This is bad. I bet the FCC will force a recall and fine Nintendo. There will be big losses all around, for Nintendo and for the gamer. The DS is truely becoming the Virtual Boy 2.
See, for example, the linked sites for this article and compare to P2P technologies such as Bittorrent, which easily shares gigabytes of data amongst tens of thousands of peers (Matrix bootlegs, Half-Life 2, etc).
Please use even more buzz words next time. I was fapping when you said "object" right after saying "refactor". Too bad your idea would result in a seriously bloated over-engineered steaming pile of crap.
Ahhh yes, Paul. The guy that spouts off all the crap that people use to justify hate, war, slavery, suppression, etc. The guy that even contradicts Jesus. Many Christians following the teachings of Paul, not Jesus.
You do realize that "Christ" is the Greek transliteration of "God's anointed one", and that there is another Christ explicitly mentioned in the bible. It doesn't necessarily mean that somebody is a deity if they are a "Christ". In Isaiah 45:1, Cyrus the King of Persia (now called "Iran") is explicitly referred to as "God's anointed one". However, because of a combination of ignorance, confusion, and political intent, occurances of "God's anointed one" in the old testament are properly translated, while occurances in the new testament are translated as "Christ".
You should also know that "Jesus" wasn't his real name. It was "Yeshua", which we say in English "Joshua". Do a little home work. The Greeks lack a "Y" sound. Just listen to them say "Yesterday". There are a few other reasons, but it isn't hard to see how his name was really "Yeshua" and though many Christians now incorrectly say "Jesus". Muslims also have his name wrong, and they say "Isa".
Another word that came about due to bad translation is "Jew". Take "Yahoodi", the original term for Jews, and mess up the "Y" because you are Greek and you get "Jahoodi". Shorten it a bit because you are lazy and you get "Jahood" which is pronounced the same as "Jahude". Then take the shortening a bit more (hey we have thousands of years), and you get "Jude", which is still used in Europe today, to refer to Jews. Shorten "Jude" even more and you get "Ju", which is pronounced the same as "Jew".
My point is that you study something that has become corrupted over the year due to numerous translations. The fact that you claim that believing that Jesus is a deity is required to get into heaven is simply due to your literal interpretation of corrupted data. By the way, the word "Yeshua" literally means "Salvation", just as "Peter" literally means rock.
But then again, like the Catholic Church that you hate so much, you too cannot think for yourself and were told what to believe.
The Xbox has it better. You don't even need a mod chip. There are sophisticated software exploits that are free, easy to use, and totally undo-able. One such exploit is the Ultimate Dash Eploit (UDE). With it you can turn a new $150 Xbox into a modded-Xbox capable of playing burned CDs, DVDs, games copied to the internal harddrive, etc.
I don't really use my UDE modded Xbox for playing pirated Xbox games, as there aren't many Xbox games that I care to play. Instead, I use it to run Xbox Media Center so that I can play my MP3s and watch my Xvid and Divx movies, and classic console emulators such as FCE Ultra X, a high-quality NES emulator and MameoX a high-quality Multi-Arcade emulator.
Mod chips are expensive, harder to get, and harder to install than the Xbox's new software exploits like UDE. If you want to check out more info about modding your Xbox, go to Xbox Scene.
Quake never needed the disc in the CD-ROM drive to play the game. I bet the same is true for Doom, considering that it was originally released on floppy disks! Id Software started requiring the CD with Quake 2, and at least with Quake 2, after several patches for the game and about a year after its release, they released an official patch that removed the requirement of the CD.
So you are wrong, you need to remove those two games from your list.
Citeseer caches entire papers in their original format as well as automatically converted formats. It is not obvious whether or not Google Scholar does this, which would be a big disadvantage compared to Google Scholar. Universities often reorganize their web servers, causing papers to no longer be available, unless you have a cached copy like Citeseer.
Hopefully Google considers including full copies of indexed papers.
The fix just forces a re-rendering of the page once it is completely loaded. You can do this manually with a reload, but that uses net activity. A better method is to zoom into and then zoom out of the page with ctrl and the "-" key and then ctrl and the "+" key... but my question is, does this fix/hack only do this re-rendering for Slashdot, which is preferred, or does it do it for all sites... meaning I see an runtime overhead for EVERY site?
... make a good programming programming language. Mathematics has "been there and done that" with natural language versus a formal language. Why reinvent the mistakes of the past?
You only reaffirm my claim that the bible has been filtered through so many languages, only to have the "Babelfish" effect, i.e. the game you play where you copy-n-paste a phrase from a news article or whatever into Babelfish and translate from one language to another and then another and etc... eventually translating back into the original language. It makes whatever you started with all of the sudden religious. So you argue at length that two parts of the bible are translated differently because they start with a different source language, which is exactly the kind of stuff that I am talking about.
Whether it was Greek or Hebrew, etc. Christ, Messiah, and God's anointed one are each translated differently. Furthermore, you are wrong about Yeshua. A simple google search results in plenty of references. So Yeshua is translated as both Joshua and Jesus, when in fact it literally means "salvation". The same goes for Peter, which literally means "rock", and there are plenty of other examples of these primitive, first-order mistranslations. They add up into higher-level misunderstandings.
One being the deification of the man you call Jesus. Another being the claim that the man you call Jesus is the only path to salvation... wait a second, maybe the mistransliterations tell us something about that?
"Jesus is salvation." is the same as "Yeshua is salvation." is the same as "Salvation is salvation."
Whoops! Another mistransliteration causes more bible confusion. "Jesus" is really "Yeshua", which means "salvation". Throw in a few thousand years and people will think the guy is God himself!
When I said that Jesus must be distinct, I was saying that the people who deify him must make sure that he stays distinct, as it helps in the deification. If it turns out that he is one of many, then there is nothing special, no way to deify him in the minds of people. Any references to facts that he married, had children, etc... they must all be destroyed! Any indiction that he is just another Josh, just another one of God's anointed.
Cyrus, King of Persia, is explicitly referred to as God's anointed one, i.e. Cyrus is a Messiah. Cyrus is a Christ. There is plenty of writing both biblical and historical that accounts for the fact that Cyrus was considered to be one of God's Messiah... even though he was Zoroastrian, i.e. not Jewish. That is definitely a troublesome aspect of the bible for deifiers of Jesus.
Just do a search for Christian rants. They commonly say things like "Jesus Christ is God's anointed Messiah", which literally means Yeshua God's anointed one is God's anointed God's anointed one. They sound like they are stuttering.
All of the subtle play on words are lost. Instead confusion is the soup of the day, somebody ends of deified, and all hell breaks loose.
If modern translations of the bible are so accurate, then why is the name of the Christian Messiah transliterated so inaccurately? Jesus as opposed to "Joshua" or even more poperly "Yeshua". Heck, even the fact that Messiah is not transliterated "the anointed one". Also note that Christ and Christos is Greek for Messiah.
These transliterations are telling. Jesus must be distinct from the other prophets and "anointed ones" of the bible, so that he can be deified. Most Christians are not aware that there are other Christs mentioned in the bible simply because of the inaccurate "modern" translations.
It seems like a complete waste of resources. They would be better off making the current Internet more reliable, faster, efficient, less expensive, and more secure.
Disney is supposed to pay royalties to the Pooh estate, but they stopped doing so, claiming that the copyright has worn out. This is shadey because the same could be said for most of Disney's IP.
I notice that tabbed browsing ends up using even more desktop real estate. I've never needed tabbed browsing before, all my windows appear on my Explorer task bar...just like tabs. I suppose tabs would be useful for people whos operating systems don't have a taskbar enabled shell.
Who needs subdirectories (or subfolders for Windows types). I can save all of my files at C:\, and all my files appear on my C:\... just like subdirectories. Directories use even more disk space.
Oh, wait a second, people like things such as subdirectories/folders and tabbed browsing because it lets them organize their work. As opposed to having everything unorganized and thrown into one heap, you can group common things into the same folder, the same tab. Without such organization, your filesystem would be cluttered, and this the same argument is made for tabbed browsing: without it, your taskbar becomes cluttered.
Many of us use Web Browsers on another OS's, which do not have IE. So websites designed for the bulk of the populace are designed towards the lowest common denominator, which is the buggy IE. So sites look, sometimes, crappy to other non-IE users, but look ok to IE users, even though IE is the buggy one.
Not only that, but it is a pain for Web site designers to have to work around IE bugs.
Nintendo is as bad as Disney: argue for IP rights as long as it benefits them, but skirt and play down IP rights when it does not. Nintendo with Tetris and Disney with Winnie the Pooh: both were not made by them, but were in aquired in otherwise shadey ways.
Slashdot loves to astroturf for the Segway
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Everybody knows the Segway. It is the most overhyped scooter that the world has ever seen. It all started with a claim that the device would revolutionize the way we build cities. At first it was called only "it". Then later it had its named changed to Segway, when the world was finally told about what it was: a scooter and a really expensive scooter at that!
So over the years, various shameless websites have astroturfed for the Segway - slashdot being one of them.
To make a long story short, slashdot hasn't really astroturfed for the Roomba, and thank god! I have owned a Roomba for over a year. The telling thing is that I have only used it for about a total of 3 months. See, the Roomba has one serious problem: it likes to malfunction. I take care of it, clean it, etc... but the god damn over priced piece of crap breaks down all the time. I have it on its second RMA so far, and iRobot likes to take their damn time replacing their shoddy products.
To make a long story short, avoid the Roomba until it sees a few more iterations and improvements: especially improvements to reliability. Also, it is probably a good idea to avoid the Segway too, considering that you can get an electric scooter for far less than a Segway costs, and anything that needs to be hyped and astroturfed as much as the Segway... probably has no true merit.
I have almost a terabyte of files on my home computer. It mostly consists of music, movies, television episodes, and games, but it also contains pictures and books. I definitely need to search for files on my hard drive... and not just file system level searches, but meta-data level searches.
KDE is the first desktop to have true seemless integration of the Mozilla rendering engine. It can be used interchangably with the Konqueror rendering engine, which means any KDE that has an HTML pane, frame, etc can automatically seemlessly use the Mozilla engine.
The same thing needs to be done for Gnome, Windows, and OSX. In every way the browser should feel like a native app. On OSX, Safari should be able to switch between KDE's renderer and Mozilla's. On Windows, IE should be able to switch between the Microsoft and Mozilla renderers. In addition, any apps that make use of a web browser renderer should automatically be able to use the Mozilla renderer.
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This is bad. I bet the FCC will force a recall and fine Nintendo. There will be big losses all around, for Nintendo and for the gamer. The DS is truely becoming the Virtual Boy 2.
Long live the Gameboy Advance!
See, for example, the linked sites for this article and compare to P2P technologies such as Bittorrent, which easily shares gigabytes of data amongst tens of thousands of peers (Matrix bootlegs, Half-Life 2, etc).
Please use even more buzz words next time. I was fapping when you said "object" right after saying "refactor". Too bad your idea would result in a seriously bloated over-engineered steaming pile of crap.
Ahhh yes, Paul. The guy that spouts off all the crap that people use to justify hate, war, slavery, suppression, etc. The guy that even contradicts Jesus. Many Christians following the teachings of Paul, not Jesus.
Arabic bibles use "Allah" as opposed to "God". Does that make them Islamic?
And where does Jesus say that premarital sex is wrong?
You do realize that "Christ" is the Greek transliteration of "God's anointed one", and that there is another Christ explicitly mentioned in the bible. It doesn't necessarily mean that somebody is a deity if they are a "Christ". In Isaiah 45:1, Cyrus the King of Persia (now called "Iran") is explicitly referred to as "God's anointed one". However, because of a combination of ignorance, confusion, and political intent, occurances of "God's anointed one" in the old testament are properly translated, while occurances in the new testament are translated as "Christ".
You should also know that "Jesus" wasn't his real name. It was "Yeshua", which we say in English "Joshua". Do a little home work. The Greeks lack a "Y" sound. Just listen to them say "Yesterday". There are a few other reasons, but it isn't hard to see how his name was really "Yeshua" and though many Christians now incorrectly say "Jesus". Muslims also have his name wrong, and they say "Isa".
Another word that came about due to bad translation is "Jew". Take "Yahoodi", the original term for Jews, and mess up the "Y" because you are Greek and you get "Jahoodi". Shorten it a bit because you are lazy and you get "Jahood" which is pronounced the same as "Jahude". Then take the shortening a bit more (hey we have thousands of years), and you get "Jude", which is still used in Europe today, to refer to Jews. Shorten "Jude" even more and you get "Ju", which is pronounced the same as "Jew".
My point is that you study something that has become corrupted over the year due to numerous translations. The fact that you claim that believing that Jesus is a deity is required to get into heaven is simply due to your literal interpretation of corrupted data. By the way, the word "Yeshua" literally means "Salvation", just as "Peter" literally means rock.
But then again, like the Catholic Church that you hate so much, you too cannot think for yourself and were told what to believe.
The Xbox has it better. You don't even need a mod chip. There are sophisticated software exploits that are free, easy to use, and totally undo-able. One such exploit is the Ultimate Dash Eploit (UDE). With it you can turn a new $150 Xbox into a modded-Xbox capable of playing burned CDs, DVDs, games copied to the internal harddrive, etc.
I don't really use my UDE modded Xbox for playing pirated Xbox games, as there aren't many Xbox games that I care to play. Instead, I use it to run Xbox Media Center so that I can play my MP3s and watch my Xvid and Divx movies, and classic console emulators such as FCE Ultra X, a high-quality NES emulator and MameoX a high-quality Multi-Arcade emulator.
Mod chips are expensive, harder to get, and harder to install than the Xbox's new software exploits like UDE. If you want to check out more info about modding your Xbox, go to Xbox Scene.
Quake never needed the disc in the CD-ROM drive to play the game. I bet the same is true for Doom, considering that it was originally released on floppy disks! Id Software started requiring the CD with Quake 2, and at least with Quake 2, after several patches for the game and about a year after its release, they released an official patch that removed the requirement of the CD.
So you are wrong, you need to remove those two games from your list.
Too bad somebody has already done it
Citeseer caches entire papers in their original format as well as automatically converted formats. It is not obvious whether or not Google Scholar does this, which would be a big disadvantage compared to Google Scholar. Universities often reorganize their web servers, causing papers to no longer be available, unless you have a cached copy like Citeseer.
Hopefully Google considers including full copies of indexed papers.
The fix just forces a re-rendering of the page once it is completely loaded. You can do this manually with a reload, but that uses net activity. A better method is to zoom into and then zoom out of the page with ctrl and the "-" key and then ctrl and the "+" key... but my question is, does this fix/hack only do this re-rendering for Slashdot, which is preferred, or does it do it for all sites... meaning I see an runtime overhead for EVERY site?
... make a good programming programming language. Mathematics has "been there and done that" with natural language versus a formal language. Why reinvent the mistakes of the past?
You only reaffirm my claim that the bible has been filtered through so many languages, only to have the "Babelfish" effect, i.e. the game you play where you copy-n-paste a phrase from a news article or whatever into Babelfish and translate from one language to another and then another and etc... eventually translating back into the original language. It makes whatever you started with all of the sudden religious. So you argue at length that two parts of the bible are translated differently because they start with a different source language, which is exactly the kind of stuff that I am talking about.
Whether it was Greek or Hebrew, etc. Christ, Messiah, and God's anointed one are each translated differently. Furthermore, you are wrong about Yeshua. A simple google search results in plenty of references. So Yeshua is translated as both Joshua and Jesus, when in fact it literally means "salvation". The same goes for Peter, which literally means "rock", and there are plenty of other examples of these primitive, first-order mistranslations. They add up into higher-level misunderstandings.
One being the deification of the man you call Jesus. Another being the claim that the man you call Jesus is the only path to salvation... wait a second, maybe the mistransliterations tell us something about that?
"Jesus is salvation."
is the same as
"Yeshua is salvation."
is the same as
"Salvation is salvation."
Whoops! Another mistransliteration causes more bible confusion. "Jesus" is really "Yeshua", which means "salvation". Throw in a few thousand years and people will think the guy is God himself!
When I said that Jesus must be distinct, I was saying that the people who deify him must make sure that he stays distinct, as it helps in the deification. If it turns out that he is one of many, then there is nothing special, no way to deify him in the minds of people. Any references to facts that he married, had children, etc... they must all be destroyed! Any indiction that he is just another Josh, just another one of God's anointed.
Cyrus, King of Persia, is explicitly referred to as God's anointed one, i.e. Cyrus is a Messiah. Cyrus is a Christ. There is plenty of writing both biblical and historical that accounts for the fact that Cyrus was considered to be one of God's Messiah... even though he was Zoroastrian, i.e. not Jewish. That is definitely a troublesome aspect of the bible for deifiers of Jesus.
Just do a search for Christian rants. They commonly say things like "Jesus Christ is God's anointed Messiah", which literally means Yeshua God's anointed one is God's anointed God's anointed one. They sound like they are stuttering.
All of the subtle play on words are lost. Instead confusion is the soup of the day, somebody ends of deified, and all hell breaks loose.
If modern translations of the bible are so accurate, then why is the name of the Christian Messiah transliterated so inaccurately? Jesus as opposed to "Joshua" or even more poperly "Yeshua". Heck, even the fact that Messiah is not transliterated "the anointed one". Also note that Christ and Christos is Greek for Messiah.
These transliterations are telling. Jesus must be distinct from the other prophets and "anointed ones" of the bible, so that he can be deified. Most Christians are not aware that there are other Christs mentioned in the bible simply because of the inaccurate "modern" translations.
I find it to be quite stable. Just ditch yum for apt, and you will be ok.
It seems like a complete waste of resources. They would be better off making the current Internet more reliable, faster, efficient, less expensive, and more secure.
Disney is supposed to pay royalties to the Pooh estate, but they stopped doing so, claiming that the copyright has worn out. This is shadey because the same could be said for most of Disney's IP.
...various ball games, holla-hoops, etc. Classic toys tend to be inexpensive, so I suggest using them to supplement modern toys such as video games.
Who needs subdirectories (or subfolders for Windows types). I can save all of my files at C:\, and all my files appear on my C:\... just like subdirectories. Directories use even more disk space.
Oh, wait a second, people like things such as subdirectories/folders and tabbed browsing because it lets them organize their work. As opposed to having everything unorganized and thrown into one heap, you can group common things into the same folder, the same tab. Without such organization, your filesystem would be cluttered, and this the same argument is made for tabbed browsing: without it, your taskbar becomes cluttered.
Many of us use Web Browsers on another OS's, which do not have IE. So websites designed for the bulk of the populace are designed towards the lowest common denominator, which is the buggy IE. So sites look, sometimes, crappy to other non-IE users, but look ok to IE users, even though IE is the buggy one.
Not only that, but it is a pain for Web site designers to have to work around IE bugs.
Nintendo is as bad as Disney: argue for IP rights as long as it benefits them, but skirt and play down IP rights when it does not. Nintendo with Tetris and Disney with Winnie the Pooh: both were not made by them, but were in aquired in otherwise shadey ways.
Everybody knows the Segway. It is the most overhyped scooter that the world has ever seen. It all started with a claim that the device would revolutionize the way we build cities. At first it was called only "it". Then later it had its named changed to Segway, when the world was finally told about what it was: a scooter and a really expensive scooter at that!
So over the years, various shameless websites have astroturfed for the Segway - slashdot being one of them.
To make a long story short, slashdot hasn't really astroturfed for the Roomba, and thank god! I have owned a Roomba for over a year. The telling thing is that I have only used it for about a total of 3 months. See, the Roomba has one serious problem: it likes to malfunction. I take care of it, clean it, etc... but the god damn over priced piece of crap breaks down all the time. I have it on its second RMA so far, and iRobot likes to take their damn time replacing their shoddy products.
To make a long story short, avoid the Roomba until it sees a few more iterations and improvements: especially improvements to reliability. Also, it is probably a good idea to avoid the Segway too, considering that you can get an electric scooter for far less than a Segway costs, and anything that needs to be hyped and astroturfed as much as the Segway... probably has no true merit.
I have almost a terabyte of files on my home computer. It mostly consists of music, movies, television episodes, and games, but it also contains pictures and books. I definitely need to search for files on my hard drive... and not just file system level searches, but meta-data level searches.
KDE is the first desktop to have true seemless integration of the Mozilla rendering engine. It can be used interchangably with the Konqueror rendering engine, which means any KDE that has an HTML pane, frame, etc can automatically seemlessly use the Mozilla engine.
The same thing needs to be done for Gnome, Windows, and OSX. In every way the browser should feel like a native app. On OSX, Safari should be able to switch between KDE's renderer and Mozilla's. On Windows, IE should be able to switch between the Microsoft and Mozilla renderers. In addition, any apps that make use of a web browser renderer should automatically be able to use the Mozilla renderer.