You know the first few times I had a disabled person come to my store and ask me to help him get his wheelchair up the steps and inside I took them seriously.
But now I just can't be bothered by that waste of time. And to think they want ME to put in a ramp so they can get in here.
Waste...of...goddamn...time. Pushing them over into the street usually helps them to not want to come back too.
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It was not really communisim... I'm very sorry you belive everything the media machine throws out for the public to chew on. The fact is that with the way human society works there can be no communisim because people would rather have more then enough then just enough even if it means watching others die of starvation.
It's the "I'm better then those people" syndrome. People think they somehow have an inherant right to screw everyone else over.
Oh give me a break. The whole let's attack Tom thing got way out of hand. Tom himself has even said the benchmarks were not perfect but they did say some interesting things. I just think alot of people finally found the chink in the armor they were so desperatly looking for. How many sites covered Tom's so called _broken_ benchmarks? Did you ever ask why they were covering it? Maybe stop to think and read Tom's side?
The guy deserves a lot of respect. He's always been honest about a product and never falling for Name brand zealotisim. Unlike some of the reviewers out there. Never took mony from the company's or signed up for any "Review Promotions" (ahem, Hello 3dfx). Next time find out a little more about something before just taking a news byte off of some site about it.
(I don't mean to sound upset here. it's just very few bothered to look at Tom's side and just attacked him with the rest of the crowd.)
> For the record, the 'why does a loving God allow > bad things' argument has been settled for rather > more than a thousand years now. It has to do > with free will; you cannot allow free action > without allowing evil action with it. Then you > get to the question of why free will; the answer > is that automata don't provide the same joy that > individuals do. To be slightly on-topic, imagine > the difference between a computer, which does > always as it is told, and a child, who disobeys > but is an intelligent individual. Which would > you rather have? I'd rather have the kid. YMMV, > of course.
Now now now... Be fair this has not been settled but in your own mind. There are many philosophical proofs for the existance and conversely the non-existance of god. We can take any one of these things and make it a proof based on our own perception of the idea.
For instance I can take the proof that the idea of god exists therfore god must exist because we can't conceve of something like that without a truth. Well the problem with that is that I can conceve of a purple rooster. Because I can conceive it dosen't in fact make it true.
But returning to your free will argument. Why does a gods actions soley lay on our heads? I mean the victor does write history. So if it's attributed to a god then he himself made that descision and cast the act yes? if we are in his image then HE has free will also. Therfore if he has free will then he did as he wanted and wiped mankind from the earth. He had that choice nothing forced him/her/it to do that. It's so easy to say that man was corrupt there and that he had no choice. There is always another choice being it a god or human making the descision.
or it was a cataclysmic event that was attributed to a god. Who knows?
oh and let's not get into free will verses freedom of action.:)
I found this very annoying also. So I just launch a new browser to read the threads under the main and when I close off the thread window the main is exactly where I left off. Works quite well.
Not to nitpick. but it's a shoutcast server. Not much difference really 'cept the sound quality will be higher as it chops...
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Why with such spite?
First off, Yes to the difference in experince I've had many troubles with MS products in both a home and office environment. I had a bunch of computers that were crashing at one site because Critical Update Notification (the newest ver) was crashing every hour or so. and before that it was blue screens of death. What do you tell a small buisness operator who's not sure they should have spent any money in upgradeing when they just spent major money in new computers direct off an assembly line and they're giving Blue Screens multiple times a day?
secondly about x...it's being worked on...but it's not a reason to be spiteful on it.
As for poorly coded apps... heheh you've never downloaded windows shareware have you? heheh
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I don't know If I trust an editor that I couln't get to cut+paste without it crashing and taking half a page with it (BTW this was the "stable" WORD 97)... Of course YMMV...
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you have the art of disputing fact with hateful words down rather well... Besides you fall in to a dangerous trap with your words... Stereotyping... That somehow because I read Slashdot I choose some piece of code as my religion. That somehow I have not the capacity to make my own choices. Be careful with words they're far more then a few pixels on a screen...
and there have been people in line since early april...I'm not that devoted. but it does say that the episode 1 will be the biggest media event ever concieved of. there are even people in europe taking Travel packages just to see it because they get it later.
Did you watch the same movie I did? last time I checked very few viruses were graphical. hell last I checked running ls doesn't fly me through a virtual landscape of data towers either.Now that's realisim a p6 power mac...heheh
ok I'll add in a wyse dumb terminal, 4 old school 640x480 vga monitors, 1 9600 async modem (used by a telco long ago when that was really fast!), a telephone switching board, 1 25 foot fiberoptic light tube with control box (the lights flash) and a handbuilt modle of the 4 enterprises.
$7.46, a laptop ethernet dongle, a whole bag of stand offs and screws, and a 486 with a 500 meg hard drive. (don't make me up it to the 3 pentium 120's I have also)
I'll bet more people today use Wordperfect then do VisiCalc. To say Wordperfect is not a noticable market share would be wrong. It may not be number one but it's on the charts.
Or was that a strange artical? I mean one moment it's talking about VA research then it's off on a FUD trip about lack of applications. I'm not trying to attack the autor here. But if you're going to write a piece about VA shouldn't it be mainly about VA?
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Flaimbait? I guess I can see that a little.
But I still defend the fact that the kind of careless attitude that we should not deal with disabled people because it is a waste of time is wrong.
The people who call this guy who are actually deaf and just want a computer do not deserve to be treated that way. That is all I was trying to say.
Maybe I should have said it clear without the sarcasim.
You know the first few times I had a disabled person come to my store and ask me to help him get his wheelchair up the steps and inside I took them seriously.
But now I just can't be bothered by that waste of time. And to think they want ME to put in a ramp so they can get in here.
Waste...of...goddamn...time. Pushing them over into the street usually helps them to not want to come back too.
It was not really communisim... I'm very sorry you belive everything the media machine throws out for the public to chew on. The fact is that with the way human society works there can be no communisim because people would rather have more then enough then just enough even if it means watching others die of starvation.
It's the "I'm better then those people" syndrome. People think they somehow have an inherant right to screw everyone else over.
I just laugh out loud. Any man who follows such things blindly deserves to be laughed at. This makes me few friends and many enemies however.
Fighting fire with fire will only burn down the forrest. Use water it's more efficient.
Oh give me a break. The whole let's attack Tom thing got way out of hand. Tom himself has even said the benchmarks were not perfect but they did say some interesting things. I just think alot of people finally found the chink in the armor they were so desperatly looking for. How many sites covered Tom's so called _broken_ benchmarks? Did you ever ask why they were covering it? Maybe stop to think and read Tom's side?
The guy deserves a lot of respect. He's always been honest about a product and never falling for Name brand zealotisim. Unlike some of the reviewers out there. Never took mony from the company's or signed up for any "Review Promotions" (ahem, Hello 3dfx). Next time find out a little more about something before just taking a news byte off of some site about it.
(I don't mean to sound upset here. it's just very few bothered to look at Tom's side and just attacked him with the rest of the crowd.)
Want some of my sandwich? You must be hungry by now. Besides if it were druged I wouldn't be able to eat it, as I am now, right?
Want some of my sandwich? You must be hungry by now.
> For the record, the 'why does a loving God allow
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> bad things' argument has been settled for rather
> more than a thousand years now. It has to do
> with free will; you cannot allow free action
> without allowing evil action with it. Then you
> get to the question of why free will; the answer
> is that automata don't provide the same joy that
> individuals do. To be slightly on-topic, imagine
> the difference between a computer, which does
> always as it is told, and a child, who disobeys
> but is an intelligent individual. Which would
> you rather have? I'd rather have the kid. YMMV,
> of course.
Now now now... Be fair this has not been settled but in your own mind. There are many philosophical proofs for the existance and conversely the non-existance of god. We can take any one of these things and make it a proof based on our own perception of the idea.
For instance I can take the proof that the idea of god exists therfore god must exist because we can't conceve of something like that without a truth. Well the problem with that is that I can conceve of a purple rooster. Because I can conceive it dosen't in fact make it true.
But returning to your free will argument. Why does a gods actions soley lay on our heads? I mean the victor does write history. So if it's attributed to a god then he himself made that descision and cast the act yes? if we are in his image then HE has free will also. Therfore if he has free will then he did as he wanted and wiped mankind from the earth. He had that choice nothing forced him/her/it to do that. It's so easy to say that man was corrupt there and that he had no choice. There is always another choice being it a god or human making the descision.
or it was a cataclysmic event that was attributed to a god. Who knows?
oh and let's not get into free will verses freedom of action.
sorry all I saw was the shoutcast server. Just a quick take on it. is that wrong? I guess I could have worded it better. sorry
I found this very annoying also. So I just launch a new browser to read the threads under the main and when I close off the thread window the main is exactly where I left off. Works quite well.
Not to nitpick. but it's a shoutcast server. Not much difference really 'cept the sound quality will be higher as it chops...
Why with such spite?
First off, Yes to the difference in experince I've had many troubles with MS products in both a home and office environment. I had a bunch of computers that were crashing at one site because Critical Update Notification (the newest ver) was crashing every hour or so. and before that it was blue screens of death. What do you tell a small buisness operator who's not sure they should have spent any money in upgradeing when they just spent major money in new computers direct off an assembly line and they're giving Blue Screens multiple times a day?
secondly about x...it's being worked on...but it's not a reason to be spiteful on it.
As for poorly coded apps... heheh you've never downloaded windows shareware have you? heheh
I don't know If I trust an editor that I couln't get to cut+paste without it crashing and taking half a page with it (BTW this was the "stable" WORD 97)... Of course YMMV...
you have the art of disputing fact with hateful words down rather well... Besides you fall in to a
dangerous trap with your words... Stereotyping... That somehow because I read Slashdot I choose
some piece of code as my religion. That somehow I have not the capacity to make my own choices.
Be careful with words they're far more then a few pixels on a screen...
What do you do that requires 500 megs of memory??
I know I've been guilty of atleast a couple reloads (more like 10-20 :) a day...
Keep up the good work guys...
and there have been people in line since early april...I'm not that devoted. but it does say that the episode 1 will be the biggest media event ever concieved of. there are even people in europe taking Travel packages just to see it because they get it later.
Did you watch the same movie I did? last time I checked very few viruses were graphical. hell last I checked running ls doesn't fly me through a virtual landscape of data towers either.Now that's realisim a p6 power mac...heheh
I was just about to give it to you. Then I noticed you were about 50 foot tall. Damn Loch Ness monster.
hmmm...ok I've got to bring out the big guns eh?
ok I'll add in a wyse dumb terminal, 4 old school 640x480 vga monitors, 1 9600 async modem (used by a telco long ago when that was really fast!), a telephone switching board, 1 25 foot fiberoptic light tube with control box (the lights flash) and a handbuilt modle of the 4 enterprises.
$7.46, a laptop ethernet dongle, a whole bag of stand offs and screws, and a 486 with a 500 meg hard drive. (don't make me up it to the 3 pentium 120's I have also)
there beat that.
I'll bet more people today use Wordperfect then do VisiCalc. To say Wordperfect is not a noticable market share would be wrong. It may not be number one but it's on the charts.
Or was that a strange artical? I mean one moment it's talking about VA research then it's off on a FUD trip about lack of applications. I'm not trying to attack the autor here. But if you're going to write a piece about VA shouldn't it be mainly about VA?
Creating life as we know it and personally supervising evolution. Who knows maybe that's why humanity's so fscked up right now? :)