It's not so much the scientist that have an anti-Christian bias. It's people like so many here on slashdot that take every evolutionary discovery and try to use to beat Christians over the head saying, "See, ID people are stoopid".
I'd guess that there wouldn't be as much of this if some IDers weren't so intent on pushing *their* agenda on the rest of the nation/world.
Truth is, neither scientist nor fundamentalists can full explain how the universe was created. What most of us know for sure is that it exists.
While this is true, the scientists are the one who are actually seeking an explanation, while the fundamentalists seem to simply be accepting what they are told.
Umm.. not a whole lot? Science doesn't have a specifically anti-Christian bias. Certain Fundamentalists simply just see something there and use it to play up their own sense of persecution.
Would anyone say a metallurgist has an anti-Christian bias?
I personally agree with alienw. I enjoy having all my music (well, much of my music) with me at all times, as it allows me to have the entire thing on random. That is something you most definitely *can't* do with minidisc.
I *would* need to carry around about 30 minidiscs to carry all that around, and it stil wouldn't be as convenient.
Actually, the closest analogy would be the jump from Mac OS classic to OS X. You also get an entirely new, more stable, multi-user OS with that jump. The old kernel used cooperative multitasking (or actually, limited preemptive multitasking in windows 9x) to something specifically designed to be more secure.
Rights must apply to everyone. Otherwise, they are not rights. When a single person's right has been violated, that right has been taken away from *everyone*. Jose Padilla's right to due process has been violated, thus *my* right to due process has been violated.
If some for-profit commercial business could give me a service that would provide me with the same final product as P2P but with better selection, easier searching, and better quality control, I would happily pay a reasonable price for such a service. But there is no way that I will pay for a product that is inferior and less convenient to one that is available for free.
I remember reading that the reason for all his knowledge was because he nearly died in some boating accident. When you die, you immediately know everything, but forget your own personal details. He just somehow got saved at the last second.
It's actually a comment made by him in another thread. Use the site's search for "digital transition", look at the only article that has it, and scroll down much of the way for a very long post by a "JC".
Considering the nonobviousness of this, I think the OP should be somewhat commended for digging this deep
Likewise, there are a lot of folks on the other side of the fence, who can't get over the idea that purchasing a CD does not give them the right to distribute copies of that CD to a million of their closest friends.
I'd argue that I *do* have the natural right to do that, if not the legal right.
I believe the people working on WMV3 are either ffmpeg and/or DVD-jon. If you really want it to be supported, you might want to bug them instead. I know DVD-jon has figured out how to use the VC-1 codec (same as WMV3) in conjunction with VLC, but the VC-1 codec is not under an open-source license.
I disagree with your sentiment that widespread DRM would be a good thing. The rights afforded to IP are *not* natural rights. Widespread DRM would allow content makers essentially unlimited copyright. This, in the long term, would do *far* more harm than good, as content that has long since passed into the public consciousness and culture would still be directly controlled by whoever initially made it. This is a *bad thing*, and is directly against the objective of copyright.
The PSP problem was an inherent design problem that was done more or less intentionally. The problem existed in *all* PSPs, and I think still might. When confronted, they claimed that the offset was not only fine, but shonldn't have been questioned.
They deserved a bunch of crap not only for the problem, but for the attitude they displayed when confronted with it.
I remember getting extremely pissed at this guy, whose business is essentially to push flash ads on us in *real* life. Not only that, but he was actually *proud* of his work (which you can see in his later posts in that thread).
I think the fact that it asks for your password on install should throw up *some* sort of red flag. And tosses in a rather easy way to get past the DRM.
Uh.. The main reasons people pick Windows over alternatives mainly has to do either with the fact that Windows is normally preinstalled and most don't have the knowledge to install something else, or compatibility with programs. Neither of those have *anything* to do with the quality of Windows.
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Next, they'll premiere the Sony Betamax movie download service.
Excellent troll, sir.
One must appreciate the irony of claiming to have nothing to hide while hiding behind an anonymous name.
It's not so much the scientist that have an anti-Christian bias. It's people like so many here on slashdot that take every evolutionary discovery and try to use to beat Christians over the head saying, "See, ID people are stoopid".
I'd guess that there wouldn't be as much of this if some IDers weren't so intent on pushing *their* agenda on the rest of the nation/world.
Truth is, neither scientist nor fundamentalists can full explain how the universe was created. What most of us know for sure is that it exists.
While this is true, the scientists are the one who are actually seeking an explanation, while the fundamentalists seem to simply be accepting what they are told.
I don't think I'd want to see the kind of person who cybers across the internet.
Umm.. not a whole lot? Science doesn't have a specifically anti-Christian bias. Certain Fundamentalists simply just see something there and use it to play up their own sense of persecution.
Would anyone say a metallurgist has an anti-Christian bias?
I personally agree with alienw. I enjoy having all my music (well, much of my music) with me at all times, as it allows me to have the entire thing on random. That is something you most definitely *can't* do with minidisc.
I *would* need to carry around about 30 minidiscs to carry all that around, and it stil wouldn't be as convenient.
Actually, the closest analogy would be the jump from Mac OS classic to OS X. You also get an entirely new, more stable, multi-user OS with that jump. The old kernel used cooperative multitasking (or actually, limited preemptive multitasking in windows 9x) to something specifically designed to be more secure.
Climbing a fence is a specifically suspicious, publically viewable activity. Why is paying your bill off either?
I believe the modified BSD license is considered perfectly acceptable by RMS. Just because it's not GPL doesn't mean it's not actually open-source.
Rights must apply to everyone. Otherwise, they are not rights. When a single person's right has been violated, that right has been taken away from *everyone*. Jose Padilla's right to due process has been violated, thus *my* right to due process has been violated.
If some for-profit commercial business could give me a service that would provide me with the same final product as P2P but with better selection, easier searching, and better quality control, I would happily pay a reasonable price for such a service. But there is no way that I will pay for a product that is inferior and less convenient to one that is available for free.
Uh.. isn't that just allofmp3.com?
I remember reading that the reason for all his knowledge was because he nearly died in some boating accident. When you die, you immediately know everything, but forget your own personal details. He just somehow got saved at the last second.
That's not a standard accessory. It normally only comes with an AC adaptor.
so.. you run wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.10.2.tar.gz ?
It's actually a comment made by him in another thread. Use the site's search for "digital transition", look at the only article that has it, and scroll down much of the way for a very long post by a "JC".
Considering the nonobviousness of this, I think the OP should be somewhat commended for digging this deep
As he doesn't have the source code available, I doubt he'd be able to compile it at all.
Likewise, there are a lot of folks on the other side of the fence, who can't get over the idea that purchasing a CD does not give them the right to distribute copies of that CD to a million of their closest friends.
I'd argue that I *do* have the natural right to do that, if not the legal right.
I believe the reason they could construct that pad was because the patent ran out on it just before the system was released.
They suddenly like gangsta rap?
I believe the people working on WMV3 are either ffmpeg and/or DVD-jon. If you really want it to be supported, you might want to bug them instead. I know DVD-jon has figured out how to use the VC-1 codec (same as WMV3) in conjunction with VLC, but the VC-1 codec is not under an open-source license.
I disagree with your sentiment that widespread DRM would be a good thing. The rights afforded to IP are *not* natural rights. Widespread DRM would allow content makers essentially unlimited copyright. This, in the long term, would do *far* more harm than good, as content that has long since passed into the public consciousness and culture would still be directly controlled by whoever initially made it. This is a *bad thing*, and is directly against the objective of copyright.
The PSP problem was an inherent design problem that was done more or less intentionally. The problem existed in *all* PSPs, and I think still might. When confronted, they claimed that the offset was not only fine, but shonldn't have been questioned.
They deserved a bunch of crap not only for the problem, but for the attitude they displayed when confronted with it.
I feel the *exact* same way.
I remember getting extremely pissed at this guy, whose business is essentially to push flash ads on us in *real* life. Not only that, but he was actually *proud* of his work (which you can see in his later posts in that thread).
I think the fact that it asks for your password on install should throw up *some* sort of red flag. And tosses in a rather easy way to get past the DRM.
Uh.. The main reasons people pick Windows over alternatives mainly has to do either with the fact that Windows is normally preinstalled and most don't have the knowledge to install something else, or compatibility with programs. Neither of those have *anything* to do with the quality of Windows.