The alternative of there being an omniscient and almighty creator that made the universe according to his pleasure and for his good purpose seems a lot more plausible.
Oh of course. It's a little tricky to explain, so we'll invent a big magic dude who does all the bits that seem complex. Afterall, big magic dude isn't remotely complex!
Religions are ideas developed by well meaning people who think that the population will be happier and behave better if they believe in something. For example, believing that if they're good they go to heaven when they die. Well... it may make people happier in the short-term... as might putting sedatives in their water supply. It doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Religions work by persuading people who "make the leap of faith" that it is wrong to question the religion. Show me a scientist who argues that it's wrong to question a theory. You won't find one. Trying to understanding things is what they're about. Theories get proposed, analysed, proven, and disproved. There's an enormous amount that's not understood, but I don't see the need to have a cop-out theory of "it must have been God".
The alternative of there being an omniscient and almighty creator that made the universe according to his pleasure and for his good purpose seems a lot more plausible.
Just listen to yourself. If it wasn't for the rest of your comment, I would have assumed that last statement of yours was obvious sarcasm.
Deferring responsibility for everything that seems difficult or complex to some big invisible dude, is, well, childish. A cop-out.
It seems that a CD employing this technology could potentially damage your system. For example the Washington Post article reports that it breaks Windows Vista 'spectacularly'.
If a store was aware of the possibility that the CD could cause damage, but still sold you the CD, would the store then be complicit in any subsequent damage that occured to your system?
Would it be wise for stores withdraw these CDs from sale in case they do cause damage, to avoid possible future legal action?
Could someone with a knowledge of the legal issues comment on this?
It's a question of whether the device was designed for the purpose you want it for. When using a Nokia mobile, I get the feeling that the person who designed it wanted to do the same things that I do (calls, texts, etc.).. It makes sense, it doesn't get in my way.
A PDA? It's not designed to play music or video.. how do I know I won't have to jump through hoops to get it to do either?
What you can do is irrelevant to 99% of the population (who are not geeks). It's what you can do easily that's important.
If what it's designed for captures my imagination, and it's presented so I feel I know how to use it, it's sold.
I'm shocked that a lot of people here seem to think it's okay to sell violent games to children. A lot of games are extremely violent and offensive, and reward indiscriminant violence.
Surely people agree that the same type of ratings should be applied to video games as are applied to videos/films?
In the UK we have the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) http://www.bbfc.co.uk/ . If it decides a film/video/game is only suitable for people over a certain age, then it is illegal for a shop to sell it to a person below that age. Other countries have similar systems. There's also a pan-European organisation, http://www.pegi.info/, although I don't think it's descisions are legally enforcable.
What I find interesting about this is that the 'zoomed out' view looks fake. It looks computer generated. Surely the zoomed out image should look like a normal photo of the overall scene?
Is there something about the way they are producing the lower resolution 'overall' picture which causes it to look fake?
It's interesting because understanding why it looks wrong may help us understand how to make 3D graphics in computer games look more realistic. Maybe the key is making things less clean and perfect.
And while we're at it, important developments in mathematics were made 1000 years ago in Baghdad, in what was then Babylon.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopic s/Arabic_mathematics.html. Mind you, all the looting of museums and important sites which has happened since Iraq was invaded may mean a lot evidence for that has been lost.
Excuse me from jumping to conclusions, but your use of "sheesh" may indicate that you are not from the UK.
It's a UK chart.
Fortunately, the entire English speaking world does not listen to the same music. I assume there is not a large non-UK audience for The Streets, Keane, Goldie Lookin' Chain, however good they may be.
Yeah, they entertain. They wouldn't claim anything else. They come from a shit town, and they take the piss out of it, themselves, and anyone else that strays near. They've been making records for years, giving them to their mates, having a laugh.
Now the media has picked up on the comedy (and genius), so they get their moment of fame. I think they're pretty realistic about it though. As they say, they're out for a laugh, they fully expect to be back working the tills in supermarkets before long.
They're fucking funny though. If you don't knows it, download some of their stuff, it's funny as fuck. Their website is http://www.youknowsit.co.uk/.
Well, if it's anything like the UK singles chart, (also reported on Radio 1), it's simply sales. Nothing else - no airplay, nothing, just the sales of the week in question.
Like most people, I don't believe that what people buy is necessarilly a guide to quality, but at least it's not influenced by corporation or radio station policy. It's a fair measure in an imperfect world.
You are criticising a feature which may or may not be present on the phone, that is, that a melody is played when the battery is flat. In fact, if you read the Seimens press release (link in Slashdot article), it's actually a melody to warn you that you have been disconnected:
Because of the software error, if a telephone call is automatically cut off because the battery has run down, the disconnection melody could possibly start to play loudly. (My emphasis).
It also appears that there is an option to disable this feature.
The parent comment appears to have been modded-down. Why exactly? I live in Europe and have never heard of the European Stock Exchange. Apparently it doesn't exist.
The Euronext stock exchange where the other reply to this post says that Mandrakesoft will IPO is the merger of only 3 of Europe's stock exchanges.
What about an updated Mozilla screenshot? The text on the Evolution screenshot and the menu bar of Mozilla look great - I guess this is because the fonts are outline/vector fonts. However, the Times font on the Slashdot page shown in the Mozilla screenshot looks bad. It's my guess that the software doing the anti-aliasing is trying to anti-alias a bitmap version of Times, and consequently making a mess. Try using an outline/vector font where the bitmaps are not available.
It is very tempting to speed. A car that sticks to a safe limit seems like a great idea to me. I live in a small country and I don't see it as a 'god given right' that I am allowed to drive my car anywhere I like. My only worry with this scheme is that if we allow the car to take more control is that the driver is more likely to pay less attention and therefore cause more accidents.
Slashdot Mirror
Please can I have back the ten minutes I just wasted trying to work out what the hell this article is about.
Oh of course. It's a little tricky to explain, so we'll invent a big magic dude who does all the bits that seem complex. Afterall, big magic dude isn't remotely complex!
Religions are ideas developed by well meaning people who think that the population will be happier and behave better if they believe in something. For example, believing that if they're good they go to heaven when they die. Well... it may make people happier in the short-term... as might putting sedatives in their water supply. It doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Religions work by persuading people who "make the leap of faith" that it is wrong to question the religion. Show me a scientist who argues that it's wrong to question a theory. You won't find one. Trying to understanding things is what they're about. Theories get proposed, analysed, proven, and disproved. There's an enormous amount that's not understood, but I don't see the need to have a cop-out theory of "it must have been God".
The alternative of there being an omniscient and almighty creator that made the universe according to his pleasure and for his good purpose seems a lot more plausible.
Just listen to yourself. If it wasn't for the rest of your comment, I would have assumed that last statement of yours was obvious sarcasm.
Deferring responsibility for everything that seems difficult or complex to some big invisible dude, is, well, childish. A cop-out.
It seems that a CD employing this technology could potentially damage your system. For example the Washington Post article reports that it breaks Windows Vista 'spectacularly'.
If a store was aware of the possibility that the CD could cause damage, but still sold you the CD, would the store then be complicit in any subsequent damage that occured to your system?
Would it be wise for stores withdraw these CDs from sale in case they do cause damage, to avoid possible future legal action?
Could someone with a knowledge of the legal issues comment on this?
It's a question of whether the device was designed for the purpose you want it for. When using a Nokia mobile, I get the feeling that the person who designed it wanted to do the same things that I do (calls, texts, etc.).. It makes sense, it doesn't get in my way.
A PDA? It's not designed to play music or video.. how do I know I won't have to jump through hoops to get it to do either?
What you can do is irrelevant to 99% of the population (who are not geeks). It's what you can do easily that's important.
If what it's designed for captures my imagination, and it's presented so I feel I know how to use it, it's sold.
(Disclaimer - I am drunk)
Do the current models still insert a couple of seconds of silence between every track?
I'd love one, but if they still have this problem, then no way. Nobody would buy a CD player that had the same issue.
Score:6, if you ask me.
You do realise that certain types of rechargeable batteries take a few charge/discharge cycles before they reach full capacity..?
I'm shocked that a lot of people here seem to think it's okay to sell violent games to children. A lot of games are extremely violent and offensive, and reward indiscriminant violence.
Surely people agree that the same type of ratings should be applied to video games as are applied to videos/films?
In the UK we have the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) http://www.bbfc.co.uk/ . If it decides a film/video/game is only suitable for people over a certain age, then it is illegal for a shop to sell it to a person below that age. Other countries have similar systems. There's also a pan-European organisation, http://www.pegi.info/, although I don't think it's descisions are legally enforcable.
What I find interesting about this is that the 'zoomed out' view looks fake. It looks computer generated. Surely the zoomed out image should look like a normal photo of the overall scene?
Is there something about the way they are producing the lower resolution 'overall' picture which causes it to look fake?
It's interesting because understanding why it looks wrong may help us understand how to make 3D graphics in computer games look more realistic. Maybe the key is making things less clean and perfect.
Most people stick with Windows because it's there and it takes effort to get something better.
For the vast majority of the population, for whom computers are not a hobby, less effort is better.
I hope Europe and America can do the same a few more years down the line to leap forward on the backs of Indian technology developed...
Err.. I think we did that already..
The number system we use today originated 4000 years ago... in India. http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/university/scit/modules/ mm2217/han.htm
And while we're at it, important developments in mathematics were made 1000 years ago in Baghdad, in what was then Babylon. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopic s/Arabic_mathematics.html. Mind you, all the looting of museums and important sites which has happened since Iraq was invaded may mean a lot evidence for that has been lost.
There's a nice article about this in the Guardian, here.
Yeah, sorry - I was drunk. Only read half your post before posting... tut tut! :-)
Excuse me from jumping to conclusions, but your use of "sheesh" may indicate that you are not from the UK.
It's a UK chart.
Fortunately, the entire English speaking world does not listen to the same music. I assume there is not a large non-UK audience for The Streets, Keane, Goldie Lookin' Chain, however good they may be.
Yeah, they entertain. They wouldn't claim anything else. They come from a shit town, and they take the piss out of it, themselves, and anyone else that strays near. They've been making records for years, giving them to their mates, having a laugh.
Now the media has picked up on the comedy (and genius), so they get their moment of fame. I think they're pretty realistic about it though. As they say, they're out for a laugh, they fully expect to be back working the tills in supermarkets before long.
They're fucking funny though. If you don't knows it, download some of their stuff, it's funny as fuck. Their website is http://www.youknowsit.co.uk/.
Well, if it's anything like the UK singles chart, (also reported on Radio 1), it's simply sales. Nothing else - no airplay, nothing, just the sales of the week in question.
Like most people, I don't believe that what people buy is necessarilly a guide to quality, but at least it's not influenced by corporation or radio station policy. It's a fair measure in an imperfect world.
(Yes I've just come back from the pub)
You are criticising a feature which may or may not be present on the phone, that is, that a melody is played when the battery is flat. In fact, if you read the Seimens press release (link in Slashdot article), it's actually a melody to warn you that you have been disconnected:
Because of the software error, if a telephone call is automatically cut off because the battery has run down, the disconnection melody could possibly start to play loudly. (My emphasis).
It also appears that there is an option to disable this feature.
The Euronext stock exchange where the other reply to this post says that Mandrakesoft will IPO is the merger of only 3 of Europe's stock exchanges.
What about an updated Mozilla screenshot? The text on the Evolution screenshot and the menu bar of Mozilla look great - I guess this is because the fonts are outline/vector fonts. However, the Times font on the Slashdot page shown in the Mozilla screenshot looks bad. It's my guess that the software doing the anti-aliasing is trying to anti-alias a bitmap version of Times, and consequently making a mess. Try using an outline/vector font where the bitmaps are not available.
It is very tempting to speed. A car that sticks to a safe limit seems like a great idea to me. I live in a small country and I don't see it as a 'god given right' that I am allowed to drive my car anywhere I like. My only worry with this scheme is that if we allow the car to take more control is that the driver is more likely to pay less attention and therefore cause more accidents.