The problem is that Religion by definition isn't in conflict with science. If Jesus showed up in the sky we could empirically and reproducibley verify his claims. And then based on his claims we could use science to measure the accuracy of this "Jesus Character". And if what he says lines up with the universe then we should probably believe him. Science and Religion in harmony!
The problem is not with a vague notion of "Religion" and "Science" the problem is that almost all of the world's religions *are* incompatible with Science. That's not a reflection on religion, that's a reflection on those *specific* religions who are no longer based on reality and are therefore most likely incorrect (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hindus etc...)
Many religions don't claim to make scientific claims, but they have implicit claims built into their narratives which form the foundation of their belief structure.
Let's say that Christianity isn't based on Genesis but we can instead say that God created the world by Evolution. Great! Right? We can believe in Jesus, Moses and all that but retain our scientific accuracy. No conflict... right? Wrong. Christian or not most scientists are great at their field but bad at philosophy so they have no problem with this conflict.
But let's deconstruct the assumptions in Evolution.
1) God created the universe as a deterministic system in which creatures evolve based on physical laws and rules. 2) We are as God intended.
Both of these are a huge problems for the judeo-christian religions and many others.
1) If we're deterministic physics based creatures then not only are we as God intended but he also picked a horrific and inefficient system by which billions of creatures suffer and die a cruel horrible death in order to create a mediocre creature (humans). It also means we have no free will since we're deterministic automatons so the idea of "Judgement" and sin and grace and all that is bullshit since we're just playing out his deterministic pre-designed script. 2) The idea that we in our current state are anywhere near good is rediculous. We have no backup system, we can't replace any of our parts very well. The laws of the universe are at best indifferent to us but at worst malicious to life. If God created the universe with us in mind and evolution then he created a brutal horrible universe to put his creations in.
This notion that Religion and Science are separate is absurd. If aliens landed tomorrow and never heard of Jesus before we would have to seriously reconsider Christianity. On a less obvious but just as significant scale any time you try to run the assumptions of most religions through the filter of reality you end up with either an indifferent or malicious God. Neither outcome really fits > 75% of the world's religious views.
- Women are their husband's property. - Homosexuals should be stoned. - Unruly children should be stoned. - When ordered by God we should kill not just men but also women and children when invading a country. - Eat a lobster and die. - Divorce and be stoned. - Etc...
I mean, discarding all of the scientific nonsense is a no-brainer. But we really need to get back to the good book as a source of moral authority.
So medical breakthroughs are now a great big "fuck you" to organized religion.
Yes. Because organized religion says that God is either unable or unwilling to cure us of diseases--and that Satan afflicts them upon the human race as the result of sin.
If we wipe out infectious diseases and cancers then we prove that your average med student is both more capable and caring than the divine.
Why worship a guy who will give you the finger when you get cancer and other ailments that a doctor can easily treat?
the base insurance which covers a LOT but not everything (the basics real medicine is covered for ill or injured people, the fruity stuff less and less) is going up from 1107 euro this year to 1211 euro for the next year.
Average rate is now almost $5,000 USD per year. Yay America!
Unless they do skeletal tracking and can tell by your gait who you are.
And at least criminals would have to change clothing every 10 minutes to evade detection. And if you see someone walking down the street with a mask on... time for a friendly close inspection on foot.
Expect a lot of soldiers to pay double attention to anyone wearing a mask.
The problem isn't that we're mandated to buy it. The problem is that it's a mandatory service that *SHOULD BE PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT*.
I'm ok with being denied service based on my wages for a lot of things but when it comes to life saving medicine I don't see that as a "would be nice" feature.
This goes back to the "Do you let them die?" question. Should a hospital let someone bleeding to death die in their Emergency Room if they have no insurance? I think except for at republican debates the answer is "no".
So we've accepted that getting medical treatment is guaranteed.
I'm going to probably shock people with this but you're already required to buy all manner of things. Do you want airbags? Too bad, buy a car and you get them. Do you want a life raft space for you on all cruise trips? Too bad, you have to buy one.
Now yes you can choose to not drive a car or ride a boat but you can't choose to not be born. And once born our medical system is your life's liferaft.
I don't even really know what it's about. I heard "protesting corporate greed in America", but I mean that's a tough thing to protest.. you're basically protesting capitalism..
Technology hasn't really been competitive with people in the past though. And we'll need less and less people managing said machines. There are already "lights out" factories where a few people prep the factory and it just runs unattended for days/weeks.
Sure you might need a couple people as a failsafe but thats 2 jobs vs 200. Those 198 people you now say are "free" to find other jobs but the costs of goods don't necessarily reduce. Just their old salaries go into say.. 80% capital (factory) and 20% savings.
So you lose 100% of your paycheck but the price of goods only drops by 20%. Amazon has already started knocking out retail jobs around the country (Best Buy, Circuit City etc..) and it takes a lot less man power to run a few warehouses and a website than hundreds of stores. Not to mention a warehouse job is easy to automate down the road and web development gets continually simpler. eCommerce site developers are seeing diminishing returns. At some point it just makes sense to all use one website with different skins.
Speaking as a WP7 user who uses a similar system already this goes well beyond the filesystem. Here is a real example of how this would work.
You open your photo app and you bring up a photo from facebook. You now want to share this through email.
The Photo App just is holding the photo in RAM after streaming it down from the internet. The Email app has no file to reference.
This lets you reference assigned memory in one app to another without exposing huge security holes since it passes through an intermediary application.
It also can bundle further meta data. So it can include not only the photo but also the description and the names of people tagged in the photo.
That would be an example of sharing something which never presumably touches the file system. Yes you could save it to a temp directory along with an XML file but that's kind of clunky and really isn't the interesting part of this technology which is that like a file format's "Open With..." this procedure lets applications register capabilities with the system to handle different clipboard types.
Or Microsoft doesn't feel threatened by Linux on the desktop in the slightest and thinks it's prudent to stop the REAL problem for its customers: rootkits.
Ummmm for those who haven't noticed, Zune is alive and well and expanding. It's no longer getting a hardware upgrade but it's in every Windows Phone 7 device.
I replaced my Zune with WP7 and it's even better since I can stream my Zunepass content over 3G/4G.
Zune is also in Xbox now and looks to be integrated into Windows 8 as well through the Xbox brand.
Also if you used WP7 you would realize that Bing might be losing money on the web but it's a pretty big part of Microsoft's plans for the future. Bing is pretty integral to WP7, it's being integrated into Xbox and it'll soon I imagine be integrated into WP7 as well. They *could* potentially rely on Google but they would have no say then in how it works.
My smart phone is largely a little mobile search engine. I search for maps, directions, business locations, movie times, phone numbers etc etc etc.. It's such a significant portion of a modern smart-phone that you really need a search engine provider.
Yes they lost $9B on search and it's a failure as www.bing.com but alternately you could say they've spent $9B on R&D for a critical backbone to many of your future products.
What's silly is someone with a degree in 16th century literature and a $100,000-$200,000 debt is upset that they cant find a job that will help pay their student loans... Sounds to me that they would have been better off picking a different major/career path. A little "expected income" research when planning a major would have helped.
What's also silly is that we expect the market to magically assign the correct value to every job.
I see 0 economic value in restoring ancient artifacts. I see HUGE social and cultural significance.
Similarly I don't hear jack shit about some accountant in the 16th century's contribution to culture and society today. I would say the Mona Lisa has some cultural significance.
Just because something isn't economically rewarded doesn't mean we shouldn't support 'unproductive' occupations.
A lot of people scoff at artists but if you look at real-estate the effects of artists on a community has millions of dollars in eventual real-estate. Artists are like fertilizer for real-estate. It doesn't necessarily do anything but it transforms an area into prime-gentrification.
Yeah I'm really confused by this news. Just so I'm clear... companies are fleeing California (because it has a sales Tax) to go to Washington which has a sales Tax!?
I think what we're seeing is that developers are realizing that your average user is retarded and setting up the defaults so that they can't hurt themselves.
If you want to download firefox and use that... you're welcome to do so.
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The problem is that Religion by definition isn't in conflict with science. If Jesus showed up in the sky we could empirically and reproducibley verify his claims. And then based on his claims we could use science to measure the accuracy of this "Jesus Character". And if what he says lines up with the universe then we should probably believe him. Science and Religion in harmony!
The problem is not with a vague notion of "Religion" and "Science" the problem is that almost all of the world's religions *are* incompatible with Science. That's not a reflection on religion, that's a reflection on those *specific* religions who are no longer based on reality and are therefore most likely incorrect (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hindus etc...)
Many religions don't claim to make scientific claims, but they have implicit claims built into their narratives which form the foundation of their belief structure.
Let's say that Christianity isn't based on Genesis but we can instead say that God created the world by Evolution. Great! Right? We can believe in Jesus, Moses and all that but retain our scientific accuracy. No conflict... right? Wrong. Christian or not most scientists are great at their field but bad at philosophy so they have no problem with this conflict.
But let's deconstruct the assumptions in Evolution.
1) God created the universe as a deterministic system in which creatures evolve based on physical laws and rules.
2) We are as God intended.
Both of these are a huge problems for the judeo-christian religions and many others.
1) If we're deterministic physics based creatures then not only are we as God intended but he also picked a horrific and inefficient system by which billions of creatures suffer and die a cruel horrible death in order to create a mediocre creature (humans). It also means we have no free will since we're deterministic automatons so the idea of "Judgement" and sin and grace and all that is bullshit since we're just playing out his deterministic pre-designed script.
2) The idea that we in our current state are anywhere near good is rediculous. We have no backup system, we can't replace any of our parts very well. The laws of the universe are at best indifferent to us but at worst malicious to life. If God created the universe with us in mind and evolution then he created a brutal horrible universe to put his creations in.
This notion that Religion and Science are separate is absurd. If aliens landed tomorrow and never heard of Jesus before we would have to seriously reconsider Christianity. On a less obvious but just as significant scale any time you try to run the assumptions of most religions through the filter of reality you end up with either an indifferent or malicious God. Neither outcome really fits > 75% of the world's religious views.
Agreed.
- Women are their husband's property.
- Homosexuals should be stoned.
- Unruly children should be stoned.
- When ordered by God we should kill not just men but also women and children when invading a country.
- Eat a lobster and die.
- Divorce and be stoned.
- Etc...
I mean, discarding all of the scientific nonsense is a no-brainer. But we really need to get back to the good book as a source of moral authority.
You missed the obvious one:
Partners could lie. Sure you're in a "healthy" relationship...
Most sexual active people have more then one encounter. When I was sexual active, I would have 5-15 partners a month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNVE37BGVE
So medical breakthroughs are now a great big "fuck you" to organized religion.
Yes. Because organized religion says that God is either unable or unwilling to cure us of diseases--and that Satan afflicts them upon the human race as the result of sin.
If we wipe out infectious diseases and cancers then we prove that your average med student is both more capable and caring than the divine.
Why worship a guy who will give you the finger when you get cancer and other ailments that a doctor can easily treat?
the base insurance which covers a LOT but not everything (the basics real medicine is covered for ill or injured people, the fruity stuff less and less) is going up from 1107 euro this year to 1211 euro for the next year.
Average rate is now almost $5,000 USD per year. Yay America!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm
Yeah, I mean if I choose pay full retail price for my smartphone, I don't have to subsidize cheap smartphones for people on 2 year contracts.
I get a discount every month on my T-Mobile contract since I provided my own phone.
Unless they do skeletal tracking and can tell by your gait who you are.
And at least criminals would have to change clothing every 10 minutes to evade detection. And if you see someone walking down the street with a mask on... time for a friendly close inspection on foot.
Expect a lot of soldiers to pay double attention to anyone wearing a mask.
Yes it is. Move to Canada or Europe if you're so in love with socialism programs.
Move to Somalia if you want to live in a libertarian fantasy land.
Or we could both acknowledge that a country's healthcare system is just one small aspect of where you want to live.
The problem isn't that we're mandated to buy it. The problem is that it's a mandatory service that *SHOULD BE PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT*.
I'm ok with being denied service based on my wages for a lot of things but when it comes to life saving medicine I don't see that as a "would be nice" feature.
This goes back to the "Do you let them die?" question. Should a hospital let someone bleeding to death die in their Emergency Room if they have no insurance? I think except for at republican debates the answer is "no".
So we've accepted that getting medical treatment is guaranteed.
I'm going to probably shock people with this but you're already required to buy all manner of things. Do you want airbags? Too bad, buy a car and you get them. Do you want a life raft space for you on all cruise trips? Too bad, you have to buy one.
Now yes you can choose to not drive a car or ride a boat but you can't choose to not be born. And once born our medical system is your life's liferaft.
Yeah ban patents. Who needs those lazy nerds using their brains? Everyone knows that if you aren't a manufacturer you aren't worth anything.
Why the intellectual class is the first in line to sell off their only value in society as worthless is beyond comprehension to me...
I don't even really know what it's about. I heard "protesting corporate greed in America", but I mean that's a tough thing to protest.. you're basically protesting capitalism..
I'm not sure the protesters know either.
Seriously, technology rarely kills an industry.
Technology hasn't really been competitive with people in the past though. And we'll need less and less people managing said machines. There are already "lights out" factories where a few people prep the factory and it just runs unattended for days/weeks.
Sure you might need a couple people as a failsafe but thats 2 jobs vs 200. Those 198 people you now say are "free" to find other jobs but the costs of goods don't necessarily reduce. Just their old salaries go into say.. 80% capital (factory) and 20% savings.
So you lose 100% of your paycheck but the price of goods only drops by 20%. Amazon has already started knocking out retail jobs around the country (Best Buy, Circuit City etc..) and it takes a lot less man power to run a few warehouses and a website than hundreds of stores. Not to mention a warehouse job is easy to automate down the road and web development gets continually simpler. eCommerce site developers are seeing diminishing returns. At some point it just makes sense to all use one website with different skins.
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+ Chinese taxi drivers. We would get a Taxi to our hotel but just happen to stop by a Chinese silk factory on the way.
Speaking as a WP7 user who uses a similar system already this goes well beyond the filesystem. Here is a real example of how this would work.
You open your photo app and you bring up a photo from facebook. You now want to share this through email.
The Photo App just is holding the photo in RAM after streaming it down from the internet. The Email app has no file to reference.
This lets you reference assigned memory in one app to another without exposing huge security holes since it passes through an intermediary application.
It also can bundle further meta data. So it can include not only the photo but also the description and the names of people tagged in the photo.
That would be an example of sharing something which never presumably touches the file system. Yes you could save it to a temp directory along with an XML file but that's kind of clunky and really isn't the interesting part of this technology which is that like a file format's "Open With..." this procedure lets applications register capabilities with the system to handle different clipboard types.
The MP4 will stream. And it's less than 1mbps.
Which is no different the present where the OEM could also put on a bios password and not tell you... but who does that?
Or Microsoft doesn't feel threatened by Linux on the desktop in the slightest and thinks it's prudent to stop the REAL problem for its customers: rootkits.
Ummmm for those who haven't noticed, Zune is alive and well and expanding. It's no longer getting a hardware upgrade but it's in every Windows Phone 7 device.
I replaced my Zune with WP7 and it's even better since I can stream my Zunepass content over 3G/4G.
Zune is also in Xbox now and looks to be integrated into Windows 8 as well through the Xbox brand.
Also if you used WP7 you would realize that Bing might be losing money on the web but it's a pretty big part of Microsoft's plans for the future. Bing is pretty integral to WP7, it's being integrated into Xbox and it'll soon I imagine be integrated into WP7 as well. They *could* potentially rely on Google but they would have no say then in how it works.
My smart phone is largely a little mobile search engine. I search for maps, directions, business locations, movie times, phone numbers etc etc etc.. It's such a significant portion of a modern smart-phone that you really need a search engine provider.
Yes they lost $9B on search and it's a failure as www.bing.com but alternately you could say they've spent $9B on R&D for a critical backbone to many of your future products.
What's silly is someone with a degree in 16th century literature and a $100,000-$200,000 debt is upset that they cant find a job that will help pay their student loans... Sounds to me that they would have been better off picking a different major/career path. A little "expected income" research when planning a major would have helped.
What's also silly is that we expect the market to magically assign the correct value to every job.
I see 0 economic value in restoring ancient artifacts. I see HUGE social and cultural significance.
Similarly I don't hear jack shit about some accountant in the 16th century's contribution to culture and society today. I would say the Mona Lisa has some cultural significance.
Just because something isn't economically rewarded doesn't mean we shouldn't support 'unproductive' occupations.
A lot of people scoff at artists but if you look at real-estate the effects of artists on a community has millions of dollars in eventual real-estate. Artists are like fertilizer for real-estate. It doesn't necessarily do anything but it transforms an area into prime-gentrification.
Yeah I'm really confused by this news. Just so I'm clear... companies are fleeing California (because it has a sales Tax) to go to Washington which has a sales Tax!?
I think Intel is wooing the Wall Street Journal more than anyone else.
Intel: "Look at these amazing graphics!"
WSJ: "Wow! Raytraced you say?
Intel: "Yeah the future!"
WSJ: "Ooooo! Buy stock!"
Thanks to an AC down page:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/cloud-based-ray-tracing-on-handheld-devices-at-researchintel-days-2011/
I think what we're seeing is that developers are realizing that your average user is retarded and setting up the defaults so that they can't hurt themselves.
If you want to download firefox and use that... you're welcome to do so.