I am not really basing this on my own experiences, but on mine and the shared experiences of many humans. Most humans simply do not believe plants are as aware, or able to feel, as much as say, a dog. I realize that is just a statistic I am making up, but really, I think most people would agree.
You might think I have no love for plants. It isn't true, though. My grandmother and my great-grandfather were both landscapers, and I have been caring for plants as long as I can remember. In my own home I have planted more than 15 trees, 4 cacti, 15 shrubs, many vines, and I have an herb garden. I take care of these plants carefully and I feel sad when they die or start to wither.
But, I eat their fruit and leaves (for the edible ones), and I don't feel any compunction about it. My basil for example, only lives one year, and I replant it each year, and eat the leaves. I don't know if this is offensive to you, or not. To me, it is not.
Even though I have (what I consider) a healthy respect for plant life, I don't feel the same when someone pulls weeds, as I do when someone steps on a snail (I have more sympathy for the snail). I can't really explain it, but I imagine it has to do with snails being closer on the evolutionary ladder to humans, than bermuda grass.
> I don't think animal life is worth preserving. So now what?
So, you don't do anything to preserve that life. Others may disagree.
I was just saying, the idea of preserving species based on our idea of what they think or feel doesn't really allow us to do the same for plants. Plants are so different from humans that we are unlikely to ever have much sympathy or empathy for their "thoughts" or "feelings," which from the human perspective don't really even exist.
I don't disagree that preservation of plant life is important, though. I just suggest that the only rational approach is to preserve things based on their value to us as a planet, species, country, or family. Certainly the idea of not eating dogs while eating pigs is an irrational one from an intelligence standpoint. On the other hand, dogs have proven to be good companions, and some people may see a big value in preserving that.
I wasn't making any conclusions on who was right, as much as explaining why the idea of plant intelligence/emotion is not really a strong argument in treating them more like humans, or pets.
If a thought has no meaning to us, as humans, then it is hard to develop any sympathy for that thought. Since sympathy is essentially the basis for treating intelligent animals "humanely," it is pretty hard to swallow that we should give the same deference to seaweed as chimps.
But, you can argue for any mode of thought. Perhaps oxygen molecules don't like being inhaled, and we should just let ourselves die from suffocation. It's kind of silly to approach life that way, though. A better approach might be to preserve that which we think is worth being preserved. There isn't really any way to do that other than a selfish point of view (from the point of the species, the region, or the individual). If there is no value in saving the life of all seaweed, then we don't do it. If there is a value in keeping dolphins alive, then we do it.
Perhaps 4K is not the best choice of name, but the alternative would be to call it 2160p. You cannot simply call it UHD because there are 4K UHD and 8K UHD!
It's a very useful resolution as it is nearly as high as 4096x2160 while retaining the extremely common 16:9 aspect ratio.
DCI 4K is what you are talking about, and it is a pity there are two 4Ks, but we best get used to "4K UHD" and "4K Digital Projection/DCI" or alternatively "4K TV" vs "4K monitor."
Yes, absolutely, you sum it, and the delay of your TV as well. If it can compare to my controller latency, though, I consider it reasonably low, even when summed together.
The problem is not average latency, either. Any connection is going to have latency spikes (unlike my controller), and those will be unacceptable. This is not Netflix which can queue up some data in advance of it being needed. Netflix has issues, anyway, and it doesn't need to respond to your inputs with a new video frame 60 times per second.
I have a great connection, super low latency. Yet, somehow I doubt it can compare to the latency of the wireless signal of my PS4 controller. Packets take time to get from your house to Gaikai servers, no matter how good your connection is, and it's going to be longer than a wireless signal 10 feet away.
I have a hard time believing they can overcome the latency problems to my satisfaction. If you can play Frogger on this service than that's some pretty darn good latency.
I did not make that definition up. Below are a few random examples from the internet of my definition being confirmed. I challenge you to find one definition that matches your bizarre use of the phrase.
2. A rare moment of high achievement from an individual/team/company that is usually unsuccessful. "I can't believe that Johnny took home that chick last night!"
"Yeah, well even a broken clock is right twice a day."
The origin is apparently from the Chinese proverb saying "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while":
1. Even people who don't know what they are doing can be successful sometimes. 2. Lucky
Sorry, but face it. You ignorantly misused the colloquialism and are now having a hard time admitting it.
If you just stop and think about it...it makes sense. Even if a broken clock is right twice a day, it still doesn't mean you should consult the broken clock, right? Thus, the meaning is, if something TOTALLY USELESS occasionally is right, a single single success should not be read into too much.
OK, either you are the most pedantic English speaking asshole on the planet, or you have no idea what an analogy is.
You would not use the broken clock as evidence of the time, ever, unless you were an idiot.
No shit Captain Obvious. FYI, you're equally idiotic if you take any subjective source at their word without using empirical data to verify the claim.
A lunatic drug addict might say something true. Is there any reason to ever treat him as a source of anything?
I know what an analogy is. This was a bad use of the clock analogy.
The analogy you used is typically quoted to characterize someone getting lucky. In other words, when someone accomplishes something amazing, you might say "Even a broken clock is right twice a day," to indicate that not too much should be read into their success.
Instead, you used it to elevate the importance of someone's comments. "Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day, so we shouldn't discredit everything that broken clock says." Not only is this not the normally accepted use of this phrase, the analogy breaks down.
So, I would have to say, you are the one who doesn't understand the analogy you made.
To be honest, I wasn't expecting my comments to be taken too seriously. It was just a snide remark that your analogy breaks down in obvious ways. If you want to compare Rush, or anyone else, to a broken clock, and then suggest we should ever take his comments seriously, you are the one discrediting him, not me.
I think the same could be said about 'random internet asshole.' So, what makes you so goddamn trustworthy, anyway?
I don't have to be trustworthy to point out the flaws of an analogy. I never said anything that is requiring of your trust to understand or accept. I just pointed out where your analogy fails and basically makes no sense.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, you know.
If a broken clock is on the right time, by the time you have observed it, it will be telling you something wrong again.
A broken clock might be missing the hour, minute, or second hand. Is it ever "right"?
A broken clock can only be known to be right by use of an unbroken clock. You would not use the broken clock as evidence of the time, ever, unless you were an idiot. Therefore, there is no reason to ever consult the broken clock.
A lunatic drug addict might say something true. Is there any reason to ever treat him as a source of anything?
I see what you mean. Though, this is the "Library" window, with the "downloads" section selected.
It basically achieves what I had before, although it doesn't have the pop-up functionality (which I had previously turned off--probably why I never noticed the difference).
Back in the day I played around with CXBX because I didn't want to buy an XBOX. It was more of a research project, but it proved it could be done. What it actually did was turn XBOX executables into Windows executables, with call redirection. It was a very cool idea but by the time it was working, no one was playing XBOX games anymore.
I would imagine it would be significantly harder with the XB1, but still very possible considering the architecture.
Really? Pretty much everyone I know agrees that Casino Royale and Skyfall have been some of the best Bond movies. Compared to, say, Moonraker, there's no competition.
I agree that Casino Royale was quite good. Skyfall, I thought, was pretty bad. Still, there were quite a few bad (especially in retrospect) Bond movies.
While I appreciate the sullen Bond as an interesting change from the Bonds of the past, the schtick is getting old. Being expressionless can only get you so far. Still, critics loved it.
Ahmed is both an Arabic and Islamic name. Ahmed means "most praised" and is sometimes used as a name for Mohammed, the founder of Islam. It is believed that naming your son with this name will bring blessings to your home.
Now, considering this, it does not seem wrong to call it an Islamic name. Certainly, it is a common Arabic name. But why? More than likely, because the most common religion in Arabic speaking countries is Islam.
Is Jesus a Christian name, or a Hebrew name (or, tongue somewhat in cheek, a Latino name)? It is a very common name in Latin America, but then, Latin America is overwhelmingly Christian.
I would be very surprised if Ahmed's family is not Muslim. If they were not Muslim, it seems unlikely they would choose a name so favored by Muslim Arabs. But it is possible, of course.
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I am not really basing this on my own experiences, but on mine and the shared experiences of many humans. Most humans simply do not believe plants are as aware, or able to feel, as much as say, a dog. I realize that is just a statistic I am making up, but really, I think most people would agree.
You might think I have no love for plants. It isn't true, though. My grandmother and my great-grandfather were both landscapers, and I have been caring for plants as long as I can remember. In my own home I have planted more than 15 trees, 4 cacti, 15 shrubs, many vines, and I have an herb garden. I take care of these plants carefully and I feel sad when they die or start to wither.
But, I eat their fruit and leaves (for the edible ones), and I don't feel any compunction about it. My basil for example, only lives one year, and I replant it each year, and eat the leaves. I don't know if this is offensive to you, or not. To me, it is not.
Even though I have (what I consider) a healthy respect for plant life, I don't feel the same when someone pulls weeds, as I do when someone steps on a snail (I have more sympathy for the snail). I can't really explain it, but I imagine it has to do with snails being closer on the evolutionary ladder to humans, than bermuda grass.
> I don't think animal life is worth preserving. So now what?
So, you don't do anything to preserve that life. Others may disagree.
I was just saying, the idea of preserving species based on our idea of what they think or feel doesn't really allow us to do the same for plants. Plants are so different from humans that we are unlikely to ever have much sympathy or empathy for their "thoughts" or "feelings," which from the human perspective don't really even exist.
I don't disagree that preservation of plant life is important, though. I just suggest that the only rational approach is to preserve things based on their value to us as a planet, species, country, or family. Certainly the idea of not eating dogs while eating pigs is an irrational one from an intelligence standpoint. On the other hand, dogs have proven to be good companions, and some people may see a big value in preserving that.
I wasn't making any conclusions on who was right, as much as explaining why the idea of plant intelligence/emotion is not really a strong argument in treating them more like humans, or pets.
If a thought has no meaning to us, as humans, then it is hard to develop any sympathy for that thought. Since sympathy is essentially the basis for treating intelligent animals "humanely," it is pretty hard to swallow that we should give the same deference to seaweed as chimps.
But, you can argue for any mode of thought. Perhaps oxygen molecules don't like being inhaled, and we should just let ourselves die from suffocation. It's kind of silly to approach life that way, though. A better approach might be to preserve that which we think is worth being preserved. There isn't really any way to do that other than a selfish point of view (from the point of the species, the region, or the individual). If there is no value in saving the life of all seaweed, then we don't do it. If there is a value in keeping dolphins alive, then we do it.
While you are at it, put it in regular java, too.
The auto keyword for declaring variables.
4K UHD is defined as 3840x2160
Perhaps 4K is not the best choice of name, but the alternative would be to call it 2160p. You cannot simply call it UHD because there are 4K UHD and 8K UHD!
It's a very useful resolution as it is nearly as high as 4096x2160 while retaining the extremely common 16:9 aspect ratio.
DCI 4K is what you are talking about, and it is a pity there are two 4Ks, but we best get used to "4K UHD" and "4K Digital Projection/DCI" or alternatively "4K TV" vs "4K monitor."
Yes, absolutely, you sum it, and the delay of your TV as well. If it can compare to my controller latency, though, I consider it reasonably low, even when summed together.
The problem is not average latency, either. Any connection is going to have latency spikes (unlike my controller), and those will be unacceptable. This is not Netflix which can queue up some data in advance of it being needed. Netflix has issues, anyway, and it doesn't need to respond to your inputs with a new video frame 60 times per second.
I have a great connection, super low latency. Yet, somehow I doubt it can compare to the latency of the wireless signal of my PS4 controller. Packets take time to get from your house to Gaikai servers, no matter how good your connection is, and it's going to be longer than a wireless signal 10 feet away.
I have a hard time believing they can overcome the latency problems to my satisfaction. If you can play Frogger on this service than that's some pretty darn good latency.
Lesson: always upload in 4K to minimize punishment.
Usually sayings are not included in dictionary.com. I just searched the web for the phrase, and these are the sites that came up.
Urbandictionary is useful as it provides commonly understood meanings of sayings or slang. Obviously, it is not authoritative, but it has its worth.
Good luck to you, sir.
I did not make that definition up. Below are a few random examples from the internet of my definition being confirmed. I challenge you to find one definition that matches your bizarre use of the phrase.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Even%20a%20broken%20clock%20is%20right%20twice%20a%20day
1. Success obtained through dumb luck.
2. A rare moment of high achievement from an individual/team/company that is usually unsuccessful.
"I can't believe that Johnny took home that chick last night!"
"Yeah, well even a broken clock is right twice a day."
The origin is apparently from the Chinese proverb saying "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while":
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/even+a+blind+squirrel+finds+a+nut+once+in+a+while.html
This expression means that even if people are ineffective or misguided, sometimes they can still be correct just by being lucky.
Read more at http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/even+a+blind+squirrel+finds+a+nut+once+in+a+while.html#XxyDt8zIwgsX5oCy.99
http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+2144
1. Even people who don't know what they are doing can be successful sometimes.
2. Lucky
Sorry, but face it. You ignorantly misused the colloquialism and are now having a hard time admitting it.
If you just stop and think about it...it makes sense. Even if a broken clock is right twice a day, it still doesn't mean you should consult the broken clock, right? Thus, the meaning is, if something TOTALLY USELESS occasionally is right, a single single success should not be read into too much.
Good luck to you in your future education.
OK, either you are the most pedantic English speaking asshole on the planet, or you have no idea what an analogy is.
You would not use the broken clock as evidence of the time, ever, unless you were an idiot.
No shit Captain Obvious. FYI, you're equally idiotic if you take any subjective source at their word without using empirical data to verify the claim.
A lunatic drug addict might say something true. Is there any reason to ever treat him as a source of anything?
I know what an analogy is. This was a bad use of the clock analogy.
The analogy you used is typically quoted to characterize someone getting lucky. In other words, when someone accomplishes something amazing, you might say "Even a broken clock is right twice a day," to indicate that not too much should be read into their success.
Instead, you used it to elevate the importance of someone's comments. "Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day, so we shouldn't discredit everything that broken clock says." Not only is this not the normally accepted use of this phrase, the analogy breaks down.
So, I would have to say, you are the one who doesn't understand the analogy you made.
To be honest, I wasn't expecting my comments to be taken too seriously. It was just a snide remark that your analogy breaks down in obvious ways. If you want to compare Rush, or anyone else, to a broken clock, and then suggest we should ever take his comments seriously, you are the one discrediting him, not me.
I think the same could be said about 'random internet asshole.' So, what makes you so goddamn trustworthy, anyway?
I don't have to be trustworthy to point out the flaws of an analogy. I never said anything that is requiring of your trust to understand or accept. I just pointed out where your analogy fails and basically makes no sense.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, you know.
If a broken clock is on the right time, by the time you have observed it, it will be telling you something wrong again.
A broken clock might be missing the hour, minute, or second hand. Is it ever "right"?
A broken clock can only be known to be right by use of an unbroken clock. You would not use the broken clock as evidence of the time, ever, unless you were an idiot. Therefore, there is no reason to ever consult the broken clock.
A lunatic drug addict might say something true. Is there any reason to ever treat him as a source of anything?
I see what you mean. Though, this is the "Library" window, with the "downloads" section selected.
It basically achieves what I had before, although it doesn't have the pop-up functionality (which I had previously turned off--probably why I never noticed the difference).
It is still working for me. CTRL+J?
Or, click on the download arrow, and click "show all downloads."
This is on Windows, Firefox 26.
Back in the day I played around with CXBX because I didn't want to buy an XBOX. It was more of a research project, but it proved it could be done. What it actually did was turn XBOX executables into Windows executables, with call redirection. It was a very cool idea but by the time it was working, no one was playing XBOX games anymore.
I would imagine it would be significantly harder with the XB1, but still very possible considering the architecture.
Apparently the project lives on and is pretty compatible with many games, today: http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/
It likely would have been just as bad a year from now. Now we have 1 more year to get it running properly!
Sometimes the best way to fix a product is to release it. Sure, your credibility takes a hit, but you might get a working product faster.
about:config is "advanced."
They don't care about consumer writing of discs, just consumer reading (preferably in blu-ray players made by Sony themselves).
Really? Pretty much everyone I know agrees that Casino Royale and Skyfall have been some of the best Bond movies. Compared to, say, Moonraker, there's no competition.
I agree that Casino Royale was quite good. Skyfall, I thought, was pretty bad. Still, there were quite a few bad (especially in retrospect) Bond movies.
While I appreciate the sullen Bond as an interesting change from the Bonds of the past, the schtick is getting old. Being expressionless can only get you so far. Still, critics loved it.
It does look more like Chrome, although I think the curved edges waste even more space than the angled edges on Chrome (and they look different).
> the Search charm in Windows 8 are infinitely superior to the Start Menu navigation or the Start Menu search in Windows 7.
I find that classic shell does a better job of searching for what I want, than the Windows 8 (or Windows 7) search.
http://www.classicshell.net/
Ahmed is both an Arabic and Islamic name. Ahmed means "most praised" and is sometimes used as a name for Mohammed, the founder of Islam. It is believed that naming your son with this name will bring blessings to your home.
Now, considering this, it does not seem wrong to call it an Islamic name. Certainly, it is a common Arabic name. But why? More than likely, because the most common religion in Arabic speaking countries is Islam.
Is Jesus a Christian name, or a Hebrew name (or, tongue somewhat in cheek, a Latino name)? It is a very common name in Latin America, but then, Latin America is overwhelmingly Christian.
I would be very surprised if Ahmed's family is not Muslim. If they were not Muslim, it seems unlikely they would choose a name so favored by Muslim Arabs. But it is possible, of course.
You are right, and it should have read
"or change the fact that downloading a digital copy does not deprive anyone of their copy, or that digital piracy is not the equivalent to theft."