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I ran a Win98SE machine 24 days without rebooting as a file/web server once. A whopping 200mhz and 64 megs of ram. I had forgotten to reboot for 2 weeks countless times before i switched to a supposedly 'more stable' OS. Doesn't crash any less now, but then it never really crashed under 98SE, even with the apache, php, and mysql win32 binaries, and continually serving up mp3's for my mobile machines without missing a beat. The only time it locked was when my PHP scripts were poorly written.<

Reply to Creation vs. Evolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Aleatoric : "I can, at least IN PRINCIPLE, duplicate the effort or experiments or theories that they did (or claim to hold true), and verify or not the specific results that are presented." At one time, perhaps. I would have to disagree though in terms most modern science. I don't think even the principle is there anymore. Something as broad as evolutionary theory relies upon enormous amounts of coordinated work by diverse fields and previous findings far removed in time from

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Paxx: what i was saying was not necessarily for you to begin with. There are a class of people here telling Kona that he is stupid for staking his spiritual life on some "book". Those same people are using as their evidence both for what they believe and against what kona believes things that they themselves know only from books. Hitler and people who espoused his philosophy had scientific documentation for almost everything they believed, much of which touched u

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Paxx: no, sorry. You don't have the expertise to second guess anthropologists. You don't have the equipment needed to do C14 tests, you don't have the background in primate physiology to come to a comparative conclusion about our relationship with them. If you did, you wouldn't have the time in a single lifetime to do all the work needed to verify all the previous work. You simply have *faith* that those who *do* claim to have such expertise do so in an objective and professional way, and in

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Gah, Jeez. A few people here are really matter-of-fact. Might need to go look up the definition of 'fact'. Like I said the last time, unless anyone here has done the work themselves *everyone* here is working on faith. Some people have faith in God, others in what Scientists of various fields assert. Anthropologists have a hard job, I don't suppose any of us would imagine ourselves schooled enough to check over their work for mistakes, so we take them on-faith. Not dissing either s

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Jafo: I KNEW IT!!! HAHAHAHA. i gotta go collect on some bets. Bah, kangaroos, people will believe anything... lol, i've gone overboard again, posted like mad. I yield the field. I don't have a problem with anyone's beliefs. Please just understand that Ms. Leaky used as much faith as the average Catholic, and no one *knows* anything.

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MadIce: "We have done fine thousands of years without it." We have? oddly, our earliest artifacts are fertility images and some of the oldest cave paintings show people in ritualistic attire. Shamanism predates, well, 'bout everything. As for now, there's a church a mile down the road form me. In light of that, I'm not sure what period you're referring too. From what I can tell, Religion is an instinct as old as we are as a species.

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The fact is, this isn't about faith vs. reason. The average student that sits down to learn Evolutionary theory uses as much faith as the kid who sits down in Sunday School. Science is constantly revising it's understanding of the universe. Troy was a myth until they dug it up. I know Evolutionary theory as well as the next high-schooler, but I didn't accumulate and interprate this data myself. When I accept it as something plausible, I use faith that I am being told the truth, an

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It puzzling to me that the atheistic view somehow separates Behavior from genetic evolution. There is no solid line between nature and nurture in my opinion. If you trace our behaviors back, they all will have parallels to behaviors that benefited our genetic forebears, however changed they are by our circumstances and tasks at hand. We learn, of course, but *that learning* should have a functional, evolutionary progenitor. If you are gonna rely on Reason to explain who we are as peo

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What made your thinking, Mad? Other creatures don't think? Are animals just machines? Kinda runs counter to anything the animal lovers might think. "Humanity", though, is synonymous with compassion, charity. How can you use the fact that Creationism has no basis other than supposition when your own concept of "Humanity" simply springs form the forehead of Zeus fully-formed as well. People decide to do things that make no evolutionary sense. Saving a busload of kids makes perfect e

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Paxx: Your wrong, I don't believe that a 'godless' person has no values of morals. I don't believe anyone *can* be Godless, whether they believe in Him or not. You are differentiating between instinctive behavior and 'values' because it suits your argument. Evolution is as much about 'choice' as it is about chance. That's why birds have such beautiful plumage and human women like a muscular, hard-thrusting backside. Selecting a preferable mate and euthanizing your wounded pack-mate

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What has to be addressed isn't so much the engine of evolution, that is pretty much soundly proven. ANyone who knows, though, knows that there isn't a 'missing link', but thousands or millions of 'missing links'. Homo Sapiens Sapiens have been walking the earth for upwards of 130,000 years in. Our theory of evolution will get ya up until then, and maybe even up to about 30,000 years ago depending on who you ask. The last 30,000 years defies the model, though. Something clicked that

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Paxx : The questions you pose are only problems for biblical literalists. I'm not sure God ever told anyone to stone people to death. If it were anyone but you, i would swear you are skirting the question. I'll try and be more clear. IF (there is no God, and thus no 'Good and Evil', and humans are animals who have reached our privileged place because of a system of evolution) Then (why does your system of values completely reject the aforementioned

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Paxx: Social Evolution was a contrived way for one class or race to purposefully weed out another, and then blame nature. Often their targets are *more fit*. Immigrants that will work harder for less money are *more* fit evolutionarily than fat and happy native inhabitants of a country. The Jews in Germany were not poor and downtrodden, they were an influential and thriving ethnic group that Hitler saw as a threat to the 'true' people of Germany ( those who were coincidentally less-th

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Paxx, for someone with no belief in 'good and evil', you certainly have a great deal of the world stratified into 'right and wrong'. One thing I am noticing is how the people here who espouse evolution are the ones that are usually rabidly compassionate politically. It seems odd that someone who calls themselves 'paxx' can embrace a theory who's mechanism is the extinction of everything deemed unfit to live * by chance * . How can people with such an appreciation for a chaotic

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Every animated wallpaper system i have ever used has been hell on system resources, and were soon discarded. They were all free, as well.

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Both creationism and evolution are suspect. Why? because 99.9% of people who formulate opinions and hypothesis about them do so because of their angst toward the opposing view. No one who seeks to *disprove* something can ever be unbiased. The moment you do you taint your perception of the evidence. That's why creationists and evolutionists can often point to the same evidence and draw completely disparate conclusions. There are as many blind skeptics as there are blind believers.

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alicizmar makes a good point. Altering system .dlls would void the Windows customer service agreement, wouldn't it? Not that it is a big deal... 'service' *snort*, but Stardock might not feel good about officially espousing the practice. I'll reiterate that this need not hinge on IP. I'm not sure how you can distribute .exe files, hacked kernel files, without taking a large risk for users as well. Short of that, or Stardock creating a secure system for swapping them, it would just b

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I dunno about xp, but bootscreens on win2000 are low-color bitmaps. I wanna say 256 colors. I was wondering the same thing as paulbrittgarcia. I reboot my Desktop maybe once a week, if that. Not something that people see often enough to warrant a section, IMHO.

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If it were to be done, I think it should just be compatible images. I normally hack out my own with a reg editor, anyway. Beyond distributing code you don't own, you would also be distributing exe and hacked kernel files, which would rely heavily on your server's Virus scanning applications and/or hand testing. If someone uploads a maliciously altered file, there's a good chance it wouldn't be caught before it is downloaded and used. I mean, couldn't other changes b

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Scenario A) Party A spends a few hours cutting and pasting from screenshots of the newest OS, or the upcoming Windows version. Party B spends weeks creating a theme from scratch, designing it from the ground up. Parties A & B end up with professional, slick work, and upload it. Now, who generally fares better, the guy who originates, or the guy that duplicates? And what if the Party B *isn't* good enough to make professional, slick graphics? His work sits there and pales in compari

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http://www.actuality-systems.com/volumetric3d.php3 Far cry from a monitor as far as quality, but darned interesting. Look at the photographs and FAQ.