I recently got my Wii on Tuesday after searching nearly every day since Christmas at several local retailers. What I can say is I've seen a ton of Xbox 360's, a few PS3's, and only two Wii's. I bought one and my friend bought the other, I also got two additional games, plus a Wii remote. I've only seen a few Wii remotes, but a lot of PS3 stuff, and this is at several stores. I don't know if those holds for everywhere, but the Wii is definitely the hot item right now.
I just got finished reading the article about how Bush was about to start opening everyone's mail, and then news of a Russian rocket hitting Wyoming. I'm like great, now there's an emergency and Bush is gonna start opening our mail.
It's like the cold war, except they actually hit us.
I know its not an attack, but it would be kinda ironic.
p.s. Speaking of consistancy, do you also believe that the second ammendment should be interpreted absolutely? That all people should have the right to own tanks, howitzers and nukes?
Yes, or we all get bear arms, though Yogi may have a problem.
As I said, I'd never seen it, but I also skipped the 2003 iteration of Word. I prefer 2007 with its eye candy and everything else. It's nice and it works fast for me.
It is possible that the 2004 version of Mac Office (which is newer than any other version for windows btw) was just that good and does what it needs to do. 2007 is an update for the Windows users because 2003 and previous just plain sucked compared to the new Ribbon UI.
I do admit there is a learning curve, but even so, once you get the hang of it, its very fast. I know that in Powerpoint it is very easy to find where the tools you need are, and some are in multiple spots if they need to be. There are a couple different presentation modes, but when you have dual screen set up with extended desktop, your second screen becomes the actual slides, while the first screen displays your notes, along with a bar of upcoming slides. If older versions could do this, I never encountered it.
Word is also better, I like the UI stuff they've done when you highlight and the font menu automatically appears. E-mail editing is tied in well with outlook, which didn't get as much update to the UI as the others, but still looks and works great. Amazingly, even for a beta, I rarely run into stability issues. I crashed it once, but I don't remember what I did, and I really think it wasn't a crash, but something locked it running in the background that just was taking a real long while to run, so I got impatient and set it to the land of Ctrl-alt-del.
What programs are you running? If it's a typical setup, with some browser with a few tabs, a common viruscan (norton home versions), aim, maybe messenger, WMP/Winamp/Itunes, limewire, then you'll notice usage going up. I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate and im using 573 megs right now. IE 7 with several tabs open right now, (haven't closed it in a few days) is running 167 megs of ram.
Out of curiosity, when was the last time you were using a machine with 1gig of ram?
Of course it will be stable, XP only crashes with bad drivers. However, speedy, is an entirely different story. Swapping takes a lot of time, compare to using real ram, not virtual ram.
You must only be running 256MB of ram to say that people only need that much. Windows XP dies with only 256 megs of ram, its constantly swapping, and this is only after opening one or two additonal apps. Consider also that many people are running some version of Norton or McAffee which hook IO functions, which slow things down even more. 512 is ok, 1 gig is about the sweet spot for most people.
Every year more freshman go to college, therefore every year between the months of August and November when all the freshman get their college e-mails, they will join with facebook. And it is also open to the general public, so even more people there. It will continue to grow.
Maxxus' image is a bit old. People have 10.4.8 (the latest) running with their own kernel (Semthex) on both AMD and Intel Procs. You need at least an athlon 64 or a late model P4 to run it, and then its on par with late gen g5 hardware. Search on bittorrent for the latest stuff, also Insanely Mac has some good stuff.
I believe some people already have leopard running on generic PC's, its just unrealeased as their no point in having tons of people running beta's.
It's standard operating procedure to hide the Wiimotes so they don't get jacked. Next time you are at one of the stores, ask the clerk for the wiimote, she'll ask for ID, you trade, and play. It's what I did.
In this reply it is obvious that you just don't want to believe and are just covering your ears. There is evidence for fulfilment of prophecy, just go look up prophecies about Jesus, it's right there in google.
Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." That's the definition of faith that I use, because it is the one that is used in the context of Christianity. I am sure that Jesus Existed, that he died on the cross, that I am saved, and that I am going to heaven. I have never seen Jesus in a literal sense, but I am certain that he existed and did die and rise again, if he didn't then Christianity is useless (1 Cor 15:17), but at least I lived a good life.
Also since we're talking about Christianity, let's talk about a Christian usage of faith, that is saving faith, which is what most Christians are talking about. Webster 1828.
The other guy already wrote about Josephus, so I don't need to tell you about him.
Of course they had an agenda, it was to spread the word about Jesus Christ. Luke's agenda is pretty clear, his buddy Theophilus wanted to know what was up, so he told him. Having an agenda is not a bad thing.
Prophecy predicting the coming of Jesus and his fulfilment of such.
External Archeological Evidence of places mentioned in the Bible that were unknown outside of the Bible
3rd party substantiation of events
Eyewitness accounts (4 Gospels)
Faith is where you choose to believe in the things that you haven't seen for yourself. I never saw Abe Lincoln, but I believe he existed. I have faith that he existed. Just because someone has faith doesn't mean there isn't something concrete that can back up what they believe, they may just not know about it yet. There's a field dedicated to this, and its Apologetics, knowing what you believe and the more important, why you believe it.
I actually do know something about the Genesis of Christianity.
Here's the short version.
It was 5/6 BC and a virgin gave birth to a son. Angels had revealed to her that the child was of God. Her husband Joseph was also told that the child was of God and not to divorce Mary.
Then they fled to Egypt because King Herod wanted to kill Jesus because he believed that the Messiah would be a king in the earthly sense and take his kingdom.
Sometime later Herod died, and Jesus moved with his family to Nazareth, which is why he was known as Jesus of Nazareth by the time he began his ministry.
He ministered throughout Galilee and annoyed a lot of people because of his messages. He also claimed to be God several times, which led to him almost being killed, except that it wasn't time yet.
At the end of his time on earth he went to Jerusalem for a week, entering on a donkey, and exiting dead on a Cross.
3 days later he was raised from the dead by God and met with his disciples and several others for about 40 days. After that he ascended into heaven, leaving a command with his disciples to spread his teachings through Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (Roman Provinces that include modern day Isreal and Syria), and then the rest of the world.
In the book of acts many people are converted in Jerusalem and people are angered because of it. This is where Saul of Tarsus comes into play as a guy who is attacking and killing Christians. He does this until he is stopped on the road by Jesus and Jesus asks him why he's killing Jesus' followers. Saul repents and his name is changed to Paul. He then goes out and starts churches throughout Asia Minor (another Roman province) and goes on at least 3 possible 4 mission trips all over the Mediterranean. He ends his days in Rome where he is executed for his belief in Christ.
Of the Original 12 disciples, according to tradition, all exception John were executed. John was instead exiled to Patmos where he died of old age, but wrote a few letters and the book of Revelations (which the video game that started this, is loosely based off.)
After that Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire and was highly persecuted by the Roman Emperors. After a while some people who lived in the North African area of the Meditteranean formed a cult that produced many "gospels" that were refuted by mainstream Christianity because of their contradictions of the scripture that people had been using up to that time.
Even though the bible wasn't canonized for a while after Christ, most of the books that are in the New Testament were written between the 40's and 60's AD, with Revelation at 95.
Is that enough of a Genesis of Christianity for you?
And in case you were wondering. There were no close votes, ever. One vote at one of the councils was something like 300 to 1 in favor of fully man and fully God. Sects weren't vying for control, they were just saying this is what we believe. Look up nicean Creede to see what they came up with. It's all backed up by scripture.
Jesus being fully man and fully divine wasn't hammered out by men. Jesus himself made the claims. He refered to himself as the Son of Man all the time, and also made many claims that he was God.
Please read your bible and get to the facts before spitting what Dan Brown tells you.
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Can we say Conflict of Interest?
In the words of Trump, "You're Fired"
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Skynet?
I recently got my Wii on Tuesday after searching nearly every day since Christmas at several local retailers. What I can say is I've seen a ton of Xbox 360's, a few PS3's, and only two Wii's. I bought one and my friend bought the other, I also got two additional games, plus a Wii remote. I've only seen a few Wii remotes, but a lot of PS3 stuff, and this is at several stores. I don't know if those holds for everywhere, but the Wii is definitely the hot item right now.
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I just got finished reading the article about how Bush was about to start opening everyone's mail, and then news of a Russian rocket hitting Wyoming. I'm like great, now there's an emergency and Bush is gonna start opening our mail.
It's like the cold war, except they actually hit us.
I know its not an attack, but it would be kinda ironic.
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Yes, or we all get bear arms, though Yogi may have a problem.
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Probably, but you can liscense the UI. This page by Jensen Harris (works in the office team at MS) has some information about it.
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As I said, I'd never seen it, but I also skipped the 2003 iteration of Word. I prefer 2007 with its eye candy and everything else. It's nice and it works fast for me.
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It is possible that the 2004 version of Mac Office (which is newer than any other version for windows btw) was just that good and does what it needs to do. 2007 is an update for the Windows users because 2003 and previous just plain sucked compared to the new Ribbon UI.
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I do admit there is a learning curve, but even so, once you get the hang of it, its very fast. I know that in Powerpoint it is very easy to find where the tools you need are, and some are in multiple spots if they need to be. There are a couple different presentation modes, but when you have dual screen set up with extended desktop, your second screen becomes the actual slides, while the first screen displays your notes, along with a bar of upcoming slides. If older versions could do this, I never encountered it.
Word is also better, I like the UI stuff they've done when you highlight and the font menu automatically appears. E-mail editing is tied in well with outlook, which didn't get as much update to the UI as the others, but still looks and works great. Amazingly, even for a beta, I rarely run into stability issues. I crashed it once, but I don't remember what I did, and I really think it wasn't a crash, but something locked it running in the background that just was taking a real long while to run, so I got impatient and set it to the land of Ctrl-alt-del.
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Except the verison on GNUtella isn't the RTM version. The RTM has been released for over a month.
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What website and version of IE7? I haven't had any problems with IE 7 RTM, you may have been talking about IE7 beta 1 or something like that.
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What programs are you running? If it's a typical setup, with some browser with a few tabs, a common viruscan (norton home versions), aim, maybe messenger, WMP/Winamp/Itunes, limewire, then you'll notice usage going up. I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate and im using 573 megs right now. IE 7 with several tabs open right now, (haven't closed it in a few days) is running 167 megs of ram.
Out of curiosity, when was the last time you were using a machine with 1gig of ram?
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Of course it will be stable, XP only crashes with bad drivers. However, speedy, is an entirely different story. Swapping takes a lot of time, compare to using real ram, not virtual ram.
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You must only be running 256MB of ram to say that people only need that much. Windows XP dies with only 256 megs of ram, its constantly swapping, and this is only after opening one or two additonal apps. Consider also that many people are running some version of Norton or McAffee which hook IO functions, which slow things down even more. 512 is ok, 1 gig is about the sweet spot for most people.
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Definitely not new, because his ID is 5 numbers long, unless it is his kid on his name, then he's probably new.
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Every year more freshman go to college, therefore every year between the months of August and November when all the freshman get their college e-mails, they will join with facebook. And it is also open to the general public, so even more people there. It will continue to grow.
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Maxxus' image is a bit old. People have 10.4.8 (the latest) running with their own kernel (Semthex) on both AMD and Intel Procs. You need at least an athlon 64 or a late model P4 to run it, and then its on par with late gen g5 hardware. Search on bittorrent for the latest stuff, also Insanely Mac has some good stuff.
I believe some people already have leopard running on generic PC's, its just unrealeased as their no point in having tons of people running beta's.
Sorry to hear. At the local GS they had Excite Trucky, and now they are demoing Zelda. It was still working fine yesterday.
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It's standard operating procedure to hide the Wiimotes so they don't get jacked. Next time you are at one of the stores, ask the clerk for the wiimote, she'll ask for ID, you trade, and play. It's what I did.
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In this reply it is obvious that you just don't want to believe and are just covering your ears. There is evidence for fulfilment of prophecy, just go look up prophecies about Jesus, it's right there in google.
Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." That's the definition of faith that I use, because it is the one that is used in the context of Christianity. I am sure that Jesus Existed, that he died on the cross, that I am saved, and that I am going to heaven. I have never seen Jesus in a literal sense, but I am certain that he existed and did die and rise again, if he didn't then Christianity is useless (1 Cor 15:17), but at least I lived a good life.
Also since we're talking about Christianity, let's talk about a Christian usage of faith, that is saving faith, which is what most Christians are talking about. Webster 1828.
The other guy already wrote about Josephus, so I don't need to tell you about him.
Of course they had an agenda, it was to spread the word about Jesus Christ. Luke's agenda is pretty clear, his buddy Theophilus wanted to know what was up, so he told him. Having an agenda is not a bad thing.
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No, but at least for Christians, they have proof.
There's no proof for a flat world.
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I actually do know something about the Genesis of Christianity.
Here's the short version.
It was 5/6 BC and a virgin gave birth to a son. Angels had revealed to her that the child was of God. Her husband Joseph was also told that the child was of God and not to divorce Mary.
Then they fled to Egypt because King Herod wanted to kill Jesus because he believed that the Messiah would be a king in the earthly sense and take his kingdom.
Sometime later Herod died, and Jesus moved with his family to Nazareth, which is why he was known as Jesus of Nazareth by the time he began his ministry.
He ministered throughout Galilee and annoyed a lot of people because of his messages. He also claimed to be God several times, which led to him almost being killed, except that it wasn't time yet.
At the end of his time on earth he went to Jerusalem for a week, entering on a donkey, and exiting dead on a Cross.
3 days later he was raised from the dead by God and met with his disciples and several others for about 40 days. After that he ascended into heaven, leaving a command with his disciples to spread his teachings through Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (Roman Provinces that include modern day Isreal and Syria), and then the rest of the world.
In the book of acts many people are converted in Jerusalem and people are angered because of it. This is where Saul of Tarsus comes into play as a guy who is attacking and killing Christians. He does this until he is stopped on the road by Jesus and Jesus asks him why he's killing Jesus' followers. Saul repents and his name is changed to Paul. He then goes out and starts churches throughout Asia Minor (another Roman province) and goes on at least 3 possible 4 mission trips all over the Mediterranean. He ends his days in Rome where he is executed for his belief in Christ.
Of the Original 12 disciples, according to tradition, all exception John were executed. John was instead exiled to Patmos where he died of old age, but wrote a few letters and the book of Revelations (which the video game that started this, is loosely based off.)
After that Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire and was highly persecuted by the Roman Emperors. After a while some people who lived in the North African area of the Meditteranean formed a cult that produced many "gospels" that were refuted by mainstream Christianity because of their contradictions of the scripture that people had been using up to that time.
Even though the bible wasn't canonized for a while after Christ, most of the books that are in the New Testament were written between the 40's and 60's AD, with Revelation at 95.
Is that enough of a Genesis of Christianity for you?
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citation of the killings?
And in case you were wondering. There were no close votes, ever. One vote at one of the councils was something like 300 to 1 in favor of fully man and fully God. Sects weren't vying for control, they were just saying this is what we believe. Look up nicean Creede to see what they came up with. It's all backed up by scripture.
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Jesus being fully man and fully divine wasn't hammered out by men. Jesus himself made the claims. He refered to himself as the Son of Man all the time, and also made many claims that he was God.
Please read your bible and get to the facts before spitting what Dan Brown tells you.
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Bringing facts into discussions when confronted by falsehoods and mistruth.