'Many years ago we thought Saturn was the only planet with rings,' said one mission scientist...
But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made... *Frodo looks through his telescope again with an incredulous look on his face, double checking to make sure he wasn't seeing things. He turns to look disbelievingly at the solemn Gandalf waiting for him to accept his quest.*
Frodo: Wait a second...you can't be serious...you want me to take *THAT* to Mount Doom!?
I'd assume anyone versed with web applications would know that "development" is usually referring to the stage in which the application is programmed and tested...
Teachers shouldn't have to necessarily prove *anything* in science, since nothing is 100% proven, but they should teach the ideas.
Like with evolution, but they don't have to say "This is how we came into existance!"...they could always say "This is the predominant scientific *theory* of how we came into existance..."
It neither forces the student to believe it, yet it still teaches them it.
I went to an Anglican School, but no one there was really religious...but I really enjoyed how they taught religion.
Take the exam...rather than saying "How did God create our world?" it preluded those questions with "According to the Bible" or "According to the Christian Faith", so *regardless* of what you believed in, you had to answer it in a certain way, but at the same time, didn't have to lie about your beliefs.
This kinda thing should be applied to Science, especially to such disputed theories. "According to the theory of evolution..." etc.
I remember when I was studying for Year 12 exams, I put away my computer. While I might've increased watching TV a bit (since I don't generally watch it), I was going to sleep *on time*, getting an average of 3-4 hours EXTRA sleep than what I was used to...and better sleep at that (since being on a computer just before sleeping is not recommended).
Also consider...most of the older age groups who *do* still download illegal content off the net are potentially a smaller group who *started* back in the Napster or whatnot days. These people have been doing it for longer and are set in their ways, while half the teenagers don't even realize what they are doing is illegal.
One of the things I loved about Stage6 was the clean, fast interface. It was intuitive, unlike many other streaming sites (YouTube, Veoh), it was simple, yet looked very nice, (once again, unlike many streaming sites) and so on.
I bet ads would've highly detracted from this...but yeah, I'd be willing to sacrifice some of the interface if I still got my uber fast loading high quality videos.
On a side note, what do people recommend as a good alternative to Stage6? I took one glance at Veoh (what Stage6 seems to recommend) and didn't like it.
They think! They reason! They apply varying degrees of effort depending on the importance of the task! I dunno what government employees are like in America, but I can't work out whether you're being sarcastic or not.
In Australia, they tend to avoid all the above if it means less work. =P
Positive...I should be saying, it ignores most of the high end politics and endgame, and focuses on the lives of the soldiers...without saying "The evil American soldiers are torturing all the innocent Iraqis!" or "Poor soldiers all die...".
So yeah, I didn't explain myself properly.
I liked it because it talks about the life of a squad in one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq without trying to make a point against or for the war.
With the amount of blogs focusing on the very negative aspects of Iraq, they also probably don't want soldiers to be demoralized by reading something like that.
One blog I really enjoy reading is Michael Yon, who is a former special forces, now freelance journalist who uses his connections to follow a group around in Mosul. He gets some real awesome pics and writes very interesting dispatches about what's happening with that squad...his most famous entry, "Gates of Fire", is where he actually joined in the action and started fighting when they were ambushed.
But yeah, it's interesting to read a blog that supports the soldiers in Iraq and focuses on the positive sides of the war, without being blatant propoganda.
If that is relevant, how come we can't speak Englisc [google.co.uk]? The answer to that question is answered on the site I linked ya to.
The word of God has been in heaven forever. The KJV has always been there. The so called Hebrew words like Alleluia are English words. The English did not borrow them from the Hebrew but rather the Hebrew borrowed them from the English. If the KJV has always been there and is the original word of God then there is no other conclusion. The same can be said for any so called Greek words that were borrowed from the Greek or transliterated. It is a matter of what bias you approach this particular subject.
How can anyone beleive we evolved from monkeys heres a few questions for people who beleive that
1.If we did evolve from monkeys then how come babies arent born monkeys
2.Even Darwin said his theories were wrong before he died so why do you still believe them
3.do you really not believe the bible it says we were created in seven days not millions of years
4.how come we cant speak monkey
Just for a fact ape like creatures are monkeys Just in case certain people get on this thread From here.
(Note that, I have nothing against Christianity, but there are just some very ignorant and stupid people out there who don't even CONSIDER or ATTEMPT TO CONSIDER other ideas apart from their own...)
Hypothetically, imagine for a second, their religion is *real* as well as all their practices concerning it.
Imagine if, by getting brought up to speed with the '21st century', they pissed off their God and suffered for it. Wouldn't it be stupid to do so then?
From their logic, what they're doing isn't stupid or closed-minded, but a very smart and logical decision from their beliefs. That's what makes it hard.
Mmm, well I played the demo, and I was generally quite impressed...but if it had flight-sim dogfights and such at a fast place with a joystick and all - that'd make me go buy the real game. I mean, I know what you mean about 'tactics' and all that - but surely you could get the best of both worlds right? Orbiting an enemy while clicking "Missile" "Laser" etc, gets really boring and anti-climatic.
But I guess we just need to weight until we get faster and lower latency broadband for that to occur...
Yeah...I'm so goddamn sick of 8,000/128 kbps Cable...in reality, giving me more like 3000/128. And no ADSL2+ DSLAM yet...It's ridiculous that such a developed country as ours has stone-age internet.
And T00l$tra's *upgradable* Cable plan is 17,000/256. What the hell can I do with 256kbps? And on top of that, they count our uploads...Bah...
So, if America bans guns, suddenly the American government turns into a dictatorship? Down here in Australia, guns are illegal...are we a dictatorship?
People talk about the American government becoming more and more anti-freedom, with Homeland Security and all that...so where's the armed revolution?
Outlawing guns wouldn't work, but not because of theoretically being wrong, but because it's impractical. Most people wouldn't follow it, there'd be heavy NRA opposition and those good citizens who DID give it up would be at the mercy of those bad guys who DIDN'T.
Needs to be a gradual change. I remember when I was 12, both my parents went fulltime work, and I guess made a slightly bad decision of going from hand-holding me to sorta letting me do my thing in High School (In Australia, High School is Year 7-12 - we don't have Middle School).
I kinda did stupid things, did shit at school and fucked up my sleep patterns. It was only when I got to about 16-17 that I fixed it all. Of course, when my parents came back at 15 and said "we're gonna restrict your freedom", I met with heavy, heavy resistance, being that I didn't want MORE rules than I had when I was 13.
I think to make this effective...you have to gradually give the child more and more freedom, so as he or she matures, she gets the freedom to use that maturity. Teach them values so that for instance, when you stop forcing them to do homework at certain times, they have got the right work ethics instilled in their mind, so on.
In nerds terms: So when they're younger, force inputs on them. Force them to do hours of homework per day. When they start to get older and you stop forcing those inputs, evaluate the outputs - are their grades dropping? Are they doing better? And judge them on that, until eventually you can completely let go.
Letting go when they go from 17 to 18 is stupid - it'll yield that same problem I had from 12 to 13 - they'll misuse their newfound freedom after having no practice at using it responsibly.
I'd love an MMO that also required the fast hand-eye coordination of FPS, rather than just strategy and high levels. I don't know how this'd work well exactly...but say if you went someone who used physical attacks or projective weapons - you had to manually aim and shoot them, or dodge to try to avoid getting hit by spells...etc.
The hard thing is that this'd need fast, low latency servers (which is the main reason EVE Online's battle system is boring...imagine if they made *that* like a full on flight simulator...*drool*).
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But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made... *Frodo looks through his telescope again with an incredulous look on his face, double checking to make sure he wasn't seeing things. He turns to look disbelievingly at the solemn Gandalf waiting for him to accept his quest.*
Frodo: Wait a second...you can't be serious...you want me to take *THAT* to Mount Doom!?
~Jarik
I'd assume anyone versed with web applications would know that "development" is usually referring to the stage in which the application is programmed and tested...
Teachers shouldn't have to necessarily prove *anything* in science, since nothing is 100% proven, but they should teach the ideas.
Like with evolution, but they don't have to say "This is how we came into existance!"...they could always say "This is the predominant scientific *theory* of how we came into existance..."
It neither forces the student to believe it, yet it still teaches them it.
I went to an Anglican School, but no one there was really religious...but I really enjoyed how they taught religion.
Take the exam...rather than saying "How did God create our world?" it preluded those questions with "According to the Bible" or "According to the Christian Faith", so *regardless* of what you believed in, you had to answer it in a certain way, but at the same time, didn't have to lie about your beliefs.
This kinda thing should be applied to Science, especially to such disputed theories. "According to the theory of evolution..." etc.
~Jarik
I remember when I was studying for Year 12 exams, I put away my computer. While I might've increased watching TV a bit (since I don't generally watch it), I was going to sleep *on time*, getting an average of 3-4 hours EXTRA sleep than what I was used to...and better sleep at that (since being on a computer just before sleeping is not recommended).
And this was during my intense study period too.
`Jarik
Also consider...most of the older age groups who *do* still download illegal content off the net are potentially a smaller group who *started* back in the Napster or whatnot days. These people have been doing it for longer and are set in their ways, while half the teenagers don't even realize what they are doing is illegal.
~Jarik
One of the things I loved about Stage6 was the clean, fast interface. It was intuitive, unlike many other streaming sites (YouTube, Veoh), it was simple, yet looked very nice, (once again, unlike many streaming sites) and so on.
I bet ads would've highly detracted from this...but yeah, I'd be willing to sacrifice some of the interface if I still got my uber fast loading high quality videos.
On a side note, what do people recommend as a good alternative to Stage6? I took one glance at Veoh (what Stage6 seems to recommend) and didn't like it.
~Jarik
In Australia, they tend to avoid all the above if it means less work. =P
~Jarik
Positive...I should be saying, it ignores most of the high end politics and endgame, and focuses on the lives of the soldiers...without saying "The evil American soldiers are torturing all the innocent Iraqis!" or "Poor soldiers all die...".
So yeah, I didn't explain myself properly.
I liked it because it talks about the life of a squad in one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq without trying to make a point against or for the war.
~Jarik
He should be talking about "How does Microsoft beat its own older software?"
With the amount of blogs focusing on the very negative aspects of Iraq, they also probably don't want soldiers to be demoralized by reading something like that.
One blog I really enjoy reading is Michael Yon, who is a former special forces, now freelance journalist who uses his connections to follow a group around in Mosul. He gets some real awesome pics and writes very interesting dispatches about what's happening with that squad...his most famous entry, "Gates of Fire", is where he actually joined in the action and started fighting when they were ambushed.
But yeah, it's interesting to read a blog that supports the soldiers in Iraq and focuses on the positive sides of the war, without being blatant propoganda.
~Jarik
And I'm sure there's more things that might bottleneck too in the way the data is transmitted on other levels of the OSI.
~Jarik
Donskey, King James Bible Only [Comments (112)] [2007-Jan-26]
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1.If we did evolve from monkeys then how come babies arent born monkeys
2.Even Darwin said his theories were wrong before he died so why do you still believe them
3.do you really not believe the bible it says we were created in seven days not millions of years
4.how come we cant speak monkey
Just for a fact ape like creatures are monkeys Just in case certain people get on this thread From here.
(Note that, I have nothing against Christianity, but there are just some very ignorant and stupid people out there who don't even CONSIDER or ATTEMPT TO CONSIDER other ideas apart from their own...)
~Jarik
Just open notepad and say:
"Dear God. Please help me program a project."
and whatever uber-hacker is currently looking at an identical window to yours will soon reply.
~Jarik
You forgot to inquire as to its Linux compatibility.
Queue the Google Conspiracy theories...
For a time their top end CPUs, liked the FX52, beat the Intel CPUs too.
But as soon as the Core 2 lineup came out, Intel beat them in both power and price. And Intel kept dropping their prices.
`Jarik
But let's see it from their point of view.
Hypothetically, imagine for a second, their religion is *real* as well as all their practices concerning it.
Imagine if, by getting brought up to speed with the '21st century', they pissed off their God and suffered for it. Wouldn't it be stupid to do so then?
From their logic, what they're doing isn't stupid or closed-minded, but a very smart and logical decision from their beliefs. That's what makes it hard.
~Jarik
Mmm, well I played the demo, and I was generally quite impressed...but if it had flight-sim dogfights and such at a fast place with a joystick and all - that'd make me go buy the real game. I mean, I know what you mean about 'tactics' and all that - but surely you could get the best of both worlds right? Orbiting an enemy while clicking "Missile" "Laser" etc, gets really boring and anti-climatic.
But I guess we just need to weight until we get faster and lower latency broadband for that to occur...
Yeah...I'm so goddamn sick of 8,000/128 kbps Cable...in reality, giving me more like 3000/128. And no ADSL2+ DSLAM yet...It's ridiculous that such a developed country as ours has stone-age internet.
And T00l$tra's *upgradable* Cable plan is 17,000/256. What the hell can I do with 256kbps? And on top of that, they count our uploads...Bah...
~Jarik
I wrote an essay about that for class.
So, if America bans guns, suddenly the American government turns into a dictatorship? Down here in Australia, guns are illegal...are we a dictatorship?
People talk about the American government becoming more and more anti-freedom, with Homeland Security and all that...so where's the armed revolution?
Outlawing guns wouldn't work, but not because of theoretically being wrong, but because it's impractical. Most people wouldn't follow it, there'd be heavy NRA opposition and those good citizens who DID give it up would be at the mercy of those bad guys who DIDN'T.
~Jarik
Needs to be a gradual change. I remember when I was 12, both my parents went fulltime work, and I guess made a slightly bad decision of going from hand-holding me to sorta letting me do my thing in High School (In Australia, High School is Year 7-12 - we don't have Middle School).
I kinda did stupid things, did shit at school and fucked up my sleep patterns. It was only when I got to about 16-17 that I fixed it all. Of course, when my parents came back at 15 and said "we're gonna restrict your freedom", I met with heavy, heavy resistance, being that I didn't want MORE rules than I had when I was 13.
I think to make this effective...you have to gradually give the child more and more freedom, so as he or she matures, she gets the freedom to use that maturity. Teach them values so that for instance, when you stop forcing them to do homework at certain times, they have got the right work ethics instilled in their mind, so on.
In nerds terms: So when they're younger, force inputs on them. Force them to do hours of homework per day. When they start to get older and you stop forcing those inputs, evaluate the outputs - are their grades dropping? Are they doing better? And judge them on that, until eventually you can completely let go.
Letting go when they go from 17 to 18 is stupid - it'll yield that same problem I had from 12 to 13 - they'll misuse their newfound freedom after having no practice at using it responsibly.
~Jarik
I'd love an MMO that also required the fast hand-eye coordination of FPS, rather than just strategy and high levels. I don't know how this'd work well exactly...but say if you went someone who used physical attacks or projective weapons - you had to manually aim and shoot them, or dodge to try to avoid getting hit by spells...etc.
The hard thing is that this'd need fast, low latency servers (which is the main reason EVE Online's battle system is boring...imagine if they made *that* like a full on flight simulator...*drool*).
~Jarik
If someone made something like Star Wars Galaxies, but *didn't* make it crap after losing some popularity, it might be really cool.
~Jarik