Conservative Christianity (also called traditional Christianity) is a term applied to a number of groups or movements seen as giving priority to traditional Christian beliefs and practices. It is sometimes called conservative theology, an umbrella term covering various movements within Christianity and describing both corporate denominational and personal views of Scripture.
The term conservative Christian is frequently used by Protestant evangelicals and Protestant fundamentalists as a way to distinguish themselves from the more liberal Protestant denominations, in which the Social Progressive Christian and Christian Modernist movements flourish.
Within most religions it primarily refers to the upholding of the church official teachings concerning the sanctity of marriage, the prohibition of artificial birth control, the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, prohibitions on homosexuality, and other similar theological and moral matters. In short, believing in evolution and not being against gay marrage, by definition, makes you a liberal (some may say enlightened) christian for the simple matter that you do not follow the churches strict teachings and beliefs.
I think it's ironic that autonomous operation seems easier to develop for aircraft than for ground vehicles when you consider that pilots get way more respect than the average municipal bus driver.
Maybe it is because fighter pilots don't have animals and idiots who don't look where they are going running out in front of planes while the plane right behind them is flying like an asshole because the pilot would rather send text messages than watch where they are going.
Nintendo left the hardcore gamer market behind, and they like it that way just fine.
I would not say that Nintendo has or the Wii has left the hardcore gamer behind. Yes they are no longer the primary emphasis, but they have not been abandoned. Smash Bros is still a decent fighting game. The Metroid Prime games are still solid First Person Adventure / Shooters. There is still plenty of fun with the Zelda games for Hardcore gamers and the announcement of the new Metroid and Mario games look promising. And as a fan of the old NES game, I can't wait to try the new Punch-out. As for third party exclusives The Conduit looks like a pretty solid shooter complete with Online play. Yes, the selection isn't great but to claim that there is nothing for Hardcore gamers is misguided at best.
It is all in implementation. Safari is neat in that it does something similar--at least with youtube-like flash videos. When I open a video in a new tab, it will load the contents but not play anything until I select the tab. It will keep playing if I select another tab.
Something like this in Firefox would be great. Load the page in the background, but do not run it until I actually click on the tab. It seems like a nice compromise between the GP's wishes and those who like stuff running in the background.
I have been with Ubuntu since around 2005 and Red hat Linux since the late 90's. In my experience, the Ubuntu forums community has been one of the best I have found. Granted, every community has their share of asshats, but the the Signal / Noise ratio has always seemed significantly better than most forums I have been to.
First of all, back in the day when the internet was starting to become something other than a toy for college students, the web was a new thing. most people were on BBS's, online services like Prodigy and Compuserve. The web was not like it is now, it was very small. Most people used things like Archie, ftp, irc, and gopher. To browse the web then was a big thing. You ask what chump would buy a web browser? With the slow-ass modems of the day, the internet was still not that great of a distribution method for software (I am not saying it wasn't widely used, but it was still painfully slow for anything but the smallest files). Most software was packaged. Who would buy a web browser today? Then again, who would buy a word processor, an office suite or even an Operating System today? Back then, buying software was a much bigger deal.
If you don't see why the web browser is so important, what does it matter which one you use? Why not just use lynx? It sure is faster and uses less memory. The web browser is a platform. In this regard it no different from.NET, Java, or even Windows. If you own the platform, you own the users and developers. That was Microsoft's goal. By owning the Web Browser platform, they could implement special customizations to how the web is developed. This is why you see IE only sites. This forces the users to need IE to view the content and forces the developers to use Microsoft's development tools. Because IE is windows only (though it wasn't always) that forces users to Windows. That is why the web browser is so important to Microsoft. That is why they wanted to give it away for free.
If your mom is such a luddite, I doubt she will "upgrade" her PC. She will replace it. Odds are she will probably get it either at the store or direct from a name brand company (Dell, HP, whatever). If she is as on her own as you make her out to be, she will follow the "idiots guide to connecting wires" setup page that comes with ALL computers, turn it on, answer a few questions on Microsoft's idiot-proof menu and done. Dell, HP, Lenovo, et al. will have already installed plenty of applications for her to use, whether she wants them or not. This will include a web browser. However, most people already know someone to do this for them.
You can find Graphing Calculators for like $20 new. They are not great calculators. You don't get the CAS systems that TI and HP are known for, but you get a decent calculator for what most Middle through High school students need. Mostly what you are paying for is the proprietary software in the calculators. The hardware is otherwise pretty cheap.
I own and like my Wii, but I do agree that the library sucks. The problem is not with Nintendo's offerings, as you seem to cite. The problem is that there is a real dearth of good third party games. Yes there is a lack of "'M for mature' war games" but there is also a lack of creative and fun games. It seems almost a meme on slashdot, but the fact is most games are just poorly-made overpriced "waggleware". I'm not saying that there are no good games. I am just saying good games are very few and far between, even more so than other consoles.
Mostly, but I don't know about everyone else, but when I watch any video of a decent length (usually more then 10 minutes), I get "memory buffer full" (or something like that) errors.
I want to know how they plan on caching the videos when with a few (one to three) Wiiware / VC games and a average amount of savefiles practically fills up the Wiis memory. I don't even want to think about what would happen if you are a VC junkie or play Rock Band / Guitar Hero with DLC. Caching to the ram gives less than 88MB with full Graphics and main memory utilization, which is nothing for streaming videos of any decent quality.
I like my Wii, but what is really the point. The system just doesn't seem to have been designed for this in mind.
RSS is a great way to help reduce bandwidth waste and a great way to read the news. I love RSS. I find having a program with all of my news feeds together is much more efficient for me than looking at the ten or so sites separately. It also has features like a quick search and allows me to read the news on my laptop when I don't have a net connection.
Yes, the market is dwindled significantly. However there are still plenty of options available on the market. Palm still sells the Tungsten E, T|X, and Z22...not exactly retail workhorses. Asus has three devices on the market designed with multimedia and GPS in mind. HP still sells two different stand-alone iPaq PDA's. Despite what His Steveness says, the iPod Touch is a PDA. A trip to Walmart, Kmart, or Target still show the el-cheapo brand PDAs ($25-$50 Black and white LCD devices for calendar, phone numbers, and probably a simple to-do list). The problem is not that there is no longer a market for these devices it is just that the most of the market has shifted to handheld Media and Internet devices. Some people do not want PDA + phone as much as they want PDA+Movies / Music + Wifi Internet. Between Home and public AP's, Wifi is free. EMail and Instant Messaging do not need a service contract. The proliferation of devices like Modern PDA's, netbooks and internet handhelds / communicators (e.g Nokia internet tablets and Sony MYLO) shows there is a market for portable internet minus the phone.
Besides, I doubt I'm the only one who would rather get the basic model phone that comes with a service contract and buy a Wifi PDA which offers a better PIM, internet and media experience than to put down a lot of money for an unlocked Smartphone doesn't become crippled or useless if I decide to switch carriers.
The Phoenix Wright series has done quite well on the DS, but I can't understand why someone hasn't bothered to put that kind of experience on the Wii.
Actually, Capcom has released Harvey Birdman for the Wii which is basically Phoenix Wright with the Adult Swim Characters instead. However, it is much easier, more comedy-centric, and only about 2-3 Hours of play. But if you can get it for cheap (or rent) I highly recommend it.
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Well, from the Wikipedia:
Within most religions it primarily refers to the upholding of the church official teachings concerning the sanctity of marriage, the prohibition of artificial birth control, the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, prohibitions on homosexuality, and other similar theological and moral matters. In short, believing in evolution and not being against gay marrage, by definition, makes you a liberal (some may say enlightened) christian for the simple matter that you do not follow the churches strict teachings and beliefs.
They can have it, worthless piece of crap.
I think it's ironic that autonomous operation seems easier to develop for aircraft than for ground vehicles when you consider that pilots get way more respect than the average municipal bus driver.
Maybe it is because fighter pilots don't have animals and idiots who don't look where they are going running out in front of planes while the plane right behind them is flying like an asshole because the pilot would rather send text messages than watch where they are going.
Nintendo left the hardcore gamer market behind, and they like it that way just fine.
I would not say that Nintendo has or the Wii has left the hardcore gamer behind. Yes they are no longer the primary emphasis, but they have not been abandoned. Smash Bros is still a decent fighting game. The Metroid Prime games are still solid First Person Adventure / Shooters. There is still plenty of fun with the Zelda games for Hardcore gamers and the announcement of the new Metroid and Mario games look promising. And as a fan of the old NES game, I can't wait to try the new Punch-out. As for third party exclusives The Conduit looks like a pretty solid shooter complete with Online play. Yes, the selection isn't great but to claim that there is nothing for Hardcore gamers is misguided at best.
So do some games such as Mortal Combat and Wolverine.
It is all in implementation. Safari is neat in that it does something similar--at least with youtube-like flash videos. When I open a video in a new tab, it will load the contents but not play anything until I select the tab. It will keep playing if I select another tab.
Something like this in Firefox would be great. Load the page in the background, but do not run it until I actually click on the tab. It seems like a nice compromise between the GP's wishes and those who like stuff running in the background.
I have been with Ubuntu since around 2005 and Red hat Linux since the late 90's. In my experience, the Ubuntu forums community has been one of the best I have found. Granted, every community has their share of asshats, but the the Signal / Noise ratio has always seemed significantly better than most forums I have been to.
YMMV.
Would you like to play a game. The Only Winning move is not to play.
WarGames
First of all, back in the day when the internet was starting to become something other than a toy for college students, the web was a new thing. most people were on BBS's, online services like Prodigy and Compuserve. The web was not like it is now, it was very small. Most people used things like Archie, ftp, irc, and gopher. To browse the web then was a big thing. You ask what chump would buy a web browser? With the slow-ass modems of the day, the internet was still not that great of a distribution method for software (I am not saying it wasn't widely used, but it was still painfully slow for anything but the smallest files). Most software was packaged. Who would buy a web browser today? Then again, who would buy a word processor, an office suite or even an Operating System today? Back then, buying software was a much bigger deal.
If you don't see why the web browser is so important, what does it matter which one you use? Why not just use lynx? It sure is faster and uses less memory. The web browser is a platform. In this regard it no different from .NET, Java, or even Windows. If you own the platform, you own the users and developers. That was Microsoft's goal. By owning the Web Browser platform, they could implement special customizations to how the web is developed. This is why you see IE only sites. This forces the users to need IE to view the content and forces the developers to use Microsoft's development tools. Because IE is windows only (though it wasn't always) that forces users to Windows. That is why the web browser is so important to Microsoft. That is why they wanted to give it away for free.
If your mom is such a luddite, I doubt she will "upgrade" her PC. She will replace it. Odds are she will probably get it either at the store or direct from a name brand company (Dell, HP, whatever). If she is as on her own as you make her out to be, she will follow the "idiots guide to connecting wires" setup page that comes with ALL computers, turn it on, answer a few questions on Microsoft's idiot-proof menu and done. Dell, HP, Lenovo, et al. will have already installed plenty of applications for her to use, whether she wants them or not. This will include a web browser. However, most people already know someone to do this for them.
For most people, this is a non-issue.
You can find Graphing Calculators for like $20 new. They are not great calculators. You don't get the CAS systems that TI and HP are known for, but you get a decent calculator for what most Middle through High school students need. Mostly what you are paying for is the proprietary software in the calculators. The hardware is otherwise pretty cheap.
Don't insult The Onion by comparing them Fox news. The Onion is America's finest news source.
I own and like my Wii, but I do agree that the library sucks. The problem is not with Nintendo's offerings, as you seem to cite. The problem is that there is a real dearth of good third party games. Yes there is a lack of "'M for mature' war games" but there is also a lack of creative and fun games. It seems almost a meme on slashdot, but the fact is most games are just poorly-made overpriced "waggleware". I'm not saying that there are no good games. I am just saying good games are very few and far between, even more so than other consoles.
Mostly, but I don't know about everyone else, but when I watch any video of a decent length (usually more then 10 minutes), I get "memory buffer full" (or something like that) errors.
I want to know how they plan on caching the videos when with a few (one to three) Wiiware / VC games and a average amount of savefiles practically fills up the Wiis memory. I don't even want to think about what would happen if you are a VC junkie or play Rock Band / Guitar Hero with DLC. Caching to the ram gives less than 88MB with full Graphics and main memory utilization, which is nothing for streaming videos of any decent quality.
I like my Wii, but what is really the point. The system just doesn't seem to have been designed for this in mind.
After seeing the game, my first thought was that it would have made an awesome single player KotOR / Mass Effect-style adventure RPG. Shame...
RSS is a great way to help reduce bandwidth waste and a great way to read the news. I love RSS. I find having a program with all of my news feeds together is much more efficient for me than looking at the ten or so sites separately. It also has features like a quick search and allows me to read the news on my laptop when I don't have a net connection.
My suggestions for good and free clients are:
Windows: Feed Demon
OS X: Vienna
Not only are they great readers, but they also support CSS-Styled views...I can't stand RSS readers that look and behave like email clients.
Praise "Bob"!
Amen that.
Yes, the market is dwindled significantly. However there are still plenty of options available on the market. Palm still sells the Tungsten E, T|X, and Z22...not exactly retail workhorses. Asus has three devices on the market designed with multimedia and GPS in mind. HP still sells two different stand-alone iPaq PDA's. Despite what His Steveness says, the iPod Touch is a PDA. A trip to Walmart, Kmart, or Target still show the el-cheapo brand PDAs ($25-$50 Black and white LCD devices for calendar, phone numbers, and probably a simple to-do list). The problem is not that there is no longer a market for these devices it is just that the most of the market has shifted to handheld Media and Internet devices. Some people do not want PDA + phone as much as they want PDA+Movies / Music + Wifi Internet. Between Home and public AP's, Wifi is free. EMail and Instant Messaging do not need a service contract. The proliferation of devices like Modern PDA's, netbooks and internet handhelds / communicators (e.g Nokia internet tablets and Sony MYLO) shows there is a market for portable internet minus the phone.
Besides, I doubt I'm the only one who would rather get the basic model phone that comes with a service contract and buy a Wifi PDA which offers a better PIM, internet and media experience than to put down a lot of money for an unlocked Smartphone doesn't become crippled or useless if I decide to switch carriers.
moral of the story: Atheists love to party!
The Phoenix Wright series has done quite well on the DS, but I can't understand why someone hasn't bothered to put that kind of experience on the Wii.
Actually, Capcom has released Harvey Birdman for the Wii which is basically Phoenix Wright with the Adult Swim Characters instead. However, it is much easier, more comedy-centric, and only about 2-3 Hours of play. But if you can get it for cheap (or rent) I highly recommend it.
IGN Review http://wii.ign.com/articles/817/817567p1.html
I, for one, would pay to see that!
Tron 2.0 is one hell-of-an underrated game. It is sad that it never really caught on.
Ah, My favorite game...LSL 4: The Case of the Missing Floppies
Something about a bottle of tequila and a long night in Tijuana.