While The Wizard was a movie that I enjoyed as a kid, there was another movie under a very similar name that rented once by accident. I *think* it was called "Wizard", but I forget and the video store has since gone out of business. It was an animated cartoon - more american style than japanese (I'd bet on it but I don't know much about early anime) - that took place in a futuristic world. But the world also seemed to take place in a time of castles, evil villans, and fantastic monsters (well, at least I think).
If anybody knows the name of the show I'm thinking of, please reply and give any other information you can think of (names of authors, publishers, etc, would be nice).
My T-Bird+VIA is quite unstable too. Games crash very frequently sometimes, usually installing chipset drivers helps, but not always (after formats I mean); and sometimes I get blue screens too. Horrible. VIA has a crappy pci subsystem too, but since I'm not running RAID it doesn't matter so much. I'm trying out Intel next (/w raid).
I meant that I hope the evolution of our society will weed out silly ideas like God. I needed to make up a term for a concept that I didn't know of a term for already. (cultural evolution) Whereas evolution isn't active, it's passive.
Speaking of good science articles, if I were only able to buy one, should I buy a subscription to Science or Nature? I can handle 100 dollars a year, but I'm not so sure about 200.
And I'm sorry to see that this has turned into a creationism vs. evolution debate. (Evolution is a fact, btw). But it's like flogging a dead horse.
Scientific American and Discover are good too, but it's pretty cool reading the actual publications they refer to.
Also, how big is a typical issue of Nature or Science? I'd think they're pretty big by the TOC, which was quite impressive for a single issue.
The bible implies several times that the earth is flat. It's stuff like this that shows the bible as being old mythology - explaining the world with stories. And it certainly detracts from anything else you might get from the bible.
Do you have any evidence that the eqyptions wouldn't record something that makes them look bad? You'd have to look at the sorts of things they did record to tell if they would or not. What your argument is is only a guess.
Not only does Jesus lie, he's quite rude to his parents;)
No, somebody cannot be born to a virgin, you can't heal the blind with happy thoughts, and of course you can't survive in a whale. Do you believe in the Greek mythological stories too? Probably not.
Empirical evidence has shown again and again that there are no valid claims that people can do these miraculous things. EG. the stigmatism that some people had, well they pricked themselves sneakily; and levitating east indians, they were magicians (good as misdirecting attention and tricking ppl).
I take comfort in the fact that cultural evolution will weed you out.
All spirituality is BS that arose from people trying to explain things in a very unscientific matter. As somebody already replied, this is NEW AGE BS. What is God? God is the idea that primitives projected their qualities upon and then used as a comfort blanket. You are trying to make it sound valid by abstracting it. Please don't do that, there are enough ignorant people who are endangering me as is.
Nobody can yet bend the rules, but we're finding more rules all the time.
Dude that's retarded, everyone is talking about the movie in terms of the movie. It's like saying, duhhhh nobody could jump that high. You have to suspend your belief to talk about the story. Talking about problems within the movie that arise from too-many-takes-and-someone-left-a-macdonalds-cup-i n-scene
and molten-silver-isn't-actually-silver is fine, but we AREN'T talking about that. We're trying to think about the story. Don't be an asshole.
Actually, Canada has a higher unemployment rate than the USA... as of 1999 (Stats Canada's latest statistic I could find) it was almost twice as much. Though, we [Canada] do have much less crime. Last time I checked it was a tenth as much of America's, proportionately.
Trash can be used to fuel generators and create (surprise) electricity. The process isn't used too much, which surprises me. Sure it produces a lot of ash, but ash is easier to deal with than acres of trash. It takes quite a lot of garbage to make it worthwhile, but any big city ought to make enough.
As for the shit, it should be treated and used in rural areas as water (for crops, that is).
Speaking of muscle memory, I don't actually know my 12 character, alpha-numeric password which is root on my machine. I could probably tell you the first half of it but really I just know it from typing it so much.
Does the operating system give you the opportunity to agree to a EULA before using it? Is so you can [probably] get money back if you don't want to use the Microsoft OS. As somebody who works there, do you know?
I know this is how it works with desktops, but tablet PC's may not be the same.
5 is a nice traditional number. 10 would be next, maybe 15, then 50, 100, and so on. And who can really necessarily determine the difference between five companies if they are all doing reasonably well. He didn't give his criteria for placement either.
Cheating produces a different image, or renders a different amount of a level [that a game wouldn't be able to figure out dynamically].
Optimizing for a benchmark could still be considered cheating, since the company replaces a shader with a custom one. Even if all it does only take advantage of video card architecture, I don't know if it warrants being allowed to do somethiong like that.
Why bother to try and find cheats when this is merely a benchmark of DX9 performance? Everyone knows, you matter how hard you try, it's impossible to secure something. (Half-Life is an old example)
There are many times legally copying something is actually useful:
My friend played a lot of Starcraft Broodwars, and he made a backup of the disc "just in case". Frankly we didn't know what could happen, and we used the CD for LAN games (Yes I know you can give it a LAN key.. though I'm not sure why they added that in). One day he tried to play Broodwars and the CD-rom made an awful noise. He opened the drive to a mess of disc fragments.
After that who wants to play with the original discs? We back things up regularily now. (And the drive destroyed one more Broodwar disc over time).
In retrospect I'm making a point to not much of a point, and I'm somewhat off topic. Ah well...
This made me think that the copyright act needs a little bit of updating to allow for the things that TAXPAYERS do nowadays with their technology: playing rips of their music for convenience, for one thing.
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While The Wizard was a movie that I enjoyed as a kid, there was another movie under a very similar name that rented once by accident. I *think* it was called "Wizard", but I forget and the video store has since gone out of business. It was an animated cartoon - more american style than japanese (I'd bet on it but I don't know much about early anime) - that took place in a futuristic world. But the world also seemed to take place in a time of castles, evil villans, and fantastic monsters (well, at least I think).
If anybody knows the name of the show I'm thinking of, please reply and give any other information you can think of (names of authors, publishers, etc, would be nice).
My T-Bird+VIA is quite unstable too. Games crash very frequently sometimes, usually installing chipset drivers helps, but not always (after formats I mean); and sometimes I get blue screens too. Horrible. VIA has a crappy pci subsystem too, but since I'm not running RAID it doesn't matter so much. I'm trying out Intel next (/w raid).
It's not that they're fighting Intel, it's that there is stronger competition to push Intel harder, and then so on...
Ironically, Niger is latin for black...
I meant that I hope the evolution of our society will weed out silly ideas like God. I needed to make up a term for a concept that I didn't know of a term for already. (cultural evolution) Whereas evolution isn't active, it's passive.
Speaking of good science articles, if I were only able to buy one, should I buy a subscription to Science or Nature? I can handle 100 dollars a year, but I'm not so sure about 200.
And I'm sorry to see that this has turned into a creationism vs. evolution debate. (Evolution is a fact, btw). But it's like flogging a dead horse.
Scientific American and Discover are good too, but it's pretty cool reading the actual publications they refer to.
Also, how big is a typical issue of Nature or Science? I'd think they're pretty big by the TOC, which was quite impressive for a single issue.
Just something to counteract your propaganda, for any impressionable people reading slashdot...
http://www.talkorgins.org
The best I could agree to is a flood in Sumeria, but there certainly wasn't a global flood. Don't be retarded.
The bible implies several times that the earth is flat. It's stuff like this that shows the bible as being old mythology - explaining the world with stories. And it certainly detracts from anything else you might get from the bible.
;)
Do you have any evidence that the eqyptions wouldn't record something that makes them look bad? You'd have to look at the sorts of things they did record to tell if they would or not. What your argument is is only a guess.
Not only does Jesus lie, he's quite rude to his parents
No, somebody cannot be born to a virgin, you can't heal the blind with happy thoughts, and of course you can't survive in a whale. Do you believe in the Greek mythological stories too? Probably not.
Empirical evidence has shown again and again that there are no valid claims that people can do these miraculous things. EG. the stigmatism that some people had, well they pricked themselves sneakily; and levitating east indians, they were magicians (good as misdirecting attention and tricking ppl).
I take comfort in the fact that cultural evolution will weed you out.
I didn't see the NY Times article as being slanderous.... did you even read it?
All spirituality is BS that arose from people trying to explain things in a very unscientific matter. As somebody already replied, this is NEW AGE BS. What is God? God is the idea that primitives projected their qualities upon and then used as a comfort blanket. You are trying to make it sound valid by abstracting it. Please don't do that, there are enough ignorant people who are endangering me as is.
Nobody can yet bend the rules, but we're finding more rules all the time.
Dude that's retarded, everyone is talking about the movie in terms of the movie. It's like saying, duhhhh nobody could jump that high. You have to suspend your belief to talk about the story. Talking about problems within the movie that arise from too-many-takes-and-someone-left-a-macdonalds-cup-i n-scene
and molten-silver-isn't-actually-silver is fine, but we AREN'T talking about that. We're trying to think about the story. Don't be an asshole.
Probably true, since Trinity seems to be an issue each time.
Actually, Canada has a higher unemployment rate than the USA... as of 1999 (Stats Canada's latest statistic I could find) it was almost twice as much. Though, we [Canada] do have much less crime. Last time I checked it was a tenth as much of America's, proportionately.
Trash can be used to fuel generators and create (surprise) electricity. The process isn't used too much, which surprises me. Sure it produces a lot of ash, but ash is easier to deal with than acres of trash. It takes quite a lot of garbage to make it worthwhile, but any big city ought to make enough.
As for the shit, it should be treated and used in rural areas as water (for crops, that is).
AFAIK, Most stuff gets published in a journal like Science or Nature, so you have to be a member of those publications to read the full texts.
...Go Muscle Memory Go
Speaking of muscle memory, I don't actually know my 12 character, alpha-numeric password which is root on my machine. I could probably tell you the first half of it but really I just know it from typing it so much.
Maybe because you spent your time messing around rather than listening to him. :)
Does the operating system give you the opportunity to agree to a EULA before using it? Is so you can [probably] get money back if you don't want to use the Microsoft OS. As somebody who works there, do you know?
I know this is how it works with desktops, but tablet PC's may not be the same.
5 is a nice traditional number. 10 would be next, maybe 15, then 50, 100, and so on. And who can really necessarily determine the difference between five companies if they are all doing reasonably well. He didn't give his criteria for placement either.
Cheating produces a different image, or renders a different amount of a level [that a game wouldn't be able to figure out dynamically].
Optimizing for a benchmark could still be considered cheating, since the company replaces a shader with a custom one. Even if all it does only take advantage of video card architecture, I don't know if it warrants being allowed to do somethiong like that.
Why bother to try and find cheats when this is merely a benchmark of DX9 performance? Everyone knows, you matter how hard you try, it's impossible to secure something. (Half-Life is an old example)
I remember what my point was. Who needs analogies when you have such a good anecdote as mine? :)
There are many times legally copying something is actually useful:
My friend played a lot of Starcraft Broodwars, and he made a backup of the disc "just in case". Frankly we didn't know what could happen, and we used the CD for LAN games (Yes I know you can give it a LAN key.. though I'm not sure why they added that in). One day he tried to play Broodwars and the CD-rom made an awful noise. He opened the drive to a mess of disc fragments.
After that who wants to play with the original discs? We back things up regularily now. (And the drive destroyed one more Broodwar disc over time).
In retrospect I'm making a point to not much of a point, and I'm somewhat off topic. Ah well...
My escape country is Norway ;)
This made me think that the copyright act needs a little bit of updating to allow for the things that TAXPAYERS do nowadays with their technology: playing rips of their music for convenience, for one thing.