The funny thing I have discovered about women is that there is nothing more attractive than a guy who is already taken. I don't understand this, but I think it may have something to do with demonstratig committment and the ability to hold down a relationship.
Since I got engaged I've had to cultivate a series of disgusting personal habits to try to combat this.
Do you really mean to say you've never done it? You know it is stupid, but you are *really* in a hurry. In my case I was ironing a collar and burnt my neck.
Two unidentified brands of Pentium 4 laptops were used at random in the study.
Would the temperature have risen less with a less power hungry processor than a P4? Given that a P4 laptop can double as a toasted sandwich maker, I think it would be a possibility.
I bought my first laptop 6 months ago, a T41. It is an excellent piece of hardware, and I am very satisfied. Particularly when compared to the Dells and Toshibas I have seen and worked with, both in hardware and software spplied with the machine.
What concerns me is that support may be an issue over the next 2.5 years, given that I expect to replace it in that time.
When I finished school, I took the highest maths course available at the time. In the exam for that course you could take in calculators, however they were useless. Not because they had deliberatly obfuscated the paper, but because there was nothing to calculate in the paper. Having a calculator when differentiating 1/(x^1/2) from first principles doesn't do a whole lot for you.
I think the issue is that there is a conflict between vocational education and education. Universities used to be place where a person could get an education. Being educated was an end in itself, not a means to something further.
The problem with purely vocational thinking is that education teaches a structured way of thinking, which can be applied outside areas you have been trained in.
Was teaching people Ancient Greek and Latin a waste of time, given that they are dead languages? No, it taught people to think.
My fiance has just graduated from an honours degree in science. She is now going to do a masters in primary education. Will she ever directly use what she was trained for during the science degree? Probably not. Will she use it? All the time. My younger sister is going to the same course (which could be interesting) after completing a double degree in Arts and Economics. Same thing goes for her.
I toyed with the idea of doing an Arts degree after completing my engineering degree. I am a programmer, doing an Arts degree does not directly train me to be a better programmer, but nonetheless it would make me a better programmer.
I've had a similar issue. One of the biggest problems I have is managing contact details.
Try keeping contacts up to date on: -palm -desktop (palm desktop) -laptop (palm desktop + Thunderbird) -phone
Incidentally I tried to get the extension for the palm sync installed, but I had some serious problems.
I have been thinking of looking into coding a custom app to pull details from the palm desktop into Thunderbird, but I just haven't had the time to look into it. I'm not even sure whether it is within my capabilities. I threw something quick together a little while ago to do a straight dump for the palm to csv, and some code to strip that back to just names and emails, and then import that into Mozilla, but it was pretty clunky.
I've seen an interesting problem with Outlook when a pst file gets kind of large. The problem was that outlook would get into a loop sending emails. This kind of sucks when the email in question is 4Mb.
On one level you are correct. Often the best intentions are subverted to do terrible damage.
However I think it does matter. This effectively the same as the distinction between manslaughter and murder. Intent forms an important part of the law. This is also true of the way that God sees things. Just as an example, reading some of the Old Testiment laws in Leviticus, intent is a clear issue. The New Testiment makes it pretty clear that these laws have been superceded (Galations has the most detailed examination of this), however they still describe God's intent.
The bible is easy to misinterpret deliberately, often by taking things out of of context (eg Leviticus and the OT laws), or by ignoring sections that are unpalatable. In that sense it is easy to misinterpret, humans are flawed and there is a tendancy to try to fit the bible to your pre-conceived views, as has been done in this case with the environment. But note that this is a flaw with those using the bible, rather than the bible itself.
It is appalling that God's word is used as a justification for things that are contrary to what it has to say, but remember that we are living in 1984ish times. Republicans stand for small Government while expanding the government. War is Peace. Truth is Lies.
In what way isn't Bush "opposed to Christians"? He's sending the most misguided (soldiers) to die in Iraq, he demonizes the peaceloving ones, he's blatantly opposed to Catholics, except when duping them to serve him.
His opposition to these groups is not on the grounds that they are Christians. His opposition to them is on different grounds. Certainly much of what GWB does is against Christian priciples. Indeed his betrayal of the US army is a terrible crime. Armies are based on obeying orders, all the way to the top. To lead those troops to a mistaken war is a terrible betrayal of that trust.
The difference between GEB and the others I mentioned is the opposition to Christians on the grounds that they are Christians.
I do think that Judeo-Christian prophets harnessed a powerful intuition about human nature, especially within the context of their own faith framework. When the conditions they describe as apocalyptic come around, the weaknesses in the religion produce exactly the kinds of abuse they predict.
There is a little more to biblical prophecy than than Apocolyptic prophecy. Indeed Apocolypic prophecy occurs in only two places in the bible to my knowledge: Revelation and Daniel, although you might include some of Zephaniah in that.
Anyway that aside, I'm not sure that I totally understand your point about the religion creating the conditions for the abuse.
One interpretation of Revelation is that the book is deliberatly obscured as it was written with the knowledge that it would be read by those hostile to Christians. Either way the summary of Revelation is "God wins".
To be more precise, Bush is "antichristic". But he's the first such character to come around since we developed the capacity to actually exterminate our species.
I think I might need to be convinced that we have the capability to exterminate our species. I have to admit I haven't looked terribly deeply into this, but this my understanding is that there are two means by which this might happen: nuclear and biological. I should look into this further. I have to admit my reasons for this are more based on religious beliefs than science, and I should examine the science to ensure that the two are reconciled.
So I'd call him "the antichrist", especially if he succeeds.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that GWB is aiming to to destroy us all. I think that the views that they espouse mean that they squander the resources of this world. But this is not the same thing as going out of your way to destroy civilisation.
I had a number of interesting chats on this very subjects a little while ago. The figure of the anti-christ is an interesting one. For example it would have appeared at the times the epistles were written that the figure of the Roman emperor was the anti-christ. Certainly he was persecuting Christians, and aimed to gain control of the world. During the reformation the pope was considered a pretty good candidate among protestants.
It may be possible that occasionally a person may seem to fill the role, but is in fact an echo of the one to come. We did speculate that GWB fitted this role at the time. However he doesn't quite fit. Certainly he appears to aim to extend power to all the earth, and he is a hypocrite, however he is not largely opposed to Christians. I think that the oppression of the church (church used here in the sense of all Christians all over the world). No doubt this could change. I can envisage situations where it might, but right now I wouldn't cast him as that.
This position is plain wrong for a Christian to take.
Genesis 2:15 "The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."
God has given humans a commission, to work and care for the world. The introduction of sin into the world has not changed this commission. Indeed Christians should be among the keenest of enviromentalists.
What is more, it is pretty clear that when God gives a responsiblity he has expectations.
It is unfortunate that misreadings of Revelation seem to abound in the US.
The majority of the Australian population is against the war. I notice a sibling mentioned a similar situation in the UK.
South Korea would like continued support against the threat of North Korea, as would Japan.
Can you mention an ally in Iraq where they actually have the support of their population, and do not have a very strong reason to be on America's good side? I think not.
I just chucked a CD into the drive to check, after making that change, and I still see issues. Drop a cd into the drive and run windows explorer, or try to do anything on the task bar.
This is even more noticable on a laptop as the drive takes a little longer to spin up, or at least it does on mine.
What is more I have specifically gone in a switched off the autorun option. That is the autorun option for all CDs, not just the two for data and music. This one overrides them both. link
Another bugbear of a similar type is a new "feature" of windows XP is that it has some sort of autorun feature that kicks in for USB drives (and no doubt for firewire also). Why? How about waiting til *I* want to do something with the drive? And how the heck are you going "run" a 250Gb external drive with anything on it?
Explorer should never lock up while it is performing some action. Any Action. Same goes for the Taskbar/start button (which are run by explorer). That is just shoddy work.
For the computer CPU market, Intel has made poor decisions with 2 flagship products out of 3. The decision to lengthen the pipline of the P4 (and shoot for Mhz) was a mistake. The Itanium was an expensive mistake.
On the other hand the Pentium M is a great chip.
Sure Intel has other markets, but in their most visible market they have made some very visible mistakes.
We still have a Mac that does this. I forget which version, but we are talking about just after they introduced hard drives. Anyway the mac in question is still regularly used.
You get a BSOD with win98 and earlier. Sometimes even when windows has finished with the disk. Actually to be more accurate you get a nasty blue screen with an abort, retry fail option. It doesn't die, but it isn't graceful. But that is back at 98,I haven't seen the same behaviour since 2000.
Windows' handling of CDs in general is very poor though. Stick a CD in the drive, and windows feels an immediate need to lock the machine up while it tries to mount the disk. Because Explorer is responsible both for mounting filesystems and displaying them, you can do nothing until the disk is mounted. This also disables the start menu and task bar.
The process of mounting and displaying filesystems should be separate. That way I can continue to work while the disk is being mounted.
Why does the OS even allow it? It should not occur under *any* circumstances. This (and crappy handling of CDs) is one of my biggest issues with windows.
There is a registry setting you can change that alters this behaviour to some extent, but I have found that some apps alter this back to default settings.
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The funny thing I have discovered about women is that there is nothing more attractive than a guy who is already taken. I don't understand this, but I think it may have something to do with demonstratig committment and the ability to hold down a relationship.
Since I got engaged I've had to cultivate a series of disgusting personal habits to try to combat this.
There are women on /.?
Do you really mean to say you've never done it? You know it is stupid, but you are *really* in a hurry. In my case I was ironing a collar and burnt my neck.
Two unidentified brands of Pentium 4 laptops were used at random in the study.
Would the temperature have risen less with a less power hungry processor than a P4? Given that a P4 laptop can double as a toasted sandwich maker, I think it would be a possibility.
Agreed.
I bought my first laptop 6 months ago, a T41. It is an excellent piece of hardware, and I am very satisfied. Particularly when compared to the Dells and Toshibas I have seen and worked with, both in hardware and software spplied with the machine.
What concerns me is that support may be an issue over the next 2.5 years, given that I expect to replace it in that time.
When I finished school, I took the highest maths course available at the time. In the exam for that course you could take in calculators, however they were useless. Not because they had deliberatly obfuscated the paper, but because there was nothing to calculate in the paper. Having a calculator when differentiating 1/(x^1/2) from first principles doesn't do a whole lot for you.
I prefer:
1 approached 2 for large values for 1.
The question is whether Bart Simpson's comment is describing the problem or helping cause the problem.
I think the issue is that there is a conflict between vocational education and education. Universities used to be place where a person could get an education. Being educated was an end in itself, not a means to something further.
The problem with purely vocational thinking is that education teaches a structured way of thinking, which can be applied outside areas you have been trained in.
Was teaching people Ancient Greek and Latin a waste of time, given that they are dead languages? No, it taught people to think.
My fiance has just graduated from an honours degree in science. She is now going to do a masters in primary education. Will she ever directly use what she was trained for during the science degree? Probably not. Will she use it? All the time. My younger sister is going to the same course (which could be interesting) after completing a double degree in Arts and Economics. Same thing goes for her.
I toyed with the idea of doing an Arts degree after completing my engineering degree. I am a programmer, doing an Arts degree does not directly train me to be a better programmer, but nonetheless it would make me a better programmer.
I've had a similar issue. One of the biggest problems I have is managing contact details.
Try keeping contacts up to date on:
-palm
-desktop (palm desktop)
-laptop (palm desktop + Thunderbird)
-phone
Incidentally I tried to get the extension for the palm sync installed, but I had some serious problems.
I have been thinking of looking into coding a custom app to pull details from the palm desktop into Thunderbird, but I just haven't had the time to look into it. I'm not even sure whether it is within my capabilities. I threw something quick together a little while ago to do a straight dump for the palm to csv, and some code to strip that back to just names and emails, and then import that into Mozilla, but it was pretty clunky.
I've seen an interesting problem with Outlook when a pst file gets kind of large. The problem was that outlook would get into a loop sending emails. This kind of sucks when the email in question is 4Mb.
On one level you are correct. Often the best intentions are subverted to do terrible damage.
However I think it does matter. This effectively the same as the distinction between manslaughter and murder. Intent forms an important part of the law. This is also true of the way that God sees things. Just as an example, reading some of the Old Testiment laws in Leviticus, intent is a clear issue. The New Testiment makes it pretty clear that these laws have been superceded (Galations has the most detailed examination of this), however they still describe God's intent.
The bible is easy to misinterpret deliberately, often by taking things out of of context (eg Leviticus and the OT laws), or by ignoring sections that are unpalatable. In that sense it is easy to misinterpret, humans are flawed and there is a tendancy to try to fit the bible to your pre-conceived views, as has been done in this case with the environment. But note that this is a flaw with those using the bible, rather than the bible itself.
It is appalling that God's word is used as a justification for things that are contrary to what it has to say, but remember that we are living in 1984ish times. Republicans stand for small Government while expanding the government. War is Peace. Truth is Lies.
In what way isn't Bush "opposed to Christians"? He's sending the most misguided (soldiers) to die in Iraq, he demonizes the peaceloving ones, he's blatantly opposed to Catholics, except when duping them to serve him.
His opposition to these groups is not on the grounds that they are Christians. His opposition to them is on different grounds. Certainly much of what GWB does is against Christian priciples. Indeed his betrayal of the US army is a terrible crime. Armies are based on obeying orders, all the way to the top. To lead those troops to a mistaken war is a terrible betrayal of that trust.
The difference between GEB and the others I mentioned is the opposition to Christians on the grounds that they are Christians.
I do think that Judeo-Christian prophets harnessed a powerful intuition about human nature, especially within the context of their own faith framework. When the conditions they describe as apocalyptic come around, the weaknesses in the religion produce exactly the kinds of abuse they predict.
There is a little more to biblical prophecy than than Apocolyptic prophecy. Indeed Apocolypic prophecy occurs in only two places in the bible to my knowledge: Revelation and Daniel, although you might include some of Zephaniah in that.
Anyway that aside, I'm not sure that I totally understand your point about the religion creating the conditions for the abuse.
One interpretation of Revelation is that the book is deliberatly obscured as it was written with the knowledge that it would be read by those hostile to Christians. Either way the summary of Revelation is "God wins".
To be more precise, Bush is "antichristic". But he's the first such character to come around since we developed the capacity to actually exterminate our species.
I think I might need to be convinced that we have the capability to exterminate our species. I have to admit I haven't looked terribly deeply into this, but this my understanding is that there are two means by which this might happen: nuclear and biological. I should look into this further. I have to admit my reasons for this are more based on religious beliefs than science, and I should examine the science to ensure that the two are reconciled.
So I'd call him "the antichrist", especially if he succeeds.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that GWB is aiming to to destroy us all. I think that the views that they espouse mean that they squander the resources of this world. But this is not the same thing as going out of your way to destroy civilisation.
I wouldn't go that far.
I had a number of interesting chats on this very subjects a little while ago. The figure of the anti-christ is an interesting one. For example it would have appeared at the times the epistles were written that the figure of the Roman emperor was the anti-christ. Certainly he was persecuting Christians, and aimed to gain control of the world. During the reformation the pope was considered a pretty good candidate among protestants.
It may be possible that occasionally a person may seem to fill the role, but is in fact an echo of the one to come. We did speculate that GWB fitted this role at the time. However he doesn't quite fit. Certainly he appears to aim to extend power to all the earth, and he is a hypocrite, however he is not largely opposed to Christians. I think that the oppression of the church (church used here in the sense of all Christians all over the world). No doubt this could change. I can envisage situations where it might, but right now I wouldn't cast him as that.
Who said I am ignoring them?
This position is plain wrong for a Christian to take.
Genesis 2:15 "The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."
God has given humans a commission, to work and care for the world. The introduction of sin into the world has not changed this commission. Indeed Christians should be among the keenest of enviromentalists.
What is more, it is pretty clear that when God gives a responsiblity he has expectations.
It is unfortunate that misreadings of Revelation seem to abound in the US.
The majority of the Australian population is against the war. I notice a sibling mentioned a similar situation in the UK.
South Korea would like continued support against the threat of North Korea, as would Japan.
Can you mention an ally in Iraq where they actually have the support of their population, and do not have a very strong reason to be on America's good side? I think not.
Programming is time. I don't count time as free.
I am in exactly the same position. I run no-cd cracks for all my games.
The suggestion I am hearing for HL2 is that after installing from the CD, uninstall and re-install from steam.
I haven't tried it myself yet.
I think I'd be able to get through them in a little less than 12 hours. Maybe 8?
We didn't have a TV when I grew up so I read instead.
I just chucked a CD into the drive to check, after making that change, and I still see issues. Drop a cd into the drive and run windows explorer, or try to do anything on the task bar.
This is even more noticable on a laptop as the drive takes a little longer to spin up, or at least it does on mine.
What is more I have specifically gone in a switched off the autorun option. That is the autorun option for all CDs, not just the two for data and music. This one overrides them both.
link
Another bugbear of a similar type is a new "feature" of windows XP is that it has some sort of autorun feature that kicks in for USB drives (and no doubt for firewire also). Why? How about waiting til *I* want to do something with the drive? And how the heck are you going "run" a 250Gb external drive with anything on it?
Explorer should never lock up while it is performing some action. Any Action. Same goes for the Taskbar/start button (which are run by explorer). That is just shoddy work.
For the computer CPU market, Intel has made poor decisions with 2 flagship products out of 3. The decision to lengthen the pipline of the P4 (and shoot for Mhz) was a mistake. The Itanium was an expensive mistake.
On the other hand the Pentium M is a great chip.
Sure Intel has other markets, but in their most visible market they have made some very visible mistakes.
We still have a Mac that does this. I forget which version, but we are talking about just after they introduced hard drives. Anyway the mac in question is still regularly used.
You get a BSOD with win98 and earlier. Sometimes even when windows has finished with the disk. Actually to be more accurate you get a nasty blue screen with an abort, retry fail option. It doesn't die, but it isn't graceful. But that is back at 98,I haven't seen the same behaviour since 2000.
Windows' handling of CDs in general is very poor though. Stick a CD in the drive, and windows feels an immediate need to lock the machine up while it tries to mount the disk. Because Explorer is responsible both for mounting filesystems and displaying them, you can do nothing until the disk is mounted. This also disables the start menu and task bar.
The process of mounting and displaying filesystems should be separate. That way I can continue to work while the disk is being mounted.
Why does the OS even allow it? It should not occur under *any* circumstances. This (and crappy handling of CDs) is one of my biggest issues with windows.
There is a registry setting you can change that alters this behaviour to some extent, but I have found that some apps alter this back to default settings.