...and VB was their ultimate weapon. Too bad it was usurped by Microsoft. Otherwise, VB would have died a long time ago. Instead of viruses killing the creator of VB, VB ended up being the proginator of many viruses.
Your great argument convinced me that I should now believe in unicorns, fairies, Odin, Rah, the Greys and the Ogopogo since there is nothing that disproves their existence.
And now that I think about it, I vote that a day was 1 minute during the times of Genesis. Would that not cleaning explain how people lived for hundreds of years? Go ahead and disprove my 'theory'!
"And God said, 'let there be light', and there was light. And He created the Earth and saw that it was good..." Don't forget that Genesis claims he did it in one day. The evidence that the universe is about ~13 billions years old and the earth is about ~5 billion year old is quite solid. Furthermore, there isn't really anything that shows that Earth was 'created' by a supernatural being. From everything we know, Earth formed out of an accretion disk. My 'faith' comes from visible evidence. Not wild conjecture.
You're welcome to bring the argument of 'faith' in science, but it's a different type of faith. I have faith that if I hold a lead ball, and let go of it, it will fall towards the ground. Science is based on study and empirical evidence. Should the evidence be contrary to established theories, then either the evidence is wrong, or the theory is wrong. BTW, you do understand the difference between a hypothesis and a (scientific) theory, right? If not, Google's your friend.
'Established' theories have been rewritten or even destroyed by evidence and we progressed thanks to that. I've heard it said that science is continuously trying to prove itself wrong. So, once again, looking at the evidence surrounding us, I see a rational (and testable) explanation for biodiversity, diseases, stars and most things around me. What is the rational explanation for believing in a supernatural creator?
> You want the cultists to leave you alone? Then stop trying to extend the scientific into the non-falsifiable.
Give me a break! Scientists are simply trying to understand how the universe works. If someone makes a wild assertion (teapot in space), does it not make sense to try to empirically determine if they are right or wrong?
Cultist insist that there is this great daddy in the sky and get angry when we disagree with them. The same cultist get angry when a method is applied to prove or disprove their point. You can't blame them for getting angry. The more empirical evidence is gathered about the universe around us, the more remote big-daddy-in-the-sky becomes.
Face it. You can chant as many verses are you want but there is not a single shred of evidence for a god. Religion means accepting someone's work on (ahem) faith against every indication to the contrary.
Go back two or three years, and I think you had the same situation when KDE 4 came out. Everyone and their dogs hated it and 'switched' to Gnome. Sounds like it's reverse that's happening here.
For what it's worth, I appreciate it when developers exit the status-quo and create something new. Remember when Firefox first came out? Then Chrome? Diversity is a good thing in my opinion.
I may be the only programmer in the world that is willing to admit it, but having programmed in Java since version 1.0, I really like the syntax. And yes, I do find Java a lot of fun, especially for serious enterprise development.
The thing I presently hate the most about Java is that new 'Oracle' thing.
And here I was hoping to post a Linux Distro App on Windows Marketplace to install on users phone. The app would have provided security, stability and performance to the device. Oh well. Scratch that idea!
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What's the point of a machine that can't play media? What am I supposed to do with it? Play games?
I take offence to 'Every man and his dog seems to own one.' Are you stating that I'm neither a man nor a dog? What does that make me?
Never used it. Skipped from Gnome 2 to KDE 3 (now 4). All I'm going to say is that I'm glad that I can chose my desktop environment on *NIX.
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Where's the Linux version?
Oh wait! Found it!
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-19.0&os=linux
Did you go through the Texas education system?
...and VB was their ultimate weapon. Too bad it was usurped by Microsoft. Otherwise, VB would have died a long time ago. Instead of viruses killing the creator of VB, VB ended up being the proginator of many viruses.
VB was created by a company named Tripod and later purchased by MS.
Your great argument convinced me that I should now believe in unicorns, fairies, Odin, Rah, the Greys and the Ogopogo since there is nothing that disproves their existence.
And now that I think about it, I vote that a day was 1 minute during the times of Genesis. Would that not cleaning explain how people lived for hundreds of years? Go ahead and disprove my 'theory'!
"And God said, 'let there be light', and there was light. And He created the Earth and saw that it was good..."
Don't forget that Genesis claims he did it in one day. The evidence that the universe is about ~13 billions years old and the earth is about ~5 billion year old is quite solid. Furthermore, there isn't really anything that shows that Earth was 'created' by a supernatural being. From everything we know, Earth formed out of an accretion disk. My 'faith' comes from visible evidence. Not wild conjecture.
You're welcome to bring the argument of 'faith' in science, but it's a different type of faith. I have faith that if I hold a lead ball, and let go of it, it will fall towards the ground. Science is based on study and empirical evidence. Should the evidence be contrary to established theories, then either the evidence is wrong, or the theory is wrong. BTW, you do understand the difference between a hypothesis and a (scientific) theory, right? If not, Google's your friend.
'Established' theories have been rewritten or even destroyed by evidence and we progressed thanks to that. I've heard it said that science is continuously trying to prove itself wrong. So, once again, looking at the evidence surrounding us, I see a rational (and testable) explanation for biodiversity, diseases, stars and most things around me. What is the rational explanation for believing in a supernatural creator?
> You want the cultists to leave you alone? Then stop trying to extend the scientific into the non-falsifiable.
Give me a break! Scientists are simply trying to understand how the universe works. If someone makes a wild assertion (teapot in space), does it not make sense to try to empirically determine if they are right or wrong?
Cultist insist that there is this great daddy in the sky and get angry when we disagree with them. The same cultist get angry when a method is applied to prove or disprove their point. You can't blame them for getting angry. The more empirical evidence is gathered about the universe around us, the more remote big-daddy-in-the-sky becomes.
Face it. You can chant as many verses are you want but there is not a single shred of evidence for a god. Religion means accepting someone's work on (ahem) faith against every indication to the contrary.
> God, our all-powerful creator.
Then please explain god and see how well Occam's Razor holds up. ;)
As long as the US is run by lawyers, there's no way politicians are going to do away with the patent system. Katching!
You beat me to it. I hope that this will doom to all the ridiculous software patents and their lawsuit.
That begs the question: why run Windows if you're going to run those WM? It's like putting a square peg in a round hole.
...change explorer.exe to what exactly? KDE? Gnome? XFCE?
Tough I agree with your statement, it's not an argument for _constant_ Internet connection.
I don't know about you, but I would be concerned about the effects of a resonance clock mesh cascade failure.
I know a guy who had to deal with a resonance cascade and it wasn't pretty.
Take a look at the pic.
Doesn't seem to work on my Mac or Linux box. Do you have a .deb or .rpm I could use?
She must be quite the 'hacker' to bring down the Internet for a whole country.
Go back two or three years, and I think you had the same situation when KDE 4 came out. Everyone and their dogs hated it and 'switched' to Gnome. Sounds like it's reverse that's happening here. For what it's worth, I appreciate it when developers exit the status-quo and create something new. Remember when Firefox first came out? Then Chrome? Diversity is a good thing in my opinion.
I may be the only programmer in the world that is willing to admit it, but having programmed in Java since version 1.0, I really like the syntax. And yes, I do find Java a lot of fun, especially for serious enterprise development. The thing I presently hate the most about Java is that new 'Oracle' thing.
And here I was hoping to post a Linux Distro App on Windows Marketplace to install on users phone. The app would have provided security, stability and performance to the device. Oh well. Scratch that idea!
I would be happy to show you, but my account cuts me off automatically when I hit my download li---
I have a 500MB plan, and it works for me. I'm cheap. Of course, I don't have a Windows phone.