Definitely I agree. The whole concept is decidely EURO-centric even. Some of the greatest peaks of Arab civilization were reached while Europe was relatively behind. Likewise Islamic Spain. Likewise, T'ang China, South American civilizations, etc.
it's like global warming--large variations can exist in small areas, but one needs to look at the global picture to understand the trends.
Only that's not really true. Nobody who studies history today would use the term "Dark Ages" for instance. human progress never stopped, it may have slowed at times and certain areas may have have fallen behind temporarily, but on a whole, the world has seen a never-ending march forward. Much of the technology available a thousand years later (when you think people were living in caves?) was far ahead of what the greeks had in many other areas.
Not to mention, there's a tradition of automata similiar to this machine that has continued to the present day..wasn't exactly lost.
I'm not disputing that most military types self identify as Republican. I just don't think that this is in any way a new thing--what I thought you were suggesting.
The thing about a feeling is that it's just that--a feeling... I personally don't feel any of the things you say you feel about the country. I feel unoptimistic about the future of gas prices, but that's got nothing to do with Bush or civil liberties. I actually feel pretty good about most things.
Unfortunately, such feelings make neither my nor your opinions more valid than the other.
No, the parent that I responded to said that there was no performance different between Mac and Windows--THAT'S what I was responding to.
There's a difference between "promoting" and "improving"
And indeed, you're correct that Apple performance is steadily improving--the M2Faster setting in particular made a big difference for me. But--it's still pretty far behind windows (you seem to think the difference is small--I don't think it is. WoW is almost more playable at times on my 2Ghz athlon-xp with geforce3 than my 1.5 year old Aluminum powerbook). That was my only point.
I'm not sure what your last point is, but I do sometimes play WoW and other games on my much older PC.
I don't know--I usually did play WoW in a window when I played, with very similiar performance to fullscreen. A friend with a PC (who ran at a higher resolution) did the same, seemingly without the kind of slowdowns you're talking about. I'm not sure..not disagreeing with your general point, because I've definitely had problems in windows in the past with 3D games and task switching... just haven't seen it with WoW.
So in short, no, you can't say that it's any different--you can only say that you FEEL differently about things today. Interesting.
And I disagree with your assertion about the average voter feeling in the military..is this another one of your feelings? Because I certaintly have not been able to find any data to back up your assumptions.
I also haven't heard of their being any problems with reading "politically correct" books. I personally find such books to be contently-challenged,but hey, de gustibus non est disputandum, right?
How many people have YOU heard of being sued for $150,000 for trading music? Ok, so that's one hyperbole down. Next, how many people do you know who got in trouble for trading one song? What, nobody?
Ok, now, how many people do we know of who were running servers with thousands if not tens of thousands of mp3s that got in trouble?
Call me old fashioned, but that seems like the way it should be to me.
I went to a speech a year or two ago given by a former ACLU board member (Alstein I believe was his name--law prof). When a student asked what he thought about the current McCarthyite atmosphere, he replied that any such comparison was the "product of a fevered imagination" and that the civil rights issues of today "were the minorest of colds in comparison."
In all honesty, how has your life changed in the past five years? HAS it?
Just so we're clear, since you seem to be missing some details, the search must still be ordered through a FISA court judge. It STILL goes through courts in other words.
That doesn't make any sense--the bad guys are and always have been rapists and murderers. Sure, filesharers too--they are breaking the law, whatever you may think of the law.
The occasional book reader?? Please, save us your radical hysteria.
FWIW, OSX is still not an ideal gaming platform. You mention OpenGL--take a look at the world of warcraft Mac technical support forum, or various benchmarks sets. On identical hardware, OSX WoW performance lags very far behind windows.
And this from Blizzard, a company that has always been very with-it, wrt cross-platform design.
What's with the fixation on web servers? Web servers are simple -- if you get to them, it's fair game. Password, stay away. It's perhaps a little blurry if you come to a web server that says "You should not be here, do not click any links" but anyway.
Yes it's true that it's laughable how bad security was, that doesn't change the right / wrong nature of this case.
I just can't get beyond this--if you're at store, in a mall, etc, and a door that SHOULD be locked isn't, do you have a right to go in? If there's a front desk somewhere where somebody SHOULD be sitting behind it, do you have the right to go behind the desk and look through files? I don't see how an electronic medium is different.
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A couple other things that I find useful
$ -- moves cursor the end of the line
^ -- moves cursor to the start of the line
dt X -- deletes up until (not including) character 'X' df X -- deletes up to (including) character 'x' d/ str -- deletes up until regex string
I agree completely on your comments about English, but I'm not sure what "contained" means in the context of Navajo. I'm not entirely sure of the geographic extent of spoken Navajo 400 years ago, but just because a language is in a small area doesn't mean it won't change. There are plenty of tiny areas with many different languages and mutually intelligible as well as unintelligble dialects (eg, the Caucus mts, Chitral area in Pakistan, etc).
Other languages like Italian can read be read mch farther back then English, same for Persian. Sounds are in some cases different, written very similiar.
Hm, that's interesting advice, considering that it would have been much easier on you (and them) if you had just had them do the repair install method--redoes the windows install, keeps your same home folder.
You could have saved them a LOT of hassle with preferences and the like, since the only thing in "My Document" is user saved documents.
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ok, so for the sake of discussion, why don't give me a definition of what the "dark ages" was? Perhaps you can give me a rough date range?
Definitely I agree. The whole concept is decidely EURO-centric even. Some of the greatest peaks of Arab civilization were reached while Europe was relatively behind. Likewise Islamic Spain. Likewise, T'ang China, South American civilizations, etc.
it's like global warming--large variations can exist in small areas, but one needs to look at the global picture to understand the trends.
Only that's not really true. Nobody who studies history today would use the term "Dark Ages" for instance. human progress never stopped, it may have slowed at times and certain areas may have have fallen behind temporarily, but on a whole, the world has seen a never-ending march forward. Much of the technology available a thousand years later (when you think people were living in caves?) was far ahead of what the greeks had in many other areas.
Not to mention, there's a tradition of automata similiar to this machine that has continued to the present day..wasn't exactly lost.
I'm not disputing that most military types self identify as Republican. I just don't think that this is in any way a new thing--what I thought you were suggesting.
The thing about a feeling is that it's just that--a feeling... I personally don't feel any of the things you say you feel about the country. I feel unoptimistic about the future of gas prices, but that's got nothing to do with Bush or civil liberties. I actually feel pretty good about most things.
Unfortunately, such feelings make neither my nor your opinions more valid than the other.
Sent a cease and desist note, or sued?
I had a friend who was sharing a good bit more than one movie who got a cease note--he stopped sharing, end of story.
I would be surprised if someone was sued over one movie. I'd actually be very interested in hearing about this if you have any more information?
No, the parent that I responded to said that there was no performance different between Mac and Windows--THAT'S what I was responding to.
There's a difference between "promoting" and "improving"
And indeed, you're correct that Apple performance is steadily improving--the M2Faster setting in particular made a big difference for me. But--it's still pretty far behind windows (you seem to think the difference is small--I don't think it is. WoW is almost more playable at times on my 2Ghz athlon-xp with geforce3 than my 1.5 year old Aluminum powerbook). That was my only point.
I'm not sure what your last point is, but I do sometimes play WoW and other games on my much older PC.
I don't know--I usually did play WoW in a window when I played, with very similiar performance to fullscreen. A friend with a PC (who ran at a higher resolution) did the same, seemingly without the kind of slowdowns you're talking about. I'm not sure..not disagreeing with your general point, because I've definitely had problems in windows in the past with 3D games and task switching... just haven't seen it with WoW.
yeah, this has been accounted for. I for one use the system addon called "ATITool" -- it's very nice.
So in short, no, you can't say that it's any different--you can only say that you FEEL differently about things today. Interesting.
And I disagree with your assertion about the average voter feeling in the military..is this another one of your feelings? Because I certaintly have not been able to find any data to back up your assumptions.
Since when is tobacco smoking illegal?
I also haven't heard of their being any problems with reading "politically correct" books. I personally find such books to be contently-challenged,but hey, de gustibus non est disputandum, right?
How many people have YOU heard of being sued for $150,000 for trading music? Ok, so that's one hyperbole down. Next, how many people do you know who got in trouble for trading one song? What, nobody?
Ok, now, how many people do we know of who were running servers with thousands if not tens of thousands of mp3s that got in trouble?
Call me old fashioned, but that seems like the way it should be to me.
Is this really a fear of yours? is it really??
I went to a speech a year or two ago given by a former ACLU board member (Alstein I believe was his name--law prof). When a student asked what he thought about the current McCarthyite atmosphere, he replied that any such comparison was the "product of a fevered imagination" and that the civil rights issues of today "were the minorest of colds in comparison."
In all honesty, how has your life changed in the past five years? HAS it?
Just so we're clear, since you seem to be missing some details, the search must still be ordered through a FISA court judge. It STILL goes through courts in other words.
Well, if the rumors are true, he didn't do that much raping... (at least of the traditional kind)
That doesn't make any sense--the bad guys are and always have been rapists and murderers. Sure, filesharers too--they are breaking the law, whatever you may think of the law.
The occasional book reader?? Please, save us your radical hysteria.
FWIW, OSX is still not an ideal gaming platform. You mention OpenGL--take a look at the world of warcraft Mac technical support forum, or various benchmarks sets. On identical hardware, OSX WoW performance lags very far behind windows.
And this from Blizzard, a company that has always been very with-it, wrt cross-platform design.
Nice job keeping up with what everyone likes so that you can do the opposite! Way to be counter-culture and stick it to the man!
Onward!
What's with the fixation on web servers? Web servers are simple -- if you get to them, it's fair game. Password, stay away. It's perhaps a little blurry if you come to a web server that says "You should not be here, do not click any links" but anyway.
This case DOESN'T involve web servers. It's not like he typed in http://computer1.topsecret.ufos.army.mil/ or whatever, he was using other software.
Yes it's true that it's laughable how bad security was, that doesn't change the right / wrong nature of this case.
I just can't get beyond this--if you're at store, in a mall, etc, and a door that SHOULD be locked isn't, do you have a right to go in? If there's a front desk somewhere where somebody SHOULD be sitting behind it, do you have the right to go behind the desk and look through files? I don't see how an electronic medium is different.
A couple other things that I find useful
$ -- moves cursor the end of the line
^ -- moves cursor to the start of the line
dt X -- deletes up until (not including) character 'X'
df X -- deletes up to (including) character 'x'
d/ str -- deletes up until regex string
dw -- delete word
Not a lot...
I imagine if the true numbers were known, it would be pretty amazing how much is still being done with Quark 4.5 on OS9.
This is of course changing thanks to Indesign, but old versions of quark are still being used..
I agree completely on your comments about English, but I'm not sure what "contained" means in the context of Navajo. I'm not entirely sure of the geographic extent of spoken Navajo 400 years ago, but just because a language is in a small area doesn't mean it won't change. There are plenty of tiny areas with many different languages and mutually intelligible as well as unintelligble dialects (eg, the Caucus mts, Chitral area in Pakistan, etc).
Other languages like Italian can read be read mch farther back then English, same for Persian. Sounds are in some cases different, written very similiar.
Hmm...weird. I've had very good luck with the repair option. Don't think I've had to reformat / reinstall completely since XP came out.
Hm, that's interesting advice, considering that it would have been much easier on you (and them) if you had just had them do the repair install method--redoes the windows install, keeps your same home folder.
You could have saved them a LOT of hassle with preferences and the like, since the only thing in "My Document" is user saved documents.
To be or not to be--that is the question?
It would be interesting to compare that to Navajo of 400 years ago, but AFAIK the written history is minimal.
I posted about this earlier.
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