All the scientists in the world that think they know everything realize they dont' know jack and no matter how much data you have, you cannot predict nature.
So, you don't wear clothes? I mean, cotton is made from plants. Do you drink tea of any kind? If so, where do you think tea leaves come from. Do you drive or take any kind of public transportation, or do you walk everywhere? The exhaust from cars and trucks harm our environment. The best way you can help our environment is to go kill yourself in the middle of the forest and let the plants use your decomposing body to grow off of.
Guess what, God created the plants and animals of this world for us to use as we need to live.
Back when Women's Lib began, women wanted equal rights. But suddenly, they are now faced with the fact that they are considered a minority. So in their minds, they thought "Why should I settle for anything less than the top". They decided to use their minority status to get to high positions and if they were refused, they screamed sexual discrimination. Well guess what, Women are in managerial positions and there is no more room left for more positions.
Now, women are stuck in the mindset they can do anything and everything better than men so let the men be the IT Workers and the women cna manage us.
I work in a high school as a computer tech and yes, the staff at K-12 schools lack logic and a bit more. The simplist of issues, as they like to call them, are nothing more than them not looking at the screen. For something like not putting the daylight savings time change to the caller id timestamp, its quite easy to realize that they could do that. However, on the police department that arrested the young man...it was totally in their wrong for doing a half ass investigation and not seeing this. But in the light of things, I would rather see someone put in jail for 12 days on a small mistake such as this because they acted promptly and in the best interest of the school's populus than to dick around for months trying to figure out what to do.
Ok, you use the example of your car. Tell me, if you modify your engine...what happens. Your warranty is void. Same with the XBox. You mod your xbox, its no longer covered under warranty. However, if Microsoft was to put up no roadblocks and said to us all we can do whatever we want with their product free and clear, make all the home brew software we want, use the XBox in any manner we choose, that leave a bit of liability on them. If they do not attempt to stop people from using an XBox in any manner we choose, they can be held liable for the actions we do.
Joe Customer: Sorry officer, but since Microsoft didn't try to stop me from pirating games, isn't it their fault?
Jane Customer: Sorry officer, but since Ford didn't want to put an engine governor on my car, put a turbo on my car that would propel me 0-100 in 8 seconds and refused to put the proper safety harnesses in my car, its not my fault I hit that minivan and killed two children.
You as the customer will have to go out and actively attempt to change/alter the product you own to do what you want it to. People will use every excuse to place blame on anyone but themselves. They sue McDonalds because then they spilled hot coffee on themselves because they were driving and not paying attention and had to hit the breaks so they wouldn't hit the person in front of them, but it was apparently McDonalds fault for not putting "Caution, coffee is hot." on the cup.
All you people are is a bunch of arrogant "intellectuals" that want everything you way because it would make your life easier. Buy a damn XBox to play video games. If you want to run Linux, go to a garage sale and buy some 10 year old computer and put it on that. Better yet, put it on your main desktop. Half of the people I know that are avid Linux fanboys have their main desktop running Windows and a small machine with Linux on it. Does that mean everyone is like that, no, but its a freaking VIDEO GAME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.
Why do people think they can do anything they want with something just because they buy it? Modifying an XBox 360 isn't illegal, but what people do with that XBox once its been modified/hacked is illegal usually. Everyone wants to learn how to "backup one of their games" but in reality, they want to go rent a game, copy it and not have to buy it. Microsoft has put in all these 'security' features to make game developers feel better that the game they produce won't be easy pirated and distrobuted.
As for someone reporting this flaw as a bug to microsoft, I am glad they did. Everyone is always praising the Linux community for helping Linux stay up to date, stable and hacker resilient, but when one person helps Microsoft, its "WTF did you do that for, fuck microsoft, its my XBox, I should be able to do what I want to it.
Lived for the last 20 million years. Sure, then in the next 5 years, that will change to the last 30 million years..then suddenly someone will spot another white dolphin. Millions will be invested into the study and cloning/repopulation of them and guess what...ITS A FREAKING FISH (I know its not a fish, its a mammal). The world's ecosystem will not be dramatically harmed if any. No one will care about it in a month. Its just a way for eco-freaks to start yelling that we are killing the earth as they drive off in their new Hummer as they go for a friendly Sunday drive to observe nature.
There is a PPU available. http://www.ageia.com/ . The problem is that you have to use a specific physics engine in the game to utilize it. And the problem with that is that no company wants to be forced to use a specific physics engine in their game. Some make their own. When this card came out, many games actually ran slower because the physics card was trying to take over and wasn't working well with the physics engine the game was using. On the other hand, the games that did run the right physics engine ran about the same with a small margin of improvement. If the card could be like a video card and be somewhat programable (per pixel shading) by each physics engine utilizing it, it would be much more useful.
Well thats just it. What can't it do. By removing that limitation, it allows tons of different things to be done. It brings the portable computer to a higher mark. I would buy a new PDA with that functionality over a laptop if I just did office applications and e-mail. Put a more powerful Office solution on there and teh ability to use a projector and you have a much much better device for meetings, siminars, etc. Plus a lot more.
But what happens when your backup media fails? I had an external hard drive that I kept very good care of. It was only turned on when I was backing up files. Kept in a safe spot. My computer on the other hand ran about 18 hours a day...temperatures often rached 45C and the hard drive in it was always doing something. Virus scan when the screensaver was on, bittorrent, etc. But what happened...my backup hard drive failed bout 2 years after I got it. It had very few hours of actual use as opposed to my desktop's hard drive that had day and days of use and it is still running. The only thing I didn't lose was my family pictures because I happened to burn them to DVD to play on my TV. That was fortunate. All in all, backup media fails too. There is no reason why I or anyone else can't re-download a song I already purchased the rights to own.
Oh come on people. We are already like that. We have fat ugly people and drop dead gorgeous people. This guy is just looking for a way to get his name in the history books. He can make all the claims he wants because no one will ever remember his name or anything about our era in 100,000 years.
Do you bring your work home with you? Is your hobby computers and does it take most up of your free time? Do you commute to work and end up getting home late every night? I work in an IT possition as well and though my marriage is a good one...I could probably play computer games less. Well, mainly one...World of Warcraft. I have taken it easy lately on it since I do have a 6 month old baby girl...but if computers have taken over your life, trust me...its not the IT Industry ruining your marriage...its you. People with the same fascination with cars or fishing or hunting. If those hobbies take over their lives, their personal life is affected. Doctors have the same problem. They work long hours and end up with bad personal lives.
It sure sounds to me like your kids are out of control too and have no discipline at home either. They probably tell you what to do and they go along doing whatever they want. Discipline doesn't start when they are older. It starts at birth. If you raise your kids right, they don't do these types of things. If you let them raise themselves, you get what the majority of teenagers are nowadays.
Its about time that someone puts part of the blame on the parents. Until the kids are 18, the parents are responsible for their actions. I hope the kids parents get sued into the poorhouse. Maybe it will wake up a few parents and take their kids off myspace.
The downside is can you believe the information that someone is putting up there. Perhaps some 16 year old girl likes older guys and makes it look like she is 28 or something. The person talking to this teen would look like a paedophile, but isn't. However, i also agree with you that people aren't going on there to be a paedophile. My wife (25 years old) has an account on a different site (www.xanga.com) which is just like myspace.com and she talks with friends and family that she actually knows. Not everyone on those sites go there to meet new people. Yes, a lot of them do, but not all.
I liked the explanation, but this seems great for inanimate objects. What about consciousness? I mean, you can 'teleport' a brain, but will the signals go with it and will the brain retain memories or will it be a exact copy of a body but no 'life force' in it?
You will be required to have a minimum of 18 inches all around the PS3 for adequit ventalation. You will have have to purchase a seperate base for the PS3 made of a synthetic material that will stand the PS3 18 inches in the air and have holes in it for ventalation on the bottom of the PS3. You will have to keep your air conditioner at a chilly 72 degrees farenheit and don't even think about using your heater in the winter. If you meet all these requirements you may avoid overheating.
Its interesing because all the linux fanboys can say that Linux is taking over hollywood. Its quite sad really. Maybe they used Linux because they aren't sure if the show will make it so they didn't wanna put money into a version of Windows. May as well get a grip or a gapher to download something at home and make it so they wont' get sued. If the show makes it, they will buy Windows, or the Linux computer will never show up again. Do you remember the 'hoopla' when the second Matrix movie showed Trinity using a Unix command prompt at the power prompt. Half the *unix community jizzed at that sight.
Well, I wouldn't use the site because of the freakishly homosexual dancing butterfly you have to watch on the sign-on screen. Oh ya, whats with needing an account just to watch videos?
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All the scientists in the world that think they know everything realize they dont' know jack and no matter how much data you have, you cannot predict nature.
So, you don't wear clothes? I mean, cotton is made from plants. Do you drink tea of any kind? If so, where do you think tea leaves come from. Do you drive or take any kind of public transportation, or do you walk everywhere? The exhaust from cars and trucks harm our environment. The best way you can help our environment is to go kill yourself in the middle of the forest and let the plants use your decomposing body to grow off of.
Guess what, God created the plants and animals of this world for us to use as we need to live.
Back when Women's Lib began, women wanted equal rights. But suddenly, they are now faced with the fact that they are considered a minority. So in their minds, they thought "Why should I settle for anything less than the top". They decided to use their minority status to get to high positions and if they were refused, they screamed sexual discrimination. Well guess what, Women are in managerial positions and there is no more room left for more positions. Now, women are stuck in the mindset they can do anything and everything better than men so let the men be the IT Workers and the women cna manage us.
I work in a high school as a computer tech and yes, the staff at K-12 schools lack logic and a bit more. The simplist of issues, as they like to call them, are nothing more than them not looking at the screen. For something like not putting the daylight savings time change to the caller id timestamp, its quite easy to realize that they could do that. However, on the police department that arrested the young man...it was totally in their wrong for doing a half ass investigation and not seeing this. But in the light of things, I would rather see someone put in jail for 12 days on a small mistake such as this because they acted promptly and in the best interest of the school's populus than to dick around for months trying to figure out what to do.
Ok, you use the example of your car. Tell me, if you modify your engine...what happens. Your warranty is void. Same with the XBox. You mod your xbox, its no longer covered under warranty. However, if Microsoft was to put up no roadblocks and said to us all we can do whatever we want with their product free and clear, make all the home brew software we want, use the XBox in any manner we choose, that leave a bit of liability on them. If they do not attempt to stop people from using an XBox in any manner we choose, they can be held liable for the actions we do.
Joe Customer: Sorry officer, but since Microsoft didn't try to stop me from pirating games, isn't it their fault?
Jane Customer: Sorry officer, but since Ford didn't want to put an engine governor on my car, put a turbo on my car that would propel me 0-100 in 8 seconds and refused to put the proper safety harnesses in my car, its not my fault I hit that minivan and killed two children.
You as the customer will have to go out and actively attempt to change/alter the product you own to do what you want it to. People will use every excuse to place blame on anyone but themselves. They sue McDonalds because then they spilled hot coffee on themselves because they were driving and not paying attention and had to hit the breaks so they wouldn't hit the person in front of them, but it was apparently McDonalds fault for not putting "Caution, coffee is hot." on the cup.
All you people are is a bunch of arrogant "intellectuals" that want everything you way because it would make your life easier. Buy a damn XBox to play video games. If you want to run Linux, go to a garage sale and buy some 10 year old computer and put it on that. Better yet, put it on your main desktop. Half of the people I know that are avid Linux fanboys have their main desktop running Windows and a small machine with Linux on it. Does that mean everyone is like that, no, but its a freaking VIDEO GAME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.
Why do people think they can do anything they want with something just because they buy it? Modifying an XBox 360 isn't illegal, but what people do with that XBox once its been modified/hacked is illegal usually. Everyone wants to learn how to "backup one of their games" but in reality, they want to go rent a game, copy it and not have to buy it. Microsoft has put in all these 'security' features to make game developers feel better that the game they produce won't be easy pirated and distrobuted. As for someone reporting this flaw as a bug to microsoft, I am glad they did. Everyone is always praising the Linux community for helping Linux stay up to date, stable and hacker resilient, but when one person helps Microsoft, its "WTF did you do that for, fuck microsoft, its my XBox, I should be able to do what I want to it.
Well, it was supposed to be a witty remark referencing a bird, but since someone had to ask about it, it must not have been that witty.
Yup. The bird ate it from another land mass and pooped it out as it was flying to over. Scientists are so gullable.
Lived for the last 20 million years. Sure, then in the next 5 years, that will change to the last 30 million years..then suddenly someone will spot another white dolphin. Millions will be invested into the study and cloning/repopulation of them and guess what...ITS A FREAKING FISH (I know its not a fish, its a mammal). The world's ecosystem will not be dramatically harmed if any. No one will care about it in a month. Its just a way for eco-freaks to start yelling that we are killing the earth as they drive off in their new Hummer as they go for a friendly Sunday drive to observe nature.
There is a PPU available. http://www.ageia.com/ . The problem is that you have to use a specific physics engine in the game to utilize it. And the problem with that is that no company wants to be forced to use a specific physics engine in their game. Some make their own. When this card came out, many games actually ran slower because the physics card was trying to take over and wasn't working well with the physics engine the game was using. On the other hand, the games that did run the right physics engine ran about the same with a small margin of improvement. If the card could be like a video card and be somewhat programable (per pixel shading) by each physics engine utilizing it, it would be much more useful.
Well thats just it. What can't it do. By removing that limitation, it allows tons of different things to be done. It brings the portable computer to a higher mark. I would buy a new PDA with that functionality over a laptop if I just did office applications and e-mail. Put a more powerful Office solution on there and teh ability to use a projector and you have a much much better device for meetings, siminars, etc. Plus a lot more.
But what happens when your backup media fails? I had an external hard drive that I kept very good care of. It was only turned on when I was backing up files. Kept in a safe spot. My computer on the other hand ran about 18 hours a day...temperatures often rached 45C and the hard drive in it was always doing something. Virus scan when the screensaver was on, bittorrent, etc. But what happened...my backup hard drive failed bout 2 years after I got it. It had very few hours of actual use as opposed to my desktop's hard drive that had day and days of use and it is still running. The only thing I didn't lose was my family pictures because I happened to burn them to DVD to play on my TV. That was fortunate. All in all, backup media fails too. There is no reason why I or anyone else can't re-download a song I already purchased the rights to own.
Its also amazing how grave robbers seem to find all the good stuff before the archeologists.
Or...there is no live on Mars. ***GASP***
Oh come on people. We are already like that. We have fat ugly people and drop dead gorgeous people. This guy is just looking for a way to get his name in the history books. He can make all the claims he wants because no one will ever remember his name or anything about our era in 100,000 years.
Do you bring your work home with you? Is your hobby computers and does it take most up of your free time? Do you commute to work and end up getting home late every night? I work in an IT possition as well and though my marriage is a good one...I could probably play computer games less. Well, mainly one...World of Warcraft. I have taken it easy lately on it since I do have a 6 month old baby girl...but if computers have taken over your life, trust me...its not the IT Industry ruining your marriage...its you. People with the same fascination with cars or fishing or hunting. If those hobbies take over their lives, their personal life is affected. Doctors have the same problem. They work long hours and end up with bad personal lives.
It sure sounds to me like your kids are out of control too and have no discipline at home either. They probably tell you what to do and they go along doing whatever they want. Discipline doesn't start when they are older. It starts at birth. If you raise your kids right, they don't do these types of things. If you let them raise themselves, you get what the majority of teenagers are nowadays.
Its about time that someone puts part of the blame on the parents. Until the kids are 18, the parents are responsible for their actions. I hope the kids parents get sued into the poorhouse. Maybe it will wake up a few parents and take their kids off myspace.
The downside is can you believe the information that someone is putting up there. Perhaps some 16 year old girl likes older guys and makes it look like she is 28 or something. The person talking to this teen would look like a paedophile, but isn't. However, i also agree with you that people aren't going on there to be a paedophile. My wife (25 years old) has an account on a different site (www.xanga.com) which is just like myspace.com and she talks with friends and family that she actually knows. Not everyone on those sites go there to meet new people. Yes, a lot of them do, but not all.
I liked the explanation, but this seems great for inanimate objects. What about consciousness? I mean, you can 'teleport' a brain, but will the signals go with it and will the brain retain memories or will it be a exact copy of a body but no 'life force' in it?
You will be required to have a minimum of 18 inches all around the PS3 for adequit ventalation. You will have have to purchase a seperate base for the PS3 made of a synthetic material that will stand the PS3 18 inches in the air and have holes in it for ventalation on the bottom of the PS3. You will have to keep your air conditioner at a chilly 72 degrees farenheit and don't even think about using your heater in the winter. If you meet all these requirements you may avoid overheating.
I don't care what you say, I'm not going to the doctor!
Its interesing because all the linux fanboys can say that Linux is taking over hollywood. Its quite sad really. Maybe they used Linux because they aren't sure if the show will make it so they didn't wanna put money into a version of Windows. May as well get a grip or a gapher to download something at home and make it so they wont' get sued. If the show makes it, they will buy Windows, or the Linux computer will never show up again. Do you remember the 'hoopla' when the second Matrix movie showed Trinity using a Unix command prompt at the power prompt. Half the *unix community jizzed at that sight.
I am so man I missed the first episode. It looked interesting. Clearly a rip-off of the XMen idea, but I would love to see how they make it their own.
Well, I wouldn't use the site because of the freakishly homosexual dancing butterfly you have to watch on the sign-on screen. Oh ya, whats with needing an account just to watch videos?