You make atheists such as myself and other unbelievers look bad. But you'll grow up some day.
No. But that kind of politically correct tolerance does. It takes only cursory look of medias over the years to see that many many leaders use the god/faith-card to make stupid sheeple do their bidding.
There is no way to prove conclusively that a deity or deities exist or do not.
That is irrelevant. Violence, forced fairytales of ID and others, hiding of everyday matters like sex must stop. Religious nutjobs who can't keep their insanity to themselves and STFU must be stopped.
"I have a right to be outraged and by god, I am! Arrgh!" "I am some asian dude, you insensitive clod!" "I'm not a racist and I prove it by pointing fingers and bringing the issue up in every turn! Take that, racists!" "I'm politically correct at all times! Nobody likes it but I'm still right and they are wrong! HA!"
Chill out. PC people annoy everyone, regardless of skin color.
The "piracy for evaluation" excuse is a weak cop-out in my eyes.
I'm not presenting excuses here. I'm saying how things are: If there exist a way to use it for free, I will use it for free and IF I find myself not only playing around with it but actually using it, I will buy it or more commonly, try to find some freeware that does the same core thing I need.
I like to use freeware becuse it's always available and if I can do everything I need with it, then all I ever need is internet connection and I'll have all the tools I need, legally. Many commercial progs have some core idea or function with lots of unecessary extras around it to make it look more complex and valuable than it actually is. I'll see what that core function is and go for freeware, thank you very much.
You take the time, like me, to research what you plan to buy and decide for yourself if it is worth the money or not. Then you go find the cheapest retailer and buy the stuff you know will be worth the money.
How do you know for 100% sure that the product is worth the money for the particular need you have if you don't test the fully functional product first? You can research all you like but if the program costs, say 1000 dollars, you know you can't return the product if it still doesn't fit your needs after all the research and you just don't have that kind of money to throw away? And makers of said product won't give you test version or they give a version that's too crippled to know if you need it or not?
How long research equals or surpasses that 1000 dollar purchasing price for something that might be useless afterall?
Step down and see the real world where sensible people won't knowingly throw away thousands of dollars for something valuable looking that just might be a piece of shit instead when looked more closely.
But you're not paying for the music. Copyright over the music belongs to the record label or artist.
I'm paying for the right to listen that music from the media I bought. I know. I bought a CD disc and I have the right to listen music from that CD disc. Except it's not a CD disc! All my players have the Compact Disc logo and I bought a disc that looks like a CD but it's not. But I don't have any players supporting format that looks like CD but it's not.
I should return it and everybody should return their non-CD audio discs. But most people won't return them. Instead, they force those discs into their CD-players and hope for the best. Which usually works and they're happy and they won't return the discs and thus give their silent acceptance for non-CD discs.
I'm not a happy camper. They break the rules and knowingly sell broken discs among standard CD discs. Other people won't help me make it right. Voting won't help. They advertise new music forcibly by playing it everywhere and I can't cover my ears and I can't stop hearing music and remembering it if it's good. Good music makes me want to hear it again sometimes and they count on that. They break the rules and force me to hear new music.
But! I have found means to make it right for myself at least. I can make music play anyway, anywhere. I can take any music they force on me, for free. I'm free again.
I hate new things because most of the time, they cost money. I avoid advertising that forces me to try a product.
That's cute. Now since it doesn't have its former credibility anymore, they bargain and try for something less outlandish. "Interrogation device" my ass. Like scientologists' emeters, it's a theater prop for the stupid.
- Ha! I fooled the lie detector! - Ah ha, gotcha! - Damn!
..hehehaCut it. That rebellious act stops right here and right now. Either you're with slashdot or you're with myspace. I'm seriously suspicious if you live in a basement even.
This myspace story is here only to make fun of myspacers and you blatantly abused the goodwill of the poster by not ridiculing them. Immediate remedy is required here, do something fast, even poor joke about myspace and you can keep your license to nerd.
Oh the irony. Here we have this new MEDIA PLAYER, that doesn't play media under certain conditions. Before, some of those conditions were something like broken media files, missing codecs, etc. But this one adds many new conditions, some of which might not even be told about anywhere! So it's less of a media player than other players before it since it plays media less.
Before, media players were supposed to only play media (that's why they're called 'media players', get it?) and _maybe_ give possibility to manage playlists. This one, OTOH, not only plays media (under certain unclear conditions), but also gives you ads and tells you how you can throw your money away today! SO, it does something else except plays media? Sorry that won't make it more of a media player as other players before it.
Tell me again _who_ is the biased one here? Read its name closely again: Windows MEDIA PLAYER 11, in case you've got trouble (with something I don't want to hear about). Please don't try any lame "but Apple does it too" excuse. MS is not Apple. If others do something stupid, it doesn't mean that you can do the same. Did your mom never tell you this?
Database poisoning, ie. entering information that is not only bogus but also harmful, making previously useful lookups turn back so much garbage that real info is hard to find. In other words, some kind of proxy program on client side that loads pages from given list of addresses. That list can be composed of all sites possibly under surveillance. It randomly loads pages in the background, makes google searches with offending words, but doesn't bother user with the data it loads.
Only layman here (I'm not worthy) but I get this mental image of calabi-yau shape of B-sub-s going *sproingg-boing-boing-boing* like a spring when it hits in a collider before settling back to one we can't observe anymore. That's the level of knowledge reading Greene's book Elegant Universe (and Bugs Bunny) got me.
For me AM2/DDR2 is disappointment because it eats into the one thing Athlon64 was and is still, despite DDR2, superior over Intel's offers: low memory latency. DDR can't be run as high clocks than DDR2 but has lower latency, DDR2 feels like oldschool "MHz is everything" piece and AMD dumped DDR for it? Intel changed their game with huge caches and suddenly inegrated memory controllers don't matter anymore because there's so much cache. AMD is going to be left in the dust again unless they can offer something that's faster than what Intel has. And no, multiple cores aren't right kind of faster, that trick didn't save 3dfx and it won't save AMD.
Because those things are the first things that come to my mind that could make me stand overnight in line outside and not sleep comfortably in my bed. But then again, I rate sleep very high in my priorities. And I hate any kind of queues, it makes me feel like I'm sheeple. If I can't get something without standing in a line, I rather be without.
But, as you said, I don't know you. You want that stuff so bad or value comfort so little or something else that you don't mind some effort to get it first.
They are there but speed difference isn't that big with fastest 7200RPM drives. Look SpintpointT or WD Caviar RE2 scores. Those are 7200, Raptors are 10000.
All in all, it looks like Western Digital and Samsung can and do make fast SATA drives. I remember some speculation that WD don't have SCSI markets/drives and so it won't bite its own sales if it makes its SATA drives run as fast as possible. Implying that other hard drive makers keep their SATA drives intentionally slower so they can keep selling SCSI drives with better margins. But I dunno.
I will be standing overnight in a lineup for a release of a product.
Why? It's only a mass produced ordinary product it's not your bregnant wife delivering your first baby. It's not your close relative in bed dying. It's not first meal for a week nor is it first sip of fresh water for many days. Nor is it jackpot lottery winnings, no it's you who are losing money, you who's losing dignity and good nights sleep and it's you who is still looking vain no matter how many other people there are waiting for their latest fix of stuff.
Coz being good gets you stuff and stuff makes you good.
Why should anyone lose their job or marriage over this?
Because you/we haven't separated church from sexuality and it bites your ass in every turn. Imagine how we could live if sexuality was considered mundane everyday need like need to eat or rest? Why can't we? Because we are sick in our heads and church is to blame.
Don't hate the players, hate the rules and those who made the rules. Hate those who play by the rules, hate those who are too weak to go against the rules.
Hate yourself for being shamed to show your reproductive organs publicly while not having any trouble showing your digestive hole publicly.
Hate yourself for being so helpless.
Future generations hopefully will laugh at us being so clumsy with our own mental processes that even adults believe in invisible imaginary friends and are incapable to shake off early learned preconceptions. I, for one, am disappointed at how immature we humans still are in terms of self control.
If neutrinos could form a big giant ball by themselves, how large would that ball be? Are they really nearly massless or are they only weakly reacting to gravity and still massive?
"Contrary to popular belief, the ability to create more realistic and lifelike graphical environments doesn't always count as innovation.
Who's popular belief would that be, marketing drones'? Inventing wheel was innovative, inventing firemaking was innovative, etc. It seems that these days everything that's applauded as innovative, isn't.
Why professional modelling software makers can't optimise their programs to run fast on gaming cards? It's 3D it has lots of polys like games, what gives?
Why all the talk of game graphics is about filters and layers and not 10k+ polys / character? In fact the polygon talk is all but dead.
Because NV and ATI use basically same chips on both their gamer and pro lines, only limiting funtionality on driver level, is their only option to cripple and stop pro modelling sw makers' support for gaming cards to keep poly-drawing speed low and pump filtering/texturing/layers?
I care a lot. WoW is so simple that it's a teenager hell where even a dog could level and grind itself to a lv60 and get good gear.
It's not complex enough to be of any challenge to anyone, all it takes is time time time. Blizzard could've made it require ALL the steps to make even simple armors and equipment and teach people something useful. Instead there are readymade thread, cloth, wood, salt and whatnot and creating a leatherarmor takes two steps: skinning and making it using some thread.
the Nazi's didnt really do anything repugnant with the concentration camps. The Japanese didnt do anything wrong with Pearl Harbor. And Saddam Hussein didnt do anything wrong when he gassed the Kurds. And, using your argument, there wouldnt seem to be anything wrong with the actions of the 9/11 bombers either.
...and winners get to write the history. Remember that.
The Dean tried to sort this out without suspending the student.
There isn't anything to sort out, the dean overreacted and that's that. If there's any problem it's dean himself and he should sort himself out or whatever the fuck he needs to calm down and stop bothering students and other people.
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No. But that kind of politically correct tolerance does. It takes only cursory look of medias over the years to see that many many leaders use the god/faith-card to make stupid sheeple do their bidding.
That is irrelevant. Violence, forced fairytales of ID and others, hiding of everyday matters like sex must stop. Religious nutjobs who can't keep their insanity to themselves and STFU must be stopped.
Ah, what'll it be this time, I wonder? Is it:
"I have a right to be outraged and by god, I am! Arrgh!"
"I am some asian dude, you insensitive clod!"
"I'm not a racist and I prove it by pointing fingers and bringing the issue up in every turn! Take that, racists!"
"I'm politically correct at all times! Nobody likes it but I'm still right and they are wrong! HA!"
Chill out. PC people annoy everyone, regardless of skin color.
I'm not presenting excuses here. I'm saying how things are: If there exist a way to use it for free, I will use it for free and IF I find myself not only playing around with it but actually using it, I will buy it or more commonly, try to find some freeware that does the same core thing I need.
I like to use freeware becuse it's always available and if I can do everything I need with it, then all I ever need is internet connection and I'll have all the tools I need, legally. Many commercial progs have some core idea or function with lots of unecessary extras around it to make it look more complex and valuable than it actually is. I'll see what that core function is and go for freeware, thank you very much.
How do you know for 100% sure that the product is worth the money for the particular need you have if you don't test the fully functional product first? You can research all you like but if the program costs, say 1000 dollars, you know you can't return the product if it still doesn't fit your needs after all the research and you just don't have that kind of money to throw away? And makers of said product won't give you test version or they give a version that's too crippled to know if you need it or not?
How long research equals or surpasses that 1000 dollar purchasing price for something that might be useless afterall?
Step down and see the real world where sensible people won't knowingly throw away thousands of dollars for something valuable looking that just might be a piece of shit instead when looked more closely.
I'm paying for the right to listen that music from the media I bought. I know. I bought a CD disc and I have the right to listen music from that CD disc. Except it's not a CD disc! All my players have the Compact Disc logo and I bought a disc that looks like a CD but it's not. But I don't have any players supporting format that looks like CD but it's not.
I should return it and everybody should return their non-CD audio discs. But most people won't return them. Instead, they force those discs into their CD-players and hope for the best. Which usually works and they're happy and they won't return the discs and thus give their silent acceptance for non-CD discs.
I'm not a happy camper. They break the rules and knowingly sell broken discs among standard CD discs. Other people won't help me make it right. Voting won't help. They advertise new music forcibly by playing it everywhere and I can't cover my ears and I can't stop hearing music and remembering it if it's good. Good music makes me want to hear it again sometimes and they count on that. They break the rules and force me to hear new music.
But! I have found means to make it right for myself at least. I can make music play anyway, anywhere. I can take any music they force on me, for free. I'm free again.
I hate new things because most of the time, they cost money. I avoid advertising that forces me to try a product.
Don't forget also: Because if all of jury say he is guilty, he has to be.
Voting truth is fun!
That's cute. Now since it doesn't have its former credibility anymore, they bargain and try for something less outlandish. "Interrogation device" my ass. Like scientologists' emeters, it's a theater prop for the stupid.
- Ha! I fooled the lie detector!
- Ah ha, gotcha!
- Damn!
..hehehaCut it. That rebellious act stops right here and right now. Either you're with slashdot or you're with myspace. I'm seriously suspicious if you live in a basement even.
This myspace story is here only to make fun of myspacers and you blatantly abused the goodwill of the poster by not ridiculing them. Immediate remedy is required here, do something fast, even poor joke about myspace and you can keep your license to nerd.
Oh the irony. Here we have this new MEDIA PLAYER, that doesn't play media under certain conditions. Before, some of those conditions were something like broken media files, missing codecs, etc. But this one adds many new conditions, some of which might not even be told about anywhere! So it's less of a media player than other players before it since it plays media less.
Before, media players were supposed to only play media (that's why they're called 'media players', get it?) and _maybe_ give possibility to manage playlists. This one, OTOH, not only plays media (under certain unclear conditions), but also gives you ads and tells you how you can throw your money away today! SO, it does something else except plays media? Sorry that won't make it more of a media player as other players before it.
Tell me again _who_ is the biased one here? Read its name closely again: Windows MEDIA PLAYER 11, in case you've got trouble (with something I don't want to hear about). Please don't try any lame "but Apple does it too" excuse. MS is not Apple. If others do something stupid, it doesn't mean that you can do the same. Did your mom never tell you this?
Ha ha, cables! May I suggest you also try wooden knobs? ;)
Database poisoning, ie. entering information that is not only bogus but also harmful, making previously useful lookups turn back so much garbage that real info is hard to find. In other words, some kind of proxy program on client side that loads pages from given list of addresses. That list can be composed of all sites possibly under surveillance. It randomly loads pages in the background, makes google searches with offending words, but doesn't bother user with the data it loads.
There's a soviet russia joke in there somewhere. I just can't put my finger on it...
Only layman here (I'm not worthy) but I get this mental image of calabi-yau shape of B-sub-s going *sproingg-boing-boing-boing* like a spring when it hits in a collider before settling back to one we can't observe anymore. That's the level of knowledge reading Greene's book Elegant Universe (and Bugs Bunny) got me.
For me AM2/DDR2 is disappointment because it eats into the one thing Athlon64 was and is still, despite DDR2, superior over Intel's offers: low memory latency. DDR can't be run as high clocks than DDR2 but has lower latency, DDR2 feels like oldschool "MHz is everything" piece and AMD dumped DDR for it? Intel changed their game with huge caches and suddenly inegrated memory controllers don't matter anymore because there's so much cache. AMD is going to be left in the dust again unless they can offer something that's faster than what Intel has. And no, multiple cores aren't right kind of faster, that trick didn't save 3dfx and it won't save AMD.
Because those things are the first things that come to my mind that could make me stand overnight in line outside and not sleep comfortably in my bed. But then again, I rate sleep very high in my priorities. And I hate any kind of queues, it makes me feel like I'm sheeple. If I can't get something without standing in a line, I rather be without.
But, as you said, I don't know you. You want that stuff so bad or value comfort so little or something else that you don't mind some effort to get it first.
They are there but speed difference isn't that big with fastest 7200RPM drives. Look SpintpointT or WD Caviar RE2 scores. Those are 7200, Raptors are 10000.
All in all, it looks like Western Digital and Samsung can and do make fast SATA drives. I remember some speculation that WD don't have SCSI markets/drives and so it won't bite its own sales if it makes its SATA drives run as fast as possible. Implying that other hard drive makers keep their SATA drives intentionally slower so they can keep selling SCSI drives with better margins. But I dunno.
Why? It's only a mass produced ordinary product it's not your bregnant wife delivering your first baby. It's not your close relative in bed dying. It's not first meal for a week nor is it first sip of fresh water for many days. Nor is it jackpot lottery winnings, no it's you who are losing money, you who's losing dignity and good nights sleep and it's you who is still looking vain no matter how many other people there are waiting for their latest fix of stuff.
Coz being good gets you stuff and stuff makes you good.
Why should anyone lose their job or marriage over this?
Because you/we haven't separated church from sexuality and it bites your ass in every turn. Imagine how we could live if sexuality was considered mundane everyday need like need to eat or rest? Why can't we? Because we are sick in our heads and church is to blame.
Don't hate the players, hate the rules and those who made the rules. Hate those who play by the rules, hate those who are too weak to go against the rules.
Hate yourself for being shamed to show your reproductive organs publicly while not having any trouble showing your digestive hole publicly.
Hate yourself for being so helpless.
Future generations hopefully will laugh at us being so clumsy with our own mental processes that even adults believe in invisible imaginary friends and are incapable to shake off early learned preconceptions. I, for one, am disappointed at how immature we humans still are in terms of self control.
If neutrinos could form a big giant ball by themselves, how large would that ball be? Are they really nearly massless or are they only weakly reacting to gravity and still massive?
Who's popular belief would that be, marketing drones'? Inventing wheel was innovative, inventing firemaking was innovative, etc. It seems that these days everything that's applauded as innovative, isn't.
Why all the talk of game graphics is about filters and layers and not 10k+ polys / character? In fact the polygon talk is all but dead.
Because NV and ATI use basically same chips on both their gamer and pro lines, only limiting funtionality on driver level, is their only option to cripple and stop pro modelling sw makers' support for gaming cards to keep poly-drawing speed low and pump filtering/texturing/layers?
It's not complex enough to be of any challenge to anyone, all it takes is time time time. Blizzard could've made it require ALL the steps to make even simple armors and equipment and teach people something useful. Instead there are readymade thread, cloth, wood, salt and whatnot and creating a leatherarmor takes two steps: skinning and making it using some thread.
It's stupid stupid stupid.
...and winners get to write the history. Remember that.
There isn't anything to sort out, the dean overreacted and that's that. If there's any problem it's dean himself and he should sort himself out or whatever the fuck he needs to calm down and stop bothering students and other people.
Someone tell me, why are we talking about Microsoft again and again and again and again and again and again...???