Heck, you can get it from AOL for less than half the price under their Netscape brand.
Two different products. AOL offers playpen interweb for the technically illiterate, or did when I last ran a trial disk (a while back now).
Other ISPs don't have the sandbox thing going, so I guess that's AOL's selling point.
BUT, they are kind of abandoning it here, in the sense that they're going to be 'adulterating' the brand. I'm trying to look at this in terms of branding and not seeing the logic. maybe AOL have gone nuts after all?
Standard Christian theology teaches that hell is the default destination of every human being
what a thoroughly depressing little cult christianity is. "I'm going to burn for all eternity, and my only hope is to plead with some invisible entity and give shedloads of money to a priest with bad hair and bad breath to talk to me once a week? Screw that.
By the by, do you really believe non-living chemicals learnt to walk and talk all by themselves?
got a better explanation? Or do you buy the crap the creationists sell you?
All the prerequisites for a non-religious explanation clearly exist and can be proven to exist, whereas the loony version requires the non-provable.
True. if your iMac is beyond help (as mine was) it's possible to take it off somewhere open and swing it round and round and round on that handle.
No I didn't end up hammer-throwing it across the park, but I figured it was a decent experiment in the strength of the thing. Disclaimer: don't do this with a healthy iMac, just in case.
I'd be worried about cooling if you crammed more wattage in, especially since my current rig has a tendency to overheat even with two extra fans + an external fan blowing onto the case.
It makes me wonder if in another 50 years the organs will be home-grown for the patient, no longer requiring donors.
If we can manage to get past the religious nutters and get some serious stem cell research done, this could be a distinct possibility. As it is, progress is stymied. Which is a real shame.
Good to see California standing up for stem cell research though. And Europe. And the rest of the developed world....
Can anyone name a revolving restaurant that doesn't have reeally crappy, overpriced food?
I seem to recall my wife claiming the Sydney one is actually pretty good. I haven't been, though I did go to Queensland's only revolving restaurant once, though I only turned up for a very hungover breakfast which was thoroughly disappointing. Leads me to believe they trade off the novelty aspect at the expense of the quality of food.
A comment promoting creationism would most likely be moderated as a troll.
That's because there's no mod option for "-1 Completely Bat-Shit Fucking Loopy", an option I for one would welcome with open arms.
I mean seriously, the whole creationism thing takes some bronze-age scroll dug up in a cave somewhere and places it above hundreds of years of accumulated evidence. That's just crazy.
> What possible natural selection process would select a fish with an eye 1/1000 of inch higher than the other?
that's a common misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. we're not dealing with individuals here, but large populations, over many, many generations.
minuscule changes have the potential to magnify over many successive generations to the point where the change does become meaningful, rather than just random.
The most visible, layman-undestandable version of evolution? adaptation of pathogens for resistance against antibiotics. This process happens in an understandable timescale (measurable in years rather than centuries) simply because the characteristics of large populations and rapid generations mean nature can cram what would take a macrobiological organism thousands of years. Once you accept a disease can become resistant to antibiotics, it's then simply a case of scaling up.
> but any one guess as to how the complexities of reality came about is as good as any other.
not true, unless by 'good' you mean 'bad'
for instance, what about the theory that we were all sneezed out by a vast being called the great green arkleseizure?* It's as valid as saying that god moved on the face of the waters (or whatever), but far less valid than the more testable 'guesses' which physicists have been making based on previous 'guesses', which in turn are based on other guesses way back down the way.
I guess what I'm attempting to put across is that there are an infinite number of guesses that can be made, but only a finite amount of plausible ones, and that number is shrinking all the time as our knowledge grows. ergo one guess is not necessarily as good as another.
why isn't there an incoherent mod option? I feel I may deserve it after that.
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I have little more to say than this.
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Heck, you can get it from AOL for less than half the price under their Netscape brand.
Two different products. AOL offers playpen interweb for the technically illiterate, or did when I last ran a trial disk (a while back now).
Other ISPs don't have the sandbox thing going, so I guess that's AOL's selling point.
BUT, they are kind of abandoning it here, in the sense that they're going to be 'adulterating' the brand. I'm trying to look at this in terms of branding and not seeing the logic. maybe AOL have gone nuts after all?
... every two-bit online op can have webmail if they want it.
What's new and innovative here? that's the real question. Or are AOL continuing to play the Wal-Mart of ISPs?
Surely this is an 'ask slashdot'?
or am I just making that up?
You could automate it off an RBL with a few judiciously written lines o'code.
go on, you know you want to....
China just opened up its religious freedoms, actually.
How? Pray tell.
How many new Firefox users is this really going to contribute to the global pool, in the long run?
Good for SkyOS, possibly, rather a non-event from a Firefox perspective, at least numbers-wise.
Forgive me oh Stallman, I know not what I speak!
hmmm.... guess I just went off-topic. oh well.
Standard Christian theology teaches that hell is the default destination of every human being
what a thoroughly depressing little cult christianity is. "I'm going to burn for all eternity, and my only hope is to plead with some invisible entity and give shedloads of money to a priest with bad hair and bad breath to talk to me once a week? Screw that.
By the by, do you really believe non-living chemicals learnt to walk and talk all by themselves?
got a better explanation? Or do you buy the crap the creationists sell you?
All the prerequisites for a non-religious explanation clearly exist and can be proven to exist, whereas the loony version requires the non-provable.
"...China's Ministry of Public Security..."
Sounds suspiciously like the "Ministry of Truth" from to me....
Sounds more like "Department of Homeland Security" to my ears.
True. if your iMac is beyond help (as mine was) it's possible to take it off somewhere open and swing it round and round and round on that handle.
No I didn't end up hammer-throwing it across the park, but I figured it was a decent experiment in the strength of the thing. Disclaimer: don't do this with a healthy iMac, just in case.
you mean LED, not LCD, surely?
I bought a desktop case with a handle only to realise at a later date that "duh, when do I carry this damn thing?".
to date (6 months later) I've carried it once from the shop to my house, then once from my old house to my new house, a grand total of, ooooh, 200m.
And you just can't put stuff on top. I've got nowhere to keep my remote control t-rex now!
So yeah, I agree. The handle is quite an annoyance.
I'd be worried about cooling if you crammed more wattage in, especially since my current rig has a tendency to overheat even with two extra fans + an external fan blowing onto the case.
Climate thing possibly (summer in Sydney)
No more ugly than the majority of crappy beige boxes. and a smaller form-factor too. It's not really that bad. look again, it'll grow on you.
It makes me wonder if in another 50 years the organs will be home-grown for the patient, no longer requiring donors.
If we can manage to get past the religious nutters and get some serious stem cell research done, this could be a distinct possibility. As it is, progress is stymied. Which is a real shame.
Good to see California standing up for stem cell research though. And Europe. And the rest of the developed world....
> To be fair, a period after the second and fourt lines might have been nice
PA needs Mr Period
(hope I got the right URL, PA seems to be flattened right now)
Attempting to, yes. If you actually manage it, we call that a revolution.
Can anyone name a revolving restaurant that doesn't have reeally crappy, overpriced food?
I seem to recall my wife claiming the Sydney one is actually pretty good. I haven't been, though I did go to Queensland's only revolving restaurant once, though I only turned up for a very hungover breakfast which was thoroughly disappointing. Leads me to believe they trade off the novelty aspect at the expense of the quality of food.
A comment promoting creationism would most likely be moderated as a troll.
That's because there's no mod option for "-1 Completely Bat-Shit Fucking Loopy", an option I for one would welcome with open arms.
I mean seriously, the whole creationism thing takes some bronze-age scroll dug up in a cave somewhere and places it above hundreds of years of accumulated evidence. That's just crazy.
> What possible natural selection process would select a fish with an eye 1/1000 of inch higher than the other?
that's a common misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. we're not dealing with individuals here, but large populations, over many, many generations.
minuscule changes have the potential to magnify over many successive generations to the point where the change does become meaningful, rather than just random.
The most visible, layman-undestandable version of evolution? adaptation of pathogens for resistance against antibiotics. This process happens in an understandable timescale (measurable in years rather than centuries) simply because the characteristics of large populations and rapid generations mean nature can cram what would take a macrobiological organism thousands of years. Once you accept a disease can become resistant to antibiotics, it's then simply a case of scaling up.
it's not a single fish.
>Hot grits is dying
Netcraft confirms it!
oh, I couldn't resist.
> I prefer to rationalize this as the work of the Holy Spirit.
You're winding me up now, right? This is a joke?
creepy and far fetched. Who even knew geeks got laid?
> but any one guess as to how the complexities of reality came about is as good as any other.
not true, unless by 'good' you mean 'bad'
for instance, what about the theory that we were all sneezed out by a vast being called the great green arkleseizure?* It's as valid as saying that god moved on the face of the waters (or whatever), but far less valid than the more testable 'guesses' which physicists have been making based on previous 'guesses', which in turn are based on other guesses way back down the way.
I guess what I'm attempting to put across is that there are an infinite number of guesses that can be made, but only a finite amount of plausible ones, and that number is shrinking all the time as our knowledge grows. ergo one guess is not necessarily as good as another.
why isn't there an incoherent mod option? I feel I may deserve it after that.
* thank you Douglas Adams