I try to do this, but I get the response that I get from people who can't separate the religion from the person, and I get exhausted with trying to overcome the animosity thrown at me for the dishonorable actions of those who claim to be "christian" and yet do not follow the summation of Jesus's ministry:
Love the Lord, your God, with all of your heart, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as you would love yourself.
I have no hatred of those who are in the church of Scientology, but I have a serious issue with the religion as a whole because it does not follow these simple words to live by: love your neighbor as yourself.
Your response is so far from reasonable that I will only say this: You presume too much about what you think you know about me, my congregation, my faith, my willingness to receive thought out criticisms of the foundation of my faith, and the relevance of charitable works to my faith (doing charity is a vital aspect of my faith, and if you cared to actually learn about my faith instead of attacking me, you would know that).
Get out, get to know some of those who profess a faith in Christianity, and see that we are not "harangu[ing] some poor fellow who is down on his luck" but rather we are providing some meaning and hope to those who often have nothing in which to believe.
Ghah, I don't know why I bother. Too many "christians" have sullied the name of those who truly practice what Jesus taught, and nothing I say to you is going to change your bigoted and biased view of me, my congregation, and my faith.
I abhor actions which damage society and uphold actions which cause benefit to society.
I do not say that all of Christianity is perfect, far from it in some cases, but it is clear to me that my particular congregation is based on a foundation of historical documented occurrences and a desire to help others, not a religion founded on books written by a scifi author.
It sounded to me like this "bends" the sound around the object, and the sonar would simply reflect off the ocean floor below the sub, not leave a blank spot on the sonar, but I could be wrong.
I abhor the "church" of Scientology, but gladly attend my local congregation. We actually help people. We feed the poor, cloth the homeless, and support humanitarian aid all over the world. Yes, we have an agenda behind it, to tell others of our beliefs, but one is not required to join our faith in order to receive the benefits of our generosity and our desire to help those in need. Our beliefs are out in the open, for all to peruse and attempt to debunk. Our book (the Bible) is able to be purchased at B&N or Borders for less than $10 in translations ranging from strictly accurate (and confusing to some) to paraphrased to make it easier to understand, if you really want to see what we believe.
Please do not insult the believers, those in this world who believe it is right to help and provide hope to our fellow human beings who suffer around us and those who wish to better the world in which we all live, by comparing us to the greedy, abusive, and controlling pseudo-religion that calls itself the "church" of Scientology.
A church is a group of people who welcome you in, and welcome the world to inspect their beliefs, and in fact encourages them to do so. A cult is a group of people with something to hide who refuse to allow just anyone in, and try to keep their power to themselves.
Your comment betrays a bigotry towards all organized religion, and I cannot see what benefit it added to this conversation.
Um... It's only specifically illegal to distribute copies. So only the uploader in this case broke the law... unless you consider that the copy is not a directly identical copy of the original, then you could argue that it was an illegal copy. The only other way that you could argue that this is illegal would be to bring the DMCA into it, but I am pretty sure any competent lawyer could argue that you were simply trying to abide by your fair use rights to actually use the software you legally purchased, and I am certain that a jury of your peers would agree with this and find you not guilty if it were a criminal matter. A competent judge would likely find this acceptable use as well if it is a civil case.
You are not forbidden to make copies for the expressed purpose of using the product you purchased; there is case law to support this. You are allowed to make a copy to your hard drive to install it, a copy to your RAM to run it... and a good lawyer could likely argue that copying a version without DRM on it, if it is the only means you have to use the product you legally purchased (or making an ISO in order to use the product on a system that has no CD drive), is fully supported by case law which details various copying allowed for the purposes of running the application itself.
Granted, all of the above is no guarantee, and you could get stuck with an idiot lawyer, non-techie jury, and/or an incompetent judge, but the likelihood of even being taken to court over this, when you are doing everything you can to be legal while still retaining the ability to use your own purchased product, is so small as to be pointless to worry about.
In moderate climates, a dark colored roof means the snow melts sooner and sloughs off the roof most of the time rather than sticking to it. So, the color of the roof does make a difference, though personally, I would prefer to have the snow slough off, and screw worrying about the possible.00001 degree difference my roof might make when the wear and tear from stagnant snow creates a measurable increase in costs of roof repairs and maintenance.
I-94 and I-29 in North Dakota (a very cold part of the US) are almost entirely concrete. They only have to be replaced every 5-7 years. Any asphalt roads are repaired/replaced every year or two.
Point a laser at a wall. Now, what happens the further away from that wall you move? The dot it makes gets bigger and slightly dimmer... Now what would likely happen with a moving "dot" that moves faster than the eye can see? The "dots" it makes would get bigger and slightly dimmer... seems to make sense to me, but I'm not a laser guru or anything.
[Fuck] is a very old word, recorded in English since the 15th century (few acronyms predate the 20th century), with cognates in other Germanic languages. TheRandomHouseHistoricalDictionaryofAmericanSlang (Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-394-54427-7) cites Middle Dutch fokken = "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka = "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka = "to strike, push, copulate" and fock = "penis". Although German ficken may enter the picture somehow, it is problematic in having e-grade, or umlaut, where all the others have o-grade or zero-grade of the vowel.
AHD1, following Pokorny, derived "feud", "fey", "fickle", "foe", and "fuck" from an Indo-European root peig2 = "hostile"; but AHD2 and AHD3 have dropped this connection for "fuck" and give no pre-Germanic etymon for it. Eric Partridge, in the 7th edition of DictionaryofSlangandUnconventionalEnglish (Macmillan, 1970), said that "fuck" "almost certainly" comes from the Indo-European root *peuk- = "to prick" (which is the source of the English words "compunction", "expunge", "impugn", "poignant", "point", "pounce", "pugilist", "punctuate", "puncture", "pungent", and "pygmy"). Robert Claiborne, in TheRootsofEnglish:AReader'sHandbookofWordOrigin (Times, 1989) agrees that this is "probably" the etymon. Problems with such theories include a distribution that suggests a North-Sea Germanic areal form rather than an inherited one; the murkiness of the phonetic relations; and the fact that no alleged cognate outside Germanic has sexual connotations.
Basically, this means that the word is likely Germanic in origin, though no one can point to the exact origin. Additionally, not all linguists agree on the origins. Irregardless, it is clear that this word has sexual connotations in at least three languages besides English, and has had a sexual connotation to it in America for quite some time.
Yes, the word has drifted into common usage as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and interjection by those with a severely limited vocabulary, but that does not remove the original meaning from the word, which was clearly sexual in nature.
Come on, this is Slashdot! We scream foul when people inappropriately use the word "hacker" to refer to crackers and phreakers, but when an entire population begins to use the word fuck in a manner completely disassociated with its intended meaning, we defend this usage?!?
Anyways, that's my 2 cents, and I apologize to anyone who is offended by a Christian who is not afraid to have an adult discussion about the word fuck.
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If every manufacturer of peripherals included a small flash drive in the architecture, they could include the base minimum drivers for multiple OSes to be interfaced out of the box. When looking for drivers, if the OS doesn't find its own copy, then it should look to the hardware for the core basic driver, and if that is not found, then inform the user of needed updates for their particular OS.
Include a way to update the flash drive with newer drivers, and you can recover from a harddrive crash a whole lot faster.
Think of it as a built in backup.
This, combined with a BIOS based operating system, would make a computer that literally requires nothing more than physical assembly and then booting. The entire OS and all drivers required are embedded into the architecture. This way, no matter what happens to your preferred installed OS, you have a functional PC and can recover (assuming you don't have hardware issues, but that's a whole other ball of wax).
I can tell you that I didn't even have my bachelor's degree when I got my programming job. I had an associate's degree in Networking!
I got the job because I showed the interviewers that I could code decently, and had an outgoing/friendly/diplomatic attitude.
The only thing strongly requested of me was that if I was offered the job, that I would take advantage of the employee educational reimbursements to get my Bachelor's degree... in practically anything (I'm doing Business Administration now, because I'd be bored in a Comp Sci bachelor's program—not much I need to learn at this point, though I'm bored in the BA degree as well *shrugs*).
Don't fine them for abusing their dominant position—take away the dominant position.
Take their CPU patents that they use to cripple the competition, and make them public domain. Not only does this open up the market for extreme competition, but it also removes the licensing fees from AMD.
Both of these changes result in a more free market place, with greater competition and lower pricing.
If Intel collapses in the process, it would be a solid warning to other companies not to abuse your position. Also, it would be a slow decline (the brand name will still hold power even if anyone and their brother can make the same thing), and many others will step in to fill the gap, so the market won't collapse.
Selling . . . smaller bundles . . . would also mean that a lot of marginal shows and channels would go out of business.
That is, of course, unless the smaller bundles are all bundles of 8-10 channels in which 1 channel is the "high quality" channel, and the other 7-9 are the "low quality" channels. This would allow the cable companies to give the appearance of providing "a la carte" programming and reaping the benefits of the higher pricing while forcing you to order practically every channel you had before if you want to get your favorite channels (assuming your favorite channels equates to the roughly 50 actual quality stations most providers offer).
On-demand from Comcast has commercials. "On-demand" from Hulu has less commercials. On-demand with Comcast costs me money. "On-demand" from Hulu costs me nothing. On-demand with Comcast has practically everything, but it costs money to watch. "On-demand" from Hulu has practically everything but is free to watch.
I care, because finally I will be able to just pay for a connection to the internet.
I would push for all of those companies to send me a digital copy of my bill, and eliminate the charges. Why spend money on paper, envelopes, ink, stamps, etc., when it's already available in a digital system somewhere, and it would be trivial to email it instead of mail it? It's bad business sense to keep paying for something that is no longer required.
Personally, I think that Vista sucked so bad simply because that would make everyone desperate to buy the next app, and as long as it was simply as good as XP, and ran pretty much all the apps XP ran, all corporations would jump at the chance to upgrade.
Without Vista, would Windows 7 really be getting as much buzz as it is?
In the past, the government has 'revoked' gold bullion from people. I'm not sure if those laws apply to paper money, but gold bullion pressed by the treasury can be recalled without compensation in the case of a national financial emergency, or, at least that's how it used to be. I haven't kept up on the latest laws... there are too many of them.
What about scars though? I've had 4 ear infections. Each time, my ear has changed shape, and everything sounds slightly different in that ear after the fact. Seems that I'd suddenly not be able to access my bank account?
Perhaps these "monks" or fraa would open the gates every decade and go out among the people to learn how society has changed?
Even though it was a sci-fi novel concept, I still think the idea has merit, and is the only way a 10 millennium clock could ever be truly made to last.
"Do something else"? Almost tripling the time it takes for my machine to boot up makes a big difference in use. 10-12 seconds boot time is so close to the time it takes to turn on the TV, that my computer becomes like an appliance. I turn it on, open a document, print it, and turn it off. It feels just like turning on the TV, setting the DVR to record something, and turning it off.
Do you really think a consumer in this day and age would settle for their TV taking almost half a minute to "boot up" in order for them to set their DVR to record a show before they leave for work?
Seconds matter to most people, and if my computer behaves like an appliance rather than a slow booting PC, I can change my habits of use to use less power, so the boot time definitely makes a difference.
I'm with you on that one. I have a machine that is "vista capable" that I decided to install XP on instead. Vista boot time: 26-28 seconds, with all extra apps stripped out of it. XP boot time: 10-12 seconds... with antivirus and 4 or 5 other startup apps I prefer to always have running.
And Vista is a pain if you want to set up a scheduled task to run on all accounts at startup if it's not specifically designed for Vista. It's such a pain to actually try to do anything with Vista, beyond browse the internet, play games, and edit documents. What's the point of a fancy OS if you can't do anything fancy with it?
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I try to do this, but I get the response that I get from people who can't separate the religion from the person, and I get exhausted with trying to overcome the animosity thrown at me for the dishonorable actions of those who claim to be "christian" and yet do not follow the summation of Jesus's ministry:
Love the Lord, your God, with all of your heart, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as you would love yourself.
I have no hatred of those who are in the church of Scientology, but I have a serious issue with the religion as a whole because it does not follow these simple words to live by: love your neighbor as yourself.
Your response is so far from reasonable that I will only say this: You presume too much about what you think you know about me, my congregation, my faith, my willingness to receive thought out criticisms of the foundation of my faith, and the relevance of charitable works to my faith (doing charity is a vital aspect of my faith, and if you cared to actually learn about my faith instead of attacking me, you would know that).
Get out, get to know some of those who profess a faith in Christianity, and see that we are not "harangu[ing] some poor fellow who is down on his luck" but rather we are providing some meaning and hope to those who often have nothing in which to believe.
Ghah, I don't know why I bother. Too many "christians" have sullied the name of those who truly practice what Jesus taught, and nothing I say to you is going to change your bigoted and biased view of me, my congregation, and my faith.
Let me rephrase my earlier statement:
I abhor actions which damage society and uphold actions which cause benefit to society.
I do not say that all of Christianity is perfect, far from it in some cases, but it is clear to me that my particular congregation is based on a foundation of historical documented occurrences and a desire to help others, not a religion founded on books written by a scifi author.
Take your generalization and go away.
It sounded to me like this "bends" the sound around the object, and the sonar would simply reflect off the ocean floor below the sub, not leave a blank spot on the sonar, but I could be wrong.
I abhor the "church" of Scientology, but gladly attend my local congregation. We actually help people. We feed the poor, cloth the homeless, and support humanitarian aid all over the world. Yes, we have an agenda behind it, to tell others of our beliefs, but one is not required to join our faith in order to receive the benefits of our generosity and our desire to help those in need. Our beliefs are out in the open, for all to peruse and attempt to debunk. Our book (the Bible) is able to be purchased at B&N or Borders for less than $10 in translations ranging from strictly accurate (and confusing to some) to paraphrased to make it easier to understand, if you really want to see what we believe.
Please do not insult the believers, those in this world who believe it is right to help and provide hope to our fellow human beings who suffer around us and those who wish to better the world in which we all live, by comparing us to the greedy, abusive, and controlling pseudo-religion that calls itself the "church" of Scientology.
A church is a group of people who welcome you in, and welcome the world to inspect their beliefs, and in fact encourages them to do so. A cult is a group of people with something to hide who refuse to allow just anyone in, and try to keep their power to themselves.
Your comment betrays a bigotry towards all organized religion, and I cannot see what benefit it added to this conversation.
Um... It's only specifically illegal to distribute copies. So only the uploader in this case broke the law... unless you consider that the copy is not a directly identical copy of the original, then you could argue that it was an illegal copy. The only other way that you could argue that this is illegal would be to bring the DMCA into it, but I am pretty sure any competent lawyer could argue that you were simply trying to abide by your fair use rights to actually use the software you legally purchased, and I am certain that a jury of your peers would agree with this and find you not guilty if it were a criminal matter. A competent judge would likely find this acceptable use as well if it is a civil case.
You are not forbidden to make copies for the expressed purpose of using the product you purchased; there is case law to support this. You are allowed to make a copy to your hard drive to install it, a copy to your RAM to run it... and a good lawyer could likely argue that copying a version without DRM on it, if it is the only means you have to use the product you legally purchased (or making an ISO in order to use the product on a system that has no CD drive), is fully supported by case law which details various copying allowed for the purposes of running the application itself.
Granted, all of the above is no guarantee, and you could get stuck with an idiot lawyer, non-techie jury, and/or an incompetent judge, but the likelihood of even being taken to court over this, when you are doing everything you can to be legal while still retaining the ability to use your own purchased product, is so small as to be pointless to worry about.
IANAL and all that crap.
In moderate climates, a dark colored roof means the snow melts sooner and sloughs off the roof most of the time rather than sticking to it. So, the color of the roof does make a difference, though personally, I would prefer to have the snow slough off, and screw worrying about the possible .00001 degree difference my roof might make when the wear and tear from stagnant snow creates a measurable increase in costs of roof repairs and maintenance.
I-94 and I-29 in North Dakota (a very cold part of the US) are almost entirely concrete. They only have to be replaced every 5-7 years. Any asphalt roads are repaired/replaced every year or two.
Point a laser at a wall. Now, what happens the further away from that wall you move? The dot it makes gets bigger and slightly dimmer... Now what would likely happen with a moving "dot" that moves faster than the eye can see? The "dots" it makes would get bigger and slightly dimmer... seems to make sense to me, but I'm not a laser guru or anything.
According to the alt.usage.english FAQ:
[Fuck] is a very old word, recorded in English since the 15th century (few acronyms predate the 20th century), with cognates in other Germanic languages. The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-394-54427-7) cites Middle Dutch fokken = "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka = "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka = "to strike, push, copulate" and fock = "penis". Although German ficken may enter the picture somehow, it is problematic in having e-grade, or umlaut, where all the others have o-grade or zero-grade of the vowel.
AHD1, following Pokorny, derived "feud", "fey", "fickle", "foe", and "fuck" from an Indo-European root peig2 = "hostile"; but AHD2 and AHD3 have dropped this connection for "fuck" and give no pre-Germanic etymon for it. Eric Partridge, in the 7th edition of Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Macmillan, 1970), said that "fuck" "almost certainly" comes from the Indo-European root *peuk- = "to prick" (which is the source of the English words "compunction", "expunge", "impugn", "poignant", "point", "pounce", "pugilist", "punctuate", "puncture", "pungent", and "pygmy"). Robert Claiborne, in The Roots of English: A Reader's Handbook of Word Origin (Times, 1989) agrees that this is "probably" the etymon. Problems with such theories include a distribution that suggests a North-Sea Germanic areal form rather than an inherited one; the murkiness of the phonetic relations; and the fact that no alleged cognate outside Germanic has sexual connotations.
Basically, this means that the word is likely Germanic in origin, though no one can point to the exact origin. Additionally, not all linguists agree on the origins. Irregardless, it is clear that this word has sexual connotations in at least three languages besides English, and has had a sexual connotation to it in America for quite some time.
Yes, the word has drifted into common usage as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and interjection by those with a severely limited vocabulary, but that does not remove the original meaning from the word, which was clearly sexual in nature.
Come on, this is Slashdot! We scream foul when people inappropriately use the word "hacker" to refer to crackers and phreakers, but when an entire population begins to use the word fuck in a manner completely disassociated with its intended meaning, we defend this usage?!?
Anyways, that's my 2 cents, and I apologize to anyone who is offended by a Christian who is not afraid to have an adult discussion about the word fuck.
If every manufacturer of peripherals included a small flash drive in the architecture, they could include the base minimum drivers for multiple OSes to be interfaced out of the box. When looking for drivers, if the OS doesn't find its own copy, then it should look to the hardware for the core basic driver, and if that is not found, then inform the user of needed updates for their particular OS.
Include a way to update the flash drive with newer drivers, and you can recover from a harddrive crash a whole lot faster.
Think of it as a built in backup.
This, combined with a BIOS based operating system, would make a computer that literally requires nothing more than physical assembly and then booting. The entire OS and all drivers required are embedded into the architecture. This way, no matter what happens to your preferred installed OS, you have a functional PC and can recover (assuming you don't have hardware issues, but that's a whole other ball of wax).
I'm pretty sure God could represent himself just fine, being omniscient and all...
I can tell you that I didn't even have my bachelor's degree when I got my programming job. I had an associate's degree in Networking!
I got the job because I showed the interviewers that I could code decently, and had an outgoing/friendly/diplomatic attitude.
The only thing strongly requested of me was that if I was offered the job, that I would take advantage of the employee educational reimbursements to get my Bachelor's degree... in practically anything (I'm doing Business Administration now, because I'd be bored in a Comp Sci bachelor's program—not much I need to learn at this point, though I'm bored in the BA degree as well *shrugs*).
Don't fine them for abusing their dominant position—take away the dominant position.
Take their CPU patents that they use to cripple the competition, and make them public domain. Not only does this open up the market for extreme competition, but it also removes the licensing fees from AMD.
Both of these changes result in a more free market place, with greater competition and lower pricing.
If Intel collapses in the process, it would be a solid warning to other companies not to abuse your position. Also, it would be a slow decline (the brand name will still hold power even if anyone and their brother can make the same thing), and many others will step in to fill the gap, so the market won't collapse.
Selling . . . smaller bundles . . . would also mean that a lot of marginal shows and channels would go out of business.
That is, of course, unless the smaller bundles are all bundles of 8-10 channels in which 1 channel is the "high quality" channel, and the other 7-9 are the "low quality" channels. This would allow the cable companies to give the appearance of providing "a la carte" programming and reaping the benefits of the higher pricing while forcing you to order practically every channel you had before if you want to get your favorite channels (assuming your favorite channels equates to the roughly 50 actual quality stations most providers offer).
I care - here's why:
On-demand from Comcast has commercials.
"On-demand" from Hulu has less commercials.
On-demand with Comcast costs me money.
"On-demand" from Hulu costs me nothing.
On-demand with Comcast has practically everything, but it costs money to watch.
"On-demand" from Hulu has practically everything but is free to watch.
I care, because finally I will be able to just pay for a connection to the internet.
I would push for all of those companies to send me a digital copy of my bill, and eliminate the charges. Why spend money on paper, envelopes, ink, stamps, etc., when it's already available in a digital system somewhere, and it would be trivial to email it instead of mail it? It's bad business sense to keep paying for something that is no longer required.
Personally, I think that Vista sucked so bad simply because that would make everyone desperate to buy the next app, and as long as it was simply as good as XP, and ran pretty much all the apps XP ran, all corporations would jump at the chance to upgrade.
Without Vista, would Windows 7 really be getting as much buzz as it is?
In the past, the government has 'revoked' gold bullion from people. I'm not sure if those laws apply to paper money, but gold bullion pressed by the treasury can be recalled without compensation in the case of a national financial emergency, or, at least that's how it used to be. I haven't kept up on the latest laws... there are too many of them.
Thanks. I look forward to reading it. I always love adding another good book to my collection.
What about scars though? I've had 4 ear infections. Each time, my ear has changed shape, and everything sounds slightly different in that ear after the fact. Seems that I'd suddenly not be able to access my bank account?
Pacable Idiothermous Rakes Adore Tantième Ensuring Saltigrade
Abject Recidivism, Ebriection, and
Egregiously Villanous Iterant Lysis
I sure am glad I don't have lethologica!
I see someone has read Anathema...
Perhaps these "monks" or fraa would open the gates every decade and go out among the people to learn how society has changed?
Even though it was a sci-fi novel concept, I still think the idea has merit, and is the only way a 10 millennium clock could ever be truly made to last.
"Do something else"? Almost tripling the time it takes for my machine to boot up makes a big difference in use. 10-12 seconds boot time is so close to the time it takes to turn on the TV, that my computer becomes like an appliance. I turn it on, open a document, print it, and turn it off. It feels just like turning on the TV, setting the DVR to record something, and turning it off.
Do you really think a consumer in this day and age would settle for their TV taking almost half a minute to "boot up" in order for them to set their DVR to record a show before they leave for work?
Seconds matter to most people, and if my computer behaves like an appliance rather than a slow booting PC, I can change my habits of use to use less power, so the boot time definitely makes a difference.
Vista is slow to boot.
I'm with you on that one. I have a machine that is "vista capable" that I decided to install XP on instead. Vista boot time: 26-28 seconds, with all extra apps stripped out of it. XP boot time: 10-12 seconds... with antivirus and 4 or 5 other startup apps I prefer to always have running.
And Vista is a pain if you want to set up a scheduled task to run on all accounts at startup if it's not specifically designed for Vista. It's such a pain to actually try to do anything with Vista, beyond browse the internet, play games, and edit documents. What's the point of a fancy OS if you can't do anything fancy with it?