Comment Re:Spreadsheets - best and worst thing there is (Score 1) 422
Good grief. Insightful? It's a joke folks!
Comment Re:What a load of crap (Score 1) 680
Fewer. Fewer. Fewer. Fewer. If it can be counted, the word is 'fewer', not 'less'.
Comment You don't say (Score 1) 177
Well, duhhhh. Isn't this what Microsoft does for a living? Haven't they been doing this since the beginning? What's the story here?
Comment Re:unpossible (Score 1) 1343
You didn't return a paper for the misuse of less/fewer?
Comment no hope (Score 1) 303
More idiocy from Minnesota. The wrestler governor, the comedian senator, now this. Geez! There seems to be no hope for these people.
Comment Re:+1 (Score 1) 578
Thanks for not taking offense.
Comment Re:Quit complaining (Score 1) 578
fewer
the word you were needing to use is 'fewer'.
".., the less programmers you have who are
should read
".., the fewer programmers you have who are
The general rule is, if you can count it/them, the correct word is 'fewer', not 'less'.
Sorry. It's just a fetish and pet peeve with me.
Comment 6C Increase By End of Century (Score 1) 746
Interesting. Good to know we have so many climate experts here in Slashdot. Not that it means anything. WAKE UP people!
Comment Re:Why reject just one component? (Score 1) 339
"IF APPLICABLE" is the gotcha there.
Comment Re:Or (Score 1) 237
Your anecdote gives a good idea of what it's like to quit 'cold turkey'. I congratulate you that you had the fortitude to accomplish that. Many smokers have tried multiple times to quit 'cold turkey' as well as programs involving both physical and emotional aids, with little or no success. The federal and state governments see this as a source of revenue, and refuse to recognize their failure to help a large part of their citizenry. Words are cheap, and actions speak much more loudly. Shame on them!
Comment Editing (Score 1) 857
It amazes me that nobody has mentioned how editing impacts this topic. A nicely hand written document may be impressive, but how many of us can actually finish a lengthy document in cursive without wishing we had said something a little differently? A hand-written letter to a friend is infinitely more personal than one from a printer, but here again we may have mis-spelled words and/or grammatical constructs that we may wish we had caught before laying our pen to the paper. The point I'm making is that even for those times when, for whatever reason, we want to produce a hand-written document, it would behoove us to use a word processor or text editor initially for the sake of checking our spelling and editing for proper grammar and context. Print it out or read it directly from the screen, transcribing in long hand to the paper.
Comment Butanol (Score 1) 725
Swift Fuel, eh? The only fuel I know of that replaces gasoline directly and without requiring modification to the automobile is Butanol. Is that what "Swift Fuel" really is?
Submission + - Video: Physics "To The Rescue" In Darfur? (functionalisminaction.com)
IConrad01 writes: "One of the primary arguments against the development of technologies that improve the human mind is a very odd one: that they will further the disparity between the "haves" and the "have-nots". The following video is a very visceral argument against this belief: imagine if instead of .01% of the population being geniuses, we had a mere 10%. With that thought in mind, watch this following video, located at Functionalism In Action — Video: Physics "To The Rescue" in Darfur?"
Submission + - Digging Deeper Beyond Evolution
Herman Cummings writes: "I read an article in The Daily Star, published on September 15th,
titled "Evolution is the best theory we've got". I must disagree.
It's only the "best theory" if you choose to stop looking for
other explanations. It would also help if only those qualified
to comment on certain subjects would be granted an audience,
and the those not qualified would learn the facts first.
Humanist supporters often claim that there is "overwhelming evidence"
for the theory of evolution. That is non-sense. There is solid geologic
evidence for escalating death of life forms on Earth since 700 Million
BC, but that is no "evidence" for evolution. The question is "why were
there periods of extinctions and restorations of life forms on Earth in
the ancient past, at least six times?". If you have already made up your
mind before examining the fossil record (of death), then of course you
will come to such a biased conclusion.
Creationism is not the opposing view of evolution. Everyone saying such
is "uninformed" and do not know what the facts are. Creationism is the
doctrine or the conviction that God created the Earth, the whole universe,
and all life that has ever existed within them both. Once you venture past
Creation Week (in 4.57 Billion BC), then you are no longer are talking
about Creationism. You're speaking of restoration.
There are no "creation accounts" in Genesis, as declared by the "foremost
terrestrial authority" on the book. If you are listening to others that refer
to "creation accounts" in Genesis, then you are getting misinformation.
The first chapter of Genesis relates the "Observations of Moses", which
are six 12 hour days that God showed Moses in 1598 BC on Mt. Sinai.
Even though Moses did not understand what he was seeing, God was
conveying to mankind that there has been previous dispensations of
life on Earth that were restored, and later suffered extinction, multiple times.
The second chapter of Genesis is only documenting the origins of modern
mankind, starting in 7200 BC. Therefore the flood of Noah (2611 BC)
had nothing to do with the deaths of the dimetrodons, dinosaurs,
indricotheriums, and mastodons. So there are many "Bible believers"
that are misrepresenting the Word of God.
In closing, the news media is quick to report on the statements of
evolution supporters, and seems to refrain from reporting on the
statements from those that have an opposing view, or those that
have a more "informed understanding" of the controversy. There
is no "creation/evolution" contest. It doesn't exist. The "brand"
of creationism that is closest to the truth is "Biblical Reality",
which states that God showed Moses six different days which
occurred in the past, with each day being taken from a different
week, and each week being the first week in seven different geologic
eras of mankind. Each day was a different day of the week, with
the days of revelation being shown to Moses starting with Sunday,
(on a Sunday) in "biblical order". But chronologically, the earliest
vision starts with Wednesday (the Fourth Day), the only day of
Creation Week which Moses was shown.
Herman Cummings
PO Box 1745
Fortson GA, 31808
ephraim7@aol.com
(706) 662-2893"
Submission + - Global Warming Criticism Ignored by Media
krygny writes: EARTHtimes.org reports: "A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. (...) Despite being published in such journals such as Science, Nature and Geophysical Review Letters, these scientists have gotten little media attention.
