Congrats, you are the winner of the #1 prize for most totally irrelevant argument that manages to miss the point completely. The bytes are WORTHLESS unless they can be turned into information since a bunch of bytes are just data.
HTML was designed from the very beginning to convey information in a way that allowed it to be presented in whatever way the user desired. That web DUH-signers have wrecked this idea does not mean they ought to get away with it.
The government is there for the "weak" individuals, that is called CI-VI-LI-ZA-TION. Just because a bunch of arrogant fucks - the so-called "libertarians" - are using the benefits and safety of civilization and government to say neither is needed does not make their pathetic theories correct. Real libertarians should go into the woods and live on berries and whatnot like the hunter-gatherer culture that preceded the governments they so oppose.
No, just the Emotion Engine was software, the rest (i.e. graphics chip) was hardware. The PS1 is however fully software emulated on all of them - including of course the PS Store games you can transfer to the PSP.
What I cannot understand is why they don't reduce the size of the thing now that they are removing so much (card readers, half the USBs, PS2 functionality). That would make it easier to spot which one you were buying.
you've confused evolution with selection... Random mutations are either a corruption or loss of information.
You state that as a dogma you need to back up attacks on evolution theory. EVOLUTION IS SELECTION among "mutations" - whether random or as a consequence of genetic mixing in reproduction. Mutations that are detrimental succumb and mutations that are beneficial - which the emergence of multiresistant bacteria prove exists, despite your unsubstiantiated claim otherwise - carry on in surviving individuals. Stating that all mutations are bad is like saying that all die rolls in Craps are bad and you can never win. Mutations modify genetic material, the genes codify how an organism develops, that beneficial genes (ie. the organism lives) can exist on a world with a CONSTANT background radiation leading to a high mutation rate (OBSERVED) means that some mutations are good. Like the one that makes adult Europeans able to digest lactose in milk from cows.
You seem to attack evolution as a whole when you really are trying to attack the bio-creation theories (which have partially been demonstrated in laboratories); however, since the attacks are dogmatic and end up targeting PROVEN science you end up looking like a fool.
Also: Creationism implies that multiresistent bacteria ALWAYS EXISTED, and that the horses we have today DID NOT evolve from the smaller breeds we can observe in artwork from the middle ages when it is obvious that they did. Basically, Creationism contradicts genetics and observed biology at every turn. Which is why I also mentioned the Terracentric cosmology that was replaced by the Heliocentric. Astonomy is another science that has been fought by dogmatic believers in "non-answers".
Meanwhile, science happily ditched the phlogiston hypothesis when combustion was demonstrated to involve oxygen - without burning the "non-phlogiston" scientists at the stake...
Yeah, thankfully evolution has not been demonstrated; if it had, we would have stuff like multi-resistant bacteria and animal breeding (which is nothing more than guided evolution).
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to learn more about how the Sun revolves around the Earth...
the fact that Muslims can only interpret it literally.
No, there are a number of schools in Islam, some of which reads the Quran literally (like the Jehova's Witnesses read the Bible), others that are very interpretative and read the text in a historical context. Who told you all Muslims interpret it literally?
I can point to the passage in the Old Testament where Moses tells the soldiers to kill the boys and non-virgin women among a group of POWs, but keep the virgins as sex slaves. And I could take it out of context and warn against the evil, murdering and raping Jews. But I would be wrong - just as the Islamophobes are wrong about the majority of Muslims.
That's a myth: Statistically there are usually some switched-on mobile phones on a plane, and those devices are anyway regulated for frequency bands other than the ones used by air traffic systems and the like.
The real reason is that when you are in the air, they will try and contact - at their maximum power because of the distances involved - the multiple cell network stations the plane passes as it flies at a high speed. This screws with the switching system.
So it's in the interest of the user to turn it off to preserve both battery power and their genetic material:) and in the interest of the cell phone companies to preserve network stability.
I guess for your next trick you are going for another Jack Chick impersonation and prove that Catholics are traitors loyal to the Pope who worship a Babylonian godess.
Or you could try to promote your own beliefs instead of focusing on hating others like that.
When the company hires you as salaried, that time you're 'giving' them is factored into the pay.
In which case you should ALWAYS be told how much time that is in advance. After all, I cannot go into a store and go:
- Hi, I want some floomgorbles please. - They are $1 a piece, I guess you need about ten, so that's $10. - Thanks, I'll take fifteen of those, here's your $10. - What? - Yes, I need fifteen. You said the price was $10. - But that would bring the price down to $0.75 a piece! - Yes, quite a bargain wouldn't you say? - SECURITY!
The equivalent of the last phrase in the employment case would of course be "UNION!"
Of course they are - to the person "selling" the hours. After all, that person could be doing something else with their time, which would benefit themselves and not the employer. Basically, if your employer - through unpaid overtime - effectively makes the price he pays you per hour lower than you thought you agreed on, he is stealing from you - but the commodity he is stealing is time. That is the "goods" you are selling to the employer - that, and skills. It would be as if someone sees a store sign saying pay $10 for five items of some kind and then tries to pay $10 for seven instead because, you know, he really needed seven. The store will not accept that - why should an employee?
(After all, if noone pays with their time to get work done, work does not get done and there is no valuable result to be speaking of. There are two sides to the equation, even though you choose to see one in the first paragraph - and the other in the second - but they are connected.)
So: If you want to get paid for the actual work and not the time, make such a project contract. But those that choose traditional employment ARE selling their time to the employer, and should have expectations about the price paid per hour.
I am apalled at how your lack of even BASIC biology knowledge has manifested itself. Did you go to the wrong schools? The ones that don't teach you about how biomass is constantly recycled from the dead into the living in cycles? Do you think the meat in a burger is alive when you eat it to fuel your own body? "Life" is a multitude interconnected biochemical processes - unless you want to ignore all advances over the centuries in chemistry, physics, biology and medicine.
Organisms die of various causes - larger organisms because on a micro level we're just a collection of cells and other mass that eventually fails as a total system. Evolution dictates that some organisms are more successful at delaying this and thus are more successful at reproducing. Over LONG stretches of time beneficial features would accumulate because successful individuals would breed with other successful individuals.
Fossils require situations where organisms are encased and preserved over a HUGE amount of time. An intermediate species for instance just 10,000 years ago would not leave a fossil record - why would you look for it? Speciesation where two cultures of the same original bird species evolved into two separate groups that could not interbreed HAS been observed, as other articles in this thread has pointed out, but I guess you ignore that. And perhaps we can mention agriculture and husbandry here, where selected breeding is used to accellerate... evolution? Though not for the purpose of your pet strawman, the speciesation, since that requires separation and time more than just the targeted interbreeding used to create races of plants or cattle.
The rest of your tirade is just argument by blatant arrogance. That is not a good way to try and win over people you know. But keep preaching to the choir if that suits you.
So you are saying since death exists, life cannot exist? Why are you so depressed?
Species consititute branches in evolution, that's why there are no "intermediate species" the same way there is no wood spanning between branches in a tree.
Macroevolution CANNOT be observed to take place within the short time frames creationists insist on using, other than for really short-lived organisms that breed and mutate often enough. However, we can see change in species based on adaptation to new habitats, which is evolution on a small scale.
You CANNOT compare the eating habits of a human (omnivore) with those of a very specialized creature without looking like a total putz by the way.
Bah! Go live in a tent in the desert instead, like the people who wrote your beloved book did.
Interesting theories - the theories I've seen, which are more likely, state that as the world cooled around 1100 and return trips from Vinland to Greenland/Iceland were a no-no, the Viking settlers sailed SOUTH instead of North, though there haven't been finds made other than at the landing site up North.
Creationism is the amusing theory that the stories of a nomadic desert people hold more truth than scientific discoveries made 4000 years later. Creationists aren't that much of a nuisance though, since they do not have any more computers than the Israelites did.
You mean if I want to watch a certain show at 10:00 AM, then NBC magically will actually be sending that show then? No? You mean TV is still a medium where they decide when shows are broadcast, meaning they are NOT a proper alternative to downloaded episodes you can watch when you want to?
Then again, perhaps he's a proponent of Turkish and Serb membership? Neither of those nations like the term "genocide" applied to their past... or maybe he likes revisionist history which claims Holocaust was a hoax...
Nah, EVE is a spreadsheet with a purty animated background. And some icons. Runs fine on practically anything. Except in large battles. And there are... non-technical... issues... aw, just google it.
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Congrats, you are the winner of the #1 prize for most totally irrelevant argument that manages to miss the point completely. The bytes are WORTHLESS unless they can be turned into information since a bunch of bytes are just data.
HTML was designed from the very beginning to convey information in a way that allowed it to be presented in whatever way the user desired. That web DUH-signers have wrecked this idea does not mean they ought to get away with it.
The government is there for the "weak" individuals, that is called CI-VI-LI-ZA-TION. Just because a bunch of arrogant fucks - the so-called "libertarians" - are using the benefits and safety of civilization and government to say neither is needed does not make their pathetic theories correct. Real libertarians should go into the woods and live on berries and whatnot like the hunter-gatherer culture that preceded the governments they so oppose.
No, just the Emotion Engine was software, the rest (i.e. graphics chip) was hardware. The PS1 is however fully software emulated on all of them - including of course the PS Store games you can transfer to the PSP.
What I cannot understand is why they don't reduce the size of the thing now that they are removing so much (card readers, half the USBs, PS2 functionality). That would make it easier to spot which one you were buying.
Tell me, when RMS does what he believes is right in the face of opposition, what is he?
Not involved in a make-or-break court case and hence not likely to need to guard his public statements?
you've confused evolution with selection ... Random mutations are either a corruption or loss of information.
You state that as a dogma you need to back up attacks on evolution theory. EVOLUTION IS SELECTION among "mutations" - whether random or as a consequence of genetic mixing in reproduction. Mutations that are detrimental succumb and mutations that are beneficial - which the emergence of multiresistant bacteria prove exists, despite your unsubstiantiated claim otherwise - carry on in surviving individuals. Stating that all mutations are bad is like saying that all die rolls in Craps are bad and you can never win. Mutations modify genetic material, the genes codify how an organism develops, that beneficial genes (ie. the organism lives) can exist on a world with a CONSTANT background radiation leading to a high mutation rate (OBSERVED) means that some mutations are good. Like the one that makes adult Europeans able to digest lactose in milk from cows.
You seem to attack evolution as a whole when you really are trying to attack the bio-creation theories (which have partially been demonstrated in laboratories); however, since the attacks are dogmatic and end up targeting PROVEN science you end up looking like a fool.
Also: Creationism implies that multiresistent bacteria ALWAYS EXISTED, and that the horses we have today DID NOT evolve from the smaller breeds we can observe in artwork from the middle ages when it is obvious that they did. Basically, Creationism contradicts genetics and observed biology at every turn. Which is why I also mentioned the Terracentric cosmology that was replaced by the Heliocentric. Astonomy is another science that has been fought by dogmatic believers in "non-answers".
Meanwhile, science happily ditched the phlogiston hypothesis when combustion was demonstrated to involve oxygen - without burning the "non-phlogiston" scientists at the stake...
Yeah, thankfully evolution has not been demonstrated; if it had, we would have stuff like multi-resistant bacteria and animal breeding (which is nothing more than guided evolution).
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to learn more about how the Sun revolves around the Earth...
the fact that Muslims can only interpret it literally.
No, there are a number of schools in Islam, some of which reads the Quran literally (like the Jehova's Witnesses read the Bible), others that are very interpretative and read the text in a historical context. Who told you all Muslims interpret it literally?
I can point to the passage in the Old Testament where Moses tells the soldiers to kill the boys and non-virgin women among a group of POWs, but keep the virgins as sex slaves. And I could take it out of context and warn against the evil, murdering and raping Jews. But I would be wrong - just as the Islamophobes are wrong about the majority of Muslims.
That's a myth: Statistically there are usually some switched-on mobile phones on a plane, and those devices are anyway regulated for frequency bands other than the ones used by air traffic systems and the like.
:) and in the interest of the cell phone companies to preserve network stability.
The real reason is that when you are in the air, they will try and contact - at their maximum power because of the distances involved - the multiple cell network stations the plane passes as it flies at a high speed. This screws with the switching system.
So it's in the interest of the user to turn it off to preserve both battery power and their genetic material
And I'd like to pay even less than today, so please outsource all game development to Vietnam so I can pay $30 instead of $50.
^_^
I guess for your next trick you are going for another Jack Chick impersonation and prove that Catholics are traitors loyal to the Pope who worship a Babylonian godess.
Or you could try to promote your own beliefs instead of focusing on hating others like that.
In Lord of the Rings Online, of the four races only the Dwarves are not separated by gender...
When the company hires you as salaried, that time you're 'giving' them is factored into the pay.
In which case you should ALWAYS be told how much time that is in advance. After all, I cannot go into a store and go:
- Hi, I want some floomgorbles please.
- They are $1 a piece, I guess you need about ten, so that's $10.
- Thanks, I'll take fifteen of those, here's your $10.
- What?
- Yes, I need fifteen. You said the price was $10.
- But that would bring the price down to $0.75 a piece!
- Yes, quite a bargain wouldn't you say?
- SECURITY!
The equivalent of the last phrase in the employment case would of course be "UNION!"
It's because the hours you work aren't valuable
Of course they are - to the person "selling" the hours. After all, that person could be doing something else with their time, which would benefit themselves and not the employer. Basically, if your employer - through unpaid overtime - effectively makes the price he pays you per hour lower than you thought you agreed on, he is stealing from you - but the commodity he is stealing is time. That is the "goods" you are selling to the employer - that, and skills. It would be as if someone sees a store sign saying pay $10 for five items of some kind and then tries to pay $10 for seven instead because, you know, he really needed seven. The store will not accept that - why should an employee?
(After all, if noone pays with their time to get work done, work does not get done and there is no valuable result to be speaking of. There are two sides to the equation, even though you choose to see one in the first paragraph - and the other in the second - but they are connected.)
So: If you want to get paid for the actual work and not the time, make such a project contract. But those that choose traditional employment ARE selling their time to the employer, and should have expectations about the price paid per hour.
... get MotorStorm and enjoy PS3 gaming properly. Or Virtua Fighter 5 if that's your thing.
I am apalled at how your lack of even BASIC biology knowledge has manifested itself. Did you go to the wrong schools? The ones that don't teach you about how biomass is constantly recycled from the dead into the living in cycles? Do you think the meat in a burger is alive when you eat it to fuel your own body? "Life" is a multitude interconnected biochemical processes - unless you want to ignore all advances over the centuries in chemistry, physics, biology and medicine.
Organisms die of various causes - larger organisms because on a micro level we're just a collection of cells and other mass that eventually fails as a total system. Evolution dictates that some organisms are more successful at delaying this and thus are more successful at reproducing. Over LONG stretches of time beneficial features would accumulate because successful individuals would breed with other successful individuals.
Fossils require situations where organisms are encased and preserved over a HUGE amount of time. An intermediate species for instance just 10,000 years ago would not leave a fossil record - why would you look for it? Speciesation where two cultures of the same original bird species evolved into two separate groups that could not interbreed HAS been observed, as other articles in this thread has pointed out, but I guess you ignore that. And perhaps we can mention agriculture and husbandry here, where selected breeding is used to accellerate... evolution? Though not for the purpose of your pet strawman, the speciesation, since that requires separation and time more than just the targeted interbreeding used to create races of plants or cattle.
The rest of your tirade is just argument by blatant arrogance. That is not a good way to try and win over people you know. But keep preaching to the choir if that suits you.
No wonder you're anonymous - you wouldn't want your name associated with a posting where you claim an industry standard like OpenGL isn't.
http://www.vendetta-online.com/ - MMO Elite using OpenGL.
Trombonists per percussionists is a band width measurement.
So you are saying since death exists, life cannot exist? Why are you so depressed?
Species consititute branches in evolution, that's why there are no "intermediate species" the same way there is no wood spanning between branches in a tree.
Macroevolution CANNOT be observed to take place within the short time frames creationists insist on using, other than for really short-lived organisms that breed and mutate often enough. However, we can see change in species based on adaptation to new habitats, which is evolution on a small scale.
You CANNOT compare the eating habits of a human (omnivore) with those of a very specialized creature without looking like a total putz by the way.
Bah! Go live in a tent in the desert instead, like the people who wrote your beloved book did.
Under penalty of PURGATORY!!!!
Interesting theories - the theories I've seen, which are more likely, state that as the world cooled around 1100 and return trips from Vinland to Greenland/Iceland were a no-no, the Viking settlers sailed SOUTH instead of North, though there haven't been finds made other than at the landing site up North.
Creationism is the amusing theory that the stories of a nomadic desert people hold more truth than scientific discoveries made 4000 years later. Creationists aren't that much of a nuisance though, since they do not have any more computers than the Israelites did.
I'll kick the next kids ass that does it.
So child molestation is not a crime where you live?
Did I just learn something on /.?
And the he woke up screaming, sweat dripping from his face.
You mean if I want to watch a certain show at 10:00 AM, then NBC magically will actually be sending that show then? No? You mean TV is still a medium where they decide when shows are broadcast, meaning they are NOT a proper alternative to downloaded episodes you can watch when you want to?
Try his disliked words in the search at the top of
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
EU members would not be able to get documents such as
Council Decision 2002/494/JHA of 13 June 2002, setting up a European network of contact points in respect of persons responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Then again, perhaps he's a proponent of Turkish and Serb membership? Neither of those nations like the term "genocide" applied to their past... or maybe he likes revisionist history which claims Holocaust was a hoax...
Nah, EVE is a spreadsheet with a purty animated background. And some icons. Runs fine on practically anything. Except in large battles. And there are... non-technical... issues... aw, just google it.