I live in Reno and work in Carson City, in perfect honesty people are consistently going 80 MPH both ways, why not charge them. (Playing devil's advocate, personally I think this is a horrible idea.)
At this point it's just a difference in OS, the hardware is more or less the same. My workstation in my office runs 7 like a dream, I haven't had a problem with it yet. Of course that's a bit like a mechanic saying he's never had a problem with his car. Up until now Windows has been hit or miss, but calling the latest incarnation "crap" is disingenuous at best.
I can't speak to every feature, but XBMC works rather well as a multimedia player. I only use basic functions, but my library of over 20,000 doesn't give it any problems, there is a shuffle mode, you can set navigation by folder and it's fairly user friendly and compatible with most remotes. My biggest complaint was when I pushed a certain button on my remote it would turn my X-Box on, a piece of electric tape over the X-Box fixed that.
I suppose that makes you a pot-smoking prius-driving sandal-wearing dirty unshaven godless commie UFO-worshiper with a Himalayan Salt Lamp and a tiedyed hemp shirt.
I'll be honest, I popped in the latest incarnation of Metroid last night and was pretty much blown away by the graphics. While it still may not be on par with what Sony or Microsoft is capable of, it sure is more than I had come to expect from Nintendo.
How about the fact that those instances involved torture being committed against living, breathing, sentient humans. If the fetuses used for stem-cell research were being forcibly aborted then I would absolutely have a moral dilemma with this, however they are being donated. I admit that it's grisly, and I personally don't have the stomach to do what these researchers do, but if the result is a cure for a disease or a new way of treating illness in general then I will still sleep soundly at night.
There shouldn't be a need to weasel around this. I admin to being a Christian, but I refuse to allow the beliefs of anybody to get in the way of scientific research. These projects are important and the religious right needs to get off their damned high horse and let progress happen. These are the same people that years ago would have protested the use of antibiotics thinking that they would interfere with the divine will of their respective deities.
He actually bought the word "digital"! It seems you've used it without permission...lawyers with lasers on their heads are on their way, please do not resist.
You can pick amongst half a dozen wireless providers who all somehow have the exact same pricing scheme and collude with each other (SMS pricing, etc.). A choice between a turd sandwich, and crap on a panini isn't really a choice.
If you're reading CBR/CBZ you'll want color too. If they could put out a reader that did what you stated and could do it in color I'd buy one today. I don't need a backlight draining the battery.
While I was finishing my Master's I was offered a chance to get a certification in International Affairs through the same university. The caveat was that all of the courses were online. I can honestly say that the classes were basically worthless, the lectures were online, the readings were good, but without physical interaction an entire dimension was missing.
Any web service, just create a TrueCrypt container. As long as you sync the container between your computers regularly it shouldn't be an issue. I've been doing it this way for about 3 years now (I keep all of my important data there for when I'm on the road). Works perfectly fine with Windows and Linux.
I don't want to flame you, but I really dislike the term "spiritual". It just springs to mind chubby girls pretending to be witches behind their parent's house. I've always like the term agnostic. I believe in a higher power, but to say that one particular group can completely understand it, and that nobody else can is the height of hubris, hence my problem with religion.
Religion and tolerance are not necessarily mutually exclusive. I agree with you that too few people actually practice it, but to say it is non-existent is disingenuous. The Jihadists, the Pat Robertsons, the Farrakhans, the Zionists, these fringe groups do not define religions, but because what they say is inflammatory they get the airtime.
Note that I am not a physicist, and not much of an electrical engineer. I may be entirely wrong.
I'm not qualified enough to say whether you're right or wrong, but you stated your case eloquently and if there's one thing that Hollywood, politics, and Star Trek have taught me, sounding right is more important than being right.
I took the GP's comment to reflect on the use of electives for engineers as a general practice rather than their usefulness in a specific project. If I'm doing nothing but database work I can decry the wasted hours I spent learning Cisco, but that doesn't mean it may not be potentially useful in the future.
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I live in Reno and work in Carson City, in perfect honesty people are consistently going 80 MPH both ways, why not charge them. (Playing devil's advocate, personally I think this is a horrible idea.)
At this point it's just a difference in OS, the hardware is more or less the same. My workstation in my office runs 7 like a dream, I haven't had a problem with it yet. Of course that's a bit like a mechanic saying he's never had a problem with his car. Up until now Windows has been hit or miss, but calling the latest incarnation "crap" is disingenuous at best.
I can't speak to every feature, but XBMC works rather well as a multimedia player. I only use basic functions, but my library of over 20,000 doesn't give it any problems, there is a shuffle mode, you can set navigation by folder and it's fairly user friendly and compatible with most remotes. My biggest complaint was when I pushed a certain button on my remote it would turn my X-Box on, a piece of electric tape over the X-Box fixed that.
I suppose that makes you a pot-smoking prius-driving sandal-wearing dirty unshaven godless commie UFO-worshiper with a Himalayan Salt Lamp and a tiedyed hemp shirt.
My officemates and I thank you for this!
I'll be honest, I popped in the latest incarnation of Metroid last night and was pretty much blown away by the graphics. While it still may not be on par with what Sony or Microsoft is capable of, it sure is more than I had come to expect from Nintendo.
How about the fact that those instances involved torture being committed against living, breathing, sentient humans. If the fetuses used for stem-cell research were being forcibly aborted then I would absolutely have a moral dilemma with this, however they are being donated. I admit that it's grisly, and I personally don't have the stomach to do what these researchers do, but if the result is a cure for a disease or a new way of treating illness in general then I will still sleep soundly at night.
There shouldn't be a need to weasel around this. I admin to being a Christian, but I refuse to allow the beliefs of anybody to get in the way of scientific research. These projects are important and the religious right needs to get off their damned high horse and let progress happen. These are the same people that years ago would have protested the use of antibiotics thinking that they would interfere with the divine will of their respective deities.
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Except for the fact that there's a lovely "Spam" button that will send the callers to a custom message, I have a fun message set up for them.
And they don't get dames get in the way!
It's like you channel crazy dead people!
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This patent is so easy to read, even an 8th grader could understand it. Somebody find me an 8th grader.
He actually bought the word "digital"! It seems you've used it without permission...lawyers with lasers on their heads are on their way, please do not resist.
I actually flipped a coin, either to go with the South Park reference or to continue with the sandwich metaphor. It seems I chose poorly.
You can pick amongst half a dozen wireless providers who all somehow have the exact same pricing scheme and collude with each other (SMS pricing, etc.). A choice between a turd sandwich, and crap on a panini isn't really a choice.
If you're reading CBR/CBZ you'll want color too. If they could put out a reader that did what you stated and could do it in color I'd buy one today. I don't need a backlight draining the battery.
They are already risking the lives of our soldiers by simply posting their tactics and secrets.
By your twisted logic nobody would have a right to know anything about any war until it was over.
While I was finishing my Master's I was offered a chance to get a certification in International Affairs through the same university. The caveat was that all of the courses were online. I can honestly say that the classes were basically worthless, the lectures were online, the readings were good, but without physical interaction an entire dimension was missing.
I fail to see how this leads to profit
Any web service, just create a TrueCrypt container. As long as you sync the container between your computers regularly it shouldn't be an issue. I've been doing it this way for about 3 years now (I keep all of my important data there for when I'm on the road). Works perfectly fine with Windows and Linux.
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I don't want to flame you, but I really dislike the term "spiritual". It just springs to mind chubby girls pretending to be witches behind their parent's house. I've always like the term agnostic. I believe in a higher power, but to say that one particular group can completely understand it, and that nobody else can is the height of hubris, hence my problem with religion.
Religion and tolerance are not necessarily mutually exclusive. I agree with you that too few people actually practice it, but to say it is non-existent is disingenuous. The Jihadists, the Pat Robertsons, the Farrakhans, the Zionists, these fringe groups do not define religions, but because what they say is inflammatory they get the airtime.
Note that I am not a physicist, and not much of an electrical engineer. I may be entirely wrong.
I'm not qualified enough to say whether you're right or wrong, but you stated your case eloquently and if there's one thing that Hollywood, politics, and Star Trek have taught me, sounding right is more important than being right.
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
I took the GP's comment to reflect on the use of electives for engineers as a general practice rather than their usefulness in a specific project. If I'm doing nothing but database work I can decry the wasted hours I spent learning Cisco, but that doesn't mean it may not be potentially useful in the future.