Well, monkies didn't turn into humans and no part of evolution states that. The ancestors of monkies (primates) evolved into many forms of homo and hom erectus and also into monkies. We have a common ANCESTOR.
This is a common mistake people make when talking about evolution.
Evolution is fact. The origins of life make a lot of sense when compared to the rules of evolution. To explain them off as being highly coincidental is to ignore most empirical evidence and leave it to a "intelligent design."
People seem to have a hard time believing that things don't have intelligent design. It's a nonsense term. The patterns of the universe are highly mathematical and clearly correlated.
"I have never heard a remotely plausible theory regarding the origin of life."
You haven;t looked very far, then. Science has very logical concluysions to the origins of organic life. In fact, there seems to be a lot of evidence to support the primorial components of earth being present abundantly throughout the universe.
Maybe they'll go out of business or something. I can always hope. Their programming is filled with poorly executed, uniformative drivel most of the time. TechTV, on the other hand, while still suffering from growing pains, actually contained information that I gave a crap about.
My favorite windows UI quirk is how every application out there seems to duplicate every menu item in an icon stop. Because, yeah, it really helps me to see a thousand little indecipherable icons that have commands that also show up in the menu.
Oh-- and let's not forget how you restart a PC (not that you have to do it much)! Click "start." Select "shut down." Now select "restart." Yeah, I would have found that.
LOL. I'd love to see his numbers that blatantly disregard Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server. Sounds like a spin doctor, to me. I could care less about his Red Hat statement.
You make some very interesting points. I would also like to add that the XBox 2 development kit is a PowerMac G5 (PPC970fx) with Windows (NT?) running on it.
With Microsoft choosing PPC processors for it's XBox 2, and Sony choosing PPC for a new class of workstation, things don't seem quite as rosey for the x86 architecture as they used to.
Well, I guess I'll stop watching their shows if they pull something like that. Would they rather I don't watch it at all? Because that's the kind of antagonistic result they'll get.
How about adapting to the chaning market? The concept is non-linear advertising and it's not a new concept. Perhaps they should look into THAT instead of punishing their viewers?
My guess is the same blow hards running the RIAA are working with the MPAA and other associations looking to twart new markets.
I have worked on these types of projects with a very well known US Biometric company. My company designed the user interface for an all electronic card-based passport system in the Netherlands. It is being used as a replacement for passports. It's essentially a smart chip that matches a facial scan and a fingerprint against what's on the smart card. The total process can be a matter of seconds... and believe me... it's fool proof.
I know for a fact that a face scan like the one they use can not be fooled by a photograph placed in front of it, for example. In addition, these units are never left unattended. There is always an operator there, verifying the data, so even an attempt to fool it would be caught. IE-- Person attempting to do anythign but place their fingerprint and get their face scanned would be flagged suspicious. Even plastic surgery couldn't fool this 2 prong approach because you can't alter your finger print and you can't get through the system without it. The face scan uses the retinas of your eyes to triangulate the geometric patterns of various features. So the plastic surgery would have to be impeccable anyway-- and still wouldn't account for the fingerprints! Even if the participant doesn't have arms (fingerprints), they would know this in advance on the smart chip-- I doubt a crook would lop off their own arms to fool the system.
I know this big-brother stuff can be a little scary, but think about this: no more mistaken identities. Less random, embarrasing checks at airports. And, their UI is warm and fuzzy. At least, the one I designed was.:-)
I am a Mac fan, but I also have a PC for work. I wouldn't be caught dead using IE on the PC. I use Firefox. But, I propose an alternative... just walk into an Apple store and try out a couple Macs. I think most people are suprised at what they can do, the software available, and the reliability. There are 6 viruses on the Mac in grad total, if you don't count the relatively few Office Macro "viruses."
Sure, some types of exploits are possible on a Mac still, but it's inherantly more secure. It's not security by obscurity, as some might claim. If you like the OS when you try it, you will be relieved to know that Mac users don't spend their days fighting Spyware and Viruses. It's a non-issue for them.
Who the hell are the whiners complaining that you're account was terminnated because they circumvented copy protection and/or stole the product? Are these people INSANE? Who on earth thinks it's okay to steal something, have someone take it back, and then feel like you've been cheated?
It's like looking at the sky and flat out refusing to say it's blue. Come on, people, fork over the $50 to buy the game and support the people who BUILT IT so you can enjoy it.
How many games per year do you buy? Is $50 really that much for a game? It's not.
It's a major fault to look around yourself and assume the people you know or the place you live in accounts for the rest of the country or state.
Ask those of us in Manhattan. We know. We're part of the United States of Canada now.:-) Upstate votes highly republican and downstate is 80%+ Democrat. That is, for presedential elections.
But, it seems that as of late (with the exception of Clinton), the republicans have won Ohio overall. Clienton won in both elections but the republicans have won 4 more elections than the democrats since 1940 in Ohio:
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/index.htm l
Oh thank you for straightening me out. Dude, it was a rant. It was meant to be inflammatory and get a reaction. Of course I don't believe that. Sheesh.
Well, I had to buy a PC a couple months ago for a project that needed proprietary PC software. Since my Mac is a DP 1GHz G4, I knew full well there'd be no way I'd be able to run Doom 3 on my Mac until I get a G5. So, I bought a new copy from www.gogamer.com for $29.95 for the PC.
I think my Mac has reached the end of it's useful life as a game machine, but it's perfectly usable for everything else... guess I need to buy a G5 to play the latest games. For example, my current Mac is the MINIMUM system requirement for Knights of the Old Republic...
Bring on the dual 3GHz G5's in Feb/Mar baby! Daddy needs a new one!
You said: "Sex is the ultimate expression of love" - hetero sex is"
And why is that again?
Do you have a reason? My guess is that you don't really have a rational reason, you just don't like it and that's the way it is in your world. Well, that's fine, but don't legislate the lives of others who are obviously finding homosexuality through MTV as you suggest. LOL. NEWS FLASH: People are born gay.
Oh, i forgot that medicare and social security are socialist... geez. Or how about health care? Socialism, right? Do you know the definition of socialism? Seriously? If you did, you'd probably realize that a Government handing out anything to it's citizens is a little piece of Socialism right here in the good 'ole USA.
So you must agree there is a grey area? Could you help me understand where that line is? I was under the mistaken thought that the President was trying to pass a federal law to limit people's rights (gay marriage) so he could think for them, too. Hmmm. Well, we all know how well Prohibition turned out.
As far as a history lesson goes, you might want to check out the defintion of Hitler's Socialist Regime, which was not socialist. It was much closer to fascism. Fascism is a right wing political movement. I'm not drawing a connection or even implying one... I just think you're trying to demonize a point of view without all the facts:
"The term Nazi is a short form of the German word (NA)tionalso(ZI)alist (National Socialist) - the ideology of the NSDAP (generally considered to be a variant of fascism under a misleading name)."
"Fascism... refers to the right-wing authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943..."
You can find the pages here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_ Ge rman_Workers%27_Party
"Look at the postings from foreigners and the left, and all I see is pure hatred. These people must be mentally ill."
Your opinion on the subject of foreigners and "left" people being mentally ill and filled with hatred is just the type of ignornace that leads to world war. I'm pretty sure Hitler ran on that ticket.
Thank you anonymous coward for standing up for anonymity and blatant disregard for intelligent (albeit off-color) discourse.
I'm a little disapointed I bothered to respond to such drivel, but I wanted to point out that you are the redneck NASCAR analogy incarnate. Thanks for being an ignorant stereotype.
And for the record... I don't hate NASCAR either. I hate ignorant twats with or without a roll cage.
Then, my friend, you are homophobic. Iit doesn't matter if you don't like it. It IS exactly the same as sex between a man and a woman.
Are you black? You don't need to understand what its like to be black to know it's not right to limit people's rights for being different than yourself.
You're also not setting up a lawn chair in the bedroom and watching two gay people have sex, are you? Would you do that with your straight neighbors? Are you equally repulsed by women having sex together, or are you also hypocrytical? Sex is the ultimate expression of love and you don't seem to understand that gay people have sex for reasons other than some kind of filthy lust you equate it with. That's simply an ignorant opinion, and if you took the time to get to know more gay people as PEOPLE, you'd understand... doesn't mean you have to "like it."
Look, I'm not gay... but I do have a head on my shoulders and I know a fair amount of gay people (I live in NYC.) I don't think it's fair to legislate humans engaging in natural behavior, no matter how threatening it is to straight men in rural areas.
But my point was basically the "square" states and their 3 electoral votes. I have friends from Wisconsin and I don't hate Wisconsin. Sure, everyone from Wisconsin is ugly and inbred, but I don't hate them for that. (joke... I swear...)
For the record, though, the woman I saw on CNN was from Wisconsin and that is what she said. So, in summary... no offense to Wisconsin-- the cruel mistress of my wrath.
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Well, monkies didn't turn into humans and no part of evolution states that. The ancestors of monkies (primates) evolved into many forms of homo and hom erectus and also into monkies. We have a common ANCESTOR.
This is a common mistake people make when talking about evolution.
Evolution is fact. The origins of life make a lot of sense when compared to the rules of evolution. To explain them off as being highly coincidental is to ignore most empirical evidence and leave it to a "intelligent design."
People seem to have a hard time believing that things don't have intelligent design. It's a nonsense term. The patterns of the universe are highly mathematical and clearly correlated.
"I have never heard a remotely plausible theory regarding the origin of life."
You haven;t looked very far, then. Science has very logical concluysions to the origins of organic life. In fact, there seems to be a lot of evidence to support the primorial components of earth being present abundantly throughout the universe.
God does not belong in the classroom.
Maybe they'll go out of business or something. I can always hope. Their programming is filled with poorly executed, uniformative drivel most of the time. TechTV, on the other hand, while still suffering from growing pains, actually contained information that I gave a crap about.
The last nail in the coffin, it seems.
Good points!
My favorite windows UI quirk is how every application out there seems to duplicate every menu item in an icon stop. Because, yeah, it really helps me to see a thousand little indecipherable icons that have commands that also show up in the menu.
Oh-- and let's not forget how you restart a PC (not that you have to do it much)! Click "start." Select "shut down." Now select "restart." Yeah, I would have found that.
I'm sorry... who was it, again, that was waiting for Metroid Prime 2? The 17 people with a Game Cube?
I have to admit that Metroid might be the only franchise on the Game Cube wirth purchasing one for... but I think my PS2 will do fine.
Adware? Malware? Viruses? Oh... those things Windows users get!
Sorry, I had to say it: switch to OS X or Linux or, well, ANYTHING else!
LOL. I'd love to see his numbers that blatantly disregard Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server. Sounds like a spin doctor, to me. I could care less about his Red Hat statement.
You make some very interesting points. I would also like to add that the XBox 2 development kit is a PowerMac G5 (PPC970fx) with Windows (NT?) running on it.
With Microsoft choosing PPC processors for it's XBox 2, and Sony choosing PPC for a new class of workstation, things don't seem quite as rosey for the x86 architecture as they used to.
Well, I guess I'll stop watching their shows if they pull something like that. Would they rather I don't watch it at all? Because that's the kind of antagonistic result they'll get.
How about adapting to the chaning market? The concept is non-linear advertising and it's not a new concept. Perhaps they should look into THAT instead of punishing their viewers?
My guess is the same blow hards running the RIAA are working with the MPAA and other associations looking to twart new markets.
I have worked on these types of projects with a very well known US Biometric company. My company designed the user interface for an all electronic card-based passport system in the Netherlands. It is being used as a replacement for passports. It's essentially a smart chip that matches a facial scan and a fingerprint against what's on the smart card. The total process can be a matter of seconds... and believe me... it's fool proof.
:-)
I know for a fact that a face scan like the one they use can not be fooled by a photograph placed in front of it, for example. In addition, these units are never left unattended. There is always an operator there, verifying the data, so even an attempt to fool it would be caught. IE-- Person attempting to do anythign but place their fingerprint and get their face scanned would be flagged suspicious. Even plastic surgery couldn't fool this 2 prong approach because you can't alter your finger print and you can't get through the system without it. The face scan uses the retinas of your eyes to triangulate the geometric patterns of various features. So the plastic surgery would have to be impeccable anyway-- and still wouldn't account for the fingerprints! Even if the participant doesn't have arms (fingerprints), they would know this in advance on the smart chip-- I doubt a crook would lop off their own arms to fool the system.
I know this big-brother stuff can be a little scary, but think about this: no more mistaken identities. Less random, embarrasing checks at airports. And, their UI is warm and fuzzy. At least, the one I designed was.
I am a Mac fan, but I also have a PC for work. I wouldn't be caught dead using IE on the PC. I use Firefox. But, I propose an alternative... just walk into an Apple store and try out a couple Macs. I think most people are suprised at what they can do, the software available, and the reliability. There are 6 viruses on the Mac in grad total, if you don't count the relatively few Office Macro "viruses."
Sure, some types of exploits are possible on a Mac still, but it's inherantly more secure. It's not security by obscurity, as some might claim. If you like the OS when you try it, you will be relieved to know that Mac users don't spend their days fighting Spyware and Viruses. It's a non-issue for them.
- Jeremy
Who the hell are the whiners complaining that you're account was terminnated because they circumvented copy protection and/or stole the product? Are these people INSANE? Who on earth thinks it's okay to steal something, have someone take it back, and then feel like you've been cheated?
It's like looking at the sky and flat out refusing to say it's blue. Come on, people, fork over the $50 to buy the game and support the people who BUILT IT so you can enjoy it.
How many games per year do you buy? Is $50 really that much for a game? It's not.
And where would I find the free pr0n passwords? :-)
It's a major fault to look around yourself and assume the people you know or the place you live in accounts for the rest of the country or state.
:-) Upstate votes highly republican and downstate is 80%+ Democrat. That is, for presedential elections.
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Ask those of us in Manhattan. We know. We're part of the United States of Canada now.
But, it seems that as of late (with the exception of Clinton), the republicans have won Ohio overall. Clienton won in both elections but the republicans have won 4 more elections than the democrats since 1940 in Ohio:
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/index.ht
Thank you for proving my point for me. I appreciate that.
Nice. So gay people are now on the same level as pigs to you? I'll hope that you were joking.
Again, you don't have to like them. You just don't legislate other people's rights like that.
Oh thank you for straightening me out. Dude, it was a rant. It was meant to be inflammatory and get a reaction. Of course I don't believe that. Sheesh.
Well, I had to buy a PC a couple months ago for a project that needed proprietary PC software. Since my Mac is a DP 1GHz G4, I knew full well there'd be no way I'd be able to run Doom 3 on my Mac until I get a G5. So, I bought a new copy from www.gogamer.com for $29.95 for the PC.
...
I think my Mac has reached the end of it's useful life as a game machine, but it's perfectly usable for everything else... guess I need to buy a G5 to play the latest games. For example, my current Mac is the MINIMUM system requirement for Knights of the Old Republic
Bring on the dual 3GHz G5's in Feb/Mar baby! Daddy needs a new one!
You said:
"Sex is the ultimate expression of love" - hetero sex is"
And why is that again?
Do you have a reason? My guess is that you don't really have a rational reason, you just don't like it and that's the way it is in your world. Well, that's fine, but don't legislate the lives of others who are obviously finding homosexuality through MTV as you suggest. LOL. NEWS FLASH: People are born gay.
LOL.
... refers to the right-wing authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 ..."
_ Ge rman_Workers%27_Party
Oh, i forgot that medicare and social security are socialist... geez. Or how about health care? Socialism, right? Do you know the definition of socialism? Seriously? If you did, you'd probably realize that a Government handing out anything to it's citizens is a little piece of Socialism right here in the good 'ole USA.
So you must agree there is a grey area? Could you help me understand where that line is? I was under the mistaken thought that the President was trying to pass a federal law to limit people's rights (gay marriage) so he could think for them, too. Hmmm. Well, we all know how well Prohibition turned out.
As far as a history lesson goes, you might want to check out the defintion of Hitler's Socialist Regime, which was not socialist. It was much closer to fascism. Fascism is a right wing political movement. I'm not drawing a connection or even implying one... I just think you're trying to demonize a point of view without all the facts:
"The term Nazi is a short form of the German word (NA)tionalso(ZI)alist (National Socialist) - the ideology of the NSDAP (generally considered to be a variant of fascism under a misleading name)."
"Fascism
You can find the pages here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
"Look at the postings from foreigners and the left, and all I see is pure hatred. These people must be mentally ill."
Your opinion on the subject of foreigners and "left" people being mentally ill and filled with hatred is just the type of ignornace that leads to world war. I'm pretty sure Hitler ran on that ticket.
*sigh*
The point, my friend... was that it wasn't.
Thank you anonymous coward for standing up for anonymity and blatant disregard for intelligent (albeit off-color) discourse.
I'm a little disapointed I bothered to respond to such drivel, but I wanted to point out that you are the redneck NASCAR analogy incarnate. Thanks for being an ignorant stereotype.
And for the record... I don't hate NASCAR either. I hate ignorant twats with or without a roll cage.
Then, my friend, you are homophobic. Iit doesn't matter if you don't like it. It IS exactly the same as sex between a man and a woman.
Are you black? You don't need to understand what its like to be black to know it's not right to limit people's rights for being different than yourself.
You're also not setting up a lawn chair in the bedroom and watching two gay people have sex, are you? Would you do that with your straight neighbors? Are you equally repulsed by women having sex together, or are you also hypocrytical? Sex is the ultimate expression of love and you don't seem to understand that gay people have sex for reasons other than some kind of filthy lust you equate it with. That's simply an ignorant opinion, and if you took the time to get to know more gay people as PEOPLE, you'd understand... doesn't mean you have to "like it."
Look, I'm not gay... but I do have a head on my shoulders and I know a fair amount of gay people (I live in NYC.) I don't think it's fair to legislate humans engaging in natural behavior, no matter how threatening it is to straight men in rural areas.
Sorry. I was a rant after all...
But my point was basically the "square" states and their 3 electoral votes. I have friends from Wisconsin and I don't hate Wisconsin. Sure, everyone from Wisconsin is ugly and inbred, but I don't hate them for that. (joke... I swear...)
For the record, though, the woman I saw on CNN was from Wisconsin and that is what she said. So, in summary... no offense to Wisconsin-- the cruel mistress of my wrath.