The content of that page just goes to show you that the FCC, up to this point, hasn't enforced its laws fairly. It lets Oprah go free while Howard has to face fines. Maybe that will change but it's been 4 years since the first airing of that Oprah episode. That webpage doesn't at all go into what the rules are (or what they aren't as the case may be). I will say that given the excerpts on that site that I would also complain about the content of Oprah's show for that day. There is no reason to talk about that at all on TV, let alone on network TV, and at 4pm when kids just got home from school.
I love Linux, and I use it on a daily basis, but I still belive [sic] it has some shortcomings.
You say that like Windows is perfect and Linux is still inferior because if its shortcomings. No OS will ever be perfect but obviously some will come closer than others. It's an unreachable goal to be perfect so the fact Linux has shortcomings isn't necessarily a bad thing. You need to qualify your statement, especially in relation to Windows.
I thought someone would call me on that. I guess you are the lucky winner. The reason in my mind is because evolution is the secularist theory for how life came about on Earth while Creation is the non-secularist view. Since evolutionary theory is the secularist view and, by extension, does not include any possibility of divine intervention it is mutually exclusive with God/Creation. If you know of a source that says evolution does still leave room for divine intervention then let me know but I don't know of any and that is mainly because evolution is not touted as a theory that even needs God therefore no room is left for Him in the theory's details. Evolution dictates we are only here by chance and not for a reason (even if we don't know the reason necessarily). It could even be argued that because we are here by chance the meaning and existence of life is cheapened. If we came from animals then we are animals too, but humans have free will and can choose between right and wrong. That's what separates us from animals therefore we could not have come from animals. The cause for our existence has to be more special than that.
God made Man in His image by directly making him. God didn't cause lightning to strike on the early Earth to spark amino acids to grow into single-celled bacteria which then eventually turned into us. God doesn't have to go the long route. Given that viewpoint on the matter, I have to wonder why people who believe in Occam's razor don't also believe in God just creating life instead of evolution having to take its time. Some people probably do view history from that perspective (simple answer is the right answer).
The big bang theory from all I've read doesn't preclude the existence of God. In fact, I think it is a very good description for how God would have made the Universe, especially since Light did not exist from the very start (but was still in existence by the end of the first "day"). Cosmologists basically agree the Universe had to cool before light could exist and be transmitted.
Hey Kevin Martin! It's not that the FCC can't stop swear words from primetime TV,
The smart thing to do when a line is not clearly drawn in the sand (but you know it exists somewhere) is to just stay away from the line's last known location instead of walking a tightrope path over it in a manner that taunts the people on the other side. You just ask for trouble when you do that and if you go over the line and get fined for it then that serves you right for playing with fire in the first place. The networks have been pushing the limits the last 50 years. They know it's wrong and they know how far to go before the rubber band breaks but they want any extra money it will pull in. The 'shit' and 'fuck' words don't add anything to the viewing experience other than disdain for what I'm watching. I don't want to feel like I'm back in high school again listening to the trailer trash exercise their lack of vocabulary. By the way, it seems that the FCC really can't stop swear words afterall given the courts can overrule them on the matter.
Kevin buddy, write down what indecency is, and everyone will comply. It's a neat idea...give it a try.
You think just because he defines what indecency is that people will comply? You are living in a fantasy world. The networks will then complain about what his definitions are and try to change them so they fit into their Fall schedule for the next round of trash which will smell even worse than the previous year's. In 5-10 years we will have televised murders and there won't be a need for Cinemax or PPV. Those media models will be outdated since the same content will be available on NBC and FOX at 6pm just in time to watch it with the family at dinner time. And just remember, you don't have to watch because you are given full and sole responsibility to let the content be displayed in your house because the networks will wash their hands of it by displaying a full size rating on the screen by that time and give you ample warning to change the channel or turn the tv off. If we're lucky Microsoft will in on the action and we will have Cancel/Allow prompts to answer before the XXX-rated tv show will be displayed on the screen. *sarcasm*I can't wait to watch the televised murders and they should throw in rapes as extra features like a DVD.*sarcasm* If someone else doesn't like it they can change the channel right? That's the system we use now.
Well it could be the use of God in the scientific way meaning that all other particles come from this one particle.
Or it could be using the term God as in the creator of all things which is pretty much the same as the first.
I'd guess it's the latter given how some physicists are actually not afraid to mention God in their research and theories. Although some physicists (Briane Greene for one) believe in evolution (and therefore by definition can't believe in a God and Creation) it seems there are others who still have some respect for what they are studying (even Einstein had respect for God).
XP SP0 ran fine with the computers at the time. In fact, XP Pro runs perfectly fine with 512 MB of RAM and Outlook + OpenOffice + Firefox (with things like browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers set to be very memory conservative). The problem comes in with drivers and other packages that users feel the need to install: overambitious virus protection, spyware detection, image editors, etc -- most of which have features the traditional home or office user don't use or don't need.
XP runs okay with 512MB of RAM as long as you don't have any runaway svchost.exe processes like I do. One of them will consistently go from the standard ~12MB to over 200MB and I have yet to figure out what causes it. It didn't always do that but after patches were applied it started to act that way. That's with the PC at work. The PC at home (the one I'm using to type this) has to deal with explorer.exe gradually chewing up over 100 megs. The only thing I can think of is that it caches anything it touches. Eventually I have to kill it to free up RAM. Outside of the OS on my home machine, I have Thunderbird currently using 100 megs (with some non-binary newsgroups loaded; it caches them in memory when I expand the news server sub-tree), Opera 9 using 330 megs with about 22 tabs open, and Newsrover using 600 megs (binary newsgroups; it caches which ever group I'm currently in).
The problem isn't with drivers because there aren't that many bloated ones running on a system (drivers specifically are few hundred kilobytes despite the installers being 50+ megs). The main problem with drivers are the management apps that accompany them like my onboard audio that includes a 25 meg control panel app running as a service. The problem also isn't "protection" because in my case I'm not running anti- anything (but if you do run those I feel for you). I know Norton on my girlfriend's PC kicks off about 6 20meg processes at night to download updates. It's the fact that some apps cache a lot of data and a lot of RAM is needed to keep that cache usable (and the rest of the system usable as a result). Now, all the 3rd party apps I just mentioned are replaced by Office and Outlook on my work machine. Outlook 2003 uses about 100 megs I think, and Word with 4 documents, Excel with 2, and Visio with 2 diagrams can easily chew into the remaining 200-300 megs that are free when I start out with 512MB. Don't forget when svchost.exe starts hogging memory as I mentioned above. Basically, 512 isn't enough unless you are a grandmother (or maybe a receptionist) who does nothing but use a web browser (with 1-3 tabs) and email client.
The current one ("5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0") is both stable, DRM free, include the "hot" feature and "sane" feature which some of the previous versions lacked. I was thinking of trying make the "threesome" feature but I might be pushing my luck:D
So is the RTM (Ready to Mate) version of "5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0" available or is it still at RC2? I want to pre-order. By the way, does it use a plug-in architecture? I would like to also order the sybian plug-in if it is compatible (with the force feedback of course).
The last benefit? Portability. If your hardware suffers a failure, then your software RAID can move to any other system. Using ANY hardware RAID setup will require you to use the EXACT same card no matter what to recover data. Even the firmware will have to stay stable or else your data can be kissed goodbye.
The Promise controller I bought allows another card to be used in place of it to continue using the hard drives that were attached to original card. The documentation just states that the RAID configuration data on the drives needs deleted so the real data can be reused by another RAID controller. Whether it's that easy and whether that is normal practice I don't know. That's just what the docs say. Comment as you will.
You sir, are a fucking idiot. The grandparent's post was a joke,
No shit. You sir, are the fucking idiot. I wasn't exactly expecting Ballmer and Cheney to go on a Sunday morning talk show. I already said at the end of my post that Cheney was being the butt of a joke. Of course, it was a light-hearted one but it doesn't make my statement any less true. I won't even go into the list of things that Clinton did wrong during his term and that isn't because there isn't a list (not to mention the propaganda that Gore is spreading the last few years: I throw that in since you mentioned pre-administration events concerning Cheney). I'm just not going to waste any more of my time with you.
No wonder Dick Cheney kept Ballmer out of the current Administration. A shotgun weilding Vice President versus a chair throwing Ambassador would make for an interesting Sunday morning talk show routine.
You say that like it is out of the ordinary for a VP to have a shotgun. Why would a VP of the most powerful country in the world have a shotgun? That makes it sound even stranger right? Just remember, 200 years ago the VPs, and the Ps, of the US probably all had multiple shotguns and pistols. They probably went hunting too (who wouldn't with all that firepower?) and there were probably hunting accidents (statistically, more people with guns = more accidents). But alas, only during the current administration would incidents such as what happened to Cheney be the butt of jokes made by the liberals. 200 years ago the same shooting accident would just be like any other day.
There is something very weird about the USA. You are a completely ANAL society. You like asses, admit it. A little bit too much. No, not true for the rest of the world. Maybe in the last couple of years this is starting to get more widespread. But usually, TITS were what man looked for first in women (which is logical, since we all have an ass). In the USA, ASS, ASS, ASS. Look at the way you talk:
Your more usual words are "Shit" and "Fuck you". All your insults are ass-related, while it's usually not so in the rest of the world. In Spanish, for example: "Carajo" (Dick), "Coño" (Vagina), are far more common.
So? I'll turn the converstation around and say you Spaniards live in a completely phallic society. Let's look at the way you talk: "Carajo" (Dick), "Coño" (Vagina), are far more common. By the way, since when has "Fuck You" implied getting it in the ass?
You like to generalize don't you? In the US I think it's mainly college kids who like to continuously say "Fuck you", rather than the country as a whole. If you think all our insults are ass-related then you don't know us very well dickhead.
But even when you seem to insult ass-related all the time, you censor anything relating to body functions. For example: Number 1 or Number 2... What is that shit???. And the parent post also bring plenty of examples: "Much less messy, much less noise, slightly faster" He is worried about the noise?, What mess is he talking about?. It's just PISS!.
Usually only little kids and parents refer to bodily functions as Number 1 and Number 2 and that's within probably the first 5 years of life (taking a guess, I'm not a parent and I don't remember when I last used "Number 1/2" phrases). I don't think I've ever heard of "Number 1/2" ever used outside of the parent/child relationship. Again, another case where you don't know us as well as you think. By the way, it's not just piss. It's urine.
I agree completely. Why the fuck is this topic such a common argument in the US? Are people so petty over there? Now I don't know about other european nations, but I live in Sweden and I have never ever heard (or heard about) anybody have this arguent in real life.
We have so much time on our hands due to staying home because of high gas prices that we don't have anything else to do besides complain about the toilet seat. And yes I realize gas in Sweden costs more than in the US but we use more of it and therefore rely on it much more than you do (especially outside of cities where there is no mass transit).
I hope it's the typical thing of the nasty minority (like fundies in religions) making a huge ruckus, because it boggles my mind that an entire nation of people would have this argument.
So what exactly do you think the "non-fundies" in religion make a ruckus about? Or are you so biased that anyone who has religion must be a fundamentalist?
Never underestimate how much an R rating will detract from your profits. America is full of parents who believe that their children will turn into a foaming nutcase if they catch a glimpse of an adult situation, nudity or violence.
You make an easy argument for the other side of the debate when you use the words "adult situation". *sarcasm*Why would any adult not want their child to see an *adult* situation?*sarcasm*. Obviously you wouldn't let a 5 year old watch you have sex so why should a 15 year old be able to watch it on TV? I'm sure you are a proponent of parents being responsible instead of the media but don't make fun of them when they exercise proper parenting by filtering what their children watch. You exaggerate and trivialize the situation when you say they don't want their children turning into foaming nutcases. They just don't think their children need to see that or at least not at their current age. There is nothing wrong with that. It's better than the other type of parent who doesn't care what their child turns into and lets them watch anything they want, then imitates that behavior in their own life. And then we wonder why society is so screwed up. And yes I'm a believer in the idea that children and teenagers get ideas from what they see. Children imitate other people almost from day 1. Sure some may have violent tendencies but their entertainment content makes it worse. How many teenagers duplicated the stunts they saw on Jackass and were hurt because of it despite knowing the dangers?
17th time? Thats an awful lot of attempts; what were the causes for delays?
I'd wager that "17th attempt" means the attempt on the 17th [of June] and not the 17th attempt (or "17th time" in your wording) because a couple sentences earlier in the summary it specifies the 2nd part to the shuttle window begins on June 17th. The cause for the delay (if it's even needed)? The summary says an Atlas rocket needs some launch pad time beginning on June 12th.
Comments, clarity, constants. If you're not doing this in your daily coding exertions, you deserve to have to maintain your own stuff 10 years from now.
I have. It ain't fun. Not that I'm bragging on myself, but I've now had people from the support group stop me in the hall and compliment me on the quality of the code I've written and deployed.
Support people actually talk to the developers? I didn't know that happened in this universe, or is this support group an anonymous one that meets in the cafeteria on Tuesdays?
You forget that "your" schools are their schools too. Why should your views reign supreme? This country was founded upon freedom of religion however there was, and still is, a Christian foundation. That doesn't mean everyone has to be a Christian for fear of the majority (or the US government for that matter) persecuting them but it also means that those who choose to be part of that faith can do it without fear of persecution. See, people like you don't want religion at all, but the US was founded by people who were actually punished for their beliefs because they didn't always agree with the state's religion. They came to this country to escape that and you are bringing it back with your bigotry. The difference in this case is that instead of punishing someone because their religion is different than the state's religion you want to stifle them simply because they have *any* religion. You use the first amendment in a bastardized, and unintended, form as reason for your agenda. We can not have a government religion (per the first amendment) but stifling those who want to practice religion while in school (or anywhere) is tantamount to violating the 1st amendment by passing laws preventing freedom of religion. You, in effect, create a state sanctioned atheistic "religion" and want it enforced everywhere. If that isn't irony I don't know what is. The first amendment is being used by people like you to prevent people of faith from practicing their religion, such as in their schools, when it was meant to do the exact opposite of protecting them so that they can practice their religion wherever and whenever they want. This isn't an issue of Creationism versus evolution. It is simply an issue of your intolerance for people of faith.
By the way, for your information, the simple act of someone praying in their school does not infringe on your right, courtesy of the 1st amendment, to not have a religion or to have a different religion, but making sure they cannot pray does infringe on theirs. You may claim it infringes on your right but there is no clear and present evidence that it does so. A person or gov't can not prevent someone from thinking (such as thinking they do not believe in God) but a person or gov't can prevent someone from performing an act that defines their religion. By preventing the act you prevent freedom of religion thus violating the 1st amendment. That is what *you* are endorsing with your actions. Do you like violating the 1st amendment while you strive to use it to protect yourself? I'm sure this post will be moderated a Troll but it is worth if it allows people to see just how backward your thinking is and how much it relies on a double standard.
It's nice to know you are so intolerant of other people and their religions. I'm sure that people of faith want your atheist crap to stay of their schools because you push your beliefs (or lack thereof actually) on them at every opportunity and all they want is for their beliefs to not be stifled by people like you. That's a nice double standard you perpetuate. I hope your are proud of it because it truly shows who you are.
Isn't the universe supposed to collapse sooner than that? If scientists are currently saying that the universe is 10-20 billion years old, why the hell would anyone assume the "Big Crunch" won't happen by then?
I'd be much more interesting if someone had a theory about what the universe looked like before the Big Bang, assuming that isn't a bunch of bullshit too.
Right now, Hindu creation mythology is looking less silly than theoretical astrophysics. I'll be waiting for Kalki to come destroy the universe and start a new cycle before I'll believe any speculation about what will happen in the way, way future, 150X as long away as the speculated age of our universe. That's like making predictions about the 3000th birthday of a 20 year old person.
The universe only gets created once; there will be no big crunch. Only 1 Creation is identified in the Holy Bible (although there are 2 variations). Your curiousity about wanting to see the universe before the Big Bang doesn't make sense from the point of view that there was nothing before the Big Bang. Nothing. I view science (all forms) as constantly finding signs of Creation and God rather than evolution and chance. The only difference is that the people who have faith view the evidence differently compared to those who don't have faith. Those who have faith welcome the scientists to prove their faith even if the scientists don't see it the same way. There are a few things that scientists come up with that don't make sense or are just completely false but the majority of their theories and discoveries actually back up the fact that God created everything in existence. Studying chemistry, physics, etc. allows us to see what he designed.
I believe there are a minority of scientists who do believe in God, a minority of them are probably too scared to admit it to their co-workers for fear of being ostracized (just like meteorologists (with impeccable credentials) who have death threats made against them for opposing global warming). Hawking and Einstein have made references to God and there is the Higgs particle that has been nicknamed the "God particle". For those who don't know what the Higgs particle is, it is the object that particle physicists believe gives mass to objects. It is predicted to exist based on the Standard Model.
All of this tells me that respect for the Creator and His Creation is not totally dead. Those who disagree with that viewpoint (or anything I said above) are free to do so however that shouldn't include berating and belittling people like me who hold those views just because it differs from others', nor should it include silencing people like me because my views differ. From my point of view, their views are the ones outside the norm of mine but I don't make attempts to silence them. Our views should not impede on one another's freedom despite what the faithless think.
How do you know they live in North America? They could be from Canada, you know.
Um, not sure if you meant that as a joke or not but Canada is still in North America, just not in the United States of America. North America entails Canada, the US, and Mexico.
So would you rather pay $200 for a new motherboard that has an updated memory controller (for your Intel CPU) in the chipset or $300 for a new CPU (from AMD) that has a new memory controller? For that matter would you rather pay $200 for a new Intel chipset-based motherboard for $900 for a new high-end Intel CPU in order to get the latest memory controller? Usually when people upgrade one of those components the other gets upgraded too and it isn't much of an issue, especially if part of your upgrade involves the switch from Intel to AMD or vice versa. I don't know if I'd call Intel unstable while AMD is stable. Whether you choose one or the other doesn't allow you to avoid upgrading at least one component in order to use the latest and greatest memory (you may get away with utilizing 2 generation of a component before you have to upgrade to be compatible with the latest of the other). I'd say that they are either both stable or both unstable. They just use different methods for causing you to upgrade. People who bought an AMD CPU late in 2005 had to buy another CPU if they wanted to use DDR2 memory because the AM2, as you mention, is for DDR2 and wasn't released until June of 2006. I would hate to be in that situation. Between motherboards and CPUs, I'd pick having to buy another motherboard since they are a lot cheaper than CPUs (even mid-range CPUs, $300-$400) to replace.
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but private universities should have a choice as to whom to admit.
You would think that would be the case but with political correctness killing the country everyone has to be allowed in everywhere. Just like homosexuals complained because the Boy Scouts of America didn't want homosexual leaders and members. You would think since the Boy Scouts is a private Christian-based organization that no one would have issues with their rules but political correctness reared its ugly head again as it does in every facet of life nowadays.
Gas prices in the USA are not particularly high -- even at $3.50 per gallon. Gas in Europe costs $10 per gallon.
I thought Europe used the metric system and thus gasoline is sold by the liter. Is that $10 really per gallon or per liter?
Such high prices in Europe does not hurt the European standard of living because many Europeans use public transportation; bus and trains are relatively cheap to ride. In the USA, many Americans refuse to use public transportation due to class snobbery. In my neck of the woods, about 80% of the passengers on the bus is either impoverished Americans (from ghetto neighborhoods) or illegal aliens from Mexico. The occupancy of the buses is about 50% during most of the day. Meanwhile, the freeways are packed with late-model cars driven by the wealthier class.
The population density of Europe is much higher than the USA so public transportation is more prevalent. I'm in an area that has a city bus but it isn't that big and I'd guess it is currently only used by the elderly and low income households. Only in the big cities is public transportation prevalent and in those areas people are probably already using it as much as they can. Many people in New York City don't even have a car. They use taxis and the subway to go everywhere because there is not really any place to park a car anyway.
Most people can only do so much to reduce their gasoline consumption. As the article that you linked to states, people still have to go to work (not every company supports telecommuting and in my case, I can't telecommute because I deal with sensitive government information) and kids still have to go to school. People need to face the fact that, as far as the US is concerned, we won't be able to make 300 million people all converge on the choices needed to reduce consumption. People still want the freedom of their own car, they still want to take vacations, they want to visit relatives. And I have to wonder just how many people it will take to complain about the matter before Congress starts enforcing price caps on gasoline to stave off any more price gouging. Increasing prices because demand is high and supply is low does not help create more supply. It just gives the wrong people more profit. There is always something happening that causes prices to go up because the event *could* affect the supply; whether it actually affects supply seems to be irrelevant anymore. Even if prices stop going up, the problem is that they probably won't go back down. Back in 1997 I remember prices were around $1.10 for 87 octane. We'll never see that again.
broadband had nothing to do with the actual bandwidth of the connection but the way the signal was sent/received, and I'm only 28 years old. Why make broadband be defined at 2mbps when it shouldn't have anything to do with the bandwidth in the first place? Oh that's right, because politicians are stupid.
1 TB of disk space doesn't matter if the warranty isn't that good. Sure, I'll still lose my data if I don't have a backup system that works but I want to put off a backup system as long as possible when I have to pay the Newegg price for this drive. If I get a failure on a drive that costs that much it better be covered, for a long long long time, whether my data is okay or not. I wouldn't be paying for another one at that price. By the way, I looked at the webpage Newegg linked to for this drive on Hitachi's site and it didn't list a warranty (I was forced to look at Hitachi's site since Newegg no longer includes warranty info in their specs of hard drives- very annoying).
I'm not sure what all pictures you are referring to (I glanced at the first page of the article and the 'pictures' link and didn't see anything that showed the site from the air) but a satellite photo on their site has the tunnel path overlaid onto it so you can see it better. Click on the map on that page I linked you to in order to see the satellite photo. Using Google Earth shows nothing on the surface of the Earth in that area other than some of their facilities in various locations around the ring. The tunnels themselves are underground ranging from 50 to 150 meters. By the way, the 17 miles refers to the circumference of the tunnels.
So that means the LHC only uses 2.24 microjoules? Is that per second or per fortnight?
Per Wikipedia: The protons will each have an energy of 7 TeV, giving a total collision energy of 14 TeV. It will take around ninety microseconds for an individual proton to travel once around the collider. Rather than continuous beams, the protons will be "bunched" together into approximately 2,800 bunches, so that interactions between the two beams will take place at discrete intervals never shorter than twenty-five nanoseconds apart. When the collider is first commissioned, it will be operated with fewer bunches, to give a bunch crossing interval of seventy-five nanoseconds. The number of bunches will later be increased to give a final bunch crossing interval of twenty-five nanoseconds.
So to answer your question, every 25 billionths of a second.
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The content of that page just goes to show you that the FCC, up to this point, hasn't enforced its laws fairly. It lets Oprah go free while Howard has to face fines. Maybe that will change but it's been 4 years since the first airing of that Oprah episode. That webpage doesn't at all go into what the rules are (or what they aren't as the case may be). I will say that given the excerpts on that site that I would also complain about the content of Oprah's show for that day. There is no reason to talk about that at all on TV, let alone on network TV, and at 4pm when kids just got home from school.
I love Linux, and I use it on a daily basis, but I still belive [sic] it has some shortcomings.
You say that like Windows is perfect and Linux is still inferior because if its shortcomings. No OS will ever be perfect but obviously some will come closer than others. It's an unreachable goal to be perfect so the fact Linux has shortcomings isn't necessarily a bad thing. You need to qualify your statement, especially in relation to Windows.
I thought someone would call me on that. I guess you are the lucky winner. The reason in my mind is because evolution is the secularist theory for how life came about on Earth while Creation is the non-secularist view. Since evolutionary theory is the secularist view and, by extension, does not include any possibility of divine intervention it is mutually exclusive with God/Creation. If you know of a source that says evolution does still leave room for divine intervention then let me know but I don't know of any and that is mainly because evolution is not touted as a theory that even needs God therefore no room is left for Him in the theory's details. Evolution dictates we are only here by chance and not for a reason (even if we don't know the reason necessarily). It could even be argued that because we are here by chance the meaning and existence of life is cheapened. If we came from animals then we are animals too, but humans have free will and can choose between right and wrong. That's what separates us from animals therefore we could not have come from animals. The cause for our existence has to be more special than that.
God made Man in His image by directly making him. God didn't cause lightning to strike on the early Earth to spark amino acids to grow into single-celled bacteria which then eventually turned into us. God doesn't have to go the long route. Given that viewpoint on the matter, I have to wonder why people who believe in Occam's razor don't also believe in God just creating life instead of evolution having to take its time. Some people probably do view history from that perspective (simple answer is the right answer).
The big bang theory from all I've read doesn't preclude the existence of God. In fact, I think it is a very good description for how God would have made the Universe, especially since Light did not exist from the very start (but was still in existence by the end of the first "day"). Cosmologists basically agree the Universe had to cool before light could exist and be transmitted.
Hey Kevin Martin! It's not that the FCC can't stop swear words from primetime TV,
The smart thing to do when a line is not clearly drawn in the sand (but you know it exists somewhere) is to just stay away from the line's last known location instead of walking a tightrope path over it in a manner that taunts the people on the other side. You just ask for trouble when you do that and if you go over the line and get fined for it then that serves you right for playing with fire in the first place. The networks have been pushing the limits the last 50 years. They know it's wrong and they know how far to go before the rubber band breaks but they want any extra money it will pull in. The 'shit' and 'fuck' words don't add anything to the viewing experience other than disdain for what I'm watching. I don't want to feel like I'm back in high school again listening to the trailer trash exercise their lack of vocabulary. By the way, it seems that the FCC really can't stop swear words afterall given the courts can overrule them on the matter.
Kevin buddy, write down what indecency is, and everyone will comply. It's a neat idea...give it a try.
You think just because he defines what indecency is that people will comply? You are living in a fantasy world. The networks will then complain about what his definitions are and try to change them so they fit into their Fall schedule for the next round of trash which will smell even worse than the previous year's. In 5-10 years we will have televised murders and there won't be a need for Cinemax or PPV. Those media models will be outdated since the same content will be available on NBC and FOX at 6pm just in time to watch it with the family at dinner time. And just remember, you don't have to watch because you are given full and sole responsibility to let the content be displayed in your house because the networks will wash their hands of it by displaying a full size rating on the screen by that time and give you ample warning to change the channel or turn the tv off. If we're lucky Microsoft will in on the action and we will have Cancel/Allow prompts to answer before the XXX-rated tv show will be displayed on the screen. *sarcasm*I can't wait to watch the televised murders and they should throw in rapes as extra features like a DVD.*sarcasm* If someone else doesn't like it they can change the channel right? That's the system we use now.
Well it could be the use of God in the scientific way meaning that all other particles come from this one particle. Or it could be using the term God as in the creator of all things which is pretty much the same as the first.
I'd guess it's the latter given how some physicists are actually not afraid to mention God in their research and theories. Although some physicists (Briane Greene for one) believe in evolution (and therefore by definition can't believe in a God and Creation) it seems there are others who still have some respect for what they are studying (even Einstein had respect for God).
XP SP0 ran fine with the computers at the time. In fact, XP Pro runs perfectly fine with 512 MB of RAM and Outlook + OpenOffice + Firefox (with things like browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers set to be very memory conservative). The problem comes in with drivers and other packages that users feel the need to install: overambitious virus protection, spyware detection, image editors, etc -- most of which have features the traditional home or office user don't use or don't need.
XP runs okay with 512MB of RAM as long as you don't have any runaway svchost.exe processes like I do. One of them will consistently go from the standard ~12MB to over 200MB and I have yet to figure out what causes it. It didn't always do that but after patches were applied it started to act that way. That's with the PC at work. The PC at home (the one I'm using to type this) has to deal with explorer.exe gradually chewing up over 100 megs. The only thing I can think of is that it caches anything it touches. Eventually I have to kill it to free up RAM. Outside of the OS on my home machine, I have Thunderbird currently using 100 megs (with some non-binary newsgroups loaded; it caches them in memory when I expand the news server sub-tree), Opera 9 using 330 megs with about 22 tabs open, and Newsrover using 600 megs (binary newsgroups; it caches which ever group I'm currently in).
The problem isn't with drivers because there aren't that many bloated ones running on a system (drivers specifically are few hundred kilobytes despite the installers being 50+ megs). The main problem with drivers are the management apps that accompany them like my onboard audio that includes a 25 meg control panel app running as a service. The problem also isn't "protection" because in my case I'm not running anti- anything (but if you do run those I feel for you). I know Norton on my girlfriend's PC kicks off about 6 20meg processes at night to download updates. It's the fact that some apps cache a lot of data and a lot of RAM is needed to keep that cache usable (and the rest of the system usable as a result). Now, all the 3rd party apps I just mentioned are replaced by Office and Outlook on my work machine. Outlook 2003 uses about 100 megs I think, and Word with 4 documents, Excel with 2, and Visio with 2 diagrams can easily chew into the remaining 200-300 megs that are free when I start out with 512MB. Don't forget when svchost.exe starts hogging memory as I mentioned above. Basically, 512 isn't enough unless you are a grandmother (or maybe a receptionist) who does nothing but use a web browser (with 1-3 tabs) and email client.
The current one ("5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0") is both stable, DRM free, include the "hot" feature and "sane" feature which some of the previous versions lacked. I was thinking of trying make the "threesome" feature but I might be pushing my luck :D
So is the RTM (Ready to Mate) version of "5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0" available or is it still at RC2? I want to pre-order. By the way, does it use a plug-in architecture? I would like to also order the sybian plug-in if it is compatible (with the force feedback of course).
The last benefit? Portability. If your hardware suffers a failure, then your software RAID can move to any other system. Using ANY hardware RAID setup will require you to use the EXACT same card no matter what to recover data. Even the firmware will have to stay stable or else your data can be kissed goodbye.
The Promise controller I bought allows another card to be used in place of it to continue using the hard drives that were attached to original card. The documentation just states that the RAID configuration data on the drives needs deleted so the real data can be reused by another RAID controller. Whether it's that easy and whether that is normal practice I don't know. That's just what the docs say. Comment as you will.
You sir, are a fucking idiot. The grandparent's post was a joke,
No shit. You sir, are the fucking idiot. I wasn't exactly expecting Ballmer and Cheney to go on a Sunday morning talk show. I already said at the end of my post that Cheney was being the butt of a joke. Of course, it was a light-hearted one but it doesn't make my statement any less true. I won't even go into the list of things that Clinton did wrong during his term and that isn't because there isn't a list (not to mention the propaganda that Gore is spreading the last few years: I throw that in since you mentioned pre-administration events concerning Cheney). I'm just not going to waste any more of my time with you.
No wonder Dick Cheney kept Ballmer out of the current Administration. A shotgun weilding Vice President versus a chair throwing Ambassador would make for an interesting Sunday morning talk show routine.
You say that like it is out of the ordinary for a VP to have a shotgun. Why would a VP of the most powerful country in the world have a shotgun? That makes it sound even stranger right? Just remember, 200 years ago the VPs, and the Ps, of the US probably all had multiple shotguns and pistols. They probably went hunting too (who wouldn't with all that firepower?) and there were probably hunting accidents (statistically, more people with guns = more accidents). But alas, only during the current administration would incidents such as what happened to Cheney be the butt of jokes made by the liberals. 200 years ago the same shooting accident would just be like any other day.
There is something very weird about the USA. You are a completely ANAL society. You like asses, admit it. A little bit too much. No, not true for the rest of the world. Maybe in the last couple of years this is starting to get more widespread. But usually, TITS were what man looked for first in women (which is logical, since we all have an ass). In the USA, ASS, ASS, ASS. Look at the way you talk:
Your more usual words are "Shit" and "Fuck you". All your insults are ass-related, while it's usually not so in the rest of the world. In Spanish, for example: "Carajo" (Dick), "Coño" (Vagina), are far more common.
So? I'll turn the converstation around and say you Spaniards live in a completely phallic society. Let's look at the way you talk: "Carajo" (Dick), "Coño" (Vagina), are far more common. By the way, since when has "Fuck You" implied getting it in the ass?
You like to generalize don't you? In the US I think it's mainly college kids who like to continuously say "Fuck you", rather than the country as a whole. If you think all our insults are ass-related then you don't know us very well dickhead.
But even when you seem to insult ass-related all the time, you censor anything relating to body functions. For example: Number 1 or Number 2 ... What is that shit???. And the parent post also bring plenty of examples: "Much less messy, much less noise, slightly faster" He is worried about the noise?, What mess is he talking about?. It's just PISS!.
Usually only little kids and parents refer to bodily functions as Number 1 and Number 2 and that's within probably the first 5 years of life (taking a guess, I'm not a parent and I don't remember when I last used "Number 1/2" phrases). I don't think I've ever heard of "Number 1/2" ever used outside of the parent/child relationship. Again, another case where you don't know us as well as you think. By the way, it's not just piss. It's urine.
I agree completely. Why the fuck is this topic such a common argument in the US? Are people so petty over there? Now I don't know about other european nations, but I live in Sweden and I have never ever heard (or heard about) anybody have this arguent in real life.
We have so much time on our hands due to staying home because of high gas prices that we don't have anything else to do besides complain about the toilet seat. And yes I realize gas in Sweden costs more than in the US but we use more of it and therefore rely on it much more than you do (especially outside of cities where there is no mass transit).
I hope it's the typical thing of the nasty minority (like fundies in religions) making a huge ruckus, because it boggles my mind that an entire nation of people would have this argument.
So what exactly do you think the "non-fundies" in religion make a ruckus about? Or are you so biased that anyone who has religion must be a fundamentalist?
Never underestimate how much an R rating will detract from your profits. America is full of parents who believe that their children will turn into a foaming nutcase if they catch a glimpse of an adult situation, nudity or violence.
You make an easy argument for the other side of the debate when you use the words "adult situation". *sarcasm*Why would any adult not want their child to see an *adult* situation?*sarcasm*. Obviously you wouldn't let a 5 year old watch you have sex so why should a 15 year old be able to watch it on TV? I'm sure you are a proponent of parents being responsible instead of the media but don't make fun of them when they exercise proper parenting by filtering what their children watch. You exaggerate and trivialize the situation when you say they don't want their children turning into foaming nutcases. They just don't think their children need to see that or at least not at their current age. There is nothing wrong with that. It's better than the other type of parent who doesn't care what their child turns into and lets them watch anything they want, then imitates that behavior in their own life. And then we wonder why society is so screwed up. And yes I'm a believer in the idea that children and teenagers get ideas from what they see. Children imitate other people almost from day 1. Sure some may have violent tendencies but their entertainment content makes it worse. How many teenagers duplicated the stunts they saw on Jackass and were hurt because of it despite knowing the dangers?
17th time? Thats an awful lot of attempts; what were the causes for delays?
I'd wager that "17th attempt" means the attempt on the 17th [of June] and not the 17th attempt (or "17th time" in your wording) because a couple sentences earlier in the summary it specifies the 2nd part to the shuttle window begins on June 17th. The cause for the delay (if it's even needed)? The summary says an Atlas rocket needs some launch pad time beginning on June 12th.
Comments, clarity, constants. If you're not doing this in your daily coding exertions, you deserve to have to maintain your own stuff 10 years from now. I have. It ain't fun. Not that I'm bragging on myself, but I've now had people from the support group stop me in the hall and compliment me on the quality of the code I've written and deployed.
Support people actually talk to the developers? I didn't know that happened in this universe, or is this support group an anonymous one that meets in the cafeteria on Tuesdays?
You forget that "your" schools are their schools too. Why should your views reign supreme? This country was founded upon freedom of religion however there was, and still is, a Christian foundation. That doesn't mean everyone has to be a Christian for fear of the majority (or the US government for that matter) persecuting them but it also means that those who choose to be part of that faith can do it without fear of persecution. See, people like you don't want religion at all, but the US was founded by people who were actually punished for their beliefs because they didn't always agree with the state's religion. They came to this country to escape that and you are bringing it back with your bigotry. The difference in this case is that instead of punishing someone because their religion is different than the state's religion you want to stifle them simply because they have *any* religion. You use the first amendment in a bastardized, and unintended, form as reason for your agenda. We can not have a government religion (per the first amendment) but stifling those who want to practice religion while in school (or anywhere) is tantamount to violating the 1st amendment by passing laws preventing freedom of religion. You, in effect, create a state sanctioned atheistic "religion" and want it enforced everywhere. If that isn't irony I don't know what is. The first amendment is being used by people like you to prevent people of faith from practicing their religion, such as in their schools, when it was meant to do the exact opposite of protecting them so that they can practice their religion wherever and whenever they want. This isn't an issue of Creationism versus evolution. It is simply an issue of your intolerance for people of faith.
By the way, for your information, the simple act of someone praying in their school does not infringe on your right, courtesy of the 1st amendment, to not have a religion or to have a different religion, but making sure they cannot pray does infringe on theirs. You may claim it infringes on your right but there is no clear and present evidence that it does so. A person or gov't can not prevent someone from thinking (such as thinking they do not believe in God) but a person or gov't can prevent someone from performing an act that defines their religion. By preventing the act you prevent freedom of religion thus violating the 1st amendment. That is what *you* are endorsing with your actions. Do you like violating the 1st amendment while you strive to use it to protect yourself? I'm sure this post will be moderated a Troll but it is worth if it allows people to see just how backward your thinking is and how much it relies on a double standard.
It's nice to know you are so intolerant of other people and their religions. I'm sure that people of faith want your atheist crap to stay of their schools because you push your beliefs (or lack thereof actually) on them at every opportunity and all they want is for their beliefs to not be stifled by people like you. That's a nice double standard you perpetuate. I hope your are proud of it because it truly shows who you are.
Isn't the universe supposed to collapse sooner than that? If scientists are currently saying that the universe is 10-20 billion years old, why the hell would anyone assume the "Big Crunch" won't happen by then?
I'd be much more interesting if someone had a theory about what the universe looked like before the Big Bang, assuming that isn't a bunch of bullshit too.
Right now, Hindu creation mythology is looking less silly than theoretical astrophysics. I'll be waiting for Kalki to come destroy the universe and start a new cycle before I'll believe any speculation about what will happen in the way, way future, 150X as long away as the speculated age of our universe. That's like making predictions about the 3000th birthday of a 20 year old person.
The universe only gets created once; there will be no big crunch. Only 1 Creation is identified in the Holy Bible (although there are 2 variations). Your curiousity about wanting to see the universe before the Big Bang doesn't make sense from the point of view that there was nothing before the Big Bang. Nothing. I view science (all forms) as constantly finding signs of Creation and God rather than evolution and chance. The only difference is that the people who have faith view the evidence differently compared to those who don't have faith. Those who have faith welcome the scientists to prove their faith even if the scientists don't see it the same way. There are a few things that scientists come up with that don't make sense or are just completely false but the majority of their theories and discoveries actually back up the fact that God created everything in existence. Studying chemistry, physics, etc. allows us to see what he designed.
I believe there are a minority of scientists who do believe in God, a minority of them are probably too scared to admit it to their co-workers for fear of being ostracized (just like meteorologists (with impeccable credentials) who have death threats made against them for opposing global warming). Hawking and Einstein have made references to God and there is the Higgs particle that has been nicknamed the "God particle". For those who don't know what the Higgs particle is, it is the object that particle physicists believe gives mass to objects. It is predicted to exist based on the Standard Model.
All of this tells me that respect for the Creator and His Creation is not totally dead. Those who disagree with that viewpoint (or anything I said above) are free to do so however that shouldn't include berating and belittling people like me who hold those views just because it differs from others', nor should it include silencing people like me because my views differ. From my point of view, their views are the ones outside the norm of mine but I don't make attempts to silence them. Our views should not impede on one another's freedom despite what the faithless think.
How do you know they live in North America? They could be from Canada, you know.
Um, not sure if you meant that as a joke or not but Canada is still in North America, just not in the United States of America. North America entails Canada, the US, and Mexico.
So would you rather pay $200 for a new motherboard that has an updated memory controller (for your Intel CPU) in the chipset or $300 for a new CPU (from AMD) that has a new memory controller? For that matter would you rather pay $200 for a new Intel chipset-based motherboard for $900 for a new high-end Intel CPU in order to get the latest memory controller? Usually when people upgrade one of those components the other gets upgraded too and it isn't much of an issue, especially if part of your upgrade involves the switch from Intel to AMD or vice versa. I don't know if I'd call Intel unstable while AMD is stable. Whether you choose one or the other doesn't allow you to avoid upgrading at least one component in order to use the latest and greatest memory (you may get away with utilizing 2 generation of a component before you have to upgrade to be compatible with the latest of the other). I'd say that they are either both stable or both unstable. They just use different methods for causing you to upgrade. People who bought an AMD CPU late in 2005 had to buy another CPU if they wanted to use DDR2 memory because the AM2, as you mention, is for DDR2 and wasn't released until June of 2006. I would hate to be in that situation. Between motherboards and CPUs, I'd pick having to buy another motherboard since they are a lot cheaper than CPUs (even mid-range CPUs, $300-$400) to replace.
but private universities should have a choice as to whom to admit.
You would think that would be the case but with political correctness killing the country everyone has to be allowed in everywhere. Just like homosexuals complained because the Boy Scouts of America didn't want homosexual leaders and members. You would think since the Boy Scouts is a private Christian-based organization that no one would have issues with their rules but political correctness reared its ugly head again as it does in every facet of life nowadays.
Gas prices in the USA are not particularly high -- even at $3.50 per gallon. Gas in Europe costs $10 per gallon.
I thought Europe used the metric system and thus gasoline is sold by the liter. Is that $10 really per gallon or per liter?
Such high prices in Europe does not hurt the European standard of living because many Europeans use public transportation; bus and trains are relatively cheap to ride. In the USA, many Americans refuse to use public transportation due to class snobbery. In my neck of the woods, about 80% of the passengers on the bus is either impoverished Americans (from ghetto neighborhoods) or illegal aliens from Mexico. The occupancy of the buses is about 50% during most of the day. Meanwhile, the freeways are packed with late-model cars driven by the wealthier class.
The population density of Europe is much higher than the USA so public transportation is more prevalent. I'm in an area that has a city bus but it isn't that big and I'd guess it is currently only used by the elderly and low income households. Only in the big cities is public transportation prevalent and in those areas people are probably already using it as much as they can. Many people in New York City don't even have a car. They use taxis and the subway to go everywhere because there is not really any place to park a car anyway.
Most people can only do so much to reduce their gasoline consumption. As the article that you linked to states, people still have to go to work (not every company supports telecommuting and in my case, I can't telecommute because I deal with sensitive government information) and kids still have to go to school. People need to face the fact that, as far as the US is concerned, we won't be able to make 300 million people all converge on the choices needed to reduce consumption. People still want the freedom of their own car, they still want to take vacations, they want to visit relatives. And I have to wonder just how many people it will take to complain about the matter before Congress starts enforcing price caps on gasoline to stave off any more price gouging. Increasing prices because demand is high and supply is low does not help create more supply. It just gives the wrong people more profit. There is always something happening that causes prices to go up because the event *could* affect the supply; whether it actually affects supply seems to be irrelevant anymore. Even if prices stop going up, the problem is that they probably won't go back down. Back in 1997 I remember prices were around $1.10 for 87 octane. We'll never see that again.
broadband had nothing to do with the actual bandwidth of the connection but the way the signal was sent/received, and I'm only 28 years old. Why make broadband be defined at 2mbps when it shouldn't have anything to do with the bandwidth in the first place? Oh that's right, because politicians are stupid.
1 TB of disk space doesn't matter if the warranty isn't that good. Sure, I'll still lose my data if I don't have a backup system that works but I want to put off a backup system as long as possible when I have to pay the Newegg price for this drive. If I get a failure on a drive that costs that much it better be covered, for a long long long time, whether my data is okay or not. I wouldn't be paying for another one at that price. By the way, I looked at the webpage Newegg linked to for this drive on Hitachi's site and it didn't list a warranty (I was forced to look at Hitachi's site since Newegg no longer includes warranty info in their specs of hard drives- very annoying).
I'm not sure what all pictures you are referring to (I glanced at the first page of the article and the 'pictures' link and didn't see anything that showed the site from the air) but a satellite photo on their site has the tunnel path overlaid onto it so you can see it better. Click on the map on that page I linked you to in order to see the satellite photo. Using Google Earth shows nothing on the surface of the Earth in that area other than some of their facilities in various locations around the ring. The tunnels themselves are underground ranging from 50 to 150 meters. By the way, the 17 miles refers to the circumference of the tunnels.
So that means the LHC only uses 2.24 microjoules? Is that per second or per fortnight?
Per Wikipedia: The protons will each have an energy of 7 TeV, giving a total collision energy of 14 TeV. It will take around ninety microseconds for an individual proton to travel once around the collider. Rather than continuous beams, the protons will be "bunched" together into approximately 2,800 bunches, so that interactions between the two beams will take place at discrete intervals never shorter than twenty-five nanoseconds apart. When the collider is first commissioned, it will be operated with fewer bunches, to give a bunch crossing interval of seventy-five nanoseconds. The number of bunches will later be increased to give a final bunch crossing interval of twenty-five nanoseconds.
So to answer your question, every 25 billionths of a second.