Many people here have a thing for peddling evolution as law. It's not.
I'm just here to beat the hell out of you morons until you realize that none of the creation/evolution/alien stories has been proven.
Do I believe in creationism? No.
Intelligent design? No.
Evolution? No.
Aliens? No.
Do I believe that we have no fucking clue? Yes.
The problem with evolution is that so many people have elevated it to a level where its more political than science. If we let scientists continue to putter along it'd be either proven or disproven. End of story. As it is now, you're basically crying "eureka!" on cold fusion.
Assuming you can "prove" evolution as a means of species modifying over generations to adapt to their environment, cool. Curious to note is that you will not have "disproven" creationism, intelligent design, or aliens.
The religious person will shrug and tell you that you have discovered the vehicle through which God seeded the world with life.
The alien nut will tell you that you have discovered the alien's coverup to keep us in the dark so they can continue to observe our social behavior in a controlled environment.
In the end, you prove evolution and you gain nothing, it is disproven and you gain nothing.
So, can we dispense with the politics and stick to the science? I point out that evolution is still a theory and not law and I'm branded as some kind of crazed religious creationist fundie. God, somedays.../. makes me wonder where all the nerds went and where all the end users came from.
I would be perfectly content to accept evolution as more than conjecture if you could demonstrate something that has evolved. As it is we have a few snapshots of things that "could have" evolved from one thing into another. There isn't enough intermediary record that has been preserved in order to realistically accept evolution. As I said, I'll be the first on the evolution bandwagon as soon as it becomes believable. Until then... there are many systems of belief, but none of them are definitive.
Relatedly, you have to love the liberal bias here at/. though... say anything pro-religion or anti-evolution and you're modded as either flamebait or troll.
Perhaps someone should bring this up in the YRO section... "/. attempts censorship through moderation against religious and conservative values!"
It they indeed exist, then you would actually link to them.
Seeing as how you have not linked, you are wrong.
How can you honestly support a scientific theory if you're not willing to use the scientific method? I'm perfectly willing to accept evolution - when it's been fucking proven like every other scientific law out there.
I will not give evolution a free pass from theory to law just because some fucking Anti-Christ-Liberals-Union asshole says "THIS IS POLITICALLY CORRECT!!!"
Sufficient intermediary fossil samples to demonstrate in a clear and unequivocal manner that evolution is real and has taken place has not yet been found.
Which is why evolution is still just a theory.
I'm not saying it's false, but I will say that it certainly could be full of just as much hot air as you all like to think creationism is.
It's not over until the fat scientists sing... or something like that.
Interestingly enough, there's a bunch of scientists and archaeologists who were trying to replicate the obsidian spearheads and arrowheads that you can find all over the place. Obviously you have to carefully chip the rock with another piece of hard rock...
Oh, those scientists are still unable to do what cro-magnon man could: make a simple obsidian rock pointy like an arrowhead. Something, somewhere, went terribly wrong...
Go figure.
Also interesting is that many hospitals are moving to (modern synthetic) obsidian scalpels because the edge on them is only a few molecules thick. They actually cut, whereas "razor" scalpels only tear. Torn skin heals slowly, but if you're cut with an obsidian scalpel you'll heal much faster with less of a visible scar.
Perhaps the "lesser" humans were on to something before us "big brained ones" bumped 'em off?
government giving international corporations like IBM money
My home town used to be the international headquarters of PeopleSoft - before Oracle bought them out. Because they were in our town, they got our taxes.
The fat did flow! The employment was high! It was good for us... I'm not sure how it worked out for PeopleSoft though.
I tried Trac once, but its limited support for repository control (I'm not one for issuing my users passwords and shell accounts - my users aren't terminal-trained yet, so they might just segfault all over ~/ without my holding their hand through everything) made it a clear looser for me.
Works as a complete project management tool. It manages the source control, has a wiki, a forum, something that looks like a cross between a coffee maker and nose-hair clippers, oh, and a bug tracker.
The bug-tracker allows you to make bugs dependent upon bugs from other projects.
At the great risk of shooting myself in the foot, I submit my instance of Redmine for your perusal. Please don't abuse my site, it's just a little pokey VPS.
Originally iPod was just a clever way to bring your music with you without your cabinets full of CD collections. That's why iMacs came with such large hard drives for their day - so you could rip all your CDs to iTunes and carry them around on your iPod.
I remember a time when having your music with you meant keeping hundreds of dollars in CDs in the car, ready to get melted in the next heat wave or to be stolen. iPod changed all that. Now you can take your music with you - all your music - anywhere.
All this WiFi nonsense has been added recently to the pile of feature creep. Honestly, iPod Touch has wifi and it works well. iPod Touch does more than Zune could ever do... except for the graphic visualizer.
Just keep in mind that it isn't about the feature creep, it's about what it's supposed to to: play music.
The reason Zune failed is because you are not even close to being representative of the masses.
For most people, the walled garden is good. iTunes does enough and does it well enough to make it good to use. iPod does enough and does it well enough to make it good to use.
ZOMG it doesn't connect to $FUNKY_BSD_GNU_OS!!! Whatever shall we do?
You are the minority. I am the minority. Conform or subsist on mediocrity. There is no win, only fail.
Slashdot Mirror
They swarm after guys who have Macs that dual-boot Linux.
You would love a Duff loop.
God I hate my fucking Senators some days.
They really know how to make you ashamed of being a Californian.
Hmm, and I was shooting for +5 funny with that part...
That incredible instant sleep also hibernates.
You can loose battery power while in sleep, plug 'er back in, and keep going like nothing ever happened.
It's really kinda cool, you know, how everything just works.
They're pushing their $SHIT0 so they can sell their $SHIT1, just like everyone else trying to sell their $SHITn!
What about FISH shell? http://www.fishshell.org/
It's built for humans, not shell scripts, so it's a lot more amenable to everyday use.
It was about biometric databases, computer-recognizable photographs and humongous amounts of fingerprints.
Sounds like a used iPhone.
I'm not going to provide an "alternate theory."
We're not going to die if we don't know.
Many people here have a thing for peddling evolution as law. It's not.
I'm just here to beat the hell out of you morons until you realize that none of the creation/evolution/alien stories has been proven.
Do I believe in creationism? No.
Intelligent design? No.
Evolution? No.
Aliens? No.
Do I believe that we have no fucking clue? Yes.
The problem with evolution is that so many people have elevated it to a level where its more political than science. If we let scientists continue to putter along it'd be either proven or disproven. End of story. As it is now, you're basically crying "eureka!" on cold fusion.
Assuming you can "prove" evolution as a means of species modifying over generations to adapt to their environment, cool. Curious to note is that you will not have "disproven" creationism, intelligent design, or aliens.
The religious person will shrug and tell you that you have discovered the vehicle through which God seeded the world with life.
The alien nut will tell you that you have discovered the alien's coverup to keep us in the dark so they can continue to observe our social behavior in a controlled environment.
In the end, you prove evolution and you gain nothing, it is disproven and you gain nothing.
So, can we dispense with the politics and stick to the science? I point out that evolution is still a theory and not law and I'm branded as some kind of crazed religious creationist fundie. God, somedays... /. makes me wonder where all the nerds went and where all the end users came from.
I know, Catholic mailmen.
Ex-Catholic Mormon mailman.
Beautiful. I shot ice cream out my nose there I was laughing so hard.
Moral of the story: don't eat ice cream while reading /.
Thanks for brightening my day!
Congratulations, you too have failed to provide a proof for evolution!
Thanks for playing, better luck next time!
I would be perfectly content to accept evolution as more than conjecture if you could demonstrate something that has evolved. As it is we have a few snapshots of things that "could have" evolved from one thing into another. There isn't enough intermediary record that has been preserved in order to realistically accept evolution. As I said, I'll be the first on the evolution bandwagon as soon as it becomes believable. Until then... there are many systems of belief, but none of them are definitive.
Relatedly, you have to love the liberal bias here at /. though... say anything pro-religion or anti-evolution and you're modded as either flamebait or troll.
Perhaps someone should bring this up in the YRO section... "/. attempts censorship through moderation against religious and conservative values!"
It they indeed exist, then you would actually link to them.
Seeing as how you have not linked, you are wrong.
How can you honestly support a scientific theory if you're not willing to use the scientific method? I'm perfectly willing to accept evolution - when it's been fucking proven like every other scientific law out there.
I will not give evolution a free pass from theory to law just because some fucking Anti-Christ-Liberals-Union asshole says "THIS IS POLITICALLY CORRECT!!!"
You are a horrible scientist if you are willing to accept so little evidence as a demonstration of fact.
Were you perchance one of those cold-fusion guys from about ten years ago?
Sufficient intermediary fossil samples to demonstrate in a clear and unequivocal manner that evolution is real and has taken place has not yet been found.
Which is why evolution is still just a theory.
I'm not saying it's false, but I will say that it certainly could be full of just as much hot air as you all like to think creationism is.
It's not over until the fat scientists sing... or something like that.
Obviously they weren't human, because if they were human then - just like my garage - you'd never be able to find the tools!
Duh!
Interestingly enough, there's a bunch of scientists and archaeologists who were trying to replicate the obsidian spearheads and arrowheads that you can find all over the place. Obviously you have to carefully chip the rock with another piece of hard rock...
Oh, those scientists are still unable to do what cro-magnon man could: make a simple obsidian rock pointy like an arrowhead. Something, somewhere, went terribly wrong...
Go figure.
Also interesting is that many hospitals are moving to (modern synthetic) obsidian scalpels because the edge on them is only a few molecules thick. They actually cut, whereas "razor" scalpels only tear. Torn skin heals slowly, but if you're cut with an obsidian scalpel you'll heal much faster with less of a visible scar.
Perhaps the "lesser" humans were on to something before us "big brained ones" bumped 'em off?
government giving international corporations like IBM money
My home town used to be the international headquarters of PeopleSoft - before Oracle bought them out. Because they were in our town, they got our taxes.
The fat did flow! The employment was high! It was good for us... I'm not sure how it worked out for PeopleSoft though.
Where will it end?
Where congress ends.
I tried Trac once, but its limited support for repository control (I'm not one for issuing my users passwords and shell accounts - my users aren't terminal-trained yet, so they might just segfault all over ~/ without my holding their hand through everything) made it a clear looser for me.
One man's trac is another man's treasure... ;-)
I use Redmine exclusively for my projects.
Works as a complete project management tool. It manages the source control, has a wiki, a forum, something that looks like a cross between a coffee maker and nose-hair clippers, oh, and a bug tracker.
The bug-tracker allows you to make bugs dependent upon bugs from other projects.
At the great risk of shooting myself in the foot, I submit my instance of Redmine for your perusal. Please don't abuse my site, it's just a little pokey VPS.
http://www.fsdev.net/ --- Redmine be there
But iPods have no wifi at all
Originally iPod was just a clever way to bring your music with you without your cabinets full of CD collections. That's why iMacs came with such large hard drives for their day - so you could rip all your CDs to iTunes and carry them around on your iPod.
I remember a time when having your music with you meant keeping hundreds of dollars in CDs in the car, ready to get melted in the next heat wave or to be stolen. iPod changed all that. Now you can take your music with you - all your music - anywhere.
All this WiFi nonsense has been added recently to the pile of feature creep. Honestly, iPod Touch has wifi and it works well. iPod Touch does more than Zune could ever do... except for the graphic visualizer.
Just keep in mind that it isn't about the feature creep, it's about what it's supposed to to: play music.
The reason Zune failed is because you are not even close to being representative of the masses.
For most people, the walled garden is good. iTunes does enough and does it well enough to make it good to use. iPod does enough and does it well enough to make it good to use.
ZOMG it doesn't connect to $FUNKY_BSD_GNU_OS!!! Whatever shall we do?
You are the minority. I am the minority. Conform or subsist on mediocrity. There is no win, only fail.
You have come to a sad realization.
Cancel or allow?