Um, we don't have contemporary documentation of any of the Caesers, either. We have copies of documents that we are told were contemporary. Scholars have determined these documents to be authentic copies.
Additionally, contemporary documentation is not always a requirement. I don't have to see a bomb go off to know that one has. I can look at the evidence of the explosion.
SOMETHING happened in that time frame that created a HUGE social, religious and political change.
Taking the gospel accounts as essentially accurate, even though written some 30-70 years after the fact explains very nicely what that something was.
I plug my sony cam into my iMac at home all the time and get a live video stream. I can do it in iMovie or in iChat.
I can set the camcorder on a shelf, and have it point at the room on one Mac, then over iChat have a 640x480 24 fps video feed over my wireless network to my powerbook in another room.
The problem is definitely with his PC, not the Sony camcorder.
No, idiot, you have two loyalty cards on your keyring and three more in your wallet because you CHOSE to get them. For every membership store like Sams Club and every sign your life information to us for a discount store like Kroger, there is a store like Publix that says: Shop with us where we don't make you have a stupid loyalty card.
Furthermore, stores like Kroger, that offer loyalty cards don't REQUIRE them to shop. They just give you a discount on your merchandise if you use the card.
You CHOSE to get the card, because saving a few bucks was more important to you than your privacy, so get off your moral high horse about RFID.
---- What's the point of karma if you don't use it to tell the truth?
OSS developers tend to program in order to make useful utilities for themseleves or others.
drop of the "or others" and you'll have it right. Linux is a "scratch an itch" product, and that's why it will never be truly ready for the desktop, because the people who write for it, as a general rule, despise end users as technically illiterate and there is no profit motive to accomodate them.
Until oil gets above $50-60/bbl long term you won't see them widely used. The good news is that $50-60/bbl isn't that far off.
What the heck is good about that? Expensive energy no matter where it comes from means economic slowdown, lower standards of living, etc.
Will you still be preaching about how wonderful it is to have oil so expensive we can finally use wind power when you've lost your job because the economy is in recession and you can't afford to run the lights or the computer because the utility bill is so high?
Sometimes I think the average slashdot poster must be about 14 years old judging by how much thought goes into some of these comments.
In twenty years, I doubt you'll be saying "I wished I would have stayed in that IT job," but I think it's a fair bet that you would say "I wish I had gone touring with that band."
There's more to life than making money and having a secure job.
The headline and quote from NASA is totally misleading.
All this software does is track your mouth as you SPEAK silently. There's no thought reading at all. You are still mouthing the words.
This is a cool invention and could have applications, particularly in noisy environments or where silence is essential, but receiving words before they are spoken? Hardly.
A better headline would be: NASA invents computer that reads lips.
To me, shooting you with a bullet is communication (I'm communicating that I want you dead), which is speech, therefore the federal government has no mandate to restrict it.
The fallacy you are engaging in is called slippery slope.
The first amendment is to protect political speech, or the ability to criticise government without fear of getting locked up in a gulag. Unfortunately, certain groups have successfully convinced people it is something else entirely. So while folks shout for the right to display kiddie porn, we have secret service agents hauling women off to jail in Chicago for yelling out a criticism to the President during a parade (and, no, the president wasn't Bush, it was the guy before), and we have congress ramming through a bill that is upheld as consitutional that makes it illegal for anyone to criticize a public candidate by name sixty days before an election.
Can you imagine the outcry our founding fathers would have made had they learned that in America you can now be jailed for publicly criticizing an elected official 60 days before an election? And yet most of the people on slashdot hailed it as a great breakthrough in cleaning up politics.
According to that line of thinking, Iraq had the cleanest politics in the world: One candidate, no negative ads, and a 99% voter turnout.
And the 147 million jobs are worth close to 10 TRILLION dollars, so I'll stay here and make a thousand times as much as you, except that my point is just as silly as yours.
The cost of living here is NOT too high. You're just spoiled. You know, a construction worker making $36k a year does just fine in this country. You're just whining because you've found out that you're NOT worth $96,000 a year and you're ego can't take it.
India has shown that programmers are worth about $30-$40k as a rule. You want to make more than that, then you need to find a different field.
Sorry to pop your ego, but what companies are realizing is that programming is not quite the highly skilled labor everyone thought it was.
Personally, I don't know why this is surprising. Anything a 16-year old can master is not a terribly skilled profession.
Nice smokescreen. Note that you didn't dispute any of my FACTUAL observations about life in India. Unless of course, you are maintaining that thousands of Hindus and Muslims killing each other on a regular basis is a POSITIVE lifestyle choice, that a million people living in the streets of your capital city is noble? Is that what you're saying?
I know it sticks in your craw, but the truth is, America is the best place in the world to live. The poorest Americans enjoy a standard of living that many in the world can only dream of and that, too is a fact.
Yep, we all know those European economies are just booming. Germany with its 11% unemployment. France with 13%, the list just goes on. Sign me up right away.
Wow. Nice spin. Did that make you dizzy? News flash for you. It's conservatives who are saying let market forces work. It's the liberals who are calling for government shutdown of outsourcing.
Leave congress out of it. I get so sick of people trying to get the government to FORCE other people to spend their money, run their businesses or live their lives the way YOU think they should. You are not all wise, all powerful, all knowing or even all benificent, so you have no moral superiority to anyone else and no right to tell them how to conduct their affairs.
You're own statement shows that you don't, since you are working and haven't left America.
Little clue for you. They aren't your jobs. They are the company's jobs. You don't like it, start your own company, but quit telling other people what to do with their money.
That's true. Our crime is very disorganized. Why, we haven't had a good Hindu-Muslim bloodbath over here in the US, why, um, ever. The Indians have one every few months. We really need to get with it.
And our povery here is shameful. We aren't even anywhere near to having a million people living in the streets of our national capital. And our train system? Pathetic. Why, we don't even let cows on the trains or pack hundreds of people on top of the cars.
And, finally, we don't even have a nuclear power on our southern border sending troops into disputed territories and claiming that parts of our country belongs to them. How can we even have the kind of excitement India does when we don't have our own Pakistan?
You're right. Life in America is so much worse. Sign me up for the Indian utopia right away!
Amazing, isn't it, how people whine about losing jobs, then when you show them where the jobs are, they give you all sorts of reasons why they can't take THAT job, and then continue to whine about losing jobs.
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Um, we don't have contemporary documentation of any of the Caesers, either. We have copies of documents that we are told were contemporary. Scholars have determined these documents to be authentic copies.
Additionally, contemporary documentation is not always a requirement. I don't have to see a bomb go off to know that one has. I can look at the evidence of the explosion.
SOMETHING happened in that time frame that created a HUGE social, religious and political change.
Taking the gospel accounts as essentially accurate, even though written some 30-70 years after the fact explains very nicely what that something was.
Can anyone say: Final Cut Pro payback?
I plug my sony cam into my iMac at home all the time and get a live video stream. I can do it in iMovie or in iChat.
I can set the camcorder on a shelf, and have it point at the room on one Mac, then over iChat have a 640x480 24 fps video feed over my wireless network to my powerbook in another room.
The problem is definitely with his PC, not the Sony camcorder.
You've never worked in the private sector. I have. They expect results.
Xserve 64-bit support is available now.
No, idiot, you have two loyalty cards on your keyring and three more in your wallet because you CHOSE to get them. For every membership store like Sams Club and every sign your life information to us for a discount store like Kroger, there is a store like Publix that says: Shop with us where we don't make you have a stupid loyalty card.
Furthermore, stores like Kroger, that offer loyalty cards don't REQUIRE them to shop. They just give you a discount on your merchandise if you use the card.
You CHOSE to get the card, because saving a few bucks was more important to you than your privacy, so get off your moral high horse about RFID.
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What's the point of karma if you don't use it to tell the truth?
drop of the "or others" and you'll have it right. Linux is a "scratch an itch" product, and that's why it will never be truly ready for the desktop, because the people who write for it, as a general rule, despise end users as technically illiterate and there is no profit motive to accomodate them.
THe problem with learning fallacies is that so many differrent names are given to them.
The fallacy you are referencing is traditionally called the beard or continuum fallacy
What the heck is good about that? Expensive energy no matter where it comes from means economic slowdown, lower standards of living, etc.
Will you still be preaching about how wonderful it is to have oil so expensive we can finally use wind power when you've lost your job because the economy is in recession and you can't afford to run the lights or the computer because the utility bill is so high?
Sometimes I think the average slashdot poster must be about 14 years old judging by how much thought goes into some of these comments.
In twenty years, I doubt you'll be saying "I wished I would have stayed in that IT job," but I think it's a fair bet that you would say "I wish I had gone touring with that band."
There's more to life than making money and having a secure job.
The headline and quote from NASA is totally misleading.
All this software does is track your mouth as you SPEAK silently. There's no thought reading at all. You are still mouthing the words.
This is a cool invention and could have applications, particularly in noisy environments or where silence is essential, but receiving words before they are spoken? Hardly.
A better headline would be: NASA invents computer that reads lips.
To me, shooting you with a bullet is communication (I'm communicating that I want you dead), which is speech, therefore the federal government has no mandate to restrict it.
The fallacy you are engaging in is called slippery slope.
The first amendment is to protect political speech, or the ability to criticise government without fear of getting locked up in a gulag. Unfortunately, certain groups have successfully convinced people it is something else entirely. So while folks shout for the right to display kiddie porn, we have secret service agents hauling women off to jail in Chicago for yelling out a criticism to the President during a parade (and, no, the president wasn't Bush, it was the guy before), and we have congress ramming through a bill that is upheld as consitutional that makes it illegal for anyone to criticize a public candidate by name sixty days before an election.
Can you imagine the outcry our founding fathers would have made had they learned that in America you can now be jailed for publicly criticizing an elected official 60 days before an election? And yet most of the people on slashdot hailed it as a great breakthrough in cleaning up politics.
According to that line of thinking, Iraq had the cleanest politics in the world: One candidate, no negative ads, and a 99% voter turnout.
This guy quotes from some communist manifesto and he gets modded at +5 insightful? Unreal.
And the 147 million jobs are worth close to 10 TRILLION dollars, so I'll stay here and make a thousand times as much as you, except that my point is just as silly as yours.
Really? What if I make 2 million dollars a year selling t-shirts in my t-shirt business?
The cost of living here is NOT too high. You're just spoiled. You know, a construction worker making $36k a year does just fine in this country. You're just whining because you've found out that you're NOT worth $96,000 a year and you're ego can't take it.
India has shown that programmers are worth about $30-$40k as a rule. You want to make more than that, then you need to find a different field.
Sorry to pop your ego, but what companies are realizing is that programming is not quite the highly skilled labor everyone thought it was.
Personally, I don't know why this is surprising. Anything a 16-year old can master is not a terribly skilled profession.
Nice smokescreen. Note that you didn't dispute any of my FACTUAL observations about life in India. Unless of course, you are maintaining that thousands of Hindus and Muslims killing each other on a regular basis is a POSITIVE lifestyle choice, that a million people living in the streets of your capital city is noble? Is that what you're saying?
I know it sticks in your craw, but the truth is, America is the best place in the world to live. The poorest Americans enjoy a standard of living that many in the world can only dream of and that, too is a fact.
Yep, we all know those European economies are just booming. Germany with its 11% unemployment. France with 13%, the list just goes on. Sign me up right away.
Wow. Nice spin. Did that make you dizzy? News flash for you. It's conservatives who are saying let market forces work. It's the liberals who are calling for government shutdown of outsourcing.
Leave congress out of it. I get so sick of people trying to get the government to FORCE other people to spend their money, run their businesses or live their lives the way YOU think they should. You are not all wise, all powerful, all knowing or even all benificent, so you have no moral superiority to anyone else and no right to tell them how to conduct their affairs.
You're own statement shows that you don't, since you are working and haven't left America.
Little clue for you. They aren't your jobs. They are the company's jobs. You don't like it, start your own company, but quit telling other people what to do with their money.
That's true. Our crime is very disorganized. Why, we haven't had a good Hindu-Muslim bloodbath over here in the US, why, um, ever. The Indians have one every few months. We really need to get with it.
And our povery here is shameful. We aren't even anywhere near to having a million people living in the streets of our national capital. And our train system? Pathetic. Why, we don't even let cows on the trains or pack hundreds of people on top of the cars.
And, finally, we don't even have a nuclear power on our southern border sending troops into disputed territories and claiming that parts of our country belongs to them. How can we even have the kind of excitement India does when we don't have our own Pakistan?
You're right. Life in America is so much worse. Sign me up for the Indian utopia right away!
-The service-only economy that the US is turning in to can't sustain itself for very long...-
This CAN'T be true! Everyone on slashdot says that Linux can make money just on service and support!
So, put your money where your mouth is. Start a business so you can provide jobs to Americans.
Or do you mean someone ELSE should start a business and hire YOU?
Amazing, isn't it, how people whine about losing jobs, then when you show them where the jobs are, they give you all sorts of reasons why they can't take THAT job, and then continue to whine about losing jobs.