If you don't care about unpatched bugs, you can keep old Suse, Redhat or Windows O/Ses running as long as you have working hardware that supports it.
BUT today, lots of new server hardware already does NOT work with suse 9.1 or redhat 9 (both only about 3 years old). In contrast, you can still install Windows 2000 on them.
I wouldn't want to install Windows of course, but this is the Real World for you.
You might say, "you should then pay Suse/redhat for the Enterprise version". But if they go bankrupt you don't get new updates either, same frigging difference. Who do you think is paying the Linux developers to do what they are doing?
You're dreaming with your nonsense claims of OSS automatically having a better long term chances.
Sure the source code is all there, but who is actually capable of maintaining it? Already the very people who write Firefox don't seem to be able to do a good job of maintaining it-
1) In my experience most people might as well be monkeys when it comes to finding nontrivial bugs with a program. No effective difference. Most people can't read source code, or even if they could they don't know good code from bad code. And I don't think they should need to if it's not their job.
2) It's silly to claim with FOSS the interest is to fix them ASAP with "no bottom line" to take care of while with a company it's "needs and whims".
Someone working on a GPL program in his spare time may not fix stuff for a while. He might have other more important things to do - like his day job and what his boss has assigned him. Or have fun with friends and family. After all he's not getting paid for it, and you try sacking him:).
Someone being paid by a company (Redhat/Suse) to work on a GPL program is under the same pressures as someone paid by a company to work on a proprietary program. So the differences are not OSS or proprietary, it's the management and the person "owning" that code.
It's "needs and whims" for all cases.
Just go look at the tons of reported and unfixed bugs in both closed and open software. Firefox most definitely isn't "high quality". And after Michal Zalewski found some bugs, they didn't fix them all (I'm not surprised - it's not easy to correctly fix bugs fast, especially when you have a not so good design and not so great programmers that allowed so many serious ones to slip in in the first place).
OSS: Very many years ago, while evaluating PHP Nuke, I remember finding and reporting bugs to the author of PHP Nuke. He didn't take things well. So looking at the sort of bugs and the author's response I told my boss that PHP Nuke was NOT the way to go, and sure enough, for many years after it was "new security bug found" in PHP Nuke every few weeks or so. Years later someone else wanted to use PHP Nuke/Postnuke, and I looked at it again, and it was still crap, so I suggested a different CMS be used instead. Good thing too, it was still security bug in PHP/PostNuke every few weeks for years more.
Proprietary: a company I worked for some years ago was reselling Cyberguard Firewalls (as well as doing security stuff). While checking it out, I found a way to bypass the SMTP security proxy on version 2.x of the Cyberguard firewall. I reported it to Cyberguard directly (no public disclosure - hey we're a reseller go figure ). They tried to fix it. But it was eventually only properly fixed much much later AFTER version 4.x! I checked for the bug in 3.x, 4.x and reported it each time. Funnily enough I found and reported a similar bug in a different vendor's firewall later when I was no longer working for that company...
So whether it's FOSS/Proprietary, no difference. What makes the difference is who is actually writing it and fixing it.
An author whose best work to date is full of errors, is likely to still continue writing stuff that's full of errors.
If the same people who wrote and project managed crappy Netscape 4.x and 6.x are doing the same for Mozilla, then no surprise it's still crappy.
Haha, so 6 billion monkeys will be able to spot a security problem and submit a bug report? Remember it has to be done before the software is exploited (whether secretly or not).
Sure, many users can spot a UI problem, but only a very few people can and will spot security problems, and fewer will bother to actually report them to the right channels. Plenty of evidence for that - gaping holes in open source that were not spotted and fixed till years later.
There's too much crap code out there for everyone to look at it. Hackers will just pick a target, find exploits, exploit them, when they run out, they pick another. And only a few people actually go around fixing the bugs (or writing good code in the first place).
Thinking OSS magically guarantees compatibility is silly.
Whether something is OSS/Proprietary has little relation to how likely is there to be backward compatibility.
Intel's x86 cpus still run old x86 code (they tried to get everyone on board their Itanic, but well:) ). Microsoft cared about backward compatibility (pre Vista). Whereas Apple just doesn't care much about compatibility. AFAIK even old ipod accessories won't work with new ipods.
Plenty of OSS break compatibility all the time. Go look at a linux distro. Everytime I get a kernel update I have to have the kernel source available and do a make modules_prepare etc if I still want to use vmware (vmware hasn't changed so don't claim its vmware not being backward compatible, plus I don't have to do the same thing for vmware on windows). Then there's PHP, they break stuff even for _minor_ revisions. While the Linux kernel hackers do similar stuff, if you stick to a distro's kernel you are somewhat shielded.
In contrast you can run lots of old software from Win 9x to Win XP with no changes. Even some dos programs still work. That's one of the reasons why it's easier for virus writers to target them (just wait till Linux/OSX gets really popular and virus/trojan writers start using perl for cross platform evil:) ).
You don't have that guarantee of "still be able to run" with OSS either.
Unless you manage to have old hardware that still works.
If you are willing to use virtualization/emulators, then you have that guarantee for non-OSS too.
Fixes or patches? Who's going to fix old Linux 2.0.x distros? Or 2.6 distros years from now?
suse 9.1 is no longer updated and that's just 2-3 years old. Whereas Windows 2000 is still getting patched.
I like some OSS, but it's silly to say just because its OSS it is better for long term. Better to just fix copyright law - shorten the terms to 7-10 years or something. Then people like Microsoft will actually have to make software substantially better than their own old stuff. How's that for encouraging innovation, and "better for the long term".
In modern times if you can't make money within 10 years of publishing some software/music/etc, I don't think its a great overall loss to society if your copyright expires and you still haven't made money and people only then start to think your stuff is brilliant.
Uh, why feel so bad. It's not like you conned her. You recommended what you thought was a better option. She did get the car she wanted at the price she figured she was willing to pay (crazy woman).
I guess you're not cut out for that job tho, so I guess it was good you figured that out early, than when its a lot harder to quit.
DNA is not unique to an individual. Human identical twins, triplets, etc have the same DNA, while being different individuals. It's been proven that human mothers sometimes still have bits of their sons in them - the fetal cells somehow still persist for years. Then there are actual chimeric people whose blood could have different DNA from their skin or other organs- makes for interesting blood tests:). Marmoset male monkeys can father children that don't have their DNA- the monkey's brother's DNA can end up in the children!
So if you were a responsible judge, before you make a judgement on something very important (like sending someone to jail for murder based on DNA evidence), you might wish to check a bit more on the uniqueness of DNA - while hopefully the defense lawyer will counter the prosecution's claims, for decades prosecutors have gone by fingerprint evidence without much science proving fingerprints are that unique or suitable for that purpose.
Anyway, maybe this judge has used websites before, but he wants to make sure he knows well _enough_ what a website is, before he goes on - after all these are serious charges. There are plenty of people who have used websites, think they know what they are but actually don't.
Maybe after he figures things out, he may then ask "what sort of website and forum", and try to figure out what the context is. After all, motives are important and context is very useful in determining motives and other things.
It may be faster and easier to explain complex non-legal issues to a few judges than to explain complex non-legal issues to a jury AND explain complex legal issues to a jury.
Lastly, I heard that if you're guilty - go for a jury trial if you can. If you're innocent go for a judge only trial.
Of course if you're being charged with one of those child porn things, then even if you're guilty, you may wish to skip the jury trial;).
Huh, it's just the NYSE. The last I checked it doesn't even run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The fact that they ran on IBM mainframes already shows to me that they can cope with scheduled downtime.
You can fix stuff AFTER trading hours. So even Windows on decent x86 servers would be OK.
If you have stuff that MUST run ALL the time with absolute minimal downtime (including even scheduled downtime) then that's a different ballgame.
That'll be stuff like VMS clustering or Tandem and then you're talking about stuff with uptimes of _decades_. You can take down a node, and the apps just run slower. There have been people who have moved VMS clusters to different locations without downtime - move nodes to the new location while keeping nodes at the old location up.
x86 and Linux will probably reinvent all that eventually, but even then it'll probably still be a lot flakier for the first few years.
But where's your proof that identical circumstances will always produce the same outcome in our universe?
If quantum randomness or something could cause there to be a different outcome, then I don't see how one could assume this universe is totally deterministic, or our actions are totally deterministic as we are still part of the universe.
If the universe is not 100% deterministic, how can you reason that a person is 100% likely to do the same thing over again if you "rolled back" to that exact same point?
Now if the universe is 100% deterministic then sure you can.
But so far I don't think the physicists have proven either yet.
Sorry, that only works in some cases. In other cases you get genocide.
Basically the Brits were unwilling to kill so many. Maybe that's why when the Brits hold their "Commonwealth Games", many of their previous colonies actually bother to show up - the Brits weren't considered to be that evil (heh they were definitely better than many of the rulers they displaced/replaced).
AFAIK the Nazis didn't mind killing masses of Jews. The Turks didn't mind killing masses of Armenians. Plenty of other examples.
The elephants already have their long distance infrasonic comms. Similar for whales. Where sound and sight is good enough the selection pressure for the development of RF is not very high.
Evolution is usually comes up with "good enough" solutions.
It takes a long time for evolution to do stuff, and some stuff may never get done even if possible. If in the early days you had creatures that evolved an ability for easy mutual mind reading, they'd probably get killed/eaten pretty quickly. There aren't very many species that are as cooperative as meerkats, nor needed to be.
Lastly: Mind to mind comms != RF comms - you can have one without the other. We already have mind to mind comms it all goes through protocols and encoding first though, AND while high bandwidth mind output is probably possible in the future, currently people appear to only be working on high bandwidth mind input (vision).
But that's so slow. Not everyone reads "through a straw" like they claim. IF you're really interested in reading, then you should be training your brain to read faster. Stop doing slow stuff like moving your mouth or running your finger along word by word.
You shouldn't be like a beginner reading one of those children's books with 3 words a page.
Learn to read stuff chunk by chunk - keep your eyes further away from the screen if the whole column is to wide to fit - that's why newsprint is in narrow columns. Most human eyes don't have a wide angle of view especially with those crappy blind spots.
Brains definitely can do parallel processing, and read multiple lines at a time. And brains can learn and adapt. Trust me, you do not want to adapt to reading like a beginner.
Often I can spot spelling mistakes after just a glance at an entire page of print - they just stick out. And sometimes at a glance, my brain notices that there's an unusual word somewhere, and I become aware of it, but just don't know where I saw it on the page (but just a brief search and I'll find it). I think there must be editors (real ones not slashdot ones) out there who do this much better.
In this day and age where there's lots of textual data I don't think it's a good idea to teach people to read stuff in a format where they have to keep doing "next page" every second.
Some people definitely think their children are a blessing. And some think they are a curse. And some probably think they are both. Same goes for Life I guess.
The great thing about free will is you get the freedom to make the wrong choice;).
Whether the story is symbolic or not, there were two special trees in the Garden of Eden.
AFAIK people can have pleasure whether they are single, monogamous or promiscuous:).
And in the future it may be even more so. Just wire yourself up to your "tasp" and you can have as much pleasure as you want and for as long as you want (whether it's good for you would probably be debated by the usual suspects).
Now if you are talking about having good _relationships_ then it gets more complicated since there's more than one person involved. Sure some people can manage polyamorous relationships, but I'm willing to bet that most can't.
I believe a large proportion of people are wired for jealousy. Whether it's genetic or otherwise, denying it is futile. I don't think I'm the jealous sort, but I've definitely seen other people who are. So even if there are no physical consequences to promiscuity there would most probably still be undesirable nonphysical consequences.
My religious beliefs (I'm a christian) would indicate that promiscuity is not a good thing. At the same time, my religious beliefs are that Jesus came to save the world and to spread the message of Love, not to condemn it. So I find it quite strange and disturbing that many apparent Christians focus on spreading a message of hate, condemnation and judgement, when they're supposed to spread the Good News (the last I checked anyway;) ). Makes me wonder sometimes whether it's the same religion and same Christ we're following.
As for marriage, even from a secular point of view, it appears widespread across so many cultures, especially the cultures that have passed the test of time AND appear to have _thrived_ instead of being in danger of dying out. And many people still want some form of it - whether secular or not, hetero or not. So I would say it's not something to discard/dismiss lightly.
Just because someone _willingly_ chooses to draw a line somewhere does not make that person less a free person, especially given the finite world we live in, with our limited abilities and lifespans. Of course we could choose to make no promises and not risk breaking any.
Some people choose to attempt difficult tasks/projects. While they may fail, it might still be a worthy endeavour (I must say many are crazy though, but some turn out crazy lucky;) ).
My first Lite-On CD writer cost 4 x more than my 2nd CD writer and 1st DVD writer, and about 5+ x more than my 2nd DVD writer:). I believe it had the 1st gen Sanyo "Burnproof" mechanism.
I can't afford a high end Plextor (if my current drive dies, I'll just buy another one), and I heard nowadays the low end Plextors have the same insides as "the others".
#9 Data indicates tae kwon do fighters react in only 0.18 seconds-nearly twice as fast as the blink of a human eye.
IIRC from watching the show, react = the guy saw the targets flash, and then _hit_ the targets in that time. 180ms _total_ reaction time including moving arms/legs.
I'm sure they would likely to have been trained to be able to react to slight changes in your posture, gaze, etc in that time too. So even if I started throwing a punch first, they'd still hit me first. I wonder if I can then claim in court that he hit me first (assuming that I'm still able to appear in court and do that;) ).
Anyway, to check the amount of frame lag the LCDs have. Get an LCD and CRT to display the same fast changing counter (via a dual output vid card or video splitter) and then take a photo. Repeat till you have enough samples. If not using a splitter, swap the connectors for 2nd round.
Yeah my old and slow Lite-on CD-RW is still working whereas my newer LG CD-RW died, then the Benq DVD writer I replaced with it stopped working (after not much longer than a year), now I'm with a LG DVD writer. Maybe I should stick to Lite-On;).
Or maybe the early batches are sometimes overspeced - because they don't know which corners they can cut yet. Then once they figure it out, the later models die not too long after warranty;).
They've accepted their "fetters", cannot understand, will not see?
Why are you so sure that your "sisters" are so ignorant/"uneducated" of the alternatives?
If you think the straight can/should change their preferences, maybe you're not so much different from those who think the not-straight can/should change their preferences. Like those "annoying guys trying to convince lesbians to be straight/bi".
Many lesbians want others to respect their choices, I figure the choices of their straight and maybe not-so-straight sisters should be respected too.
I'm a straight guy and I respect the choices of straight, bi and lesbian ladies to NOT prefer me:p. I must say some of them do make some rather strange choices though, but I'm not sure if that's good or bad news for me!
Read it yourself: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%20 1&version=31
Gen 1:27-28
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Personally I think we are close to the "fill the earth and subdue it" part, unless our technology improves we won't be able to sustainably fill the earth with 10 x more humans.
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If you don't care about unpatched bugs, you can keep old Suse, Redhat or Windows O/Ses running as long as you have working hardware that supports it.
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BUT today, lots of new server hardware already does NOT work with suse 9.1 or redhat 9 (both only about 3 years old). In contrast, you can still install Windows 2000 on them.
I wouldn't want to install Windows of course, but this is the Real World for you.
You might say, "you should then pay Suse/redhat for the Enterprise version". But if they go bankrupt you don't get new updates either, same frigging difference. Who do you think is paying the Linux developers to do what they are doing?
You're dreaming with your nonsense claims of OSS automatically having a better long term chances.
Sure the source code is all there, but who is actually capable of maintaining it? Already the very people who write Firefox don't seem to be able to do a good job of maintaining it-
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_fo
So what are the odds someone else could AND would step in and take over?
1) In my experience most people might as well be monkeys when it comes to finding nontrivial bugs with a program. No effective difference. Most people can't read source code, or even if they could they don't know good code from bad code. And I don't think they should need to if it's not their job.
:).
2) It's silly to claim with FOSS the interest is to fix them ASAP with "no bottom line" to take care of while with a company it's "needs and whims".
Someone working on a GPL program in his spare time may not fix stuff for a while. He might have other more important things to do - like his day job and what his boss has assigned him. Or have fun with friends and family. After all he's not getting paid for it, and you try sacking him
Someone being paid by a company (Redhat/Suse) to work on a GPL program is under the same pressures as someone paid by a company to work on a proprietary program. So the differences are not OSS or proprietary, it's the management and the person "owning" that code.
It's "needs and whims" for all cases.
Just go look at the tons of reported and unfixed bugs in both closed and open software. Firefox most definitely isn't "high quality". And after Michal Zalewski found some bugs, they didn't fix them all (I'm not surprised - it's not easy to correctly fix bugs fast, especially when you have a not so good design and not so great programmers that allowed so many serious ones to slip in in the first place).
OSS: Very many years ago, while evaluating PHP Nuke, I remember finding and reporting bugs to the author of PHP Nuke. He didn't take things well. So looking at the sort of bugs and the author's response I told my boss that PHP Nuke was NOT the way to go, and sure enough, for many years after it was "new security bug found" in PHP Nuke every few weeks or so. Years later someone else wanted to use PHP Nuke/Postnuke, and I looked at it again, and it was still crap, so I suggested a different CMS be used instead. Good thing too, it was still security bug in PHP/PostNuke every few weeks for years more.
Proprietary: a company I worked for some years ago was reselling Cyberguard Firewalls (as well as doing security stuff). While checking it out, I found a way to bypass the SMTP security proxy on version 2.x of the Cyberguard firewall. I reported it to Cyberguard directly (no public disclosure - hey we're a reseller go figure ). They tried to fix it. But it was eventually only properly fixed much much later AFTER version 4.x! I checked for the bug in 3.x, 4.x and reported it each time. Funnily enough I found and reported a similar bug in a different vendor's firewall later when I was no longer working for that company...
So whether it's FOSS/Proprietary, no difference. What makes the difference is who is actually writing it and fixing it.
An author whose best work to date is full of errors, is likely to still continue writing stuff that's full of errors.
If the same people who wrote and project managed crappy Netscape 4.x and 6.x are doing the same for Mozilla, then no surprise it's still crappy.
Many eyes?
Haha, so 6 billion monkeys will be able to spot a security problem and submit a bug report? Remember it has to be done before the software is exploited (whether secretly or not).
Sure, many users can spot a UI problem, but only a very few people can and will spot security problems, and fewer will bother to actually report them to the right channels. Plenty of evidence for that - gaping holes in open source that were not spotted and fixed till years later.
There's too much crap code out there for everyone to look at it. Hackers will just pick a target, find exploits, exploit them, when they run out, they pick another. And only a few people actually go around fixing the bugs (or writing good code in the first place).
Thinking OSS magically guarantees compatibility is silly.
:) ). Microsoft cared about backward compatibility (pre Vista). Whereas Apple just doesn't care much about compatibility. AFAIK even old ipod accessories won't work with new ipods.
:) ).
Whether something is OSS/Proprietary has little relation to how likely is there to be backward compatibility.
Intel's x86 cpus still run old x86 code (they tried to get everyone on board their Itanic, but well
Plenty of OSS break compatibility all the time. Go look at a linux distro. Everytime I get a kernel update I have to have the kernel source available and do a make modules_prepare etc if I still want to use vmware (vmware hasn't changed so don't claim its vmware not being backward compatible, plus I don't have to do the same thing for vmware on windows). Then there's PHP, they break stuff even for _minor_ revisions. While the Linux kernel hackers do similar stuff, if you stick to a distro's kernel you are somewhat shielded.
In contrast you can run lots of old software from Win 9x to Win XP with no changes. Even some dos programs still work. That's one of the reasons why it's easier for virus writers to target them (just wait till Linux/OSX gets really popular and virus/trojan writers start using perl for cross platform evil
You don't have that guarantee of "still be able to run" with OSS either.
Unless you manage to have old hardware that still works.
If you are willing to use virtualization/emulators, then you have that guarantee for non-OSS too.
Fixes or patches? Who's going to fix old Linux 2.0.x distros? Or 2.6 distros years from now?
suse 9.1 is no longer updated and that's just 2-3 years old. Whereas Windows 2000 is still getting patched.
I like some OSS, but it's silly to say just because its OSS it is better for long term. Better to just fix copyright law - shorten the terms to 7-10 years or something. Then people like Microsoft will actually have to make software substantially better than their own old stuff. How's that for encouraging innovation, and "better for the long term".
In modern times if you can't make money within 10 years of publishing some software/music/etc, I don't think its a great overall loss to society if your copyright expires and you still haven't made money and people only then start to think your stuff is brilliant.
Uh, why feel so bad. It's not like you conned her. You recommended what you thought was a better option. She did get the car she wanted at the price she figured she was willing to pay (crazy woman).
I guess you're not cut out for that job tho, so I guess it was good you figured that out early, than when its a lot harder to quit.
DNA is not unique to an individual. Human identical twins, triplets, etc have the same DNA, while being different individuals. It's been proven that human mothers sometimes still have bits of their sons in them - the fetal cells somehow still persist for years. Then there are actual chimeric people whose blood could have different DNA from their skin or other organs- makes for interesting blood tests :). Marmoset male monkeys can father children that don't have their DNA- the monkey's brother's DNA can end up in the children!
So if you were a responsible judge, before you make a judgement on something very important (like sending someone to jail for murder based on DNA evidence), you might wish to check a bit more on the uniqueness of DNA - while hopefully the defense lawyer will counter the prosecution's claims, for decades prosecutors have gone by fingerprint evidence without much science proving fingerprints are that unique or suitable for that purpose.
Anyway, maybe this judge has used websites before, but he wants to make sure he knows well _enough_ what a website is, before he goes on - after all these are serious charges. There are plenty of people who have used websites, think they know what they are but actually don't.
Maybe after he figures things out, he may then ask "what sort of website and forum", and try to figure out what the context is. After all, motives are important and context is very useful in determining motives and other things.
It may be faster and easier to explain complex non-legal issues to a few judges than to explain complex non-legal issues to a jury AND explain complex legal issues to a jury.
;).
Lastly, I heard that if you're guilty - go for a jury trial if you can. If you're innocent go for a judge only trial.
Of course if you're being charged with one of those child porn things, then even if you're guilty, you may wish to skip the jury trial
Huh, it's just the NYSE. The last I checked it doesn't even run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The fact that they ran on IBM mainframes already shows to me that they can cope with scheduled downtime.
You can fix stuff AFTER trading hours. So even Windows on decent x86 servers would be OK.
If you have stuff that MUST run ALL the time with absolute minimal downtime (including even scheduled downtime) then that's a different ballgame.
That'll be stuff like VMS clustering or Tandem and then you're talking about stuff with uptimes of _decades_. You can take down a node, and the apps just run slower. There have been people who have moved VMS clusters to different locations without downtime - move nodes to the new location while keeping nodes at the old location up.
x86 and Linux will probably reinvent all that eventually, but even then it'll probably still be a lot flakier for the first few years.
But where's your proof that identical circumstances will always produce the same outcome in our universe?
If quantum randomness or something could cause there to be a different outcome, then I don't see how one could assume this universe is totally deterministic, or our actions are totally deterministic as we are still part of the universe.
If the universe is not 100% deterministic, how can you reason that a person is 100% likely to do the same thing over again if you "rolled back" to that exact same point?
Now if the universe is 100% deterministic then sure you can.
But so far I don't think the physicists have proven either yet.
Sorry, that only works in some cases. In other cases you get genocide.
Basically the Brits were unwilling to kill so many. Maybe that's why when the Brits hold their "Commonwealth Games", many of their previous colonies actually bother to show up - the Brits weren't considered to be that evil (heh they were definitely better than many of the rulers they displaced/replaced).
AFAIK the Nazis didn't mind killing masses of Jews. The Turks didn't mind killing masses of Armenians. Plenty of other examples.
The elephants already have their long distance infrasonic comms. Similar for whales. Where sound and sight is good enough the selection pressure for the development of RF is not very high.
Evolution is usually comes up with "good enough" solutions.
It takes a long time for evolution to do stuff, and some stuff may never get done even if possible. If in the early days you had creatures that evolved an ability for easy mutual mind reading, they'd probably get killed/eaten pretty quickly. There aren't very many species that are as cooperative as meerkats, nor needed to be.
Lastly: Mind to mind comms != RF comms - you can have one without the other. We already have mind to mind comms it all goes through protocols and encoding first though, AND while high bandwidth mind output is probably possible in the future, currently people appear to only be working on high bandwidth mind input (vision).
From the context: get someone to buy and install Windows.
Doh.
But that's so slow. Not everyone reads "through a straw" like they claim. IF you're really interested in reading, then you should be training your brain to read faster. Stop doing slow stuff like moving your mouth or running your finger along word by word.
You shouldn't be like a beginner reading one of those children's books with 3 words a page.
Learn to read stuff chunk by chunk - keep your eyes further away from the screen if the whole column is to wide to fit - that's why newsprint is in narrow columns. Most human eyes don't have a wide angle of view especially with those crappy blind spots.
Brains definitely can do parallel processing, and read multiple lines at a time. And brains can learn and adapt. Trust me, you do not want to adapt to reading like a beginner.
Often I can spot spelling mistakes after just a glance at an entire page of print - they just stick out. And sometimes at a glance, my brain notices that there's an unusual word somewhere, and I become aware of it, but just don't know where I saw it on the page (but just a brief search and I'll find it). I think there must be editors (real ones not slashdot ones) out there who do this much better.
In this day and age where there's lots of textual data I don't think it's a good idea to teach people to read stuff in a format where they have to keep doing "next page" every second.
Life is too short.
G W Bush stupid? How'd he get a 2nd term then?
Especially with that Democracy thing the US Gov and people talk about all the time?
Some people definitely think their children are a blessing. And some think they are a curse. And some probably think they are both. Same goes for Life I guess.
;).
The great thing about free will is you get the freedom to make the wrong choice
Whether the story is symbolic or not, there were two special trees in the Garden of Eden.
AFAIK people can have pleasure whether they are single, monogamous or promiscuous :).
;) ). Makes me wonder sometimes whether it's the same religion and same Christ we're following.
;) ).
And in the future it may be even more so. Just wire yourself up to your "tasp" and you can have as much pleasure as you want and for as long as you want (whether it's good for you would probably be debated by the usual suspects).
Now if you are talking about having good _relationships_ then it gets more complicated since there's more than one person involved. Sure some people can manage polyamorous relationships, but I'm willing to bet that most can't.
I believe a large proportion of people are wired for jealousy. Whether it's genetic or otherwise, denying it is futile. I don't think I'm the jealous sort, but I've definitely seen other people who are. So even if there are no physical consequences to promiscuity there would most probably still be undesirable nonphysical consequences.
My religious beliefs (I'm a christian) would indicate that promiscuity is not a good thing. At the same time, my religious beliefs are that Jesus came to save the world and to spread the message of Love, not to condemn it. So I find it quite strange and disturbing that many apparent Christians focus on spreading a message of hate, condemnation and judgement, when they're supposed to spread the Good News (the last I checked anyway
As for marriage, even from a secular point of view, it appears widespread across so many cultures, especially the cultures that have passed the test of time AND appear to have _thrived_ instead of being in danger of dying out. And many people still want some form of it - whether secular or not, hetero or not. So I would say it's not something to discard/dismiss lightly.
Just because someone _willingly_ chooses to draw a line somewhere does not make that person less a free person, especially given the finite world we live in, with our limited abilities and lifespans. Of course we could choose to make no promises and not risk breaking any.
Some people choose to attempt difficult tasks/projects. While they may fail, it might still be a worthy endeavour (I must say many are crazy though, but some turn out crazy lucky
Looks like all of them "figured it out" then :(.
:). I believe it had the 1st gen Sanyo "Burnproof" mechanism.
My first Lite-On CD writer cost 4 x more than my 2nd CD writer and 1st DVD writer, and about 5+ x more than my 2nd DVD writer
I can't afford a high end Plextor (if my current drive dies, I'll just buy another one), and I heard nowadays the low end Plextors have the same insides as "the others".
From: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/figh tscience/facts.html
;) ).
#9 Data indicates tae kwon do fighters react in only 0.18 seconds-nearly twice as fast as the blink of a human eye.
IIRC from watching the show, react = the guy saw the targets flash, and then _hit_ the targets in that time. 180ms _total_ reaction time including moving arms/legs.
I'm sure they would likely to have been trained to be able to react to slight changes in your posture, gaze, etc in that time too. So even if I started throwing a punch first, they'd still hit me first. I wonder if I can then claim in court that he hit me first (assuming that I'm still able to appear in court and do that
Anyway, to check the amount of frame lag the LCDs have. Get an LCD and CRT to display the same fast changing counter (via a dual output vid card or video splitter) and then take a photo. Repeat till you have enough samples. If not using a splitter, swap the connectors for 2nd round.
Yeah my old and slow Lite-on CD-RW is still working whereas my newer LG CD-RW died, then the Benq DVD writer I replaced with it stopped working (after not much longer than a year), now I'm with a LG DVD writer. Maybe I should stick to Lite-On ;).
;).
Or maybe the early batches are sometimes overspeced - because they don't know which corners they can cut yet. Then once they figure it out, the later models die not too long after warranty
Yeah you go give them a good dressing down! Or up... :)
;)
BTW which schools did you attend
They've accepted their "fetters", cannot understand, will not see?
:p. I must say some of them do make some rather strange choices though, but I'm not sure if that's good or bad news for me!
Why are you so sure that your "sisters" are so ignorant/"uneducated" of the alternatives?
If you think the straight can/should change their preferences, maybe you're not so much different from those who think the not-straight can/should change their preferences. Like those "annoying guys trying to convince lesbians to be straight/bi".
Many lesbians want others to respect their choices, I figure the choices of their straight and maybe not-so-straight sisters should be respected too.
I'm a straight guy and I respect the choices of straight, bi and lesbian ladies to NOT prefer me
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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%2
Gen 1:27-28
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Personally I think we are close to the "fill the earth and subdue it" part, unless our technology improves we won't be able to sustainably fill the earth with 10 x more humans.
And subdue != destroy the last I checked
You can oppose copyright and even support GPL.
;) )?
Haven't you heard of migration plans and "temporary workarounds" (and even politics[1]
Go look at the real world sometime and learn how it works.
I think for a start copyright terms should be a lot shorter (just a few years), and fair use needs some fixing by wise and good people.
[1] Lots of companies support BOTH the two main US parties at the same time, who are allegedly against each other.
Though just about everyone dies eventually, doesn't mean we should be happy with there being more assholes, or people supporting them.