OK we get it, he's good at swimming. Does there really need to be so many swimming events?
Why don't they have 10 different softball events? You could have ones where everyone gets one arm tied behind their backs. Or one where they all have to run backwards. Another where they hop around the field with potato sacs on their legs. Or have a runner at each base and they have to do it relay style. It doesn't make any sense!
Large sweeping predictions such as some of the ones made in the parent post generally turn out to be wrong. If you want some verification of this just go back and read these types of things from magazine articles in the early 20th century that predict what it would be like today and laugh at their gross miscalculations. No offense is intended to the parent post but if we can't reliably predict the weather 7 days in advance how can you possible intend to predict humanity's future even 20 years in advance. There are just too many variables.
Predictions aside, I am very excited about the possibilities of robotic cars, and I am certain that one day they will be around in some capacity. In fact I bored my wife with this discussion the last time we were stuck in traffic together. Some people say that it is 'fun to drive' and that may be the case if you are on a race track or going off-road, but for the most part is just the means to an end...getting from point A to point B.
Personally I would love to not have to drive to and from work every day. I could absolutely use that 35 minutes each way to do what I wanted to do. Play guitar, read a book, play some video games etc. To me driving is not fun, it is an absolute waste of time.
I wasn't aware of all the fancy background stuff going on but I must say I really like Opera Mini on my Curve. It makes mobile browsing usable.
For example, with my old PPC-6800 (WM6) device, it was a never ending scroll fest to try and find what I was looking for on the page, or god forbid try to read a Wikipedia page. You would have to scroll left and right for each sentence.
However with Opera Mini you are presented first with a large overview of the entire page and your mouse cursor is a big rectangle. This rectangle is usually pretty good at automatically finding the meat of the web page, but if it doesn't you can move it around. Then when you click it zooms in on that area of the page. And the best thing is if the column of text is too large for the screen it will automatically re-size the column so you don't have to keep scrolling left and right to read sentences.
Usually, though, they take the Bible as a guideline for being a "good person", not a book telling you how the scientific parts of the world work. They understand the Bible as a guideline to live a good life, and quite frankly, it is a good book as such. Don't kill, don't steal, take a day off per week so you don't run into a burnout, and generally don't do what you wouldn't want others to do to you. That's a pretty good guideline to work with, if you ask me.
I disagree with this statement. There really are some seriously messed up things in the bible and it is not a good guide for how you should live your life. There are many examples, but here are some from the old testament (you can find examples in the new testament as well). This is from This site
I'd like to give you a list, a litany, of the deeds that God committed somewhere in the Old Testament. Now remember, God, the Perfect Being, did all of folowing in what is supposedly His book. He created evil (Lam. 3:38, Jer. 26:3, 36:3, Ezek. 20.:25-26, Judges 9:3, 1 Sam. 16:23, 18:10); He decieved (Jer. 4:10, 15:18, 20:7, 2 Chron. 18:22, Ezek. 14:9, 2 Thess. 2:9-12); He told people to lie(Ex. 3:18, 1 Sam. 16:2); He lied (Gen 2:17, 2 Sam. 7:13); He rewarded liars (Ex. 1:15-20); He ordered men to become drunken (Jer. 25:27); He rewarded the fool and the transgressor (Prov.26:10); He delivered a man, Job, into Satan's hands (Job 2:6); He mingled a perverse spirit (Isa. 19:14); He spread dung on people's faces (Mal. 2:3)); He ordered stealing (Ezek. 39:10, Ex. 3:22); He made false prophecies (Jonah 3:4. Gen. 5:10); He Changed his mind (Jonah 3:10); He caused adultery (2 Sam. 12:11-12); He ordered the taking of a harlot (Hosea 1:2, 3:1-2); He killed (Num. 16:35, 21:6, Deut. 32:39, 1 Sam. 2:26, Psalm 135:10); He ordered killing (Lev. 26:7-8, Num. 25:4-5); He had a temper (Deut. 13:17, Judges 3:8); He was often jealous (Deut. 5:9, 6:15); He wasn't omnipresent (Gen4:16, 11:5, 1 Kings 19:11-12); He wasn't omniscient (Deut. 8:2, 13:3, 2 Chron. 32:31); He often repented (Ex. 32:14, 1 Sam. 15:35); He practiced injustice (Ex. 4:22-23, Joshua 22:20, Rom. 5:12); He played favorites (Deut. 7:6, 14:2, 1 Sam. 12:22); He sanctioned slavery (Ex. 21:20-21, Deut. 15:17); He degraded deformed people (Lev. 21:16-23); He punished a baster for being illegitimate (Deut. 23:2); He punished many for the acts of one (Gen. 3:16, 20:18); He punished children for the sins of their fathers (Ex. 12:29, 20:5, Deut. 5:9); He prevented people from hearing his word (Isa. 6:10, John 12:39-40); He supported human sacrifice (Ex. 22:29-30, Ezek. 20:26); He ordered cannabalism (Lev. 26: 29, Jer. 19:9); He demanded virgins as a part of war plunder(Num. 31:31-36); He ordered gambling (Joshua 14. 2, Num. 26:52, 55-56); He ordered horses to be hamstrung (Joshua 11:6); He sanctioned violation of the enimies women (Deut. 21:10-14); He excused the beating of slaves to death (Ex. 21:20-21); He required a woman to marry her rapist (Deut. 22:28:29); He taught war (Psalm 144:1); He ordered the burning of human feces to cook food (Ezek. 21:3-5); He intentionally issued bad laws (Ezek. 20:25); He excused the sins of prostitutes and adulerers (Hosea 4:14); He excused a murderer and promised his protection (Gen. 4:8-15); He killed a man who refused to impregnate his widowed sister-in-law (Gen. 38:9-10); and He is indecisive (Gen. 18:17).
Now, you could argue that these are examples of how not to life your life, but the bible does not make this distinction. If you are seeking the bible to learn how to live your life, then by this very action you are admitting that you are incapable of making these moral decisions on your own. So by this token you would be just as likely to rape, murder, commit incest, objectify women etc as you would any of the other good deeds in the bible. However, any person (religious or not) who is 'morally good' by today's standards does not go around committing these acts, and as such I would argue that you do not need the bible at all as a guideline to live a good life.
BMI is actually just weight (KG) divided by height squared (m2). It is not an accurate measurement by any means. In fact, your Rugby player friend, based on the BMI metric, would probably be labeled as obese even though he is exceptionally healthy.
Ban cigarettes, and you will instantly create an underground market for them, which will result in them going from a source of tax income for the government to an expense in the form of a 'tobacco war'. This would probably put that once tax money in the hands of organized crime as well.
Sounds familiar...
No.They are not "valid answers" in a decentralized operation because there is no way you can backup the user's machines.
Saying that "backups exist" does not address the question of HOW the backups are made when the user can put any file anywhere on their system. You are wrong on this point since I manage a decentralized company with several remote sites and I have set up a solution to back up the documents on their computers. It uses memeo autobackup on the local machine which sends the files to a DLink DNS-323 NAS device. Then ftpsync (http://www.fileware.com/products.htm)synchs the files to our file server at our main office which is backed up onto tape daily. So it can be done.
Memeo is a great program. It would even back up to a USB drive if you configure it that way, and all the user would have to do is plug in their drive and it does it automatically.
The only thing I find fun about the "I declare with certainty that in the future..." type articles is reading the ones from 5, 10 or 100 years ago to find out how wrong they were, and have a laugh. Other than that I find they provide no value whatsoever.
Red laser pointers were as 'taboo' back in the day as these green ones are, and now that the novelty has worn off noone cares if you shine them at anyone.
I have shone a green laser pointer (5mw) in my eyes and the effect was no worse than if you were to glance at the sun for half a second. A spot in my eye for a few minutes and it was gone. TFA does not state what type of a laser this was but if it was just a 5mw laser the cop was lying about being disoriented.
FURTHERMORE, right in TFA it says that he was disoriented but was able to pinpoint the exact house that the laser came from. Liar!
You can get the XP drivers disc for their new laptops if you call HP and pay a fee for it (about 10 bucks). Not sure why the don't make it available online. The HP laptops we have been ordering (6715b's) at the office have been coming with Vista, and so I immediately tried to find a solution to revert back to XP.
I have always wondered one thing about draws. Say you have a 50/50 type draw where you can enter as many times as you like. If you buy 2 tickets are your chances actually twice as great as if you just bought one? Or if you buy 100 tickets do you have a 100 times greater chance of winning?
When I read the IGN review for this game, having played it, I was yelling at my computer screen at how rediculous it was. 9.2 for that game!? I don't need to say anything else, really, just read the two reviews. The gamespot one is much more accurate. Not to say gamespot hasn't done the same thing, I just don't have any examples.
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Personally, I use Mobipocket on my Blackberry to read eBooks all the time. The reader is free, and it works great. http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN
They are great methods, obviously.
Only on Slashdot would you hear someone brag about having something smaller than another dude.
OK we get it, he's good at swimming. Does there really need to be so many swimming events? Why don't they have 10 different softball events? You could have ones where everyone gets one arm tied behind their backs. Or one where they all have to run backwards. Another where they hop around the field with potato sacs on their legs. Or have a runner at each base and they have to do it relay style. It doesn't make any sense!
It's event pollution. See: http://www.realmansolympics.com/
A human going flat out is running on 200W maximum.
But they're made of....meat...
Large sweeping predictions such as some of the ones made in the parent post generally turn out to be wrong. If you want some verification of this just go back and read these types of things from magazine articles in the early 20th century that predict what it would be like today and laugh at their gross miscalculations. No offense is intended to the parent post but if we can't reliably predict the weather 7 days in advance how can you possible intend to predict humanity's future even 20 years in advance. There are just too many variables.
Predictions aside, I am very excited about the possibilities of robotic cars, and I am certain that one day they will be around in some capacity. In fact I bored my wife with this discussion the last time we were stuck in traffic together. Some people say that it is 'fun to drive' and that may be the case if you are on a race track or going off-road, but for the most part is just the means to an end...getting from point A to point B.
Personally I would love to not have to drive to and from work every day. I could absolutely use that 35 minutes each way to do what I wanted to do. Play guitar, read a book, play some video games etc. To me driving is not fun, it is an absolute waste of time.
hahahaha ha ha hahhahaha haha ha Nice job.
I think what you are referring to is a 'god of the gaps'. Google it. It is doomed to failure.
I wasn't aware of all the fancy background stuff going on but I must say I really like Opera Mini on my Curve. It makes mobile browsing usable.
For example, with my old PPC-6800 (WM6) device, it was a never ending scroll fest to try and find what I was looking for on the page, or god forbid try to read a Wikipedia page. You would have to scroll left and right for each sentence.
However with Opera Mini you are presented first with a large overview of the entire page and your mouse cursor is a big rectangle. This rectangle is usually pretty good at automatically finding the meat of the web page, but if it doesn't you can move it around. Then when you click it zooms in on that area of the page. And the best thing is if the column of text is too large for the screen it will automatically re-size the column so you don't have to keep scrolling left and right to read sentences.
Usually, though, they take the Bible as a guideline for being a "good person", not a book telling you how the scientific parts of the world work. They understand the Bible as a guideline to live a good life, and quite frankly, it is a good book as such. Don't kill, don't steal, take a day off per week so you don't run into a burnout, and generally don't do what you wouldn't want others to do to you. That's a pretty good guideline to work with, if you ask me.
I disagree with this statement. There really are some seriously messed up things in the bible and it is not a good guide for how you should live your life. There are many examples, but here are some from the old testament (you can find examples in the new testament as well). This is from This site
I'd like to give you a list, a litany, of the deeds that God committed somewhere in the Old Testament. Now remember, God, the Perfect Being, did all of folowing in what is supposedly His book. He created evil (Lam. 3:38, Jer. 26:3, 36:3, Ezek. 20.:25-26, Judges 9:3, 1 Sam. 16:23, 18:10); He decieved (Jer. 4:10, 15:18, 20:7, 2 Chron. 18:22, Ezek. 14:9, 2 Thess. 2:9-12); He told people to lie(Ex. 3:18, 1 Sam. 16:2); He lied (Gen 2:17, 2 Sam. 7:13); He rewarded liars (Ex. 1:15-20); He ordered men to become drunken (Jer. 25:27); He rewarded the fool and the transgressor (Prov.26:10); He delivered a man, Job, into Satan's hands (Job 2:6); He mingled a perverse spirit (Isa. 19:14); He spread dung on people's faces (Mal. 2:3)); He ordered stealing (Ezek. 39:10, Ex. 3:22); He made false prophecies (Jonah 3:4. Gen. 5:10); He Changed his mind (Jonah 3:10); He caused adultery (2 Sam. 12:11-12); He ordered the taking of a harlot (Hosea 1:2, 3:1-2); He killed (Num. 16:35, 21:6, Deut. 32:39, 1 Sam. 2:26, Psalm 135:10); He ordered killing (Lev. 26:7-8, Num. 25:4-5); He had a temper (Deut. 13:17, Judges 3:8); He was often jealous (Deut. 5:9, 6:15); He wasn't omnipresent (Gen4:16, 11:5, 1 Kings 19:11-12); He wasn't omniscient (Deut. 8:2, 13:3, 2 Chron. 32:31); He often repented (Ex. 32:14, 1 Sam. 15:35); He practiced injustice (Ex. 4:22-23, Joshua 22:20, Rom. 5:12); He played favorites (Deut. 7:6, 14:2, 1 Sam. 12:22); He sanctioned slavery (Ex. 21:20-21, Deut. 15:17); He degraded deformed people (Lev. 21:16-23); He punished a baster for being illegitimate (Deut. 23:2); He punished many for the acts of one (Gen. 3:16, 20:18); He punished children for the sins of their fathers (Ex. 12:29, 20:5, Deut. 5:9); He prevented people from hearing his word (Isa. 6:10, John 12:39-40); He supported human sacrifice (Ex. 22:29-30, Ezek. 20:26); He ordered cannabalism (Lev. 26: 29, Jer. 19:9); He demanded virgins as a part of war plunder(Num. 31:31-36); He ordered gambling (Joshua 14. 2, Num. 26:52, 55-56); He ordered horses to be hamstrung (Joshua 11:6); He sanctioned violation of the enimies women (Deut. 21:10-14); He excused the beating of slaves to death (Ex. 21:20-21); He required a woman to marry her rapist (Deut. 22:28:29); He taught war (Psalm 144:1); He ordered the burning of human feces to cook food (Ezek. 21:3-5); He intentionally issued bad laws (Ezek. 20:25); He excused the sins of prostitutes and adulerers (Hosea 4:14); He excused a murderer and promised his protection (Gen. 4:8-15); He killed a man who refused to impregnate his widowed sister-in-law (Gen. 38:9-10); and He is indecisive (Gen. 18:17).
Now, you could argue that these are examples of how not to life your life, but the bible does not make this distinction. If you are seeking the bible to learn how to live your life, then by this very action you are admitting that you are incapable of making these moral decisions on your own. So by this token you would be just as likely to rape, murder, commit incest, objectify women etc as you would any of the other good deeds in the bible. However, any person (religious or not) who is 'morally good' by today's standards does not go around committing these acts, and as such I would argue that you do not need the bible at all as a guideline to live a good life.
BMI is actually just weight (KG) divided by height squared (m2). It is not an accurate measurement by any means. In fact, your Rugby player friend, based on the BMI metric, would probably be labeled as obese even though he is exceptionally healthy.
Ban cigarettes, and you will instantly create an underground market for them, which will result in them going from a source of tax income for the government to an expense in the form of a 'tobacco war'. This would probably put that once tax money in the hands of organized crime as well. Sounds familiar...
In case anyone actually believes this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterpowered_car Sorry to spoil your fun.
Impressive, but not a fair comparison. Call me when you can ride in our Canadian winters, carry passengers or any significant amount of cargo.
Irregardless is not a word.
Just a friendly note.
He is absolutely hilarious. But you have to tel everyone else in the room to shut up so you can absorb it all.
The only thing I find fun about the "I declare with certainty that in the future..." type articles is reading the ones from 5, 10 or 100 years ago to find out how wrong they were, and have a laugh. Other than that I find they provide no value whatsoever.
Other people have seen whales though and have told you about them. Else how would you know they existed?
[+1 bleak outlook on the future of humanity]
Red laser pointers were as 'taboo' back in the day as these green ones are, and now that the novelty has worn off noone cares if you shine them at anyone.
I have shone a green laser pointer (5mw) in my eyes and the effect was no worse than if you were to glance at the sun for half a second. A spot in my eye for a few minutes and it was gone. TFA does not state what type of a laser this was but if it was just a 5mw laser the cop was lying about being disoriented.
FURTHERMORE, right in TFA it says that he was disoriented but was able to pinpoint the exact house that the laser came from. Liar!
You can get the XP drivers disc for their new laptops if you call HP and pay a fee for it (about 10 bucks). Not sure why the don't make it available online. The HP laptops we have been ordering (6715b's) at the office have been coming with Vista, and so I immediately tried to find a solution to revert back to XP.
I have always wondered one thing about draws. Say you have a 50/50 type draw where you can enter as many times as you like. If you buy 2 tickets are your chances actually twice as great as if you just bought one? Or if you buy 100 tickets do you have a 100 times greater chance of winning?
Dead or alive extreme beach volleyball, as reviewed at IGN:
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/383/383421p1.html Score: 9.2
As reviewed by Gamespot:
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/sports/deadoralivextremebv/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;review Score: 6.0
When I read the IGN review for this game, having played it, I was yelling at my computer screen at how rediculous it was. 9.2 for that game!? I don't need to say anything else, really, just read the two reviews. The gamespot one is much more accurate. Not to say gamespot hasn't done the same thing, I just don't have any examples.