Oh my god! We must stop this madness right away! He might pass the KMCA (Ketchup Millenium Copyright Act)! How will I download free ketchup versions of my favorite songs online if he does this?!?!?! Oh it will be the end of the T2T (tomatoe 2 tomatoe) programs for good!
On a more serious note, yes he is very rich. So he knows how to handle large amounts of money without losing them. The nation has large amounts of money that need to be handled the right way by the right person so we don't fall deeper into debt. When you have money generally people can't bribe you into doing stupid crap (unless you really enjoy doing stupid crap.) Now what's bad about any of this? He's less likely to put us into debt because he can handle finances. And he's less likely to take tons of money from huge corporations because well he already has tons of money.
...read this as "Do-It-Yourself Electronic Enema Machine"? I probably wouldn't have if I knew what an Enigma Machine was (yeah yeah I'll read the stuff now)
I have a 90 ford mustang you insensitive clod. Still runs strong today, has like 107,000 miles on it and I'm sure it'd destroy your civic in a race;-P. The only money I've really been spending is on a tune up, and new tires (old tires were crappy and leaking air.) And besides when someone buys a Cadillac or BMW (and god damn it it's Toyota, what the hell is Toyata) they don't care about the price. When you're going to spend $30,000 on a "cheap" BMW 3 series you're not gonna care that it's going to cost you x amount more than a cheap japanese car.
Cadillacs I don't really know too well, but I know a BMW doesn't need a whole lot of repairs. Most german cars are VERY well built. Much better than japanese cars too. And what good's a car that'll last you forever if you don't like the piece of shit in the first place. I just bought a new car (My mustang's in NY, my sister drives it now, my grandmother didn't like the idea of me driving across country in a 1990 Mustang with 300+ rwhp, on such long straight roads, top speeds 145 btw), I could have gone with a VERY cheap Honda Civic, it would probably last me most of my adult life but why would I want such a piece...? I bought a fully loaded 2004 Nissan Sentra SE-R SpecV, it's a quick car, with low insurance and great looks. I wouldn't have bought anything less, I didn't look into TCO at all, it didn't really matter to me. I don't want a car that'll last me forever if I don't like it. And most people let the dealer pick out the car they want, they don't really realize it but they don't care, the average person wants to get from point A to point B, and the salesman is gonna try to sell them a car that costs a lot of money, not caring about the life of the car.
Actually for securty patches its Control Panel -> Automatic updates -> enable. That's it.
I NEVER enable Automatic updates, not even for people who could use it (my aunt, sister, customers that buy computers)
They'd never update (they'd never be online and it'd take FOREVER to get those updates with a bunch of small downloads.) And then when it is updating they'd ask why the internet was going so slow or why their computer had to reset. I have it pop up a reminder, and just explain what the windows update thing is. But still, if I could just tell people "Ok, click on the black screen thing, now type bob" it'd be much easier. That'd require a scripting language, I can do that in linux, can't do that in windows.
HAHAHAHAHAwhy the %$@ would you need to? Average home user doesnt give a shit about CMD and wants things that are EASY to use. Point and click.
Point and click isn't always easier than a command line, in the example above a user can open a console, type bob and their whole system will be upgraded. If I wanted to I can write a script for ANYTHING a person would ever need to do (hell you can make a script that'd install 99% of all linux programs from source, it'd be -./configure ; make ; make install)
When was the last time Linux updated Photoshop 7? When was the last time you ran Photoshop on Linux? Didn't think so.
That wasn't the point at all (by the way, ran photoshop in linux about 25 minutes ago) my point was that your most used software will be upgraded in linux all with one command. Windows can't upgrade ANY software with windows update. I can't get office updates through windows update even if I own a legal copy of office and windows. I can't get windows upgrades, sure I can go to the store and buy them but hey come on point and click it should be so easy, it should automatically download all windows upgrades, when longhorn comes out windows update should download it and install it. I'm 100% sure that when a new version of open office, or mplayer, or gcc, or xine, or tux racer, or gltron, or xmms, or gimp, or gphoto, or gtkview (all programs I use a lot, well except open office) come out, I'll be able to upgrade just by using apt-get upgrade.
I disagree with that from personal experience. On Linux (Debian, and redhat and any other distro with apt-get) - terminal, apt-get upgrade - enter. That's it.
Windows from GUI:
Click Start->Windows Update
Be asked to trust content from microsoft. Click ok. Click scan my computer for updates. Wait... Choose what updates you want. Select all, start the process.
Process stops, you must install so and so package seperately. Click ok. Download package. Install package. Reboot. Wash rinse repeat (3 or 4 times, depending on how long it's been since your last windows update). If you update all the time, that's all those time's you've had to reset, if you update once a year you have to reset at least 2 or 3 times.
Windows from command line:
HAHAHAHAHAHA yeah right...
Yeah - MUCH easier than Linux. Not.
And don't forget, in linux apt-get upgrade, upgrades ALL of your software that needs to be upgraded (that was installed with packages, which is most of the software on my computers anyway.) When was the last time Windows Update upgraded Photoshop to version 7.0? And can I just run Windows Update on Windows 95 and upgrade to XP? No? Didn't think so.
How can someone claim that the company with the largest CCD on the market
Sure the CCD is large but the image quality blows compared to any decent Digital SLR, actually all of their cameras quality blows.
the company that holds all the patents on the display tech that you will have on your desk in the next five years
I didn't know they had patents on my CRT monitor, I should look into that but I'm too lazy right now.
has an ever increasing segment of the health imaging market and still sells more motion picture film (while quickly converting theatres to digital) than everyone else on the planet, combined, be lagging in the digital world.
Because the health imaging market and motion picture film markets aren't part of the digital world? And didn't Canon sell more digital cameras than anyone else? Don't they have 25% of the digital camera market or something like that? Kodak's digital cameras are overpriced and they blow, that's how I can see them lagging in the digital world.
It does have a huge amount of pixels but it's still a crappy camera compared to the others. Check out those photographic tests... just terrible. Such horrible noise. I LOVE canon DSLR's (and canon camera's in general but then again my first camera was a Canon Powershot A20 and I've had 2 more cameras since then) and I hate kodak digital cameras so much, my aunt had one it was like $600 with some useless crap the guy at best buy tricked my uncle into buying. The picture quality was TERRIBLE, and the camera was dropped once from a VERY LOW height (one of her kids dropped it when taking a picture) and it never worked properly again (all the pictures come out horribly overexposed, and blurry too). My canon Powershot A20 was dropped onto a concrete train station ledge, bounced off, fell 6' and landed in some rocks. Did it still work? YES! And I'm not even exagerating the fall, I swear I thought that camera was toast (the lens was out too, I'm so lucky it didn't crack.) Sure the body had a few scratches (minor really) but the LCD screen was fine, the picture quality was unchanged and the camera still functioned properly.
With the ever increasing use of digital photography, I've become wary of the same problem that plagues digital media in general: it's so volatile.
Properly stored original film negatives last decades, whereas digital media is gone in a blink of an eye when your harddrive/memory card breaks down or you accidentally erase your media.
It's the same thing as with e-mail. I routinely print out all my e-mail correspondence (sent and received) these days because I've lost my mails too often.
With the ever increasing use of digital photography, I've become wary of the same problem that plagues film in general: it's so volatile.
Properly stored compact flash cards last decades, whereas film is gone in the blink of an eye when your negatives are damaged or you accidentaly spill something on them.
It's the same thing as with snail mail. I routinely type out and store all my snail mail correspondence (sent and received) these days because I've lost my mails too often.
To quote the daily show "That was a stupid thing to say and you're a stupid person for saying it."
Isn't their a site that focuses on writing obfuscated code? It's just humor but wouldn't that count as prior art to any patents?
And how would those "Watermarks" help in open source. If you have this change all the variables to some names that don't make sense unless you're looking for the watermark. But wouldn't that make the code so much harder to read? And wouldn't that be VERY BAD for open source?
Via = Latin for "By the way of" (I went to Manhatten via the Staten Island ferry) Mostly used in english, not in italian.
presidente = president
Del Cielo = of the sky
Viandante, dunno really, I thought dante by itself was giving.
... didn't they stop releasing Bnetd? I dunno I remember they stopped developing it a while ago because of the battle. That was back when the only WC3 was the beta. I haven't looked into it since then because after the game came out I didn't need Bnetd anymore.
If they ask about it, just do what you're doing now. Explain the situation to them and they'll probably understand, if they don't well you probably wouldn't want to work their anyway (well actually if they don't understand then they probably don't layoff people and I guess you would want to work their, oh well.)
Yeah they're gonna be soooooooo pissed when they find out some guy in Utah downloaded 300 songs with those winner caps, yeah they're gonna forget the fact that the person with the caps probably just bought 300 bottles of pepsi.
That's exactly my point, they don't need to refuse to include 4.4, it's completely pointless, I don't understand why it matters. It's like they're saying "We're also going to refuse to include Microsoft Windows XP Pro our current debian releases." I don't think it's relevant yet, maybe in a while it will be, but not any time soon.
I've been using debian unstable for the longest time now and I don't even remember 4.3 being available I thought the highest version they have on the official sites was 4.2? I had to go and find some deb files to install 4.3 (I was trying to get the ATI driver to work for my new video card, took forever and then I replaced it with a GeForce FX anyway, and the drivers don't work on my other computer, damn I wish ATI had better linux support.)
It's kind of like Libya saying, "Hey we're gonna stop our nuclear weapons program" "But sir we don't have one..." "So, no one needs to know that!"
Umm you know not every hobby is expensive. I bowl, and really well too, I bought one of the best bowling balls for me (ignoring price) and it was only $200, shoes $20 (very cheap ones, but they work and they've worked for years, I had them since I was 16 and I'm 22 now, don't ask how they still fit I don't know). Ok it costs money to bowl a few games, but that's only $1.50-$3.00 (depends where you go and the time of day) a game and usually $10 to bowl for an hour. And not everyone needs the same equiptment, most people can do well with $70 worth of stuff or less. Just because expensive equiptment for a hobby is out their, doesn't mean the hobby itself is expensive.
The only reason I play at an arcade anymore is the specialty games, things you can't get at home without actually buying a cabinet, racing seat, all that stuff.
Games like Time Cop, I'd go to an arcade to play that because a light gun can't hook up to my computer (it can hook up to my TV but my TV is smaller than my PC monitor, in the arcades you can play it on a 50" TV, if I wanted to have the same experience at home it'd be over $1,200 ($900-$1,000 on the TV, at least $170 on a PS2 or any other next-gen console, and at least $30 on the game, with controllers, probably used.)
There are racing games too, like a Ferrari F550 game, it's very fun to play, the seat shakes when you hit something and rumbles when you're on gravel, it has a clutch (I really like driving with a MT and it really adds to the experience) and it supports up to 4 players at once. Sure if I could make one, or buy one, or had the room (I live in an apartment with a pretty crowded bedroom), I'd prefer my own racing seat, pedal kit and shifter (dunno where I'd get one though) but that'd take a lot of money.
I'm sure if there were more virtual reality type games at arcades more people would go to them too. If you've ever been to Disney World they have this one park that's just a giant arcade with a cover cost. Everything inside is free, but it's $45 or so to get it (VERY WORTH IT!) I love arcades like that because you can spend all day their, know how much you're gonna use BEFORE you get their, and play some of the greatest games out their. They have a bunch of team games, like one game where you sit inside of something that slightly resembles a tank, there's like 4 seats or so (maybe 6) and each one of those seats has a turret, then a commanders seat. The commander drives the "tank" across an alien planet to rescue some people (or something like that) and while he's driving the 4 gunners have to shoot at enemies. It's a great experience and I wish more arcades had games like that (but then again the average arcade would charge $10 for each play.)
Screaming Civilians: OH THE HUMANITY! He's using his super strength to open pickle jars everywhere!
Police: Our weapons are innefective against him he has the word Super in front of his name!
Random Guy: Uhh have you tried the guns? This guy is just like everyone else except his muscles grow twice as fast
Police: *shoot the "super" guy with tasers causing him to pass out* oh... well that worked.
So they can increase a persons cell growth, doesn't mean they're gonna be invincible. They're just gonna be able to wok out and get more results in less time, not that big a deal.
Anyone else think it's sort of funny that you have a probe that travels millions of miles to another planet, and the news is that it's then travelled a further 88 feet:-)
Well think of it this way, spirit was launched through space flying towards mars at very high speeds, crashed into the martian surface, got out and managed to move 88 feet. That's increadible, the ability to land and still function on mars is more increadible than the fact that it made it their. NASA is fairly decent at launching stuff towards targets in space, the problem is having that stuff still work when it hits the target.
I agree, it's like when microsoft aquired Hotmail, they converted (or tried to at least) all the servers to a version of windows. Right when I saw this article I thought "Wow I wonder if they're gonna use Mac OS X on all the renderfarms now" sure it's not the best tool to use but it's the parent companies tools so you'd better use it! I really like the fact that pixar and some other studios use linux, it helps add to the community and helps get programs ported to linux quicker, with more patches, bug fixes and interesting plugins.
Well except the president of chrysler driving a porsche, it'd be suprising to find out if he drove a chevy or a ford, but a porsche, I mean come on it's a porsche! Just as he'd drive a Ferrari, BMW, Audi, Lamborghini, Masserati, Saab, or any other luxury foreign car.
People are now just voting for the best looking...qualifications be dammed.
Wow and I thought I was the only one having wild fantasies about John Kerry. He's deffinitely the best looking of all the candidates, but then again I like to stick sharp objects into my eyes so I wouldn't know what he looks like, but the black and whire blur I see of him is by far the best black and white blur I've ever seen!
If you're taking a class like my Microprocessor Applications course where lots of code is presented that is useful in the labs, a good digital camera comes very handy. Instead of trying to handcopy the code, take a picture of the projection (obviously, with the flash off). I'm able to manage at least 1/100 shutter speed, 1/160+ IIRC so it's not too prone to camera shake.
Actually using a camera for that isn't such a bad idea. 1/60 shouldn't give you much camera shake at all, 1/25 is good too, and since you're sitting in class, with a table in front of you, you can put your two arms up (like you were trying to support your head), hold the camera, try to balance your arms so you're not really using any muscles to keep them up. Then just take the picture, don't tap the shutter either, hold it, it helps to use sniper techniques (really, like take a huge breath, hold it, squeeze the shutter till it's about to snap the picture, then squeeze a little more holding the button down till you're certain the picture's been taken.) Anyway I'm sure you can really easily do 1/3 if you're sitting down in a class.
Of course they know, it was on the rules of entry.
Anyway, sure accidents happen, but the sole purpose of these machines aren't to kill civilians. So you have a picture of a dismembered child, do you have any story saying "The army tested it's new X10 remote planes today by blowing the limbs off of small children"? Maybe the US army didn't even do that (well they might have, I mean it's not like it never happens) it's just some random picture with nothing describing what happened. When civilians are killed it's mainly human error, when you have a machine go into a town to find a target and destroy (and this probably won't happen for a LOOOOOOONG time) it'd be able to sort through civilians and the actual target much better than a human. These machines would be able to REDUCE the number of civilian casualties not increase.
Ah, so first you make a couple of claims that are based only on conjecture, one of which actually works against your claim; then you realize they are not convincing enough, so you close the argument by saying "And if you don't agree with this, you are ignorant?"
What are you talking about? His claims make perfect sense. You can compare it to humans born without birth defects and then humans born with birth defects. If we weren't an advanced race and we were living like apes or something like that, children born with birth defects would die very quickly and would last long. Proving his first argument:
1) If a member of a species is on the whole sucessful, any change to the genetic code of a specimen tends to be detrimental to that members survival.
the change to the childs genetic code (maybe it was born with down syndrome or something) was detrimental to the child's survival.
The second argument was that if a particular member of a species was under stress it may have cause genetic mutations, the stress might be caused by not being able to eat or not being able to handle the weather, something like that. The mutations would be passed on to offspring and if the worked the offspring would be less stressfull causing less mutations, keeping the genetic code it has and passing it on for future generations.
Besides there's sufficient proof in humans of evolution. There are parts of your body that are no longer functional because humans have no more use for them. There are some muscles behind your ears, most people can't use these because they serve no purpose and their ancestors evolved to not use them anymore. I can use these muscles, they move my ears back and forth, it might have been usefull thousands of years ago when people needed to protect themselves from wild animals, and to hunt down food. I can hear better with my ears back.
Wisdom teeth, they're completely useless in modern times, long ago people had them because their adult teeth would probably be damaged and rotted, the wisdom teeth would be fresh and they'd be able to survive longer because they can eat again.
Anyway, to a person who believes in it, it seems like you'd have to be a fool not to, which is probably why he called you ignorant.
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Oh my god! We must stop this madness right away! He might pass the KMCA (Ketchup Millenium Copyright Act)! How will I download free ketchup versions of my favorite songs online if he does this?!?!?! Oh it will be the end of the T2T (tomatoe 2 tomatoe) programs for good!
On a more serious note, yes he is very rich. So he knows how to handle large amounts of money without losing them. The nation has large amounts of money that need to be handled the right way by the right person so we don't fall deeper into debt. When you have money generally people can't bribe you into doing stupid crap (unless you really enjoy doing stupid crap.) Now what's bad about any of this? He's less likely to put us into debt because he can handle finances. And he's less likely to take tons of money from huge corporations because well he already has tons of money.
...read this as "Do-It-Yourself Electronic Enema Machine"? I probably wouldn't have if I knew what an Enigma Machine was (yeah yeah I'll read the stuff now)
I have a 90 ford mustang you insensitive clod. Still runs strong today, has like 107,000 miles on it and I'm sure it'd destroy your civic in a race ;-P. The only money I've really been spending is on a tune up, and new tires (old tires were crappy and leaking air.) And besides when someone buys a Cadillac or BMW (and god damn it it's Toyota, what the hell is Toyata) they don't care about the price. When you're going to spend $30,000 on a "cheap" BMW 3 series you're not gonna care that it's going to cost you x amount more than a cheap japanese car.
Cadillacs I don't really know too well, but I know a BMW doesn't need a whole lot of repairs. Most german cars are VERY well built. Much better than japanese cars too. And what good's a car that'll last you forever if you don't like the piece of shit in the first place. I just bought a new car (My mustang's in NY, my sister drives it now, my grandmother didn't like the idea of me driving across country in a 1990 Mustang with 300+ rwhp, on such long straight roads, top speeds 145 btw), I could have gone with a VERY cheap Honda Civic, it would probably last me most of my adult life but why would I want such a piece...? I bought a fully loaded 2004 Nissan Sentra SE-R SpecV, it's a quick car, with low insurance and great looks. I wouldn't have bought anything less, I didn't look into TCO at all, it didn't really matter to me. I don't want a car that'll last me forever if I don't like it. And most people let the dealer pick out the car they want, they don't really realize it but they don't care, the average person wants to get from point A to point B, and the salesman is gonna try to sell them a car that costs a lot of money, not caring about the life of the car.
Actually for securty patches its Control Panel -> Automatic updates -> enable. That's it.
./configure ; make ; make install)
I NEVER enable Automatic updates, not even for people who could use it (my aunt, sister, customers that buy computers)
They'd never update (they'd never be online and it'd take FOREVER to get those updates with a bunch of small downloads.) And then when it is updating they'd ask why the internet was going so slow or why their computer had to reset. I have it pop up a reminder, and just explain what the windows update thing is. But still, if I could just tell people "Ok, click on the black screen thing, now type bob" it'd be much easier. That'd require a scripting language, I can do that in linux, can't do that in windows.
HAHAHAHAHAwhy the %$@ would you need to? Average home user doesnt give a shit about CMD and wants things that are EASY to use. Point and click.
Point and click isn't always easier than a command line, in the example above a user can open a console, type bob and their whole system will be upgraded. If I wanted to I can write a script for ANYTHING a person would ever need to do (hell you can make a script that'd install 99% of all linux programs from source, it'd be -
When was the last time Linux updated Photoshop 7? When was the last time you ran Photoshop on Linux? Didn't think so.
That wasn't the point at all (by the way, ran photoshop in linux about 25 minutes ago) my point was that your most used software will be upgraded in linux all with one command. Windows can't upgrade ANY software with windows update. I can't get office updates through windows update even if I own a legal copy of office and windows. I can't get windows upgrades, sure I can go to the store and buy them but hey come on point and click it should be so easy, it should automatically download all windows upgrades, when longhorn comes out windows update should download it and install it. I'm 100% sure that when a new version of open office, or mplayer, or gcc, or xine, or tux racer, or gltron, or xmms, or gimp, or gphoto, or gtkview (all programs I use a lot, well except open office) come out, I'll be able to upgrade just by using apt-get upgrade.
I disagree with that from personal experience. On Linux (Debian, and redhat and any other distro with apt-get) - terminal, apt-get upgrade - enter. That's it.
Windows from GUI:
Click Start->Windows Update
Be asked to trust content from microsoft. Click ok. Click scan my computer for updates. Wait... Choose what updates you want. Select all, start the process.
Process stops, you must install so and so package seperately. Click ok. Download package. Install package. Reboot. Wash rinse repeat (3 or 4 times, depending on how long it's been since your last windows update). If you update all the time, that's all those time's you've had to reset, if you update once a year you have to reset at least 2 or 3 times.
Windows from command line:
HAHAHAHAHAHA yeah right...
Yeah - MUCH easier than Linux. Not.
And don't forget, in linux apt-get upgrade, upgrades ALL of your software that needs to be upgraded (that was installed with packages, which is most of the software on my computers anyway.) When was the last time Windows Update upgraded Photoshop to version 7.0? And can I just run Windows Update on Windows 95 and upgrade to XP? No? Didn't think so.
How can someone claim that the company with the largest CCD on the market
Sure the CCD is large but the image quality blows compared to any decent Digital SLR, actually all of their cameras quality blows.
the company that holds all the patents on the display tech that you will have on your desk in the next five years
I didn't know they had patents on my CRT monitor, I should look into that but I'm too lazy right now.
has an ever increasing segment of the health imaging market and still sells more motion picture film (while quickly converting theatres to digital) than everyone else on the planet, combined, be lagging in the digital world.
Because the health imaging market and motion picture film markets aren't part of the digital world? And didn't Canon sell more digital cameras than anyone else? Don't they have 25% of the digital camera market or something like that? Kodak's digital cameras are overpriced and they blow, that's how I can see them lagging in the digital world.
It does have a huge amount of pixels but it's still a crappy camera compared to the others. Check out those photographic tests... just terrible. Such horrible noise. I LOVE canon DSLR's (and canon camera's in general but then again my first camera was a Canon Powershot A20 and I've had 2 more cameras since then) and I hate kodak digital cameras so much, my aunt had one it was like $600 with some useless crap the guy at best buy tricked my uncle into buying. The picture quality was TERRIBLE, and the camera was dropped once from a VERY LOW height (one of her kids dropped it when taking a picture) and it never worked properly again (all the pictures come out horribly overexposed, and blurry too). My canon Powershot A20 was dropped onto a concrete train station ledge, bounced off, fell 6' and landed in some rocks. Did it still work? YES! And I'm not even exagerating the fall, I swear I thought that camera was toast (the lens was out too, I'm so lucky it didn't crack.) Sure the body had a few scratches (minor really) but the LCD screen was fine, the picture quality was unchanged and the camera still functioned properly.
With the ever increasing use of digital photography, I've become wary of the same problem that plagues digital media in general: it's so volatile.
Properly stored original film negatives last decades, whereas digital media is gone in a blink of an eye when your harddrive/memory card breaks down or you accidentally erase your media.
It's the same thing as with e-mail. I routinely print out all my e-mail correspondence (sent and received) these days because I've lost my mails too often.
With the ever increasing use of digital photography, I've become wary of the same problem that plagues film in general: it's so volatile.
Properly stored compact flash cards last decades, whereas film is gone in the blink of an eye when your negatives are damaged or you accidentaly spill something on them.
It's the same thing as with snail mail. I routinely type out and store all my snail mail correspondence (sent and received) these days because I've lost my mails too often.
To quote the daily show "That was a stupid thing to say and you're a stupid person for saying it."
Isn't their a site that focuses on writing obfuscated code? It's just humor but wouldn't that count as prior art to any patents?
And how would those "Watermarks" help in open source. If you have this change all the variables to some names that don't make sense unless you're looking for the watermark. But wouldn't that make the code so much harder to read? And wouldn't that be VERY BAD for open source?
Via = Latin for "By the way of" (I went to Manhatten via the Staten Island ferry) Mostly used in english, not in italian.
presidente = president
Del Cielo = of the sky
Viandante, dunno really, I thought dante by itself was giving.
Anyway your translation is very very off.
... didn't they stop releasing Bnetd? I dunno I remember they stopped developing it a while ago because of the battle. That was back when the only WC3 was the beta. I haven't looked into it since then because after the game came out I didn't need Bnetd anymore.
If they ask about it, just do what you're doing now. Explain the situation to them and they'll probably understand, if they don't well you probably wouldn't want to work their anyway (well actually if they don't understand then they probably don't layoff people and I guess you would want to work their, oh well.)
Yeah they're gonna be soooooooo pissed when they find out some guy in Utah downloaded 300 songs with those winner caps, yeah they're gonna forget the fact that the person with the caps probably just bought 300 bottles of pepsi.
That's exactly my point, they don't need to refuse to include 4.4, it's completely pointless, I don't understand why it matters. It's like they're saying "We're also going to refuse to include Microsoft Windows XP Pro our current debian releases." I don't think it's relevant yet, maybe in a while it will be, but not any time soon.
I've been using debian unstable for the longest time now and I don't even remember 4.3 being available I thought the highest version they have on the official sites was 4.2? I had to go and find some deb files to install 4.3 (I was trying to get the ATI driver to work for my new video card, took forever and then I replaced it with a GeForce FX anyway, and the drivers don't work on my other computer, damn I wish ATI had better linux support.)
It's kind of like Libya saying, "Hey we're gonna stop our nuclear weapons program"
"But sir we don't have one..."
"So, no one needs to know that!"
Umm you know not every hobby is expensive. I bowl, and really well too, I bought one of the best bowling balls for me (ignoring price) and it was only $200, shoes $20 (very cheap ones, but they work and they've worked for years, I had them since I was 16 and I'm 22 now, don't ask how they still fit I don't know). Ok it costs money to bowl a few games, but that's only $1.50-$3.00 (depends where you go and the time of day) a game and usually $10 to bowl for an hour. And not everyone needs the same equiptment, most people can do well with $70 worth of stuff or less. Just because expensive equiptment for a hobby is out their, doesn't mean the hobby itself is expensive.
The only reason I play at an arcade anymore is the specialty games, things you can't get at home without actually buying a cabinet, racing seat, all that stuff.
Games like Time Cop, I'd go to an arcade to play that because a light gun can't hook up to my computer (it can hook up to my TV but my TV is smaller than my PC monitor, in the arcades you can play it on a 50" TV, if I wanted to have the same experience at home it'd be over $1,200 ($900-$1,000 on the TV, at least $170 on a PS2 or any other next-gen console, and at least $30 on the game, with controllers, probably used.)
There are racing games too, like a Ferrari F550 game, it's very fun to play, the seat shakes when you hit something and rumbles when you're on gravel, it has a clutch (I really like driving with a MT and it really adds to the experience) and it supports up to 4 players at once. Sure if I could make one, or buy one, or had the room (I live in an apartment with a pretty crowded bedroom), I'd prefer my own racing seat, pedal kit and shifter (dunno where I'd get one though) but that'd take a lot of money.
I'm sure if there were more virtual reality type games at arcades more people would go to them too. If you've ever been to Disney World they have this one park that's just a giant arcade with a cover cost. Everything inside is free, but it's $45 or so to get it (VERY WORTH IT!) I love arcades like that because you can spend all day their, know how much you're gonna use BEFORE you get their, and play some of the greatest games out their. They have a bunch of team games, like one game where you sit inside of something that slightly resembles a tank, there's like 4 seats or so (maybe 6) and each one of those seats has a turret, then a commanders seat. The commander drives the "tank" across an alien planet to rescue some people (or something like that) and while he's driving the 4 gunners have to shoot at enemies. It's a great experience and I wish more arcades had games like that (but then again the average arcade would charge $10 for each play.)
And use his "super" strenght to do what?
Screaming Civilians: OH THE HUMANITY! He's using his super strength to open pickle jars everywhere!
Police: Our weapons are innefective against him he has the word Super in front of his name!
Random Guy: Uhh have you tried the guns? This guy is just like everyone else except his muscles grow twice as fast
Police: *shoot the "super" guy with tasers causing him to pass out* oh... well that worked.
So they can increase a persons cell growth, doesn't mean they're gonna be invincible. They're just gonna be able to wok out and get more results in less time, not that big a deal.
Anyone else think it's sort of funny that you have a probe that travels millions of miles to another planet, and the news is that it's then travelled a further 88 feet :-)
Well think of it this way, spirit was launched through space flying towards mars at very high speeds, crashed into the martian surface, got out and managed to move 88 feet. That's increadible, the ability to land and still function on mars is more increadible than the fact that it made it their. NASA is fairly decent at launching stuff towards targets in space, the problem is having that stuff still work when it hits the target.
Because AOL is from Steve Case?
I agree, it's like when microsoft aquired Hotmail, they converted (or tried to at least) all the servers to a version of windows. Right when I saw this article I thought "Wow I wonder if they're gonna use Mac OS X on all the renderfarms now" sure it's not the best tool to use but it's the parent companies tools so you'd better use it! I really like the fact that pixar and some other studios use linux, it helps add to the community and helps get programs ported to linux quicker, with more patches, bug fixes and interesting plugins.
Well except the president of chrysler driving a porsche, it'd be suprising to find out if he drove a chevy or a ford, but a porsche, I mean come on it's a porsche! Just as he'd drive a Ferrari, BMW, Audi, Lamborghini, Masserati, Saab, or any other luxury foreign car.
People are now just voting for the best looking...qualifications be dammed.
Wow and I thought I was the only one having wild fantasies about John Kerry. He's deffinitely the best looking of all the candidates, but then again I like to stick sharp objects into my eyes so I wouldn't know what he looks like, but the black and whire blur I see of him is by far the best black and white blur I've ever seen!
If you're taking a class like my Microprocessor Applications course where lots of code is presented that is useful in the labs, a good digital camera comes very handy. Instead of trying to handcopy the code, take a picture of the projection (obviously, with the flash off). I'm able to manage at least 1/100 shutter speed, 1/160+ IIRC so it's not too prone to camera shake.
Actually using a camera for that isn't such a bad idea. 1/60 shouldn't give you much camera shake at all, 1/25 is good too, and since you're sitting in class, with a table in front of you, you can put your two arms up (like you were trying to support your head), hold the camera, try to balance your arms so you're not really using any muscles to keep them up. Then just take the picture, don't tap the shutter either, hold it, it helps to use sniper techniques (really, like take a huge breath, hold it, squeeze the shutter till it's about to snap the picture, then squeeze a little more holding the button down till you're certain the picture's been taken.) Anyway I'm sure you can really easily do 1/3 if you're sitting down in a class.
Of course they know, it was on the rules of entry.
Anyway, sure accidents happen, but the sole purpose of these machines aren't to kill civilians. So you have a picture of a dismembered child, do you have any story saying "The army tested it's new X10 remote planes today by blowing the limbs off of small children"? Maybe the US army didn't even do that (well they might have, I mean it's not like it never happens) it's just some random picture with nothing describing what happened. When civilians are killed it's mainly human error, when you have a machine go into a town to find a target and destroy (and this probably won't happen for a LOOOOOOONG time) it'd be able to sort through civilians and the actual target much better than a human. These machines would be able to REDUCE the number of civilian casualties not increase.
Ah, so first you make a couple of claims that are based only on conjecture, one of which actually works against your claim; then you realize they are not convincing enough, so you close the argument by saying "And if you don't agree with this, you are ignorant?"
What are you talking about? His claims make perfect sense. You can compare it to humans born without birth defects and then humans born with birth defects. If we weren't an advanced race and we were living like apes or something like that, children born with birth defects would die very quickly and would last long. Proving his first argument:
1) If a member of a species is on the whole sucessful, any change to the genetic code of a specimen tends to be detrimental to that members survival.
the change to the childs genetic code (maybe it was born with down syndrome or something) was detrimental to the child's survival.
The second argument was that if a particular member of a species was under stress it may have cause genetic mutations, the stress might be caused by not being able to eat or not being able to handle the weather, something like that. The mutations would be passed on to offspring and if the worked the offspring would be less stressfull causing less mutations, keeping the genetic code it has and passing it on for future generations.
Besides there's sufficient proof in humans of evolution. There are parts of your body that are no longer functional because humans have no more use for them. There are some muscles behind your ears, most people can't use these because they serve no purpose and their ancestors evolved to not use them anymore. I can use these muscles, they move my ears back and forth, it might have been usefull thousands of years ago when people needed to protect themselves from wild animals, and to hunt down food. I can hear better with my ears back.
Wisdom teeth, they're completely useless in modern times, long ago people had them because their adult teeth would probably be damaged and rotted, the wisdom teeth would be fresh and they'd be able to survive longer because they can eat again.
Anyway, to a person who believes in it, it seems like you'd have to be a fool not to, which is probably why he called you ignorant.