How is this ironic? Is it impossible for a person to Beleive and accept science at the same time? Must a person's mind be so confined and small as to be able to contain both world views? Can a man (wor woman) not beleive in God and seek to understand the means by which His creation works?
Faith did not create the computer on your desk. Only the advancement of scientific principals not even addressed in the Bible lead to it's creation. Does the existance of that computer invalidate the existance of God?
Here's a free clue: most scientists are religious people.
I really wish I knew what the hell you are talking about. I've tried to parse your post into some kind of sense but I just can't do it. I can't tell what your position is at all.
Well, there's all those homonid bones we found. Do none of those fit your bill as a transitional form? Or are you looking for some chimaric nightmare with the head of a man stuck on the body of a chimpanzee? Sorry, but evolution doesn't work that way. The closest you will find is Archiopteryx (sp?), the part bird, part reptile fossile.
And more to the point is the fact that the fossile record is very incomplete. It takes a very narrow set of circumstances for a skeleton to get fossilized: it must be burried in sand or mud soon after death, or the scavangers will have scattered it; it must remain burried for a very ling time; it must not be destroyed by gelogic forces. How often does that happen. Consider that thr most abundant fossils are those of the trilobites. Trilobites lived for 250,000,000 years and were a very wide-spread group whio lived in shallow seas (the perfect place to be fossilized, BTW). How many T. Rex's have we found? 18? They walked North America for 3-5 million years.
Most comets spend the majority of their lives out in the Oort cloud, beyond the orbit of Pluto. New comets are constantly being knocked out of the Oort cloud to rain down upon the inner solar system. And we don't know for certain that the mechanism for creating new comets has stopped in the solar system. Are you seriously saying that nothing new has been created since the formation of the solar system?
The Big Bang has nothing to do with Evolution. How about you answer me this: Can God make a rock so big even He can't lift it?
Moon dust. Good straw man. What you forget is that the dust will pack down over time under the gravity of the moon. And that metero impacts will smash the dust into rock. Not to mention the fact that the moon has shown several periods of volcanic activity (cause by metero impacts).
Hoaxes? You mean like those rocks with dinosaur and human footprints side by side that the "Christian scientists" (not "The Curtch of Christ, Scientist") won't let secular sciientists see? Hoaxes are man-made.
Piltdown Man worked because "he" presented the exact chimeric niightmare you seem to demand as a transitional form - half man, half ape.
As for Scriptual perfection, I'll leave the debunking of that to someone who knows Scripture better than I do.
Information Theory doesn't do squat about evolution. The misunderstanding of it seems to bring great joy to detractors of evolution. The assumption that a being must have the genetic information of every species it may give rise to within itself before speciation can occure is laughable. Through the process of corrupted information transferrance (we like to call it "mutation"), new information is constantly being addded to the Gene Pool. Life is not static.
I find it odd that you would be so smug and pompus and yet hide behind the skirts of Anonymous Coward. I'd think that if you really believed iin what you are saying that you'd at least have the guts to put a name on your work.
The ONLY thing that Netscape has over Mozilla (if you want to think of it as "over") is AOL tie-ins. That's it. Between Netscape and its nearest Mozilla counterpart, I've found Mozilla to be much more stable and trouble-free. Most of that trouble coming from the AOL bolt-ons.
Did you even read the article? They stopped a retailer from altering and redistributing iDVD to work on non-Apple DVD burners they (the store) was selling. That has nothing to do with you patching your personal copy.
OSX is the OS that lets you use Apple's hardware. You can't use OSX without an Apple Macintosh. Microsoft Windows works with ANY Intel compatible system, and is Mircosoft's bread and butter (well, Office is). Apple's primary focus is teh hardware, not the software.
And yes they do have the right to tell you what hardware you can and can not use their software on. Don't beleive me? Ask a lawyer. iDVD id bundled for use only with the Apple Superdrive. It's not given away for free to just anybody.
They could have probably done it much more gracefully and in a way that wouldn't piss off the/. crowd.
And cowboys can herd cats. There is nothing Apple could have done that would not have gotten the panty-twist reaction they did get here./. is heavily infested with people that think everything should be free for the taking. Specifically, anything of yours, not theirs. No one exercising any kind of control whatsoever could have escape the wrath of the/. reactionaries.
And you know what? They don't give a wet shit about what the knee-jerk gimmie-gimmies here have to say. No one does. They already know that these people will not buy their products. It's the same as you and I giving a damn about what the "Stephen King is Dead" trolls have to say.
If i'm parsing your post correctly, you have not seen software that only works with certain brands/models of hardware?
You've been using a computer for what, ten minutes? I've got a box full of games that no longer work because the video card they were customized for is long gone from my system. I've got sound editing software that no longer works because I don't have a SoundBlaster 16 in my system.
It's called "bundling" and hardware manufacturers do it all the time.
iDVD is bundled with the Mac Superdrive. If you want to use iDVD then you need to buy the Superdrive. That's the terms of sale and if you don't like that, well, tough shit.
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Google is "untouchable" because they return good searche results, clearly mark the sponcored links, and provide a free service without resorting to banner ads, or pop-up/pop-under ads. No one (save the die-hard "Windoze SuX0rs" Linux geeks) gives a shit what OS is under the engine. People care that it works.
I want a good rebuild of Ball Blazer. That was my favorite Atari 8-Bit game of all time. There was a Ball Blazer 2000, but it was horrid. Too much energy wasted on eye candy.
Well, that's one reason I reformatted my WinXP systems and went to a dual boot between Win98 (for older games) and Win2K Pro. Most of my time is spent in Win2K, but when I want to play an old DOS/Windows9x game (DoTT, Sam&Max, Tomb Raider, etc...) I boot into Win98.
Sure, it's not the most elegant solution, but it didn't cost me any money (I already had the legal copies of the OSes) and it works.
Sadly, your pitiful post is all too true. But I'd rather pay a little extra to be able to walk down the street a block or two and buy something from a small store, and not have to fight traffic for miles and miles to get to Wal-Mart/KMart/CostCo/etc... But the, I don't drive a car and I like to live my life at a slower, more relaxed pace.
I used to worry about the guy at the porn shop thinking I was a feak for buying the latest copy of "Women of Amish Country" (sexier ankles you have never seen!), but then one day I realized that the slob behind the counter worked there. Who's more the freak?
I'm pretty damned sure I read about this at least a year ago. Not that I think this has ever been on Slashdot before, but I'm sure that I've known this particular piece of trivia for at least a year, maybe more.
Except that the crack dealer does not tell you crack will kill you. These people never lied (to the best of my knowledge) to anyone. They said from day one that MP3 was patented. If anyone is at fault in this it is the people who ran hell bent for leather with MP3 and turned it into the dominant encoding system without looking at what it would cost them.
My mom bought a top-of-the-line Betamax the year before Sony stopped selling them in the US (at the consumer level, anyway). She bought the best VCR you could buy at the time and within a year there wasn't a movie to be rented anywhere.
The thing is 15 years old, or so, and other than a squeak on one of the rollers, it still works perfectly. Not that it gets much use anymore, with no rentals and almost zero availability on blank media.
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How is this ironic? Is it impossible for a person to Beleive and accept science at the same time? Must a person's mind be so confined and small as to be able to contain both world views? Can a man (wor woman) not beleive in God and seek to understand the means by which His creation works?
Faith did not create the computer on your desk. Only the advancement of scientific principals not even addressed in the Bible lead to it's creation. Does the existance of that computer invalidate the existance of God?
Here's a free clue: most scientists are religious people.
I really wish I knew what the hell you are talking about. I've tried to parse your post into some kind of sense but I just can't do it. I can't tell what your position is at all.
- Well, there's all those homonid bones we found. Do none of those fit your bill as a transitional form? Or are you looking for some chimaric nightmare with the head of a man stuck on the body of a chimpanzee? Sorry, but evolution doesn't work that way. The closest you will find is Archiopteryx (sp?), the part bird, part reptile fossile.
- Most comets spend the majority of their lives out in the Oort cloud, beyond the orbit of Pluto. New comets are constantly being knocked out of the Oort cloud to rain down upon the inner solar system. And we don't know for certain that the mechanism for creating new comets has stopped in the solar system. Are you seriously saying that nothing new has been created since the formation of the solar system?
- The Big Bang has nothing to do with Evolution. How about you answer me this: Can God make a rock so big even He can't lift it?
- Moon dust. Good straw man. What you forget is that the dust will pack down over time under the gravity of the moon. And that metero impacts will smash the dust into rock. Not to mention the fact that the moon has shown several periods of volcanic activity (cause by metero impacts).
- Hoaxes? You mean like those rocks with dinosaur and human footprints side by side that the "Christian scientists" (not "The Curtch of Christ, Scientist") won't let secular sciientists see? Hoaxes are man-made.
- Information Theory doesn't do squat about evolution. The misunderstanding of it seems to bring great joy to detractors of evolution. The assumption that a being must have the genetic information of every species it may give rise to within itself before speciation can occure is laughable. Through the process of corrupted information transferrance (we like to call it "mutation"), new information is constantly being addded to the Gene Pool. Life is not static.
I find it odd that you would be so smug and pompus and yet hide behind the skirts of Anonymous Coward. I'd think that if you really believed iin what you are saying that you'd at least have the guts to put a name on your work.And more to the point is the fact that the fossile record is very incomplete. It takes a very narrow set of circumstances for a skeleton to get fossilized: it must be burried in sand or mud soon after death, or the scavangers will have scattered it; it must remain burried for a very ling time; it must not be destroyed by gelogic forces. How often does that happen. Consider that thr most abundant fossils are those of the trilobites. Trilobites lived for 250,000,000 years and were a very wide-spread group whio lived in shallow seas (the perfect place to be fossilized, BTW). How many T. Rex's have we found? 18? They walked North America for 3-5 million years.
Piltdown Man worked because "he" presented the exact chimeric niightmare you seem to demand as a transitional form - half man, half ape.
As for Scriptual perfection, I'll leave the debunking of that to someone who knows Scripture better than I do.
The ONLY thing that Netscape has over Mozilla (if you want to think of it as "over") is AOL tie-ins. That's it. Between Netscape and its nearest Mozilla counterpart, I've found Mozilla to be much more stable and trouble-free. Most of that trouble coming from the AOL bolt-ons.
Did you even read the article? They stopped a retailer from altering and redistributing iDVD to work on non-Apple DVD burners they (the store) was selling. That has nothing to do with you patching your personal copy.
OSX is the OS that lets you use Apple's hardware. You can't use OSX without an Apple Macintosh. Microsoft Windows works with ANY Intel compatible system, and is Mircosoft's bread and butter (well, Office is). Apple's primary focus is teh hardware, not the software.
And yes they do have the right to tell you what hardware you can and can not use their software on. Don't beleive me? Ask a lawyer. iDVD id bundled for use only with the Apple Superdrive. It's not given away for free to just anybody.
And cowboys can herd cats. There is nothing Apple could have done that would not have gotten the panty-twist reaction they did get here. /. is heavily infested with people that think everything should be free for the taking. Specifically, anything of yours, not theirs. No one exercising any kind of control whatsoever could have escape the wrath of the /. reactionaries.
And you know what? They don't give a wet shit about what the knee-jerk gimmie-gimmies here have to say. No one does. They already know that these people will not buy their products. It's the same as you and I giving a damn about what the "Stephen King is Dead" trolls have to say.
The license for iDVD is restricted to being used with Apple's SuperDrive. They made sure to enforce that within their software.
Your comparison with Microsoft is flawed. Microsoft sells software, Apple sells hardware. IDVD exists to promote sales of Apple Superdrives, period.
If i'm parsing your post correctly, you have not seen software that only works with certain brands/models of hardware?
You've been using a computer for what, ten minutes? I've got a box full of games that no longer work because the video card they were customized for is long gone from my system. I've got sound editing software that no longer works because I don't have a SoundBlaster 16 in my system.
It's called "bundling" and hardware manufacturers do it all the time.
iDVD is bundled with the Mac Superdrive. If you want to use iDVD then you need to buy the Superdrive. That's the terms of sale and if you don't like that, well, tough shit.
Google is "untouchable" because they return good searche results, clearly mark the sponcored links, and provide a free service without resorting to banner ads, or pop-up/pop-under ads. No one (save the die-hard "Windoze SuX0rs" Linux geeks) gives a shit what OS is under the engine. People care that it works.
As for the cookie issue, I don't know if I care.
I want a good rebuild of Ball Blazer. That was my favorite Atari 8-Bit game of all time. There was a Ball Blazer 2000, but it was horrid. Too much energy wasted on eye candy.
Windows XP has teh same issues as Win2K with these old games. WinXP does not have DOS level sound drivers.
Well, that's one reason I reformatted my WinXP systems and went to a dual boot between Win98 (for older games) and Win2K Pro. Most of my time is spent in Win2K, but when I want to play an old DOS/Windows9x game (DoTT, Sam&Max, Tomb Raider, etc...) I boot into Win98.
Sure, it's not the most elegant solution, but it didn't cost me any money (I already had the legal copies of the OSes) and it works.
I always thing of that spanking game "Pogo-Pongo" or something, when I think of DDR. It's a WTF? kind of feeling.
Sadly, your pitiful post is all too true. But I'd rather pay a little extra to be able to walk down the street a block or two and buy something from a small store, and not have to fight traffic for miles and miles to get to Wal-Mart/KMart/CostCo/etc... But the, I don't drive a car and I like to live my life at a slower, more relaxed pace.
But only if you pay them $50.00 first.
I used to worry about the guy at the porn shop thinking I was a feak for buying the latest copy of "Women of Amish Country" (sexier ankles you have never seen!), but then one day I realized that the slob behind the counter worked there. Who's more the freak?
I'm pretty damned sure I read about this at least a year ago. Not that I think this has ever been on Slashdot before, but I'm sure that I've known this particular piece of trivia for at least a year, maybe more.
The media companies don't want to have to wait until the ISPs act. They want the freedom to attack anyone they want whenever they want.
It's funny. I never thought that Hollywood and Disneyland would be the forces that drive the USA into becomming a police state. >:(
Wait. GIF isn't dead, is it?
Yiou don't pay for squat. Unless you make MP3 decoders. The license is paid by the manufaturer, not the end user.
Except that the crack dealer does not tell you crack will kill you. These people never lied (to the best of my knowledge) to anyone. They said from day one that MP3 was patented. If anyone is at fault in this it is the people who ran hell bent for leather with MP3 and turned it into the dominant encoding system without looking at what it would cost them.
The don't have to go after everyone. Just the high-profile people.
I give it a Sphinter Factor of 9.5.
My mom bought a top-of-the-line Betamax the year before Sony stopped selling them in the US (at the consumer level, anyway). She bought the best VCR you could buy at the time and within a year there wasn't a movie to be rented anywhere.
The thing is 15 years old, or so, and other than a squeak on one of the rollers, it still works perfectly. Not that it gets much use anymore, with no rentals and almost zero availability on blank media.
I don't know if they decided to. I know that they wanted to at one time. Can't say I'd blame them.
SP3 with Clusters, busboy at Xenu's House Of Clams.