Unfortunately, it seems that now government officials need to have "experience" (i.e., they need to be properly trained in political corruption by former political experience). Normal people just wouldn't be able to do the job well, apparently. Stupid normal people.
Which is, I presume, why we get such smart legislation as banning talking on cell phones (without hands-free stuff) but NOT banning text messaging, etc. That one just happened to be recent in my mind. (it's a CA law)
Making the same mistakes someone else made is NOT being innovative, it's being stupid or ignorant... or a number of other predicate adjectives.
Innovation is using something in a new way, not making the same mistake in a new way. That's still considered a mistake, and if it can be shown that you should have known about the mistake from someone else making it, you're still "making the same mistake" and not "innovating." Not to say you're not going to make mistakes and not know everything, but it's still a valid criticism.
DESPITE claims? That implies that it goes against their complains of not being "direct competition." The DSi is still not going to be a phone or an mp3 player, which are what the iPhone and iPod are, respectively. So it's still true, this isn't direct competition. Oh no, a small hand-held PDA-like device that plays games and can connect to the internet. Apple is doomed. Nintendo is lying by claiming they aren't directly competing with Apple...
It only makes sense if you're talking about those things, though. If you are talking about outside air temperature, it's very rarely going to get to 100 C...
Fahrenheit seems to be a pretty good general range (0 to 100 gets most areas most of the time, it seems) for air temperature and climate and whatever.
We can always go to Kelvins. It makes "more sense" than Celsius (how can you have a negative temperature, anyway?!).
40-80 is the range of habitable temperatures for humans? Where do YOU live. I live in a pretty temperate area and mine fluctuate from low 30s (occasionally) to high 100s (occasionally), with occasional extremes... (Fahrenheit, obviously).
Or, an address bar that is only for typing web addresses. Like Firefox, Safari, and Opera!... wait, they do lots more with the address bar like google searches and stuff...
The question is, though, how far this argument gets taken. Is putting a coat on when you're sick "defiant" and "artificially taking every last second" ? If no, then how about antibiotics? If no, how about a liver transplant? If no, how about dialysis? If no... then where is that line drawn? IMO, it's not drawn in the Bible. We have more technologies (including things we take for granted, like better shelter, better food, drugs, etc). The Bible appears to be neutral on this, which to me means I shouldn't be dogmatic about telling other people how it is ok to prolong their lives. Certainly, the Bible instructs wisdom and good caretaking of our bodies (and also says not to be anxious, and also tells us we should love Christ more than the world, etc)...
I can't tell if you're really "funny" or not, as your mod implies:)
Anyways, being somewhat a scholar of the Bible myself, I wanted to mention two things. According to the Bible, then: first, man wasn't created for the world; the world was created "for" man. Second, man was not simply meant to "live in the world," man was mean to worship God.
IMO, the reason actual Christians "fight death" (to some extent, it varies a lot...) isn't that they are afraid. That's silly; if you truly love your Maker, why would you be afraid to finally be truly with Him? Rather, it's that they realize life is a thing given by God and taken by God, and cutting it needlessly short seems to be the easiest way to presume upon God's timing. It's easy to die early/"prematurely"/"needlessly"; it's hard to live wisely and thus longer.
That said, there are lot of pseudo-Christians. Christians that are "Christians" because they go to a "Christian" church. They don't actually love Jesus Christ, and they know so, so why should they be happy when they die? They are afraid of meeting Him, not overjoyed at meeting Him.
It makes sense, if you understand what a real Biblical Christian is. I'd venture to say that most of slashdot doesn't. Most of any people group doesn't. Even the Bible comments that it seems like "foolishness" to the "wise."
CPU: Picaxe 28X-1 Microcontrollers. The main CPU runs at a blistering 16 Mhz, and has a whopping 4 kilobytes of onboard storage for the processorâ(TM)s firmware/OS.
That's faster than my 11 or 12 MHz 286... of course, that was 17 years ago.
"To" is not supposed to be capitalized in a title. And people wonder why "computer people" can't write. (of course, that's the "stereotypical" computer person, but you know... the worst possible case is usually chosen for the stereotype;))
Get this through your head: there is no "order of things." God/Gaia/Mother Nature does not exist and never did. Eden never happened.
Amazing logic:) Whether or not God exists is not necessarily the question here; however, "Gaia" or "Mother Nature" certainly does not. While there are definitely laws of "nature" and natural this or that, there is definitely not some conscious "mother nature" sort of thing.
And for the record, as far as this as it relates to the concept of God (assuming a Christian/Biblical concept of God), I don't think many monotheistic religions (and certainly not Biblical Christianity) will assert that the way things are now is "perfect" and humans should not touch it lest we disturb the perfect balance of nature. That seems to be more of a pagan, pantheistic or eastern religion sort of idea... or, I suppose, can vaguely come out of an atheistic evolutionary idea, but IMO that's also not being ideologically honest (it seems to me that an atheistic evolutionist would believe that humans are just part of the evolutionary chain and thus can't "disrupt" nature, they ARE nature, just like monkeys, rabbits, and fish.. and mosquitoes..). You seem inclined to that ideological position, though, so feel free to correct me on the worldview consistency there.
Anyways. Main point: assuming there is some perfect/balanced natural order that humans are disrupting seems like it would require a strange syncretism of "god" and paganism... i.e., that there is some impersonal force behind "nature" that keeps it running/balanced and disrupting it is dangerous. That's definitely not a traditional concept of "God," hence my disagreement with you associating it, there. Actually, the mother nature/gaia sorts of ideas seem to coincide more with RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights more than anything else I can think of (Druids and their 'deities,' the whole "true neutral" idea, the "balance," yin-yang eastern ideas, etc). Which as influenced the new-age movements, I suppose.
I think he meant "special" in terms of "no X, no Y, ever." Unique as in completely unique with no equal anywhere in the past or future (or present, hehe). Hence his usage of "unique"...
Isn't there a reason, though? Presumably, using javascript/ajax, you don't need to send/receive as much information (i.e., reload the ENTIRE page) at a time. With plain HTML, you would have to receive a copy of the entire page again... ?
I see no reason why it should take less in normal HTML. Any explanations why you think so?
Mmm. Near-silent could be something having to do with recording audio. Extreme power could have something to do with real-time digital processing of a lot of audio at once. Something like that.
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Unfortunately, it seems that now government officials need to have "experience" (i.e., they need to be properly trained in political corruption by former political experience). Normal people just wouldn't be able to do the job well, apparently. Stupid normal people.
Which is, I presume, why we get such smart legislation as banning talking on cell phones (without hands-free stuff) but NOT banning text messaging, etc. That one just happened to be recent in my mind. (it's a CA law)
good thing we were in such a hurry to pass the bill. (every month without a stimulus package is another 500 million lost jobs!. inflamatory title on youtube video notwithstanding.)
ln -s /home /away
/away; cp -Rf /home/* /away;
or...
mkdir
... yes there is!
Making the same mistakes someone else made is NOT being innovative, it's being stupid or ignorant... or a number of other predicate adjectives.
Innovation is using something in a new way, not making the same mistake in a new way. That's still considered a mistake, and if it can be shown that you should have known about the mistake from someone else making it, you're still "making the same mistake" and not "innovating." Not to say you're not going to make mistakes and not know everything, but it's still a valid criticism.
No, really. It takes it over! You can't even come within 5 feet of the case, the malware pushes you back!
DESPITE claims? That implies that it goes against their complains of not being "direct competition." The DSi is still not going to be a phone or an mp3 player, which are what the iPhone and iPod are, respectively. So it's still true, this isn't direct competition. Oh no, a small hand-held PDA-like device that plays games and can connect to the internet. Apple is doomed. Nintendo is lying by claiming they aren't directly competing with Apple...
It only makes sense if you're talking about those things, though. If you are talking about outside air temperature, it's very rarely going to get to 100 C...
Fahrenheit seems to be a pretty good general range (0 to 100 gets most areas most of the time, it seems) for air temperature and climate and whatever.
We can always go to Kelvins. It makes "more sense" than Celsius (how can you have a negative temperature, anyway?!).
40-80 is the range of habitable temperatures for humans? Where do YOU live. I live in a pretty temperate area and mine fluctuate from low 30s (occasionally) to high 100s (occasionally), with occasional extremes... (Fahrenheit, obviously).
Hmmm. Simplicity, like firefox?
Or, an address bar that is only for typing web addresses. Like Firefox, Safari, and Opera! ... wait, they do lots more with the address bar like google searches and stuff...
I believe Firefox does that, too, if you Restore Session after a crash...
Don't aim too low.
Especially with that terawatt laser. :)
Ironically, that's exactly why those that believe they happened believe they are miracles. Because they "can't" happen...
The question is, though, how far this argument gets taken. Is putting a coat on when you're sick "defiant" and "artificially taking every last second" ? If no, then how about antibiotics? If no, how about a liver transplant? If no, how about dialysis? If no... then where is that line drawn? IMO, it's not drawn in the Bible. We have more technologies (including things we take for granted, like better shelter, better food, drugs, etc). The Bible appears to be neutral on this, which to me means I shouldn't be dogmatic about telling other people how it is ok to prolong their lives. Certainly, the Bible instructs wisdom and good caretaking of our bodies (and also says not to be anxious, and also tells us we should love Christ more than the world, etc) ...
I can't tell if you're really "funny" or not, as your mod implies :)
Anyways, being somewhat a scholar of the Bible myself, I wanted to mention two things. According to the Bible, then: first, man wasn't created for the world; the world was created "for" man. Second, man was not simply meant to "live in the world," man was mean to worship God.
IMO, the reason actual Christians "fight death" (to some extent, it varies a lot...) isn't that they are afraid. That's silly; if you truly love your Maker, why would you be afraid to finally be truly with Him? Rather, it's that they realize life is a thing given by God and taken by God, and cutting it needlessly short seems to be the easiest way to presume upon God's timing. It's easy to die early/"prematurely"/"needlessly"; it's hard to live wisely and thus longer.
That said, there are lot of pseudo-Christians. Christians that are "Christians" because they go to a "Christian" church. They don't actually love Jesus Christ, and they know so, so why should they be happy when they die? They are afraid of meeting Him, not overjoyed at meeting Him.
It makes sense, if you understand what a real Biblical Christian is. I'd venture to say that most of slashdot doesn't. Most of any people group doesn't. Even the Bible comments that it seems like "foolishness" to the "wise."
and thank you Apple for making Dell think they can charge $2000 for it...
CPU: Picaxe 28X-1 Microcontrollers. The main CPU runs at a blistering 16 Mhz, and has a whopping 4 kilobytes of onboard storage for the processorâ(TM)s firmware/OS.
That's faster than my 11 or 12 MHz 286... of course, that was 17 years ago.
Oh, I don't know, sounds look first hand experience to me. Solid source. ;)
"To" is not supposed to be capitalized in a title. And people wonder why "computer people" can't write. (of course, that's the "stereotypical" computer person, but you know... the worst possible case is usually chosen for the stereotype ;))
What would the electricity bill be on this thing just to shoot down some mosquitoes?
I believe it's part of the stimulus package. Either that or this will be used as an excuse to keep the sales tax increase in California.
Get this through your head: there is no "order of things." God/Gaia/Mother Nature does not exist and never did. Eden never happened.
Amazing logic :) Whether or not God exists is not necessarily the question here; however, "Gaia" or "Mother Nature" certainly does not. While there are definitely laws of "nature" and natural this or that, there is definitely not some conscious "mother nature" sort of thing.
And for the record, as far as this as it relates to the concept of God (assuming a Christian/Biblical concept of God), I don't think many monotheistic religions (and certainly not Biblical Christianity) will assert that the way things are now is "perfect" and humans should not touch it lest we disturb the perfect balance of nature. That seems to be more of a pagan, pantheistic or eastern religion sort of idea... or, I suppose, can vaguely come out of an atheistic evolutionary idea, but IMO that's also not being ideologically honest (it seems to me that an atheistic evolutionist would believe that humans are just part of the evolutionary chain and thus can't "disrupt" nature, they ARE nature, just like monkeys, rabbits, and fish.. and mosquitoes..). You seem inclined to that ideological position, though, so feel free to correct me on the worldview consistency there.
Anyways. Main point: assuming there is some perfect/balanced natural order that humans are disrupting seems like it would require a strange syncretism of "god" and paganism... i.e., that there is some impersonal force behind "nature" that keeps it running/balanced and disrupting it is dangerous. That's definitely not a traditional concept of "God," hence my disagreement with you associating it, there. Actually, the mother nature/gaia sorts of ideas seem to coincide more with RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights more than anything else I can think of (Druids and their 'deities,' the whole "true neutral" idea, the "balance," yin-yang eastern ideas, etc). Which as influenced the new-age movements, I suppose.
that was entertaining :)
Your sig was quite funny after your post. :)
I think he meant "special" in terms of "no X, no Y, ever." Unique as in completely unique with no equal anywhere in the past or future (or present, hehe). Hence his usage of "unique" ...
Isn't there a reason, though? Presumably, using javascript/ajax, you don't need to send/receive as much information (i.e., reload the ENTIRE page) at a time. With plain HTML, you would have to receive a copy of the entire page again... ?
I see no reason why it should take less in normal HTML. Any explanations why you think so?
Mmm. Near-silent could be something having to do with recording audio. Extreme power could have something to do with real-time digital processing of a lot of audio at once. Something like that.