So... HP sells a product that apparently could cost less without the OS installed. So why doesn't someone else just sell a barebones PC? Why does the law have to be inovolved? Why do we have to use the government to force a company to sell their product in a way that some consumers want? If the company isn't meeting the consumer requirements then some other company can capitilize on that opportunity and create a product... why must HP sell HP products any way other then the way HP wants to. If customers don't like paying the price then don't pay it. It's simple... no need to give these silly beaurocrats any more power.
Seriously... start them out on the mostly useless or niche languages so you can seperate the wheat from the chaff. Once they've learned one or many of these languages they'll have no trouble picking up C (plain ole, ++, #).
I absolutely hate Cingular's service. The call quality is ok... but if you have a problem their people are inept and their systems for managing your requests suck. I've had billing issues for 4 of last 9 months.
They charge you for incoming text messages... so you better hope someone doesn't spam your cingular email address and run up a several hundred dollar phone bill.
I've been doing this myself... I show up when I want and leave when I want. Working in a virtual environment has its benefits I guess.
Now of course if I get slapped on the wrist by management I'll just tell them I was implementing a covert best-practice work-life balance transformation program. Maybe I'll get promoted.
To Evolution... you are correct, and in other cases I made the point of using the more correct term non-God systems... typically what could be classified as Naturalism. I'm completely open to God using evolution and understand that a thiestic worldview could include various methods for the creation of man.
So to the "I'll do what is in my own best interst all of the time and call that "right".". I used I here simply to pick a place holder... I could have said you... I could have said 'person X'.
What you continue to fail to understand is that you have a set of values you continue to impose on "me". You say "I" can act in my own interst and I'll be a "monster". You've defined certain behaviors that you don't like (that you think are "wrong") and if I do those acts them you think I'm a monster. If I did the same "say not going to a Baptist Church every Sunday morning and Evenign and on Wednesdays" I could say you're a godless monster too... the point is that unless the moral measures are not grounded in some power outside of man, then they're simply relative and up for debate.
You obviously don't believe in God and don't like Christians. That's fine... but debating the activities of Christians or any other relgion is not what I'm going to do here. I've made my point over and over and over again. You can pick any moral standard you want but if you deny a God or higher power you can't claim that the system is universal... at best it's just a calculation for what one should do to best get along in society, but one has to wonder why one would follow such a system if an opportunity arose to further their own lot by breaking one if its rules.
I've also never said athiests were the most evil people in the world bent on world domination and crushing their enemies, friends, and mothers.
You use the term "good people". What does "good" mean and why? If you really think about it... you've just picked behaviors that your society has deemed "good" but their not universal. Other socities have picked other behaviors that are "good" or given preference to their own society. Slavery was acceptable one point in time... some even said it was "good". Murder has been acceptable and right in many societies. Now you'll say "we're more evolved and we've realized that this was not "good"". But really all you're saying is "we have different values and currently we have power, we're alive, and so we say that those things are "bad" and "wrong". In 1000 years another society could look back on you and say you were "evil" because you did not realize that killing weak children and the old was the only way to preserve the good products for the best of men. Your entire morality system is based on your current societal power, it's not universal, it's not permament.
Of course that still doesn't mean you will not do "good" things...
Why should symmetry be appied to behaviors?
Yes, absolutley... "Ceaser" will imprison you if you violate the law. What does that have to do with morality... if you violate the "law" of the land you're going to suffer consequences. This is about living underneath law, not a moral code.
You've got a whole series of issues here... you want Christians aren't morally superior to Athiests in public life, you want to point out that Christians can believe in evolution, you want to make the point that Christians shouldn't use law to force others to apply to their moral views.
I've said none of these things. You apparently have a stereotype of Christians in your head and think I must be one of these Pat Robertson loving abortion clinic bombing... must have prayer and Bible classes in school people. I've tried to keep this thread on the topic of the foundations of a moral system... which has nothing to do with Christianity specifically... and really has everything to do with Thiestic and Transcendental worldviews.
In respect to your paragraphs on Caesar and creation in schools... since science can't really speak to the what created
I'm expecting a lot from Vista, but not for another 12 to 18 months. All of those features that MS cut from the initial release will start popping up as Vista-only addons. This isn't bad. Early adopters can focus on a relatively minor change. There will be fewer bugs initially, but HOPEFULLY more focus on them.
Could MS do better... absolutely... but I'm not complaining about a slow rollout for Vista.
Office is different... I WANT MY NEW VERSION NOW!!
I am going to surprise auto industry that is suitable for driving.
No, but if there were only three auto makers and up until this point "more horse power" was the major competive point and instead of competing in this arena one of the competitors decided to compete based on fuel economy... well you might find that interesting.
because if we stop and Microsoft wins then Microsoft wins and if we don't keep up the fighting and rhetoric and this thing actually gets under way... well Microsoft wins too because if we've learned one thing from these big government open source projects it's that they all fail in two or three years anyway.
if we don't train our children to be cold-blooded ruthless killers and not a bunch of panzies how are we supposed to compete against the Japanese and Chinese and even a growing # of Indians who do let their children play these games. Our children will die, or worse yet will be pimped out like the little hoes you're growing them up to be.
If I've learned anything from video games it's that bitches respect a strong hand, you can't take out a nazi (or an alien) from 200 yards with a flower and a stern look, and the US always wins.
I just bought my kids a DVD of other kids playing with legos and creating really neat toys. It's cheaper then buying all of those expensive legos and the kids on the DVD are far more creative than my kids. It's kind of like New Yankee Workshop for little children.
Getting it down to one word is really the ultimate goal, but the reality is that we'll have two words for quite some time while we run through our continuous improvement programs.
Angelina Jolie, a bunch of punky but fun misfits, and I used to hack into evil businesses and expose their secret schemes to steal from the poor and opress the common man. We'd use holographic GUIs and paint our laptops... kids these days... well they've just ruined it all.
of course if Linux was used the pilot only fly to places she liked and if the passangers complained she'd tell them to RTFM and fly the plane themselves.
It's non-news, it's overblown news, it's a waste of time. The guns don't jam on the simulation... who cares?
I'm all for pointing out legit issues with products (like the recent negative review of the Zune that pointed out what a piece of crap it really is), but this wasn't that at all. It was a waste of time and when you have all of these pointless claims mixed with legit reviews and concerns the legit items are drowned out in a sea of nonsense and irrelevancy.
it's completely unfair to judge Newt's statements. If you've ever listened to Newt speak you would know he's a very intelligent guy, you may not agree with him, but he's intelligent. Jumping to conclusions without any actual details is idiotic (although I guess par for the course around here).
No silly, with advances in carbon nanotubes, quantum computing, and encyption and compression schemes the 1-bit compression system is nearly available to everyone.
many local governments have recieved grants to purchase Blue-Ray players for their clasrooms in order to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in all its hi-def glory... for the betterment of the childrens education of course.
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In that case wouldn't the lawsuit be directed at Microsoft for unfair practices?
So... HP sells a product that apparently could cost less without the OS installed. So why doesn't someone else just sell a barebones PC? Why does the law have to be inovolved? Why do we have to use the government to force a company to sell their product in a way that some consumers want? If the company isn't meeting the consumer requirements then some other company can capitilize on that opportunity and create a product... why must HP sell HP products any way other then the way HP wants to. If customers don't like paying the price then don't pay it. It's simple... no need to give these silly beaurocrats any more power.
Seriously... start them out on the mostly useless or niche languages so you can seperate the wheat from the chaff. Once they've learned one or many of these languages they'll have no trouble picking up C (plain ole, ++, #).
Also, use Knuth and only Knuth as your text.
I knew this... I purchased a few TV Shows over the iTunes this year, 3 to be exact. So I estimate that iTunes grew by like at least 300%.
I absolutely hate Cingular's service. The call quality is ok... but if you have a problem their people are inept and their systems for managing your requests suck. I've had billing issues for 4 of last 9 months.
They charge you for incoming text messages... so you better hope someone doesn't spam your cingular email address and run up a several hundred dollar phone bill.
I've been doing this myself... I show up when I want and leave when I want. Working in a virtual environment has its benefits I guess.
Now of course if I get slapped on the wrist by management I'll just tell them I was implementing a covert best-practice work-life balance transformation program. Maybe I'll get promoted.
Yes, and let's hope they only use it for good... like you described.
Downloading the HTML via WGET and reading it VI is the only secure way to surf the net.
You're either a troll or an idiot who chooses to speak about things he knows nothing about.
JavaScript is open plain old text. You're free to review the code for every website you visit before running it.
To Evolution... you are correct, and in other cases I made the point of using the more correct term non-God systems... typically what could be classified as Naturalism. I'm completely open to God using evolution and understand that a thiestic worldview could include various methods for the creation of man.
So to the "I'll do what is in my own best interst all of the time and call that "right".". I used I here simply to pick a place holder... I could have said you... I could have said 'person X'.
What you continue to fail to understand is that you have a set of values you continue to impose on "me". You say "I" can act in my own interst and I'll be a "monster". You've defined certain behaviors that you don't like (that you think are "wrong") and if I do those acts them you think I'm a monster. If I did the same "say not going to a Baptist Church every Sunday morning and Evenign and on Wednesdays" I could say you're a godless monster too... the point is that unless the moral measures are not grounded in some power outside of man, then they're simply relative and up for debate.
You obviously don't believe in God and don't like Christians. That's fine... but debating the activities of Christians or any other relgion is not what I'm going to do here. I've made my point over and over and over again. You can pick any moral standard you want but if you deny a God or higher power you can't claim that the system is universal... at best it's just a calculation for what one should do to best get along in society, but one has to wonder why one would follow such a system if an opportunity arose to further their own lot by breaking one if its rules.
I've also never said athiests were the most evil people in the world bent on world domination and crushing their enemies, friends, and mothers.
You use the term "good people". What does "good" mean and why? If you really think about it... you've just picked behaviors that your society has deemed "good" but their not universal. Other socities have picked other behaviors that are "good" or given preference to their own society. Slavery was acceptable one point in time... some even said it was "good". Murder has been acceptable and right in many societies. Now you'll say "we're more evolved and we've realized that this was not "good"". But really all you're saying is "we have different values and currently we have power, we're alive, and so we say that those things are "bad" and "wrong". In 1000 years another society could look back on you and say you were "evil" because you did not realize that killing weak children and the old was the only way to preserve the good products for the best of men. Your entire morality system is based on your current societal power, it's not universal, it's not permament.
Of course that still doesn't mean you will not do "good" things...
Why should symmetry be appied to behaviors?
Yes, absolutley... "Ceaser" will imprison you if you violate the law. What does that have to do with morality... if you violate the "law" of the land you're going to suffer consequences. This is about living underneath law, not a moral code.
You've got a whole series of issues here... you want Christians aren't morally superior to Athiests in public life, you want to point out that Christians can believe in evolution, you want to make the point that Christians shouldn't use law to force others to apply to their moral views.
I've said none of these things. You apparently have a stereotype of Christians in your head and think I must be one of these Pat Robertson loving abortion clinic bombing... must have prayer and Bible classes in school people. I've tried to keep this thread on the topic of the foundations of a moral system... which has nothing to do with Christianity specifically... and really has everything to do with Thiestic and Transcendental worldviews.
In respect to your paragraphs on Caesar and creation in schools... since science can't really speak to the what created
I'm expecting a lot from Vista, but not for another 12 to 18 months. All of those features that MS cut from the initial release will start popping up as Vista-only addons. This isn't bad. Early adopters can focus on a relatively minor change. There will be fewer bugs initially, but HOPEFULLY more focus on them.
Could MS do better... absolutely... but I'm not complaining about a slow rollout for Vista.
Office is different... I WANT MY NEW VERSION NOW!!
Dancing with hand motions. Seriously... is someone developing this. It'll be huge in Japan.
I am going to surprise auto industry that is suitable for driving.
No, but if there were only three auto makers and up until this point "more horse power" was the major competive point and instead of competing in this arena one of the competitors decided to compete based on fuel economy... well you might find that interesting.
because if we stop and Microsoft wins then Microsoft wins and if we don't keep up the fighting and rhetoric and this thing actually gets under way... well Microsoft wins too because if we've learned one thing from these big government open source projects it's that they all fail in two or three years anyway.
if we don't train our children to be cold-blooded ruthless killers and not a bunch of panzies how are we supposed to compete against the Japanese and Chinese and even a growing # of Indians who do let their children play these games. Our children will die, or worse yet will be pimped out like the little hoes you're growing them up to be.
If I've learned anything from video games it's that bitches respect a strong hand, you can't take out a nazi (or an alien) from 200 yards with a flower and a stern look, and the US always wins.
I just bought my kids a DVD of other kids playing with legos and creating really neat toys. It's cheaper then buying all of those expensive legos and the kids on the DVD are far more creative than my kids. It's kind of like New Yankee Workshop for little children.
Getting it down to one word is really the ultimate goal, but the reality is that we'll have two words for quite some time while we run through our continuous improvement programs.
Angelina Jolie, a bunch of punky but fun misfits, and I used to hack into evil businesses and expose their secret schemes to steal from the poor and opress the common man. We'd use holographic GUIs and paint our laptops... kids these days... well they've just ruined it all.
of course if Linux was used the pilot only fly to places she liked and if the passangers complained she'd tell them to RTFM and fly the plane themselves.
he he... debt is slavery.
It's non-news, it's overblown news, it's a waste of time. The guns don't jam on the simulation... who cares?
I'm all for pointing out legit issues with products (like the recent negative review of the Zune that pointed out what a piece of crap it really is), but this wasn't that at all. It was a waste of time and when you have all of these pointless claims mixed with legit reviews and concerns the legit items are drowned out in a sea of nonsense and irrelevancy.
Thank God you have no real power. It's scary when someone in power has an opinion bout a speech that they know nothing about.
it's completely unfair to judge Newt's statements. If you've ever listened to Newt speak you would know he's a very intelligent guy, you may not agree with him, but he's intelligent. Jumping to conclusions without any actual details is idiotic (although I guess par for the course around here).
No silly, with advances in carbon nanotubes, quantum computing, and encyption and compression schemes the 1-bit compression system is nearly available to everyone.
many local governments have recieved grants to purchase Blue-Ray players for their clasrooms in order to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in all its hi-def glory... for the betterment of the childrens education of course.
Brilliant! The military needs to quit hiring soliders and start hiring people who write victory and closing credit music. To go along with the doves.
Oh wait... breaking news... apparently Dick Cheney in a horrible mixup shot all of the doves and one or two of his close friends in the face.