seriously though, why? he's always been a pretty reasonable, liberal kinda guy. while he's "old", he's a pretty smart dude and created some of the most awesome music ever.
honestly, his new album is freakin' great pop music (with a lot of depth) too!:)
the only place i'll drink guinness is Fado in Chicago. While it's completely a pseudo-Irish pub, they import the Guinness directly from the St. James Gate Brewery weekly and it's fresh. It's noticeably better than any other Guinness you can find around Chicago. Served at the proper temperature and proper draught.
although i haven't yet been to ireland myself, i took along a friend of mine who has been to the actual brewery and he grudgingly agreed that it was precisely the same as having it in ireland--which is also a good sign for me.
Accepting evolution as true assumes that some humans are less evolved than others, which allows for value assignment.
This couldn't be a more inaccurate statement. That is a bastardized misconceived skewing of evolution.
You're completely mixing up racist-political agendas with scientific theory. If anything, by your acceptance of such *strange* illogic, showing that the oldest evolved humans are in Africa shows that Africans are MORE evolved than the rest of the world.
while evolution can absolutely be used to extrapolate back to a primordial soup (and some trial experiments--I believe in France about 30 years ago--WERE successfully in generating some amino acids present in life in a simulated "primordial soup"), evolution is much more about the process of the development of life on earth.
i don't think so whatsoever. the good thing about science is it systematically corrects itself via peer review when contrary evidence arrives--even if "correction" means scrapping the whole thing. That's what WORKS about science.
that said, when the entire fossil record we have supports evolution and predictions are made and proven true, I don't think I need to worry about semantics. It's fact.
Some predictions made based on evolution:
Darwin predicted, based on homologies with African apes, that human ancestors arose in Africa. That prediction has been supported by fossil and genetic evidence (Ingman et al. 2000).
Theory predicted that organisms in heterogeneous and rapidly changing environments should have higher mutation rates. This has been found in the case of bacteria infecting the lungs of chronic cystic fibrosis patients (Oliver et al. 2000).
Predator-prey dynamics are altered in predictable ways by evolution of the prey (Yoshida et al. 2003).
Ernst Mayr predicted in 1954 that speciation should be accompanied with faster genetic evolution. A phylogenetic analysis has supported this prediction (Webster et al. 2003).
Several authors predicted characteristics of the ancestor of craniates. On the basis of a detailed study, they found the fossil Haikouella "fit these predictions closely" (Mallatt and Chen 2003).
Evolution predicts that different sets of character data should still give the same phylogenetic trees. This has been confirmed informally myriad times and quantitatively, with different protein sequences, by Penny et al. (1982).
Insect wings evolved from gills, with an intermediate stage of skimming on the water surface. Since the primitive surface-skimming condition is widespread among stoneflies, J. H. Marden predicted that stoneflies would likely retain other primitive traits, too. This prediction led to the discovery in stoneflies of functional hemocyanin, used for oxygen transport in other arthropods but never before found in insects (Hagner-Holler et al. 2004; Marden 2005).
i'm not trying to be insulting, but brutally honest here: you don't seem to understand the scientific method and are taking a very narrow definition of "theory" to keep you locked into your system of belief.
compare a scientific theory to a religious belief.
a currently upheld scientific theory has NO contradictory evidence and usually, lots of supporting evidence.
religious believe has NO evidence WHATSOEVER, except a self-referencing book and has, throughout the centuries been contradicted by observation.
The definition of Theory as it pertains to evolution: "the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another." Your definition of theory: "a wild guess"
see what's going on with your view of the word "theory"???
ignorance, for one. ignorance itself i find intolerable.
religious extremism, for another. we know where religious extremism takes us. i could make a case for even moderate religious people *enabling* the beliefs of fundamentalists by providing a rational face on top of a completely irrational system of belief.
wasted time, for yet another. why waste time following a ton of beliefs made up by less-enlightened, ancient man when you could be contributing to more important causes?
and finally, the concept of "i'll never use this so why should i learn a little bit about it" smacks of a 13 year old kid in 7th grade willfully closing his/her mind.:)
So is relativity. It's still considered the best explanation of the dynamics of moving bodies.
people love to get hung up on semantics that they really don't even understand. the truth is that the Theory of Evolution is as much fact as the notion that the earth revolves around the sun. there is no contradictory evidence and mountains of overwhelming supporting evidence.
if there wasn't some unsubstantiated book that contradicted the concept of evolution, you'd believe it in a second, just as you believe the earth revolves around the sun.
But, who knows...I guess I often think of something I heard someone say: "If humans evolved from apes...why are there still apes?"
Simply because evolution doesn't work that way. Just because a mutation occurs and creates a branch in the evolutionary tree, doesn't necessarily mean that the ancestor must die. A balance can be achieved among the mutated branch and the original species.
in this day and age, we're still experiencing the same thing Copernicus faced 500 years ago. Will we EVER learn a thing?
evolution is as much fact as the earth revolving around the sun. it doesn't take a genius to understand that--some basic damn education in school would help!!!
Unfortunately, that seems to be an image the press pushes on the world. It is not true. We were definitely taught propaganda at times in school, but one thing we've always learned is that this country was NOT founded on Christianity, but FREEDOM of religion. It isn't perfect and the religious right makes asses out of themselves, and unfortunately the entire country, but most of us don't believe in Christianity being central to the government--even Christian Americans.
Thank you for the information! It was more helpful than the Sales support we received from Wonderware.:)
Actually, I would refuse to pay a license per amount of points. That is completely an arbitrary way to make more money. The only thing the amount of points should affect is disk space and possibly CPU power.
Numerous companies do not charge for a license based on how many points you have and I find the practice of charging for points reprehensible. Similar to the concept of an ISP charging per packet transmitted. What conceivable extra software engineering work do they need to do if you buy a system and enter 10,000 points as opposed to buying a system with 1,000 points?
The rough query times are about what we achieve on an order of magnitude larger database.
Of course, Wonderware doesn't meet our needs because we have numerous other requirements including no single-point-of-failure distributed architecture, 100% up time (which we've achieved for 5 years now), and other performance issues.
We stopped at the investigation phase. They couldn't answer simple questions and were going to charge us if we needed to add more points. Unacceptable.
SCADA is very versatile and powerful. Are you feeding data in mostly from local or remote RTU's?
You do understand that SCADA is a general term which describes a type of system, right? A SCADA system could be designed (and has been):) that is not versatile and powerful. Sorry to be nitpicky, but I'm just trying to understand what you mean.
Anyway, we work with a much larger SCADA system vendor, which actually has the SCADA market share for our industry. Wonderware would never come close to providing the functionality we'd need in our industry and we do not want to be tied to a Microsoft platform.
Wonderware was a candidate for a smaller sub-system, but we've decided to go with another system that's working out very well--is more open for development purposes and is generally better designed. I wasn't on the smaller project, but I was on the big system project and continue to maintain and develop for it.
SCADA is a fun area to work in for geeks--loads of administration, development, design opportunities in various techologies including, but not limited to, LANs, WANs, telecommunications, backend/frontend development, database maintenance, etc.
How does archiving work? What is the performance of querying on a large table? (Hundreds of millions of rows) Can you hook into the database with any language/package you desire or proprietary tools only?
Do you actually charge a license fee PER point?
We had a need for a smaller SCADA system in our company and Wonderware could not answer these questions (except for the fee per point, which they actually charge PER POINT). This department is going with a different product.
Unless you really want to do a LOT of work. This sounds very much like a SCADA system. There are vendors of such systems. Most of the realtime databases are designed to stay in a large, proprietary, RAM database which is occasionally dumped to disk for backup purposes.
In order to process so many points realtime, it usually will have to be in RAM for performance reasons.
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well i guess it just depends on your PoV. :) i think flaming pie was much better--although chaos was very good.
oh man, i have to take you to task for this.
how about:
band on the run, ebony & ivory, my brave face, here today (ode to john lennon), junior's farm.
nothing like presenting a lop-sided argument. while i love lennon's music, mccartney made a LOT of great music.
he also made at least 4 classic albums: Ram, Band on the Run, Tug of War, and Flaming Pie. They're all albums of depth, quality, and craftsmanship.
harrison is another one you short changed, but we'll leave it at that.
seriously though, why? he's always been a pretty reasonable, liberal kinda guy. while he's "old", he's a pretty smart dude and created some of the most awesome music ever.
:)
honestly, his new album is freakin' great pop music (with a lot of depth) too!
the only place i'll drink guinness is Fado in Chicago. While it's completely a pseudo-Irish pub, they import the Guinness directly from the St. James Gate Brewery weekly and it's fresh. It's noticeably better than any other Guinness you can find around Chicago. Served at the proper temperature and proper draught.
although i haven't yet been to ireland myself, i took along a friend of mine who has been to the actual brewery and he grudgingly agreed that it was precisely the same as having it in ireland--which is also a good sign for me.
So, not bad news for me--it's spectacular.
i was gonna scream "noooo!" because the web site said you could possibly ruin a pint of guinness...which i consider to be a federal offense!
:D
homeland security? not as important as a pint.
Accepting evolution as true assumes that some humans are less evolved than others, which allows for value assignment.
This couldn't be a more inaccurate statement. That is a bastardized misconceived skewing of evolution.
You're completely mixing up racist-political agendas with scientific theory. If anything, by your acceptance of such *strange* illogic, showing that the oldest evolved humans are in Africa shows that Africans are MORE evolved than the rest of the world.
you appear completely out of touch so i suppose there's no point in telling you that i already provided references.... google can help you.
:)
btw, you're pretty much wrong on every point even though you attempted to sound right.
you're pretty naive if you think my comment hasn't gotten TONS of Troll/Flamebait mods as well.
It wasn't a troll/flamebait. It was my honest opinion and I wanted to express my views.
while evolution can absolutely be used to extrapolate back to a primordial soup (and some trial experiments--I believe in France about 30 years ago--WERE successfully in generating some amino acids present in life in a simulated "primordial soup"), evolution is much more about the process of the development of life on earth.
it is science. it is true. it is fact.
I present: the missing link.
You must have missed it.
I present: the missing link.
You must have missed it.
thanks. you're right of course, rushed to post! ;)
that said, when the entire fossil record we have supports evolution and predictions are made and proven true, I don't think I need to worry about semantics. It's fact.
Some predictions made based on evolution:
i'm not trying to be insulting, but brutally honest here: you don't seem to understand the scientific method and are taking a very narrow definition of "theory" to keep you locked into your system of belief.
compare a scientific theory to a religious belief.
a currently upheld scientific theory has NO contradictory evidence and usually, lots of supporting evidence.
religious believe has NO evidence WHATSOEVER, except a self-referencing book and has, throughout the centuries been contradicted by observation.
The definition of Theory as it pertains to evolution: "the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another."
Your definition of theory: "a wild guess"
see what's going on with your view of the word "theory"???
ignorance, for one. ignorance itself i find intolerable.
:)
religious extremism, for another. we know where religious extremism takes us. i could make a case for even moderate religious people *enabling* the beliefs of fundamentalists by providing a rational face on top of a completely irrational system of belief.
wasted time, for yet another. why waste time following a ton of beliefs made up by less-enlightened, ancient man when you could be contributing to more important causes?
and finally, the concept of "i'll never use this so why should i learn a little bit about it" smacks of a 13 year old kid in 7th grade willfully closing his/her mind.
So is relativity. It's still considered the best explanation of the dynamics of moving bodies.
people love to get hung up on semantics that they really don't even understand. the truth is that the Theory of Evolution is as much fact as the notion that the earth revolves around the sun. there is no contradictory evidence and mountains of overwhelming supporting evidence.
if there wasn't some unsubstantiated book that contradicted the concept of evolution, you'd believe it in a second, just as you believe the earth revolves around the sun.
But, who knows...I guess I often think of something I heard someone say: "If humans evolved from apes...why are there still apes?"
Simply because evolution doesn't work that way. Just because a mutation occurs and creates a branch in the evolutionary tree, doesn't necessarily mean that the ancestor must die. A balance can be achieved among the mutated branch and the original species.
in this day and age, we're still experiencing the same thing Copernicus faced 500 years ago. Will we EVER learn a thing?
evolution is as much fact as the earth revolving around the sun. it doesn't take a genius to understand that--some basic damn education in school would help!!!
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I don't think it ever was the most popular podcast in iTunes. It didn't receive its title from itunes alone, but from Guardian.co.uk downloads....
Unfortunately, that seems to be an image the press pushes on the world. It is not true. We were definitely taught propaganda at times in school, but one thing we've always learned is that this country was NOT founded on Christianity, but FREEDOM of religion. It isn't perfect and the religious right makes asses out of themselves, and unfortunately the entire country, but most of us don't believe in Christianity being central to the government--even Christian Americans.
Thank you for the information! It was more helpful than the Sales support we received from Wonderware. :)
Actually, I would refuse to pay a license per amount of points. That is completely an arbitrary way to make more money. The only thing the amount of points should affect is disk space and possibly CPU power.
Numerous companies do not charge for a license based on how many points you have and I find the practice of charging for points reprehensible. Similar to the concept of an ISP charging per packet transmitted. What conceivable extra software engineering work do they need to do if you buy a system and enter 10,000 points as opposed to buying a system with 1,000 points?
The rough query times are about what we achieve on an order of magnitude larger database.
Of course, Wonderware doesn't meet our needs because we have numerous other requirements including no single-point-of-failure distributed architecture, 100% up time (which we've achieved for 5 years now), and other performance issues.
This is VERY insightful and I'd like to hire you. :) This is EXACTLY what well designed SCADA systems do.
We stopped at the investigation phase. They couldn't answer simple questions and were going to charge us if we needed to add more points. Unacceptable.
:) that is not versatile and powerful. Sorry to be nitpicky, but I'm just trying to understand what you mean.
SCADA is very versatile and powerful. Are you feeding data in mostly from local or remote RTU's?
You do understand that SCADA is a general term which describes a type of system, right? A SCADA system could be designed (and has been)
Anyway, we work with a much larger SCADA system vendor, which actually has the SCADA market share for our industry. Wonderware would never come close to providing the functionality we'd need in our industry and we do not want to be tied to a Microsoft platform.
Wonderware was a candidate for a smaller sub-system, but we've decided to go with another system that's working out very well--is more open for development purposes and is generally better designed. I wasn't on the smaller project, but I was on the big system project and continue to maintain and develop for it.
SCADA is a fun area to work in for geeks--loads of administration, development, design opportunities in various techologies including, but not limited to, LANs, WANs, telecommunications, backend/frontend development, database maintenance, etc.
How does archiving work? What is the performance of querying on a large table? (Hundreds of millions of rows) Can you hook into the database with any language/package you desire or proprietary tools only?
Do you actually charge a license fee PER point?
We had a need for a smaller SCADA system in our company and Wonderware could not answer these questions (except for the fee per point, which they actually charge PER POINT). This department is going with a different product.
Sorry, but be very cautious of Wonderware.
Unless you really want to do a LOT of work. This sounds very much like a SCADA system. There are vendors of such systems. Most of the realtime databases are designed to stay in a large, proprietary, RAM database which is occasionally dumped to disk for backup purposes.
In order to process so many points realtime, it usually will have to be in RAM for performance reasons.