Sheesh! Step out your door for a second. The sky isn't falling down. Meanwhile trillions are viruses are busy snipping bits of DNA and transferring them from host to host across species like they've been doing for billions of years. Just like the doomsayers have been preaching the end of the world since 30AD and before. You ever heard the story about the boy who cried "Wolf!"?
I'm amazed by the ignorant talk I keep reading about the iPod. The most glaring fact that many reviewers and 'pundits' seems to have missed is that there is no video Ipod!. Just go to Apples iPod web page. There's an iPod shuffle, an ipod nano and an iPod. There is no 'video' iPod. Apple haven't taken any wrong turn because all they've done is upgrade the top of the iPod line - the regular iPod. It's priced like previous offerings and has much the same functionality. As a bonus it also plays video. How can this possibly be a wrong turn - to add some bouns features to an already existing product line? Apple have done the smart thing - they've released a product that is nearly identical to a current best seller with some functionality that allows them to test the waters.
At some point Apple may choose to release a video device. You can be pretty sure it'll have a much bigger screen than the current iPods.
How moronic can you get? They tell us to stop GMOs and use plants that are a result of 'natural' breeding methods. We do that. And now they tell us we shouldn't even do that. It's a frickin' plant for God's sake. How is this (1) not natural? and (2) tinkering with the ecosystem? Maybe you'd like us all to go back to eating wild rabbits (hunted of course), nuts and berries.
It doesn't matter what the norm is. What matters is that we have things in the world that are adapted to conditions corresponding to whenever they were constructed. Someone who lives in New Orleans doesn't care what the norm is, they care whether or not the levees that were built in the past with certain expectations can withstand weather conditions that are likely to occur in the future.
You say:
"There is a long-standing and fundamental disconnect between religion and science...this is just patently false"
and then
The problem with ID stems from the fact that it's being taught as science, which it is not.
Er...the whole point of this discussion is that science is being eroded and replaced by non-science in the US. In particular, ID is Creationism in a different guise taught as a substitute for science. How can you claim the parent post to yours is stating things that are false and then proceed to argue in its favor?
What do you mean by that? It is possible and has been possible for years. People capture real locations, real models, real characters and real motions all the time in the game business.
Lewis Latimer was a black scientist that created the electric lightbulb
In the UK you're taught it was Swan. If you're white in the US you're taught it's Edison. If you're black in the US you're taught it's Latimer. This is all too confusing.
The Ancient Greeks certainly made gold foil, and were familiar with tin which is as easy to work with gold, so I expect they did in fact have tin foil. But what they lacked was the Internet and so they had no way of finding out that tin foil hats could save them.
The display is better than any modern Palm - though monochrome it's clear in just about any lighting conditions, bright sunlight or pitch black (with backlight). It works nicely with 15 minute rechargeable NiMh AAA which blows away any of the expensive difficult-to-replace LiPoly batteries in new Palms. It uses Graffiti rather than Graffiti 2 so it's possible to enter text reliably on it without using an external keyboard. And it looks pretty close to how it looked when I bought it 8 years ago (even though I used it for 4 years) unlike my Tungsten T|3 which has become worn down because of friction from the protective flip cover itself(!!!). One other thing, the glass screen has no scratches on it unlike recent plastic displays which scratch horribly pretty quickly. All in all, I think the original Pilot is yet to be beaten apart from the lack of SD card support.
I use my Palm only as an ereader but I consider an SD card slot essential (which this Zire doesn't have). Although you might only have a couple of active books at one time, a good dictionary and a few reference books could easily consume quite a bit of RAM. I'd like to have a minimal Palm like this with an SD card slot. I don't need bluetooth, wireless, audio in/out, camera and I do need something that fits in a small pocket.
...games all day? Treating the internet addiction is clearly just treating the symptoms. What really needs to be cured is the desire of these people to interact with other people. Not only would this stop people using chat rooms - it might stop then posting in blogs and most importantly of all - it would stop them using the most obnoxious and dangerous form of technology invented in the last century: the mobile phone. If these people would just stop trying to be sociable then the world would be a much better place.
Is it the job of a judge to convict someone of a crime they didn't commit as punishment for doing something else? This is a typical police state tactic, not something you expect in a civilized country. If he lied to cops, and that is a crime, that that is what he should have been convicted of. Convicting someone of the wrong crime (1) encourages judges to slap all kinds of convictions on people for no reason "maybe he didn't commit this crime but he's a shifty character so he deserves punishment anyway" and (2) reduces the ability of the justice system to deter crime by failing to deter the actual crime that was committed. It is crucial that the justice system doesn't just punish criminals but punishes criminals for the correct crime.
Homeland security had better outlaw either pythons or alligators on planes otherwise terrorists might use them to make binary weapons that can't be detected by traditional explosive sniffing devices.
I predict life will probably be found in all hospitable sites
Why not stick your neck out and make an even more daring prediction? Like that every planet in the solar system with software has bugs, or that every planet with TVs has reruns of Friends.
Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun's OpenOffice from a toolbar.
Wow! I didn't know that up to now Google had prevented me from accessing OpenOffice from a toolbar. How did they do that? Did they have some spyware that automatically removed the app from my toolbar every time I tried to add it? And more importantly, what other applications am I being prevented from accessing from a toolbar by other companies?
I don't know if the other 0.1% are susceptible to attack by soldering iron but if you find them you could sue me for misrepresenting the utility of this tool. So I'm playing it safe.
I have two friends with them. One stopped using his as soon as he bought a GBA Micro(!!). The other watches movies on his. In Best Buy near me there seems to be more shelf space for PSP movies than for PSP games. So I'm guessing that at least some people are buying PSPs and that people are buying more movies than games for them.
Maya is THE software used to create all theses 3d animated motion picture...
There's no money in selling products to high end companies making movies because, if you think about it, they only form a small market. (How many such movies are released each year?) Alias make much more profit from businesses outside of motion pictures. Alias likes to have movie related companies as customers, not because they provide a good source of revenue, but because the prestige such customers bring boosts sales to the much larger number of low end customers.
I'm still trying to find someone to pay for the fine new episodes of Dr Who that I recently watched from the US. The BBC have a product to sell, I have the money to pay for it, the means of delivery exists, and yet I can't legally download it. This is a drastic market failure and it's pretty damn annoying!
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Sheesh! Step out your door for a second. The sky isn't falling down. Meanwhile trillions are viruses are busy snipping bits of DNA and transferring them from host to host across species like they've been doing for billions of years. Just like the doomsayers have been preaching the end of the world since 30AD and before. You ever heard the story about the boy who cried "Wolf!"?
"This job is boring but on the really quiet days you can play NightFire on your PC - as you as you don't tell M."
At some point Apple may choose to release a video device. You can be pretty sure it'll have a much bigger screen than the current iPods.
How moronic can you get? They tell us to stop GMOs and use plants that are a result of 'natural' breeding methods. We do that. And now they tell us we shouldn't even do that. It's a frickin' plant for God's sake. How is this (1) not natural? and (2) tinkering with the ecosystem? Maybe you'd like us all to go back to eating wild rabbits (hunted of course), nuts and berries.
You mean like the BBC World Service?
It doesn't matter what the norm is. What matters is that we have things in the world that are adapted to conditions corresponding to whenever they were constructed. Someone who lives in New Orleans doesn't care what the norm is, they care whether or not the levees that were built in the past with certain expectations can withstand weather conditions that are likely to occur in the future.
What do you mean by that? It is possible and has been possible for years. People capture real locations, real models, real characters and real motions all the time in the game business.
The Ancient Greeks certainly made gold foil, and were familiar with tin which is as easy to work with gold, so I expect they did in fact have tin foil. But what they lacked was the Internet and so they had no way of finding out that tin foil hats could save them.
I'm stuck on step 4. I just can't compact my Webster's Unabridged down to size...
The display is better than any modern Palm - though monochrome it's clear in just about any lighting conditions, bright sunlight or pitch black (with backlight). It works nicely with 15 minute rechargeable NiMh AAA which blows away any of the expensive difficult-to-replace LiPoly batteries in new Palms. It uses Graffiti rather than Graffiti 2 so it's possible to enter text reliably on it without using an external keyboard. And it looks pretty close to how it looked when I bought it 8 years ago (even though I used it for 4 years) unlike my Tungsten T|3 which has become worn down because of friction from the protective flip cover itself(!!!). One other thing, the glass screen has no scratches on it unlike recent plastic displays which scratch horribly pretty quickly. All in all, I think the original Pilot is yet to be beaten apart from the lack of SD card support.
I'm wondering how you read eBooks on your pocketMod...
I use my Palm only as an ereader but I consider an SD card slot essential (which this Zire doesn't have). Although you might only have a couple of active books at one time, a good dictionary and a few reference books could easily consume quite a bit of RAM. I'd like to have a minimal Palm like this with an SD card slot. I don't need bluetooth, wireless, audio in/out, camera and I do need something that fits in a small pocket.
...games all day? Treating the internet addiction is clearly just treating the symptoms. What really needs to be cured is the desire of these people to interact with other people. Not only would this stop people using chat rooms - it might stop then posting in blogs and most importantly of all - it would stop them using the most obnoxious and dangerous form of technology invented in the last century: the mobile phone. If these people would just stop trying to be sociable then the world would be a much better place.
Is it the job of a judge to convict someone of a crime they didn't commit as punishment for doing something else? This is a typical police state tactic, not something you expect in a civilized country. If he lied to cops, and that is a crime, that that is what he should have been convicted of. Convicting someone of the wrong crime (1) encourages judges to slap all kinds of convictions on people for no reason "maybe he didn't commit this crime but he's a shifty character so he deserves punishment anyway" and (2) reduces the ability of the justice system to deter crime by failing to deter the actual crime that was committed. It is crucial that the justice system doesn't just punish criminals but punishes criminals for the correct crime.
Homeland security had better outlaw either pythons or alligators on planes otherwise terrorists might use them to make binary weapons that can't be detected by traditional explosive sniffing devices.
I don't know if the other 0.1% are susceptible to attack by soldering iron but if you find them you could sue me for misrepresenting the utility of this tool. So I'm playing it safe.
A well placed soldering iron kills 99.9% of all known germs including flu viruses.
I have two friends with them. One stopped using his as soon as he bought a GBA Micro(!!). The other watches movies on his. In Best Buy near me there seems to be more shelf space for PSP movies than for PSP games. So I'm guessing that at least some people are buying PSPs and that people are buying more movies than games for them.
I'm still trying to find someone to pay for the fine new episodes of Dr Who that I recently watched from the US. The BBC have a product to sell, I have the money to pay for it, the means of delivery exists, and yet I can't legally download it. This is a drastic market failure and it's pretty damn annoying!