So you have overwhelming evidence of evolution at the molecular level, they're forced to admit that it's happening, reluctantly, but their new goal is that they want overwhelming evidence of new organs.
I would like to see studies supporting this overwhelming evidence.
What always ends up being the case is that natural selection, a perfectly fine method for ecosystem management, is the cause, never what most people think of evolution as such as genetic changes enabling traits that did not previously exist in the population.
Natural selection is brilliant. A minority population has a trait that enables it to better survive than the majority population: majority diminishes, minority increases. Beautiful.
Shovas,
Can you imagine any physical evidence that would ever change your mind about true evolution (Speciation, new traits, etc)?
Examples like this show natural selection in practice. You don't have to wait thousands of years to see Evolution. It is happening all around you everyday. Superweeds are a predictable outcome of pesticide usage.
Not anymore they don't. I'm a hiring manager in Silicon Valley and I can tell you that any Palm engineer with sense has been interviewing and most have gotten away already.
There are lots of high tech workers that read slashdot. I'm one of them. I decided, while at university, that I was not going to spend my life building weapons. Working on weapons certainly was an opportunity that presented itself when I was getting my degree in the late 80s. I do not want to create weapons because I would have no direct control over whether those weapons were limited to truly righteous causes.
Hey, if you want a guaranteed private mail service then you should be willing to pay more for it. If there really is that demand out there then the free market will set the price and folks who care will voluntarily comply.
I don't think society has any legitimate interest at stake here that is not covered by allowing the free market to set prices for human eggs. It should be interesting to see what egg buyers will place real $ value on.
You say test and test again. I say that this is true only when the cost of an outage outweighs the cost of testing. What does this one hour, once per year really cost wikipedia?
This is one more reason that we should move ahead with the green (no greenhouse gases) technology of nuclear fission based electricity generation. One of the classic arguments against fission reactors is waste containment. Now that problem is behind us. Race ahead, my brothers, to a greener future.
The US government has done many awful and unjust things but it is a beacon of human rights when compared to the Peoples Republic of China.
What's happens to US citizens when they criticize the US government? What happens to Chinese citizens when they criticize the current government of China?
An honest answer to this test should quiet the post we will see here today. Somebody is going to apologize for the atrocities of the Chinese government by saying that the US government is no better. I can criticize both the US government and the Chinese government. I don't fear any reprisal from the US government for that criticism. Chinese citizens can have their lives taken away or be imprisoned for little more than a charge of 'creating instability'.
Yes, there are many shameful episodes in US history. The best means of ending atrocities, however, is to shine a bright light on them and shame them for all the world to see. That's my technique. Yours seems to be to stick your head in the sand and let the slaughter continue.
Shame on you China for censoring dissent and running over the heads of your children with tanks in Tiananmen. Listen to me China, I am a free man and I say SHAME!
This will work for a short time but it is a certainty that there are females out there now that can detect and prefer the fertile male partners over the infertile male partners. Natural selection will favor the resulting offspring that all will inherit this stronger ability to select the fertile males. Then this technique will be, ahem, neutered. Read The Beak Of The Finch if you do not believe me. It has a chapter devoted to the long term ineffectiveness of pesticides.
The USA trying to force other countries to think like them is as inflexible as china government. Instead, you should learn with a civilization thousands of years older than the US.
So, by your argument, USA citizens are in no position to judge China. We are unqualified by virtue of the fact that the Chinese civilization is older than the USA civilization. I guess I'll just sit back, smile, and learn the next time the cultural revolution or the Tiananmen Square massacre roll by on my TV screen. Those were both great opportunities to envy the Chinese legal system.
I don't think Chinese leadership is inflexible by western standards. Rather, I think they're completely pragmatic and utilitarian. If Google were to make it worth their while, they'd probably be willing to negotiate, however, I don't think Google's willing to go as far as that takes. "Flexible" is a relative term.
Are you defending pragmatic utilitarianism as a basis for government law? What do you say about the moral implications of not respecting Freedom Of Speech?
You are making my point for me. Dr's are running everything and programmers are 'overhead'. I think that will keep really great programmers away and that increases the pain associated with healthcare IT development.
Great software developers entering the field today aspire to work on pop culture technology like Facebook, Google, and CG animated film production. Who does that leave to work on hospital IT? Does hospital IT pay well enough to compete with the sexy IT jobs?
In the late 90's our startup had HP as a customer for a new on-line product. One day, about six months after they had become a customer, we get a call saying our product does not work. At the end of a SIX HOUR support call, I got on a plane for a cross-country flight because we just could not duplicate or figure out the problem. At 7:00 AM that morning I arrive, and at about 7:03 AM had the problem figured out. HP had recently made a change to their nework removing the browser ID string when employees were surfing the net. Our product needed that information for some processing. Even though the error message was CLEARLY being displayed, not once in the previous day's support call did this get mentioned. "Oh, that happens all the time, it happens with all sorts of applications, so we just ignore it." We had a fix in place by 10 AM and I was back on a cross country flight that afternoon.
All because the customer ignored an error message.
I have two questions for you: 1. Why does your application care about the browser ID string so much that it is unusable when there is an unexpected value? 2. Why didn't your application phone home with the higher error levels so the application experts (i.e. you) could diagnose the problem?
It's funny that you blame this problem on your customer. Is this startup you were working for still in business?
Isn't cloud computing a better angle on energy efficient computing than trying to optimize the power usage of any one computer? Most computers are very under utilized and suck up power doing nothing. Cloud based computers get allocated to the next user when they fall idle so you get more useful computation per watt of energy burned. That seems smarter than going after energy efficiency for any one computer and then letting it burn that smaller amount of energy while sitting, for the most part, idle.
There is a big different between Clipper Chip's failure in the USA and what is going on in Iran. Clipper Chip failed because it was openly and publicly challenged by US citizens. None of those citizens were beaten, jailed, or murdered for protesting Clipper. Can you say that the same right to protest will be respected in Iran under the current government?
Installs in Silverlight but doesn't require additional software?
Huh? That's full-on doublespeak.
No, that's merely assuming Microsoft will start bundling Silverlight with all new versions of Windows/IE sometime in the future. And given their history, particularly that of the.NET framework itself, that's a very reasonable assumption.
MSFT will never bundle Silverlight with IE or Windows. They've spent the last decade being sued in every anti-trust court in the world because they bundled IE with Windows. They won't make that mistake again.
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So you have overwhelming evidence of evolution at the molecular level, they're forced to admit that it's happening, reluctantly, but their new goal is that they want overwhelming evidence of new organs.
I would like to see studies supporting this overwhelming evidence.
What always ends up being the case is that natural selection, a perfectly fine method for ecosystem management, is the cause, never what most people think of evolution as such as genetic changes enabling traits that did not previously exist in the population.
Natural selection is brilliant. A minority population has a trait that enables it to better survive than the majority population: majority diminishes, minority increases. Beautiful.
Shovas,
Can you imagine any physical evidence that would ever change your mind about true evolution (Speciation, new traits, etc)?
Examples like this show natural selection in practice. You don't have to wait thousands of years to see Evolution. It is happening all around you everyday. Superweeds are a predictable outcome of pesticide usage.
Palm has a lot of talented employees, .
Not anymore they don't. I'm a hiring manager in Silicon Valley and I can tell you that any Palm engineer with sense has been interviewing and most have gotten away already.
There are lots of high tech workers that read slashdot. I'm one of them. I decided, while at university, that I was not going to spend my life building weapons. Working on weapons certainly was an opportunity that presented itself when I was getting my degree in the late 80s. I do not want to create weapons because I would have no direct control over whether those weapons were limited to truly righteous causes.
Do you work on weapons? Do you share my concerns?
Apparently, the free market of consumers has put no value on this aspect of Palm.
Hey, if you want a guaranteed private mail service then you should be willing to pay more for it. If there really is that demand out there then the free market will set the price and folks who care will voluntarily comply.
I don't think society has any legitimate interest at stake here that is not covered by allowing the free market to set prices for human eggs. It should be interesting to see what egg buyers will place real $ value on.
You say test and test again. I say that this is true only when the cost of an outage outweighs the cost of testing. What does this one hour, once per year really cost wikipedia?
I doubt anyone lost their job over this. What is the real cost of a 1 hour global outage for wikipedia if it only occurs once per year?
This is one more reason that we should move ahead with the green (no greenhouse gases) technology of nuclear fission based electricity generation. One of the classic arguments against fission reactors is waste containment. Now that problem is behind us. Race ahead, my brothers, to a greener future.
The US government has done many awful and unjust things but it is a beacon of human rights when compared to the Peoples Republic of China.
What's happens to US citizens when they criticize the US government? What happens to Chinese citizens when they criticize the current government of China?
An honest answer to this test should quiet the post we will see here today. Somebody is going to apologize for the atrocities of the Chinese government by saying that the US government is no better. I can criticize both the US government and the Chinese government. I don't fear any reprisal from the US government for that criticism. Chinese citizens can have their lives taken away or be imprisoned for little more than a charge of 'creating instability'.
So, how do we break the cycle? I am citizen of the world. I condemn injustice wherever it happens, in either China or the USA.
Yes, there are many shameful episodes in US history. The best means of ending atrocities, however, is to shine a bright light on them and shame them for all the world to see. That's my technique. Yours seems to be to stick your head in the sand and let the slaughter continue.
Shame on you China for censoring dissent and running over the heads of your children with tanks in Tiananmen. Listen to me China, I am a free man and I say SHAME!
This will work for a short time but it is a certainty that there are females out there now that can detect and prefer the fertile male partners over the infertile male partners. Natural selection will favor the resulting offspring that all will inherit this stronger ability to select the fertile males. Then this technique will be, ahem, neutered. Read The Beak Of The Finch if you do not believe me. It has a chapter devoted to the long term ineffectiveness of pesticides.
The USA trying to force other countries to think like them is as inflexible as china government. Instead, you should learn with a civilization thousands of years older than the US.
So, by your argument, USA citizens are in no position to judge China. We are unqualified by virtue of the fact that the Chinese civilization is older than the USA civilization. I guess I'll just sit back, smile, and learn the next time the cultural revolution or the Tiananmen Square massacre roll by on my TV screen. Those were both great opportunities to envy the Chinese legal system.
I don't think Chinese leadership is inflexible by western standards. Rather, I think they're completely pragmatic and utilitarian. If Google were to make it worth their while, they'd probably be willing to negotiate, however, I don't think Google's willing to go as far as that takes. "Flexible" is a relative term.
Are you defending pragmatic utilitarianism as a basis for government law? What do you say about the moral implications of not respecting Freedom Of Speech?
You are making my point for me. Dr's are running everything and programmers are 'overhead'. I think that will keep really great programmers away and that increases the pain associated with healthcare IT development.
Would participation in the union be compulsory for the programmers?
probably whispered "union" and he and all his close contacts were immediately fired.
Are you advocating that software developers form a union?
Great software developers entering the field today aspire to work on pop culture technology like Facebook, Google, and CG animated film production. Who does that leave to work on hospital IT? Does hospital IT pay well enough to compete with the sexy IT jobs?
In the late 90's our startup had HP as a customer for a new on-line product. One day, about six months after they had become a customer, we get a call saying our product does not work. At the end of a SIX HOUR support call, I got on a plane for a cross-country flight because we just could not duplicate or figure out the problem. At 7:00 AM that morning I arrive, and at about 7:03 AM had the problem figured out. HP had recently made a change to their nework removing the browser ID string when employees were surfing the net. Our product needed that information for some processing. Even though the error message was CLEARLY being displayed, not once in the previous day's support call did this get mentioned. "Oh, that happens all the time, it happens with all sorts of applications, so we just ignore it." We had a fix in place by 10 AM and I was back on a cross country flight that afternoon. All because the customer ignored an error message.
I have two questions for you:
1. Why does your application care about the browser ID string so much that it is unusable when there is an unexpected value?
2. Why didn't your application phone home with the higher error levels so the application experts (i.e. you) could diagnose the problem?
It's funny that you blame this problem on your customer. Is this startup you were working for still in business?
Isn't cloud computing a better angle on energy efficient computing than trying to optimize the power usage of any one computer? Most computers are very under utilized and suck up power doing nothing. Cloud based computers get allocated to the next user when they fall idle so you get more useful computation per watt of energy burned. That seems smarter than going after energy efficiency for any one computer and then letting it burn that smaller amount of energy while sitting, for the most part, idle.
There is a big different between Clipper Chip's failure in the USA and what is going on in Iran. Clipper Chip failed because it was openly and publicly challenged by US citizens. None of those citizens were beaten, jailed, or murdered for protesting Clipper. Can you say that the same right to protest will be respected in Iran under the current government?
Installs in Silverlight but doesn't require additional software?
Huh? That's full-on doublespeak.
No, that's merely assuming Microsoft will start bundling Silverlight with all new versions of Windows/IE sometime in the future. And given their history, particularly that of the .NET framework itself, that's a very reasonable assumption.
MSFT will never bundle Silverlight with IE or Windows. They've spent the last decade being sued in every anti-trust court in the world because they bundled IE with Windows. They won't make that mistake again.
If you follow your logic to the extreme then we should close the borders and allow zero immigration. Is that what you advocate?