For many months, national science groups have been urging Kansas officials to revise the draft standards. The standards both single out evolution as a controversial theory, despite the wealth of evidence supporting it, and delete a previous reference to science as a search for natural explanations of observable phenomena.
Evolution is a controversial theory. I, for one, after studying evolution for many years, find it to be based on faith and not science. The science points at many impossibilities that evolutionists tend to overlook. Examples include the billions of missing links. Another example is where the information came from that composes DNA. Intelligent Design does a much better job at looking at all of the evidence and coming to a conclusion. The missing links are accounted for. The information in DNA is accounted for. The beginning of life is accounted for. If evolution is science, then why do these facts go against it?
Science used to be about finding the truth by observing, making hypothesis, testing, and repeating. Somewhere it got changed to "a search for natural explanations of observable phenomena". Well, when you change the definition to this, all of a sudden you can no longer explain the creation of the universe as by definition that is not natural because something outside of the natural universe had to have created it (the universe did not exist at the point it was created).
I use a cognitive ability test on all my candidates. The problem is that this does not occur until we have a face to face interview. At that point I'm looking at 1-2 hours of my time. It would be nice if recruiters would do this step for me. I may look into using an online test although from personal experience these are somewhat lacking and full of errors.
It may be just me but I've had the opposite experience. My Atari's, NES, and Family Com's were always dying on me, mainly from changing cartridges. The cartridges themselves would also go bad fairly quickly. Thanks to MAME I can still play these classics that I have sitting in my closet.
My XBox has not died on me once. I find it to be much more reliable than the old hardware.
That being said, at the costs at which Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, etc. have to sell the console systems, I'm sure they buy the cheapest parts they can that will get the job done for 2-3 years. If they went with higher quality stuff nobody would be able to afford them.
The Xbox most definitely supports HD. In fact I believe every game is required to support at least 720p. While I don't know about HDMI or DVI output, it must have HD output of some type. It may be analog, but that will work on most HD tv's. The XBox also supports streaming from a Windows Media Center PC. I would assume you can stream HD from there.
These days it seems like if someone can use Visual Studio they call themselves a developer. It makes it hard to screen out people by their resumes. If I see VB on a resume, I usually assume they can't program. If they have C++ I assume they can. While these are broad generalizations, we need some way of determining who can actually program without interviewing every candidate.
I think this is a great idea! Kudos to Disney! This method of protection will greatly help them with possible leaks while having absolutely no effect on the consumer (at least the paying consumer). This is where studios should be focusing their efforts rather than making the latest Blu-Ray spec unusable by the/.er or trying to get some bit set on a broadcast so you can't record the show.
In my humble oppinion, simple is better. Remove region codes; that's one less thing to worry about. Have a thicker surface; that means less scratches. Don't require an Internet connection; I can play DVD's in my car. Don't kill my DVD player; I won't have to call tech support. Don't require a full Java interpreter; my DVD player won't get a virus or worm or other malware that is now inside my local network.
While Blu-Ray has a little bit more capacity, I think that's the only thing it's got going for it. HD-DVD appears a lot more down to earth and a lot less prone to problems. It's got my vote.
Three cheers for Bungie, a game development company that has put out quality games and insists on doing so in the future. If more of the game development companies were able to do this we wouldn't have so many buggy, almost finished games rushed to the market.
I can't wait 'til my Blu-Ray player has a trojan! The day will soon be here when we can hack someones home entertainment center, broadcast whatever they are watching, and have it automatically sent to a P2P network without them knowing.
The issues have nothing to do with the consumers. From our standpoint it's all about the consumers. We all know that if two formats come out, neither will do well. We want cheap. We want high-capacity. We want lots of functionality. We want minimal DRM.
The companies debating over the two formats don't care about these things. They are concerned about how much money they can make. The main factor in this being patents and licensing. He who holds the patents on the technologies being used will make a fortune. Thus every company is supporting the technology that contains their patents. The companies that don't have patents on any of the technologies have deals with those that do.
How did our CO2 emmisions make it all the way to Mars? My guess is that they hitchhiked on one of the many spaceships we have sent. It's our own doing that Mars is going through global warming along with Earth. We must stop this madness now!
I couldn't agree with you more. The money seems to be behind this rather than science. The best I can tell, there is no global warming outside of the typical cycles of the earth. There's just a lot of hype.
That being said, I am for reducing pollution. I don't believe the pollution is causing global warming, but it does have a number of other mal effects that we know about: acid rain, smog, asthma, coral reef's dying, aweful smells, etc. It would be nice to use these to battle pollution but I guess they have become so common that people have stopped caring.
My '96 Corvette had a dongle that worked like this. You walk up to the car and it unlocks. You walk away and it locks. It was pretty nice although the range was much smaller than the typical dongle remote.
I have to agree that battery life is a concern. The harddrive is typically the bottle neck for me in my laptop. However, it is normally in an off state to conserve power (see power options in the control panel). Imagine spinning up two hard drives everytime you have to access the disk instead of one.
I do like the option of having a RAID configuration though. Not that it needs to be used, but manufactures can now easily include a second hard drive in RAID configuration for desktop replacements.
This is something Intel needs to do to stay in the CPU market. Their NetBurst architecture has allowed AMD to capture the hearts of the enthusiests as it is a better processor. (Note: the mass market has many other factors besides which processor is best in determining sales.)
While I currently favor AMD's processors, The Pentium M is a magnificant piece of hardware. With Intel basing their future processors on the Pentium M they are going to give AMD a run for their money. This will force AMD to drop their prices to a more reasonable level.
The one thing Intel is doing that IMHO is wrong is changing the definition of performance from clock speed to performance/watt. This tells us nothing of the performance of the processor or the power required to run it. Instead we should have two basic measurements for all processors: performace and power consumption. Most people are able to do simple calculations such as division on their own or with a calculator. The is no need to hide the actual performance from the end users.
It looks like your cost will be: $399.99 for console $ 49.99 for a second wireless console $ 59.99 for a game $ 59.99 for a second game ------- $569.96 for a system
Then you must wait until the PS3 comes out to get Halo 3. While I'm extremely excited about the XBOX 360, I may have to wait a while before I pick one up.
This solution works by dealing with the sites that have hired the spammer. Spam tries to get you to buy something or in some way give money. By dealing with the party who is trying to get your money you can effectively deal with the people supplying the money to spammers thus reducing the amount of spam.
A better solution is coming. Originally email was trackable as everyone had a unique IP address. By the IP address you could identify who sent the email. The Internet has evolved quite a bit since then. We now have technologies such as NAT and DHCP that allow you to use the same IP address as others, making the tracking of email nearly impossible. Technologies such as Sender ID by Microsoft and other similar technologies that bring back a unique identifier to email users will greatly aid in the reduction of spam as we can then identify who actually sent the email, whether a spammer or a zombie. In either case we can then take steps to stop it.
Who here is against Intelligent Design (ID)? Who here is for SETI? Anyone have SETI@Home installed? Did you know that SETI is using ID in their search for extra-terrestrial life? SETI searches for radio signals that are too complex to occur naturally. When a radio signal is found with sufficient complexity it is deamed that it came from an intelligence. The signal is then tested to make sure it did not come from earth or from one of our many satellites.
This is the basis for ID. We determine when something is too complex to occur naturally.
Neither does evolution "state that life was not created by an omnipotent and omniscient God." By your reasoning evolution is "unprovable and thus unscientific."
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For many months, national science groups have been urging Kansas officials to revise the draft standards. The standards both single out evolution as a controversial theory, despite the wealth of evidence supporting it, and delete a previous reference to science as a search for natural explanations of observable phenomena.
Evolution is a controversial theory. I, for one, after studying evolution for many years, find it to be based on faith and not science. The science points at many impossibilities that evolutionists tend to overlook. Examples include the billions of missing links. Another example is where the information came from that composes DNA. Intelligent Design does a much better job at looking at all of the evidence and coming to a conclusion. The missing links are accounted for. The information in DNA is accounted for. The beginning of life is accounted for. If evolution is science, then why do these facts go against it? Science used to be about finding the truth by observing, making hypothesis, testing, and repeating. Somewhere it got changed to "a search for natural explanations of observable phenomena". Well, when you change the definition to this, all of a sudden you can no longer explain the creation of the universe as by definition that is not natural because something outside of the natural universe had to have created it (the universe did not exist at the point it was created).I use a cognitive ability test on all my candidates. The problem is that this does not occur until we have a face to face interview. At that point I'm looking at 1-2 hours of my time. It would be nice if recruiters would do this step for me. I may look into using an online test although from personal experience these are somewhat lacking and full of errors.
It may be just me but I've had the opposite experience. My Atari's, NES, and Family Com's were always dying on me, mainly from changing cartridges. The cartridges themselves would also go bad fairly quickly. Thanks to MAME I can still play these classics that I have sitting in my closet.
My XBox has not died on me once. I find it to be much more reliable than the old hardware.
That being said, at the costs at which Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, etc. have to sell the console systems, I'm sure they buy the cheapest parts they can that will get the job done for 2-3 years. If they went with higher quality stuff nobody would be able to afford them.
The Xbox most definitely supports HD. In fact I believe every game is required to support at least 720p. While I don't know about HDMI or DVI output, it must have HD output of some type. It may be analog, but that will work on most HD tv's. The XBox also supports streaming from a Windows Media Center PC. I would assume you can stream HD from there.
These days it seems like if someone can use Visual Studio they call themselves a developer. It makes it hard to screen out people by their resumes. If I see VB on a resume, I usually assume they can't program. If they have C++ I assume they can. While these are broad generalizations, we need some way of determining who can actually program without interviewing every candidate.
I think this is a great idea! Kudos to Disney! This method of protection will greatly help them with possible leaks while having absolutely no effect on the consumer (at least the paying consumer). This is where studios should be focusing their efforts rather than making the latest Blu-Ray spec unusable by the /.er or trying to get some bit set on a broadcast so you can't record the show.
Way to go Disney!
In my humble oppinion, simple is better. Remove region codes; that's one less thing to worry about. Have a thicker surface; that means less scratches. Don't require an Internet connection; I can play DVD's in my car. Don't kill my DVD player; I won't have to call tech support. Don't require a full Java interpreter; my DVD player won't get a virus or worm or other malware that is now inside my local network.
While Blu-Ray has a little bit more capacity, I think that's the only thing it's got going for it. HD-DVD appears a lot more down to earth and a lot less prone to problems. It's got my vote.
Three cheers for Bungie, a game development company that has put out quality games and insists on doing so in the future. If more of the game development companies were able to do this we wouldn't have so many buggy, almost finished games rushed to the market.
I can't wait 'til my Blu-Ray player has a trojan! The day will soon be here when we can hack someones home entertainment center, broadcast whatever they are watching, and have it automatically sent to a P2P network without them knowing.
I agree. Starquake is not extreme enough. How about "Death Star?" That sounds scary.
The issues have nothing to do with the consumers. From our standpoint it's all about the consumers. We all know that if two formats come out, neither will do well. We want cheap. We want high-capacity. We want lots of functionality. We want minimal DRM.
The companies debating over the two formats don't care about these things. They are concerned about how much money they can make. The main factor in this being patents and licensing. He who holds the patents on the technologies being used will make a fortune. Thus every company is supporting the technology that contains their patents. The companies that don't have patents on any of the technologies have deals with those that do.
How did our CO2 emmisions make it all the way to Mars? My guess is that they hitchhiked on one of the many spaceships we have sent. It's our own doing that Mars is going through global warming along with Earth. We must stop this madness now!
So you work at Waffle House too? I don't know about you, but I am getting sick and tired of the Waffle House theme song being played.
I couldn't agree with you more. The money seems to be behind this rather than science. The best I can tell, there is no global warming outside of the typical cycles of the earth. There's just a lot of hype.
That being said, I am for reducing pollution. I don't believe the pollution is causing global warming, but it does have a number of other mal effects that we know about: acid rain, smog, asthma, coral reef's dying, aweful smells, etc. It would be nice to use these to battle pollution but I guess they have become so common that people have stopped caring.
My '96 Corvette had a dongle that worked like this. You walk up to the car and it unlocks. You walk away and it locks. It was pretty nice although the range was much smaller than the typical dongle remote.
Who wants ozone anyways? That stuff is poisonous!
I have to agree that battery life is a concern. The harddrive is typically the bottle neck for me in my laptop. However, it is normally in an off state to conserve power (see power options in the control panel). Imagine spinning up two hard drives everytime you have to access the disk instead of one.
I do like the option of having a RAID configuration though. Not that it needs to be used, but manufactures can now easily include a second hard drive in RAID configuration for desktop replacements.
This is something Intel needs to do to stay in the CPU market. Their NetBurst architecture has allowed AMD to capture the hearts of the enthusiests as it is a better processor. (Note: the mass market has many other factors besides which processor is best in determining sales.)
While I currently favor AMD's processors, The Pentium M is a magnificant piece of hardware. With Intel basing their future processors on the Pentium M they are going to give AMD a run for their money. This will force AMD to drop their prices to a more reasonable level.
The one thing Intel is doing that IMHO is wrong is changing the definition of performance from clock speed to performance/watt. This tells us nothing of the performance of the processor or the power required to run it. Instead we should have two basic measurements for all processors: performace and power consumption. Most people are able to do simple calculations such as division on their own or with a calculator. The is no need to hide the actual performance from the end users.
It looks like we have found life on Mars. It's not the carbon based life we were hoping for, but these dust devils sure are fun to watch.
It looks like your cost will be:
$399.99 for console
$ 49.99 for a second wireless console
$ 59.99 for a game
$ 59.99 for a second game
-------
$569.96 for a system
Then you must wait until the PS3 comes out to get Halo 3. While I'm extremely excited about the XBOX 360, I may have to wait a while before I pick one up.
Go Google!
A square is a polygon and a pentagon is a polygon. However, this does not make a pentagon a square.
This solution works by dealing with the sites that have hired the spammer. Spam tries to get you to buy something or in some way give money. By dealing with the party who is trying to get your money you can effectively deal with the people supplying the money to spammers thus reducing the amount of spam.
A better solution is coming. Originally email was trackable as everyone had a unique IP address. By the IP address you could identify who sent the email. The Internet has evolved quite a bit since then. We now have technologies such as NAT and DHCP that allow you to use the same IP address as others, making the tracking of email nearly impossible. Technologies such as Sender ID by Microsoft and other similar technologies that bring back a unique identifier to email users will greatly aid in the reduction of spam as we can then identify who actually sent the email, whether a spammer or a zombie. In either case we can then take steps to stop it.
Who here is against Intelligent Design (ID)? Who here is for SETI? Anyone have SETI@Home installed? Did you know that SETI is using ID in their search for extra-terrestrial life? SETI searches for radio signals that are too complex to occur naturally. When a radio signal is found with sufficient complexity it is deamed that it came from an intelligence. The signal is then tested to make sure it did not come from earth or from one of our many satellites.
This is the basis for ID. We determine when something is too complex to occur naturally.
Neither does evolution "state that life was not created by an omnipotent and omniscient God." By your reasoning evolution is "unprovable and thus unscientific."