I'd go further than that. I actually believe science should study the world created by God, I believe that if God created the world he inherently made it logical, there is a reason to everything, therefore science should focus less on proving God isn't real and try to understand it's work by studying it and letting no faith creep in their research. Faith has no place in science and that is a good thing, if you are to study the work of God don't let yourself be fooled by the words of mens (that's what religions are after all).
That said, not only faith has no place in the classroom for the very reason you stated, it should have even less place in politic where the decisions taken influence the lives of millions of people.
Straight taken out of an healthcare supply store, I wouldn't be surprised to find this mouse in the emergency waiting room beside the stetoscope and the machine they take your blood pressure with...
There is a difference between potential market and holywood has switched to Linux or every major studio runs on Linux... which was actually the point I made in the parent post.
For god sake don't go and mod such an ignorant statement as informative, the guy blatantly assume stuff and judges others on it. Lemme set thing straight a bit:
-All the money they get trough the Levy is splitted proportionnally amongst all artist who received royalties during the year.
-The idea comes from the fact that most popular artist get pirated more often and indeed that's true, while the obscure ones don't get pirated much.
-The system isn't perfect but it's the artists who receives the money comming from the Levy, it is directly proportionnal to the royalties they initialy generated.
-Before you draw doubtfull conclusions again: the various types of royalties are all taken into account here, royalties for public diffusion, mechanical reproduction and the grand rights. So when some artist play more on radio or in live events then they sell record they also get royalties from the levy proportionnally to what they generate.
I am agaisnt that levy big time since I never have copied music on blank cds, if I did it was my music that I composed, I use cd-rs to backup or transfer files hence I have ammassed enough copyrights to download almost all I want but it doesnt work this way. If you don't use your levy it's gone. I am not against it because this money goes into some big scary abusive organisation like you claim but because it is an abuse it itself. It isn't managed abusively though...
I wasn't expecting more than a bad mod for blowing Linux users daydream bubble but that is beyond funny:
You actually tried to correct me, which actually does this work for a living, on something you say you have no freakin clue about...
Studios dominated by Windows...
BTW the world doesn't lie between the american east and west coast so maybe in the US all studios uses Linux (lmao) but elsewhere the worlds studios are still dominated by Irix and the Mac, Linux is barely found... there are even more WinNT box than Linux ones, in special effects mainly, but hey don't let me blow your daydream bubble repeat to yourself:
Linux dominate the wolrd and everyone uses it, movies are all made on Linux
Linux dominate the wolrd and everyone uses it, movies are all made on Linux
Linux dominate the wolrd and everyone uses it, movies are all made on Linux...
There is a difference between using Linux and switching to Linux...
And I wouldn't expect a conference entitled Linux Movies Conference 2005 talking about something else than Linux, and it does, they talk about osX. Plus what software do they use to edit on Linux? none, no professionnal software as of now exist on Linux for moviemaking, they use Linux as an OS to drive render farms, which we all know it could do, hardly a statement about the omnipresence of Linux in moviemaking, it doesn't mean people are switching to Linux it just means the conference organisers managed to find people using it in the movie industry.
This events look more like a pep talk for Linux devellopers than anything else, the conclusion they draw only in the program are at most ridiculous:
Many have suggested that BSD-based Mac OS X will play a larger role in studios because of its compatibility with Linux
common! MacoSX is already in every studio and is widely used, Linux is absent except in files distribution, content servers and render farms, Linux will be used because it's compatible with osX not the other way around. BTW I work in studio and I did postproduction...
No one in the movie industry uses Linux to make movies, they use it like they use a hammer, its a tool to get some related task done... And even the conference program lay this down pretty clearly...
No offense but Apple of all company can be pretty stupid sometimes... They introduced/created/managed some of the greatest innovation this industry has ever seen in ways that never got them where they should be.
They are exceptionnal engineers and very lousy businessman, let's hope they try to change in the near future...
The plan has been criticised by other anti-spam workers who say it amounts to vigilantism.
Have you noticed that everytime a brilliant solution arise, a solution that seems just right and appropriate. A solution that would maybe not stop but at least truly hinder spam or virii and stuff like that, security firm says its a bad idea, its vigilantism and crap like that. Who cares if its vigilantism, it works and thats all that count. The fact of the matter is that none of these company want virii gone or spam dead, they want to sell you stuff that gives you the impression its doing something usefull about it. deleting spam, filtering it, scanning for virii and removing the well known ones, it just doesnt do crap about the problems... retaliating might, so facing a technique that could work the "spam fighters" dismisses it...
China -- where 90 percent of music and movies are pirate copies -- will be a chief priority
They have to declare enemy with someone, to identify some country, some people somewhere as the "evil", they just can't mind their own business, cause that's all it is, taxpayers money going toward helping business, monopolies and friend of the party in the US, disguised as a just cause.
to become a god in WoW? that would mean WoW is an intense passion for the one running the sweatshops, how can he be that rich and do nothing but play most of his days? Don't you think running an illegal sweatshop for the purpose of being good at a game is a bit stretching it? Borderline nevrotic even? There surely isn't that much people with that kind of issues playing this game...
To make money by selling gold an items online, on auction houses or "secret ninja websites"? How much money can you make running such a scam? Would that amount be worth risking running an illegal sweatshop, setting up and maintaining websites or accounts? Ho many player are willing to pay money for virtual items? 10-20% seems strecthing it a bit and even then you would reach only 300,000 players. Returning customers that is, how much items do those players need? Anyone running such a scam will end up losing money at some point. It just doesn't make sense to risk that much for so little.
This story just doesn't make sense, looks like an urban legend for 13 year old boys...
wouldnt even make a good ol' cheesy cheap Holywood movie with Steven Seagal...
[cheap tv speaker]A man tied to an illegal chinese organisation was arrested tonight for cheating in an online game. The man is suspected of running illegal sweatshops aiming to make him huge amount of gold in the game World of Warcraft, by the company Blizzard entertainment. He employed illegal aliens who were paid 0,37c and hour and 20 gold a day to observe computers running special program which automated the process of getting rich in the game, commonly refered to as "farming". The man was arrested after law enforcement receive hint of the scam on a blog...
Once you get in the game, I just can't argue, BF2 is incredible, the graphics, the gameplay, the adrenaline rush, it's all there. But, cause there is a but:
1-before you get on a map you will need to log in some server, which is local, so even if you don't have an internet connaction you still have to log in to a server. Computer grind to a halt, sound loops (P4 3.4Ghz, ATI800XT, 1GB ram, 10,000rpm SATA drive). (30sec-1min.)
2-Once on the server you need to select multiplayer, then another load starts, then the list of game servers appear, you'll need to reorder it so it reloads again. Sound loops, graphics freeze for a few second (10s-15s).
3-You select a server that looks interesting. Sounds loops, graphics freeze.(15s-20s).
3 a)-if in the meantime you select another server, when the computer starts showing signs of life again it rejams and step number 3 restart
4-Then you connect to the server (10s-15s).
5-The game starts loading all textures of the level you are going to play (40sec-1,30min)
5 a)- if you checked anything else than "application preferences" in your video control panel, because another game requires it, AA doesn't apply, you'll need to restart the game and do step 1-5 entirely.
5 b)- if you change anything about the graphics you need to reload all textures again (step 3-4-5 again), some changes requires step 1-5 again.
6- You actually have loaded textures and are to the point where you press "play" (or whatever the button says), the game loads something, again, (10s-15s).
7- you actually are in the game and have to select you type of soldier and spawn point then really really start the game and when you wanna get out of this map NEVER press esc, EVER, you go back to the menu; graphics feeze, sound loops, computer grind to a halt (5s-15s). You press esc again to go back to game and repeat the wait.
8- You selected your spawn point and have press the button to confirm it, the game loads something (5s-10s) and then you start playing.
9- if after 10 min you don't like the server you press esc, by now you know you'll wait, the menu loads and show you the server list, you double click one, the sound loops, the graphics freeze and 8-12 seconds later it tells you you need to disconnect first (can't do it by itself, see it can reproduce the physic of sand blowing under a bomb but not disconnect automaticaly...). You disconnect, 15 seconds later you reconnect to a server playing the same map, it reloads all textures again anyways and you know the drill...
This is by far one of the most awfull software I have seen in my life, great game if you have the dedication to reach the point where you actually play but i most often than not just quit out of frustration facing a totally stupid interface, I regret buying this game, just because of this, it pisses me off and thats not suppose to be the purpose of a game...
Wow of all the thing we could be today, we are on the anniversary of the nuclear weapon creation. How great, i feel so good that humanity has achieved this level of civilization and I for one congratulate this incredible scientist which gave its mind to the enlightment of mankind.
Tomorow: the creation of AIDS, another milestone in scientific research, the birth of a new era...
Your chronology is out of alignment; 9/11 happened before the Iraq war, not the other way around. Seems like people like you are so intent on bashing America and the Bush administration that their surreptitious alteration of the facts is not below them.
Irak, according to even the CIA wasn't related to 9/11, the fact that you still link those two is pathetic.
I don't know, ask the 10s of thousands of dead people in Irak and Afganistan?
Don't they have the right to defend themsleves, because they don't do it with planes and hi-tech gear its less legitimate to defend and retaliate?
Terrorism is just a bad name for rebellion, wether you agree with the rebellion or not, if the rebels win they become revolutionaires if they lose they were terrorist, but I let you guess who looks like the empire and who looks like the rebels in this.
Is there anyone who hasn't thought about this being yet another Twin Tower setup. Those events seems to help the american cause so much all the time its becoming hard to not think about it that way...
To make you feel bad about something you say in a twisted way is the hallmark of the republicans and right wing US extremist, don't fall in.
They wish to make intelligent people feel bad about their comment, to twist the logic of a sentence so it look like the person don't care about something or encourage something else, when a US public figure question a US actions they tell him he hates his country, like if you loved it you would never question it or disagree with its president, its twisted but that is exactly what they imply and say, but by telling you you hate your country you are now defending yourself instead of explaining your point and it become a personnality war, this way they might shut them up or encourage dimwitted followers to do it.
You HAVE to politicize something like that, like you said its the nature of terrorism to be political, but to address the problem up front will solve it. You don't solve these problem by amplifying them US style.
Wrong the Twin Tower was a response not an aggression, try again, and Irak had nothing to do with Al Quaeda, but you morons won't get that in your mind even if your own CIA tells it to you. The US has been bullying people aorund the world for decades, and i'd like to point out that dubya actually declared the axis of evil before the Twin Towers fell.
If I poke your ribs continuously you will slap me or punch me in the face.
Imagine if i kill 10s of thousands of people in your country?
We can all say we are sad and this is terrible but we just can't say it is unexpected.
Are people in the US and England so naive they actually believe their leaders can kill 10s of thousands of people a year without putting them in serious danger?
I really feel for the dead britishs but I think in this moment more than any other it's time to realize the lenght of the terrible mistake that is the war started by the US and England, people will want to defend themselves against the aggression, it is normal to do so, does anyone trully thought they wouldn't? This is just the beginning, and swallow that pride of yours, in this war the agressors are the US and England, don't waste your energy justifying it, it is not justifyable, use your energy to end it, the result will be far more peacefull.
You wanna know who will be held accountable? The US for starting all this shit and puttingh the world in danger by trying to bully everyone on earth, but don't stop, continue, you guys are just too diwwitted to understand that YOU are the problem, people around the world are just defending themselves against you, how long will it take for you to realize that THIS is the result of two government killing 10s of thousands of people, mostly innocent and that hitting harder will lead to harder retaliation...
This sounds more like a cartoon enemy than a real organisation, I don't think Al Quaeda has a marketing department who come up with all those names. I believe this is just another Twin Towers, a setup so lame people agree on getting rid of their freedom in the name of security, a setup to justify Blair's war and its continuation...
Why would a group exposing himself would call itself The secret organisation? If not to feed the mind of the blockbuster population with movie scenario-like thoughts...
making a car is about engineering not art, designing the car is about art not engineering, even if a car is beautifull it isn't an artform but art is used in its conception, same goes for a software, a program is an engineering thing but you still need an artist to design the interface and draw the icons...
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Period, the idea of programmers as artist has been around for long amongst tech circle for one very simple reason: artist have the right to mistake and bad design in the name of their passion. If you consider a program as an artform you may not review it or judge it the same way, this feature in our accounting software might be clunky but it is a statement on the inneficiency of the government to address issues in a reasonnable delay...
Programming isn't and artform, art does have a bit of uncertainty, not all parameters are known, sometimes this uncertainty is what result in magnificient art. Programming is a matter of certainty, you know the parameters, you know what to say to obtain what, it is science pure science, the only reason you aren't always sure of the result is because you don't know your trade enough, because the info is there and requires no special skill to apply just compliance. I know most programmers view themselves as very special people with very special skill not much other people possess but the only reason it's true is because most people find programming boring and tedious not because it is beyond their mere mortal skills.
Then again if your deffinition of art is number painting I understand you see programming as art.
NOBODY gives a fuck about functions, nobody but freaking geeks. Human beings dont give a flying fuck about being able to this or that this way or otherwise. Its the interface that sells, that make people use something, period, not the functions, not the abilities, not the good coding, ITS-THE-INTERFACE, widgets are better because they present you information in a context sensitive way with a straight to the point interface that anyone can understand just by looking at it, SIMPLICITY, INTERFACE... thats is what widgets are, browser tools that are actually useable without publicity nowhere, no need to have firefox and this and that, nonono just open the freaking temperature widget and it gives you temperature, you see it, its big and there is a sun behind it in case you don't really understand, a hint, a peek and you have your information, freakin browsers don't do that and they arent spacialy bound so forget about a peek.
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I'd go further than that. I actually believe science should study the world created by God, I believe that if God created the world he inherently made it logical, there is a reason to everything, therefore science should focus less on proving God isn't real and try to understand it's work by studying it and letting no faith creep in their research. Faith has no place in science and that is a good thing, if you are to study the work of God don't let yourself be fooled by the words of mens (that's what religions are after all).
That said, not only faith has no place in the classroom for the very reason you stated, it should have even less place in politic where the decisions taken influence the lives of millions of people.
Straight taken out of an healthcare supply store, I wouldn't be surprised to find this mouse in the emergency waiting room beside the stetoscope and the machine they take your blood pressure with...
There is a difference between potential market and holywood has switched to Linux or every major studio runs on Linux... which was actually the point I made in the parent post.
For god sake don't go and mod such an ignorant statement as informative, the guy blatantly assume stuff and judges others on it. Lemme set thing straight a bit:
-All the money they get trough the Levy is splitted proportionnally amongst all artist who received royalties during the year.
-The idea comes from the fact that most popular artist get pirated more often and indeed that's true, while the obscure ones don't get pirated much.
-The system isn't perfect but it's the artists who receives the money comming from the Levy, it is directly proportionnal to the royalties they initialy generated.
-Before you draw doubtfull conclusions again: the various types of royalties are all taken into account here, royalties for public diffusion, mechanical reproduction and the grand rights. So when some artist play more on radio or in live events then they sell record they also get royalties from the levy proportionnally to what they generate.
I am agaisnt that levy big time since I never have copied music on blank cds, if I did it was my music that I composed, I use cd-rs to backup or transfer files hence I have ammassed enough copyrights to download almost all I want but it doesnt work this way. If you don't use your levy it's gone. I am not against it because this money goes into some big scary abusive organisation like you claim but because it is an abuse it itself. It isn't managed abusively though...
check your facts before spitting venom...
I wasn't expecting more than a bad mod for blowing Linux users daydream bubble but that is beyond funny:
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You actually tried to correct me, which actually does this work for a living, on something you say you have no freakin clue about...
Studios dominated by Windows...
BTW the world doesn't lie between the american east and west coast so maybe in the US all studios uses Linux (lmao) but elsewhere the worlds studios are still dominated by Irix and the Mac, Linux is barely found... there are even more WinNT box than Linux ones, in special effects mainly, but hey don't let me blow your daydream bubble repeat to yourself:
Linux dominate the wolrd and everyone uses it, movies are all made on Linux
Linux dominate the wolrd and everyone uses it, movies are all made on Linux
Linux dominate the wolrd and everyone uses it, movies are all made on Linux
There is a difference between using Linux and switching to Linux...
And I wouldn't expect a conference entitled Linux Movies Conference 2005 talking about something else than Linux, and it does, they talk about osX. Plus what software do they use to edit on Linux? none, no professionnal software as of now exist on Linux for moviemaking, they use Linux as an OS to drive render farms, which we all know it could do, hardly a statement about the omnipresence of Linux in moviemaking, it doesn't mean people are switching to Linux it just means the conference organisers managed to find people using it in the movie industry.
This events look more like a pep talk for Linux devellopers than anything else, the conclusion they draw only in the program are at most ridiculous:
Many have suggested that BSD-based Mac OS X will play a larger role in studios because of its compatibility with Linux
common! MacoSX is already in every studio and is widely used, Linux is absent except in files distribution, content servers and render farms, Linux will be used because it's compatible with osX not the other way around. BTW I work in studio and I did postproduction...
No one in the movie industry uses Linux to make movies, they use it like they use a hammer, its a tool to get some related task done... And even the conference program lay this down pretty clearly...
No offense but Apple of all company can be pretty stupid sometimes... They introduced/created/managed some of the greatest innovation this industry has ever seen in ways that never got them where they should be.
They are exceptionnal engineers and very lousy businessman, let's hope they try to change in the near future...
The plan has been criticised by other anti-spam workers who say it amounts to vigilantism.
Have you noticed that everytime a brilliant solution arise, a solution that seems just right and appropriate. A solution that would maybe not stop but at least truly hinder spam or virii and stuff like that, security firm says its a bad idea, its vigilantism and crap like that. Who cares if its vigilantism, it works and thats all that count. The fact of the matter is that none of these company want virii gone or spam dead, they want to sell you stuff that gives you the impression its doing something usefull about it. deleting spam, filtering it, scanning for virii and removing the well known ones, it just doesnt do crap about the problems... retaliating might, so facing a technique that could work the "spam fighters" dismisses it...
You cannot sue a city because people sell drugs within its boundary.
You can sue a city for using taxpayers money for opening an official place to sell drugs if its against the country's law.
Therefore
You cannot sue Google because people sell drugs using its service.
You could sue Google for offering an official service used to sell drug to resident of a country where its illegal.
China -- where 90 percent of music and movies are pirate copies -- will be a chief priority
They have to declare enemy with someone, to identify some country, some people somewhere as the "evil", they just can't mind their own business, cause that's all it is, taxpayers money going toward helping business, monopolies and friend of the party in the US, disguised as a just cause.
What is the purpose of that?
to become a god in WoW?
that would mean WoW is an intense passion for the one running the sweatshops, how can he be that rich and do nothing but play most of his days? Don't you think running an illegal sweatshop for the purpose of being good at a game is a bit stretching it? Borderline nevrotic even? There surely isn't that much people with that kind of issues playing this game...
To make money by selling gold an items online, on auction houses or "secret ninja websites"?
How much money can you make running such a scam? Would that amount be worth risking running an illegal sweatshop, setting up and maintaining websites or accounts? Ho many player are willing to pay money for virtual items? 10-20% seems strecthing it a bit and even then you would reach only 300,000 players. Returning customers that is, how much items do those players need? Anyone running such a scam will end up losing money at some point. It just doesn't make sense to risk that much for so little.
This story just doesn't make sense, looks like an urban legend for 13 year old boys...
wouldnt even make a good ol' cheesy cheap Holywood movie with Steven Seagal...
[cheap tv speaker]A man tied to an illegal chinese organisation was arrested tonight for cheating in an online game. The man is suspected of running illegal sweatshops aiming to make him huge amount of gold in the game World of Warcraft, by the company Blizzard entertainment. He employed illegal aliens who were paid 0,37c and hour and 20 gold a day to observe computers running special program which automated the process of getting rich in the game, commonly refered to as "farming". The man was arrested after law enforcement receive hint of the scam on a blog...
Once you get in the game, I just can't argue, BF2 is incredible, the graphics, the gameplay, the adrenaline rush, it's all there. But, cause there is a but:
1-before you get on a map you will need to log in some server, which is local, so even if you don't have an internet connaction you still have to log in to a server. Computer grind to a halt, sound loops (P4 3.4Ghz, ATI800XT, 1GB ram, 10,000rpm SATA drive). (30sec-1min.)
2-Once on the server you need to select multiplayer, then another load starts, then the list of game servers appear, you'll need to reorder it so it reloads again. Sound loops, graphics freeze for a few second (10s-15s).
3-You select a server that looks interesting. Sounds loops, graphics freeze.(15s-20s).
3 a)-if in the meantime you select another server, when the computer starts showing signs of life again it rejams and step number 3 restart
4-Then you connect to the server (10s-15s).
5-The game starts loading all textures of the level you are going to play (40sec-1,30min)
5 a)- if you checked anything else than "application preferences" in your video control panel, because another game requires it, AA doesn't apply, you'll need to restart the game and do step 1-5 entirely.
5 b)- if you change anything about the graphics you need to reload all textures again (step 3-4-5 again), some changes requires step 1-5 again.
6- You actually have loaded textures and are to the point where you press "play" (or whatever the button says), the game loads something, again, (10s-15s).
7- you actually are in the game and have to select you type of soldier and spawn point then really really start the game and when you wanna get out of this map NEVER press esc, EVER, you go back to the menu; graphics feeze, sound loops, computer grind to a halt (5s-15s). You press esc again to go back to game and repeat the wait.
8- You selected your spawn point and have press the button to confirm it, the game loads something (5s-10s) and then you start playing.
9- if after 10 min you don't like the server you press esc, by now you know you'll wait, the menu loads and show you the server list, you double click one, the sound loops, the graphics freeze and 8-12 seconds later it tells you you need to disconnect first (can't do it by itself, see it can reproduce the physic of sand blowing under a bomb but not disconnect automaticaly...). You disconnect, 15 seconds later you reconnect to a server playing the same map, it reloads all textures again anyways and you know the drill...
This is by far one of the most awfull software I have seen in my life, great game if you have the dedication to reach the point where you actually play but i most often than not just quit out of frustration facing a totally stupid interface, I regret buying this game, just because of this, it pisses me off and thats not suppose to be the purpose of a game...
Wow of all the thing we could be today, we are on the anniversary of the nuclear weapon creation. How great, i feel so good that humanity has achieved this level of civilization and I for one congratulate this incredible scientist which gave its mind to the enlightment of mankind.
Tomorow: the creation of AIDS, another milestone in scientific research, the birth of a new era...
Your chronology is out of alignment; 9/11 happened before the Iraq war, not the other way around. Seems like people like you are so intent on bashing America and the Bush administration that their surreptitious alteration of the facts is not below them.
Irak, according to even the CIA wasn't related to 9/11, the fact that you still link those two is pathetic.
I don't know, ask the 10s of thousands of dead people in Irak and Afganistan?
Don't they have the right to defend themsleves, because they don't do it with planes and hi-tech gear its less legitimate to defend and retaliate?
Terrorism is just a bad name for rebellion, wether you agree with the rebellion or not, if the rebels win they become revolutionaires if they lose they were terrorist, but I let you guess who looks like the empire and who looks like the rebels in this.
Is there anyone who hasn't thought about this being yet another Twin Tower setup. Those events seems to help the american cause so much all the time its becoming hard to not think about it that way...
To make you feel bad about something you say in a twisted way is the hallmark of the republicans and right wing US extremist, don't fall in.
They wish to make intelligent people feel bad about their comment, to twist the logic of a sentence so it look like the person don't care about something or encourage something else, when a US public figure question a US actions they tell him he hates his country, like if you loved it you would never question it or disagree with its president, its twisted but that is exactly what they imply and say, but by telling you you hate your country you are now defending yourself instead of explaining your point and it become a personnality war, this way they might shut them up or encourage dimwitted followers to do it.
You HAVE to politicize something like that, like you said its the nature of terrorism to be political, but to address the problem up front will solve it. You don't solve these problem by amplifying them US style.
Wrong the Twin Tower was a response not an aggression, try again, and Irak had nothing to do with Al Quaeda, but you morons won't get that in your mind even if your own CIA tells it to you. The US has been bullying people aorund the world for decades, and i'd like to point out that dubya actually declared the axis of evil before the Twin Towers fell.
the guy wore blue
...
the nun wears blue
the guy is a nun
A dog has four leg
a cat has four leg
hence a cat is a dog
see that kind of dimwitted logic can lead to fun sentences
you could also have cosen
It happened in a city
This city has tall building
The terrorist used bombs
If I poke your ribs continuously you will slap me or punch me in the face.
Imagine if i kill 10s of thousands of people in your country?
We can all say we are sad and this is terrible but we just can't say it is unexpected.
Are people in the US and England so naive they actually believe their leaders can kill 10s of thousands of people a year without putting them in serious danger?
I really feel for the dead britishs but I think in this moment more than any other it's time to realize the lenght of the terrible mistake that is the war started by the US and England, people will want to defend themselves against the aggression, it is normal to do so, does anyone trully thought they wouldn't? This is just the beginning, and swallow that pride of yours, in this war the agressors are the US and England, don't waste your energy justifying it, it is not justifyable, use your energy to end it, the result will be far more peacefull.
You wanna know who will be held accountable? The US for starting all this shit and puttingh the world in danger by trying to bully everyone on earth, but don't stop, continue, you guys are just too diwwitted to understand that YOU are the problem, people around the world are just defending themselves against you, how long will it take for you to realize that THIS is the result of two government killing 10s of thousands of people, mostly innocent and that hitting harder will lead to harder retaliation...
dam!
This sounds more like a cartoon enemy than a real organisation, I don't think Al Quaeda has a marketing department who come up with all those names. I believe this is just another Twin Towers, a setup so lame people agree on getting rid of their freedom in the name of security, a setup to justify Blair's war and its continuation...
Why would a group exposing himself would call itself The secret organisation? If not to feed the mind of the blockbuster population with movie scenario-like thoughts...
making a car is about engineering not art, designing the car is about art not engineering, even if a car is beautifull it isn't an artform but art is used in its conception, same goes for a software, a program is an engineering thing but you still need an artist to design the interface and draw the icons...
Period, the idea of programmers as artist has been around for long amongst tech circle for one very simple reason: artist have the right to mistake and bad design in the name of their passion. If you consider a program as an artform you may not review it or judge it the same way, this feature in our accounting software might be clunky but it is a statement on the inneficiency of the government to address issues in a reasonnable delay...
Programming isn't and artform, art does have a bit of uncertainty, not all parameters are known, sometimes this uncertainty is what result in magnificient art. Programming is a matter of certainty, you know the parameters, you know what to say to obtain what, it is science pure science, the only reason you aren't always sure of the result is because you don't know your trade enough, because the info is there and requires no special skill to apply just compliance. I know most programmers view themselves as very special people with very special skill not much other people possess but the only reason it's true is because most people find programming boring and tedious not because it is beyond their mere mortal skills.
Then again if your deffinition of art is number painting I understand you see programming as art.
NOBODY gives a fuck about functions, nobody but freaking geeks. Human beings dont give a flying fuck about being able to this or that this way or otherwise. Its the interface that sells, that make people use something, period, not the functions, not the abilities, not the good coding, ITS-THE-INTERFACE, widgets are better because they present you information in a context sensitive way with a straight to the point interface that anyone can understand just by looking at it, SIMPLICITY, INTERFACE... thats is what widgets are, browser tools that are actually useable without publicity nowhere, no need to have firefox and this and that, nonono just open the freaking temperature widget and it gives you temperature, you see it, its big and there is a sun behind it in case you don't really understand, a hint, a peek and you have your information, freakin browsers don't do that and they arent spacialy bound so forget about a peek.