I think you missed the entire point. I don't need to move TV around, I selectively choose what to watch and when I want to watch it, because I don't have to match a timetable
WinXP (depending on configuration) will get continually longer lockouts, exponentially increasing. After 3 or 4 bad logins it's bearable but after 6 or 7 you're looking at 5 minute waits.
I don't watch so much TV I need a computer to track it all. I watch very little entertainment because it doesn't fit my daily schedule.
Now insert TiVo, Myth, MediaCentre, or any one of the other DVRs.
Suddenly, I can watch what I want, when I want. That's why TiVo is useful. Because it moves TV around to fit my life, if I find something interesting I can rewind it. You can capture those moments in sport and go "Look at this!".
If you can't see that, if you can't realise they let you tweak entertainment to your life, then sorry.
By the way, before you go on about us geeks who spend life in front of a PC and never go out, I need to shift television around various activities such as kayaking and rock climbing.
I think I get what you're meaning, that because windows is so easy to admin every user screws it up for themselves?
True. That's why Group Policies are a blessing and a curse. Blessing because they're easy and work, curse because if you forget to set one option it replicates and unsets a load of other things.
Half-Life 2's Widescreen solves this quite nicely, at least on my triple 19" TFTs:D
Seriously though, I agree with you. 70 is too small, but unless you have monitors you can curve around you (i.e. 2, ideally 3 or more) then it just causes weird vision when it moves too quickly round the edges as you spin.
Not to say it doesn't have advantages in being able to paste hackers in CS when they think you can't see them.
I just used group policy to fix a permissions glitch with a shared folder being needed by an application on (looks at statistics) 874 machines over 2 operating systems, 4 servers, all over one primary active directory domain and 2 subdomains.
Total time to repair problem: 7 minutes, plus 60 minutes tops to allow all machines to replicate (again, settable in group policy).
We deployed XPSP2 complete with a fix for a rather badly put together application we use. It took about the same amount of time, except it was scheduled to happen at midnight so there was no working downtime.
Tens to hundreds of desktops isn't a problem if they're set up properly.
This is absolutely my argument. If applications use shortcuts which are blocked the instant security is applied, more fool the programmers. There are documented ways to do things, if you use shortcuts then don't blame the OS vendor when those shortcuts are locked down.
Yeah, my bad on tye Einstein typo. But yes, Einstein was a Christian and believed that whatever the ultimate equation was, it would be elegant. It was this belief which stopped him from accepting Chaos Theory as a possibility, since he could think of no way God would let the universe run on randomness.
That one comes under touch, it's detecting the subtle change in air pressure. You can sense a hand above your face far easier than a pencil point since the hand has a greater effect on the local pressure.
Sainsbury's actually started introducing self-checkouts in larger stores about a year ago, our local one has had them for 6 or 7 months.
You scan, then bag, and it weighs things as you bag them. If the weight doesn't match then you can't keep scanning, and there's always an 'operator' to do things like keep an eye on people and verify people are 18 when buying alcohol.
The difference is instead of needing 4 people to run 4 checkouts, you need 1 person to run the same 4 and it's more convenient for the customer who doesn't want to queue.
No... Christian free will is about as free as you're going to get. There's no God holding a gun to your head, if you don't believe then that's fine and i'm not going to try change it.
Free will also involved the fact people can do stuff to you. Free will by definition gives me the right to poison you and withhold the antidote unless you give me $10000 just as much as it gives you the right to just give me the money.
God is not perfect, that's a common misconception. Nor was Jesus the 'model man' everyone makes him out to be.
The universe has some physical contraints which evidently allow life, nobody said they had to be constant. In fact some major physicists, some of whom believe in God (Einstien, for example), have considered or are considering that universal constants aren't, and have been constantly changing.
The fact we are here is undoubtedly improbable, life isn't easy or else there would be civilisations over plenty of planets, but there's no reason for God to create a perfect world first time. When you have an eternity to sit and watch, getting it right first time takes the fun away.
The respect notches do mean something, it's amazing how difficult it is to discuss things with those who blindly argue that religion is wrong because of science.
I personally see God as more of a guide and teacher rather than an ultimate creator and master of all. The fact He gave humans free will (interpret as necessary) shows that He wasn't interested in running the show perfectly, or else what's the point? It's like trying to enjoy a drama when you wrote and directed it.
If you would perhaps be so kind as to engage brain, you would realise that not all Christians believe the Creation theory exactly as written. I am a Christian, I believe Creation theory is fine. I also believe evolution is fine. Why? Because evolution was simply given the occasional prod in the right direction by an entity, lets call it God.
Just because the book says it was 6 days doesn't mean literally 6 days, why not 6 ages? The average arab 3000 years ago wouldn't have understood the concept of 600 million years if it came up and slapped them in the face, let alone the idea that the world could be made from subatomic particles.
After all, your confidence in big bang, gravitational theory and evolution is based purely on theory when you get down to it. Observed theory yes (A quick google should come up with a fair few pro-religion observations on reality), but theory none the less. I very much doubt your personal radio telescope array has picked up the gamma radiation echos.
No, the person who fixes your car would probably think "Oh my god, they noticed the warning light!"
I mean, most modern incarnations of anything approaching an email client will shout at you if there's attachments it doesn't trust. Even Hotmail warns you. Ignoring the warning boxes is like ignoring the fact that your entire car's dashboard is flashing "Engine Warning". It's user stupidity.
I meant in the context of crap web design, sepcifically Times New Roman. Terminal Green is fine, because it was designed to be readable (bold fonts etc), Times New Roman sucks.
This same hack won't be possible with iTunes in the sense that you can get thousands of tracks for one subscription. The only way you can get an entire iTunes track is by buying it.
Not that I have a problem with this one. I buy a track then use Hymn to remove the DRM.
We're running on the Magna Carta alone over here. The rest have all been patched onto that one document (for those not in the UK and without a grounding in international political history, the Magna Carta was the document in which the monarchy first declared any kind of parliament, the equaivalent of the US Constitution but marched out in arguments far less).
In agreement with parent, the UK unlike the US has a very sturdy and difficult-to-rock political system. Admittedly it's not perfect, but it is damn near impossible to pass major laws (minor and pointless ones on any subject are easy to speed through though) going against the genuine general consensus of the nation.
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I think you missed the entire point. I don't need to move TV around, I selectively choose what to watch and when I want to watch it, because I don't have to match a timetable
WinXP (depending on configuration) will get continually longer lockouts, exponentially increasing. After 3 or 4 bad logins it's bearable but after 6 or 7 you're looking at 5 minute waits.
I don't watch so much TV I need a computer to track it all. I watch very little entertainment because it doesn't fit my daily schedule.
Now insert TiVo, Myth, MediaCentre, or any one of the other DVRs.
Suddenly, I can watch what I want, when I want. That's why TiVo is useful. Because it moves TV around to fit my life, if I find something interesting I can rewind it. You can capture those moments in sport and go "Look at this!".
If you can't see that, if you can't realise they let you tweak entertainment to your life, then sorry.
By the way, before you go on about us geeks who spend life in front of a PC and never go out, I need to shift television around various activities such as kayaking and rock climbing.
I think I get what you're meaning, that because windows is so easy to admin every user screws it up for themselves?
True. That's why Group Policies are a blessing and a curse. Blessing because they're easy and work, curse because if you forget to set one option it replicates and unsets a load of other things.
You're giving end users too much credit here. If it exists, they will click.
Half-Life 2's Widescreen solves this quite nicely, at least on my triple 19" TFTs :D
Seriously though, I agree with you. 70 is too small, but unless you have monitors you can curve around you (i.e. 2, ideally 3 or more) then it just causes weird vision when it moves too quickly round the edges as you spin.
Not to say it doesn't have advantages in being able to paste hackers in CS when they think you can't see them.
I just used group policy to fix a permissions glitch with a shared folder being needed by an application on (looks at statistics) 874 machines over 2 operating systems, 4 servers, all over one primary active directory domain and 2 subdomains.
Total time to repair problem: 7 minutes, plus 60 minutes tops to allow all machines to replicate (again, settable in group policy).
We deployed XPSP2 complete with a fix for a rather badly put together application we use. It took about the same amount of time, except it was scheduled to happen at midnight so there was no working downtime.
Tens to hundreds of desktops isn't a problem if they're set up properly.
Looks like moderators are on form today.
This is absolutely my argument. If applications use shortcuts which are blocked the instant security is applied, more fool the programmers. There are documented ways to do things, if you use shortcuts then don't blame the OS vendor when those shortcuts are locked down.
Yeah, my bad on tye Einstein typo. But yes, Einstein was a Christian and believed that whatever the ultimate equation was, it would be elegant. It was this belief which stopped him from accepting Chaos Theory as a possibility, since he could think of no way God would let the universe run on randomness.
That one comes under touch, it's detecting the subtle change in air pressure. You can sense a hand above your face far easier than a pencil point since the hand has a greater effect on the local pressure.
To paraphrase Esmerelda Weatherwax in the Discworld books:
"1.25E13 to 1 chances happen 9 times out of 10."
We're screwed.
Sainsbury's actually started introducing self-checkouts in larger stores about a year ago, our local one has had them for 6 or 7 months.
You scan, then bag, and it weighs things as you bag them. If the weight doesn't match then you can't keep scanning, and there's always an 'operator' to do things like keep an eye on people and verify people are 18 when buying alcohol.
The difference is instead of needing 4 people to run 4 checkouts, you need 1 person to run the same 4 and it's more convenient for the customer who doesn't want to queue.
No... Christian free will is about as free as you're going to get. There's no God holding a gun to your head, if you don't believe then that's fine and i'm not going to try change it.
Free will also involved the fact people can do stuff to you. Free will by definition gives me the right to poison you and withhold the antidote unless you give me $10000 just as much as it gives you the right to just give me the money.
I swear the moderators are all reatarded, and hope I get to metamoderate this one.
Troll? Come on, it's a sensible question! Bigelow Tea exists!
God is not perfect, that's a common misconception. Nor was Jesus the 'model man' everyone makes him out to be.
The universe has some physical contraints which evidently allow life, nobody said they had to be constant. In fact some major physicists, some of whom believe in God (Einstien, for example), have considered or are considering that universal constants aren't, and have been constantly changing.
The fact we are here is undoubtedly improbable, life isn't easy or else there would be civilisations over plenty of planets, but there's no reason for God to create a perfect world first time. When you have an eternity to sit and watch, getting it right first time takes the fun away.
The respect notches do mean something, it's amazing how difficult it is to discuss things with those who blindly argue that religion is wrong because of science.
I personally see God as more of a guide and teacher rather than an ultimate creator and master of all. The fact He gave humans free will (interpret as necessary) shows that He wasn't interested in running the show perfectly, or else what's the point? It's like trying to enjoy a drama when you wrote and directed it.
If you would perhaps be so kind as to engage brain, you would realise that not all Christians believe the Creation theory exactly as written. I am a Christian, I believe Creation theory is fine. I also believe evolution is fine. Why? Because evolution was simply given the occasional prod in the right direction by an entity, lets call it God.
Just because the book says it was 6 days doesn't mean literally 6 days, why not 6 ages? The average arab 3000 years ago wouldn't have understood the concept of 600 million years if it came up and slapped them in the face, let alone the idea that the world could be made from subatomic particles.
After all, your confidence in big bang, gravitational theory and evolution is based purely on theory when you get down to it. Observed theory yes (A quick google should come up with a fair few pro-religion observations on reality), but theory none the less. I very much doubt your personal radio telescope array has picked up the gamma radiation echos.
No, the person who fixes your car would probably think "Oh my god, they noticed the warning light!"
I mean, most modern incarnations of anything approaching an email client will shout at you if there's attachments it doesn't trust. Even Hotmail warns you. Ignoring the warning boxes is like ignoring the fact that your entire car's dashboard is flashing "Engine Warning". It's user stupidity.
I'm with you on this one.
I meant in the context of crap web design, sepcifically Times New Roman. Terminal Green is fine, because it was designed to be readable (bold fonts etc), Times New Roman sucks.
would have been better as "I am a psycho girlfriend, you insentitive clod!"
I think you meant to say that legitimate versions of MS operating systems don't run on WINE.
First I've noticed about it. What do you propose my copy of Windows 2000 Pro is?
This same hack won't be possible with iTunes in the sense that you can get thousands of tracks for one subscription. The only way you can get an entire iTunes track is by buying it.
Not that I have a problem with this one. I buy a track then use Hymn to remove the DRM.
P4 breast implants? Women get warm enough during sex as it is without bloody intel radiators in there as well.
We're running on the Magna Carta alone over here. The rest have all been patched onto that one document (for those not in the UK and without a grounding in international political history, the Magna Carta was the document in which the monarchy first declared any kind of parliament, the equaivalent of the US Constitution but marched out in arguments far less).
In agreement with parent, the UK unlike the US has a very sturdy and difficult-to-rock political system. Admittedly it's not perfect, but it is damn near impossible to pass major laws (minor and pointless ones on any subject are easy to speed through though) going against the genuine general consensus of the nation.