I've never read the books but they were written be exactly that: a Christian story, about Christ. Lewis was no "fundamentalist" by any means however.
You mention Tolkien and Lewis being contemporaries of each other, but what I find more interesting is the relationship and debate that Lewis and Freud had:
It was weird to see their two viewpoints because I honestly sided with both at different times. I'm not a Christian, but a follower of Judaism, so it was easy to side with Lewis at times and even easier to side with Freud. Combined, their insights actually make a nice, complete worldview. You've just got to take what you believe and leave the rest.
No, criminal profiteering. The only type of person who could make use of the information apart from Microsoft is a criminal.
What about the system administrator trying to secure his networks? There are plenty of legitimate reasons why someone would want to know exactly what the vulnerability is so they are able to stop people from using it.
Exactly. From the Microsoft viewpoint, trying to secure anything without their permission or use of another one of their products is criminal.
I don't know if I can take the ups and downs that come with parabolic football...
(maniacal laughter)
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Im sure a large group of people on slashdot would also like to see Microsoft be brought down by their TrackChanges feature also.
It's already happened.
It seems, after looking at the files directly, the "Halloween" memos were started at the bottom of Microsoft's employee pool and went upwards. The document was a rant about how great Linux and the entire open source movement around the GPL was. Before they were sent to Eric Raymond there are drastic edits to the memo by a user known only as SBallmer. Somehow we got this.
abcde is a good program to use for the ripping BTW.
ABCDE (A Better CD Encoder) is the most awsome program for ripping CD's to disk period. In 20 seconds you can be ripping your whole collection with little effort. It deserves some attention:
Funny, I get offered credit cards, postage meters and anything else you could consider b2b spam... although they always try to get me through the phone first.
I get about 6 calls a week! Most from major corporations.
but how often are you using bookmarks on gmail (a web application)? And if you want to print from gmail, it shouldn't be a print of the screen, but a specially built printable html page
That's great, we have those two figured out. Now what about accessibility? Gmail is popular and is used worldwide (except in Germany where it is called Google Mail), and by what I assume are a few users that need accessibility in web applications. You can't even open an e-mail in Ajax mode. I would assume that a lot of users find it the same.
Today it seems you use the prior art to show that your patent is possible and useful.
That's okay. Patents don't keep me from doing a lot of things myself, they just keep you from doing them for me. Now if only I could write my own mpeg2 decoder, and make my own medicine.
That sounds to me like the definition of what government is supposed to do: provide essential services with a focus on maximising service, not profit.
Actually, that is what "corporations" are supposed to do. At one time they were given a charter by the state (on a state-to-state basis) to provide a service for minimal (if any) profit. As time progressed this changed, it was ruled that corporations have the rights of the individual and that focusing on anything *but* profit is illegal.
Gone are the days that a corporation lived and died by its ability to provide a service to the public. Microsoft can't live and die after they've done their service, these charters have no shelf life.
If I was the U.S. Government (which I kinda am), I'd revoke the Bell South corporate charter.
We covered this or a similar story before and already had this debate.
The problem I have, and pointed out last time, is that if the price is due to drop or simply not making units move then the price should be lowered. Years ago when rebates were few and far between I got a nice, unexpected rebate for a Zip drive I bought a month before. The reason: units were moving and the price was due to be discounted because more units were on the way. That is what a rebate used to be about. The price drop couldn't be handled by the retailer because they already bought in high, and sold units, so the company shared their profits (to sell more units no less).
Now rebates are geared towards a few things: * Getting you in the door. The rebate is great, and the product is nice but right next to it is a better product that you'd much rather get. Door busters are great, I applaud the effort. Sometimes you'd want the rebated product anyways so it works out. * To get you to buy a package. If it is worth it, go for it. Usually it isn't. Sure you are getting a $150-$200 rebate for a monitor, printer and PC - but is that printer or monitor worth it? Usually I find this deals mismatched. You get an LCD monitor with a year old computer and a printer that isn't worth the ink refills. * To lock you into buying from a retailer. I just was suckered into buying a hard drive from newegg because they were the only ones offering the rebate. The rebate form (from the hard drive maker) states that the rebate is only valid at newegg, even though newegg isn't the ones writing the check. Often you see this in retail stores to move store favorite or popular PC brands. You just have to shop around before making the jump. Best Buy may offer a $30 rebate for a product when Circuit City has it $20 cheaper. What is worth more to you? A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, or is it to you? * To rip you off. Rebates for $5 or $10 dollars are rarely redeemed, at least on time. You are more likely to submit and follow up when the rebate is worth somewhere near $25 or more. Grocery products are starting to offer $1 or even $5 rebates that are a considerable amount of the price - but people never do all of the steps needed. You need to submit the rebate, then wait 6 weeks for it, and the most important of all cash the rebate check. Who goes to the bank to cash a $1 check? If you had ten or twenty, sure.
Rebates are great - but I'd rather just spend less to walk out the door with an item. Usually it is best to wonder why there is even a rebate on a product. There are those that are genuine, but some are not. They will honor the rebate - but you likely were fooled into buying the product.
Can we get an in-depth economical analysis of why rebates exist?
No, the problem isn't the Windows platform, it's the insistance of Microsoft to use Internet Explorer for every web application on the Windows platform.
Why doesn't Google just use Mozilla's engine to render the content? (They are putting money into its development) They *would* have more control.
Let's see where the newspapers are on these points. I work at one and it sounds like you describe our paper.
Basic competence in English grammar and spelling are to be avoided at all costs.
Already there. The paper I work for often leaves things such as verbs out of headlines. Non-wire articles often have grammar or spelling errors. I'd say one in every three artiles.
Reading your own paper is to be avoided at all costs.
They don't listen to their customers, that's a start isn't it?
Posting the same stories again can make your site twice as newsy.
Check. Check. We do this trick every few days. I guess they don't read their own paper because now and then a story runs on A5 then A2 then A1. Nothing changes in the story except the way it's worded.
Posting incoherent rants always rates over sober journalism.
You should see our editorial page. I'm not even talking about the reader's opinions either. The man they rely on the most is not only an idiot but rants rather than debates. I wonder if he is sober ever. He once went on an anti-porn kick and told readers that the county prosecutor showed him child pornography for his "story". (Story meaning a 6 paragraph rant). I wondered why he would need to see this "evidence" but also why he would rat out the guy that showed it to him.
Your job isn't to inform, but to generate the highest number of page-views for your advertisers.
Newspapers have had this covered for years. Ours is turning into a home and garden/style/puzzle magazine that lacks in its local and national coverage. The horoscope brings in more readers so whats the point of covering the stories, right?
People who don't like ads can be fooled by hiding ads inside so-called news stories.
Done. Newspapers have the advantage of printing actual ads that look like stories and notices. They'll outright sell you an ad spot designed to fool a reader into thinking, if just for a second, that the ad is part of the stories.
Most of the analysis I read in the essay is spot on, in fact I hope our editor would read it. Just the simple idea of giving away more papers would be a start. You can't get by raising the delivery rates three times in three months. It's (mostly) a normal good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_good
As far as Roblimo's suggestion that classifieds should become a central part of the site makes me wonder. My newspaper at one time had the best Help Wanted classifieds. They even had them on-line. I'm sure they lost a few print ads to Monster or Hotjobs but they were still the authority when it came to published listings. Soon however they started using CareerBuilder on their website and since their print ads have declined. When people knew that they were no longer listed online for free they just went to Monster themselves. CareerBuilder, btw, sucks. I never liked that site but as you can imagine they just don't advertise the kinds of jobs you want to find in your local paper. There is no local, non-professional job listings for our paper on-line. It sucks. Not only is the paper getting farther out of touch with the local area so is the on-line edition.
First let's put out there that the *types* you speak of have the contention that movies that are promoted as "Not Yet Rated" to draw in a wider, younger audience on that aspect alone. Some people (these *types*) would like to censor because they feel that the worse the rating the more some child is going to want to see said film. I personally want to play more games that have AO ratings for the novelty factor so the rating system itself is (kinda) dangerous. It's all we got though and any steps to remove games from the market are downright ridiculous.
It all comes down to good parenting. To tell you the truth, I don't mind if my kids play a Grand Theft Auto (even with HotCoffee) - I just don't want your kids playing it. I'm only 25 and I know teenagers, young adults and even friends kids who are not very well adjusted, so to speak. There isn't a lot of good parenting out there. And here comes our religious angle again.
My job as the Bible mandates is to enforce responsibility in my brothers and sisters in Christ, and be a model for non-believers. I can not control a non-believer and using Caesar to do so is wrong. Your job as a parent is to be involved 100% in your child's life. If you want a good Christian child, be a good Christian parent. Try to live sin free, and stop forcing your child to be perfect if you are not perfect yourself.
I'm not a Christian, but I'll keep you guessing what. I know a lot about Christian teaching and there isn't really much in there about playing a game that is "dirty" or makes you do "wrong" things. As far as keeping Christian kids away from adult themed games I can only say that the first step is to actually take them to church. Follow up on that and try to teach them that what you are going for is a strong foundation for life. The lessons to be learned at church are good and can teach you how you should act towards your fellow man.
Along with these teachings is a nice perk for parents. I'm suprised it is forgotten so easily: Honour thy father and thy mother
FUD goes both ways. I agree with your BSOD point for the most part. I don't see Windows doing a lot of "crashing" after 2000/XP except when hardware is at fault. The last blue screen I saw was because the hard drive died and naturally the data Windows began looking for didn't exist - although it was addressable in memory. The BSOD is the only thing that could happen in that case because the repair/reporting tools are on the drive. I can't remember a BSOD before that - except in a case where the whole shop knew the video cards (in 10% of 1000+ Dells) were faulty.
I've got to say that this bit about getting a PC with Windows automatically increases the price $100 or more. When you spec out or customize a machine you may see this charge appear, but is it really there? I think it's all part of the "mark up". I'm not talking about smaller shops or even newer brands. Compaq computers, the ones you may find in Wal-Mart or some other discount store certainly aren't priced with the Windows license included.
You are exactly right. The plans for a bridge are open to review where the plans to a bank's vault lock may not be. Even the biggest zealots don't want everything to be open. We expect important or public projects to be open to review - if you said the bridge just won't fall, forgive us if we don't take your word for it.
The Xbox certainly isn't a bridge. It's a consumer device for playing games, for Microsoft (Sony, Nintendo and once upon a time Sega) it's nothing more than a revenue stream. We aren't talking mission critical devices. If you want the plans to the Xbox to modify it be my guest, but don't cry because they made it hard for you.
With proprietary and open solutions you've got two choices, take it or leave it. I'm thinking about buying an Xbox, but I'm not rushing out to get a copy of Windows with it.
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Veggie Tales? or did you mean The Passion of The Christ?
I've never read the books but they were written be exactly that: a Christian story, about Christ. Lewis was no "fundamentalist" by any means however.
You mention Tolkien and Lewis being contemporaries of each other, but what I find more interesting is the relationship and debate that Lewis and Freud had:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/
http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9801/nicholi.html
It was weird to see their two viewpoints because I honestly sided with both at different times. I'm not a Christian, but a follower of Judaism, so it was easy to side with Lewis at times and even easier to side with Freud. Combined, their insights actually make a nice, complete worldview. You've just got to take what you believe and leave the rest.
Even a centrifuge to enrich uranium!
Exactly. From the Microsoft viewpoint, trying to secure anything without their permission or use of another one of their products is criminal.
Stop questioning Microsoft you criminal!
(maniacal laughter)
Im sure a large group of people on slashdot would also like to see Microsoft be brought down by their TrackChanges feature also.
It's already happened.
It seems, after looking at the files directly, the "Halloween" memos were started at the bottom of Microsoft's employee pool and went upwards. The document was a rant about how great Linux and the entire open source movement around the GPL was. Before they were sent to Eric Raymond there are drastic edits to the memo by a user known only as SBallmer. Somehow we got this.
abcde is a good program to use for the ripping BTW.
ABCDE (A Better CD Encoder) is the most awsome program for ripping CD's to disk period. In 20 seconds you can be ripping your whole collection with little effort. It deserves some attention:
http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/
Funny, I get offered credit cards, postage meters and anything else you could consider b2b spam... although they always try to get me through the phone first.
I get about 6 calls a week! Most from major corporations.
If Benito Mussolini could make the trains run on time Larry Page and Sergey Brin can too!
Hey what if I'm resigning because I broke something and don't want to tell anyone?
If I can make a projector at home I'm wondering when porn will be shot from three angles at once...
but how often are you using bookmarks on gmail (a web application)? And if you want to print from gmail, it shouldn't be a print of the screen, but a specially built printable html page
That's great, we have those two figured out. Now what about accessibility? Gmail is popular and is used worldwide (except in Germany where it is called Google Mail), and by what I assume are a few users that need accessibility in web applications. You can't even open an e-mail in Ajax mode. I would assume that a lot of users find it the same.
the absence of widespread attacks
It's true, nothing gets the ol' blood pumping for action than a good Reichstag fire!
Today it seems you use the prior art to show that your patent is possible and useful.
That's okay. Patents don't keep me from doing a lot of things myself, they just keep you from doing them for me. Now if only I could write my own mpeg2 decoder, and make my own medicine.
Anyone here take chemistry?
That sounds to me like the definition of what government is supposed to do: provide essential services with a focus on maximising service, not profit.
Actually, that is what "corporations" are supposed to do. At one time they were given a charter by the state (on a state-to-state basis) to provide a service for minimal (if any) profit. As time progressed this changed, it was ruled that corporations have the rights of the individual and that focusing on anything *but* profit is illegal.
Gone are the days that a corporation lived and died by its ability to provide a service to the public. Microsoft can't live and die after they've done their service, these charters have no shelf life.
If I was the U.S. Government (which I kinda am), I'd revoke the Bell South corporate charter.
So it has everything to do with IE, just like we both said. Only I was right and you were - oh, so wrong.
We covered this or a similar story before and already had this debate.
The problem I have, and pointed out last time, is that if the price is due to drop or simply not making units move then the price should be lowered. Years ago when rebates were few and far between I got a nice, unexpected rebate for a Zip drive I bought a month before. The reason: units were moving and the price was due to be discounted because more units were on the way. That is what a rebate used to be about. The price drop couldn't be handled by the retailer because they already bought in high, and sold units, so the company shared their profits (to sell more units no less).
Now rebates are geared towards a few things:
* Getting you in the door. The rebate is great, and the product is nice but right next to it is a better product that you'd much rather get. Door busters are great, I applaud the effort. Sometimes you'd want the rebated product anyways so it works out.
* To get you to buy a package. If it is worth it, go for it. Usually it isn't. Sure you are getting a $150-$200 rebate for a monitor, printer and PC - but is that printer or monitor worth it? Usually I find this deals mismatched. You get an LCD monitor with a year old computer and a printer that isn't worth the ink refills.
* To lock you into buying from a retailer. I just was suckered into buying a hard drive from newegg because they were the only ones offering the rebate. The rebate form (from the hard drive maker) states that the rebate is only valid at newegg, even though newegg isn't the ones writing the check. Often you see this in retail stores to move store favorite or popular PC brands. You just have to shop around before making the jump. Best Buy may offer a $30 rebate for a product when Circuit City has it $20 cheaper. What is worth more to you? A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, or is it to you?
* To rip you off. Rebates for $5 or $10 dollars are rarely redeemed, at least on time. You are more likely to submit and follow up when the rebate is worth somewhere near $25 or more. Grocery products are starting to offer $1 or even $5 rebates that are a considerable amount of the price - but people never do all of the steps needed. You need to submit the rebate, then wait 6 weeks for it, and the most important of all cash the rebate check. Who goes to the bank to cash a $1 check? If you had ten or twenty, sure.
Rebates are great - but I'd rather just spend less to walk out the door with an item. Usually it is best to wonder why there is even a rebate on a product. There are those that are genuine, but some are not. They will honor the rebate - but you likely were fooled into buying the product.
Can we get an in-depth economical analysis of why rebates exist?
No, the problem isn't the Windows platform, it's the insistance of Microsoft to use Internet Explorer for every web application on the Windows platform.
Why doesn't Google just use Mozilla's engine to render the content? (They are putting money into its development) They *would* have more control.
Let's see where the newspapers are on these points. I work at one and it sounds like you describe our paper.
Basic competence in English grammar and spelling are to be avoided at all costs.
Already there. The paper I work for often leaves things such as verbs out of headlines. Non-wire articles often have grammar or spelling errors. I'd say one in every three artiles.
Reading your own paper is to be avoided at all costs.
They don't listen to their customers, that's a start isn't it?
Posting the same stories again can make your site twice as newsy.
Check. Check. We do this trick every few days. I guess they don't read their own paper because now and then a story runs on A5 then A2 then A1. Nothing changes in the story except the way it's worded.
Posting incoherent rants always rates over sober journalism.
You should see our editorial page. I'm not even talking about the reader's opinions either. The man they rely on the most is not only an idiot but rants rather than debates. I wonder if he is sober ever. He once went on an anti-porn kick and told readers that the county prosecutor showed him child pornography for his "story". (Story meaning a 6 paragraph rant). I wondered why he would need to see this "evidence" but also why he would rat out the guy that showed it to him.
Your job isn't to inform, but to generate the highest number of page-views for your advertisers.
Newspapers have had this covered for years. Ours is turning into a home and garden/style/puzzle magazine that lacks in its local and national coverage. The horoscope brings in more readers so whats the point of covering the stories, right?
People who don't like ads can be fooled by hiding ads inside so-called news stories.
Done. Newspapers have the advantage of printing actual ads that look like stories and notices. They'll outright sell you an ad spot designed to fool a reader into thinking, if just for a second, that the ad is part of the stories.
Most of the analysis I read in the essay is spot on, in fact I hope our editor would read it. Just the simple idea of giving away more papers would be a start. You can't get by raising the delivery rates three times in three months. It's (mostly) a normal good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_good
As far as Roblimo's suggestion that classifieds should become a central part of the site makes me wonder. My newspaper at one time had the best Help Wanted classifieds. They even had them on-line. I'm sure they lost a few print ads to Monster or Hotjobs but they were still the authority when it came to published listings. Soon however they started using CareerBuilder on their website and since their print ads have declined. When people knew that they were no longer listed online for free they just went to Monster themselves. CareerBuilder, btw, sucks. I never liked that site but as you can imagine they just don't advertise the kinds of jobs you want to find in your local paper. There is no local, non-professional job listings for our paper on-line. It sucks. Not only is the paper getting farther out of touch with the local area so is the on-line edition.
I don't see the religious link, but I'll bite.
First let's put out there that the *types* you speak of have the contention that movies that are promoted as "Not Yet Rated" to draw in a wider, younger audience on that aspect alone. Some people (these *types*) would like to censor because they feel that the worse the rating the more some child is going to want to see said film. I personally want to play more games that have AO ratings for the novelty factor so the rating system itself is (kinda) dangerous. It's all we got though and any steps to remove games from the market are downright ridiculous.
It all comes down to good parenting. To tell you the truth, I don't mind if my kids play a Grand Theft Auto (even with HotCoffee) - I just don't want your kids playing it. I'm only 25 and I know teenagers, young adults and even friends kids who are not very well adjusted, so to speak. There isn't a lot of good parenting out there. And here comes our religious angle again.
My job as the Bible mandates is to enforce responsibility in my brothers and sisters in Christ, and be a model for non-believers. I can not control a non-believer and using Caesar to do so is wrong.
Your job as a parent is to be involved 100% in your child's life. If you want a good Christian child, be a good Christian parent. Try to live sin free, and stop forcing your child to be perfect if you are not perfect yourself.
I'm not a Christian, but I'll keep you guessing what. I know a lot about Christian teaching and there isn't really much in there about playing a game that is "dirty" or makes you do "wrong" things. As far as keeping Christian kids away from adult themed games I can only say that the first step is to actually take them to church. Follow up on that and try to teach them that what you are going for is a strong foundation for life. The lessons to be learned at church are good and can teach you how you should act towards your fellow man.
Along with these teachings is a nice perk for parents. I'm suprised it is forgotten so easily: Honour thy father and thy mother
Why put the MCE in the same room or TV? Most MCE PC's sold today actually don't have TV-OUT hookups (try your local big chain store).
Put the PC in the closet.
FUD goes both ways. I agree with your BSOD point for the most part. I don't see Windows doing a lot of "crashing" after 2000/XP except when hardware is at fault. The last blue screen I saw was because the hard drive died and naturally the data Windows began looking for didn't exist - although it was addressable in memory. The BSOD is the only thing that could happen in that case because the repair/reporting tools are on the drive. I can't remember a BSOD before that - except in a case where the whole shop knew the video cards (in 10% of 1000+ Dells) were faulty.
I've got to say that this bit about getting a PC with Windows automatically increases the price $100 or more. When you spec out or customize a machine you may see this charge appear, but is it really there? I think it's all part of the "mark up". I'm not talking about smaller shops or even newer brands. Compaq computers, the ones you may find in Wal-Mart or some other discount store certainly aren't priced with the Windows license included.
Where do you ever see labor on the bill?
Same places you see the Windows price.
Now if I could only keep the pagefile on the flash portion and the rest of the data on the magnetic part...
You saw average temps of 149F?
And you lived? Wow.
You are exactly right. The plans for a bridge are open to review where the plans to a bank's vault lock may not be. Even the biggest zealots don't want everything to be open. We expect important or public projects to be open to review - if you said the bridge just won't fall, forgive us if we don't take your word for it.
The Xbox certainly isn't a bridge. It's a consumer device for playing games, for Microsoft (Sony, Nintendo and once upon a time Sega) it's nothing more than a revenue stream. We aren't talking mission critical devices. If you want the plans to the Xbox to modify it be my guest, but don't cry because they made it hard for you.
With proprietary and open solutions you've got two choices, take it or leave it. I'm thinking about buying an Xbox, but I'm not rushing out to get a copy of Windows with it.