The thing is, acting is the only way any organization will know what we want. If there had not been a Napster, none of the RIAA services would exist. In 1997, if someone had gone to the RIAA and asked them for a service that conceptually resmebled Napster (this is if Napster had never come into existence), the RIAA would have laughed them away. But Napster was born and embraced, even though it was illegal, and the RIAA members took the hint and created their own pseudo Napsters. I expect the same will happen with Film88, but until they do, I will use Film88, because I have to assume that they have not yet taken the hint.
That is the same reason I use Kazaa and have not switched to PressPlay or any of its sibling services; the RIAA only got part of the hint. I want a legal, unlimited music service for some kind of monthly subscription, but there isn't one. So I use Kazaa hoping they will notice the difference between a few hundred artists and ANY artist, and create their own conceptually similar model.
That, of course, refers only to the vertical resolution and not the horizontal (I'm not sure how that translates)
The correct aspect ratio for HD is 4:3. A normal TV is either 14 or 15 by 9.
Also, my neighbors bought a digital projector (it broadcasts the image onto any vertical surface of your choice), and although I'm not sure if it's the same technology as the ones that would be used in theaters (the prices are seperated by a factor of ~30), it looks great.
Oh no, I know about the Linux drivers, etc. Just that I had to swap cards to make the install work on either distro. I'm only using the TNT2 right now because 1) Gearing up for finals, and 2) laziness.
It really is the configuration tool. I've tried Mandrake 8.1, and SuSE 7.3, and SuSE blows Mandrake away. YaST2 is a very, very nice tool. I'm a complete Linux newbie, and I expected to have lot of configuring headaches after I jumped off Bill's ship, but YaST2 makes Linux easier to use than Windows. Prettier, IMO, as well.
I started out with SuSE, and after about two weeks, I decided to ty Mandrake, just to see what the differences between distros were (I never found a good piece telling me what they were). I found both to be a lot easier than Windows, but Mandrake just couldn't stack up to SuSE. I uninstalled Mandrake within a day or so, and am very happily using SuSE.
Also, the $80 version of SuSE is the Professional version, which you can get for (according to today's ad) $60 at Fry's. The Personal edition costs $40 direct from SuSE, and $30 or $35 at Fry's.
I would also venture to say that SuSE comes with more packages (personal vs personal) than Mandrake.
In addition, SuSE's manuals are AWESOME. There are 3 books for differenmt subject groups, and each of them are quite awesome.
And finally, SuSE just looks better. Booting up (little things like the LILO screen included), YaST2 compared to Mandrake's tool (I forget the name), plus Mandrake boots up ultra slow.
But the only real complaint I have for either is that neither had drives for my leadtek GF3 Ti200, so I have to use this TNT2 for now...
While mature, I don't think Groening's viewpoint is accurate. People already say that Homer is dumb, Lisa's smart, etc. The Simpsons has never been a show that revolved around the diversity of the charecters. We know that Homer is extremely stupid - that's why we love him and for over a decade now the show has existed on those simple charecter premises. Why would it suddenly cease to be funny to people? Furthermore, even if the devoted viewers like ourselves do start finding the show unfunny, it's constantly bringing in new ones. Why would they stop?
I think the Simpsons will end long before it becomes unfunny, rather when Groening decides to end it.
The current edition of Maxim has a pretty cool interview with George Lucas that covers a couple pages. Not too many spilers, and it also covers the general direction Lucas is taking it in (as a director and as a story). Some of us might find some cool stuff to look at in the magazine as well...
I installed 7.3 a while ago, and I know it's supposed to be a super-easy installation, but I just don't see it. It took me several days to get it installed because it always crashes. It even crashed during the successful install, but it was able to pick it back up and keep going to the distance without crashing further. Don't get me wrong, I loved it once it was running, but it just took forever to install, even though it's an Athlon XP, etc. Funny thing, my friend borrowed my CD's and installed it flawlessly. I guess I just have bad luck with making my own computers.
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There is something to be said for searching for similar life/conditions, though. While life may arise any number of different ways independent of DNA and the like, that sort of life would obviously be a far, far cry from what we know. We can probably assume something so different in structure would also have entirely different thought processes, so even if discovered, communication might be near impossible. Hell, we're just beginning to understand the very basics of whale communication.
My wrestling coach, who is also a physics teacher, recently went to a national teacher science convention, and he told us (us being the wrestlers), about this. He applied for it, did the preliminary testing and such offered at the convention, etc. The NASA guys told him that all but 10% of the teachers there were ruled out in the beginning, due to not being physically fit, and things like that (The Challenger teacher was a marathon runner in addition to her job). He survived to the 10%. It will be interesting to see how far he gets in the process.
When AI becomes advanced enough to the point where game characters can think, will they be able to examine what they're made of, and make more of themselves? Digital earths that exist on your PS10? What will we do about this if it happens?
You need to be more accepting of criticism. He did not say "Mozilla sucks because...," but "I would like it if Mozilla had the ability to...."
By the way, is that the correct punctuation in the elipisis? Or does it vary from regular grammatical rules?
Seperating creationism from religion is the funniest thing I have ever heard. Check the Bible, Torah, Qur'ran, etc, sir. Thye all have - gasp! - creation stories. Creation science has to do with, as it's name implies, creationism, which has to do with God, but in a sci3%fc manner. God = religion. You're funny.
It is ridiculous to debate the existence of evolution today. We see it all around us, with bacteria and such becoming resistant to antibiotics. The fossil record supports it, genetics supports it, as does virtually every other realm of science.
But as per your #1 comment, particularly the last bit, is bull. In some bacteria, generations can be measured in seconds, or less. Within a few generations - a few seconds - they can evolve to become resistant or immune to antibiotics or certain bacteriophages. Life on Earth is said to have began around 4, to some estimates as far back as 5, billion years ago. I'm not going to calculate how many seconds there are in 4 billion years, but it's quite a lot. Just one bacterium producing just one offspring for that entire timespan would probably be in the hundreds of trillions, perhaps more. But that's not the way it works, is it? Multiply that by a hundred billion for every member of that species. All of them mutating, evolving, etc. I don't even know the name for that number. Then consider how many entities there are on Earth. It multiples, and multiplies, and multiplies, again and again and again.
As per 2, couldn't it also be said that it only takes one gene to create a functional allele from a nonfunctional one? But taking away a gene doesn't always destroy a nonfunctional allele. It sometimes makes a variation, a mutation, that works. And that is how evolution works.
As per 3, see 1. There are uncountable multiples of a million right there.
Also, your whole post can be discredited based upon the fact that you know not what abiogenesis means. Abiogenesis is the spontaneous formation of life from a primordial soup. Not evolution.
Abiogenesis is not factual, but it holds a great deal more credence than creationism, or any other theory for that matter. But evolution, sir, is an empirical fact.
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The thing is, acting is the only way any organization will know what we want. If there had not been a Napster, none of the RIAA services would exist. In 1997, if someone had gone to the RIAA and asked them for a service that conceptually resmebled Napster (this is if Napster had never come into existence), the RIAA would have laughed them away. But Napster was born and embraced, even though it was illegal, and the RIAA members took the hint and created their own pseudo Napsters. I expect the same will happen with Film88, but until they do, I will use Film88, because I have to assume that they have not yet taken the hint. That is the same reason I use Kazaa and have not switched to PressPlay or any of its sibling services; the RIAA only got part of the hint. I want a legal, unlimited music service for some kind of monthly subscription, but there isn't one. So I use Kazaa hoping they will notice the difference between a few hundred artists and ANY artist, and create their own conceptually similar model.
That, of course, refers only to the vertical resolution and not the horizontal (I'm not sure how that translates) The correct aspect ratio for HD is 4:3. A normal TV is either 14 or 15 by 9. Also, my neighbors bought a digital projector (it broadcasts the image onto any vertical surface of your choice), and although I'm not sure if it's the same technology as the ones that would be used in theaters (the prices are seperated by a factor of ~30), it looks great.
All instances of Chewbacca will be digitally edited out and then replaced with Jar Jar.
Leave the guy alone, dork. We're not in middle school anymore.
Oh no, I know about the Linux drivers, etc. Just that I had to swap cards to make the install work on either distro. I'm only using the TNT2 right now because 1) Gearing up for finals, and 2) laziness.
It really is the configuration tool. I've tried Mandrake 8.1, and SuSE 7.3, and SuSE blows Mandrake away. YaST2 is a very, very nice tool. I'm a complete Linux newbie, and I expected to have lot of configuring headaches after I jumped off Bill's ship, but YaST2 makes Linux easier to use than Windows. Prettier, IMO, as well.
I started out with SuSE, and after about two weeks, I decided to ty Mandrake, just to see what the differences between distros were (I never found a good piece telling me what they were). I found both to be a lot easier than Windows, but Mandrake just couldn't stack up to SuSE. I uninstalled Mandrake within a day or so, and am very happily using SuSE.
Also, the $80 version of SuSE is the Professional version, which you can get for (according to today's ad) $60 at Fry's. The Personal edition costs $40 direct from SuSE, and $30 or $35 at Fry's.
I would also venture to say that SuSE comes with more packages (personal vs personal) than Mandrake.
In addition, SuSE's manuals are AWESOME. There are 3 books for differenmt subject groups, and each of them are quite awesome.
And finally, SuSE just looks better. Booting up (little things like the LILO screen included), YaST2 compared to Mandrake's tool (I forget the name), plus Mandrake boots up ultra slow.
But the only real complaint I have for either is that neither had drives for my leadtek GF3 Ti200, so I have to use this TNT2 for now...
I don't mean this to be belligerent, but can (have?) we verify that time isn't just a property of matter?
While mature, I don't think Groening's viewpoint is accurate. People already say that Homer is dumb, Lisa's smart, etc. The Simpsons has never been a show that revolved around the diversity of the charecters. We know that Homer is extremely stupid - that's why we love him and for over a decade now the show has existed on those simple charecter premises. Why would it suddenly cease to be funny to people? Furthermore, even if the devoted viewers like ourselves do start finding the show unfunny, it's constantly bringing in new ones. Why would they stop?
I think the Simpsons will end long before it becomes unfunny, rather when Groening decides to end it.
Positivity is objective.
In related news, Intel has just announced a new family of chips called the Decepterons. They are set to compete with the Opteron family.
The current edition of Maxim has a pretty cool interview with George Lucas that covers a couple pages. Not too many spilers, and it also covers the general direction Lucas is taking it in (as a director and as a story). Some of us might find some cool stuff to look at in the magazine as well...
I installed 7.3 a while ago, and I know it's supposed to be a super-easy installation, but I just don't see it. It took me several days to get it installed because it always crashes. It even crashed during the successful install, but it was able to pick it back up and keep going to the distance without crashing further. Don't get me wrong, I loved it once it was running, but it just took forever to install, even though it's an Athlon XP, etc. Funny thing, my friend borrowed my CD's and installed it flawlessly. I guess I just have bad luck with making my own computers.
There is something to be said for searching for similar life/conditions, though. While life may arise any number of different ways independent of DNA and the like, that sort of life would obviously be a far, far cry from what we know. We can probably assume something so different in structure would also have entirely different thought processes, so even if discovered, communication might be near impossible. Hell, we're just beginning to understand the very basics of whale communication.
Captain Planet! He's our hero, gonna take pollution down to zero and put an end to bad guys who like to loot and plunder!
My wrestling coach, who is also a physics teacher, recently went to a national teacher science convention, and he told us (us being the wrestlers), about this. He applied for it, did the preliminary testing and such offered at the convention, etc. The NASA guys told him that all but 10% of the teachers there were ruled out in the beginning, due to not being physically fit, and things like that (The Challenger teacher was a marathon runner in addition to her job). He survived to the 10%. It will be interesting to see how far he gets in the process.
Scorpion King? What? Do you mean The Mummy 3?
More like a hit of crack. Too damn slow.
It's getting open sourced, too!
I'd guess it was St Patty's day.
When AI becomes advanced enough to the point where game characters can think, will they be able to examine what they're made of, and make more of themselves? Digital earths that exist on your PS10? What will we do about this if it happens?
Which is completely irrelevant in conjunction with the towers, seeing as they don't get beaten daily by uber-tornadoes.
You need to be more accepting of criticism. He did not say "Mozilla sucks because...," but "I would like it if Mozilla had the ability to...." By the way, is that the correct punctuation in the elipisis? Or does it vary from regular grammatical rules?
Seperating creationism from religion is the funniest thing I have ever heard. Check the Bible, Torah, Qur'ran, etc, sir. Thye all have - gasp! - creation stories. Creation science has to do with, as it's name implies, creationism, which has to do with God, but in a sci3%fc manner. God = religion. You're funny.
It is ridiculous to debate the existence of evolution today. We see it all around us, with bacteria and such becoming resistant to antibiotics. The fossil record supports it, genetics supports it, as does virtually every other realm of science. But as per your #1 comment, particularly the last bit, is bull. In some bacteria, generations can be measured in seconds, or less. Within a few generations - a few seconds - they can evolve to become resistant or immune to antibiotics or certain bacteriophages. Life on Earth is said to have began around 4, to some estimates as far back as 5, billion years ago. I'm not going to calculate how many seconds there are in 4 billion years, but it's quite a lot. Just one bacterium producing just one offspring for that entire timespan would probably be in the hundreds of trillions, perhaps more. But that's not the way it works, is it? Multiply that by a hundred billion for every member of that species. All of them mutating, evolving, etc. I don't even know the name for that number. Then consider how many entities there are on Earth. It multiples, and multiplies, and multiplies, again and again and again. As per 2, couldn't it also be said that it only takes one gene to create a functional allele from a nonfunctional one? But taking away a gene doesn't always destroy a nonfunctional allele. It sometimes makes a variation, a mutation, that works. And that is how evolution works. As per 3, see 1. There are uncountable multiples of a million right there. Also, your whole post can be discredited based upon the fact that you know not what abiogenesis means. Abiogenesis is the spontaneous formation of life from a primordial soup. Not evolution. Abiogenesis is not factual, but it holds a great deal more credence than creationism, or any other theory for that matter. But evolution, sir, is an empirical fact.