And that all depends on who you feel is "worthy" or not.
I don't understand the point of your statement. It's almost as if you were becoming defensive at the fact you (as the GP put it) would never accomplish something like this in your entire life. Maybe you have, but the comment was off topic and made little to no argument whatsoever. Sorry if this seems trollish, it just bugs me that your post had no point to it.
Lastly, there is a problem when someone is content being 'good' enough. I want to be the best at what I do, I am not, I guarantee that, but if I ever feel like I'm good enough, than there is a real problem.
Good points, but I'm interested in the prediction about Britain's crime rates. If they do also drop that'd be pretty striking, even if it is just a correlation.
Of course, we'll also have to weigh in the effect on predicting the future and it's impact changing it's outcomes, which is still a relatively young science...
see, Warning labels on hot coffee, see also, instructions on hair dryers.
queue "Missing the point" Hyundai commercial.
I haven't been to many other countries, but America seemingly takes the cake in protecting ourselves from common sense. I can't count how many college kids I've met that will only buy organic food and avoid sunlight (lol) but will go out and destroy their livers every weekend. And these are the people I'm exposed to most.
What about the demographic that likes consoles and wants to play online? Or the demographic with the HDTV sets? Or jsut people who might not be interested in a "gimmicky" control scheme?
I'm not saying the wii is bad, or that everyone thinks the control scheme is a gimmick, but certain people do, and it extends far beyond the spoiled kids and bone headed athletes, as you say. I'd pay a lot more attention to your points if they weren't so laced with bias and slant.
Lastly, your point with vista has no relevance to the xbox. To be sure, vista has to deal with a lot of legacy issues, security issues, etc. And do you know how Microsoft word was developed? it wasn't the first product of it's kind, but it absolutely did well on it's own merit. not by FUD, not by stabbing others in the back, by, gasp, being a good product.
I know it's fashionable to bash MS, but just because they've screwed up some things, doesn't mean they've screwed up everything. And I'll even leave this one open for some obvious joke.
I've heard of that. IANAL but i think it's a death in furtherance of a crime. The crime being fraud, and the resultant death coming from a direct act of the fraud.
But then she loses credibility for the fact that she ran right out and bought her little girl Vista, probably to gain more acceptance from her, as she's striving to be so cool with the IN crowd. I mean, bashing Vista is cool right? oh shit, I meant the IT crowd...
I agree with the main points the mother is making, but honestly people, lets do some research before we blame everyone else, even if they deserve some of the blame.
While I'll agree with the idea of your post, we should also bring up the fact that the mother, who "cares about performance and utility" bought an OS for her daughter because of gadgets. If she is going to go and complain to Ballmer, she probably knew a bit about vista anyways, and i don't understand the kind of parent who goes out and drops 150 on software because of some little feature.
I understand that the average user is not as technical as the posters here, but if she was smart enough to know the OS was causing problems, and dedicated enough to show up and quiz Ballmer on this, i just have a hard time believing this isn't some form of stunt or something of the like.
How about being laughed at by the world and causing harm to other real science that isn't knee jerk reaction?
I'm not giving an opinion on the issues here, just saying that your reaction is as selfish as the guy who says "it doesn't affect me so I'll do what i want" only in a slightly different context. You are the Eric Cartman of scientists, apparently.
Wow, you misread the one statement I explicitly put in there so you would know where I stand.
Had you kept reading the statement, instead of going off like an idiot (and getting other idiots to agree with you) that can't finish reading a sentence before going off the deep end, You'd see that there are perfectly acceptable compromises that can and should be made. One such compromise that can be made is, yes, our country was founded by Christians, and people who hold those beliefs want to celebrate it. Can't they do that? You're being just as bigoted as you think i am, only you try to look righteous doing it. A bigot is a bigot is a bigot.
I don't care where you were born or what religion you practice. I can't even consider myself a Christian, yet I've studied many religions that fall under it. If you can't respect the ideas and views of such a large group of people, why are you surprised that "they" don't respect yours? And the Ten Commandments have transcended religion, they are symbol of morality and a just way of life, referenced throughout literature and culture. I agree with the 10 commandments, and i don't need to be a Christian to do that. You're putting your own "bible thumping" spin on the argument which i never brought in. Congrats, you made a straw man, and you beat the shit out of it. That must make you feel good.
I'm sorry you came to the conclusion i was a racist or some other bullshit like that, all I believe i asked for was to show the same amount of respect for the history of a nation as you would like toward your own views. You used the fucking word wrong, that monument in no way condemns any other viewpoint (let alone all others) which is, by definition, what a bigot does.
I don't think it's a bigoted act at all, it's a monument- not a suppression or dismissal of other views. Now, if they purchased monuments with all other views, and smashed them at the feat of this monument, now that would be bigoted. I fail to see how declaring one's views is a bigoted act.
Besides you using the word improperly, our country was founded as a Christian country. I'm not saying that all non-Christians should get out, but a respect for the past should be at least be attempted, in my opinion. Please don't respond with soemthing like, well we used to be in the slave trade, maybe we should have a monument to that! because that's obviously not the point i'm trying to make.
While you might not believe in God or the 10 commandments, or some other event/story, a great amount of people do and did, including the founders of this country.
I encourage other views to be shared and all, but your logic would ban nearly every piece of art from the public world. Oh god, what would museums look like?
So 3rd party blue tooth headsets can't be used with an iphone? I'll let my friends who are using them know they aren't actually using them. Or is that not an ad hoc attachment to the system? Like a scanner?
I think you should try replying to the portion of the post that says the communications aspect of the device is sseparate from the application side. I mean, are they really updating the communication/signal processing part of the iphone? i think that should have been pretty solid by, you know, release.
This is completely true. I don't think we can prove that apple is 'knowingly' doing this. But I'm sure an office memo or something, if it does exist, would be leaked seeing as how there was quite a bit of turmoil inside over the iphone to begin with.
Maybe the patch is just too difficult to make to circumvent the patch. I Doubt it, but i don't really know either.
By your logic, they shouldn't test things like Adobe when they release an operating system then? Because, you know, all the Macs are the same.
yet they spend a lot of money on that sort of triage in order to make the user experience "seamless" between versions. I feel as if your argument holds no water.
Black youths are statistically more likely to mug you? Maybe black youths are arrested more often than white youths, but that doesn't exactly imply that black youths are more likely to mug you.
What if you live in a state with very few black people? does your argument still hold water?
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And that all depends on who you feel is "worthy" or not.
I don't understand the point of your statement. It's almost as if you were becoming defensive at the fact you (as the GP put it) would never accomplish something like this in your entire life. Maybe you have, but the comment was off topic and made little to no argument whatsoever. Sorry if this seems trollish, it just bugs me that your post had no point to it.
Lastly, there is a problem when someone is content being 'good' enough. I want to be the best at what I do, I am not, I guarantee that, but if I ever feel like I'm good enough, than there is a real problem.
Not sure if you were intentionally missing the sarcasm or not, but I'll replace it if you'll let me replace all those "it's" with the rightful "its"
Grammar nazi'ing my own post... good god.
I'm not trying to flame, i just want to know the proof behind your statements. It seems like it'd be an interesting study.
Good points, but I'm interested in the prediction about Britain's crime rates. If they do also drop that'd be pretty striking, even if it is just a correlation.
Of course, we'll also have to weigh in the effect on predicting the future and it's impact changing it's outcomes, which is still a relatively young science...
see, Warning labels on hot coffee,
see also, instructions on hair dryers.
queue "Missing the point" Hyundai commercial.
I haven't been to many other countries, but America seemingly takes the cake in protecting ourselves from common sense. I can't count how many college kids I've met that will only buy organic food and avoid sunlight (lol) but will go out and destroy their livers every weekend. And these are the people I'm exposed to most.
Thank you for calling him out, I was about to do it when i thought to myself, maybe I shouldn't? +1 for you, if I had mod points.
Perhaps you should get back to work instead of postin on /. then.
The other guy who replied to you is correct, +1 ignorant/ idiot.
What about the demographic that likes consoles and wants to play online? Or the demographic with the HDTV sets? Or jsut people who might not be interested in a "gimmicky" control scheme?
I'm not saying the wii is bad, or that everyone thinks the control scheme is a gimmick, but certain people do, and it extends far beyond the spoiled kids and bone headed athletes, as you say. I'd pay a lot more attention to your points if they weren't so laced with bias and slant.
Lastly, your point with vista has no relevance to the xbox. To be sure, vista has to deal with a lot of legacy issues, security issues, etc. And do you know how Microsoft word was developed? it wasn't the first product of it's kind, but it absolutely did well on it's own merit. not by FUD, not by stabbing others in the back, by, gasp, being a good product.
I know it's fashionable to bash MS, but just because they've screwed up some things, doesn't mean they've screwed up everything. And I'll even leave this one open for some obvious joke.
I think MS has done pretty well in the office productivity software realm... but i could be wrong.
I've heard of that. IANAL but i think it's a death in furtherance of a crime. The crime being fraud, and the resultant death coming from a direct act of the fraud.
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But then she loses credibility for the fact that she ran right out and bought her little girl Vista, probably to gain more acceptance from her, as she's striving to be so cool with the IN crowd. I mean, bashing Vista is cool right? oh shit, I meant the IT crowd...
I agree with the main points the mother is making, but honestly people, lets do some research before we blame everyone else, even if they deserve some of the blame.
While I'll agree with the idea of your post, we should also bring up the fact that the mother, who "cares about performance and utility" bought an OS for her daughter because of gadgets. If she is going to go and complain to Ballmer, she probably knew a bit about vista anyways, and i don't understand the kind of parent who goes out and drops 150 on software because of some little feature.
I understand that the average user is not as technical as the posters here, but if she was smart enough to know the OS was causing problems, and dedicated enough to show up and quiz Ballmer on this, i just have a hard time believing this isn't some form of stunt or something of the like.
How about being laughed at by the world and causing harm to other real science that isn't knee jerk reaction?
I'm not giving an opinion on the issues here, just saying that your reaction is as selfish as the guy who says "it doesn't affect me so I'll do what i want" only in a slightly different context. You are the Eric Cartman of scientists, apparently.
apparently the "reply to this" feature was fucking up, because i'm not replying to the correct posts at all....
do you even read entire responses before you reply?
Wow, you misread the one statement I explicitly put in there so you would know where I stand.
Had you kept reading the statement, instead of going off like an idiot (and getting other idiots to agree with you) that can't finish reading a sentence before going off the deep end, You'd see that there are perfectly acceptable compromises that can and should be made. One such compromise that can be made is, yes, our country was founded by Christians, and people who hold those beliefs want to celebrate it. Can't they do that? You're being just as bigoted as you think i am, only you try to look righteous doing it. A bigot is a bigot is a bigot.
I don't care where you were born or what religion you practice. I can't even consider myself a Christian, yet I've studied many religions that fall under it. If you can't respect the ideas and views of such a large group of people, why are you surprised that "they" don't respect yours? And the Ten Commandments have transcended religion, they are symbol of morality and a just way of life, referenced throughout literature and culture. I agree with the 10 commandments, and i don't need to be a Christian to do that. You're putting your own "bible thumping" spin on the argument which i never brought in. Congrats, you made a straw man, and you beat the shit out of it. That must make you feel good.
I'm sorry you came to the conclusion i was a racist or some other bullshit like that, all I believe i asked for was to show the same amount of respect for the history of a nation as you would like toward your own views. You used the fucking word wrong, that monument in no way condemns any other viewpoint (let alone all others) which is, by definition, what a bigot does.
I don't think it's a bigoted act at all, it's a monument- not a suppression or dismissal of other views. Now, if they purchased monuments with all other views, and smashed them at the feat of this monument, now that would be bigoted. I fail to see how declaring one's views is a bigoted act.
Besides you using the word improperly, our country was founded as a Christian country. I'm not saying that all non-Christians should get out, but a respect for the past should be at least be attempted, in my opinion. Please don't respond with soemthing like, well we used to be in the slave trade, maybe we should have a monument to that! because that's obviously not the point i'm trying to make.
While you might not believe in God or the 10 commandments, or some other event/story, a great amount of people do and did, including the founders of this country.
I encourage other views to be shared and all, but your logic would ban nearly every piece of art from the public world. Oh god, what would museums look like?
better not use the iphone as a paper weight... or it will become one!
So 3rd party blue tooth headsets can't be used with an iphone? I'll let my friends who are using them know they aren't actually using them. Or is that not an ad hoc attachment to the system? Like a scanner?
I think you should try replying to the portion of the post that says the communications aspect of the device is sseparate from the application side. I mean, are they really updating the communication/signal processing part of the iphone? i think that should have been pretty solid by, you know, release.
This is completely true. I don't think we can prove that apple is 'knowingly' doing this. But I'm sure an office memo or something, if it does exist, would be leaked seeing as how there was quite a bit of turmoil inside over the iphone to begin with.
Maybe the patch is just too difficult to make to circumvent the patch. I Doubt it, but i don't really know either.
By your logic, they shouldn't test things like Adobe when they release an operating system then? Because, you know, all the Macs are the same.
yet they spend a lot of money on that sort of triage in order to make the user experience "seamless" between versions. I feel as if your argument holds no water.
So the British shouldn't call a cigarette a fag?
Black youths are statistically more likely to mug you? Maybe black youths are arrested more often than white youths, but that doesn't exactly imply that black youths are more likely to mug you.
What if you live in a state with very few black people? does your argument still hold water?