noise level (I love watching videos while my wife sleeps) You might just wake up the wife instead of relying on videos...
heat (I hate it when the laptop is hot and I actually have it on my laps...) And that's a bad thing how?
autonomy (I travel quite a bit in trains and planes, and my 2 hour autonomy laptop is not so great...) I hope those trains and planes are often rather empty...
Uhm, there were and still are industrialised countries which are totalitarian oligarchies, not need to guess how it would look. Generally they also have a poor record.
It's mostly because there's a lot of corruption and nepotism in various forms on all levels, a lot of actions made because "for the cause" (not due to their practicality) and a lot of inefficiency (no reason to combat it...). With a side effect that those economies can compete only if they cut corners here and there (for example in protection of environment)
State-run media and security apparatus helps too; they make it easy for issues to mostly dissapear.
And yes, I am from (until quite recently) place.
PS. Though I guess exceptions are possible, Cuba might be one... (more due to neccesity though...embargo)
Approached from another angle, he might have more real-life precedents than it appears. "Democracy" of local communities is quite readily limited throghout the world when it can have negative impacts (also...localised enviromental ones) on the community and its neighbours.
Unfortunatelly, people stop wanting to care and/or are unable to when faced with such issues on much bigger scale (also involving many large communities which are no longer neighbours)
PS. If there's a slight chance that Plato was thinking about meritocracy while saying that, at least Finland might somehow fall under not-bad-outcome...
if you put democracy "on hold" it's awfully hard to get it started again...as shown by the thing that it's hardly anywhere (and anytime...) present; when it comes to whole world it's almost suspended (or hardly existed in the first place) anyway.
Hey, I also carry a P&S digicam with me practically all the time (DSLR is too unwieldy); and not that bad one, even if it's almost from the bottom of price barrel (Fuji A800; for some reason it got practically the same sensor and lens as F40fd) and you have to fight chromatic aberration.
But I think you're too hard on mobile phone cameras. They can do 720p/1MP well enough so it makes sense to use that res instead of SD/0.3MP.
And unlike religions in general, I have no wish to force my views on anybody else, it was merely a suggestion.
While "forcing" would be indeed deplorable, to improve situation a bit (I like to believe that we would be better off if larger part of humanity than it's currently the case had a realistic opportunity to free themselves from religions; larger part, but not all; we're not wholly ready yet) I think you have to use similar mechanisms, similar "brainfarts" which are exploited by religions. It's a competition of ideas, it always was; you can't put yourself at a disadvantage...
Don't paint it in "Earth-only" fashion, some people might think that we were simply lucky...
If they realize it applies to all astronomical objects (most significantly, that we can observe long-lived neutron stars), they might be less likely to go into panic mode.
(otoh...hm, there's this puzzle about dark matter;) )
Actually, 720p instead of "SD" (say, 640x480) can make adequatly enough sense.
720p is 1280x720. Presently, well implemented cellphone camera can certainly make a difference between a photo shot at 640x480 and one at 1280x720; so why not video? (even 1080i/p should be fine, considering it's 1920x1080, or just 2 megapixels, and that practical limit to cellphone lenses & sensors is probably around 3MP)
Yes, people who I would call serious preachers (and faithfull too of course) might point out many, many examples of so called evidence (I don't have to repeat them here, you know the drill). But then...they will say something like "...I believe that in those things we see a manifestation of my deity". I can fully accept and respect that, even if I don't agree with it. That somebody knows what's he's doing at least.
What many people are doing is quite different however - pointing at "evidence" in their need of confirmation...treating it as proof - yes that's not faith. But it's what they do. It's the meaning of evidence which they use. Blind one, if you like.
...and many still do; that's the whole point. Prove why you picking yours is fine while me picking mine is not.
Nvm that it probably also largely stems from differences between sects we're most familiar with, their approach to what even "faith" is - but I thought that goes without saying. You don't operate under absolutist assumption here, do you? (as a sidenote - sects I'm familiar with actually form significant majority of Christianity;p (and btw are quite tolerable in certain things; accepting evolution and all that...)) Or outright lingustic subtleties (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis anyone?)
How quiant...you should be also really looking at different pages in Merriam Webster (and why only there) though. Not only those about "faith"; also "evidence", "evidenced". Without that you're picking what suits you and might just as well be even dialect specific...
The funny thing about evidence as pillar of faith is that it means different things to differet people (too bad I don't drink cofee or tea generally, I could have looked at dregs right now); it's, as I've said, quite shallow if youe preachers can't help themselves but rely on it. It's about belief in validity of "evidence".
Plsu...prove that your understanding of the word "evidence" is appropriate.
That Motorola phone doesn't have a raster display though; it has preset symbols + alphanumeric display (similar to 7-segment displays of classic calculators)
So why nobody has an e-book reader without cellular access (there are plenty) which is significantly cheaper than the Kidle? You mean nobody saw an opportunity there?
And for that matter, in most of the world Kindle 3G access is "free" in rather loose sense of the word...
I know you think you did:). Thing is, you hold critique of your mythology to some curious "standards". Mind you, they are enough for you...the rest can just see at the quoues. In full, not what you, sic, cherry-picked or tried to somehow bend to fit later.
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noise level (I love watching videos while my wife sleeps)
You might just wake up the wife instead of relying on videos...
heat (I hate it when the laptop is hot and I actually have it on my laps ...)
And that's a bad thing how?
autonomy (I travel quite a bit in trains and planes, and my 2 hour autonomy laptop is not so great ...)
I hope those trains and planes are often rather empty...
Uhm, there were and still are industrialised countries which are totalitarian oligarchies, not need to guess how it would look. Generally they also have a poor record.
It's mostly because there's a lot of corruption and nepotism in various forms on all levels, a lot of actions made because "for the cause" (not due to their practicality) and a lot of inefficiency (no reason to combat it...). With a side effect that those economies can compete only if they cut corners here and there (for example in protection of environment)
State-run media and security apparatus helps too; they make it easy for issues to mostly dissapear.
And yes, I am from (until quite recently) place.
PS. Though I guess exceptions are possible, Cuba might be one... (more due to neccesity though...embargo)
Instead...they succeeded in their stated goals, bringing happiness and prosperity to all?
Wait...
Approached from another angle, he might have more real-life precedents than it appears. "Democracy" of local communities is quite readily limited throghout the world when it can have negative impacts (also...localised enviromental ones) on the community and its neighbours.
Unfortunatelly, people stop wanting to care and/or are unable to when faced with such issues on much bigger scale (also involving many large communities which are no longer neighbours)
PS. If there's a slight chance that Plato was thinking about meritocracy while saying that, at least Finland might somehow fall under not-bad-outcome...
if you put democracy "on hold" it's awfully hard to get it started again ...as shown by the thing that it's hardly anywhere (and anytime...) present; when it comes to whole world it's almost suspended (or hardly existed in the first place) anyway.
Many latest Intel processors also include AES acceleration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set (too bad Intel, as is usual with them, castrates low-end too excessively)
While not really beneficial over Via in NAS scenarios, I guess you would be happy if your next laptop had such CPU...
Hey, I also carry a P&S digicam with me practically all the time (DSLR is too unwieldy); and not that bad one, even if it's almost from the bottom of price barrel (Fuji A800; for some reason it got practically the same sensor and lens as F40fd) and you have to fight chromatic aberration.
But I think you're too hard on mobile phone cameras. They can do 720p/1MP well enough so it makes sense to use that res instead of SD/0.3MP.
And unlike religions in general, I have no wish to force my views on anybody else, it was merely a suggestion.
While "forcing" would be indeed deplorable, to improve situation a bit (I like to believe that we would be better off if larger part of humanity than it's currently the case had a realistic opportunity to free themselves from religions; larger part, but not all; we're not wholly ready yet) I think you have to use similar mechanisms, similar "brainfarts" which are exploited by religions. It's a competition of ideas, it always was; you can't put yourself at a disadvantage...
"Old people", in such sense, usually means a state into which people put themselves in; not age.
Don't paint it in "Earth-only" fashion, some people might think that we were simply lucky...
If they realize it applies to all astronomical objects (most significantly, that we can observe long-lived neutron stars), they might be less likely to go into panic mode.
(otoh...hm, there's this puzzle about dark matter ;) )
Actually, 720p instead of "SD" (say, 640x480) can make adequatly enough sense.
720p is 1280x720. Presently, well implemented cellphone camera can certainly make a difference between a photo shot at 640x480 and one at 1280x720; so why not video? (even 1080i/p should be fine, considering it's 1920x1080, or just 2 megapixels, and that practical limit to cellphone lenses & sensors is probably around 3MP)
I guess I need to spell it out...
Yes, people who I would call serious preachers (and faithfull too of course) might point out many, many examples of so called evidence (I don't have to repeat them here, you know the drill). But then...they will say something like "...I believe that in those things we see a manifestation of my deity". I can fully accept and respect that, even if I don't agree with it. That somebody knows what's he's doing at least.
What many people are doing is quite different however - pointing at "evidence" in their need of confirmation...treating it as proof - yes that's not faith. But it's what they do. It's the meaning of evidence which they use. Blind one, if you like.
Though he did it in reverse, musicalising weapon...THE weapon, if there ever was one.
Or, in that case...
Better Red than Dead!
...and many still do; that's the whole point. Prove why you picking yours is fine while me picking mine is not.
Nvm that it probably also largely stems from differences between sects we're most familiar with, their approach to what even "faith" is - but I thought that goes without saying. You don't operate under absolutist assumption here, do you? (as a sidenote - sects I'm familiar with actually form significant majority of Christianity ;p (and btw are quite tolerable in certain things; accepting evolution and all that...))
Or outright lingustic subtleties (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis anyone?)
How quiant...you should be also really looking at different pages in Merriam Webster (and why only there) though. Not only those about "faith"; also "evidence", "evidenced". Without that you're picking what suits you and might just as well be even dialect specific...
The funny thing about evidence as pillar of faith is that it means different things to differet people (too bad I don't drink cofee or tea generally, I could have looked at dregs right now); it's, as I've said, quite shallow if youe preachers can't help themselves but rely on it. It's about belief in validity of "evidence".
Plsu...prove that your understanding of the word "evidence" is appropriate.
That Motorola phone doesn't have a raster display though; it has preset symbols + alphanumeric display (similar to 7-segment displays of classic calculators)
So why nobody has an e-book reader without cellular access (there are plenty) which is significantly cheaper than the Kidle? You mean nobody saw an opportunity there?
And for that matter, in most of the world Kindle 3G access is "free" in rather loose sense of the word...
Ah, I see, it's about constant repetition of evidence. How quaint.
He's old; if we're lucky he won't be working to ruin the world in the name of whatever he stands for much longer.
Though we would have to be insanelly lucky to get better successors in his place...
Anybody actually does this or is it mostly about using, say, an ARM controller; almost off the shelf?
Thank gods they made few strategic errors back then and lost the war, imagine where they would be now otherwise; we would have a Terran Empire.
Wait...
And you're so fabulously great, a true Christian if I ever saw one.
No, seriously, I adore folks like you; not spoiling anything...well, you're usefull :)
A witch!!!
And I clearly demonstrated it.
I know you think you did :). Thing is, you hold critique of your mythology to some curious "standards". Mind you, they are enough for you...the rest can just see at the quoues. In full, not what you, sic, cherry-picked or tried to somehow bend to fit later.