Having two possible outcomes (broken drive, double layer drive) does not necessarily imply a 50-50 chance in the slightest.
That's like saying gee I should play the powerball today, I have a 50-50 chance of winning since my choices are Play/Not Play. More likely you have what like a.00000000001% chance of winning, which is what I'd probably say your chances of some "magic" firmware actually working to provide extra functionality.
... encompassing infinity fixes that problem. As proof, consider: If God were defined as an omniscient, omnipotent object, then it's provable that it exists - it would be the Universe, which, by construction, is omnipotent and omniscient. Omniscient implies knowing all that is knowable, and omnipotent implies capable of all that is capable, which is strictly true for the Universe....
I disagree with you on a few points. Defining god as the universe sounds kind of neat, but it doesn't really work on a few levels. First, there are many in the scientific community who believe the the universe is very large, but still finite.
The universe is omnipotent/omnipresent? Ok I'll concede that, since the universe is basically everywhere.
Omniscient? Now that's a stretch. If you took a mathematical definition of universe, and say that it is the superset of everything, then yes it would contain things like 'knowledge'. However, there is more to omniscience than calling something a set of all knowledge. When we use that word, we typically thing of a living being (most cases god), not just naming a set and saying that set knows everything. The set doesn't 'know' anything at all, we just said we defined it as such.
Yes you're exactly right. Who cares if you have to reinstall a few apps or the whole OS, the important part is the DATA.
For a lot of people thats just a rm -fr ~ which is really easy to do. The only easy way to fix this, albeit a huge pain in the ass, would be to create another account with no priveledges when you run something dubious. But I think laziness would win out eventually:)
Ok, let's see here. He's poking around on limeware looking to get some free software. I'll call it piracy, you can call it "unauthorized downloading of a copyrighted work".
So anyway, this guy downloaded something, and *GASP* his ignorance of what software is out there made him get something he didn't want.
This might be kind of funny if its a friend of yours, but seriously folks, is this really front page material for slashdot? I love this site, I truly do, but please editors at least have some standards for what gets on the front page.
Actually, Firefox's popup blocking will not always help. I've been tricked into clicking on links to "shock sites" that besides showing the usual disgusting goatse pictures, also have an infinite amount of popups until you end the process.
Firefox does a good job normally, but there is still some hostile javascript that it is very susceptible to.
I agree with you that the gameplay should be the deciding factor, but the storyline?? That is probably the WORST part of zelda games. They're the same story every time.
Always the same boy who discovers he's a hero, you collect three trinkets and get the same master sword. You then complete a few more dungeons and fight the same final boss and rescue that same princess.. for what reward? Oh I get the TRIFORCE again, I never saw that coming!
Well there's also another point to consider. If he runs his own website, he has no obligation to cater to the poster's rights of free speech. Freedom of speech is an issue regarding a government and its citizens.
He should delete anything he wants at will from his webpage. Hell, he can even report them as he sees fit. One just has to hope the entities he reports them to take a sensible stance on what they take action against and what they dont.
Wait a minute, who am I kidding? This is microsoft! hA!
Finally! Somebody finally has the courage to bash microsoft, on slashdot no less. euxneks, you are a true hero for standing up against all the pro microsoft zealots here.
You truly deserve your high moderation for such courage and valor.
Okay, I'll bite. I'm non-American, I watch South Park, and I haven't picked up on any political bias or message or whatever.
There are many episodes to choose from. Consider the most recent one, Goobacks. Immigrants from the future flock into the town in huge numbers, and start taking all the jobs in the town, because they work for very cheap wages.
The immigrants retain their own language, so the school is forced to teach their future-speak, as they won't learn the local language. Eventually most of the town is infuriated that these "Goobacks" (does that sound familiar to any racial slurs you know? thought so) have taken over their town, and that they dont deserve it.
So yea, I think thats a good example of a political message in south park, regarding immigration.
Don't be a jerk there and you'll do fine. Others I've seen log into the channel and go "this sucks, I can't get this and this working...Gentoo sucks...I can't do anything". Then when no one responds in about 20 seconds they shout "how come no one wants to help me...this sucks". And on and on. Some people are beyond help it seems...and not for just and OS install either, hehe.
Actually, sometimes that can help, as weird as that may sound. I read this one time on/. and I absolutely agree.
If you're nice and say hello I don't know how to use X in linux, please help me, then you might get an answer within the next hour after being told to look through all sorts of documentation.
On the other hand, if you say "linux is a stupid piece of crap and can't do X, windows can do that EASILY", then you get about ten people yelling at you each telling you exactly what command to type and it works flawlessly:)
Where is the option in firefox for this? Poking around all I found was that I can view the website names and the login names, but not what the passwords were.
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That's like saying gee I should play the powerball today, I have a 50-50 chance of winning since my choices are Play/Not Play. More likely you have what like a .00000000001% chance of winning, which is what I'd probably say your chances of some "magic" firmware actually working to provide extra functionality.
Please tell me that's something revealed early and not the major plottwist or something at the end?
Excellent points. This is exactly how an atheist thinks about people who try to "save" them. Mod parent up.
The universe is omnipotent/omnipresent? Ok I'll concede that, since the universe is basically everywhere.
Omniscient? Now that's a stretch. If you took a mathematical definition of universe, and say that it is the superset of everything, then yes it would contain things like 'knowledge'. However, there is more to omniscience than calling something a set of all knowledge. When we use that word, we typically thing of a living being (most cases god), not just naming a set and saying that set knows everything. The set doesn't 'know' anything at all, we just said we defined it as such.
I think you meant polytheism right? Islam saying that monotheism (belief in exactly one god) is unforgivable would be a little problematic :)
For a lot of people thats just a rm -fr ~ which is really easy to do. The only easy way to fix this, albeit a huge pain in the ass, would be to create another account with no priveledges when you run something dubious. But I think laziness would win out eventually :)
So anyway, this guy downloaded something, and *GASP* his ignorance of what software is out there made him get something he didn't want.
This might be kind of funny if its a friend of yours, but seriously folks, is this really front page material for slashdot? I love this site, I truly do, but please editors at least have some standards for what gets on the front page.
Firefox does a good job normally, but there is still some hostile javascript that it is very susceptible to.
I agree with you that the gameplay should be the deciding factor, but the storyline?? That is probably the WORST part of zelda games. They're the same story every time.
Always the same boy who discovers he's a hero, you collect three trinkets and get the same master sword. You then complete a few more dungeons and fight the same final boss and rescue that same princess.. for what reward? Oh I get the TRIFORCE again, I never saw that coming!
Well there's also another point to consider. If he runs his own website, he has no obligation to cater to the poster's rights of free speech. Freedom of speech is an issue regarding a government and its citizens.
He should delete anything he wants at will from his webpage. Hell, he can even report them as he sees fit. One just has to hope the entities he reports them to take a sensible stance on what they take action against and what they dont.
+1 FP
:)
On second thought, I'd suggest you try posting in a more troll friendly community
Finally! Somebody finally has the courage to bash microsoft, on slashdot no less. euxneks, you are a true hero for standing up against all the pro microsoft zealots here.
You truly deserve your high moderation for such courage and valor.
Okay, I'll bite. I'm non-American, I watch South Park, and I haven't picked up on any political bias or message or whatever.
There are many episodes to choose from. Consider the most recent one, Goobacks. Immigrants from the future flock into the town in huge numbers, and start taking all the jobs in the town, because they work for very cheap wages. The immigrants retain their own language, so the school is forced to teach their future-speak, as they won't learn the local language. Eventually most of the town is infuriated that these "Goobacks" (does that sound familiar to any racial slurs you know? thought so) have taken over their town, and that they dont deserve it. So yea, I think thats a good example of a political message in south park, regarding immigration.
Where is the option in firefox for this? Poking around all I found was that I can view the website names and the login names, but not what the passwords were.