Firefox 3 has never crashed on me. Not once in the time I've been using it, which has been over a month now.
Then you're probably not using JVMs and othe rplugins. FF is relatively stable, but once you use multiple tabs that load plugins, the fun starts. Running each tab and each plugin in a separate process would be a huge improvement for FF.
Note that these are about the only major questions left in science. OK, and if there's life in other places. The rest is details.
When there were a lot of open questions, "God did it" did make some sense. What are you going to say when these remaining questions are answered in a couple of years or a few decades maybe? "We don't know yet" makes far more sense than "God did it" given the track record of science vs theism.
The Roman Catholic Church tried something similar by keeping their holy texts locked in a (mostly) dead language. The flaw to this was that is was possible to learn the language. Scientology has managed to remove the flaw by replacing the language with a black box.
Interesting thought. That's why Scientology doesn't like their myths exposed and tries to keep it in the hands of their high priests, err, thetans?
Actually virgin conception is the one "miracle" I might believe. They happen from time to time. Heavy petting getting too messy...
Now the interesting thing is how long it takes for weird tales to turn into religion. That seems to depend on how closely you align with other religions. Look at the story of the golden book and the angel Moroni. I'd say a century or so. It seems it was similar for the Bible.
No!!! They were *space ships* that looked somewhat like DC8s. Can we please have a correct scholarly discussion of this matter? This is news for *nerds*, remember?
That's exactly the point. Changing software in military or even space systems isn't exactly trivial, maybe not even possible, plus you need a method to constantly provide (UT1-UTC) to the systems that rely on UT1 (astronomical time) being equal to UTC by less than a second. Like the radio controlled clock in your home. Or the time signal transmitters would have to be redefined not to transmit UTC but some new time scale, which would be a mess for GPS.
UTC without leap seconds is basically TAI (international atomic time) - a strictly linear SI second timescale as precise as we can reproduce it. Just distribute (TAI-UTC) and (UT1-UTC) together with the usual time signals, leave UTC alone (with leap seconds) and you're all set and can use what you need. There is no one time scale; Einstein told us so. Better accept it.
What for? Your OS already uses lots of RAM for write buffering. The write data rate only comes into play when you copy really large files, and it would only speed up things if you added more RAM than your system uses for buffering. In any case it would add a huge amount of cost and complexity. Also consider that batteries are a lot less reliable than electronics, they'd wear out and have to be charged, and you'd have to turn off write back as long as you don't have sufficient charge, which means you need really good charge circuitry that can monitor how much charge you have. That would mean a processor and lots of analog stuff. Batteries are a PITA.
I didn't realize this, but it appears that a lot of prion diseases are fairly recent developments.
People didn't eat as much meat as they do today, didn't live as long, and they certainly didn't feed their livestock with slaughterhouse waste. The latter is what got prions into the food chain in significant amounts.
Problem is, the spinal cord (also infected) of animals is splattered all over the place if the slaughterhouse workers aren't careful. "Stop eating dead cows" would be more appropriate. Of course, since Americans have the "beef is good for you" meme down pat (false, but ingrained by decades of advertising) that's not going to happen.
There was circumstantial (epidemiological) evidence that vCJD appeared mostly (or only, can't remember) in heavy beef consumers. Obviously, you can't *prove* it without experiments. But it has been proven that animals do get infected by feeding them prions from other species so it was assumed that this applies to humans too. Now, being able study the infection in vitro, they should be able to prove which prions can infect humans, and maybe come up with a test that doesn't require dissecting the brain.
Bottom line, science can "prove" (as far as it is possible to "prove" anything outside of mathematics) that almost everything factual written up in the Bible is wrong. Consider for a second that you can't nail a person by the hands - the nails simply slip out when the body weight hangs off the arms. That's been tested numerous times (on fresh cadavers of course.) Or the fact that historians tell us that the Romans never nailed anybody to a cross, they always (as far as the available data shows consistently) tied them to the cross with ropes. Or that they didn't let people die on the cross - they were killed beforehand and then tied up as a deterrent. So... if the central tenet is, umm, untenable, what does that tell you about the reliability of anything that's written in the Bible?
Your belief is wrong. Get over it. Either change your standpoint or be ridiculed for being a flat-earther. Sorry, that's the way it works. Nowhere but in the US, due to its high percentage of evangelical Christians, is creationism so rampant. Creationists are the laughing stock of everybody who understands science and has a scientific worldview, which is incompatible with evangelical Christian beliefs (note how even the catholic church changed their doctrine, although it took them a long time.) News items like the Kansas city school board always make it into the "odd" sections of the press worldwide and everybody rolls their eyes at those backwards USians, clinging to beliefs that most of the world shed a couple of decades or centuries ago. I know that your belief system is ingrained and it's probably too late to change, but if you ignore the facts of life then people don't take you seriously. Don't be angered by that, it's the way it works.
To bring Godwin into play: During the Third Reich, students were taught, umm, slightly different values. And Germany has suffered from some of the results ever since. That's the problem: Just like ducklings (or FLDS members for example), as a child you can be indoctrinated to almost any belief system and it will probably stick. So the question is simply: What is the best belief system that kids should be taught? The answer unfortunately differs significantly between various strata of the American population. Other countries are much more homogeneous in that regard.
Now why does she not believe in evolution with all the background that she has? Because she puts the "information" in the Bible higher than everything else? My humble opinion is that some people are imprinted with a belief system during childhood more than others. I grew up catholic with church every Sunday but at some point of growing up I started to see that the emperor has no clothes.
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Firefox 3 has never crashed on me. Not once in the time I've been using it, which has been over a month now.
Then you're probably not using JVMs and othe rplugins. FF is relatively stable, but once you use multiple tabs that load plugins, the fun starts.
Running each tab and each plugin in a separate process would be a huge improvement for FF.
Here's one excuse: complications when trying to have multiple processes render content on a single window in Mac OS X (mentioned near the end of the tab process isolation section).
Why? Only the active tab needs to render anything.
Note that these are about the only major questions left in science. OK, and if there's life in other places. The rest is details.
When there were a lot of open questions, "God did it" did make some sense. What are you going to say when these remaining questions are answered in a couple of years or a few decades maybe?
"We don't know yet" makes far more sense than "God did it" given the track record of science vs theism.
So perhaps we can send up a hot spammer naked?
Or a hot brain-dead politician?
-5, disgusting.
The Roman Catholic Church tried something similar by keeping their holy texts locked in a (mostly) dead language. The flaw to this was that is was possible to learn the language. Scientology has managed to remove the flaw by replacing the language with a black box.
Interesting thought. That's why Scientology doesn't like their myths exposed and tries to keep it in the hands of their high priests, err, thetans?
A.k.a. lie detector. And we all know how reliable those are...
Actually virgin conception is the one "miracle" I might believe.
They happen from time to time. Heavy petting getting too messy...
Now the interesting thing is how long it takes for weird tales to turn into religion. That seems to depend on how closely you align with other religions. Look at the story of the golden book and the angel Moroni. I'd say a century or so. It seems it was similar for the Bible.
No!!! They were *space ships* that looked somewhat like DC8s.
Can we please have a correct scholarly discussion of this matter? This is news for *nerds*, remember?
No there isn't, but you can make it culminate at noon.
Yes there is: Move to the equator.
I dunno. When it's Miller Time all those other times kinda look alike.
4:20 would be all over the place. Interesting concept.
That's exactly the point. Changing software in military or even space systems isn't exactly trivial, maybe not even possible, plus you need a method to constantly provide (UT1-UTC) to the systems that rely on UT1 (astronomical time) being equal to UTC by less than a second. Like the radio controlled clock in your home. Or the time signal transmitters would have to be redefined not to transmit UTC but some new time scale, which would be a mess for GPS.
UTC without leap seconds is basically TAI (international atomic time) - a strictly linear SI second timescale as precise as we can reproduce it.
Just distribute (TAI-UTC) and (UT1-UTC) together with the usual time signals, leave UTC alone (with leap seconds) and you're all set and can use what you need. There is no one time scale; Einstein told us so. Better accept it.
What for? Your OS already uses lots of RAM for write buffering.
The write data rate only comes into play when you copy really large files, and it would only speed up things if you added more RAM than your system uses for buffering. In any case it would add a huge amount of cost and complexity. Also consider that batteries are a lot less reliable than electronics, they'd wear out and have to be charged, and you'd have to turn off write back as long as you don't have sufficient charge, which means you need really good charge circuitry that can monitor how much charge you have. That would mean a processor and lots of analog stuff.
Batteries are a PITA.
I didn't realize this, but it appears that a lot of prion diseases are fairly recent developments.
People didn't eat as much meat as they do today, didn't live as long, and they certainly didn't feed their livestock with slaughterhouse waste. The latter is what got prions into the food chain in significant amounts.
Problem is, the spinal cord (also infected) of animals is splattered all over the place if the slaughterhouse workers aren't careful.
"Stop eating dead cows" would be more appropriate. Of course, since Americans have the "beef is good for you" meme down pat (false, but ingrained by decades of advertising) that's not going to happen.
There was circumstantial (epidemiological) evidence that vCJD appeared mostly (or only, can't remember) in heavy beef consumers. Obviously, you can't *prove* it without experiments. But it has been proven that animals do get infected by feeding them prions from other species so it was assumed that this applies to humans too. Now, being able study the infection in vitro, they should be able to prove which prions can infect humans, and maybe come up with a test that doesn't require dissecting the brain.
Why is it that creationists are generally unable to have a meaningful discussion about the subject of evolution?
Bottom line, science can "prove" (as far as it is possible to "prove" anything outside of mathematics) that almost everything factual written up in the Bible is wrong. Consider for a second that you can't nail a person by the hands - the nails simply slip out when the body weight hangs off the arms. That's been tested numerous times (on fresh cadavers of course.) Or the fact that historians tell us that the Romans never nailed anybody to a cross, they always (as far as the available data shows consistently) tied them to the cross with ropes. Or that they didn't let people die on the cross - they were killed beforehand and then tied up as a deterrent.
So... if the central tenet is, umm, untenable, what does that tell you about the reliability of anything that's written in the Bible?
No matter what we get this election, we're going to get a douchebag who feels they're above the law in office.
We've had that state of affairs for almost 8 years. Your point?
Your belief is wrong. Get over it. Either change your standpoint or be ridiculed for being a flat-earther.
Sorry, that's the way it works. Nowhere but in the US, due to its high percentage of evangelical Christians, is creationism so rampant. Creationists are the laughing stock of everybody who understands science and has a scientific worldview, which is incompatible with evangelical Christian beliefs (note how even the catholic church changed their doctrine, although it took them a long time.) News items like the Kansas city school board always make it into the "odd" sections of the press worldwide and everybody rolls their eyes at those backwards USians, clinging to beliefs that most of the world shed a couple of decades or centuries ago.
I know that your belief system is ingrained and it's probably too late to change, but if you ignore the facts of life then people don't take you seriously. Don't be angered by that, it's the way it works.
To bring Godwin into play: During the Third Reich, students were taught, umm, slightly different values. And Germany has suffered from some of the results ever since.
That's the problem: Just like ducklings (or FLDS members for example), as a child you can be indoctrinated to almost any belief system and it will probably stick.
So the question is simply: What is the best belief system that kids should be taught? The answer unfortunately differs significantly between various strata of the American population. Other countries are much more homogeneous in that regard.
Yeah, you get modded Troll or Offtopic really quickly with this kind of standpoint.
Now why does she not believe in evolution with all the background that she has? Because she puts the "information" in the Bible higher than everything else?
My humble opinion is that some people are imprinted with a belief system during childhood more than others. I grew up catholic with church every Sunday but at some point of growing up I started to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Isn't one of the more important qualifications of the President to lie convincingly?