The book of Genesis isn't to be taken literally. The point of the "Creation Story" in a strictly religious context is that the earth was created for the purpose of God's plans; the "how" is irrelevant.
Furthermore, the careful observer will note that the book of Genesis is Moses's account. By my maths, that could be anywhere from 2,000 to 24,000* years after the fact. If you for a moment assume as a given that God did talk to Moses, then doesn't it stand to reason that God would have simply glossed over some bits of the story for brevity in order to get to more pressing matters? Perhaps the golden calf idol being constructed down in pinhead-ville?
In any event, people that interpret the Bible literally, and most specifically the OT, greatly amuse me.
* Many folks seem to think that 4,000 BCE is "the beginning," whatever the heck that is. I tend to associate the "family of Adam" with the advent of the Homo Sapien Sapien species. By my memory, our species has been around for about 26,000 years now. It also reconciles some anachronisms in the OT regarding races of giants, which I would then submit might be references to other un-evolved strains of hominids that needed to be purged to prevent interbreeding and therefore a recession in the gene pool. However, I'm not completely happy with this line of thought because it doesn't take a genius to figure out that evolutionary changes don't happen in gigantic leaps, but rather as incremental steps over periods of time.
Using a negative frustrum-exclusion algorithm to selectively render only certain parts of the view graph is really common. It's trivial to eliminate things from the render pipeline based on visibility.
I think it has something to do with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. They give you 12 donuts, but then when ensuring that there are twelve, you change the state.
You know, there comes a point when your faith in Eugenics is so complete that you're still a believer in it even though it means that you'd probably have to render yourself infertile.
My local IT group uses the "If Sophos Enterprise console can't fix it, then we'll just re-image the machine from PXE" approach. Now, if our PXE image gets infected, we're completely screwed.
With more and more services moving towards the Cloud, re-imaging is less hassle than it used to be. Our corporate image logs in using a Novell client, and then it auto-configures Outlook; out of the box you get your corporate email with no sweat.
If you use a tool like N-nite to mass-install your favourite software, you're that much closer to your preferred computing environment with little to no extra work.
A good corporate network is very locked down as well. TDS-4 wouldn't work too well here because the only open ports (that I know of, and I've been working on these) are 80, 443, FTP, and Skype's ports. CONNECT requests from all of those are prohibited. Even if we experienced a large TDS-4 infection, the P2P aspect would become neutralised right off the bat because of local network policies. Most CC servers connect using IRC; those ports are sadly blocked (wtf grief please! Get me my Freenode back!)
Plus I run a Mac. As long as I don't do something stupid (MacDefender) I'm generally* pretty safe.
However, in the long run, I think that most would agree that most computer security can be accomplished through basic education.
Actually, the makers of fancy pens have been reporting increasing sales over the past several decades. The number of people who are studying and practicing good writing may not be increasing as fast as the population, but the number is increasing. So there's a good chance that there will still be experts in all sorts of handwriting in another 70 or 80 or 100 years.
We still have professional brickmakers, binders, printers, farriers, coopers, and all kinds of now-deceased tradesmen. Calligraphic writing will pass into the annals of expert historical custodianship.
So long as there are historians nothing shall be lost in its entirety. The dainty days of Vermeer painting a woman authoring a letter as artistic in language as it is in script may be over, but the painting, the letter, and the knowledge of how it was done don't pass.
Good God man, don't you think you'll be able to find calligraphy lessons on YouTube soon enough?
Well if God is everywhere and nowhere, then he'd be both internal and external. (which I don't believe, btw, 'cuz the Nicean creed is a load of medieval bullshit)
Think about it: if Apple ported OS X to run on the NT Kernel, would it still be OS X or would it magically turn into Windows?
No, I'm pretty sure the universe would spontaneously combust destroying all life as we know it. Either that or it would be treated by the compiler as one great big syntax error.
Yes, it can be that expensive. This is why we need a strong WISP (wireless ISP) industry to fight back against the Qwests, Comcasts, Verizons, and AT&Ts of this country - to use a medium that is mile for mile cheaper and overall speedy enough for 97% or more of Internet users to start shaking the boat, to start getting the monopolies in the ivory oligopolis to take notice and to stop fucking us over every step of the way.
What's wrong here in the US is a strong public distrust of having the government do anything, because the government may screw you over. So instead people prefer to give important tasks to businesses, who will screw you over.
There's a distinction. The FEDERAL government in the US can be depended on to do the absolute WORST thing possible. Local governments (cities and counties) can be generally depended upon to do things that are sane. STATE governments are like the Feds - they just think "oh I'm just one level below the feds, I can fuck up all I want too!"
Just think - on the whole, who are YOU more happy with? Your City, State, or your Country?
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The book of Genesis isn't to be taken literally. The point of the "Creation Story" in a strictly religious context is that the earth was created for the purpose of God's plans; the "how" is irrelevant.
Furthermore, the careful observer will note that the book of Genesis is Moses's account. By my maths, that could be anywhere from 2,000 to 24,000* years after the fact. If you for a moment assume as a given that God did talk to Moses, then doesn't it stand to reason that God would have simply glossed over some bits of the story for brevity in order to get to more pressing matters? Perhaps the golden calf idol being constructed down in pinhead-ville?
In any event, people that interpret the Bible literally, and most specifically the OT, greatly amuse me.
* Many folks seem to think that 4,000 BCE is "the beginning," whatever the heck that is. I tend to associate the "family of Adam" with the advent of the Homo Sapien Sapien species. By my memory, our species has been around for about 26,000 years now. It also reconciles some anachronisms in the OT regarding races of giants, which I would then submit might be references to other un-evolved strains of hominids that needed to be purged to prevent interbreeding and therefore a recession in the gene pool. However, I'm not completely happy with this line of thought because it doesn't take a genius to figure out that evolutionary changes don't happen in gigantic leaps, but rather as incremental steps over periods of time.
Using a negative frustrum-exclusion algorithm to selectively render only certain parts of the view graph is really common. It's trivial to eliminate things from the render pipeline based on visibility.
President, we have ascertained the location of the hackers!
Good, where are they coming from?
They're hacking in from 192.168.0.1!
Excellent! Unleash our counterattack now!
Mod this truth up.
I think it has something to do with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. They give you 12 donuts, but then when ensuring that there are twelve, you change the state.
There's nothing lucky about building a digital lego set.
The framerate will be crap, but after a few Service Packs, yes, it will.
You know, there comes a point when your faith in Eugenics is so complete that you're still a believer in it even though it means that you'd probably have to render yourself infertile.
After sitting with their hands under their butts for soo long, W3C doesn't really deserve much of anything.
My local IT group uses the "If Sophos Enterprise console can't fix it, then we'll just re-image the machine from PXE" approach. Now, if our PXE image gets infected, we're completely screwed.
With more and more services moving towards the Cloud, re-imaging is less hassle than it used to be. Our corporate image logs in using a Novell client, and then it auto-configures Outlook; out of the box you get your corporate email with no sweat.
If you use a tool like N-nite to mass-install your favourite software, you're that much closer to your preferred computing environment with little to no extra work.
A good corporate network is very locked down as well. TDS-4 wouldn't work too well here because the only open ports (that I know of, and I've been working on these) are 80, 443, FTP, and Skype's ports. CONNECT requests from all of those are prohibited. Even if we experienced a large TDS-4 infection, the P2P aspect would become neutralised right off the bat because of local network policies. Most CC servers connect using IRC; those ports are sadly blocked (wtf grief please! Get me my Freenode back!)
Plus I run a Mac. As long as I don't do something stupid (MacDefender) I'm generally* pretty safe.
However, in the long run, I think that most would agree that most computer security can be accomplished through basic education.
(*) Knock on wood.
> Seriously why, when you could do manual labour, be an electrician, cementer, crane driver, or work in a number of other trades?
Dude, as an engineer, I still dream about being a crane operator or master welder. Those jobs are boss.
It's a known phenomenon in political-science known as "peter principle." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
I bet if I shoved a smart phone up my a**, it would lose a lot of signal too...
If you get a Windows Phone 7, you might be more prone to do just that!
This is Slashdot. Did you honestly expect something different? Mindless wikipedia troll...
Actually, the makers of fancy pens have been reporting increasing sales over the past several decades. The number of people who are studying and practicing good writing may not be increasing as fast as the population, but the number is increasing. So there's a good chance that there will still be experts in all sorts of handwriting in another 70 or 80 or 100 years.
We still have professional brickmakers, binders, printers, farriers, coopers, and all kinds of now-deceased tradesmen. Calligraphic writing will pass into the annals of expert historical custodianship.
So long as there are historians nothing shall be lost in its entirety. The dainty days of Vermeer painting a woman authoring a letter as artistic in language as it is in script may be over, but the painting, the letter, and the knowledge of how it was done don't pass.
Good God man, don't you think you'll be able to find calligraphy lessons on YouTube soon enough?
And in the far corner, weighing in at just over the weight of an IBM mainframe... SUN MODULAR DATACENTER!
Well if God is everywhere and nowhere, then he'd be both internal and external. (which I don't believe, btw, 'cuz the Nicean creed is a load of medieval bullshit)
More specifically he made no point at all. He essentially said that:
if there are no external forces then
internal forces are the only forces at play
endif
Since nobody on /. believes in God or divine intervention, he's quite right.
The only threat to a tyrant is free press. If indeed Achmedinijad is a tyrant, then by limiting free speech he will prove himself therewith.
This applies to many languages - many languages are popular precisely because they are popular, not because of inherent elegance or suitability.
So that's why we still have Java, C++, and BASIC! Gee I never really thought it out...
How could a 7 foot Wookie live on Endor?
Wookies are from Kashyykk. Duh!
You sir need to do more research. There are numerous standards in Linux/GNU software.
Think about it: if Apple ported OS X to run on the NT Kernel, would it still be OS X or would it magically turn into Windows?
No, I'm pretty sure the universe would spontaneously combust destroying all life as we know it. Either that or it would be treated by the compiler as one great big syntax error.
Dragging the fiber can't be that expensive
Yes, it can be that expensive. This is why we need a strong WISP (wireless ISP) industry to fight back against the Qwests, Comcasts, Verizons, and AT&Ts of this country - to use a medium that is mile for mile cheaper and overall speedy enough for 97% or more of Internet users to start shaking the boat, to start getting the monopolies in the ivory oligopolis to take notice and to stop fucking us over every step of the way.
What's wrong here in the US is a strong public distrust of having the government do anything, because the government may screw you over. So instead people prefer to give important tasks to businesses, who will screw you over.
There's a distinction. The FEDERAL government in the US can be depended on to do the absolute WORST thing possible. Local governments (cities and counties) can be generally depended upon to do things that are sane. STATE governments are like the Feds - they just think "oh I'm just one level below the feds, I can fuck up all I want too!"
Just think - on the whole, who are YOU more happy with? Your City, State, or your Country?
Al Gore invented the Internet!