I have a Powerbook G3 and a 17" Samsung SyncMaster 770. Neither one has any dead pixels. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing a dead pixel on any monitor. YMMV, I guess.
To be fair, though, the PBG3 was refurbished and the SyncMaster was a floor display at CompUSA. It's not likely QA's gonna miss a problem the second time or that they're gonna leave a display with dead pixels on the showroom floor.
The thing is, they're not utilities. They're providers. Utilities maintain wires. The big guys have been protecting their status as both utility and provider for a long time, but VoIP will end that once and for all. SBC will become a line utility, and the ISP will become a VoIP provider. Whether SBC will sell the general public a VoIP service is irrelevant. Someone will, and there will be competition.
Funny, I was always under the impression that "getting everyone on board" required a stack of blank pink slips and a pen on the boss's desk in full view of those that may decide to rage against their machine.
Why should he have to re-rip his music? Why can't players just support everything currently feasible (OGG used to require floating point stuff, so it wasn't feasible at first) and have support for updates that add more formats as they become popular?
As long as it's technically possible, every player should support every format. AIFF, WAV, AU, MP2, MP3, OGG, MOD, S3M, XM, IT, AAC (M4A, M4P), WMA... these should all be supported. Heck, iTunes (back when it was still SoundJam) supported 30+ formats and had a relatively easy plugin system to add more. There's just no excuse not to support everything, unless you're after a slice of the vendor lock-in pie.
Disclaimer: I am an Apple almost-fanboy and have most of my music in AAC format. I personally couldn't care less about.ogg support on the iPod.
Uhh... Does Scott even show up there anymore? He hadn't shown his face in over 2 months when I quit using it. Anarchy was beginning to take over, and there were rumors that he had said he was fed up with it and that it would end when the money ran out.
As for the service itself, there are "in-game server browsers" and they're displayed in GR itself so you don't have to even run the game to see them. Basically, just look at the UT or Quake series for an example. You can either start a GR-listed game or a master-server-listed game. And you can view the master server list in GR. The GameRanger (GamerAnger?) program is of excellent quality.
You're probably just one of those guys that got pissed when Evill told you to stop warezing.
An adventurer is walking through the jungle, looking for a village of completely honest people. He knows that in this same area is a village of completely untrustworthy liars. He comes to a fork in the road, and there are two men standing there - one from each village. The adventurer must determine which way he should go to get to the truth-tellers' village. What question does he ask these two men?
Hey, maybe science is to blame, but remember, these Jews just escaped from Egypt, a land full of witch doctors and cures involving spreading manure into open wounds.
As for the battle you mention, remember, Daniel prophesied that Alexander would defeat the Persians. The Jews showed him those texts and got him to spare Jerusalem.
Days after the fact, I know, but I'm just now reading this reply...
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 is quite explicit as to how homosexuality is to be treated by Christians.
First of all, you can't marry someone of the same sex. Marriage, by definition, is a joining of a man and a woman. If gays want some legal equivalent now, they need to invent a new word for it. Any sexual contact outside of marriage is, by the Bible's definition, "fornication". Strike one.
Second, no form of homosexuality is tolerated. "Men who lie with men" are dominant partners. "Men kept for unnatural purposes" are submissive partners. "Women who change the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature" covers not only lesbianism, but also anal and oral sex. None of these people are approved by God and his organization. Strike two.
And third, your "you don't show love if you hate gays" point is going out the window, because the 11th verse says "yet that is what some of you were." Not are. Were. Those people changed their ways and became true followers of Christ, and would indeed inherit God's kingdom and his blessings. Strike three.
You're out... of valid excuses. Thank you for playing.
Uhhh, do you use a hair sharpener, or is it just naturally pointy?
By the way, both companies have a heavy-duty nerd culture in the depths, hidden away where no one sees it much. Apple glosses it over with hippie chic. IBM uses yuppie chic instead. Underneath that *ppie chic, they're more alike than anyone wants to admit.
Basically, the only groups that would have to be kept separate would be the marketing departments. And even then, the marketers wouldn't be stepping on each others' shoes, since Apple sells end-user gadgetry and IBM is now a server-room iron and polish vendor.
You asked (in essence), "How do you choose what rules to follow, when some of them contradict others?" The answer: You study. You look up the scriptures in question, then you meditate on the reason why they were put there in the first place.
As far as your "eating crab" example, the Mosaic law covenant specified that the Jews were not to eat sea creatures that didn't have scales. It's bundled in with "thou shalt not eat pigs" and the like. (That's a joke, btw.) Pigs carry diseases; most notably, trichinosis. There are old sayings around such as "don't eat shellfish in any month that doesn't have an 'r' in it." Which leads us to the answer - that particular law was put in place to keep people healthy in a time when refrigeration was non-existant. Those who followed it wouldn't die of food-poisoning from spoiled shellfish or improperly cleaned pork. Of course, these people didn't know about "germs" or "viruses" or "bacteria". But the One who created these germs/viruses/bacteria did know about them, and warned his people against eating these dangerous foods.
As for the reason Christians don't follow that law, well, Jesus Christ fulfilled the law. He was perfect, and therefore never sinned or broke any of those laws. He proved that obedience to God was possible for a perfect human, something Adam's actions had called into question. Once that law was fulfilled and Jesus sacrifice had been paid, no one was under obligation to follow that law any longer. The statements in the Greek Scriptures (a.k.a. New Testament) contradict the earlier law because the law had been done away with, and new instruction was required.
It's a similar situation with the other things you mentioned. Multiple wives? Adam was given one wife. Later, men took more. When the law code was given, it was a firmly entrenched practice. When Jesus showed up, he restored the original "one man, one wife" paradigm.
As far as the "war vs. killing" issue, well, the Jews were asked to wage war on other nations by God himself. (Whether you believe it or not, that's their story and they're sticking to it.) They even had divine backing in most of these conflicts, and some miracles are reported (sun standing still, an army of 300 defeating thousands, a million man army wiped out by priests and singers, and so on). Murder is wrong. That was made quite clear. And now, without the Mosaic law's code of ethics in war, Christians are not given any instructions about war, and in fact are to "learn war no more", to "return evil for evil to no one", and to "have love amongst themselves". No war for Christians.
Now for "the gay issue". Homosexuality was never tolerated in any portion of the Bible's instructions. Jews were to execute homosexuals by stoning. Christians were to expel them from the congregation.
You've now been given a clue about Christianity. Use it wisely. It can serve you well.
First of all, you're correct - Jesus wasn't born in winter. Shepherds were out tending their flocks, which they wouldn't be doing in the rainy/snowy winter season. Easter, however, is a better timed pagan holiday, being celebrated right around the time of Nisan 14, the date of Jesus' death. (Nisan 14 is usually the first full moon after the vernal equinox.)
Secondly, Christ said that we should be "no part of this world", thereby eliminating the possibility that we could be both true Christians (followers of Christ) and be one who celebrates pagan holidays. Jehovah's Witnesses are not freaks any more than anyone else, and in fact, are much less freaky than most people.
Oh, and in case you couldn't tell, I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I never sat in the principal's office for parties, though. I got to go home early. Time for my evil grin now... >:D
Octopi have jet engines, just not ones that push air.
The only thing that man has invented that I've not seen an equivalent of in nature is the CRT. No animal needs to project light on a screen, much less with a stream of electrons controlled by magnets. Unless you consider humans to be animals.;)
Which is why I would like to point out that this should be from the "It's-working!" dept.
This was the plan all along. Build the bestest gadget, get mindshare, get marketshare. And/. (as a whole) fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Welcome to the cult of the Mac.
It was late when he got back. Everything black and quiet. Jacog killed the lights but didn't take the key out of the ignition. He reached into his pocket and took out a little box with an LCD display, thumbed a button and the radio tranciever captured the last few hours worth of motion sensor logs from the building. He'd done some favors for friends in the Shop -- or whatever it was they were calling it this week -- and they'd installed it to spec for him.
As he walked to the door he was still arranging all the pieces in his head. Sure way to get his ass taken down, but he couldn't help it. Something was missing. Didn't fit. Allie hunched over in the bathroom, that needle dangling from between her toes. Katsuya shifting a half million yen before the currency market closed. The radio station Samuel had turned him on to, the with the little girl repeating all those numbers in sequence. And somewhere in the middle...
Jacob stopped, looked up at the night sky. He'd been assuming that there were two sides to this game and both were playing to win. But what if... what if there was someone else, and they wanted to see both sides lose?
Of course, that wouldn't be "psychic" teleportation, but instead, a supremely unlikely stable wormhole established between two rings made of a supremely unlikely type of metallic stone inscribed with odd-looking symbols that vaguely represent imaginary pictures in the sky as viewed by people on Earth.
Oh wait...
By the way, did it set off anyone else's BS Meter when they first showed that all the stargates had the same symbol set, despite massive positional changes from planet to planet that would affect the "shape" of constellations? Or am I just too nerdy to live?
I'm just taking solace in the fact that every time the Red Sox have ever lost in the past or lose in the future, it's because they suck. There is no curse, and now it's been proven.
I'm not too worried about the Cardinals, though... It's their decade. They always win a World Series in even numbered decades.
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They're talking about the nuclear wessels.
I have a Powerbook G3 and a 17" Samsung SyncMaster 770. Neither one has any dead pixels. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing a dead pixel on any monitor. YMMV, I guess.
To be fair, though, the PBG3 was refurbished and the SyncMaster was a floor display at CompUSA. It's not likely QA's gonna miss a problem the second time or that they're gonna leave a display with dead pixels on the showroom floor.
OMG!
Cellular peptide cake! With mint frosting!
The thing is, they're not utilities. They're providers. Utilities maintain wires. The big guys have been protecting their status as both utility and provider for a long time, but VoIP will end that once and for all. SBC will become a line utility, and the ISP will become a VoIP provider. Whether SBC will sell the general public a VoIP service is irrelevant. Someone will, and there will be competition.
We don't use "km" here, so that tsunami is just gonna have to go somewhere else with its commie agenda.
Funny, I was always under the impression that "getting everyone on board" required a stack of blank pink slips and a pen on the boss's desk in full view of those that may decide to rage against their machine.
Why should he have to re-rip his music? Why can't players just support everything currently feasible (OGG used to require floating point stuff, so it wasn't feasible at first) and have support for updates that add more formats as they become popular?
.ogg support on the iPod.
As long as it's technically possible, every player should support every format. AIFF, WAV, AU, MP2, MP3, OGG, MOD, S3M, XM, IT, AAC (M4A, M4P), WMA... these should all be supported. Heck, iTunes (back when it was still SoundJam) supported 30+ formats and had a relatively easy plugin system to add more. There's just no excuse not to support everything, unless you're after a slice of the vendor lock-in pie.
Disclaimer: I am an Apple almost-fanboy and have most of my music in AAC format. I personally couldn't care less about
Uhh... Does Scott even show up there anymore? He hadn't shown his face in over 2 months when I quit using it. Anarchy was beginning to take over, and there were rumors that he had said he was fed up with it and that it would end when the money ran out.
As for the service itself, there are "in-game server browsers" and they're displayed in GR itself so you don't have to even run the game to see them. Basically, just look at the UT or Quake series for an example. You can either start a GR-listed game or a master-server-listed game. And you can view the master server list in GR. The GameRanger (GamerAnger?) program is of excellent quality.
You're probably just one of those guys that got pissed when Evill told you to stop warezing.
The question the adventurer should ask is...
"Which path would the other man say is the path to the truth-tellers' village?"
The liar will lyingly say that the truth-teller will direct him to the liars' village.
The truth teller will truthfully say that the liar would direct the adventurer to the liars' village.
Now the adventurer knows to go the other way.
Better yet...
An adventurer is walking through the jungle, looking for a village of completely honest people. He knows that in this same area is a village of completely untrustworthy liars. He comes to a fork in the road, and there are two men standing there - one from each village. The adventurer must determine which way he should go to get to the truth-tellers' village. What question does he ask these two men?
I'll reply with the answer.
Hey, maybe science is to blame, but remember, these Jews just escaped from Egypt, a land full of witch doctors and cures involving spreading manure into open wounds.
As for the battle you mention, remember, Daniel prophesied that Alexander would defeat the Persians. The Jews showed him those texts and got him to spare Jerusalem.
Days after the fact, I know, but I'm just now reading this reply...
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 is quite explicit as to how homosexuality is to be treated by Christians.
First of all, you can't marry someone of the same sex. Marriage, by definition, is a joining of a man and a woman. If gays want some legal equivalent now, they need to invent a new word for it. Any sexual contact outside of marriage is, by the Bible's definition, "fornication". Strike one.
Second, no form of homosexuality is tolerated. "Men who lie with men" are dominant partners. "Men kept for unnatural purposes" are submissive partners. "Women who change the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature" covers not only lesbianism, but also anal and oral sex. None of these people are approved by God and his organization. Strike two.
And third, your "you don't show love if you hate gays" point is going out the window, because the 11th verse says "yet that is what some of you were." Not are. Were. Those people changed their ways and became true followers of Christ, and would indeed inherit God's kingdom and his blessings. Strike three.
You're out... of valid excuses. Thank you for playing.
Steve to karmaflux: "You keep your filthy clit-nubs away from my Powerbooks!"
Uhhh, do you use a hair sharpener, or is it just naturally pointy?
By the way, both companies have a heavy-duty nerd culture in the depths, hidden away where no one sees it much. Apple glosses it over with hippie chic. IBM uses yuppie chic instead. Underneath that *ppie chic, they're more alike than anyone wants to admit.
Basically, the only groups that would have to be kept separate would be the marketing departments. And even then, the marketers wouldn't be stepping on each others' shoes, since Apple sells end-user gadgetry and IBM is now a server-room iron and polish vendor.
Even armchair PHB's miss the clue boat. Jeez...
Well, I'll give you an answer or two.
You asked (in essence), "How do you choose what rules to follow, when some of them contradict others?" The answer: You study. You look up the scriptures in question, then you meditate on the reason why they were put there in the first place.
As far as your "eating crab" example, the Mosaic law covenant specified that the Jews were not to eat sea creatures that didn't have scales. It's bundled in with "thou shalt not eat pigs" and the like. (That's a joke, btw.) Pigs carry diseases; most notably, trichinosis. There are old sayings around such as "don't eat shellfish in any month that doesn't have an 'r' in it." Which leads us to the answer - that particular law was put in place to keep people healthy in a time when refrigeration was non-existant. Those who followed it wouldn't die of food-poisoning from spoiled shellfish or improperly cleaned pork. Of course, these people didn't know about "germs" or "viruses" or "bacteria". But the One who created these germs/viruses/bacteria did know about them, and warned his people against eating these dangerous foods.
As for the reason Christians don't follow that law, well, Jesus Christ fulfilled the law. He was perfect, and therefore never sinned or broke any of those laws. He proved that obedience to God was possible for a perfect human, something Adam's actions had called into question. Once that law was fulfilled and Jesus sacrifice had been paid, no one was under obligation to follow that law any longer. The statements in the Greek Scriptures (a.k.a. New Testament) contradict the earlier law because the law had been done away with, and new instruction was required.
It's a similar situation with the other things you mentioned. Multiple wives? Adam was given one wife. Later, men took more. When the law code was given, it was a firmly entrenched practice. When Jesus showed up, he restored the original "one man, one wife" paradigm.
As far as the "war vs. killing" issue, well, the Jews were asked to wage war on other nations by God himself. (Whether you believe it or not, that's their story and they're sticking to it.) They even had divine backing in most of these conflicts, and some miracles are reported (sun standing still, an army of 300 defeating thousands, a million man army wiped out by priests and singers, and so on). Murder is wrong. That was made quite clear. And now, without the Mosaic law's code of ethics in war, Christians are not given any instructions about war, and in fact are to "learn war no more", to "return evil for evil to no one", and to "have love amongst themselves". No war for Christians.
Now for "the gay issue". Homosexuality was never tolerated in any portion of the Bible's instructions. Jews were to execute homosexuals by stoning. Christians were to expel them from the congregation.
You've now been given a clue about Christianity. Use it wisely. It can serve you well.
Heh.
First of all, you're correct - Jesus wasn't born in winter. Shepherds were out tending their flocks, which they wouldn't be doing in the rainy/snowy winter season. Easter, however, is a better timed pagan holiday, being celebrated right around the time of Nisan 14, the date of Jesus' death. (Nisan 14 is usually the first full moon after the vernal equinox.)
Secondly, Christ said that we should be "no part of this world", thereby eliminating the possibility that we could be both true Christians (followers of Christ) and be one who celebrates pagan holidays. Jehovah's Witnesses are not freaks any more than anyone else, and in fact, are much less freaky than most people.
Oh, and in case you couldn't tell, I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I never sat in the principal's office for parties, though. I got to go home early. Time for my evil grin now... >:D
Octopi have jet engines, just not ones that push air.
;)
The only thing that man has invented that I've not seen an equivalent of in nature is the CRT. No animal needs to project light on a screen, much less with a stream of electrons controlled by magnets. Unless you consider humans to be animals.
Do that. Please. We're one of their HVAC vendors.
And yes, we have remote connections available to us without a VPN.
He said "Wallstreet", which obviously refers to the 1998 model of PowerBook.
Which is why I would like to point out that this should be from the "It's-working!" dept.
/. (as a whole) fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Welcome to the cult of the Mac.
This was the plan all along. Build the bestest gadget, get mindshare, get marketshare. And
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heh, heh... Beavis, you just said "at hand"... heh, heh...
Jacob's Shadow by Andrew Hammond
Chapter 27
It was late when he got back. Everything black and quiet. Jacog killed the lights but didn't take the key out of the ignition. He reached into his pocket and took out a little box with an LCD display, thumbed a button and the radio tranciever captured the last few hours worth of motion sensor logs from the building. He'd done some favors for friends in the Shop -- or whatever it was they were calling it this week -- and they'd installed it to spec for him.
As he walked to the door he was still arranging all the pieces in his head. Sure way to get his ass taken down, but he couldn't help it. Something was missing. Didn't fit. Allie hunched over in the bathroom, that needle dangling from between her toes. Katsuya shifting a half million yen before the currency market closed. The radio station Samuel had turned him on to, the with the little girl repeating all those numbers in sequence. And somewhere in the middle...
Jacob stopped, looked up at the night sky. He'd been assuming that there were two sides to this game and both were playing to win. But what if... what if there was someone else, and they wanted to see both sides lose?
I need to go play Deus Ex again...
You probably mean semi-annually.
Bi means two. Biannually means every two years. Semi means half. Semi-annually means every half year or, as you were thinking of it, twice a year.
Now back to your usual grammar-nazi-free programming...
I was just thinking the same thing...
Of course, that wouldn't be "psychic" teleportation, but instead, a supremely unlikely stable wormhole established between two rings made of a supremely unlikely type of metallic stone inscribed with odd-looking symbols that vaguely represent imaginary pictures in the sky as viewed by people on Earth.
Oh wait...
By the way, did it set off anyone else's BS Meter when they first showed that all the stargates had the same symbol set, despite massive positional changes from planet to planet that would affect the "shape" of constellations? Or am I just too nerdy to live?
Yeah, same here... I'm a Cardinals fan.
I'm just taking solace in the fact that every time the Red Sox have ever lost in the past or lose in the future, it's because they suck. There is no curse, and now it's been proven.
I'm not too worried about the Cardinals, though... It's their decade. They always win a World Series in even numbered decades.