I'm not so sure that's true anymore. Todays bright LCD screens draw upwards of 100W, where a modern CRT is about 60W (going by my measurements of my Philips 107Ts here).
In other countries, like the US, you pay for calling and for receiving calls, and for sending and receiving text messages...
I'm absolutely staggered. I had no idea the mobile phone situation in the States was that screwed up. So if you're on a $10/month texting plan you can find someone you don't like, send him as many messages as you can, and he racks up a huge bill? *shakes head*
I can confirm that in NZ at least you don't pay to receive any calls or messages of any type.
Still, the yanks have much better broadband service than us so I can't exactly gloat (Telecom has a stranglehold on the local loop).
Atheism means without theism as you say, but that has little to do with religion. Look at a lot of mainstream religions today that are doing fine without theism. That path is usually kicked off by accepting worldly doctrines such as evolution.
Religion involves faith.
And athiests have faith alright.
They have faith that:
They are correct and there is no God, Deity or spiritual presence
The universe came into being without a need for the aforementioned God, Deity or spiritual presence
Listen carefully: there are not two sides. There just aren't. There is empirical evidence for evolution, and a bunch of people who refuse to believe it. That's it.
Where is the evidence for evolution?
There are variations in species, fossils, bacteria and viruses becoming immune to new substances at different times, and DNA similarities. The only way any of this can be remotely considered evidence for evolution is if one interprets it with an evolutionary bias, and that sure as hell isn't how I or a great many scientists interpret from the evidence.
You say The creationists have faith; this is irrational belief. However I put it to you that evolutionists have just as much if not more - they interpret data and see patterns that aren't there, they have faith that, given enough time, a genetic defect will be in the right place at the right time and produce an organism with a survival probability slightly higher than those around it. And then another, but it was the wrong shade of red and got eaten by something else. And from that came you. At what point, sir, is any of that rational?
Putting your fingers in your ears and shouting loudly that there aren't two sides doesn't make it true.
What you're suggesting is that if MS produces the best OS ever it will be bad for the consumer. What? That makes no sense unless your political idology is your number one factor in decision making for what software to use. I have no problem buying software if it's worth the cost of paying for it.
You forget:
If MS produce the best OS ever and have no competition then they can charge whatever they like for it.
Even the rules of war (to which the US professes to be a subscriber) prohibit the things that America now routinely does to prisoners taken in the Middle East.
And this, I believe, gives some hint as to why the US hasn't declared war with another territory since around 1943.
What are you talking about? That task bouncing problem you mentioned was fixed in the 2.6 kernel and wasn't really a major problem in 2.4 kernels.
If, though it's not likely, your bosses web server and DBMS were CPU-bound then without a doubt he'd see better performance on two cores with any modern scheduler worth its bits.
In essence, don't ever put little 'close' icons on every tab. It just takes up tab real estate and makes it too easy to accidentally close tabs when navigating. Other programs like Lotus Notes have suffered from this problem.
I've heard a rumour that, sadly, the GNOME terminal might be going down this path.
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1. use LCD flat screen instead of CRT;
I'm not so sure that's true anymore. Todays bright LCD screens draw upwards of 100W, where a modern CRT is about 60W (going by my measurements of my Philips 107Ts here).
To be fair, the VUNet article also got it wrong. Slashdot copied the headine accurately.
0.5TB = 0.5 TeraBytes,
0.5Tb = 0.5 Terabits
I presume you're talking about the Q-Link?
I believe Fluorescent lights in the US flicker at 120Hz, since the gas is excited in both foward and reverse AC cycles.
...since they have to answer to millions of customers on millions of different system configurations.
Unfortunately, as has been shown time and time again, Microsoft answers to no one.
Cute.
But how is repaying evil with evil going to get your money back?
I'd mod you +5, Funny if I had the points.
I'm interested. If you think there were no weapons of mass destruction why do you suppose Saddam kept stalling the UN inspectors over all those years?
The whole charade reminds me of the "You haven't given us time to hide!" skit from Monty Pythons Life of Bryan.
Recall that Clinton bombed Iraq in '98 for not letting the UN inspectors in. Is he part of this grand right-wing conspiracy, do you think?
*mouth agape*
In other countries, like the US, you pay for calling and for receiving calls, and for sending and receiving text messages...
I'm absolutely staggered. I had no idea the mobile phone situation in the States was that screwed up. So if you're on a $10/month texting plan you can find someone you don't like, send him as many messages as you can, and he racks up a huge bill? *shakes head*
I can confirm that in NZ at least you don't pay to receive any calls or messages of any type.
Still, the yanks have much better broadband service than us so I can't exactly gloat (Telecom has a stranglehold on the local loop).
From your comment I can gather you have chosen a lifestyle of pure materialism, devoid of any awareness of your spiritual presence.
Do you intend to deprive your children of any spiritual awareness for their whole lives or do you think they're just too young at this stage?
Then I can hire someone else to do it for me.
Any capable programmer. Not some business rep. No NDA's to sign.
Uhhh, any filter worth its bits will do a DNS lookup on that address and find that .xxx TLD.
Yeah cause it's not like big companies can currently block those pesky .org, .net or .kr domains or anything.
Good grief, do you really think sacrificing a logical hierarchy to give a little perceived security through obfuscation is a good thing?
Hell, half the new DVD players out there can play XVid these days anyway.
...intentionally down grade the picture.
I dub thee BluRry
Religion involves faith.
And athiests have faith alright.
They have faith that:
Listen carefully: there are not two sides. There just aren't. There is empirical evidence for evolution, and a bunch of people who refuse to believe it. That's it.
Where is the evidence for evolution?
There are variations in species, fossils, bacteria and viruses becoming immune to new substances at different times, and DNA similarities. The only way any of this can be remotely considered evidence for evolution is if one interprets it with an evolutionary bias, and that sure as hell isn't how I or a great many scientists interpret from the evidence.
You say The creationists have faith; this is irrational belief. However I put it to you that evolutionists have just as much if not more - they interpret data and see patterns that aren't there, they have faith that, given enough time, a genetic defect will be in the right place at the right time and produce an organism with a survival probability slightly higher than those around it. And then another, but it was the wrong shade of red and got eaten by something else. And from that came you. At what point, sir, is any of that rational?
Putting your fingers in your ears and shouting loudly that there aren't two sides doesn't make it true.
Sorry dude, the truth isn't going away anytime soon. Given time, science will re-discover this too.
What you're suggesting is that if MS produces the best OS ever it will be bad for the consumer. What? That makes no sense unless your political idology is your number one factor in decision making for what software to use. I have no problem buying software if it's worth the cost of paying for it.
You forget:
If MS produce the best OS ever and have no competition then they can charge whatever they like for it.
And they would. They have shareholders to please.
Even the rules of war (to which the US professes to be a subscriber) prohibit the things that America now routinely does to prisoners taken in the Middle East.
And this, I believe, gives some hint as to why the US hasn't declared war with another territory since around 1943.
The chair!!! Give him the CHAIR!!!
What are you talking about? That task bouncing problem you mentioned was fixed in the 2.6 kernel and wasn't really a major problem in 2.4 kernels.
If, though it's not likely, your bosses web server and DBMS were CPU-bound then without a doubt he'd see better performance on two cores with any modern scheduler worth its bits.
And yes, they would be running on one core each.
... from the "well-duh" department.
So we'll be seeing today's Windows games vs today's Linux games?
I kid, I kid
See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=180746&cid=149 56122.
In essence, don't ever put little 'close' icons on every tab. It just takes up tab real estate and makes it too easy to accidentally close tabs when navigating. Other programs like Lotus Notes have suffered from this problem.
I've heard a rumour that, sadly, the GNOME terminal might be going down this path.