Aleatoric

Reply to 1024 & 1280. Who uses more? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well, when it's the native resolution of your LCD screen, that's what you use Besides that, I stick to the 4:3 ratio. [Message Edited]

Reply to 1024 & 1280. Who uses more? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I use 1280x1024 at home (that's what my LCD monitor uses), and 1600x1200 at work (21" monitor). I like a lot of info on my desktop

Reply to Essorant.com - open at last. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Great looking site! Looking forward to pretty much everything you do in the future!

Reply to Programming Question in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well, for one, logon studio isn't part of the problem, it's the usual XP login message stuff. For some reason, the logon screen gets stuck with what it thinks is unread mail (apparently, some of the last ones in OE). A quick way to get rid of it is to get the TweakUI powertoy from MS. Go to the section called LOGON, and in that, there should be an entry called UNREAD MAIL, and you should be able to turn that off there. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/p

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

joetheblow, Don't need anything from outside (it's cold here ). Not to mention that I should be sleeping now Attribution theory is a pretty good call here (and i'm certainly not immune from having it applied to me). Our brains are wired (whether through blind evolution or divine influence)

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

In the context of my prior post, and to drift back on topic, there are two parts to the theory of evolution. We have a catalogued collection of physical and observational evidence that shows an essentially linear correlation between the age and complexity of the items of evidence. How that evidence came to exist in that form and order (actual evolution or 'planted' by God) isn't really relevant to the theory, because we cannot test that condition. We have to treat the evidence as just that, evid

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I am just trying to say that it 'could' be said that a known truth at any point in time can become something else later on. There are some limits on the degree to which 'truth' is becoming 'something else'. To use the flat earth argument, in order for a flat earth theory to supplant the current state of knowledge, it would have to subsum

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

joetheblow Do you believe the world is flat and slavery is ok? The Bible says so and according to some studies (scientific mind you) says that people of color are just not smart. I think it was done in the 1940's or something. The world is a round disc, supported by pillars on the backs of four tortoises <img src="http://images.stardock.

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

God designed us with a sense of humour, and it wasn't just so we could laugh at others. If you can't laugh at yourself (and in what you believe), then as Jafo says, 'God help you'. r3fr, You're confusing a dictionary definition (that may include archaic and / or early usage) with what actually exists (or at least what actually is stated in current theory). If you want to understand (even as much as possible) where the energy content of vacuum comes from, you'll have to

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Big Band theory Guess the Glenn Miller advocates finally advanced their version of cosmology r3fr, Baker is correct. Furthermore, there is (to the best of our knowledge) no place where nothing (in the classical sense of the word) exists. Even i

Reply to Pledge of Allegiance Case in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Kona, You might want to read the words of the founding fathers. While they were believers (for the most part, and in a number of different ways), they correctly argued that faith in, and reverence for, God, must be considered as separate from the duties of running the government of a country. One does not need to be a believer, nor does one need to be indoctrinated by facile bits of propaganda to be a proper citizen of the United States (or any other country). Nor are either o

Reply to Pledge of Allegiance Case in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Here's a brief outline of the history of the pledge. http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

MadIce, That's pretty much the 64 million dollar question . Human beings tend to anthropomorphise what they perceive and speculate about. It is often difficult to imagine that something can exist without creation, because the only direct knowledge we have is of things that already exist or that we create. As a result, we think that what already exists was not only created, but was

Reply to Hippy Gets a Promotion in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Congrats, Hippy!

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The biggest flaw in the arguments of those who oppose evolution as a concept is that they nearly always define the process of evolution as a purely random process. Arguments that a bucket of watch (or other complex object) parts will not assemble a working watch (or whatever) no matter how long you have is symptomatic of mapping a non random process onto a random one. Given that the ways that atoms and molecules interact (and given that such interaction is specifically defined

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

IPlural, I would argue that the positional shift in the body of evolutionary (and other) scientists is more in regard to the theoretical mechanism for evolution that is the current theory, and not necessarily the fact of evolution, as a process, itself. Also, the quote attributed to Wilder-Smith is either incorrect or taken out of context, as there are no scientific evolutionists who argue that 'matter left to itself' is the proximate cause of abiogenesis. Regardless o

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It can't really be argued that the Catholics added books to the Bible. Even though the Catholic Bible has more books (the Apocrypha), the source of those books is from the greek septuagint, which is the greek translation of the hebrew old testament that occurred from about 300-200 BCE (the name is, according to the letter of Aristeas, derived because the translation was done by 70 scholars). The septuagint was also used by most Christian writers (including the writers of the new testame

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Growth of knowledge is a form of evolution in its own context, true. It isn't biological evolution, however. Biologically, we aren't different in any substantial way from the earliest homo sapiens sapiens. I tend to look at it as two separate tracks of growth. In one track, we evolve as biological organisms, very slowly because the cycle time is long and the change rate is slow. In the other track, we advance (our knowledge evolves) rapidly, because the cycle time is short and

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

joetheblow, In all but the most minor ways, a human being of 2,000 years ago (or even 25,000) is essentially the same as us. They have all the same raw abilities, physical and mental, that we have. This is supported by the archaelogical and anthropoligical evidence (of course, the usual rules about acceptance of evidence applies). The difference is a matter of knowledge, not ability. grayhaze, To elaborate on your definition, mutation is any change to the geno

Reply to iTunes: not using Windows GUI elements? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yep, it installed an iPodService on me also. I just went into services and disabled it (no iPod, no service ). As for the performance, it seems to be more or less okay for me (on my high end machine at home, it's pretty responsive, but on my work box it's kind of flaky). It certainly isn't skinnable, it isn't using (as far as I can tell) any of the standard windows graphic elements.

Reply to Moderator appreciation thread! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

GM, I'm in complete agreement. Kudos to all

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Baker, Not to mention the Flat Earth Society That said, I do have a minor quibble with your philosophical position. While I agree that the body of knowledge that we accept is primarily founded on an acceptance of authority, I do still stand by the argument that we can, *in principle* replicate the results of most of that body of scientific knowledge ourselves. Yes, *in practice

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

IPlural You beat me to it BakerStreet If either side of the argument should see anything about me in this discussion, it is that I *despise* people portraying belief as "Fact". If you want to believe in Creation, or the wrongness of some modern medicine,

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

For evolution, which i'll say again for those who might have missed it, a piece of non-living matter cannot just go from non-living to living. And matter cannot just jump to be here, or slowly form to be here either. It defies all logic. Energy cannot just be here from nothing. Think of 'the beginning' when there was absolutely nothing (in evolution).. Can something spawn

Reply to Harry Potter books are evil? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Potter isn't even remotely evil (or even marginally bad) by any rational definition. The personal qualities exemplified by Harry Potter and his friends are the kind of personal qualities that should be instilled in every person, courage, loyalty, honesty, and even a little bending of the rules where necessary . Pretty much the only people who are opposed to something like Potter are those p