"In my opinion this is something best left in God's hands."
It would seem to me that by giving us the ability to choose that you mentioned earlier, God has already put it into our hands. I think by suggesting that it be left in God's hands, you just mean we should make a certain choice about it. In which case we've really taken it into our own hands. To truly make no choice would mean that we accept what someone else does, in which case it is in their hands, not God's.
Quite a few of the "younger folks just spreading their programming wings" are reading Slashdot. Or rather, quite a few of the people reading this fit that description. There's quite a variety of people here.
What kind of a pathetic excuse is that? Didn't you learn that some things are more important than what tastes good sometime before entering high school?
No. They use it for cooling in the summer and very little in the winter, because the winters there aren't cold enough to require any serious heating (in the most populated areas at least).
The seasons go something like warm, warmer, hot, warmer, warm....
Not only do they create a lot of methane pollution, but they require huge areas of land for a small amount of meat produced, relative to what could be gotten out of the same area by planting some sort of veggies.
Of course, to get this extra room they have to cut down more trees. But then, how many trees do you have to see?
Yeah, the ending was pretty bad. What exactly was the probability of that happening? Must be almost 0. Sure, good books depend on improbable things, but that was just stupid.
When writing a book, one of the most important things is to make it so that readers empathize with the main character. That's exactly what makes Ender's Game good for most of us. I agree with what was said earlier about it being a geek fable. However, I see nothing wrong with that. It's written on a fairly simplistic level and it's certainly nothing of a literary masterpiece, but it resonates strongly enough with young people that they love it, and manages to be entertaining for older people if they read it expecting entertainment.
I'd recommend picking up Ender's Shadow. I agreed with you on the deterioration of the series as it progressed, but I felt that Ender's Shadow was almost as good as Ender's Game itself and was a return to the spirit of the original book. Probably partly because it's also a return to the setting of the original, but there's something to the overall feel that made it much better than Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, or Children of the Mind.
There's a pretty obvious reason the girls in the books have boyish figures: none of them have hit puberty yet. You notice the ages of the kids in the battle school?
I don't know if it affects specifically those menus, but if you install TweakUI (hidden in the tools directory or something like that on the 98 CD or downloadable) you'll find that there's a default delay on menus popping up and you can remove it. I recommend removing that as well as all menu and window animations. Everything will feel much zippier. I'm not sure the delay affects the right click menus though.
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How did you ever get a banana stuck in your ear? That really boggles my mind.
Thank you for enlightening me, it's all very clear now.
...why should i buy a cheap dedicated ...
I think you answered your own question.
Pop and coffee are full of normal water. Therefore, the stuff that needs to be exact, still is.
I have to say, I wouldn't have modded this up myself. Not really that funny.
I meant to say that it would be even more unlikely for them to open source it. I know that QNX isn't under the GPL
"Would it be that surprising to find Windows soon available 'for non-commericial use'? "
Yes. Not only surprising, but profoundly shocking. Deeply disturbing. It would destroy my already tenuous grasp on reality.
Especially unlikely considering what they've said recently about the GPL.
"In my opinion this is something best left in God's hands."
It would seem to me that by giving us the ability to choose that you mentioned earlier, God has already put it into our hands. I think by suggesting that it be left in God's hands, you just mean we should make a certain choice about it. In which case we've really taken it into our own hands. To truly make no choice would mean that we accept what someone else does, in which case it is in their hands, not God's.
I know I'm just arguing semantics.
Yes, the majority of web site design is definitely garbage. I find it really pathetic when major sites don't function properly in any browser.
What's really great about Mozilla is that on the download page it says DON'T PANIC in bold letters.
Quite a few of the "younger folks just spreading their programming wings" are reading Slashdot. Or rather, quite a few of the people reading this fit that description. There's quite a variety of people here.
Dubya doesn't need the help of any translator to mess something up like that.
What kind of a pathetic excuse is that? Didn't you learn that some things are more important than what tastes good sometime before entering high school?
All of these are great fun with other people.
Which of course brings to mind yet another activity that doesn't require electricity.
No. They use it for cooling in the summer and very little in the winter, because the winters there aren't cold enough to require any serious heating (in the most populated areas at least).
The seasons go something like warm, warmer, hot, warmer, warm....
Not only do they create a lot of methane pollution, but they require huge areas of land for a small amount of meat produced, relative to what could be gotten out of the same area by planting some sort of veggies.
Of course, to get this extra room they have to cut down more trees. But then, how many trees do you have to see?
Yeah, the ending was pretty bad. What exactly was the probability of that happening? Must be almost 0. Sure, good books depend on improbable things, but that was just stupid.
When writing a book, one of the most important things is to make it so that readers empathize with the main character. That's exactly what makes Ender's Game good for most of us. I agree with what was said earlier about it being a geek fable. However, I see nothing wrong with that. It's written on a fairly simplistic level and it's certainly nothing of a literary masterpiece, but it resonates strongly enough with young people that they love it, and manages to be entertaining for older people if they read it expecting entertainment.
I'd recommend picking up Ender's Shadow. I agreed with you on the deterioration of the series as it progressed, but I felt that Ender's Shadow was almost as good as Ender's Game itself and was a return to the spirit of the original book. Probably partly because it's also a return to the setting of the original, but there's something to the overall feel that made it much better than Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, or Children of the Mind.
I think the nude scenes could be left out or modified pretty easily without really damaging the movie.
There's a pretty obvious reason the girls in the books have boyish figures: none of them have hit puberty yet. You notice the ages of the kids in the battle school?
Don't know about a movie, but I'm sure I saw part of a HGTTG miniseries or something like that on PBS a while ago.
I don't know if it affects specifically those menus, but if you install TweakUI (hidden in the tools directory or something like that on the 98 CD or downloadable) you'll find that there's a default delay on menus popping up and you can remove it. I recommend removing that as well as all menu and window animations. Everything will feel much zippier. I'm not sure the delay affects the right click menus though.
Or, we'll have a bunch of 2.5.x kernels, then 2.99.x, then 3.0.0-testx, then 3.0.0-prerelease, and then 3.0.0.
then will the devel kernel be called 2.5 or 2.9?
I could probably look up what happened last time...