As with most polls and surveys it's all in how the question is posed.
Do these people "not want broadband" or do the "want to not have broadband"? There's a big difference between the two. When you say price isn't a factor, what exactly does that mean?
I can certainly understand people whose priorities simply can't justify $30, $50, or more per month for something that just doesn't interest them. However if that's the case then money is a factor. Even if it's $2-3 per month it's still money.
To say that people "don't want" broadband suggests that it's mere presence in their home would cause them distress even if there were no cost associated.
I wouldn't consider putting a home theatre in my house because I don't have enough interest in movies to justify the substantial cost. If someone installed a home theatre in my living room for free I would be upset because it would impair the decor and functionality of my living room which I'm currently happy with and which is more important to me than movies. If someone added a new home theatre room onto my house for free and I could choose to use it or not without any impact to the rest of my house I'd say "hey thanks" even if I only used it once or twice a year.
On the other hand, if someone installed a sewage treatment plant in a new addition to my house I would be pissed off. I do not want a sewage treatment facility attached to my regardless of whether it's free.
That's the difference between not "wanting" something and "not wanting" something.
In fact, that's how I read in bed: with an old LCD monitor connected to the desktop next to me, in my hands, with the power and VGA cables going off to the side. (I scroll with the mouse, in my other hand). I am your real target market.
If you're the real target market then they should just close up shop now. Seriously, you hold a desktop computer monitor in bed? How many people on the planet do you suppose there are who do that?
A company with a target market numbering in the single digits isn't likely to survive.
Ah yes, we should also enforce separate water fountains. It wouldn't hurt to require gays to ride in the back half of the bus either.
I wonder, in this modern world should that extend to airplanes too? Separate but equal sections of airplanes for gay vs straight people.
While we're at it we probably ought to make blacks separate but equal too. I wonder if that's enough categories. I guess my town should really have six schools for each grade level:
White Straight White Gay Black Straight Black Gay "Other" Straight "Other" Gay
On second though maybe that's a completely stupid idea and we ought to throw the whole "separate but equal" notion out the window.
I absolutely loved my Palm Pilot Pro and gladly paid for the Palm III upgrade module for it. I eagerly bought a Palm V but I was disappointed when I got a Tungsten E and even more disappointed to discover that the 802.11 add in card simply wouldn't work with the Tungsten E.
My Palm TX is a huge disappointment and I would have returned it (or never bought it in the first place) except that I have a major need for one specific specialized application that uses 802.11.
I've heard awful things from people with Palm based phones.
Palm has bungled one generation after another. I've just lost any confidence in them being able to do anything competent.
In a world where it's barely possible to filter all the spam, how can someone in such a high visibility position even use email, IM, or phone?
If I knew Obama's phone number, what's to stop me and a million other people from calling him in the middle of his inaguration speech?
How can his Blackberry possibly cope if millions of Americans knew his email address?
I wouldn't have even imagined that someone in his position would have "standard" communications tools. I would have assumed that any communications tools he has are dedicated links to his personal staff and not the standard phone numbers and email addresses that "mere mortals" use.
1. It's very expensive to upgrade an infrastructure of non-trivial size to IPv6 and that's only one of the several serious disincentives against deploying IPv6.
Waaah Waaah! We cheaped out during our last hardware upgrade cycle so we'd have to upgrade everything this time around! Waaah!
2. IPv6's rate of deployment to date can only be described as an abysmal commercial failure.
. . . The ISP I'm using at home basically told me they are officially "testing" IPv6 for residential users but that this testing is very very limited and that business customers who want IPv6 get to pay extra for it . ..
If I may quote you, "Waaah Waaah!"
Do you think that companies pay for infrastructure out of their employees pockets? You mock companies because they "cheaped out" but you criticize your ISP because they charge extra for something that very few customers want.
Every company that doesn't fail and go out of business has to balance the things their customers want badly enough to pay for against the cost of providing things. If customers want IPv6 enough to pay for it then companies will provide it.
The reason IPv6 is going nowhere is because any company that offers it is going to have much higher expenses than a company that doesn't and they're going to either make that up in revenues or they're going to go out of business.
"Making it up in revenue" is a synonym for charging more. If 99.99+% of customer don't give a rat's ass about IPv6 then they're not going to buy from that ISP who's prices are x% higher to cover the pricy IPv6 capable hardware that their competitor didn't buy.
Of course, many areas don't have any broadband competition so it's just a question of whether they spend the money on upgrades and force the costs onto their captive customers. Until IPv6 has real benefit to me I'll be glad if my ISP "cheaps out" and keeps my IPv4 prices down. Buy IPv6 hardware when the current hardware is about to fail from old age, don't toss perfectly good IPv6 hardware in the trash and bump up my monthly bill to cover buying IPv6 hardware that doesn't do me any good.
There may come a day when IPv6 is needed, or something different may appear before that day arrives. In either case, until there's a real benefit to CUSTOMERS, any company that tosses out perfectly good hardware just because it doesn't support IPv6 is just stupid. By all means, verify that new hardware you buy is IPv6 capable, but don't waste money replacing hardware that's perfectly functional doing IPv4. There's just no good reason to toss IPv4 hardware in the trash just because it can't do IPv6.
Yes you are correct that you have to have access to a car, but that's not really what you wrote in your first post "The former requires having a car". I know plenty of people who cannot afford a car, still they have a drivers license. Most of them got it using their parents' or a friend's car.
Not that I am saying that a homeless person is likely to have a drivers license.
You're making an awfully big deal of the difference between "have access to a car" and "having a car" so I guess that makes you a grammar nazi. I would have to say the original poster's comment was perfectly correct and you're picking nits.
Your post seems to have been hit by an amusing Slashdot bug. You quoted as if you were responding to a comment having something to do with FDA testing, but Slashdot displays your post as a followup to a post about Guinness.
I'd love to hear more about the FDA approval status of Guinness and how many people died during the testing.
Do you listen to music? If so, then just listen to podcasts instead.
Why on earth would I do that? I like music. I like reading while listening to music. Why would I turn off music I enjoy to listen to people slowly saying things that I would be able to absorb much more quickly and thoroughly by reading them.
Podcasts are a poor substitute for a written version of the same information.
Does Rockbox support star ratings and automatic tracking of play count and last played date/time?
My favorite iPod feature is the ability to rate songs on the iPod and the ability of the iPod to update playlists based on star rating, play count, and last played date.
My most frequently used playlists are:
Highest play count Not played in last week Not played in the last month Star rating >= 3, 4, or 5 depending on my mood
Did they ever have anything worthwhile?
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I have a Fujitsu P2000 with a Transmeta CPU in it and frankly the CPU is nothing special. It runs quite hot and doesn't have any significant power saving settings.
I love the P2000 because of the size, sturdy build, and dual batteries, but I wish I had been able to get the exact same laptop with an Intel CPU instead.
As far as I can remember there was never anything about Transmeta to get excited about. The only hype they ever had going for them was the fact that Linus Torvalds worked for them for a while.
Ok, I suppose I can grant you "religion" in a general sense. LotR has just as much religion in it. Provided you define religion as a struggle between "good" and "evil" with superpowerful beings battling it out and using less powerful beings as pawns.
But the normal implication that people like to make is that the Narnia books are about christianity specifically. Now, if you're heavily indoctrinated in christianity to start with I'm sure you can see your own religion in the Narnia stories since the author was a strongly christian person.
However, if you were a shinto or a hindu or a buddhist or none of the above, I'm just not convinced that upon reading the Chronicles of Narnia you'd conclude that it's a christian book. I certainly don't think you'd conclude that it was at odds with your own religion.
Now I'll grant you that I know very little about christianity and see no reason to learn more about it or give it any more time than a myriad of other equally implausible religions, but I am pretty familiar with the Chronicles of Narnia having read them many times and I just don't see them forming the basis of a religion.
I think the people who have a problem with Narnia are the christians who hate or reject their own religion. It's sort of like looking in the mirror when you know you've done something wrong. You don't hate the mirror, you hate yourself and looking in the mirror reminds you of that. Someone who is completely indifferent to christianity can look in that same mirror and not see anything to dislike.
to which I was replying. Unless you're of the opinion that a human shuts down after 10 hours without food.
The "recharge" in question was mental capabilities. Most humans can last longer without food than without sleep if you're using ability to operate a computer effectively as the metric.
I've never understood these claims about Narnia being religious. I guess the last book in the series is a bit, but most of it is just a story.
Now, if you happen to know a lot about the author's religion you can read that into the books, but I don't think reading the books would tell you much about the author's religion if you lacked any prior knowledge of it.
From what I've heard, Rowling has developed a large amount of background material for her own works, not unlike Tolkien. I have the Silmarillion on CD and used to listen to it on cross country flights. It was very effective in helping me sleep my way across the fly-over states. I can't comment on whether the quality of Tolkien's background material is better than Rowling's, but LotR is just a travelogue. There's nowhere near as much STORY in LotR as there is in the Harry Potter series.
LotR is a very elaborate and detailed description of a fairly short and simple story.
Yep, that's a great feature. I cheaped out and bought a new HP tx2500z for about $800 but I kind of which I'd bought one of the Fujitsu tablets I was looking at.
I had priced one out at slightly over $2000 including a hi-cap battery, a regular battery, and a drive bay battery, plus a stand alone charger to charge a battery outside of the laptop.
I decided to save the extra $1200, but I do sort of regret it. I have three batteries for my Fujitsu P2000 and it's great to be able to remove a battery and install a fresh one without shutting down and without a power cord anywhere around. Not to mention that the HP weighs a ton. The P2000 is a bit heavy for its size, but that's just because it's compact and solid, not flimsy. My new HP is just a beast. Of course it's nothing compared to some "laptops". I like a computer I can hold in one hand and use while standing or walking.
Perhaps, but I have yet to see a laptop that recharges in sleep mode (without being plugged in) whereas most humans can.
I usually carry my Fujitsu P2000 in a neoprene sleeve that just barely stretches over the high capacity battery. Taking the charger with me would be another thing to carry. Also, the P2000 fits nicely in the tank bag on my bike but packing the charger too would cut down on space for a sandwich, drinks, and snacks.
Furthermore, even in the house I don't want to be moving the charger around. Better to leave the charger in one place and just recharge every couple of days. With hibernation I can get 2-3 days of intermittent web browsing in between charges.
Even with the efficiency gains they mention, this battery needs to be in the 15,0000-20,000mAh range.
Just out of curiousity, how is that different than the 15-20 Ah range? Or do you just really like zeros? I bet you'd love to have a 20,000,000,000,000 pAh battery. I'm not even going to mention the yAh battery because you'd probably be drooling all over your numeric keypad.
Although I run 5K at least 4-5 times per week and try to do at least a couple of hours of weight lifting per week, I still think that self righteous "eat less, exercise more" preachers are a bunch of jerks.
Every food or weight related story on Slashdot brings these jerks out of the woodwork. They build up their self esteem by criticizing others. Like an anorexic or a bulimic, they have nothing important to be proud of so they build their self esteem on their weight and feel superior to people who are heavier than they are.
Without resorting to a puritan religious justification, how can you argue that a task "should" be difficult? If it's easier for me to be fit than it is for you, does that make you "better" than me?
If a pill can make it easier for you to lose weight and has no adverse effects why shouldn't you use it? Only a religious jerk demands that people should suffer more than necessary.
If one person enjoys rich creamy deserts and another person enjoys basketball how can you attribute "moral" superiority to one or the other. They're both doing things they enjoy. There's absolutely no moral implication that one of those things tends to increase weight and the other tends to decrease weight.
Well, I hit ctrl+S, but this definitely reminded me of an argument I had with a user at my company a few weeks ago who literally said to me in these exact words
"If I don't save this file, the changes I make aren't there the next day."
For the record, this is an extremely difficult point to argue with....
Why would you argue with it? It seems like the person has a clear understanding of the importance of saving the file. My computers are pretty reliable, so generally changes I make will still be in memory even if I don't save to disk but I wouldn't argue with someone who is stating that saving is necessary to ensure the changes persist.
The first time I read the Narnia books, I had no idea there were "Christian overtones." But I was young and just enjoying a quick fantasy.
When I read the Narnia books when I was a kid I had no idea there were "Christian overtones.". When I read them again when I was 33 I still had no idea there were "Christian overtones."
I think whatever overtones you're reading are more about what YOU put into what you're reading than what's written on the page.
I know C.S Louis was considered by himself and others as a christian writer, but it's quite a stretch to think that the Narnia series are any more "christian" than most other fantasy novels.
Unless you consider anything with good and evil epic battles and sacrifices to be "christian", but that seems like an awfully broad definition.
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As with most polls and surveys it's all in how the question is posed.
Do these people "not want broadband" or do the "want to not have broadband"? There's a big difference between the two. When you say price isn't a factor, what exactly does that mean?
I can certainly understand people whose priorities simply can't justify $30, $50, or more per month for something that just doesn't interest them. However if that's the case then money is a factor. Even if it's $2-3 per month it's still money.
To say that people "don't want" broadband suggests that it's mere presence in their home would cause them distress even if there were no cost associated.
I wouldn't consider putting a home theatre in my house because I don't have enough interest in movies to justify the substantial cost. If someone installed a home theatre in my living room for free I would be upset because it would impair the decor and functionality of my living room which I'm currently happy with and which is more important to me than movies. If someone added a new home theatre room onto my house for free and I could choose to use it or not without any impact to the rest of my house I'd say "hey thanks" even if I only used it once or twice a year.
On the other hand, if someone installed a sewage treatment plant in a new addition to my house I would be pissed off. I do not want a sewage treatment facility attached to my regardless of whether it's free.
That's the difference between not "wanting" something and "not wanting" something.
Do you mean that there are people who aren't using the Greasemonkey tag remover script?
In fact, that's how I read in bed: with an old LCD monitor connected to the desktop next to me, in my hands, with the power and VGA cables going off to the side. (I scroll with the mouse, in my other hand). I am your real target market.
If you're the real target market then they should just close up shop now. Seriously, you hold a desktop computer monitor in bed? How many people on the planet do you suppose there are who do that?
A company with a target market numbering in the single digits isn't likely to survive.
Ah yes, we should also enforce separate water fountains. It wouldn't hurt to require gays to ride in the back half of the bus either.
I wonder, in this modern world should that extend to airplanes too? Separate but equal sections of airplanes for gay vs straight people.
While we're at it we probably ought to make blacks separate but equal too. I wonder if that's enough categories. I guess my town should really have six schools for each grade level:
White Straight
White Gay
Black Straight
Black Gay
"Other" Straight
"Other" Gay
On second though maybe that's a completely stupid idea and we ought to throw the whole "separate but equal" notion out the window.
I usually RTFA but in this case there doesn't appear to be an article. There's a bit of an intro but no list of companies that I can see.
I absolutely loved my Palm Pilot Pro and gladly paid for the Palm III upgrade module for it. I eagerly bought a Palm V but I was disappointed when I got a Tungsten E and even more disappointed to discover that the 802.11 add in card simply wouldn't work with the Tungsten E.
My Palm TX is a huge disappointment and I would have returned it (or never bought it in the first place) except that I have a major need for one specific specialized application that uses 802.11.
I've heard awful things from people with Palm based phones.
Palm has bungled one generation after another. I've just lost any confidence in them being able to do anything competent.
In a world where it's barely possible to filter all the spam, how can someone in such a high visibility position even use email, IM, or phone?
If I knew Obama's phone number, what's to stop me and a million other people from calling him in the middle of his inaguration speech?
How can his Blackberry possibly cope if millions of Americans knew his email address?
I wouldn't have even imagined that someone in his position would have "standard" communications tools. I would have assumed that any communications tools he has are dedicated links to his personal staff and not the standard phone numbers and email addresses that "mere mortals" use.
1. It's very expensive to upgrade an infrastructure of non-trivial size to IPv6 and that's only one of the several serious disincentives against deploying IPv6.
Waaah Waaah! We cheaped out during our last hardware upgrade cycle so we'd have to upgrade everything this time around! Waaah!
2. IPv6's rate of deployment to date can only be described as an abysmal commercial failure.
. . . The ISP I'm using at home basically told me they are officially "testing" IPv6 for residential users but that this testing is very very limited and that business customers who want IPv6 get to pay extra for it . . .
If I may quote you, "Waaah Waaah!"
Do you think that companies pay for infrastructure out of their employees pockets? You mock companies because they "cheaped out" but you criticize your ISP because they charge extra for something that very few customers want.
Every company that doesn't fail and go out of business has to balance the things their customers want badly enough to pay for against the cost of providing things. If customers want IPv6 enough to pay for it then companies will provide it.
The reason IPv6 is going nowhere is because any company that offers it is going to have much higher expenses than a company that doesn't and they're going to either make that up in revenues or they're going to go out of business.
"Making it up in revenue" is a synonym for charging more. If 99.99+% of customer don't give a rat's ass about IPv6 then they're not going to buy from that ISP who's prices are x% higher to cover the pricy IPv6 capable hardware that their competitor didn't buy.
Of course, many areas don't have any broadband competition so it's just a question of whether they spend the money on upgrades and force the costs onto their captive customers. Until IPv6 has real benefit to me I'll be glad if my ISP "cheaps out" and keeps my IPv4 prices down. Buy IPv6 hardware when the current hardware is about to fail from old age, don't toss perfectly good IPv6 hardware in the trash and bump up my monthly bill to cover buying IPv6 hardware that doesn't do me any good.
There may come a day when IPv6 is needed, or something different may appear before that day arrives. In either case, until there's a real benefit to CUSTOMERS, any company that tosses out perfectly good hardware just because it doesn't support IPv6 is just stupid. By all means, verify that new hardware you buy is IPv6 capable, but don't waste money replacing hardware that's perfectly functional doing IPv4. There's just no good reason to toss IPv4 hardware in the trash just because it can't do IPv6.
Yes you are correct that you have to have access to a car, but that's not really what you wrote in your first post "The former requires having a car". I know plenty of people who cannot afford a car, still they have a drivers license. Most of them got it using their parents' or a friend's car.
Not that I am saying that a homeless person is likely to have a drivers license.
You're making an awfully big deal of the difference between "have access to a car" and "having a car" so I guess that makes you a grammar nazi. I would have to say the original poster's comment was perfectly correct and you're picking nits.
Your post seems to have been hit by an amusing Slashdot bug. You quoted as if you were responding to a comment having something to do with FDA testing, but Slashdot displays your post as a followup to a post about Guinness.
I'd love to hear more about the FDA approval status of Guinness and how many people died during the testing.
Do you listen to music? If so, then just listen to podcasts instead.
Why on earth would I do that? I like music. I like reading while listening to music. Why would I turn off music I enjoy to listen to people slowly saying things that I would be able to absorb much more quickly and thoroughly by reading them.
Podcasts are a poor substitute for a written version of the same information.
Does Rockbox support star ratings and automatic tracking of play count and last played date/time?
My favorite iPod feature is the ability to rate songs on the iPod and the ability of the iPod to update playlists based on star rating, play count, and last played date.
My most frequently used playlists are:
Highest play count
Not played in last week
Not played in the last month
Star rating >= 3, 4, or 5 depending on my mood
I have a Fujitsu P2000 with a Transmeta CPU in it and frankly the CPU is nothing special. It runs quite hot and doesn't have any significant power saving settings.
I love the P2000 because of the size, sturdy build, and dual batteries, but I wish I had been able to get the exact same laptop with an Intel CPU instead.
As far as I can remember there was never anything about Transmeta to get excited about. The only hype they ever had going for them was the fact that Linus Torvalds worked for them for a while.
You can't see the religion in narnia?
Did you read it?
Ok, I suppose I can grant you "religion" in a general sense. LotR has just as much religion in it. Provided you define religion as a struggle between "good" and "evil" with superpowerful beings battling it out and using less powerful beings as pawns.
But the normal implication that people like to make is that the Narnia books are about christianity specifically. Now, if you're heavily indoctrinated in christianity to start with I'm sure you can see your own religion in the Narnia stories since the author was a strongly christian person.
However, if you were a shinto or a hindu or a buddhist or none of the above, I'm just not convinced that upon reading the Chronicles of Narnia you'd conclude that it's a christian book. I certainly don't think you'd conclude that it was at odds with your own religion.
Now I'll grant you that I know very little about christianity and see no reason to learn more about it or give it any more time than a myriad of other equally implausible religions, but I am pretty familiar with the Chronicles of Narnia having read them many times and I just don't see them forming the basis of a religion.
I think the people who have a problem with Narnia are the christians who hate or reject their own religion. It's sort of like looking in the mirror when you know you've done something wrong. You don't hate the mirror, you hate yourself and looking in the mirror reminds you of that. Someone who is completely indifferent to christianity can look in that same mirror and not see anything to dislike.
I think perhaps you misinterpreted
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=959535&cid=24945983
to which I was replying. Unless you're of the opinion that a human shuts down after 10 hours without food.
The "recharge" in question was mental capabilities. Most humans can last longer without food than without sleep if you're using ability to operate a computer effectively as the metric.
I've never understood these claims about Narnia being religious. I guess the last book in the series is a bit, but most of it is just a story.
Now, if you happen to know a lot about the author's religion you can read that into the books, but I don't think reading the books would tell you much about the author's religion if you lacked any prior knowledge of it.
From what I've heard, Rowling has developed a large amount of background material for her own works, not unlike Tolkien. I have the Silmarillion on CD and used to listen to it on cross country flights. It was very effective in helping me sleep my way across the fly-over states. I can't comment on whether the quality of Tolkien's background material is better than Rowling's, but LotR is just a travelogue. There's nowhere near as much STORY in LotR as there is in the Harry Potter series.
LotR is a very elaborate and detailed description of a fairly short and simple story.
Yep, that's a great feature. I cheaped out and bought a new HP tx2500z for about $800 but I kind of which I'd bought one of the Fujitsu tablets I was looking at.
I had priced one out at slightly over $2000 including a hi-cap battery, a regular battery, and a drive bay battery, plus a stand alone charger to charge a battery outside of the laptop.
I decided to save the extra $1200, but I do sort of regret it. I have three batteries for my Fujitsu P2000 and it's great to be able to remove a battery and install a fresh one without shutting down and without a power cord anywhere around. Not to mention that the HP weighs a ton. The P2000 is a bit heavy for its size, but that's just because it's compact and solid, not flimsy. My new HP is just a beast. Of course it's nothing compared to some "laptops". I like a computer I can hold in one hand and use while standing or walking.
Perhaps, but I have yet to see a laptop that recharges in sleep mode (without being plugged in) whereas most humans can.
I usually carry my Fujitsu P2000 in a neoprene sleeve that just barely stretches over the high capacity battery. Taking the charger with me would be another thing to carry. Also, the P2000 fits nicely in the tank bag on my bike but packing the charger too would cut down on space for a sandwich, drinks, and snacks.
Furthermore, even in the house I don't want to be moving the charger around. Better to leave the charger in one place and just recharge every couple of days. With hibernation I can get 2-3 days of intermittent web browsing in between charges.
Even with the efficiency gains they mention, this battery needs to be in the 15,0000-20,000mAh range.
Just out of curiousity, how is that different than the 15-20 Ah range? Or do you just really like zeros? I bet you'd love to have a 20,000,000,000,000 pAh battery. I'm not even going to mention the yAh battery because you'd probably be drooling all over your numeric keypad.
Wallah, you have a car that you "didn't make" that you can register as a customized antique/whatever.
Who is this Wallah person to whom you speak?
I may be at a disadvantage as a native English speaker, but what the heck does "upscaling massively" mean?
Is this some bizarrely twisted Babelfish translation of "becoming very popular"?
Although I run 5K at least 4-5 times per week and try to do at least a couple of hours of weight lifting per week, I still think that self righteous "eat less, exercise more" preachers are a bunch of jerks.
Every food or weight related story on Slashdot brings these jerks out of the woodwork. They build up their self esteem by criticizing others. Like an anorexic or a bulimic, they have nothing important to be proud of so they build their self esteem on their weight and feel superior to people who are heavier than they are.
Without resorting to a puritan religious justification, how can you argue that a task "should" be difficult? If it's easier for me to be fit than it is for you, does that make you "better" than me?
If a pill can make it easier for you to lose weight and has no adverse effects why shouldn't you use it? Only a religious jerk demands that people should suffer more than necessary.
If one person enjoys rich creamy deserts and another person enjoys basketball how can you attribute "moral" superiority to one or the other. They're both doing things they enjoy. There's absolutely no moral implication that one of those things tends to increase weight and the other tends to decrease weight.
Well, I hit ctrl+S, but this definitely reminded me of an argument I had with a user at my company a few weeks ago who literally said to me in these exact words
"If I don't save this file, the changes I make aren't there the next day."
For the record, this is an extremely difficult point to argue with....
Why would you argue with it? It seems like the person has a clear understanding of the importance of saving the file. My computers are pretty reliable, so generally changes I make will still be in memory even if I don't save to disk but I wouldn't argue with someone who is stating that saving is necessary to ensure the changes persist.
The first time I read the Narnia books, I had no idea there were "Christian overtones." But I was young and just enjoying a quick fantasy.
When I read the Narnia books when I was a kid I had no idea there were "Christian overtones.". When I read them again when I was 33 I still had no idea there were "Christian overtones."
I think whatever overtones you're reading are more about what YOU put into what you're reading than what's written on the page.
I know C.S Louis was considered by himself and others as a christian writer, but it's quite a stretch to think that the Narnia series are any more "christian" than most other fantasy novels.
Unless you consider anything with good and evil epic battles and sacrifices to be "christian", but that seems like an awfully broad definition.
So we just need to figure out how to use allotropic iron as a power source.
Anybody have Kim Kinnison's phone number?