Perhaps their sexuality didn't change (it was always there, just being repressed). Far more likely that they simply came to a place where they felt able or willing to explore their "other" side.
Behavior doesn't dictate sexual orientation. Many a gay man of the past got married and had kids. Didn't make him straight, just closeted. And when he "came out", it didn't mean he "turned gay", just that he stopped lying about who he really was.
Or... maybe you can have both situations? It doesn't have to be one or the other. Some people might "turn" gay later in life, some people might live life in the closet. Can't we all just get along?
*nods* there's only so much I can do at a distance... She's about 3000 miles away from here... I've pulled in some contacts, and gotten her in touch with some mutual friends in the area, but that's all I can do for her right now. (met through World of Warcraft actually... shortly before I cancelled my account, lol).
Wow. A MtF trans girlfriend you met on WoW that lives 3000 miles away. I'd like to say "What a surprise", but the real surprise isn't in the details.
the Bible also has nothing against lesbians, only gay males...
Paul disagrees in Romans:
1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature :
1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection , implacable, unmerciful:
1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death , not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Religion is evil.
Taking things out of context is evil.
Interpreting the words of a 2000 year old second hand manuscript that is no longer intact, a part of a book that has been translated and retranslated several times, and using that interpretation out of context to condemn, criticize and over-generalize a group of people that have been lumped together in an over-generalized concept is evil.
Religion is just misunderstood. Then misapplied. Then unfairly criticized, and suddenly a bunch of people are being burnt at a stake, while crosses burn and women are enslaved. Or wait, that might be politics.
Showing tits to a homosexual man would not get any reaction, or maybe disgust. Ie. it wouldn't work.
... so if you show a penis to a man and he's not disgusted, is he gay? What if he finds it an attractive penis, but does not want it in him? Does that make him gay too? You can't turn the argument into "either/or". See, if you claim that if showing a penis to a lesbian is a turn off, and showing boobs to a gay man is a turn off... then you're implying that showing a penis to a straight man would also turn him off, and that boobs to a woman would turn her off. Your argument, that sexuality is all or nothing (pro or anti boob, no middle ground) isn't actually how sexuality is viewed by the scientific community. What I'm saying is that Sexuality doesn't work that way.
Now, It's obvious you havn't actually studied the bible considering the anti-bible stance you're taking, but it's also obvious you're not up to date on the sex/gender preference research done back in the 40-50s by kinsey.
If you're going to come out for a certain viewpoint (or against another)... have the courtesy to be well informed with at least ONE of the sides.
I think that providing cellular coverage in the US is a slightly different animal than in Asia or Europe. The US is a large country relatively low population density compared to many other countries (87 people per sq mi vs 659 for the UK, for example,)
Sure. Throw asia out there, then talk about the UK. I'm not sure how much of rural india has coverage, but I doubt they've got the wage-overhead that the US operators do.
Anyway, it seems you're just spreading BS. Pretty much every post I've seen from a >2,000,000 UID so far is all pro-MS/anti-Apple/anti-Google bullshit..
Heh, most of the 2,000,000 UID posts are anti-ms,pro-apple,pro-google. Don't worry, you'll be in the minority soon.
And I have an Atom N270-based netbook that, probably 90% of the time, is on passive cooling. It *has* a fan, but that fan is almost never on when all I'm doing is surfing the web, writing a document, or working in a spreadsheet.
Yes, they're going to increase power consumption a little, but you're forgetting how low the power and heat requirements are for these devices in the first place. If the fan has to run 20% of the time instead of 10%, it may shorten the battery life by 30 minutes total, over the course of the 6 hour life that the battery currently has? And that's a 2-year old netbook (Dell Mini 9)... batteries and CPU's have gotten better in the mean time. That's not even considering the power savings from not having to power a discrete (Intel X3100) graphics card... I could actually see a noticeable *increase* in battery life thanks to this.
Since when is the x3100 a discrete card? I think there may be other factors in your analysis. For example, the latest atom chips have a version of the 3 series intel graphics...
Not sure that this is a realistic complaint... most laptops run windows just fine.
"Custom to order" usually isn't as flexible as you might imagine.
Not sure what you mean...
None of the sites I tried could do that, despite offering "configure it any way you want!" in their adverts.
I think you must be trying to CTO a lenovo machine. Because everything else is... really flexible. Sometimes the online system isn't perfect, but if you call a CSR then can generally do most crazy configs without a problem.
When I read your post, I used the voice of Zapp Brannigan inside my head. You are a tedious blowhard who likes the sound of his own voice.
GPUs being integrated into CPUs mirror the situation of FPUs being integrated into CPUs in the 90s.
There you go, 17 words, point made.
ABLAH BLAH BLAH what I assume is esoteric knowledge that makes me look clever ABLAH BLAH BLAH things that everyone who reads slashdot already knows ABLAH BLAH BLAH overuse of the phrase "blithely ignore" just to make sure everyone sees that I know some other irrelevant facts ABLAH BLAH BLAH trite observation that is the first thing to occur to anyone when hearing that GPUs are being integrated into CPUs BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH.
When I read your post, I used the voice of Zapp Brannigan inside my head.
The main problems with it are that in Android, there is a certain lack of applications I need (can't seem to find a decent text editor / wordprocessor, for one).
I still prefer them to e.g. the latest Need for Speed, where content and playability has been sacrifized on the altar of cartoon realism and HD/HDR graphics
Let me tell you, there are way more people addicted to WoW than to nethack and dwarf fortress. I'm not saying one is better than the other for gameplay... but I am saying that gameplay is not the only reason to play. You need to reach a minimum threshold of performance. This APU just upped that threshold.
Having a low power graphics chip generates more heat??
It's only low powered when compared to other discrete graphics solutions, not when compared to a bare CPU lacking any integrated GPU function. Yes, they are low power. But only in relative terms, not in absolute ones.
What's a linux? Is that the OS that took the desktop world by storm several years ago?
... I guess no one noticed. And IIRC, most switchable graphics can be used, but require a reboot (can't be hot switched). Which is still the case for many windows switchable graphics (see: sony).
Yep. I often need a machine with powerful CPU but don't care about the graphics. It seems like NOBODY makes one. Laptops are a bummer because you can't build your own.
Really? Because you just described the entire apple PC lineup.
Also, if you can't find it, it sounds like you're not looking. Or, only looking at bestbuy and futureshop. MSI has many models, sony and HP do custom to order (CTO) and asus has so many options I'm surprised they don't confuse customers out of a sale.
It really sounds like you are surprised to find that budget laptops don't come with premium features, like full HD, 1080p screens. So hit up dell and configure one.
Taking a snapshot of where the Longsoon is now and comparing against where AMD and Intel are now is flawed. The processor business chases moving targets, rather than comparing single samples you need to look at a longer history to try to estimate the rate of change.
Intel started 30 years ago. The Longsoon project started 9 years ago. In that time they have closed the gap on Intel to about 3 years. This 65nm design is comparable with something from about 2007 (the clock speed is lower but having 8 cores helps a lot). The real question is where they will go next.
Yes, it's amazing how fast the chinese can reverse engineer old technology! Good thing there are strong copy-protection laws in force to prevent this sort of thing.
Why? I played it a few minutes. I'm not especially young, but it was rather boring, and I was able to grasp the limits of the whole game in under half a minute.
Oh wow, support their game store. Do they donate all their profits to the poor? Maybe they sell everything at nearly cost and operate as a non-profit?
Otherwise I fail to see why I should care. They are trying to make money off of me just like the credit card folks. How are they any more deserving?
You mean, why should you support a real-life store that provides you with real benefits, as opposed to a nebulous company which provides you with a way to access a highly predatory loan with an outrageous interest rate?
I'd like to know why you insist on using a CC when a line of credit is usually 1/2 the cost...
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Perhaps their sexuality didn't change (it was always there, just being repressed). Far more likely that they simply came to a place where they felt able or willing to explore their "other" side.
Behavior doesn't dictate sexual orientation. Many a gay man of the past got married and had kids. Didn't make him straight, just closeted. And when he "came out", it didn't mean he "turned gay", just that he stopped lying about who he really was.
Or ... maybe you can have both situations? It doesn't have to be one or the other. Some people might "turn" gay later in life, some people might live life in the closet. Can't we all just get along?
*nods* there's only so much I can do at a distance... She's about 3000 miles away from here... I've pulled in some contacts, and gotten her in touch with some mutual friends in the area, but that's all I can do for her right now. (met through World of Warcraft actually... shortly before I cancelled my account, lol).
Wow. A MtF trans girlfriend you met on WoW that lives 3000 miles away. I'd like to say "What a surprise", but the real surprise isn't in the details.
But seriously. Good luck with that.
the Bible also has nothing against lesbians, only gay males...
Paul disagrees in Romans:
1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature : 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection , implacable, unmerciful: 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death , not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Religion is evil.
Taking things out of context is evil.
Interpreting the words of a 2000 year old second hand manuscript that is no longer intact, a part of a book that has been translated and retranslated several times, and using that interpretation out of context to condemn, criticize and over-generalize a group of people that have been lumped together in an over-generalized concept is evil.
Religion is just misunderstood. Then misapplied. Then unfairly criticized, and suddenly a bunch of people are being burnt at a stake, while crosses burn and women are enslaved. Or wait, that might be politics.
Showing tits to a homosexual man would not get any reaction, or maybe disgust. Ie. it wouldn't work.
... so if you show a penis to a man and he's not disgusted, is he gay? What if he finds it an attractive penis, but does not want it in him? Does that make him gay too? You can't turn the argument into "either/or". See, if you claim that if showing a penis to a lesbian is a turn off, and showing boobs to a gay man is a turn off ... then you're implying that showing a penis to a straight man would also turn him off, and that boobs to a woman would turn her off. Your argument, that sexuality is all or nothing (pro or anti boob, no middle ground) isn't actually how sexuality is viewed by the scientific community. What I'm saying is that Sexuality doesn't work that way.
... have the courtesy to be well informed with at least ONE of the sides.
Now, It's obvious you havn't actually studied the bible considering the anti-bible stance you're taking, but it's also obvious you're not up to date on the sex/gender preference research done back in the 40-50s by kinsey.
If you're going to come out for a certain viewpoint (or against another)
Christopher Hitchens is on iTunesU. Which is pro-Brain rather than pro-god. So in that regard, yes, it's very god bashing.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/christopher-hitchens-audio/id386252369
Pro-Brain, eh? I wonder which side of falsely-dichotomization of this argument you're on.
Sorry. Our sun is to small to supernova. Just sayin'.
That's only a theory. I want the crackpots to participate equally in this conversation.
lol Hey man, at least use the same account to reply :P
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You've got high expectations. Are you new here?
I think that providing cellular coverage in the US is a slightly different animal than in Asia or Europe. The US is a large country relatively low population density compared to many other countries (87 people per sq mi vs 659 for the UK, for example,)
Sure. Throw asia out there, then talk about the UK. I'm not sure how much of rural india has coverage, but I doubt they've got the wage-overhead that the US operators do.
Anyway, it seems you're just spreading BS. Pretty much every post I've seen from a >2,000,000 UID so far is all pro-MS/anti-Apple/anti-Google bullshit..
Heh, most of the 2,000,000 UID posts are anti-ms,pro-apple,pro-google. Don't worry, you'll be in the minority soon.
Do they not allow bringing your own phone?
Maybe he doesn't know about SIM cards, maybe it's not GSM.
And I have an Atom N270-based netbook that, probably 90% of the time, is on passive cooling. It *has* a fan, but that fan is almost never on when all I'm doing is surfing the web, writing a document, or working in a spreadsheet.
Yes, they're going to increase power consumption a little, but you're forgetting how low the power and heat requirements are for these devices in the first place. If the fan has to run 20% of the time instead of 10%, it may shorten the battery life by 30 minutes total, over the course of the 6 hour life that the battery currently has? And that's a 2-year old netbook (Dell Mini 9)... batteries and CPU's have gotten better in the mean time. That's not even considering the power savings from not having to power a discrete (Intel X3100) graphics card... I could actually see a noticeable *increase* in battery life thanks to this.
Since when is the x3100 a discrete card? I think there may be other factors in your analysis. For example, the latest atom chips have a version of the 3 series intel graphics ...
It is that OS that people use when they want something more than a toy or text editing.
Interesting, as an opinion. Neat as a point of view. False, as a fact.
The point being ... we want to pay less.
Don't we all?
Also, some of us want to run Windows.
Not sure that this is a realistic complaint ... most laptops run windows just fine.
"Custom to order" usually isn't as flexible as you might imagine.
Not sure what you mean...
None of the sites I tried could do that, despite offering "configure it any way you want!" in their adverts.
I think you must be trying to CTO a lenovo machine. Because everything else is ... really flexible. Sometimes the online system isn't perfect, but if you call a CSR then can generally do most crazy configs without a problem.
When I read your post, I used the voice of Zapp Brannigan inside my head. You are a tedious blowhard who likes the sound of his own voice.
GPUs being integrated into CPUs mirror the situation of FPUs being integrated into CPUs in the 90s.
There you go, 17 words, point made.
ABLAH BLAH BLAH what I assume is esoteric knowledge that makes me look clever ABLAH BLAH BLAH things that everyone who reads slashdot already knows ABLAH BLAH BLAH overuse of the phrase "blithely ignore" just to make sure everyone sees that I know some other irrelevant facts ABLAH BLAH BLAH trite observation that is the first thing to occur to anyone when hearing that GPUs are being integrated into CPUs BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH.
When I read your post, I used the voice of Zapp Brannigan inside my head.
The main problems with it are that in Android, there is a certain lack of applications I need (can't seem to find a decent text editor / wordprocessor, for one).
Good thing you can compile one yourself!
I still prefer them to e.g. the latest Need for Speed, where content and playability has been sacrifized on the altar of cartoon realism and HD/HDR graphics
Let me tell you, there are way more people addicted to WoW than to nethack and dwarf fortress. I'm not saying one is better than the other for gameplay... but I am saying that gameplay is not the only reason to play. You need to reach a minimum threshold of performance. This APU just upped that threshold.
My back-of-the envelope calculations tell me that the 9W version is at least as powerful as a low-end Nvidia 400-series or ATI 5000-series
My back of the envelope memory tells me that all low end 400 series and low end 5000 series "graphics" are actually IGPs as well...
Personally I'll take freedom over speed, thanks anyway.
That's a false dichotomy. It isn't one or the other. You could have both freedom and speed, but lack reliability, for example.
Having a low power graphics chip generates more heat??
It's only low powered when compared to other discrete graphics solutions, not when compared to a bare CPU lacking any integrated GPU function. Yes, they are low power. But only in relative terms, not in absolute ones.
nVidia Optimus
Doesn't work with Linux...
What's a linux? Is that the OS that took the desktop world by storm several years ago?
... I guess no one noticed. And IIRC, most switchable graphics can be used, but require a reboot (can't be hot switched). Which is still the case for many windows switchable graphics (see: sony).
Yep. I often need a machine with powerful CPU but don't care about the graphics. It seems like NOBODY makes one. Laptops are a bummer because you can't build your own.
Really? Because you just described the entire apple PC lineup.
Also, if you can't find it, it sounds like you're not looking. Or, only looking at bestbuy and futureshop. MSI has many models, sony and HP do custom to order (CTO) and asus has so many options I'm surprised they don't confuse customers out of a sale.
It really sounds like you are surprised to find that budget laptops don't come with premium features, like full HD, 1080p screens. So hit up dell and configure one.
Taking a snapshot of where the Longsoon is now and comparing against where AMD and Intel are now is flawed. The processor business chases moving targets, rather than comparing single samples you need to look at a longer history to try to estimate the rate of change.
Intel started 30 years ago. The Longsoon project started 9 years ago. In that time they have closed the gap on Intel to about 3 years. This 65nm design is comparable with something from about 2007 (the clock speed is lower but having 8 cores helps a lot). The real question is where they will go next.
Yes, it's amazing how fast the chinese can reverse engineer old technology! Good thing there are strong copy-protection laws in force to prevent this sort of thing.
Why? I played it a few minutes. I'm not especially young, but it was rather boring, and I was able to grasp the limits of the whole game in under half a minute.
Like checkers, it's better with an opponent.
Or sex...
Oh wow, support their game store. Do they donate all their profits to the poor? Maybe they sell everything at nearly cost and operate as a non-profit?
Otherwise I fail to see why I should care. They are trying to make money off of me just like the credit card folks. How are they any more deserving?
You mean, why should you support a real-life store that provides you with real benefits, as opposed to a nebulous company which provides you with a way to access a highly predatory loan with an outrageous interest rate?
I'd like to know why you insist on using a CC when a line of credit is usually 1/2 the cost...