Not generally, no. Creationist means (to most people) that the bible is the story of how things were made by God. And I don't recall a Big Bang theory or evolution in there anywhere.
Just to play Devil's advocate..."Let there be Light." I agree about the evolution part though. I don't know if there is a 'Creator' or not and can't pretend to, but both sides of the debate have their zealots.
Hell we could be the thesis project of some extra dimensional alien intelligence for all I know. Still, "Let there be Light" sounds an awful lot like a big bang (or big flash) to me.
I was probably too harsh, but I would have no reason to astroturf. We use both iphones and Android at my shop (small place, 50 people) and both seem to get perfectly good battery life. We are phasing out our Blackberries right now, about half the people are on the aforementioned platforms.
I really don't have a horse in this race. I take what they give me, but based on my observation this droid phone works just fine battery wise. I did note that my old Blackberry Curve got far better battery life. I just also noted that the battery life on the HTC unit was perfectly acceptible. If I needed more juice I could also just get an extended life battery, but so far (admittedly only about a month since I got it) I haven't found the need.
You're just trolling, and you're spewing bullshit. My old Blackberry did last far longer, but I use my HTC Incredible quite a bit for phone, email, web, and apps every day. I plug it in at night and it's good to go for the next day without having to worry about it. Enough astroturfing, trolling, or whatever agenda you'd trying to further. Get a fucking clue.
I've played guitar for 30 years, and the following quote is disturbing to me: "in much the same way that a musician’s eyes would scan up and down the neck of the instrument during a performance"
You're not really supposed to be looking at the frets while you're playing. Your fingers are supposed to know where to go without looking, much like when one learns to properly touch type. Looking at your fingers while you're playing is a bad habit that sadly a lot of new guitarists fall into. Yes, in the initial learning stages one needs to do so, but any good teacher will break that habit in their students as soon as possible.
That being said this might still be a useful learning aid for aspiring guitarists. I'm not interested.
Your use of the term 'cager' immediately declares your bias. It renders your entire post worthless. As both a driver and a cyclist I find your attitude childish.
Try avoiding broken glass. Glass is a LOT more environmentally friendly than plastic if reused, which it easily can be. The only reason plastic is prevalent today is it's cheaper. Fuck your damn bike if you can't bother to avoid road hazards.
Yes, it is Linux. Just because you say it's not doesn't make it so. Just because it's become a fork, for now at least, doesn't make anything you've said valid. It runs a Linux kernel, modified yes but still Linux.
Pictures: Anyone who does not keep a local copy is an idiot and probably deserves to lose em!
Yeah submitter, that's right, your 15-year old daughter who grew up in the internet age is an idiot who deserves to lose her memories. Thankfully, we have people like Carrot007 to help point this out.
My daughter is 20 now, and as a parent I taught her to save anything on local storage that she wasn't willing to lose. You make it sound like your hypothetical 15 year old girl is a victim of some kind. Bullshit. Teach your kids how to use their computers and other devices and teach them best practices.
And to be even more fair, the word "security" does not even appear once in the article which makes the author a clueless idiot who flatters himself to believe he understands anything remotely resembling the internal details of this stupid idea.
Be careful when you call someone an idiot lest you look like one yourself. Page 2:
To see NaCl apps in action, you need a browser that supports Native Client. For now, that means Chrome 10 or later, and you need to explicitly enable NaCl, either with a command-line option or through Chrome's experimental features panel. Once NaCl is enabled, Chrome warns you that security and stability will suffer -- don't try this at home, kids.
You clearly have no idea as to what you're talking about nor did you do any math before you made your knee jerk reaction. We would only need a small fraction of the Sun's energy. It would hardly even be a blip on the global scale.
Nor do you propose any alternatives. I'm thinking perhaps you're trolling. At least I hope you are trolling, because the alternative is you're just not very smart.
I just picked up two of their 101 tablets, one for me and one for my wife. We absolutely love them. No need for 3G. They tether just fine if you want access on the go and don't have a nearby WLAN to use.
Wow, I almost pulled the trigger on the 101 but was concerned about the screen quality, including viewing angle. Got any comments on that?
It's not that bad at all. Good bright colors, decent contrast, and the viewing angle is fine for my use. Probably not on par with that of the iPad but very nice IMO.
If a news outlet tells you that there is a massive thunderstorm coming do they have to spell out whether to take precautions or not? If an X-Class flare is sighted and they tell you that a massive CME is going to head our way, do you really have to have it spelled out? Besides, unless you are planning on building a Faraday cage what exactly can you do about it if we have a severe solar weather event? Backup data? You don't do that already?
By the way spaceweather.com is your friend if you give a shit about such matters. You know, like how you might hear a blurb on the news about possible bit thunderstorms so you go to a weather site for more info?
People are so lazy these days, wanting everything spoon fed to them.
I just bought an Archos 70 Internet Tablet, with a 1GHz CPU, running Android 2.2 after an update. It's half the weight of the iPad and it's seriously sleek. Still built like a tank though - accidentally threw it onto a concrete floor and no damage at all.
It was $279 Canadian.
It's WiFi only - and it's EXACTLY what I was looking for. Samsung's Galaxy Tab is a seriously clunky, heavy, slow POS beside this tablet - but hey, it costs twice as much and ties you to a cellular provider for the foreseeable future. Yay.
I just picked up two of their 101 tablets, one for me and one for my wife. We absolutely love them. No need for 3G. They tether just fine if you want access on the go and don't have a nearby WLAN to use.
Honestly, the *current* iPad competes well with the xoom, particularly on price, and it's not exactly a stretch to understand that Apple will release a new one, with updated specs and a similar price range, this year. I may not know the exact specs, but it's a good bet it isn't going to be a downgrade from the current model....
Wait...the iPad has half the cores and 1/4 of the RAM as the Xoom, and it 'competes well'? Don't get me wrong; the iPad is a nice device and I'm not going to buy a Xoom, but please, give us a break. This RDF shit is getting really old and tired.
Https adds very little overhead. Scale in this case is meaningless compared to the rest of Facebook's operations. You are either trolling, an idiot, or both. Or you were just trying to be funny and failed.
You are correct, for the 5% of users who even know what jailbreaking is, let alone are willing to do it. There is no convincing Apple apologists though. I hope the Koolaid is tasty!
Don't get me wrong; I love my Mac, but I will never own an iOS device so long as they are so restrictive. Sure I can jailbreak, but why bother? There are plenty of perfectly good options for devices that perform the same functions so I vote with my wallet.
Apple does not "block" porn, they just refuse publishing porn themselves. Sure, there is that tiny deal about them not supporting any other distribution methods, but thats a different matter. Truth be told: I would not install a pornographic application on my iPad or iPhone if you put a gun on a kitten's head (if it was my head I'd install and delete it once the gun wielder was arrested.)
The web provides all the porn I could need, and it displays magnificently in the iPad, touch screens are easier to clean than the mouse or the keyboard too!!
No it's not a different matter and not a tiny deal. By not allowing any other official/supported means of installing applications then decided for themselves what content is and is not appropriate they are indeed for all intents and purposes blocking said content.
There are a growing number of toolkits that support the iOS platform regardless of Apple's dicatorship. Perl, Python, Ruby, even C++ can be used these days.
Note that the link is thin, and the sources are behind logins and subscription links, so please post better URLs if you can find them.
Isn't that your job?
You must be new here if you think Taco and his so called 'editors' do anything other than sit around playing video games and collecting paychecks while posting a link once in awhile.
Because much it's value is based on the cult of personality that's been built up around Jobs. They make some good products and have strong market performance but their stock has been overvalued for quite some time. Beware of any stock that relies on a cult of personality for much of its value.
Why should I even bother replying to a straw man arguement? Had I been comparing systems then your question would be valid. I was not. I was talking about the US, not any other countries.
As for health care, my system is just fine for me because I actually work for a living and can have a great insurance plan plus money to pay for anything it might not cover. I'd rather not be beholden to any government for such needs. It's not their job to take care of me.
Let's see...buying a controlling interest in GM...check...attempting to take over health care...check...proposals for universal Government provided ID's for Internet use...check.
He's quite lefty enough, and he's taken great strides towards that end.
It's ironic how China and US are both moving towards becoming corporate fascist states from opposite directions.
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Creationist means that they believe in a creator.
Not generally, no. Creationist means (to most people) that the bible is the story of how things were made by God. And I don't recall a Big Bang theory or evolution in there anywhere.
Just to play Devil's advocate..."Let there be Light." I agree about the evolution part though. I don't know if there is a 'Creator' or not and can't pretend to, but both sides of the debate have their zealots.
Hell we could be the thesis project of some extra dimensional alien intelligence for all I know. Still, "Let there be Light" sounds an awful lot like a big bang (or big flash) to me.
I was probably too harsh, but I would have no reason to astroturf. We use both iphones and Android at my shop (small place, 50 people) and both seem to get perfectly good battery life. We are phasing out our Blackberries right now, about half the people are on the aforementioned platforms.
I really don't have a horse in this race. I take what they give me, but based on my observation this droid phone works just fine battery wise. I did note that my old Blackberry Curve got far better battery life. I just also noted that the battery life on the HTC unit was perfectly acceptible. If I needed more juice I could also just get an extended life battery, but so far (admittedly only about a month since I got it) I haven't found the need.
You're just trolling, and you're spewing bullshit. My old Blackberry did last far longer, but I use my HTC Incredible quite a bit for phone, email, web, and apps every day. I plug it in at night and it's good to go for the next day without having to worry about it. Enough astroturfing, trolling, or whatever agenda you'd trying to further. Get a fucking clue.
I've played guitar for 30 years, and the following quote is disturbing to me:
"in much the same way that a musician’s eyes would scan up and down the neck of the instrument during a performance"
You're not really supposed to be looking at the frets while you're playing. Your fingers are supposed to know where to go without looking, much like when one learns to properly touch type. Looking at your fingers while you're playing is a bad habit that sadly a lot of new guitarists fall into. Yes, in the initial learning stages one needs to do so, but any good teacher will break that habit in their students as soon as possible.
That being said this might still be a useful learning aid for aspiring guitarists. I'm not interested.
Your use of the term 'cager' immediately declares your bias. It renders your entire post worthless. As both a driver and a cyclist I find your attitude childish.
Try avoiding broken glass. Glass is a LOT more environmentally friendly than plastic if reused, which it easily can be. The only reason plastic is prevalent today is it's cheaper. Fuck your damn bike if you can't bother to avoid road hazards.
Yes, it is Linux. Just because you say it's not doesn't make it so. Just because it's become a fork, for now at least, doesn't make anything you've said valid. It runs a Linux kernel, modified yes but still Linux.
Pictures: Anyone who does not keep a local copy is an idiot and probably deserves to lose em!
Yeah submitter, that's right, your 15-year old daughter who grew up in the internet age is an idiot who deserves to lose her memories. Thankfully, we have people like Carrot007 to help point this out.
My daughter is 20 now, and as a parent I taught her to save anything on local storage that she wasn't willing to lose. You make it sound like your hypothetical 15 year old girl is a victim of some kind. Bullshit. Teach your kids how to use their computers and other devices and teach them best practices.
And to be even more fair, the word "security" does not even appear once in the article which makes the author a clueless idiot who flatters himself to believe he understands anything remotely resembling the internal details of this stupid idea.
Be careful when you call someone an idiot lest you look like one yourself. Page 2:
To see NaCl apps in action, you need a browser that supports Native Client. For now, that means Chrome 10 or later, and you need to explicitly enable NaCl, either with a command-line option or through Chrome's experimental features panel. Once NaCl is enabled, Chrome warns you that security and stability will suffer -- don't try this at home, kids.
You clearly have no idea as to what you're talking about nor did you do any math before you made your knee jerk reaction. We would only need a small fraction of the Sun's energy. It would hardly even be a blip on the global scale.
Nor do you propose any alternatives. I'm thinking perhaps you're trolling. At least I hope you are trolling, because the alternative is you're just not very smart.
*WOOSH*
Perhaps, but in all honesty I hear that phrase misquoted more often than used correctly.
There is no 'perhaps' involved in this at all. The person you replied to was citing it as his own pet peeve. You wasted your pedantry.
I just bought an Archos 70 Internet Table...
I just picked up two of their 101 tablets, one for me and one for my wife. We absolutely love them. No need for 3G. They tether just fine if you want access on the go and don't have a nearby WLAN to use.
Wow, I almost pulled the trigger on the 101 but was concerned about the screen quality, including viewing angle. Got any comments on that?
It's not that bad at all. Good bright colors, decent contrast, and the viewing angle is fine for my use. Probably not on par with that of the iPad but very nice IMO.
How is this informative if we do not know if we need to be worried or not?
Please let us know if we need to start worrying or not, just like in this post earlier on slashdot.
If a news outlet tells you that there is a massive thunderstorm coming do they have to spell out whether to take precautions or not? If an X-Class flare is sighted and they tell you that a massive CME is going to head our way, do you really have to have it spelled out? Besides, unless you are planning on building a Faraday cage what exactly can you do about it if we have a severe solar weather event? Backup data? You don't do that already?
By the way spaceweather.com is your friend if you give a shit about such matters. You know, like how you might hear a blurb on the news about possible bit thunderstorms so you go to a weather site for more info?
People are so lazy these days, wanting everything spoon fed to them.
I just bought an Archos 70 Internet Tablet, with a 1GHz CPU, running Android 2.2 after an update. It's half the weight of the iPad and it's seriously sleek. Still built like a tank though - accidentally threw it onto a concrete floor and no damage at all.
It was $279 Canadian.
It's WiFi only - and it's EXACTLY what I was looking for. Samsung's Galaxy Tab is a seriously clunky, heavy, slow POS beside this tablet - but hey, it costs twice as much and ties you to a cellular provider for the foreseeable future. Yay.
I just picked up two of their 101 tablets, one for me and one for my wife. We absolutely love them. No need for 3G. They tether just fine if you want access on the go and don't have a nearby WLAN to use.
Honestly, the *current* iPad competes well with the xoom, particularly on price, and it's not exactly a stretch to understand that Apple will release a new one, with updated specs and a similar price range, this year. I may not know the exact specs, but it's a good bet it isn't going to be a downgrade from the current model....
Wait...the iPad has half the cores and 1/4 of the RAM as the Xoom, and it 'competes well'? Don't get me wrong; the iPad is a nice device and I'm not going to buy a Xoom, but please, give us a break. This RDF shit is getting really old and tired.
Https adds very little overhead. Scale in this case is meaningless compared to the rest of Facebook's operations. You are either trolling, an idiot, or both. Or you were just trying to be funny and failed.
You are correct, for the 5% of users who even know what jailbreaking is, let alone are willing to do it. There is no convincing Apple apologists though. I hope the Koolaid is tasty!
Don't get me wrong; I love my Mac, but I will never own an iOS device so long as they are so restrictive. Sure I can jailbreak, but why bother? There are plenty of perfectly good options for devices that perform the same functions so I vote with my wallet.
Apple does not "block" porn, they just refuse publishing porn themselves. Sure, there is that tiny deal about them not supporting any other distribution methods, but thats a different matter. Truth be told: I would not install a pornographic application on my iPad or iPhone if you put a gun on a kitten's head (if it was my head I'd install and delete it once the gun wielder was arrested.)
The web provides all the porn I could need, and it displays magnificently in the iPad, touch screens are easier to clean than the mouse or the keyboard too!!
No it's not a different matter and not a tiny deal. By not allowing any other official/supported means of installing applications then decided for themselves what content is and is not appropriate they are indeed for all intents and purposes blocking said content.
Personally, I can't wait for Duke Nukem Forever 2 to get released. By then, it will be available as a holonovel, and we will finally have flying cars.
I'm not so sure there will be holonovels or flying cars here after the Sun swells to a red giant and engulfs us.
There are a growing number of toolkits that support the iOS platform regardless of Apple's dicatorship. Perl, Python, Ruby, even C++ can be used these days.
While we're at it, which drug do you take that makes you a pedantic, insensitive clod? ;)
Note that the link is thin, and the sources are behind logins and subscription links, so please post better URLs if you can find them.
Isn't that your job?
You must be new here if you think Taco and his so called 'editors' do anything other than sit around playing video games and collecting paychecks while posting a link once in awhile.
Because much it's value is based on the cult of personality that's been built up around Jobs. They make some good products and have strong market performance but their stock has been overvalued for quite some time. Beware of any stock that relies on a cult of personality for much of its value.
Why should I even bother replying to a straw man arguement? Had I been comparing systems then your question would be valid. I was not. I was talking about the US, not any other countries.
As for health care, my system is just fine for me because I actually work for a living and can have a great insurance plan plus money to pay for anything it might not cover. I'd rather not be beholden to any government for such needs. It's not their job to take care of me.
Let's see...buying a controlling interest in GM...check...attempting to take over health care...check...proposals for universal Government provided ID's for Internet use...check.
He's quite lefty enough, and he's taken great strides towards that end.
It's ironic how China and US are both moving towards becoming corporate fascist states from opposite directions.