So let's outlaw prayer to protect the stupid religiosos, right? Whether one decides to forgo medical treatment entirely is totally separate from one's religious attitude. Plenty of atheists refuse medical treatment because they don't want to face months of suffering in a terminal illness-- no prayer involved.
You're the first person to mention outlawing prayer. You're free to choose to decline medical treatment, for religious reasons or not. Old people often get DNRs not because of religion, but just because they've lived long enough in their own opinion. It's hard to make a choice, however, without being fully informed.
It's not the job of the collective to ensure that everyone makes the "right" choice. We could spend the time, money and effort to repeat this study 1000 times, and still someone will refuse medical treatment.
There is nothing wrong with this. It is perfectly acceptable for people to refuse medical treatment. It may not be what you fulwould choose, but thank God you can make your choice and they can make theirs.
I agree that people should made their own choices. Making a choice first requires being informed of your choices, and the consequences of your choices.
Nobody is talking about preventing people from choosing to die for their faith - just informing them of what it is they're commiting to.
Why do people feel the need to debunk another person's personal beliefs? Especially when it has absolutely no consequence to anyone but that person? If someone's mom or dad is going to have heart surgery where there is a good change they can die, and it comforts them to pray for a good outcome, who gives a shit? I'm not religious, but at the same time I don't get why science always has to have something to prove. It comforts people to pray for their loved ones, and themselves. Why do you give such a shit whether people pray, or believe in Bigfoot, or give money to Miss Cleo?
Because some people, convinced that prayer will cure them, will decline medical treatment. There's a certain Christian sect that acts this way, though the name escapes me at the moment.
Well, I'm a woman and the first thought that went through my mind was "funny how they criticize her looks but don't mention their own". In my experience, guys are quick to shoot down a woman's looks regardless of how good-looking they're not themselves. Frankly, if some pudgy, out-of-shape geek criticizes my looks I can easily fix that problem... with a fork.
Two thoughts.. one, I need to find that "sharp knees" picture that they post on fark.com all the time. Basically shows what you're describing, an ugly fat dork commenting that some girl is way below his standards.
Two, I've observed women do the exact same thing - shoot down average-looking guys when they are ugly fat biatches themselves. It's not a male thing, it's a human thing.
iPods play both mp3 and AAC (MD's format), so arguing quality is irrelevent - they both play AAC format.
iPods can record audio.. look up "Belkin iPod Microphone Adapter" ($19.95), among others. It's just not built-in since the vast majority won't use it like that.
As for why Sony keeps introducing new formats - same reason IBM introduced MicroChannel. Sony thinks it sets the standard, and wants to lock everyone in to a format they control. Same reason they introduced MemoryStick instead of just using CompactFlash/MMC/SD cards.
Um, you lost me here. Lots of people would be just fine with only a gig for their music. 10 hours of music right there. They would most certainly NOT be swapping it every 5 minutes.
I have one of these. It really is a pity the software for it isn't such a pain in the ass. Otherwise, it'd be just fine for me. All of my music is on my computer. That's primarily where I listen to it. The Hi-MD player is great for jogging, long drives, and it's easy on the budget. No, I won't be putting my entire music collection on it, and no you're not going to find any dorks carrying around 30 discs with them. Niether are required.
The article says the HiMD players are 150 EUR, which is the same price as a 1gig iPod Nano.
If you're going to be swapping your music out on your computer anyways, why not get the smaller, non-skipping flash device? What advantage does HiMD offer over an iPod Nano or similar?
I just don't get it - I prefer to listen to the music that I enjoy and focus on it, not use it as background noise in a work environment or (worse) while walking, cycling or driving.
I have a 25-30 minute drive to work. I listen to my iPod during that time (I have a cable that makes my radio think my iPod is a CD changer).
I could drive in silence and be bored, or worse, frustrated with traffic. Or I could listen to music. Easy decision, really.
I grew up with walkmans (28 now) - maybe that's the difference.
I remember first getting a starter checkbook with my account and trying to buy something with a check from it, but it was sort of . . . novelty-ish, with pictures on the checks, and the wal-mart clerk just looked at me strangely, called over a supervisor, and then said "uhh, we can't take this" as if it was the strangest request they'd ever had.
Starter checks aren't accepted at most retail locations. They'll work fine for bills though. Regular checks (with your name pre-printed, etc) work fine.
Do they still use *checks* in the US? I mean, they haven't heard of wire transfers and online banking? Seriuosly, how do people receive their wages or pay their rent there? By CHECKS?
Most full-time employees receive their wages by direct deposit. Most mortgages are auto-deducted from bank accounts.
Apartment rent, part-time employee wages, and person-to-person transfers normally use checks, yes.
The US never really caught on to wire transfers. The $50 fee per transfer might have something to do with that (Bank of America last year, transferring to my sister's Wachovia account)
I guess that explains why all the new content is so frighteningly like EverQuest, while levels 1-35 are the most fun I've ever had in a MMOG.
Tigole, head cheese right now, is an ex-EQ raider. As are several other prominent people at Blizzard (like Furor).
I thoroughly enjoyed 1-59, and was often sad I missed quests before I moved on to a new area. At 60, it changes to raid/farming/PvP. It's fun, but a *different* kind of fun. I almost quit, but stuck around for guildies.. then decided I liked the "new" game at 60.
My guild can field about 15 people at the same time, so our ZG and AQ runs are multi-guild, and we are favored guests at another guild's MC runs. You don't have to go the mega-hardcore guild route, but you do have to switch to raid/farm mode instead of quest mode.
Raid/farm is not for everyone. I have several alts because I still like questing.
And then there's moving on. I'll be buying Sid Meyer's Spore the day it comes out.:)
If we could see inside Blizzard I think we'd find a company that knows how to make good games, but one that doesn't have a good record at making good management decisions on how to run them.
Or, a company that made good games, got bought out by an evil company (Vivendi), and had a considerable portion of their developers leave for NCSoft. Everything since live has been done by the people left behind, or newly hired.
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Apple should port GTK and part of the gnome libraries to OS X, with native looks and feel. It's so totaly 90's to have to program every software title for every imaginable platform when there are mature open source libraries that would be nice if they got some tweaking. Kind of what Apple did with carbon.
Why don't the GTK developers make an output-to-Quartz to go alongside their output-to-X11? No help from Apple required.
Right now Google is built on an advertising model. They are just one decline in online advertising away from having everything fall out from under them. If they are going to stay a serious contender, they need to take the corporate search market very, very seriously and make it a key component of their product offerings.
For all that can be said about them, Microsoft at least sells products as the foundation of their business. As long as people need a good (yes, XP is good for many users, this coming from a Mac fan) OS for their cheap PCs or an office suite, Microsoft has a strong position. Google, not so much. They may have the best search product, but they are dependent on online advertising, which can decline even if their engine reachs near sentient comprehension of what you really want to know.
Right now Microsfot is built on an direct-sell model. They are just one decline in sales away from having everything fall out from under them. If they are going to stay a serious contender, they need to take the corporate search market very, very seriously and make it a key component of their product offerings.
For all that can be said about them, Google at least sells both products and services as the foundation of their business. As long as people need a good (yes, Google is good for many users, this coming from a Mac fan) search engine for their cheap PCs or an email client, Google has a strong position. Microsoft, not so much. They may have the best OS product, but they are dependent on sales, which can decline even if their OS reachs near sentient comprehension of what you really want to do today.
Now, a live CD and a setuid bash executable managed to fix the issue directly, but we learned an important lesson about root-less systems. If you screw up something like the/etc/sudoers, the system is hosed unless you have physical access.
So as much as I use sudo for almost all my UID 0 needs, I think root still needs to live in every box just to safegaurd against such simple mistakes which ended up costing more hours than the sudo would've saved.
If you blow up/etc/passwd or/etc/shadow, you're still going to need single user mode/boot disk whether you use sudo or a root account.
There's lots of ways to blow up the system. The fact that sudo has one more file that you can bone yourself with - one that you shouldn't be editing very often (use groups, not individual users) - isn't really a good reason to enable a root account.
Well, we do have a better understanding of the receptor mechanisms, and we do have vaccine trials, but I don't think it's likely to result in a second sexual revolution, America's too uptight.
Even disregarding morality, there's still the regular STDs like gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, hepatitis, etc.
Ralph Koster is right... We need to shift focus away from mass genocide of rats and orcs and make the games more than just leveling. We need virtual worlds. Not single player hack and slash games with a chat interface with other players.
Call me crazy, but generally I would think that the best developers for any given platform also use the same platform for development?
Okay crazy, what about developers using a corporate mandated Windows desktop, developing a cross-platform (or unix only) app? It happens, unfortunately.
Running multiple copies of Windows on Windows happens a lot too.
Yeah British food sucks. According to Restaurant magazine in 2005 the UK only has 4 of the top 10 resturants in the world (more than any other country), including the number one resturant in the world.
Wow, British restaurants won 4 out of the top 10 spots in a British magazine about British restaurants? Amazing!! http://www.restaurantmagazine.co.uk/
Next up: Russian dancing magazine that covers Russian dancing declares that Russia has 4 of the top 10 dancers!
Right now anyone in the world can lay out $10 and own a domain name. Anyone anywhere in the world. What happens when, say, Yemen comes into control of.ye?
Yemen is already in control of.ye, just as the Germany is in control of.de, and the US in control of.us.
Let me repeat: individual countries already control their ISO country code TLD, and have for some time (always?). Where have you been?
ICANN controls com/net/org (and info/biz/etc), not the country TLDs.
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Again, who cares?
Should we also take warning labels off bleach?
You're the first person to mention outlawing prayer. You're free to choose to decline medical treatment, for religious reasons or not. Old people often get DNRs not because of religion, but just because they've lived long enough in their own opinion. It's hard to make a choice, however, without being fully informed.
There is nothing wrong with this. It is perfectly acceptable for people to refuse medical treatment. It may not be what you fulwould choose, but thank God you can make your choice and they can make theirs.
I agree that people should made their own choices. Making a choice first requires being informed of your choices, and the consequences of your choices.
Nobody is talking about preventing people from choosing to die for their faith - just informing them of what it is they're commiting to.
I went looking for links to prove myself right, but it turns out that indeed, I'm completely wrong. I always thought they were the same. Oops.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATRAC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Codin
Because some people, convinced that prayer will cure them, will decline medical treatment. There's a certain Christian sect that acts this way, though the name escapes me at the moment.
Two thoughts.. one, I need to find that "sharp knees" picture that they post on fark.com all the time. Basically shows what you're describing, an ugly fat dork commenting that some girl is way below his standards.
Two, I've observed women do the exact same thing - shoot down average-looking guys when they are ugly fat biatches themselves. It's not a male thing, it's a human thing.
iPods play both mp3 and AAC (MD's format), so arguing quality is irrelevent - they both play AAC format.
iPods can record audio.. look up "Belkin iPod Microphone Adapter" ($19.95), among others. It's just not built-in since the vast majority won't use it like that.
As for why Sony keeps introducing new formats - same reason IBM introduced MicroChannel. Sony thinks it sets the standard, and wants to lock everyone in to a format they control. Same reason they introduced MemoryStick instead of just using CompactFlash/MMC/SD cards.
I have one of these. It really is a pity the software for it isn't such a pain in the ass. Otherwise, it'd be just fine for me. All of my music is on my computer. That's primarily where I listen to it. The Hi-MD player is great for jogging, long drives, and it's easy on the budget. No, I won't be putting my entire music collection on it, and no you're not going to find any dorks carrying around 30 discs with them. Niether are required.
The article says the HiMD players are 150 EUR, which is the same price as a 1gig iPod Nano.
If you're going to be swapping your music out on your computer anyways, why not get the smaller, non-skipping flash device? What advantage does HiMD offer over an iPod Nano or similar?
I have a 25-30 minute drive to work. I listen to my iPod during that time (I have a cable that makes my radio think my iPod is a CD changer).
I could drive in silence and be bored, or worse, frustrated with traffic. Or I could listen to music. Easy decision, really.
I grew up with walkmans (28 now) - maybe that's the difference.
Starter checks aren't accepted at most retail locations. They'll work fine for bills though. Regular checks (with your name pre-printed, etc) work fine.
Most full-time employees receive their wages by direct deposit. Most mortgages are auto-deducted from bank accounts.
Apartment rent, part-time employee wages, and person-to-person transfers normally use checks, yes.
The US never really caught on to wire transfers. The $50 fee per transfer might have something to do with that (Bank of America last year, transferring to my sister's Wachovia account)
Tigole, head cheese right now, is an ex-EQ raider. As are several other prominent people at Blizzard (like Furor).
I thoroughly enjoyed 1-59, and was often sad I missed quests before I moved on to a new area. At 60, it changes to raid/farming/PvP. It's fun, but a *different* kind of fun. I almost quit, but stuck around for guildies.. then decided I liked the "new" game at 60.
My guild can field about 15 people at the same time, so our ZG and AQ runs are multi-guild, and we are favored guests at another guild's MC runs. You don't have to go the mega-hardcore guild route, but you do have to switch to raid/farm mode instead of quest mode.
Raid/farm is not for everyone. I have several alts because I still like questing.
And then there's moving on. I'll be buying Sid Meyer's Spore the day it comes out. :)
Or, a company that made good games, got bought out by an evil company (Vivendi), and had a considerable portion of their developers leave for NCSoft. Everything since live has been done by the people left behind, or newly hired.
Why don't the GTK developers make an output-to-Quartz to go alongside their output-to-X11? No help from Apple required.
Oh nevermind, someone already started it: http://gtk-quartz.sourceforge.net/
For all that can be said about them, Microsoft at least sells products as the foundation of their business. As long as people need a good (yes, XP is good for many users, this coming from a Mac fan) OS for their cheap PCs or an office suite, Microsoft has a strong position. Google, not so much. They may have the best search product, but they are dependent on online advertising, which can decline even if their engine reachs near sentient comprehension of what you really want to know.
Right now Microsfot is built on an direct-sell model. They are just one decline in sales away from having everything fall out from under them. If they are going to stay a serious contender, they need to take the corporate search market very, very seriously and make it a key component of their product offerings.
For all that can be said about them, Google at least sells both products and services as the foundation of their business. As long as people need a good (yes, Google is good for many users, this coming from a Mac fan) search engine for their cheap PCs or an email client, Google has a strong position. Microsoft, not so much. They may have the best OS product, but they are dependent on sales, which can decline even if their OS reachs near sentient comprehension of what you really want to do today.
(In case you were unaware, Google also sells products http://www.google.com/enterprise/ in addition to advertising)
Grandparent: Mysql is more popular than Oracle
You: Oracle is better then Mysql
You are talking about different things. Popular != good.
So as much as I use sudo for almost all my UID 0 needs, I think root still needs to live in every box just to safegaurd against such simple mistakes which ended up costing more hours than the sudo would've saved.
If you blow up /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow, you're still going to need single user mode/boot disk whether you use sudo or a root account.
There's lots of ways to blow up the system. The fact that sudo has one more file that you can bone yourself with - one that you shouldn't be editing very often (use groups, not individual users) - isn't really a good reason to enable a root account.
Even disregarding morality, there's still the regular STDs like gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, hepatitis, etc.
Um, they have that. It's called the Sims Online.
http://www.ea.com/official/thesims/thesimsonline/u s/nai/index.jsp
Personally, I like killing stuff while chatting.
Okay crazy, what about developers using a corporate mandated Windows desktop, developing a cross-platform (or unix only) app? It happens, unfortunately.
Running multiple copies of Windows on Windows happens a lot too.
It is possible to verify CC info with no cost to the CC holder. The business doing the verifying, however, will incur costs.
Wow, British restaurants won 4 out of the top 10 spots in a British magazine about British restaurants? Amazing!!
http://www.restaurantmagazine.co.uk/
Next up: Russian dancing magazine that covers Russian dancing declares that Russia has 4 of the top 10 dancers!
But if his compiles went from 20 minutes to 5 minutes.. it's an easy bet that your 20 hour compiles might go down to like 5 hours, no?
He's not going to stay at the tradeshow compiling for 16 hours..
Reason #1: Because it blows
Reason #2: ???
Reason #3: Profit!!
Yemen is already in control of .ye, just as the Germany is in control of .de, and the US in control of .us.
Let me repeat: individual countries already control their ISO country code TLD, and have for some time (always?). Where have you been?
ICANN controls com/net/org (and info/biz/etc), not the country TLDs.