That applied only to western europe and was one of the causes for the reformation to even have a ground to thrive on. The church was never in the power to stop any progress because most of the time since the collaps of the roman empire the development simply did not happen in western europe at all! The role of the church in all this is greatly exaggerated due to the Galileo trials, which btw. happened at a time when science already was happening in europe in full force. The church never hampered any development in science before especially not the lectures by Pleton which triggered the Rennesaince in italy!
The church was fighting a loosing battle there, the main issue was the invention of the printing press, the church tried to supress things and development, and did not manage. You can draw a shitload of parallels to the MP/RI AA mess we have today. That does not mean they hampered or stopped any development, and that did not happen in the middle ages!
I would not even say the arabs are the safekeepers, probably almost the entire middle age society with western europe being the dark spot only. The biggest gate was Constantinople with their book copy shops from there the books went into the arabic world and also to some degree into europe. For those countries western europe must have looked like Afghanistan looks now for us.
This is one of the biggest mistakes tought in schools that the middle ages were some kind of age where knowledge was lost everywhere while only a small subset of the world lost its knowledge (which it never had in the first degree since france never went into this stage after the roman empire collapse neither did italy really nor spain)
Not more than many other churches, as soon as extremists have a certain percentage every religion starts to suck. There are churches on the protestant side and on the orthodox side which are so extreme that the catholic church looks like a bunch of liberal hippies compared to them.
Ah to add an example the so called dark middle ages, were the foundation of the first universities in paris and there was a huge exchange between the scholars of france and granada (which was the science capital of that time)
The situation was simply that the roman empire was crushed and so in the european world science was lost what was saved mostly could be found in cloisters which also opened the first schools, the other roman world the byzantime empire still had it thriving but was constantly under war so they had higher priorities, but nevertheless all the science also went into the arabic world and from then again into europe!
Happened all the way later, the funny thing is the so called dark ages the middle ages were not that dark, the witch burning happened way after the middle ages with their height about 300 years ago, but when that started to happen the genie in form of the printing press was already out of the bottle.
And even worse the catholics were not even the worst witch burners in fact in the later stages during the 30 years war in europe the offical roman view was even against it (the triggering books although were clearly catholic), but it was a mass phenomenon infesting the minds of the europeans at that time, and the protestants often being worse.
Also the stance of the catholic church towards science and the trial of galileo did not change anything and it would not have happened probably in the middle ages.
Nothing would have been changed, in the byzantine empire and the arabic world and china knowledge thrived, so basically
nothing was held back. I think technological jumps follow a cycle and currently we are at the height of such a development cycle which might slow down again for several decades. The main root for modern science were some factors, call it the lazy well fed european together with the connection between mathematics and physics layed out by people like Decardes Leibnitz and Newton. It could have been developed earlier in the arabic or byzantine world or in china, the foundations always were there and also the minds and some already did, but the theories did not stay long enough to have an impact. For instance the first steam engine was designed in Alexandria, but it never had any impact due to inherent slavery being present, same goes for the connection of mathematics and physics and generally calculus which is the foundation of the connection, all done in greece to some degree but it had not any impact because mathematics were seen by the general public as being from a to esoteric angle and the people doing the connection did not make enough impact on society. Same in the arabic world, they took the decade system with zero from india and developed it further again no impact. Sometimes an apple is all you need to change the world.
And I dont think it would have happend earlier with or without the catholic churchs stance on things in the middle ages. (Which were not that bad they preserved knowledge as well, but europe was piss poor and most people had survival in mind, things became bad later when the printing press was invented)
Ah Hersheys probably the worst chocolate on earth, believe me I tried it once, I have never eaten such a gruesome chocolate, who on earth buys this inedible junk?
It is mostly the treatment of the cows what they get for food. All I can say is BSE, cows were fed cows and thus BSE spread like wildfire. You cannot imagine how much junk is fed to animals and dropped into the soil in industrial farming. (For instance mass application of strong antibiotics which ultimately renders them useless, or genetically modified plants which are resistant to very toxic substances then sold by the same company which sells the plants which then ultimately poisons the soil)
Buying organic food somehow raises again that standard which should not have sunken so deep.
I will give you an example, modern crop cannot reproduce, it has been bred out of it. The seeds are sold by conglomerates. Now what happens if this system collapses, most farmers dont have their own seeds anymore and cannot breed it out of the junk crop sold by Monsanto and Co. within a year, speaking of worldwide famine, you have it then with millions starving and dying even in industrialized countries and temperatures perfectly fine for raising crops!
How was that introduced? Simply farmers were given the seeds, they were cheaper than buying reproducable ones and the companies gave a guarantee to buy a certain percentage of the resulting crop giving the farmers some kind of financial security!
Actually unprocessed milk from a cow becomes sour within 1-2 days... the higher longlivety is caused by higher pasteurization which kills the milk bacteria which produce the acids which make the milk sour.
I dont think it is the substances. I think it is the treatment probably the percentage of various substances and the pasteurization process. Also the cows are treated differently, probably less antibiotics and less medicine generally and less junk being fed to them. As for the milk I rather doubt the already drop some cheapish replacement stuff into the milk itself.
Except that it is better for the environment, the biggest problem of non organic food is it ruins the soild depending on the treatment of the soil, the worst example probably being genetically modified food, which often ends in plants which are resistent to ultra toxic substances to kill off the insects, those substances severely ruin the soil in the long run and make it unusable for other plants!
Same here, the latest PoP basically pushed the series down the gutter for me. I currentl stay away from Ubisoft games unless I get a definitive positive review from the users. I always wondered if it is possible to kill a series but the latest PoP basically made me from a huge fan of the series to someone really not looking forward to a new one anymore unless Jordan Mechner is again doing it!
Actually the new prince of persia is dreadful, I am not sure it ever was on steam but I give you the advice spare your money and get something like Braid instead, the latest PoP is plain aweful, lousy voice acting almost no game except hitting the correctly displayed button within 5 seconds and beat every boss without any variations about 5 times in a row. The only thing really good is the graphics. The same applies probably for Assassins Creed according to other comments! The latest PoP was probably the worst purchase I have done the last years, and I really love the series, so I can cope with a lot of crap before becoming angry!
Prince of Persia could have been awesome but they fucked it up majorly by hiring the voice actors from disney and the game designers out of high school. All Ubisoft can do lately is pretty graphics, Assasins Creed has shown that clearly! (Hint to Ubisoft, hire Jordan Mechner instead of some College students and let him make a decent game!)
I got rid of my Wii for the opposite reason. It looks like crap on a HD set.
Not really with a component cable, sure it does not look that good, but it is far from crappy, the virtual console looks really crappy but partially because nintendo does not seem to be able to add decent scalers! Just for a comparison, I ran recently on the same TV Mario 64 on a good N64 emulator and the game looked really good, all the emu did in comparison to the Wii, was first using the hdmi cable, and then blowing up the resolution and adding anisotropic filtering. On the other hand no scaler helps in hd with 320x200 games they really look like crap!
Add to that that the patent probably also applies to input devices like stylus based drawing pads which have been used since well, even the atari 800xl had one of those beasts.
Actually trackpads even have been used in the eighties in computers. Nothing new here and even gesture based input systems have been in the labs at least in the 80s!
People have been dumb enough to buy the same sports game every year, and the publishers counted that the music lovers are as dumb as the sports lovers.
Poor Activision, they recently tried to Axe Tim Schafers latest game because it did not have ever year sell a million franchise qualities, instead EA picked it up and then Activision sued EA. Do I fee sorry for them that their cash cow is going down the drain, no!
Sorry for your bad experience, but it's a bit OT. Opera was doing a tender for new hardware. Applying companies with a minimum level of reason wouldn't apply with interfaces intentionally negating Opera Browser unless they had spare budget for pranks, which seems unlikely.
Well I dont think the vendor of the server really did know that, usually opera is ignored in contractual obligations and maybe a bug was reported and fixed that way, and the server vendor simply did not care. Bad luck that they lost the contract to Opera, but my personal guess is that the guys doing the contractual work for the software did not even know that Opera existed!
Well that probably depends on your contract, usually you have a number of browsers you have to support contractwise, which is nowadays mostly all three relevant ie incarnations Mozilla down to version 2 and maybe but a big maybe Safari. But usually opera is not on the list, now if you run into a showstopper with it then what are you going to do, there often is no budget and time to fix the bug, all you can do is to report it to opera and then hope for the best.
I personally degrade the site if possible if I run into such a sitution with a warning sign, but I usually dont let the user run into an error page. But the shortcut is the error page. I donÂt think it was a prank I think it simply was out of scope and funding to support opera and the programmers went the lazy route after they got in a bugreport that something does not work in Opera instead of simply settint the bug to wontfix (no contractual obligation and funding)
Anyway I think the problem lies here on the Server vendors side, who simply should have specified to support opera as well.
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That applied only to western europe and was one of the causes for the reformation to even have a ground to thrive on.
The church was never in the power to stop any progress because most of the time since the collaps of the roman empire the development simply did not happen in western europe at all!
The role of the church in all this is greatly exaggerated due to the Galileo trials, which btw. happened at a time when science already was happening in europe in full force.
The church never hampered any development in science before especially not the lectures by Pleton which triggered the Rennesaince in italy!
The church was fighting a loosing battle there, the main issue was the invention of the printing press, the church tried to supress things and development, and did not manage. You can draw a shitload of parallels to the MP/RI AA mess we have today.
That does not mean they hampered or stopped any development, and that did not happen in the middle ages!
I would not even say the arabs are the safekeepers, probably almost the entire middle age society with western europe being the dark spot only. The biggest gate was Constantinople with their book copy shops from there the books went into the arabic world and also to some degree into europe.
For those countries western europe must have looked like Afghanistan looks now for us.
This is one of the biggest mistakes tought in schools that the middle ages were some kind of age where knowledge was lost everywhere while only a small subset of the world lost its knowledge (which it never had in the first degree since france never went into this stage after the roman empire collapse neither did italy really nor spain)
Not more than many other churches, as soon as extremists have a certain percentage every religion starts to suck.
There are churches on the protestant side and on the orthodox side which are so extreme that the catholic church looks like a bunch of liberal hippies compared to them.
Does not work in case of skype you always can use google voice talk (which works better btw. skype is inferior) or directly SIP!
Ah to add an example the so called dark middle ages, were the foundation of the first universities in paris and there was a huge exchange between the scholars of france and granada (which was the science capital of that time)
The situation was simply that the roman empire was crushed and so in the european world science was lost what was saved mostly could be found in cloisters which also opened the first schools, the other roman world the byzantime empire still had it thriving but was constantly under war so they had higher priorities, but nevertheless all the science also went into the arabic world and from then again into europe!
Happened all the way later, the funny thing is the so called dark ages the middle ages were not that dark, the witch burning happened way after the middle ages with their height about 300 years ago, but when that started to happen the genie in form of the printing press was already out of the bottle.
And even worse the catholics were not even the worst witch burners in fact in the later stages during the 30 years war in europe the offical roman view was even against it (the triggering books although were clearly catholic), but it was a mass phenomenon infesting the minds of the europeans at that time, and the protestants often being worse.
Also the stance of the catholic church towards science and the trial of galileo did not change anything and it would not have happened probably in the middle ages.
Nothing would have been changed, in the byzantine empire and the arabic world and china knowledge thrived, so basically
nothing was held back. I think technological jumps follow a cycle and currently we are at the height of such a development cycle which might slow down again for several decades.
The main root for modern science were some factors, call it the lazy well fed european together with the connection between mathematics and physics layed out by people like Decardes Leibnitz and Newton.
It could have been developed earlier in the arabic or byzantine world or in china, the foundations always were there and also the minds and some already did, but the theories did not stay long enough to have an impact.
For instance the first steam engine was designed in Alexandria, but it never had any impact due to inherent slavery being present, same goes for the connection of mathematics and physics and generally calculus which is the foundation of the connection, all done in greece to some degree but it had not any impact because mathematics were seen by the general public as being from a to esoteric angle and the people doing the connection did not make enough impact on society.
Same in the arabic world, they took the decade system with zero from india and developed it further again no impact.
Sometimes an apple is all you need to change the world.
And I dont think it would have happend earlier with or without the catholic churchs stance on things in the middle ages.
(Which were not that bad they preserved knowledge as well, but europe was piss poor and most people had survival in mind, things became bad later when the printing press was invented)
Ah Hersheys probably the worst chocolate on earth, believe me I tried it once, I have never eaten such a gruesome chocolate, who on earth buys this inedible junk?
It is mostly the treatment of the cows what they get for food. All I can say is BSE, cows were fed cows and thus BSE spread like wildfire.
You cannot imagine how much junk is fed to animals and dropped into the soil in industrial farming.
(For instance mass application of strong antibiotics which ultimately renders them useless, or genetically modified plants which are resistant to very toxic substances then sold by the same company which sells the plants which then ultimately poisons the soil)
Buying organic food somehow raises again that standard which should not have sunken so deep.
I will give you an example, modern crop cannot reproduce, it has been bred out of it. The seeds are sold by conglomerates. Now what happens if this system collapses, most farmers dont have their own seeds anymore and cannot breed it out of the junk crop sold by Monsanto and Co. within a year, speaking of worldwide famine, you have it then with millions starving and dying even in industrialized countries and temperatures perfectly fine for raising crops!
How was that introduced? Simply farmers were given the seeds, they were cheaper than buying reproducable ones and the companies gave a guarantee to buy a certain percentage of the resulting crop giving the farmers some kind of financial security!
Actually unprocessed milk from a cow becomes sour within 1-2 days... the higher longlivety is caused by higher pasteurization which kills the milk bacteria which produce the acids which make the milk sour.
I dont think it is the substances.
I think it is the treatment probably the percentage of various substances and the pasteurization process.
Also the cows are treated differently, probably less antibiotics and less medicine generally and less junk being fed to them.
As for the milk I rather doubt the already drop some cheapish replacement stuff into the milk itself.
Except that it is better for the environment, the biggest problem of non organic food is it ruins the soild depending on the treatment of the soil, the worst example probably being genetically modified food, which often ends in plants which are resistent to ultra toxic substances to kill off the insects, those substances severely ruin the soil in the long run and make it unusable for other plants!
Same here, the latest PoP basically pushed the series down the gutter for me. I currentl stay away from Ubisoft games unless I get a definitive positive review from the users.
I always wondered if it is possible to kill a series but the latest PoP basically made me from a huge fan of the series to someone really not looking forward to a new one anymore unless Jordan Mechner is again doing it!
Actually the new prince of persia is dreadful, I am not sure it ever was on steam but I give you the advice spare your money and get something like Braid instead, the latest PoP is plain aweful, lousy voice acting almost no game except hitting the correctly displayed button within 5 seconds and beat every boss without any variations about 5 times in a row. The only thing really good is the graphics. The same applies probably for Assassins Creed according to other comments! The latest PoP was probably the worst purchase I have done the last years, and I really love the series, so I can cope with a lot of crap before becoming angry!
Prince of Persia could have been awesome but they fucked it up majorly by hiring the voice actors from disney and the game designers out of high school.
All Ubisoft can do lately is pretty graphics, Assasins Creed has shown that clearly!
(Hint to Ubisoft, hire Jordan Mechner instead of some College students and let him make a decent game!)
Ubisoft has done that in the last year, no worries
Nice idea and makes sense, but Microsoft always had the not invented here syndrome, which means they will never do it!
I got rid of my Wii for the opposite reason. It looks like crap on a HD set.
Not really with a component cable, sure it does not look that good, but it is far from crappy, the virtual console looks really crappy but partially because nintendo does not seem to be able to add decent scalers!
Just for a comparison, I ran recently on the same TV Mario 64 on a good N64 emulator and the game looked really good, all the emu did in comparison to the Wii, was first using the hdmi cable, and then blowing up the resolution and adding anisotropic filtering. On the other hand no scaler helps in hd with 320x200 games they really look like crap!
Add to that that the patent probably also applies to input devices like stylus based drawing pads which have been used since well, even the atari 800xl had one of those beasts.
Actually trackpads even have been used in the eighties in computers. Nothing new here and even gesture based input systems have been in the labs at least in the 80s!
People have been dumb enough to buy the same sports game every year, and the publishers counted that the music lovers are as dumb as the sports lovers.
Poor Activision, they recently tried to Axe Tim Schafers latest game because it did not have ever year sell a million franchise qualities, instead EA picked it up and then Activision sued EA.
Do I fee sorry for them that their cash cow is going down the drain, no!
Sorry for your bad experience, but it's a bit OT. Opera was doing a tender for new hardware. Applying companies with a minimum level of reason wouldn't apply with interfaces intentionally negating Opera Browser unless they had spare budget for pranks, which seems unlikely.
Well I dont think the vendor of the server really did know that, usually opera is ignored in contractual obligations and maybe a bug was reported and fixed that way, and the server vendor simply did not care. Bad luck that they lost the contract to Opera, but my personal guess is that the guys doing the contractual work for the software did not even know that Opera existed!
Well that probably depends on your contract, usually you have a number of browsers you have to support contractwise, which is nowadays mostly all three relevant ie incarnations Mozilla down to version 2 and maybe but a big maybe Safari.
But usually opera is not on the list, now if you run into a showstopper with it then what are you going to do, there often is no budget and time to fix the bug, all you can do is to report it to opera and then hope for the best.
I personally degrade the site if possible if I run into such a sitution with a warning sign, but I usually dont let the user run into an error page. But the shortcut is the error page. I donÂt think it was a prank I think it simply was out of scope and funding to support opera and the programmers went the lazy route after they got in a bugreport that something does not work in Opera instead of simply settint the bug to wontfix (no contractual obligation and funding)
Anyway I think the problem lies here on the Server vendors side, who simply should have specified to support opera as well.