Funny thing. I always interpreted the parable of the sower as those who chose to close their minds and hearts will never see the truth no matter how much evidence is shown to them. Some christians assume they are the ones with the truth but in reality they are the ones that closed their minds and hearts.
I assumed God and his disciples spoke in parables because we were suppose to search for the knowledge ourselves and not be spooned fed someone else's interpretation of how things should be. Contrary to what the creationists would have us believe about scientists, the ones I know are not only discovering new things about the cosmos but some of them (that let it be shown) are still very spiritual and active in their community.
WB is saying thank you for the free grass roots publicity campaign and the interest free financing. Here's your money back. Hey you didn't actually think we would honor our commitment to provide you a downloadable copy of the movie? We planned on blaming someone else for not being able to do it and don't let the fact that we own UltraViolet distract you from our excuse.
Having lived through the Cold War, I highly doubt that the economic shunning of Russia by the West is anything close to unprecedented. For the record the Soviet Union folded for economic reasons and it looks like Putin is setting himself up for a repeat.
Your response is a combination of reductio ad absurdum:
Hell, if that's the approach you want to take, why even have a computer? It solves pretty much the same problems that pencil and paper had already solved. Why have pencil and paper? It pretty much solves the same problems cuniform tablets had already solved.
and ad hominem:
I assume you really can see the difference between a new display server and antiquated X, but maybe not. I'll chalk it up to the state of the school system in today's world.
It's very weak and emotional filled response. It makes me think you more of a Wayland fanboi who can't handle the competition than someone who has anything important to add to the conversation.
While I do think it's detracts from the efforts being made by Wayland, I don't see anything wrong with Mir's existence. We always said competition is good. We said this when Linux went against Windows, to justify the multiple desktops available (e.g. Gnome, Qt, XFCE, OpenStep, etc.) and I can see the same argument said for Mir versus Wayland.
Wayland is competing against X windows. They are offering the promise of improved performance and maintainability by jettisoning the legacy code of X. I don't see Mir any differently. I see what the AC is going for and agree. Wayland may have some of the same programmers of X, but that doesn't necessarily mean X is abandonware.
X is only network transparent if all your apps are from 1995 and are written against Motif. Everything newer than that is not network transparent, it's just shoving uncompressed bitmaps across the network in a highly inefficient wrapper protocol that makes large numbers of inefficient, lag inducing round-trips.
This is why I use NX. It solved that problem for me and I've been using X over a crappy VPN for years without the pain of plain X.
If it takes a major effort to bring water to the region for irrigation and governmental subsidies to make it financially feasible it doesn't sound like an ideal place to grow crops.
I agree with Jnaujok on this one. The problem isn't that the land was never used for farming. The problem is that the farming has grown well past the size that the area could support without involving the US Corps. of Engineers and having farm subsidies.
Efficiencies in food production are irrelevant. People talk about an "efficient" food chain to avoid discussing the real problem which is population control.
If our population growth continues unabated, we will be deforesting to grow crops to grow food instead of feed.
To eliminate meat production because of some idealized fantasy that a vegetarian life will save us all is equivalent to rearranging the deck chair on the Titanic. It may make people feel good to pursue the goal because they feel like they are solving a problem but in reality the inevitable will happen regardless.
I'm sure the overuse of water has more to do with people insisting on living in areas where there isn't enough water to sustain the population or land use than growing crops explicitly for feed.
Farms do not shut down voluntarily. If they aren't using the water to grow alfalfa then they would just use it to grow a different cash crop.
I think the report is a creative way to further the vegan agenda.
The educational system has turned into the educator of many trades and the master of none already.
I would argue that we teach too many subjects in high school as it is. We need to not only increase the high school graduation rates but also have the graduates have an equivalent of a 12 grade intelligence when they graduate.
What else would you expect from the TSA? Their #1 job is to justify their existence and the only way they can is by finding more "restricted items". When passengers start complying with the current set of rules, the amount of restricted items goes down. To counter this downward trend, it is TSA HQ's job to issue more directives that are designed to increase the number of confiscations and therefore increase the justification for the TSA.
Who else would keep these "dangerous" items off the plane?
A likely explanation for recent slowdowns is that Netflix usage went up, but peering and transit bandwidth didn't. Verizon and Comcast also haven't joined Netflix's "Open Connect" content delivery network, which can improve Netflix performance by placing video caches closer to customers.
After this story published, one commenter pointed out that the declines in performance came after Netflix started delivering its so-called "Super HD" and 3D video to all customers, even those whose ISPs are not members of Open Connect. This may have increased the traffic load.
Things could get worse for Verizon customers. While Comcast is still bound to follow the FCC's net neutrality rules due to conditions placed on its merger with NBCUniversal, Verizon is under no such obligation...
Both companies are slow to upgrade their peering infrastructure and they both have been in disputes with bandwidth providers over compensation (eg. Level3). Net neutrality never applied in these two cases.
I purchased a Nook for this. It reads EPUB, PDF, and of course B&N DRMed stuff. I can transfer my documents directly to the Nook using Calibre and haven't had much to complain about. When I purchased my Nook, the Kindle didn't allow directly installing documents and instead required my uploading to Amazon for it to show up on the device. I'm sure that has changed, but I'm still happy with the Nook.
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This is news to me and this information sheet from Apple. Which device is causing the issue?
Funny thing. I always interpreted the parable of the sower as those who chose to close their minds and hearts will never see the truth no matter how much evidence is shown to them. Some christians assume they are the ones with the truth but in reality they are the ones that closed their minds and hearts.
I assumed God and his disciples spoke in parables because we were suppose to search for the knowledge ourselves and not be spooned fed someone else's interpretation of how things should be. Contrary to what the creationists would have us believe about scientists, the ones I know are not only discovering new things about the cosmos but some of them (that let it be shown) are still very spiritual and active in their community.
WB is saying thank you for the free grass roots publicity campaign and the interest free financing. Here's your money back. Hey you didn't actually think we would honor our commitment to provide you a downloadable copy of the movie? We planned on blaming someone else for not being able to do it and don't let the fact that we own UltraViolet distract you from our excuse.
Having lived through the Cold War, I highly doubt that the economic shunning of Russia by the West is anything close to unprecedented. For the record the Soviet Union folded for economic reasons and it looks like Putin is setting himself up for a repeat.
Not that China's economy is healthy enough to even consider joining Russia in the first place.
As worthless as the Russian ruble is I doubt Russia is capable of waging any kind of economic warfare.
I assume just having a fullscreen version of Mozilla for the Metro interface isn't good enough?
Double sarcasm can be amusing at times. Enjoy the weekend (if you can).
I did. I interpreted as a sarcastic response to Microlith assertion that Mir isn't needed because Wayland already exists and solved the same problem.
So when I read your sarcastic remark to the sarcastic remark I interpreted that you agreed with Microlith that Mir wasn't needed.
What sealed the deal for me in the AC remark was "If Wayland is justified then so is Mir."
Your response is a combination of reductio ad absurdum:
and ad hominem:
It's very weak and emotional filled response. It makes me think you more of a Wayland fanboi who can't handle the competition than someone who has anything important to add to the conversation.
While I do think it's detracts from the efforts being made by Wayland, I don't see anything wrong with Mir's existence. We always said competition is good. We said this when Linux went against Windows, to justify the multiple desktops available (e.g. Gnome, Qt, XFCE, OpenStep, etc.) and I can see the same argument said for Mir versus Wayland.
Wayland is competing against X windows. They are offering the promise of improved performance and maintainability by jettisoning the legacy code of X. I don't see Mir any differently. I see what the AC is going for and agree. Wayland may have some of the same programmers of X, but that doesn't necessarily mean X is abandonware.
This is why I use NX. It solved that problem for me and I've been using X over a crappy VPN for years without the pain of plain X.
That would be nice. I suspect there is a conspiracy involving both Safari and Slashdot to make us all look mentally challenged.
If it takes a major effort to bring water to the region for irrigation and governmental subsidies to make it financially feasible it doesn't sound like an ideal place to grow crops.
I agree with Jnaujok on this one. The problem isn't that the land was never used for farming. The problem is that the farming has grown well past the size that the area could support without involving the US Corps. of Engineers and having farm subsidies.
Efficiencies in food production are irrelevant. People talk about an "efficient" food chain to avoid discussing the real problem which is population control.
If our population growth continues unabated, we will be deforesting to grow crops to grow food instead of feed.
To eliminate meat production because of some idealized fantasy that a vegetarian life will save us all is equivalent to rearranging the deck chair on the Titanic. It may make people feel good to pursue the goal because they feel like they are solving a problem but in reality the inevitable will happen regardless.
I'm sure the overuse of water has more to do with people insisting on living in areas where there isn't enough water to sustain the population or land use than growing crops explicitly for feed.
Farms do not shut down voluntarily. If they aren't using the water to grow alfalfa then they would just use it to grow a different cash crop.
I think the report is a creative way to further the vegan agenda.
Several rail companies were offering intermodal cargo transportation (truck to rail to truck) since the 1960's.
Even FedEx and UPS use rail to transport their trailers and containers.
Keep in mind that the OTR industry has already absorbed a fuel cost increase from $1.509/gal (2003) to $3.992/gal (2013) [source: EIA].
The graduation exams have questions no harder than an eighth grade level. We shouldn't have to dumb down the questions to have graduates.
The educational system has turned into the educator of many trades and the master of none already.
I would argue that we teach too many subjects in high school as it is. We need to not only increase the high school graduation rates but also have the graduates have an equivalent of a 12 grade intelligence when they graduate.
What else would you expect from the TSA? Their #1 job is to justify their existence and the only way they can is by finding more "restricted items". When passengers start complying with the current set of rules, the amount of restricted items goes down. To counter this downward trend, it is TSA HQ's job to issue more directives that are designed to increase the number of confiscations and therefore increase the justification for the TSA.
Who else would keep these "dangerous" items off the plane?
I was taken aback when I heard the news. My thoughts go out to his family and friends. My understanding is that it may have been a heart attack.
You will be missed Jim. RIP.
Please explain that to MY UPS delivery guy. He leaves it on the front porch regardless of the delivery instructions.
From the article:
Both companies are slow to upgrade their peering infrastructure and they both have been in disputes with bandwidth providers over compensation (eg. Level3). Net neutrality never applied in these two cases.
I purchased a Nook for this. It reads EPUB, PDF, and of course B&N DRMed stuff. I can transfer my documents directly to the Nook using Calibre and haven't had much to complain about. When I purchased my Nook, the Kindle didn't allow directly installing documents and instead required my uploading to Amazon for it to show up on the device. I'm sure that has changed, but I'm still happy with the Nook.
I agree. It was sarcasm.