"Makes sense" does not require the benefit of the doubt. All it requires is considering what was said. If an argument makes sense, then who said it doesn't make it any more or less "making sense". Now if we were to consider if Microsoft will do this right, that is a whole new issue all together. Will they? Probably not. Is it a good idea? Yes, it makes sense. Divide the work, and things get done faster.
In this case at the very least Microsoft might not claim they implemented the standard when, in fact, they only did about 30%(might being the key word here).
I think it comes down to how everything started. In the end it comes down to a matter of infinity. If the big bang is what caused it, then what caused that? No good answer for that. If god created it, what created him? God has always existed. I myself choose to sway toward the scientific answer at the moment, although I can understand that the second answer may be more comforting to people then the other. Humans in general seem to have a hard time grasping the concept of infinity, or at least I do.
Yes he does seem to godwin himself quite a bit. I've noticed this is a common argument(from Christians atleast). From the relatives I grew up with, and sadly still have to talk to, because Hitler talked about racial superiority/inferiority then Evolution is to blame for WWII. From my understanding he based much if that talk off of a way of thinking that applies natural selection/evolution to race instead of a species. Its basically a different way to say "we're better then you". Anyone who really knows evolution knows that it really didn't have anything to do with it as thats not what evolution is about. They don't see it like that though.
Please, look up the definition to a word before complaining.
From wikipedia: "In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch... a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations, and is predictive, logical, and testable." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory#Science
Why does everyone always forget that certain words have certain meanings depending on the context in which they are used? Evolution is a scientific theory, thus you need to know the scientific definition of a theory.
Yes, many people don't understand this distinction. I come from a fairly heavy Christian background, and everyone around me always told me that schools filled kids with propaganda. The most heard argument for this was that they always "brainwashed" kids into believing this "evolution hogwash".
I can't speak for all Christians, but the ones that I grew up with did and do see evolution as something that is anti-god. They see it as an enemy, when really it never says there is no god. Evolution just proves that the world wasn't created in 7 days. I'm just glad I did go to a public school where they taught me enough for me to realize that everything I'd been taught to that point from religion was all crap. I'm an athiest now and I'm completely open to any scientific theory.
As others have mentioned here, that would be something with evidence, falsifiable, etc. If god is proven eventually via this process, then thats fine. The important thing is that we keep teaching kids REAL science so that they can decide for themselves, as I did, whether or not to still choose religion.
Actually we use these at work for travel. Being the one that installed XP I have some experience with this. If you install just a normal XP installation, then it gets really tight. However if you use NLite to shave it down you can get some good performance. I had my installation down to half a gig by removing many of the things that are useless on the EEE PC(such as most of the drivers). With 2 gigs of ram, you can easily disable virtual memory with little effect. With anti virus, along with Open office and a few other suites, it came out to about 1.24 gigs used space.
What about hulu(www.hulu.com)? I've been using that for a while now. Thats exactly how I'd like my television. Alot of the time it even gives me a choice on what kind of commercials I'd like to see. I just wish more networks signed on.
We're having that same problem at work. All the computers we manage usually have quicktime, which is needed at one point or another. However everytime it updates it tries to stick on itunes and safari. Some people are observant and don't let it, but a majority of the people just click next since its an "update". Next thing ya know around 60-75% of the company has itunes and safari which noone uses.
Exactly. The main advantage to wikipedia is that it, theoretically, can be updated when the facts change. In addition theres a good chance that there are links with where they got their sources. In my own personal experience its been a good place to find a general summary with a link to more credible sources.
Most people consider free will as something that was not pre-ordained. As in without free will everything you do, or did, was meant to happen and given enough information could have been predicted long ago.
With free will then only you know for sure what you are going to do. Its not a random choice, and its not certain untill you make that choice.
Personally I don't really care one way or the other. Whether we have free will or not, my life is going to be the same. If I do have free will then I will continue to make choices the way I always had, if not then it still remains the same. The only thing I worry about is people using an argument of no free will to skirt the moral responsibility in their actions.
To give a clear example of free will, lets say person X killed someone. If he had free will then he could have NOT killed someone. If he doesn't, then he was going to kill someone no matter what.
With my users I also get alot of "me too!". Its bad enough managers demand useless software for a few people, but then when we get a new application for just the person that needs it, all of a sudden the entire office needs it too. If we let them choose computer hardware/software we'd be spending atleast 3 times as much per system then we already do, and we'd see no gain in working efficiency.
Perhaps at one point. However at this point, in the company I am IT admin for, we use thunderbird quite widely as a Outlook(not express) replacement. If you take Thunderbird, and add in the lightning extension, provider extension, and use it in conjunction with Google Calendars, then it makes a very easy replacement for Outlook. We are split about even between outlook and thunderbird/lightning, which is mainly because some still prefer Outlook. Without exchange server and the such, the people using Thunderbird are sharing calendars and such alot easier then the ones using Outlook.
Outlook can sync up with google calendar as well now, but with the provider extension for Thunderbird you can specify which calendar to sync with Google. However in Outlook it syncs the entire default calendar, which has tended to accidently share private events with multiple people. I have no experience in regards to exchange server, so I'm not 100% sure how that compares to the Thunderbird + GCalendar experience.
Problem I see is Internet will start to become like cell phones. X amount of minutes, and unless your obsessive about checking you could go over without even knowing till the $600 bill comes. If they charge fees for over usage, then how the hell am I suppose to figure out if I'm over? I highly doubt they're going to give an easy way to monitor our usage. I agree with the other people saying that the costs better drop, and I mean plummet. 5GB? Yeah my retired dad used about that much this month, and he was in the hospital for 80% of the month.
Yeah, they have to have Pichu, Dr. Mario, and probably some new secret characters. That was part of the fun with melee, wondering what other character was hidden within that gem of a game.
6. Japan-Only Releases. (If the game is done, why not also release it in the US? Maybe it will do well, maybe not. Give it a try.) Just to add some more info here, even if there was obvious demand for a japan only game over here, sometimes its just impossible. One game which is basically like super smash bros. except with a horde of anime characters from dozens of different anime fight eachother. Its really fun, most anime's are out over here via toon network or some other thing. Problem is that the license holders for the anime in Japan is one company whereas over here its 5-10 different companies. Its just too expensive/difficult/etc to get a license agreement that big for a game that most likely would do average but not blockbuster. Stuff like that happens quite a bit.
What? You mean the RIAA might not be pulling some crazy suit over some obviously(hopefully) legal thing? They might actually have a case, and not be lying out their...other end...? Say it ain't so! This is almost akin to Jack Thompson being right about something.
Seriously though this seems like they're trying to accuse the RIAA for much more then they are actually guilty of. I hate the RIAA too, but lets try to put blame where blame is due. A guy ripped a CD, which is unauthorized but legal for backup purposes according to fair use. However he put it in his shared directory, which is NOT backing up. Suing him is overboard, which is exactly like every other RIAA suit, but technically they are in the right.
I'm not too sure about that. It depends on the kind of guy he is, but personally if an auction house with that kind of reputation did that to me I'd sue just to ruin their reputation. Whether intentional or not, you can't make false claims and get away with it. For Christie's money isn't the main thing they have to lose, its reputation. If they lose their reputation then they will lose a lot more money then anything this guy could get via court.
Christie's screwed up, most likely, and if thats true they should be punished by losing that which is most precious to them, their reputation. 'Course the way I see it Spiner may be wrong. Perhaps he had the double, how would he know which is the right one? Wouldn't the people in charge of the props know that? You'd think they would have been in direct talks with the people involved with the props when preparing for the auction.
Didn't they show the prep for this auction on TV at one point? If I remember correctly they were talking with the prop people, but that was along time ago.
Actually that brings up a good point. I can't believe they're wanting to go faster then the SR-71, or even as fast. It had the problem about its fuel tank sealing up at high speeds, but on the ground it leaked badly. Problem was that they didn't have a material that could seal the tank and still be flexible while not melting off at those high temperatures. Have they solved this problem?
If not then maybe they want the scramjet because its quiet(er) then the ramjets of old? I know tons about the SR-71, but I haven't really researched much on scramjets beyond the mythological Aurora(fabled successor to SR-71). Does a scramjet produce a less significant sonic boom then a ramjet?
Yes, infact I knew someone who use to fly those things and they weren't allowed to fully throttle up. He also said that during normal missions the plane would damage itself when going the faster speeds. Now of course this is all at someones word, so I have no written proof. Also there would be a slight correction, the SR-71 didn't have "normal" jet engines. SR-71 used ramjet engines, scramjets employ similar but much more advanced technology.
Mostly I agree with you. However when it comes to the control aspect I have to disagree. You have to remember this is a work she spent a good portion of her life writing. I think anyone who creates an art should have control over anything that expands their universe. She came up with the universe, its only fair that she decides where to take it next even if she's not the writer.
Now is this lexicon expanding the universe? No, of course not. This Lexicon is only restating certain "facts" about the series. They are in no way expanding on her universe, just writing something that will help people better understand that which was already written. Personally, as a writer, my position is as long as its not expanding it should be fair. As long as they are writing a majority of it and properly citing quotes, along with not using too many(30+ pages of nothing but quotes is not fair use) then it should be allowed.
I don't see how this is any different from all those unofficial guide books that are published about games.
I wasn't placing any blame anywhere. I'm not complaining that it doesn't just work, I'm just stating that it doesn't just work for me. It doesn't matter whose fault it is, as that is a moot point. There are people who care about raising popularity of a product. Usually its hardcore fans and the business behind the product, i.e. Microsoft. I'm neither a hardcore fan of either, and I certainly don't work for MS or contribute to a Linux distro.
In the end I am a consumer. If Microsoft was largely unsupported and didn't do half of what I needed and Linux/some-other-OS did then I'd switch to the OS that did. My agenda is that I want to use a product that provides me the most joy while doing what I need to do. Thats it, no political/moral motivation besides that.
Just so you know I'm not attacking Linux, I'm merely stating that in my experience as a Sys Admin and a consumer Windows works best. Windows Vista works for me, but in my corporate environment Windows XP works best. Of course this is a purely Desktop environment. For servers I have slowly started switching the company over to Linux, as despite the sometimes long configuration it will work without much maintenance after that.
However we still depend on Active Directory, and the chances of us getting rid of that anytime soon are slim. We also use a mixture of MS Office, and Open Office. We use to use MS Office Pro and Standard(for those who don't need pro). I was able to switch us over to standard. We also use a ton of oss software such as ZPDF Creator, Gimp, FileZilla, etc. Any chance I get I suggest an oss alternative. Linux just isn't viable for me/us yet.
Whats that one saying about if its too good to be true? Wow this reminds me of the modem days for some reason. So does this algorithm come with snake oil?
Yes, one thing that I should have pointed out is that I was referring to relatively recent hardware. I have tried many Linux games, and while some are pretty good I was referring to mainstream games. I have tried wine, and on my systems in the past and recently it just hasn't worked. I'm far from a Microsoft fanboy, but for me thats just what is closest to my needs. I honestly don't care what the best operating system is, I just use what fits my needs closest. For me its Windows, and I mean Windows as in any Windows. As for Vista, its a little better in some ways then XP IMHO, and its a little worse in other areas. Overall I think its better, but despite me having no trouble with it I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Main reason is theres just no point in upgrading. Only reason I upgraded is because I built a new sorta high-end computer and thus wanted to future proof it.
There isn't a large enough gap between XP and Vista to justify upgrading a working copy of XP to Vista. However Vista itself isn't as bad as its made out to be. Like computers, its just a tool. I have no bias toward any OS. Like I said before, I'll use what works for me. Right now its windows, and I'm sure that eventually it will be Linux. I still have a Linux machine, it just doesn't see much use.
As a side note, hopefully with ATI releasing their specs I can finally use my ATI cards in Linux. I'd love to setup a HTPC linux box with one of the Radeon HD 2600s.
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"Makes sense" does not require the benefit of the doubt. All it requires is considering what was said. If an argument makes sense, then who said it doesn't make it any more or less "making sense". Now if we were to consider if Microsoft will do this right, that is a whole new issue all together. Will they? Probably not. Is it a good idea? Yes, it makes sense. Divide the work, and things get done faster.
In this case at the very least Microsoft might not claim they implemented the standard when, in fact, they only did about 30%(might being the key word here).
I think it comes down to how everything started. In the end it comes down to a matter of infinity. If the big bang is what caused it, then what caused that? No good answer for that. If god created it, what created him? God has always existed. I myself choose to sway toward the scientific answer at the moment, although I can understand that the second answer may be more comforting to people then the other. Humans in general seem to have a hard time grasping the concept of infinity, or at least I do.
Yes he does seem to godwin himself quite a bit. I've noticed this is a common argument(from Christians atleast). From the relatives I grew up with, and sadly still have to talk to, because Hitler talked about racial superiority/inferiority then Evolution is to blame for WWII. From my understanding he based much if that talk off of a way of thinking that applies natural selection/evolution to race instead of a species. Its basically a different way to say "we're better then you". Anyone who really knows evolution knows that it really didn't have anything to do with it as thats not what evolution is about. They don't see it like that though.
p.s. hmm, did I just godwin myself? damn.
Please, look up the definition to a word before complaining.
... a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations, and is predictive, logical, and testable."
From wikipedia:
"In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory#Science
Why does everyone always forget that certain words have certain meanings depending on the context in which they are used? Evolution is a scientific theory, thus you need to know the scientific definition of a theory.
Yes, many people don't understand this distinction. I come from a fairly heavy Christian background, and everyone around me always told me that schools filled kids with propaganda. The most heard argument for this was that they always "brainwashed" kids into believing this "evolution hogwash".
I can't speak for all Christians, but the ones that I grew up with did and do see evolution as something that is anti-god. They see it as an enemy, when really it never says there is no god. Evolution just proves that the world wasn't created in 7 days. I'm just glad I did go to a public school where they taught me enough for me to realize that everything I'd been taught to that point from religion was all crap. I'm an athiest now and I'm completely open to any scientific theory.
As others have mentioned here, that would be something with evidence, falsifiable, etc. If god is proven eventually via this process, then thats fine. The important thing is that we keep teaching kids REAL science so that they can decide for themselves, as I did, whether or not to still choose religion.
Actually we use these at work for travel. Being the one that installed XP I have some experience with this. If you install just a normal XP installation, then it gets really tight. However if you use NLite to shave it down you can get some good performance. I had my installation down to half a gig by removing many of the things that are useless on the EEE PC(such as most of the drivers). With 2 gigs of ram, you can easily disable virtual memory with little effect. With anti virus, along with Open office and a few other suites, it came out to about 1.24 gigs used space.
What about hulu(www.hulu.com)? I've been using that for a while now. Thats exactly how I'd like my television. Alot of the time it even gives me a choice on what kind of commercials I'd like to see. I just wish more networks signed on.
Exactly,
We're having that same problem at work. All the computers we manage usually have quicktime, which is needed at one point or another. However everytime it updates it tries to stick on itunes and safari. Some people are observant and don't let it, but a majority of the people just click next since its an "update". Next thing ya know around 60-75% of the company has itunes and safari which noone uses.
Exactly. The main advantage to wikipedia is that it, theoretically, can be updated when the facts change. In addition theres a good chance that there are links with where they got their sources. In my own personal experience its been a good place to find a general summary with a link to more credible sources.
Most people consider free will as something that was not pre-ordained. As in without free will everything you do, or did, was meant to happen and given enough information could have been predicted long ago.
With free will then only you know for sure what you are going to do. Its not a random choice, and its not certain untill you make that choice.
Personally I don't really care one way or the other. Whether we have free will or not, my life is going to be the same. If I do have free will then I will continue to make choices the way I always had, if not then it still remains the same. The only thing I worry about is people using an argument of no free will to skirt the moral responsibility in their actions.
To give a clear example of free will, lets say person X killed someone. If he had free will then he could have NOT killed someone. If he doesn't, then he was going to kill someone no matter what.
Same here,
With my users I also get alot of "me too!". Its bad enough managers demand useless software for a few people, but then when we get a new application for just the person that needs it, all of a sudden the entire office needs it too. If we let them choose computer hardware/software we'd be spending atleast 3 times as much per system then we already do, and we'd see no gain in working efficiency.
Yes, I've seen this story on multiple web sites so far...its real.
Wait, we're still using THAT old system of measurement? What about BruenerHertz? They're much better.
Perhaps at one point. However at this point, in the company I am IT admin for, we use thunderbird quite widely as a Outlook(not express) replacement. If you take Thunderbird, and add in the lightning extension, provider extension, and use it in conjunction with Google Calendars, then it makes a very easy replacement for Outlook. We are split about even between outlook and thunderbird/lightning, which is mainly because some still prefer Outlook. Without exchange server and the such, the people using Thunderbird are sharing calendars and such alot easier then the ones using Outlook.
Outlook can sync up with google calendar as well now, but with the provider extension for Thunderbird you can specify which calendar to sync with Google. However in Outlook it syncs the entire default calendar, which has tended to accidently share private events with multiple people. I have no experience in regards to exchange server, so I'm not 100% sure how that compares to the Thunderbird + GCalendar experience.
Problem I see is Internet will start to become like cell phones. X amount of minutes, and unless your obsessive about checking you could go over without even knowing till the $600 bill comes. If they charge fees for over usage, then how the hell am I suppose to figure out if I'm over? I highly doubt they're going to give an easy way to monitor our usage. I agree with the other people saying that the costs better drop, and I mean plummet. 5GB? Yeah my retired dad used about that much this month, and he was in the hospital for 80% of the month.
Yeah, they have to have Pichu, Dr. Mario, and probably some new secret characters. That was part of the fun with melee, wondering what other character was hidden within that gem of a game.
What? You mean the RIAA might not be pulling some crazy suit over some obviously(hopefully) legal thing? They might actually have a case, and not be lying out their...other end...? Say it ain't so! This is almost akin to Jack Thompson being right about something.
Seriously though this seems like they're trying to accuse the RIAA for much more then they are actually guilty of. I hate the RIAA too, but lets try to put blame where blame is due. A guy ripped a CD, which is unauthorized but legal for backup purposes according to fair use. However he put it in his shared directory, which is NOT backing up. Suing him is overboard, which is exactly like every other RIAA suit, but technically they are in the right.
They're still being jack***es about it.
I'm not too sure about that. It depends on the kind of guy he is, but personally if an auction house with that kind of reputation did that to me I'd sue just to ruin their reputation. Whether intentional or not, you can't make false claims and get away with it. For Christie's money isn't the main thing they have to lose, its reputation. If they lose their reputation then they will lose a lot more money then anything this guy could get via court.
Christie's screwed up, most likely, and if thats true they should be punished by losing that which is most precious to them, their reputation. 'Course the way I see it Spiner may be wrong. Perhaps he had the double, how would he know which is the right one? Wouldn't the people in charge of the props know that? You'd think they would have been in direct talks with the people involved with the props when preparing for the auction.
Didn't they show the prep for this auction on TV at one point? If I remember correctly they were talking with the prop people, but that was along time ago.
Actually that brings up a good point. I can't believe they're wanting to go faster then the SR-71, or even as fast. It had the problem about its fuel tank sealing up at high speeds, but on the ground it leaked badly. Problem was that they didn't have a material that could seal the tank and still be flexible while not melting off at those high temperatures. Have they solved this problem?
If not then maybe they want the scramjet because its quiet(er) then the ramjets of old? I know tons about the SR-71, but I haven't really researched much on scramjets beyond the mythological Aurora(fabled successor to SR-71). Does a scramjet produce a less significant sonic boom then a ramjet?
Yes, infact I knew someone who use to fly those things and they weren't allowed to fully throttle up. He also said that during normal missions the plane would damage itself when going the faster speeds. Now of course this is all at someones word, so I have no written proof. Also there would be a slight correction, the SR-71 didn't have "normal" jet engines. SR-71 used ramjet engines, scramjets employ similar but much more advanced technology.
Mostly I agree with you. However when it comes to the control aspect I have to disagree. You have to remember this is a work she spent a good portion of her life writing. I think anyone who creates an art should have control over anything that expands their universe. She came up with the universe, its only fair that she decides where to take it next even if she's not the writer.
Now is this lexicon expanding the universe? No, of course not. This Lexicon is only restating certain "facts" about the series. They are in no way expanding on her universe, just writing something that will help people better understand that which was already written. Personally, as a writer, my position is as long as its not expanding it should be fair. As long as they are writing a majority of it and properly citing quotes, along with not using too many(30+ pages of nothing but quotes is not fair use) then it should be allowed.
I don't see how this is any different from all those unofficial guide books that are published about games.
I wasn't placing any blame anywhere. I'm not complaining that it doesn't just work, I'm just stating that it doesn't just work for me. It doesn't matter whose fault it is, as that is a moot point. There are people who care about raising popularity of a product. Usually its hardcore fans and the business behind the product, i.e. Microsoft. I'm neither a hardcore fan of either, and I certainly don't work for MS or contribute to a Linux distro.
In the end I am a consumer. If Microsoft was largely unsupported and didn't do half of what I needed and Linux/some-other-OS did then I'd switch to the OS that did. My agenda is that I want to use a product that provides me the most joy while doing what I need to do. Thats it, no political/moral motivation besides that.
Just so you know I'm not attacking Linux, I'm merely stating that in my experience as a Sys Admin and a consumer Windows works best. Windows Vista works for me, but in my corporate environment Windows XP works best. Of course this is a purely Desktop environment. For servers I have slowly started switching the company over to Linux, as despite the sometimes long configuration it will work without much maintenance after that.
However we still depend on Active Directory, and the chances of us getting rid of that anytime soon are slim. We also use a mixture of MS Office, and Open Office. We use to use MS Office Pro and Standard(for those who don't need pro). I was able to switch us over to standard. We also use a ton of oss software such as ZPDF Creator, Gimp, FileZilla, etc. Any chance I get I suggest an oss alternative. Linux just isn't viable for me/us yet.
Whats that one saying about if its too good to be true? Wow this reminds me of the modem days for some reason. So does this algorithm come with snake oil?
Yes, one thing that I should have pointed out is that I was referring to relatively recent hardware. I have tried many Linux games, and while some are pretty good I was referring to mainstream games. I have tried wine, and on my systems in the past and recently it just hasn't worked. I'm far from a Microsoft fanboy, but for me thats just what is closest to my needs. I honestly don't care what the best operating system is, I just use what fits my needs closest. For me its Windows, and I mean Windows as in any Windows. As for Vista, its a little better in some ways then XP IMHO, and its a little worse in other areas. Overall I think its better, but despite me having no trouble with it I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Main reason is theres just no point in upgrading. Only reason I upgraded is because I built a new sorta high-end computer and thus wanted to future proof it.
There isn't a large enough gap between XP and Vista to justify upgrading a working copy of XP to Vista. However Vista itself isn't as bad as its made out to be. Like computers, its just a tool. I have no bias toward any OS. Like I said before, I'll use what works for me. Right now its windows, and I'm sure that eventually it will be Linux. I still have a Linux machine, it just doesn't see much use.
As a side note, hopefully with ATI releasing their specs I can finally use my ATI cards in Linux. I'd love to setup a HTPC linux box with one of the Radeon HD 2600s.