I'm a fan of RB, love the drums, but can't stand the guitar with buttons. I'd love to be able to use a real drum kit or guitar and interface them with the game. Would be great for learning how to play and would allow people to learn skills with real instruments. I'm aware of guitar rising although it has been under development for years.
The Rife machine? Are you nuts? Next you'll be telling him to rub stones and magnets over his body. If this Rife stuff actually worked there would be people all over using it cure people. Is it FDA approved or is that due to some conspiracy by the medical establishment holding it down?
Make it clear Java is strong competition for.Net and let MS buy them out.
It should be quite obvious that java is NO match for.net..Net lets you write in any of a handful of different languages and yet still have platform independence. Why would I want to write in a closed language like java where they could pull the rug out at any time when I could write in C/C++?
Their influence is proportional to how many people are aware of them. While it might not make a huge impact certainly emailing the link to friends will spread awareness and let them see why this group has put these organizations on the list. Information is the key to changing things and an effective delivery is often through humor and mocking.
When it comes to speaking your mind about almost anything, few countries or people have it as good as the people of the United States, even in this post-September 11 world.
A comparison with people doing poorly is hardly justification for claiming that you are doing well. Lets compare with where we *could* be, not with where other repressive governments are.
The BBC mentioned this story the other day, the basic argument people have is that the analysis missed some very basic things, something about crystal formations that were mis-attributed.
I think you misunderstood my post. I made NO claims that Iraq had anything to do with either the hijackers or the anthrax.
Ahh, I couldn't tell that what you said didn't have anything to do with how you felt about things.
The anthrax strains also seem domestic due to the recipients, democratic senators. Maybe this was done to trick people into thinking that it was domestic interests, seems unlikely though.
If the Martians start flying spacecraft into buildings on Manhattan Island and mailing anthrax around the US, I'm sure that BOTH parties will agree with you.
This is all rubbish. The 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, there is no evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and the anthrax mailings appear to be domestic.
In this case it really does look more worthwhile to have gone to Mars.
Let me see. I am an American citizen. I know many other American citizens. I do not know any who believe in any of the things in your list. The only people I have heard say such nonsense are the morons they interview (and put on the air) for the 6 o'clock news. Who is it that is being blinded by a single source of information?
From polls I've seen on various news sites we are apparently the minority. Maybe you live in a relatively liberal part of the country as I do(I'm on the East coast). People I've spoken with here are more informed but even many of them just don't have the facts straight and certainly many people in the current government believe the WMD and Israel stories...
The Palestinians are not a 'people' any more than 'Iowans' are a people. There are people in Iowa who have adopted an identity, but people move in and out of Iowa at will. Similarly, Arabs migrated in and out of 'Palestine' for centuries before Europeans came along and drew some borders on a map.
For better or worse the lines were drawn on a map and agreed upon. The Jews should consider themselves fortunate to even have been given that parcel of land. While they are bound to stay inside of their own land the rest of the world is bound to let them have it. I would suggest that if the rest of the world were to start annexing Israel the Israelis might feel a bit differently about their borders like the people who consider themselves Palestinians do. There is no reason they should be instigating things with settlements and other such nonsense. Maybe the borders should be redrawn but I would imagine that also wouldn't suit Israel due to the large number of people who don't consider themselves jewish.
You are correct about Iraq, Kurdistan should be made an official country as they have been independent of the rest of Iraq for quite some time and really are autonomous.
There is no ego trip among many of the citizens. There is massive ignorance of real international affairs by the media, but we American citizens don't control American media.
I can certainly attest to the massive ignorance of the American citizen when it comes to any kind of information. For instance:
- Many people think Iraq had something to do with 9/11, evidence says otherwise - Many people believe WMD was found in Iraq, none has been found and in fact the evidence is looking like there hasn't been any since 1991 or so - People think Israel is being terrorized by Palistinians for no reason, not realizing that Israel is actually occupying and trying to annex their country, so you get quite one sided pro-Israeli views here, anything that isn't is considered anti-semetic
The problem is probably due to single sourcing media information, if people read/watched news stories from other parts of the world they would get other views on the same issues.
Good point. I can recall only the case where GW was mentioning a log in ones eye where it was written one way for a few hours and then changed to another later in a cnn article.
It could be something innocent but really, why would anyone want to keep search engines out of a publicly funded website? People have been accusing the poster of "baseless accusations" but the guy does have a point. I've seen a couple of GW's speeches and afterwards the transcripts of those speeches and noted that gramatical errors were corrected. While this is only a minor offence in editing history it does make you wonder what other opinions and information may have appeared and then later have been edited. Seriously, these are our government officials here, we deserve to have an unedited record of what they say and to hold them to it. A little bit of speculation on the reasons for excluding various terms is far from paranoia.
If this is well thought out and reduces startup times it will be a welcome change. Windows XP starts up quite a bit faster than my linux machine does and is usable quicker, and I'm counting AFTER bios post.
50% of the population do have an IQ below average too
This is probably a false statement. If 50% of the population had an IQ below average this would mean that the 'mean' and the 'median' of the population IQ were the same. Maybe you are saying that 'the mean' is 'the mean', a stunning conclusion.
He bought the right to listen to a particular song, thus he owns this right and can sell it as he chooses, as you can do with tapes, cds, and software. I would imagine any company trying to argue that users are prohibited from transferring ownership would have a tough sell to the public, its not like the guy is selling something dangerous, such as a gun, to a felon or minor.
Linux runs on all hardware EVEN Apple's. Apple, proprietary hardware that can only be bought from Apple. It's crazy to think that Apple could come back from their 5% market share. They aren't hungry enough for market share to cut prices enough to make their hardware competitive with x86.
So this PPC970 is at full production volume at the clock frequencies mentioned in this spec? For the non-engineers in the Slashdot crowd it may look impressive to see a spec with fancy features and high performance that will blow anything else out of the water, for the engineers this is just another case of marketing overpowering logic. Until it is shipped it is vaporware.
And Ill wait to buy a Ferrari when they have one thats less than $20,000. Apple doesnt go for the low end because it doesnt have to, and it couldnt gaurentee the quality its got if it did. You get what you pay for.
Apple is hardly the PC equivalent of a Ferrari, as many other posters have pointed out. Maybe you can post some benchmarks that show how real world applications run so much faster on the top of the line Mac's vs. top of the line x86 boxes, and then also compare performance/price.
Please. Lets not stumble over ourselves as we fawn over more vapor Mac hardware. Mac people love benchmarks but only the ones that favor them. Where is the link to this 3rd party benchmark that shows this performance?
I can recall John Carmack in an interview with a Mac magazine. They asked him what he thought of the uber G3's(or maybe it was G4's) and he responded by saying that unlike the propaganda, they aren't actually that fast compared to todays x86 cpu's.
All of the benchmarks I've seen where Apple's PCs blow away x86's are all with Photoshop and with filters tweaked for the PPC cpu's. The x86 Photoshop filters weren't even using SIMD or other equivalent technologies. So again, lets see how REAL applications run on these machines and lets see the sticker price.
The issue of murder is one of rights. The mother has a right to do as she pleases with cells inside of her body, once the fetus is born and independent of the mother, not impacting her, things change and the mother doesn't have the same kind of rights over the baby.
There are several problems with your reasoning. Just because the law currently backs you up does not make it right (It didn't make Jim Crow right, either). Why does she have that right? If you can't explain it, you're no better than an unthinking religious zelot, and you probably wouldn't want that...
The reasoning behind this is that 1. The fetus is inside of the mother. 2. The fetus isn't self aware or viable, thus doesn't have the same rights as a person, same goes for all other non-self aware animals. 3. The fetus thus has less rights than the mother, who is self aware.
Had she and the man been a little civilized and subjugated their animal desires to their wills, they wouldn't have been in that mess in the first place. Why did hedonism suddenly become the civilizing force in our society? If one considers the philosophical grounds upon which western societies were founded, it is pretty unfortunate to see this turn of events.
This is applying your morals to someone else, if they want to fool around and she happens to get pregnant then so be it. You can't judge someone else simply because there is no way to decide how to judge them in this case as they aren't hurting anyone.
The pro-abortion lobby even concedes that "viable fetuses" shouldn't be abortable. Location doesn't matter if the child can safely be removed from the mother. If it's morally unjust to end a child's life, why don't those reasons apply to the child before birth? Location? Even if it's possible to safely deliver it? Heck, it shouldn't unless you are worried about who is going to financially support the baby, and that shouldn't taint one's judgement of right or wrong.
I'm completely in favor of this. If they can remove the fetus, sever any financial responsability to the mother and father, and then have the baby taken care of I'm all for that. If they won't sever the financial responsibility of the mother and father then it is bogus, if the parents don't want the child they shouldn't have it forced upon them. Millions of people are starving today, we don't need more people that aren't wanted.
P.S. Almost all birth control devices and drugs, except for barrier methods interfere with implantation after conception, thus they don't really stop things "Before they begin" as you originally stated. Rather, they stop things right after the ball got rolling.
I guess a fertilized but not yet implanted egg(is there a specific word for this?) doesn't elicit a huge emotional response from me. I think of it the same as if the egg wasn't fertalized in the first place, that is also a missed chance but not many people are upset that this happens each month for most women.
A filesystem like this is great for organizing music and media files, something I know a lot of people currently struggle with. Songs frequently fall under multiple categories at the same time solving the problem of not being able to sort music by author and album at the same time with directories.
Calling it a fetus is pure rhetoric designed to make sure that it is nothing you could get emotionally attached to. The whole issue is mired with carefully chosen rhetoric.
It makes sense to try and be logical about things like this. Decisions shouldn't be made on religious arguments as religious arguments are by their very nature based on choosing to ignore logic and instead just believe what someone tells you to do, to have faith.
Does having fewer cells disqualify you from life? At what point? Is a 1 week old baby self-aware? Heck, it hasn't even discovered its own fingers yet. Sure it cries, but it would have cried in the womb, if it weren't surrounded in liquid. Heck, there are plenty of middle-aged people around here that aren't really self-conscious...
My point exactly. Animals and underdeveloped humans are not self conscious. As such they aren't aware of themselves. A 1 week old baby is not self-aware but since it has been born it isn't infringing on the life of the mother anymore so there isn't any justification for abortion post-birth.
Usually the argument becomes subject to the volition of the mother, like in your last paragraph. At that point it completely ignores the baby/fetus and whether or not it is a life. If it is a life, then abortion is murder, even the woman chooses it.
We eat plenty of living things, plants, animals etc, no one seems to get upset about that. People are animals and other than being self aware and more intelligent than any other animal on this planet we are quite similar physically and genetically. The issue of murder is one of rights. The mother has a right to do as she pleases with cells inside of her body, once the fetus is born and independent of the mother, not impacting her, things change and the mother doesn't have the same kind of rights over the baby.
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I'm a fan of RB, love the drums, but can't stand the guitar with buttons. I'd love to be able to use a real drum kit or guitar and interface them with the game. Would be great for learning how to play and would allow people to learn skills with real instruments. I'm aware of guitar rising although it has been under development for years.
Chris
The Rife machine? Are you nuts? Next you'll be telling him to rub stones and magnets over his body. If this Rife stuff actually worked there would be people all over using it cure people. Is it FDA approved or is that due to some conspiracy by the medical establishment holding it down?
No wonder he didn't reply to you.
Chris
Make it clear Java is strong competition for .Net and let MS buy them out.
.net. .Net lets you write in any of a handful of different languages and yet still have platform independence. Why would I want to write in a closed language like java where they could pull the rug out at any time when I could write in C/C++?
It should be quite obvious that java is NO match for
Chris
How influential are these "awards"?
Their influence is proportional to how many people are aware of them. While it might not make a huge impact certainly emailing the link to friends will spread awareness and let them see why this group has put these organizations on the list. Information is the key to changing things and an effective delivery is often through humor and mocking.
When it comes to speaking your mind about almost anything, few countries or people have it as good as the people of the United States, even in this post-September 11 world.
A comparison with people doing poorly is hardly justification for claiming that you are doing well. Lets compare with where we *could* be, not with where other repressive governments are.
The BBC mentioned this story the other day, the basic argument people have is that the analysis missed some very basic things, something about crystal formations that were mis-attributed.
I think you misunderstood my post. I made NO claims that Iraq had anything to do with either the hijackers or the anthrax.
Ahh, I couldn't tell that what you said didn't have anything to do with how you felt about things.
The anthrax strains also seem domestic due to the recipients, democratic senators. Maybe this was done to trick people into thinking that it was domestic interests, seems unlikely though.
Chris
If the Martians start flying spacecraft into buildings on Manhattan Island and mailing anthrax around the US, I'm sure that BOTH parties will agree with you.
This is all rubbish. The 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, there is no evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and the anthrax mailings appear to be domestic.
In this case it really does look more worthwhile to have gone to Mars.
Chris
Let me see. I am an American citizen. I know many other American citizens. I do not know any who believe in any of the things in your list. The only people I have heard say such nonsense are the morons they interview (and put on the air) for the 6 o'clock news. Who is it that is being blinded by a single source of information?
From polls I've seen on various news sites we are apparently the minority. Maybe you live in a relatively liberal part of the country as I do(I'm on the East coast). People I've spoken with here are more informed but even many of them just don't have the facts straight and certainly many people in the current government believe the WMD and Israel stories...
The Palestinians are not a 'people' any more than 'Iowans' are a people. There are people in Iowa who have adopted an identity, but people move in and out of Iowa at will. Similarly, Arabs migrated in and out of 'Palestine' for centuries before Europeans came along and drew some borders on a map.
For better or worse the lines were drawn on a map and agreed upon. The Jews should consider themselves fortunate to even have been given that parcel of land. While they are bound to stay inside of their own land the rest of the world is bound to let them have it. I would suggest that if the rest of the world were to start annexing Israel the Israelis might feel a bit differently about their borders like the people who consider themselves Palestinians do. There is no reason they should be instigating things with settlements and other such nonsense. Maybe the borders should be redrawn but I would imagine that also wouldn't suit Israel due to the large number of people who don't consider themselves jewish.
You are correct about Iraq, Kurdistan should be made an official country as they have been independent of the rest of Iraq for quite some time and really are autonomous.
Uh, no it's not.
No seriously it is.
A microkernel is more modular but is slower I believe due to the huge amount of message passing required for the modules to communicate.
Chris
There is no ego trip among many of the citizens. There is massive ignorance of real international affairs by the media, but we American citizens don't control American media.
I can certainly attest to the massive ignorance of the American citizen when it comes to any kind of information. For instance:
- Many people think Iraq had something to do with 9/11, evidence says otherwise
- Many people believe WMD was found in Iraq, none has been found and in fact the evidence is looking like there hasn't been any since 1991 or so
- People think Israel is being terrorized by Palistinians for no reason, not realizing that Israel is actually occupying and trying to annex their country, so you get quite one sided pro-Israeli views here, anything that isn't is considered anti-semetic
The problem is probably due to single sourcing media information, if people read/watched news stories from other parts of the world they would get other views on the same issues.
Chris
Good point. I can recall only the case where GW was mentioning a log in ones eye where it was written one way for a few hours and then changed to another later in a cnn article.
It could be something innocent but really, why would anyone want to keep search engines out of a publicly funded website? People have been accusing the poster of "baseless accusations" but the guy does have a point. I've seen a couple of GW's speeches and afterwards the transcripts of those speeches and noted that gramatical errors were corrected. While this is only a minor offence in editing history it does make you wonder what other opinions and information may have appeared and then later have been edited. Seriously, these are our government officials here, we deserve to have an unedited record of what they say and to hold them to it. A little bit of speculation on the reasons for excluding various terms is far from paranoia.
Chris
I'd also like to add that seek times for scsi drives are typically half that of ide drives so they perform great in random workloads.
Chris
If this is well thought out and reduces startup times it will be a welcome change. Windows XP starts up quite a bit faster than my linux machine does and is usable quicker, and I'm counting AFTER bios post.
Chris
50% of the population do have an IQ below average too
This is probably a false statement. If 50% of the population had an IQ below average this would mean that the 'mean' and the 'median' of the population IQ were the same. Maybe you are saying that 'the mean' is 'the mean', a stunning conclusion.
He bought the right to listen to a particular song, thus he owns this right and can sell it as he chooses, as you can do with tapes, cds, and software. I would imagine any company trying to argue that users are prohibited from transferring ownership would have a tough sell to the public, its not like the guy is selling something dangerous, such as a gun, to a felon or minor.
Chris
Linux runs on all hardware EVEN Apple's. Apple, proprietary hardware that can only be bought from Apple. It's crazy to think that Apple could come back from their 5% market share. They aren't hungry enough for market share to cut prices enough to make their hardware competitive with x86.
Chris
are problems the PPC970 doesn't have
So this PPC970 is at full production volume at the clock frequencies mentioned in this spec? For the non-engineers in the Slashdot crowd it may look impressive to see a spec with fancy features and high performance that will blow anything else out of the water, for the engineers this is just another case of marketing overpowering logic. Until it is shipped it is vaporware.
Chris
And Ill wait to buy a Ferrari when they have one thats less than $20,000. Apple doesnt go for the low end because it doesnt have to, and it couldnt gaurentee the quality its got if it did. You get what you pay for.
Apple is hardly the PC equivalent of a Ferrari, as many other posters have pointed out. Maybe you can post some benchmarks that show how real world applications run so much faster on the top of the line Mac's vs. top of the line x86 boxes, and then also compare performance/price.
Chris
Please. Lets not stumble over ourselves as we fawn over more vapor Mac hardware. Mac people love benchmarks but only the ones that favor them. Where is the link to this 3rd party benchmark that shows this performance?
I can recall John Carmack in an interview with a Mac magazine. They asked him what he thought of the uber G3's(or maybe it was G4's) and he responded by saying that unlike the propaganda, they aren't actually that fast compared to todays x86 cpu's.
All of the benchmarks I've seen where Apple's PCs blow away x86's are all with Photoshop and with filters tweaked for the PPC cpu's. The x86 Photoshop filters weren't even using SIMD or other equivalent technologies. So again, lets see how REAL applications run on these machines and lets see the sticker price.
Chris
The issue of murder is one of rights. The mother has a right to do as she pleases with cells inside of her body, once the fetus is born and independent of the mother, not impacting her, things change and the mother doesn't have the same kind of rights over the baby.
There are several problems with your reasoning. Just because the law currently backs you up does not make it right (It didn't make Jim Crow right, either). Why does she have that right? If you can't explain it, you're no better than an unthinking religious zelot, and you probably wouldn't want that...
The reasoning behind this is that 1. The fetus is inside of the mother. 2. The fetus isn't self aware or viable, thus doesn't have the same rights as a person, same goes for all other non-self aware animals. 3. The fetus thus has less rights than the mother, who is self aware.
Had she and the man been a little civilized and subjugated their animal desires to their wills, they wouldn't have been in that mess in the first place. Why did hedonism suddenly become the civilizing force in our society? If one considers the philosophical grounds upon which western societies were founded, it is pretty unfortunate to see this turn of events.
This is applying your morals to someone else, if they want to fool around and she happens to get pregnant then so be it. You can't judge someone else simply because there is no way to decide how to judge them in this case as they aren't hurting anyone.
The pro-abortion lobby even concedes that "viable fetuses" shouldn't be abortable. Location doesn't matter if the child can safely be removed from the mother. If it's morally unjust to end a child's life, why don't those reasons apply to the child before birth? Location? Even if it's possible to safely deliver it? Heck, it shouldn't unless you are worried about who is going to financially support the baby, and that shouldn't taint one's judgement of right or wrong.
I'm completely in favor of this. If they can remove the fetus, sever any financial responsability to the mother and father, and then have the baby taken care of I'm all for that. If they won't sever the financial responsibility of the mother and father then it is bogus, if the parents don't want the child they shouldn't have it forced upon them. Millions of people are starving today, we don't need more people that aren't wanted.
P.S. Almost all birth control devices and drugs, except for barrier methods interfere with implantation after conception, thus they don't really stop things "Before they begin" as you originally stated. Rather, they stop things right after the ball got rolling.
I guess a fertilized but not yet implanted egg(is there a specific word for this?) doesn't elicit a huge emotional response from me. I think of it the same as if the egg wasn't fertalized in the first place, that is also a missed chance but not many people are upset that this happens each month for most women.
A filesystem like this is great for organizing music and media files, something I know a lot of people currently struggle with. Songs frequently fall under multiple categories at the same time solving the problem of not being able to sort music by author and album at the same time with directories.
Chris
Calling it a fetus is pure rhetoric designed to make sure that it is nothing you could get emotionally attached to. The whole issue is mired with carefully chosen rhetoric.
It makes sense to try and be logical about things like this. Decisions shouldn't be made on religious arguments as religious arguments are by their very nature based on choosing to ignore logic and instead just believe what someone tells you to do, to have faith.
Does having fewer cells disqualify you from life? At what point? Is a 1 week old baby self-aware? Heck, it hasn't even discovered its own fingers yet. Sure it cries, but it would have cried in the womb, if it weren't surrounded in liquid. Heck, there are plenty of middle-aged people around here that aren't really self-conscious...
My point exactly. Animals and underdeveloped humans are not self conscious. As such they aren't aware of themselves. A 1 week old baby is not self-aware but since it has been born it isn't infringing on the life of the mother anymore so there isn't any justification for abortion post-birth.
Usually the argument becomes subject to the volition of the mother, like in your last paragraph. At that point it completely ignores the baby/fetus and whether or not it is a life. If it is a life, then abortion is murder, even the woman chooses it.
We eat plenty of living things, plants, animals etc, no one seems to get upset about that. People are animals and other than being self aware and more intelligent than any other animal on this planet we are quite similar physically and genetically. The issue of murder is one of rights. The mother has a right to do as she pleases with cells inside of her body, once the fetus is born and independent of the mother, not impacting her, things change and the mother doesn't have the same kind of rights over the baby.
Chris