I was watching a TV show a few weeks ago (History channel maybe) talking about how Coca Cola was changing their formula (I don't recall the reason why) and after people complained they brought back the old one under the name Coke Classic. So that's how Coke Classic got its name.
On Jupiter's side, there's a profound change when going from no fusion (or to be honest, trivial amounts of fusion since fusion can in theory happen extremely rarely even at room temperature due to quantum mechanical tunnelling) to deutronium fusion and to regular fusion are big jumps as well.
I could be wrong but I think you meant deuterium fusion.
gamers need to step down and just humbly accept the fact that blame will always be shifted to the popular youth activities: be it a KISS concert, a video game, or something else."
A youth activity that needs added back to this list and that can lead to less violence in people is participation in religion. School shootings never occurred before religion was removed from the schools. Kids that may have learned to have remorse because of religion in their school don't have a chance of that happening now. I have yet to see a good consequence of removing religion from schools but there seems to be many bad consequences that cause a correlation to appear. Sure, violence in games may just enhance the hatred that is already in a person so the issue is to prevent the hatred to begin with or reduce it if it appears.
Since the human and chimp families split about 6 million years ago
They did? Did I miss the memo that said evolutionary theory was proven without a shadow of doubt and was thus renamed evolutionary law for that statement to be made with a mountain of evidence to back it up?
We already have the MPAA rating Christian-themed movies as PG (instead of G) due to their religious theme and it doesn't include the violence that The Passion of the Christ has. I don't see how man-butt in Wild Hawgs gets a mere PG-13 when a non-violent Christian-themed movie gets a PG rating other than obvious hatred for and an attempt at censorship of Christianity. At least the MPAA changed the reason for the rating eventually (to no longer include religion). The movie I'm talking about is Facing the Giants. I'm not sure why your post was rated insightful considering the events in The Passion of the Christ *did* happen and we know *why* they happened. For it to be considered a terrorist movie would be ludicrous. It is a historical movie; it doesn't depict what could happen but what *did* happen to someone who was more than just a man.
Saying that people you disagree with are not allowed to talk makes it look as though you are unable to counter what they say.
Or they are just so insane and wrong with their views that the majority of the population doesn't want to waste time dealing with them. By the way, the fact that it is being censored is an example of it being challenged otherwise it would not be censored. It may not be your preferred method of challenging something but it is a method.
however one of the reasons I buy a DVD is that I know it will work perfectly in any DVD I wish to buy (unlike XviD rips from BitTorrent or Usenet) however apparently this isn't true anymore so DVD is now no better than a rip downloaded from the internet.
I haven't had issues with a downloaded dvd from usenet in such a long time that I don't remember the last time I had a problem. I used to run into issues with the audio/video skipping and sometimes it would be bad enough the player wouldn't be able to read it anymore and it would freeze (Hidalgo did that but it wasn't that great of a movie anyway). That happens one out of 50+ downloads; not enough to spend money on retail discs and run into the problem described in the submitted article. The screener discs work well too. I'm sure the newer dvd players also have better technology to deal with imperfections in the discs as well as the data so that may help as well (although the only player that is new that I play discs on is my parents when I visit them; all other players I have used are at least a couple years old). Next best thing would be to use Netflix instead of downloading the movies but I can queue up 3 movies over night to download and I don't have to wait to send anything back before I can get new ones sent to me. The secret is to not get the Xvid/Divx rips but the actual DVD rips. The nice thing about the usenet movies is that the FBI warnings and other things are stripped for you:)
I can't say this for sure but I know that the latest HD/Blu Ray players are approximately $800-$1000 and the older ones are about $400-500 as you state however the reason they are that cheap is because they are the first generation while the $800 players are the 2nd (maybe 3rd?) generation. I know the first generation players are still circulating and I've been told they are the cheaper ones so the one you read about that are "entry-level" is probably a first generation player.
Are your kids actually going to be watching your $3000 50" plasma 1080p in the car on a long trip to your in-laws? No, they will be watching the 6" OLED set in the back of the headrests in the minivan. Remember, a TV can be used in more places than the family room.
Heroix Longitude? I know it's offtopic but I'd like to hear if anyone has used it (and how much it is). It was previewed in Linux Journal a few issues ago and is advertised as an agent-less monitoring application. It works with AIX, HPUX, Windows, Linux, and Solaris and can monitor database, LDAP, application, and e-mail servers. The problem is when I attempted to get a downloadable demo of it a couple days ago I was contacted by a salesperson instead of receiving an actual download link.
You don't have a choice of internet service providers. You have whoever has a monopoly on your phone service in your region and whoever has a monopoly on your cable service in your region.
That is still a minimum of 2 different providers, i.e. choice. Also, you are talking about broadband providers. There is still dial-up to choose from (may not be much of a choice as far as quality is concerned but it is cheap and you usually have at least 1 ISP to choose from as well). And with dialup as I just said, there are usually at least a couple different providers (AOL and NetZero come to mind). So yeah, there is choice.
I have seen firsthand and heard countless confirmations of people re-installing XP on their OEM system using the license key from the sticker that was glued to their system case, and being rejected by Microsoft's Product Activation. I'm not sure the reason behind this, but I'd guess that most likely some keygen hacker program ended up randomly generating the same key and was used enough times that MS decided to distrust that key anymore.
That's strange because of all the people I know at work (I work for an IT contractor with the gov't) this has never been mentioned, not even once, so how is it that you have heard of it countless times?
I understand your fear. The truth is scary isn't it? You also have to be totally clueless to think he would start a tech school instead of the O'Reilly who writes books about various technologies or you could have said it just to make the stretch into making a funny comment but it wasn't funny.
Another one with the compulsion to belittle others! I never said you didn't know what it stood for but you seemed to be compelled with calling it by its acronym even thoug you didn't like the acronym so I was making a suggestion. Who is really the "not overly mature" one here anyway? It seems to be you.
I think that once you reach a certain altitude, your phone hits too many cell sites at once and the whole system becomes confused, so in retaliation, your call is dropped.
I heard of that probably close to 10 years ago. Due to the plane being so high there are multiple cells that a phone can be a part of all at once or at least switching between them really fast. The result of this was that cell phone companies were the ones who were pushing to ban cell phones on planes because the constant rapid switching between sites made it difficult or impossible for them to properly bill you for it. That's what I heard at least.
You are getting closer. Having the government institute the nationwide standard allows for better adoption and thus makes it more likely to be useful. It doesn't help if I get up an hour earlier if everyone I interact with and depend on don't do the same. If they don't then I may as well sleep in the extra hour and we're back to where we started.
I know you are a farmer but before you attempt to use a word in your sig you should make sure it's spelled correctly. Most people use spell-checkers for the big words but it works on the little ones too (e.g. offence->offense).
I keep my phone well away from by body when I'm not using it, and I use the speaker-phone functionality so I don't have to hold the thing on my brain when using it. I strongly recommend people do the same.
Considering the sheer number of cell phones out there, do you really think that you holding your phone away from your head while talking is going to matter when the other million phones' radio signals will already be passing through your head? Not to mention the fact that your phone's signals will still make their way to your head. A cell phone's signal has to reach the nearest cell tower which is a lot further away from the phone than your head so the strength can definitely still reach your head. You are fighting a lost battle.
Evolutionary is just a theory, not a law, so it is okay to have these revisions. It's interesting, surprising news, but it's not earthshattering and shouldn't shake our faith in evolution.
It also shouldn't shake our faith in Creation. If it is just a theory it can't explain everything and therefore shouldn't be taken as the final answer despite many people treating it as such. There is still room for other ideas contrary to what the proponents of this crackpot evolutionary theory will say. It's interesting how there is evolutionary theory on one side and simply Creation (with no 'theory' qualifier) on the other.
But can they shoehorn it into the framework of a 6000 year old Earth?
They probably could but as soon as they tell you anything about it (like how it actually fits rather nicely) I know you would be one of the first to discount it since you don't believe anything that doesn't agree with your liberal views.
But, they receive one of the best educations in the world (of course, as soon as they leave West Point, they are headed to Iraq--but that is another discussion thread).
Do you expect them to go home and sit on their ass after graduating from a military school? When you go to West Point you are signing up for education and the job comes with it. Think of war as a way to have a job right out of college without the need to go to the career center of the university. Also remember, it's a choice and one which everyone knows the potential consequences of joining the military.
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I was watching a TV show a few weeks ago (History channel maybe) talking about how Coca Cola was changing their formula (I don't recall the reason why) and after people complained they brought back the old one under the name Coke Classic. So that's how Coke Classic got its name.
On Jupiter's side, there's a profound change when going from no fusion (or to be honest, trivial amounts of fusion since fusion can in theory happen extremely rarely even at room temperature due to quantum mechanical tunnelling) to deutronium fusion and to regular fusion are big jumps as well.
I could be wrong but I think you meant deuterium fusion.
gamers need to step down and just humbly accept the fact that blame will always be shifted to the popular youth activities: be it a KISS concert, a video game, or something else."
A youth activity that needs added back to this list and that can lead to less violence in people is participation in religion. School shootings never occurred before religion was removed from the schools. Kids that may have learned to have remorse because of religion in their school don't have a chance of that happening now. I have yet to see a good consequence of removing religion from schools but there seems to be many bad consequences that cause a correlation to appear. Sure, violence in games may just enhance the hatred that is already in a person so the issue is to prevent the hatred to begin with or reduce it if it appears.
as the other poster said:- boy I would hate to be their QA at this time.
Maybe you give them too much credit in assuming they even have a QA department.
Since the human and chimp families split about 6 million years ago
They did? Did I miss the memo that said evolutionary theory was proven without a shadow of doubt and was thus renamed evolutionary law for that statement to be made with a mountain of evidence to back it up?
We already have the MPAA rating Christian-themed movies as PG (instead of G) due to their religious theme and it doesn't include the violence that The Passion of the Christ has. I don't see how man-butt in Wild Hawgs gets a mere PG-13 when a non-violent Christian-themed movie gets a PG rating other than obvious hatred for and an attempt at censorship of Christianity. At least the MPAA changed the reason for the rating eventually (to no longer include religion). The movie I'm talking about is Facing the Giants. I'm not sure why your post was rated insightful considering the events in The Passion of the Christ *did* happen and we know *why* they happened. For it to be considered a terrorist movie would be ludicrous. It is a historical movie; it doesn't depict what could happen but what *did* happen to someone who was more than just a man.
Saying that people you disagree with are not allowed to talk makes it look as though you are unable to counter what they say.
Or they are just so insane and wrong with their views that the majority of the population doesn't want to waste time dealing with them. By the way, the fact that it is being censored is an example of it being challenged otherwise it would not be censored. It may not be your preferred method of challenging something but it is a method.
however one of the reasons I buy a DVD is that I know it will work perfectly in any DVD I wish to buy (unlike XviD rips from BitTorrent or Usenet) however apparently this isn't true anymore so DVD is now no better than a rip downloaded from the internet.
I haven't had issues with a downloaded dvd from usenet in such a long time that I don't remember the last time I had a problem. I used to run into issues with the audio/video skipping and sometimes it would be bad enough the player wouldn't be able to read it anymore and it would freeze (Hidalgo did that but it wasn't that great of a movie anyway). That happens one out of 50+ downloads; not enough to spend money on retail discs and run into the problem described in the submitted article. The screener discs work well too. I'm sure the newer dvd players also have better technology to deal with imperfections in the discs as well as the data so that may help as well (although the only player that is new that I play discs on is my parents when I visit them; all other players I have used are at least a couple years old). Next best thing would be to use Netflix instead of downloading the movies but I can queue up 3 movies over night to download and I don't have to wait to send anything back before I can get new ones sent to me. The secret is to not get the Xvid/Divx rips but the actual DVD rips. The nice thing about the usenet movies is that the FBI warnings and other things are stripped for you :)
I can't say this for sure but I know that the latest HD/Blu Ray players are approximately $800-$1000 and the older ones are about $400-500 as you state however the reason they are that cheap is because they are the first generation while the $800 players are the 2nd (maybe 3rd?) generation. I know the first generation players are still circulating and I've been told they are the cheaper ones so the one you read about that are "entry-level" is probably a first generation player.
Are your kids actually going to be watching your $3000 50" plasma 1080p in the car on a long trip to your in-laws? No, they will be watching the 6" OLED set in the back of the headrests in the minivan. Remember, a TV can be used in more places than the family room.
Heroix Longitude? I know it's offtopic but I'd like to hear if anyone has used it (and how much it is). It was previewed in Linux Journal a few issues ago and is advertised as an agent-less monitoring application. It works with AIX, HPUX, Windows, Linux, and Solaris and can monitor database, LDAP, application, and e-mail servers. The problem is when I attempted to get a downloadable demo of it a couple days ago I was contacted by a salesperson instead of receiving an actual download link.
You don't have a choice of internet service providers. You have whoever has a monopoly on your phone service in your region and whoever has a monopoly on your cable service in your region.
That is still a minimum of 2 different providers, i.e. choice. Also, you are talking about broadband providers. There is still dial-up to choose from (may not be much of a choice as far as quality is concerned but it is cheap and you usually have at least 1 ISP to choose from as well). And with dialup as I just said, there are usually at least a couple different providers (AOL and NetZero come to mind). So yeah, there is choice.
I have seen firsthand and heard countless confirmations of people re-installing XP on their OEM system using the license key from the sticker that was glued to their system case, and being rejected by Microsoft's Product Activation. I'm not sure the reason behind this, but I'd guess that most likely some keygen hacker program ended up randomly generating the same key and was used enough times that MS decided to distrust that key anymore.
That's strange because of all the people I know at work (I work for an IT contractor with the gov't) this has never been mentioned, not even once, so how is it that you have heard of it countless times?
I understand your fear. The truth is scary isn't it? You also have to be totally clueless to think he would start a tech school instead of the O'Reilly who writes books about various technologies or you could have said it just to make the stretch into making a funny comment but it wasn't funny.
Another one with the compulsion to belittle others! I never said you didn't know what it stood for but you seemed to be compelled with calling it by its acronym even thoug you didn't like the acronym so I was making a suggestion. Who is really the "not overly mature" one here anyway? It seems to be you.
If you don't like referring to The Gimp as The Gimp then call it what the "Gimp" stands for which is the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
I think that once you reach a certain altitude, your phone hits too many cell sites at once and the whole system becomes confused, so in retaliation, your call is dropped.
I heard of that probably close to 10 years ago. Due to the plane being so high there are multiple cells that a phone can be a part of all at once or at least switching between them really fast. The result of this was that cell phone companies were the ones who were pushing to ban cell phones on planes because the constant rapid switching between sites made it difficult or impossible for them to properly bill you for it. That's what I heard at least.
You are getting closer. Having the government institute the nationwide standard allows for better adoption and thus makes it more likely to be useful. It doesn't help if I get up an hour earlier if everyone I interact with and depend on don't do the same. If they don't then I may as well sleep in the extra hour and we're back to where we started.
I mean no offence, hence the need for obscurity.
I know you are a farmer but before you attempt to use a word in your sig you should make sure it's spelled correctly. Most people use spell-checkers for the big words but it works on the little ones too (e.g. offence->offense).
I keep my phone well away from by body when I'm not using it, and I use the speaker-phone functionality so I don't have to hold the thing on my brain when using it. I strongly recommend people do the same.
Considering the sheer number of cell phones out there, do you really think that you holding your phone away from your head while talking is going to matter when the other million phones' radio signals will already be passing through your head? Not to mention the fact that your phone's signals will still make their way to your head. A cell phone's signal has to reach the nearest cell tower which is a lot further away from the phone than your head so the strength can definitely still reach your head. You are fighting a lost battle.
At least with PNG support the banner ads can be made transparent. I'm all for that.
Evolutionary is just a theory, not a law, so it is okay to have these revisions. It's interesting, surprising news, but it's not earthshattering and shouldn't shake our faith in evolution.
It also shouldn't shake our faith in Creation. If it is just a theory it can't explain everything and therefore shouldn't be taken as the final answer despite many people treating it as such. There is still room for other ideas contrary to what the proponents of this crackpot evolutionary theory will say. It's interesting how there is evolutionary theory on one side and simply Creation (with no 'theory' qualifier) on the other.
But can they shoehorn it into the framework of a 6000 year old Earth?
They probably could but as soon as they tell you anything about it (like how it actually fits rather nicely) I know you would be one of the first to discount it since you don't believe anything that doesn't agree with your liberal views.
But, they receive one of the best educations in the world (of course, as soon as they leave West Point, they are headed to Iraq--but that is another discussion thread).
Do you expect them to go home and sit on their ass after graduating from a military school? When you go to West Point you are signing up for education and the job comes with it. Think of war as a way to have a job right out of college without the need to go to the career center of the university. Also remember, it's a choice and one which everyone knows the potential consequences of joining the military.
We need one to make sure that the requests are legitimate and fair.
Sounds like the telephone companies don't care whether the requests are legitimate/fair or not if they are already giving up the records.