Professor, teachers to testify in intelligent-design trial [Dover, PA, 05 Oct]

Times Leader ^ | 05 October 2005 | MARTHA RAFFAELE

[b_sharp]

I'm with you.

[VadeRetro]

It's been even longer for me. We need to start some kind of support group.

There will never be another assembler like Macro-11^TM. I mean, anybody can get a computer with 256 megabytes of memory to do something.

[VadeRetro]

No icons. Expressive computer prompts like

MCR>

to which you might respond

MCR> PIP [314,321]*.*;* /LI /FU

and "man pages?" We didn't need no stinkin' "man pages." "Help" function? Geddoudahere!! Full-screen editors? We had LINE editors! And we loved 'em! If we couldn't hack it, natural selection weeded us right out.

Programming's gone too soft anymore, that's all.

[connectthedots]

There are gaps in the TOE, but there are gaps in ALL scientific theories. Treating evolution as somehow being weaker than any other theory is fundamentally dishonest.

I don't see much controversy surrounding the theory of gravity; do you? To try and claim all scientific theories are equally credible is being intellectually dishonest.

The fact that you attempt to lend credibility to the ToE by implying it is on the same level as all other scientific theories indicates that you realize that it cannot stand on its own merits.

[stremba]

There's plenty of controversy regarding the theory of gravity. It cannot be reconciled with quantum mechanics. What's the force law on scales of distances less than 0.1 mm? Where are the gravitons? There are in fact more controversies surrounding the theory of gravity than there are evolution. Note that the theory of gravity is something very different from the LAW of gravity, which is solely descriptive, not explanatory. If we were to talk analogously about a LAW of evolution, we would have to say it's something like that the genetic makeup of species changes over time, and that would be completely non-controversial.

[stremba]

Also, of course stating that there are gaps in the theory of gravity lends no support for the "alternate theory" that God pushes everything together.

[RunningWolf]

Good observation connectthedots.

This continual attempt lo link evolution as equal with physics and then point out that physics theories are incomplete.
I'm not sure what name to give it, but BS is a good place to start though. If this is what their schools produce, then no thanks, what is our good money going towards?

Wolf

[PatrickHenry]

Programming's gone too soft anymore, that's all.

I used to program in BASIC, and even tweak programs in binary, back when I had an Apple ][. Those were the days. Now I'm terrified to even think about what's lurking in the registry.

[b_sharp]

"nawp... I *want* them to have to look stuff up. good for strong, builds good bones and moral fibre.

And as we all know, fibre is good for you.

(Have you noticed the sparseness of English spelling here? The spell checker wanted fibre spelled as fiber...sheesh.)

[b_sharp]

"otherwise, golf is only marginally less boring than watching your toenails lengthen

You have experience of this I assume?

[b_sharp]

"I am frequently mistaken for a woman, but only when speaking over the phone. While this is usually quite irritating, I did use it to my advantage when working customer service ("I spoke with the RUDEST woman on the phone!")

I've found that the best position to be in when confronted with 'bad' customers is as manager. Being rude to a customer all the while appearing to be sycophantic can be quite funny. (I managed a Consumer's Distributing for 3 years)

[js1138]

I use a program called regcleaner to remove debris from the registry. It's a bit scary but I've let it rip on several dozen machines I'm responsible for, and it's never caused so much as a hiccup.

You can delete an old program folder, run regcleaner, and it will remove all obsolete references from the registry.

[King Prout]

lengthy experience, yes.
when attempting to force myself to "reason" like a fervent IDiot, contemplation of my toenails is an invaluable aid.

[King Prout]

I read too much Kipling, I guess... I sometimes go Anglophonic (um, er... "Anglographic"?)

[PatrickHenry]

I use a program called regcleaner to remove debris from the registry.

I've got it, and I've used it. But not much. It's unnerving, because I'm so clueless about what's going on. I like the old days, when everything pertaining to a program was in its directory, or its sub-directories. I can't stand it when a program tosses bits and pieces of itself all over the place. The result is a hard drive that's mostly filled with mystery files. Good ol' Apple DOS let you run a clean machine. But that was long ago ...

[js1138]

It would be nice if Windows had a viewer that allowed you to see each program's registry entries. I've never figured out why there isn't a third party program for this.

[PatrickHenry]

It would be nice if Windows had a viewer that allowed you to see each program's registry entries. I've never figured out why there isn't a third party program for this.

All kinds of slimeware lurks in the registry. It's amazing what some programs manage to put there.

[VadeRetro]

"Soft, I tell you! Soft!"

[PatrickHenry]

Ah yes, C. Aubrey Smith. I remember him in "The Four Feathers."

[VadeRetro]

You're on your toes this morning. You pass.