> - games. E.g., see all the people who swore that everything about WoW is perfection when they liked it, and flipped to swearing that every single aspect or design decision is pure evil and only deluded idiots like it, when they eventually got bored of the game.
WOW is the McDonald's of MMO's. Just because millions like it doesn't mean its quality food.
Its initial designers didn't have a fucking clue about dead-time. At least they are slowly learning.
Whoa - someone forgot to take their medicine today...
Sometimes people do things NOT ONLY for money, but because *gasp* they enjoy it, and want to SHARE the fruits of their labor. You ever heard of something called "GAME MODS".
You seem to be under the delusion that MONEY is the ONLY way to VALUE something.
You must hate libraries too, or hate it when people loan CDs, DVDs, and BOOKs to their friends. Thankfully dinosaurs like you don't have to face the new world where sharing is more important then profit.
1. This is a budget box -- its not intended to run the latest games at 1600x1200 @ 4X FSAA. 2. You DO understand that GPUs, not the CPUs are the bottleneck, but I guess you've never actually shipped any games. 3. It depends on the game AND resolution. I actually picked up a netbook so I could play D2 on it. Even L4D runs fine on a 6600 GTS.
You don't build a house THEN come up with the idea to build a house. The Meta-Physical Idea ALWAYS precedes the Physical implementation. Darwinism completely ignores this, and is junk science as it is completely ass-backwards.
What the (biological) Evolutionists completely fail to understand that there is ALSO Spiritual evolution. In the same manner a mind matures and is able to do basic arithmetic, and eventually calculus, a person's understanding of Morality, Ethics, and their Understanding of the All-Parent / All-That-Is / God / Goddess also becomes more complete as they get older as they understand the Spiritual Laws.
Creationism tries to fill this gap, and fails miserably because it trying to solve the _wrong_ problem.
I can't wait for First Contact when all this nonsense gets put behind us, when people finally learn the truth about the development of this planet. Bring on Homo Spiritus.
G,E,B is a beautiful classic. It ties together logic, mathematics, music, computer science, philosophy, geometry, art, and even a little biology that is a true masterpiece.
> but you are free to exercise free speech in the theater. As long as you're not endangering people (yelling "fire" for instance)...
Oh brother, not this misconception again..
If there really IS a fire, its perfectly acceptable to yell "fire!"
Yelling fire in a theater is _NOT_ about free-speech, but about property rights. That is, you gave tacit consent to not cause undue damage to the property by causing riots, etc.
-- "The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.", Tacitus, ca. 56 - ca. 117
> The idea of "intellectual property" is unconstitutional and unAmerican. Please stop using the term.
That's why I prefer the term "Imaginary Property", because "Intellectual Property Rights" are neither "Property" nor "Rights", but all this has been hashed before
> And if it's like any other mainstream astronomical theory, the testable predictions really won't matter. At all. If those predictions are found to be false, they'll just make a long series of ad-hoc modifications to the theory in order to "save" it instead of seriously questioning their worldview/paradigm/framework (whatever you care to call it) because of the pseudoscientific disaster that astronomy has become.
That's true of any institution -- it eventually becomes self-serving to maintain the status-quo because that is in its best interest for its own survival. Science, sadly, is not unique in this.
And like they say, "Science progresses one funeral at a time."
> Edwin Hubble and the fact that there are two equally valid interpretations of the redshift equation and we have settled the question of which to use by making an assumption.
Actually the story gets even weirder! Halton C. Arp a professional astronomer, who ironically enough, was Edwin Hubble's assistant (!), proved the "redshift equals distance" is junk science. http://www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm
> When astronomy has a crisis in the next 5-10 years or so, perhaps most of you will be surprised.
Actually, the sh!t hits the fan and the real party starts when they find human skulls on Mars -- that will be the big "WTF?" moment in astronomy, cosmology, and religion, but not sure if that will happen in the next 10 years, as the exact date is not important. The fact that a paradigm shift WILL happen in Science, is only thing that DOES matter.
Its about time for us to remember where we came from. -- You are a Spiritual Being in a Human Body have a Physical Experience.
Its people like you that is part of the problem in this world -- a bunch of pussies that can't be honest with others, because you're too afraid "it would hurt their feelings" so you say nothing and stuff your feelings and emotions ignoring the long term harm you do to yourself by not communicating how you really feel.
If you can't even express your honest feelings to the people that matter to your, then you're just living a lie. I would rather live then truth and have others think I'm an asshole then say nothing, put on an act, and have to carry the pain of not being able to communicate my true thoughts, even if it means hurting others. The short-term pain of honesty will be forgotten in the long run when people are made aware of their problems and eventually change. Your friends will respect your honesty. Those that don't, aren't interested in becoming better people.
Fuck Political Censorship (aka Correctness) -- its for people who have no balls to tell things how they really are.
P.S. You can still tell people all those things without coming across as an ass. P.P.S. Most of those things you mentioned have deeper underlying reasons.
You're confusing the physical universe with the spiritual creator. This universe, along all the others, is an extension of God, as are all things. There is nothing BUT the All-Parent, by definition. Or to put it another way, God / All-Parent / All-That-Is is experiencing itself as it grows. An entity "designs" itself the same way that you choose who you become as you mature from a child to an adult.
If it seems non-sense it is because there is no good way to communicate it without a valid frame of reference -- unfortunately the best way is the one you will learn after you die, and then you will truly understand why "Mind, not Space, is the true Final Frontier."
If you wish to learn the truth about reality while still human, I would highly recommend Robert Monroe's (Hemi-Sync) "The Gateway Experience" as he approaches reality from the most scientific approach -- using your personal experiments as verification. Thomas Campbell also has interesting conclusions at http://www.my-big-toe.com/ .
-- "If you have never been dead, you know nothing about life."
Your fallacy is assuming the designer and universe are mutually exclusive and distinct. They are not - they are both one and the same. i.e. "The One is the All, the All is the One"
It's funny to Science re-discover what we knew 12,000 years ago:)
-- Atheism is the most logical position of the illogical contradictory religious beliefs, but it is based on ignorance, lack of experience, and lack of a frame of reference to understand the higher spiritual truths. The beauty is that everyone gets to discover the Creator how they choose.
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Fry's has the Acer Aspire One on sale for $300 - it comes standard with a 3 cell battery (1 - 2 hours)
I have it -- its a great 2nd portable computer for spare web browsing, coding, mp3, and old-school 2d gaming.
http://shop1.frys.com/search?search_type=regular&sqxts=1&query_string=acer+aspire+one&cat=0&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
Just got these spare parts from Amazon...
9 Cell ( 7+ hours!) Spare Battery, $75
http://www.amazon.com/HQRP-Replacement-Lithium-Ion-Subnotebook-Mousepad/dp/B001P0F71G/
Spare AC Adapter, $21
http://www.amazon.com/HQRP-Replacement-Subnotebook-Netbook-Mousepad/dp/B001ODA6II/
Cheap way to get XP Home :-)
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"Gamestar: A famous game developer, or player"
> - games. E.g., see all the people who swore that everything about WoW is perfection when they liked it, and flipped to swearing that every single aspect or design decision is pure evil and only deluded idiots like it, when they eventually got bored of the game.
WOW is the McDonald's of MMO's. Just because millions like it doesn't mean its quality food.
Its initial designers didn't have a fucking clue about dead-time. At least they are slowly learning.
MESS sucks, especially their license as it is not a true Open Source license.
Whoa - someone forgot to take their medicine today...
Sometimes people do things NOT ONLY for money, but because *gasp* they enjoy it, and want to SHARE the fruits of their labor. You ever heard of something called "GAME MODS".
You seem to be under the delusion that MONEY is the ONLY way to VALUE something.
You must hate libraries too, or hate it when people loan CDs, DVDs, and BOOKs to their friends. Thankfully dinosaurs like you don't have to face the new world where sharing is more important then profit.
Stealing != Copyright Infringement != Piracy != Downloading.
Look up the word "load-balancing" noob.
I've shipped games on PC, PSX, PS2, Wii, and DS. Which platforms have you actually worked on?
Guess the politicians are to blame for GM cutting 10,000 jobs too.
Agreed on the pork barrels. Hell, the war on this non-physical thing called "Terror" was bad enough.
1. This is a budget box -- its not intended to run the latest games at 1600x1200 @ 4X FSAA.
2. You DO understand that GPUs, not the CPUs are the bottleneck, but I guess you've never actually shipped any games.
3. It depends on the game AND resolution. I actually picked up a netbook so I could play D2 on it. Even L4D runs fine on a 6600 GTS.
You don't build a house THEN come up with the idea to build a house. The Meta-Physical Idea ALWAYS precedes the Physical implementation. Darwinism completely ignores this, and is junk science as it is completely ass-backwards.
What the (biological) Evolutionists completely fail to understand that there is ALSO Spiritual evolution. In the same manner a mind matures and is able to do basic arithmetic, and eventually calculus, a person's understanding of Morality, Ethics, and their Understanding of the All-Parent / All-That-Is / God / Goddess also becomes more complete as they get older as they understand the Spiritual Laws.
Creationism tries to fill this gap, and fails miserably because it trying to solve the _wrong_ problem.
I can't wait for First Contact when all this nonsense gets put behind us, when people finally learn the truth about the development of this planet. Bring on Homo Spiritus.
--
End Racism. Support the Human Race.
Did you mean M3 ?
i.e.
ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe AM2+/AM2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131339
Thx for the reccommendations though mate!
Yeah, was looking at the Core i7 earlier today and noticed they are pricey.
Think this is a better bang for the buck...
Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2H $64.90
AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ Retail (Socket AM2) $59.99
Rosewill R363-M-BK Micro ATX Black Ultra High Gloss Finished Computer Case with
400W ATX $59.99
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2
6400) $44.99
BFG Tech BFGE98512GTE GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0
x16 $134.99
Total: $364.86
Missing: Hard Drive, DVD, WinXP
> Who writes this "poor economy" crap?
When you're reading to pull your head out of the sand and stop ignoring facts... The Dept of Labor for one.
--
Stop Racism. Support the HUMAN Race.
Mod parent up.
G,E,B is a beautiful classic. It ties together logic, mathematics, music, computer science, philosophy, geometry, art, and even a little biology that is a true masterpiece.
Wish I had known about it earlier!
Thx for clarifying! I didn't know that! Found a citation: Q145. "What kind of paper was the Constitution written on?".
Said source also had this interesting tidbit...
This is not to say that a copy of any of the documents was never written on hemp paper - just not the copies we see in the Archives Rotunda.
> but you are free to exercise free speech in the theater. As long as you're not endangering people (yelling "fire" for instance)...
Oh brother, not this misconception again..
If there really IS a fire, its perfectly acceptable to yell "fire!"
Yelling fire in a theater is _NOT_ about free-speech, but about property rights. That is, you gave tacit consent to not cause undue damage to the property by causing riots, etc.
--
"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.", Tacitus, ca. 56 - ca. 117
Is that in season 3 or 4 when they got more money, and you can tell by the brand spank'n new logo?
Here you go...
Gee, wonder why the fucking Constitution was written on HEMP paper...
The US Government has such bullshit hypocrisy on this "War On Drugs": Hemp For Victory
--
ALL Law is based on Contract Law.
> The idea of "intellectual property" is unconstitutional and unAmerican. Please stop using the term.
That's why I prefer the term "Imaginary Property", because "Intellectual Property Rights" are neither "Property" nor "Rights", but all this has been hashed before
> And if it's like any other mainstream astronomical theory, the testable predictions really won't matter. At all. If those predictions are found to be false, they'll just make a long series of ad-hoc modifications to the theory in order to "save" it instead of seriously questioning their worldview/paradigm/framework (whatever you care to call it) because of the pseudoscientific disaster that astronomy has become.
That's true of any institution -- it eventually becomes self-serving to maintain the status-quo because that is in its best interest for its own survival. Science, sadly, is not unique in this.
And like they say, "Science progresses one funeral at a time."
> Edwin Hubble and the fact that there are two equally valid interpretations of the redshift equation and we have settled the question of which to use by making an assumption.
Actually the story gets even weirder! Halton C. Arp a professional astronomer, who ironically enough, was Edwin Hubble's assistant (!), proved the "redshift equals distance" is junk science.
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm
> When astronomy has a crisis in the next 5-10 years or so, perhaps most of you will be surprised.
Actually, the sh!t hits the fan and the real party starts when they find human skulls on Mars -- that will be the big "WTF?" moment in astronomy, cosmology, and religion, but not sure if that will happen in the next 10 years, as the exact date is not important. The fact that a paradigm shift WILL happen in Science, is only thing that DOES matter.
Its about time for us to remember where we came from.
--
You are a Spiritual Being in a Human Body have a Physical Experience.
> But you're ALWAYS going to take a performance hit moving to an OS that utilizes new technology, and I don't care what OS you use.
Nonsense.
OSX and BeOS continue(d) to get faster with each new release.
Ask the geologists how old the Sphinx is...
Its people like you that is part of the problem in this world -- a bunch of pussies that can't be honest with others, because you're too afraid "it would hurt their feelings" so you say nothing and stuff your feelings and emotions ignoring the long term harm you do to yourself by not communicating how you really feel.
If you can't even express your honest feelings to the people that matter to your, then you're just living a lie. I would rather live then truth and have others think I'm an asshole then say nothing, put on an act, and have to carry the pain of not being able to communicate my true thoughts, even if it means hurting others. The short-term pain of honesty will be forgotten in the long run when people are made aware of their problems and eventually change. Your friends will respect your honesty. Those that don't, aren't interested in becoming better people.
Fuck Political Censorship (aka Correctness) -- its for people who have no balls to tell things how they really are.
P.S. You can still tell people all those things without coming across as an ass.
P.P.S. Most of those things you mentioned have deeper underlying reasons.
* http://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Anyone-Little-Relationships/dp/1593160267/
* http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-People-Magnet-Finding/dp/1593160054/
You're confusing the physical universe with the spiritual creator. This universe, along all the others, is an extension of God, as are all things. There is nothing BUT the All-Parent, by definition. Or to put it another way, God / All-Parent / All-That-Is is experiencing itself as it grows. An entity "designs" itself the same way that you choose who you become as you mature from a child to an adult.
If it seems non-sense it is because there is no good way to communicate it without a valid frame of reference -- unfortunately the best way is the one you will learn after you die, and then you will truly understand why "Mind, not Space, is the true Final Frontier."
If you wish to learn the truth about reality while still human, I would highly recommend Robert Monroe's (Hemi-Sync) "The Gateway Experience" as he approaches reality from the most scientific approach -- using your personal experiments as verification. Thomas Campbell also has interesting conclusions at http://www.my-big-toe.com/ .
--
"If you have never been dead, you know nothing about life."
Your fallacy is assuming the designer and universe are mutually exclusive and distinct. They are not - they are both one and the same.
i.e.
"The One is the All, the All is the One"
It's funny to Science re-discover what we knew 12,000 years ago :)
--
Atheism is the most logical position of the illogical contradictory religious beliefs, but it is based on ignorance, lack of experience, and lack of a frame of reference to understand the higher spiritual truths. The beauty is that everyone gets to discover the Creator how they choose.
I have a DS Dev Kit at home (I'm a DS developer :-), but I want a flash cart to put the main DS games I play on one card.
Where's a good online place to order from?
Thx