To me a contradiction is when two opposite, and irreconcilable things are said to be simultaneously true. Such as saying an object is only blue yet it is also only purple. Which is it? Blue or purple? In this Cain story, however, I gave a scenario under which both the statements were true. And that is not a contradiction no matter which way you look at it.
Well, I can give scenarios where your contradiction isn't a contradiction either. How about multiple universes with a viewport on the same object. In Universe A, the object appears only blue. In Universe B (with a different model of physics) the object appears only purple. Same object, but it's simultaneously blue and purple. So no contradiction, right?
Christian apologists are masters at taking contradictions and finding obscure ways to make it no longer contradictory. Even if the bible said the earth was flat, you would find christian apologists state that a sphere can be flat when you look at it from the nth dimension, where n > 3.
My TV has a PiP function I have never used in the 5 years I have had the TV. Should I try to force Sony to give me a refund for that functionality?
Does your television come with a license agreement which states that if you do not accept the terms of the Picture-in-Picture license agreement, that you can return the Picture-in-Picture device to Sony for a refund?
If you want a computer built to your exact specs, then go to a company that does that.
Computer hardware from Dell, for example. is sold in two parts. One is the physical hardware itself, such as a laptop. The other part is the software. The license agreement which comes with the software says that if you don't agree with the terms, you are legally entitled to receive a refund. So by purchasing a Dell or IBM or whoever's laptop, I get the exact specs I need, namely: hardware and refundable software.
You may choose to roll over and let the company pull a fast one on you, but seeking a refund for products which the company licenses as being refundable is clearly not "being absurd".
Is this the beginning of your strawman argument? Nobody suggested it is a study bible. You threw that out there and you then proceed to back up your blatantly incorrect assertion.
Also, it is simply not available to the general public.
Again, it's not meant to be. Unless the public is clamoring for a latin text, what does it matter that it's only available to those with internet access? The images aren't large enough (even the enlarged ones) to really read comfortably even if you are fluent in latin.
Finally, the Gutenberg Bible does not have an easily accessible concordance.
You mean it has no concordance? Dude, this is of archeological signicance only. Nobody in their right mind would learn latin so that they could study this thing. I get the feeling by now that you're simply trolling, but seeing that you got a +5 Informative, I feel compelled to respond.
the fact that Gutenberg Bible owners won't let you touch the things, much less write in the margins, means that you are pretty much hamstrung as far as study goes.
Dude, I can write in the margins. My Jiffy marker shows up great on my monitor screen, and it's always there for me. And as for being hamstrung, does my lack of speaking Latin hamstring me too?
If you are truly serious about studying the Bible as a living book, and not as a museum piece, then pick up a New King James or NIV version.
On this point I have to agree. This is a museum piece and isn't great for studying. After all, looking up Psalm 137:9 in King James Version is much more eloquent:
"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."
Gives it a nice Shakespearean quality I'd say. But if you're not into that, the NIV is a lot clearer:
"Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us- he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."
Nothing quite says God Loves You like a little bit of infant seizing and rock dashing.
Maybe you have something sitting in your basement that you would like to donate?
I have a really old computer from thousands of years ago. The name brand is "Abacus" and I believe they had many patents on the technology. The computer works by having the operator move beads based upon the calculation being performed. This is known as programming. Once the program has been written, the answer is immediately available. Execution time from programming it to getting the answer is zero, meaning that this Abacus brand computer is infinitely fast.
First thing I noticed is that again, Apple's look and feel have been copied. Badly. Even down to the ads.
What site were you visiting? It doesn't particularly strike me as even remotely Apple-like. And, yes, I have iTunes on my Mac open right now and IE on my laptop browsing buymusic.com. I will agree that the ads are complete rip-offs, but the rest of the site doesn't look like something Apple would want to associate with. It sucks.
Interesting that they're selling t-shirts. $17 though?? Funny, when I go to conferences, companies give me t-shirts for free because I'm advertising for them. Now they want me to pay top dollar so that I have the privelege of doing their advertising. I don't think so!
Back then, cover art was relegated to the airbrush drawings that artists came up with because nobody would dare put a screenshot of an 8x8 sprite on the box. These days, games are so good looking that actual screenshots are often times better than most artwork you could come up with.
I don't know how others make purchasing decisions, but if I see a game box without screenshots I say away from it. I want to see how the game looks as it will appear on my computer, not some Photoshopped, airbrushed to death artist's rendition of how they think it ought to have looked. Give me screenshots over "artwork" any day of the week!
As consumers become more informed, the pay-for-ranking search engines will fall by the wayside. Just about everybody I know uses Google exclusively specifically because the results are objective and almost always bang-on. Yes, you do get ads with Google results as well, but they're always either directly on top in the sponsored links area or relegated to the paid boxes on the right side.
And, often times, I do click on those paid listings when it's something I really need. The signal to noise ratio is extremely poor when you go to a site in which the top entry pays $0.01 more than the next highest one up. Who's to say which is really the better one? When it's a matter of shelling out the most money, the relevancy goes completely out the window.
1. headstand ballerina 2. sumo splits 3. tomato with horns 4. football player knees 5. frogs taking a piss 6. man with purple hands putting on a red bra 7. flying butcher frog 8. smoking blue playboy bunny heads with their ears reduced to a green pimple 9. unknown superhero blasting out yellow plumes of fart gas 10. winged batman with two huge purple schlongs
If you haven't yet received notification from your NOC that they're going to be doing maintenance, you really need to impress upon them to get this fixed. In a nutshell, this flaw could allow a malicious hacker to shut down traffic to your servers.
That's nuthin. Those same people do this to hard drives that had confidential material on them:
Delete the files. Duh. Then grind off the platters inside the hard drive. This final dust is then kept in a vault for 8 years to be sure it is completely demagnetized.
I guess you wouldn't want someone reconstructing a working hard drive platter from those dust particles, would you? Now that's paranoid!
No, it's good to make it as familiar to people as possible. Many people are familiar with Windows XP (or other Win variations) and this will allow them to get up to speed quickly. What's interesting is if Microsoft copied some innovating UI from Linux (take your pick). All hell would break loose and people would decry Microsoft's blatant ripoffs. But because it's copying from Microsoft, it seems to be okay. After all, it's just a matter of making it comfortable for users, right?
Given that info, I'd be more than willing to sign up for the requisite 15+ months. So why can't they do something like that here in the States? What's holding them back - red tape, technical issues?
If you packed half the US population into 1/20th of the land space, the economy of scale would make it affordable enough. As it stands, to do this in the average US city (compared to the average city in Japan) would be ten times more expensive.
Now there's nothing preventing anyone from doing this in high-density downtown areas in major cities. In fact, there's a company which is currently doing this for all their new buildings. I quote:
"It is also Canada's first fully-wired fiber optic community. Concord Pacific's Digital Neighborhood (TM) connects residents to the world of digital communications with hi-speed modemless Internet access."
Now, thanks to thousands of vulnerable Windows boxes, I now have a combined total of 1644Mbps of bandwidth to DDoS sites with.
On a more serious note, the cool factor of this is outstanding, but I sure hope they're handing out firewall software when they hand out those free modems on the street.
It's quite obvious where this trend stops. Once we figure out how to outsource the entire command chain all the way up to the CEO, our shares of stock should be worth that much more because the company's cut their costs by a couple of orders of magnitude. I bet I could find a guy in Romania who'd be willing to be the company's CEO for one one-hundredth of what the current guy makes, with the same or better credentials. It's only a matter of time before shareholders realize this...
The CEO will never be fully outsourced, for a number of reasons. The primary one being that of public image. While you may have some people managing the numbers and logistics in another country, you will still need a CEO to project a successful, confident image to shareholders.
This is where the actors come in. You've heard of Booth Babes, soon we'll have Boardroom Babes. These actors will be reasonably versed in the company's ongoing operations and also be stunningly attractive. Sure they'll make only $100K per year instead of the $2.5M plus bonus the previous CEO made, but then again they only have to show up for public events and periodically keep, er... abreast of what the company is doing.
I remember at university when SGI came around with their trailer full of cool boxes. This was around 1990 - 1991. The one thing I remember about that event was the real-time demonstration of the water tentacle effect from The Abyss.
No other machine could even come close to rendering this kind of thing real-time. These days, we're spoiled by high-end graphics cards costing only hundreds of dollars which eclipse what SGI could do back then by a factor of 10.
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He said the goal was to learn 'what can you do and how can you do it' using open-source software in a competitive analysis.
You can find the new revised feature set for Longhorn here.
One thing I was especially hoping to see in this book is the topic of Advanced Transactional Support in MySQL.
To me a contradiction is when two opposite, and irreconcilable things are said to be simultaneously true. Such as saying an object is only blue yet it is also only purple. Which is it? Blue or purple? In this Cain story, however, I gave a scenario under which both the statements were true. And that is not a contradiction no matter which way you look at it.
Well, I can give scenarios where your contradiction isn't a contradiction either. How about multiple universes with a viewport on the same object. In Universe A, the object appears only blue. In Universe B (with a different model of physics) the object appears only purple. Same object, but it's simultaneously blue and purple. So no contradiction, right?
Christian apologists are masters at taking contradictions and finding obscure ways to make it no longer contradictory. Even if the bible said the earth was flat, you would find christian apologists state that a sphere can be flat when you look at it from the nth dimension, where n > 3.
My TV has a PiP function I have never used in the 5 years I have had the TV. Should I try to force Sony to give me a refund for that functionality?
Does your television come with a license agreement which states that if you do not accept the terms of the Picture-in-Picture license agreement, that you can return the Picture-in-Picture device to Sony for a refund?
If you want a computer built to your exact specs, then go to a company that does that.
Computer hardware from Dell, for example. is sold in two parts. One is the physical hardware itself, such as a laptop. The other part is the software. The license agreement which comes with the software says that if you don't agree with the terms, you are legally entitled to receive a refund. So by purchasing a Dell or IBM or whoever's laptop, I get the exact specs I need, namely: hardware and refundable software.
You may choose to roll over and let the company pull a fast one on you, but seeking a refund for products which the company licenses as being refundable is clearly not "being absurd".
$0 on Kazaa.
4) Do they know the (in)famous "goatse.cx lawyers"?
Yes, they're the ones which start out every post with "I ANAL, butt..."
you can definitely that lawyers were involved in answering questions...
And you can definitely that proofreading wasn't involved in your post.
Rather than use this as a bible reference, a better source is the Skeptic's Annotated Bible. That'll give you the true dope on the [ahem] "Good" book.
...but as a study Bible it falls quite short.
Is this the beginning of your strawman argument? Nobody suggested it is a study bible. You threw that out there and you then proceed to back up your blatantly incorrect assertion.
Also, it is simply not available to the general public.
Again, it's not meant to be. Unless the public is clamoring for a latin text, what does it matter that it's only available to those with internet access? The images aren't large enough (even the enlarged ones) to really read comfortably even if you are fluent in latin.
Finally, the Gutenberg Bible does not have an easily accessible concordance.
You mean it has no concordance? Dude, this is of archeological signicance only. Nobody in their right mind would learn latin so that they could study this thing. I get the feeling by now that you're simply trolling, but seeing that you got a +5 Informative, I feel compelled to respond.
the fact that Gutenberg Bible owners won't let you touch the things, much less write in the margins, means that you are pretty much hamstrung as far as study goes.
Dude, I can write in the margins. My Jiffy marker shows up great on my monitor screen, and it's always there for me. And as for being hamstrung, does my lack of speaking Latin hamstring me too?
If you are truly serious about studying the Bible as a living book, and not as a museum piece, then pick up a New King James or NIV version.
On this point I have to agree. This is a museum piece and isn't great for studying. After all, looking up Psalm 137:9 in King James Version is much more eloquent:
"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."
Gives it a nice Shakespearean quality I'd say. But if you're not into that, the NIV is a lot clearer:
"Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us- he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."
Nothing quite says God Loves You like a little bit of infant seizing and rock dashing.
I have a really old computer from thousands of years ago. The name brand is "Abacus" and I believe they had many patents on the technology. The computer works by having the operator move beads based upon the calculation being performed. This is known as programming. Once the program has been written, the answer is immediately available. Execution time from programming it to getting the answer is zero, meaning that this Abacus brand computer is infinitely fast.
What site were you visiting? It doesn't particularly strike me as even remotely Apple-like. And, yes, I have iTunes on my Mac open right now and IE on my laptop browsing buymusic.com. I will agree that the ads are complete rip-offs, but the rest of the site doesn't look like something Apple would want to associate with. It sucks.
Interesting that they're selling t-shirts. $17 though?? Funny, when I go to conferences, companies give me t-shirts for free because I'm advertising for them. Now they want me to pay top dollar so that I have the privelege of doing their advertising. I don't think so!
Have you forgotten that you're a geek on Slashdot? You can only wish your underwear would get 0wNeD.
Back then, cover art was relegated to the airbrush drawings that artists came up with because nobody would dare put a screenshot of an 8x8 sprite on the box. These days, games are so good looking that actual screenshots are often times better than most artwork you could come up with.
I don't know how others make purchasing decisions, but if I see a game box without screenshots I say away from it. I want to see how the game looks as it will appear on my computer, not some Photoshopped, airbrushed to death artist's rendition of how they think it ought to have looked. Give me screenshots over "artwork" any day of the week!
As consumers become more informed, the pay-for-ranking search engines will fall by the wayside. Just about everybody I know uses Google exclusively specifically because the results are objective and almost always bang-on. Yes, you do get ads with Google results as well, but they're always either directly on top in the sponsored links area or relegated to the paid boxes on the right side.
And, often times, I do click on those paid listings when it's something I really need. The signal to noise ratio is extremely poor when you go to a site in which the top entry pays $0.01 more than the next highest one up. Who's to say which is really the better one? When it's a matter of shelling out the most money, the relevancy goes completely out the window.
1. headstand ballerina
2. sumo splits
3. tomato with horns
4. football player knees
5. frogs taking a piss
6. man with purple hands putting on a red bra
7. flying butcher frog
8. smoking blue playboy bunny heads with their ears reduced to a green pimple
9. unknown superhero blasting out yellow plumes of fart gas
10. winged batman with two huge purple schlongs
If you haven't yet received notification from your NOC that they're going to be doing maintenance, you really need to impress upon them to get this fixed. In a nutshell, this flaw could allow a malicious hacker to shut down traffic to your servers.
That's nuthin. Those same people do this to hard drives that had confidential material on them:
Delete the files. Duh. Then grind off the platters inside the hard drive. This final dust is then kept in a vault for 8 years to be sure it is completely demagnetized.
I guess you wouldn't want someone reconstructing a working hard drive platter from those dust particles, would you? Now that's paranoid!
Runs at only 12MHz (!), so this is going to be great news for portable devices which need long play times to be worthwhile.
Now the question is will the Apple Music Store start offering OGG format files? Maybe an iPod update?
Some lower ones:
Canada: 3.46 per square km
Russia: 8.53
Some higher ones:
China: 137.71
Micronesia: 193.55
India: 351.76
And the highest?
Holy See (Vatican): 2045.45 (pop 900, land: 0.44 sq km)
Is that a bad thing?
No, it's good to make it as familiar to people as possible. Many people are familiar with Windows XP (or other Win variations) and this will allow them to get up to speed quickly. What's interesting is if Microsoft copied some innovating UI from Linux (take your pick). All hell would break loose and people would decry Microsoft's blatant ripoffs. But because it's copying from Microsoft, it seems to be okay. After all, it's just a matter of making it comfortable for users, right?
No kidding. For those who care to compare:
- Windows XP Control Panel
- Lycoris Desktop/LX Control Panel
Can you see a difference?If you packed half the US population into 1/20th of the land space, the economy of scale would make it affordable enough. As it stands, to do this in the average US city (compared to the average city in Japan) would be ten times more expensive.
Now there's nothing preventing anyone from doing this in high-density downtown areas in major cities. In fact, there's a company which is currently doing this for all their new buildings. I quote:
"It is also Canada's first fully-wired fiber optic community. Concord Pacific's Digital Neighborhood (TM) connects residents to the world of digital communications with hi-speed modemless Internet access."
Now, thanks to thousands of vulnerable Windows boxes, I now have a combined total of 1644Mbps of bandwidth to DDoS sites with.
On a more serious note, the cool factor of this is outstanding, but I sure hope they're handing out firewall software when they hand out those free modems on the street.
The CEO will never be fully outsourced, for a number of reasons. The primary one being that of public image. While you may have some people managing the numbers and logistics in another country, you will still need a CEO to project a successful, confident image to shareholders.
This is where the actors come in. You've heard of Booth Babes, soon we'll have Boardroom Babes. These actors will be reasonably versed in the company's ongoing operations and also be stunningly attractive. Sure they'll make only $100K per year instead of the $2.5M plus bonus the previous CEO made, but then again they only have to show up for public events and periodically keep, er... abreast of what the company is doing.
I remember at university when SGI came around with their trailer full of cool boxes. This was around 1990 - 1991. The one thing I remember about that event was the real-time demonstration of the water tentacle effect from The Abyss.
No other machine could even come close to rendering this kind of thing real-time. These days, we're spoiled by high-end graphics cards costing only hundreds of dollars which eclipse what SGI could do back then by a factor of 10.