Well, it was described as an incinerator, so the energy input is probably thermal, part of the thermal degradation they are using.
It may be that getting ANYTHING out of trash is a bargain. But once again, overstating your results to make 'green' not just good but profitable is a loser, and it causes us common folk to be suspicious of these claims, and we start to doubt the science. Next thing you know, we want proofs.
That's bad, right? We should just trust those people... Right?
Of course, the cards are 50-ohm, and the t-connectors (and BNC Connectors) are also 50-ohm.
It's not resistance. It's impedance. Impedance.
Even when we told them to please at least take out the little scrap of 50-ohm cable to give it a fair chance, it still was a bad setup. Impedance mismatches just kill thinnet. RG-59 is just not useful for more than a short distance, and even then it is marginal to poor. Crank up the traffic and it dies. Collisions from reflections, cards dropping off, it's just unworkable. For 25ft or so it is not too bad. After 100ft, you are just dead, lucky to get good connections. Having your server NIC disconnect releatedly is not the way to go.
Of these were the nimrods that added extensions from the t-connectors since the coax wasn't long enough to reach the workstation, kept trying to slip in Arcnet hubs to solve the problems, and draped the coax over EVERY flourescent lamp in the ceiling, like it was on purpose. And grounded the ceiling grid to the electrical panel. Neutral was not bonded correctly, and I got bit with 90 volts the first time up to look at the hub they hid in there. At first I thought I was getting caught on something sharp. Took a week for their electrician to figure it out, and only after he got bit too did he try working on it. Checked every ballast first. Fine.
This is nothing compared to the Appletalk installs I saw in schools. Scary.
I remember SMC. Does their HPNA stuff work better than their 10/100 switches? Had a lot of complaints about those.
Seems like an awfully expensive way to make a point though... You have to get them from some grey-market place, cause I see them selling for $60-70-80 each anywheres else.
"It is perfectly reasonable to use RAM as a filesystem cache"
Especially if you can tolerate losing data in a power failure, or just plain old system halt.
And that never happens to Linux machines, much less Windows 7 machines.
Smartcache used to be manageable, sort of. Sounds like it's pretty aggressive now.
Write caching is the next step, where it really, really hurts.
I asked my Linux buddy about this, and yep, he sees 80-90% of his 8GB of RAM in use on his Windows 7 machine. With a browser instance and Freecell open, full-on Aero, and nothing else except corporate-mandated Symantec 'protection'. He's interested in this all fo a sudden. 5-6GB file caching for this? He's shocked, shocked!
Somehow, using all available RAM for file caching seems to me to be leading to a potential RAM-thrash as you load up some useful applications. So please, educate me, and explain how this is not a problem. I can hammer my XP machine here with 3 big virtual machines and Lotus Notes/McAfee hogging 500MB in a 4GB machine, and it still has some 500-600MB RAM left over. No big performance problems. I have more trouble with performance when I load/.
"The issue is that new applicants coming out school have more experience with.NET, Java"
Um, sure they have experience in school. But they don't have, in general, 'more experience' if they haven't yet had a job.
And yes, if they are competing with COBOL programmers, there's a good chance they have the skills, just not the experience, that the COBOL guys don't have. You COBOL guys can learn Java, I know it. You already know about quality coding, probably. If not, well...
How many postings have you seen with qualifications "Windows and Linux administration, PC and printer troubleshooting, desktop support, website support, and Java." Pus. Looking for an out-of-work web designer who had to manage his own worksation and a few others, hoping to get a web designer at admin wages. A pox on them all.
I was this close (THIS CLOSE) to taking a plum job, turns out they actually wanted an HTML coder who also could support the web app, i.e. talk to users and figure out how to solve their problems. We had a great discussion on the problem of finding someone who can code and communicate with users, and the hiring manager was pretty frustrated at not finding anyone. She couldn't get the requester to accept me with the promise that I would catch on to ther HTML pretty quickly. When pressed, he started expanding the requirements - Java, ASP, etc. The hiring manager apologized to me, and I check in with her occasionally. Feature creep affects recruiting too. This alone can drive older applicants out.
Me? I'm lucky. I pass for 10 years younger than I am, and I no longer tell them when I graduated from school. I'll be going back for a degree, and I probably won't list a 2012 graduation then either. It will be obvious I'm a 'life-long learner'. Codeword for 'retraining'.
The quick Google search I did filtered out the results for speedskating... That stripped away over 200,000 duplicative results.
I found 4 'studies', and 5 'reports' about air quality in ice arenas.
Of the studies, the 1999 Stockholm report and the 1997 Air & Waste Management studies actually had quantitative data and conclusions based on that data. The other reports were full of interesting statements and conclusions. Among them was a quick explanation of how a propane-powered Zamboni "could" emit more CO when cold, and after warming up "could" overheat and then "would" produce more NO2 via nitric acid interaction. It set up potential conditions ("could") and then made them the assumption ("would"). Bad science, guys. Clean up your act. Make some measurements. Most of the studies I saw took anecdotal accounts and extrapolated to widespread impacts.
Of the reports, most were examples of moderately sensational journalism. One was pretty good, from ESPN:60. the CBC report I considered a study. It had data. Most of the reports focused on anecdotes, which while useful, doesn't shed much light on both unreported and potential problems, unless you count the 'this could happen to you' style as sufficient to qualify as reporting on the danger.
Yes, malfunctioning machines seem to be implicated in anywhere from 4 to 50 incidents a year in the U.S., depending on how you read the reports, and affecting up to 2000 people.
The single factor mmentioned the LEAST in these reports and studies is the generally poor air quality in arenas, probably due to the cost of air exchange, cooling costs, and sometimes simple ignorance of air handling methods and the need.
I'm not a player, so I don't spend that much time in arenas. But I'm getting the impression that malfunctions are the primary cause.
I remember going to Colby College's arena when it had chicken wire above the boards, and a sawdust pit for the visting team's bench. I remember that Zamboni showing exhaust fumes, just a little, and it was an old open-hopper model. The Zamboni at the UMaine arena, I dont recall ever seeing visible exhaust. At professional games and tournaments, I don't recall seeing exhaust, nor at a couple of private schools I went to see games and practices at. Of course, abscence of visible exhaust doesn't mean anything, but I would expect chronically manfunctioning engines to show some signs, and that would be one.
Overall, the Olympics problem seems to be warm corners and maybe driving, but of course electric surfacers will be the future. It's just money. But there aren't many credible reports of people keeling and dying over in arenas, at least damned few.
"Kingston is revealed as simply a vendor that re-marks other people's chips in its own packaging"
Since when is this news? Isn't this known as Kingston's business model since forever?
At least I've never known any different. I just trusted them to have better than average quality product, execpt for high-end desktop or notebook memory, where they were merely average.
Apparently I've been fortunate. I've been to a LOT of hockey games, and never had trouble with the fumes. I sat on the front row for over 200 college hockey games, and no issue. Usually no fumes.
It may be that there are malfunctioning Zamboni machines out there, and those need to be repaired. But the 'green' push is just about CO2 and being politically correct, not about any widespread or even uncommon CO danger. Pure nonsense, that.
Now, as an aside, making an electrically-driven Zamboni is nontrivial. Those are relatively heavy machines, some include a water heater, and the cold climate makes batteries less useful. All this conspires to make for a difficult design - big battery pack, big motors, high demand, cold, not an easy thing.
And the comment earlier about how the Zamboni left slush in the corner of the straight... Well, sometimes it's the driver. Sometimes it's the ice.
Somehow, this actually seems like a performance problem unrelated to electric or propane.
And of course, we know that propane cars are essentially pollution-free. Right? Propane forklifts are safe enough to use in warehousesM.
... has everyone forgotten the dreaded Seagate 'stiction' problems? And those fun fixes? I was told they were due to contamination, but found out later, not so. But I banged my share of them around just to get them running long enough to copy off the data. Ah, Ghost.
Or the Miniscribe brick scandal, which not a quality control problem, illustrates how your favorite drive manufacturer can become a casualty of even bad accounting?
Is any drive manufacturer immune to problems? Nope.
I had to put in another ethernet card in the Novell server and route the lab through it to find the problem. A few hours with Lanalyzer, and I finally figured out what the traffic was. More buffers to make the lab network live long enough for me to get there, and I caught the little buggers playing away. The server just got slow when the card borked. At least the scheduling software didn't crash anymore. It took longer to recover the database than the kids did to hose the network AGAIN. grrr...
I convinced the principal to just give them some detention. And we embarked on the campaign to lock down the lab machines. The beginning of a two-year cat-and-mouse game with the brighter students. Whoever came up with the idea of teaching them Turbo Pascal with the network libraries available was naive. They wrote a great network password stealer in two weeks. Hilarity ensured.
I'm interested in the comment earlier that science should only be done in metric.
Even in high school in the early 70s, we used metric in any lab. I've never seen ounces used in any lab class.
And getting used to metric is indeed a pain, and one I would need total immersion to succeed at. My wife uses a digital scale to measure food with that turns on in metric mode. She knows her gram equivalents now, but I just haven't bothered. I can grok ski jumping at 100m being about a football field long, but working out home runs in metric is no fun at all. Ninety feet is what, 27.43 meters? This doesn't improve my understanding of baseball. Rounding the distance to first base to 27m would destroy the game, unless maybe you reduced the distance from the pitching rubber to home plate to 17m, since the current distance is the subject of some conjecture on measuring errors, and shortening it some 2 1/4 ft might give the pitchers an advantage to equalize the shorter distance to first, but we are distubing the rules too much and will just have to live with 27.43m, and 17.98m. More problems. Ask the Toronto Blue Jays.
But the metric question in the U.S. is slowly becoming moot. Most of my car's fasteners are metric, certainly the electronics stuff I putz with is metric, and metrci will win, Some day. We wi\ll adapt
This was such a great product it drove Apple's share price up amost 150% in a few months. And then drove it down almost 30% from before.
Such a great product the leftovers were sold by liquidators. Apple screwed that up by not crushing the last 5,000 or so. That liquidator is actually still in business, wanna buy a nonworking apple-anything? They got em!
The Lisa was such a pile it forced Apple to bail and expedite the Macintosh, which seems to have been the desperate answer to save the company from certain failure. So, if you look at it that way, it saved the company by giving the Mac team the chance to deliver.
But the Lisa clearly is Numero Uno for Apple failures. So far as I know, Apple didn't even use them internally. Pure pus.
The Catholic Church seems to have sprung from the Apostolic churches. It does predate what we know as the Protestant Church.
However, to assume theCcatholic Church is mor fundamentally Christian than the Protestant Church is to rely merely on age, or in other words who was first.
Martin Luther challenged the Catholic Church in the most significant way - by challenging its adherence to Scripture. The Catholic Church, I believe, fails to adhere to Scripture, even its own, and so is in error in significant ways.
No church is perfect, but what we think of as evangelical churches are largely if not exclusively Protestant, and I believe we are more closely in line with what Scripture teaches than the Catholic Church is. There are more teachings than the two I mentioned that illustrate the differences, and for me the shortcomings, of Catholicism.
Without trying to define 'more Christian' in some limited way, I belong to a church that I believe adheres to Scripture and follows Christ more closely than the one I left. I may well find another that is closer still, but I will not look until I realize that my church is failing in some way. My previous one did.
I was raised in the Catholic faith and traditions. I am not ignorant of them. My questioning Catholicism came after I truly accepted Christ into heart, and not immediately after.
If Catholicism should base its claim of being the one true church on that of precedence, then consider the churches mentioned in the New testament. We have glimmers of how they were organized, operated, and believed. Catholicism departs from this in significant ways, as I proposed on just two items.
But access to Scripture and training in reading and understanding it is not one of Catholicism's strong points.
And I take my beliefs to a relatively extreme position, admittedly. Catholicsm is to Christianity much as Mormonism is. The beliefs differ significantly enough that there is good cause for me to state that they are incompatible. If you want more details, ask.
Well, since we're both on Slashdot, you're apparently just as lazy as I am.
And was my post in any way inaccurate or false? I'm just responding to the general issue of why we have such aches and pains, and why our bodies seem so ill-suited to modern life in general, and indeed to our entire existence.
It's not uncommon to respond to the underlying question as well.
More to the point, though, consider how you might design a human. Please start with some other form of life, since evoltion is presumed to be the mechanism by which you will have to develop your protypical human being. Most scientists will start with bacteria-like organisms, but go ahead and take a shortcut to, say, fish or reptiles. Or use some creativity and try birds. See how you make a 'better' human in some rational way. And then watch how everyone else will discredit your design as lacking.
We are not perfect, but we work.
ps- what about Slashdot rules out stupid? Association with you? I'm ok with that, but then again...
"The point is, evolution in schools has become much more a political thing than a scientific thing"
The problem is, our schools are tesching too many political things, and not enough necessary things.
We don't need the Planned Parenthood International plan to teach 10-year olds about the joys of sex. We need to teach 10-year olds how to do math, read, speak, write, and begin to understand how our nation was formed and why. And a lot of other things.
But teaching them sex, literally teaching them sex? They are 10 years old. How do they legally or morally actually engage in sex? Let it go, they will get plenty of that either from their parents, of failing that as they go to biology class in middle school. 5th grade is much more basic than that.
And teaching them Global Warming/Climate Change, socialism, etc. is nothing but religion by another name. If you intend to teach it, at least be honest and teach the totality of it, including the questions. No, wait, 10 is too young to try to understand the implications of competing scientific thought. Let it go until these skulls full of mush are capable of honest discussion and debate.
Sheesh.. Politics in schools should be a subject, not a method.
As an aside, you should not confuse the Catholic Church with Christianity. They differ on significant issues of faith and belief, and are not equivalent, any more than Islam is like Christianity because it mentiones Jesus.
Flame on, but transubstantiation and confession are only two principles of the Catholic Church that Protestant Christians do not accept. These two religions are different and incompatible. Just the way it is.
If there is a logic the the existence of the physical Universe, it is not yet entirely apparent or understood. Ask the physicists working out string theory. Most of it seems as made up as Creationism.
Again, if we have to be able to explain and prove EVERTHING, science comes to a standstill.
We do NOT have to explasin everything. But as humans, we sure do want to.
It should be fairly obvious that we weren't designed to sit in a chair 8 hours a day, nor slouch on a sofa another 6 hours each night, nor repeatedly do any number of things we do as civilized beings. No surprise we get aches and pains, and our skeleton fails so quickly.
Don't blame the design, blame the user. Oh, have I heard that somewhere before?
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On one hand, what possible use is a phone that actually doesn't work?
On the other hand, what fun is it to play with an obvious iPhone knockoff?
See? I could have been an economist... ''other hand'... In fact,
I might actually be one now...
Well, it was described as an incinerator, so the energy input is probably thermal, part of the thermal degradation they are using.
It may be that getting ANYTHING out of trash is a bargain. But once again, overstating your results to make 'green' not just good but profitable is a loser, and it causes us common folk to be suspicious of these claims, and we start to doubt the science. Next thing you know, we want proofs.
That's bad, right? We should just trust those people... Right?
So I go to this site, and I get these conversions:
Naptha; 1,200 Gal = 6,900 lbs
Kerosene; 3,700 Gal = 25,000 lbs
Diesel (as fuel Oil); 6,900 Gal = 51,000 lbs
Fuel Oil; 3,00 Gal = 23,000 lbs
Total: 168,000 pounds; 84 tons.
84% efficiency. Not counting the ash.
Or not.
Like how I comma everything? Metric is overrated...
Yes, they thought they were smart.
Of course, the cards are 50-ohm, and the t-connectors (and BNC Connectors) are also 50-ohm.
It's not resistance. It's impedance. Impedance.
Even when we told them to please at least take out the little scrap of 50-ohm cable to give it a fair chance, it still was a bad setup. Impedance mismatches just kill thinnet. RG-59 is just not useful for more than a short distance, and even then it is marginal to poor. Crank up the traffic and it dies. Collisions from reflections, cards dropping off, it's just unworkable. For 25ft or so it is not too bad. After 100ft, you are just dead, lucky to get good connections. Having your server NIC disconnect releatedly is not the way to go.
Of these were the nimrods that added extensions from the t-connectors since the coax wasn't long enough to reach the workstation, kept trying to slip in Arcnet hubs to solve the problems, and draped the coax over EVERY flourescent lamp in the ceiling, like it was on purpose. And grounded the ceiling grid to the electrical panel. Neutral was not bonded correctly, and I got bit with 90 volts the first time up to look at the hub they hid in there. At first I thought I was getting caught on something sharp. Took a week for their electrician to figure it out, and only after he got bit too did he try working on it. Checked every ballast first. Fine.
This is nothing compared to the Appletalk installs I saw in schools. Scary.
I remember SMC. Does their HPNA stuff work better than their 10/100 switches? Had a lot of complaints about those.
Seems like an awfully expensive way to make a point though... You have to get them from some grey-market place, cause I see them selling for $60-70-80 each anywheres else.
I've seen it tried. It didn't work.
10Base-2 (thinnet) cards use 50 ohm connectors. Reflections and signal loss at every terminator, T-connector, and card.
Maybe for 100ft and 3-4 cards, but the errors and collisions kill it.
You cannot use RG-59 (CATV COAX) in any useful fashion for networking. Don't bother thinking about it any more.
Pull CAT-5 or better. Bite the bullet. Ignore the coax.
Even if it's RG-6 or whatever, if it's F connectors (screw-on) forget about it.
Now, if by some chance, you got RG-58 and BNC connectors, then you can maybe run 10MB over it. Another supreme waste of time.
I suspect all the media convertors that claimed to drive 100MB over wacko coax are finally gone, since none worked worth a damn.
And if you've got so much coax, you can use one as a pull string. At least for one run. You might be able to bribe a buddy to help you. Once.
"It is perfectly reasonable to use RAM as a filesystem cache"
Especially if you can tolerate losing data in a power failure, or just plain old system halt.
And that never happens to Linux machines, much less Windows 7 machines.
Smartcache used to be manageable, sort of. Sounds like it's pretty aggressive now.
Write caching is the next step, where it really, really hurts.
I asked my Linux buddy about this, and yep, he sees 80-90% of his 8GB of RAM in use on his Windows 7 machine. With a browser instance and Freecell open, full-on Aero, and nothing else except corporate-mandated Symantec 'protection'. He's interested in this all fo a sudden. 5-6GB file caching for this? He's shocked, shocked!
Somehow, using all available RAM for file caching seems to me to be leading to a potential RAM-thrash as you load up some useful applications. So please, educate me, and explain how this is not a problem. I can hammer my XP machine here with 3 big virtual machines and Lotus Notes/McAfee hogging 500MB in a 4GB machine, and it still has some 500-600MB RAM left over. No big performance problems. I have more trouble with performance when I load /.
"The issue is that new applicants coming out school have more experience with .NET, Java"
Um, sure they have experience in school. But they don't have, in general, 'more experience' if they haven't yet had a job.
And yes, if they are competing with COBOL programmers, there's a good chance they have the skills, just not the experience, that the COBOL guys don't have. You COBOL guys can learn Java, I know it. You already know about quality coding, probably. If not, well...
How many postings have you seen with qualifications "Windows and Linux administration, PC and printer troubleshooting, desktop support, website support, and Java." Pus. Looking for an out-of-work web designer who had to manage his own worksation and a few others, hoping to get a web designer at admin wages. A pox on them all.
I was this close (THIS CLOSE) to taking a plum job, turns out they actually wanted an HTML coder who also could support the web app, i.e. talk to users and figure out how to solve their problems. We had a great discussion on the problem of finding someone who can code and communicate with users, and the hiring manager was pretty frustrated at not finding anyone. She couldn't get the requester to accept me with the promise that I would catch on to ther HTML pretty quickly. When pressed, he started expanding the requirements - Java, ASP, etc. The hiring manager apologized to me, and I check in with her occasionally. Feature creep affects recruiting too. This alone can drive older applicants out.
Me? I'm lucky. I pass for 10 years younger than I am, and I no longer tell them when I graduated from school. I'll be going back for a degree, and I probably won't list a 2012 graduation then either. It will be obvious I'm a 'life-long learner'. Codeword for 'retraining'.
The quick Google search I did filtered out the results for speedskating... That stripped away over 200,000 duplicative results.
I found 4 'studies', and 5 'reports' about air quality in ice arenas.
Of the studies, the 1999 Stockholm report and the 1997 Air & Waste Management studies actually had quantitative data and conclusions based on that data. The other reports were full of interesting statements and conclusions. Among them was a quick explanation of how a propane-powered Zamboni "could" emit more CO when cold, and after warming up "could" overheat and then "would" produce more NO2 via nitric acid interaction. It set up potential conditions ("could") and then made them the assumption ("would"). Bad science, guys. Clean up your act. Make some measurements. Most of the studies I saw took anecdotal accounts and extrapolated to widespread impacts.
Of the reports, most were examples of moderately sensational journalism. One was pretty good, from ESPN:60. the CBC report I considered a study. It had data. Most of the reports focused on anecdotes, which while useful, doesn't shed much light on both unreported and potential problems, unless you count the 'this could happen to you' style as sufficient to qualify as reporting on the danger.
Yes, malfunctioning machines seem to be implicated in anywhere from 4 to 50 incidents a year in the U.S., depending on how you read the reports, and affecting up to 2000 people.
The single factor mmentioned the LEAST in these reports and studies is the generally poor air quality in arenas, probably due to the cost of air exchange, cooling costs, and sometimes simple ignorance of air handling methods and the need.
I'm not a player, so I don't spend that much time in arenas. But I'm getting the impression that malfunctions are the primary cause.
I remember going to Colby College's arena when it had chicken wire above the boards, and a sawdust pit for the visting team's bench. I remember that Zamboni showing exhaust fumes, just a little, and it was an old open-hopper model. The Zamboni at the UMaine arena, I dont recall ever seeing visible exhaust. At professional games and tournaments, I don't recall seeing exhaust, nor at a couple of private schools I went to see games and practices at. Of course, abscence of visible exhaust doesn't mean anything, but I would expect chronically manfunctioning engines to show some signs, and that would be one.
Overall, the Olympics problem seems to be warm corners and maybe driving, but of course electric surfacers will be the future. It's just money. But there aren't many credible reports of people keeling and dying over in arenas, at least damned few.
Oh well.
"Kingston is revealed as simply a vendor that re-marks other people's chips in its own packaging"
Since when is this news? Isn't this known as Kingston's business model since forever?
At least I've never known any different. I just trusted them to have better than average quality product, execpt for high-end desktop or notebook memory, where they were merely average.
Apparently I've been fortunate. I've been to a LOT of hockey games, and never had trouble with the fumes. I sat on the front row for over 200 college hockey games, and no issue. Usually no fumes.
It may be that there are malfunctioning Zamboni machines out there, and those need to be repaired. But the 'green' push is just about CO2 and being politically correct, not about any widespread or even uncommon CO danger. Pure nonsense, that.
Now, as an aside, making an electrically-driven Zamboni is nontrivial. Those are relatively heavy machines, some include a water heater, and the cold climate makes batteries less useful. All this conspires to make for a difficult design - big battery pack, big motors, high demand, cold, not an easy thing.
And the comment earlier about how the Zamboni left slush in the corner of the straight... Well, sometimes it's the driver. Sometimes it's the ice.
Somehow, this actually seems like a performance problem unrelated to electric or propane.
And of course, we know that propane cars are essentially pollution-free. Right? Propane forklifts are safe enough to use in warehousesM.
Yep. Never heard of anyone getting those bricks recognized on boot.
... has everyone forgotten the dreaded Seagate 'stiction' problems? And those fun fixes? I was told they were due to contamination, but found out later, not so. But I banged my share of them around just to get them running long enough to copy off the data. Ah, Ghost.
Or the Miniscribe brick scandal, which not a quality control problem, illustrates how your favorite drive manufacturer can become a casualty of even bad accounting?
Is any drive manufacturer immune to problems? Nope.
That's an app someone needs to write. In a hurry. Sure would save some time.
Suppose it will be in beta forever?
Little snots.
I had to put in another ethernet card in the Novell server and route the lab through it to find the problem. A few hours with Lanalyzer, and I finally figured out what the traffic was. More buffers to make the lab network live long enough for me to get there, and I caught the little buggers playing away. The server just got slow when the card borked. At least the scheduling software didn't crash anymore. It took longer to recover the database than the kids did to hose the network AGAIN. grrr...
I convinced the principal to just give them some detention. And we embarked on the campaign to lock down the lab machines. The beginning of a two-year cat-and-mouse game with the brighter students. Whoever came up with the idea of teaching them Turbo Pascal with the network libraries available was naive. They wrote a great network password stealer in two weeks. Hilarity ensured.
At least I got paid. But it was a long two years.
IPX. Good and bad. Doom. Argggh....
I'm interested in the comment earlier that science should only be done in metric.
Even in high school in the early 70s, we used metric in any lab. I've never seen ounces used in any lab class.
And getting used to metric is indeed a pain, and one I would need total immersion to succeed at. My wife uses a digital scale to measure food with that turns on in metric mode. She knows her gram equivalents now, but I just haven't bothered. I can grok ski jumping at 100m being about a football field long, but working out home runs in metric is no fun at all. Ninety feet is what, 27.43 meters? This doesn't improve my understanding of baseball. Rounding the distance to first base to 27m would destroy the game, unless maybe you reduced the distance from the pitching rubber to home plate to 17m, since the current distance is the subject of some conjecture on measuring errors, and shortening it some 2 1/4 ft might give the pitchers an advantage to equalize the shorter distance to first, but we are distubing the rules too much and will just have to live with 27.43m, and 17.98m. More problems. Ask the Toronto Blue Jays.
But the metric question in the U.S. is slowly becoming moot. Most of my car's fasteners are metric, certainly the electronics stuff I putz with is metric, and metrci will win, Some day. We wi\ll adapt
How did the Lisa not get first place?
This was such a great product it drove Apple's share price up amost 150% in a few months. And then drove it down almost 30% from before.
Such a great product the leftovers were sold by liquidators. Apple screwed that up by not crushing the last 5,000 or so. That liquidator is actually still in business, wanna buy a nonworking apple-anything? They got em!
The Lisa was such a pile it forced Apple to bail and expedite the Macintosh, which seems to have been the desperate answer to save the company from certain failure. So, if you look at it that way, it saved the company by giving the Mac team the chance to deliver.
But the Lisa clearly is Numero Uno for Apple failures. So far as I know, Apple didn't even use them internally. Pure pus.
Your definition of 'fundamental' is misapplied.
The Catholic Church seems to have sprung from the Apostolic churches. It does predate what we know as the Protestant Church.
However, to assume theCcatholic Church is mor fundamentally Christian than the Protestant Church is to rely merely on age, or in other words who was first.
Martin Luther challenged the Catholic Church in the most significant way - by challenging its adherence to Scripture. The Catholic Church, I believe, fails to adhere to Scripture, even its own, and so is in error in significant ways.
No church is perfect, but what we think of as evangelical churches are largely if not exclusively Protestant, and I believe we are more closely in line with what Scripture teaches than the Catholic Church is. There are more teachings than the two I mentioned that illustrate the differences, and for me the shortcomings, of Catholicism.
Without trying to define 'more Christian' in some limited way, I belong to a church that I believe adheres to Scripture and follows Christ more closely than the one I left. I may well find another that is closer still, but I will not look until I realize that my church is failing in some way. My previous one did.
I was raised in the Catholic faith and traditions. I am not ignorant of them. My questioning Catholicism came after I truly accepted Christ into heart, and not immediately after.
If Catholicism should base its claim of being the one true church on that of precedence, then consider the churches mentioned in the New testament. We have glimmers of how they were organized, operated, and believed. Catholicism departs from this in significant ways, as I proposed on just two items.
But access to Scripture and training in reading and understanding it is not one of Catholicism's strong points.
And I take my beliefs to a relatively extreme position, admittedly. Catholicsm is to Christianity much as Mormonism is. The beliefs differ significantly enough that there is good cause for me to state that they are incompatible. If you want more details, ask.
Well, since we're both on Slashdot, you're apparently just as lazy as I am.
And was my post in any way inaccurate or false? I'm just responding to the general issue of why we have such aches and pains, and why our bodies seem so ill-suited to modern life in general, and indeed to our entire existence.
It's not uncommon to respond to the underlying question as well.
More to the point, though, consider how you might design a human. Please start with some other form of life, since evoltion is presumed to be the mechanism by which you will have to develop your protypical human being. Most scientists will start with bacteria-like organisms, but go ahead and take a shortcut to, say, fish or reptiles. Or use some creativity and try birds. See how you make a 'better' human in some rational way. And then watch how everyone else will discredit your design as lacking.
We are not perfect, but we work.
ps- what about Slashdot rules out stupid? Association with you? I'm ok with that, but then again...
"The point is, evolution in schools has become much more a political thing than a scientific thing"
The problem is, our schools are tesching too many political things, and not enough necessary things.
We don't need the Planned Parenthood International plan to teach 10-year olds about the joys of sex. We need to teach 10-year olds how to do math, read, speak, write, and begin to understand how our nation was formed and why. And a lot of other things.
But teaching them sex, literally teaching them sex? They are 10 years old. How do they legally or morally actually engage in sex? Let it go, they will get plenty of that either from their parents, of failing that as they go to biology class in middle school. 5th grade is much more basic than that.
And teaching them Global Warming/Climate Change, socialism, etc. is nothing but religion by another name. If you intend to teach it, at least be honest and teach the totality of it, including the questions. No, wait, 10 is too young to try to understand the implications of competing scientific thought. Let it go until these skulls full of mush are capable of honest discussion and debate.
Sheesh.. Politics in schools should be a subject, not a method.
As an aside, you should not confuse the Catholic Church with Christianity. They differ on significant issues of faith and belief, and are not equivalent, any more than Islam is like Christianity because it mentiones Jesus.
Flame on, but transubstantiation and confession are only two principles of the Catholic Church that Protestant Christians do not accept. These two religions are different and incompatible. Just the way it is.
You're just moving the question to "where did THEY come from?"
Nice move. Got a follow-up?
If there is a logic the the existence of the physical Universe, it is not yet entirely apparent or understood. Ask the physicists working out string theory. Most of it seems as made up as Creationism.
Again, if we have to be able to explain and prove EVERTHING, science comes to a standstill.
We do NOT have to explasin everything. But as humans, we sure do want to.
It should be fairly obvious that we weren't designed to sit in a chair 8 hours a day, nor slouch on a sofa another 6 hours each night, nor repeatedly do any number of things we do as civilized beings. No surprise we get aches and pains, and our skeleton fails so quickly.
Don't blame the design, blame the user. Oh, have I heard that somewhere before?