not the consequence of "disobedience". For example nearly 40 percent of life is parasitic with life cycles that are very attuned to their hosts. Are you suggesting that "perfect" organism like the guinea worm had some other helpful purpose and then after "the fall" evolved to its present horrendous mode of making a living?
How can this be insightful? You have contributed no substance to the discussion or provided a alternate view.
It has nothing to do with religion or anything else.
It has everything to do with religion.
Dawkin's is passionate about the subject and he has thrust the question into the public forum and forced people, both public and private, to question their unfounded beliefs - this does not make it flamebait.
On the other hand your post is nothing more than a troll. Unless you have points, evidence, quotes or support for your claim you are merely engaging in defamation.
That's the fundamental problem with science -- it cannot prove its claims of objective reality are just that: Objective
So should we just slither back to the cave and freeze in the dark and ignorance.
Science shines a light on the workings of nature to the best of our abilities and that is far sight better than sacrificing virgins every year so that we can have a successful growing season.
Science makes the leap of faith that our senses can indeed tell us about the world. I don't exactly see how different that is from the leap of faith required for a belief in the metaphysical
A leap of faith into the metaphysical has yielded nothing of value yet and has resulted in 10000+ theologies that conflict and war with each other.
You really can't see the difference uh? You don't seem to value your sensory input.
Close your eyes, and plug your ears and try to get by with just the metaphysical - good luck.
Again, who's to say the previous/current 'myths' are myths? One's myth is another's truth. If, as you say, we need to be able to measure things to prove them (or disprove), where's your data?
Hogwash - if you are going to try to reduce scientific theories to the same level as bronze age campfire stories you are going to have to work harder than that.
but the escape to space seems not really a good idea. If we're not capable of keeping one planet in good health for the climate, the life varieties, and our fellow humans, we don't really deserve to colonize other places.
Looking back at the history of the earth there are dozens of mass or large extinction events that happened without any help from humans at all. The list of possible catastrophes includes
Iceage
Asteroid Collision
Massive Volcanic Eruptions
Supernova
Magnetic Field Distruptions
Solar Output Fluctuations
etc.....
we don't really deserve to colonize other places
Look at this another way. If we don't colonize other places we may not deserve to be the species that propagates self-aware life to infinity and beyond.
Since it appears we are pretty much alone in this, I guess it may just be our responsibility. There are not any close by mentoring ET civilizations to help us out and I don't think the whales are going to make it.
In the larger picture, earth may just be a womb; warm, wet and comfortable - but like a womb that maybe just a temporary arrangement and was never meant to be a long term home.
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That is where the works... integrating with the rest of the business software.
I have written an html/cgi Point-Of-Sale for my wife's hot sauce retail shop. Works excellent and is integrated with a custom and much larger web store builder, order manager, and inventory control. This is the hard part and consists of several thousands of lines of perl code.
As far as bar code reading you just use a wedge or y cable and it acts just like keyboard input. A little javascript to ensure which form field is the active/default field and you are away. Input can come from a bar code scan or keyboard input for those items which are not bar coded.
Same mechanisms on vendor order receive for inventory maintenance.
Yes but is it intellectual property? I mean is "the pinch" to zoom in/out is intellectual property? Or is this just the natural progression of human/machine interface. I would guess most engineers or engineering groups when given a flat surface as a machine input would naturally gravitate towards such gestures within the first day or week.
I see this more like Apple wanting to patent color. When all monitors where black and white would it be appropriate to patent the use of color in visual displays? Maybe a new method to generate color pixels, but not the use of color - the use of color in monitors was just the natural and obvious progression.
The so called singularity which is opposed by Fermi's paradox. The greatest argument against the singularity prediction is that if true we should have detected or have been contacted by singularity-acquiring-life elsewhere in the universe.
You obviously have never had to deal with mental illness issues with yourself or a loved one - and a really hope you never do.
It is not quite as simple and you think.
Yes..... Irreverence is one of the greatest assets in a society. Mocking irreverence exposes hypocrisy and dangerous religious or nationalistic overzealous philosophies that usually result in wars and genocide.
When I watched Colbert rip the most powerful man in American a new one, I was actually proud that I live in a society that tolerates such irreverence.
I think this is weak.
The description of the brothers turning their faces so as not to see Noah in his condition strongly implies that seeing or not seeing was the essence of the situation....
yes they are assholes, thanks for providing me a public forum to air my discontent...
One year our purchasing department was slow in renewing our dozen or so Matlab licenses and we went 2-months beyond our expiration date. They jerks charged us for those two months (we have never used their tech support in over a decade) and still kept our renewal date as the original date. I explained to the salesman that we would be happy to pay for the 2-months support but i wanted the renewal date moved up since we paid full price for the renewal and the 2-months support. No-can-do!
I would support a Matlab switch in our shop to a different vendor in a heart beat when the opportunity becomes available - and maybe it has.
Not to mention has anyone consider the windfall (excuse the intended pun) to the small savaging rodents that live beneath these windmills?
This sounds like some wishful thinking do you have any references?
Since most retrovirus markers are useless remnants and are just artifacts of past events. They are not a means of propagating "good ideas" since they are largely non-functional.
I wish what you say is true. Unfortunately I have a few applications (such as alarm security system software) that only works in windows. I would switch in a heartbeat if I could.
And your tag line could be "Where Does Your Dog Want To Go Today?" - Heck we don't care we will scoop it up regardless.
Now that puts things into perspective....
Blackwater: "I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am."
Blackwater 61
What do you think "keep them for yourselves" mean.
The bible does not say that. Nice soft sell.
The principle explicit message of the bible is believe in this invisible being and be rewarded with heavenly bliss or don't and experience pain and suffering for an eternity.
Evidently a very good meme to add to a religion.
So you have no problems with the parts demanding Genocide (including women, infants and the unborn) and specifically condoning child rape and slavery?
Your response, which of course is the standard response, is totally and completely unsatisfactory and disintegrates upon a close inspection.
First is the age old question of free will/predestination. If God knew what was going to happen, or what any individual is going to do a priori, just how is that free will?
Second your comparison of parent-child relationship. What father would condemn his children to internal suffering just because of their lack of faith in the existence of an invisible being?
Or even just the wrong invisible being... There is a strong correlation between religious affiliation and prevailing culture. So those unlucky individuals born into Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist cultures are going to have a much higher likelihood of being "cast into the lake of fire". Geography apparently strongly determines the demographics of hell.
Next, why is freewill always associated with the propensity to disobey and unbelief? A rational creature can have freewill but still be inclined to obey or believe in a deity, especially with the presentation of some physical evidence. Likewise one can be inclined to disobey and not have free will. The whole freewill notion is a red herring.
And why does this god of yours desire to "bring even more glory to Himself"!!! Think about this for a while. The desire for Glory is one the more detestable qualities of megalomaniacs, despotic rulers and warrior kings.
Do you not think it is much more likely that this alleged desire for "glory" is just a transference of the manners of warrior kings to a blasphemous vision of God? A god made in man's image.
You are worshiping a bronze-age god and using dark-age apologetics to justify it. As Sam Harris has noted there is a new wine being poured why not catch it with a clean glass.
This arguement is a complete copout.
One can have free will without the propensity to "disobedience".
And one can have the propensity for disobedience without having free will.
And then....
Disobedience is a flaw, hence God is flawed?
But nevertheless, why should "death and corruption" of all of creation be the result of a single impulsive decision of an individual thousands of generations ago? The whole concept is flawed and stems from a stern paternal model that forms the foundation of many bronze-age religions.
Further when you examine nature you see clearly that the "red in tooth and claw" component is a required consequence of natural selection not the consequence of "disobedience". For example nearly 40 percent of life is parasitic with life cycles that are very attuned to their hosts. Are you suggesting that "perfect" organism like the guinea worm had some other helpful purpose and then after "the fall" evolved to its present horrendous mode of making a living?
Sigh.... Education is not what it use to be....
It has everything to do with religion.
Dawkin's is passionate about the subject and he has thrust the question into the public forum and forced people, both public and private, to question their unfounded beliefs - this does not make it flamebait.
On the other hand your post is nothing more than a troll. Unless you have points, evidence, quotes or support for your claim you are merely engaging in defamation.
Sure rim the park with injection geothermal plants and the energy dependence problem is solved!
:)
Extracting heat from the region would be like siphoning off puss from a really large earth pimple. Let's get started now
And who is to say there is not?
Maybe life processes the potential to control the ultimate outcome of the universe - there is meaning in that.
So should we just slither back to the cave and freeze in the dark and ignorance.
Science shines a light on the workings of nature to the best of our abilities and that is far sight better than sacrificing virgins every year so that we can have a successful growing season.
A leap of faith into the metaphysical has yielded nothing of value yet and has resulted in 10000+ theologies that conflict and war with each other.
You really can't see the difference uh? You don't seem to value your sensory input.
Close your eyes, and plug your ears and try to get by with just the metaphysical - good luck.
Hogwash - if you are going to try to reduce scientific theories to the same level as bronze age campfire stories you are going to have to work harder than that.
Yup you are....
but the escape to space seems not really a good idea. If we're not capable of keeping one planet in good health for the climate, the life varieties, and our fellow humans, we don't really deserve to colonize other places.
Looking back at the history of the earth there are dozens of mass or large extinction events that happened without any help from humans at all. The list of possible catastrophes includes
- Iceage
- Asteroid Collision
- Massive Volcanic Eruptions
- Supernova
- Magnetic Field Distruptions
- Solar Output Fluctuations
- etc.....
we don't really deserve to colonize other placesLook at this another way. If we don't colonize other places we may not deserve to be the species that propagates self-aware life to infinity and beyond.
Since it appears we are pretty much alone in this, I guess it may just be our responsibility. There are not any close by mentoring ET civilizations to help us out and I don't think the whales are going to make it.
In the larger picture, earth may just be a womb; warm, wet and comfortable - but like a womb that maybe just a temporary arrangement and was never meant to be a long term home.