"Unfortunately, I don't see this as convincing evidence. All this "proof" states is that they believed the Jesus was God. There have been plenty of false messiah before, and plenty more afterwards. There's plenty of evidence of Jews allowing themselves to become martyrs for their own beliefs that God was not the same as Jesus. Plenty of Greeks died for their own gods, etc, etc. Martyrdom provides no actual proof of the existence of god, rather, it proves the devotion of those martyrs to their beliefs."
That would be a fair argument if he was saying they died based on what they believed. But he stated clearly that they died based on what they said they had *seen*.
"I've got this genious rendering engine called B.R.A.I.N. It renders hundreds of thousands of characters in realtime and the output looks incredibly realistic. All you have to do is input some text (ASCII not an requirement), and it outputs gorgeous scenes instantaniously."
WOW! I know some people who could use one of these...
"I'm guessing that the typo's on slashdot lead to some interesting stuff comming out of your speakers if you use any of those text to speach programs."
I really hope all those mistakes were a joke. Should be "typos" Should be "coming" Should be "speech"
"I checked how long [my brother is] on every month, an average about 250 hrs every month...DAMN..."
DAMN is right. If he doesn't leave the house during daylight, doesn't go to school, doesn't work, even on the weekends, as your numbers suggest, then he is in trouble. Your values work out to over 8 hours a day EVERY day of a 30 day month. Hmm...
What bullcrap. They should counter-sue. There is no dilution among people using either product.
Lawer to witness: "Phoenix is a browser currently used by and large solely by the technically elite. As a member of that class of persons, do you think this browser program is made by the people who make chips that start up your computer?"
I think we know what the witnesses would say, and as a peer suitable for a jury of peers, I know what I would say.
In IE, I entered ORG and hit enter, just to see what would happen. Although highly unlikely, they could arrange some page there. Instead, MS search brough up a list of possible alternatives. Number one on the list?
"killing thousands of children in iraq through economic sanctions against iraq"
Only children? No adults? Or are you just saying that for inflammatory purposes? I notice that when people don't really have a basis for their statement, they start making inflammatory statements.
You obviously don't know a SINGLE f*ing thing about the sanctions. You would know why they are there, and you will know how simple it will be for them to be lifted. Sanctions are not an active punishment. If I run a store, I control that store. If you attack my friends, or my store, you will piss me off, and I can refuse to sell to you. Whatever you did to piss me-the-storekeeper off, you chose to do, knowing full well the possible consequences. Now imagine that as pissed off as I am, I tell you that you can come back in my store if you promise not to attack anybody again unless they initiate the attack, and if you promise to get rid of your weapons, since you obviously use them against others for offense, instead of defense. That's pretty fucking nice of me.
Saddam has been told what he needs to do if he wants to do business with the countries participating in the sanctions. If anyone is starving, it is directly because of decisions Saddam has made and is currently making.
I remember when Kash n Karry (a redneck we-cant-spell-isnt-it-cute) chain in Florida tried to put simple calculators in the plastic cover of the cart's pushbar. They lasted about a month. Good luck with these. The rain, the abuse, the kids in the kidseats. They had better be solid steel.
"Cult: (n) a small, unpopular religion. Religion: (n) a large, popular cult."
So religion is a large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular...
Circular loop. You fail. No- hold on, it's actually contradicting as well. You get a negative 3.
People will still go to the provider who gives them the greatest bandwidth per dollar. Be it DSL or Cable (and cable should be opening up to competitors by a few years' time) people will still want the most bang for the buck. This may be a Good Thing(tm) as it will highlight bandwidth as a reason (among the pleebs) for choosing a provider. The providers will advertise "Most Bandwitdh per Dollar" and compete in this arena.
According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, the movie cost 130mil to make and has so far grossed 764mil worldwide. The 2 major factors in a movie's cost, by FAR, are the production, distribution, and the advertising. Practically everything else is cake. So in this situation, distribution and advertising would have to cost 634 million dollars, or almost 5 times the movie's production costs, for there to be nothing left over. Sue them for every penny they have, man. We're with you.
All this copy protection crap is garbage. It's like I was reading about the DVD-Audio and SuperCD formats and all that jazz. Currently it's impossible to find one with digital out because there's no copy protection format for digital out. When there is, get ready for all new SP/DIF hardware.
BUT THE WHOLE POINT IS.... Somewhere in the magic box of circuits, there is a binary signal. There's no getting away from that. And just like the xbox, some genius, who does it for love instead of money, will reverse engineer the chips and create a piggy-back chip. Just like all other locking mechanisms of late: instead of making harder-to-break locks, they just put a stick through the padlock holes, and say it's illegal to break the stick.
"Both the Muvo and mp302 run on one AAA, giving 12 hours of continuous playback."
"Innogear has released the 128MB Duex mp302"
I don't get it. Sure you get 12 hours of playback, but even at the mediocre MP3 quality of 128kbps, audio is a megabyte a minute. So at 128MB, you just get to hear the same 2 albums over and over again for 12 hours, and if you want to listen to other albums, you have to upload them. The price for these memory units/sticks/cards/whatever-a particular-device-uses is just inexorably stupid to settle for as a consumer. I couldn't be happier with my $119.00 CD-Based MP3 Player. It has never skipped on me (it loads 8 minutes of track [longer than 99% of tracks] straight to memory, then the disc stops spinning.) and with it, I get over ten hours of 128kbps music per disc and carry as many discs as I want, and because the disc only spins to read, I get 10-12 hours of listening time per battery set, and the unit I have has a built-in recharger.
Until these trinkets come with 512MB of memory, there's no way they can compete with my 25 cent 700MB storage units for the same quality experience. Sure, if you dont want to stick a CD-player in your pocket to jog (which I do with no problems), then the little guys are fine. But if you're just gonna use it to jog, get an earbud radio for $25 bucks.
The only people who buy these trinket MP3 players seem to me to be the people who get them as some sort of status symbol. I can really see no other good popular reasons.
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"Unfortunately, I don't see this as convincing evidence. All this "proof" states is that they believed the Jesus was God. There have been plenty of false messiah before, and plenty more afterwards. There's plenty of evidence of Jews allowing themselves to become martyrs for their own beliefs that God was not the same as Jesus. Plenty of Greeks died for their own gods, etc, etc. Martyrdom provides no actual proof of the existence of god, rather, it proves the devotion of those martyrs to their beliefs."
That would be a fair argument if he was saying they died based on what they believed. But he stated clearly that they died based on what they said they had *seen*.
"[...]one of my house-mates had just bought a small wireless camera, battery pack, and receiver for a little over C$100[...]"
You mean we in the US can get a set like this for just five bucks?! Rock on!
"But the masses of impatient Americans tuned out because the first 10 minutes..."
Give the insult America crap a rest. What's your problem?
"I've got this genious rendering engine called B.R.A.I.N. It renders hundreds of thousands of characters in realtime and the output looks incredibly realistic. All you have to do is input some text (ASCII not an requirement), and it outputs gorgeous scenes instantaniously."
WOW! I know some people who could use one of these...
It seems that the original site, http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/index.html, is either being slashdotted, or is no longer up.
A mirror can be found here.
"I'm guessing that the typo's on slashdot lead to some interesting stuff comming out of your speakers if you use any of those text to speach programs."
I really hope all those mistakes were a joke.
Should be "typos"
Should be "coming"
Should be "speech"
Please, let that sentence be a joke.
"I checked how long [my brother is] on every month, an average about 250 hrs every month...DAMN..."
DAMN is right. If he doesn't leave the house during daylight, doesn't go to school, doesn't work, even on the weekends, as your numbers suggest, then he is in trouble. Your values work out to over 8 hours a day EVERY day of a 30 day month. Hmm...
What bullcrap. They should counter-sue. There is no dilution among people using either product.
Lawer to witness: "Phoenix is a browser currently used by and large solely by the technically elite. As a member of that class of persons, do you think this browser program is made by the people who make chips that start up your computer?"
I think we know what the witnesses would say, and as a peer suitable for a jury of peers, I know what I would say.
Thought you would find this funny:
:)
In IE, I entered ORG and hit enter, just to see what would happen. Although highly unlikely, they could arrange some page there. Instead, MS search brough up a list of possible alternatives. Number one on the list?
Mozilla.org
Thanks, Bill
"killing thousands of children in iraq through economic sanctions against iraq"
Only children? No adults? Or are you just saying that for inflammatory purposes? I notice that when people don't really have a basis for their statement, they start making inflammatory statements.
You obviously don't know a SINGLE f*ing thing about the sanctions. You would know why they are there, and you will know how simple it will be for them to be lifted. Sanctions are not an active punishment. If I run a store, I control that store. If you attack my friends, or my store, you will piss me off, and I can refuse to sell to you. Whatever you did to piss me-the-storekeeper off, you chose to do, knowing full well the possible consequences. Now imagine that as pissed off as I am, I tell you that you can come back in my store if you promise not to attack anybody again unless they initiate the attack, and if you promise to get rid of your weapons, since you obviously use them against others for offense, instead of defense. That's pretty fucking nice of me.
Saddam has been told what he needs to do if he wants to do business with the countries participating in the sanctions. If anyone is starving, it is directly because of decisions Saddam has made and is currently making.
Now you understand.
I remember when Kash n Karry (a redneck we-cant-spell-isnt-it-cute) chain in Florida tried to put simple calculators in the plastic cover of the cart's pushbar. They lasted about a month. Good luck with these. The rain, the abuse, the kids in the kidseats. They had better be solid steel.
"Cult: (n) a small, unpopular religion.
Religion: (n) a large, popular cult."
So religion is a large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular large, popular small unpopular...
Circular loop. You fail. No- hold on, it's actually contradicting as well. You get a negative 3.
People will still go to the provider who gives them the greatest bandwidth per dollar. Be it DSL or Cable (and cable should be opening up to competitors by a few years' time) people will still want the most bang for the buck. This may be a Good Thing(tm) as it will highlight bandwidth as a reason (among the pleebs) for choosing a provider. The providers will advertise "Most Bandwitdh per Dollar" and compete in this arena.
Maybe it's a Good Thing...
Wow.
My mom would just tell me to stop playing.
"Re:LCD Display (Score:1, Redundant) "
:) ]
OHHHHHHHHHHHH GROAN!!!!!!
[Not off-topic, not redundant, not trolling. It's funny, kind sir
"The 2 major factors..."
Pre-emptive strike: Should be 3. My bad.
According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, the movie cost 130mil to make and has so far grossed 764mil worldwide. The 2 major factors in a movie's cost, by FAR, are the production, distribution, and the advertising. Practically everything else is cake. So in this situation, distribution and advertising would have to cost 634 million dollars, or almost 5 times the movie's production costs, for there to be nothing left over. Sue them for every penny they have, man. We're with you.
"According to calc.exe, 4 * 2^53 years is 36,028,797,018,963,968 years. Anybody want to start working on that one?"
I'm no mathematician, but I'd love to see a formula that applies moore's law, where calculation speed approximately doubles every 18 months.
"...and if they can't do a dignified farewell, at least get some more hot chick involved. Do a spin-off show called 'Stargate SG-1 Hawaii'."
:-P
If they really want ratings, ala the MTV complaint, I'm picturing.... GateWatch!
"Actually... there is a pause between those statements, please don't flame about something that is beyond your knowledge."
I know very well the context of the statement. YOU need to learn how to use a comma.
You dont put a comma, everywhere there is a pause.
(That was an example of a DON'T.)
If you want, you should put one after an if clause.
But just because you pause, doesn't mean you put a comma.
(Another DON'T above.)
Got it?
All this copy protection crap is garbage. It's like I was reading about the DVD-Audio and SuperCD formats and all that jazz. Currently it's impossible to find one with digital out because there's no copy protection format for digital out. When there is, get ready for all new SP/DIF hardware.
BUT THE WHOLE POINT IS.... Somewhere in the magic box of circuits, there is a binary signal. There's no getting away from that. And just like the xbox, some genius, who does it for love instead of money, will reverse engineer the chips and create a piggy-back chip. Just like all other locking mechanisms of late: instead of making harder-to-break locks, they just put a stick through the padlock holes, and say it's illegal to break the stick.
"It is the size, stupid. Can you carry a cd around?"
:-P
Wow, you got modded up for asking a question I very blatantly answered. Congratulations.
The answer you should have read was (italics to emphasize specifically what you missed):
"Sure, if you dont want to stick a CD-player in your pocket to jog (which I do with no problems), then the little guys are fine. "
I also said in this quote that it was for all intents and purposes a solid-state device:
"It has never skipped on me (it loads 8 minutes of track [longer than 99% of tracks] straight to memory, then the disc stops spinning.)"
But again, good job on the karma whoring.
"Both the Muvo and mp302 run on one AAA, giving 12 hours of continuous playback."
"Innogear has released the 128MB Duex mp302"
I don't get it. Sure you get 12 hours of playback, but even at the mediocre MP3 quality of 128kbps, audio is a megabyte a minute. So at 128MB, you just get to hear the same 2 albums over and over again for 12 hours, and if you want to listen to other albums, you have to upload them. The price for these memory units/sticks/cards/whatever-a particular-device-uses is just inexorably stupid to settle for as a consumer. I couldn't be happier with my $119.00 CD-Based MP3 Player . It has never skipped on me (it loads 8 minutes of track [longer than 99% of tracks] straight to memory, then the disc stops spinning.) and with it , I get over ten hours of 128kbps music per disc and carry as many discs as I want, and because the disc only spins to read, I get 10-12 hours of listening time per battery set, and the unit I have has a built-in recharger.
Until these trinkets come with 512MB of memory, there's no way they can compete with my 25 cent 700MB storage units for the same quality experience. Sure, if you dont want to stick a CD-player in your pocket to jog (which I do with no problems), then the little guys are fine. But if you're just gonna use it to jog, get an earbud radio for $25 bucks.
The only people who buy these trinket MP3 players seem to me to be the people who get them as some sort of status symbol. I can really see no other good popular reasons.
"--a big mirror, makes a big beam"
Real genius, huh? Then WHAT THE FUCK is that comma doing in the middle of an otherwise perfectly good statement? HUH?
*sigh*
Now I know how Plato must feel when people quote him.