Yes, I was a big Psion fan. Had a series 3a, then bought a Series 3c just as they got out of the PDA business. Bastards.
The Psions were superior to the then popular Palm machines. Another Betamax story.
Psion continued with their EPOC operating system, licensing it to, at least, Nokia. So for a while Psion had their stuff was probably in big use everywhere. Don't know what happened to them since then, but assumed they were getting rich from the mobile phone market.
Still bastards for abandoning me with my 3c.
I thought the first Crysis was pretty good. I played it through several times trying different strategies via the supersuit.
I couldnt tell you what my low-end graphics card is, but I just turned down the graphics options until I got a good frame rate, and enjoyed the game. But then I remember playing the original Doom in 1994 and thinking that was super brilliant.
Downloading gobs of music only appeals to a certain demographic. I bought over 1,000 CD's in my youth, but now 2 or 3 a year at the most. I don't feel like paying $5/month for something I won't use. I'll need an Internet connection for the next 50 years (hopefully). Without inflation, that's $3,000. Probably more like $10,000 with inflation (a guess). That's quite a tax.
I don't get it. If life began so many years ago surely there were no books. And if there was, where did they come from? You need a bookmaker to make a book, but if the book is about these primitive forms of life, how could there be a bookmaker?
Don't you think Charles Darwin was hinting at the existence of God when he used that expression - "Book of Life", since who but God could be using a book at that point in history? Plus, the biblical reference is clear - as someone pointed out.
Finally, the four branches of life make sense since there are four letter in God's name - YHWH (Yarweh). A bet the ancient Aramaic words for those branches translate to this acronym - just a hunch.
Only joking. On a serious note - please quote the whole sentence, not just a snippet. "Tree of life" is an ancient expression, but first used by Darwin in a different and special way.
Err.... what irregularities were you thinking of?
Scientists, including evolutionists, love irregularities as they are often the most productive path in discovering and working-out new advances in science. The beauty of science is that it can encompass all irregularities. Indeed, perhaps this is its goal - to understand and explain all that exists. Religion, on the other hand, is based on received wisdom and is inflexible to new information - it has trouble encompassing new things, and resists.
I love the line from the end of the Wikipedia article:
The resulting "Helium Privatization Act of 1996" (Public Law 104-273) directed the United States Department of the Interior to start liquidating the reserve by 2005.
OK, OK, so they are going to start liquidating the reserve, but the big question is - are they going to sell off the helium to make some cash?:-)
Of course dowsing works. For Heaven's sake. Don't you know that when dowsing the rods actually transform into Jesus' femurs, and Jesus crosses his legs when his bladder is full - the principle behind dowsing. The Vatican calls this 'transubstancelocation'.
What do you mean "belong to the PC"? Just wondering - PCs are not 'legal entities', and so cannot own anything. Legal entities are things like people, corporations.
Well, this sounds like a mineral based water filter. It removes the radioactive isotopes from water, not the radiation itself. So anything that can remove these typically heavy ions will work. I'm surprised this is new.
But the Wikipedia article has links which also go on to say:
The frequent argument over whether fair use is a "right" or a "defense"[16] is generated by confusion over the use of the term "affirmative defense." An affirmative defense is simply a term of art from litigation reflecting the timing in which the defense is raised. It does not distinguish between "rights" and "defenses," and so it does not characterize the substance of the defendant's actions as "not a right but a defense." The First Amendment, for instance, is generally raised as an affirmative defense in litigation, but is clearly a "right." Similarly, while fair use is characterized as a defense in terms of the litigation posture, Section 107 defines fair use as a "limitation" on copyright law and states clearly that "the fair use of a copyrighted work... is not an infringement of copyright."
This states that the difference between an affirmative defense and a right is unclear, by the examples stated.
Get the same file using different accounts and compare. Any hidden information - if account specific, which I assume is the point - will show up in the differences.
No problem with competition - although I dont think we (humans) should have to compete just to survive, just to live; I think a purpose of civilization and progress is to raise mankind out of that - but it doesn't have to be aggressive.
Actually what I meant by 'culture of aggression' is that violence - gun violence - pervades our (U.S.) entire society. Can you watch TV without seeing a gun, or someone being shot? Guns and violence are in so many movies - except kids' movies and chick-flicks. Our cops walk around armed to the teeth. Its not like that in Britain, for instance, or maybe its changing now. I know Brits who had never seen a real gun except in museums and in trips to Florida.
Having said all this, I must be off now as I have two movies to watch: Ghost Rider and Saw III. Perhaps if stopped renting this stuff Hollywood would get the message, right? Oh no - I'm part of the problem!
And what's this got to do with the longevity of whales? How did we get into this topic?:-)
I spent a little time in Grise Fjiord, the most northerly community in Canada on Ellesmere Island. I went out whale hunting with an Inuit family that we had befriended. We went in a small rowing boat with an outboard motor, and a rifle. We were after Narwals that had been spotted the previous day.
It was a big occasion for the town, and lots of people were out for the hunt too. All had their permits, which gave them the opportunity to hunt some tiny number of animals per year.
My thought was that it was a reasonable evolution of their culture to hunt as they did, and perfectly normal for where they lived. I felt no more sorry for the Narwals as I would going fishing for Bass with a friend - even though I was a fully-paid-up memeber of Greenpeace at the time, and a wildlife sympathiser.
This town and its people would have negligable affect on the animal population; they had permits to fit in with Federal regulations; and their hunting was perfectly in keeping with their surroundings.
They didn't catch any Narwals - by the way - at least not while I was there.
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It is:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
GIRL:
Let the heathen spill theirs
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for
Each sperm that can't be found.
CHILDREN:
Every sperm is wanted.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.
......
- Monty Python
Dear me, how pathetic. It's not the kids who are over-reacting, but the parents.
Please mod the parent funny; so say we all.
Yes, I was a big Psion fan. Had a series 3a, then bought a Series 3c just as they got out of the PDA business. Bastards. The Psions were superior to the then popular Palm machines. Another Betamax story. Psion continued with their EPOC operating system, licensing it to, at least, Nokia. So for a while Psion had their stuff was probably in big use everywhere. Don't know what happened to them since then, but assumed they were getting rich from the mobile phone market. Still bastards for abandoning me with my 3c.
Call that big? THIS is BIG
Thanks for your stunningly precise, clear and accurate contribution to scientific discourse on /.
I thought the first Crysis was pretty good. I played it through several times trying different strategies via the supersuit. I couldnt tell you what my low-end graphics card is, but I just turned down the graphics options until I got a good frame rate, and enjoyed the game. But then I remember playing the original Doom in 1994 and thinking that was super brilliant.
Please mod up....brilliant
Brilliant - please mod this up, up, up.
Dear God, Slashdotters! Everyone knows it's twice half as much.
African or European?
Downloading gobs of music only appeals to a certain demographic. I bought over 1,000 CD's in my youth, but now 2 or 3 a year at the most. I don't feel like paying $5/month for something I won't use. I'll need an Internet connection for the next 50 years (hopefully). Without inflation, that's $3,000. Probably more like $10,000 with inflation (a guess). That's quite a tax.
In that case, the joke is on me - nice one.
I don't get it. If life began so many years ago surely there were no books. And if there was, where did they come from? You need a bookmaker to make a book, but if the book is about these primitive forms of life, how could there be a bookmaker?
Don't you think Charles Darwin was hinting at the existence of God when he used that expression - "Book of Life", since who but God could be using a book at that point in history? Plus, the biblical reference is clear - as someone pointed out.
Finally, the four branches of life make sense since there are four letter in God's name - YHWH (Yarweh). A bet the ancient Aramaic words for those branches translate to this acronym - just a hunch.
Only joking. On a serious note - please quote the whole sentence, not just a snippet. "Tree of life" is an ancient expression, but first used by Darwin in a different and special way.
Err.... what irregularities were you thinking of? Scientists, including evolutionists, love irregularities as they are often the most productive path in discovering and working-out new advances in science. The beauty of science is that it can encompass all irregularities. Indeed, perhaps this is its goal - to understand and explain all that exists. Religion, on the other hand, is based on received wisdom and is inflexible to new information - it has trouble encompassing new things, and resists.
Oh, but its fine for him to push *you* too far with his creationist rubbish. Perhaps you should have gone to HR and complained!
I love the line from the end of the Wikipedia article:
:-)
The resulting "Helium Privatization Act of 1996" (Public Law 104-273) directed the United States Department of the Interior to start liquidating the reserve by 2005.
OK, OK, so they are going to start liquidating the reserve, but the big question is - are they going to sell off the helium to make some cash?
I love this reply in the article:
Of course dowsing works. For Heaven's sake. Don't you know that when dowsing the rods actually transform into Jesus' femurs, and Jesus crosses his legs when his bladder is full - the principle behind dowsing. The Vatican calls this 'transubstancelocation'.
Heathens. Boy are you nay-sayers ignorant.
What do you mean "belong to the PC"? Just wondering - PCs are not 'legal entities', and so cannot own anything. Legal entities are things like people, corporations.
Well, this sounds like a mineral based water filter. It removes the radioactive isotopes from water, not the radiation itself. So anything that can remove these typically heavy ions will work. I'm surprised this is new.
This states that the difference between an affirmative defense and a right is unclear, by the examples stated.
Good point - don't know.
Get the same file using different accounts and compare. Any hidden information - if account specific, which I assume is the point - will show up in the differences.
No problem with competition - although I dont think we (humans) should have to compete just to survive, just to live; I think a purpose of civilization and progress is to raise mankind out of that - but it doesn't have to be aggressive.
:-)
Actually what I meant by 'culture of aggression' is that violence - gun violence - pervades our (U.S.) entire society. Can you watch TV without seeing a gun, or someone being shot? Guns and violence are in so many movies - except kids' movies and chick-flicks. Our cops walk around armed to the teeth. Its not like that in Britain, for instance, or maybe its changing now. I know Brits who had never seen a real gun except in museums and in trips to Florida.
Having said all this, I must be off now as I have two movies to watch: Ghost Rider and Saw III. Perhaps if stopped renting this stuff Hollywood would get the message, right? Oh no - I'm part of the problem!
And what's this got to do with the longevity of whales? How did we get into this topic?
I spent a little time in Grise Fjiord, the most northerly community in Canada on Ellesmere Island. I went out whale hunting with an Inuit family that we had befriended. We went in a small rowing boat with an outboard motor, and a rifle. We were after Narwals that had been spotted the previous day.
It was a big occasion for the town, and lots of people were out for the hunt too. All had their permits, which gave them the opportunity to hunt some tiny number of animals per year.
My thought was that it was a reasonable evolution of their culture to hunt as they did, and perfectly normal for where they lived. I felt no more sorry for the Narwals as I would going fishing for Bass with a friend - even though I was a fully-paid-up memeber of Greenpeace at the time, and a wildlife sympathiser.
This town and its people would have negligable affect on the animal population; they had permits to fit in with Federal regulations; and their hunting was perfectly in keeping with their surroundings.
They didn't catch any Narwals - by the way - at least not while I was there.