Well, you should take everything with a grain of salt of course, but... if you find a bone and it does have soft tissue, then it has soft tissue whether you have an explanation of how it could be possible or not. The explanation comes after further research. Of course, one of the explanations could be it might not be an actual dinosaur bone, but that one can probably be ruled out pretty quickly if the researchers have any idea what they're doing.
It appears more to me that they are arguing that by your logic, Lynx is *all* that's needed so why waste time on all the other graphical browser gimmicks blah blah blah.
Hey, so you don't care about this stuff and think it's a waste of time... that doesn't make it a waste of time in everyone's view. People contribute in areas they good at, when it interests them. If other areas interested them, they'd probably be contributing there already rather than to this. Obviously their areas of interest don't necessarily overlap yours...
Well, friends like making you watch shows they like for one. I've sat through full season runs of fairly mediocre shows because friends were watching them. I've seen way too much trailer park boys for my taste for that matter for exactly that reason.
Heh, figures. I should learn to keep my mouth shut but it was a late night and I thought after my post "oh, that came off pretty badly"... Oops, what do I know? =) the MS tax is unfortunate though, and I still agree with the OP that $500 is a pretty good disincentive =/
The $500 is undoubtedly BS, but they're some shop I've never heard of before... and Sharp may never have heard of before, or reasonably close. They're probably paying full price, with MS tax.. etc... heh...
Renaming it may or may not be enough. I would guess not though. They would probably have to actually change the rules some as well, as Yahoo has done with their Literati game.
Heh, I hate to break it to you, but you're not exactly breaking anything to me.:P I fully realize there's not really any way to prove one way or the other, or we wouldn't be having this discussion. But absolute proof aside, you can interpret things to suggest something may be/probably is/whatever possible, or even likely... though the last is a bit of hard stretch in this case without a bit of faith.
That aside... yeah, I imagine it would be hilarious to be living in a universe without life:D
Hmm, interesting links. The first is more interesting than the latter though. Of course there is the possibility of our universe just happening to be fine tuned by accident, and the fact that our universe does seem to be fine-tuned does increase the probability that ours might have happened by accident. However, that information (what I saw anyway) didn't really appear to change how given no universe to begin with, the probability of one accidently forming with all the correct life producing constraints is pretty slim, at least for our type of life forms. That's the impression I get anyway...
Oh well, it's interesting to think about anyway.:)
Sorry, I was replying in a general context as opposed to just specifically in a classroom - my mistake.
However, regarding your last statement, I think that such a hypothesis is extremely unlikely to have any experimental support, I would argue that there is plenty of evidence that could be interpreted that way. There's no saying what kind of ID it might be, i.e. what that designer is like/what religion they may fit if any, etc, but our universe is pretty fine tuned to create life. There are plenty of constants such as the strong nuclear force, gravity, etc, which if even slightly different would make life improbable if not virtually impossible. Kinda funny how everything is stacked just right for us to be around don't you think? That aside, even the fact that our universe had a beginning is telling. If our universe wasn't expanding and didn't have any obvious start that would be one thing, but I at least find it easier to believe that something already eternal created it, than that it just randomly appeared by itself out of literally nothing.
Rereading my comment I see it was a little vague and could have been taken incorrectly, but I did say wholesale theft of songs is crap. I don't really like having words put into my mouth, so to clear things up... I don't like being treated like a thief, so I don't buy DRM music. I said nothing about stealing their stuff. I simply buy CDs instead, and I'll be sticking to that thanks.
Well, except that the idea of ID does not necessarily exclude evolution altogether. Sure there are fundies which still strictly believe the whole 6 days and 6000 years bit, but there is a lot more to the universe than just biology. There are a whole lot of variables in physics and elsewhere that ID could play its bit.
And who's to say that ID couldn't play a role in biology either? You can't really say yeah/nay to whether ID could have played its bit in "chance" mutations through evolution. It wouldn't be quite as obvious like "I think I'll create organisms this way as their beginnings", but it's still a possibility.
No. A business model where "customers" are treated like thieves from the get-go is "stupid" or "obsolete". The AC you replied to didn't say anything about stealing, though I can't read their mind so who knows. Regardless, I think wholesale theft of songs is crap, but I will never buy a DRM encrypted file. I'm not one of those people with thousands of albums, but I do buy a few CDs here and there... but no DRM music.
Ahh fair enough... I'm not really leaning entirely one way or the other, just thinking out "text" as it were.
But anyway, maybe it is because they are only able to make a profit by selling at those lower prices in one location because the costs are offset by the higher prices elsewhere. If people were able to shop around and get it at the lower price (on a widespread scale, not just a few people here and there), it would undermine the company's ability to offset the costs, hence making it hard or impossible to service that particular cheaper market. I.e., the cheaper market would collapse and those people would be unable to buy the product since it would only be available at much higher prices elsewhere.
It is kind of unfair how the more expensive markets cover the cheaper markets share of costs, but then again it isn't really fair how much lower the incomes/etc are in those markets to begin with...
Well, individuals may not import games to save money so much since they don't have the connections or know where to look specifically to find cheaper games...
However...
What about that importer who's charging you $60-70 for a game? How much of that is real cost and how much is profit? If an importer imports a few hundred games at a lower price then marks them up and sells them to people for a profit, then it certainly is costing Sony/whoever money they would otherwise have received.
Oh well, just pointing that out. I know a large number of the games imported are foreign language and not in the importers market/etc/etc/etc.... It would be a different story with large price differences and no region control though...
Well if you'll reread my comment, you'll notice I never said I agreed with it. I actually never said one way or the other. The OP said they didn't know how it could be bad for Sony, and I pointed out one way how it could be. Personally I do think it's largely BS...
Although... you have to realize in some locations their income is so much lower they might not be able to pay enough for a product to even offset the full cost of production, manufacturing, and distribution, let alone enough make a company any profit, while in other locations people can. So charging less in one area and more in another would allow the company to offset their costs and still make a profit. As greedy as I think companies are, they DO exist to make a profit.. there's no getting around that.
Well if it's a game you can't get where you are, then no it's not really bad for them... but if it is one you could get where you are, then it hurts them because you are bypassing their region strategic pricing... (unless, of course, you get it from somewhere more expensive, but er... I'll assume not).
Actually, this has been covered multiple times before in various locations, including at least a/. story and dupe or two. Basically, PHP 5 itself is multithreaded safe, but they basically refuse to recommend/okay Apache 2 for production use in their FAQ because so many extensions are still not multithreaded safe.
Of course, Apache 2 does have the option to turn off multithreading which alleviates a large part of the issue, but also draws away from part of the reasoning behind switching to Apache 2 in the first place...
For a fan film it's pretty well done, but I had about the same reaction. I was having trouble trying to stop from laughing my ass off at how cheesy some the acting and dialog was... like some sort of B-film. The special effects are pretty well done though there were some spots (the glass breaking at the end?) which could have used a fair bit more work. The only other thing that bothered me is the lighting seems to leave something to be desired. Rather than looking ominous/whatever, a lot of it looked like cheesy made for TV red dwarf style lighting.
Well, whatever... your reaction is still spot-on. At least I can laugh my ass off at cheesiness - JarJar just pissed me off to no end.
I think his point was... good luck getting them to lower your taxes just because they have less need for manual entry... they'll just find other uses/excuses for your money. At least that's the way I read it...
Don't know about pictures of the lava, but see here for a post to video of a helicopter flight around the edge of the crater. I watched it and there was indeed visible lava.
It looks like a decent livecd system and all, but does anyone else find it strange that they would include all those other archivers but not bother with tar or bzip2? I don't know if that software list is exhaustive, but that's pretty weird.
Hmm, fair enough. I haven't really read up on the subject too far. Mostly I just didn't think the OP's analogy fit very well. I suppose it might fit if there actually is some type of energy the dark matter would reflect. I just have a hard time believing no energy of that type would already be reaching the dark matter, given all the supernovas/etc in the universe.
I'm by no means that knowledgeable about physics/etc, but for your analogy to be accurate, wouldn't all this dark matter need to be completely boxed in as well? Surely if we can see stars/etc from so far away, then all that dark matter would be receiving some form of similar light and radiation which would be reflected and observable from our location.
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Well, you should take everything with a grain of salt of course, but... if you find a bone and it does have soft tissue, then it has soft tissue whether you have an explanation of how it could be possible or not. The explanation comes after further research. Of course, one of the explanations could be it might not be an actual dinosaur bone, but that one can probably be ruled out pretty quickly if the researchers have any idea what they're doing.
It appears more to me that they are arguing that by your logic, Lynx is *all* that's needed so why waste time on all the other graphical browser gimmicks blah blah blah.
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Hey, so you don't care about this stuff and think it's a waste of time... that doesn't make it a waste of time in everyone's view. People contribute in areas they good at, when it interests them. If other areas interested them, they'd probably be contributing there already rather than to this. Obviously their areas of interest don't necessarily overlap yours
Well, friends like making you watch shows they like for one. I've sat through full season runs of fairly mediocre shows because friends were watching them. I've seen way too much trailer park boys for my taste for that matter for exactly that reason.
Heh, figures. I should learn to keep my mouth shut but it was a late night and I thought after my post "oh, that came off pretty badly"... Oops, what do I know? =) the MS tax is unfortunate though, and I still agree with the OP that $500 is a pretty good disincentive =/
The $500 is undoubtedly BS, but they're some shop I've never heard of before... and Sharp may never have heard of before, or reasonably close. They're probably paying full price, with MS tax.. etc... heh...
Renaming it may or may not be enough. I would guess not though. They would probably have to actually change the rules some as well, as Yahoo has done with their Literati game.
Heh, I hate to break it to you, but you're not exactly breaking anything to me. :P I fully realize there's not really any way to prove one way or the other, or we wouldn't be having this discussion. But absolute proof aside, you can interpret things to suggest something may be/probably is/whatever possible, or even likely... though the last is a bit of hard stretch in this case without a bit of faith.
:D
That aside... yeah, I imagine it would be hilarious to be living in a universe without life
Hmm, interesting links. The first is more interesting than the latter though. Of course there is the possibility of our universe just happening to be fine tuned by accident, and the fact that our universe does seem to be fine-tuned does increase the probability that ours might have happened by accident. However, that information (what I saw anyway) didn't really appear to change how given no universe to begin with, the probability of one accidently forming with all the correct life producing constraints is pretty slim, at least for our type of life forms. That's the impression I get anyway...
:)
Oh well, it's interesting to think about anyway.
Sorry, I was replying in a general context as opposed to just specifically in a classroom - my mistake.
However, regarding your last statement, I think that such a hypothesis is extremely unlikely to have any experimental support, I would argue that there is plenty of evidence that could be interpreted that way. There's no saying what kind of ID it might be, i.e. what that designer is like/what religion they may fit if any, etc, but our universe is pretty fine tuned to create life. There are plenty of constants such as the strong nuclear force, gravity, etc, which if even slightly different would make life improbable if not virtually impossible. Kinda funny how everything is stacked just right for us to be around don't you think? That aside, even the fact that our universe had a beginning is telling. If our universe wasn't expanding and didn't have any obvious start that would be one thing, but I at least find it easier to believe that something already eternal created it, than that it just randomly appeared by itself out of literally nothing.
Rereading my comment I see it was a little vague and could have been taken incorrectly, but I did say wholesale theft of songs is crap. I don't really like having words put into my mouth, so to clear things up... I don't like being treated like a thief, so I don't buy DRM music. I said nothing about stealing their stuff. I simply buy CDs instead, and I'll be sticking to that thanks.
Well, except that the idea of ID does not necessarily exclude evolution altogether. Sure there are fundies which still strictly believe the whole 6 days and 6000 years bit, but there is a lot more to the universe than just biology. There are a whole lot of variables in physics and elsewhere that ID could play its bit.
And who's to say that ID couldn't play a role in biology either? You can't really say yeah/nay to whether ID could have played its bit in "chance" mutations through evolution. It wouldn't be quite as obvious like "I think I'll create organisms this way as their beginnings", but it's still a possibility.
No. A business model where "customers" are treated like thieves from the get-go is "stupid" or "obsolete". The AC you replied to didn't say anything about stealing, though I can't read their mind so who knows. Regardless, I think wholesale theft of songs is crap, but I will never buy a DRM encrypted file. I'm not one of those people with thousands of albums, but I do buy a few CDs here and there... but no DRM music.
No? I guess "bottomless pit" isn't directly comparable, but it is pretty similar...
Meh. I have too many game memories. The first thing that this brought to mind was Guile spreading his hands apart, and.... Sonic boom!
Ahh fair enough... I'm not really leaning entirely one way or the other, just thinking out "text" as it were.
But anyway, maybe it is because they are only able to make a profit by selling at those lower prices in one location because the costs are offset by the higher prices elsewhere. If people were able to shop around and get it at the lower price (on a widespread scale, not just a few people here and there), it would undermine the company's ability to offset the costs, hence making it hard or impossible to service that particular cheaper market. I.e., the cheaper market would collapse and those people would be unable to buy the product since it would only be available at much higher prices elsewhere.
It is kind of unfair how the more expensive markets cover the cheaper markets share of costs, but then again it isn't really fair how much lower the incomes/etc are in those markets to begin with...
Well, individuals may not import games to save money so much since they don't have the connections or know where to look specifically to find cheaper games...
However...
What about that importer who's charging you $60-70 for a game? How much of that is real cost and how much is profit? If an importer imports a few hundred games at a lower price then marks them up and sells them to people for a profit, then it certainly is costing Sony/whoever money they would otherwise have received.
Oh well, just pointing that out. I know a large number of the games imported are foreign language and not in the importers market/etc/etc/etc.... It would be a different story with large price differences and no region control though...
Well if you'll reread my comment, you'll notice I never said I agreed with it. I actually never said one way or the other. The OP said they didn't know how it could be bad for Sony, and I pointed out one way how it could be. Personally I do think it's largely BS...
Although... you have to realize in some locations their income is so much lower they might not be able to pay enough for a product to even offset the full cost of production, manufacturing, and distribution, let alone enough make a company any profit, while in other locations people can. So charging less in one area and more in another would allow the company to offset their costs and still make a profit. As greedy as I think companies are, they DO exist to make a profit.. there's no getting around that.
Well if it's a game you can't get where you are, then no it's not really bad for them... but if it is one you could get where you are, then it hurts them because you are bypassing their region strategic pricing... (unless, of course, you get it from somewhere more expensive, but er... I'll assume not).
Actually, this has been covered multiple times before in various locations, including at least a /. story and dupe or two. Basically, PHP 5 itself is multithreaded safe, but they basically refuse to recommend/okay Apache 2 for production use in their FAQ because so many extensions are still not multithreaded safe.
Of course, Apache 2 does have the option to turn off multithreading which alleviates a large part of the issue, but also draws away from part of the reasoning behind switching to Apache 2 in the first place...
For a fan film it's pretty well done, but I had about the same reaction. I was having trouble trying to stop from laughing my ass off at how cheesy some the acting and dialog was... like some sort of B-film. The special effects are pretty well done though there were some spots (the glass breaking at the end?) which could have used a fair bit more work. The only other thing that bothered me is the lighting seems to leave something to be desired. Rather than looking ominous/whatever, a lot of it looked like cheesy made for TV red dwarf style lighting.
Well, whatever... your reaction is still spot-on. At least I can laugh my ass off at cheesiness - JarJar just pissed me off to no end.
I think his point was... good luck getting them to lower your taxes just because they have less need for manual entry... they'll just find other uses/excuses for your money. At least that's the way I read it...
Don't know about pictures of the lava, but see here for a post to video of a helicopter flight around the edge of the crater. I watched it and there was indeed visible lava.
It looks like a decent livecd system and all, but does anyone else find it strange that they would include all those other archivers but not bother with tar or bzip2? I don't know if that software list is exhaustive, but that's pretty weird.
Hmm, fair enough. I haven't really read up on the subject too far. Mostly I just didn't think the OP's analogy fit very well. I suppose it might fit if there actually is some type of energy the dark matter would reflect. I just have a hard time believing no energy of that type would already be reaching the dark matter, given all the supernovas/etc in the universe.
I'm by no means that knowledgeable about physics/etc, but for your analogy to be accurate, wouldn't all this dark matter need to be completely boxed in as well? Surely if we can see stars/etc from so far away, then all that dark matter would be receiving some form of similar light and radiation which would be reflected and observable from our location.