Reminds me of the mid-late '90s when a series of 'free internet' dial-up providers emerged (meaning no financial cost) If you didn't mind a 3rd of the screen real estate being taken up by various ads it was okay, (that was 800x600 days). I think it was a specialized browser or something. I helped a friend sign up to it who just needed to check his email, and I remember the whole thing just really sucked because the already-slow dial-up connection had to download lots of graphical ads making it an even slower experience. You know the old adage: you get what you pay for.
At one point the Petro Canada gas stations were giving out free CDs containing this software as a promotion. I don't think it was ever widely used and lasted for only a very brief time but somebody made a heck of a lot of money from it. I'm sure that was the intent from the start, to cash out, because the product wasn't really feasible beyond the initial 'free' pitch.
If they are "mad" to pull the adds then they have done so possibly error and definitely without the proper thought applied; however if they are "angry" about the situation then it seems like an understandable business move.
From what I've seen users who pirate software (like IIS) are not so interested in patching even if the option is available. It's usually not for running production-level hosting anyway. They're just happy the pirated software works and don't want to "rock the boat" so to speak in case a Microsoft patch would detect and deactivate that software.
However when said user is frustrated because of inability to use a specific feature of the pirated IIS software then they go looking for patches, service packs and such. More often than not they use a newer pirated version on their development/testing workstation/server.
And why, o why, did he choose to make me an atheist and condemn me to hell for my wicked, wicked rational mind?
But maybe you won't be an atheist in another 10 years (just an arbitrary number). Can you really take your current state and project it into the future with absolute certainty? And who's saying the Christian you are replying to won't be a decided atheist at that point?
Admittedly I think you've lost me with that short statement. Okay, so people with free will can choose evil and that's common knowledge within the church but doesn't answer the higher arguments like are being discussed here.
So why can people choose evil? Evil obviously didn't exist in the beginning because there was only one omnipotent perfect God. Therefore how can people not remove Him from the chain of responsibility if He is the direct source from which everything came to be? And it's not like He didn't see sin coming, so I think He would definitely have to share in the responsibility, but that perspective doesn't seem to fit in with the Christian world perspective.
I don't know the answer. I'm just trying to see what other people think. But I have to see answers beyond: Man can choose. We all know that. I want people to think back to the source of everything and how sin could have come from that. I'm looking for perspectives that I haven't thought about before.
I'm glad you brought that up because I've always been confused about that issue too. I think you make good points. That question is filed in my personal X Files of unsolved mysteries, in the back of my mind. Always has been, probably always will be until the day I die.
I tend to take the approach that if God is God and I am human then likely I won't understand it anyway but based on that personal belief I don't discard God because I don't understand. At the same time I have trouble accepting something that I don't understand. I also know Christians go to great lengths and often step out on weak limbs to try and prove what they believe. They often spout what they've heard from others or whatever the Christian cultural argument of he day is (soup du jour). I've done it before too so I have first-hand evidence! We can definitely make ourselves look like fools and bring contempt upon ourselves. Can't blame the devil for all that -- I blame human stupidity most of the time.
Usually I manage to come to my own conclusions about God, but I've never heard any satisfactory argument that gives me "an answer" as to why evil came from good/perfection in the very beginning. I mean, sure it's blamed on man and not on God but at the same time God created man and was the source and sole point of responsibility because He could forsee everything. God cannot be taken out of the chain of responsibility if He is omni-*
I've always been under the impression that if the full picture were known meaning on either side of the fence if all the theories were able to be boiled down and the facts revealed, the two theories would begin to fit together better. I don't believe in conspiracy that scientists are out to provide the church wrong -- they're trying to find the truth of the world we live in. Creations do the same but within the premade framework of Christianity. The creations have to deal with nontangible/spiritual issues which mainstream science does not deal with.
I guess I should formulate another questions from that one: If in the beginning there was only one perfect God and His creations caused the imperfection, then still imperfection originated from Him because He knew what He was creating, foresaw what would become imperfect. He could have prevented it be He's God, but He didn't.
So how could imperfection (directly or indirectly) have originated from God?
I've never been able to figure this one out. Of course I don't think humans can answer all the questions. And when there's always an answer from a human perspective then that puts us at the understanding level of God right?
I've never figured out why God would allow imperfection to come out of perfection in the first place. If all there was in the beginning was a perfect God then he creating something capable of imperfection.
I don't like the analogy of parents/kids in this case because the issue is much different than can be derived from a simple human perspective. The God/children arguments go some of the way but they cannot be used to answer such questions with any sensibility. At some point analogies break down and that one definitely breaks down here IMHO.
Real touchy feely buttons. I can learn to navigate buttons in the dark
As for operation in the dark the backlit screen will suffice to solve that problem. For driving, well another post here helped you answer that one.
No fear!
"In fact, as a.NET hobbyist himself, Cansdale says he used Express to develop TestDriven.NET. Ironically, he only got access to a fancier version of Visual Studio as part of his MVP goody-bag."
Out of curiosity, from where did you get the idea he didn't use Express?
I'm getting tired of the XP vs. Vista vs. XP vs. Vista vs.... articles posted here all the time. Microsoft will eventually drop support for XP and will continue to support Vista. Microsoft will continue to focus on Vista. If Vista is now less secure than XP Microsoft will eventually it stronger... that is until the next Windows OS is released.
Dammit we had to listen to XP versus everything-else-before-it. Tiresome, damn tiresome. No worthwhile discussion came from it last decade but you never know....
Do you think it's it a smart move to further complicate an operating system to take advantage of multiple cores
As long as Microsoft as the OS and tools developer can understand and manage the complexities and I as the end user or programmer can take advantage of it then why the hell not!
More than likely it will be purchased because it is the new Walmart basement bargain. If users turn out to like their Dells they may very well stick with the brand. It's brand building.
There should be no hesitation to calling Dell the new basement bargain. Call a spade a spade. It can go many ways.
The OLPC project has gone through contortions to get software and hardware that are appropriate for disadvantaged children to use as an educational platform
That may be the problem. IMHO a cheap laptop with Mandriva is a lot better potential learning tool. Why should the 3rd world get what the rich world thinks they need?...there's a chance it's not what they really need. Now with the highly-configurable Mandriva laptop the sky is the limit. They can configure, program and do everything that want include get all the types of learning applications they will need.
(especially since OLPC's chairman Nicholas Negroponte called Intel's move "predatory"),
Lighten up Nicholas if you really care about getting computers into the hands of kids. Competition should be welcome in this case. Now they should rebrand to One Type Of Laptop Per Child (OTOLPC)
I envy someone who can get so singularly focused on one topic. I think the guy's going batshit -- or should I say overreacting -- but I envy that quality nonetheless. How much meaningful work could get accomplished with such focused energy. You know he might just accomplish an end to his means because of it.
Multi-touch interface has already regained some strength for making apps more intuitive to use, in part thanks to recent efforts of Jeff Han. He garnered much interest through a demonstration at TED 2006.
See what he's up to today with his new company.
Those who actually know what they're doing won't use publicly-announced holes
In this case there were no publicly-announced holes. Now your argument has veered off into left field for a last chance save. No dice. You even tried to pull out the fanboy argument which always evidences a final crash and burn when used out of context.
Yes because we all know the public exploits just sitting out there are totally ignored by hackers in favour of the um non-public ones. Ummmm.... so..... IIS must therefore be insecure because surely we can't say anything good about it here. I mean it's a piece of shit because we can hypothesize unstated scenarios about it.
I think it does means a lot to many people when a piece of software has never had a publicly exploitable hole.
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Reminds me of the mid-late '90s when a series of 'free internet' dial-up providers emerged (meaning no financial cost) If you didn't mind a 3rd of the screen real estate being taken up by various ads it was okay, (that was 800x600 days). I think it was a specialized browser or something. I helped a friend sign up to it who just needed to check his email, and I remember the whole thing just really sucked because the already-slow dial-up connection had to download lots of graphical ads making it an even slower experience. You know the old adage: you get what you pay for. At one point the Petro Canada gas stations were giving out free CDs containing this software as a promotion. I don't think it was ever widely used and lasted for only a very brief time but somebody made a heck of a lot of money from it. I'm sure that was the intent from the start, to cash out, because the product wasn't really feasible beyond the initial 'free' pitch.
If they are "mad" to pull the adds then they have done so possibly error and definitely without the proper thought applied; however if they are "angry" about the situation then it seems like an understandable business move.
So when are developers NOT alienated? (They're an ornery bunch.)
Just like how the spokes on my bicycle wheel are always on time when I'm riding it!
However when said user is frustrated because of inability to use a specific feature of the pirated IIS software then they go looking for patches, service packs and such. More often than not they use a newer pirated version on their development/testing workstation/server.
But maybe you won't be an atheist in another 10 years (just an arbitrary number). Can you really take your current state and project it into the future with absolute certainty? And who's saying the Christian you are replying to won't be a decided atheist at that point?
So why can people choose evil? Evil obviously didn't exist in the beginning because there was only one omnipotent perfect God. Therefore how can people not remove Him from the chain of responsibility if He is the direct source from which everything came to be? And it's not like He didn't see sin coming, so I think He would definitely have to share in the responsibility, but that perspective doesn't seem to fit in with the Christian world perspective.
I don't know the answer. I'm just trying to see what other people think. But I have to see answers beyond: Man can choose. We all know that. I want people to think back to the source of everything and how sin could have come from that. I'm looking for perspectives that I haven't thought about before.
I tend to take the approach that if God is God and I am human then likely I won't understand it anyway but based on that personal belief I don't discard God because I don't understand. At the same time I have trouble accepting something that I don't understand. I also know Christians go to great lengths and often step out on weak limbs to try and prove what they believe. They often spout what they've heard from others or whatever the Christian cultural argument of he day is (soup du jour). I've done it before too so I have first-hand evidence! We can definitely make ourselves look like fools and bring contempt upon ourselves. Can't blame the devil for all that -- I blame human stupidity most of the time.
Usually I manage to come to my own conclusions about God, but I've never heard any satisfactory argument that gives me "an answer" as to why evil came from good/perfection in the very beginning. I mean, sure it's blamed on man and not on God but at the same time God created man and was the source and sole point of responsibility because He could forsee everything. God cannot be taken out of the chain of responsibility if He is omni-*
I've always been under the impression that if the full picture were known meaning on either side of the fence if all the theories were able to be boiled down and the facts revealed, the two theories would begin to fit together better. I don't believe in conspiracy that scientists are out to provide the church wrong -- they're trying to find the truth of the world we live in. Creations do the same but within the premade framework of Christianity. The creations have to deal with nontangible/spiritual issues which mainstream science does not deal with.
So how could imperfection (directly or indirectly) have originated from God?
I've never been able to figure this one out. Of course I don't think humans can answer all the questions. And when there's always an answer from a human perspective then that puts us at the understanding level of God right?
I've never figured out why God would allow imperfection to come out of perfection in the first place. If all there was in the beginning was a perfect God then he creating something capable of imperfection. I don't like the analogy of parents/kids in this case because the issue is much different than can be derived from a simple human perspective. The God/children arguments go some of the way but they cannot be used to answer such questions with any sensibility. At some point analogies break down and that one definitely breaks down here IMHO.
As for operation in the dark the backlit screen will suffice to solve that problem. For driving, well another post here helped you answer that one. No fear!
"In fact, as a
Out of curiosity, from where did you get the idea he didn't use Express?
... Say you go to google.tv (I watch TV) ...
I'm getting tired of the XP vs. Vista vs. XP vs. Vista vs. ... articles posted here all the time. Microsoft will eventually drop support for XP and will continue to support Vista. Microsoft will continue to focus on Vista. If Vista is now less secure than XP Microsoft will eventually it stronger ... that is until the next Windows OS is released.
Dammit we had to listen to XP versus everything-else-before-it. Tiresome, damn tiresome. No worthwhile discussion came from it last decade but you never know ....
As long as Microsoft as the OS and tools developer can understand and manage the complexities and I as the end user or programmer can take advantage of it then why the hell not!
Not only that the combination is probably already patented somewhere and litigation will ensue.
More than likely it will be purchased because it is the new Walmart basement bargain. If users turn out to like their Dells they may very well stick with the brand. It's brand building. There should be no hesitation to calling Dell the new basement bargain. Call a spade a spade. It can go many ways.
That may be the problem. IMHO a cheap laptop with Mandriva is a lot better potential learning tool. Why should the 3rd world get what the rich world thinks they need?
Lighten up Nicholas if you really care about getting computers into the hands of kids. Competition should be welcome in this case. Now they should rebrand to One Type Of Laptop Per Child (OTOLPC)
I envy someone who can get so singularly focused on one topic. I think the guy's going batshit -- or should I say overreacting -- but I envy that quality nonetheless. How much meaningful work could get accomplished with such focused energy. You know he might just accomplish an end to his means because of it.
So the GPL allows someone to enslave your child AND not pay him. It's a matter of interpretation.
Multi-touch interface has already regained some strength for making apps more intuitive to use, in part thanks to recent efforts of Jeff Han. He garnered much interest through a demonstration at TED 2006. See what he's up to today with his new company.
In this case there were no publicly-announced holes. Now your argument has veered off into left field for a last chance save. No dice. You even tried to pull out the fanboy argument which always evidences a final crash and burn when used out of context.
Yes because we all know the public exploits just sitting out there are totally ignored by hackers in favour of the um non-public ones. Ummmm .... so ..... IIS must therefore be insecure because surely we can't say anything good about it here. I mean it's a piece of shit because we can hypothesize unstated scenarios about it.
I think it does means a lot to many people when a piece of software has never had a publicly exploitable hole.
the horrible mind numbing romance
without a horrible romance
noticed the romance in the preview
Let me guess you're a very single nerd, hanging around on