Read up on the Catholic policy on Indifferentism. If they are ever the majority in the US, it's their (God mandated) duty to eradicate all rights and protections of the other religions, as only "The One True Religion" has a God given right to exist. Under their religion, the idea that all faiths are valid and should be equally protected under the law is, in itself, a heresy.
Stairway has got to be one of my least favorite Led Zep songs. I'd go so far as to say that I hate it (although not with quite as much hate as I reserve for Freebird). I'll never understand why people seem to like it so much and consider it to be the song by Led Zeppelin, especially when there's so many better songs by that group. No Quarter is my favorite, and actually I think the cover by Tool is better than the original. If I was paying to download Led Zeppelin I would skip Stairway to Heaven. I downloaded a discography years ago so I've got it anyway. If I ever wanted to listen to it for some reason, it's there.
Not everyone is capable of learning and understanding higher level mathematics, a lot of people aren't capable of learning and understanding it easily and more still have no practical reasons to even try regardless of their capacity to do it. My math education ended in high school with algebra, I never attempted anything beyond and I've never felt like my math skills are holding me back from anything.
That being said, it's impossible just from the summary to tell what really happened to the author and what his goals and needs are. Maybe he was a slacker with no motivation in high school and failed because he just wasn't trying hard enough. If he's got the motivation now, and improving his math skills really does interest him, he should go for it; at least until he gets a feel for how realistic it'll be for him to make improvement.
There really is no problem with the way Facebook is setup (apps are, overwhelmingly, useless and stupid but maybe there are some useful ones, I don't know). The problem is how people use the system. But you don't have to use it like that. Just a few days ago someone from my high school tried to add my as a friend on Facebook. I had never heard of this person before, couldn't remember speaking to or seeing them even once. She did go to the same high school as me, but we weren't friends. Ignore request.
Don't add people that you aren't/weren't actually friends with, and ignore requests from people who are just trying to increase their friends count and e-penis size. These websites are as useful as you make them.
EA isn't responsible for or an endorser of any of the THIRD PARTY FAN CREATED content. EA merely provided people with a sandbox to create their own content and share it with others who play the game. It's analogous to getting angry at paper companies because someone could draw obscene things on their product. See how much sense your ideology works in that situation and you'll see that what you're saying is patently absurd.
I may have passed by an episode when it's on TV as I flip through the channels, but other than that I've never seen any. Couldn't even tell you the names of the characters.
I've never seen an episode of Star Trek, or any of the movies. I loved Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz though. Maybe I'll check this one out when it's on Netflix.
Might have been Jennifer Morrison swaying my opinion:P
But really, system reqs were a little high for what the game offered graphically. I basically only played it for the storyline, so I never had to deal with the unbalanced multiplayer. All around though it's an improvement over previous offerings from EA. I do think that the game would have been better under the old Westwood's control, but there's nothing anyone can do about that.
Did everyone miss the part where the guy said future versions would use different sensors, not the cumbersome camera sticking out the back? There's all kinds of different ways you could sense the position and motion of the fingers, this is just a tech demo and the camera was the quick and dirty way they got the thing working so they could show it off and maybe drum up support and interest in the technology. The ideal implementation would be way ahead of anything Apple is doing right now with simple touch screens.
Mass Effect renamed to EA Presents John Madden's Mass Effect: 2008
Seriously this new sucks, every time EA buys something out to grab some IP they screw it up. I remember when they bought Westwood, the creators of the Command and Conquer series. What did we get out of that; RA2, Renegade...Generals (ok CNC3 is pretty good). I was looking forward to Mass Effect, but I've been boycotting EA for years now, and I don't think I'll be picking it up because of this. Mass Effect was the reason I was going to finally buy a new console and HDTV. Maybe I'll just be building a new PC instead, and I've been interested in the Wii too, which is looking like a better purchase because of the excellent price and my lack of an HD setup.
That's just an example of the specialized jargon different fields have. There's a lot of it in IT and computer related areas, but probably no more than any other specialized field. When I started playing paintball I learned an entirely new set of vocabulary that is all but incomprehensible to someone outside of the hobby. My grandfather commanded tanks and APCs during the Korean war, despite being old I'm sure he knows tons of jargon related to the equipment and tech he worked with back then and most of it would probably be jibberish to me too.
Try talking about the tech you use today when YOU are 80 years old, see if your grandkids understand what the hell you're rambling on about:P
however it does provide a scientific explanation for those people who claim to 'feel' god or Jesus or whatever. What was wrong with the old explanation of being a nut case?
This seems like more proof of what I personally believe, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in our universe. Everything in human history about religion and spirituality is just our minds and imaginations running around playing tricks. Religion is a Ouija board; and we're all moving our own hands and pretending there's something great and magical out there that's doing it. Our minds are so primitive and easily tricked that we can even induce this feeling artificially. People have been doing it for a long time, long before this device. LSD users report the same kind of experiences as well as hallucinations. I'm not trying to say that having these experiences is a bad thing, but take it for what it's worth. It's an interesting or novel change in your perception, but it's transient, and only "real" insofar that it really happened to you, outside of your own mind everything is chugging along normally and the world is no different, no more mysterious or wondrous than it was before.
There's plenty of wonder in the world to be experienced without using a Ouija board.
Intersting, while fixing something else recently I noticed that hyperthreading was turned off in my bios. The system is also a P4 3ghz from Dell, but not an XPS. I had never changed it or even went into the bios before so it was like that when it came shipped from Dell. I enabled it, couldn't really tell if there was a performance increase, everything seemed about the same. The machine is running Vista (Ultimate), and handles it quite nicely (with an x800 and 2gb of RAM). I'm wondering if hyperthreading would have been able to work under XP. Do you know the exact cause of the problem, is it something specific to the P4?
Few foreign companies in ANY sector are able to be profitable in Japan. The ones that are got there by fighting a costly up-hill battle against the Japanese competitors just to eek out a foot hold in the market place. This is largely because of the Japanese distrust with foreign firms or anything not made BY Japanese FOR Japanese. If AT&T tried to get into Japan they'd be fighting market forces AND cultural Xenophobia, there's no way they could turn a profit.
I'm not familiar with how these new devices work. How does the firmware get updated? Are you required to connect them to the internet just to use a Blu-ray player?
Pretty sure this thing works by detecting the vibrations resonating throughout the structure of the ISS, not through the air inside it. So it'll still work, even in a vacuum.
Overrated means, I'm modding you down just because I can. When someone with mod points lacks any legitimate argument against something you said but they still disagree with you, that's when the -1 overrated is used. It's happened to me before a couple times. The over/under rated mods are useless and should be removed. If something is underrated, MOD IT UP, if something is overrated, find something better and MOD IT UP.
XP updates automatically even if it's not validated. Only certain things like DirectX, IE7, WMP11 require validation (interesting that none of my illegal* installs ever failed to validate anyway). Security patches are automatic for everyone, pirate or not. I believe the default setting is to download them automatically and inform the user when they're ready to be installed. This would be the same no matter where they got their copy, unless the user changes that setting.
*computer came with a copy of XP, complete with every piece of software the OEM decided I needed so I reformatted and reinstalled with a clean copy of XP Pro.
What world do you live in? The "unpatched and unsupportable" pirate copies of XP are, in fact, bit-for-bit identical to the legit retail and corporate versions. They update just like the real thing, they work just like the real thing, they ARE the real thing. Everything except for the license/CD key is genuine. The difference between a "pirate" copy and a real one is your authorization to use it, the license, not the software itself.
Pretty much all stories related to company X patenting trivial computing action can be summed up with that. When you have an asinine and completely absurd legal/patent system, don't be surprised when people take that for the example of how they're supposed to act using it.
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Read up on the Catholic policy on Indifferentism. If they are ever the majority in the US, it's their (God mandated) duty to eradicate all rights and protections of the other religions, as only "The One True Religion" has a God given right to exist. Under their religion, the idea that all faiths are valid and should be equally protected under the law is, in itself, a heresy.
Stairway has got to be one of my least favorite Led Zep songs. I'd go so far as to say that I hate it (although not with quite as much hate as I reserve for Freebird). I'll never understand why people seem to like it so much and consider it to be the song by Led Zeppelin, especially when there's so many better songs by that group. No Quarter is my favorite, and actually I think the cover by Tool is better than the original. If I was paying to download Led Zeppelin I would skip Stairway to Heaven. I downloaded a discography years ago so I've got it anyway. If I ever wanted to listen to it for some reason, it's there.
Not everyone is capable of learning and understanding higher level mathematics, a lot of people aren't capable of learning and understanding it easily and more still have no practical reasons to even try regardless of their capacity to do it. My math education ended in high school with algebra, I never attempted anything beyond and I've never felt like my math skills are holding me back from anything.
That being said, it's impossible just from the summary to tell what really happened to the author and what his goals and needs are. Maybe he was a slacker with no motivation in high school and failed because he just wasn't trying hard enough. If he's got the motivation now, and improving his math skills really does interest him, he should go for it; at least until he gets a feel for how realistic it'll be for him to make improvement.
Slashdot is a US-centric website, so if the oddities and variations of American English get you flustered you're in for a rough time.
There really is no problem with the way Facebook is setup (apps are, overwhelmingly, useless and stupid but maybe there are some useful ones, I don't know). The problem is how people use the system. But you don't have to use it like that. Just a few days ago someone from my high school tried to add my as a friend on Facebook. I had never heard of this person before, couldn't remember speaking to or seeing them even once. She did go to the same high school as me, but we weren't friends. Ignore request.
Don't add people that you aren't/weren't actually friends with, and ignore requests from people who are just trying to increase their friends count and e-penis size. These websites are as useful as you make them.
EA isn't responsible for or an endorser of any of the THIRD PARTY FAN CREATED content. EA merely provided people with a sandbox to create their own content and share it with others who play the game. It's analogous to getting angry at paper companies because someone could draw obscene things on their product. See how much sense your ideology works in that situation and you'll see that what you're saying is patently absurd.
I may have passed by an episode when it's on TV as I flip through the channels, but other than that I've never seen any. Couldn't even tell you the names of the characters.
I've never seen an episode of Star Trek, or any of the movies. I loved Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz though. Maybe I'll check this one out when it's on Netflix.
Might have been Jennifer Morrison swaying my opinion :P
But really, system reqs were a little high for what the game offered graphically. I basically only played it for the storyline, so I never had to deal with the unbalanced multiplayer. All around though it's an improvement over previous offerings from EA. I do think that the game would have been better under the old Westwood's control, but there's nothing anyone can do about that.
Did everyone miss the part where the guy said future versions would use different sensors, not the cumbersome camera sticking out the back? There's all kinds of different ways you could sense the position and motion of the fingers, this is just a tech demo and the camera was the quick and dirty way they got the thing working so they could show it off and maybe drum up support and interest in the technology. The ideal implementation would be way ahead of anything Apple is doing right now with simple touch screens.
Mass Effect renamed to EA Presents John Madden's Mass Effect: 2008
Seriously this new sucks, every time EA buys something out to grab some IP they screw it up. I remember when they bought Westwood, the creators of the Command and Conquer series. What did we get out of that; RA2, Renegade...Generals (ok CNC3 is pretty good). I was looking forward to Mass Effect, but I've been boycotting EA for years now, and I don't think I'll be picking it up because of this. Mass Effect was the reason I was going to finally buy a new console and HDTV. Maybe I'll just be building a new PC instead, and I've been interested in the Wii too, which is looking like a better purchase because of the excellent price and my lack of an HD setup.
That's just an example of the specialized jargon different fields have. There's a lot of it in IT and computer related areas, but probably no more than any other specialized field. When I started playing paintball I learned an entirely new set of vocabulary that is all but incomprehensible to someone outside of the hobby. My grandfather commanded tanks and APCs during the Korean war, despite being old I'm sure he knows tons of jargon related to the equipment and tech he worked with back then and most of it would probably be jibberish to me too.
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Try talking about the tech you use today when YOU are 80 years old, see if your grandkids understand what the hell you're rambling on about
What you really need is a copy of the US Army's improvised munitions handbook.
This seems like more proof of what I personally believe, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in our universe. Everything in human history about religion and spirituality is just our minds and imaginations running around playing tricks. Religion is a Ouija board; and we're all moving our own hands and pretending there's something great and magical out there that's doing it. Our minds are so primitive and easily tricked that we can even induce this feeling artificially. People have been doing it for a long time, long before this device. LSD users report the same kind of experiences as well as hallucinations. I'm not trying to say that having these experiences is a bad thing, but take it for what it's worth. It's an interesting or novel change in your perception, but it's transient, and only "real" insofar that it really happened to you, outside of your own mind everything is chugging along normally and the world is no different, no more mysterious or wondrous than it was before.
There's plenty of wonder in the world to be experienced without using a Ouija board.
Intersting, while fixing something else recently I noticed that hyperthreading was turned off in my bios. The system is also a P4 3ghz from Dell, but not an XPS. I had never changed it or even went into the bios before so it was like that when it came shipped from Dell. I enabled it, couldn't really tell if there was a performance increase, everything seemed about the same. The machine is running Vista (Ultimate), and handles it quite nicely (with an x800 and 2gb of RAM). I'm wondering if hyperthreading would have been able to work under XP. Do you know the exact cause of the problem, is it something specific to the P4?
Few foreign companies in ANY sector are able to be profitable in Japan. The ones that are got there by fighting a costly up-hill battle against the Japanese competitors just to eek out a foot hold in the market place. This is largely because of the Japanese distrust with foreign firms or anything not made BY Japanese FOR Japanese. If AT&T tried to get into Japan they'd be fighting market forces AND cultural Xenophobia, there's no way they could turn a profit.
I'm not familiar with how these new devices work. How does the firmware get updated? Are you required to connect them to the internet just to use a Blu-ray player?
Someone was driving the car, so they can check the license plate to see who it belongs to and hold them responsible.
Pretty sure this thing works by detecting the vibrations resonating throughout the structure of the ISS, not through the air inside it. So it'll still work, even in a vacuum.
Amazing, I didn't think it was possible for personal experiences to be wrong, but I guess I'll take your higher authority on it Mr. AC.
Log in and post and I'll go ahead and provide proof that I'm right, otherwise you're not worth the time.
Overrated means, I'm modding you down just because I can. When someone with mod points lacks any legitimate argument against something you said but they still disagree with you, that's when the -1 overrated is used. It's happened to me before a couple times. The over/under rated mods are useless and should be removed. If something is underrated, MOD IT UP, if something is overrated, find something better and MOD IT UP.
XP updates automatically even if it's not validated. Only certain things like DirectX, IE7, WMP11 require validation (interesting that none of my illegal* installs ever failed to validate anyway). Security patches are automatic for everyone, pirate or not. I believe the default setting is to download them automatically and inform the user when they're ready to be installed. This would be the same no matter where they got their copy, unless the user changes that setting.
*computer came with a copy of XP, complete with every piece of software the OEM decided I needed so I reformatted and reinstalled with a clean copy of XP Pro.
What world do you live in? The "unpatched and unsupportable" pirate copies of XP are, in fact, bit-for-bit identical to the legit retail and corporate versions. They update just like the real thing, they work just like the real thing, they ARE the real thing. Everything except for the license/CD key is genuine. The difference between a "pirate" copy and a real one is your authorization to use it, the license, not the software itself.
...to software patents.
Pretty much all stories related to company X patenting trivial computing action can be summed up with that. When you have an asinine and completely absurd legal/patent system, don't be surprised when people take that for the example of how they're supposed to act using it.