Actually, I will be switching to Yahoo's new service and the cost is going to be either $5 or $7, not $15. I suspect Napster may drop their price, too.
Like I said, it's like paying for storage. I can listen to it anywhere with a car kit. And even if my HD does crash, I can just DL them all again.
Every Tuesday I log in and download and listen to all the new release album. Just one album covers the monthly cost.
I've downloaded so much stuff it's insane.
BTW - don't forget to keep your CDs out of your car in the summer and in protective baggies - beacuse if they melt or get scratched, the record company is not going to replace them.
Look at it this way - it's a montly fee for storage space where I store all of my music - gigs and gigs - for a small price.
Onething they have going for them is that Xbox has the highest attachment rate of any console. If the same continues, it means they can take a bigger loss than the competitors and still make the same money.
This is a really nice touch that seems not to get much attention. What it means is that rather than having to create a profile in every game (Halo, Halo2, GR, MechAssault, etc.) you can have a single profile. Hopefully the basic options, like aviator-absolute stick looking, will carry through, along with playlists.
Also cool is the support for music from mobile players. I have a Dell Pocket DJ with the Napster2Go service. This will allow me to carry my 'library' of over a million songs over to the Xbox.
I really can't see that they missed anything with this. Perhaps they will overprice is, but I'm looking for a 299 price point.
Those laptops get hot and I really don't like taking stuff into the bathroom that I intend to keep for a long time. See here. You can get wifi on some networks here but again, battery life, harder on the eyes, etc. I will always read a print mag first.
Yes, I suppose I could print them. I hope they make the format so that it comes out of the printer nice and neat.
Evidence of mutation in the fossil record would be nice, sure. That would prove evolution and it would no longer be a theory (although the academic support for the theory is a dogmatic religion).
DNA supports ID because it points to a common designer. And if you trace ID back to a somewhat similar creationary theory, it was developed far before the 19th century and inherently predicts similarities among the creations of a single designer.
Both a Ford Taurus and a Mercury Sable are similar - but do you conclude that one evolved out of the other or that they were manufactured by the same company?
Re: DNA's complexity and natural selection. I actually did read a book on it a while ago that went deeply into the math. I don't recall the numbers precisely but even just thinking about it, it seems impossible over so few generations. The book was by a guy who has made some errors in his reasoning, perhaps, but not in that argument. It is "No Free Lunch" by Dembsky.
Cinematech.
I can just let that runin the background while I work. It really brings back memories or lets you see things you never would have seen but always wanted to.
Does DNA not equally support the idea of a common designer?
DNA means that evolution unequivically cannot be true as it is far to complex a process for random mutations to affect a positive result over so short a time.
It's not like the Origin of Species is the Word of God, or something.
Actually, it is treated as such on this thread. Every argument supporting is that I have read on this thread is pure dogmatism.
My theory as to why this is so is that the supporters think this is a chance to stick it in the eye of anyone who is seemingly happy in life or whom they subconciously percieve may better than them. Namely Christians. Sometimes you see the same applied to the rich (progressive taxation).
Oh - and you sidestepped my question. You said that evolution was predicted by the fossil record and I asked for one example that was not simply natural selection - and you still have not yet found one on Google, have you?
You don't know what ID is. It sounds like you are confusing it with a Protestant's Bible literalism/creationism.
Name one prediction that has been born out that could not be equated to natural selection?
Why don't you tell us about how the fossil records failure to demonstrate the Darwinian concept of evolution has resulted in the new punctuated equalibriam theory of the day meant to shore up all of the academics who staked their livelyhood to the perpetuation of evolution?
How has evolution ever been 'predicted' in the fossil record? How can you predict something you already know? It's more like trying to fit an theory to the evidence which cannot be tested.
Which is fine. That's what ID does. But what ID does not do is require the tremendous leap of faith needed to believe in punctuated equalibrium or the unbelievable randomness required for evolution to have gotten from particles to people.
The best, strongest evidence of evolution is equally strong evidence of ID.
Bonus points here for Turbine for actually doing this. Patch Day every month was always a huge event as folks hunted down the new stuff, checked new quests, listened to the new messages. It was always a race to find all the information. You could even run a little hack to see what landblocks had changed.
AC was in many ways screwed up but in many ways really good.
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Like I said, it's like paying for storage. I can listen to it anywhere with a car kit. And even if my HD does crash, I can just DL them all again.
I've downloaded so much stuff it's insane.
BTW - don't forget to keep your CDs out of your car in the summer and in protective baggies - beacuse if they melt or get scratched, the record company is not going to replace them.
Look at it this way - it's a montly fee for storage space where I store all of my music - gigs and gigs - for a small price.
I think you mis-read that. Support for DVD-RW doesn't mean it will burn anything but that it will play DVD-RW.
Onething they have going for them is that Xbox has the highest attachment rate of any console. If the same continues, it means they can take a bigger loss than the competitors and still make the same money.
Also cool is the support for music from mobile players. I have a Dell Pocket DJ with the Napster2Go service. This will allow me to carry my 'library' of over a million songs over to the Xbox.
I really can't see that they missed anything with this. Perhaps they will overprice is, but I'm looking for a 299 price point.
Yes, I suppose I could print them. I hope they make the format so that it comes out of the printer nice and neat.
Can't take them on the train and can't take them into the bathroom or at the breakfast table. Can't read them easily in bed.
There are a lot of multi megapixel cameraphones out now. My next one will be one.
Evidence of mutation in the fossil record would be nice, sure. That would prove evolution and it would no longer be a theory (although the academic support for the theory is a dogmatic religion).
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How very appropriate your signature is.
However, there was a recent story that Dell was looking at AMD. See here.
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There is already a Media Center Extender for the current Xbox. This role that the extender has will likely be shared with the Xbox's sequel.
Wha? I don't know what you are talking about. I just like watching the sceen caps.
No, it's not. It's NS + mutation. Where did you come from?
Both a Ford Taurus and a Mercury Sable are similar - but do you conclude that one evolved out of the other or that they were manufactured by the same company?
Re: DNA's complexity and natural selection. I actually did read a book on it a while ago that went deeply into the math. I don't recall the numbers precisely but even just thinking about it, it seems impossible over so few generations. The book was by a guy who has made some errors in his reasoning, perhaps, but not in that argument. It is "No Free Lunch" by Dembsky.
Cinematech. I can just let that runin the background while I work. It really brings back memories or lets you see things you never would have seen but always wanted to.
DNA means that evolution unequivically cannot be true as it is far to complex a process for random mutations to affect a positive result over so short a time.
Actually, it is treated as such on this thread. Every argument supporting is that I have read on this thread is pure dogmatism.
My theory as to why this is so is that the supporters think this is a chance to stick it in the eye of anyone who is seemingly happy in life or whom they subconciously percieve may better than them. Namely Christians. Sometimes you see the same applied to the rich (progressive taxation).
Oh - and you sidestepped my question. You said that evolution was predicted by the fossil record and I asked for one example that was not simply natural selection - and you still have not yet found one on Google, have you?
Name one prediction that has been born out that could not be equated to natural selection?
Why don't you tell us about how the fossil records failure to demonstrate the Darwinian concept of evolution has resulted in the new punctuated equalibriam theory of the day meant to shore up all of the academics who staked their livelyhood to the perpetuation of evolution?
Which is fine. That's what ID does. But what ID does not do is require the tremendous leap of faith needed to believe in punctuated equalibrium or the unbelievable randomness required for evolution to have gotten from particles to people.
The best, strongest evidence of evolution is equally strong evidence of ID.
Go on Ebay and buy this awesome RTS for Xbox - MAgic the Gathering: Battlegrounds. Best Xbox game ever.
AC was in many ways screwed up but in many ways really good.
the only way you can gain traction is if you define the opposition in a negative way.... .
Then you said this:
a bizarre form of cronyism as practiced by the Republicans, where those who donate to their campaigns are rewarded with handouts from the Treasury....
And then you said this:
And then you said, just now:
Perhaps you should advance past the name calling phase and actually start addressing policy differences.
So.. do that rather than following your example, right?
It's more symbolic than realistic. I suppose the cliffs look better than doom/FPS style maze walls.