It might be a little rough around the edges, but I'm limited only by whatever media I have stored on my FTP server, SD Card or USB drive. Being able to view videos from Youtube and listen to Shoutcast streams is pretty nice as well.
Incorrect. All one needs to do is change the angle of the text label to create a vertical tab. You could also create up-side-down tabs, or diagonal tabs, if you preferred.
Who's dismissing religion out of hand? The major world religions have all been around for hundreds or even thousands of years, and in that time that have failed absolutely in their one useful purpose: bettering humankind.
As the religious orthodoxy of Europe weakened, along came a few thousand naturalists who didn't take all their knowledge from holy writ, ancient authorities or dogma, but instead examined the real world and made observations, predictions based on those observations, started testing those predictions and thus gained knowledge and understanding of natural world. Science quickly emerged in the last few hundred years as the best and most accurate way of discovering how the world, life, and everything works. And then, advances in medicine, engineering, transportation came directly out of inventive minds who drew their ideas from this new wealth of knowledge.
Why should we retry the failed methods of the past?
Why, exactly, should we look to revelation, doctrine, and sacred writ, and oh-so-common ancestor worship in any other way than an anthropologist would? Those curious-but-false beliefs that superstitious, ignorant people develop in their quests to make sense of the often callous and randomly dangerous world are similar in that they are invented, untrue, and often harm those minds that hold them more than they help.
Why are we told to keep up the faith -- that religions may actually have the answers, *really* -- when they have failed so incredibly at it up to now?
Severely flawed systems of knowledge, such as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam, may be interesting and contain various amounts of good storytelling, bad poetry and convoluted laws, but what minuscule value they had has long since been distilled amongst other more encompassing and coherent moral philosophies.
Religions - as value systems and knowledge repositories - are now, and have long been superseded. The main thing that is keeping these religions going is that children are easily made to believe in them, and adults are too slow to change their minds.
The difference is: You are not forced to upgrade all your python applications, and both 2.x and 3.x will work side-by-side. Microsoft gets a lot flak for breaking third-party apps with new OS releases, but not so much when they release a new IDE.
Who cares, anyway? We have plenty of excellent media players, already.
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I hope you're not telling us that we have the memories of our parents passed down to us via some unknown mystical or physical force, 'cause I feel a bit cheated.
Don't confuse real environmentalists (ya know, the educated, serious types) with people who only care about the appearance of nature (i've just coined the term: beautificationists). There are are also the uneducated serious types to worry about, but they usually end up making that painful obvious if you ask them specific questions.
The beautificationists are also ignorant, but they care more about the view outside their window than a polluted river 5 miles away (nicely out of sight). They should indeed shut up.
Every wind farm I've seen looks either majestic, or serene (when the wind is light), or at least purposeful and industrious without being ugly.
Do they paint zebra stripes or something on them, over there? What's ugly about giant fans? The last thing we need is our energy supply being determined by a bunch of hairdressers and decorators.
I'll take a giant rotating blade over a smokestack and day of the year.
But, unless you use an extra widget library you will be spending an excessive amount of time writing your own (or quickly growing wise and stealing one). Ncurses has just the bare minimum of widgets: windows, sub-windows, text, and special characters. Since I used raw ncurses, I ended up spending quite some time making my own curses apps act somewhat similar to a typical GUI application.
The size of the terminal forced me into text processing and cropping... roughly a third of my app is just processing text to fit into the size constraints of its particular 'window'. The rest is processing data, and managing and decorating the various sub-windows.
Things get more complicated when I added mouse support and "tabs". But, the most annoying bit is not having a standard terminal that everyone uses. Often function and meta keys don't work, or - for putty and TTY users - the mouse doesn't.
Anyhow, in the real world, if you have the option of using a GUI instead of a curses-based app, I suggest you take it. Using curses takes a lot of the speed out of writing a normal python application, and is often tedious to the point you realize why curses was named.
I'll just stop watching TV... oh wait, I already did.
No commericials, no annoying crap. I get more done, and if there is anything I want to watch, then I download it off of one of the many sources of free video.
Quality and instant (yet horribly scheduled) access is the only thing TV networks have going for them, now.
I did not state that "fanatical Muslims have any ethical guide as to which countries they bomb".
Foreign invaders are enough to cause anyone to become more radical, not just religious extremists.
Take this "what if?" historical example: If the Soviet Union successfully invaded the USA (laughable, yes) during the 80s their theoretical leaders would no doubt complain about the rebels attacking their soldiers. When they'd complain about Christian Extremists killing Soviet Soldiers, you'd probably say the same thing. The act of invading a country is enough to radicalize most of the nation, religion is just a tool for the extremists, and extremists only moderate after many years of peace.
Very true, normal Iraqis are suffering the most. This is a consequence of Qutbism (Islam VS the world), the general sectarian hatred of the many different militant groups, and the disregard of American/European troops.
I think you meant, "As far as creating lots of new Islamic militants and terrorists, Iraq is a pretty good strategy. Plus we get to test out all these cool new IEDs."
Osama got exactly what he wanted: The removal of Saddam, and a ton of new recruits.
Indeed, reading light text on a dark background is the only way I can bear to read the hundreds of e-books I go thru every year.
I also prefer by e-books in plain text -- even to the point of missing italics and bolding -- just for the convience of being able to read it with pretty much any device.
Hell, my favorite 'reader' is KWrite, and that's just an fancy text editor.
Inverting the colors in my PDF reader is an absolute must!
Uhmm.. let me makes this extremely clear: If he didn't know good from evil, then he couldn't know disobedience was wrong. If he didn't know disobedience was wrong, then he'd have no reason not to do it.
I guess you could say that he had no conscience, no moral qualms, no respect for authority, etc, etc. A perfect man.;)
Kinda simple, isn't it? Telling someone like that not-to-do-something doesn't work, and is rather silly to expect anything other than eventual disobedience. That a god gets angry when his amoral creation disobeys him is the height of absurdity. And that the god didn't want man to be knowledgeable about ethics is just bizarre.
What if Adam decided to kill and eat Eve because he was hungry? He'd just do it without ever feeling any remorse.. and then the human race ends:)
Destruction of that myth requires only this: Adam never existed. Even if he did, for a 'perfect' man to make a mistake is impossible. Another thing... if Adam didn't know good and evil, how could he possibly have know that he shouldn't have eaten the 'knowledge fruit'? That's right, he couldn't. It'd be like killing or beating a 2-month-old for making a mess of it's food after you've sternly warned it to not spill anything, while being well aware the baby cannot comprehend you. The 'first sin' is completely, utterly illogical and self-contradicts.
Yay, I discredited the entire basis of Christianity... original sin.. and it was so very easy, too.
Of course, you have to accept the physical world and logic and apply them to your religion to see these obvious truths.. sadly, very few religious people can get past their childhood indoctrination. Some Christians are even fond of the mantra 'faith like a child', encouraging adults not to think too deeply about their beliefs.
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It might be a little rough around the edges, but I'm limited only by whatever media I have stored on my FTP server, SD Card or USB drive. Being able to view videos from Youtube and listen to Shoutcast streams is pretty nice as well.
http://www.wiimc.org/
Sure, you need to install the Homebrew Channel first, but that's easy enough.
Incorrect. All one needs to do is change the angle of the text label to create a vertical tab. You could also create up-side-down tabs, or diagonal tabs, if you preferred.
this feature?
Who's dismissing religion out of hand? The major world religions have all been around for hundreds or even thousands of years, and in that time that have failed absolutely in their one useful purpose: bettering humankind.
As the religious orthodoxy of Europe weakened, along came a few thousand naturalists who didn't take all their knowledge from holy writ, ancient authorities or dogma, but instead examined the real world and made observations, predictions based on those observations, started testing those predictions and thus gained knowledge and understanding of natural world. Science quickly emerged in the last few hundred years as the best and most accurate way of discovering how the world, life, and everything works. And then, advances in medicine, engineering, transportation came directly out of inventive minds who drew their ideas from this new wealth of knowledge.
Why should we retry the failed methods of the past?
Why, exactly, should we look to revelation, doctrine, and sacred writ, and oh-so-common ancestor worship in any other way than an anthropologist would? Those curious-but-false beliefs that superstitious, ignorant people develop in their quests to make sense of the often callous and randomly dangerous world are similar in that they are invented, untrue, and often harm those minds that hold them more than they help.
Why are we told to keep up the faith -- that religions may actually have the answers, *really* -- when they have failed so incredibly at it up to now?
Severely flawed systems of knowledge, such as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam, may be interesting and contain various amounts of good storytelling, bad poetry and convoluted laws, but what minuscule value they had has long since been distilled amongst other more encompassing and coherent moral philosophies.
Religions - as value systems and knowledge repositories - are now, and have long been superseded. The main thing that is keeping these religions going is that children are easily made to believe in them, and adults are too slow to change their minds.
Sadly, not everyone has noticed, yet.
1000 22944 13.8 48.0 463244 247996 ? Rl Feb27 189:27 /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.11/firefox-bin
Firefox is definitely a hog, I have just 512MB and it's using an enormous chunk of it, not to mention the swap usage.
Although, having 90 tabs open may have something to do with that.
The difference is: You are not forced to upgrade all your python applications, and both 2.x and 3.x will work side-by-side. Microsoft gets a lot flak for breaking third-party apps with new OS releases, but not so much when they release a new IDE.
Tell that to the 1000+ RTF documents on my hard disks.
Who cares, anyway? We have plenty of excellent media players, already.
I hope you're not telling us that we have the memories of our parents passed down to us via some unknown mystical or physical force, 'cause I feel a bit cheated.
Don't confuse real environmentalists (ya know, the educated, serious types) with people who only care about the appearance of nature (i've just coined the term: beautificationists). There are are also the uneducated serious types to worry about, but they usually end up making that painful obvious if you ask them specific questions.
The beautificationists are also ignorant, but they care more about the view outside their window than a polluted river 5 miles away (nicely out of sight). They should indeed shut up.
Every wind farm I've seen looks either majestic, or serene (when the wind is light), or at least purposeful and industrious without being ugly.
Do they paint zebra stripes or something on them, over there? What's ugly about giant fans?
The last thing we need is our energy supply being determined by a bunch of hairdressers and decorators.
I'll take a giant rotating blade over a smokestack and day of the year.
funny thing is, cairo is dog slow
I thought bearing false witness was the point of the majority of religions, which, if you bothered to check, are also found under 'legal money scams'.
But, unless you use an extra widget library you will be spending an excessive amount of time writing your own (or quickly growing wise and stealing one). Ncurses has just the bare minimum of widgets: windows, sub-windows, text, and special characters. Since I used raw ncurses, I ended up spending quite some time making my own curses apps act somewhat similar to a typical GUI application.
The size of the terminal forced me into text processing and cropping... roughly a third of my app is just processing text to fit into the size constraints of its particular 'window'. The rest is processing data, and managing and decorating the various sub-windows.
Things get more complicated when I added mouse support and "tabs". But, the most annoying bit is not having a standard terminal that everyone uses. Often function and meta keys don't work, or - for putty and TTY users - the mouse doesn't.
Anyhow, in the real world, if you have the option of using a GUI instead of a curses-based app, I suggest you take it. Using curses takes a lot of the speed out of writing a normal python application, and is often tedious to the point you realize why curses was named.
You mean ext4... reiser4 has been in for a while.
It was pulled (not defaced, sadly). I loaded a few pages right after it was posted, and it worked. But all links give that message now.
I'll just stop watching TV... oh wait, I already did.
No commericials, no annoying crap. I get more done, and if there is anything I want to watch, then I download it off of one of the many sources of free video.
Quality and instant (yet horribly scheduled) access is the only thing TV networks have going for them, now.
I did not state that "fanatical Muslims have any ethical guide as to which countries they bomb".
Foreign invaders are enough to cause anyone to become more radical, not just religious extremists.
Take this "what if?" historical example:
If the Soviet Union successfully invaded the USA (laughable, yes) during the 80s their theoretical leaders would no doubt complain about the rebels attacking their soldiers. When they'd complain about Christian Extremists killing Soviet Soldiers, you'd probably say the same thing. The act of invading a country is enough to radicalize most of the nation, religion is just a tool for the extremists, and extremists only moderate after many years of peace.
Very true, normal Iraqis are suffering the most. This is a consequence of Qutbism (Islam VS the world), the general sectarian hatred of the many different militant groups, and the disregard of American/European troops.
And then their brothers and cousins decide to take revenge... more recruits.
The moderate Muslims will never get much support whilst the "foreign invaders", as they're called, keep attacking and occuping Muslim countries.
I think you meant, "As far as creating lots of new Islamic militants and terrorists, Iraq is a pretty good strategy. Plus we get to test out all these cool new IEDs."
Osama got exactly what he wanted: The removal of Saddam, and a ton of new recruits.
Jews did not and do not believe a "son of God" is coming back. Some do believe in a messiah, but that's completely different.
Christians like to read a lot into the Old Testament that isn't there.
Indeed, reading light text on a dark background is the only way I can bear to read the hundreds of e-books I go thru every year.
I also prefer by e-books in plain text -- even to the point of missing italics and bolding -- just for the convience of being able to read it with pretty much any device.
Hell, my favorite 'reader' is KWrite, and that's just an fancy text editor.
Inverting the colors in my PDF reader is an absolute must!
Uhmm.. let me makes this extremely clear: If he didn't know good from evil, then he couldn't know disobedience was wrong. If he didn't know disobedience was wrong, then he'd have no reason not to do it.
;)
:)
I guess you could say that he had no conscience, no moral qualms, no respect for authority, etc, etc. A perfect man.
Kinda simple, isn't it? Telling someone like that not-to-do-something doesn't work, and is rather silly to expect anything other than eventual disobedience. That a god gets angry when his amoral creation disobeys him is the height of absurdity. And that the god didn't want man to be knowledgeable about ethics is just bizarre.
What if Adam decided to kill and eat Eve because he was hungry? He'd just do it without ever feeling any remorse.. and then the human race ends
Brilliant planning.
Destruction of that myth requires only this: Adam never existed. Even if he did, for a 'perfect' man to make a mistake is impossible. Another thing... if Adam didn't know good and evil, how could he possibly have know that he shouldn't have eaten the 'knowledge fruit'? That's right, he couldn't. It'd be like killing or beating a 2-month-old for making a mess of it's food after you've sternly warned it to not spill anything, while being well aware the baby cannot comprehend you. The 'first sin' is completely, utterly illogical and self-contradicts.
Yay, I discredited the entire basis of Christianity... original sin.. and it was so very easy, too.
Of course, you have to accept the physical world and logic and apply them to your religion to see these obvious truths.. sadly, very few religious people can get past their childhood indoctrination. Some Christians are even fond of the mantra 'faith like a child', encouraging adults not to think too deeply about their beliefs.
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