I know guys who'd go nuts for the remixing bundle. Former manager of mine loved remixing, came in 2nd place in a madonna remix contest a few years back. Heck, I'm plotting on buying the vinyl, my preferred medium.
A great portion of the minds you would need in order to facilitate this are not of what is traditionally classified as "fit for service." Would those requirements be altered in order to cast a larger net for a talent pool?
Now you're migrating out of Evolution and into Abiological theory, and yes, they have actually had some success in creating amino acids from raw chemicals, and even incredibly primitive building blocks. They have also been working backwards, to see how simple a form can actually be alive, and they've gotten it to the point that the gap is less than 100 amino acid chains between how big they can build it up, and how far they can knock it down. View it as a railroad being built, the two lines coming from opposite coasts. They are now within sight of each other.
My issue with ID is that the basic premice cannot be proven scientifically (that there is a guiding force) so it cannot even be tested.
What in the world did you read, because what I read was "the documents in our possession are in Word format, and contain information which first came to light in 2003, and has been in the public record since 2005". Double checking, they are quite correct here, which makes baer's claim even more ludicrus. Having read the letter exchange, that the lawyers even refused to name their client garners even less sympathy. And to refuse to tell where suit would be filed should be criminal.
The judges actions in this case border on incompetence, and demonstrate a lack of understanding of the underlying technologies involved in this whole case. In such a situation, the judge should have excused him/herself and referred to a judge who does understand the technologies which they will be passing judgement on.
One issue tho is that ID is not a scientific theory, for it fails on one of the tennants of scientific method: being able to test. We cannot test ID, and using scientific methodology it is impossible to derive an ID system due to it's reliance on an unknown factor (the Intelligence of Intelligent Design). That being said, there are actual Scientific theories that do involve a deistic-like solution, of "setup and let go". But as for guidence, there is no method for gathering such divine-like proof, and we wind up back in the same position. ID remains a Philosophy, not a science, and a rather good philosophy at that. Evolution and ID are not in conflict; infact ID relies upon Evolution itself to function.
Well, there's your flaw, you mistake Darwins theory as Evolution itself. Darwin's own theory as to Evolutions mechanisms were proven incorrect over a century ago. There have been several Evolutionary theories presented in addition to Darwinism, such as Lamarckism, Transmutationism and Orthogenesis. Modern Evolutionary theory is based in part on Darwins, but far more complex than his hypothesis, to account for such things as diversity reduction in cases of environmental stangation periods which his did not take into account.
See, that is the beauty of the scientific process, scientists continue to refine their processes and techniques, further enhancing our understanding of the universe. That is also what people do not understand, sadly.
It performs decently, but at 25-30% slower than XP, Ubuntu and a solid 45-50% slower than my Gentoo setup, varies of course per application. I speak of course of game fps, HD read/write times, and benchmarks because, gosh darnit, I like comparing my machine with various OS's. Heck, my Amithlon setup blew it away, and it's running the whole OS in emulation!
So, if the New York Times publishes a report on tax evasion, one should bulldoze the city of New York?
Pulling the DNS is an option to be done *when all others have been exhausted*, and fact is, this was the first option the courts pulled, which is akin to my above statement. An initial order had to be for Wikilinks to pull the documents off of the site by a set date, and if they didn't, hold the executives in contempt. That is how the rule of law works.
Microsoft dropped the ball on this one. It is not a Bob, or ME situation, with a strong alternative sitting in the wings. This time, they bet the farm, and now have a lot of crow to eat.
What saddens me is that I want to like Vista, but I can't. My sister loves it, but to get to run it she has now 8x the PC that I do (Athlon64 x2 vs my ancient Socket-A Sempron), and I still crunch her into the ground for performance in many cases. Microsoft has managed to become the victim of it's own success, I believe. They worked on the premise that hardware would progress faster than it did, but people have hit the point of "good enough." More and more I don't see people upgrading their PC's. I used to pick up used machines easily that were just 2-3 years old. Now, this Sempron 2800 is the last one I got this way, and I've had it for years. People just aren't upgrading. Bodes poorly for Vista.
If that were true (the PA/GA incidents) it sounds akin to putting out a fire with gasoline. One cannot fight ignorance with ignorance.
FL is not an incident, it is a whole state curiculum missing. They only *just* added Evolution as allowable teaching, only to have it removed 2 weeks later at the board of governors insistance due to religious grounds.
If the PA/GA situation is as stated, then censureship and retraining would be the appropriate response, not full scale attempt to take the US educational system back to the stone age.
Evolution, like it or not, is as much a theory as Mathematics and Gravity is, and our students need a full detailing of these theories before they can function in our ever more complex world. Those without these skills will find themselves underperforming in the workplace, in society, and that is what the people fighting against Evolution seem to want. To quip a phrase, to cut off ones nose to spite ones face.
I missed that point if that was the point you were trying to make. But the thing is, the religious guys won't let the science curriculum just be science. Remember the school board in Kansas, or now the state regulations in Florida? Religions try and force their thoughts into public science, have for over a century now, and yes, the scientific community is understandably angry about it, and is fighting back. Nobody but some fringe nut-jobs are proposing science in religious studies (would be damned dull sermons I'd think. "And lo, as the positive isotope is awash in the sea of neutrons, a single electron orbiting far above...") but I can't turn on the TV, or go to a PTA meeting without some religious zealot going "Evolution is the devil" or something to that effect.
Companies such as Yahoo, Google and others are already moving into the pipeline, further making telcos more and more irrelevent to the core business of the internet. I easily imagine the telco's, cable co's, even RIAA/MPAA becoming fringe players in the future, as information truely takes on a new dimention. It is evolve or die time.
Your whole arguement is based on a "I'm right despite all evidence, and you're wrong despite all evidence" philosophy. There is no mention of god in science, there cannot be, for if we can prove divine through science, than it is now finite, no longer divine at all. So yes, you are going to be slammed, bashed, trolled, and made fun of for trying to bring the divine into a scientific arguement. You are doing the equivelent of coming to a MLK memorial wearing a KKK hood, then wondering why you're being attacked.
Yes, you are going to see more more people going "evolution is right" because IT IS THE ONLY SCIENTIFIC THEORY OUT THERE FOR THE FORMATION OF THE CURRENT CROP OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET. There is no "Intelligent Design" scientific theory, no "biblical creation" scientific theory, those two arguements are philosophy, for they fail in the core structure of science itself, being able to reliably experiment to produce identical results with identical stimulus. For one to perform such for ID or Creationism, we'd have to first prove God using scientific methods, and we can't! If you were to have your own theory turned into a scientific one, you'd have to destroy the very faith which spawned it, for you would have to prove the divine scientifically. And once you can quantify divine, it stops being divine, doesn't it? No more churches, no more bible, no more faith, it becomes nothing more than another ingrediant listed on the side of a tube of toothpaste. So, your choice, keep up this arguement, and loose your faith, or understand the arguement, and move on.
You obviously haven't read much on the Lunar Cataclysm theory then. Basically, the current orbits that planets inhabit now is not the same orbits they once had. Jupiter and Saturn used to be much closer, and in a kind of orbital harmonic, their combined gravity caused the asteroid belt to break up, spewing rocks not only to the inner planets (causing a massive bombardment on the moon and earth) *but* also spit it out into the deep of space, in huge elongated orbits.
It is theorized but without much supporting evidence at this time, that the "asteroid belt" was, infact, another planet, roughly twice to three times the size of earth, large rocky, which is now the origin of asteroids and comits both. In any case, a handy theory that explains the Oort cloud *and* the Lunar Cataclysm at the same time.
Mr. SumDum, if that is infact your name, the only people trying to push Evolution as having some sort of "ultimate answer" are the religiously fanatical to begin with. They fear that the study of Evolution will degrade humanity itself, make it less special in the world. Evolution is not an ultimate answer, in fact it is more a natural question than anything. Evolution is "We decended from apes... how did that happen?" It is but a step on the path to knowledge, not the end of the road of humanity.
Quite right, hence why I spefied office printers, not photo printers. In photo printing, the rules are far more specific, as you'd expect due to the much more difficult task in making photo-quality setups. And what old days of silver photography? **hrms from within his darkroom** And that is actually not the case, as I use Ilford paper yet use Foma chemistry for it for the desired results. Mixing paper/chemistry has been common for over a century, and is infact a necessity for some photographic results. Kodachrome being processed in Foma reversal chemistry, for example, produces an incredible looking black and white slide with slight green tint, similar to a classic 50's photograph.
They are published with no access. Remember the rules Microsoft attached to them prevents any usage by a product that could even remotely be used for an enterprise.
It does to me. A competitive market means that I, as a small business owner, can infact start a new enterprise with less concern that some monolithic relic of 30 years ago long past it's development prime can use it's monopoly to squish my innovations.
microsoft has a liquid cash reserve of only $5.8 billion as of the end of trading day yesterday, based on their liquid cash reserve as of 4Q 2007 minus all cash expenditures and income since. $1.3 billion is a good chunk of that, wouldn't you say?
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I know guys who'd go nuts for the remixing bundle. Former manager of mine loved remixing, came in 2nd place in a madonna remix contest a few years back. Heck, I'm plotting on buying the vinyl, my preferred medium.
you know Fuji still makes instant film, right?
A great portion of the minds you would need in order to facilitate this are not of what is traditionally classified as "fit for service." Would those requirements be altered in order to cast a larger net for a talent pool?
Um, GM, Ford and Chrysler all make Diesel vehicles, they just won't sell them in the US. Not that they can't, they just won't.
Now you're migrating out of Evolution and into Abiological theory, and yes, they have actually had some success in creating amino acids from raw chemicals, and even incredibly primitive building blocks. They have also been working backwards, to see how simple a form can actually be alive, and they've gotten it to the point that the gap is less than 100 amino acid chains between how big they can build it up, and how far they can knock it down. View it as a railroad being built, the two lines coming from opposite coasts. They are now within sight of each other.
My issue with ID is that the basic premice cannot be proven scientifically (that there is a guiding force) so it cannot even be tested.
A solution to cut costs on laptops and extend movie play battery life:
HD-DVD laptops!
The drives are cheap now, and since you won't be able to get movies for them soon, no worries there either!
What in the world did you read, because what I read was "the documents in our possession are in Word format, and contain information which first came to light in 2003, and has been in the public record since 2005". Double checking, they are quite correct here, which makes baer's claim even more ludicrus. Having read the letter exchange, that the lawyers even refused to name their client garners even less sympathy. And to refuse to tell where suit would be filed should be criminal.
The judges actions in this case border on incompetence, and demonstrate a lack of understanding of the underlying technologies involved in this whole case. In such a situation, the judge should have excused him/herself and referred to a judge who does understand the technologies which they will be passing judgement on.
One issue tho is that ID is not a scientific theory, for it fails on one of the tennants of scientific method: being able to test. We cannot test ID, and using scientific methodology it is impossible to derive an ID system due to it's reliance on an unknown factor (the Intelligence of Intelligent Design). That being said, there are actual Scientific theories that do involve a deistic-like solution, of "setup and let go". But as for guidence, there is no method for gathering such divine-like proof, and we wind up back in the same position. ID remains a Philosophy, not a science, and a rather good philosophy at that. Evolution and ID are not in conflict; infact ID relies upon Evolution itself to function.
Well, there's your flaw, you mistake Darwins theory as Evolution itself. Darwin's own theory as to Evolutions mechanisms were proven incorrect over a century ago. There have been several Evolutionary theories presented in addition to Darwinism, such as Lamarckism, Transmutationism and Orthogenesis. Modern Evolutionary theory is based in part on Darwins, but far more complex than his hypothesis, to account for such things as diversity reduction in cases of environmental stangation periods which his did not take into account.
See, that is the beauty of the scientific process, scientists continue to refine their processes and techniques, further enhancing our understanding of the universe. That is also what people do not understand, sadly.
It performs decently, but at 25-30% slower than XP, Ubuntu and a solid 45-50% slower than my Gentoo setup, varies of course per application. I speak of course of game fps, HD read/write times, and benchmarks because, gosh darnit, I like comparing my machine with various OS's. Heck, my Amithlon setup blew it away, and it's running the whole OS in emulation!
So, if the New York Times publishes a report on tax evasion, one should bulldoze the city of New York?
Pulling the DNS is an option to be done *when all others have been exhausted*, and fact is, this was the first option the courts pulled, which is akin to my above statement. An initial order had to be for Wikilinks to pull the documents off of the site by a set date, and if they didn't, hold the executives in contempt. That is how the rule of law works.
Can someone please tell Mr Baer that anything he says will be used against him in the court of public opinion?
Sounds like his lawyers are getting nervous.
Microsoft dropped the ball on this one. It is not a Bob, or ME situation, with a strong alternative sitting in the wings. This time, they bet the farm, and now have a lot of crow to eat.
What saddens me is that I want to like Vista, but I can't. My sister loves it, but to get to run it she has now 8x the PC that I do (Athlon64 x2 vs my ancient Socket-A Sempron), and I still crunch her into the ground for performance in many cases. Microsoft has managed to become the victim of it's own success, I believe. They worked on the premise that hardware would progress faster than it did, but people have hit the point of "good enough." More and more I don't see people upgrading their PC's. I used to pick up used machines easily that were just 2-3 years old. Now, this Sempron 2800 is the last one I got this way, and I've had it for years. People just aren't upgrading. Bodes poorly for Vista.
If that were true (the PA/GA incidents) it sounds akin to putting out a fire with gasoline. One cannot fight ignorance with ignorance.
FL is not an incident, it is a whole state curiculum missing. They only *just* added Evolution as allowable teaching, only to have it removed 2 weeks later at the board of governors insistance due to religious grounds.
If the PA/GA situation is as stated, then censureship and retraining would be the appropriate response, not full scale attempt to take the US educational system back to the stone age.
Evolution, like it or not, is as much a theory as Mathematics and Gravity is, and our students need a full detailing of these theories before they can function in our ever more complex world. Those without these skills will find themselves underperforming in the workplace, in society, and that is what the people fighting against Evolution seem to want. To quip a phrase, to cut off ones nose to spite ones face.
I missed that point if that was the point you were trying to make. But the thing is, the religious guys won't let the science curriculum just be science. Remember the school board in Kansas, or now the state regulations in Florida? Religions try and force their thoughts into public science, have for over a century now, and yes, the scientific community is understandably angry about it, and is fighting back. Nobody but some fringe nut-jobs are proposing science in religious studies (would be damned dull sermons I'd think. "And lo, as the positive isotope is awash in the sea of neutrons, a single electron orbiting far above...") but I can't turn on the TV, or go to a PTA meeting without some religious zealot going "Evolution is the devil" or something to that effect.
Pardon me? *looks at the Best Buy webpage, with the GE TV's front and center*
Want to double check?
Companies such as Yahoo, Google and others are already moving into the pipeline, further making telcos more and more irrelevent to the core business of the internet. I easily imagine the telco's, cable co's, even RIAA/MPAA becoming fringe players in the future, as information truely takes on a new dimention. It is evolve or die time.
Your whole arguement is based on a "I'm right despite all evidence, and you're wrong despite all evidence" philosophy. There is no mention of god in science, there cannot be, for if we can prove divine through science, than it is now finite, no longer divine at all. So yes, you are going to be slammed, bashed, trolled, and made fun of for trying to bring the divine into a scientific arguement. You are doing the equivelent of coming to a MLK memorial wearing a KKK hood, then wondering why you're being attacked.
Yes, you are going to see more more people going "evolution is right" because IT IS THE ONLY SCIENTIFIC THEORY OUT THERE FOR THE FORMATION OF THE CURRENT CROP OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET. There is no "Intelligent Design" scientific theory, no "biblical creation" scientific theory, those two arguements are philosophy, for they fail in the core structure of science itself, being able to reliably experiment to produce identical results with identical stimulus. For one to perform such for ID or Creationism, we'd have to first prove God using scientific methods, and we can't! If you were to have your own theory turned into a scientific one, you'd have to destroy the very faith which spawned it, for you would have to prove the divine scientifically. And once you can quantify divine, it stops being divine, doesn't it? No more churches, no more bible, no more faith, it becomes nothing more than another ingrediant listed on the side of a tube of toothpaste. So, your choice, keep up this arguement, and loose your faith, or understand the arguement, and move on.
You obviously haven't read much on the Lunar Cataclysm theory then. Basically, the current orbits that planets inhabit now is not the same orbits they once had. Jupiter and Saturn used to be much closer, and in a kind of orbital harmonic, their combined gravity caused the asteroid belt to break up, spewing rocks not only to the inner planets (causing a massive bombardment on the moon and earth) *but* also spit it out into the deep of space, in huge elongated orbits.
It is theorized but without much supporting evidence at this time, that the "asteroid belt" was, infact, another planet, roughly twice to three times the size of earth, large rocky, which is now the origin of asteroids and comits both. In any case, a handy theory that explains the Oort cloud *and* the Lunar Cataclysm at the same time.
Mr. SumDum, if that is infact your name, the only people trying to push Evolution as having some sort of "ultimate answer" are the religiously fanatical to begin with. They fear that the study of Evolution will degrade humanity itself, make it less special in the world. Evolution is not an ultimate answer, in fact it is more a natural question than anything. Evolution is "We decended from apes... how did that happen?" It is but a step on the path to knowledge, not the end of the road of humanity.
Quite right, hence why I spefied office printers, not photo printers. In photo printing, the rules are far more specific, as you'd expect due to the much more difficult task in making photo-quality setups. And what old days of silver photography? **hrms from within his darkroom** And that is actually not the case, as I use Ilford paper yet use Foma chemistry for it for the desired results. Mixing paper/chemistry has been common for over a century, and is infact a necessity for some photographic results. Kodachrome being processed in Foma reversal chemistry, for example, produces an incredible looking black and white slide with slight green tint, similar to a classic 50's photograph.
Yes, *you* can, your PC vendor cannot, that is the issue.
.wmv, which is WMP's native format, again, that is the issue at hand.
WMP can play others, but others have difficulty with
They are published with no access. Remember the rules Microsoft attached to them prevents any usage by a product that could even remotely be used for an enterprise.
It does to me. A competitive market means that I, as a small business owner, can infact start a new enterprise with less concern that some monolithic relic of 30 years ago long past it's development prime can use it's monopoly to squish my innovations.
microsoft has a liquid cash reserve of only $5.8 billion as of the end of trading day yesterday, based on their liquid cash reserve as of 4Q 2007 minus all cash expenditures and income since. $1.3 billion is a good chunk of that, wouldn't you say?