Nah, it failed because at the end of the say it was only good for video playback and flash games - nothing that isn't disposable.
For the last five years or so it's been obvious to everybody that there's a better way of doing both those things. It's been set back because the usual suspects spent a couple of years trying to lock everybody into some proprietary, patented system but the light is starting to break through now.
Flash will be a relic in a couple more years and nobody will be sad to see it go.
No matter how many times this thread comes up the answer will always be the same:
Every nerds dream is to invent new ways to wreck stuff: Just do it!
Go in to 'Mythbusters' mode, take a look around the house and see what you've got that might wreck a disk drive.
If you can be bothered to rip the metal plate off the back (yeah you could unscrew it but just grab some pliers and rip!) you'll find some REALLY strong magnets inside. They might be fun too!
PS: No matter what you think, nobody's going to bother trying to forensically recover a hard disk in the trash. If it's even slightly physically damaged, that's good enough.
Oddly enough, anyone who really understands the Bible will realize just how simple and how difficult is is to be a Christian - Love God, Love Others As Yourself, All Else Is Details.
I'm fairly sure there's some quite specific instructions in there too:
eg. "sell your possessions and give to the poor"... "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God"
It seems a clear enough instruction but I don't see too many Christians doing it...
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." - Jesus, The Sermon On The Mount.
Yep. Some Muslim faiths actively encourage science and even say that where there's a conflict, science is correct and the old beliefs are wrong.
eg. One of the basic tenets of the Baha'i faith is "The independent search after truth, unfettered by superstition or tradition".
They're serious about it, too. I've been to a conference on the impact of human genome project which was organized by Bahai's for their everyday followers. It was pretty hardcore. When was the last time your local Christian church organized something like that?
It's just as probable that any of the other religions are true. Or that any religion I could invent is true.
I could say that anybody who doesn't murder at least three people in their lifetime doesn't get into heaven and there's be as much reason to believe that as believing the Bible (which also advocates killing BTW).
a) You assume that there is somebody behind it all, based on no evidence.
b) He's relying on the fact that step-by-step proof of the non-existance of something is impossible. There's as much reason to believe that Jupiter, Odin or Wakantanka is behind evolution as the Christian god.
c) If you go with the "all gods are manifestations of the same thing" angle then you're just being a wimp and trying to dodge the real question, which is this: "Does the existence of the the universe require a god?" Stephen Hawking has done more research on that than just about anybody else. You could start by reading his works (short answer: "no, it doesn't").
My point is that it's easy to get caught up in the details and lose sight of what is most important in Christianity. It's not a mystery - Jesus himself provided the Cliff Notes for the Bible.
Maybe Jesus was all love and peace but he still threatened eternal torture for people who don't follow his moral code. Is that a basis for getting people to behave?
He also said a lot of stuff about giving away all your material possessions, that God will provide: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24).
Looking around me... I doubt many modern Christians are going to heaven.
The big mistake is to assume that The Bible has a monopoly on morality. It doesn't. It's actually a very poor moral guide if you bother to read the rest of it, not just the Sermon On The Mount.
eg. It advocates the death penalty for just about everything. It says slavery is cool - it even tells you the correct way to sell your own children into slavery, ie. The bill of sale for your sons should have a time limit but not your daughters (who are usually sold as wife-slaves).
It's not the "fundies" who are the problem. It's anyone who believes that his personal religion is "right" and that others are "wrong".
No, the problem is that people aren't taught the difference between facts and personal opinion. Equal airtime is given to both.
There are very good reasons to believe one side is more correct than the other.
2 plus 2 is 4, whether you like it or not. Cellphones do not cause cancer, whether you like it or not.
Anybody basing their lives around the Bible hasn't really read it.
Anybody basing their lives around the 'moral code' of the Bible (if not the actual self-damning stories) hasn't really compared it against man-made moral codes like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Side by side with The Ten Commandments it makes the Ten Commandments look stupid.
What are the Ten Commandments anyway? The only place the Bible says "Ten Commandments" is Exodus 34:28 and that doesn't say anything about 'not killing' or 'honoring your father and mother', it's more about jihads, animal sacrifice and how to cook goats properly. I don't see many Christians doing those things...
That's because they're not as educated as they think they are.
Can any 'educated' person really believe that the Universe is only a few thousand years old?
The main problem is that most people seem to think think religion is harmless. It isn't. I don't see how any truly educated person can not have an issue with religion in (eg.) government, but getting an Atheist President elected is going to be *very* difficult.
It's not too long since blacks had to ride in the back of the bus and weren't allowed in through the front door. Even less since there was rioting because a black was let into a university.
That depends on the contract they sign, but it's *very* unlikely that a patent troll would sign a contract that allowed people to get their money back if the patent is found invalid.
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Um, the rapid release schedule is what gives Firefox its stability and confidence.
Makes no difference on Facebook. While you're doing that your auntie/mom/friends are busy uploading and tagging hundreds of pictures of you.
Nah, it failed because at the end of the say it was only good for video playback and flash games - nothing that isn't disposable.
For the last five years or so it's been obvious to everybody that there's a better way of doing both those things. It's been set back because the usual suspects spent a couple of years trying to lock everybody into some proprietary, patented system but the light is starting to break through now.
Flash will be a relic in a couple more years and nobody will be sad to see it go.
What if I use a green magic marker to seal the edges? I heard that works great, and my pictures will come out sharper.
I tried it on some CDs and it definitely tightened up my bass response.
Have you checked out how often Chrome updates itself? Didn't think so...
The only difference is that Chrome does it silently.
No matter how many times this thread comes up the answer will always be the same:
Every nerds dream is to invent new ways to wreck stuff: Just do it!
Go in to 'Mythbusters' mode, take a look around the house and see what you've got that might wreck a disk drive.
If you can be bothered to rip the metal plate off the back (yeah you could unscrew it but just grab some pliers and rip!) you'll find some REALLY strong magnets inside. They might be fun too!
PS: No matter what you think, nobody's going to bother trying to forensically recover a hard disk in the trash. If it's even slightly physically damaged, that's good enough.
Thermite ought to do it.
(Don't know where you'll get some but somebody has to say "thermite" in the monthly appearance of this topic...)
Oddly enough, anyone who really understands the Bible will realize just how simple and how difficult is is to be a Christian - Love God, Love Others As Yourself, All Else Is Details.
I'm fairly sure there's some quite specific instructions in there too:
eg. "sell your possessions and give to the poor" ... "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God"
It seems a clear enough instruction but I don't see too many Christians doing it...
All OT stuff, that has been superseded by the NT.
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." - Jesus, The Sermon On The Mount.
Matthew 5:17-18
London is MASSIVE. Seriously, look at it on a satellite photo.
I suspect the area where the Olympics are going to be could be covered with a lot less than 70,000 cells. Anything else is just whining.
Yep. Some Muslim faiths actively encourage science and even say that where there's a conflict, science is correct and the old beliefs are wrong.
eg. One of the basic tenets of the Baha'i faith is "The independent search after truth, unfettered by superstition or tradition".
They're serious about it, too. I've been to a conference on the impact of human genome project which was organized by Bahai's for their everyday followers. It was pretty hardcore. When was the last time your local Christian church organized something like that?
Summing up: "They're nice people therefore they must be right"...?
I suspect the value they place on science and reason is a delusion.
But let's deconstruct the assumptions in Evolution.
1) God created the universe as a deterministic system in which creatures evolve based on physical laws and rules.
2) We are as God intended.
...except that in the Bible God specifically creates men and women in his own image (well ... not women, they were an afterthought).
It's just as probable that any of the other religions are true. Or that any religion I could invent is true.
I could say that anybody who doesn't murder at least three people in their lifetime doesn't get into heaven and there's be as much reason to believe that as believing the Bible (which also advocates killing BTW).
a) You assume that there is somebody behind it all, based on no evidence.
b) He's relying on the fact that step-by-step proof of the non-existance of something is impossible. There's as much reason to believe that Jupiter, Odin or Wakantanka is behind evolution as the Christian god.
c) If you go with the "all gods are manifestations of the same thing" angle then you're just being a wimp and trying to dodge the real question, which is this: "Does the existence of the the universe require a god?" Stephen Hawking has done more research on that than just about anybody else. You could start by reading his works (short answer: "no, it doesn't").
My point is that it's easy to get caught up in the details and lose sight of what is most important in Christianity. It's not a mystery - Jesus himself provided the Cliff Notes for the Bible.
Maybe Jesus was all love and peace but he still threatened eternal torture for people who don't follow his moral code. Is that a basis for getting people to behave?
He also said a lot of stuff about giving away all your material possessions, that God will provide: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24).
Looking around me... I doubt many modern Christians are going to heaven.
Just saying...
One of these things is that the two most important commandments are to love God, and to love others as yourself.
Can we not just love others without bringing the magic pixie into it?
Have you read this?
How does it compare the the Ten Commandments?
The big mistake is to assume that The Bible has a monopoly on morality. It doesn't. It's actually a very poor moral guide if you bother to read the rest of it, not just the Sermon On The Mount.
eg. It advocates the death penalty for just about everything. It says slavery is cool - it even tells you the correct way to sell your own children into slavery, ie. The bill of sale for your sons should have a time limit but not your daughters (who are usually sold as wife-slaves).
It's not the "fundies" who are the problem.
It's anyone who believes that his personal religion is "right" and that others are "wrong".
No, the problem is that people aren't taught the difference between facts and personal opinion. Equal airtime is given to both.
There are very good reasons to believe one side is more correct than the other.
2 plus 2 is 4, whether you like it or not. Cellphones do not cause cancer, whether you like it or not.
Anybody basing their lives around the Bible hasn't really read it.
Anybody basing their lives around the 'moral code' of the Bible (if not the actual self-damning stories) hasn't really compared it against man-made moral codes like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Side by side with The Ten Commandments it makes the Ten Commandments look stupid.
What are the Ten Commandments anyway? The only place the Bible says "Ten Commandments" is Exodus 34:28 and that doesn't say anything about 'not killing' or 'honoring your father and mother', it's more about jihads, animal sacrifice and how to cook goats properly. I don't see many Christians doing those things...
Most educated people do not.
That's because they're not as educated as they think they are.
Can any 'educated' person really believe that the Universe is only a few thousand years old?
The main problem is that most people seem to think think religion is harmless. It isn't. I don't see how any truly educated person can not have an issue with religion in (eg.) government, but getting an Atheist President elected is going to be *very* difficult.
Or when we pretend it ended 150 years ago?
It's not too long since blacks had to ride in the back of the bus and weren't allowed in through the front door. Even less since there was rioting because a black was let into a university.
It's not the "moral teachiings" that cause conflict, it's the historic mythology that science disagrees with.
Even then, I think that science has come with a better set of moral teachings than most religions (eg. Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
That depends on the contract they sign, but it's *very* unlikely that a patent troll would sign a contract that allowed people to get their money back if the patent is found invalid.
That would be found out in the random sampling of the ballot papers that takes place later.
Ballot papers are supposed to be secret, not something that people can read from ten yards away.
How likely is it that *no one* notices this?
If it's your first ever time using the software then *very likely* because you don't know what's 'normal'.
Duh.
Physical seals are worthless against well-funded enemies.