Thanks for the interesting post. I agree with everything almost everything you said, but this gotcha with the observations seems like a bit of an over-simplification:
Sure, but if your empirical observations of the universe [are] what gave birth to a theory, more of those same observations cannot be used to verify the theory. That is incestuous.
That would be true if it was just one big lump of data collected at a single point in time. But it's a slow, incremental process, and it can still make predictions about unexamined data which lend it falsifiability. We didn't simultaneously find out about the homogeneity of the Universe's expansion, examine the CMBR and all that stuff at once.
I'll grant that it can't be tested in the sense of a reproducable laboratory experiment. (We'd have to find out how to create new, observable universes to do that, I guess?) That makes it less solid than a lot of physical theories, but I don't think that invalidates its status as a scientific theory. It still retains the ability to be falsified, makes predictions, and has empirical data backing it up.
Is that not enough? To be sceptical about it is something I find no fault with, but to say it isn't a scientific theory at all seems inaccurate.
I wouldn't call it a steaming pile of crap. It's not an improvement over XP SP2, but I think it's approximately as good now that it's received SP1. Where it really fails is value for money - it offers nothing compelling when compared to existing OSes. At least to this audience.
I downloaded it yesterday, I'm going to mess around with it in a virtual machine later to see if I can make it run at a usable speed. Should be fun.
Fuck 'em. You say that like they'll actually take it into account, but pandering to those retards isn't going to do us any good. They'll always find something to moan about because it's some new kind of media, they're always 'bad'. The truth doesn't matter to them. Meanwhile, we'll be stuck with our kid-friendly happy touchy feely games even though gamers have an average age of 35 god damn years old.
Killing children was never an objective in the game, if you did it people hated you. They hunted you down and killed you. It added to the game's "shit happens and it happens bad" atmosphere; children die in movies all the time because it's emotionally powerful. Nobody would complain if it were any other medium but a computer game.
It's not all good. I've bought about ten games on Steam, and one major disadvantage is that they have absolute control over everything even after you've bought things. For example, in one patch they put adverts in Counter-Strike, which I hated. I would never have bought the game if it had them from the start and nobody would have downloaded that patch if they had a choice. Updates are forced, even if they ruin the game. If I had bought Stalker via Steam I couldn't play my favourite mod anymore. Luckily I didn't.
Yeah, imagine if it was posted on a geek site where we talk geek pedantry day in and day out. Who could possibly care here?
It's an interest piece. Nobody is trying to prove out that it's a BIG PROBLEM and that we have to ACT NOW. Jeez. It's just something to take into account when you look at the charge indicator on your phone.
That's not what he said. He said they purposefully misrepresent the charge/signal levels for marketing reasons despite the ability to give a more accurate reading.
And then you have the people like me, who don't want to see it in a theater full of food-crunching, seat-kicking morons.
I hate that too. But I like watching movies on the big screen, so I wait for a few weeks after a movie comes out to go see it. That way there's usually only one or two other people there, if any. I plan to go see Wall-E in a few days, and Dark Knight in a couple of weeks.
I live in a small town in Ireland though, so maybe that wouldn't work where you are.
As has been stated a few times already, they are a major manufacturer of motherboards and components, but rarely sell under their own name. I've had two Dell computers and both had Foxconn-branded motherboards and other components.
It's times like this when I'm sorry to be an atheist -- I want to believe that he's burning in Hell. Mere nonexistence is not a sufficient punishment for him.
I'm not. Eternal punishment for finite crimes can never be fair.
It wouldn't benefit him, us, or the people killed. It's just hatred, no good at all.
Some of us already don't. I've never bought a CD. Not out of protest, but because there's more free music out there than I can ever listen to in my entire life, and much of it suits my tastes.
What's more, a lot of it is musically educational too! Take The Mod Archive, where you can download modules. You can open them up in a tracker and see the notes go by right before your eyes. That caught my interest a few years ago and I've been learning to make music myself since then.
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Sure, but if your empirical observations of the universe [are] what gave birth to a theory, more of those same observations cannot be used to verify the theory. That is incestuous.
That would be true if it was just one big lump of data collected at a single point in time. But it's a slow, incremental process, and it can still make predictions about unexamined data which lend it falsifiability. We didn't simultaneously find out about the homogeneity of the Universe's expansion, examine the CMBR and all that stuff at once.
I'll grant that it can't be tested in the sense of a reproducable laboratory experiment. (We'd have to find out how to create new, observable universes to do that, I guess?) That makes it less solid than a lot of physical theories, but I don't think that invalidates its status as a scientific theory. It still retains the ability to be falsified, makes predictions, and has empirical data backing it up.
Is that not enough? To be sceptical about it is something I find no fault with, but to say it isn't a scientific theory at all seems inaccurate.
but it is still just a theory
A scientific theory is an explanation for a body of evidence. Not that you should accept it blindly, but what kind of basis for a rejection is that?
Evolution isn't that neat. Traits can also remain just because they don't affect the ability to reproduce.
That's just how cookies work on the Internet I'm afraid.
I didn't realise Fantavision was one of the events!
I wouldn't call it a steaming pile of crap. It's not an improvement over XP SP2, but I think it's approximately as good now that it's received SP1. Where it really fails is value for money - it offers nothing compelling when compared to existing OSes. At least to this audience.
I downloaded it yesterday, I'm going to mess around with it in a virtual machine later to see if I can make it run at a usable speed. Should be fun.
Fuck 'em. You say that like they'll actually take it into account, but pandering to those retards isn't going to do us any good. They'll always find something to moan about because it's some new kind of media, they're always 'bad'. The truth doesn't matter to them. Meanwhile, we'll be stuck with our kid-friendly happy touchy feely games even though gamers have an average age of 35 god damn years old.
Killing children was never an objective in the game, if you did it people hated you. They hunted you down and killed you. It added to the game's "shit happens and it happens bad" atmosphere; children die in movies all the time because it's emotionally powerful. Nobody would complain if it were any other medium but a computer game.
It's not all good. I've bought about ten games on Steam, and one major disadvantage is that they have absolute control over everything even after you've bought things. For example, in one patch they put adverts in Counter-Strike, which I hated. I would never have bought the game if it had them from the start and nobody would have downloaded that patch if they had a choice. Updates are forced, even if they ruin the game. If I had bought Stalker via Steam I couldn't play my favourite mod anymore. Luckily I didn't.
That's the spirit. I think you'd get on well with him if he were still alive.
Ridiculous. That isn't ISO compliant!
duel core
I prefer joust core myself.
Advertising revenue and all.
red ring of death
Microsoft Roundabout(TM) Buy now!
Pocket calculators cost millions of dollars and took whole buildings to house when I was a kid.
Wow! You guys had big pockets back then. :)
Yeah, imagine if it was posted on a geek site where we talk geek pedantry day in and day out. Who could possibly care here?
It's an interest piece. Nobody is trying to prove out that it's a BIG PROBLEM and that we have to ACT NOW. Jeez. It's just something to take into account when you look at the charge indicator on your phone.
That's not what he said. He said they purposefully misrepresent the charge/signal levels for marketing reasons despite the ability to give a more accurate reading.
Clitsweeper? Flagged!
And then you have the people like me, who don't want to see it in a theater full of food-crunching, seat-kicking morons.
I hate that too. But I like watching movies on the big screen, so I wait for a few weeks after a movie comes out to go see it. That way there's usually only one or two other people there, if any. I plan to go see Wall-E in a few days, and Dark Knight in a couple of weeks.
I live in a small town in Ireland though, so maybe that wouldn't work where you are.
Immigrant workers in the UAE
I know the Amiga is difficult to emulate, but immigrant workers in the code? Jeez.
It refuses to install if you have less than 512MB. I've tried it with Vista Ultimate.
Beyond that, you can discover good music in television commercials (the only thing that make them worth watching)
Damn it! Demolition Man was right!
As has been stated a few times already, they are a major manufacturer of motherboards and components, but rarely sell under their own name. I've had two Dell computers and both had Foxconn-branded motherboards and other components.
It's times like this when I'm sorry to be an atheist -- I want to believe that he's burning in Hell. Mere nonexistence is not a sufficient punishment for him.
I'm not. Eternal punishment for finite crimes can never be fair.
It wouldn't benefit him, us, or the people killed. It's just hatred, no good at all.
Oh! My bad, I misinterpreted.
Some of us already don't. I've never bought a CD. Not out of protest, but because there's more free music out there than I can ever listen to in my entire life, and much of it suits my tastes.
What's more, a lot of it is musically educational too! Take The Mod Archive, where you can download modules. You can open them up in a tracker and see the notes go by right before your eyes. That caught my interest a few years ago and I've been learning to make music myself since then.