Look at http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/main.html[^] This used to be Cool Edit Pro. My goodness, this software is awesome. And it has the dolby 5.1 stuff I think you're looking for. I've only looked at the demo (I don't need it enough to justify paying that much.)

It would help to know what the output is, but (a+b+c)/3 is integer arithmetic and the decimal part of the answer will be truncated. Try using "float"s instead of "int"s The maximum characters for the signature is five hundred. I was wondering how long a five hundred characters message would be, so I decided to make my signature 500 characters long. I'm sure if I had some cool html stuff in my signature, I could eat up five hundred characters, but just typing five hundred characters takes quite some time. The trick I think is finding something to say, but I'm usually a man of few words. So I guess I'll tell you what I've discovered is the secret to life. It

I just realize that I said that wrong. sorry... have to get... more... sleep...

Don't you see, though, that there are at least reasons for our beliefs, even if the reasoning is wrong (of course, I don't think they are, but anyway...). I just get tired of people calling Christians names and saying they just accept whatever they're told without using their brains. We've studied the evidence and have come to different conclusions. (Of course, we're right and always will be...;)) :sigh: I guess it's partially our fault for not being clear about what we believe and not "teaching the truth in love" as we're told in the NT. To many "Christians" who don't even know what they believe going out and beating people over the head with it.

Richard Stringer wrote: Not a physics major are we Wrong. :) I have a bachelor's in Physics and minor in Math. ;P:) I just got bored with Physics, and fell in love with computers. I appreciate the links and I will read them.

Just curious, where do you think the extra entropy went to? Is there another universe "catching" our universe's entropy? Stating that the universe is closed implies there is a system larger than it. But I thought the universe was a term used to describe everything that exists. I'm sure I'm probably confused on this, and will welcome elightenment.

Richard Stringer wrote: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’ Hebrews Chapter 11 Verse 1 Unfortunately, that is King James' rendering of that verse, and does not not capture the meaning as well as it could. This verse says nothing about evidence (if you look in the original Greek). When it says it is the "substance" of thing hoped for, it means it is the basis of our hope. Because we believe things to be true, we have hope of a better future. "Evidence" (elegchos) is better rendered "conviction". Faith is the conviction of things not seen. I am convinced of something that I've not seen. I've never seen Paris, but I am convinced or convicted that it exists. Richard Stringer wrote: anything that can be proven falls outside of the pervue of "faith". That's not what faith means. Faith is AWLAYS based on fact. If it's not, it's what we Christians call "blind-faith", not true faith

Richard Stringer wrote: It would prove that you don't need God to create life No it doesn't. You've shown that intelligence can create life. That's far from proving that life can be created by unintelligent material randomly bumping against each other. Richard Stringer wrote: B is almost a mathamatical certainity Cool! I honestly look forward to finding life elsewhere. It fascinates me completely. It doesn't scare my faith. I would be excited to know there are other being out there. There are so many technical diffculties in contacting/visiting them, but I think it would be great to see how God has dealt with them through time. Richard Stringer wrote: God , if he/she does exist , is rapidly losing his/her power to amaze. I'm truly sorry... :((

No, I feel that should be illegal also. Of course, I know I'll receive a lot of flak for this, but I said it :)

Wjousts wrote: vastness of the universe, the vastness of time and the laws of statistics Sorry, but last I heard, neither of the above can overcome a little thing they call Second Law of Thermodynamics, otherwise know as, "ever increasing entropy". The vastness of time would do the exact opposite of what is being claimed. Things would spead out and become more disorderly, not orderly. When they disprove that Law, I'll re-think at least this one argument.

No, there is real evidence. Wjousts wrote: "the bible says...." I do get frustrated with Christians who think they prove that God exists because Genesis 1:1 says it. Can you say circular logic? Wjousts wrote: "look how wonderful the world is, I just can't imagine how it couldn't have been created by a divine being...." Although that is true, there's much more than that. I do think it's ridiculous to think that everything you see is the result of a big explosion and random coincidence. At the surface, this statement "look how wonderful..." appears cheesy and a cop out, and most people who use it haven't really looked into the Design argument, but there is validity to the truth behind it. Wjousts wrote: "I was given 6 months to live and that was 6 years ago..."? If it's the latter, I'll pass I'll pass, too. Doesn't prove anything.

Wjousts wrote: Then present you evidence. The whole world is waiting..... Do you want it in one sentence? Obviously, I can't go into any detail about anything in such a forum. I can point you to some resources if you are truly interested. But from the tone of your post, I doubt you really are.

Richard Stringer wrote: Botha (A) and )B) will blow the socks off the basis of most mainstream religions Let's think about this for a minute... (A) Man creates life... OK, so that proves that intelligent beings can create life. How does that prove that an intelligent being did NOT create life. (B) What does life on other planets prove? If God could create it here, why not somewhere else? Note: Neither (A) nor (B) has happened. If (A) or (B) NEVER happen, will that convince you that God exists? How long will you wait? Sorry, but you'll have to come up with something better that hypotheticals about what evidence we MAYBE, MIGHT find in the future.

I started to make a response, but then deleted it because you obviously completely missed the whole point of my post, which is that everyone is missing the point... BTW, I don't remember anyone saying love was wrong. If you would like to quote someone, go ahead. Otherwise, please quit representing others' views.

Man, I always have a hard time pciking out names for my functions!! :doh: Thanks for the clarification. :)

Richard Stringer wrote: Can you do this without resorting to the nonproveable therefore ambiguious state called "faith" ? There is a serious misunderstanding (even among Christians) about what "faith" means. Faith is not some ambiguous state. It just means I've seen evidence that causes me to believe something is true even though I have not personally "witnessed" or seen it. In a courtroom, no one in the jury (hopefully) witnessed the actual crime. But they can be convinced "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the crime was committed by a certain individual. Because of evidence. I've been convinced beyond a reason doubt that God created everything. Because of evidence. Not in spite (which is how most people view "faith"). Humanists, atheists, or anyone else who denies the existance of God ignore that fact that their belief is exactly that: belief. They weren't there in the beginning to witness it. So their conclusions are based on the facts that they have gathered, and they accept their conclusion by "faith" since they were there when it happened.

I was thinking of these as functions inside the Chritian's mind. In the Christian's mind, these functions call other functions that examine available resources to dtermine in his/her mind whether these functions should return true. That's where you can input data to cause these function to return false in his/her mind.

I've been reading the message boards for a good while now without getting too involved. Certain subject seem to come up over and over and we have conservative "Bible-thumpers" arguing with liberal "go-what-feels-gooders" over morality issues. It seems that everyone is missing the point. :sigh: Noone will ever win the argument if we focus on just the issues. It's worldviews that have to be discussed and fought. I'm a conservative Christian. I hear a lot about how "close-minded" Christians are. Well, yeah, in a sense they are. But in the same way non-Christians are. You're convinced you're right and Christians are convinced they are right. What we have here is a failure to communicate.... Here's how the Christian's worldview affects his view on, say, homosexuality:

if ( DoesGodExist() )
{
if ( GodWroteTheBible() )
{
if ( TheBibleStatesHomosexualityIsWrong() )
{
bHomosexualityIsWrong = true;
}
}
}

Once the Christian gets inside he can't get a different answer. You can make all types of statements about "love knows no bounds", blah, blah, blah, but to the Christian this function still returns true To change a Christian's mind you have to get the the first three conditionals to fail, before you can ever convince him that homosexuality is OK. So the Christin's "close-mindedness" is only inside the inner if loop. I'm not afraid of studying the if statements to see if they return true or not. So far, I've put a lot of study into it and I'm conviced that they do. You will have to do a lot of convincing to get my answers to change, but as an honest truth seeker, I'm willing to study and even admit weaknesses in my own arguments, and ultimately change my mind if the truth demands it. And Christians are hard-pressed to convince anybody that anything is wrong without first proving that the 1st three conditional return true. Once they accept those, they'll be no more argument. This is why I avoid arguments about these types of issues. All you do is get frustrated and go nowhere. We're missing the point. Sorry for such a long post. :-O Had to get this of my chest. :) There.. I feel better now...

There was an ex-employee here that was helping me get started with C++ programming. I once commented that I got confused which to use * or & depending on the context. He said, we don't really know, either, we just keep switching them until it compiles. !!! :wtf: This person had code that was in shipping products!! :omg: The maximum characters for the signature is five hundred. I was wondering how long a five hundred characters message would be, so I decided to make my signature 500 characters long. I'm sure if I had some cool html stuff in my signature, I could eat up five hundred characters, but just typing five hundred characters takes quite some time. The trick I think is finding something to say, but I'm usually a man of few words. So I guess I'll tell you what I've discovered is the secret to life. It

Wouldn't assigning infinity to a number require an infinite amount of time? If you every figure it out, I'll be glad to test for a small hourly wage ;) The maximum characters for the signature is five hundred. I was wondering how long a five hundred characters message would be, so I decided to make my signature 500 characters long. I'm sure if I had some cool html stuff in my signature, I could eat up five hundred characters, but just typing five hundred characters takes quite some time. The trick I think is finding something to say, but I'm usually a man of few words. So I guess I'll tell you what I've discovered is the secret to life. It