That's true, but OTOH, the big two religions are Christianity & Islam [...]
According to the chart you linked to, there are 2.1 billion and 1.3 billion followers of these, respectively. Yet there are about 6.6 billion people in the world, leaving around 3.2 billion people, just under half the planet, who believe otherwise. I'm also sure there are many Christians and Muslims who don't truly believe that non-believers are going to Hell. How many this is, who can say?
In any case, the poster that started this sub-thread seems to believe that religion and science are mutually exclusive. I don't think this is necessarily true. Religions that find themselves threatened by systematic exploration and testing of the world around us would certainly be so, but this is not an inherent property of belief.
I doubt that the recording industry had much to do with coersion. [...] I'm sure that the law firm was paid much more than $4000 to win this case illegally.
and everyone's split into two camps: People that are going to Heaven (usually believers) and people that are going to Hell (usually everyone else).
This seems to be highly biased towards one religion (or set of related religions, depending on your POV) and seems an unfair generalization.
Many religions believe that you get your rewards after death based on what you do, not what you believe. Some believe that means you get punishment by getting stuck as a lower form of life and that you must treat even lower creatures with respect. The concept of the afterlife being a Boolean assignment of paradise versus punishment is by no means universal.
Before making sweeping generalizations about religions, have at least a minimal understanding of the variety of ones that exist. Not every religion persecutes and tortures others who don't believe the same.
He said the big challenge is that games have become so complex, that there are no casual gamers. That the world has been divided into two types of people: those who play games, and those who don't play games.
This only works if you restrict your definition of "game" to omit games that fit casual users. Tetris, Bejeweled, TextTwist, and so on easily support casual gamers.
Further, is playing multi-player Halo online for an hour or so every couple of days considered casual? It's certainly causal by comparison with some of the hardcore players.
The point of his suggestion is that it provides a process for a root-privileged user to approve batches of requests and automatically process the approved ones. This scales much better than ad hoc email requests.
Governments, Not paying attention to things until something bad happens; See also September 11, 2001
This is not just security, this is everything. People tend to ignore possibilities that reason tells them can happen, but don't seem real because they haven't happened yet. Once something happens, then they react to it and take it seriously, at least until the urgency fades.
This is basic human nature and shouldn't surprise anyone.
At least in a sandbox they cannot execute privilidged code, at most they could infect executabes on said share.
Depends on your level of safety in the sandbox. Do not some versions of Windows have protected-mode device drivers--you know, for speed reasons? If you didn't have image-rendering and sound-playback also handled by the sandbox--also for speed reasons--then it might be possible to escape the sandbox given the right kind of vulnerability in the device driver.
I would hope VMWare fully simulates all hardware and wouldn't have this kind of vulnerability. It's slow, but it's safe.
Incidentally, that choice is one that Microsoft often appears to choose perceived speed at the expense of safety.
Of course it was a generalized security protocol, so they altered it for their own needs, using flags intentionally left for customization in Kerberos.
Some, including the lead of the Kerberos V5 development team, appeared to disagree with this assessment:
I was only in the airport around half an hour though, so I don't know how hard it would be to crack.
Cracking WiFi in an airport might be a bad idea. Having a Starbucks barista get pissed at you for stealing WiFi is one thing. Having Sky Marshals surround you with guns drawn is yet another.
"Quick! There's a feature out there that a small fraction of users find useful! Let's bolt it directly onto the OS!" Of course, considering the Dashboard in Mac OS X 10.4, this could just be another example of Microsoft following Apple's example.
Sadly, some parts of Microsoft seem to believe that their "embrace and extend" philosophy is actual innovation.
For the greater part, "embrace and pervert" more accurately portrays their actual behavior. For anyone who thinks this is flamebait, read up on what they did adding Kerberos to Windows 2000, for instance. It's probably debatable whether they do this deliberately or if it's plain, old incompetence.
Sometimes we are under the illusion that we do things that we don't desire, but really that just means different desires are in conflict.
Or that that thing we don't desire to do is a means to an end that we DO desire--getting laid--or to avoid another thing we don't desire--sleeping on the couch.
Blame it on JUnit. Since it provides a way to make unit testing easier, it's easier to get people to actually do it.
Don't forget NUnit, which allows JUnit-style unit tests to be constructed for.NET applications. I have no idea how many.NET developers actually use it, though.
What you'll find there is an expert (A guy studying for a PhD in Critical textual analysis of ancient documents, who goes by the name caesar) pointing out that there are no serious and well regarded scholars who deny that Jesus existed, and that some of the new testament document have their origin just a few years after Jesus was crucified. [...] Once you accept the fact that Jesus existed and that the NT is generally reliable, insomuch that it hasn't been significantly altered since it was written, [...]
A consensus for his existance and a reliable transcription of the original stories does not imply there was a reliable, factual, unembellished account in the first place.
When asked why such deenergized hydrogen atoms were not found in nature, despite the fact that changing back to regular hydrogen would require massive amounts of energy, Mills changed the subject.
Clearly because we haven't depleted the environment by sucking up and using all the "regular" hydrogen.
evolution comes alogn and says that matter is eternal: we've been in an unending cycle of compression and expansion of matter for eternity
Er, no. The theory of evolution (natural selection) doesn't address the origins of the Universe, of matter and energy, etc., nor should it. It only describes a general mechanism by which more complex, better-suited organisms can form from lesser ones.
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That's true, but OTOH, the big two religions are Christianity & Islam [...]
According to the chart you linked to, there are 2.1 billion and 1.3 billion followers of these, respectively. Yet there are about 6.6 billion people in the world, leaving around 3.2 billion people, just under half the planet, who believe otherwise. I'm also sure there are many Christians and Muslims who don't truly believe that non-believers are going to Hell. How many this is, who can say?
In any case, the poster that started this sub-thread seems to believe that religion and science are mutually exclusive. I don't think this is necessarily true. Religions that find themselves threatened by systematic exploration and testing of the world around us would certainly be so, but this is not an inherent property of belief.
I doubt that the recording industry had much to do with coersion. [...]
I'm sure that the law firm was paid much more than $4000 to win this case illegally.
How do you reconcile these two statements?
and everyone's split into two camps: People that are going to Heaven (usually believers) and people that are going to Hell (usually everyone else).
This seems to be highly biased towards one religion (or set of related religions, depending on your POV) and seems an unfair generalization.
Many religions believe that you get your rewards after death based on what you do, not what you believe. Some believe that means you get punishment by getting stuck as a lower form of life and that you must treat even lower creatures with respect. The concept of the afterlife being a Boolean assignment of paradise versus punishment is by no means universal.
Before making sweeping generalizations about religions, have at least a minimal understanding of the variety of ones that exist. Not every religion persecutes and tortures others who don't believe the same.
He said the big challenge is that games have become so complex, that there are no casual gamers. That the world has been divided into two types of people: those who play games, and those who don't play games.
This only works if you restrict your definition of "game" to omit games that fit casual users. Tetris, Bejeweled, TextTwist, and so on easily support casual gamers.
Further, is playing multi-player Halo online for an hour or so every couple of days considered casual? It's certainly causal by comparison with some of the hardcore players.
The point of his suggestion is that it provides a process for a root-privileged user to approve batches of requests and automatically process the approved ones. This scales much better than ad hoc email requests.
Now with twice the pixels!
Then you can charge more for the ones in prime locations that don't need scrolling to view.
Governments, Not paying attention to things until something bad happens; See also September 11, 2001
This is not just security, this is everything. People tend to ignore possibilities that reason tells them can happen, but don't seem real because they haven't happened yet. Once something happens, then they react to it and take it seriously, at least until the urgency fades.
This is basic human nature and shouldn't surprise anyone.
At least in a sandbox they cannot execute privilidged code, at most they could infect executabes on said share.
Depends on your level of safety in the sandbox. Do not some versions of Windows have protected-mode device drivers--you know, for speed reasons? If you didn't have image-rendering and sound-playback also handled by the sandbox--also for speed reasons--then it might be possible to escape the sandbox given the right kind of vulnerability in the device driver.
I would hope VMWare fully simulates all hardware and wouldn't have this kind of vulnerability. It's slow, but it's safe.
Incidentally, that choice is one that Microsoft often appears to choose perceived speed at the expense of safety.
Quantum mechanics is such an easier target because maybe 50 people worldwide really understand it (okay, I'm exaggerating, but by how much?)
I don't really know myself, but there's the outside possibility that all the ones who did truly understand it are now deceased.
Some, including the lead of the Kerberos V5 development team, appeared to disagree with this assessment:This does not sound like a use of "flags intentionally left for customization".
"Woops there's a giant ditch in the way, what do I do?"
Would it be good or bad if it responded with, "Yeeehaw, let's JUMP it!" ?
I was only in the airport around half an hour though, so I don't know how hard it would be to crack.
Cracking WiFi in an airport might be a bad idea. Having a Starbucks barista get pissed at you for stealing WiFi is one thing. Having Sky Marshals surround you with guns drawn is yet another.
"Quick! There's a feature out there that a small fraction of users find useful! Let's bolt it directly onto the OS!" Of course, considering the Dashboard in Mac OS X 10.4, this could just be another example of Microsoft following Apple's example.
Sadly, some parts of Microsoft seem to believe that their "embrace and extend" philosophy is actual innovation.
For the greater part, "embrace and pervert" more accurately portrays their actual behavior. For anyone who thinks this is flamebait, read up on what they did adding Kerberos to Windows 2000, for instance. It's probably debatable whether they do this deliberately or if it's plain, old incompetence.
Just patent the idea of paying sales tax altogether [...]
I was about to ask, "Does anyone actually find these funny anymore?" Then I noticed that at least one mod apparently did...
Opera IDs itself as IE in the same way that IE identifies itself as Netscape -- and for the same reason.
Because each identifies the spoofed one as the One True Browser?
Sometimes we are under the illusion that we do things that we don't desire, but really that just means different desires are in conflict.
Or that that thing we don't desire to do is a means to an end that we DO desire--getting laid--or to avoid another thing we don't desire--sleeping on the couch.
I thought pro bono meant you were for extending copyrights indefinitely.
Or in favor of suing bands that sample your work, then going on tour using samples of other people's media in your own show.
http://l2g.to/negativland/u2/
...assuming you have good, solid coders to write it. In some (many?) environments, these are outnumbered by the opposite.
Blame it on JUnit. Since it provides a way to make unit testing easier, it's easier to get people to actually do it.
.NET applications. I have no idea how many .NET developers actually use it, though.
Don't forget NUnit, which allows JUnit-style unit tests to be constructed for
What you'll find there is an expert (A guy studying for a PhD in Critical textual analysis of ancient documents, who goes by the name caesar) pointing out that there are no serious and well regarded scholars who deny that Jesus existed, and that some of the new testament document have their origin just a few years after Jesus was crucified. [...] Once you accept the fact that Jesus existed and that the NT is generally reliable, insomuch that it hasn't been significantly altered since it was written, [...]
A consensus for his existance and a reliable transcription of the original stories does not imply there was a reliable, factual, unembellished account in the first place.
You can safely ignore people in instances like this.
Right, up until the people riot and invade your government offices with weapons. Scared people can do desperate things.
When asked why such deenergized hydrogen atoms were not found in nature, despite the fact that changing back to regular hydrogen would require massive amounts of energy, Mills changed the subject.
Clearly because we haven't depleted the environment by sucking up and using all the "regular" hydrogen.
Yet.
evolution comes alogn and says that matter is eternal: we've been in an unending cycle of compression and expansion of matter for eternity
Er, no. The theory of evolution (natural selection) doesn't address the origins of the Universe, of matter and energy, etc., nor should it. It only describes a general mechanism by which more complex, better-suited organisms can form from lesser ones.
The EU and the UN can kiss my hairy ass! Don't like it? Then get off my internet.
ITYM "intranet".
It's called Dinty Moore Beef Stew.
From my experience, animals--and some people--prefer pet food to this.