Parent is failing to differentiate between updates that were done to the systems by the manufacturer. This happens with games as well. But it's all done before the product is on the shelf, not after you take it home.
It was disingenuous of him to leave that bit out, but he's got the +5, so maybe I've experienced these things differently from everyone else. Yes, the newer systems are more PC-like with the inclusion of hard drives, and longer downloads and load-times. But those of us who didn't start out on the PS3 have a different view of things.
This doesn't apply to Sega. They have a history of foisting half-baked hardware solutions on the public. And as you might expect, they are no longer in the hardware business.
On the other hand, if someone happened to think that the watchmaker analogy was a nice piece of reasoning, I don't see how that wouldn't make the parent Einstein's ghost.
Exactly. And we need to have some compassion for the anti-evolutionists, because in their heart they really do believe that evolution (or "Darwinism") == godlessness. Just like the belief that atheism is incompatible with morality, which necessarily comes from God.
None of that is rational, but who said this was about reason? It's about someone telling you every day in your childhood that evolution leads to violence and teenage pregnancy, until that sounds plausible. They're not doing this to piss people off, they're doing it to save everyone's souls.:/
ID isn't nonsensical if you see it as an attempt to keep creationist text books in circulation following the Supreme Court's decision in 1987 that creationism was unscientific and favored a particular religion. The king is dead, long live the king!
I'm sure your mind is not going to be changed by one comment, but let me just say that 2 Peter 3:8 has to do with the second coming, not creation.
It also says that a day is *like* a thousand years. *Like* is an important word. Leaving out certain words definitely qualifies as "bending". And Peter was quoting an earlier psalm, which says that a thousand years are like a day or a night, and for whatever reason nobody tries to shove the nights in there too.
The whole thing just requires too much mental acrobatics for me, but I acknowledge that it's horses for courses. I know that I can go to the Museum of Natural History and see things that are older than the "thousand years in a day" equivalency allows for, so I'm happy to just avoid the whole thing.
Overgeneralize much? Perhaps you are trolling but the fact is there exist many more Christians who are willing to allow context in their interpretations of Biblical meaning. I don't get the literal readings myself, but I don't try to scare people into thinking that every Christian does that, either.
I can't speak for a whole religion but I'd guess that most Christians take the "New Testament" to be mostly fact, (except for Revelation, perhaps), while treating the "Old Testament" as more of a collection of stories and tradition.
The main function of the Hebrew Scriptures in a Christian Bible is to support the Christians belief that Jesus's coming fulfilled prophecies that are made in those scriptures. Apart from a handful of more memorable stories, like that of Job or Samson, anything not directly relating to the coming of a messiah is pretty much forgotten about.
I know many Christians who believe in both ID and alien civilizations.
I'm not sure I'd call that ID, then.
Cases like those seem to be why those specific words were chosen to represent the movement. Reasonable people think, "I believe in a God that designed the universe...so that's intelligent design, right?". An easy mistake to make, but it's still a mistake. ID is a placeholder for creationism, something which becomes obvious as you compare older editions of Pandas to ones published following Edwards v. Aguillard. They essentially used a massive find/replace to switch "Creationism" with ID, leaving the rest of the content alone.
Now, following Kitzmiller v. Dover, the euphemism has become "teach the controversy". Rest assured this has nothing to do with believing in a God who created us, or even finding legitimate fault with the theory of evolution. It has to do with captial-c creationism. Most people believe in God, but I doubt highly that aliens jive with a literal Genesis ch 1 & 2.
Of course, your friends who believe in ID probably wouldn't admit to evolutionary links between humans and earlier primates, so they'd probably be fine with the term creationism anyway. It's SCOTUS that wasn't.
We used to have politicians that we put into their positions because we thought they'd make things better.
Sure about that? (I mean, yeah, we did, but we still do. It just depends on what side you're on and who's writing the history book. Things were not all rosy in past eras, in any case.)
I really only posted because I'm tired of the "I told you so's" that dominate every thread about Obama. They'd be warranted if everybody here came out strongly in favor of him, but it's Slashdot, and instead everyone was incredibly skeptical. If anything, I mostly saw Americans declaring loudly that they're too cool to vote and everyone else taking another opportunity to criticize us as a nation. Frankly the only reference to this idea of a "tech president" was in the posted headlines. Which are designed to get page views.
It's insulting to hear people comment as if the rest of us haven't been around long enough to know how politics work.
Like I said, I voted for him, but I didn't get in anyone's face about it, and I thought long and hard about my decision. I was happy to interpret his "change" slogan not as his campaign intended, but in a more practical way...that is, let's change the locks on the doors after we get the neoconservatives out.
This was about freeing up spectrum. The stated purpose of freeing the spectrum was to help close the deficit, but keep in mind that many countries around the world are doing the exact same thing at roughly the same time. I know this sounds rude, but why are you speculating when you could have just read about it?
Let's go back to step one. The DTV switch is something that is being done so that the government can make money by selling off analog spectrum.
Got that, part? Even though this forces many citizens, especially those on fixed incomes, to have to buy extra electronic equipment. So (concentrate now) part of that money is being spent on educating people about the switch as well as providing coupons so that signal converters bought during the switch will be cheaper.
No doubt part of this is so that, by providing an incentive to get the box early, they won't have fill call centers with people to pick up the phone and recite to them, verbatim, the DTV info ads that have been running on every TV network.
Congratulations, our *government* knows more about not being a dick than you do. Here's a science experiment if you don't believe me: go to an elderly's person's house. Watch them make the financial decision between getting their medication, which keeps them alive, and getting that converter box, which is one of the few reasons they enjoy staying that way. If they hesitate in any way, remind them that they are old and therefore society has no use for them. If they cry, console them by letting them know that at least they won't be a tax burden to you anymore.
I get the impression that most of the/.ers bringing up fanboys do so because they have no actual experience with Macs to report on (or past Apple machines, for that matter).
If they did, they'd understand that computers are computers, and they all make you want to tear your hair out at one point or another. It's all about what you are comfortable with day-to-day. I actually hesitate to recommend Macs to people, because I pushed an iMac on my parents and my father's initial hesitance was a self-fulfilling prophecy. He was barely at home in Windows, so the switch is daunting for him. I don't want to experience that sort of guilt again.
As far as Quicksilver...Launchy and cURL will get you 10% of the way there:)
Most likely you've heard of it...just a heads up if you hadn't.
The music industry is incredibly vertical...there are links in the chain between the labels, the stores, the radio stations, and the venues. Small business money isn't going to cut it. Besides, bands are regularly sponsored by beer companies and music equipment makers, and if that ever put anyone over the top, it's been a rare occurrence.
I agree with you that that there's no theoretical reason why the music industry couldn't return to previous days, where things were more local and there was less pressure to go 100x platinum. But unlike a lot of Slashdot, I have a grasp of the sheer size of these guys, and how diverse their holdings are. A unified recording industry isn't going to go away in my lifetime, no matter how magical the internet is. Not as long as they can buy litigation like we buy a gallon of milk.
I took it the same way as the parent. The summary set me straight, and obviously in any case it's not the end of the world. I think in these cases, like the "prostitutes appeal to pope" gag, it's probably better to play it safe than conserve a letter and a space.
No, my inquisitive AC friend, he was pointing out the difference between criminals and those charged with crimes. But I don't blame you...Nancy Grace tends to leave that bit out on her show.
I voted for Obama. Had there been a third-party candidate that wasn't a complete lunatic, maybe they would have gotten my vote. Still, I agreed with Obama on more issues than McCain. If you want someone with policies that you agree 100% with, you are going to have to run yourself.
The Democratic party gets a lot of contributions from Hollywood. "We" knew that going in, at least those of us who have their wits about them.
Compared to other human beings who lack political aspirations, sure.
But let's at least wait until the inauguration before we compare him to Bush. I'm pretty sure that Obama causing *that* much damage to the country would be like winning the lottery twice in a row.
Prior to the Storm coming out, I wouldn't have agreed with that. There's just too much that RIM got right. Push email out of the box, w/o having to buy MobileMe (which was terrible for a long time). Also, like you say, the keyboard. It's prohibitively difficult to use the iPhone one-handed for typing. The predictive typing is terrible, IMO, only gets in the way. Whereas the Blackberry's "just works". The enterprise support is more granular than Apple's, and even desktop syncing is more malleable.
I love my iPhone (esp. after jailbreaking) but seeing people in the office trying to switch has taught me why people call them Crackberries. The Pearl struck a great balance between phone and PDA.
I've only used the Storm a little bit but my quick impression was that it's the worst of both worlds...no keyboard, plus the numerous and verbose contextual menus that come standard with the BB. I doubt that the larger screen improved the situation with third-party apps being compatible with some BBs and not others.
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Parent is failing to differentiate between updates that were done to the systems by the manufacturer. This happens with games as well. But it's all done before the product is on the shelf, not after you take it home.
It was disingenuous of him to leave that bit out, but he's got the +5, so maybe I've experienced these things differently from everyone else. Yes, the newer systems are more PC-like with the inclusion of hard drives, and longer downloads and load-times. But those of us who didn't start out on the PS3 have a different view of things.
This doesn't apply to Sega. They have a history of foisting half-baked hardware solutions on the public. And as you might expect, they are no longer in the hardware business.
On the other hand, if someone happened to think that the watchmaker analogy was a nice piece of reasoning, I don't see how that wouldn't make the parent Einstein's ghost.
Exactly. And we need to have some compassion for the anti-evolutionists, because in their heart they really do believe that evolution (or "Darwinism") == godlessness. Just like the belief that atheism is incompatible with morality, which necessarily comes from God.
None of that is rational, but who said this was about reason? It's about someone telling you every day in your childhood that evolution leads to violence and teenage pregnancy, until that sounds plausible. They're not doing this to piss people off, they're doing it to save everyone's souls. :/
ID isn't nonsensical if you see it as an attempt to keep creationist text books in circulation following the Supreme Court's decision in 1987 that creationism was unscientific and favored a particular religion. The king is dead, long live the king!
I'm sure your mind is not going to be changed by one comment, but let me just say that 2 Peter 3:8 has to do with the second coming, not creation.
It also says that a day is *like* a thousand years. *Like* is an important word. Leaving out certain words definitely qualifies as "bending". And Peter was quoting an earlier psalm, which says that a thousand years are like a day or a night, and for whatever reason nobody tries to shove the nights in there too.
The whole thing just requires too much mental acrobatics for me, but I acknowledge that it's horses for courses. I know that I can go to the Museum of Natural History and see things that are older than the "thousand years in a day" equivalency allows for, so I'm happy to just avoid the whole thing.
Oral tradition is not "one guy".
But you're right. He would have done better to point out the fact that even Genesis contains two different creation stories.
Overgeneralize much? Perhaps you are trolling but the fact is there exist many more Christians who are willing to allow context in their interpretations of Biblical meaning. I don't get the literal readings myself, but I don't try to scare people into thinking that every Christian does that, either.
I can't speak for a whole religion but I'd guess that most Christians take the "New Testament" to be mostly fact, (except for Revelation, perhaps), while treating the "Old Testament" as more of a collection of stories and tradition.
The main function of the Hebrew Scriptures in a Christian Bible is to support the Christians belief that Jesus's coming fulfilled prophecies that are made in those scriptures. Apart from a handful of more memorable stories, like that of Job or Samson, anything not directly relating to the coming of a messiah is pretty much forgotten about.
Nobody likes to admit it, but there you go.
I know many Christians who believe in both ID and alien civilizations.
I'm not sure I'd call that ID, then.
Cases like those seem to be why those specific words were chosen to represent the movement. Reasonable people think, "I believe in a God that designed the universe...so that's intelligent design, right?". An easy mistake to make, but it's still a mistake. ID is a placeholder for creationism, something which becomes obvious as you compare older editions of Pandas to ones published following Edwards v. Aguillard. They essentially used a massive find/replace to switch "Creationism" with ID, leaving the rest of the content alone.
Now, following Kitzmiller v. Dover, the euphemism has become "teach the controversy". Rest assured this has nothing to do with believing in a God who created us, or even finding legitimate fault with the theory of evolution. It has to do with captial-c creationism. Most people believe in God, but I doubt highly that aliens jive with a literal Genesis ch 1 & 2.
Of course, your friends who believe in ID probably wouldn't admit to evolutionary links between humans and earlier primates, so they'd probably be fine with the term creationism anyway. It's SCOTUS that wasn't.
We used to have politicians that we put into their positions because we thought they'd make things better.
Sure about that? (I mean, yeah, we did, but we still do. It just depends on what side you're on and who's writing the history book. Things were not all rosy in past eras, in any case.)
I really only posted because I'm tired of the "I told you so's" that dominate every thread about Obama. They'd be warranted if everybody here came out strongly in favor of him, but it's Slashdot, and instead everyone was incredibly skeptical. If anything, I mostly saw Americans declaring loudly that they're too cool to vote and everyone else taking another opportunity to criticize us as a nation. Frankly the only reference to this idea of a "tech president" was in the posted headlines. Which are designed to get page views.
It's insulting to hear people comment as if the rest of us haven't been around long enough to know how politics work.
Like I said, I voted for him, but I didn't get in anyone's face about it, and I thought long and hard about my decision. I was happy to interpret his "change" slogan not as his campaign intended, but in a more practical way...that is, let's change the locks on the doors after we get the neoconservatives out.
This was about freeing up spectrum. The stated purpose of freeing the spectrum was to help close the deficit, but keep in mind that many countries around the world are doing the exact same thing at roughly the same time. I know this sounds rude, but why are you speculating when you could have just read about it?
Funny, nobody sent me any letters when it was time to auction off the spectrum. I could have used some of it.
Let's go back to step one. The DTV switch is something that is being done so that the government can make money by selling off analog spectrum.
Got that, part? Even though this forces many citizens, especially those on fixed incomes, to have to buy extra electronic equipment. So (concentrate now) part of that money is being spent on educating people about the switch as well as providing coupons so that signal converters bought during the switch will be cheaper.
No doubt part of this is so that, by providing an incentive to get the box early, they won't have fill call centers with people to pick up the phone and recite to them, verbatim, the DTV info ads that have been running on every TV network.
Congratulations, our *government* knows more about not being a dick than you do. Here's a science experiment if you don't believe me: go to an elderly's person's house. Watch them make the financial decision between getting their medication, which keeps them alive, and getting that converter box, which is one of the few reasons they enjoy staying that way. If they hesitate in any way, remind them that they are old and therefore society has no use for them. If they cry, console them by letting them know that at least they won't be a tax burden to you anymore.
DTV != HD
Citizens are entitled to government services, not taxpayers.
Eeeeexactly.
everything
I know what you mean. :D
I get the impression that most of the /.ers bringing up fanboys do so because they have no actual experience with Macs to report on (or past Apple machines, for that matter).
If they did, they'd understand that computers are computers, and they all make you want to tear your hair out at one point or another. It's all about what you are comfortable with day-to-day. I actually hesitate to recommend Macs to people, because I pushed an iMac on my parents and my father's initial hesitance was a self-fulfilling prophecy. He was barely at home in Windows, so the switch is daunting for him. I don't want to experience that sort of guilt again.
As far as Quicksilver...Launchy and cURL will get you 10% of the way there :)
Most likely you've heard of it...just a heads up if you hadn't.
The music industry is incredibly vertical...there are links in the chain between the labels, the stores, the radio stations, and the venues. Small business money isn't going to cut it. Besides, bands are regularly sponsored by beer companies and music equipment makers, and if that ever put anyone over the top, it's been a rare occurrence.
I agree with you that that there's no theoretical reason why the music industry couldn't return to previous days, where things were more local and there was less pressure to go 100x platinum. But unlike a lot of Slashdot, I have a grasp of the sheer size of these guys, and how diverse their holdings are. A unified recording industry isn't going to go away in my lifetime, no matter how magical the internet is. Not as long as they can buy litigation like we buy a gallon of milk.
Once upon a time, we had something called plays. But no one confuses them with movies. Weird.
Most songs that I choose to listen to aren't worth $0.0017.
Fixed it. But I'm still baffled.
It's not hard, people!
I took it the same way as the parent. The summary set me straight, and obviously in any case it's not the end of the world. I think in these cases, like the "prostitutes appeal to pope" gag, it's probably better to play it safe than conserve a letter and a space.
But you are of course correct.
No, my inquisitive AC friend, he was pointing out the difference between criminals and those charged with crimes. But I don't blame you...Nancy Grace tends to leave that bit out on her show.
I voted for Obama. Had there been a third-party candidate that wasn't a complete lunatic, maybe they would have gotten my vote. Still, I agreed with Obama on more issues than McCain. If you want someone with policies that you agree 100% with, you are going to have to run yourself.
The Democratic party gets a lot of contributions from Hollywood. "We" knew that going in, at least those of us who have their wits about them.
Compared to other human beings who lack political aspirations, sure.
But let's at least wait until the inauguration before we compare him to Bush. I'm pretty sure that Obama causing *that* much damage to the country would be like winning the lottery twice in a row.
Prior to the Storm coming out, I wouldn't have agreed with that. There's just too much that RIM got right. Push email out of the box, w/o having to buy MobileMe (which was terrible for a long time). Also, like you say, the keyboard. It's prohibitively difficult to use the iPhone one-handed for typing. The predictive typing is terrible, IMO, only gets in the way. Whereas the Blackberry's "just works". The enterprise support is more granular than Apple's, and even desktop syncing is more malleable.
I love my iPhone (esp. after jailbreaking) but seeing people in the office trying to switch has taught me why people call them Crackberries. The Pearl struck a great balance between phone and PDA.
I've only used the Storm a little bit but my quick impression was that it's the worst of both worlds...no keyboard, plus the numerous and verbose contextual menus that come standard with the BB. I doubt that the larger screen improved the situation with third-party apps being compatible with some BBs and not others.