If you've accepted JC as your saviour, shouldn't you follow his teachings?
Could somebody please give me a reference where, in the 4 gospels, homosexuality is even mentioned? I've read them, and the whole book for that matter, and with the exception of a few references to non-consensual acts in Paul's letters, homosexuality isn't even mentioned at all in the new testament....
Of course, that's just one example....
(and no, I'm not a Christian... I used to be, but I left the church about 17 years ago, as I was tired of being told by some of the more conservative members of the congregation that I was going to hell. My concept of faith, since then, has become a lot more complicated.)
How many muslims do you suppose have been killed in Iraq since 2001, for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Fear breeds hate, and hate breeds violence. If you're prone to it, then you don't need an excuse, though religion is a convenient one.
To put it another way: there are a billion muslims in the world today, some of them with legitimate access to nuclear weapons (Pakistan). If they were really as extreme and violent as you seem to believe, we'd have turned the world into a glass-floored parking lot by now.
95 OSR2 wasn't nearly as bad as the initial release of 95. In retrospect, it was a steaming pile of donkey shit, but at the time it was actually pretty good by comparison, though most of that came from the Microsoft monoculture: If you wanted to be able to game, then you didn't really have much of a choice.
I dual booted 95 and Slackware for a while... using 95 for gaming, and Slackware for actual work. It wasn't actually until NT4 SP4 came out that I was able to actually have a Windows system that didn't need to dual boot, because NT had the stability... SP3 had DirectX too, but it was glitchy. SP4 was actually usable for gaming, and it improved a lot in W2K... then XP came out, and the rest is history.
Laymen don't have a clue about technology issues, and will go with whoever seems most confident in what they're saying. Put somebody like that, especially somebody like that who doesn't have a clue what the hell he's talking about (seriously, prior art doesn't matter unless it's an exact match and is still in use today?!?), and that person will very definitely influence the outcome of a deliberation.
I would object to the label of dodgy when clearly we have a transatlantic network that is sufficient for you to post on slashdot with.
Assuming you actually do work for Telstra, I can judge the company as quite dodgy, and completely incompetent based on this statement alone: Australia is in the Pacific, not the Atlantic, and if your network is transatlantic, you clearly have no idea what the hell you're doing.
More likely, they do what Bell Canada does, which is to have the firmware read the serial number and apply an algorithm to that in order to create the default SSID/key on each modem. On the 2Wire modems, the default SSID was always BELL{last 3 digits of s/n}. I never did figure out what the algorithm was for the default key, but it is different on every modem, and on the Sagemcom modems, it's a different algorithm to figure out the default SSID as well.
There's simply no good reason to be wasteful. It's economically ineffcient and negatively impacts the environment as well as one's ability to be self-sufficient and plan ahead.
Yes, but that 6 month old cell phone isn't as shiny. Never underestimate the power of marketing on the weak-minded. It doesn't have #INSERT_FEATURE_01, therefore it's pure crap and needs to be replaced. It doesn't matter that you would never use that feature, or that it has 6 other features that do the same thing, it doesn't have that one feature, and you need that one feature, so you need to spend money to replace it.
That, unfortunately, is the ideal model of capitalism: it's not about making a good product, it's about making money. If you can make a better margin selling a shitty product, then that's what you will do. Sony is just doing what everybody else is doing. A handful of consumers will luck out and make smart buys, but most won't, or won't realize they've made a smart buy and replace a good piece of kit with something that's worse. *Some* brands will maintain their integrity, and their sub-1% market share, but most consumers simply don't know enough about what they're buying to care.
In the realm of AV equipment, Sony hasn't made a good product in 20 years. Possibly longer. But when people are convinced that a $1500 home theatre is "high end", because that's the most expensive they see at Best Buy, there's no point in explaining that a *real* high end system will cost more than a luxury car.
It's a flawed analogy to begin with however, because an alarm with an immobilizer is now required, by law, in enough markets that it's part of the standard kit on just about every car on the market. There's a reason that the market for after-market stereos and alarm systems has pretty much dried up in the last few years: it's because most new cars come with stereos that are good enough for most from the factory, and all new cars come with alarms.
Of course, given that I live in one of the markets where the alarm/immobilizer is required, there may be cars I can't get here which don't come with it, but in the North American and European markets, it's pretty much a given that you'll have one.
No... what they were saying was that fixing the account and ensuring a continued revenue stream of $15/mo was favourable to him cancelling the account for want of a $6.50 one-time cost.
While this is true for every account, and is an argument in favour of simply giving the things away, most accounts never get hacked, and they *do* simply give the things away to anybody with a smartphone. When they do get hacked, the labour costs for fixing the account are what makes sending the authenticator an option.
This is a government backed monopoly (in my opinion, the only true use of the word "monopoly"). It needs to be shut down. The same way utility providers currently get to exercise monopolies, enforced by government. Tesla ought to succeed or fail on their own merit (and I think they will fail, but they deserve the chance).
Actually, the is the exact opposite of a government-backed monopoly. The point of the franchise law is to prevent there being a monopoly, by preventing the auto manufacturer from owning all of the dealerships.
Better question... who in their right mind would spend $189 on a mouse, and then, having been burned on it, spend *more* money on another mouse from the same fucking company?
Is Razer the Apple of input devices or something? I mean, yes, I spent $60 on my Logitech M570, but nobody else makes trackballs in that form factor (almost nobody else makes trackballs at all), and if you prefer a trackball, it's worth the investment. My last trackball was also a Logitech (original TrackMan Wheel), and also cost $60, but I was using it for more than a decade, so I'd call that pretty good value for money.
* Apple Maps and access to Google Maps, with a large number of options for other map apps (that can can be downloaded), both free and paid.
You're using Apple Maps as a selling feature? Meanwhile, Androids come with Google Maps out of the box, as well as Google Navigation, which supports voice instructions, and there are a similarly large number of other map/navigation apps available for Android.
While your point is that IOS can hold its own against Android, it's a bit silly to use Apple Maps as the first point of comparison....
* Uses a USB charger, charges off anything with a USB port (note that USB is not proprietary), and a micro-USB adapter is also available so you can charge it off a Galaxy SIII charger if you really want.
USB isn't proprietary, but the connector at the other end of the cable is. If your cable is damaged or lost, you need to buy a replacement cable from Apple, and pay for the privilege. If you lose or damage the cable for any Android phone I've ever used, you can use *any* MicroUSB cable from any other device you own, or can buy one very cheaply from any number of people selling them.
* Doesn't have removable memory card, no, but this has allegedly been a missing "killer feature" from every iOS device ever sold, and doesn't seem to be slowing down sales.
Some Android phones don't have removable memory cards. Mine does. It's very useful. I've used the same MicroSD card across 3 phones now, and have not needed to recopy the data to each new phone. Similarly, I haven't lost any of the settings or high scores from my games/apps, and several of my games have installed completely to the SD card, so they don't need to be reinstalled/downloaded on a new phone, either.
* No USB Mass Storage Mode either, but files can be moved on and off it as necessary, also supports cloud storage (iCloud, Dropbox etc).
Call me next time you need to sync 32GB of data through iCloud to your new phone. We'll compare how long it takes against how long it takes me to remove my MicroSD card and put it in the new phone, shall we? We'll also compare how much that costs on your 3G data plan....
Oh, did I mention my phone didn't cost anywhere near what a new iPhone would cost without a contract, and that the memory/cpu for my phone are almost identical to the iPhone 4S, which was the best iPhone available when I bought mine?
The stratification layers would be disturbed if they were buried. It's quite easy to tell, when looking at a cross section, when the soil has been disturbed.
Oh I don't know about that, I have a feeling that DNT works fine, the problem is advertisers not respecting it more than anything as we all know. I have a feeling that the Chromium [chromium.org] will implement something that makes DNT work...properly.
You've seriously never heard of Elon Musk? What rock have you been living under?
He's the financier behind Tesla Motors, which has been talked about many times over the years on Slashdot. He also fincanced SpaceX, which got a lot of press during the X Prize coverage. He also founded PayPal, and got a lot of press through that. There've been documentaries about him, and about his companies, some of which are available on Netflix if you're so inclined (Revenge of the Electric Car has a *lot* of interview time with Musk, if you'd like to get an idea of what kind of person he really is). http://www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com/
Come to it, having seen that movie, and his interviews in the movie, he doesn't come off as anywhere near the kind of jackass that Jobs was.
You're joking, right? Gasoline-driven engines don't produce anywhere near the torque or power that an electric motor is capable of, depending on the type of electric motor being used.
Gasoline/diesel didn't win out because they're more powerful than electric, they won out because you can fill a gas tank in minutes, and go hundreds of miles on it.
Paper ballots aren't perfect with regards to fraud. They still beat the pants off any electronic system, though. At best, electronic systems that print a paper trail that the voter can visually inspect are still vulnerable every way paper is to fraud. Any electronic voting machine that doesn't produce a paper trail should be presumed to be aiding in fraud.
Agreed. I am assuming you used the exact same system we use for municipal elections around here... you fill out what's essentially a scantron sheet, the reader scans your vote electronically, and the paper ballot is stored in a ballot box.
Any perfect solution to fraud would be to eliminate anonymity.
That would open up another kind of fraud: voter intimidation. Yous gonna vote fer Romney or we gonna break yer kneecaps. We know you done it, cuz we can check dis voter registry.
I'm not sure why mechanical voting machines ever were used.
Avoid the time consumed by having to count manually. You pull a lever, a mechanical counter ticks up for the candidate you voted for. Such a system, if engineered properly, actually works pretty well. As with any form of automation, though, there's a tradeoff, in the form of less accountability.
We use paper ballots in Canada... counters get paid a small stipend (something like $30) to count the ballots, there's scrutineers to make sure they're counting properly, and any party can send a representative to watch the counting. When a ballot is counted, the person reads out loud who the vote is for, and shows it to another person to confirm. Any party can request a recount on the spot, and there's an automatic recount when the two leading candidates are close enough together in votes. Because there's paper ballots, we can keep a physical record of the voting, and in the event that there's a discrepancy or challenge, we can always go back and tally the votes again.
Since each polling station isn't more than 200-300 voters (most voting locations will have 6 or 7 polling stations each), we're still able to have results by the end of the night.
Considering that your current election is costing an estimated $1billion, I think you can afford to use paper ballots.
A lot of laptops don't support docks. And depending on the type of laptop you prefer, a dock may be completely impossible... I have never seen an ultraportable laptop which works with a dock.
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If you've accepted JC as your saviour, shouldn't you follow his teachings?
Could somebody please give me a reference where, in the 4 gospels, homosexuality is even mentioned? I've read them, and the whole book for that matter, and with the exception of a few references to non-consensual acts in Paul's letters, homosexuality isn't even mentioned at all in the new testament....
Of course, that's just one example....
(and no, I'm not a Christian... I used to be, but I left the church about 17 years ago, as I was tired of being told by some of the more conservative members of the congregation that I was going to hell. My concept of faith, since then, has become a lot more complicated.)
How many muslims do you suppose have been killed in Iraq since 2001, for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Fear breeds hate, and hate breeds violence. If you're prone to it, then you don't need an excuse, though religion is a convenient one.
To put it another way: there are a billion muslims in the world today, some of them with legitimate access to nuclear weapons (Pakistan). If they were really as extreme and violent as you seem to believe, we'd have turned the world into a glass-floored parking lot by now.
95 OSR2 wasn't nearly as bad as the initial release of 95. In retrospect, it was a steaming pile of donkey shit, but at the time it was actually pretty good by comparison, though most of that came from the Microsoft monoculture: If you wanted to be able to game, then you didn't really have much of a choice.
I dual booted 95 and Slackware for a while... using 95 for gaming, and Slackware for actual work. It wasn't actually until NT4 SP4 came out that I was able to actually have a Windows system that didn't need to dual boot, because NT had the stability... SP3 had DirectX too, but it was glitchy. SP4 was actually usable for gaming, and it improved a lot in W2K... then XP came out, and the rest is history.
That was a chroot and then SSH with X forwarding, which is a different animal entirely from actually *booting* Ubuntu.
Actually, Airheads are made by Perfetti Van Melle
They asked him for details, he provided incomplete details. Lying by omission is still lying.
Laymen don't have a clue about technology issues, and will go with whoever seems most confident in what they're saying. Put somebody like that, especially somebody like that who doesn't have a clue what the hell he's talking about (seriously, prior art doesn't matter unless it's an exact match and is still in use today?!?), and that person will very definitely influence the outcome of a deliberation.
I would object to the label of dodgy when clearly we have a transatlantic network that is sufficient for you to post on slashdot with.
Assuming you actually do work for Telstra, I can judge the company as quite dodgy, and completely incompetent based on this statement alone: Australia is in the Pacific, not the Atlantic, and if your network is transatlantic, you clearly have no idea what the hell you're doing.
More likely, they do what Bell Canada does, which is to have the firmware read the serial number and apply an algorithm to that in order to create the default SSID/key on each modem. On the 2Wire modems, the default SSID was always BELL{last 3 digits of s/n}. I never did figure out what the algorithm was for the default key, but it is different on every modem, and on the Sagemcom modems, it's a different algorithm to figure out the default SSID as well.
Even if I don't see a suitable alternative (which sometimes does happen with mid-range headphones), I'll leave the store without buying anything.
http://www.sennheiser.ca/live/
You're welcome.
There's simply no good reason to be wasteful. It's economically ineffcient and negatively impacts the environment as well as one's ability to be self-sufficient and plan ahead.
Yes, but that 6 month old cell phone isn't as shiny. Never underestimate the power of marketing on the weak-minded. It doesn't have #INSERT_FEATURE_01, therefore it's pure crap and needs to be replaced. It doesn't matter that you would never use that feature, or that it has 6 other features that do the same thing, it doesn't have that one feature, and you need that one feature, so you need to spend money to replace it.
That, unfortunately, is the ideal model of capitalism: it's not about making a good product, it's about making money. If you can make a better margin selling a shitty product, then that's what you will do. Sony is just doing what everybody else is doing. A handful of consumers will luck out and make smart buys, but most won't, or won't realize they've made a smart buy and replace a good piece of kit with something that's worse. *Some* brands will maintain their integrity, and their sub-1% market share, but most consumers simply don't know enough about what they're buying to care.
In the realm of AV equipment, Sony hasn't made a good product in 20 years. Possibly longer. But when people are convinced that a $1500 home theatre is "high end", because that's the most expensive they see at Best Buy, there's no point in explaining that a *real* high end system will cost more than a luxury car.
It's a flawed analogy to begin with however, because an alarm with an immobilizer is now required, by law, in enough markets that it's part of the standard kit on just about every car on the market. There's a reason that the market for after-market stereos and alarm systems has pretty much dried up in the last few years: it's because most new cars come with stereos that are good enough for most from the factory, and all new cars come with alarms.
Of course, given that I live in one of the markets where the alarm/immobilizer is required, there may be cars I can't get here which don't come with it, but in the North American and European markets, it's pretty much a given that you'll have one.
No, revenue less costs is net income.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/net_income
Gross income is total income before costs are deducted.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gross_income
No... what they were saying was that fixing the account and ensuring a continued revenue stream of $15/mo was favourable to him cancelling the account for want of a $6.50 one-time cost.
While this is true for every account, and is an argument in favour of simply giving the things away, most accounts never get hacked, and they *do* simply give the things away to anybody with a smartphone. When they do get hacked, the labour costs for fixing the account are what makes sending the authenticator an option.
It's not rocket science, people.
This is a government backed monopoly (in my opinion, the only true use of the word "monopoly"). It needs to be shut down. The same way utility providers currently get to exercise monopolies, enforced by government. Tesla ought to succeed or fail on their own merit (and I think they will fail, but they deserve the chance).
Actually, the is the exact opposite of a government-backed monopoly. The point of the franchise law is to prevent there being a monopoly, by preventing the auto manufacturer from owning all of the dealerships.
Better question... who in their right mind would spend $189 on a mouse, and then, having been burned on it, spend *more* money on another mouse from the same fucking company?
Is Razer the Apple of input devices or something? I mean, yes, I spent $60 on my Logitech M570, but nobody else makes trackballs in that form factor (almost nobody else makes trackballs at all), and if you prefer a trackball, it's worth the investment. My last trackball was also a Logitech (original TrackMan Wheel), and also cost $60, but I was using it for more than a decade, so I'd call that pretty good value for money.
Yeah... but a Hurricane is pink and fruity... A straight drink it ain't....
iPhone 5 comes with:
* Apple Maps and access to Google Maps, with a large number of options for other map apps (that can can be downloaded), both free and paid.
You're using Apple Maps as a selling feature? Meanwhile, Androids come with Google Maps out of the box, as well as Google Navigation, which supports voice instructions, and there are a similarly large number of other map/navigation apps available for Android.
While your point is that IOS can hold its own against Android, it's a bit silly to use Apple Maps as the first point of comparison....
* Uses a USB charger, charges off anything with a USB port (note that USB is not proprietary), and a micro-USB adapter is also available so you can charge it off a Galaxy SIII charger if you really want.
USB isn't proprietary, but the connector at the other end of the cable is. If your cable is damaged or lost, you need to buy a replacement cable from Apple, and pay for the privilege. If you lose or damage the cable for any Android phone I've ever used, you can use *any* MicroUSB cable from any other device you own, or can buy one very cheaply from any number of people selling them.
* Doesn't have removable memory card, no, but this has allegedly been a missing "killer feature" from every iOS device ever sold, and doesn't seem to be slowing down sales.
Some Android phones don't have removable memory cards. Mine does. It's very useful. I've used the same MicroSD card across 3 phones now, and have not needed to recopy the data to each new phone. Similarly, I haven't lost any of the settings or high scores from my games/apps, and several of my games have installed completely to the SD card, so they don't need to be reinstalled/downloaded on a new phone, either.
* No USB Mass Storage Mode either, but files can be moved on and off it as necessary, also supports cloud storage (iCloud, Dropbox etc).
Call me next time you need to sync 32GB of data through iCloud to your new phone. We'll compare how long it takes against how long it takes me to remove my MicroSD card and put it in the new phone, shall we? We'll also compare how much that costs on your 3G data plan....
Oh, did I mention my phone didn't cost anywhere near what a new iPhone would cost without a contract, and that the memory/cpu for my phone are almost identical to the iPhone 4S, which was the best iPhone available when I bought mine?
The stratification layers would be disturbed if they were buried. It's quite easy to tell, when looking at a cross section, when the soil has been disturbed.
Oh I don't know about that, I have a feeling that DNT works fine, the problem is advertisers not respecting it more than anything as we all know. I have a feeling that the Chromium [chromium.org] will implement something that makes DNT work...properly.
You mean like this?
You've seriously never heard of Elon Musk? What rock have you been living under?
He's the financier behind Tesla Motors, which has been talked about many times over the years on Slashdot. He also fincanced SpaceX, which got a lot of press during the X Prize coverage. He also founded PayPal, and got a lot of press through that. There've been documentaries about him, and about his companies, some of which are available on Netflix if you're so inclined (Revenge of the Electric Car has a *lot* of interview time with Musk, if you'd like to get an idea of what kind of person he really is). http://www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com/
Come to it, having seen that movie, and his interviews in the movie, he doesn't come off as anywhere near the kind of jackass that Jobs was.
You're joking, right? Gasoline-driven engines don't produce anywhere near the torque or power that an electric motor is capable of, depending on the type of electric motor being used.
Gasoline/diesel didn't win out because they're more powerful than electric, they won out because you can fill a gas tank in minutes, and go hundreds of miles on it.
Paper ballots aren't perfect with regards to fraud. They still beat the pants off any electronic system, though. At best, electronic systems that print a paper trail that the voter can visually inspect are still vulnerable every way paper is to fraud. Any electronic voting machine that doesn't produce a paper trail should be presumed to be aiding in fraud.
Agreed. I am assuming you used the exact same system we use for municipal elections around here... you fill out what's essentially a scantron sheet, the reader scans your vote electronically, and the paper ballot is stored in a ballot box.
Any perfect solution to fraud would be to eliminate anonymity.
That would open up another kind of fraud: voter intimidation. Yous gonna vote fer Romney or we gonna break yer kneecaps. We know you done it, cuz we can check dis voter registry.
I'm not sure why mechanical voting machines ever were used.
Avoid the time consumed by having to count manually. You pull a lever, a mechanical counter ticks up for the candidate you voted for. Such a system, if engineered properly, actually works pretty well. As with any form of automation, though, there's a tradeoff, in the form of less accountability.
We use paper ballots in Canada... counters get paid a small stipend (something like $30) to count the ballots, there's scrutineers to make sure they're counting properly, and any party can send a representative to watch the counting. When a ballot is counted, the person reads out loud who the vote is for, and shows it to another person to confirm. Any party can request a recount on the spot, and there's an automatic recount when the two leading candidates are close enough together in votes. Because there's paper ballots, we can keep a physical record of the voting, and in the event that there's a discrepancy or challenge, we can always go back and tally the votes again.
Since each polling station isn't more than 200-300 voters (most voting locations will have 6 or 7 polling stations each), we're still able to have results by the end of the night.
Considering that your current election is costing an estimated $1billion, I think you can afford to use paper ballots.
A lot of laptops don't support docks. And depending on the type of laptop you prefer, a dock may be completely impossible... I have never seen an ultraportable laptop which works with a dock.