I rarely reply to AC posts, but this one caught me as an important misconception.
Gender and sexuality are not the same thing. I would be a grand example of this. I am a transsexual, a "woman trapped in a man's body", but I also am a lesbian, that is, I am sexually attracted to women (and not men).
I'd say that that magic most likely is the magic of emergent systems, something that has fascinated humanity since we began observing reality rationally. It would seem to make no sense that out of a very simple structure could come such amazing complexity, yet it happens constantly, all around us, and the process of an infant learning is such a striking example that it captivates just about everyone.
I'm sitting here at a 400MHz K6/160MB ram machine with a rather crappy 2MB shared-ram vid card, a laptop that has been badly abused leading to it becoming a desktop (display destroyed, battery long dead). It was terrible to use when it was down to 32MB ram (its original configuration when sold many years ago) but at 160MB, I am running KDE3.3 through Debian/unstable and having pretty much no troubles, and no sluggishness. I'm even using some rather graphics-heavy themes (baghira). Only complaint I have about this machine is that under KDE, any GTK apps are nearly unusably slow, so I don't bother with them. That and I'm stuck with konqueror/opera because firefox/etc. are way too slow. Not even sure how that can be since its not just rendering speed, but everything right down to text entry widgets. Anyway, its a rather nice system in ~2GB (4GB HD, >1GB music collection, ~700MB free).
Just my $0.02
While I agree very much with your sentiment, I believe what he was saying is not refuted by it. What you refer to are amazing Engineering breakthroughs, and what he was referring to would be Conceptual breakthroughs, though he misplaces the beginning of the computer, as it really began with simple machines a la babbage and the concept of boolean algebra. I do not know enough of the basics of atomic theory, however I am mostly sure it began more than fifty years ago. However, I also shall add that engineering breakthroughs almost always lead to the acquiring of information that will lead us to more conceptual breakthroughs, and this is what drives the ever climbing exponential cycle of progress, as we stand on the shoulders of the previous generation.
As far as the compaq notebooks go, my girlfriend just got a compaq (forget the model unfortunately) refurbished for $800 or so, Celeron (I think) 2.4GHz, 256MBram(the one thing we'd have done different if we could), 40GB HD, DVD+CD-RW, WXP...haven't put linux on it b/c she doesn't want to, but besides the crappy wireless card we got to use with it & its drivers, it's been totally rock-solid, not to mention attractive in a way that isn't an apple-ripoff
Nobody said you had to tell it with your voice. Most people with advanced cell phones are quite used to typing text into them using the standard number pad, and some companies, Nokia for example, are coming out with phones with built in full keyboards. This would make it very easy to 'tell your phone what you're looking for'
I had a similar event, stupid non-keyed chips. Anyhow, I managed to put a 486DX-2/66 in 180-degrees (I think, it was a long time ago) off, causing a rather impressive show when powered on. Fortunately I knew enough to not only test it with my hand on the switch, but to actually -power it off- right away. Somehow, it blew a crater in the thing, but it -still- works today, after being inserted properly. Don't ask me how. I always think back to that instance when I hear these stories. Well, that and fixing ancient SIMM sockets with bent wires by hand...oh the glory days;)
Well, for one good example to answer your question, consider TCP and UDP/IP. TCP is built on top of UDP/IP, and yet it is far 'stronger' because it has its own complexity, error-handling, etc. The same could be true in a metaphoric sense of anon-p2p
If you happen to have the code, I'd like to see it, I'm curious. Perhaps you can e-mail it? This sounds like it could be developed into the kind of strategy game a friend of mine always is hoping to find.
Well, here's how I see it. God...and most other "supreme beings" aren't really all that supreme. Otherwise, they wouldn't need so much worship. Worship gives over whatever personal power you might have to said beings/beliefs/etc., strengthening their Pattern. Any Power that God has comes mostly from all the worship directed at him. I prefer to keep my personal power, and do with it as I see fit, in Freedom. Of course this point is rapidly becoming moot as Wonder and Romance continue to be driven from this world. (No, I'm not anti-technology, technology has brought back hope for wonder and romance, I'm just anti-stasis)
I just hope someone chooses to read this far down.
I don't know about anyone else, but I get really fed up with these programs when they have a tiny range of shapes and sizes, I mean how hard is it to include deforms to make the model a bit bigger? Especially when they let the limit go a lot higher on the male models. Specifically of course I am talking about the fact that the female models they use are restricted so that you cannot possibly make a full figured woman, everything you create must stay within the supposedly "healthy" weight range. I don't mean to troll or flame, as I do believe this is an important misfeature. If anyone knows of games that do not have this restriction, please let me know, as they will get special consideration when my (meager) budget allows me another game purchase.
While some of your statements at least seem to make sense, and yes I may be feeding the trolls on this post, I have to ask. Where in the stories you quoted the titles of, or even in the other stories do you see "jew-hating" going on?
Yeah, luma/chroma, IIRC they are the same as the two separate signals for S-Video, so if you have a 170(1/2), you may want to drag it out of the garage.
Let us make this clear. The only lifestyle "choice" is wether to be yourself or not. Being gay/straight/bi/etc. is a condition simply of who you like, who you are attracted to. Given that all parties involved are of the consenting age, there is no legal argument against it. As far as moral arguments, I at least believe that religion needs to but its nose out of a lot of our lives, especially organized religion that is merely a method various old and powerful organizations use to try to control society.
actually, rather than making a trap like that, I'd prefer someone stuck a mist-brick-wall between platforms 9 & 10 at a rather famous train station. Love to see the look on everyone's faces when you finally find 9&3/4.
Unless I miss my guess, the movies appear to actually be held on 3" CDs, and so they are strictly limited, only a better codec could allow more space. (I don't know what they use, but if they are using MPEG2 (DVD), switching to MPEG4 (DivX) would help)
Oh yeah, and make Starbuck a lesbian, too.
I totally agree with this position. And, hear me out, please, it's not for a simple reason that most men would think and assume. I think it is about time for a mainstream show to have a character who simply is a lesbian, no special reasoning behind it. I mean we're much closer to that point with gay men, but lesbians seem to be few and far between.
Unlikely, the E-reader actually supports an enormous emount of data on a card (think the size of an NES rom, give or take a few bits), that being its biggest success.
Unless I am mistaken about which RFC this is, this is actually an example of someone *not* getting the joke. Sorry to have to point that out, but someone did. This one is actually almost as good as the one about datagram transport via avian carrier, though I cannot remember its RFC #.
While I know you intended it to be funny, your post is quite true. These people should try flipping burgers for a while (my current job). I'm actually quite experienced in programming, web site design, admin, etc., though because I have no degrees or certs yet I could never hope to get a job in the field. Trust me, there are some of us who would much rather be in a reasonably secure job in a cubicle than where we are, even if it were for only a little bit more money. (I make 6/hr now, I would be very happy with a cubicle for 10-12/hr)
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I rarely reply to AC posts, but this one caught me as an important misconception.
Gender and sexuality are not the same thing. I would be a grand example of this. I am a transsexual, a "woman trapped in a man's body", but I also am a lesbian, that is, I am sexually attracted to women (and not men).
I'd say that that magic most likely is the magic of emergent systems, something that has fascinated humanity since we began observing reality rationally. It would seem to make no sense that out of a very simple structure could come such amazing complexity, yet it happens constantly, all around us, and the process of an infant learning is such a striking example that it captivates just about everyone.
I'm sitting here at a 400MHz K6/160MB ram machine with a rather crappy 2MB shared-ram vid card, a laptop that has been badly abused leading to it becoming a desktop (display destroyed, battery long dead). It was terrible to use when it was down to 32MB ram (its original configuration when sold many years ago) but at 160MB, I am running KDE3.3 through Debian/unstable and having pretty much no troubles, and no sluggishness. I'm even using some rather graphics-heavy themes (baghira). Only complaint I have about this machine is that under KDE, any GTK apps are nearly unusably slow, so I don't bother with them. That and I'm stuck with konqueror/opera because firefox/etc. are way too slow. Not even sure how that can be since its not just rendering speed, but everything right down to text entry widgets. Anyway, its a rather nice system in ~2GB (4GB HD, >1GB music collection, ~700MB free). Just my $0.02
While I agree very much with your sentiment, I believe what he was saying is not refuted by it. What you refer to are amazing Engineering breakthroughs, and what he was referring to would be Conceptual breakthroughs, though he misplaces the beginning of the computer, as it really began with simple machines a la babbage and the concept of boolean algebra. I do not know enough of the basics of atomic theory, however I am mostly sure it began more than fifty years ago. However, I also shall add that engineering breakthroughs almost always lead to the acquiring of information that will lead us to more conceptual breakthroughs, and this is what drives the ever climbing exponential cycle of progress, as we stand on the shoulders of the previous generation.
As far as the compaq notebooks go, my girlfriend just got a compaq (forget the model unfortunately) refurbished for $800 or so, Celeron (I think) 2.4GHz, 256MBram(the one thing we'd have done different if we could), 40GB HD, DVD+CD-RW, WXP...haven't put linux on it b/c she doesn't want to, but besides the crappy wireless card we got to use with it & its drivers, it's been totally rock-solid, not to mention attractive in a way that isn't an apple-ripoff
no, however itunes does have a normalization feature, and likely so do some other audio players
Nobody said you had to tell it with your voice. Most people with advanced cell phones are quite used to typing text into them using the standard number pad, and some companies, Nokia for example, are coming out with phones with built in full keyboards. This would make it very easy to 'tell your phone what you're looking for'
I had a similar event, stupid non-keyed chips. Anyhow, I managed to put a 486DX-2/66 in 180-degrees (I think, it was a long time ago) off, causing a rather impressive show when powered on. Fortunately I knew enough to not only test it with my hand on the switch, but to actually -power it off- right away. Somehow, it blew a crater in the thing, but it -still- works today, after being inserted properly. Don't ask me how. I always think back to that instance when I hear these stories. Well, that and fixing ancient SIMM sockets with bent wires by hand...oh the glory days ;)
Well, for one good example to answer your question, consider TCP and UDP/IP. TCP is built on top of UDP/IP, and yet it is far 'stronger' because it has its own complexity, error-handling, etc. The same could be true in a metaphoric sense of anon-p2p
SHHH!
You'll ruin it for everyone!
We all spread this myth so that the other groups won't pick on us and won't realize we are competition for the women!
And of course some of us are into pity-dates.
Now stop spreading it around!
actually, near the end of the song, all the characters get their lyrics mixed up, and that line is indeed said.
If you happen to have the code, I'd like to see it, I'm curious. Perhaps you can e-mail it? This sounds like it could be developed into the kind of strategy game a friend of mine always is hoping to find.
Well, here's how I see it. God...and most other "supreme beings" aren't really all that supreme. Otherwise, they wouldn't need so much worship. Worship gives over whatever personal power you might have to said beings/beliefs/etc., strengthening their Pattern. Any Power that God has comes mostly from all the worship directed at him. I prefer to keep my personal power, and do with it as I see fit, in Freedom. Of course this point is rapidly becoming moot as Wonder and Romance continue to be driven from this world. (No, I'm not anti-technology, technology has brought back hope for wonder and romance, I'm just anti-stasis)
I just hope someone chooses to read this far down.
I don't know about anyone else, but I get really fed up with these programs when they have a tiny range of shapes and sizes, I mean how hard is it to include deforms to make the model a bit bigger? Especially when they let the limit go a lot higher on the male models. Specifically of course I am talking about the fact that the female models they use are restricted so that you cannot possibly make a full figured woman, everything you create must stay within the supposedly "healthy" weight range. I don't mean to troll or flame, as I do believe this is an important misfeature. If anyone knows of games that do not have this restriction, please let me know, as they will get special consideration when my (meager) budget allows me another game purchase.
While some of your statements at least seem to make sense, and yes I may be feeding the trolls on this post, I have to ask. Where in the stories you quoted the titles of, or even in the other stories do you see "jew-hating" going on?
Yeah, luma/chroma, IIRC they are the same as the two separate signals for S-Video, so if you have a 170(1/2), you may want to drag it out of the garage.
Let us make this clear. The only lifestyle "choice" is wether to be yourself or not. Being gay/straight/bi/etc. is a condition simply of who you like, who you are attracted to. Given that all parties involved are of the consenting age, there is no legal argument against it. As far as moral arguments, I at least believe that religion needs to but its nose out of a lot of our lives, especially organized religion that is merely a method various old and powerful organizations use to try to control society.
actually, rather than making a trap like that, I'd prefer someone stuck a mist-brick-wall between platforms 9 & 10 at a rather famous train station. Love to see the look on everyone's faces when you finally find 9&3/4.
Unless I miss my guess, the movies appear to actually be held on 3" CDs, and so they are strictly limited, only a better codec could allow more space. (I don't know what they use, but if they are using MPEG2 (DVD), switching to MPEG4 (DivX) would help)
Oh yeah, and make Starbuck a lesbian, too.
I totally agree with this position. And, hear me out, please, it's not for a simple reason that most men would think and assume. I think it is about time for a mainstream show to have a character who simply is a lesbian, no special reasoning behind it. I mean we're much closer to that point with gay men, but lesbians seem to be few and far between.
I'm a radical feminist. (and born male at that).
Sprint PCS.
Vision network.
3G (CDMA2000)
$15/mo unlimited data.
Did you want more than that?
Be sure from now on to check up on your facts before posting that something -does not- exist.
Unlikely, the E-reader actually supports an enormous emount of data on a card (think the size of an NES rom, give or take a few bits), that being its biggest success.
Unless I am mistaken about which RFC this is, this is actually an example of someone *not* getting the joke. Sorry to have to point that out, but someone did. This one is actually almost as good as the one about datagram transport via avian carrier, though I cannot remember its RFC #.
While I know you intended it to be funny, your post is quite true. These people should try flipping burgers for a while (my current job). I'm actually quite experienced in programming, web site design, admin, etc., though because I have no degrees or certs yet I could never hope to get a job in the field. Trust me, there are some of us who would much rather be in a reasonably secure job in a cubicle than where we are, even if it were for only a little bit more money. (I make 6/hr now, I would be very happy with a cubicle for 10-12/hr)