...no current TFT monitor out there is going to support high definition playback in Vista. You may already have heard rumblings about this, but here it is. To play HD-DVD or Blu-Ray content you need a HDCP compatible monitor.
Spotlight is really slow on my G4 Powerbook (1GB RAM), it can take 8 seconds to find what I am looking for.
Does that include booting the machine? I just ran Spotlight on my iBook (G3, 500 MHz) and found something within 5 seconds. Please note again that this is with my very old laptop, which has 640MB of RAM.
Indeed. I was just at seminar/sales pitch for Studio 8 and they're promoting Flash more as a platform than just an authoring tool. They are actually trying to get more players for mobile devices so this is all just lawyer speak. Still, the languge in most EULAs is disturbing and off-putting so I hope they change it soon.
If you want to take chances, there are investment houses that will take you money, pool it with others and then act on your behalf to invest your money based on the amount of risk you are prepared to take.
I mean, aren't they still losing money because of a defective product?
Let's at least be clear that it wasn't a defective product. It may have been defective marketing but it is not a defective product. I have 1G iPod that is still going strong. Originally I had intended to opt out of the lawsuit, which required writing a letter, but I didn't get it sent out in time. So, I'll probably just shred anything that I get in the mail out of this.
If this is so then why do CEOs get paid millions for leaving a company that they drove into the ground? I'll tell you why, and it has little to do with the free market.
Check out this page to see how interrelated different companies can be and how many boards one person may sit on. Its more about back scratching and looking out for yourself and your rich buddies than it is about so-called free market forces.
You can't get that in a Arts college, where logic classes are taught by fuzzy-minded idiot philosophy professors.
Wow, what a bigoted statement. I'm guessing you never took a class from one of those "fuzzy-minded" idiots and I'm guessing that you think the world revolves around--and can't do without--the thing you're interested in.
Computation is a tool, like math or writing. And if you really want to tackle the big problems in science, and even some in business, it's the most important tool you should have.
Ah, yes, looks like I was right. As the phrase goes, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
I was just going to let you have the last word, but I decided that you deserved a reply to your well considered post. Basically, I think we're on the same side, but your seemingly at-odds-with-itself reply to my first post was confusing.
That riff is not thanks to Mr. Moog but rather to Paul Tanner who built the electro-theremin, which was of course based on the traditional hands-waving-in-space theremin.
The point is you ought to be being parents! No-one said it was going to be easy...
In fact, it may not even be possible. Parents don't have as much control over their kids as most would like to believe. You can go on and on about how you need to instill good values in them, but then there's American Pop Culture coming at them from every angle, every day that probably has a much stronger influence than anything the parent's can dream up. Parents have been teemed up against by a slew of advertising and pop media that are constantly putting out the message that life is all about money, sex and power. And perhaps fearing that germs might reside in your toilet.
So no, no one said it was going to be easy to be a parent. They also never said the deck would be stacked against you either.
Please go back and read my post. But first, grab a pencil and paper so you can make a few notes for the things that you seem to have forgotten between reading my post and making your own post. Here, I'll help you. These are the notes you should be taking:
1. Poster does not claim to be a pacifist.
2. Poster never claims that all wars are unjustifiable.
3. Poster never stated anything about honoring those who are willing to be killed for (by?) their country.
4. Bravery is not limited to those who volunteer to be cannon fodder.
I think that about wraps it up. Now go ahead, give another shot at a post!
It seems a reasonable, if weird, position. You can feel in your core a disgust of violence, yet if you completely reject the use of force only the pricks and sociopaths will win in the end because they will always happily resort to violence.
I was pointing out that your position is not helped by saying that those that take the contrary position are automatically violently-inclined.
No, you weren't. That was a personal attack. And I do believe that people who are defenders of the death penalty are violently inclined. It's built into the position for crying out loud. If people start to see the death penalty as simply more violence then that is my intention. However, I'm well aware that many, many people like violence so I realize it's not going to have an effect on them.
Despite your lack of will, soft heart, and terrorist intentions, the death penalty is a good idea.
Your personal attack on me must mean I'm on the right track. If you would take some time to do the tiniest bit of research into how many people have been wrongfully executed in this country you might start to agree with me. In fact, supporting the death penalty wrongful--as you do--is itself a terrorist position.
No amount of conservative pin-headedness can change the facts in this case. In fact, perhaps you could explain why it is that people such as yourself think that invoking the death penalty somehow makes them strong of heart? I think it's a basically weak position for people who are afraid of gray areas.
I'm not arguing that he should be free, but it is possible for someone to think a similar way, yet not ever hurt anyone.
Why, oh why is it that in this time of high technical advancement people are still practically burning witches at the stake and concocting home-brew explanations of human behavior rather than study the giant body of research that has already been done in these fields? Please read up in some journals about sociopathy and what it really means. And what is your post about anyway? You seem to be somewhat defending the BTK killer and in the same post personally attack me for being against the death penalty.
Human who have experienced life shattering events, occasionally come out of it incapable for feeling remorse.
That is complete bull. Complete lack of remorse is a personality disorder and nothing less. I can see we have a bunch of arm chair psychologists/psychiatrists here. While I am not a psychiatrist myself I am married to one, and despite the ignorant and malformed ideas that many have on the topic I can tell you that a great deal of research, thought and development went into the DSM-IV, which is the diagnostic manual for axis I and axis II disorders, which covers sociopathy and psychopathy.
To revisit your sentence, humans who come out of life shattering events may experience depressive disorders, but that is not the same as being incapable of feeling remorse.
I would say that remorse is not the key. A sense of duty is a far more powerful motivator.
Remorse is totally the key when it comes to determining sociopathy. You might want to take a look at the Dennis Rader/BTK situation to see someone who has absolutely no remorse whatsoever, despite what he may have said on sentencing day. Those tears he shed were shed for himself, not for his victims. Remorse in this case doesn't just mean regreting a decision, it means feeling genuinely bad for having wronged or hurt someone. If you lack this trait please stay far, far away from me if possible.
I may have missed your point here but I couldn't precisely determine what it was you were responding to.
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Gentlemen, gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the war room!
I expect you're about ready to make a go at the Matterhorn by now, eh?
That's easy. kill, eat, mate, sleep, kill, eat, mate, sleep....
Actually, it's who is the Chinee. Chinee is the singular of Chinese. Fortunately that means that not all that much is going to be blocked.
Does that include booting the machine? I just ran Spotlight on my iBook (G3, 500 MHz) and found something within 5 seconds. Please note again that this is with my very old laptop, which has 640MB of RAM.
Go ahead, mods. Do it in one fell swoop.
Indeed. I was just at seminar/sales pitch for Studio 8 and they're promoting Flash more as a platform than just an authoring tool. They are actually trying to get more players for mobile devices so this is all just lawyer speak. Still, the languge in most EULAs is disturbing and off-putting so I hope they change it soon.
I guess I can keep the Flash player for my Timex/Sinclair then?
Yep, this is an old idea with a modern twist. Sort of, "I've fallen and I can't log on!"
Yes, they're called casinos.
Let's at least be clear that it wasn't a defective product. It may have been defective marketing but it is not a defective product. I have 1G iPod that is still going strong. Originally I had intended to opt out of the lawsuit, which required writing a letter, but I didn't get it sent out in time. So, I'll probably just shred anything that I get in the mail out of this.
I'll bet that before they send anybody overseas again they'll install some good anti-virus software in them.
Check out this page to see how interrelated different companies can be and how many boards one person may sit on. Its more about back scratching and looking out for yourself and your rich buddies than it is about so-called free market forces.
Wow, what a bigoted statement. I'm guessing you never took a class from one of those "fuzzy-minded" idiots and I'm guessing that you think the world revolves around--and can't do without--the thing you're interested in.
Computation is a tool, like math or writing. And if you really want to tackle the big problems in science, and even some in business, it's the most important tool you should have.
Ah, yes, looks like I was right. As the phrase goes, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
4. Profit!
So yes, give peace a chance. :-)
That riff is not thanks to Mr. Moog but rather to Paul Tanner who built the electro-theremin, which was of course based on the traditional hands-waving-in-space theremin.
In fact, it may not even be possible. Parents don't have as much control over their kids as most would like to believe. You can go on and on about how you need to instill good values in them, but then there's American Pop Culture coming at them from every angle, every day that probably has a much stronger influence than anything the parent's can dream up. Parents have been teemed up against by a slew of advertising and pop media that are constantly putting out the message that life is all about money, sex and power. And perhaps fearing that germs might reside in your toilet.
So no, no one said it was going to be easy to be a parent. They also never said the deck would be stacked against you either.
1. Poster does not claim to be a pacifist.
2. Poster never claims that all wars are unjustifiable.
3. Poster never stated anything about honoring those who are willing to be killed for (by?) their country.
4. Bravery is not limited to those who volunteer to be cannon fodder.
I think that about wraps it up. Now go ahead, give another shot at a post!
It seems a reasonable, if weird, position. You can feel in your core a disgust of violence, yet if you completely reject the use of force only the pricks and sociopaths will win in the end because they will always happily resort to violence.
No, you weren't. That was a personal attack. And I do believe that people who are defenders of the death penalty are violently inclined. It's built into the position for crying out loud. If people start to see the death penalty as simply more violence then that is my intention. However, I'm well aware that many, many people like violence so I realize it's not going to have an effect on them.
Your personal attack on me must mean I'm on the right track. If you would take some time to do the tiniest bit of research into how many people have been wrongfully executed in this country you might start to agree with me. In fact, supporting the death penalty wrongful--as you do--is itself a terrorist position.
No amount of conservative pin-headedness can change the facts in this case. In fact, perhaps you could explain why it is that people such as yourself think that invoking the death penalty somehow makes them strong of heart? I think it's a basically weak position for people who are afraid of gray areas.
I'm not arguing that he should be free, but it is possible for someone to think a similar way, yet not ever hurt anyone.
Why, oh why is it that in this time of high technical advancement people are still practically burning witches at the stake and concocting home-brew explanations of human behavior rather than study the giant body of research that has already been done in these fields? Please read up in some journals about sociopathy and what it really means. And what is your post about anyway? You seem to be somewhat defending the BTK killer and in the same post personally attack me for being against the death penalty.
That is complete bull. Complete lack of remorse is a personality disorder and nothing less. I can see we have a bunch of arm chair psychologists/psychiatrists here. While I am not a psychiatrist myself I am married to one, and despite the ignorant and malformed ideas that many have on the topic I can tell you that a great deal of research, thought and development went into the DSM-IV, which is the diagnostic manual for axis I and axis II disorders, which covers sociopathy and psychopathy.
To revisit your sentence, humans who come out of life shattering events may experience depressive disorders, but that is not the same as being incapable of feeling remorse.
Remorse is totally the key when it comes to determining sociopathy. You might want to take a look at the Dennis Rader/BTK situation to see someone who has absolutely no remorse whatsoever, despite what he may have said on sentencing day. Those tears he shed were shed for himself, not for his victims. Remorse in this case doesn't just mean regreting a decision, it means feeling genuinely bad for having wronged or hurt someone. If you lack this trait please stay far, far away from me if possible.
I may have missed your point here but I couldn't precisely determine what it was you were responding to.