One major issue that many fail to understand is that science cannot define truth. Science and Philosophy are two separate realms. Science is the process of creating and disproving theories based on currently known facts. The important limitation here is "current" and that theories can only be disproven, never proven.
What is the probability that a scientific theory will never be changed or proven incorrect in the future? This is an unanswerable question, as we don't know that which we don't know. We can't even produce a probability of correctness, yet still there is belief that currently held scientific theories are true.
The logically correct conclusion is that belief that current scientific theories are true is as much a matter of faith as belief in a god/gods. Faith that scientific theories will never be changed, faith that humanity will never discover some new fact that changes or invalidates current theories, faith that humans are capiable of discovering everything there is to know about the universe we live in.
Actually, it is fats that produce the quickest feeling of fullness.
Anyone who is interested in relatively up-to-date diet research should check out the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Source. They do a very good job of explaining what dietary research does and does not indicate.
Another vote for WPKG like behavior. WPKG is one of the better OpenSource package management systems available for Windows. It handles everything that I require for enterprise software deployment and management.
$349 covers RHEL for a single, dual socket machine, 30 days of phone support and one year of updates. Support and updates for subsequent years are an additional $349 per year. It is $349 for EACH machine.
Here are more of Red Hat's terms:
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Generally I agree. The current incarnation of XP and Server 2003 are quite stable.
HOWEVER - there is a fundamental problem with the way XP deals with non-responsive network (SMB) shares. I have wasted too much time waiting for Windows to figure out that the share isn't accessable and have crashed explorer.exe on many occasions due to this problem. In extreme cases explorer.exe doesn't come back and refuses to start, requiring a reboot.
I have read in a few blogs that MS is addressing this issue in Vista. I do not understand why it hasn't been fixed in XP, unless there is some fundamental flaw in the XP kernel.
Read both articles! What idiots modified this as insightful and my prior as flamebait? The quality of analysis on Slashdot has gone down to about zero over the past few years.
This study claims that frequency of hurricanes is directly correlated with temperature of the Atlantic. The study made NO claims about "long-term increases in hurricane intensity," and the global warming comment was pure speculation, not backed up by any science included in this study - at least as described by the linked article.
The study ONLY examined data from 1970-2004. The researcher mentions a 75 year cycle, but the NOAA site explains that there are many more. NOAA is also examining all known data and has a detailed explaination of how they reached their conclusion in the above linked FAQ question.
As for the other reply, dismissing data because NOAA is a branch of the present govenment is complete nonsense. If you don't believe the NOAA conclusions then please provide scientific references which show why you believe them not to be true.
The link between rising ocean temperatures and overall climate change remains murky because of the overlap between natural cycles and any global warming. "But if you buy the argument that global warming is causing the increase in sea surface temperatures--and everybody seems to be buying this--then it's a pretty small leap to say global warming is causing this increase [in hurricane frequency]," Curry says. Her team will now focus on clarifying the mechanisms at work in the North Atlantic by separating out the 75-year natural cycle and climate change. "The last peak was in 1950, the next is in 2025," she adds. "We're only halfway up [the cycle] and we're already 50 percent worse [in terms of storms]. To me, that's a compelling issue that needs to be confronted."
"and everybody seems to be buying this" Really? Did they happen to discuss this with someone at the National Hurricane Center? See FAQ question G4, Are we getting stronger and more frequent hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones in the last several years? Which states that "We have not observed a long-term increase in the intensity or frequency of Atlantic hurricanes. Actually, 1991-1994 marked the four quietest years on record (back to the mid-1940s) with just less than 4 hurricanes per year.".
The science seems good, the assumptions relating to global warming aren't.
Forget BPL. It sucks in too many ways and interferes with licensed services.
Universal DSL, fiber, ethernet, or [your favorite physical layer here] would go a long way to avoiding this nonsense. All required services can be run over a data link, but I don't see the carriers supplying this, except for Verizon FIOS.
Google has a lot of PhD's even though they run Linux.
True, but I don't see Google giving away their IP, so how does this apply to the discussion?
Things that costs 1000's of times a typical workers annual salary were NOT being researched until fairly recent times, using the protections that patents supply.
Linksys WRT54G and GS (v4 or prior) running Thibor12 HyperWRT or DD-WRT work great. The Belkin g F5D7230-4 routers can also be setup as AP's with WDS links.
I've found this to be much more reliable and robust than running a wireless card under Linux.
High tech (read highly educated PhD) research is going to be replaced by collaberation? How exactly are these research PhD's going to be paid?
There would be NO financial advantage for a company to spend money on research if the company could just take the product of another company's research as its own, thus leading to no research at all.
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Belief that all currently held scientific theories are true is, in fact, religion. It is a matter of faith as science doesn't deal in truth.
One major issue that many fail to understand is that science cannot define truth. Science and Philosophy are two separate realms. Science is the process of creating and disproving theories based on currently known facts. The important limitation here is "current" and that theories can only be disproven, never proven.
What is the probability that a scientific theory will never be changed or proven incorrect in the future? This is an unanswerable question, as we don't know that which we don't know. We can't even produce a probability of correctness, yet still there is belief that currently held scientific theories are true.
The logically correct conclusion is that belief that current scientific theories are true is as much a matter of faith as belief in a god/gods. Faith that scientific theories will never be changed, faith that humanity will never discover some new fact that changes or invalidates current theories, faith that humans are capiable of discovering everything there is to know about the universe we live in.
Actually, it is fats that produce the quickest feeling of fullness.
Anyone who is interested in relatively up-to-date diet research should check out the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Source. They do a very good job of explaining what dietary research does and does not indicate.
Another vote for WPKG like behavior. WPKG is one of the better OpenSource package management systems available for Windows. It handles everything that I require for enterprise software deployment and management.
$349 covers RHEL for a single, dual socket machine, 30 days of phone support and one year of updates. Support and updates for subsequent years are an additional $349 per year. It is $349 for EACH machine.
Here are more of Red Hat's terms:
Generally I agree. The current incarnation of XP and Server 2003 are quite stable.
HOWEVER - there is a fundamental problem with the way XP deals with non-responsive network (SMB) shares. I have wasted too much time waiting for Windows to figure out that the share isn't accessable and have crashed explorer.exe on many occasions due to this problem. In extreme cases explorer.exe doesn't come back and refuses to start, requiring a reboot.
I have read in a few blogs that MS is addressing this issue in Vista. I do not understand why it hasn't been fixed in XP, unless there is some fundamental flaw in the XP kernel.
Read both articles! What idiots modified this as insightful and my prior as flamebait? The quality of analysis on Slashdot has gone down to about zero over the past few years.
This study claims that frequency of hurricanes is directly correlated with temperature of the Atlantic. The study made NO claims about "long-term increases in hurricane intensity," and the global warming comment was pure speculation, not backed up by any science included in this study - at least as described by the linked article.
The study ONLY examined data from 1970-2004. The researcher mentions a 75 year cycle, but the NOAA site explains that there are many more. NOAA is also examining all known data and has a detailed explaination of how they reached their conclusion in the above linked FAQ question.
As for the other reply, dismissing data because NOAA is a branch of the present govenment is complete nonsense. If you don't believe the NOAA conclusions then please provide scientific references which show why you believe them not to be true.
From TFA:
"and everybody seems to be buying this" Really? Did they happen to discuss this with someone at the National Hurricane Center? See FAQ question G4, Are we getting stronger and more frequent hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones in the last several years? Which states that "We have not observed a long-term increase in the intensity or frequency of Atlantic hurricanes. Actually, 1991-1994 marked the four quietest years on record (back to the mid-1940s) with just less than 4 hurricanes per year.".
The science seems good, the assumptions relating to global warming aren't.
Forget BPL. It sucks in too many ways and interferes with licensed services.
Universal DSL, fiber, ethernet, or [your favorite physical layer here] would go a long way to avoiding this nonsense. All required services can be run over a data link, but I don't see the carriers supplying this, except for Verizon FIOS.
Site showing a graph of U.S. oil production since 1973: www.hubbertpeak.com/us/
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett's congressional peak oil presentation is also quite good.
True, but I don't see Google giving away their IP, so how does this apply to the discussion?
Things that costs 1000's of times a typical workers annual salary were NOT being researched until fairly recent times, using the protections that patents supply.
Exactly. Mod this one up.
Linksys WRT54G and GS (v4 or prior) running Thibor12 HyperWRT or DD-WRT work great. The Belkin g F5D7230-4 routers can also be setup as AP's with WDS links.
I've found this to be much more reliable and robust than running a wireless card under Linux.
Huh??
High tech (read highly educated PhD) research is going to be replaced by collaberation? How exactly are these research PhD's going to be paid?
There would be NO financial advantage for a company to spend money on research if the company could just take the product of another company's research as its own, thus leading to no research at all.
I agree. I set my browsers to use Verdana and Georgia by default on all platforms.
Don't forget Georgia as an on-screen serif font, as it was also created by Matthew Carter specifically for screen use.