"This natural inequality of the two powers, of population, and of production of the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their effects equal, form the great difficulty that appears to me insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society."
Thomas Malthus, 18th century.
People have been saying that the "end is near" since human beings developed speech. None have been right. Ockam's razor and the law of induction tells me they won't be in the future.
I'm going to ball CS, I install Autocad for many of my customer's users, and I haven't needed to give them admin privileges since version 2007 I think.
See Epicurus' quote above for one of the problems of a 3O god. I am obviously talking about a 3O god, here, which is the most common variant believed in by monotheistic religions rooted in the hebrew scriptures.
Essentially, no being can be at once omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient.
Just to start with an easy one, a being cannot be omnipotent and omniscient:
First, we can establish that if you are omniscient, you already know what you are going to do at any point in time. Second, if you are omnipotent, you can choose to do anything you want.
But if you choose to do something different from what you knew you were going to, you are not omniscient. And if you are unable to choose differently than your prior knowledge of your actions, then you are not omnipotent.
If you try to reduce it to omnibenevolence and omnipotence, it's not much better:
An omnibenevolent god would want to reduce suffering as much as possible.
An omnipotent god would be able to do anything he wants.
So are we to conclude that this is the best possible world of all? Can't you imagine even one single iota of change that would have made the world better?
Now some theologists would say: "you don't know everything, some evil might have consequences that are better than the good you think of". But god cannot know about that EITHER, because he's not omniscient (already proved he can't be both omniscient and omnibenevolent at the same time), so he cannot have any more knowledge than can be gleaned from direct information of the Universe. Which means he doesn't use his power to reduce what evil he can see, so he's not omnibenevolent.
Which leaves us with a "god" that can be omniscient and omnibenevolent, at the best. Something that knows everything, and wants what's good for all, but has limited power to enact any changes, or none at all.
Or one which is not entirely good and/or only knows most things, but can do anything. Whichever it would be, it would not be the "god" most monotheists believe in.
Every piece of literature, art, or human creative product is based on what came before. It's based on human nature, human history and human life; the species hasn't changed that much in the last 5000 years since the dawn of urban civilization.
So if you want really original stuff, read Gilgamesh and Homer, then you're done. Everything else is not original, not completely so; no artist operates in a vacuum.
Most of us choose instead to gain from retellings and new ways (or new mediums) of telling the archetypal stories of the human condition.
Is The Avengers a breakthrough? No, but it's a well-executed modern take on interesting and important stories that reveal somethings about ourselves, in a new medium that has its advantages and its failings. And it's FUN.
People asked Squaresoft Enix if they would ever consider doing open-world, really long Final Fantasy games again, or if they'd consider making a remake of the older ones. They said it would be almost impossible to update those games to PS3 graphics because the amount of work involved to produce such a game would be too high.
Which shows us the problem with modern consoles: great graphics, decent or terrible gameplay, short-ass games.
I myself didn't like FF13 at all. I enjoyed FF13-2 a lot more, but goodness that game was short.
I concur, I've finished Kid Icarus multiple times, without dying even. I also finished a bunch of those games without dying including Zelda, SMB1, Megaman 1 and 2.
Ghosts'n Goblins was another tough mofo. I remember finishing it once, and then when I saw the "You must do it again" screen, I gave up.
But Battletoads I finished exactly once, and it was quite an ordeal. Really the hardest game I ever finished.
Any religion that promotes supernaturalism or offers mythology as a substitute for reality is bad.
That takes almost every religion out of the equation. About the only thing left is a few schools of Zen Buddhism, and most people call that a philosophy, not a religion.
Google Pack is the only way I know of to install Google Chrome on a computer for every user, instead of only in the local user space. With its discontinuation, this will cause even more problems for installing Chrome in a corporate environment. Anyone knows another method?
At this point, everyone should remove the trust for the Diginotar Root CA. I guess most people know how to do this around here, but just for informative purposes:
First, visit their web site to ensure their root certificate is in your certificate store:
On Mac OS X go to Applications, Utilities, open Keychain Access. Click on System Roots, then find the "Diginotar Root CA". Select it then do CMD-I. Open the Trust Panel and choose "When using this Certificate Never Trust" instead of System Defaults. Close the window, enter an admin password and close Keychain Access.
On Windows it's a bit more complex (no, really?). Start, Run, mmc.exe, OK. Confirm UAC if under Windows 7 with admin password if required. If you're under Windows XP, relog to an administrator account first. Then go to File, Add/Remove Snap-in, find the Certificates snap-in, click on it, then add. Select the Computer Account and local computer. Then open Trusted Root Certification Authorities, Certificates, find the "DigiNotar Root CA", right-click on it, properties and choose "Disable all purposes for this certificate".
Make sure you don't delete the certificate, as it would just get re-approved.
The alleged perpetrator of the terrorist attack posted the manifesto online himself before going on his rampage, and everything in there is on the internet and people have been reading and analyzing it since.
They can make adapters all they want. Those exist and are displayport male to HDMI female. Then you can plug in a perfectly licensed and compliant HDMI male-to-male cable into it.
What they don't want is cables that go from one port to another type of port.
Making a corporation legally responsible for its action is like striking at water with a sword. They'll pay the fine, and the executives will still swim in the money.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-hulk
"This natural inequality of the two powers, of population, and of production of the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their effects equal, form the great difficulty that appears to me insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society."
Thomas Malthus, 18th century.
People have been saying that the "end is near" since human beings developed speech. None have been right. Ockam's razor and the law of induction tells me they won't be in the future.
I'm going to ball CS, I install Autocad for many of my customer's users, and I haven't needed to give them admin privileges since version 2007 I think.
PAE is only available on Server versions on Windows, and not all of them at that.
Doesn't help if someone grabs the hash table, like in this case.
See Epicurus' quote above for one of the problems of a 3O god. I am obviously talking about a 3O god, here, which is the most common variant believed in by monotheistic religions rooted in the hebrew scriptures.
Essentially, no being can be at once omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient.
Just to start with an easy one, a being cannot be omnipotent and omniscient:
First, we can establish that if you are omniscient, you already know what you are going to do at any point in time.
Second, if you are omnipotent, you can choose to do anything you want.
But if you choose to do something different from what you knew you were going to, you are not omniscient. And if you are unable to choose differently than your prior knowledge of your actions, then you are not omnipotent.
If you try to reduce it to omnibenevolence and omnipotence, it's not much better:
An omnibenevolent god would want to reduce suffering as much as possible.
An omnipotent god would be able to do anything he wants.
So are we to conclude that this is the best possible world of all? Can't you imagine even one single iota of change that would have made the world better?
Now some theologists would say: "you don't know everything, some evil might have consequences that are better than the good you think of". But god cannot know about that EITHER, because he's not omniscient (already proved he can't be both omniscient and omnibenevolent at the same time), so he cannot have any more knowledge than can be gleaned from direct information of the Universe. Which means he doesn't use his power to reduce what evil he can see, so he's not omnibenevolent.
Which leaves us with a "god" that can be omniscient and omnibenevolent, at the best. Something that knows everything, and wants what's good for all, but has limited power to enact any changes, or none at all.
Or one which is not entirely good and/or only knows most things, but can do anything. Whichever it would be, it would not be the "god" most monotheists believe in.
You don't need science to disprove god - logic is sufficient.
Every piece of literature, art, or human creative product is based on what came before. It's based on human nature, human history and human life; the species hasn't changed that much in the last 5000 years since the dawn of urban civilization.
So if you want really original stuff, read Gilgamesh and Homer, then you're done. Everything else is not original, not completely so; no artist operates in a vacuum.
Most of us choose instead to gain from retellings and new ways (or new mediums) of telling the archetypal stories of the human condition.
Is The Avengers a breakthrough? No, but it's a well-executed modern take on interesting and important stories that reveal somethings about ourselves, in a new medium that has its advantages and its failings. And it's FUN.
", but routers don't verify that the route 'announcements.'" what?
Please fix this sentence, it hurts when I try to read it :-(
Spinrite has a large population of testimonials that prove that "it works".
so do homeopathic recipes.
People asked Squaresoft Enix if they would ever consider doing open-world, really long Final Fantasy games again, or if they'd consider making a remake of the older ones. They said it would be almost impossible to update those games to PS3 graphics because the amount of work involved to produce such a game would be too high.
Which shows us the problem with modern consoles: great graphics, decent or terrible gameplay, short-ass games.
I myself didn't like FF13 at all. I enjoyed FF13-2 a lot more, but goodness that game was short.
I concur, I've finished Kid Icarus multiple times, without dying even. I also finished a bunch of those games without dying including Zelda, SMB1, Megaman 1 and 2.
Ghosts'n Goblins was another tough mofo. I remember finishing it once, and then when I saw the "You must do it again" screen, I gave up.
But Battletoads I finished exactly once, and it was quite an ordeal. Really the hardest game I ever finished.
You've never seen the SECOND jet ski level then?
It was harder even still than the first one.
Impossible, what? I've finished Blaster Master a couple times.
Now suppose that all this happens on twin earth, you're a brain in a vat, and you're hiring for a train conductor job.
Any religion that promotes supernaturalism or offers mythology as a substitute for reality is bad.
That takes almost every religion out of the equation. About the only thing left is a few schools of Zen Buddhism, and most people call that a philosophy, not a religion.
Yes.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Aleph_number
Thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for.
Google Pack is the only way I know of to install Google Chrome on a computer for every user, instead of only in the local user space. With its discontinuation, this will cause even more problems for installing Chrome in a corporate environment. Anyone knows another method?
Interesting, it was still trusted on my Win7 box.
I just checked another machine here also running Win7 and that certificate is not trusted on it.
At this point, everyone should remove the trust for the Diginotar Root CA. I guess most people know how to do this around here, but just for informative purposes:
First, visit their web site to ensure their root certificate is in your certificate store:
https://onlineaanvraag.diginotar.nl/Digiforms/StartPage.aspx?FORM_ID=12
On Mac OS X go to Applications, Utilities, open Keychain Access. Click on System Roots, then find the "Diginotar Root CA". Select it then do CMD-I. Open the Trust Panel and choose "When using this Certificate Never Trust" instead of System Defaults. Close the window, enter an admin password and close Keychain Access.
On Windows it's a bit more complex (no, really?). Start, Run, mmc.exe, OK. Confirm UAC if under Windows 7 with admin password if required. If you're under Windows XP, relog to an administrator account first. Then go to File, Add/Remove Snap-in, find the Certificates snap-in, click on it, then add. Select the Computer Account and local computer. Then open Trusted Root Certification Authorities, Certificates, find the "DigiNotar Root CA", right-click on it, properties and choose "Disable all purposes for this certificate".
Make sure you don't delete the certificate, as it would just get re-approved.
The alleged perpetrator of the terrorist attack posted the manifesto online himself before going on his rampage, and everything in there is on the internet and people have been reading and analyzing it since.
They can make adapters all they want. Those exist and are displayport male to HDMI female. Then you can plug in a perfectly licensed and compliant HDMI male-to-male cable into it.
What they don't want is cables that go from one port to another type of port.
Alfresco's Community version is free. It's not updated quite as often, and can be a bit of a pain to setup, but it's free.
Making a corporation legally responsible for its action is like striking at water with a sword. They'll pay the fine, and the executives will still swim in the money.