Yeah, I'm sure it runs without a hitch too. Good one.
Fact is, the burning utils currently available for Linux are horrible for anyone less than a zealot hacker endowed with the patience of a saint. The shocking lack of file-sharing apps, working media players and other such staples of a workstation operating system is the very reason all the many Linux distributions combined accounts for only 3% marketshare.
When you see someone dancing in a movie, you think about dancing for a couple of minutes, maybe try out a few steps. But the movie will NOT turn you into a dancer, nor will it make someone that does not really like dancing start to like it.
You watch Fred Astaire tap dance in an old black and white movie and you're reasonably entertained. Enough to try a few steps when your alone. But pretty soon that same song-and-dance is "played out". It's going to take something more intense, more extreme to garner the same positive response (and actually get you to try a move or two). This progresses until only hardcore breakdancing offers the equivalent entertainment value as the first time you saw Fred bust out a move. Not only this, but you're poppin' and lockin' yourself, doing the robot and windmill and whatever else. Why? Progressive overload I suppose, or a more appropriate word for it (when in the context of violence) is desensitization.
And that's the problem with children being subjected to death and violence on tv and videogames - they become accustomed to it, jaded even. And maybe they see something and they want to "try out a few steps" as you say. What would trying out a few steps be to an impressionable child? Pointing a loaded gun at a friend (the gun they found in their daddy's drawer) and pulling the trigger? A flying eldow into the spine of their baby sister?
The child is only mimicking what they saw in the videogame or movie, "trying out a few steps" as you say.
Children are highly impressionable. They mimic adults, and this is the primary way they learn to socialise in the world. Violence begets violence, gurps. Nothing "casual" about it.
Yeah, so I'm ugly. What's that got to do with anything? Fact is, people who use the Lord's name hurt themselves. They (ie: you) are breaking a commandment and desecrating God's holy name. It's also being an ingrate because you are blessed with a roof over your head, relative health, even life, yet you curse His name.
You have thousands of offensive words to use in the english language alone - you have options.
"Sorry honey, I can't hear you. I have a banana phone in my ear!" (Try to get that song out of your head - it's impossible. You'll need to be lobotomized first).
Is Sith going to have that fuzzy, soft porn look like the previous two? What's with that anyway? Why can't they use a punchier, crisper look to the video? The movies suck bad enough without having to deal with niggling visual problems.
I don't think it's the fear of insecure data transmission that keeps people from buying online, it's wondering whether they'll ever get anything back in return. This is particularly true for small operations out there. They just don't damand the same confidence as Amazon.com and other mega e-retailers.
However, I've never had a problem with not recieving product I've paid for. In practically every instance, I've been more than happy with my purchase.
Speaking of the "straw man" debate tactic, you're oversimplify and mischaracterizing my argument so you can tear it down. I agree Intelligent Design is just Creationism without saying the "G" word, but I'll firmly state God of the Holy Bible is a Reality.
My parent post states ID isn't the whole story, neither is Dawinism. It's a marriage of a number of different originative mechanisms at work. I firmly believe God always adheres to and employs the laws of the universe to exercise His power.
His IC argument ignores the possibility of changing the function of a system, which is probably the most common way evolution acts.
I'm not here to argue the schematics of complex biochemical machines. I'm not even a proponent of ID (I agree it's more of a political vehicle than a scientific-based discipline). What I'm saying is the creation of the heavens and earth were likely God and evolution working in tandem. To me, evolution is irrefutable. Undeniable. So is the existance of God. There is too much evidence to prove otherwise.
Even if the world is meticulously designed (I don't want to bother debating the merits of that theory here), there is zero reason to suppose that it was done by *cough*, "Our Heavenly Father".
You caught that nasty cold going around too? I've been coughing and sneezing all weekend. Anyhoo, don't you think the Bible is a reason to suppose God made this world?
"The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator." Alma 30:44 (Book of Mormon)
I'm sure many of you don't like it when I support my arguments with scripture, it's such an anti-Slashdot thing to do, but it pertains to this story discussion and to my argument.
Creationism just says that there is no evolution. It comes from reading literally the Genesis that says that God directly created all the life forms as they are. So they are mutually exclusive.
I disagree. Besides, I was speaking of Intelligent Design, not Creationism. The creation or "design" of the heavens, earth and all life within is written so tersely in the Book of Genesis, it's only logical we apply our intellect and imagination to figure out how this was done. That's also why God created us "in His own image" (Genisis 1:26), and gave us frontal lobes!
There is no fear of the scenarios you describe ever happening. Why? Because, not only are we so very far from making AI even respectable (we can't even create AI that can beat average "Go" players yet), but our schooling system in North America falls way short in developing people smart enough and interested enough to tackle these incredibly complex endeavors. I fear areas of science like nano technology are going to diminish and never be fully realised because there's just too few genuinely smart people to comprehend and further the work.
Reminds me of Intelligent Design versus Darwinism. Allow me to yammer on for a bit and I'll explain why:
Evolution did occur (scientific findings are in the latest issue of "Duh" magazine), but the question is how it occured. Darwinism doesn't explain everything as tidily as some may think. ID defender and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Lehigh University Michael Behe posturises biochemistry reveals a cellular world of such astonishing complexity and molecules so "precisely tailored" as to make inexplicable by gradual evolution. Only by an intelligent designer, i.e., God could much of this be plausibly explained. Behe goes on to say some systems can't be produced by natural selection because "any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional." Heavy stuff, but relative to this virus-like digital life. This is a good example of how God could've started the evolutionary ball rolling.
Darwinism and Creationism are not mutually exclusive. Our Heavenly Father could very well have used the evolutionary mechanism to bring about ideal living conditions for Adam and Eve, as well as help them and their offspring be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), or, as Slashdot puts it, "replicate, mutate randomly, and compete with each other".
The first thing about Orkut is how bloody slow and unreliable the service is. I guess Orkut being in perpetual beta allows them to continue sucking. There are some times I can't even log in, it just redirects me to a "Bad Server, no donut for you" page which becomes tired in a hurry. Do a google search using the words "Orkut" and "sucks" and you'll see alot of people share my opinion.
Another thing I've noticed about Orkut, is how popular it is with Brazilians. I have no problem with this, and I've made some friends from there via Orkut, but it's interesting nonetheless.
it'd be the smart people at Google. They'll somehow make the operating system as we use them now obsolete. And they have an unpresidented mindshare and visibility on the internet. I've never seen anything like it.
Google seem so damn aggressive lately. Microsoft have to consider them their #1 threat.
a) back to the people who donated b) be channeled to a fund for tsunami victims in Asia c) get LokiTorrent owner that bitchin new plasma tv at Futureshop
When it came to towing the company line, Carly was amazing at corporate doubleplus good duckspeak. Interviews with her in pc trade publications was liken to reading a comprehensive technical buzzword dictionary, interspersed with the occassional conjunction. It sounded too perfect, too premeditated to be natural. But that was her job, to personify the type of intelligence and professionalism of HP.
Carly's a smart, charismatic woman. Maybe now she can let her hair down (I mean that literally) and be the sparkly and personable person I believe she is.
Oh, and if you're single and reading this Carly, disregard the duckspeak comment. I was only whoring for karma. Drop me a line and let's get to know each other!
I wouldn't have installed Firefox. I'd explain to them they need to be selective of what they install and what websites they view. Then I'd recommend Firefox, that's as far as I'd go. Don't try and change ppl's habits and preferences, it never works out in my experience....and apparently in your experience too.
For me, there are two factors that influence whether I take the job: 1) how busy I am. Obligations to family supercede anything else. 2) How broke I am.
If I take the job, I usually lowball everyone and say $20-25 CDN to format/reinstall Windows. I'm not a professional, I barely qualify as a geek the last few years, with all the time I've been spending in the gym and studying fitness theory. Anyway,iIf they don't have drives for the pc, or have a reeeaallly slow machine, I'm apt not to do it. It's not worth the time and the frustration. With a buddy, we have the arrangement where he fixes/tunes-up my mountain bike while I work on his computer and remove any malware he's accumulated from porn sites he's visited.
I hate doing house calls because they often smoke cigarettes in my face and the whole rigamarole seems to take longer than normal, but in a rare instance (say, when an elderly lady can't bring it to me), I will go over there.
And I do web design. Just the mickey mouse stuff - no back end database with MySQL/Java/blahblahblah. I'll again charge $25 per page (provided they have reasonable needs) and give them a product which I'm confident is better than they'd get from anyone else locally.
Let's see how stoic you are when the three consoles roll out there multi-million dollar advertising campaigns.
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo along with software companies like Sega and EA will blitz every known entertainment medium (during the Christmas season) and it will be hard not to be swept away in the excitment. Just wait and see.
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Yeah, I'm sure it runs without a hitch too. Good one.
Fact is, the burning utils currently available for Linux are horrible for anyone less than a zealot hacker endowed with the patience of a saint. The shocking lack of file-sharing apps, working media players and other such staples of a workstation operating system is the very reason all the many Linux distributions combined accounts for only 3% marketshare.
When you see someone dancing in a movie, you think about dancing for a couple of minutes, maybe try out a few steps. But the movie will NOT turn you into a dancer, nor will it make someone that does not really like dancing start to like it.
You watch Fred Astaire tap dance in an old black and white movie and you're reasonably entertained. Enough to try a few steps when your alone. But pretty soon that same song-and-dance is "played out". It's going to take something more intense, more extreme to garner the same positive response (and actually get you to try a move or two). This progresses until only hardcore breakdancing offers the equivalent entertainment value as the first time you saw Fred bust out a move. Not only this, but you're poppin' and lockin' yourself, doing the robot and windmill and whatever else. Why? Progressive overload I suppose, or a more appropriate word for it (when in the context of violence) is desensitization.
And that's the problem with children being subjected to death and violence on tv and videogames - they become accustomed to it, jaded even. And maybe they see something and they want to "try out a few steps" as you say. What would trying out a few steps be to an impressionable child? Pointing a loaded gun at a friend (the gun they found in their daddy's drawer) and pulling the trigger? A flying eldow into the spine of their baby sister?
The child is only mimicking what they saw in the videogame or movie, "trying out a few steps" as you say.
Children are highly impressionable. They mimic adults, and this is the primary way they learn to socialise in the world. Violence begets violence, gurps. Nothing "casual" about it.
Yeah, so I'm ugly. What's that got to do with anything? Fact is, people who use the Lord's name hurt themselves. They (ie: you) are breaking a commandment and desecrating God's holy name. It's also being an ingrate because you are blessed with a roof over your head, relative health, even life, yet you curse His name.
You have thousands of offensive words to use in the english language alone - you have options.
"Sorry honey, I can't hear you. I have a banana phone in my ear!"
(Try to get that song out of your head - it's impossible. You'll need to be lobotomized first).
You made some completely valid statements badass, but you used the Lord's name in vain, and you didn't even capitilize it. Idiot.
How about I use your mother's name as a curse word?
Watch your potty mouth.
Is Sith going to have that fuzzy, soft porn look like the previous two? What's with that anyway? Why can't they use a punchier, crisper look to the video? The movies suck bad enough without having to deal with niggling visual problems.
and it still doesn't render Slashdot properly!
All you fanboys can put your pitchforks down now.
I don't think it's the fear of insecure data transmission that keeps people from buying online, it's wondering whether they'll ever get anything back in return. This is particularly true for small operations out there. They just don't damand the same confidence as Amazon.com and other mega e-retailers.
However, I've never had a problem with not recieving product I've paid for. In practically every instance, I've been more than happy with my purchase.
Speaking of the "straw man" debate tactic, you're oversimplify and mischaracterizing my argument so you can tear it down. I agree Intelligent Design is just Creationism without saying the "G" word, but I'll firmly state God of the Holy Bible is a Reality.
My parent post states ID isn't the whole story, neither is Dawinism. It's a marriage of a number of different originative mechanisms at work. I firmly believe God always adheres to and employs the laws of the universe to exercise His power.
His IC argument ignores the possibility of changing the function of a system, which is probably the most common way evolution acts.
I'm not here to argue the schematics of complex biochemical machines. I'm not even a proponent of ID (I agree it's more of a political vehicle than a scientific-based discipline). What I'm saying is the creation of the heavens and earth were likely God and evolution working in tandem. To me, evolution is irrefutable. Undeniable. So is the existance of God. There is too much evidence to prove otherwise.
Even if the world is meticulously designed (I don't want to bother debating the merits of that theory here), there is zero reason to suppose that it was done by *cough*, "Our Heavenly Father".
You caught that nasty cold going around too? I've been coughing and sneezing all weekend. Anyhoo, don't you think the Bible is a reason to suppose God made this world?
"The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator." Alma 30:44 (Book of Mormon)
I'm sure many of you don't like it when I support my arguments with scripture, it's such an anti-Slashdot thing to do, but it pertains to this story discussion and to my argument.
Creationism just says that there is no evolution. It comes from reading literally the Genesis that says that God directly created all the life forms as they are. So they are mutually exclusive.
I disagree. Besides, I was speaking of Intelligent Design, not Creationism. The creation or "design" of the heavens, earth and all life within is written so tersely in the Book of Genesis, it's only logical we apply our intellect and imagination to figure out how this was done. That's also why God created us "in His own image" (Genisis 1:26), and gave us frontal lobes!
There is no fear of the scenarios you describe ever happening. Why? Because, not only are we so very far from making AI even respectable (we can't even create AI that can beat average "Go" players yet), but our schooling system in North America falls way short in developing people smart enough and interested enough to tackle these incredibly complex endeavors. I fear areas of science like nano technology are going to diminish and never be fully realised because there's just too few genuinely smart people to comprehend and further the work.
Reminds me of Intelligent Design versus Darwinism. Allow me to yammer on for a bit and I'll explain why:
Evolution did occur (scientific findings are in the latest issue of "Duh" magazine), but the question is how it occured. Darwinism doesn't explain everything as tidily as some may think. ID defender and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Lehigh University Michael Behe posturises biochemistry reveals a cellular world of such astonishing complexity and molecules so "precisely tailored" as to make inexplicable by gradual evolution. Only by an intelligent designer, i.e., God could much of this be plausibly explained. Behe goes on to say some systems can't be produced by natural selection because "any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional." Heavy stuff, but relative to this virus-like digital life. This is a good example of how God could've started the evolutionary ball rolling.
Darwinism and Creationism are not mutually exclusive. Our Heavenly Father could very well have used the evolutionary mechanism to bring about ideal living conditions for Adam and Eve, as well as help them and their offspring be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), or, as Slashdot puts it, "replicate, mutate randomly, and compete with each other".
The first thing about Orkut is how bloody slow and unreliable the service is. I guess Orkut being in perpetual beta allows them to continue sucking. There are some times I can't even log in, it just redirects me to a "Bad Server, no donut for you" page which becomes tired in a hurry. Do a google search using the words "Orkut" and "sucks" and you'll see alot of people share my opinion.
Another thing I've noticed about Orkut, is how popular it is with Brazilians. I have no problem with this, and I've made some friends from there via Orkut, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I'm pretty sure the last Disturbed album, Believe,
sucked so bad the graviational pulls caused a black hole.
Pretty terrifying and distructive. The album I mean.
it'd be the smart people at Google. They'll somehow make the operating system as we use them now obsolete. And they have an unpresidented mindshare and visibility on the internet. I've never seen anything like it.
Google seem so damn aggressive lately. Microsoft have to consider them their #1 threat.
a) back to the people who donated
b) be channeled to a fund for tsunami victims in Asia
c) get LokiTorrent owner that bitchin new plasma tv at Futureshop
When it came to towing the company line, Carly was amazing at corporate doubleplus good duckspeak. Interviews with her in pc trade publications was liken to reading a comprehensive technical buzzword dictionary, interspersed with the occassional conjunction. It sounded too perfect, too premeditated to be natural. But that was her job, to personify the type of intelligence and professionalism of HP.
Carly's a smart, charismatic woman. Maybe now she can let her hair down (I mean that literally) and be the sparkly and personable person I believe she is.
Oh, and if you're single and reading this Carly, disregard the duckspeak comment. I was only whoring for karma. Drop me a line and let's get to know each other!
I wouldn't have installed Firefox. I'd explain to them they need to be selective of what they install and what websites they view. Then I'd recommend Firefox, that's as far as I'd go. Don't try and change ppl's habits and preferences, it never works out in my experience. ...and apparently in your experience too.
For me, there are two factors that influence whether I take the job: 1) how busy I am. Obligations to family supercede anything else. 2) How broke I am.
If I take the job, I usually lowball everyone and say $20-25 CDN to format/reinstall Windows. I'm not a professional, I barely qualify as a geek the last few years, with all the time I've been spending in the gym and studying fitness theory. Anyway,iIf they don't have drives for the pc, or have a reeeaallly slow machine, I'm apt not to do it. It's not worth the time and the frustration. With a buddy, we have the arrangement where he fixes/tunes-up my mountain bike while I work on his computer and remove any malware he's accumulated from porn sites he's visited.
I hate doing house calls because they often smoke cigarettes in my face and the whole rigamarole seems to take longer than normal, but in a rare instance (say, when an elderly lady can't bring it to me), I will go over there.
And I do web design. Just the mickey mouse stuff - no back end database with MySQL/Java/blahblahblah. I'll again charge $25 per page (provided they have reasonable needs) and give them a product which I'm confident is better than they'd get from anyone else locally.
Next up: sky-high neon advertisements.
You make that sound like a bad thing. Hey, maybe some people want to know when McDonald's B-B-Q McRib is on sale. It could be an important service.
You have the most ignorant, most blasphemous nickname I have ever seen. Please change it.
"Work out your salvation with fear and trembling" Philippians 2:12
Let's see how stoic you are when the three consoles roll out there multi-million dollar advertising campaigns.
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo along with software companies like Sega and EA will blitz every known entertainment medium (during the Christmas season) and it will be hard not to be swept away in the excitment. Just wait and see.
Some good info from eformo. The comment deserves better than a score of one.
Btw, is anyone else annoyed by the flippant tone of the question?