Thanks for acting calmly, I almost didn't read this because of the self-proclaimed royalty (Aryan, I read, means royal...) over there, but I did state to him that I was wrong about the whole China/Japan thing. I misread and/or failed to remember it correctly. I won't make that mistake again. I understand the different varities of Hinduism, as I have studied vedic principles quite a bit (although, admittedly not enough). Although, I have studied it enough to say Buddhism is different from Hinduism in almost every important way. In fact, on the site I quoted, it mentions that many people mispercieve Buddhism as a branch of Hinduism, I could give you a link if you are interested. Again thank you for your calmness, I really appreciate discussing things without reading the word "moron" every sentence.
Ok, you have some sort of issue, whatever. I'm tired of your ignorance and uppity attitude.
Moron? Come on there, if you're such a good Hindu, you should be above all that. Seems like you have a ways to go...
Buddhism is not a branch of Hinduism. It has nothing to do with it. I even bothered to check and double check again. I don't even see why I'm discussing this with you, you seem to think because you came from that region that you are somehow entitled to be right. Proud to be an Indian? Please. You shouldn't be proud to be some random race. I'm not proud of being British, even though we owned your ass for the better part of the industrial revolution and into the nuclear age. Does that make me better than you? No. Yet you have such silly pride in your race. You have no respect for yourself if you keep pressing this argument anyhow, because you're wrong, and it's as simple as day. No amount of sneaky wordplay can make you right.
By the way, I said Nepal is closer to China, the country directly above it. Unless the word Japan is spelt C-H-I-N-A in India, you can shut up. Not only that, but what purpose does that link serve to support any argument you have presented? Again, you fail to make me see anything except I incorrectly said China instead of Nepal.
And now to get personal. Get down from your ivory tower before you get kicked down by someone who won't put up with your big mouth. If you said this type of offensive garbage to my face, you wouldn't be able to stand long enough to finish. I have a very low tolerance for arrogance, and I really believe you feel like you're some tough Indian whose come into his own, you've beaten the odds and you've go the whole world ahead of you. Let me tell you, you're nothing. I'm surprised you're still alive if you really talk like this to people you disagree with (and when you're wrong too... I mean, if you were right about anything then I would cut you some slack). Where's all your ego coming from anyhow? You can't present a cohesive argument, you have poor grammar, you are incapable of having a gentlemanly discussion, let your false pride and vanity cloud your better judgement, you feel the need to resort to capitalizing words and throwing simple personal attacks (moron, dummy) to attempt to defend yourself when cornered, you subtly shift your wording around to change your apparant point of view in a poor attempt to save your fallacious arguments, and have poor reading comprehension skills. So don't bother replying, unless you feel like growing up and ditching the attitude before you do. Good bye.
You're pretty arrogant for being incorrect. Check this site out and tell them they are WRONG or they LIE (don't forget to use capital letters): http://www.buddhanet.net/. Or any of the other sites I've read on the beginnings of Buddhism, which all say nothing about Hinduism aside from the fact that the Buddha disliked the caste system. Also, if Buddhism is Hinduism, then why do I read Hindus "convert" to Buddhists and vice versa? You just got all uppity because you think you are the end all be all. I bet you are Indian and have a chip on your shoulder. I really hope you aren't a Hindi or a Buddhist, because you really let yourself go.
On that note, I really get disgusted by people like you. What is the purpose of getting all arrogant and using capital letters like a 4th grade miscreant? You seem to think that I'm lying, even though you clearly have no idea where my information comes from. So what if I am wrong? Get off your high horse.
I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong. You are almost right in one of your little rants, he was royalty in Nepal, I was wrong about him originating in China/Japan, but still very close regionally. But that's where that ends.
I would have to respectfully disagree, simply on the basis that Christianity has two very strong links to Judeaism (Jesus Christ and God/Yahweh) while Buddhism states that there is no real "God", and Hinduism has many Gods/Demigods (Vishnu, Bramha, Shiva, Ganesh, just to name a few.) Buddhism, while created in the Himalayas, has a definite Oriential basis (seems slightly Taoist, escecially in regards to denying the material focuses, and the fact that the Buddha came from either eastern China or Japan, I forget). Also, Buddhism doesn't denounce the practice of eating meat, while obviously Hinduism does, even though they both state a reincarnative afterlife.
However, I do see the similarities. And you may be correct on how I view the term philosophy. If asked to give my definition, I would say that a philosophy is simply a point of view, maybe with a focused purpose. And I agree, any philosophy that a person adopts, is simply that, a philosophy. To be a cheesy nerd: "I have only shown you the door, now you must walk through it."
Buddhism is a philosophy on how to live life. Can you not practice a philosophy? And depending on your faith, Buddhism can be just a theory as well. It's silly to prop anything up so high that you make a distinction between "living it" and "being just a theory". That's exactly what the Buddha would not have wanted. He set up simple goals/ideals and never wanted any part of them to be revered like most people revere and have an almost egotistical pride in their religion. Everything is about respect, not foolish pride.
From everything I've studied, the Buddha abhorred the caste system of Hinduism. Buddhism is just a philosophy; a simple guideline. Hinduism is a full fledged belief system, they aren't related aside from originating in the far east.
That's very true, but it doesn't mean it can't change. You ever think that by firing all the local workers, businesses are going to create a void in the marketplace where only the rich can buy products?
And you can't say Indian programmers are a "better value". They simply have a lower cost of living. That's HUGE. Either the worldwide cost of living has to even out, or restrictions need to be set up to prevent stupid shit like this. Why don't the Indians just start their own companies anyway? They have plenty of qualified programmers.
It's the cheapass ignition module. I worked at a shop that had a Ford-based ambulance come in. Boom, it started on fire and burned to the ground right in front of the shop. Almost every ford before 1991 had shit ign modules. They were a recall, get yours replaced if you are uncertain, they aren't expensive and you won't start on fire.
That's a bit extreme. Obviously, addition has many uses just by being a simple system. But things like pre-highschool science courses are what I'm talking about. I easily could have understood relativity if explained to me properly (like a book I got one christmas when I was in 6-7th grade did.) Electricity, as it was explained to me in 5th grade, didn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. It was just a real pain in the ass, because I spent all that time learning a bunch of bullshit, when I could have been learning something more important.
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I finally figured out why I hate custom pieces, and this is as good of a place as any to say why. If you need more of a custom piece, you usually can't just scrounge from other sets. You need to buy that same set again. The magents you refer to aren't custom. They are used in MANY sets. I have probably 30-40 of them, and I used them all the time. It's mostly the smaller sets that contain just one or two of a custom piece that really are the targets of this "backlash" or sorts. Especially when a standard piece or a combination of standard pieces could have done in place of the custom one.
But your last sentence is exactly why I hate American educational systems. "Let's dumb it down to the lowest common denominator" they say. Well, that's great for the dumb kids, but for anyone smarter who knows there is more going on, it's just something to un-learn then re-learn the real way.
But it's the little guy who gets it in the rear, because to do anything, they either have to license technology that is very trivial, or just do it without licensing and run the risk of getting sued.
How can a company that produces high quality image reproduction machines be culpable in the event that someone uses it to counterfeit money? It's akin to selling knives, most people use them to cut vegetables, but there are those few who use them to cut people. Doesn't stop the sale of knives, nor does it leave the knife company in legal trouble because someone used it improperly.
Wasn't only the OS though. It hardlocked my system before boot a few times and corrupted my BIOS data once. It wouldn't even POST with the thing in there, and I did enough testing to prove it wasn't the mobo, PCI slot, RAM timings, voltage, etc etc, it was the sound card.
You know, I have that same damn problem with every Creative Labs product I've ever owned/worked on. They are very very picky about the system configuration they are in, and it's a royal pain to tweak it all properly to get a perfect harmony. I've had them restrict boot up, cause the BIOS to freak and need to be wiped, new OS install, drivers don't install 100% and I have to unpack the EXE myself and fish out the missing.ax and.wdm files, etc etc. Needless to say, my next soundcard is a Philips.
Not to shoot that down, but, of all things, Fox News reported on some Operation Enduring Lies (er Freedom?) veterans who have already come back missing legs and arms who are pretty much permanently disabled from what they used to do, are getting fucked over hard by the gov't. I saw at least a number of videos with some very crippled soldiers.
At least the only person you can blame is yourself for scratching your disc. It's not like some uber-powerful corporation that you have to wait on if they screw up. On a tangent: what if your net access is down and you want to install a program? This system has more disadvantages than advantages over physical media, IMO. I enjoy being able to go online to get what I need, and it would be nice to be able to download/use things when I'm roaming, but if I can't/don't have that backup, then it's no good to me.
I'd say that it's important to have actual, physical copies of the information. It's far harder to accidentally corrupt a plastic disc than it is to have a transfer error screw up an application.
I think that if big media seriously chooses this approach, a lot of people are going to abandon ship and start their own form of media distribution. This is just a ply for more money, going back to the old addage of not making something TOO good, or else your customers won't need to come back and pay for your services. This is a great way to lock people into your business, like electronic dope dealers.
Have you ever tried to look at a non-backlit LCD panel? You can't really see anything. I think that if the internal lights to the home were off (like during a movie) there wouldn't be much of a problem with external viewing.
Too bad they didn't come up with that list in 1958 when it mattered and could have actually been successfully adpoted. It's simply too late to just arbitrarily start calling 1024 bytes a Kibibyte or whatever the fuck they decided to call it. Besides that, kibi is too close to kilo, and the abbreviations are too similar as well.
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Thanks for acting calmly, I almost didn't read this because of the self-proclaimed royalty (Aryan, I read, means royal...) over there, but I did state to him that I was wrong about the whole China/Japan thing. I misread and/or failed to remember it correctly. I won't make that mistake again. I understand the different varities of Hinduism, as I have studied vedic principles quite a bit (although, admittedly not enough). Although, I have studied it enough to say Buddhism is different from Hinduism in almost every important way. In fact, on the site I quoted, it mentions that many people mispercieve Buddhism as a branch of Hinduism, I could give you a link if you are interested. Again thank you for your calmness, I really appreciate discussing things without reading the word "moron" every sentence.
Ok, you have some sort of issue, whatever. I'm tired of your ignorance and uppity attitude.
Moron? Come on there, if you're such a good Hindu, you should be above all that. Seems like you have a ways to go...
Buddhism is not a branch of Hinduism. It has nothing to do with it. I even bothered to check and double check again. I don't even see why I'm discussing this with you, you seem to think because you came from that region that you are somehow entitled to be right. Proud to be an Indian? Please. You shouldn't be proud to be some random race. I'm not proud of being British, even though we owned your ass for the better part of the industrial revolution and into the nuclear age. Does that make me better than you? No. Yet you have such silly pride in your race. You have no respect for yourself if you keep pressing this argument anyhow, because you're wrong, and it's as simple as day. No amount of sneaky wordplay can make you right.
By the way, I said Nepal is closer to China, the country directly above it. Unless the word Japan is spelt C-H-I-N-A in India, you can shut up. Not only that, but what purpose does that link serve to support any argument you have presented? Again, you fail to make me see anything except I incorrectly said China instead of Nepal.
And now to get personal. Get down from your ivory tower before you get kicked down by someone who won't put up with your big mouth. If you said this type of offensive garbage to my face, you wouldn't be able to stand long enough to finish. I have a very low tolerance for arrogance, and I really believe you feel like you're some tough Indian whose come into his own, you've beaten the odds and you've go the whole world ahead of you. Let me tell you, you're nothing. I'm surprised you're still alive if you really talk like this to people you disagree with (and when you're wrong too... I mean, if you were right about anything then I would cut you some slack). Where's all your ego coming from anyhow? You can't present a cohesive argument, you have poor grammar, you are incapable of having a gentlemanly discussion, let your false pride and vanity cloud your better judgement, you feel the need to resort to capitalizing words and throwing simple personal attacks (moron, dummy) to attempt to defend yourself when cornered, you subtly shift your wording around to change your apparant point of view in a poor attempt to save your fallacious arguments, and have poor reading comprehension skills. So don't bother replying, unless you feel like growing up and ditching the attitude before you do. Good bye.
You're pretty arrogant for being incorrect. Check this site out and tell them they are WRONG or they LIE (don't forget to use capital letters): http://www.buddhanet.net/. Or any of the other sites I've read on the beginnings of Buddhism, which all say nothing about Hinduism aside from the fact that the Buddha disliked the caste system. Also, if Buddhism is Hinduism, then why do I read Hindus "convert" to Buddhists and vice versa? You just got all uppity because you think you are the end all be all. I bet you are Indian and have a chip on your shoulder. I really hope you aren't a Hindi or a Buddhist, because you really let yourself go.
On that note, I really get disgusted by people like you. What is the purpose of getting all arrogant and using capital letters like a 4th grade miscreant? You seem to think that I'm lying, even though you clearly have no idea where my information comes from. So what if I am wrong? Get off your high horse.
I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong. You are almost right in one of your little rants, he was royalty in Nepal, I was wrong about him originating in China/Japan, but still very close regionally. But that's where that ends.
I would have to respectfully disagree, simply on the basis that Christianity has two very strong links to Judeaism (Jesus Christ and God/Yahweh) while Buddhism states that there is no real "God", and Hinduism has many Gods/Demigods (Vishnu, Bramha, Shiva, Ganesh, just to name a few.) Buddhism, while created in the Himalayas, has a definite Oriential basis (seems slightly Taoist, escecially in regards to denying the material focuses, and the fact that the Buddha came from either eastern China or Japan, I forget). Also, Buddhism doesn't denounce the practice of eating meat, while obviously Hinduism does, even though they both state a reincarnative afterlife.
However, I do see the similarities. And you may be correct on how I view the term philosophy. If asked to give my definition, I would say that a philosophy is simply a point of view, maybe with a focused purpose. And I agree, any philosophy that a person adopts, is simply that, a philosophy. To be a cheesy nerd: "I have only shown you the door, now you must walk through it."
Buddhism is a philosophy on how to live life. Can you not practice a philosophy? And depending on your faith, Buddhism can be just a theory as well. It's silly to prop anything up so high that you make a distinction between "living it" and "being just a theory". That's exactly what the Buddha would not have wanted. He set up simple goals/ideals and never wanted any part of them to be revered like most people revere and have an almost egotistical pride in their religion. Everything is about respect, not foolish pride.
From everything I've studied, the Buddha abhorred the caste system of Hinduism. Buddhism is just a philosophy; a simple guideline. Hinduism is a full fledged belief system, they aren't related aside from originating in the far east.
That's very true, but it doesn't mean it can't change. You ever think that by firing all the local workers, businesses are going to create a void in the marketplace where only the rich can buy products? And you can't say Indian programmers are a "better value". They simply have a lower cost of living. That's HUGE. Either the worldwide cost of living has to even out, or restrictions need to be set up to prevent stupid shit like this. Why don't the Indians just start their own companies anyway? They have plenty of qualified programmers.
It's the cheapass ignition module. I worked at a shop that had a Ford-based ambulance come in. Boom, it started on fire and burned to the ground right in front of the shop. Almost every ford before 1991 had shit ign modules. They were a recall, get yours replaced if you are uncertain, they aren't expensive and you won't start on fire.
I think they don't want to put a probe ON Eurpoa because they wouldn't want to interfere with whatever life may be forming/living there.
No way.... I actually took a course in IBM S/390 Assembler. Awesome. I wonder if they use MVS and JCL too...
That's a bit extreme. Obviously, addition has many uses just by being a simple system. But things like pre-highschool science courses are what I'm talking about. I easily could have understood relativity if explained to me properly (like a book I got one christmas when I was in 6-7th grade did.) Electricity, as it was explained to me in 5th grade, didn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. It was just a real pain in the ass, because I spent all that time learning a bunch of bullshit, when I could have been learning something more important.
I finally figured out why I hate custom pieces, and this is as good of a place as any to say why. If you need more of a custom piece, you usually can't just scrounge from other sets. You need to buy that same set again. The magents you refer to aren't custom. They are used in MANY sets. I have probably 30-40 of them, and I used them all the time. It's mostly the smaller sets that contain just one or two of a custom piece that really are the targets of this "backlash" or sorts. Especially when a standard piece or a combination of standard pieces could have done in place of the custom one.
But your last sentence is exactly why I hate American educational systems. "Let's dumb it down to the lowest common denominator" they say. Well, that's great for the dumb kids, but for anyone smarter who knows there is more going on, it's just something to un-learn then re-learn the real way.
But it's the little guy who gets it in the rear, because to do anything, they either have to license technology that is very trivial, or just do it without licensing and run the risk of getting sued.
How can a company that produces high quality image reproduction machines be culpable in the event that someone uses it to counterfeit money? It's akin to selling knives, most people use them to cut vegetables, but there are those few who use them to cut people. Doesn't stop the sale of knives, nor does it leave the knife company in legal trouble because someone used it improperly.
Wasn't only the OS though. It hardlocked my system before boot a few times and corrupted my BIOS data once. It wouldn't even POST with the thing in there, and I did enough testing to prove it wasn't the mobo, PCI slot, RAM timings, voltage, etc etc, it was the sound card.
You know, I have that same damn problem with every Creative Labs product I've ever owned/worked on. They are very very picky about the system configuration they are in, and it's a royal pain to tweak it all properly to get a perfect harmony. I've had them restrict boot up, cause the BIOS to freak and need to be wiped, new OS install, drivers don't install 100% and I have to unpack the EXE myself and fish out the missing .ax and .wdm files, etc etc. Needless to say, my next soundcard is a Philips.
Then they control the Kudzu by importing sheep, and now hillbillies are getting the same idea as the Greeks: sheep are GOOOOOD fuckin'!
Not to shoot that down, but, of all things, Fox News reported on some Operation Enduring Lies (er Freedom?) veterans who have already come back missing legs and arms who are pretty much permanently disabled from what they used to do, are getting fucked over hard by the gov't. I saw at least a number of videos with some very crippled soldiers.
At least the only person you can blame is yourself for scratching your disc. It's not like some uber-powerful corporation that you have to wait on if they screw up. On a tangent: what if your net access is down and you want to install a program? This system has more disadvantages than advantages over physical media, IMO. I enjoy being able to go online to get what I need, and it would be nice to be able to download/use things when I'm roaming, but if I can't/don't have that backup, then it's no good to me.
I'd say that it's important to have actual, physical copies of the information. It's far harder to accidentally corrupt a plastic disc than it is to have a transfer error screw up an application.
I think that if big media seriously chooses this approach, a lot of people are going to abandon ship and start their own form of media distribution. This is just a ply for more money, going back to the old addage of not making something TOO good, or else your customers won't need to come back and pay for your services. This is a great way to lock people into your business, like electronic dope dealers.
Yeah but slashdot isn't selling anything but crappy subscriptions.
Have you ever tried to look at a non-backlit LCD panel? You can't really see anything. I think that if the internal lights to the home were off (like during a movie) there wouldn't be much of a problem with external viewing.
The conflict is that he develops software that linux is directly competing with: embedded operating systems.
How can you not see that? He's getting run over by a free and agile OS.
Too bad they didn't come up with that list in 1958 when it mattered and could have actually been successfully adpoted. It's simply too late to just arbitrarily start calling 1024 bytes a Kibibyte or whatever the fuck they decided to call it. Besides that, kibi is too close to kilo, and the abbreviations are too similar as well.