The US Attorney General, Mr. Ashcroft, wanted to have a war on porn, similar to the current war on drugs. He would love to create a world without internet porn.
And the only job that pays for playing them is QA. Video games QA sucks. You get stuck on games you hate for months at a time. Only the lucky few get good games.
Even if you get a game you like, plaing it 8 hrs a day for 8 months, especially with the bugs, gets to be a chore. And you can't really play it, you have to do oddball things to try and find bugs, or you have to do the same thing that caused a bug in a previous revision, to see if it was truely fixed.
What is rich? What is wealth? Not _having_ to work is your definition, it seems. Many people would settle for being able to eat every day. To be able to see a dentist if their tooth is sore, or a doctor if they're cut or need their tonsils removed.
With the standard of living what it is, most people in so-called developed countries are fabulously rich when compared to even kings and emperors of old. At least by my standard of what wealth is.
Try going to India, where one child is 'wealthier' than another because they had their eye deliberately poked out, in order to make them a better begger than a child who is whole in body still. They're often smiling, happy seeming kids, for some reason.
With regards to taking the code from the Linux folks, it's not only a matter of respecting the GPL (if that was even a factor) but more a matter of correct coding. How can the OpenBSD folks be sure Linux code is implemented correctly, per the specs of the documents Sun gave them? They can't, without the documents.
This was discussed in some OpenBSD mailing lists. It's not only a matter of making the code 'work' on UltraSPARC III systems, but a matter of making it work _correctly_ and robustly. To do that, they need to read the specs.
> The Matrix is live-action anime with plenty of Judeo-Christianity imagry.
Feh... it was a Zen-Buddhist action film. There is no spoon... total Buddhist. Stop trying to hit me and hit me... prime Zen example. The reincarnation after enlightenment... totally Buddhist. Earthly desires lead to suffering (trading your friends for a juicy steak)... totally Buddhist. Existance is an illusion... Buddhist again.
Not quite. What you are asking for is negative proof. Instead what you should ask is, 'do we observe anything that isn't bound by time or anything which has behavior that can't be explained if it did exist within time?'. So long as that answer is no, we don't have to look into it. It's the same thing as 'do we observe invisible intangable fairies going around and putting small knots in hair'. We don't observe that... we have no evidence of it. These 'elf knots' can get into hair in rather mundane ways.
We can invent any number of fanciful scenarios, none of which can really be disproven. This lack of disproof doesn't make them true, or even worth looking into. We need positive evidence.
An extraordinary claim, such as something existing outside of time, requires extraordinary proof.
You're 'explaining' one mystery (creation of the universe) with another (God). You are doing this on no evidence that I can see.
If God created the universe, what created God? And what created the creator of God? If God wasn't created, you're admitting some things don't need creation, and either sprang into being by themselves, or always were. In which case you are making it too complex... the simpler explaination is that the universe sprang into being by itself, or always was.
As for your interpretation of meaning of life for athiests, it is quite wrong for most athiests. Athiests give themselves meaning, not needing to be handed meaning from some imaginary being. Athiests are, in general, pretty happy and well.
It's not impossible. Anything that can be created can be recreated. We just don't _currently_ have the engeneering skills needed to recreate it. Give it time... this kind of scheme will be broken too.
I hate it for one reason: volume. Every time I come near one of those things the sound is turned up so high that it feels like it'll rupture my eardrums! Feeling like my ears have been boxed is not fun.. turn those things down. You in the cars with the too loud bass should listen too..:P
In addition to that bit of horridness about DDR, there is no redeming feature to the game.;)
I've never seen an HOA that wasn't evil in that way. The right to do stuff that you want to do with your own stuff? Nah... you only pretend to own it. You pay your yearly rent in terms of land tax, and your HOA tax either yearly or otherwise (depends on the HOA), and your get to pay for what other people decide to do with 'your' property.
Ownership is a dead concept... welcome to the age of renting the experience of ownership. Don't mind the EULA.
I miss the scroll bars on the left from NeXT, as well as the wonderful copy and paste function of Solaris (left mouse, select text... autocopy), right click, paste. Beautiful. I also like the copy/paste/cut buttons, but the mouse keys are better.
I also miss buttons that're on opposite sides of the top bar for close/minimize. And having multiple desktops, like almost every UNIX window manager does is a big loss in OSX...
All in all, OSX has serious lacks still. Does Jaguar correct any of the above problems? Those are the only things that really bug me... if it fixes them, it'd be worth upgrading.
I wanna freeze my *ss off and eat only boring american food. Let's move somewhere away from fairly nice weather, a hugely great and diverse selection of culture (including it's great food), and so many other nice things that makes it a great place to live.
Places for me to move to, other than the silly valley, would have to be diverse in terms of culture, very accepting of alternate lifestyles (ie. it would have to be somewhat civilized), and NOT have snow. Not even a little snow. The most I've seen here is some in the tops of the hills near here, not any down below.
Um, no... the original typewriters were in alphabetical order. This caused problems of keys jamming. Then came qwerty, to slow things down. The person that invented qwerty tried to switch to something better, after the typewriter design improved so that it could handle the faster speed. It failed. Dvorak came after even that.
They did the typical IBM thing of selling hardware at a massively low level (they loose money here), and even say that eBay can keep their old Sun hardware. Once they have the foot in the door, and run the support, they strip away hardware bit by bit, replace with IBM stuff, drain a company of money for high support costs, and end up with an all IBM shop in terms of hardware and support.
It's happened time and time again, and killed many a small company that went with IBM support. The total cost is just not worth it.
WTF don't we see some cases that go for function mods, rather than these ugly image mods? Something as nicely built as Apple's G4 towers, or as quiet and small as the cube of theirs. Most computers totally suck when it comes to easy of putting it together and taking it apart. Look at an SGI O2 as a hugely high standard when it comes to case design. You can take the thing apart and put it back together in under a minute.
Of course most of these are beyond the ability of a typical case modder, who is just out to make their ugly PC even uglier.
To get your card stolen all you need to do is use it at a restaurant. They take it in back, swipe it for payment, swipe it again in another reader to clone it, make a note about the name & expiration date, take it back to you and it's done. Now they can make a copy that is good at most places, can be used online at many places (to be delivered to a nearby abandonded house for pickup).
These type of folks are rarely caught. Banks and credit card agencies find it easier to eat the loss rather than track down the thieves. If it happens in multiple cities (thief buys in one city, then one next to it, but it was stolen in a third city) it's even worse. You expect cops to work with nearby cities? Ohh, the paperwork! We can't do that for such petty crimes!
Credit card systems like we have now are currently very insecure, wireless insecurity aside. We need something better.
And of course the big hairball never _does_ rip arms off, in any of the movies. The most he does is whine and shove people around, really. He gets by on wookie reputation, but the truth is that the rest of the wookies can't stand the wimp. All he does is complain.;)
Next up: why Yoda is really an evil dark jedi turd, and not a good guy in any way.:)
Thera is also known as Santorini. You might have better luck searching based on that name. As to the 900 vs. 9000... it's the same thing, when you get into the record keeping accuracy of Plato's time. They could easily have made up the number based on the stories.
Unfortunately this will not help the deaf, but would help mutes if it works. Deaf people (unless they are deaf & mute) can use their own voices instead of these phones. They sound terrible, most times. Why? They can't hear what they sound like, and thus can't make corrections.
High tech valley needs ubiquitous broadband, badly. Heck, it'd be nice to wire up the entire SF bay area like this. Next step, IPv6 IPsec transmitters to go on all cell phone towers in the bay. That'll _really_ kick start the economy around here. Can you imagine all the spinoffs it would create?
Peacefully? What a load of rubbish. There were a large number of tribes there. They fought wars with each other; they stole land from each other. What do you know... the same thing Europeans did when they came here. The Europeans simply did it more effectively. It was ugly, and I don't at all approve of many of the tactics many Europeans used, but they were not attacking the 'peaceful natives who lived in harmony and happiness until they met the big bad people from across the pond'.
Note, I also don't approve of their current treatment and status, but please, get some perspective on the situation and the real history of the tribes existing here before the European settlers.
Posted by a 100% Native American... I was born in America. So was that Peruvian over there. If you want to identify with ancestors instead of yourself, then why aren't we all African?
The point of school (K-College) is to educate. To teach people how to think (note, not what to think, just methods).
Take programming courses for instance. A good instructor will go over methods of thinking about the problem, rather than focus on syntax and such. That way a programmer can look at the problem at hand, rather than having to deal with a specific tool (language). LISP, pascal, smalltalk, etc. are all good languages for this. Languages such as perl or C are not as suited to teaching these concepts in many cases. Yet once out in the 'real world', most coders will use these languages.
They properly educated student will easily adapt to C or perl or java. They have the methods down, rather than focusing on syntax and keywords.
Apply this to graphics... would you rather focus on concepts such as wireframe building, shade mapping, etc. or knowing what button to push in a specific program?
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Not out at Fry's yet. Computer superstore my ass. ;)
The US Attorney General, Mr. Ashcroft, wanted to have a war on porn, similar to the current war on drugs. He would love to create a world without internet porn.
And the only job that pays for playing them is QA. Video games QA sucks. You get stuck on games you hate for months at a time. Only the lucky few get good games.
Even if you get a game you like, plaing it 8 hrs a day for 8 months, especially with the bugs, gets to be a chore. And you can't really play it, you have to do oddball things to try and find bugs, or you have to do the same thing that caused a bug in a previous revision, to see if it was truely fixed.
What is rich? What is wealth? Not _having_ to work is your definition, it seems. Many people would settle for being able to eat every day. To be able to see a dentist if their tooth is sore, or a doctor if they're cut or need their tonsils removed.
With the standard of living what it is, most people in so-called developed countries are fabulously rich when compared to even kings and emperors of old. At least by my standard of what wealth is.
Try going to India, where one child is 'wealthier' than another because they had their eye deliberately poked out, in order to make them a better begger than a child who is whole in body still. They're often smiling, happy seeming kids, for some reason.
A lot of people can't afford $100-$150 a month. They need to eat, instead.
With regards to taking the code from the Linux folks, it's not only a matter of respecting the GPL (if that was even a factor) but more a matter of correct coding. How can the OpenBSD folks be sure Linux code is implemented correctly, per the specs of the documents Sun gave them? They can't, without the documents.
This was discussed in some OpenBSD mailing lists. It's not only a matter of making the code 'work' on UltraSPARC III systems, but a matter of making it work _correctly_ and robustly. To do that, they need to read the specs.
> The Matrix is live-action anime with plenty of Judeo-Christianity imagry.
Feh... it was a Zen-Buddhist action film. There is no spoon... total Buddhist. Stop trying to hit me and hit me... prime Zen example. The reincarnation after enlightenment... totally Buddhist. Earthly desires lead to suffering (trading your friends for a juicy steak)... totally Buddhist. Existance is an illusion... Buddhist again.
Need I go on?
Not quite. What you are asking for is negative proof. Instead what you should ask is, 'do we observe anything that isn't bound by time or anything which has behavior that can't be explained if it did exist within time?'. So long as that answer is no, we don't have to look into it. It's the same thing as 'do we observe invisible intangable fairies going around and putting small knots in hair'. We don't observe that... we have no evidence of it. These 'elf knots' can get into hair in rather mundane ways.
We can invent any number of fanciful scenarios, none of which can really be disproven. This lack of disproof doesn't make them true, or even worth looking into. We need positive evidence.
An extraordinary claim, such as something existing outside of time, requires extraordinary proof.
You're 'explaining' one mystery (creation of the universe) with another (God). You are doing this on no evidence that I can see.
If God created the universe, what created God? And what created the creator of God? If God wasn't created, you're admitting some things don't need creation, and either sprang into being by themselves, or always were. In which case you are making it too complex... the simpler explaination is that the universe sprang into being by itself, or always was.
As for your interpretation of meaning of life for athiests, it is quite wrong for most athiests. Athiests give themselves meaning, not needing to be handed meaning from some imaginary being. Athiests are, in general, pretty happy and well.
It's not impossible. Anything that can be created can be recreated. We just don't _currently_ have the engeneering skills needed to recreate it. Give it time... this kind of scheme will be broken too.
I hate it for one reason: volume. Every time I come near one of those things the sound is turned up so high that it feels like it'll rupture my eardrums! Feeling like my ears have been boxed is not fun.. turn those things down. You in the cars with the too loud bass should listen too.. :P
;)
In addition to that bit of horridness about DDR, there is no redeming feature to the game.
I've never seen an HOA that wasn't evil in that way. The right to do stuff that you want to do with your own stuff? Nah... you only pretend to own it. You pay your yearly rent in terms of land tax, and your HOA tax either yearly or otherwise (depends on the HOA), and your get to pay for what other people decide to do with 'your' property.
Ownership is a dead concept... welcome to the age of renting the experience of ownership. Don't mind the EULA.
I miss the scroll bars on the left from NeXT, as well as the wonderful copy and paste function of Solaris (left mouse, select text... autocopy), right click, paste. Beautiful. I also like the copy/paste/cut buttons, but the mouse keys are better.
I also miss buttons that're on opposite sides of the top bar for close/minimize. And having multiple desktops, like almost every UNIX window manager does is a big loss in OSX...
All in all, OSX has serious lacks still. Does Jaguar correct any of the above problems? Those are the only things that really bug me... if it fixes them, it'd be worth upgrading.
I wanna freeze my *ss off and eat only boring american food. Let's move somewhere away from fairly nice weather, a hugely great and diverse selection of culture (including it's great food), and so many other nice things that makes it a great place to live.
Places for me to move to, other than the silly valley, would have to be diverse in terms of culture, very accepting of alternate lifestyles (ie. it would have to be somewhat civilized), and NOT have snow. Not even a little snow. The most I've seen here is some in the tops of the hills near here, not any down below.
Um, no... the original typewriters were in alphabetical order. This caused problems of keys jamming. Then came qwerty, to slow things down. The person that invented qwerty tried to switch to something better, after the typewriter design improved so that it could handle the faster speed. It failed. Dvorak came after even that.
They did the typical IBM thing of selling hardware at a massively low level (they loose money here), and even say that eBay can keep their old Sun hardware. Once they have the foot in the door, and run the support, they strip away hardware bit by bit, replace with IBM stuff, drain a company of money for high support costs, and end up with an all IBM shop in terms of hardware and support.
It's happened time and time again, and killed many a small company that went with IBM support. The total cost is just not worth it.
WTF don't we see some cases that go for function mods, rather than these ugly image mods? Something as nicely built as Apple's G4 towers, or as quiet and small as the cube of theirs. Most computers totally suck when it comes to easy of putting it together and taking it apart. Look at an SGI O2 as a hugely high standard when it comes to case design. You can take the thing apart and put it back together in under a minute.
Of course most of these are beyond the ability of a typical case modder, who is just out to make their ugly PC even uglier.
Oh well, a geek can dream, right?
To get your card stolen all you need to do is use it at a restaurant. They take it in back, swipe it for payment, swipe it again in another reader to clone it, make a note about the name & expiration date, take it back to you and it's done. Now they can make a copy that is good at most places, can be used online at many places (to be delivered to a nearby abandonded house for pickup).
These type of folks are rarely caught. Banks and credit card agencies find it easier to eat the loss rather than track down the thieves. If it happens in multiple cities (thief buys in one city, then one next to it, but it was stolen in a third city) it's even worse. You expect cops to work with nearby cities? Ohh, the paperwork! We can't do that for such petty crimes!
Credit card systems like we have now are currently very insecure, wireless insecurity aside. We need something better.
And of course the big hairball never _does_ rip arms off, in any of the movies. The most he does is whine and shove people around, really. He gets by on wookie reputation, but the truth is that the rest of the wookies can't stand the wimp. All he does is complain. ;)
:)
Next up: why Yoda is really an evil dark jedi turd, and not a good guy in any way.
Thera is also known as Santorini. You might have better luck searching based on that name. As to the 900 vs. 9000... it's the same thing, when you get into the record keeping accuracy of Plato's time. They could easily have made up the number based on the stories.
Unfortunately this will not help the deaf, but would help mutes if it works. Deaf people (unless they are deaf & mute) can use their own voices instead of these phones. They sound terrible, most times. Why? They can't hear what they sound like, and thus can't make corrections.
High tech valley needs ubiquitous broadband, badly. Heck, it'd be nice to wire up the entire SF bay area like this. Next step, IPv6 IPsec transmitters to go on all cell phone towers in the bay. That'll _really_ kick start the economy around here. Can you imagine all the spinoffs it would create?
People use the internet for more than finding porn. Film at 11.
Peacefully? What a load of rubbish. There were a large number of tribes there. They fought wars with each other; they stole land from each other. What do you know... the same thing Europeans did when they came here. The Europeans simply did it more effectively. It was ugly, and I don't at all approve of many of the tactics many Europeans used, but they were not attacking the 'peaceful natives who lived in harmony and happiness until they met the big bad people from across the pond'.
Note, I also don't approve of their current treatment and status, but please, get some perspective on the situation and the real history of the tribes existing here before the European settlers.
Posted by a 100% Native American... I was born in America. So was that Peruvian over there. If you want to identify with ancestors instead of yourself, then why aren't we all African?
The point of school (K-College) is to educate. To teach people how to think (note, not what to think, just methods).
Take programming courses for instance. A good instructor will go over methods of thinking about the problem, rather than focus on syntax and such. That way a programmer can look at the problem at hand, rather than having to deal with a specific tool (language). LISP, pascal, smalltalk, etc. are all good languages for this. Languages such as perl or C are not as suited to teaching these concepts in many cases. Yet once out in the 'real world', most coders will use these languages.
They properly educated student will easily adapt to C or perl or java. They have the methods down, rather than focusing on syntax and keywords.
Apply this to graphics... would you rather focus on concepts such as wireframe building, shade mapping, etc. or knowing what button to push in a specific program?