The man on steroids image is just one of many ways that artists within religions have related to God.
Well, if it was just the artists, fine.
But let's take the Bible, for example, supposedly true to every last word (though everyone knows it's not), written under direct guidance of God.
Right from the beginning it starts to hammer that image trough. God created us as his image? Check. God of old testament is vengeful, angry and jealous? Check. Humans feelings. God has a son, human son no less. Check. Getting his son murdered somehow transforms God into gentle loving and forgiving father. Check, human feelings again, though direct opposite of his old self. Hey, fickleness is pretty human too.
Do you think that the last two thousand years of theology have focused on the size of God's bicept?
I wasn't referring so much to God's physical man-kindness, biceps included, but his personality. I am kind of surprised if theology hasn't touched that subject.
He didn't. Learn to read. You're the only one in this thread that has been using the words "miserable failure" and associated it with Apple.
Let's see what he said:
A few years ago, Alpha was actually competing against x86. They lost. Miserably.
Alpha is not Apple. Alpha hasn't got anything at all to do with Apple. Alpha was processor set from Digital that (at the time) kicked x86's hairy butt, but was way too expensive and didn't have software support.
That only applies if you're using the rig for nothing but gaming (and loud gaming at that, another poster has a point with the sneaking games) 100% of the time.
... when Russia hasn't landed anything on the surface...
They've landed. Twice, actually.
The first lander stopped working 20 seconds after touchdown, and second lasted whopping 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
Of course this doesn't make the record look much better from astronaut's point of view, but...
Nevertheless, I think there would still be tens of thousands of volunteers for this sort of thing, even with bad history... and those countless failures are mostly from 60's and 70's, tech has muved on for everyone.
ACK. And another thing unrelated to that: Why is gnome now focussing on *one* language if one of the main purposes was language independence? (I.e. bonobo and stuff...)
The simple answer to that would be: they aren't.
I don't know who is generating, submitting and accepting these endless FUDish "GNOME switching to this and that" stories but it ain't the Gnome folks.
C++ syntax is almost identical to Java syntax. At least when you don't use some of the more powerfull, weird stuff of C++. (You are not forced to use that stuff) The main difference is garbage collection.
That "powerful, weird stuff" is what C++ is all about! If you don't use the features that are the main (and only) difference from C, why bother at all?
Hell I just verified the memory my Jedit was taking up right now: 40MB! Thats with only 12 relatively small text documents opened. Thats for a text editor! A text editor is the ideal example of an app that shouldn't take much resources.
A "text editor" with a featureset of jedit is by no means a small application that shouldn't take much resources.
jEdit != Notepad, as you well should know if you've actually used it as your primary editor.
Gnome have said "Oh C, it's great, it is neutral and you can write your own bindings etc." It is quite clear that this is BS because you actually have to write that software with a language, toolkit and architecture that is structurally sound for what you are doing.
It is quite clear that enforcing only one language is BS, whatever it is. People continue to write software in whatever language they want, I prefer Python. Some C++, some C, some Java, some C#, some even Perl (god forbid) good thing that GTK/Gnome apps can be written in all those. GTK and other Gnome core libraries are written in C, but nothing, NOTHING, requires anything else to be.
I laugh really, as the people who have whinged and whined have been proven to be, well; whingers and whiners.
You still need to wait for quite a some time before you get to laugh, because Gnome is not going to switch languages. See, this isn't about Gnome project doing anything, this is about a nobody called Thomas Delaet who had this bright idea that maybe this and that would be a nifty language, and somehow a troll or another got it posted it to Slashdot and made it look something that it isn't.
Mature, fully-integrated Unicode support is in my top ten 'must have' features for a development system/language. I would think it should be in the Gnome project's, too.
2 megapixels is just fine for lots and lots of things. Few years old "real" non-professional digicams are 2mpixel, most of the time the pictures from those are just fine. They are light years ahead of this thing, despite the same theoretical resolution.
These, on the other hand, as you point out, simply don't look good, they look fuzzy, and the colors are off, but that's not because they don't have enough resolution on CCD, it's because they have absolutely CRAPPY optics, and crappy electronics, and crappy software.
Unless the optics get a lot better (they wont't, size and especially price places some limits...) you won't get any major improvement in few years even if someone is insane enough to put a 5mpixel CCD in one of these, 5 megapixels of blurry lens does not look any better than 2 megapixels worth of blurry lens, it's just a bigger picture of same crappy lens.
It doesn't matter if the application crashing Windows (or Linux) is Firefox, or OpenOffice, or MS Office, or Adobe Photoshop.
If application, any userspace application at all, crashes OS, there is a fault in either OS or drivers. Always. There may be and probably a fault in the application as well, but in that case it just serves as a catalyst to activate the OS fault as well.
W2k desktop with explorer crashed looks something like this. Taskbar is gone too, not hidden, and sometimes things are missing from systray even after you resurrect explorer.
I have crashed IE on Win 2000 (by opening an HTML file that is embeded in itself) and nothing else disappears.
IE doesn't seem to take the another explorer with it every time, but sometimes it does.
It [NS 4.x] certainly doesn't feel very fast when it gets clogged up eating 100% CPU and doing nothing. Which I remember it doing every half an hour or so.
And nothing less than "kill -9" doesn't got rid of the POS either.
But, why can't they provide an SRPM which has the pine source & the diffs that they may want to add & install from source?
Isn't that kind of pointless? There are plenty of people who have pine s/rpms for RedHat and/or Fedora, does it really matter if it's an "official" one?
Verhoeven tried some kind of a double movie: In the US, Starship Troopers is just a nice action flick. In Europe (and maybe elsewhere, don't know), it is a "brilliant satire".
Alternatively: for everyone who hadn't read the novel (which would probably be majority of the audience, no matter what continent) it was just a nice action flick, and those that had read the Heinlein's original, satire.
You're correct in all your assumptions, but you're missing the overall point here. Why would anyone want to develop technologies one through five? What possible motivation could an aerospace company have to spend all the money and time necessary to research something like item two, a faster propulsion technology? It wouldn't be useful for launching satellites, it would only be useful for interplanetary jaunts.
Item one is very useful for satellite launches and would certainly be a gold mine for whoever developed it.
Item two does not (yet) appear to have quite as much use, but better propulsion technology helps robotic probes too, this doesn't need manned missions as a motivation.
Need for items 3 trough 5 that are solely useful for manned exploration are somewhat lessened by item 2, but indeed would not be advanced if there would not be need.
I'm all for manned exploration, just wanted to note that two of those five would continue to develop even if there is only robotic exploration going on, and one even if there isn't even that.
1) Mass production 2) Radio 3) 40% of its food production 4) Modern medicine 5) Flight 6) Satellites 7) Computers 8) Democracy
Yeah, all the people and their ancestors who invented those moved from Europe to America that had never been found. Right. Pretty nice logic you have going on here.
Oh, and don't forget to replace the word "Europe" with "Fatherland" on your world map.
That would be "Soviet Union". Soviets stopped Hitler. Yanks stopped Soviets from taking over the rest, though they still replaced half.
Assuming, of course everything else went 100% same which is about 100% guaranteed to not happen. You are not very imaginative with your lame attempt at "alternative history"
Since moon does not have a noticeable atmosphere (no drag), and much lower gravity, does it even need an elevator?
Large coil/railgun should do just as well. Well, at least for cargo, for humans it would need to be quite bit if we don't want passengers to be squished into goo...
Maintaining bridges is hardly a very public project with millions of people watching every second from tv.
It kind of makes difference. No one cares about deaths they don't know about.
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If you want to go a step further and convert Real audio files to WAV (which can then be converted to Ogg or MP3), do a search for "Streambox Ripper". I believe the version you need is 2.009 (before Real support was removed for legal reasons). It's somewhat difficult to find, so you'd need to do a bit of digging. Perhaps someone is aware of a more recent program for converting Real audio files.
MPlayer (well, mencoder) does a fine job of converting real audio files to wav/ogg/mp3/whatever, and not only that, it can even transform those annoying realvideo files to mpeg-4.
There is a Windows version, but this is obviously not a solution for those with command line phobia.
How exactly do you go building a ringworld (or anything at all for that matter) from a gas giant that is composed of about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium?
Not exactly the most... solid substances out there, those two.
Gattaca was pretty damn thought provoking, even scary, as well. Because it could well be true in fifty years.
And yes, the good films seem to be sadly missing, but then again it just might be that nobody knows about them, because small and great films don't into the news, that position is reserved for lousy hollywood blockbuster cr*p.
Fedora Core 2 is in testing phase. Beta versions are, well, beta... not that surpsising if it's not stable.
I would suggest you to not make any decisions based on beta version, wait for the final release (should be about month now).
That being said, I've been using RH8-9-FC1 for years with MS Intellimouse Explorer in the beginning and Logitech MX500 now, both in USB, and never had any trouble with either mouse. Guess the problem exists as someone else confirmed it, just strange that I haven't ever noticed anything like that.
You kind of have a point with ntfs, mp3 and nvidia support, however they are all very easily installed by any user with any level of technical expertise. Five minutes of more work after installation is not really a showstopper, right?
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The man on steroids image is just one of many ways that artists within religions have related to God.
Well, if it was just the artists, fine.
But let's take the Bible, for example, supposedly true to every last word (though everyone knows it's not), written under direct guidance of God.
Right from the beginning it starts to hammer that image trough. God created us as his image? Check.
God of old testament is vengeful, angry and jealous? Check. Humans feelings.
God has a son, human son no less. Check.
Getting his son murdered somehow transforms God into gentle loving and forgiving father. Check, human feelings again, though direct opposite of his old self. Hey, fickleness is pretty human too.
Do you think that the last two thousand years of theology have focused on the size of God's bicept?
I wasn't referring so much to God's physical man-kindness, biceps included, but his personality. I am kind of surprised if theology hasn't touched that subject.
Because you called them a miserable failure,
He didn't. Learn to read. You're the only one in this thread that has been using the words "miserable failure" and associated it with Apple.
Let's see what he said:
A few years ago, Alpha was actually competing against x86. They lost. Miserably.
Alpha is not Apple. Alpha hasn't got anything at all to do with Apple. Alpha was processor set from Digital that (at the time) kicked x86's hairy butt, but was way too expensive and didn't have software support.
That only applies if you're using the rig for nothing but gaming (and loud gaming at that, another poster has a point with the sneaking games) 100% of the time.
How many people, even sworn gamers, do that?
... when Russia hasn't landed anything on the surface ...
They've landed. Twice, actually.
The first lander stopped working 20 seconds after touchdown, and second lasted whopping 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
Of course this doesn't make the record look much better from astronaut's point of view, but...
Nevertheless, I think there would still be tens of thousands of volunteers for this sort of thing, even with bad history... and those countless failures are mostly from 60's and 70's, tech has muved on for everyone.
Heh.
1) Linux
2) Win2k in VMWare
3) UAE (Amiga emulator), with network functional
4) Chat on IRC.
Sadly, the C64 emu didn't work in UAE.
I've got screenshot of the whole madness tucked somewhere too.
Yes. Very, very sad.
ACK. And another thing unrelated to that: Why is gnome now focussing on *one* language if one of the main purposes was language independence? (I.e. bonobo and stuff...)
The simple answer to that would be: they aren't.
I don't know who is generating, submitting and accepting these endless FUDish "GNOME switching to this and that" stories but it ain't the Gnome folks.
C++ syntax is almost identical to Java syntax. At least when you don't use some of the more powerfull, weird stuff of C++. (You are not forced to use that stuff) The main difference is garbage collection.
That "powerful, weird stuff" is what C++ is all about! If you don't use the features that are the main (and only) difference from C, why bother at all?
Hell I just verified the memory my Jedit was taking up right now: 40MB! Thats with only 12 relatively small text documents opened. Thats for a text editor! A text editor is the ideal example of an app that shouldn't take much resources.
A "text editor" with a featureset of jedit is by no means a small application that shouldn't take much resources.
jEdit != Notepad, as you well should know if you've actually used it as your primary editor.
Gnome have said "Oh C, it's great, it is neutral and you can write your own bindings etc." It is quite clear that this is BS because you actually have to write that software with a language, toolkit and architecture that is structurally sound for what you are doing.
It is quite clear that enforcing only one language is BS, whatever it is. People continue to write software in whatever language they want, I prefer Python. Some C++, some C, some Java, some C#, some even Perl (god forbid) good thing that GTK/Gnome apps can be written in all those. GTK and other Gnome core libraries are written in C, but nothing, NOTHING, requires anything else to be.
I laugh really, as the people who have whinged and whined have been proven to be, well; whingers and whiners.
You still need to wait for quite a some time before you get to laugh, because Gnome is not going to switch languages. See, this isn't about Gnome project doing anything, this is about a nobody called Thomas Delaet who had this bright idea that maybe this and that would be a nifty language, and somehow a troll or another got it posted it to Slashdot and made it look something that it isn't.
Mature, fully-integrated Unicode support is in my top ten 'must have' features for a development system/language. I would think it should be in the Gnome project's, too.
It is.
Gnome has been UTF-8 since Gnome2/GTK2.
2 megapixels is just fine for lots and lots of things. Few years old "real" non-professional digicams are 2mpixel, most of the time the pictures from those are just fine. They are light years ahead of this thing, despite the same theoretical resolution.
These, on the other hand, as you point out, simply don't look good, they look fuzzy, and the colors are off, but that's not because they don't have enough resolution on CCD, it's because they have absolutely CRAPPY optics, and crappy electronics, and crappy software.
Unless the optics get a lot better (they wont't, size and especially price places some limits...) you won't get any major improvement in few years even if someone is insane enough to put a 5mpixel CCD in one of these, 5 megapixels of blurry lens does not look any better than 2 megapixels worth of blurry lens, it's just a bigger picture of same crappy lens.
It doesn't matter if the application crashing Windows (or Linux) is Firefox, or OpenOffice, or MS Office, or Adobe Photoshop.
If application, any userspace application at all, crashes OS, there is a fault in either OS or drivers. Always. There may be and probably a fault in the application as well, but in that case it just serves as a catalyst to activate the OS fault as well.
What disappears?
Pretty much everything.
W2k desktop with explorer crashed looks something like this. Taskbar is gone too, not hidden, and sometimes things are missing from systray even after you resurrect explorer.
I have crashed IE on Win 2000 (by opening an HTML file that is embeded in itself) and nothing else disappears.
IE doesn't seem to take the another explorer with it every time, but sometimes it does.
It [NS 4.x] certainly doesn't feel very fast when it gets clogged up eating 100% CPU and doing nothing. Which I remember it doing every half an hour or so.
And nothing less than "kill -9" doesn't got rid of the POS either.
Fedora Core 2 (estimated to ship in about month) will probably be the first distro to feature all those in stable binary release.
Gentoo might have them earlier if you're into whole "compiling" thing, no idea about Debian unstable, someone more knowledgeable have any idea?
If you are willing to wait bit longer, *shrug*, I guess they're all getting pretty good.
But, why can't they provide an SRPM which has the pine source & the diffs that they may want to add & install from source?
Isn't that kind of pointless? There are plenty of people who have pine s/rpms for RedHat and/or Fedora, does it really matter if it's an "official" one?
See, it's on Red Hat's servers! Good enough?
Verhoeven tried some kind of a double movie: In the US, Starship Troopers is just a nice action flick. In Europe (and maybe elsewhere, don't know), it is a "brilliant satire".
Alternatively: for everyone who hadn't read the novel (which would probably be majority of the audience, no matter what continent) it was just a nice action flick, and those that had read the Heinlein's original, satire.
You're correct in all your assumptions, but you're missing the overall point here. Why would anyone want to develop technologies one through five? What possible motivation could an aerospace company have to spend all the money and time necessary to research something like item two, a faster propulsion technology? It wouldn't be useful for launching satellites, it would only be useful for interplanetary jaunts.
Item one is very useful for satellite launches and would certainly be a gold mine for whoever developed it.
Item two does not (yet) appear to have quite as much use, but better propulsion technology helps robotic probes too, this doesn't need manned missions as a motivation.
Need for items 3 trough 5 that are solely useful for manned exploration are somewhat lessened by item 2, but indeed would not be advanced if there would not be need.
I'm all for manned exploration, just wanted to note that two of those five would continue to develop even if there is only robotic exploration going on, and one even if there isn't even that.
1) Mass production
2) Radio
3) 40% of its food production
4) Modern medicine
5) Flight
6) Satellites
7) Computers
8) Democracy
Yeah, all the people and their ancestors who invented those moved from Europe to America that had never been found. Right. Pretty nice logic you have going on here.
Oh, and don't forget to replace the word "Europe" with "Fatherland" on your world map.
That would be "Soviet Union". Soviets stopped Hitler. Yanks stopped Soviets from taking over the rest, though they still replaced half.
Assuming, of course everything else went 100% same which is about 100% guaranteed to not happen. You are not very imaginative with your lame attempt at "alternative history"
Since moon does not have a noticeable atmosphere (no drag), and much lower gravity, does it even need an elevator?
Large coil/railgun should do just as well. Well, at least for cargo, for humans it would need to be quite bit if we don't want passengers to be squished into goo...
Maintaining bridges is hardly a very public project with millions of people watching every second from tv.
It kind of makes difference. No one cares about deaths they don't know about.
If you want to go a step further and convert Real audio files to WAV (which can then be converted to Ogg or MP3), do a search for "Streambox Ripper". I believe the version you need is 2.009 (before Real support was removed for legal reasons). It's somewhat difficult to find, so you'd need to do a bit of digging. Perhaps someone is aware of a more recent program for converting Real audio files.
MPlayer (well, mencoder) does a fine job of converting real audio files to wav/ogg/mp3/whatever, and not only that, it can even transform those annoying realvideo files to mpeg-4.
There is a Windows version, but this is obviously not a solution for those with command line phobia.
How exactly do you go building a ringworld (or anything at all for that matter) from a gas giant that is composed of about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium?
... solid substances out there, those two.
Not exactly the most
As long as they don't rename it to "Duke Nukem Forever: The Movie"
And postpone it for all of the eternity. Then again, maybe that would be for the best.
OK, Gattaca was acceptable, but I want MORE!
Gattaca was pretty damn thought provoking, even scary, as well. Because it could well be true in fifty years.
And yes, the good films seem to be sadly missing, but then again it just might be that nobody knows about them, because small and great films don't into the news, that position is reserved for lousy hollywood blockbuster cr*p.
Fedora Core 2 is in testing phase. Beta versions are, well, beta... not that surpsising if it's not stable.
I would suggest you to not make any decisions based on beta version, wait for the final release (should be about month now).
That being said, I've been using RH8-9-FC1 for years with MS Intellimouse Explorer in the beginning and Logitech MX500 now, both in USB, and never had any trouble with either mouse. Guess the problem exists as someone else confirmed it, just strange that I haven't ever noticed anything like that.
You kind of have a point with ntfs, mp3 and nvidia support, however they are all very easily installed by any user with any level of technical expertise. Five minutes of more work after installation is not really a showstopper, right?