>Thank you captain obvious for pointing out that we should continue doing things that nobody proposed we stop doing.
actually he has a point. the Dark Ages was helped started by an exceptionally bad plague during which many people ran to the church for reassurace. the church got so much power they were able to ban secular medicine with the argument that since it didn't already have a cure for the plague it was clearly useless and only prayer would help. the same thing is happening today on a smaller scale with Bush giving money to churches but cutting off funding for medical research.
>Galileo -> Newton -> Einstein -> then what? Of course things will be refined further!!!
yes but none of them at any point denied that gravity actually exists, which is the case with evolution.
science does have limits, but knowing that evolution is a fact is not one of them.
your key word is refinement - new scientific theories must reduce to old ones in the limit of a well-investigated regime, for example Einstein's relativity gives Galilean laws of motion in the limit of low speeds.
thus evolution is now, and always will be, a fact. in the future we'll just have more and more understanding of the precise mechanisms involved.
evolution is both a fact and a theory (just like gravity).
the observed phenomenon is a fact.
the Darwinian hypothesis of survival of the fittest is the basis of a successful theory which explains those facts.
the molecular evidence for evolution has confirmed the theory to amazing levels of accuracy.
there is no reason at all why anyone with an open mind prepared to examine the evidence would disagree with evolution. the only people who ever do so only do because it contradicts an ancient religious text (which isn't even self-consistent in the first place).
even "Intelligent Design" is not only unscientific, but its basis ("irreducible complexity") has been shown to be wrong.
within the scientific community there is no debate at all that evolution is a fact.
if you want to be educated then have a listen to the Evolution 101 podcast.
anyone who values gut feelings or scraps of papyrus over logic, evidence and demonstratable consequences when making decisions (especially decisons that effect other peoples' lives) deserve to be thought of negatively.
Bush is not to blame. He was elected by people who knew exactly what he was like, and no-one is prepared to stand up to his ripping apart of the constitution (he has enough money for curches but none for medicine).
if the American public want to deride scientists then they can go fuck themselves. no cures for you!
for all I care you can do like the last Christian with great political power did - ban secular medicine altogether, go back to prayer and leeches and have another 1000 years of Dark Ages. just don't drag down the rest of the world with you.
I'm sure Europe will gladly accept any US scientists who wish to flee from state persecution.
being careless about the law is never a good idea.
big media like to call copyright infringement theft because it's more emotive. they would call it "content rape" if they could get away with it. it also suits their propaganda campaign of making the public think "intellectual property" == "property", whereas historically there have always been specific and intentional restrictions on copyright that do not apply to actual property and which media companies wish didn't apply to copyright.
>If you want compatibility, I'm sorry, but windows has everything beat because of it's huge market share.
it's not about getting an install CD guaranteed to have drivers and crap for Windows, it's about not needing that CD in the first place. true plug and play.
>Aside from the fact that if you want gaming you need windows
wrong. if you want to play Windows-only games you need a copy of Windows. it'll work on a Macbook as well as any other computer.
>mac is hardly the only computer that can do video and photo editing
no but it's the easiest. a short time ago MS demo'd it's upcoming photo app. when vista is eventually released MS users will finally have most of the functionality of iPhoto. when Zune is eventually released MS users will eventually have most of the functionality of iTunes. five. years. later.
no one is claiming Macs are magic, they are just *exceptionally* well-designed. Apple knows there's more to user experience than the letters "XP", and they constantly push forward. this is what I like about them most: they develop something, see it's good and get it out there. Apple remote / built-in camera worked well with iMac -> all new Macs have them. with PCs it seems like manufacturers have to be dragged kicking and screaming into moving designs forward ("but it reduces our bottom line $0.03 per unit!!!!!!111"), or else they end up charging just as much a "premium" as Apple anyway.
I have been using the original mighty mouse since it came out. right-clicking is easy and comfortable. it also has a middle click (also easy and comfortable) and a 4th mouse button by squeezing the sides (easy for me, but a bit uncomfortable for some people who hold the mouse differently).
the scroll wheel works rotates in all directions - vertical, horizonal, and any angle in between all easy.
it's a fantastic mouse, much better than my MX900. get a clue before you troll again.
we do because we have to, but they put us on a crap connection (sent us an email saying so) because there are lots of us sharing it and we actually use the bandwidth we bought.
"This is a discussion of transcription of 'YHWH'. For the deity these letters represent, see Yahweh."
"Many sacred name ministries who believe that YHWH consists of four vowels pronounce these four vowels as "ee-ah-oo-eh" and believe that indicates God's name was either "Yahweh" or "Yahuweh"."
but I guess if you had decent comprehension skills you wouldn't be a fundamentalist. or maybe you just didn't RTFBible in the first place.
redundancy doesn't scale well. what happens if your backup goes down? you need n+1 copies of the system to handle n faults, which either means that most of the time you're wasting n resources, or that when something does break you lose 1/(n+1) of your capacity.
I didn't RTFA but "educated sense" suggests to me the aim is to tolerate multiple faults without having large changes in capacity or wasting resources.
yes. and I shall fight for your right to have babies. even though you can't have babies because you don't have a womb, it's still your RIGHT to have babies and no one should deny it.
sure, sometimes when I see a new podcast in iTunes I'd like to just have it on my 5G wirelessly. but thinking about it, would that mean my ipod would always have to have wifi turned on? would the ipod itself have to be turned on? and I'd still have to plug it in for large syncs, use as an external hard drive and of course charging.
I think that if instead of every little sync adding to my battery life it actually took some away, then battery life would become an issue which at the moment it isn't.
using a phone while driving is dangerous even if it is a wireless hands-free.
even meaningless conversations distract you, let alone talking to clients who you need to pay extra attention too.
and having a phone conversation is more distracting than a real-life one with a passenger. studies have shown the lower-quality audio from a phone requires more concentration to interpret than live speech.
just some facts, not judging you. I've driven while drunk which is only a little bit more responsible than your actions.
I've read many of the comments in this thread and can't understand this situation at all.
in the UK, the price is says is the price you pay.
even the US habit of not including taxes is BS. I can't see how rebates could possibly be anything BUT a total scam.
my uneducated guess is that the problem in the US is that individual states can't get things done, and the federal powers are all in the pockets of big business. you need total independence or total unity, the USA half-assed version is useless (for citizens).
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>Thank you captain obvious for pointing out that we should continue doing things that nobody proposed we stop doing.
actually he has a point. the Dark Ages was helped started by an exceptionally bad plague during which many people ran to the church for reassurace. the church got so much power they were able to ban secular medicine with the argument that since it didn't already have a cure for the plague it was clearly useless and only prayer would help. the same thing is happening today on a smaller scale with Bush giving money to churches but cutting off funding for medical research.
>Galileo -> Newton -> Einstein -> then what? Of course things will be refined further!!!
yes but none of them at any point denied that gravity actually exists, which is the case with evolution.
science does have limits, but knowing that evolution is a fact is not one of them.
your key word is refinement - new scientific theories must reduce to old ones in the limit of a well-investigated regime, for example Einstein's relativity gives Galilean laws of motion in the limit of low speeds.
thus evolution is now, and always will be, a fact. in the future we'll just have more and more understanding of the precise mechanisms involved.
the founding fathers were deists not Christians you ignorant fool.
evolution is both a fact and a theory (just like gravity).
the observed phenomenon is a fact.
the Darwinian hypothesis of survival of the fittest is the basis of a successful theory which explains those facts.
the molecular evidence for evolution has confirmed the theory to amazing levels of accuracy.
there is no reason at all why anyone with an open mind prepared to examine the evidence would disagree with evolution. the only people who ever do so only do because it contradicts an ancient religious text (which isn't even self-consistent in the first place).
even "Intelligent Design" is not only unscientific, but its basis ("irreducible complexity") has been shown to be wrong.
within the scientific community there is no debate at all that evolution is a fact.
if you want to be educated then have a listen to the Evolution 101 podcast.
"people of faith" SHOULD have a bad name.
anyone who values gut feelings or scraps of papyrus over logic, evidence and demonstratable consequences when making decisions (especially decisons that effect other peoples' lives) deserve to be thought of negatively.
Bush is not to blame. He was elected by people who knew exactly what he was like, and no-one is prepared to stand up to his ripping apart of the constitution (he has enough money for curches but none for medicine).
if the American public want to deride scientists then they can go fuck themselves. no cures for you!
for all I care you can do like the last Christian with great political power did - ban secular medicine altogether, go back to prayer and leeches and have another 1000 years of Dark Ages. just don't drag down the rest of the world with you.
I'm sure Europe will gladly accept any US scientists who wish to flee from state persecution.
I am not GPP.
you have still not shown copyright infringement is theft, because it isn't.
wikipedia is not a legal document.
copyright infringement is not theft. get over it.
thanks for playing.
being careless about the law is never a good idea.
big media like to call copyright infringement theft because it's more emotive. they would call it "content rape" if they could get away with it. it also suits their propaganda campaign of making the public think "intellectual property" == "property", whereas historically there have always been specific and intentional restrictions on copyright that do not apply to actual property and which media companies wish didn't apply to copyright.
you showed copyright infringement is a crime, but where did you show it was *theft*?
nowhere.
because it isn't.
gg.
>If you want compatibility, I'm sorry, but windows has everything beat because of it's huge market share.
it's not about getting an install CD guaranteed to have drivers and crap for Windows, it's about not needing that CD in the first place. true plug and play.
>Aside from the fact that if you want gaming you need windows
wrong. if you want to play Windows-only games you need a copy of Windows. it'll work on a Macbook as well as any other computer.
>mac is hardly the only computer that can do video and photo editing
no but it's the easiest. a short time ago MS demo'd it's upcoming photo app. when vista is eventually released MS users will finally have most of the functionality of iPhoto. when Zune is eventually released MS users will eventually have most of the functionality of iTunes. five. years. later.
no one is claiming Macs are magic, they are just *exceptionally* well-designed. Apple knows there's more to user experience than the letters "XP", and they constantly push forward. this is what I like about them most: they develop something, see it's good and get it out there. Apple remote / built-in camera worked well with iMac -> all new Macs have them. with PCs it seems like manufacturers have to be dragged kicking and screaming into moving designs forward ("but it reduces our bottom line $0.03 per unit!!!!!!111"), or else they end up charging just as much a "premium" as Apple anyway.
you guys are all retarded.
I have been using the original mighty mouse since it came out. right-clicking is easy and comfortable. it also has a middle click (also easy and comfortable) and a 4th mouse button by squeezing the sides (easy for me, but a bit uncomfortable for some people who hold the mouse differently).
the scroll wheel works rotates in all directions - vertical, horizonal, and any angle in between all easy.
it's a fantastic mouse, much better than my MX900. get a clue before you troll again.
we do because we have to, but they put us on a crap connection (sent us an email saying so) because there are lots of us sharing it and we actually use the bandwidth we bought.
yep. suck it up or make the switch. either way you get exactly what you deserve.
I read the "article" but apart from the random chance thing mentioned in the summary what was the point?
since the article is about 200 words spread over 16 pages I guess it's just an ad scam though my adblocking makes it ineffective.
how dare you talk down to women with the "tu" form, you sexist clod!
oh my fucking god.
are you the most uninformed person in the world wrt the Wii?
there IS a regular controller. and you can use Gamecube controllers. not all the games are "hand waving".
read it yourself.
"This is a discussion of transcription of 'YHWH'. For the deity these letters represent, see Yahweh."
"Many sacred name ministries who believe that YHWH consists of four vowels pronounce these four vowels as "ee-ah-oo-eh" and believe that indicates God's name was either "Yahweh" or "Yahuweh"."
but I guess if you had decent comprehension skills you wouldn't be a fundamentalist. or maybe you just didn't RTFBible in the first place.
no, now shut up or we won't share any future technologies based on science with you.
redundancy doesn't scale well. what happens if your backup goes down? you need n+1 copies of the system to handle n faults, which either means that most of the time you're wasting n resources, or that when something does break you lose 1/(n+1) of your capacity.
I didn't RTFA but "educated sense" suggests to me the aim is to tolerate multiple faults without having large changes in capacity or wasting resources.
yes. and I shall fight for your right to have babies. even though you can't have babies because you don't have a womb, it's still your RIGHT to have babies and no one should deny it.
>It's as easy to use as iTunes
not if you use a Mac.
iTunes defaults to AAC.
AAC has NOTHING to do with Apple - it is the mpeg4 standard. if your music player doesn't support AAC then it sucks. FACT.
what's the obsession with wireless?
sure, sometimes when I see a new podcast in iTunes I'd like to just have it on my 5G wirelessly. but thinking about it, would that mean my ipod would always have to have wifi turned on? would the ipod itself have to be turned on? and I'd still have to plug it in for large syncs, use as an external hard drive and of course charging.
I think that if instead of every little sync adding to my battery life it actually took some away, then battery life would become an issue which at the moment it isn't.
I have a DS lite for games.
what happened to Origami?
MS seems to have lots of announcements of future products, and even "launches", but I rarely actually see anything from them in real life.
using a phone while driving is dangerous even if it is a wireless hands-free.
even meaningless conversations distract you, let alone talking to clients who you need to pay extra attention too.
and having a phone conversation is more distracting than a real-life one with a passenger. studies have shown the lower-quality audio from a phone requires more concentration to interpret than live speech.
just some facts, not judging you. I've driven while drunk which is only a little bit more responsible than your actions.
I've read many of the comments in this thread and can't understand this situation at all.
in the UK, the price is says is the price you pay.
even the US habit of not including taxes is BS. I can't see how rebates could possibly be anything BUT a total scam.
my uneducated guess is that the problem in the US is that individual states can't get things done, and the federal powers are all in the pockets of big business. you need total independence or total unity, the USA half-assed version is useless (for citizens).