Well.... I agree that God allows a given person freedom to draw the painting of the form that God created. So God created that form and God also instilled the ability to create such a form via painting.
God also has made me aware of my lust. Will one artistic painting have an affect on me? Probably not. I can accept art and would probably not skip over that single painting. But if it was an artistic photograph of a sexual act I would probably skip it. The images are retained in our minds. I personally don't want to be walking down the street, see a girl, then see that picture come up as my next thought. It's just my preference.
God allows for many things to happen that should not happen from a humanistic perspective also. I think some people can safely say that people are allowed to make nude portraits but not to mass murder. Both, however, are allowed. Others though would say that both should be allowed. The things that are not allowed, we cannot do. Everything else is allowable but not tolerable for some. I'm not saying nude portraits are not tolerable (in the sense that I despise them) but I do not have a desire to see them.
In certain communities there are indeed an agreed upon set of standards for various things one of which is the media. I do not live in Utah but I did about 10 years back (I'm a military brat). In that community there are certain things which the Mormons as a whole can pretty much agree on as being objectionable. Yes, you'll find a few that don't find it objectionable. But the overall community does not want it in their videos.
Maybe Jerry McGuire is an excellent movie in some aspects but because of one sex scene a teenager is not allowed to watch it. This company is providing a service to people in their area. I myself am in a strong Christian community and when I watch movies with my friends we fast forward through sex scenes. We don't have any desire to watch them. This can get very tiresome especially if nobody has seen the movie yet. If there was a video store in my area that offered E-Rated movies I certainly would be renting from them because that is my taste. I think it's safe to say that 75% of the movies with sex scenes do not need them at all. I support an artists vision but if I am walking through an art gallery of and one of his paintings has a nude figure on it, maybe I'll want to walk past that one. His art is good, I just don't want to see some of it.
There was also apparently a more wide-spread demand for this service so this guy made the service available to all via the internet. Big whoop. I'll probably even buy from him if he does/is selling on DVD. It is not as if all the movie studios go through him, changing every copy of the video so not even you can watch the movie in its entirity. I'm certain if you want to watch the sex scene in Jerry McGuire you'll be able to find a video store that carries the "uncut version".
Don't sue me but.... I bought the Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge a few months back and well, I haven't had a single problem with Macrovision. I actually bought it to put some old home movies onto my flat-panel iMac. Then I decided to put some of my out of print VHS movies onto DVD. I don't know if they have macrovision or not but they worked fine. Then I remembered about Macrovision and attempted to copy the DVD "Go" to VHS from DVD player to VCR. That didn't work due to Macrovision but when I used the DV Bridge as a pass-through it worked just fine.
This is a rather nice side effect so now if I ever get motivated I can make some music videos or something for fun.
Now I get a -1 offTopic... but my first post (in a different sense of the word) was on topic (should be moderated as funny) and then that post is on topic due to my previous post... and this one is on topic as a complaint to my off topic post regarding my on topic post of my complaint of the overrated moderation done to my post which should be +1 funny for being on topic...
Nope... just recently annoyed by it. Karma is like getting levels in Everquest... I never really cared... Once you have 50 karma points (or whatever the max is) what do you do? nothing. I'd rather fluctuate anyhow... heck... when I look up my Karma all it says is something like "Excellent" so I'll never know if I hit the top... especially if excellent is the 40-50 range... so whoopee... who cares... I'll spend all my karma and go back up again...
I mean... c'mon... first off I gave it +1 cause I thought it was funny... just because it's close to being an early post doesn't mean it's just there to get a first post. It's not my fault I have a quick wit.
Go ahead and mod this one down too... I'd hate for somebody on a threshold of +2 (which is where this comment will start at) to read this post without knowing where the previous post is.
Have a nice day.
It sure would be nice if they had announced that I could spend like... $500 to get my 15" screen "switch"ed (HA!) to a 17" widescreen... oh well... once my flatpanel iMac becomes really obsolete I'll just buy their wearable computer that they will be selling in 2005...
According to the other tidbit of information the Windows XP Media Center is going to cost around $1000 - $2000. What can it possibly offer that you couldn't get with a normal PC? I just put an awesome (in my opinion) computer for somebody for around $1,500 with DVD burner and flat screen monitor. Take out the monitor and it comes to a little under $1,000. Just plug it into the TV instead... it just sounds like the media center is going to be a console type thing almost to me... I'm just not seeing the pricing benefits of this machine although I don't see any specs either...
But really... would need much more than maybe a low GHZ P4, with like... 512 MB of ram, a sound card, a decent video card, and a few other minor things to have a media center? Can anybody find anything else about this? Otherwise you might as well just buy a dreamcast... it can play Video CD's, MP3's, check your e-mail, etc... the only thing it can't do is burn CD's and play DVD's...
When I clicked on the pov-ray link there was only one comment and it was already slashdotted... sheesh! Don't you people ever post before you visit links?:)
Taunting is an essential part of any quakesque game! I think the hardest part of translating Quake over for the blind would be a text to speech synthesizer. Making a computer somewhat properly pronounce "Youz b3 a st00p1d n3wb1e c@mp3r!" and "@$9@jj@ D@(9" would be near impossible but if done correctly would complete proof of concept for me.
I decently sure that Serious Sam (by God Games) utilizes two monitors. Your primary monitor is for playing the game while the secondary monitor is used to show you information regarding monsters, equipment, locales, and cutscenes... for instance... if you pull a lever and it would normally jump to a short cut scene of a door opening the cut scene is shown on the secondary monitor and you can run to the door while watching to scene non-blind like.
I would actually argue against that. As far as I know all Macs have Quicktime installed on them by default whereas Windows does not. Granted it's up to the user to use the software or not. Using direct counts of users is stupid as Apple has by far less users. So.... percentage wise I would bet that Mac users are more prone to having quicktime installed on their computers.
And I would venture to say that most PC users use MPG and DivX files. But I have no basis for that other than that's what most of my PC video files were.
And yes. Apple does make some software for Windows. Microsoft makes some software for the Mac. There will be exceptions and as soon as I refute your quicktime arguement (in a second) you will be sure to find another example.
Quicktime was needed to be made for the PC due to its use on the Internet. It's a market Apple is interested in and probably a good 50% minimally of the PC using public is interested in. I know very very few non-technophiles who are interested in MP3 players let alone a $400 one. But when a user is casually browsing the internet and they get a message that "You can't watch this video because you can never run quicktime" it would be discouraging to the general populus and they would come to dislike Apple and as a result of lack of cross platform support people would cease to use quicktime.
It's just my opinion... not law... I'm done even though I think I could type more probably...
First off.... For the past 10 years or so I've been Windows/Intel-type bound. But now I own the flat-panel iMac and you'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers many times over before I'll let you take it away. I love the OS and the machine looks neat to boot.
One thing that I find rather annoying is when people complain that Apple products don't work with their PC's such as there being no Windows iPod software and Apple using non-standard connections for things like their flat screens.
First, the iPod. If Apple released software for the iPod to connect to the PC then they'd have to support it. The people in their building are Mac coders and know Mac stuff inside and out. Do they know Windows? I dunno. But probably not all that well. It costs to support an additional operating system. With the internet being as it is they probably could have released the iPod with no software and software would have arisen to use it on the Mac and the PC. Of course that would've been dumb so why not support your own platform. Let the other guys worry about their platform or let somebody else do it for free. They may lose some money because nobody will buy their non-existent $19.95 program that let's you use the iPod on the PC but Joe Schmoe just made it for them and they're selling $400-$500 iPods like hotcakes.
Now this is a little off-topic but I've seen a few people complain about it in this newspost. People are ill at Apple because the flat screens that Apple sells for it's hardware won't plug into most PC's without a dongle or something. Well so what? My TV doesn't plug into my iMac without a dongle and a little piece of hardware. My old PC monitor won't work with my iMac either unless I put Bob's string of dongles between my iMac and the monitor. My toaster won't plug into my iMac either and probably never will (although I'm sure somebody will do it soon so they can link me to it to irk me!). Apple sells hardware and makes software for Apple computers. It's their deal. That's what they do. If Radio Shack Bob want's to back some special inbetween hardware to let people use apple hardware with pc hardware then let 'em at it. If that programmer wants to create the software interface to use the hardware on the PC then yippee for them. Don't rag on Apple because their toast fits in their toaster and nobody elses without some modifications.
Yeah... it was probably a bad rant. I'm sure I'll be shown the errors of my ways in less than 30 minutes or my money back...
If the major sites for children start going I think all of them will have to go to.kids.us. For instance if Disney has a Disney.kids.us and they want to link to Nickelodeon's website the Nickelodeon website will have to be.kids.us else the child will not be able to view it (assuming that the parents only let the children view.kids.us). This will certainly require a lot of website updating as new companies and individuals take up the.kids.us.
With keyboards we successfully took away peoples needs to physically write something... with this we won't need people to verbally speak... next it'll be visual impulses shot right into your head so you really don't need your eyes anymore... sheesh...
Just get a baby name book with wide margins... then as you plug servers in write what each server does next to the name that you've given it. Although a database would probably be easier I suppose....
I ordered mine on Jan. 19th, it shipped on either 2/12 or 2/13 and was at my door (from Taiwan) on 2/15. The route it took was Taiwan to Alaska to Indianapolis to Cedar Rapids, IA to my house. Dunno if that is helpful to anybody at all. It's definitely an excellent box (it's my first Mac. Sold my PC to get it).
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Holy crap! We must hide this kind of information from the MPAA! Pretty soon you'll go to watch "Master of Disguise" and before it it'll state:
Well.... I agree that God allows a given person freedom to draw the painting of the form that God created. So God created that form and God also instilled the ability to create such a form via painting.
God also has made me aware of my lust. Will one artistic painting have an affect on me? Probably not. I can accept art and would probably not skip over that single painting. But if it was an artistic photograph of a sexual act I would probably skip it. The images are retained in our minds. I personally don't want to be walking down the street, see a girl, then see that picture come up as my next thought. It's just my preference.
God allows for many things to happen that should not happen from a humanistic perspective also. I think some people can safely say that people are allowed to make nude portraits but not to mass murder. Both, however, are allowed. Others though would say that both should be allowed. The things that are not allowed, we cannot do. Everything else is allowable but not tolerable for some. I'm not saying nude portraits are not tolerable (in the sense that I despise them) but I do not have a desire to see them.
In certain communities there are indeed an agreed upon set of standards for various things one of which is the media. I do not live in Utah but I did about 10 years back (I'm a military brat). In that community there are certain things which the Mormons as a whole can pretty much agree on as being objectionable. Yes, you'll find a few that don't find it objectionable. But the overall community does not want it in their videos.
Maybe Jerry McGuire is an excellent movie in some aspects but because of one sex scene a teenager is not allowed to watch it. This company is providing a service to people in their area. I myself am in a strong Christian community and when I watch movies with my friends we fast forward through sex scenes. We don't have any desire to watch them. This can get very tiresome especially if nobody has seen the movie yet. If there was a video store in my area that offered E-Rated movies I certainly would be renting from them because that is my taste. I think it's safe to say that 75% of the movies with sex scenes do not need them at all. I support an artists vision but if I am walking through an art gallery of and one of his paintings has a nude figure on it, maybe I'll want to walk past that one. His art is good, I just don't want to see some of it.
There was also apparently a more wide-spread demand for this service so this guy made the service available to all via the internet. Big whoop. I'll probably even buy from him if he does/is selling on DVD. It is not as if all the movie studios go through him, changing every copy of the video so not even you can watch the movie in its entirity. I'm certain if you want to watch the sex scene in Jerry McGuire you'll be able to find a video store that carries the "uncut version".
Don't sue me but.... I bought the Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge a few months back and well, I haven't had a single problem with Macrovision. I actually bought it to put some old home movies onto my flat-panel iMac. Then I decided to put some of my out of print VHS movies onto DVD. I don't know if they have macrovision or not but they worked fine. Then I remembered about Macrovision and attempted to copy the DVD "Go" to VHS from DVD player to VCR. That didn't work due to Macrovision but when I used the DV Bridge as a pass-through it worked just fine.
This is a rather nice side effect so now if I ever get motivated I can make some music videos or something for fun.
Just make sure you land is actually *in* Pennsylvania and will remain there... those crazy New Englanders keep changing the boundaries....
Great... first it was radiation to my brain... now with this camera thing it'll be radiation straight into *my eye*.
As if I don't get enough of that from staring at this monitor all day waiting for a new Slashdot story...
Now I get a -1 offTopic... but my first post (in a different sense of the word) was on topic (should be moderated as funny) and then that post is on topic due to my previous post... and this one is on topic as a complaint to my off topic post regarding my on topic post of my complaint of the overrated moderation done to my post which should be +1 funny for being on topic...
Nope... just recently annoyed by it. Karma is like getting levels in Everquest... I never really cared... Once you have 50 karma points (or whatever the max is) what do you do? nothing. I'd rather fluctuate anyhow... heck... when I look up my Karma all it says is something like "Excellent" so I'll never know if I hit the top... especially if excellent is the 40-50 range... so whoopee... who cares... I'll spend all my karma and go back up again...
-2 Overrated?
I mean... c'mon... first off I gave it +1 cause I thought it was funny... just because it's close to being an early post doesn't mean it's just there to get a first post. It's not my fault I have a quick wit.
Go ahead and mod this one down too... I'd hate for somebody on a threshold of +2 (which is where this comment will start at) to read this post without knowing where the previous post is.
Have a nice day.
Actually there appear to be 13 questions (although some may contain more than 1) instead of 10+ plus which is only 11.
I crack me up!
Thank you for killing the server I get my e-mail from.
It sure would be nice if they had announced that I could spend like... $500 to get my 15" screen "switch"ed (HA!) to a 17" widescreen... oh well... once my flatpanel iMac becomes really obsolete I'll just buy their wearable computer that they will be selling in 2005...
According to the other tidbit of information the Windows XP Media Center is going to cost around $1000 - $2000. What can it possibly offer that you couldn't get with a normal PC? I just put an awesome (in my opinion) computer for somebody for around $1,500 with DVD burner and flat screen monitor. Take out the monitor and it comes to a little under $1,000. Just plug it into the TV instead... it just sounds like the media center is going to be a console type thing almost to me... I'm just not seeing the pricing benefits of this machine although I don't see any specs either...
But really... would need much more than maybe a low GHZ P4, with like... 512 MB of ram, a sound card, a decent video card, and a few other minor things to have a media center? Can anybody find anything else about this? Otherwise you might as well just buy a dreamcast... it can play Video CD's, MP3's, check your e-mail, etc... the only thing it can't do is burn CD's and play DVD's...
When I clicked on the pov-ray link there was only one comment and it was already slashdotted... sheesh! Don't you people ever post before you visit links? :)
Taunting is an essential part of any quakesque game! I think the hardest part of translating Quake over for the blind would be a text to speech synthesizer. Making a computer somewhat properly pronounce "Youz b3 a st00p1d n3wb1e c@mp3r!" and "@$9@jj@ D@(9" would be near impossible but if done correctly would complete proof of concept for me.
I decently sure that Serious Sam (by God Games) utilizes two monitors. Your primary monitor is for playing the game while the secondary monitor is used to show you information regarding monsters, equipment, locales, and cutscenes... for instance... if you pull a lever and it would normally jump to a short cut scene of a door opening the cut scene is shown on the secondary monitor and you can run to the door while watching to scene non-blind like.
I would actually argue against that. As far as I know all Macs have Quicktime installed on them by default whereas Windows does not. Granted it's up to the user to use the software or not. Using direct counts of users is stupid as Apple has by far less users. So.... percentage wise I would bet that Mac users are more prone to having quicktime installed on their computers.
And I would venture to say that most PC users use MPG and DivX files. But I have no basis for that other than that's what most of my PC video files were.
And yes. Apple does make some software for Windows. Microsoft makes some software for the Mac. There will be exceptions and as soon as I refute your quicktime arguement (in a second) you will be sure to find another example.
Quicktime was needed to be made for the PC due to its use on the Internet. It's a market Apple is interested in and probably a good 50% minimally of the PC using public is interested in. I know very very few non-technophiles who are interested in MP3 players let alone a $400 one. But when a user is casually browsing the internet and they get a message that "You can't watch this video because you can never run quicktime" it would be discouraging to the general populus and they would come to dislike Apple and as a result of lack of cross platform support people would cease to use quicktime.
It's just my opinion... not law... I'm done even though I think I could type more probably...
First off.... For the past 10 years or so I've been Windows/Intel-type bound. But now I own the flat-panel iMac and you'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers many times over before I'll let you take it away. I love the OS and the machine looks neat to boot.
One thing that I find rather annoying is when people complain that Apple products don't work with their PC's such as there being no Windows iPod software and Apple using non-standard connections for things like their flat screens.
First, the iPod. If Apple released software for the iPod to connect to the PC then they'd have to support it. The people in their building are Mac coders and know Mac stuff inside and out. Do they know Windows? I dunno. But probably not all that well. It costs to support an additional operating system. With the internet being as it is they probably could have released the iPod with no software and software would have arisen to use it on the Mac and the PC. Of course that would've been dumb so why not support your own platform. Let the other guys worry about their platform or let somebody else do it for free. They may lose some money because nobody will buy their non-existent $19.95 program that let's you use the iPod on the PC but Joe Schmoe just made it for them and they're selling $400-$500 iPods like hotcakes.
Now this is a little off-topic but I've seen a few people complain about it in this newspost. People are ill at Apple because the flat screens that Apple sells for it's hardware won't plug into most PC's without a dongle or something. Well so what? My TV doesn't plug into my iMac without a dongle and a little piece of hardware. My old PC monitor won't work with my iMac either unless I put Bob's string of dongles between my iMac and the monitor. My toaster won't plug into my iMac either and probably never will (although I'm sure somebody will do it soon so they can link me to it to irk me!). Apple sells hardware and makes software for Apple computers. It's their deal. That's what they do. If Radio Shack Bob want's to back some special inbetween hardware to let people use apple hardware with pc hardware then let 'em at it. If that programmer wants to create the software interface to use the hardware on the PC then yippee for them. Don't rag on Apple because their toast fits in their toaster and nobody elses without some modifications.
Yeah... it was probably a bad rant. I'm sure I'll be shown the errors of my ways in less than 30 minutes or my money back...
All I could seem to find was a 404 simulator...
AH-HAHAHAHAHA! (Laughs since nobody else should)
If the major sites for children start going I think all of them will have to go to .kids.us. For instance if Disney has a Disney.kids.us and they want to link to Nickelodeon's website the Nickelodeon website will have to be .kids.us else the child will not be able to view it (assuming that the parents only let the children view .kids.us). This will certainly require a lot of website updating as new companies and individuals take up the .kids.us.
With keyboards we successfully took away peoples needs to physically write something... with this we won't need people to verbally speak... next it'll be visual impulses shot right into your head so you really don't need your eyes anymore... sheesh...
Just get a baby name book with wide margins... then as you plug servers in write what each server does next to the name that you've given it. Although a database would probably be easier I suppose....
Whatever... all the money is going straight to the wedding pot. Don't let Taco fool you. He just wants to have a good wedding...
Is the slashdot effect a Cease and Desist order?
I ordered mine on Jan. 19th, it shipped on either 2/12 or 2/13 and was at my door (from Taiwan) on 2/15. The route it took was Taiwan to Alaska to Indianapolis to Cedar Rapids, IA to my house. Dunno if that is helpful to anybody at all. It's definitely an excellent box (it's my first Mac. Sold my PC to get it).