This is for both of you that mentioned this. Just because a compiler *should* do something, doesn't mean it will. More then likely, an if statement like that will be executed. If you need to add code that might be used later, go ahead. But comment it out so that it's not executed. And if you find you have more code commented out then actual comments, then maybe you should reconsider your design. There's no excuse for sloppy code. It's things like adding code "just in case" that introduces bugs, not to mention adding a whole load of unneeded complexity. If it doesn't do anything, it doesn't belong in the code.
Both are poor form. What's the difference between saying:
If (true){
Do something;
}
and
Do something;
Nothing. They both do the same thing. They will always do the same thing. True will always be true. You're just doing a lot more typing and making the CPU process an unnecessary If statement. Now if you used a variable instead of just using "true", then that would be useful.
While I've never had an AOPEN die on me (still have a Cel 300 on one), I will attest to their status as crap. Or at least low quality. Random reboots...unstability...oh yeah, I know it all.
As a testiment to buying good quality, my last system was built with ASUS parts: A7V333 and a GF4 Ti4200 with a XP2200+. The only parts I skimped on were the memory and the case. The case came with some unknown PSU, which has problems on the 3.3 and 5 volt rails. The memory was some local Chinese-guy owned shop special (no offence to Chinese guys, but they seem to run a lot of discount PC shops in the area). Can't do anything without a heatsink and fan on it. The memory well enough that I can live with it, but I'm a little nervous about the PSU. It's never really given me problems, but I'd hate to come home one day to a large expensive flaming paperweight...
The problem I had with Firefox was that one some pages with content from multiple servers (like Fark and the stupid springstreetnetworks.com server), the pages would only half load as in waited for content to come down from that one server. So page load times for the sites that I visit were terrible compared to IE. Sometimes pages wouldn't load at all. Now that's been fixed. I'm sure I'll find some bugs with it, but for now my Firefox is running as fast as it should...
My god...the kids these days just don't know anything about serious game playing.
EverQuest?
Jeez...put that kiddie stuff away and come back when you have a good 5 years "invested" into a single character on a MUD. No fancy graphics. No 10 million players at once. Just you, the command line, 50 friends, and a crazy administrator who adds more and more levels and quests every chance he gets to write them.
It's worse then that. How long do you think it will take before this is the only method of software distribution available? It's got all of the features vendors like...none of this "just copy the software" any more. Don't have the USB drive? Lose it somewhere? Well then you don't have the software anymore. Looks like you'll have to buy a new one. And speaking about "Thumb Kiddies"...think of the new and exciting viruses you'll pick up from pirated drives. Plus all the ones you'll pick up off the net and spread around with you as you travel.
Yeah, this is a little tinhat-ish, but you never know...
It's not so much that all of these dominate companies in their respective fields are the only ones making money, or even control over 95% on the market. Possibly with the exception of computer related things at least. Even still, for the small competitors, the point is not to take on the giants but to exist and make money amoung the giants. Last I heard, Wendy's wasn't doing too bad. And I still see a lot of Jolt Cola around, so some people must like it enough to buy it. Even Microsoft has to start worrying now that Linux is mainstream and making money. There will be other competitors to the Intel/AMD battle, most likely from China in about 8-10 years. So don't worry, as long as some people don't go crazy with the IP and patent laws the free market will work fine. Besides, if Transmeta stays around and keeps innovating instead of dying out, then dropping out of the chip manufacturing market will be a good thing...
I hate to point this out...but it would cost even less without the MS fee. The $150 could be spent on getting a better capture card, maybe even an HDTV card, and to beef up the memory. Besides, if you're geek enough to build your own PVR, you should be geek enough to build it with MythTV or another OSS alternative. It might take a little more effort, but you'll save time in the long run when you don't have to deal with DRM restrictions. Sure, I may be seen as an MS-basher, but I cannot condone the extent that MS goes to with their DRM.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
Genesis 6:5-6:
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
It was good to create wickedness? Remember, according to Christian mythology, we were created in God image. Therefore we must have also gained that wickedness from God. But God is perfect, and therefore cannot be wicked. But where didn't the wickedness come from? If God created all, then God created wickedness. But God is perfect. Why would God create wickedness? Why would God allow his creation to be wicked?
There are just too many things in this world that contradicts what has been attributed to God. If God is perfect, and man was created in God's image, then why does God consider man evil? As I've said before, either the Bible is flawed, or God is flawed. Which is it? If the Bible is flawed, then these ideals that the Earth is only 6000 years old and that homosexuality is wrong could also be flawed. If God is flawed, then God cannot exist in perfection. It's either the words or the person that is flawed. And if either are flawed, then you cannot fully believe in either. On the other hand, I don't believe in either and can ask these questions. It must be difficult for someone like you who is told to accept everything on faith and not question. You may feel that I am in the one with the sad existance. But I at least know what my existance is...
I can think for myself. I have read the Bible. Mostly I think, at best, it's a nice collection of morality tales. And that is a bit of a stretch for me to say. But you show you're fault by saying that I don't understand logic, then saying that the Bible is truthful in parts and by accepting those truths then you can accept the whole Bible as truth. Now if that isn't faulty logic, I don't know what is. Just because one part might be true doesn't make it all true. Faith may make you feel better about accepting something as true, but because you have faith doesn't *actually* make it true.
As for you're "Logical Bible Analysis", even you make mistakes. Truth point 8: Since God is a perfect deity, he doesn't have to lie to cover up imperfections. If God is a perfect deity, how could he have made the mistake of creating an imperfect man? Sure...he admitted that he made an imperfect man, but as a perfect deity how could be so careless as to make man wicked?
Genesis 6:5-6: And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Which is in stark contrast to what he said earlier in Genesis 1:31 which says:
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
How an it be good to create something wicked? Something so wicked that it grieved him at his heart? So either you're logic is flawed, the Bible is flawed, or God is flawed. At the end of your "analysis", you state that the original scripture still exists. But have you ever read them yourself? Or have you only gone by the English translations? If you've only read the English translations, then you cannot say that you know the Bible is 100% true because you have never actually read the Bible...only the translations. And as always, something will get lost in the translation. What does your logic say about that?
Ok...tell me this then...if the Bible is 100% true, why would there be such inconsistancies? It's not like the actual scripture isn't there to check out. So if you say the Bible is 100% true, then that means all of the stuff that contradicts the other stuff is true. But what do you believe? Do you believe that God is a peaceful god, or is God a vengeful and spiteful god. You can't have it both ways...
Even without the Bible, I can refute Christianity. If God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing, etc...and God is loving and peaceful...then why is there so much bad in the world? Is it the Devil? Why would God allow the Devil to exist if he causes so many problems? He doesn't have to kill the Devil, just lock him away and don't let him contact us. If God chooses who will be born, and if they will be born blind, deaf, lame, etc...why would he place such painful existances on people? Wouldn't he want everyone to have the best chance to live a good life? If God only made the Earth 10,000 years ago, why is there so much evidence to the contrary? Why are there dinosaur bones everywhere? Why are there so many bones of creatures that look part-human, part-ape? Why do we find evidence of homo-erectus, homo-habilis, australopithecus, etc? And speaking of homo...why are there so many homosexual people? And before you say what I know you'll say it is *NOT* a choice. Homosexuals have been talked about as far back as history records and further. And it is not a purely human thing either. There have been several studies into animal homosexuality. I even think there was something on penguin homosexuality either on here or FARK.com recently. If homosexuals are not a part of God's plan, then why are they here?
So...tell me...if the God that wrote the Bible is real, and the Bible is 100% true...why is there so much evidence around that is contradictory to much of what has been attributed to him? Either God is flawed, or the Bible is flawed. Which is it?
Bud...you're one to talk about faulty logic. You're making an awful leap to think that because some said that the Earth is really less then 10,000 years old then all evidence to the contrary is wrong. So rather then thinking critically and saying "We have evidence that points to the Earth being much older then 10,000...", you simply dismiss the idea completely because it doesn't mesh with what you've already been told.
And if...and this is a *BIG* if...the Earth really is less then 10,000 years old, then why is there so much evidence to the contrary? Why do we have these dinosaur bones from millions of years ago? Why did we develop tests to check the age on things? Why do we find civilizations in all parts of the world dating back much longer then 10,000 years? If this is all fake, who put it there? Was it God? Why would God want to deceive us? Is it the Devil? Why would God allow the Devil to do this? If God is all-powerful, wouldn't he clean up these things and make everything sensible so that we wouldn't have questions?
I'm not telling you what to believe. I'm telling you that by not thinking critically, you show yourself to be an ignorant fool who dismissing anything that doesn't fit into his perfect little world. But yes...you can now go on and tell everyone about the foolish people who don't understand your logic...
"Aaargh! But humans were specially created by God in His image, and are absolutely unique!"
"Um, no, actually, we look an awful lot like other apes, and that's really not a coincidence, and here's the proof."
I have an ultra-religious uncle. He does not believe in evolution. Why? Because he doesn't like the idea that we came from filthy animals. Same with the age of Earth. God says it's only 6000 years old. Any evidence "science" has claiming otherwise is flawed, or is deliberately put there by the Devil. Dinosaurs...never existed. All those bones were put there by the Devil.
You will never convince anyone like this to start thinking critically. Not when they have such a perfect scapegoat in the Devil. It's easier then thinking. Anything they don't agree with is the Devil. Come to think of it...he did kinda sound like Mama Boucher from "The Waterboy"...
Nope...at my last job, we were required to change passwords every monthon the ancient AS/400. This lead to me and most of the people I worked with using an easy to remember password with a number on the end. Not a very secure system, plus it was kinda demoralizing since you would slowly count away your life every time you changed your password. I was at 41 when I was laid off. And with the passwords starting at 0, I was laid off after 42 months of working there. Whoa...that's the first time I realized that. So the answer to life, the universe, and everything...is becoming a lazy unemployeed slacker with relatively little stress. I think I like this plan.
...the guys who appear to work harder are the ones always heard.
Bullshit. The guys who appear to work harder and kiss the boss' ass are the ones always heard. You can work all you want, but the guy kissing ass will always get ahead of you. I know, I've been there...
Uh...so why not work 45 hours a week instead and get the benefit of 9 extra error-free productive hours? It beats pushing yourself through 80 hours and only getting 36 hours of productive work out of it....
For that matter...I prefer storing movies on my HD and watching them through the computer hooked up to my TV. With the crappy TV I have, there is no quality loss. And I have them all stored in the same place, available at the touch of a button. I also have TV shows and documentaries on there. None of it is shared. I really don't have much to worry about, but it would be a shame that one day it would be illegal to do something so convenient in the privacy of my own home. They can have my HD when they go through me and my special edition Winchester 12 gauge firewall...
Unrealistic amount??? While it might be a tad high (no pun intended), it's about the amount I go through some days. And really, I consider myself a moderate user. I know people that go through double what CNN considers unrealistic. CNN and the rest always exaggerate the usage, either because their data is from a source that exaggerates things (government) or they're just going for ratings.
Although, yes, it probably would be best to treat the underlying cause then rely solely on a temporary relief method. But leave us have our pot anyways...
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This is for both of you that mentioned this. Just because a compiler *should* do something, doesn't mean it will. More then likely, an if statement like that will be executed. If you need to add code that might be used later, go ahead. But comment it out so that it's not executed. And if you find you have more code commented out then actual comments, then maybe you should reconsider your design. There's no excuse for sloppy code. It's things like adding code "just in case" that introduces bugs, not to mention adding a whole load of unneeded complexity. If it doesn't do anything, it doesn't belong in the code.
Both are poor form. What's the difference between saying:
If (true){ Do something; }
and
Do something;
Nothing. They both do the same thing. They will always do the same thing. True will always be true. You're just doing a lot more typing and making the CPU process an unnecessary If statement. Now if you used a variable instead of just using "true", then that would be useful.
Now please proclaim me KING GEEK!
While I've never had an AOPEN die on me (still have a Cel 300 on one), I will attest to their status as crap. Or at least low quality. Random reboots...unstability...oh yeah, I know it all.
As a testiment to buying good quality, my last system was built with ASUS parts: A7V333 and a GF4 Ti4200 with a XP2200+. The only parts I skimped on were the memory and the case. The case came with some unknown PSU, which has problems on the 3.3 and 5 volt rails. The memory was some local Chinese-guy owned shop special (no offence to Chinese guys, but they seem to run a lot of discount PC shops in the area). Can't do anything without a heatsink and fan on it. The memory well enough that I can live with it, but I'm a little nervous about the PSU. It's never really given me problems, but I'd hate to come home one day to a large expensive flaming paperweight...
I have tried to explain the innermost workings of the male mind to her many times...
Well...that was your second mistake...
Half dozen of one, 6 of another...
The problem I had with Firefox was that one some pages with content from multiple servers (like Fark and the stupid springstreetnetworks.com server), the pages would only half load as in waited for content to come down from that one server. So page load times for the sites that I visit were terrible compared to IE. Sometimes pages wouldn't load at all. Now that's been fixed. I'm sure I'll find some bugs with it, but for now my Firefox is running as fast as it should...
Want to make that number rise?
Do this.
Spread it around...
My god...the kids these days just don't know anything about serious game playing.
EverQuest?
Jeez...put that kiddie stuff away and come back when you have a good 5 years "invested" into a single character on a MUD. No fancy graphics. No 10 million players at once. Just you, the command line, 50 friends, and a crazy administrator who adds more and more levels and quests every chance he gets to write them.
It's worse then that. How long do you think it will take before this is the only method of software distribution available? It's got all of the features vendors like...none of this "just copy the software" any more. Don't have the USB drive? Lose it somewhere? Well then you don't have the software anymore. Looks like you'll have to buy a new one. And speaking about "Thumb Kiddies"...think of the new and exciting viruses you'll pick up from pirated drives. Plus all the ones you'll pick up off the net and spread around with you as you travel.
Yeah, this is a little tinhat-ish, but you never know...
It's not so much that all of these dominate companies in their respective fields are the only ones making money, or even control over 95% on the market. Possibly with the exception of computer related things at least. Even still, for the small competitors, the point is not to take on the giants but to exist and make money amoung the giants. Last I heard, Wendy's wasn't doing too bad. And I still see a lot of Jolt Cola around, so some people must like it enough to buy it. Even Microsoft has to start worrying now that Linux is mainstream and making money. There will be other competitors to the Intel/AMD battle, most likely from China in about 8-10 years. So don't worry, as long as some people don't go crazy with the IP and patent laws the free market will work fine. Besides, if Transmeta stays around and keeps innovating instead of dying out, then dropping out of the chip manufacturing market will be a good thing...
I hate to point this out...but it would cost even less without the MS fee. The $150 could be spent on getting a better capture card, maybe even an HDTV card, and to beef up the memory. Besides, if you're geek enough to build your own PVR, you should be geek enough to build it with MythTV or another OSS alternative. It might take a little more effort, but you'll save time in the long run when you don't have to deal with DRM restrictions. Sure, I may be seen as an MS-basher, but I cannot condone the extent that MS goes to with their DRM.
Nah...just like a good religious debate. Besides, like the ultra-religious holy-rollers, even trolls come up with intelligent arguments sometimes.
Genesis 1:31:
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
Genesis 6:5-6:
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
It was good to create wickedness? Remember, according to Christian mythology, we were created in God image. Therefore we must have also gained that wickedness from God. But God is perfect, and therefore cannot be wicked. But where didn't the wickedness come from? If God created all, then God created wickedness. But God is perfect. Why would God create wickedness? Why would God allow his creation to be wicked?
There are just too many things in this world that contradicts what has been attributed to God. If God is perfect, and man was created in God's image, then why does God consider man evil? As I've said before, either the Bible is flawed, or God is flawed. Which is it? If the Bible is flawed, then these ideals that the Earth is only 6000 years old and that homosexuality is wrong could also be flawed. If God is flawed, then God cannot exist in perfection. It's either the words or the person that is flawed. And if either are flawed, then you cannot fully believe in either. On the other hand, I don't believe in either and can ask these questions. It must be difficult for someone like you who is told to accept everything on faith and not question. You may feel that I am in the one with the sad existance. But I at least know what my existance is...
I can think for myself. I have read the Bible. Mostly I think, at best, it's a nice collection of morality tales. And that is a bit of a stretch for me to say. But you show you're fault by saying that I don't understand logic, then saying that the Bible is truthful in parts and by accepting those truths then you can accept the whole Bible as truth. Now if that isn't faulty logic, I don't know what is. Just because one part might be true doesn't make it all true. Faith may make you feel better about accepting something as true, but because you have faith doesn't *actually* make it true.
As for you're "Logical Bible Analysis", even you make mistakes. Truth point 8: Since God is a perfect deity, he doesn't have to lie to cover up imperfections. If God is a perfect deity, how could he have made the mistake of creating an imperfect man? Sure...he admitted that he made an imperfect man, but as a perfect deity how could be so careless as to make man wicked?
Genesis 6:5-6: And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Which is in stark contrast to what he said earlier in Genesis 1:31 which says:
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
How an it be good to create something wicked? Something so wicked that it grieved him at his heart? So either you're logic is flawed, the Bible is flawed, or God is flawed. At the end of your "analysis", you state that the original scripture still exists. But have you ever read them yourself? Or have you only gone by the English translations? If you've only read the English translations, then you cannot say that you know the Bible is 100% true because you have never actually read the Bible...only the translations. And as always, something will get lost in the translation. What does your logic say about that?
Ok...tell me this then...if the Bible is 100% true, why would there be such inconsistancies? It's not like the actual scripture isn't there to check out. So if you say the Bible is 100% true, then that means all of the stuff that contradicts the other stuff is true. But what do you believe? Do you believe that God is a peaceful god, or is God a vengeful and spiteful god. You can't have it both ways...
Even without the Bible, I can refute Christianity. If God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing, etc...and God is loving and peaceful...then why is there so much bad in the world? Is it the Devil? Why would God allow the Devil to exist if he causes so many problems? He doesn't have to kill the Devil, just lock him away and don't let him contact us. If God chooses who will be born, and if they will be born blind, deaf, lame, etc...why would he place such painful existances on people? Wouldn't he want everyone to have the best chance to live a good life? If God only made the Earth 10,000 years ago, why is there so much evidence to the contrary? Why are there dinosaur bones everywhere? Why are there so many bones of creatures that look part-human, part-ape? Why do we find evidence of homo-erectus, homo-habilis, australopithecus, etc? And speaking of homo...why are there so many homosexual people? And before you say what I know you'll say it is *NOT* a choice. Homosexuals have been talked about as far back as history records and further. And it is not a purely human thing either. There have been several studies into animal homosexuality. I even think there was something on penguin homosexuality either on here or FARK.com recently. If homosexuals are not a part of God's plan, then why are they here?
So...tell me...if the God that wrote the Bible is real, and the Bible is 100% true...why is there so much evidence around that is contradictory to much of what has been attributed to him? Either God is flawed, or the Bible is flawed. Which is it?
The Bible is 100% true, eh? Then explain all these inconsistancies please...
You're using narrowmindedness and faulty logic...
Bud...you're one to talk about faulty logic. You're making an awful leap to think that because some said that the Earth is really less then 10,000 years old then all evidence to the contrary is wrong. So rather then thinking critically and saying "We have evidence that points to the Earth being much older then 10,000...", you simply dismiss the idea completely because it doesn't mesh with what you've already been told.
And if...and this is a *BIG* if...the Earth really is less then 10,000 years old, then why is there so much evidence to the contrary? Why do we have these dinosaur bones from millions of years ago? Why did we develop tests to check the age on things? Why do we find civilizations in all parts of the world dating back much longer then 10,000 years? If this is all fake, who put it there? Was it God? Why would God want to deceive us? Is it the Devil? Why would God allow the Devil to do this? If God is all-powerful, wouldn't he clean up these things and make everything sensible so that we wouldn't have questions?
I'm not telling you what to believe. I'm telling you that by not thinking critically, you show yourself to be an ignorant fool who dismissing anything that doesn't fit into his perfect little world. But yes...you can now go on and tell everyone about the foolish people who don't understand your logic...
"Um, no, actually, we look an awful lot like other apes, and that's really not a coincidence, and here's the proof."
I have an ultra-religious uncle. He does not believe in evolution. Why? Because he doesn't like the idea that we came from filthy animals. Same with the age of Earth. God says it's only 6000 years old. Any evidence "science" has claiming otherwise is flawed, or is deliberately put there by the Devil. Dinosaurs...never existed. All those bones were put there by the Devil.
You will never convince anyone like this to start thinking critically. Not when they have such a perfect scapegoat in the Devil. It's easier then thinking. Anything they don't agree with is the Devil. Come to think of it...he did kinda sound like Mama Boucher from "The Waterboy"...
Computer animation has gotten to the point where even cheesy "B" movies can afford some decent (although not entirely realistic) animation.
Yeah...just look at Johnny Knoxville in Men In Black 2
Nope...at my last job, we were required to change passwords every monthon the ancient AS/400. This lead to me and most of the people I worked with using an easy to remember password with a number on the end. Not a very secure system, plus it was kinda demoralizing since you would slowly count away your life every time you changed your password. I was at 41 when I was laid off. And with the passwords starting at 0, I was laid off after 42 months of working there. Whoa...that's the first time I realized that. So the answer to life, the universe, and everything...is becoming a lazy unemployeed slacker with relatively little stress. I think I like this plan.
I'd just like to know if Burton is going to use Pygmies like there were in the book?
So, did you see the line "Comprised of 64 electrodes..." and immediately wonder why they were doing all this with BASIC too?
...the guys who appear to work harder are the ones always heard.
Bullshit. The guys who appear to work harder and kiss the boss' ass are the ones always heard. You can work all you want, but the guy kissing ass will always get ahead of you. I know, I've been there...
Uh...so why not work 45 hours a week instead and get the benefit of 9 extra error-free productive hours? It beats pushing yourself through 80 hours and only getting 36 hours of productive work out of it....
For that matter...I prefer storing movies on my HD and watching them through the computer hooked up to my TV. With the crappy TV I have, there is no quality loss. And I have them all stored in the same place, available at the touch of a button. I also have TV shows and documentaries on there. None of it is shared. I really don't have much to worry about, but it would be a shame that one day it would be illegal to do something so convenient in the privacy of my own home. They can have my HD when they go through me and my special edition Winchester 12 gauge firewall...
Unrealistic amount??? While it might be a tad high (no pun intended), it's about the amount I go through some days. And really, I consider myself a moderate user. I know people that go through double what CNN considers unrealistic. CNN and the rest always exaggerate the usage, either because their data is from a source that exaggerates things (government) or they're just going for ratings.
Although, yes, it probably would be best to treat the underlying cause then rely solely on a temporary relief method. But leave us have our pot anyways...