Because there is lots of great music from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s that spans multiple genres: Big Band, Country, Funk, Grunge, Heavy Metal, Jazz, New Wave, Pop, Rock, etc.
Now replace the word contemporary with classical. Does the question change?
The Torah is NOT a history book. Take Genesis: It has the lie of omission about Adam's first wife, has contradictory creation stories (Man is created _after_ the animals in chapter 1, but _before_ the animals in chapter 2), has the nonsense of day & night existing BEFORE the sun was made, chapter 4:4 shows that there were humans BEFORE Adam, etc. In Exodus we find nine of the ten commandments come directly out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The only ones treating Moses as canon are those ignorant of history.
It is obvious you've never read it, let alone understand the allegory of it.
e.g. Why is Day 2 of the creation is the ONLY day that doesn't say "It was good."
One of the many counter-examples that truth is NOT binary.
The other classic is:
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Again the correct answer is:
Mu. The question is invalid -- you are presupposing existing conditions that never existed. How do you stop something when you never started it in the first place???
Running Linux on Windows allows for the full *nix ecosystem without having to reboot or fart around with Cygwin, can try-it-before-you-install, easier cross-platform development, etc.
Does it _really_ matter _why_ they want to do this?
Agreed! When I worked on one PS1 game the two graphics guy had to sub-divide triangles like crazy so that the affine texture mapper wasn't producing "swimming" / shimmering textures like crazy. The worst offenders were vertical and horizontal polygons relative to the camera's DOF (Direction of Flight).
Wonder if THPS (Tony Hawk Pro Skater) will be available? Normally I hate sports games but that was an absolute blast! Wasn't there a port of Diablo 1 to the PSX available as well?
Note: The PSX was the code name Sony and us devs called the PS1. So many std C lib funds were outright broken the first year, but I digress.
> I am willing to venture that most people do not resort to the Pirate Bay and others because it is free.
That definitely would be an interesting stat to have! Though I'm not sure how one could accurately measure this?
Also, I imagine the reasons _why_ one would visit sites like TPB *overlap:*
I.e. [x] I *already* bought a copy but I'm traveling without physical access, [x] "Cuz it's free, man!" [x] It's convenient. [x] "Stick it to the man(agenent)!" [x] "Sharing is caring." [x] I just collect everything. [ ] Other: _____
You've summarized all the points beautifully. While I have a dedicated Canon Digital Rebel it is far more practical / convenient to just use the smart phone I do have with me to take pictures when I *don't* have the Rebel with me. Go figure!:-)
"The best camera is the one you have when you need it."
And when these servers shut down in a few years because the masses have moved on to the next fad you won't be able to play. Sorry, do not want.
I've actually been playing Minecraft (Java) with my gaming buddies on our private server this past year and it is nice not to have to put up with the bullshit of loot boxes, DLC, or micro transactions. I can make texture packs, data packs, etc. without some company holding our entertainment hostage.
Regardless of how good an internet connection they can guarantee it will NEVER beat 0ms input lag from the box sitting right in front of me.
--/r/Minecraft Redditard censorship: It is against the rules to ask about the history of famous Minecraft servers such as 2B2T !
But I take it you are referring to the Y chromosome ?
Y is the sex-determining chromosome in many species, since it is the presence or absence of Y that determines the male or female sex of offspring produced in sexual reproduction.
Who knew those that claimed "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" were lying all this time!/s
> Copying is stealing someone's time and effort, copying and giving it away is no different.
1. You keep using this word "steal". It doesn't mean what you think it does. The original author STILL has their effort.
2. FTFY: Copying is DUPLICATING someone's effort for almost zero time. Whether it is LEGAL or ILLEGAL depends.
3./sarcasm Who knew that copying Linux was stealing Linus' time ! Oh wait, you meant "illegal copying", because LEGAL COPYING granted by GPL, BSD, Public Domain, etc. is perfectly fine.
4. Furthermore, under certain conditions as provided by section 117 of the Copyright Act., one IS allowed to backup their software until the DMCA hijacked that right.
5./sarcasm Wait till you find out about Project Gutenberg -- one can read over 57,000 books!/sarcasm Look at ALL that IP theft!
> Intellectual property is no different than anything else.
> The majority of human civilization feels intellectual property does have value.
Appeal to Popularity fallacy.Quantity != Quality.
The majority of human civilization also tolerated slavery, racism, and prohibition at one time. That doesn't imply the majority was right.
e.g. Billions are served at McDonalds; that doesn't imply that McDonalds serves gourmet food. They served cheap, crap food, until recently.
This is the most retarded argument for IP I've seen in a while. You do realize we have ONE concept of imaginary property: delusion thinking. Of course things like language, math and history, that's FIRST private knowledge, then EVENTUALLY becomes public knowledge.
> when you measure the polarization state of one of the photons it appears to instantly effect the polarization state of the other photon (no matter the distance). It does not matter what photon you measure first, the state seems to instantly impact the state of the other photon
Feynman's explanation was that it was the SAME photon. i.e. There was no "spooky action at a distance."
The funny thing is that the EPR paradox is much older then previously thought.
Found the person completely cluelessabout Parables.
Does it matter that the story about the boy who cried wolf never happened? No one gives fuck about the actual historyas long as you learn the lesson(s).
Your fallacy is that you think fiction has nothing to teach you; which is false. It is hard to fill the cup when it thinks it is already full. You are completely unable to understand the Three-fold nature of writing:
* Literal * Allegorical * Application
By dismissing fiction has having no value you remain blind to the lesson(s) that it can potentially teach. You are stuck at the Literal level not realizing that there is FAR more to understanding then just the Literal interpretation.
Examples:
* You can enjoy The Matrix (1999) at a literal level -- as a dumb, action flick. But you can ALSO understand it at a deeper Allegorical level -- that maybe consciousness is NOT just a physical process but something more.
e.g. How would you know if you were dreaming if you never woke up?
i.e. Peter Russel's The Primacy of Consciousness (Scientists view reality completely ass-backwards: Energy/Matter is NOT the foundation of Reality; Consciousness is. This has yet to be (re)discovered, but I digress.)
* Avatar (2009) Again, one can enjoy the movie as a dumb, action flick. But there are ALSO themes of unbridled greed such as Unobtainium, and respecting the existing plant, animal, and indigenous life. The movies presents the concept that maybe consciousness CAN be transferred.
Fiction OPENS YOUR MIND to possibilities that you normally would not be aware.
But keep writing off fiction as "useless" (pun intended.) Maybe someday you'll understand the point of non-fiction such as Baraka (1992)
Wake me up when we can stop doing dumb hacks like this to detect what version of the language the browser has implemented. I guess providing a const window.JSVER took too much effort.
Oh look, an ignorant and arrogant Atheist unable to respect another Theist's beliefs and truths. So much for modern secularism offering anything better...
> Hell, even Newton and Einstein were partially religious
Newton _also_ wrote *more* about Alchemy then Physics. Funny how _that_ gets overlooked.
So its OK to be crazy as long as you produce OTHER stuff that works? =P
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Which year?
Because there is lots of great music from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s that spans multiple genres: Big Band, Country, Funk, Grunge, Heavy Metal, Jazz, New Wave, Pop, Rock, etc.
Now replace the word contemporary with classical. Does the question change?
TouchÉ !
I'm sure there are others I've missed but these two stood out:
* Netflix has a great documentary called Mission Blue
* National Geographic's Australia's Great Barrier Reef is also good.
> is that Exodus and Moses are Canon
*facepalm*
The Torah is NOT a history book. Take Genesis: It has the lie of omission about Adam's first wife, has contradictory creation stories (Man is created _after_ the animals in chapter 1, but _before_ the animals in chapter 2), has the nonsense of day & night existing BEFORE the sun was made, chapter 4:4 shows that there were humans BEFORE Adam, etc. In Exodus we find nine of the ten commandments come directly out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The only ones treating Moses as canon are those ignorant of history.
It is obvious you've never read it, let alone understand the allegory of it.
e.g. Why is Day 2 of the creation is the ONLY day that doesn't say "It was good."
I wonder how long the inevitable website(s) pops up ...
This is your ___ animal on Ectasy.
> The US has more unowned land
[[Citation]]
Huh? The *entire* US is either owned publicly or privately.
Where is this "unowned" land you speak of ?
Wrong solution to a different problem.
Instead, stop shitty Operating Systems that don't understand security.
> "Does this dress make me look fat?"
The *correct* answer is:
I love you regardless of how you look.
One of the many counter-examples that truth is NOT binary.
The other classic is:
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Again the correct answer is:
Mu. The question is invalid -- you are presupposing existing conditions that never existed. How do you stop something when you never started it in the first place???
> why would I run a professional OS on a toy OS?
Running Linux on Windows allows for the full *nix ecosystem without having to reboot or fart around with Cygwin, can try-it-before-you-install, easier cross-platform development, etc.
Does it _really_ matter _why_ they want to do this?
Uhm, hello, that's what OpenCL provides - a standardized way to access the GPU in a vendor neutral way.
Agreed! When I worked on one PS1 game the two graphics guy had to sub-divide triangles like crazy so that the affine texture mapper wasn't producing "swimming" / shimmering textures like crazy. The worst offenders were vertical and horizontal polygons relative to the camera's DOF (Direction of Flight).
Wonder if THPS (Tony Hawk Pro Skater) will be available? Normally I hate sports games but that was an absolute blast! Wasn't there a port of Diablo 1 to the PSX available as well?
Note: The PSX was the code name Sony and us devs called the PS1. So many std C lib funds were outright broken the first year, but I digress.
> I am willing to venture that most people do not resort to the Pirate Bay and others because it is free.
That definitely would be an interesting stat to have! Though I'm not sure how one could accurately measure this?
Also, I imagine the reasons _why_ one would visit sites like TPB *overlap:*
I.e.
[x] I *already* bought a copy but I'm traveling without physical access,
[x] "Cuz it's free, man!"
[x] It's convenient.
[x] "Stick it to the man(agenent)!"
[x] "Sharing is caring."
[x] I just collect everything.
[ ] Other: _____
Mod parent +1 Insightful.
You've summarized all the points beautifully. While I have a dedicated Canon Digital Rebel it is far more practical / convenient to just use the smart phone I do have with me to take pictures when I *don't* have the Rebel with me. Go figure! :-)
"The best camera is the one you have when you need it."
And when these servers shut down in a few years because the masses have moved on to the next fad you won't be able to play. Sorry, do not want.
I've actually been playing Minecraft (Java) with my gaming buddies on our private server this past year and it is nice not to have to put up with the bullshit of loot boxes, DLC, or micro transactions. I can make texture packs, data packs, etc. without some company holding our entertainment hostage.
Regardless of how good an internet connection they can guarantee it will NEVER beat 0ms input lag from the box sitting right in front of me.
-- /r/Minecraft Redditard censorship:
It is against the rules to ask about the history of famous Minecraft servers such as 2B2T !
> Human biology dictates a limit of 2 genders
Hmm,
* XX
* XY
* XXY
* XYY
But I take it you are referring to the Y chromosome ?
Who knew those that claimed "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" were lying all this time! /s
> Copying is stealing someone's time and effort, copying and giving it away is no different.
1. You keep using this word "steal". It doesn't mean what you think it does. The original author STILL has their effort.
2. FTFY: Copying is DUPLICATING someone's effort for almost zero time. Whether it is LEGAL or ILLEGAL depends.
3. /sarcasm Who knew that copying Linux was stealing Linus' time ! Oh wait, you meant "illegal copying", because LEGAL COPYING granted by GPL, BSD, Public Domain, etc. is perfectly fine.
4. Furthermore, under certain conditions as provided by section 117 of the Copyright Act., one IS allowed to backup their software until the DMCA hijacked that right.
5. /sarcasm Wait till you find out about Project Gutenberg -- one can read over 57,000 books! /sarcasm Look at ALL that IP theft!
> Intellectual property is no different than anything else.
FALSE
Copyright is an ARTIFICIAL monopoly; it was created BY publishers to stop OTHER publishers from profiting.
> The majority of human civilization feels intellectual property does have value.
Appeal to Popularity fallacy. Quantity != Quality.
The majority of human civilization also tolerated slavery, racism, and prohibition at one time. That doesn't imply the majority was right.
e.g. Billions are served at McDonalds; that doesn't imply that McDonalds serves gourmet food. They served cheap, crap food, until recently.
This is the most retarded argument for IP I've seen in a while. You do realize we have ONE concept of imaginary property: delusion thinking. Of course things like language, math and history, that's FIRST private knowledge, then EVENTUALLY becomes public knowledge.
> when you measure the polarization state of one of the photons it appears to instantly effect the polarization state of the other photon (no matter the distance). It does not matter what photon you measure first, the state seems to instantly impact the state of the other photon
Feynman's explanation was that it was the SAME photon. i.e. There was no "spooky action at a distance."
The funny thing is that the EPR paradox is much older then previously thought.
Found the person completely clueless about Parables.
Does it matter that the story about the boy who cried wolf never happened? No one gives fuck about the actual history as long as you learn the lesson(s).
Your fallacy is that you think fiction has nothing to teach you; which is false. It is hard to fill the cup when it thinks it is already full. You are completely unable to understand the Three-fold nature of writing:
* Literal
* Allegorical
* Application
By dismissing fiction has having no value you remain blind to the lesson(s) that it can potentially teach. You are stuck at the Literal level not realizing that there is FAR more to understanding then just the Literal interpretation.
Examples:
* You can enjoy The Matrix (1999) at a literal level -- as a dumb, action flick. But you can ALSO understand it at a deeper Allegorical level -- that maybe consciousness is NOT just a physical process but something more.
e.g. How would you know if you were dreaming if you never woke up?
i.e. Peter Russel's The Primacy of Consciousness (Scientists view reality completely ass-backwards: Energy/Matter is NOT the foundation of Reality; Consciousness is. This has yet to be (re)discovered, but I digress.)
* Avatar (2009) Again, one can enjoy the movie as a dumb, action flick. But there are ALSO themes of unbridled greed such as Unobtainium, and respecting the existing plant, animal, and indigenous life. The movies presents the concept that maybe consciousness CAN be transferred.
Fiction OPENS YOUR MIND to possibilities that you normally would not be aware.
But keep writing off fiction as "useless" (pun intended.) Maybe someday you'll understand the point of non-fiction such as Baraka (1992)
Any country that censor basic math like 6+4 is fucked up.
Any plans to target 120 Hz?
Yeah, good luck with that!
Big Pharma is extremely corrupt. This is just the tip of the iceberg that will be exposed later this year / next year.
Placing profit above people's life & health is immoral. How much profit is "enough" ?
--
Main St. built America
Wall St. robbed it.
Wake me up when we can stop doing dumb hacks like this to detect what version of the language the browser has implemented. I guess providing a const window.JSVER took too much effort.
"use strict"; is a necessary kludge. Is there a way to turn it OFF after being turned on???
When are Int64 and UInt64 going to be standardized and supported?
When is BigInt going to be standardized?
Can we deprecate that shitty double equals comparison and keep triple comparison?
9999999999999999 === 10000000000000000
true
*facepalm*
> Sure, these idiots believe in god
Oh look, an ignorant and arrogant Atheist unable to respect another Theist's beliefs and truths. So much for modern secularism offering anything better...
> Hell, even Newton and Einstein were partially religious
Newton _also_ wrote *more* about Alchemy then Physics. Funny how _that_ gets overlooked.
So its OK to be crazy as long as you produce OTHER stuff that works? =P
Son, I haven't lived with my parents for 20+ years.
But keep trying to apply a red herring fallacy.
In other words you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.