Re:Non-violence is immoral?!?! QWZX
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Ok, let me challenge you with this: Create an argument that challenges the absolutism of the poster's pacifism without using a hypothetical situation. Show me with pure logic why you are right. if you can't, you don't really have a strong argument and your situation is just as invalid as a straw man attack, or an ad hominem attack.
Re:Downloadable demos? For console games?
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It may apply to the GP32 handheld system from Gamepark because Gamepark encourages homebrewing (and thus redistributable games) on the GP32 system.
I just want to say thanks for bring the existence of this nifty handheld to my attention. I had never heard of it so I did a little googling. That thing is amazing.
Re:Metroid Prime. Best game I've played all year.
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All right metroid prime is a great game, but +1 insightful? We either need a "Yeah! I agree!" moderation, or mods had better start replying with "Yeah! I agree!" instead of mindlessly modding people up. No offense woebedraggled.
Re:Non-violence is immoral?!?! QWZX
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Well, I think you are the troll, but anyway, theres a difference between thought experiements, and hypothetical situations with insanely strict rules to designed to force a person to go against their ideals. Stuff like "If you you could only save one of your children, which one would it be?" Its an impossible question. Or like the grandparent, "If you had almost no choice except NOT to be a pacifist, in this ridiculous contrived situation, because if you stick to your pacifism your entire family will die, or you can pull a trigger and your family is saved." Its a dirty tactic. Anyone can come up with some contrived impossible situation where you can't live by your principles. There is no philosphy that can not fall victim to the over-powering "hypothetical situation". And if you feel the need to use a "hypothetical situation" you aren't arguing your side of the issue very well.
To quote from the x10.org website: "X-10 is a powerline carrier protocol that allows compatible devices throughout the home to communicate with each other via the existing 110V wiring in the house."
Incidently, notice that the x10.org's product search link points to smarthome.com as opposed to x10.com, and none of the products on the smarthome site link to x10.com yes, x10.com does sell home automation gear, but in the context of the article they were talking about the protocol, not x10.com gear specefically.
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I don't wanna get into the whole whether pacifism is right or not, but I despise people who design impossible situations. Hypothetical is just a synonym for bullshit in my book. If you can't convince the guy to your viewpoint with out resorting to impossible imaginary scenarios, don't bother trying in the first place.
Allright, just to be clear, you're not talking about the same X10. X10 as reffered to in the article is home automation hardware (computer-controlled light-switches for example). The annoying pop-ups are unrelated.
The only way to create a fire-hazard from half-way around the world...Light ON, light OFF, Light ON, Light OFF, Light ON, Light OFF, Light BOOM! --Sparks everywhere...
I'm sure grep is included with cygwin, and as for the windows command line being considered a second class citizen, guess whose fault that is. I'll give you a hint, its not Microsoft's. Nope, its the windows developer's fault. Obviously if they don't develope for the command line the aplications aren't going to be there. Its the same thing with any sort of interface. Without the applications any interface be it gui, commandline, voice or whatever is border-line useless.
there are so many useful commands that are missing on Windows. grep for instance.
Grep has nothing to do with the shell or its capabilities, grep is just an application.
Then there's the real applications. Burning a CD from the command line isn't possible on Windows where with *nix most GUI cd burning programs don't actually know anything about burning cds. They just call cdrecord and it does all the work for it.
Uh Joe_AOL doesn't know what 70s-era UNIX is. The only people who associate Linux with 70s-era UNIX are the people who used 70s-era UNIX. Their look of fear has nothing to do with bad experiences on UNIX machines and has everything to do with "Linux?? What the hell is this crazy person talking about???"
Sorry man, I just needed another hit man.::Hands shaking:: Your an AC you just don't understand, I NEED that karma! HEY! Does anyone have any goddamn karma!?!? ANYONE!?!?
I saw one of those tvs in a bar that was running lottory type stuff. I think it was QuickDraw. Anyway I had the pleasure and amusement of watching it run thru dos scandisk
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Ok, let me challenge you with this: Create an argument that challenges the absolutism of the poster's pacifism without using a hypothetical situation. Show me with pure logic why you are right. if you can't, you don't really have a strong argument and your situation is just as invalid as a straw man attack, or an ad hominem attack.
It may apply to the GP32 handheld system from Gamepark because Gamepark encourages homebrewing (and thus redistributable games) on the GP32 system.
I just want to say thanks for bring the existence of this nifty handheld to my attention. I had never heard of it so I did a little googling. That thing is amazing.
All right metroid prime is a great game, but +1 insightful? We either need a "Yeah! I agree!" moderation, or mods had better start replying with "Yeah! I agree!" instead of mindlessly modding people up. No offense woebedraggled.
Well, I think you are the troll, but anyway, theres a difference between thought experiements, and hypothetical situations with insanely strict rules to designed to force a person to go against their ideals. Stuff like "If you you could only save one of your children, which one would it be?" Its an impossible question. Or like the grandparent, "If you had almost no choice except NOT to be a pacifist, in this ridiculous contrived situation, because if you stick to your pacifism your entire family will die, or you can pull a trigger and your family is saved." Its a dirty tactic. Anyone can come up with some contrived impossible situation where you can't live by your principles. There is no philosphy that can not fall victim to the over-powering "hypothetical situation". And if you feel the need to use a "hypothetical situation" you aren't arguing your side of the issue very well.
http://www.smarthome.com/about_x10.html
http://www.x10.org/
To quote from the x10.org website: "X-10 is a powerline carrier protocol that allows compatible devices throughout the home to communicate with each other via the existing 110V wiring in the house."
Incidently, notice that the x10.org's product search link points to smarthome.com as opposed to x10.com, and none of the products on the smarthome site link to x10.com yes, x10.com does sell home automation gear, but in the context of the article they were talking about the protocol, not x10.com gear specefically.
I don't wanna get into the whole whether pacifism is right or not, but I despise people who design impossible situations. Hypothetical is just a synonym for bullshit in my book. If you can't convince the guy to your viewpoint with out resorting to impossible imaginary scenarios, don't bother trying in the first place.
Allright, just to be clear, you're not talking about the same X10. X10 as reffered to in the article is home automation hardware (computer-controlled light-switches for example). The annoying pop-ups are unrelated.
The only way to create a fire-hazard from half-way around the world...Light ON, light OFF, Light ON, Light OFF, Light ON, Light OFF, Light BOOM! --Sparks everywhere...
Uh that was the British Empire.
At first glance, this post looks like a troll. However on second glance, one realizes the poster is just clueless.
Plus the song is GRANDMA Got Run Over By a Reindeer
...bummer
I'm sure grep is included with cygwin, and as for the windows command line being considered a second class citizen, guess whose fault that is. I'll give you a hint, its not Microsoft's. Nope, its the windows developer's fault. Obviously if they don't develope for the command line the aplications aren't going to be there. Its the same thing with any sort of interface. Without the applications any interface be it gui, commandline, voice or whatever is border-line useless.
hehhe, it reads like the trouble-shooting section of a bad manual. I love it.
$ man 3 ot
couple of things:
there are so many useful commands that are missing on Windows. grep for instance.
Grep has nothing to do with the shell or its capabilities, grep is just an application.
Then there's the real applications. Burning a CD from the command line isn't possible on Windows where with *nix most GUI cd burning programs don't actually know anything about burning cds. They just call cdrecord and it does all the work for it.
What does that have to do with anything?
Uh Joe_AOL doesn't know what 70s-era UNIX is. The only people who associate Linux with 70s-era UNIX are the people who used 70s-era UNIX. Their look of fear has nothing to do with bad experiences on UNIX machines and has everything to do with "Linux?? What the hell is this crazy person talking about???"
Visit my college. They are laptops, not tablets, but you get the idea. Its not that weird or far off either.
Sorry man, I just needed another hit man. ::Hands shaking:: Your an AC you just don't understand, I NEED that karma! HEY! Does anyone have any goddamn karma!?!? ANYONE!?!?
that the MPAA was suing three-hundred and twenty one different studios?
Thanks! I was almost positive it was princess bride but couldn't remember the context.
You keep using that phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.
please remind me what that is from, thanks.
In soviet russia, mods mistake bad joke for redundancy. Oh no wait, thats the norm.
Or better yet, since its GPLed, have you tried building it with winelib?
I saw one of those tvs in a bar that was running lottory type stuff. I think it was QuickDraw. Anyway I had the pleasure and amusement of watching it run thru dos scandisk
Oh for mod points for the parent AND the grandparent I would slaughter a thousand innocents