Qt isn't bad code and is probably faster the GTK. The previous product I did used GTK. The problems is QT Embedded. It wants you to use QNetwork and QSocket and QWhatever. Most of these are bad buggy wrappers on top of something else. The build system for QT embedded is bad as an entire system builder. As a whole QWS is not multithreaded safe. I can tell you that I personally have fixed 100-200(our team fixed more like 1000s)bugs, race conditions, threading problems and work arounds in Qtopia for our embedded product.
I'm not arguing over QT and GTK, either will do the job. However there is a lot of difference between QT the GUI toolkit and QT the system platform. In it's embedded form (Qtopia, QT Embedded) it is a pain to deal with. It is nothing more then a Demo that has never seen the light of day. If they only use the QT GUI toolkit with the current setup they have (X11, glib, dbus etc..) it might not be bad. However if they adopt QT Embedded the system platform, they will die a quick death.
I can tell you right now, this will kill Maemo. QT is a pretty good GUI toolkit, but this is going to draw in QT Embedded (QWS server and such). I personally have been working on an Embedded QT device for 2 years and can tell you, QT Embedded is horrible. Nothing more then a Demo written by Trolltech to try and expand the market share. The biggest pain with QT, is that since it tries to be cross platform is it re-implements everything (Networking, Audio, Mutexs etc... etc..). They make it fairly easy to use their bad, slow code, while the "beautiful" non-standard signal slot system makes it a pain to integrate with real C or C++ code. If they wanted C++ they should of gone with GTKmm.
From my observation is that you probably drink too much after work and not during work. Obviously you have never heard of the Ballmer Peak. It is the only explanation for those who are "too" productive and a pain to the rest of us during annual reviews.
Hey, maybe Adobe figured this out...... An Academic copy at 1/5th the cost! Just go look on Amazon. Almost everyone does this now and who is to say that a student can edit with free software? There is plenty of good image manipulation software. Heck there is a lot of free music on the internet (Music that the musician's themselves give away). People don't just want free stuff, they want the best of the best for free.
Basically there will never be an agreement especially in the Digital Age. There will always be the person who thinks they are entitled to all the Music, Movies, Games, Programs and other entertainment that others people made. It can be obtained for "free" and it doesn't "hurt" anyone for me to consume it. I'll just sit at my computer an consume everything that society makes and give back little. Then there will be those creative people that make this digital goods who think they should have exclusive control of it for all eternity and that their one hit wonder should pay for their life and their children's children's life.
You need to understand that copyright law is supposed to be a balance of these two goals! Arguing on Slashdot is not going to get you anywhere because it is full of extremist either way. The only real solution will have to be a balance of views and it is going to take a long time to get too. Companies will die trying to protect the "copyright" laws as they stand now, and certain consumers will never stop consuming for free when it is available.
What if... we look at the model that DVDs have evolved into. New releases are $20, after a year $10, after 5 years they are $5 and after copyright runs out you can get them for $1. Granted not every movie is this way, but just look around Walmart and you can see this model to be fairly true. What if we applied that to copyright? You get exclusive royalty from reproducing something that you create that you can set yourself. However anyone can make it as long as they pay you the royalty. After 1 year the royalty is automatically cut in half, after 5 years you get 25% of the original royalty and after 10 years the royalty doesn't exist.
This is a good point. I believe it is very possible to get good signal anywhere, but it requires a little upfront investment. No longer can a $5 set of rabbit ears get you a fuzzy connection that allows you to watch. If you set up a house with a few hundred dollars and someone that knows what they are doing, you can get perfect reception basically forever. I live 30 miles away with some large obstacles in the way (large church directly by me) With a large antenna (8ft bt 12ft triangle) in the attic, I get perfect signal split 4 ways into tuners for my vista media box.
Hey, don't make fun of cameras that save to floppies. I swear my father to this day still uses his Sony Mavica Camera that uses floppies. It was the highest end camera in the series and had 10x optical zoom and great optics. Such great optics that it took superior 1 megapixels images. Since he almost never views them on a display with more then 1 megapixel he sees no reason to upgrade. I think I'd have to buy him a $500+ DSLR to get him to change.
$500 is $150 too much for a larger version of the Kindle 2, which only costs $190 to build.
People are just way too spoiled with PCs. Granted there is so much competition in the PC market that Gross Margins are in the 10-20% range. There are tons and tons of electronics(Music Players, GPS, etc..) that sell at 50% and greater margins. Especially if that product is in a Niche Market where volume doesn't make up for development costs. If you think $500 is too much, the buy the smaller version, books or newspapers. If you want stuff at 10% over cost then either get ready for Chinese made (and engineered) junk, or hope that there is a mature market with lots of competition.
What is all the fuss about Windows 7? What new features does it really have? It seems to me like they just cleaned up Vista and turned off most of the memory hogging things by default. The problem was that they made a tough change to their driver model in Vista and that cause problems while manufacturers learned the new model. Now it seems like the driver model is stable so they launch Windows 7. It the same drivers now and the same program compatibility. They just want $200 to "upgrade"
to it.
Nope, I believe the rental market for Games and DVDs will last for at least 10 years if not 15. Mostly because of Corporate Greed. There is not one media company that will sell you or rent you a digital copy of their media for even a slight discount on their margin of profit. This is because if they do, everyone will buy it that way and they will lose money on people that would pay for overpriced media. They will continue to charge the same for digital distribution and physical media. Look at Steam, often a game is more expensive on Steam. Except for the lazy, why would someone buy a digital copy that has no resale value, when for the same cost or less you can get media which has resale value.
Take movies for example. To most people the usefulness of a movie is for 1 day. The Media can last through hundred of cycles of that. Until digital cost is (Media cost)/100 rental makes sense. Games are a tougher market because they are 2-3 times as costly and people want to use them for probably 1-2 weeks (Games are getting shorter).
While tough, the only way to root out the rental market is PRICING! Go figure that is the same way to root out the Used Market! Probably even a lot of the Pirated Market! However companies are greedy and this means all of these markets will flourish
Lucky for you man created Amazon.com for replacing woman in this natural cycle of life. You can subscribe to Fish sticks like their other grocery products and it will automatically charge you and ship fish sticks to your door on a regular basis!
Exactly, Apple doesn't have a "Tax". They choose to only sell high-end hardware, mostly because it is a niche market and high margin. By choosing Apple you are choosing a different class of product. This high end niche market also means that is where all the profit is. I don't think Apple wants to joins the ranks of Dell and HP selling PC at a 1-2% gross margin. They are perfectly fine making a 30% with their premium lines while preserving their "brand" value.
You can not build it for $200. The unfortunate problem is that a gaming PC must have a copy of Windows on it. A legitimate copy is going to run you $75-100 by itself. This is why I stopped building PCs myself, with a Windows License, Dell and HP will come out cheaper than parts. Unless of course you get sucked into the high markup "add-ons", it is usually a better deal. I'm sure they only pay in the $40-$50 range for the license which sucks because I not a volume dealer I get charged twice as much.
So if this vehicle and rider weight 550 pounds, it's going to slow down to 70.7% of 60 MPH if it encounters a hill with a 60 foot rise per mile, just a bit under 1% slope. A 3% slope is going to slow it to a crawl. Not too good anyplace but Kansas.
Sweet! I live in Kansas. I got to get me one of these!
I personally love the out-of-town scammers on craigslist. I always tell them to mail me a check. I currently have about 10 ~$5000 "checks" from companies such as "Nasdaq", "Dell" and other corporations. Luckily these scammers know they have to work fast and usually UPS overnight me the check. I figure I'm just helping the economy by boosting the shipping business.
Most of these guys really aren't that bright. I got 3 checks in a row from someone who I told the previous check had bounced. They really didn't bounce because I never bothered to cash them (didn't want a bounced check fee). They just keep spending money overnighting me checks.
Desktop and laptop ram is incredibly cheap, however it consumes more power then an ARM CPU. If you look at mobile DDR (what cell phone use) it is still almost $7-10 for 128MB.
The gym is a good analogy, but doesn't have the same correlation between average users and extreme users.
Consider a gym that offers a family plan. Unlimited family usage for $100 a month. What would happen if I became an orphanage and legally adopted 500 children? Now I just take them all to the gym everyday for babysitting!
What if the gym was 24 hours? Would I get in trouble if the gym became my permanent residence?
You also have to consider that the government had mandated that they gym serve their entire town, in exchange for a monopoly. There are two different types of gyms, so there really are only two choices. However both of the gyms only offer 100 weight lifts, in there base package. Each lift can be as much as you want!
Someone could think it is the exact opposite, as in you're not using what you paid for.
Unfortunately because of the Duopoly of ISP providers in most areas, I am forced to pay $40-60 a month for an "Unlimited" plan. I would be more then happy to pay less for a "Capped" plan, but no one offers that. The goverment interferes so that no one else can provide me with internet. That doesn't sound fair to me! It's always going to be the same for Cable, Internet, Wireless, unless there is real competition, most companies are trying to increase revenue per subscriber. With Cell Phones, they've done this by crippling or not offering a $30 plan and now charging ridiculously for data plans limited to your phone. $.25 for a text message? All they really want is for everyone to sign up for the 5.00 a month add. Cable has done this for years with higher charges and moving popular channels up to the premium tiers. Internet is going to start doing this to increase revenue per subscriber also.
I for one am actually glad for the recession, I think the "trading down" effect if going to cause people not to pay stupid prices for things anymore. Hopefully companies will realize this and change there pricing schemes.
Am I really think I'm the only geek that think caps really aren't a bad idea. Although they can be implemented correctly and implemented horribly.
First of all there is the wrong way to implement caps. Companies implements caps to try and push their average revenue up for the majority of customers. This is the main reason why I believe Cable TV as a service will nearly die over the next 10 years. Cable companies keep charging more for the same channels and happen to push "popular" channels up to higher tiers replacing them with unpopular channels. If caps are implemented where today's unlimited turned into the lowest capped tier (5-20gb) at the same price, then customers are screwed in the short term.
Then there is the correct way to implement caps, with pricing. I would be more then willing to accept a 5GB cap if I was paying $10 a month for internet. I can change my usage for a cheaper price. Even right now I have 768k internet because it is only $20 a month. If caps correlated with pricing this would be a win for everyone.
Consider the pricing plans 5gb - $10, 20gb - $20, 100gb $40, 500gb $80, Unlimited Business Line $200. Honestly this seems to solve the problem of "excess" bandwidth users and pricing.
For too long have ISP advertised based on speed and not real bandwidth. The real solution to this is to pass a law saying that all advertising of Internet Connection speed must be accompanied by the "continuous" usage speed (continuous usage = cap per month divided by seconds in a month). This continuous usage speed must be equal or more obvious to the consumer (based on size of font or time shown). Think about "New Time Warner 20MBPS (.0001 MBPS continuous usage) internet!" compared to a truely unlimited connection "New ATT 6MBPS (6 MBPS continuous usage) internet!"
Movie makers have come to the conclusion that a movie is either a blockbuster or bust, so they can not ignore the largest audience. Go to your local theater and look around. Every theater I remember (mostly in suburbia) have been largely filled with Junior High and High School kids. When do you personally think you peaked in your in-theater movie watching? I was high school and I would expect most of you did too.
To me it almost seems to be in-grained in culture. Movies are the popular choice for your time in the younger years, drinking the popular choice in College. The people engulf themselves into work after that and finally into their kids. Maybe not quite exactly for everybody, but a lot follow the formula.
Where are the mod points when I need them. Thanks Molochi, you just doubled my Tournament coverage. My 768k internet just doesn't stream well, but my 12ft antenna picks up High Quality Basketball. The second channel is in 480i, but that is mostly because if they wanted two HD feeds they would have to turn down the bitrate and that would annoying the 99% of people watching the main channel.
I have HD wireless streaming over 802.11G. It's OTA from a Vista Media Center to a Linksys Media Center Extender. It tests exactly at the threshold, but I've never had an issue with it. It could work, assuming Ideal Conditions. I can't see another wireless access point from my house, so I have little interference.
You're right about this: evolution cannot be witnessed in a laboratory on the scale that it has (yes supposedly) unfolded on this planet. But as with all manners of inquiry, sometimes we can figure things out without literally seeing them happen.
The large scale is really the only thing I have a problem with. Chromosome #2 is cool and makes a decent connection that Human's came from Apes, but how did we get from molecules to Apes? With the large scale of evolution, I see a long long chain of events. Showing evidence of a few pieces of this long chain doesn't seem to make it real to me, the ratio of evidence versus belief is too much.
The small scale of evolution is fine. However to me, I just can't see how if the small scale is true, it necessarily makes the large scale true. I also find when ever someone gives evidence to evolution, it is mostly small scale evidence and they just infer that the large scale is also true.
Then there is the whole point about how life begins. Evolution is really about life developing, not how life began.
Depending on you ISP. ESPN360 pretty much has all ESPN live sports content except ESPNU (bastards want you to buy a premium sports tier) between this and my antenna, I can see 95% of my Kansas Jayhawk Basketball.
It has been demonstrated and verified many times. And it has NEVER been falsified. Not even once.
I think both sides are crazy and claims like this just stand to misinform both side. We will never be able to prove that humans evolved from basic molecules over billions of years by random chance or by a god, because we can not travel to the past and see what happened. Secondly we can not repeat this feat because we can't control god, or have a billions years in which to repeat this experiment. However it also impossible to prove either false. While evolution might be slightly ahead on the "evidence" front because they have 1000's of experiments that prove one one-billionth of the way from a molecule to a human, neither side is even close to "prove", "demonstrate", or "verify" their theory.
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Qt isn't bad code and is probably faster the GTK. The previous product I did used GTK. The problems is QT Embedded. It wants you to use QNetwork and QSocket and QWhatever. Most of these are bad buggy wrappers on top of something else. The build system for QT embedded is bad as an entire system builder. As a whole QWS is not multithreaded safe. I can tell you that I personally have fixed 100-200(our team fixed more like 1000s)bugs, race conditions, threading problems and work arounds in Qtopia for our embedded product.
I'm not arguing over QT and GTK, either will do the job. However there is a lot of difference between QT the GUI toolkit and QT the system platform. In it's embedded form (Qtopia, QT Embedded) it is a pain to deal with. It is nothing more then a Demo that has never seen the light of day. If they only use the QT GUI toolkit with the current setup they have (X11, glib, dbus etc..) it might not be bad. However if they adopt QT Embedded the system platform, they will die a quick death.
I can tell you right now, this will kill Maemo. QT is a pretty good GUI toolkit, but this is going to draw in QT Embedded (QWS server and such). I personally have been working on an Embedded QT device for 2 years and can tell you, QT Embedded is horrible. Nothing more then a Demo written by Trolltech to try and expand the market share. The biggest pain with QT, is that since it tries to be cross platform is it re-implements everything (Networking, Audio, Mutexs etc... etc..). They make it fairly easy to use their bad, slow code, while the "beautiful" non-standard signal slot system makes it a pain to integrate with real C or C++ code. If they wanted C++ they should of gone with GTKmm.
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These days it's minimum 1920 horizontal or bust!
Actually, Bust is much better in 1920 pixels wide then 800!
Hey, maybe Adobe figured this out...... An Academic copy at 1/5th the cost! Just go look on Amazon. Almost everyone does this now and who is to say that a student can edit with free software? There is plenty of good image manipulation software. Heck there is a lot of free music on the internet (Music that the musician's themselves give away). People don't just want free stuff, they want the best of the best for free. Basically there will never be an agreement especially in the Digital Age. There will always be the person who thinks they are entitled to all the Music, Movies, Games, Programs and other entertainment that others people made. It can be obtained for "free" and it doesn't "hurt" anyone for me to consume it. I'll just sit at my computer an consume everything that society makes and give back little. Then there will be those creative people that make this digital goods who think they should have exclusive control of it for all eternity and that their one hit wonder should pay for their life and their children's children's life. You need to understand that copyright law is supposed to be a balance of these two goals! Arguing on Slashdot is not going to get you anywhere because it is full of extremist either way. The only real solution will have to be a balance of views and it is going to take a long time to get too. Companies will die trying to protect the "copyright" laws as they stand now, and certain consumers will never stop consuming for free when it is available. What if... we look at the model that DVDs have evolved into. New releases are $20, after a year $10, after 5 years they are $5 and after copyright runs out you can get them for $1. Granted not every movie is this way, but just look around Walmart and you can see this model to be fairly true. What if we applied that to copyright? You get exclusive royalty from reproducing something that you create that you can set yourself. However anyone can make it as long as they pay you the royalty. After 1 year the royalty is automatically cut in half, after 5 years you get 25% of the original royalty and after 10 years the royalty doesn't exist.
This is a good point. I believe it is very possible to get good signal anywhere, but it requires a little upfront investment. No longer can a $5 set of rabbit ears get you a fuzzy connection that allows you to watch. If you set up a house with a few hundred dollars and someone that knows what they are doing, you can get perfect reception basically forever. I live 30 miles away with some large obstacles in the way (large church directly by me) With a large antenna (8ft bt 12ft triangle) in the attic, I get perfect signal split 4 ways into tuners for my vista media box.
Hey, don't make fun of cameras that save to floppies. I swear my father to this day still uses his Sony Mavica Camera that uses floppies. It was the highest end camera in the series and had 10x optical zoom and great optics. Such great optics that it took superior 1 megapixels images. Since he almost never views them on a display with more then 1 megapixel he sees no reason to upgrade. I think I'd have to buy him a $500+ DSLR to get him to change.
$500 is $150 too much for a larger version of the Kindle 2, which only costs $190 to build.
People are just way too spoiled with PCs. Granted there is so much competition in the PC market that Gross Margins are in the 10-20% range. There are tons and tons of electronics(Music Players, GPS, etc..) that sell at 50% and greater margins. Especially if that product is in a Niche Market where volume doesn't make up for development costs. If you think $500 is too much, the buy the smaller version, books or newspapers. If you want stuff at 10% over cost then either get ready for Chinese made (and engineered) junk, or hope that there is a mature market with lots of competition.
What is all the fuss about Windows 7? What new features does it really have? It seems to me like they just cleaned up Vista and turned off most of the memory hogging things by default. The problem was that they made a tough change to their driver model in Vista and that cause problems while manufacturers learned the new model. Now it seems like the driver model is stable so they launch Windows 7. It the same drivers now and the same program compatibility. They just want $200 to "upgrade" to it.
Take movies for example. To most people the usefulness of a movie is for 1 day. The Media can last through hundred of cycles of that. Until digital cost is (Media cost)/100 rental makes sense. Games are a tougher market because they are 2-3 times as costly and people want to use them for probably 1-2 weeks (Games are getting shorter).
While tough, the only way to root out the rental market is PRICING! Go figure that is the same way to root out the Used Market! Probably even a lot of the Pirated Market! However companies are greedy and this means all of these markets will flourish
Lucky for you man created Amazon.com for replacing woman in this natural cycle of life. You can subscribe to Fish sticks like their other grocery products and it will automatically charge you and ship fish sticks to your door on a regular basis!
Exactly, Apple doesn't have a "Tax". They choose to only sell high-end hardware, mostly because it is a niche market and high margin. By choosing Apple you are choosing a different class of product. This high end niche market also means that is where all the profit is. I don't think Apple wants to joins the ranks of Dell and HP selling PC at a 1-2% gross margin. They are perfectly fine making a 30% with their premium lines while preserving their "brand" value.
You can not build it for $200. The unfortunate problem is that a gaming PC must have a copy of Windows on it. A legitimate copy is going to run you $75-100 by itself. This is why I stopped building PCs myself, with a Windows License, Dell and HP will come out cheaper than parts. Unless of course you get sucked into the high markup "add-ons", it is usually a better deal. I'm sure they only pay in the $40-$50 range for the license which sucks because I not a volume dealer I get charged twice as much.
So if this vehicle and rider weight 550 pounds, it's going to slow down to 70.7% of 60 MPH if it encounters a hill with a 60 foot rise per mile, just a bit under 1% slope. A 3% slope is going to slow it to a crawl. Not too good anyplace but Kansas.
Sweet! I live in Kansas. I got to get me one of these!
I personally love the out-of-town scammers on craigslist. I always tell them to mail me a check. I currently have about 10 ~$5000 "checks" from companies such as "Nasdaq", "Dell" and other corporations. Luckily these scammers know they have to work fast and usually UPS overnight me the check. I figure I'm just helping the economy by boosting the shipping business. Most of these guys really aren't that bright. I got 3 checks in a row from someone who I told the previous check had bounced. They really didn't bounce because I never bothered to cash them (didn't want a bounced check fee). They just keep spending money overnighting me checks.
Desktop and laptop ram is incredibly cheap, however it consumes more power then an ARM CPU. If you look at mobile DDR (what cell phone use) it is still almost $7-10 for 128MB.
The gym is a good analogy, but doesn't have the same correlation between average users and extreme users.
Consider a gym that offers a family plan. Unlimited family usage for $100 a month. What would happen if I became an orphanage and legally adopted 500 children? Now I just take them all to the gym everyday for babysitting!
What if the gym was 24 hours? Would I get in trouble if the gym became my permanent residence?
You also have to consider that the government had mandated that they gym serve their entire town, in exchange for a monopoly. There are two different types of gyms, so there really are only two choices. However both of the gyms only offer 100 weight lifts, in there base package. Each lift can be as much as you want!
Someone could think it is the exact opposite, as in you're not using what you paid for.
Unfortunately because of the Duopoly of ISP providers in most areas, I am forced to pay $40-60 a month for an "Unlimited" plan. I would be more then happy to pay less for a "Capped" plan, but no one offers that. The goverment interferes so that no one else can provide me with internet. That doesn't sound fair to me! It's always going to be the same for Cable, Internet, Wireless, unless there is real competition, most companies are trying to increase revenue per subscriber. With Cell Phones, they've done this by crippling or not offering a $30 plan and now charging ridiculously for data plans limited to your phone. $.25 for a text message? All they really want is for everyone to sign up for the 5.00 a month add. Cable has done this for years with higher charges and moving popular channels up to the premium tiers. Internet is going to start doing this to increase revenue per subscriber also.
I for one am actually glad for the recession, I think the "trading down" effect if going to cause people not to pay stupid prices for things anymore. Hopefully companies will realize this and change there pricing schemes.
Am I really think I'm the only geek that think caps really aren't a bad idea. Although they can be implemented correctly and implemented horribly.
First of all there is the wrong way to implement caps. Companies implements caps to try and push their average revenue up for the majority of customers. This is the main reason why I believe Cable TV as a service will nearly die over the next 10 years. Cable companies keep charging more for the same channels and happen to push "popular" channels up to higher tiers replacing them with unpopular channels. If caps are implemented where today's unlimited turned into the lowest capped tier (5-20gb) at the same price, then customers are screwed in the short term.
Then there is the correct way to implement caps, with pricing. I would be more then willing to accept a 5GB cap if I was paying $10 a month for internet. I can change my usage for a cheaper price. Even right now I have 768k internet because it is only $20 a month. If caps correlated with pricing this would be a win for everyone.
Consider the pricing plans 5gb - $10, 20gb - $20, 100gb $40, 500gb $80, Unlimited Business Line $200. Honestly this seems to solve the problem of "excess" bandwidth users and pricing.
For too long have ISP advertised based on speed and not real bandwidth. The real solution to this is to pass a law saying that all advertising of Internet Connection speed must be accompanied by the "continuous" usage speed (continuous usage = cap per month divided by seconds in a month). This continuous usage speed must be equal or more obvious to the consumer (based on size of font or time shown). Think about "New Time Warner 20MBPS (.0001 MBPS continuous usage) internet!" compared to a truely unlimited connection "New ATT 6MBPS (6 MBPS continuous usage) internet!"
Movie makers have come to the conclusion that a movie is either a blockbuster or bust, so they can not ignore the largest audience. Go to your local theater and look around. Every theater I remember (mostly in suburbia) have been largely filled with Junior High and High School kids. When do you personally think you peaked in your in-theater movie watching? I was high school and I would expect most of you did too.
To me it almost seems to be in-grained in culture. Movies are the popular choice for your time in the younger years, drinking the popular choice in College. The people engulf themselves into work after that and finally into their kids. Maybe not quite exactly for everybody, but a lot follow the formula.
Where are the mod points when I need them. Thanks Molochi, you just doubled my Tournament coverage. My 768k internet just doesn't stream well, but my 12ft antenna picks up High Quality Basketball. The second channel is in 480i, but that is mostly because if they wanted two HD feeds they would have to turn down the bitrate and that would annoying the 99% of people watching the main channel.
I have HD wireless streaming over 802.11G. It's OTA from a Vista Media Center to a Linksys Media Center Extender. It tests exactly at the threshold, but I've never had an issue with it. It could work, assuming Ideal Conditions. I can't see another wireless access point from my house, so I have little interference.
You're right about this: evolution cannot be witnessed in a laboratory on the scale that it has (yes supposedly) unfolded on this planet. But as with all manners of inquiry, sometimes we can figure things out without literally seeing them happen.
The large scale is really the only thing I have a problem with. Chromosome #2 is cool and makes a decent connection that Human's came from Apes, but how did we get from molecules to Apes? With the large scale of evolution, I see a long long chain of events. Showing evidence of a few pieces of this long chain doesn't seem to make it real to me, the ratio of evidence versus belief is too much. The small scale of evolution is fine. However to me, I just can't see how if the small scale is true, it necessarily makes the large scale true. I also find when ever someone gives evidence to evolution, it is mostly small scale evidence and they just infer that the large scale is also true. Then there is the whole point about how life begins. Evolution is really about life developing, not how life began.
Depending on you ISP. ESPN360 pretty much has all ESPN live sports content except ESPNU (bastards want you to buy a premium sports tier) between this and my antenna, I can see 95% of my Kansas Jayhawk Basketball.
I think both sides are crazy and claims like this just stand to misinform both side. We will never be able to prove that humans evolved from basic molecules over billions of years by random chance or by a god, because we can not travel to the past and see what happened. Secondly we can not repeat this feat because we can't control god, or have a billions years in which to repeat this experiment. However it also impossible to prove either false. While evolution might be slightly ahead on the "evidence" front because they have 1000's of experiments that prove one one-billionth of the way from a molecule to a human, neither side is even close to "prove", "demonstrate", or "verify" their theory.