It also depicts them as a bunch of white guys. No, I'm not suggesting that Jesus was black. But he probably wasn't white.
How many black guys would you have seen in a European congregation circa AD 1000?
Ecclesiastical art has two roots:
It illustrated and taught the Biblical narrative to an audience that could not read Hebrew, Latin or Greek. It engaged the laity even more directly by commissioning works from local artists and craftsman, whose work is most vital and appealing when it is closest to their own experience.
The faces aren't oriental - but neither are the costumes, landscapes, settings and props.
Adventure games went extinct because they are, to put it bluntly, a horrible game format. At each and every point of the game you're trying to guess how the adventure maker wants this puzzle to be solved. You (usually) can't use common sense, you (usually) can't use real-world problem-solving, you (never) can't use creativity; you simply have to guess what to do in order for the game to process.
You are always playing against the designer.
In the simulation game, you need X and Y and Z before you can advance up the tech tree.
That A, B and C could take you as far and maybe faster doesn't matter - they aren't available to the player or the game's AI can't see or follow the alternative path.
In both cases the user has to go to NVIDIA / ATI / Intel website and download one, this requires navegating a bunch of questions about what exact model of graphics card is in the machine, which Joe Sixpack isn't going to know
He may not need to know:
Option 1: Manually find drivers for my NVIDIA products. Option 2: Automatically find drivers for my NVIDIA products.Download Drivers
Direct3D drivers tend to be better because a certain company oils the development process.
The hardware manufacturers talk to Microsoft. Microsoft talks to the hardware manufacturers. 93% of the market and a platform more open than Apple's and less fragmented than Linux gives it a very strong voice.
Comparing XP's worthless out-of-box installation to any other OS which comes with (and MAINTAINS) hundreds of third-party apps is an extremely invalid comparison.
The geek trots the old gray mare out for another run around the track.
The "market value" of the Linux repository has proven to be as close to zero as makes no difference. The Windows user can shop for apps anywhere he chooses. There are risks in that. But rewards as well.
Wow, you live in a different world than me then because all the friends and family I know that got Vista asked me to give them XP back:/
I think perhaps he does.
The Net Applications stats show Vista with a 17% share in April 2009 and a 16.5% share in February 2010. Top Operating System Share Trend
WeSchools has compartive stats for Vista and XP from January 2007 on.
Vista enters the lists at 0.6% with XP at 76% - its high water market. Vista closed February 2010 with 14%, Win 7 at 14% and XP at 58% OS Platform Stats
What is important here is not the percentages - which differ - but the trend lines, which do not.
Vista as a consumer OS took - and held - about 20% of the market in less than two years.
Which MSE nailed and Avast did not. File atapi.sys received on 2010.02.11:28:49 (UTC) The curious thing, whether it be Aleuron or Cornflicker, the MSE - and MSRT definitions - tend to be published months before the latest "crisis" makes headlines on Slashdot.
However, open video formats simply do not need to be better than the proprietary formats, they simply need to be "good-enough" and be ubiquitous on the web, and pretty soon all browsers (except IE, probably) will support them out of the box
The geek is obsessed with the browser.
But applications like Skype can be launched outside the browswer. Netflix streams HD directly to your big screen TV. Hardware-accelerated H.264 is no farther away than your cell phone.
They aren't kidding when they say that Microsoft Research is autonomous. I would have assumed that Microsoft would at least make its researchers use MS Word.
or perhaps you hand off your research papers to your in-house editors, layout and design teams before publication
Firefox (one of the most popular web browsers and growing) includes built-in support for Ogg and NOT for H.264. Many sites, and many operating systems (such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, etc.) do NOT support H.264.
Linux has - collectively - has a bare 1% of the global desktop and the trend line remains as flat as the Kansas prairies. Top Operating System Share Trend
When I look at the Net Applications stats, what I see is IE 8 in a dead heat with Firefox 3 and 3.5. Top Browser Share Trend
Don't get me wrong, I agree H264 is pretty mainstream right now, and I'd like to see an open source alternative (h264 is not going to last if they don't go 100% royalty free, and if they did do that everyone would use it), but relying on the MpegLA list is anything but reliable.
The Ottawa Area Intermediate School District isn't in the game.
But the heavy hitters are there. LG, Mitsubishi, Samsung and all the rest.
The list may not be perfect, but it is close enough.
But the fact that you lose Fourth Amendment protection in the original does not mean that the Government can break into your house and read the copy you made.
They police aren't all that interested in your print-out.
The e-mailed post may be all they need to establish "probable cause" for a much broader search of your house and grounds.
Many independent filmmakers, who controlled from one-quarter to one-third of the domestic marketplace, responded to the creation of the MPPC by moving their operations to Hollywood, whose distance from Edison's home base of New Jersey made it more difficult for the MPPC to enforce its patents.
This has the flavor of legend.
Three decades earlier Hollywood had been chosen by the emergent film industry for more than just a balmy climate and abundant sunshine. Within a day's drive from Los Angeles was an astonishing variety of topography. Hitchcock found on a production-office wall a map of California that marked where within the state could be found the Blue Nile, the Swiss Alps, the sands of the Sahara, Sherwood Forest, the rugged coast of Spain, the Siberian snows, the Red Sea, the South African veldt, to say nothing of the mighty Mississippi, the cattle ranches of Wyoming, the horse pastures of Kentucky, and the mountain forests of Vermont.
Perhaps the most memorable sequence in...all of Hitchcock's films--is the attempt by a bogus crop-duster to kill Cary Grant on an open prairie in Indiana. The Midwest state could hardly have looked so parched, but then the sequence was filmed near Bakersfield, California, in the sunbaked Central Valley.
The prescription hearing aid is a tax deductable medical expense. Topic 502 - Medical and Dental Expenses
I should have added that you really ought to be making contact with local clinics, vocational rehabilitation services, Social Security, sheltered work programs and other agencies to see what assistance may be available.
Check out a hunting supply catalog, the same device NOT sold as a medical item cost 90% less....
You pay for the exam.
You pay for the hearing aid.
But you are also paying for the licensed technician who helps you chose the right hearing aid. Casts the earpiece for a proper fit. Adjusts the settings to properly compensate for your hearing loss.
Provides follow-up support and service.
You pay for the record-keeping.
Should something go disastrously wrong on the job, you just might be asked who installed your hearing aid.
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It also depicts them as a bunch of white guys.
No, I'm not suggesting that Jesus was black. But he probably wasn't white.
How many black guys would you have seen in a European congregation circa AD 1000?
Ecclesiastical art has two roots:
It illustrated and taught the Biblical narrative to an audience that could not read Hebrew, Latin or Greek. It engaged the laity even more directly by commissioning works from local artists and craftsman, whose work is most vital and appealing when it is closest to their own experience.
The faces aren't oriental - but neither are the costumes, landscapes, settings and props.
It is a brilliant move that takes advantage of Hong Kong not having speech restrictions, yet also being a part of China.
What price does Hong Kong pay for becoming a pawn in this game?
You are always playing against the designer.
In the simulation game, you need X and Y and Z before you can advance up the tech tree.
That A, B and C could take you as far and maybe faster doesn't matter - they aren't available to the player or the game's AI can't see or follow the alternative path.
All they do is get whatever happens to be out there. That's fine, but it isn't worth much
When Microsoft bundles an app with Windows, the geek will fret and cry "Monopoly!"
But the 15,000 free apps in his Linux distro's repository leaves the masses unmoved - and he can't quite figure out why.
In both cases the user has to go to NVIDIA / ATI / Intel website and download one, this requires navegating a bunch of questions about what exact model of graphics card is in the machine, which Joe Sixpack isn't going to know
He may not need to know:
Option 1: Manually find drivers for my NVIDIA products.
Option 2: Automatically find drivers for my NVIDIA products. Download Drivers
Direct3D drivers tend to be better because a certain company oils the development process.
The hardware manufacturers talk to Microsoft. Microsoft talks to the hardware manufacturers. 93% of the market and a platform more open than Apple's and less fragmented than Linux gives it a very strong voice.
Comparing XP's worthless out-of-box installation to any other OS which comes with (and MAINTAINS) hundreds of third-party apps is an extremely invalid comparison.
The geek trots the old gray mare out for another run around the track.
The "market value" of the Linux repository has proven to be as close to zero as makes no difference. The Windows user can shop for apps anywhere he chooses. There are risks in that. But rewards as well.
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The W3Schools OS Platform Statistics offer a quick look back over seven years.
Linux with a 2% share in March 2003.
5% in February 2010.
Win 7 Beta/RC 2% in July 2009.
Win 7 13% in February 2010.
The Net Applications stats are - typically - less charitable. Top Operating Share Trend
Very few corporate intranets have mandated XP/IE8.
MS has the centralized deployment and management tools you must have in the corporate work-space.
Seriously, what's the deal with slashdot using a "broken windows" image to represent windows?
The geek can't let go. The Borg (1989) icon is so last century. But then so is Cowboy Bebob. (1998)
Wow, you live in a different world than me then because all the friends and family I know that got Vista asked me to give them XP back :/
I think perhaps he does.
The Net Applications stats show Vista with a 17% share in April 2009 and a 16.5% share in February 2010. Top Operating System Share Trend
WeSchools has compartive stats for Vista and XP from January 2007 on.
Vista enters the lists at 0.6% with XP at 76% - its high water market. Vista closed February 2010 with 14%, Win 7 at 14% and XP at 58% OS Platform Stats
What is important here is not the percentages - which differ - but the trend lines, which do not.
Vista as a consumer OS took - and held - about 20% of the market in less than two years.
I'll second the plug for MS Security Essentials.
Remember last month's hoo-rah over the Alureon rootkit? Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen
Which MSE nailed and Avast did not. File atapi.sys received on 2010.02.11:28:49 (UTC) The curious thing, whether it be Aleuron or Cornflicker, the MSE - and MSRT definitions - tend to be published months before the latest "crisis" makes headlines on Slashdot.
Hint: This is when you pull over and wait for the weather to clear before killing yourself/someone else.
You don't always get the chance to safely pull over. There may be no where for you to go. You can't be seen by the cars behind you.
Some of the folks who died in 1938:
Clarence S Darrow, attorney
Thomas Wolfe, author
Warner Oland, actor (Charlie Chan)
Pearl White, US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline)
Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist
E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey
Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease
Karel Capek, Czech author (R.U.R.)
Joe "King" Oliver, jazz cornet and bandleader
Famous Deaths for Year 1938
However, open video formats simply do not need to be better than the proprietary formats, they simply need to be "good-enough" and be ubiquitous on the web, and pretty soon all browsers (except IE, probably) will support them out of the box
The geek is obsessed with the browser.
But applications like Skype can be launched outside the browswer. Netflix streams HD directly to your big screen TV. Hardware-accelerated H.264 is no farther away than your cell phone.
They aren't kidding when they say that Microsoft Research is autonomous. I would have assumed that Microsoft would at least make its researchers use MS Word.
or perhaps you hand off your research papers to your in-house editors, layout and design teams before publication
Firefox (one of the most popular web browsers and growing) includes built-in support for Ogg and NOT for H.264. Many sites, and many operating systems (such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, etc.) do NOT support H.264.
Linux has - collectively - has a bare 1% of the global desktop and the trend line remains as flat as the Kansas prairies. Top Operating System Share Trend
When I look at the Net Applications stats, what I see is IE 8 in a dead heat with Firefox 3 and 3.5. Top Browser Share Trend
Don't get me wrong, I agree H264 is pretty mainstream right now, and I'd like to see an open source alternative (h264 is not going to last if they don't go 100% royalty free, and if they did do that everyone would use it), but relying on the MpegLA list is anything but reliable.
The Ottawa Area Intermediate School District isn't in the game.
But the heavy hitters are there. LG, Mitsubishi, Samsung and all the rest.
The list may not be perfect, but it is close enough.
It's of course H.264 but for different reasons - Windows 7 has build-in support for H.264, and Theora kind of lost the war already.
Pretty much everyone is on board for H.264. AVC/H.264 Licensees
773 of the biggest names in media and tech. Canonical is on the list. Lockheed Martin is on the list.
But the fact that you lose Fourth Amendment protection in the original does not mean that the Government can break into your house and read the copy you made.
They police aren't all that interested in your print-out.
The e-mailed post may be all they need to establish "probable cause" for a much broader search of your house and grounds.
The EU supposedly base the lists on "market share" though I haven't seen any reference as to exactly what they mean by that.
It runs on Win 7. It shows a pulse. However faint.
In the long run, I suspect most users will go with what looks like the best fit for their Microsoft Windows OS, which will be iE8 and its successors.
Many independent filmmakers, who controlled from one-quarter to one-third of the domestic marketplace, responded to the creation of the MPPC by moving their operations to Hollywood, whose distance from Edison's home base of New Jersey made it more difficult for the MPPC to enforce its patents.
This has the flavor of legend.
Three decades earlier Hollywood had been chosen by the emergent film industry for more than just a balmy climate and abundant sunshine. Within a day's drive from Los Angeles was an astonishing variety of topography. Hitchcock found on a production-office wall a map of California that marked where within the state could be found the Blue Nile, the Swiss Alps, the sands of the Sahara, Sherwood Forest, the rugged coast of Spain, the Siberian snows, the Red Sea, the South African veldt, to say nothing of the mighty Mississippi, the cattle ranches of Wyoming, the horse pastures of Kentucky, and the mountain forests of Vermont.
Perhaps the most memorable sequence in...all of Hitchcock's films--is the attempt by a bogus crop-duster to kill Cary Grant on an open prairie in Indiana. The Midwest state could hardly have looked so parched, but then the sequence was filmed near Bakersfield, California, in the sunbaked Central Valley.
Hitchcock on Location
If you want to preserve the original game, then use an emulator like DOSBox on the original executables. It will save you a load of time.
Emulation has its limits.
The LucasArts adventure The Dig was to have been "high defintition" for its day - until budget cuts ruled that out.
The game has a magnificent sound track and solid vocal performances.
The background art is elegant and effective. Less so when scaled up to the 21" wide screen.
The low res sprite animation was a disappoint from Day One.
The game was simplified - at a price.
Puzzles can be "twitchy" and frustrating - sending you straight to the cheat sheets.
In free countries, it's recognized that you can't defame public officials.
The standard in the U.S. is based on malice. You were out to do damage.
You broadcast something you knew was a lie or demonstrated a reckless disregard for the truth.
Free societies do not remain free when their elected representatives can be slandered into political oblivion.
Defamation and the First Amendment
You should care.
Flash is more than a video player.
H.264 support has Mozilla and Firefox tied up in knots. The Flash plug-in is not going away.
Apple doesn't have an entrant in the netbook sector.
The Atom + Windows + ION2 + Flash 10.1 netbook will likely hit the market priced at under $400.
Acer Aspire One 532G with ION 2 priced at an aggressive 379 euros
The prescription hearing aid is a tax deductable medical expense. Topic 502 - Medical and Dental Expenses
I should have added that you really ought to be making contact with local clinics, vocational rehabilitation services, Social Security, sheltered work programs and other agencies to see what assistance may be available.
Check out a hunting supply catalog, the same device NOT sold as a medical item cost 90% less....
You pay for the exam.
You pay for the hearing aid.
But you are also paying for the licensed technician who helps you chose the right hearing aid. Casts the earpiece for a proper fit. Adjusts the settings to properly compensate for your hearing loss.
Provides follow-up support and service.
You pay for the record-keeping.
Should something go disastrously wrong on the job, you just might be asked who installed your hearing aid.
The prescription hearing aid is a tax deductable medical expense. Topic 502 - Medical and Dental Expenses