You have to kind of feel sorry for this guy. He's been told all his life that he's a reincarnation of some old dead guy by his handlers, and managed to get pushed in to the position before all the other kids who had also been told that. I'm not sure what happens to the other 'potentials'. Perhaps they get euthanised for heresy so they can repent in their next life.
BlueSky TeXtures is a lovely TeX IDE. Only problem is that they're still stuck in OS9 so you need to run it in classic mode. Though an OSX release will be out Any Day Now(tm).
Youtube seems to be an exception. Trying any CPU-intensive task while playing youtube content causes skips. Though I suspect that's due to the crappy Adobe flash player than anything else.
Er, I was talking about within the context of a religious society. The claim was made by the GGP that a society that had a belief in God would have no need for scientific investigation. If a society believes in a supreme God, then they believe said God created the universe.
Whether or not such a God actually exists is something that people need to discover for themselves.
Oh, so we should keep looking into the cause of the universe when we know god caused it? That seems kinda contradictory. Either he didn't cause it or we should stop looking. Now take that back a few tens of hundreds of years... the sun rises every day. God did it, no need to study it. Hense the dark ages.
Ummm... no.
It's a given that God created the universe. Great, so we have the Who. There is good reason to believe that it was created for us (intelligent life) to live in, and us to worship Him. Great, so now we have the Why too. What we don't have much of is the How. That's where scientific discovery comes into it.
Y'know, I was about to reply with something clever like "that would seem a bit Over The Top", but at the last minute noticed you'd cunningly slipped it in there already.
I don't really buy that. The only real argument for mimicing limitations of current film is to make them look like people expect them to in a cinema, not because of any objective qualities.
I seem to recall reading about arguments in the 1920s that colour film would make motion pictures less dramatic too...
That's funny, because I don't have any problems ignoring the artifacts from my VHF aerial on my 29" black & white TV set.
But seriously, one thing I'd rather see content producers support is a higher frame rate. 24fps is pathetic, and part of the reason I only very rarely go to the cinema any more. I realise that movie frame rate is probably not going to change for some time due to the ingrained (no pun intended) movie industry, but for televised content there aren't really the same restrictions. 60p would be nice.
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Great news. Would anyone care to post a translation? Google and Altavista seem to be lacking a Swedish translator.
How about spending every day convinced that you're eight years old, and that your (long dead) parents have abandoned you in a strange place?
What he doesn't tell you was that the Microsoft employee in question could well have been the tea-lady.
You have to kind of feel sorry for this guy. He's been told all his life that he's a reincarnation of some old dead guy by his handlers, and managed to get pushed in to the position before all the other kids who had also been told that. I'm not sure what happens to the other 'potentials'. Perhaps they get euthanised for heresy so they can repent in their next life.
Yes because obviously most Christian leaders rape little boys and do crystal meth with their prostitutes.
Idiot.
Why the badness towards Keanau? You can't have seen him at the absolute peak of his acting career, as Ted Theodore Logan.
Strange, since I can run multiple OpenGL GPU-intensive applications on my Linux box without any problems.
BlueSky TeXtures is a lovely TeX IDE. Only problem is that they're still stuck in OS9 so you need to run it in classic mode. Though an OSX release will be out Any Day Now(tm).
Nice. You can see a similar effect if you apt-get install stellarium.
Youtube seems to be an exception. Trying any CPU-intensive task while playing youtube content causes skips. Though I suspect that's due to the crappy Adobe flash player than anything else.
So they download /etc/shadow too. Not a problem.
Er, I was talking about within the context of a religious society. The claim was made by the GGP that a society that had a belief in God would have no need for scientific investigation. If a society believes in a supreme God, then they believe said God created the universe.
Whether or not such a God actually exists is something that people need to discover for themselves.
Oh, so we should keep looking into the cause of the universe when we know god caused it? That seems kinda contradictory. Either he didn't cause it or we should stop looking. Now take that back a few tens of hundreds of years... the sun rises every day. God did it, no need to study it. Hense the dark ages.
Ummm... no.
It's a given that God created the universe. Great, so we have the Who. There is good reason to believe that it was created for us (intelligent life) to live in, and us to worship Him. Great, so now we have the Why too. What we don't have much of is the How. That's where scientific discovery comes into it.
Y'know, I was about to reply with something clever like "that would seem a bit Over The Top", but at the last minute noticed you'd cunningly slipped it in there already.
Kudos.
Just because the president can speak Spanish, it doesn't mean he can't read English.
Uh, the DMCA is the law too, or whatever the UK calls their ratification of the 1996 WIPO treaty.
Do you respect that law?
I think it's called Tall Poppy Syndrome.
You may be aware of this already, but I feel I should point it out for those who don't:
Playstation 3 games do not have region codes.
Nintendo Wii ones do.
That is all.
I don't really buy that. The only real argument for mimicing limitations of current film is to make them look like people expect them to in a cinema, not because of any objective qualities.
I seem to recall reading about arguments in the 1920s that colour film would make motion pictures less dramatic too...
Now that Paramount has lost Michael Bay as a result of this (for better or worse) I wonder if they'll re-evaluate their position...
Well I've just read that this move may cost them Michael Bay, for better or worse...
That's funny, because I don't have any problems ignoring the artifacts from my VHF aerial on my 29" black & white TV set.
But seriously, one thing I'd rather see content producers support is a higher frame rate. 24fps is pathetic, and part of the reason I only very rarely go to the cinema any more. I realise that movie frame rate is probably not going to change for some time due to the ingrained (no pun intended) movie industry, but for televised content there aren't really the same restrictions. 60p would be nice.
I'm guessing this guy's head would explode if he watched just one episode of Blues Clues.
The idea of Evolution is much, much older that Darwin. Much older.
He was just one of the first to write a scientific paper on it.
Unfortunately for evolution as it is taught in schools to work, it would require one to roll a 7 several million times in a row.
With a 6-sided die.