I think it's rare that Intelligent Designers are referred to as stupid. Intelligent Design is not good science, yet it's backers are constantly trying to push it into mainstream education. They have been told on numerous occasions that this is unnacceptable, yet they persist.
Are they stupid? No. Are they ignorant? No.
They've got an agenda is all. Evolution as a theory contradicts their view of the bible, so for self preservation they are attempting to discredit it. They seem to be doing a reasonably effective job at this in certain areas.
What most Slashdotters are angry about is using unscientific means to discredit science. Scientific theories are inherently fallible, with many holes that need filling by research and testing. ID theories are inherently unfallible where any discrepancy can be explained as intentional.
The general ill will Slashdotters hold towards Christianity is because of this, far too many Christians stay silent on this matter. A good many Christians have spoken out on this issue, but not enough. When moderates stay silent the voice of an organization becomes those shouting from the edges.
Wireless mice and keyboards are a godsend for home theatre systems. I have a 42" TV and in order to watch it properly you have to be roughly 5-6 feet away. Snaking cables across the floor is ugly and you're just asking to have someone trip over them.
A wireless mouse at your desk though? Yeah that's pretty pointless.
Although the main problem with the original GBA was the backlight, it was also very prone to getting marks or scratches on the screen. When the SP came out it cleverly removed this problem with the clamshell design.
The only real complaint with the SP was that the controls weren't as easily accessible as on the original. The shoulder buttons were very small and the thin square design wasn't the best for some hand sizes.
Now nintendo is releasing the micro, which keeps the form factor of the original GBA (more or less) but sidesteps the scratching issue with a better protective layer and most importantly removable faceplates.
Yes nintendo is a fan of releasing the same product over and over, but each iteration always has something new to offer and is rarely a step back. Nice to see the standard headphone jack return as well.
Does this mean that these cells were not harvested from an aborted fetus? If so this treatment could really take off without all the ethical and political problems that plague conventional stem cell treatments.
There's a big problem with the games industry (or any media entity) having to police their own product. Instead of ensuring that risky materials are segregated from the fluff, they simply refuse to produce them. If the cost associated with pushing the envelope is too high, risk taking is discouraged.
When the MPAA for movies, the FCC for television or the Comic Book Code really started flexing their power it was always followed by a long period of bland (but unobjectionable) product.
This practice will be particularly pronounced in the games industry, where originality and innovation are already on the decline.
With more and more of the industry falling under larger conglomerates (E.A. anyone) the chances of maverick developers pushing the boundries of this self imposed censorship becomes smaller as well.
He's already calling the Nano his precious. Obviously the dual personality displayed by Gollum/Smeagol is beginning as well.
"Tricksy little Ballmerses stoles our interfaces!!"
I'm happy to hear that the girl was not hurt and I'll be the first to throw out the corny "if it saves one life then it's worth the cost"
However, we're speaking about a pool here, it's not as if the lifeguard has an entire beach to scan. At best the device sent the page seconds before the guard on duty would notice and at worst it encourages the guards to perhaps not be as diligent as they should be.
"Excuse me my son appears to be drowning" "No fear ma'am the Hasslehoff 3000 is on the job"
Last year's number are an abberration, mainly due to one film. The Passion of the Christ brought in people that typically do not go into movie theatres, it also brought in more repeat sales as some people felt compelled to watch it over and over again. This same phenomenon happened with the movie Titanic, with many people boasting they had seen it 5 times or more.
If sales stay constant until years end the film industry is looking at one of it's highest grossing years of all time. The dirty little secret is that all those terrible movies we complain about (Stealth, Duece Bigalow) will make a substantial profit. Yes it is lower than last year but in the movie industry all it takes is one monster hit to change that. Not making that grand slam every year does not make it an decline.
House paint is when properly applied can be pleasing to the eye, but it's primary purpose is to extend the life of the material it covers. No one would consider it an art. You can make the comparison that code is like the paint in a portrait, but in reality all code is functional. Well written code is just a bonus for others that have to look at it later. Much like a well painted home.
The position that outsourcing is just good business and benefits the consumer may be true in the short term but has dire implications further down the road.
By outsourcing these middle class jobs you are in effect removing the purchasing power of the former employees. The majority do find new jobs, but with lower salaries or with fewer benefits (forcing them to pay the cost).
This is coupled with the fact that the US is importing more products than it exports. Which means that jobs that should involve Americans working to manufacture products for other Americans to purchase are becoming scarce as well.
This leaves only the services industry which tends to pay bottom dollar salaries and provide few benefits (if any).
My question is that what good are lower priced consumer goods if there is no middle class to purchase them and what economy can rely on a service based model if the service cannot be afforded?
One thing to consider is the fact that this was a survey, not an analysis of traffic. People typically have no problem telling a pollster they use iTunes, as it is seen as a legitimate vendor. Due to all the lawsuits and FUD being spread by the RIAA, people are much less likely to say that they use traditional P2P apps.
This could greatly skew the results along the lines of "Do you use Roadrunner, @Home or do you just connect to your neighbor's unsecured WAP?"
It's the COULD that's the rub. Microsoft did wipe out any effective opposition and they COULD have continued to do so. However, they stopped updating IE alltogether years ago.
In fact Microsoft let IE slip so much that it became signifigantly inferior to the next generation of browsers. Alternative browsers weren't fighting for their position, they were walking right in.
As previously mentioned all MS has to do now is announce they've invented Tabbed Browsing and Firefox will lose it's main selling point for the uninitiated.
While I see where you are coming from, this process is no different than surgery on a fundamental level. Similar to removing a tumour or cist, it is a proceedure that if done properly can vastly improve the quality of life for the patient. According to the article after the 'cut' is made the body repairs the strand itself, so no insertion of new genes are required.
I work for a large company and sadly most of their intranet sites use ActiveX. This pretty much makes Firefox unusable to the point where most pages will display the dreaded non-IE page. There are ways around it for people that know what they're doing but for the average user it's a sad state. The cost involved in switching over to be compliant with non IE browsers is never going to be justified by the IT dept either
I imagine this is the same with many large organizations and could be a stumbling block for Mozilla
Wasn't ROB 1 the name of the short lived NES robot peripheral? Damn Sony, first you muscle in on the handheld gaming market and now this?? Have you no shame?
This is part of the problem. You're more than willing to give up your rights so that 'bad guys' get stopped. The patriot act makes it easier to stop the bad guys because it lowers all Americans down to their level, making you all suspects in crimes yet to be committed.
I understand what the act is trying to accomplish and I don't think it was created with bad intentions. It is law now however, and because of it the potential for abuse exists, a study from the DOJ saying that everything is fine doesn't exactly comfort me.
I hope a lot of the discouraged and unnappreciated engineers down at HP will now start taking swipes at real innovative ideas such as this one. During the oh so ironic 'HP Invent' days this sort of thinking was discouraged. Since Carly has moved on at least a chance now exists for HP to get back on track, I'm not saying it's going to happen overnight (good R&D takes years). At least there's a chance we're going to see HP try something besides rebranding other devices or switching last years pretty plastic shell on the same product over and over again.
It doesn't really matter what OS you are using productivity wise. *nix while clean and transparent can take longer to set up due to a lack of a standard base. (no hatemail we've all had trouble setting up new hardware or getting a new software package to compile)
Along the same lines most windows applications are bloaty, waste time with useless wizards and are subject to the crashy whim of the OS itself.
Point is, after you've had some time to properly set up your OS and work around the initial problems, your work is only as productive as the worker doing it
A frazzled billionare being extracted from the remnants of his mangled craft, breathlessly explaining to a throng of reporters. "It was going quite well, but the wind just picked up so suddenly we didn't have a chance. Damnable shame, ah well on to my next silly adventure/reality show"
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I think it's rare that Intelligent Designers are referred to as stupid. Intelligent Design is not good science, yet it's backers are constantly trying to push it into mainstream education. They have been told on numerous occasions that this is unnacceptable, yet they persist.
Are they stupid? No. Are they ignorant? No.
They've got an agenda is all. Evolution as a theory contradicts their view of the bible, so for self preservation they are attempting to discredit it. They seem to be doing a reasonably effective job at this in certain areas.
What most Slashdotters are angry about is using unscientific means to discredit science. Scientific theories are inherently fallible, with many holes that need filling by research and testing. ID theories are inherently unfallible where any discrepancy can be explained as intentional.
The general ill will Slashdotters hold towards Christianity is because of this, far too many Christians stay silent on this matter. A good many Christians have spoken out on this issue, but not enough. When moderates stay silent the voice of an organization becomes those shouting from the edges.
"Sometimes true evil cannot be defeated by good, it must be pitted against a different sort of evil"
Shame such a good sounding quote comes from such a godawful shitty movie, if it has a farther reaching origin please enlighten me.
"Sure your scientists set up this elaborate demonstration because they could but they never stopped to think if they should!!!"
Also why is it every time a paragraph ends with "This is very important" usually isn't at all?
I predict 3 types of comments
1. "Won't someone please think of the Whales!!??"
2. "I bet they'll be playing *insert flavour of the month popstar here* LOLS!!"
3. "REPOST!!!" (Regardless of whether this is a repost or not).
Wireless mice and keyboards are a godsend for home theatre systems. I have a 42" TV and in order to watch it properly you have to be roughly 5-6 feet away. Snaking cables across the floor is ugly and you're just asking to have someone trip over them.
A wireless mouse at your desk though? Yeah that's pretty pointless.
If it's from the makers of roomba, all the sniper has to do is stand in a corner and that bot will never be able to get him.
Although the main problem with the original GBA was the backlight, it was also very prone to getting marks or scratches on the screen. When the SP came out it cleverly removed this problem with the clamshell design.
The only real complaint with the SP was that the controls weren't as easily accessible as on the original. The shoulder buttons were very small and the thin square design wasn't the best for some hand sizes.
Now nintendo is releasing the micro, which keeps the form factor of the original GBA (more or less) but sidesteps the scratching issue with a better protective layer and most importantly removable faceplates.
Yes nintendo is a fan of releasing the same product over and over, but each iteration always has something new to offer and is rarely a step back. Nice to see the standard headphone jack return as well.
Does this mean that these cells were not harvested from an aborted fetus? If so this treatment could really take off without all the ethical and political problems that plague conventional stem cell treatments.
There's a big problem with the games industry (or any media entity) having to police their own product. Instead of ensuring that risky materials are segregated from the fluff, they simply refuse to produce them. If the cost associated with pushing the envelope is too high, risk taking is discouraged.
When the MPAA for movies, the FCC for television or the Comic Book Code really started flexing their power it was always followed by a long period of bland (but unobjectionable) product.
This practice will be particularly pronounced in the games industry, where originality and innovation are already on the decline.
With more and more of the industry falling under larger conglomerates (E.A. anyone) the chances of maverick developers pushing the boundries of this self imposed censorship becomes smaller as well.
He's already calling the Nano his precious. Obviously the dual personality displayed by Gollum/Smeagol is beginning as well. "Tricksy little Ballmerses stoles our interfaces!!"
I'm happy to hear that the girl was not hurt and I'll be the first to throw out the corny "if it saves one life then it's worth the cost" However, we're speaking about a pool here, it's not as if the lifeguard has an entire beach to scan. At best the device sent the page seconds before the guard on duty would notice and at worst it encourages the guards to perhaps not be as diligent as they should be. "Excuse me my son appears to be drowning" "No fear ma'am the Hasslehoff 3000 is on the job"
Last year's number are an abberration, mainly due to one film. The Passion of the Christ brought in people that typically do not go into movie theatres, it also brought in more repeat sales as some people felt compelled to watch it over and over again. This same phenomenon happened with the movie Titanic, with many people boasting they had seen it 5 times or more. If sales stay constant until years end the film industry is looking at one of it's highest grossing years of all time. The dirty little secret is that all those terrible movies we complain about (Stealth, Duece Bigalow) will make a substantial profit. Yes it is lower than last year but in the movie industry all it takes is one monster hit to change that. Not making that grand slam every year does not make it an decline.
House paint is when properly applied can be pleasing to the eye, but it's primary purpose is to extend the life of the material it covers. No one would consider it an art. You can make the comparison that code is like the paint in a portrait, but in reality all code is functional. Well written code is just a bonus for others that have to look at it later. Much like a well painted home.
The position that outsourcing is just good business and benefits the consumer may be true in the short term but has dire implications further down the road. By outsourcing these middle class jobs you are in effect removing the purchasing power of the former employees. The majority do find new jobs, but with lower salaries or with fewer benefits (forcing them to pay the cost). This is coupled with the fact that the US is importing more products than it exports. Which means that jobs that should involve Americans working to manufacture products for other Americans to purchase are becoming scarce as well. This leaves only the services industry which tends to pay bottom dollar salaries and provide few benefits (if any). My question is that what good are lower priced consumer goods if there is no middle class to purchase them and what economy can rely on a service based model if the service cannot be afforded?
One thing to consider is the fact that this was a survey, not an analysis of traffic. People typically have no problem telling a pollster they use iTunes, as it is seen as a legitimate vendor. Due to all the lawsuits and FUD being spread by the RIAA, people are much less likely to say that they use traditional P2P apps. This could greatly skew the results along the lines of "Do you use Roadrunner, @Home or do you just connect to your neighbor's unsecured WAP?"
It's the COULD that's the rub. Microsoft did wipe out any effective opposition and they COULD have continued to do so. However, they stopped updating IE alltogether years ago. In fact Microsoft let IE slip so much that it became signifigantly inferior to the next generation of browsers. Alternative browsers weren't fighting for their position, they were walking right in. As previously mentioned all MS has to do now is announce they've invented Tabbed Browsing and Firefox will lose it's main selling point for the uninitiated.
While I see where you are coming from, this process is no different than surgery on a fundamental level. Similar to removing a tumour or cist, it is a proceedure that if done properly can vastly improve the quality of life for the patient. According to the article after the 'cut' is made the body repairs the strand itself, so no insertion of new genes are required.
Paycheque with Ben Affleck. So you were the other guy in the theatre??
I work for a large company and sadly most of their intranet sites use ActiveX. This pretty much makes Firefox unusable to the point where most pages will display the dreaded non-IE page. There are ways around it for people that know what they're doing but for the average user it's a sad state. The cost involved in switching over to be compliant with non IE browsers is never going to be justified by the IT dept either I imagine this is the same with many large organizations and could be a stumbling block for Mozilla
Copy the game. Copy the name. Get the blame. Seems like a solid case for Hasbro, that is unless Jared employs the Chewbacca defence.
Wasn't ROB 1 the name of the short lived NES robot peripheral? Damn Sony, first you muscle in on the handheld gaming market and now this?? Have you no shame?
This is part of the problem. You're more than willing to give up your rights so that 'bad guys' get stopped. The patriot act makes it easier to stop the bad guys because it lowers all Americans down to their level, making you all suspects in crimes yet to be committed. I understand what the act is trying to accomplish and I don't think it was created with bad intentions. It is law now however, and because of it the potential for abuse exists, a study from the DOJ saying that everything is fine doesn't exactly comfort me.
I hope a lot of the discouraged and unnappreciated engineers down at HP will now start taking swipes at real innovative ideas such as this one. During the oh so ironic 'HP Invent' days this sort of thinking was discouraged. Since Carly has moved on at least a chance now exists for HP to get back on track, I'm not saying it's going to happen overnight (good R&D takes years). At least there's a chance we're going to see HP try something besides rebranding other devices or switching last years pretty plastic shell on the same product over and over again.
It doesn't really matter what OS you are using productivity wise. *nix while clean and transparent can take longer to set up due to a lack of a standard base. (no hatemail we've all had trouble setting up new hardware or getting a new software package to compile) Along the same lines most windows applications are bloaty, waste time with useless wizards and are subject to the crashy whim of the OS itself. Point is, after you've had some time to properly set up your OS and work around the initial problems, your work is only as productive as the worker doing it
A frazzled billionare being extracted from the remnants of his mangled craft, breathlessly explaining to a throng of reporters. "It was going quite well, but the wind just picked up so suddenly we didn't have a chance. Damnable shame, ah well on to my next silly adventure/reality show"