I save a lot of time because I never need to take or remove anything from cupboards or drawers, or load/unload a dishwasher. By the time I come back to the kitchen to eat my next meal my dishes have dried from their previous washing.
I really doubt I'd be saving any water by using a dishwasher (it only takes 10 or so seconds to rinse dishes, 20 if I've been cooking - so much easier to clean pots and pans while they're still warm), plus I'd be spending more on soap and electricity. IMO washing-up liquid isn't needed if I've just been having something relatively non-messy like toast and a glass of water (which is my breakfast every day), I only use it for evening meals or if I've had a glass of milk say.
I'd get a dishwasher if I had a family of course, but since it's just me I think my system makes plenty of sense.
A couple of Disney movies come to mind:) Robotic dishes combined with wireless power would be pretty cool.
I only tend to use one plate, knife and fork each day anyway though so I don't mind doing my own dishes. I don't get people that let everything stack up rather than just washing stuff as soon as they're done with it - it just creates so much hassle later. Now, clothes on the other hand.. bring on the robotic maids.
Speeding is travelling to quickly for the prevailing conditions. That speed may or may not be above the speed limit, whatever it is set to
It's stupid how many people automatically assume that you're perfectly safe going at the speed limit all the time in any conditions, but YOU'RE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE!!!111!! if you're doing 1mph over the limit. There are many intercity roads where you can very safely exceed the official limits, though I think 30mph around populated areas does generally make sense during the daytime at least. At night I think you should be allowed to go faster due to the lack of pedestrians, especially children - although this is somewhat counteracted by drunken adults.
Well, Gearbox are decent developers at least.. I've only played HL: Opposing Force and CS: Condition Zero (another game that they had to take over because the original developers sucked).. they were nothing spectacular but they were solid games. Apparently Borderlands is pretty good, haven't played it myself.
If they manage to stick to even half of whatever 3D Realms' vision was for DNF then it should be a good game:)
Nah, the hype for it kinda died out for me when they announced that they'd stopped development. This was awesome news though, I think I'd easily be able to enjoy it if it's anywhere as much fun as DN3D was (even compared to Quake, just because it had pipe bombs, trip mines, video cameras, etc) when I was a kid.
They're probably going to be crazy expensive at first though, just as SSDs are still relatively expensive. By the sounds of other comments, we will first see these things as replacements for disk drives, then later usable as RAM, and I expect that once they're more common we could end up with whole new architectures in which they are both the RAM and storage as the GP mentions..
There have been articles about these before on Slashdot actually, and GP is right that you could have Googled to find the answer to your questions, no matter who they were directed at.
Most likely in the future cars will come with these built in at least. I know I'd certainly buy one for home too, and with the battery life you get on gadgets these days you probably won't need a charger at work.. and workplaces might start using desks with all of this built in to power devices rather than having to mess about with fscking power cables for everything. The 8 port power extender under my desk only has one port free, and only then because I was fed up of having to unplug my speakers every time I needed to fix someone's laptop or whatever.
It easier to use than plugging in a cable in a socket? Hardly.
Hardly? More like supremely. It would be great to have my phone, console controllers, netbook etc all be able to charge off the same charger, ie have it built into my coffee table rather than have to always be hooking up messy cables all over the place every time I want to charge something.
To me most of the ideology behind the stuff he was saying was already stuff I'd considered despite never reading any such political books. It's interesting to consider how much of our behaviour is just driven by evolution, and how we can now self-correct any detrimental virulent behaviour by using our ability to reason, ie governments in some places already having rules about the number of kids you can have to stop overpopulation - which some people may see as really fascist, but it's perfectly good sense unless you'd rather have a significant portion of your population go homeless and hungry..
Even things like the confusion about basic concepts like that I now see as evidence that Christianity is no more divine than any other religion.
from a psychological standpoint, it's important to surround yourself with others who believe as you do, if only to keep yourself from thinking that you're crazy for your faith
If you are thinking of yourself as crazy rather than simply having other people thinking you're crazy, then chances are that you don't have any real evidence to base your beliefs on. IMO any belief that you constantly need to look to other people to affirm isn't healthy as it probably isn't actually true - your brain is constantly trying to point this out to you but you keep doing your utmost to drown out common sense. Of course religion conveniently describes this as the work of the devil which makes people guilty for even trying to use logic and common sense when evaluating their beliefs.. it's all so ludicrous and designed to control and give excuses for everything such that even if you have evidence that Christianity is fake many people would still just take it as some kind of test and refuse to change their beliefs.
Damn.. not only does it make for great breakfast every morning, but it can help clean my gadgets too? This makes me wonder if you can legally marry peanut butter.
That was a good post. Personally though I'm just not sure what the "candidate religions" would be in my case.. put it this way.. I already try to be a good/nice person in general and am enjoying my life. So unless some religion out there is 1) true and 2) going to condemn me if I don't believe or worship its deity or whatever then it's probably not worth my time. And aside from that, if any religion *does* have those two truths and there is no proof of it being the real religion, then the god in charge of that religion is a complete bastard if he sends people ignorant of the religion to his hell or whatever - considering that many people are never exposed to a wide variety of religions. And at what point did this god start sending humans to hell? When they developed tool usage? Language? etc. If you believe a god simply created humans that gets around this part, but more and more parts of evolution are being explained and demonstrated experimentally all the time, so it seems silly to me to try to pretend we were created in such a way that it just looks like we've evolved parallel to other primates, etc, such that our DNA is similar right down to certain defects like lack of ability to produce our own vitamin C and such.
All of that mostly applies to Abramic religions, but for any others I've heard of and looked at they generally seem to be based around obvious superstition and lack of basic scientific knowledge. Some religions and martial arts do have aspects that I think of as cool or even useful, ie visualising your body's energy is probably quite a useful technique for certain sports and exercises.. though I never remember to try it for myself, but I've been getting by fine without it anyway..
In essence I just don't see the purpose of religion or why I should devote any time to it. If you believe that we evolved all the way from random chemicals then I don't see any chance that life is linked to any anything supernatural like a soul.
Sure I'd like to believe in souls and heaven and eternal happiness and such, but since all the current evidence seems to weigh against such things, I don't see any point in me wasting time wishing for them. Though occasionally I do wonder how I actually am here inside my brain as a conscious entity. It's easy to see how other people work if you think of them as machines, but actually seeing out from your eyes and controlling your body consciously is a pretty wondrous thing and I can see why people would think that there must be a soul involved somewhere.. but based on what I said before it just doesn't seem likely. Consciousness still freaks me out sometimes though. When/how did it start? What will it be like when it stops? Will I ever stop rambling? Perhaps I should.
Okay, so can you explain where the "completely wrong" bit comes in? I don't see any of that that disagrees with what I said. You can be a Buddhist that happens to worship gods, but you don't have to worship anything to be a Buddhist.
I'm just saying that you can be a Buddhist without believing in a god, but there are many Buddhists who happen to also believe in gods (which are not necessarily anything to do with Buddha).
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I save a lot of time because I never need to take or remove anything from cupboards or drawers, or load/unload a dishwasher. By the time I come back to the kitchen to eat my next meal my dishes have dried from their previous washing.
I really doubt I'd be saving any water by using a dishwasher (it only takes 10 or so seconds to rinse dishes, 20 if I've been cooking - so much easier to clean pots and pans while they're still warm), plus I'd be spending more on soap and electricity. IMO washing-up liquid isn't needed if I've just been having something relatively non-messy like toast and a glass of water (which is my breakfast every day), I only use it for evening meals or if I've had a glass of milk say.
I'd get a dishwasher if I had a family of course, but since it's just me I think my system makes plenty of sense.
I am not sure I would like a machine in my house that can take (semi-)independent decisions without the option to switch it off completely.
Something tells me you're not a big cat person.
A couple of Disney movies come to mind :) Robotic dishes combined with wireless power would be pretty cool.
I only tend to use one plate, knife and fork each day anyway though so I don't mind doing my own dishes. I don't get people that let everything stack up rather than just washing stuff as soon as they're done with it - it just creates so much hassle later. Now, clothes on the other hand.. bring on the robotic maids.
Then when it's been superseded by newer models, it can run for governor of California
I don't see any hamster ball :/
That's pretty obvious, and covered when he said:
Speeding is travelling to quickly for the prevailing conditions. That speed may or may not be above the speed limit, whatever it is set to
It's stupid how many people automatically assume that you're perfectly safe going at the speed limit all the time in any conditions, but YOU'RE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE!!!111!! if you're doing 1mph over the limit. There are many intercity roads where you can very safely exceed the official limits, though I think 30mph around populated areas does generally make sense during the daytime at least. At night I think you should be allowed to go faster due to the lack of pedestrians, especially children - although this is somewhat counteracted by drunken adults.
Well, Gearbox are decent developers at least.. I've only played HL: Opposing Force and CS: Condition Zero (another game that they had to take over because the original developers sucked).. they were nothing spectacular but they were solid games. Apparently Borderlands is pretty good, haven't played it myself.
If they manage to stick to even half of whatever 3D Realms' vision was for DNF then it should be a good game :)
You sure can, but just make sure you don't then lick them.
Nah, the hype for it kinda died out for me when they announced that they'd stopped development. This was awesome news though, I think I'd easily be able to enjoy it if it's anywhere as much fun as DN3D was (even compared to Quake, just because it had pipe bombs, trip mines, video cameras, etc) when I was a kid.
I was thinking because they might not be fast enough for RAM at first - guess we'll find out in a few years :)
I'm not talking about performance issues
Then don't include your systems's specs as if they're somehow relevant?
I hated iTunes on OSX as well. Don't remember there being any performance issues, but the interface is just plain babying and annoying.
Good job not even reading to the end of his first sentence there! *thumbs up*
iPhone/iPad != Mac. I grew up with Mac computers and have always liked them, but I've never really wanted an iPod or iPhone. Still undecided on iPads.
They're probably going to be crazy expensive at first though, just as SSDs are still relatively expensive. By the sounds of other comments, we will first see these things as replacements for disk drives, then later usable as RAM, and I expect that once they're more common we could end up with whole new architectures in which they are both the RAM and storage as the GP mentions..
There have been articles about these before on Slashdot actually, and GP is right that you could have Googled to find the answer to your questions, no matter who they were directed at.
Still, first post is first post!
Most likely in the future cars will come with these built in at least. I know I'd certainly buy one for home too, and with the battery life you get on gadgets these days you probably won't need a charger at work.. and workplaces might start using desks with all of this built in to power devices rather than having to mess about with fscking power cables for everything. The 8 port power extender under my desk only has one port free, and only then because I was fed up of having to unplug my speakers every time I needed to fix someone's laptop or whatever.
Still a pain in the ass though. A power mat would be great, I'd be able to just have one cable trailing around next to my bed instead of 4..
It easier to use than plugging in a cable in a socket? Hardly.
Hardly? More like supremely. It would be great to have my phone, console controllers, netbook etc all be able to charge off the same charger, ie have it built into my coffee table rather than have to always be hooking up messy cables all over the place every time I want to charge something.
To me most of the ideology behind the stuff he was saying was already stuff I'd considered despite never reading any such political books. It's interesting to consider how much of our behaviour is just driven by evolution, and how we can now self-correct any detrimental virulent behaviour by using our ability to reason, ie governments in some places already having rules about the number of kids you can have to stop overpopulation - which some people may see as really fascist, but it's perfectly good sense unless you'd rather have a significant portion of your population go homeless and hungry..
Even things like the confusion about basic concepts like that I now see as evidence that Christianity is no more divine than any other religion.
from a psychological standpoint, it's important to surround yourself with others who believe as you do, if only to keep yourself from thinking that you're crazy for your faith
If you are thinking of yourself as crazy rather than simply having other people thinking you're crazy, then chances are that you don't have any real evidence to base your beliefs on. IMO any belief that you constantly need to look to other people to affirm isn't healthy as it probably isn't actually true - your brain is constantly trying to point this out to you but you keep doing your utmost to drown out common sense. Of course religion conveniently describes this as the work of the devil which makes people guilty for even trying to use logic and common sense when evaluating their beliefs.. it's all so ludicrous and designed to control and give excuses for everything such that even if you have evidence that Christianity is fake many people would still just take it as some kind of test and refuse to change their beliefs.
What about after "marrying" it?
Damn.. not only does it make for great breakfast every morning, but it can help clean my gadgets too? This makes me wonder if you can legally marry peanut butter.
That was a good post. Personally though I'm just not sure what the "candidate religions" would be in my case.. put it this way.. I already try to be a good/nice person in general and am enjoying my life. So unless some religion out there is 1) true and 2) going to condemn me if I don't believe or worship its deity or whatever then it's probably not worth my time. And aside from that, if any religion *does* have those two truths and there is no proof of it being the real religion, then the god in charge of that religion is a complete bastard if he sends people ignorant of the religion to his hell or whatever - considering that many people are never exposed to a wide variety of religions. And at what point did this god start sending humans to hell? When they developed tool usage? Language? etc. If you believe a god simply created humans that gets around this part, but more and more parts of evolution are being explained and demonstrated experimentally all the time, so it seems silly to me to try to pretend we were created in such a way that it just looks like we've evolved parallel to other primates, etc, such that our DNA is similar right down to certain defects like lack of ability to produce our own vitamin C and such.
All of that mostly applies to Abramic religions, but for any others I've heard of and looked at they generally seem to be based around obvious superstition and lack of basic scientific knowledge. Some religions and martial arts do have aspects that I think of as cool or even useful, ie visualising your body's energy is probably quite a useful technique for certain sports and exercises.. though I never remember to try it for myself, but I've been getting by fine without it anyway..
In essence I just don't see the purpose of religion or why I should devote any time to it. If you believe that we evolved all the way from random chemicals then I don't see any chance that life is linked to any anything supernatural like a soul.
Sure I'd like to believe in souls and heaven and eternal happiness and such, but since all the current evidence seems to weigh against such things, I don't see any point in me wasting time wishing for them. Though occasionally I do wonder how I actually am here inside my brain as a conscious entity. It's easy to see how other people work if you think of them as machines, but actually seeing out from your eyes and controlling your body consciously is a pretty wondrous thing and I can see why people would think that there must be a soul involved somewhere.. but based on what I said before it just doesn't seem likely. Consciousness still freaks me out sometimes though. When/how did it start? What will it be like when it stops? Will I ever stop rambling? Perhaps I should.
Okay, so can you explain where the "completely wrong" bit comes in? I don't see any of that that disagrees with what I said. You can be a Buddhist that happens to worship gods, but you don't have to worship anything to be a Buddhist.
I'm just saying that you can be a Buddhist without believing in a god, but there are many Buddhists who happen to also believe in gods (which are not necessarily anything to do with Buddha).