I, personally, believe that the real question is "What is better, and for whom?". Better for me? Better for you? Better for random_person_314?
The problem, as I see it, is that we as people aren't privy to every effect our actions have. Every action we take is akin to dropping a pebble into a vast ocean at some seemingly random place. We don't know what the effects will be at a random spot on the beach somewhere in a far off land. We don't know how the wave will effect every grain of sand on that beach, or the ocean life near it. We can look down from our vantage point and see the local effect to some degree, but we can't (Well, maybe we can, but that is a discussion for another day) observe the universal effects.
It is my belief, that due to this little problem we really aren't in a position to determine what is "good" or "bad" on a universal scale. Living within the confines of this world requires that we make judgements about the "good" or "bad" of various things, but that doesn't mean we can apply those judgements on a larger scale, because we aren't aware of all of the variables or results(well, maybe we are or could be and don't know it, but again, that is another discussion for another day). As a result of this, I don't see how it can be generalized that doing something percieved as "good" on a local scale can be assured to be "good" on a universal scale. What if being nice to someone within the confines of our local reality, could contribute in a small way to someone being murdered somewhere else. What if, in the grand scheme of things, that person needed to be murdered for the greater good? People within that local reality may see the murder as a bad thing, while somewhere else maybe it will be seen as a turning point towards better times (Maybe it was Evil_Dictator_259).
I think this is the problem with judgement refered to in the Bible. I conceed that I could be interpreting it wrong, but I feel that the problem isn't so much with judgement on a local scale (subjective), but with deciding that those judgements apply on a universal scale (objective), because we aren't omnipotent (well, maybe we are and aren't aware of it). We are stuck with the trappings of a subjective reality, and we aren't in a position to pass judgement in any objective way, which is why sometimes "bad things happen to good people". Maybe those things aren't actually bad. Maybe it is the best thing that ever could have happened to them. We aren't in a position to know, and as a result aren't in a position to pass judgement in any objective way about the "good" or "bad" of those occurances. Even within the confines of our little local realities which we can observe, we can't be completely sure of the effects of our actions, because the observed result will be clouded by our subjective views of "good" or "bad". What we feel is best for someone else, may be the worst thing that could have occured for them.
Sorry for the rambling post. I think I should get some more coffee.
In a game, you get ahead through intelligence and talent, both physical and mental, not by how much of your pocketbook you have to spare.
Not exactly true, because were this the case, people wouldn't have been able to sell Everquest Accounts for $1,000 or more per account on Ebay. They also wouldn't have been able to Ebay off Platinum Pieces in the game of Everquest for real cash. Now, I wouldn't personally pay for items within a game with real cash aside from the monthly fee, but there really are quite a few people out there willing to pay, and many people more than willing to sell.
However, I am torn on this idea because I happen to think ideally people should get ahead through skill, but I don't know that I would say the ability to spend money effectively isn't a skill. Investing is most certainly a skill, and it seems as though this game is basically investing with a game face slapped on it. Though, personally, I think it's silly to invest real cash for items in these virtual worlds.
When all is said and done though, this guy may end up with a rather large chunk of cash out of his virtual investment.
As long as it takes on the host computer you are developing with. Seriously, you would never compile anything on the embedded device.
Well, that isn't exactly true. The folks making the Gumstix boards are setting up a cluster of them for devel. purposes. At least that is my understanding of the Gumstix clusters purpose.
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So far as the Gentoo embedded size goes I have no idea because I haven't yet used it, though I will give it a shot on one of my home machines tonight.
For the ARM based devices I am working with currently a base system consists of a kernel, uClibc, busybox, lrzsz, c-kermit, a few other small tools I have written, and the scripts I need to have it preform the required tasks. With those as part of the system image, it weighs in at about 3.2meg compressed. The limit due to flash ram size after U-Boot is installed is about 3.5meg. This leaves me with a little bit of headroom in case I need to install anything else.
My current setup for building is a lowly 450 MHz P2 with 128 meg of RAM, which is currently running Gentoo. I use the buildroot setup from the Gumstix folks, which is pretty much just a basic filesystem, some premade Makefiles for a handful of packages, and a cross compiler.
Current build time for the things in the Gumstix file system I currently use is roughly 3 hours, which could obviously be made much shorter with a faster build machine.
Well, I can't say for certain how long it would take for the phone, because there are a number of factors involved.
For the embedded systems I have been working with I have a few options. I can boot a basic file system, and then load any extra tools I need from an MMC card, which gives me more space to work with, but I need that space for data storage, or I can be limited to a compressed file system which is loaded from Flash, which in my case means the file system needs to be under about 3.5 meg in size. In other words, your current "basic" system more than likely wouldn't fit on your phone.
The embedded setup more than likely will allow compiling on the device itself, which is nice, but the real strength of this is in cross compiling in my opinion. You would build everything on that Athlon XP and then move it to the phone. Given the restrictions of an embedded device, there might be a great deal that needs to get left out (again, this depends on the device, in my case I have that 3.5meg limit).
In addition to the above, they don't use gLibc, which saves a bit of compile time, because they instead use uCLibc. Generally depending on space considerations you may not be using your standard grep, or sed, or awk, but will instead be using something akin to busybox which takes less time, in my experience, to compile.
Also it should be noted that at the current time with an embedded device you generally need to compile from source anyway. This Gentoo system would seem to be headed in the direction of handling a lot of the micromanagement of the file system and finding patches for the applications you need.
Granted, I am new at working with embedded devices so I am probably not the best person to comment on this as I am sure there are more experienced folks around.
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Depending on how they set up the cross compile environment this could be a very very good thing.
Recently I have been doing lots of devel. work to be used on Gumstix. At present I already need to compile the full root filesystem and flash that to the Gumstix, so there isn't much change there, but provided that the emerge and USE system work well without adding bloat like the emerge system itself or Python to the system image, this would make an excellent tool as it would remove the headache of creating.mk files and ensuring that I have all the right patches for each package, or even worse porting the packages myself. This is all assuming they set the portage system up so that emerge can be used to send packages to the cross compiler and merged into the root filesystem being created.
Very very few I would imagine. I spent a small ammount of time on the site about a year ago. I never found it to be all that much fun. I have gone and "fed" my pets twice in the past year due to the daughter of a female friend of mine complaining that my pet was starving. None of them have died, and to the best of my knowledge the pets are unable to die, at least not of starvation.
Unfortunately, wearing roofing tiles and/or window shades is more than likely going to make you stand out in a crowd a bit more than normal. They also tend to pinch, kinda like wearing poorly made, or unpadded, armor.
So far as I know there isn't a PAM module to use SecureID cards directly. I have read that you can get a SecureID enabled Radius Server, and then use the PAM module to authenticate using Radius. I haven't tried it so I have no idea how well it works, but it is one option.
This is based on reading from a while ago, so I don't know what the current state of a SecureID PAM module is.
One you might want to try (Have to get Fansubs at this point, but it's worth it), is Scrapped Princess. I really hope the series ends up with a release in the US on DVD. It seemed slow through the first few episodes to me, but once it gets rolling it gets much much better. I saw the whole 26 episode set as a torrent and figured I would give it a shot. I downloaded all of them and would watch the first episode and then do something else. That occured for about 2 months. I finally sat down when I had time and watched the first 5 episodes at once, it steamrolled from there, and 13 hours later I realized I had just spent a whole day watching an anime series. As it turns out, it was worth every moment of that 13 hours.
This is assuming of course that you haven't seen it. I don't know that I would compare it to Last Exile or GITS: SAC, but it definitely holds it's own.
.hack//SIGN is a great series, but what really got me wasn't so much the art, it wasn't the story, it was the damn soundtrack. The story is wonderful, the artwork is wonderful, but that damn soundtrack is what really put it over the top for me.
Hopefully Naruto will get licensed eventually. Personally, I hope they finish the series before it gets licensed. I hate the idea of waiting a year to see the next episode because the fansub groups have decided to stop subbing once it's licensed, but the licensee isn't ready to start releasing.
Please, think of the chillrens, I have a wednesday night addiction to feed.
That having been said, if it does get picked up for US distribution, I will gladly shell out my heard earned dollars for all of the episodes on DVD. I am keeping my fansubs around as well though.
Legend of the Overfiend (Urotsukidoji) is the best anime ever, because nothing says quality anime like tenticle rape.
All kidding aside, I really can't make up my mind which movie is the best. There are so many extraordinary ones it's hard to decide. It really depends on what the viewer likes. I have found that there is something for everyone out there. You just have to look for it.
Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorites, but I haven't pulled out the DVD just to watch it since Stand Alone Complex started to air. For those who haven't seen it, the series is just that good.
Actually, I have been finding that I generally crave a good series far more than a good movie. You just can't pack the punch of a good series into something the length of a movie. Scrapped Princess while wonderful as a series (and not mentioned nearly enough), just wouldn't work as a movie. Another example would be Evangelion. As a series Evangelion is increadible and I really don't see how you could hope to communicate the depth of the series in a movie length feature.
I will definitely see new anime based movies as they come out, and continue to watch the ones that have already been released, but if I want something truly immersive I will pull out my DVDs of series episodes and watch those.
Great pick. I actually didn't like the series until AFTER I watched Trust and Betrayal. It actually made the series enjoyable for me. The second OVA (Seisouhen) was/is amazing too.
Please understand, this isn't intended as a flame by any stretch of the imagination. It's simply a criticism of a few of your points.
Superstition and religion are, in my opinion, vestiges of the caveman days when nothing was understood and explanations were just pulled out of someone's ass so that the rest of the tribe felt better.
This is still occuring it serves a purpose a very important purpose, actually. I hate to break it to you, but contrary to what you may desire it isn't going anywhere soon, and is in fact something you may participate in.
That might come acrost as flamebait, but I really do think that's how it happened.
I really hope it doesn't come across as flamebait, I personally don't see it that way.
Faith (which is an odd word in and of itself) in something that can't be seen, does you no day to day good, and certainly can't be proven makes no sense to me.
First point on this comment would be that religion/superstition do people ALOT of good in general on a day to day basis emotionally, at least the majority of the religous people I know.
The problem with this comment overall is that science is essentially a form of faith. You have to have faith that:
A) your measurements are accurate.
B) that the model you are using is correct
C) that what you, I, or anyone else considers to be reality is in fact real.
Now, the list above isn't all inclusive, I am sure I could find some other things were I to actually sit down and consider it at length, but those are pretty much essential, so I will stick with those for the time being while I actually get some coffee in me.
Science tries to cover the first two by making sure that measurement equipment gets better, that results get verified by people elsewhere, and that models are modified/thrown out as new information is discovered. Unfortunately, point C is kind of a kick in the nuts. Also unfortunately, A and B mean basically nothing unless C can be proven. Much like the existence or non-existence of a God, there is only one way I can think of to prove it, and that is to be omniscient. Problem being, that unless you know everything, you can't say for certain that:
A) There is no God!
B) Any of this is actually real.
In other words, you take it as a matter of faith that what you observe is real, and upon that faith you decide that one model or the other is correct. If you are one of the many who doesn't believe in a God, then you take it as a matter of faith that there is no God, and may be trying to help the rest of the "tribe" feel better about that belief by asserting that there is proof that all of this is real, that the models are correct, etc. Again, the models, the existance of this reality, and everything else are a matter of faith. If it isn't a matter of faith, prove that any of this is actually real. Though it may seem well supported, it really is simply a house of cards. Maybe it is real, maybe it isn't. None of us, so far as I have seen, can either prove it or disprove it, ultimately.
Now, please don't misunderstand me, I am not saying there is or isn't a God. There may or may not be a God. Eventually we will either find out or we wont. Personally, I am cool with that setup.
Let alone killing someone because they have a different faith/set of irrational beliefs. It's time for the human race to grow up.
I completely agree, but I would like to point out that it seems from your post as though you, at least in part, look down upon those who are religous because they are holding onto something which is based on "vestiges of the caveman days". The problem being that in a way even approaching things from a scientific standpoint is the same thing, just in a different package. It is still based on faith, and it could be correct or incorrect. Without that messy omniscient thing, none of us can know. Maybe you are omniscient, personally I doubt it, but I myse
"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show."
""You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!" ~ Bill Hicks
Busty is a good name, and shows strong sense of family values. Personally I have "The Jumblies" as my female katana/regen scrapper. Gained her abilities after a breast augmentation mishap.
She isn't slutty, however. For slutty I have drumroll Twitney Spears.
Are you talking about the problem of the OpenGL vis plugins rendering slowly? If so then there may be a stale copy of some open GL related header file or librarie on the system. If you can find and get rid of those then have gentoo reemerge XMMS and the assorted plugins it should be fixed.
At least that is my recollection of how I fixed the problem when I had it.
Also there is an option of trying the opengl-update program which may end up fixing it for you.
Thanks, I was just going to post a reply about the 300A. The only Celeron I ever purchased. My 300A running at just over 500 is still running to this day, very reliably I might add.
Like the other responder to your post I also now have a 6Mbps/768Kbps account with Speakeasy, but prior to that I had a 768Kbps/128Kbps line from Verizon. If you have the option of Speakeasy, I can't possibly recommend better. Their service is really top notch, and the 6Mbps downstream is wonderful.
I may get shot for it and then be forced to turn in my Slashdot ID, but while I was using Verizon's service I actually liked it. It wasn't terribly fast, but had great uptime in my experience(I had 3 outages over the course of 3 years each of which was roughly 10-15 minutes of downtime).
With Verizon I regularly downloaded 30-50 Gig a month and never ran into any throttling for downloads or uploads(I watch a ton of FanSubbed Anime as well as telecommute). So, while I admittedly can't comment on this new service, I can say that at least in my experience there is no throttling, and I admittedly consumed quite a bit of bandwidth. This may however be specific to the Washington DC area and the nagging/throttling may happen in other areas.
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I, personally, believe that the real question is "What is better, and for whom?". Better for me? Better for you? Better for random_person_314?
The problem, as I see it, is that we as people aren't privy to every effect our actions have. Every action we take is akin to dropping a pebble into a vast ocean at some seemingly random place. We don't know what the effects will be at a random spot on the beach somewhere in a far off land. We don't know how the wave will effect every grain of sand on that beach, or the ocean life near it. We can look down from our vantage point and see the local effect to some degree, but we can't (Well, maybe we can, but that is a discussion for another day) observe the universal effects.
It is my belief, that due to this little problem we really aren't in a position to determine what is "good" or "bad" on a universal scale. Living within the confines of this world requires that we make judgements about the "good" or "bad" of various things, but that doesn't mean we can apply those judgements on a larger scale, because we aren't aware of all of the variables or results(well, maybe we are or could be and don't know it, but again, that is another discussion for another day). As a result of this, I don't see how it can be generalized that doing something percieved as "good" on a local scale can be assured to be "good" on a universal scale. What if being nice to someone within the confines of our local reality, could contribute in a small way to someone being murdered somewhere else. What if, in the grand scheme of things, that person needed to be murdered for the greater good? People within that local reality may see the murder as a bad thing, while somewhere else maybe it will be seen as a turning point towards better times (Maybe it was Evil_Dictator_259).
I think this is the problem with judgement refered to in the Bible. I conceed that I could be interpreting it wrong, but I feel that the problem isn't so much with judgement on a local scale (subjective), but with deciding that those judgements apply on a universal scale (objective), because we aren't omnipotent (well, maybe we are and aren't aware of it). We are stuck with the trappings of a subjective reality, and we aren't in a position to pass judgement in any objective way, which is why sometimes "bad things happen to good people". Maybe those things aren't actually bad. Maybe it is the best thing that ever could have happened to them. We aren't in a position to know, and as a result aren't in a position to pass judgement in any objective way about the "good" or "bad" of those occurances. Even within the confines of our little local realities which we can observe, we can't be completely sure of the effects of our actions, because the observed result will be clouded by our subjective views of "good" or "bad". What we feel is best for someone else, may be the worst thing that could have occured for them.
Sorry for the rambling post. I think I should get some more coffee.
In a game, you get ahead through intelligence and talent, both physical and mental, not by how much of your pocketbook you have to spare.
Not exactly true, because were this the case, people wouldn't have been able to sell Everquest Accounts for $1,000 or more per account on Ebay. They also wouldn't have been able to Ebay off Platinum Pieces in the game of Everquest for real cash. Now, I wouldn't personally pay for items within a game with real cash aside from the monthly fee, but there really are quite a few people out there willing to pay, and many people more than willing to sell.
However, I am torn on this idea because I happen to think ideally people should get ahead through skill, but I don't know that I would say the ability to spend money effectively isn't a skill. Investing is most certainly a skill, and it seems as though this game is basically investing with a game face slapped on it. Though, personally, I think it's silly to invest real cash for items in these virtual worlds.
When all is said and done though, this guy may end up with a rather large chunk of cash out of his virtual investment.
As long as it takes on the host computer you are developing with. Seriously, you would never compile anything on the embedded device.
Well, that isn't exactly true. The folks making the Gumstix boards are setting up a cluster of them for devel. purposes. At least that is my understanding of the Gumstix clusters purpose.
So far as the Gentoo embedded size goes I have no idea because I haven't yet used it, though I will give it a shot on one of my home machines tonight.
For the ARM based devices I am working with currently a base system consists of a kernel, uClibc, busybox, lrzsz, c-kermit, a few other small tools I have written, and the scripts I need to have it preform the required tasks. With those as part of the system image, it weighs in at about 3.2meg compressed. The limit due to flash ram size after U-Boot is installed is about 3.5meg. This leaves me with a little bit of headroom in case I need to install anything else.
My current setup for building is a lowly 450 MHz P2 with 128 meg of RAM, which is currently running Gentoo. I use the buildroot setup from the Gumstix folks, which is pretty much just a basic filesystem, some premade Makefiles for a handful of packages, and a cross compiler.
Current build time for the things in the Gumstix file system I currently use is roughly 3 hours, which could obviously be made much shorter with a faster build machine.
Well, I can't say for certain how long it would take for the phone, because there are a number of factors involved.
For the embedded systems I have been working with I have a few options. I can boot a basic file system, and then load any extra tools I need from an MMC card, which gives me more space to work with, but I need that space for data storage, or I can be limited to a compressed file system which is loaded from Flash, which in my case means the file system needs to be under about 3.5 meg in size. In other words, your current "basic" system more than likely wouldn't fit on your phone.
The embedded setup more than likely will allow compiling on the device itself, which is nice, but the real strength of this is in cross compiling in my opinion. You would build everything on that Athlon XP and then move it to the phone. Given the restrictions of an embedded device, there might be a great deal that needs to get left out (again, this depends on the device, in my case I have that 3.5meg limit).
In addition to the above, they don't use gLibc, which saves a bit of compile time, because they instead use uCLibc. Generally depending on space considerations you may not be using your standard grep, or sed, or awk, but will instead be using something akin to busybox which takes less time, in my experience, to compile.
Also it should be noted that at the current time with an embedded device you generally need to compile from source anyway. This Gentoo system would seem to be headed in the direction of handling a lot of the micromanagement of the file system and finding patches for the applications you need.
Granted, I am new at working with embedded devices so I am probably not the best person to comment on this as I am sure there are more experienced folks around.
Depending on how they set up the cross compile environment this could be a very very good thing.
.mk files and ensuring that I have all the right patches for each package, or even worse porting the packages myself. This is all assuming they set the portage system up so that emerge can be used to send packages to the cross compiler and merged into the root filesystem being created.
Recently I have been doing lots of devel. work to be used on Gumstix. At present I already need to compile the full root filesystem and flash that to the Gumstix, so there isn't much change there, but provided that the emerge and USE system work well without adding bloat like the emerge system itself or Python to the system image, this would make an excellent tool as it would remove the headache of creating
Inertia damping? Is that anything like a big ole ghetto booty?
Very very few I would imagine. I spent a small ammount of time on the site about a year ago. I never found it to be all that much fun. I have gone and "fed" my pets twice in the past year due to the daughter of a female friend of mine complaining that my pet was starving. None of them have died, and to the best of my knowledge the pets are unable to die, at least not of starvation.
Good show, I watched this episode last night for the first time. Imagine my surprise when something related popped up on /. this morning.
It can be found out there as a torrent, though I don't recall where I ended up getting the torrent file from.
Unfortunately, wearing roofing tiles and/or window shades is more than likely going to make you stand out in a crowd a bit more than normal. They also tend to pinch, kinda like wearing poorly made, or unpadded, armor.
So far as I know there isn't a PAM module to use SecureID cards directly. I have read that you can get a SecureID enabled Radius Server, and then use the PAM module to authenticate using Radius. I haven't tried it so I have no idea how well it works, but it is one option.
This is based on reading from a while ago, so I don't know what the current state of a SecureID PAM module is.
Hmmmmm, this has me thinking. I wonder what watching GITS would be like to some of the compilation CDs LTJ Bukem has put out.
One you might want to try (Have to get Fansubs at this point, but it's worth it), is Scrapped Princess. I really hope the series ends up with a release in the US on DVD. It seemed slow through the first few episodes to me, but once it gets rolling it gets much much better. I saw the whole 26 episode set as a torrent and figured I would give it a shot. I downloaded all of them and would watch the first episode and then do something else. That occured for about 2 months. I finally sat down when I had time and watched the first 5 episodes at once, it steamrolled from there, and 13 hours later I realized I had just spent a whole day watching an anime series. As it turns out, it was worth every moment of that 13 hours.
.hack//SIGN is a great series, but what really got me wasn't so much the art, it wasn't the story, it was the damn soundtrack. The story is wonderful, the artwork is wonderful, but that damn soundtrack is what really put it over the top for me.
This is assuming of course that you haven't seen it. I don't know that I would compare it to Last Exile or GITS: SAC, but it definitely holds it's own.
Hopefully Naruto will get licensed eventually. Personally, I hope they finish the series before it gets licensed. I hate the idea of waiting a year to see the next episode because the fansub groups have decided to stop subbing once it's licensed, but the licensee isn't ready to start releasing.
Please, think of the chillrens, I have a wednesday night addiction to feed.
That having been said, if it does get picked up for US distribution, I will gladly shell out my heard earned dollars for all of the episodes on DVD. I am keeping my fansubs around as well though.
Legend of the Overfiend (Urotsukidoji) is the best anime ever, because nothing says quality anime like tenticle rape.
All kidding aside, I really can't make up my mind which movie is the best. There are so many extraordinary ones it's hard to decide. It really depends on what the viewer likes. I have found that there is something for everyone out there. You just have to look for it.
Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorites, but I haven't pulled out the DVD just to watch it since Stand Alone Complex started to air. For those who haven't seen it, the series is just that good.
Actually, I have been finding that I generally crave a good series far more than a good movie. You just can't pack the punch of a good series into something the length of a movie. Scrapped Princess while wonderful as a series (and not mentioned nearly enough), just wouldn't work as a movie. Another example would be Evangelion. As a series Evangelion is increadible and I really don't see how you could hope to communicate the depth of the series in a movie length feature.
I will definitely see new anime based movies as they come out, and continue to watch the ones that have already been released, but if I want something truly immersive I will pull out my DVDs of series episodes and watch those.
Great pick. I actually didn't like the series until AFTER I watched Trust and Betrayal. It actually made the series enjoyable for me. The second OVA (Seisouhen) was/is amazing too.
Please understand, this isn't intended as a flame by any stretch of the imagination. It's simply a criticism of a few of your points.
Superstition and religion are, in my opinion, vestiges of the caveman days when nothing was understood and explanations were just pulled out of someone's ass so that the rest of the tribe felt better.
This is still occuring it serves a purpose a very important purpose, actually. I hate to break it to you, but contrary to what you may desire it isn't going anywhere soon, and is in fact something you may participate in.
That might come acrost as flamebait, but I really do think that's how it happened.
I really hope it doesn't come across as flamebait, I personally don't see it that way.
Faith (which is an odd word in and of itself) in something that can't be seen, does you no day to day good, and certainly can't be proven makes no sense to me.
First point on this comment would be that religion/superstition do people ALOT of good in general on a day to day basis emotionally, at least the majority of the religous people I know.
The problem with this comment overall is that science is essentially a form of faith. You have to have faith that:
A) your measurements are accurate.
B) that the model you are using is correct
C) that what you, I, or anyone else considers to be reality is in fact real.
Now, the list above isn't all inclusive, I am sure I could find some other things were I to actually sit down and consider it at length, but those are pretty much essential, so I will stick with those for the time being while I actually get some coffee in me.
Science tries to cover the first two by making sure that measurement equipment gets better, that results get verified by people elsewhere, and that models are modified/thrown out as new information is discovered. Unfortunately, point C is kind of a kick in the nuts. Also unfortunately, A and B mean basically nothing unless C can be proven. Much like the existence or non-existence of a God, there is only one way I can think of to prove it, and that is to be omniscient. Problem being, that unless you know everything, you can't say for certain that:
A) There is no God!
B) Any of this is actually real.
In other words, you take it as a matter of faith that what you observe is real, and upon that faith you decide that one model or the other is correct. If you are one of the many who doesn't believe in a God, then you take it as a matter of faith that there is no God, and may be trying to help the rest of the "tribe" feel better about that belief by asserting that there is proof that all of this is real, that the models are correct, etc. Again, the models, the existance of this reality, and everything else are a matter of faith. If it isn't a matter of faith, prove that any of this is actually real. Though it may seem well supported, it really is simply a house of cards. Maybe it is real, maybe it isn't. None of us, so far as I have seen, can either prove it or disprove it, ultimately.
Now, please don't misunderstand me, I am not saying there is or isn't a God. There may or may not be a God. Eventually we will either find out or we wont. Personally, I am cool with that setup.
Let alone killing someone because they have a different faith/set of irrational beliefs. It's time for the human race to grow up.
I completely agree, but I would like to point out that it seems from your post as though you, at least in part, look down upon those who are religous because they are holding onto something which is based on "vestiges of the caveman days". The problem being that in a way even approaching things from a scientific standpoint is the same thing, just in a different package. It is still based on faith, and it could be correct or incorrect. Without that messy omniscient thing, none of us can know. Maybe you are omniscient, personally I doubt it, but I myse
"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show."
""You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!" ~ Bill Hicks
I don't know about that. Most folks I know more than likely tend to be pretty focused and resolute during a solo flight.
Oh please, this is /., the only people installing Trojans here are the ones who want to "see how they fit" or some such.
Completely off topic, but I had to reply.
Busty is a good name, and shows strong sense of family values. Personally I have "The Jumblies" as my female katana/regen scrapper. Gained her abilities after a breast augmentation mishap.
She isn't slutty, however. For slutty I have drumroll Twitney Spears.
I am not 100% sure of this, but I believe he is working with NCSoft at the moment (The folks who created City of Heroes and Lineage).
Are you talking about the problem of the OpenGL vis plugins rendering slowly? If so then there may be a stale copy of some open GL related header file or librarie on the system. If you can find and get rid of those then have gentoo reemerge XMMS and the assorted plugins it should be fixed.
At least that is my recollection of how I fixed the problem when I had it.
Also there is an option of trying the opengl-update program which may end up fixing it for you.
Thanks, I was just going to post a reply about the 300A. The only Celeron I ever purchased. My 300A running at just over 500 is still running to this day, very reliably I might add.
Like the other responder to your post I also now have a 6Mbps/768Kbps account with Speakeasy, but prior to that I had a 768Kbps/128Kbps line from Verizon. If you have the option of Speakeasy, I can't possibly recommend better. Their service is really top notch, and the 6Mbps downstream is wonderful.
I may get shot for it and then be forced to turn in my Slashdot ID, but while I was using Verizon's service I actually liked it. It wasn't terribly fast, but had great uptime in my experience(I had 3 outages over the course of 3 years each of which was roughly 10-15 minutes of downtime).
With Verizon I regularly downloaded 30-50 Gig a month and never ran into any throttling for downloads or uploads(I watch a ton of FanSubbed Anime as well as telecommute). So, while I admittedly can't comment on this new service, I can say that at least in my experience there is no throttling, and I admittedly consumed quite a bit of bandwidth. This may however be specific to the Washington DC area and the nagging/throttling may happen in other areas.