I recently switched an older compaq running Windows to Kubuntu, and it was extreamly annoying until I figured out how to enable graphical root login. What the Linux-on-the-desktop crowd can't seem to figure out is that, as a home user, I am the admin. To have to do some sudo commandline stuff to create a folder on a second hard drive is a PITA! And this is supposed to be user friendly?! The people who advocate the split between user and root should spend less time studying design philosophy and more time studying how people actually use computers and work with that.
Their credo ""Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive" is what you'll find on HappyNews.com.
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1) Chance over probability. This is probably the weakest argument (because we *could* be the 1 in septendecillion instance), but it is a significant one, because many of the same individuals that believe we evolved from single-cell organisms also believe in extraterrestrial life within our own galaxy. You'd think these individuals would actually be ID proponents.
1.This is a logicly flawed argument. For my part I belive that we evolved but don't belive that that there is any form of intelligent extraterestrial life just based on what we've seen so far. I'm sure that there are some people who belive in UFOs and Creationisim. People are free to belive whatever they want, in what ever combination they desire.
2) Second law of thermodynamics. While another somewhat weak argument in the eyes of many evolution proponents, the significance of a mutation actually increasing the intellectual properties of of an organism would be a major scientific find of unbelievable proportions and would indicate that our analysis of closed systems needs to be rethought. Specifically, I'm talking about DNA and the "information argument". Species don't just get smarter, yet it is clear that we are more intelligent than dogs, for instance. The hard part is determining *why*.
2. Intellingence is not a form of energy or matter, but instead a quality we observe in people and animals, like beauty or charisma. Specificly, inteligince arises from a larger, more complex neural structure. This structure is paid for the animal having to consume more nutrients from its environment, thus satisfieng the Second law.
3) Fossilized records. This is one of the more common arguments so I won't focus on it, but where are the fossils of these transitory species? It is believed that many species of frogs and other amphibians which are more likely to experience natural selection have been undergoing this on a regular basis, yet no evidence has been found of such.
3. I'll admit that the fossil record is sketchier than I like, however there are many examples of different fossils found that illustrate a species evolution over time. Given the time and geological stresses that these fossils had to endure, it amazes me that there is as much left as is.
There's still one thing music can't yet do in video games: change styles in synchronization with the player's actions. Sure, music comes at important points, but it starts or stops then. You still can't have a dynamic score.
While not quite as impressive as some of the other examples, the boss battle music in Skies of Arcadia switched between three variations depending on the condition of yor party. If your parties health got below a certain point the song would become darker and more urgent and if you were about to win the music would become lighter and more upbeat. I often found myself playing either better or worse just to hear the different variations.
Uranium deposits are shrinking at an alarming rate. In a few decades time,
the cheap U ores would have run out, and the remaining deposits would absorb
more energy to extract a gram of U than that gram can ever hope give back.
Alright, since I don't know the current figures on Uranium deposits/Uranium consumption
I'll accept that that might be true. However even if all Nuclear power gave us was another
two decades woundn't that buy us time to transition from an oil infrastucture to an
infrastucture based on some kind of alternative energy?
... but you'll never see a company like Redhat do this.
I'm not very familiar with investing so I have to ask, Why not? Isn't Redhat also a publicly traded company? Don't they have the option to pay dividends to their stockholders as well?
I was getting the same problem on and off here in Texas. I think the editors screwed something up when they did their "'Under the Hood' type fixes" earlier.
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Now if by "modern" you are referring to 20th century, you need to keep in mind that Christianity "spread" in this timeframe not by mission work, but by immigrants coming from Europe en masse and bringing their belief system with them. There was no need to convert the "unwashed masses" because by 1900, they were all but wiped out!
You're right I was referring to Modern America rather than our history pre-1900. I should've explained what I was thinking about more clearly. I was thinking about the behavior of an individual church, like the baptists for example, in the context of many competing christian denominations as well as members of other religions and various athiests, agnostics, and assorted free thinkers. You don't hear about catholics burning mormans at the steak, or a presbyterian mayor exileing a methodist because he wouldn't worship at the local presbyterian church. Now I'm hardly what you would call a christian apoligist but even I have to admit that christianity has come a long way towards being a more civilized religion.
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Don't forget intimidation, torture, murder and intolerance. The Church has used those pretty effectively too!!!!!
True, however the original poster was referring to the situation in modern America where the spread of christianity was accomplished successfully through mostly peaceful means.
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What the christian community urgently needs is a development company to emerge which can balance both the needs of the gospel, and the needs of the game playing experience.
But why do you think that it is necessary for christianity to be represented in video games at all?
Christianity has always spread very well through traditional methods such as word of mouth and the good example set by its adherents. To me a pro-christian game company semms as unnecessary as a pro-irish game company or a pro-canadian game company.
The first time I heard of this inventory model being used is when they constructed the Empire State Building back in the 20's. Because they were building in the middle of the city they didn't have room to store inventory and so they simply had to use the Just In Time system.
I don't know that much about MacOS (X or otherwise) support for WMA but I'm guessing that it's playable *for the moment* as there's supposed to be a Windows Media Player version for OS X. But in addition to the fact that WMP is an awful choice of a player, there's no telling when MS will discontinue that player and then you again end up with unplayable files.
I found this really cool audio player for MacOS 9 & X called Audion. It plays WMA, Mp3, OGG, and just about anything else you could think of.
Besides that, I think the best way to depose Saddam Hussein would have been assassination. Why is assassination considered so dishonorable?
Historicly assassination in all it's forms has been considered cowardly. It was thought that if a man was so eager to kill someone he should at least be willing to risk his own flesh in the process.
As for Saddam Hussein, he was known to have adopted a number of paranoid and obsessive security precautions which would have made killing him very difficult.
Remember that the first game in this series was called "Der Wille zur Macht". (whatever that means)
I would bet anything that the remaining sequels also will have a German subtitle as well.
This reminds me of a sig that I saw recently."Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. - Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound." They probably added the German subtitle to make the game seem more deep or mysterious or something.
Mosquitoes have killed more people than all the wars in history combined. I for one would like to see this bloodsucking parasite eradicated as thoroughly as Smallpox
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As the author of the article described it, Schizoaffecive disorder is sorta like an odd combination of Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorders. smithy242's symptoms reminded me mostly of the Bipolar mood swings MichaelCrawford described in the article.
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A little while ago a fellow named "MichaelCrawford" posted a three part article on Kuro5hin describing his experiences with Schizoaffective Disorder. Some of the symptoms he desribed and some of the lengthes he went to treat them were similer to yours. Anyway here's that article. I hope you find that helpful.
It's bad enough when a single isolated program fails completely, as this one has. But if, as you suggest, this program is a part of a larger anti-terrorist system then the failure on the governments part is that much greater! As the saying goes "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.". The failure of the "No-Fly" list to accurately idenify terrorists creates a critical weakness in our national security infrastructure. For you see, this system was designed to deny terrorists mobility and access to a weapon that they have used successfully in the recent past. In this the "No-Fly" list has failed completely.
This list reminds me of the blunder the French made in constructing the Maginot line. They covered most of their eastern border with a line of fortifications that are tough by even modern standards. But they left the Arden forest uncovered because they thought that no mechanized army could pass through the thickly wooded area. But when war broke out that's just what the Germans did, and the rest of the line was rendered irrelevant. In other words when a line or net or wall is breached then all the remaining sections are worthless.
Sorry if I don't sound paranoid enough for you, but exactly how is Walmart supposed to be able to track these tags beyond the front door? There's simply no way that a RFID can have a transmitter powerful enough to send info over more than a few meters distance. Most of the products that Walmart sells come in a box and the RFID tag would be in or on the box. All you would have to do is throw away the container and and the tag would be gone. The only problem I would have with this is If the tried to embed these tags into clothes. But even then there are probably hundreds of commertial products that could fry RFID tags easily. In short their are far greater privacy threats out there than Walmarts latest inventory system.
As for media consolidation, well that's why I get most of my news online these days.:)
I went there last year on vacation. And while I'll admit that the water's great and the hotel accommodations were nice, I still think it's just a well built tourist trap. Having vacationed there three times in a row, first in 1998 then in 2000 and most recently in 2002, I can tell you that Destin has been rapidly built up to support an influx of tourists. And thus most of it's prosperity is dependant on the whims of tourists. You might move there today expecting things to remain the same only to be suprised when the tourists discover the latest and greatest tourist trap and leave Destin high and dry.
It's a truly bad and evil thing that crimes are being solved, wouldn't want that to happen anywhere else.
I still don't understand why some people think that a crime committed by one individual against another is the worst thing that can happen. When the government abuses the people it is supposed to protect the results can literally be a million times worse. Think about how much worse things would have been if Hitler had access to this kind of information.
You don't own your DNA, you are just borrowing it from the human race.
Sure, and you don't "own" your fingerprints either. But their is a difference between the police collecting fingerprints for a particular investigation and the government mandating that everyone be fingerprinted.
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I recently switched an older compaq running Windows to Kubuntu, and it was extreamly annoying until I figured out how to enable graphical root login. What the Linux-on-the-desktop crowd can't seem to figure out is that, as a home user, I am the admin. To have to do some sudo commandline stuff to create a folder on a second hard drive is a PITA! And this is supposed to be user friendly?! The people who advocate the split between user and root should spend less time studying design philosophy and more time studying how people actually use computers and work with that.
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Their credo ""Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive" is what you'll find on HappyNews.com. We believe virtue, goodwill and heroism are hot news. That's why we bring you up-to-the-minute news, geared to lift spirits and inspire lives. Add in a diverse team of Citizen Journalists reporting positive stories from around the world, and you've got one happy place for news.".
1) Chance over probability. This is probably the weakest argument (because we *could* be the 1 in septendecillion instance), but it is a significant one, because many of the same individuals that believe we evolved from single-cell organisms also believe in extraterrestrial life within our own galaxy. You'd think these individuals would actually be ID proponents.
1.This is a logicly flawed argument. For my part I belive that we evolved but don't belive that that there is any form of intelligent extraterestrial life just based on what we've seen so far. I'm sure that there are some people who belive in UFOs and Creationisim. People are free to belive whatever they want, in what ever combination they desire.
2) Second law of thermodynamics. While another somewhat weak argument in the eyes of many evolution proponents, the significance of a mutation actually increasing the intellectual properties of of an organism would be a major scientific find of unbelievable proportions and would indicate that our analysis of closed systems needs to be rethought. Specifically, I'm talking about DNA and the "information argument". Species don't just get smarter, yet it is clear that we are more intelligent than dogs, for instance. The hard part is determining *why*.
2. Intellingence is not a form of energy or matter, but instead a quality we observe in people and animals, like beauty or charisma. Specificly, inteligince arises from a larger, more complex neural structure. This structure is paid for the animal having to consume more nutrients from its environment, thus satisfieng the Second law.
3) Fossilized records. This is one of the more common arguments so I won't focus on it, but where are the fossils of these transitory species? It is believed that many species of frogs and other amphibians which are more likely to experience natural selection have been undergoing this on a regular basis, yet no evidence has been found of such.
3. I'll admit that the fossil record is sketchier than I like, however there are many examples of different fossils found that illustrate a species evolution over time. Given the time and geological stresses that these fossils had to endure, it amazes me that there is as much left as is.
There's still one thing music can't yet do in video games: change styles in synchronization with the player's actions. Sure, music comes at important points, but it starts or stops then. You still can't have a dynamic score.
While not quite as impressive as some of the other examples, the boss battle music in Skies of Arcadia switched between three variations depending on the condition of yor party. If your parties health got below a certain point the song would become darker and more urgent and if you were about to win the music would become lighter and more upbeat. I often found myself playing either better or worse just to hear the different variations.
Uranium deposits are shrinking at an alarming rate. In a few decades time, the cheap U ores would have run out, and the remaining deposits would absorb more energy to extract a gram of U than that gram can ever hope give back.
Alright, since I don't know the current figures on Uranium deposits/Uranium consumption
I'll accept that that might be true. However even if all Nuclear power gave us was another
two decades woundn't that buy us time to transition from an oil infrastucture to an
infrastucture based on some kind of alternative energy?
... but you'll never see a company like Redhat do this.
I'm not very familiar with investing so I have to ask, Why not? Isn't Redhat also a publicly traded company? Don't they have the option to pay dividends to their stockholders as well?
I was getting the same problem on and off here in Texas. I think the editors screwed something up when they did their "'Under the Hood' type fixes" earlier.
Now if by "modern" you are referring to 20th century, you need to keep in mind that Christianity "spread" in this timeframe not by mission work, but by immigrants coming from Europe en masse and bringing their belief system with them. There was no need to convert the "unwashed masses" because by 1900, they were all but wiped out!
You're right I was referring to Modern America rather than our history pre-1900. I should've explained what I was thinking about more clearly. I was thinking about the behavior of an individual church, like the baptists for example, in the context of many competing christian denominations as well as members of other religions and various athiests, agnostics, and assorted free thinkers. You don't hear about catholics burning mormans at the steak, or a presbyterian mayor exileing a methodist because he wouldn't worship at the local presbyterian church. Now I'm hardly what you would call a christian apoligist but even I have to admit that christianity has come a long way towards being a more civilized religion.
Don't forget intimidation, torture, murder and intolerance. The Church has used those pretty effectively too!!!!!
True, however the original poster was referring to the situation in modern America where the spread of christianity was accomplished successfully through mostly peaceful means.
What the christian community urgently needs is a development company to emerge which can balance both the needs of the gospel, and the needs of the game playing experience.
But why do you think that it is necessary for christianity to be represented in video games at all? Christianity has always spread very well through traditional methods such as word of mouth and the good example set by its adherents. To me a pro-christian game company semms as unnecessary as a pro-irish game company or a pro-canadian game company.
The first time I heard of this inventory model being used is when they constructed the Empire State Building back in the 20's. Because they were building in the middle of the city they didn't have room to store inventory and so they simply had to use the Just In Time system.
20. Manifesto writers need to realize their readers are often laughing. At them.
I don't know that much about MacOS (X or otherwise) support for WMA but I'm guessing that it's playable *for the moment* as there's supposed to be a Windows Media Player version for OS X. But in addition to the fact that WMP is an awful choice of a player, there's no telling when MS will discontinue that player and then you again end up with unplayable files.
I found this really cool audio player for MacOS 9 & X called Audion. It plays WMA, Mp3, OGG, and just about anything else you could think of.
You can find both the english and japanese versions of this song on Kazaa or Gnutella easily enough.
It seems that the best way to desribe our style of government is a Federal Republic
Wikipedia also has a long entry for Republic which helps explain the different flavors of Republican governments.
Besides that, I think the best way to depose Saddam Hussein would have been assassination. Why is assassination considered so dishonorable?
Historicly assassination in all it's forms has been considered cowardly. It was thought that if a man was so eager to kill someone he should at least be willing to risk his own flesh in the process.
As for Saddam Hussein, he was known to have adopted a number of paranoid and obsessive security precautions which would have made killing him very difficult.
Remember that the first game in this series was called "Der Wille zur Macht". (whatever that means) I would bet anything that the remaining sequels also will have a German subtitle as well.
This reminds me of a sig that I saw recently."Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. - Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound." They probably added the German subtitle to make the game seem more deep or mysterious or something.
Mosquitoes have killed more people than all the wars in history combined. I for one would like to see this bloodsucking parasite eradicated as thoroughly as Smallpox
As the author of the article described it, Schizoaffecive disorder is sorta like an odd combination of Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorders. smithy242's symptoms reminded me mostly of the Bipolar mood swings MichaelCrawford described in the article.
"My kid is too kid-like."
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Youthful Tendency Disorder
A little while ago a fellow named "MichaelCrawford" posted a three part article on Kuro5hin describing his experiences with Schizoaffective Disorder. Some of the symptoms he desribed and some of the lengthes he went to treat them were similer to yours. Anyway here's that article. I hope you find that helpful.
It's bad enough when a single isolated program fails completely, as this one has. But if, as you suggest, this program is a part of a larger anti-terrorist system then the failure on the governments part is that much greater! As the saying goes "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.". The failure of the "No-Fly" list to accurately idenify terrorists creates a critical weakness in our national security infrastructure. For you see, this system was designed to deny terrorists mobility and access to a weapon that they have used successfully in the recent past. In this the "No-Fly" list has failed completely.
This list reminds me of the blunder the French made in constructing the Maginot line. They covered most of their eastern border with a line of fortifications that are tough by even modern standards. But they left the Arden forest uncovered because they thought that no mechanized army could pass through the thickly wooded area. But when war broke out that's just what the Germans did, and the rest of the line was rendered irrelevant. In other words when a line or net or wall is breached then all the remaining sections are worthless.
Sorry if I don't sound paranoid enough for you, but exactly how is Walmart supposed to be able to track these tags beyond the front door? There's simply no way that a RFID can have a transmitter powerful enough to send info over more than a few meters distance. Most of the products that Walmart sells come in a box and the RFID tag would be in or on the box. All you would have to do is throw away the container and and the tag would be gone. The only problem I would have with this is If the tried to embed these tags into clothes. But even then there are probably hundreds of commertial products that could fry RFID tags easily. In short their are far greater privacy threats out there than Walmarts latest inventory system.
:)
As for media consolidation, well that's why I get most of my news online these days.
I went there last year on vacation. And while I'll admit that the water's great and the hotel accommodations were nice, I still think it's just a well built tourist trap. Having vacationed there three times in a row, first in 1998 then in 2000 and most recently in 2002, I can tell you that Destin has been rapidly built up to support an influx of tourists. And thus most of it's prosperity is dependant on the whims of tourists. You might move there today expecting things to remain the same only to be suprised when the tourists discover the latest and greatest tourist trap and leave Destin high and dry.
It's a truly bad and evil thing that crimes are being solved, wouldn't want that to happen anywhere else.
I still don't understand why some people think that a crime committed by one individual against another is the worst thing that can happen. When the government abuses the people it is supposed to protect the results can literally be a million times worse. Think about how much worse things would have been if Hitler had access to this kind of information.
You don't own your DNA, you are just borrowing it from the human race.
Sure, and you don't "own" your fingerprints either. But their is a difference between the police collecting fingerprints for a particular investigation and the government mandating that everyone be fingerprinted.