Matt4:8-9 [8] Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; [9] And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Rev13:2-7 [2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. [3] And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. [4] And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? [5] And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. [6] And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. [7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
So like I said, Satan has the power and authority over the nations and kingdoms, which was given to him by God.
When God's laws are contradicted by the laws of nations... which would you follow?
I just saw a commercial the other day from IBM, int he commercial 2 scientists were looking for computers to help them map the human genome and replicate the folding of protiens.
The IBM representative said "Here is Gene, it is able to fold protiens and map the entire human genome". It was a cluster of IBM systems (maybe 40 total).
I just laughed and tried to explain to my wife how much BS this was (which basically describes all marketing).
" Yes "I don't come to destroy the law, I come to change the law." etc."
Mor specifically he said "I don't come to destroy the law but to FULFILL it".
Thus meaning fulfilling the old testament (old agreement) and establishing a NEW testament (new agreement) which can be basically be summed up as "Love thy lord God and love they neighboor as theyself" (not exact quote).
He did try to explain the laws originally given down by moses (from him) which explains your quote about moses and why he approved of some laws but not others (sabbath was given for men, not men for the sabbath).
If you are talking about old testament, God wanted to be the "President" or "king" of his nation but the people rebelled and insisted on self governing, God allowed them to do so.
IF you are talking about New Testament, Satan is the controller of all governements and principalies of the earth, this was given to him by God.
If you are talking about murder (killing another person) then both Old and New Testament say this is forbidden (although the old testament does allow for retribution killing, say if I kill you, your family can have me put to death, but the NT expressly forbids killing others...)
"Gods by conforming so closely to God's will that we become indestingushable from him."
Have you read all of the books in the mormon religon? Like pearl of great price and D&C? I believe one of them speaks about God having spiritual children on a planet in deep space, and the highest level one can obtain in the mormon church is to also become a God and have spiritual children... you haven't read this yet?
"7 days of prayers to help the spirit leave hell and arrise to heaven/to be born again."
Can you help me out ad post some passages which deal with re-incarnation?
AFAIK the only type of re-incarnation is with a new body in the spirit world... not the current one... but I am very interested in any passages that deal with re-incarnation in this world... thanks!
Well I know PC DVD games made by Sony have a version of copy protection (Safe Disc) that searches for Daemon tools in memory when launching the game and if it finds it, it refuses to play the game....
Does anyone know if they do the same thing with their DVD movies?
"but consoles have a blockbuster year, more often. because of the higher rate of output"
Could be because of the pricing of console games, most statistics I see quote overall sales in dollars not units...
Anywho I definitely agree with this: "I think port issues are in part due to developer laziness, treating the PC version as an afterthought instead of doing the port right."
This was my main gripe about the PC port of Halo, i mean I can use a mouse now but the sensitivity only goes to some pre defined level which is just about as fast as using a joystick... wth?
Although in general I think some games are just better suited for consoles (like football, racing, side scrollers, etc) and some are better for PCs (FPS, RTS, MMORPG, etc..)
"We already have an example to follow. Fort Knox has a tank combat training ground there, and plenty of tanks stationed there permanently. Good luck trying to raid the place."
Bah Fort Knox, any smart criminal knows it is a better plan to plant a Bomb in NY city schools and then cause a panic so you can go raid the gold reserves for the NYSE.
"How much shelf space is dedicated to console games versus PC games."
How many consoles are there compared to PCs? Figuratively speaking, you have one box that is for all PCs (maybe an apple or linux port but these are typically rare) and 4 different consoles.
"Don't worry though, people still listen to 8 tracks and enjoy themselves, people still write on typewriters and get the job done. Plenty of people continue with their chosen technology well beyond its "death""
I think your analogy is flawed here... with the technologies you refer to, a better technology came along thus killing the original, PCs are ever evolving also, and there has yet to be a time where the console technology has not been fairly outsurpassed by PC hardware once the console has reached a market.
"Actually, yeah it is a fluke, PC gamers get blockbusters like it rather infrequently, about every 5/6 years or so."
Warcraft3, Diablo2, halflife, Age of Empires2, World of Warcraft, halflife2, Doom3, Starcraft, Neverwinter nights,
There is a list of games that came out in the last 5 years first for PC then for consoles, all big sellers if not blockbusters (mostly blockbusters)...
That's just off the top of my head.
Unfortunately, I do believe your right about more games being developed for consoles then ported to PCs, which is unfortunate because when they are ported to PCs from consoles, the gameplay tends to suffer (because of the delta between capabilities of consoles vs PCs (keyboard/mouse, higher resolutions, etc..)
I got my Ipod last Christmas and it seems to have the same problem, I just went on a trip to my mother in laws which is 2 hours both ways and the battery was dead 30 minutes before returning home (only used it during the travel time not while at my mother in laws)
"did you trust the dealer to give you the car in exchange for the money?"
Not Really...
"did you trust that the dealer would still be there in a week if you needed warranty service?"
Not him or his office personally, but the company as a whole, yes..
"did you trust the dealer to be selling you the make and model of car you expected with factory parts?"
Did I expect it to be this way? Yes, did I trust the guy as far as I could throw him? No.
I think the only level of trust I had when I bought a new Van was that the county I bought it in had tough enough laws to prosecute the scummy dealer if he ripped me off...
"fans of the Japanese anime series Naruto regularly post translated episodes of the show to BitTorrent.."
My buddy who helps me maintain our gaming servers used to grab these episodes and then create english subtitles for them and then destribute them using bitorrent and our gaming server as a master seed.
It was always kind of a side project for him as he was a big fan of the series (anime soap opera basically) and wanted to share it with other friends, I believe he even had a dedicated IRC channel for the distributions (to notify his friends when new episodes had been released) but I never would have guessed this would have taken off as it has...
"They'll gladly help you along the process of getting your ideas heard by reading their how-to book or something like that."
I'd be afraid they would find out your invention/idea and just patent it themselves and rip you off..
The reason I think this is because I called one of them once and they started asking me questions like "well what is your invention/idea" before telling me what paperwork I needed or such...
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"If you really want to talk about it there are some cogent forums and I wouldn;t mind continuing,"
Yah post it up, ill check it out...
Matt4:8-9
[8] Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
[9] And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Rev13:2-7
[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
[3] And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
[4] And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
[5] And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
[6] And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
[7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
So like I said, Satan has the power and authority over the nations and kingdoms, which was given to him by God.
When God's laws are contradicted by the laws of nations... which would you follow?
I just saw a commercial the other day from IBM, int he commercial 2 scientists were looking for computers to help them map the human genome and replicate the folding of protiens.
The IBM representative said "Here is Gene, it is able to fold protiens and map the entire human genome". It was a cluster of IBM systems (maybe 40 total).
I just laughed and tried to explain to my wife how much BS this was (which basically describes all marketing).
" Yes "I don't come to destroy the law, I come to change the law." etc."
Mor specifically he said "I don't come to destroy the law but to FULFILL it".
Thus meaning fulfilling the old testament (old agreement) and establishing a NEW testament (new agreement) which can be basically be summed up as "Love thy lord God and love they neighboor as theyself" (not exact quote).
He did try to explain the laws originally given down by moses (from him) which explains your quote about moses and why he approved of some laws but not others (sabbath was given for men, not men for the sabbath).
God didn't put the Govt. in place...
If you are talking about old testament, God wanted to be the "President" or "king" of his nation but the people rebelled and insisted on self governing, God allowed them to do so.
IF you are talking about New Testament, Satan is the controller of all governements and principalies of the earth, this was given to him by God.
If you are talking about murder (killing another person) then both Old and New Testament say this is forbidden (although the old testament does allow for retribution killing, say if I kill you, your family can have me put to death, but the NT expressly forbids killing others...)
"Gods by conforming so closely to God's will that we become indestingushable from him."
Have you read all of the books in the mormon religon? Like pearl of great price and D&C? I believe one of them speaks about God having spiritual children on a planet in deep space, and the highest level one can obtain in the mormon church is to also become a God and have spiritual children... you haven't read this yet?
"7 days of prayers to help the spirit leave hell and arrise to heaven/to be born again."
Can you help me out ad post some passages which deal with re-incarnation?
AFAIK the only type of re-incarnation is with a new body in the spirit world... not the current one... but I am very interested in any passages that deal with re-incarnation in this world... thanks!
Well I know PC DVD games made by Sony have a version of copy protection (Safe Disc) that searches for Daemon tools in memory when launching the game and if it finds it, it refuses to play the game....
Does anyone know if they do the same thing with their DVD movies?
"but consoles have a blockbuster year, more often. because of the higher rate of output"
Could be because of the pricing of console games, most statistics I see quote overall sales in dollars not units...
Anywho I definitely agree with this:
"I think port issues are in part due to developer laziness, treating the PC version as an afterthought instead of doing the port right."
This was my main gripe about the PC port of Halo, i mean I can use a mouse now but the sensitivity only goes to some pre defined level which is just about as fast as using a joystick... wth?
Although in general I think some games are just better suited for consoles (like football, racing, side scrollers, etc) and some are better for PCs (FPS, RTS, MMORPG, etc..)
"We already have an example to follow. Fort Knox has a tank combat training ground there, and plenty of tanks stationed there permanently. Good luck trying to raid the place."
Bah Fort Knox, any smart criminal knows it is a better plan to plant a Bomb in NY city schools and then cause a panic so you can go raid the gold reserves for the NYSE.
"How much shelf space is dedicated to console games versus PC games."
How many consoles are there compared to PCs? Figuratively speaking, you have one box that is for all PCs (maybe an apple or linux port but these are typically rare) and 4 different consoles.
"Don't worry though, people still listen to 8 tracks and enjoy themselves, people still write on typewriters and get the job done. Plenty of people continue with their chosen technology well beyond its "death""
I think your analogy is flawed here... with the technologies you refer to, a better technology came along thus killing the original, PCs are ever evolving also, and there has yet to be a time where the console technology has not been fairly outsurpassed by PC hardware once the console has reached a market.
"Actually, yeah it is a fluke, PC gamers get blockbusters like it rather infrequently, about every 5/6 years or so."
Warcraft3, Diablo2, halflife, Age of Empires2, World of Warcraft, halflife2, Doom3, Starcraft, Neverwinter nights,
There is a list of games that came out in the last 5 years first for PC then for consoles, all big sellers if not blockbusters (mostly blockbusters)...
That's just off the top of my head.
Unfortunately, I do believe your right about more games being developed for consoles then ported to PCs, which is unfortunate because when they are ported to PCs from consoles, the gameplay tends to suffer (because of the delta between capabilities of consoles vs PCs (keyboard/mouse, higher resolutions, etc..)
LOL ok but what did it come out for first? PC.
I guess halflife is a fluke being one of the best selling games of all times even before it's eventual port to playstation2?
If your comment was true then all games would be made for console FIRST, then ported to PC, which is not the case...
"but I'm definately not losing any sleep over Hussein losing power in Iraq."
Maybe you should lose sleep about how many of our troops have been killed SINCE Saddam was captured by "insurgents"
OR
all of the terrorists that have been spawned by our illegal war in Iraq?
"exporting oil illegally (ie: not part of the food-for-oil program),"
And who, among others, were involved in this? Dick Cheney's old company haliburton... gg
And there weren't any terrorist training camps either, Al-Queda (sp?) didn't like Saddam as his religous party was counter to their beliefs...
They even tried to make camps in Iraq with Saddam's help and he refused them...
I got my Ipod last Christmas and it seems to have the same problem, I just went on a trip to my mother in laws which is 2 hours both ways and the battery was dead 30 minutes before returning home (only used it during the travel time not while at my mother in laws)
I guess i'm just screwed then?
"did you trust the dealer to give you the car in exchange for the money?"
Not Really...
"did you trust that the dealer would still be there in a week if you needed warranty service?"
Not him or his office personally, but the company as a whole, yes..
"did you trust the dealer to be selling you the make and model of car you expected with factory parts?"
Did I expect it to be this way? Yes, did I trust the guy as far as I could throw him? No.
I think the only level of trust I had when I bought a new Van was that the county I bought it in had tough enough laws to prosecute the scummy dealer if he ripped me off...
"One can only dream though... Since this is an unrealstic expectation since modern games need teams of artists and coders"
It's not a dream... look at Croteam, very high quality games made by a very small group of people... (serious sam anyone?)
"fans of the Japanese anime series Naruto regularly post translated episodes of the show to BitTorrent.."
My buddy who helps me maintain our gaming servers used to grab these episodes and then create english subtitles for them and then destribute them using bitorrent and our gaming server as a master seed.
It was always kind of a side project for him as he was a big fan of the series (anime soap opera basically) and wanted to share it with other friends, I believe he even had a dedicated IRC channel for the distributions (to notify his friends when new episodes had been released) but I never would have guessed this would have taken off as it has...
" "Our computer" (old "My computer")"
OR with the new DRM schemes it will soon be:
"Their Computer" (old Our computer)
I guess i should have read TFA, sheesh:
"First4Internet that allows consumers to make limited copies of protected discs, but blocks users from making copies of the copies."
Just copy the copy? Who cares about the original if you can just use the copy for your "sharing" needs?
"Damn, giving birth to a sun must SUCK!"
"I think it burns, actually."
It really all depends on how big the sun is when it is birthed...
A6: A good start.
"They'll gladly help you along the process of getting your ideas heard by reading their how-to book or something like that."
:-/
I'd be afraid they would find out your invention/idea and just patent it themselves and rip you off..
The reason I think this is because I called one of them once and they started asking me questions like "well what is your invention/idea" before telling me what paperwork I needed or such...
Maybe i'm just paranoid