You let your tenses shift, Bucky. Not a good move for the grammar Nazis. Plus, your punctuation was far from impeccable and that sentence-oid bordered upon run-on. Brevity is the soul of wit AND good sentence structure.
Proof positive that with enough intelligent design and a keen eye for the result you're aiming towards, you can have a carefully manipulated, narrowly defined creation take on properties that look just like they evolved, if you stringently ignore the fact that they were intelligently designed, keenly aimed, narrowly defined, and heck, made in your own image. Now if they could only get the stick figure to say, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
I personally don't see this governmental fiddling with space lasting much longer, seeing how commercial interests and private (albeit wealthy) citizens are starting to push the cold, dark envelope of space travel. If I could make an outlandish prediction, I'd guess that by 2020, we'll have a ship or two with no real flag-bearing duties on the Moon. I personally hope we find a complete replacement for manned vehicles altogether, but exploration has demands for the flexible, so humans will probably still be risked as a result.
Remember, you don't fly in a "Wright" airplane, it's a Boeing... let commercial interests take over where purist experimentation leaves off.
What will MS do when everyone starts mentioning "that deal you gave Munich" at contract negotiation time? Truly, MS should have just let this fish go and refused to lower the bar, thus maintaining the Emporer's Clothes for a while longer. Now, they'll have every two-bit contract negotiator waving the "Munich Bid" in their faces, and people under the old usurious contracts crying for a do-over. Sincerely, this is a watershed, but not from a Linux/MS software supremecy standpoint. The largest way this changes things is it shows that MS is just a software company, and without it's momopolistic edge, it can be knuckled around just like many smaller companies. Linux didn't win, per se, but MS definitely lost. I suppose that with many more such "failed" negotiations as this, we'll start seeing unthinkable things such as porting to Linux much sooner than we would have predicted just prior to these events. This should be interesting.
still, you could see the logic in phasing out hard drives five years ago too. Maybe I should have just stuck by my guns. Seriously, is there anything on the horizon to completely replace the HD?
Has anyone even asked the Robot if he wants to do this act of destruction? How long will we be the faceless exploiters of our mechanical brothers? My heavens, forced to spray water from its orifices until the very ground below it dissolves!
"They were mis-labeled as "Hittites" by their discoverers because - you guessed it - they were trying to read the Bible into what they found. Scholars wring their hands over that fact, but all recognize that it's too late to change it now due to the amount of material that has been published and the confusion that would result from a name correction after all these years."
Makes you wonder how much hand-wringing is going on all over the impunable "scientific" world, doesn't it? So, the choice should have been made first to discount the Bible, right? Sounds fair to me. I mean, why bother to get the facts right in science? It might be inconvenient or confusing. So, we'll just labor along with the fallacy and hope it just goes away. I doubt any serious student of any scientific discipline would as openly admit to propagating a lie for appearance's sake as you now have. I now lean back effortlessly into the arms of science for matters concerning the Bible. Thanks heaps.
It's sorta funny, this. I mean, the very first reactionary knee-jerk we see on this post is someone monkey-piling on the Bible. Before that, had anyone from the Bible camp said anything about this post? Maybe they did and I missed it. We then get to the bickering and fact-mangling phase of said "debate", and soon all the hackles are raised and it's the blood-shot wild-eyed fundamentalists against the enlightened scientists who seem very smug in the ability to find a funny rock. Meanwhile, if I read my Bible right, Satan laughs until he wets himself, because he's found the ideal way to keep anything spiritually relevant from ever happening in this world: the desire for proof. As long as we are wrapped up in the support or destruction of God, nothing important is getting done for anyone. I can't tell anyone anything about God but what He's done for me. After that, it's either false piety or the philosophies of man chasing their respective tails. So I say, "Fine. Believe in God or not, because in the end, what you do with God is just that; what you do with God. It does not change God or eliminate God or silence God." If you're curious about the outside world, open a window, but if you want anything from God (including His destruction), you're going to have to open your heart, and few are brave enough to do it. Right now, there are people reading these words, their brains boiling with pithy ways to take my words apart, argue them away, or turn them against themselves. Don't bother, you've won. However, if there is someone out there who is tired of what they've seen so far and desire more, abundantly more, know this: God is neither hidden nor complicated. He is neither a force nor a figment. If you're looking to disprove Him, you're wasting your time, time that could be well spent doing this old world some good. If you are trying to prop Him up with logic, you're distracted, and you need to put your hand back on the plow and actually serve God with something more than your hollow words. Personally, no monkey-skull has ever talked to me about who I am am or how I should be, but God has, and it's been uphill all the way. Call me names and marginalize me, use the force of logic to ridicule me, take up arms and kill me if you have to, but never say that you didn't hear or weren't told. John 1 sums it up better than I ever could, so go to biblegateway.com and read it for yourself. As much as I have failed to prove it, I sincerely believe that I should show love to you all, and that's gonna tick off about half of you in itself. But show you love I will... by shutting up.
They had to retract the use of the letter P due to pending legal action by SCO who claim that they orginally came up with most of the letter P and the number 3 and the semicolon... but the Spelling Community thinks that with proper replacements for the copywrited characters, the whole desperate affair can be largely ignored.
I could re re re post what I have said about this programmer elitism before, but I won't, yet you're still an idiot for assuming only "smart" people need computers, since the whole idea of having a mass market for computing comes from the very fact that we "stupid" people feel a need for them. If you want technical exclusivity, take up something marginal (like say, underwater arc-welding) as your hobby, not the mainstream information processing practices of the whole world. You would not, and I repeat, would not have your pet box to complain into if the "drooling idiots" of this world didn't slap down their hard cash to buy similar boxes, thus creating a market in which your box could be bought without selling an organ. Computing should, by its very nature, be easy, because adding another difficult task just to say you're smart enough to do it borders on masochistic. One last thing: if you have enough time to be blathering on this forum, you're wasting time that could be well-spent making my computing life easier. So, back to your cubicle, binary-boy, I want to attach mp3 snippets to my IMs and you haven't made a program to do it yet!
I too was waiting for shame and regret to rain down upon me when I purchased my Zire. what I found was a smart, long-lasting lil' buddy who keeps me on track and helps in ways I really hadn't considered. Avantgo has become my new addiction, and even 2 paltry megs of memory holds more info than I could ever constructively keep elsewhere. Plus, since I paid 90 dollars for it, if I break it, I don't cry and start saving up, I just skip a few outings to Applebee's and buy a new one. Sure, it would be great to have a device that does more, but unless it's under 100 bucks, I'd just worry about breaking it. Get a Zire, now.
Businesses with altruistic tendecies. I mean, let's face it, it's been stated that MS didn't exactly have superior product, it just used business savvy (and other alleged tactics) to plop itself in front of the majority of users. If any distro out there within the sound of my voice would make a simple setup that works on most machines, handles most tasks and formats, turns on and off simply and has a shiny candy-like button labeled "help" right on the desktop (assuming the button actually helps), they could make this a go. They could even charge $50 for it and sell it as "the computer for people who don't need a computer". Whatever you do, don't call it an OS or software, call the software the computer. Dell makes no distinctions, Linux shouldn't either. Then be altruistic. Actuall make the red help button a source of real help, be it online or off. Make upgrades fall-off-a-log easy and do nothing with people's demographic information. Skip dual booting and let the consumer know that they (probably) have a restore CD of XP lying around if things go really sour. But make sure it doesn't go sour, and keep pressing home the fact that the next time they buy a new computer, they can get one that's uninstalled and put your distro on it, FREE OF CHARGE. The geeks (or whomever) will always have fritterware. Give the public something simple, complete, and cheap, and you'll see something.
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You let your tenses shift, Bucky. Not a good move for the grammar Nazis. Plus, your punctuation was far from impeccable and that sentence-oid bordered upon run-on. Brevity is the soul of wit AND good sentence structure.
He who laughs last must have TiVo.
"The program 'American Chopper' has performed an illegal action. Continue?"
John only has 21 chapters, so Lektor isn't using the Bible to communicate with Avid Fan...
www.biblegateway.com
Proof positive that with enough intelligent design and a keen eye for the result you're aiming towards, you can have a carefully manipulated, narrowly defined creation take on properties that look just like they evolved, if you stringently ignore the fact that they were intelligently designed, keenly aimed, narrowly defined, and heck, made in your own image. Now if they could only get the stick figure to say, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
I personally don't see this governmental fiddling with space lasting much longer, seeing how commercial interests and private (albeit wealthy) citizens are starting to push the cold, dark envelope of space travel. If I could make an outlandish prediction, I'd guess that by 2020, we'll have a ship or two with no real flag-bearing duties on the Moon. I personally hope we find a complete replacement for manned vehicles altogether, but exploration has demands for the flexible, so humans will probably still be risked as a result.
Remember, you don't fly in a "Wright" airplane, it's a Boeing... let commercial interests take over where purist experimentation leaves off.
What will MS do when everyone starts mentioning "that deal you gave Munich" at contract negotiation time? Truly, MS should have just let this fish go and refused to lower the bar, thus maintaining the Emporer's Clothes for a while longer. Now, they'll have every two-bit contract negotiator waving the "Munich Bid" in their faces, and people under the old usurious contracts crying for a do-over. Sincerely, this is a watershed, but not from a Linux/MS software supremecy standpoint. The largest way this changes things is it shows that MS is just a software company, and without it's momopolistic edge, it can be knuckled around just like many smaller companies. Linux didn't win, per se, but MS definitely lost. I suppose that with many more such "failed" negotiations as this, we'll start seeing unthinkable things such as porting to Linux much sooner than we would have predicted just prior to these events. This should be interesting.
Yes, right again. See, I told you I was ignorant of cutting edge gameplay enhancing articles of clothing!
still, you could see the logic in phasing out hard drives five years ago too. Maybe I should have just stuck by my guns. Seriously, is there anything on the horizon to completely replace the HD?
No wait... I was thinking of floppies. Carry on.
an in-depth explanation of a medium that should have been phased out five years ago. Now if they'd only explain the Nintendo GameGlove to us...
Has anyone even asked the Robot if he wants to do this act of destruction? How long will we be the faceless exploiters of our mechanical brothers? My heavens, forced to spray water from its orifices until the very ground below it dissolves!
You! Get your filthy hands off my Aibo!
"They were mis-labeled as "Hittites" by their discoverers because - you guessed it - they were trying to read the Bible into what they found. Scholars wring their hands over that fact, but all recognize that it's too late to change it now due to the amount of material that has been published and the confusion that would result from a name correction after all these years."
Makes you wonder how much hand-wringing is going on all over the impunable "scientific" world, doesn't it? So, the choice should have been made first to discount the Bible, right? Sounds fair to me. I mean, why bother to get the facts right in science? It might be inconvenient or confusing. So, we'll just labor along with the fallacy and hope it just goes away. I doubt any serious student of any scientific discipline would as openly admit to propagating a lie for appearance's sake as you now have. I now lean back effortlessly into the arms of science for matters concerning the Bible. Thanks heaps.
It's sorta funny, this. I mean, the very first reactionary knee-jerk we see on this post is someone monkey-piling on the Bible. Before that, had anyone from the Bible camp said anything about this post? Maybe they did and I missed it. We then get to the bickering and fact-mangling phase of said "debate", and soon all the hackles are raised and it's the blood-shot wild-eyed fundamentalists against the enlightened scientists who seem very smug in the ability to find a funny rock. Meanwhile, if I read my Bible right, Satan laughs until he wets himself, because he's found the ideal way to keep anything spiritually relevant from ever happening in this world: the desire for proof. As long as we are wrapped up in the support or destruction of God, nothing important is getting done for anyone. I can't tell anyone anything about God but what He's done for me. After that, it's either false piety or the philosophies of man chasing their respective tails. So I say, "Fine. Believe in God or not, because in the end, what you do with God is just that; what you do with God. It does not change God or eliminate God or silence God."
If you're curious about the outside world, open a window, but if you want anything from God (including His destruction), you're going to have to open your heart, and few are brave enough to do it. Right now, there are people reading these words, their brains boiling with pithy ways to take my words apart, argue them away, or turn them against themselves. Don't bother, you've won. However, if there is someone out there who is tired of what they've seen so far and desire more, abundantly more, know this: God is neither hidden nor complicated. He is neither a force nor a figment. If you're looking to disprove Him, you're wasting your time, time that could be well spent doing this old world some good. If you are trying to prop Him up with logic, you're distracted, and you need to put your hand back on the plow and actually serve God with something more than your hollow words. Personally, no monkey-skull has ever talked to me about who I am am or how I should be, but God has, and it's been uphill all the way. Call me names and marginalize me, use the force of logic to ridicule me, take up arms and kill me if you have to, but never say that you didn't hear or weren't told. John 1 sums it up better than I ever could, so go to biblegateway.com and read it for yourself. As much as I have failed to prove it, I sincerely believe that I should show love to you all, and that's gonna tick off about half of you in itself. But show you love I will... by shutting up.
"Honey, I have to hang up now, my Celica is stuck in a draingrate..."
They had to retract the use of the letter P due to pending legal action by SCO who claim that they orginally came up with most of the letter P and the number 3 and the semicolon... but the Spelling Community thinks that with proper replacements for the copywrited characters, the whole desperate affair can be largely ignored.
My attempts to convince a prospective girlfriend that I actually "designed" a "cockroach housemod" were met with doubt and an early departure...
people said that Linux wasn't ready for your ants and uncles...
I can clearly make out the face of Artuk, leader of our blessed Martian society, and I think the other part looks like a horsie.
As if blind adoption of cell phones was in some way a virtue...
But it kinda looks like that second spheroid nebula from the left had his eyes closed...
See! This is what coders are for! Now, just make it where all that gets accomplished by clicking one red button on a menubar...
I could re re re post what I have said about this programmer elitism before, but I won't, yet you're still an idiot for assuming only "smart" people need computers, since the whole idea of having a mass market for computing comes from the very fact that we "stupid" people feel a need for them. If you want technical exclusivity, take up something marginal (like say, underwater arc-welding) as your hobby, not the mainstream information processing practices of the whole world. You would not, and I repeat, would not have your pet box to complain into if the "drooling idiots" of this world didn't slap down their hard cash to buy similar boxes, thus creating a market in which your box could be bought without selling an organ. Computing should, by its very nature, be easy, because adding another difficult task just to say you're smart enough to do it borders on masochistic. One last thing: if you have enough time to be blathering on this forum, you're wasting time that could be well-spent making my computing life easier. So, back to your cubicle, binary-boy, I want to attach mp3 snippets to my IMs and you haven't made a program to do it yet!
I wanna be Bilgates Ballmersins!
I too was waiting for shame and regret to rain down upon me when I purchased my Zire. what I found was a smart, long-lasting lil' buddy who keeps me on track and helps in ways I really hadn't considered. Avantgo has become my new addiction, and even 2 paltry megs of memory holds more info than I could ever constructively keep elsewhere. Plus, since I paid 90 dollars for it, if I break it, I don't cry and start saving up, I just skip a few outings to Applebee's and buy a new one. Sure, it would be great to have a device that does more, but unless it's under 100 bucks, I'd just worry about breaking it. Get a Zire, now.
Businesses with altruistic tendecies. I mean, let's face it, it's been stated that MS didn't exactly have superior product, it just used business savvy (and other alleged tactics) to plop itself in front of the majority of users. If any distro out there within the sound of my voice would make a simple setup that works on most machines, handles most tasks and formats, turns on and off simply and has a shiny candy-like button labeled "help" right on the desktop (assuming the button actually helps), they could make this a go. They could even charge $50 for it and sell it as "the computer for people who don't need a computer". Whatever you do, don't call it an OS or software, call the software the computer. Dell makes no distinctions, Linux shouldn't either. Then be altruistic. Actuall make the red help button a source of real help, be it online or off. Make upgrades fall-off-a-log easy and do nothing with people's demographic information. Skip dual booting and let the consumer know that they (probably) have a restore CD of XP lying around if things go really sour. But make sure it doesn't go sour, and keep pressing home the fact that the next time they buy a new computer, they can get one that's uninstalled and put your distro on it, FREE OF CHARGE. The geeks (or whomever) will always have fritterware. Give the public something simple, complete, and cheap, and you'll see something.