Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 500
"besides when was the last time anyone ran an applet these days?" - I did today. The best chemistry stuff on the web runs on Java applets. Jmol and Marvinsketch anyone ?
"besides when was the last time anyone ran an applet these days?" - I did today. The best chemistry stuff on the web runs on Java applets. Jmol and Marvinsketch anyone ?
You can see the black and white widgets with Firefox 3.5.
You must not be an American. Or know very many protestants.
Almost everyone I know is protestant. The vast vast vast majority of them accept Genesis as the literal description of creation.
You must only know evangelical protestants. Episcopalians have no trouble with evolution. The Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology. I don't think Methodists have much of a problem with evolution either.
I am an atheist with degrees in the biological sciences. I have no problem with Christians who believe that god guided evolution. The fundamental source of variation at work in evolutionary processes is mutation. This is mediated by radiation and other quantum mechanical processes. So evolution is funamentally stochastic. It can have many possible outcomes dependant on what mutations are presented when and where. A sane and scientific Christian believes that God guided it by presenting the mutations required to bring about the world He has chosen. While I interpret it on the basis of the Many Worlds Interpretation of QM.
The two of us live in the same scientific world and we are likely to agree on the same evidence and its interpretation in evolutionary theory. No my problem is with the YEC's and ID people.
The YEC's are obvious raving loony fundies, the American Taleban. While IDers try to subvert the theory of evolution by by presenting non science (nonsense) as science.
Exactly and it's a damn set easier to alter program setups in Gnome gconf that in the Windows registry.
Furthermore in a modern Linux distribution like Ubuntu no one needs to use the command line to run and administer the system. Just some experienced users with a Unix like OS background know that you can do a lot of things a lot faster with it.
I do remember getting a few "exe" programs downloaded to my HD while visiting some shadier sites. I just laugh, delete it, and move on.
On Linux I once had a site try to download a
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