I bought a 1x1.25GHz PowerMac MDD (G4) in 2003. Used as my main desktop machine until 2009. Lives in my basement as a file server now. So that's 6 years of use. 7 years *ago* now.
I picked up a 2008 Mac Pro (8x2.8GHz) used on eBay for about $2100 in May 2009. I plan on it lasting me a LONG time.
I mean, do people complain about having a Pentium4 that's outdated? Of course, the last release in that series was 2006, 4 years ago now. Time is just movin along...
Matthew 10:14-15 Cities that neither "receive" the disciples nor "hear" their words will be destroyed by God. It will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what God supposedly did to those poor folks (see Gen.19:24).
Matthew 11:20-24 Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't care for his preaching.
anyway:
The passages in the Qur'an that command fighting pertain to the early Muslims' struggle with the militant pagans (kafirun, kuffar) of ancient Mecca. The mercantile Meccan elite dominate lower Red Sea trade and worshipped star goddesses; they determined to wipe out the new religion of Islam as it gathered converts through the 610s and set up as a city-state in Yathrib/ Medina in the 620s CE. As I have pointed out before, a careful study of the word kafir or infidel in the Qur'an will show that it never is used in an unadorned way to refer to non-Muslims in general. It implies paganism, or alliance with paganism, and often has overtones of militant hostility to Muslims and Islam. In contrast, the Christians are called 'closest in love' to the Muslims, and the Children of Israel are repeatedly praised. There is a passage referring to those who commit kufr or infidelity from among the people of the book (i.e. Jews and Christians) [2:105]. But this diction demonstrates that the word for infidel does not ordinarily extend to those groups. The ones condemned probably had allied with the pagans who were trying to destroy Islam and kill all Muslims, against whom the Qur'an advises believers to wage defensive war ("kill them wherever you find them" [2:191]- i.e. defend yourself against the fanatic pagans trying to kill you).
There are fundamentalist Muslims who use the word 'kafir' to refer to all non-Muslims, but the Qur'an does not support this usage. Anti-Muslim bigots in the US use these simplistic ideas of fundamentalists to condemn Islam and all Muslims.
All you have to do is look at the fate of the conquered Canaanites under Joshua (who were to be wiped out in a biblical genocide) and the fate of the Meccans when the Muslims overcame them (almost none were killed and they went on to flourish in the Islamic empire despite their earlier attempt at mass murder aimed at the prophet and his followers), to see the difference between the two.
My experience is, people are people. They're all equally capable of the same good and evil, across religions and cultures, and how much of each they commit has to do with both their opportunities and their character at any point in history.
"We don't even have to care because what are you going to do, stick a suction cup mount to your windshield and have a cigarette lighter adapter flopping around, exactly like the guy driving the beater civic who earns a factor of ten less than you?"
My family took a 3000 mile, 3 week roadtrip back in about 1990 (in a big-ass minivan). Here's what my Dad did (I was about 11).
1) Build a wooden stand that fit between the two front seats to hold a 10" color TV (well-secured so as not to kill people in an accident) 2) Buy a DC/AC inverter 3) Stuff a Nintendo (NES) and VCR under the bench seat.
What a great trip that was. Playing MegaMan 3 while blasting across Wyoming is a fucking awesome.
I JUST did this to set up video for my 2.5 year old in the car:
$29 on eBay: Coby TF-DVD7377 7 in. Portable DVD Player with Screen (about 480x272 resolution) Yes, this is a DVD player (which I'll never use), but it also has USB and SD card ports. Plays a variety of codecs (likes AVI containers, but has no problem with mpeg4/h264 video and mp3/aac audio) Also has a spin-around-and-lay-flat screen for easy mounting or desktop use. Also has infrared remote control, VERY handy from the front seat.
$15: 8GB USB drive filled with rips of kids shows (mainly from my TiVo/the internet)
That's it. It works freaking amazingly, and cost less than $50 to set up. This assumes you don't care about HD video, but I can assure you my 2 year old is much more interested in Handy Manny and Yo Gabba Gabba than in lines of resolution.
As for the $500 device to wipe the drive, this device is expensive because it's a little computer that does a "wipe" of the hard drive data to FIPS 142-2 and NIST 800-88 4 standards.
Well, after putting the drive through that it won't be usable by the copier anymore (unless copier will accept and format any plain-Jane drive, but I seriously doubt that), so why not just get DBAN's Boot N Nuke and be done with it? Or a hammer? Or a gun? Most of those cost less than $500 and meet the same security standards.
Oh I completely agree. But the fact remains that BitTorrent is *currently* used for commercial services by more than 11M end-users (many of whom are non-geeks).
I guess I'm saying that BT is not the exclusive realm of pirates and "Linux distro downloaders", neither of which are a significant demographic in the minds of decisionmakers. Imagine if Microsoft started using BT on Patch Tuesday...
Except that Apple actively works to prevent people from using their device in "unapproved" ways. We are not just talking about missing features, we are talking about a deliberate effort to restrict people, and a complete and utter failure to mention that detail to the unsuspecting consumers who purchase these devices.
This is because, if they make it easy, half of all Joe sixpacks who own the device will do it because they heard about it on Twitter or some such crap, will break their device, and will then bitch long and loud about Apple not honoring their warranty.
That's why you use a token analyzer. You think CS profs do this BY HAND? They run all their students' source through a token analyzer looking for matching chunks. It's not hard.
orbit 237: it'll be at a distance of 136 miles at an elevation of 15deg (not bad!) 06:17 local time. orbit 238: a bust for where I live, never gets more than 2deg elevation.
Agreed. My Dad used to keep track of all the Christmas presents he bought for various people in a database (probably FileMaker or some other circa 1990 Mac program). I put a keylogger on his machine, got the password, and saw all my Christmas presents.
Told my Dad about it because I felt guilty/proud. Christmas morning I had 0 presents under the tree. They waited for me to freak out, then brought the presents up out of the basement.
And I wore an onion on my belt, as was the fashion at the time....
You need one "M-stream" cablecard (can decode multiple channels at once). That costs $0 per month from Comcast (by law they have to provide one free-of-charge).
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Funny how no Muslims gave a crap that south Park already showed Muhammed in full face glory
That's because he had the power of fire, which is pretty fucking cool, even to pissed-off fundamentalists.
God doesn't exist. "Nature" (i.e. the natural universe, not just Earth) is the closest thing we have, I suppose.
Well:
I bought a 1x1.25GHz PowerMac MDD (G4) in 2003. Used as my main desktop machine until 2009. Lives in my basement as a file server now. So that's 6 years of use. 7 years *ago* now.
I picked up a 2008 Mac Pro (8x2.8GHz) used on eBay for about $2100 in May 2009. I plan on it lasting me a LONG time.
I mean, do people complain about having a Pentium4 that's outdated? Of course, the last release in that series was 2006, 4 years ago now. Time is just movin along...
Matthew 10:14-15 Cities that neither "receive" the disciples nor "hear" their words will be destroyed by God. It will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what God supposedly did to those poor folks (see Gen.19:24).
Matthew 11:20-24 Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't care for his preaching.
anyway:
The passages in the Qur'an that command fighting pertain to the early Muslims' struggle with the militant pagans (kafirun, kuffar) of ancient Mecca. The mercantile Meccan elite dominate lower Red Sea trade and worshipped star goddesses; they determined to wipe out the new religion of Islam as it gathered converts through the 610s and set up as a city-state in Yathrib/ Medina in the 620s CE. As I have pointed out before, a careful study of the word kafir or infidel in the Qur'an will show that it never is used in an unadorned way to refer to non-Muslims in general. It implies paganism, or alliance with paganism, and often has overtones of militant hostility to Muslims and Islam. In contrast, the Christians are called 'closest in love' to the Muslims, and the Children of Israel are repeatedly praised. There is a passage referring to those who commit kufr or infidelity from among the people of the book (i.e. Jews and Christians) [2:105]. But this diction demonstrates that the word for infidel does not ordinarily extend to those groups. The ones condemned probably had allied with the pagans who were trying to destroy Islam and kill all Muslims, against whom the Qur'an advises believers to wage defensive war ("kill them wherever you find them" [2:191]- i.e. defend yourself against the fanatic pagans trying to kill you).
There are fundamentalist Muslims who use the word 'kafir' to refer to all non-Muslims, but the Qur'an does not support this usage. Anti-Muslim bigots in the US use these simplistic ideas of fundamentalists to condemn Islam and all Muslims.
All you have to do is look at the fate of the conquered Canaanites under Joshua (who were to be wiped out in a biblical genocide) and the fate of the Meccans when the Muslims overcame them (almost none were killed and they went on to flourish in the Islamic empire despite their earlier attempt at mass murder aimed at the prophet and his followers), to see the difference between the two.
My experience is, people are people. They're all equally capable of the same good and evil, across religions and cultures, and how much of each they commit has to do with both their opportunities and their character at any point in history.
You want epic? How about "Kelleh! We should name our behbeh....Hope."
God bless Lice Capades.
There is no easy, legal way to rip DVDs to iTunes for use with the ipad.
Yeah, but there sure is an easy way.
"We don't even have to care because what are you going to do, stick a suction cup mount to your windshield and have a cigarette lighter adapter flopping around, exactly like the guy driving the beater civic who earns a factor of ten less than you?"
Bingo.
My family took a 3000 mile, 3 week roadtrip back in about 1990 (in a big-ass minivan). Here's what my Dad did (I was about 11).
1) Build a wooden stand that fit between the two front seats to hold a 10" color TV (well-secured so as not to kill people in an accident)
2) Buy a DC/AC inverter
3) Stuff a Nintendo (NES) and VCR under the bench seat.
What a great trip that was. Playing MegaMan 3 while blasting across Wyoming is a fucking awesome.
I live in America. Have you ever been on a 3 week, 3000 mile (4800km) road trip with children under the age of 10?
Yeah, I thought so.
I JUST did this to set up video for my 2.5 year old in the car:
$29 on eBay: Coby TF-DVD7377 7 in. Portable DVD Player with Screen (about 480x272 resolution)
Yes, this is a DVD player (which I'll never use), but it also has USB and SD card ports.
Plays a variety of codecs (likes AVI containers, but has no problem with mpeg4/h264 video and mp3/aac audio)
Also has a spin-around-and-lay-flat screen for easy mounting or desktop use.
Also has infrared remote control, VERY handy from the front seat.
$15: 8GB USB drive filled with rips of kids shows (mainly from my TiVo/the internet)
That's it. It works freaking amazingly, and cost less than $50 to set up. This assumes you don't care about HD video, but I can assure you my 2 year old is much more interested in Handy Manny and Yo Gabba Gabba than in lines of resolution.
As for the $500 device to wipe the drive, this device is expensive because it's a little computer that does a "wipe" of the hard drive data to FIPS 142-2 and NIST 800-88 4 standards.
Well, after putting the drive through that it won't be usable by the copier anymore (unless copier will accept and format any plain-Jane drive, but I seriously doubt that), so why not just get DBAN's Boot N Nuke and be done with it? Or a hammer? Or a gun? Most of those cost less than $500 and meet the same security standards.
http://www.dban.org/download
http://www.dban.org/faq/software
Oh I completely agree. But the fact remains that BitTorrent is *currently* used for commercial services by more than 11M end-users (many of whom are non-geeks).
I guess I'm saying that BT is not the exclusive realm of pirates and "Linux distro downloaders", neither of which are a significant demographic in the minds of decisionmakers. Imagine if Microsoft started using BT on Patch Tuesday...
Except that Apple actively works to prevent people from using their device in "unapproved" ways. We are not just talking about missing features, we are talking about a deliberate effort to restrict people, and a complete and utter failure to mention that detail to the unsuspecting consumers who purchase these devices.
This is because, if they make it easy, half of all Joe sixpacks who own the device will do it because they heard about it on Twitter or some such crap, will break their device, and will then bitch long and loud about Apple not honoring their warranty.
It's not worth it to them as a company. Period.
The 3 World of Warcraft patches released so far in 2010 total about 474MB. 11.5M people play WoW.
That works out to 5195 terabytes of data transferred over Bittorrent just for that game so far this year.
Sure, I have no idea how much pirated stuff/pr0n is moved via BT, but more than five thousand terabytes is a lot.
That's why you use a token analyzer. You think CS profs do this BY HAND? They run all their students' source through a token analyzer looking for matching chunks. It's not hard.
So we're now looking at orbits 237 or 238, I assume?
Here's a great calculator from NASA to determine where to look in the sky and at what time, based on your location:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html
Here in central IL USA, it looks like:
orbit 237: it'll be at a distance of 136 miles at an elevation of 15deg (not bad!) 06:17 local time.
orbit 238: a bust for where I live, never gets more than 2deg elevation.
About 131,000 children are adopted in America per year (2002 to 2006 time period). Roughly 3% of live births.
That's a LOT of people adopting children that will not carry their traits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption#Modern_period
I don't know that something the size of a softball would make those long sonic booms that were heard over such a large area.
Someone quoted a guy from Adler Planetarium estimating that is was 1000 lbs or so based on various factors.
Agreed. My Dad used to keep track of all the Christmas presents he bought for various people in a database (probably FileMaker or some other circa 1990 Mac program). I put a keylogger on his machine, got the password, and saw all my Christmas presents.
Told my Dad about it because I felt guilty/proud. Christmas morning I had 0 presents under the tree. They waited for me to freak out, then brought the presents up out of the basement.
And I wore an onion on my belt, as was the fashion at the time....
My Dad tried this when I was a kid (took away my modem cable).
I just bought one at a computer store and kept it with my stash of other contraband, busted out when needed. :)
Agreed. The movie looked "dim" through the glasses. And gave me a headache, of course. :)
You can call me a Cager if I can call you an Organ Donor.
Actually I have an M license, but still, "cagers"?
I like a roast beef sandwich as much as the next guy....
Actually I have nowhere to go with that comment, but the context in which this comment is appropriate is so rare that, hey, I had to. :)
I think you're having one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_crisis
Don't worry, I've been having one for the past 10 years or so. I feel fine. *twitch*
You need one "M-stream" cablecard (can decode multiple channels at once). That costs $0 per month from Comcast (by law they have to provide one free-of-charge).
You pay a monthly Tivo fee of about $9.