When they dug up Egypt's tombs, they were exploring the egyptian culture. They tried to find out as much as they could about the people. They had objectivity. Carter wasn't trying to prove Tutankhamen rose to the heavens to have his heart weighted against a feather. He was trying to prove he died and was buried in a hole in a big pyramid. He didn't try and read into what he saw, just look at the facts.
This, however, is a bunch of zealots with carte-blanche running around a mountain pointing at bits of wood while shouting "look! it's god!".
It's not hatred of christianity, or any religion. It's not even hatred. It's severe disapproval of a pseudo-scientific search heavily biassed towards a supernatural/paranormal myth, which they obviously have no interest in debunking (just bolstering). They have absolutely, 0% objectivity. That's the problem. If they sent a bunch of priests up there with big signs saying "Just trying to find proof for our religion" I'd have a hard time believing anyone could have a problem with it. It's the fact they're masquerading as scientists. This is religion. One is measuring and one is interpreting. One is how, one is why. Don't mix the two:-P
you're basing your ideas on a plural? The bible isn't that accurate. Heck, it's not even accurate to whole pages, let alone letters. It's not meant to be taken literally. It's passed down through thousands of pairs of hands, each of which has added its own slant to the story - imparted their agenda upon the text.
To take it as face value is being blindly lead by all those people.
Why do some people keep on saying it's all 100% accurate? It's hard to find a book printed in the last 5 years that's 100% accurate, let alone one "written" 5,000 years ago. Maybe, instead of "mountains", they meant "biggest 7-11". It's not as if everything else in the bible is spot on.
It makes the mind boggle. Sheesh. It's the 21st century. Sure - take the bible and use it as inspiration to live a better life. It's great for that - Jesus is a cool guy. Don't, however, take it as an accurate record of the zeitgeist of the biblical ages. Like you wouldn't think of it as the Zagat survey of falafel shacks in Arabia c.-4000. I could go on for hours about how it's supposed to inspire, not instruct, but it usually annoys people.
The internet didn't start with tabbed browsing - it's perfectly reasonable to surf the net without it. As for "crappy network handling", that's most likely more down to your DNS server than anything else. I've mistyped plenty of URLs in IE and it has never ceased to respons during searches for non-existant domains/URLs. Ctrl+N does re-load the contents of the window, but it's very very easy to press "esc" while it's happening to stop it loading.
I appreciate many people have different needs/wants for a browser, but so far I've not seen one on windows that's as fast as IE or (for me, at least) as quick to get around. With all the things like tabbed interfaces etc. you incur a speed hit. When I surf the net I want to press "ctrl+n" and get a new page now. Not in 1 second like Opera and FireBleh, but now.
Normally, I'd have no problem with people ripping software apart on this forum - it's full of jedi IT professionals - but I'm an IT professional (web developer) and I use IE every day on many machines, and I can't understand why everyone has a problem with it. It's the fastest browser I've used (and I regularly try the latest offerings, open source and not). I don't need tabbed windows (alt+tab works very well for me, and XP groups IE windows together on the task bar, so even 20 pages would only take up one app-space). The only time I've noticed it behaving weird was when a pop-up stopper went nuts and stopped everything.
Seriously, I'm no microsoft fanboy. I have as much respect for MS as the next guy, but I can't see anything wrong with IE. If you don't like it, use something else. Don't bash it for not doing what you want when it caters 100% for lots of people out there, with no problem.
"Thats sort of like trading in a shiny BMW for a freakin go-cart"
If you're trying to race go-carts, that sounds like a great idea. Without knowing exactly what he's trying to do, on what hardware and for which people, it's impossible (and pointless) to comment on it.
Because their country would sell them out in a heartbeat, maybe? Like those US troops everyone in the US gov't was so behind - suddenly 20,000 of them have to stay in Iraq for 90 days more than their 1-year tour of duty. Which is amusing, as everyone called peace protesters "anti US troops", yet the same guys who said that are keeping them away from their families for 90 days, fighting a false war with inadequate training, for nefarious gain.
America has done nothing to endear people to it, ever. It was founded on hatred and murder, and not much has improved. I mean, America killed of 99% of its indigenous inhabitants, had slavery until recently, and only had a civil rights movement in the 60s. Sheesh. For a big country, it sure is backwards.
Don't even get me started on the institutional racism in the US.
For every right you're given, someone loses one. You can't just pull rights out of your ass and say they only give to people - they take in equal measures. The right to free speech is also taking away your right to make someone shut up.
Why do people think some things only give rights, and don't take them away?
So your idea to further the cause of OSS is to plagiarise other peoples' work? Seeing as/. is the first place for people to scream blue murder when someone even gives the GPL a dodgy look, I find that pretty amusing.
For our protection, why don't they make a law that says no-one can sue anyone else, and no-one can go to prison! What a great idea! Then there'd be no lawsuits and empty prisons! I can't believe someone hasn't thought of this before!
Spam is illegal in many places in the US, yet it still gets sent.
I'm saying that people shouldn't have a go at Nigeria for having lax attitudes towards a certain crime when the US is doing something similarly annoying, yet has the resources to actually do something about it... but doesn't.
Sleazy. Right. What makes it sleazy? How is that bad, yet jobs being outsourced to the US is good? No-one even mentioned it when it was the other way round...
And if it's an instrumental, I guess searching for "Bwwaaaaaaahhhh... Duh duh duuuuuunnnnh... Bwaah bwaaaaaah duuunnn duuuunnnnnnh..." works great, too...
Surely a content filter will be impede free hearing, not free speech...
It's a fair point, I don't think any minister wants to be remembered as "that crazy guy who flooded tasmania's kids with pr0n". If I was going to get a community DSL I'd want to cover myself in case it all goes wrong. After all, he's not trying to give them DSL for pr0n, but personal development (which, funnily enough, can happen without pr0n just as easily as it can with)...
Offtopic maybe, but not many people know about this. America touts itself as a melting pot of cultures, when historically it's been anything but. Unless you define "melting pot" as "systematic rape", that is, in which case it's spot on.
Bluetooth never, ever pretended to be a contender on medium-bandwidth busses. First off, it's specification was to be a cheap, low-power wireless communication technology, not a medium-bandwidth device bus. Just having that expectation shows how much you know about bluetooth.
You've listed a bunch of stuff that is not only possible with bluetooth, but similar stuff is already in use. For example, I have a bluetooth-enabled desktop at work. When I sit in my chair, my speakers/headphones and microphone become my phone's headset. My address book syncs up. I can send SMS messages from my desktop. All with my phone still in my bag, or jacket pocket.
You're confusing USB with bluetooth because they can both connect devices together. While both can do that, bluetooth was made to other things as well. It's hardware-based, so no software gets in the way. Bluetooth devices from sony can talk to bluetooth devices from nokia, no problems. The chips cost nearly nothing to include in devices, and don't impact battery performance. USB, on the other hand, costs a lot more to include, is larger (form-wise) and drinks a lot more juice.
If you can't see why bluetooth is great, you've never used it properly, or you just can't see its benefits.
Bluetooth isn't supposed to compete with USB. It was never ever designed to do that, hence the low bandwidth. I can't believe people still have these skewed views on this technology. If you actually read about it instead of complaining it doesn't make your breakfast, you'd realise it's fantastic at what it does. It's cheap to implement and uses very little power. It's robust and has lost of uses. Think of something that uses little bandwidth that would be useful in a wireless setting, and bluetooth is your best bet (as has been proved time and time and time again).
Without meaning to sound rude, you really have no idea about bluetooth. Lots of people happen to use it daily, for lots of different things. It's only when people get confused as to what its aims are, they start pissing on it.
Bluetooth replaces low bandwidth cables. Mice, keyboards, wires, cellphones, PDA-synching etc. It's made to be incredibly cheap to integrate into consumer electronics, and to use as little power as possible. It's not made to network things together to share music (although it can do that).
Comparing it to WLAN or WUSB is ridiculous, as all of these technologies have their different strengths and uses.
Over here in Britain, bluetooth is incredibly common. Nearly every phone you buy has bluetooth integrated into it. When you sit at your work computer, your microphone and headphones can become your hands-free kit, with your phone still in your bag under your desk. You can send text messages and photos to people from your desktop. It doesn't matter how good WUSB is, it's not going to do that anytime soon. It's certainly not going to be in any phones (as it uses too much power, it's too big and costs too much), and even if it was suitable - it's not going to be in anything soon.
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This, however, is a bunch of zealots with carte-blanche running around a mountain pointing at bits of wood while shouting "look! it's god!".
It's not hatred of christianity, or any religion. It's not even hatred. It's severe disapproval of a pseudo-scientific search heavily biassed towards a supernatural/paranormal myth, which they obviously have no interest in debunking (just bolstering). They have absolutely, 0% objectivity. That's the problem. If they sent a bunch of priests up there with big signs saying "Just trying to find proof for our religion" I'd have a hard time believing anyone could have a problem with it. It's the fact they're masquerading as scientists. This is religion. One is measuring and one is interpreting. One is how, one is why. Don't mix the two :-P
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To take it as face value is being blindly lead by all those people.
Why do some people keep on saying it's all 100% accurate? It's hard to find a book printed in the last 5 years that's 100% accurate, let alone one "written" 5,000 years ago. Maybe, instead of "mountains", they meant "biggest 7-11". It's not as if everything else in the bible is spot on.
It makes the mind boggle. Sheesh. It's the 21st century. Sure - take the bible and use it as inspiration to live a better life. It's great for that - Jesus is a cool guy. Don't, however, take it as an accurate record of the zeitgeist of the biblical ages. Like you wouldn't think of it as the Zagat survey of falafel shacks in Arabia c.-4000. I could go on for hours about how it's supposed to inspire, not instruct, but it usually annoys people.
I appreciate many people have different needs/wants for a browser, but so far I've not seen one on windows that's as fast as IE or (for me, at least) as quick to get around. With all the things like tabbed interfaces etc. you incur a speed hit. When I surf the net I want to press "ctrl+n" and get a new page now. Not in 1 second like Opera and FireBleh, but now.
Normally, I'd have no problem with people ripping software apart on this forum - it's full of jedi IT professionals - but I'm an IT professional (web developer) and I use IE every day on many machines, and I can't understand why everyone has a problem with it. It's the fastest browser I've used (and I regularly try the latest offerings, open source and not). I don't need tabbed windows (alt+tab works very well for me, and XP groups IE windows together on the task bar, so even 20 pages would only take up one app-space). The only time I've noticed it behaving weird was when a pop-up stopper went nuts and stopped everything.
Seriously, I'm no microsoft fanboy. I have as much respect for MS as the next guy, but I can't see anything wrong with IE. If you don't like it, use something else. Don't bash it for not doing what you want when it caters 100% for lots of people out there, with no problem.
My XP boxes at work go for months without rebooting, not just days...
If you're trying to race go-carts, that sounds like a great idea. Without knowing exactly what he's trying to do, on what hardware and for which people, it's impossible (and pointless) to comment on it.
yup. It's all about the dollars. It's about as ethical as bull fighting using a nun as the red cape.
"Troll" - I love slashdot. Point out a blazingly obvious double-standard, and you're a "troll". hehehe :)
America has done nothing to endear people to it, ever. It was founded on hatred and murder, and not much has improved. I mean, America killed of 99% of its indigenous inhabitants, had slavery until recently, and only had a civil rights movement in the 60s. Sheesh. For a big country, it sure is backwards.
Don't even get me started on the institutional racism in the US.
Why do people think some things only give rights, and don't take them away?
Licenses are the fine line between open source and anarchy. If we don't respect the licenses in place, no-one will respect ours.
For our protection, why don't they make a law that says no-one can sue anyone else, and no-one can go to prison! What a great idea! Then there'd be no lawsuits and empty prisons! I can't believe someone hasn't thought of this before!
sheesh.
Apart from the fact it's not GPL'd, I agree.
I'm saying that people shouldn't have a go at Nigeria for having lax attitudes towards a certain crime when the US is doing something similarly annoying, yet has the resources to actually do something about it... but doesn't.
Sleazy. Right. What makes it sleazy? How is that bad, yet jobs being outsourced to the US is good? No-one even mentioned it when it was the other way round...
And if it's an instrumental, I guess searching for "Bwwaaaaaaahhhh... Duh duh duuuuuunnnnh... Bwaah bwaaaaaah duuunnn duuuunnnnnnh..." works great, too...
It's a fair point, I don't think any minister wants to be remembered as "that crazy guy who flooded tasmania's kids with pr0n". If I was going to get a community DSL I'd want to cover myself in case it all goes wrong. After all, he's not trying to give them DSL for pr0n, but personal development (which, funnily enough, can happen without pr0n just as easily as it can with)...
Real had their chance, but their greed of the almighty dollar screwed us, and them in the process.
Real dug their own grave. No-one can save their brand. They should just climb in and pray the worms are gentle.
Offtopic maybe, but not many people know about this. America touts itself as a melting pot of cultures, when historically it's been anything but. Unless you define "melting pot" as "systematic rape", that is, in which case it's spot on.
It's named after Harald Bluetooth, an old viking king.
By that logic, there would be no income tax, as the taxmen have to pay it...
Must be great to go to a school named after an infamous racist and slave trader. USA! USA! USA!
You've listed a bunch of stuff that is not only possible with bluetooth, but similar stuff is already in use. For example, I have a bluetooth-enabled desktop at work. When I sit in my chair, my speakers/headphones and microphone become my phone's headset. My address book syncs up. I can send SMS messages from my desktop. All with my phone still in my bag, or jacket pocket.
You're confusing USB with bluetooth because they can both connect devices together. While both can do that, bluetooth was made to other things as well. It's hardware-based, so no software gets in the way. Bluetooth devices from sony can talk to bluetooth devices from nokia, no problems. The chips cost nearly nothing to include in devices, and don't impact battery performance. USB, on the other hand, costs a lot more to include, is larger (form-wise) and drinks a lot more juice.
If you can't see why bluetooth is great, you've never used it properly, or you just can't see its benefits.
Bluetooth isn't supposed to compete with USB. It was never ever designed to do that, hence the low bandwidth. I can't believe people still have these skewed views on this technology. If you actually read about it instead of complaining it doesn't make your breakfast, you'd realise it's fantastic at what it does. It's cheap to implement and uses very little power. It's robust and has lost of uses. Think of something that uses little bandwidth that would be useful in a wireless setting, and bluetooth is your best bet (as has been proved time and time and time again).
Bluetooth replaces low bandwidth cables. Mice, keyboards, wires, cellphones, PDA-synching etc. It's made to be incredibly cheap to integrate into consumer electronics, and to use as little power as possible. It's not made to network things together to share music (although it can do that).
Comparing it to WLAN or WUSB is ridiculous, as all of these technologies have their different strengths and uses.
Over here in Britain, bluetooth is incredibly common. Nearly every phone you buy has bluetooth integrated into it. When you sit at your work computer, your microphone and headphones can become your hands-free kit, with your phone still in your bag under your desk. You can send text messages and photos to people from your desktop. It doesn't matter how good WUSB is, it's not going to do that anytime soon. It's certainly not going to be in any phones (as it uses too much power, it's too big and costs too much), and even if it was suitable - it's not going to be in anything soon.