You Creationists love strawman arguments, don't you?
Evolution says *nothing* about "point A". Nothing at all. What you're talking about is the Big Bang Theory, which has absolutely nada to do with evolution. Different branch of science. Evolution is biology -- Big Bang is cosmology or physics.
verifiable - Design and evolution are 2 conclusions both reached from varying interpretations We're not talking about 'design' that psuedoscience created to hide the real "theory" -- Creationism. This is a creationist museum that promotes 'young Earth creationism'. Specifically, for the Earth to be only 6,000 years old, dinosaurs and man would have had to have coexisted, otherwise the existence of millions of years old dinosaur bones disprove young Earth creationism altogether.
There is only one source of observation for young Earth creationism and -- a 6,000 year-old religious text with ZERO basis in scientific observation of reality. There is NO physical evidence on this planet that proves that the two differing and conflicting creation stories in the Book of Genesis is literal word-for-word truth. None.
repeatable - You can't evolve man in a lab either. No, but evolution can be and has been observed in a lab.
Hate to be the one to break it to y'all, but evolution is pretty much just a theory too. Theory as in, not fact. (My pastor has a really good explanation of this.) What makes it better than proposing Creationism? This is a strawman argument, and an old one at that. That word "theory" doesn't mean what you think it means.
The closest word to theory in the sense you use (as in 'guess') in the scientific community is 'hypothesis.' An hypothesis is just a guess. Maybe a somewhat educated one based on observation, by still just a guess.
OTOH, a theory is something much more substantial than a guess -- it is falsifiable, repeatable, consistent, and verifiable. Gravity is "just" a theory. Evolution and gravity meet these same scientific criteria.
Creationism does not. It is not verifiable (no, your 'Good Book' doesn't count). It is not falsifiable (we can't prove that without it, there would be no man). And it is not repeatable. (We can't just make a man in a lab from dirt.)
So Creationism doesn't meet the criteria for theory. It merely meets the criteria for hypothesis, and not a very good one as it's based on only one observation -- a 6,000 year-old story written in a book.
Unfortunately, as a customer, if I'm going to order from bookseller, I may as well order from Amazon and get a nice discount and free shipping. Not to mention it coming right to my doorstep.
The advantage of the local bookstore is that they have the book and you have cash (or plastic), you can walk out with the book immediately. If order from Amazon, even if I pay for the exorbitantly expensive next-day air shipping, the soonest I'll get it is the day after tomorrow in most cases.
Agreed. VBA obviously can't be part of the ISO-ificated OOXML. VBA is probably going to be considered a 'legacy' feature, with recommendations that customers do new development on VSTA/VSTO.
If history is any judge, many VBA apps will one day not work in future versions of Office anyhow. MSFT does plenty to break compatibility between releases. In fact, some VBA apps developed for Office 97 won't work on Office 2000 or later.
(the theory being that if all books are sold by the supermarkets rather than proper book stores you would only be able to buy the most profitable books). As someone who did all the perfunctory research into starting a bookstore, I can certainly tell you this is true.
Look, in retail, floor space == $$$$. In the U.S. (and probably most of the rest of world albeit with different units), retail space is leased per square foot per month. The more bookshelves you have, the more square footage you need to house them all. The more books you have, the more bookshelves you'll need.
Carrying a very, very broad and deep selection of books means that you'll have a lot of books that will sit on the shelf collecting dust until the right buyer comes along. Something like Harry Potter or the latest John Grisham or Stephen King novel will fly off the bookshelves quite quickly -- a book on the esoteric practices of Zoroastrianism will move much, much slower.
If you only dedicate floor space to the best sellers, you can sell them at deep discounts because you'll make it up on volume.
For the rest -- well, a set of bookshelves and associated space required that takes up 10 ft^2 in a $30/sq. ft. facility ends up costing $300 a month. In order to make money, you need to sell more than $300 worth of books from that shelf per month. That doesn't seem like much, but if you have a bunch of odd books waiting for the right buyer and sell only 1 or 2 a week, you didn't make it.
That's reality for the small independent bookseller.
Yes they are. If you get to use visual studio at work is because you are not good enough to be hired as a Unix coder. Um, yeah, right. There are far and away more Windows development positions than there are Unix development positions. And most enterprise apps these days aren't exclusively one or the other -- they are cross platform and mixed-language. So even a Unix developer might spend at least some time with Visual Studio.
Linux hackers are far better coders then most people who use Visual Studio Um, those two groups aren't mutually exclusive. Many of us *nix hackers also have day jobs that require us to use tools like Visual Studio. You make assumptions that aren't true.
It seems reasonable to me as long as the animals are treated in the most humane manner possible. I would have some reservations as to what methods would be acceptable for extracting the eggs -- hopefully this would be done without harm to the animal.
Pursuing a true human/animal hybrid ala changing DNA would be, IMHO, wreckless and unethical. In any respect, in almost every case, such an experiment would fail anyways. Human DNA isn't compatible in that way with many other species -- maybe chimpanzees (and even that's a stretch), but that's about it. In any respect, as you point out, that's not what they're doing here.
Just throw the whole computer out and buy a new one! I realize that you're trying to be funny, but in all seriousness, slot-loading drives that don't conform to the DVD Forum standard were a very, very bad idea on Apple's part. Fortunately for Mac fans, not all Macs have these slot-loading drives.
I don't imagine anyone's going to trash their Mac for a few EcoDiscs, but still, it's a bit unsettling that the drives don't properly conform to standard.
ICARS -- the interactive touch-screen displays seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later shows predicted this as far back as what? 1986 or 1987 or something? And now it's here for real.
I see this as ideal for collaboration. Gather a bunch of people around the big screen and they can all make changes in realtime. Very nice.
It IS completely ridiculous. I doubt very much that OSDN or SourceForge (or whatever they're called this week) wants to have to give explicit permission to each and every user on Slashdot, but that's what it appears to have come to because judges are techno-illiterates.
If a service is running on a machine connected to the Internet and that service is obviously not secured, then the only thing that can be assumed is that permission to use that service is implicitly granted, especially in absence of notices stating otherwise.
IOW, if you run a Web server on port 80 and require no authentication, then it can be easily assumed that you intend to publish any materials served via the Web server to the public Internet -- you expect people to access it.
Ditto if you run a DNS service that allows zone transfers to all comers -- you expect that DNS zone transfer will occur and no one will need permission from you to do so.
While Hasbro is being craptacular here, No, they aren't. Only Comcast can do that -- They're Craptastic(tm)! Craptacular sounds too much like their trademark.
Any patents granted to Alfred Mosher Butts (the original creator of what is now called Scrabble(R)), have long since expired, since the game's invention was in 1938.
So the summary starts off being nothing more than FUD, and since that won't hold water descends quickly -- albeit nonsensically -- into a completely different topic. Well, the second topic does make some sense as it shows that the writer of the article is someone with an obvious iPhone-hating bias.
Still, the iPhone is a consumer product, not an enterprise tool, and even Apple itself markets it that way. That's why it doesn't have any of the features she mentions as being lacking in the iPhone. And there's nothing wrong with that. As a personal communications tool for consumer use, it's fine. As a corporate enterprise tool, it sucks.
Maybe Apple will come out with a new incarnation with centralized management and seamless connectivity with OS X Server or something. That might just happen, too. But until it does, she's right, biased or not.
Am I the only person who looked at that name 'SPARQL' and went 'Is that Sun's new name for MySQL?'
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So instead of LAMP, Sun would like us to say JAJP from now on? Doesn't sound. No, it just means that Sun's next big aquisition is likely to be Zend, followed by the Apache Foundation.
Then we'll just call it 'Java'.
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Use NoScript and allow Slashdot, but disallow google-analytics if you don't like it.
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You Creationists love strawman arguments, don't you?
Evolution says *nothing* about "point A". Nothing at all. What you're talking about is the Big Bang Theory, which has absolutely nada to do with evolution. Different branch of science. Evolution is biology -- Big Bang is cosmology or physics.
There is only one source of observation for young Earth creationism and -- a 6,000 year-old religious text with ZERO basis in scientific observation of reality. There is NO physical evidence on this planet that proves that the two differing and conflicting creation stories in the Book of Genesis is literal word-for-word truth. None. repeatable - You can't evolve man in a lab either. No, but evolution can be and has been observed in a lab.
Biology, biotech, even some branches of chemistry.
Two words are guaranteed to send them into a rage: human cloning.
The closest word to theory in the sense you use (as in 'guess') in the scientific community is 'hypothesis.' An hypothesis is just a guess. Maybe a somewhat educated one based on observation, by still just a guess.
OTOH, a theory is something much more substantial than a guess -- it is falsifiable, repeatable, consistent, and verifiable. Gravity is "just" a theory. Evolution and gravity meet these same scientific criteria.
Creationism does not. It is not verifiable (no, your 'Good Book' doesn't count). It is not falsifiable (we can't prove that without it, there would be no man). And it is not repeatable. (We can't just make a man in a lab from dirt.)
So Creationism doesn't meet the criteria for theory. It merely meets the criteria for hypothesis, and not a very good one as it's based on only one observation -- a 6,000 year-old story written in a book.
Godwin FTW: Hitler was a quarter Jewish.
Certainly that's true.
Unfortunately, as a customer, if I'm going to order from bookseller, I may as well order from Amazon and get a nice discount and free shipping. Not to mention it coming right to my doorstep.
The advantage of the local bookstore is that they have the book and you have cash (or plastic), you can walk out with the book immediately. If order from Amazon, even if I pay for the exorbitantly expensive next-day air shipping, the soonest I'll get it is the day after tomorrow in most cases.
Agreed. VBA obviously can't be part of the ISO-ificated OOXML. VBA is probably going to be considered a 'legacy' feature, with recommendations that customers do new development on VSTA/VSTO.
If history is any judge, many VBA apps will one day not work in future versions of Office anyhow. MSFT does plenty to break compatibility between releases. In fact, some VBA apps developed for Office 97 won't work on Office 2000 or later.
Look, in retail, floor space == $$$$. In the U.S. (and probably most of the rest of world albeit with different units), retail space is leased per square foot per month. The more bookshelves you have, the more square footage you need to house them all. The more books you have, the more bookshelves you'll need.
Carrying a very, very broad and deep selection of books means that you'll have a lot of books that will sit on the shelf collecting dust until the right buyer comes along. Something like Harry Potter or the latest John Grisham or Stephen King novel will fly off the bookshelves quite quickly -- a book on the esoteric practices of Zoroastrianism will move much, much slower.
If you only dedicate floor space to the best sellers, you can sell them at deep discounts because you'll make it up on volume.
For the rest -- well, a set of bookshelves and associated space required that takes up 10 ft^2 in a $30/sq. ft. facility ends up costing $300 a month. In order to make money, you need to sell more than $300 worth of books from that shelf per month. That doesn't seem like much, but if you have a bunch of odd books waiting for the right buyer and sell only 1 or 2 a week, you didn't make it.
That's reality for the small independent bookseller.
It seems reasonable to me as long as the animals are treated in the most humane manner possible. I would have some reservations as to what methods would be acceptable for extracting the eggs -- hopefully this would be done without harm to the animal.
Pursuing a true human/animal hybrid ala changing DNA would be, IMHO, wreckless and unethical. In any respect, in almost every case, such an experiment would fail anyways. Human DNA isn't compatible in that way with many other species -- maybe chimpanzees (and even that's a stretch), but that's about it. In any respect, as you point out, that's not what they're doing here.
That's what the bullwhip is for.
I don't imagine anyone's going to trash their Mac for a few EcoDiscs, but still, it's a bit unsettling that the drives don't properly conform to standard.
ICARS -- the interactive touch-screen displays seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later shows predicted this as far back as what? 1986 or 1987 or something? And now it's here for real.
I see this as ideal for collaboration. Gather a bunch of people around the big screen and they can all make changes in realtime. Very nice.
It IS completely ridiculous. I doubt very much that OSDN or SourceForge (or whatever they're called this week) wants to have to give explicit permission to each and every user on Slashdot, but that's what it appears to have come to because judges are techno-illiterates.
If a service is running on a machine connected to the Internet and that service is obviously not secured, then the only thing that can be assumed is that permission to use that service is implicitly granted, especially in absence of notices stating otherwise.
IOW, if you run a Web server on port 80 and require no authentication, then it can be easily assumed that you intend to publish any materials served via the Web server to the public Internet -- you expect people to access it.
Ditto if you run a DNS service that allows zone transfers to all comers -- you expect that DNS zone transfer will occur and no one will need permission from you to do so.
To rule otherwise is nothing but pure stupidity.
Ooh, ooh! L-Lemme try.
Yeah, the CEO might lose his Yahtzee!
D-Did I do it right?
Any patents granted to Alfred Mosher Butts (the original creator of what is now called Scrabble(R)), have long since expired, since the game's invention was in 1938.
Still, the iPhone is a consumer product, not an enterprise tool, and even Apple itself markets it that way. That's why it doesn't have any of the features she mentions as being lacking in the iPhone. And there's nothing wrong with that. As a personal communications tool for consumer use, it's fine. As a corporate enterprise tool, it sucks.
Maybe Apple will come out with a new incarnation with centralized management and seamless connectivity with OS X Server or something. That might just happen, too. But until it does, she's right, biased or not.
Am I the only person who looked at that name 'SPARQL' and went 'Is that Sun's new name for MySQL?'
Doesn't sound. No, it just means that Sun's next big aquisition is likely to be Zend, followed by the Apache Foundation.
Then we'll just call it 'Java'.
Use NoScript and allow Slashdot, but disallow google-analytics if you don't like it.
Honestly, Google Analytics is a service that analyzes a site's traffic patterns and reports on what the best keywords and ad campaigns and such are. Nothing really nefarious.
But, I digress -- using NoScript alone and allowing only Slashdot.org will block almost all the ads and Google Analytics.
And, no, I don't feel bad doing it because I'm a subscriber.