I am a Christian, but that doesn't take me away from science in the least bit. This might stray a little, but the point I make has everything to do with the parent topic.
The Youth Pastor at my church is currently obtaining a PHD in Biology, and you'd wonder if those were impossible to mix, but they aren't.
One day a kid brought up miracles and said that miracles couldn't possibly occur to the rules of nature. For example, many people wish to disprove the Bible by picking and choosing certain miracles and saying that they possibly couldn't have happened, because if A then B and B didn't happen.
The most common one is that of the sun stopping in the middle of that day which would mean the earth stopped rotating and if the earth stopped rotating then everything and everyone on it would fly off at X million miles per hour.
But when asked about miracles, our youth pastor brought up a specific case. First, he began by saying that "Our God is a God of order, of rules, of nature." He stated that God created the rules of the universe, why would he need to break them? He said that our God is a natural God, and he gave an example:
During Exodus, the Bible says that God performed some disasters upon the Egyptians because the Pharoah wouldn't let Moses' people go. And logically, these miracle/disasters wouldn't possibly happen because... Well, things don't. But the way he explained it, it made sense.
1) The first miracle was: the water of the Nile was turned into blood. This in turn caused everything in the Nile to die. Like the fish for example. But frogs... Frogs have legs and can leave the water, so the next plague was: 2) Frogs. Frogs came over the entire land of Egypt. And because Frogs can't survive without moisture for long, they died. But they died on the land, and what happens when animals die? Something eats them. And from the decaying bodies of frogs came: 3) Gnats. And flies and all their assorted buddies. And what do those little bugs bring with them? Disease. And that leads to the next plague: 4) Cattle dying. All the cattle caught disease from all the flies and gnats and decaying frogs, that they all started to die as well. And what do cattle eat? The grass. But since there weren't any cows to eat the grass, the grass grew taller and longer. And when there is an abundance of grass: 5) Locusts. Locusts swarmed the land and ate all the excess grass and multiplied.
Well. I mean. This is just one example, but it illustrates the point I'm trying to make and the point my youth pastor made: Our God is a natural God and He follows HIS rules. I mean, you don't have to believe it, I'm not trying to make you. But for all of those so-called Christians out there who think that things just happen at the flick of a switch, and that... Well, there isn't a cause, or progression from something earlier, they're all liars. There are causes and effects in our world, and of course the scientific method is used to analyze and reason these out. But there are Christians out there (yes!) that accept science as readily as they accept the Bible. Do they contradict? Only if you, as a misinterpreter on either side (Religious or Scientific), make it.
Then why is it fair that certain nations, although with a higher per capita skilled workforce, have a lower per capita income?
Ok. So, China has lots of skilled workers, and in fact, if they all moved to Aulstralia, then they would "devestate" the local Aulstralian economy. But who's to say that the Aulstralians should have so much more money, per capita, than the Chinese?
The protection and the rules of fairness are only working, in their current state, one-sidedly.
This movie is as much about immigrants and an (but not the) Aulstralian response as the article: Romper Stomper
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Well, as far as cracking goes, the universal truth stands:
If I can see it (play it, view it, download it), then I can make copies of it and distribute it. As long as there are 1's and 0's streaming through my monitor, there's always a way.
In the future I'm sure our children will be able to learn calculus while playing video games, chatting on their mobile communicators, and picking out their wardrobe for the following week.
What will be so different about our children and ourselves? I mean, are we going to genetically engineer them to be geniuses from day one or something? Because as far as I can tell, children receive genes from their parents and are pretty similar in intelligence (there is a correlation, although not 100%). So, what you're saying is that we're going to make an evolutionary jump in the next generation that will allow our children to learn what less than 20% of the world learns today, but in even more difficult conditions (playing video games)?
I'm just wondering, because I can't seem to understand what will be so different from now and then that will allow what you say to come true.
you can have sata and other "exotic" hw support with third party drivers on a floppy disk, and nothing else (just think of people like myself who doesn't even buy or have fdd for about 6 years now), which leads to
The quote you were responding to is: If you want full Linux-installer-style partition and format control over a Windows install, it's there, and it's not that hard to find.
Now, "its there and not hard to find" means its possible. If you, personally, don't want to buy a floppy drive in order to install drivers, then that is your choice. I'm pretty sure you need drivers for linux RAID also, and it might also be on a floppy drive as well. Most, but not all, RAID controllers are supported by Linux yes, but are they all preinstalled? Sometimes you DO need to download things for yourself, and you might just need a floppy drive. So, it's your choice to make RAID work on windows for yourself, or not. Your choice... But it is possible, and you can make it work.
Perhaps there won't be personal contact, but... Whether or not you prefer robots over people depends on if the company of your choice has decided to outsource or not and whether or not you can understand heavy (just an example) Indian accents...
And most technical support people that you contact over the phone aren't really knowledgeable. There nothing more than robots, they are given a set of instructions and something to say in response to what you say and they try to walk you through mostly what is already available on the internet. And when all else fails they blame it on you, your equipment or something similar. And it takes a whole lot more time to actually get to someone knowledgeable who can help solve your problem, if you ever do.
Not much will change but the price for the companies.
Does anyone remember desktop themes in windows 95? Uhm. This reminds me of those, frankly, crappy desktop themes that came out with windows 95, I believe with Microsoft PLUS (also not that great, and a waste of money).
All they did was slow your computer down, make a lot of noise, and annoy your co-workers when your speakers were turned on.
And to top that off, what I couldn't originally stand about Windows XP, which is why I stuck with Windows 2000 till this last year, was when you pushed the start menu button (a flaw they did get around to fixing) it took forever to load it up. I like instant gratification. I like cause and effect. I want something to happen, at least on my computer, when I tell it to. And desktop themes did not let that happen.
And anything bloated for that matter does not let that happen. I hope Vista doesn't turn out to be Microsoft PLUS Desktop Themes on steroids...
If neither Mr. Gates nor Mr. Belfiore can figure out how Front Row could have TV and digital video recorder functions without adding buttons to Apple's remote, Microsoft is in sorry shape.
Mr. Gates is bright enough (chances are he scored higher on the SAT than you, and I mean chances are... He scored a 1590, and the 99th percentile is a mere 1450...) to know HOW to do it. What he wonders is WHY they've done it. There is a big difference there: between how and why.
Relying on Microsoft to build the foundation for all home digital entertainment is like relying on Ford to build the foundation for quality automobiles. (Psst. Hey geniuses. The Japanese already beat you to it.)
It didn't take me long to realize why your userID is "LameJokeGuy".
Apple, of course, realizes this, and has positioned the mac mini and its iTunes offerings (and now Front Row) accordingly.
Not everything that Apple does is in response to Microsoft. Yes, they compete mainly in the same areas, but they do not compete in absolutely everything.
Is there no domestic Chinese music industry? Hardly. Chinese musicians make most of their money through concerts, doing ad spots, and all sorts of other means.
Money made from concerts, ads, all sorts of other means isn't much money at all. But if we're going to talk about money, even money made by the Chinese/American/Whoever musicians through sale of CDs is not much money made at all in the first place. Where the money is to be made through copyrights and such, enabling the sale of CDs from only one source, is in the producers. For example, Michael Jackson, the best selling solo artist in the world with sales over 300 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_jackson) has brushed repeatidly with bankrupcy. On the other hand, even a small time producer (well not small time, but compared with other bigger producers) such as Jay-Z has a networth of about $320 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-z), and hasn't sold nearly as many albums. You see, the money isn't being made by CD sales of the musicians... Musicians don't make money period. The producers make the money, and copyrights enable them to do so.
The Open Source Development of this console has ensured a following that will keep the console alive for years to come.
Yes, yes. And the Atari 2600 is still alive too.
Just because a few people still develop and play with an outdated, old, and rather crappy system doesn't mean that the system is doing well, successful, popular, or even mentioned at all in the future. Sure, the system will be alive by a few teenagers with far too much time on their hands and a little monkey coding in their blood, but does that mean it's worth it or even matters?
Are we all too young to remember the original NES Nintendo Entertainment System?
I couldn't start the thing half the time, and spent more time blowing into the cartridge than actually playing the game. I remember having to buy bottles of alcohol just to clean the cartridges. And I remember once taking apart my NES because something got stuck inside the cartridge loader. Ok, now. All systems have had their problems and we've all dealt with them before, are we too spoiled now to deal with an overheating problem?
I mean, when I first bought an AMD (It was the 1.2 Ghz Athlon) I had so many overheating problems but I dealt with it for the faster (for cheaper) processor. And now I have an AMD 64 3200+ and I still have trivial problems (at least compared to my Intel P4 2.4 GHZ) with overheating. But I deal with it. I paid less for a faster processor and I deal with it.
I'm tired of hearing about powersupply crap and now scratching? Uhm. There are solutions out there, explore them.
Some people can't afford the internet, regardless of age. This is the United States of America, yes. But even then, not everyone living here is living in prosperity.
The control scheme needs no direct measurements from the human or from the human-machine interface (e.g., sensors between them). The controller, based on measurements from the exoskeleton only, estimates (i.e., computes very quickly) how to move so that the wearer feels very few forces. This novel control scheme is quite elaborate, but it is an effective way to create locomotion when the area of contact between the wearer and the machine is unpredictable.
The first possibility is that this show is really, truly deserving of the number one spot of 2005's best television.
The second possibility is that the man behind the article had the self-discipline and fervent determination as a die-hard fan of Battlestar Galactica (and probably any of its sci-fi cousins) to give reasonable, detailed and accountable reviews up until that point to earn the credibility he needed to be in the position to be the reviewer of 2005's best television shows. And then, at the last moment he pulled out his hardcore sci-fi passion and placed it at the top of a list that usually never gets a sci-fi show just to have snuck in the passion of his life into the mainstream.
Sneaky or not, the rest of the list is reasonable (which still allows for the second possibility to actually be true).
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This sounds a lot like Beauty and the Geek just without women.
I am a Christian, but that doesn't take me away from science in the least bit. This might stray a little, but the point I make has everything to do with the parent topic.
The Youth Pastor at my church is currently obtaining a PHD in Biology, and you'd wonder if those were impossible to mix, but they aren't.
One day a kid brought up miracles and said that miracles couldn't possibly occur to the rules of nature. For example, many people wish to disprove the Bible by picking and choosing certain miracles and saying that they possibly couldn't have happened, because if A then B and B didn't happen.
The most common one is that of the sun stopping in the middle of that day which would mean the earth stopped rotating and if the earth stopped rotating then everything and everyone on it would fly off at X million miles per hour.
But when asked about miracles, our youth pastor brought up a specific case. First, he began by saying that "Our God is a God of order, of rules, of nature." He stated that God created the rules of the universe, why would he need to break them? He said that our God is a natural God, and he gave an example:
During Exodus, the Bible says that God performed some disasters upon the Egyptians because the Pharoah wouldn't let Moses' people go. And logically, these miracle/disasters wouldn't possibly happen because... Well, things don't. But the way he explained it, it made sense.
1) The first miracle was: the water of the Nile was turned into blood. This in turn caused everything in the Nile to die. Like the fish for example. But frogs... Frogs have legs and can leave the water, so the next plague was:
2) Frogs. Frogs came over the entire land of Egypt. And because Frogs can't survive without moisture for long, they died. But they died on the land, and what happens when animals die? Something eats them. And from the decaying bodies of frogs came:
3) Gnats. And flies and all their assorted buddies. And what do those little bugs bring with them? Disease. And that leads to the next plague:
4) Cattle dying. All the cattle caught disease from all the flies and gnats and decaying frogs, that they all started to die as well. And what do cattle eat? The grass. But since there weren't any cows to eat the grass, the grass grew taller and longer. And when there is an abundance of grass:
5) Locusts. Locusts swarmed the land and ate all the excess grass and multiplied.
Well. I mean. This is just one example, but it illustrates the point I'm trying to make and the point my youth pastor made: Our God is a natural God and He follows HIS rules. I mean, you don't have to believe it, I'm not trying to make you. But for all of those so-called Christians out there who think that things just happen at the flick of a switch, and that... Well, there isn't a cause, or progression from something earlier, they're all liars. There are causes and effects in our world, and of course the scientific method is used to analyze and reason these out. But there are Christians out there (yes!) that accept science as readily as they accept the Bible. Do they contradict? Only if you, as a misinterpreter on either side (Religious or Scientific), make it.
Then why is it fair that certain nations, although with a higher per capita skilled workforce, have a lower per capita income?
Ok. So, China has lots of skilled workers, and in fact, if they all moved to Aulstralia, then they would "devestate" the local Aulstralian economy. But who's to say that the Aulstralians should have so much more money, per capita, than the Chinese?
The protection and the rules of fairness are only working, in their current state, one-sidedly.
This movie is as much about immigrants and an (but not the) Aulstralian response as the article: Romper Stomper
Well, as far as cracking goes, the universal truth stands:
If I can see it (play it, view it, download it), then I can make copies of it and distribute it. As long as there are 1's and 0's streaming through my monitor, there's always a way.
You have completly misunderstood the parent's intention, voice, and tone.
If you knew how to read intelligently then you'd realize he was being sarcastic and using irony.
This will sell great in Korea...
I mean, if you want to play Starcraft of Counter-Strike and play competitively over there, you're gonna need every advantage you can find.
I mean ok we get it we humans know nothing ... but do we have to be reminded of it every time ?
Yes.
In the future I'm sure our children will be able to learn calculus while playing video games, chatting on their mobile communicators, and picking out their wardrobe for the following week.
What will be so different about our children and ourselves? I mean, are we going to genetically engineer them to be geniuses from day one or something? Because as far as I can tell, children receive genes from their parents and are pretty similar in intelligence (there is a correlation, although not 100%). So, what you're saying is that we're going to make an evolutionary jump in the next generation that will allow our children to learn what less than 20% of the world learns today, but in even more difficult conditions (playing video games)?
I'm just wondering, because I can't seem to understand what will be so different from now and then that will allow what you say to come true.
you can have sata and other "exotic" hw support with third party drivers on a floppy disk, and nothing else (just think of people like myself who doesn't even buy or have fdd for about 6 years now), which leads to
The quote you were responding to is: If you want full Linux-installer-style partition and format control over a Windows install, it's there, and it's not that hard to find.
Now, "its there and not hard to find" means its possible. If you, personally, don't want to buy a floppy drive in order to install drivers, then that is your choice. I'm pretty sure you need drivers for linux RAID also, and it might also be on a floppy drive as well. Most, but not all, RAID controllers are supported by Linux yes, but are they all preinstalled? Sometimes you DO need to download things for yourself, and you might just need a floppy drive. So, it's your choice to make RAID work on windows for yourself, or not. Your choice... But it is possible, and you can make it work.
Perhaps there won't be personal contact, but... Whether or not you prefer robots over people depends on if the company of your choice has decided to outsource or not and whether or not you can understand heavy (just an example) Indian accents...
And most technical support people that you contact over the phone aren't really knowledgeable. There nothing more than robots, they are given a set of instructions and something to say in response to what you say and they try to walk you through mostly what is already available on the internet. And when all else fails they blame it on you, your equipment or something similar. And it takes a whole lot more time to actually get to someone knowledgeable who can help solve your problem, if you ever do.
Not much will change but the price for the companies.
Does anyone remember desktop themes in windows 95? Uhm. This reminds me of those, frankly, crappy desktop themes that came out with windows 95, I believe with Microsoft PLUS (also not that great, and a waste of money).
All they did was slow your computer down, make a lot of noise, and annoy your co-workers when your speakers were turned on.
And to top that off, what I couldn't originally stand about Windows XP, which is why I stuck with Windows 2000 till this last year, was when you pushed the start menu button (a flaw they did get around to fixing) it took forever to load it up. I like instant gratification. I like cause and effect. I want something to happen, at least on my computer, when I tell it to. And desktop themes did not let that happen.
And anything bloated for that matter does not let that happen. I hope Vista doesn't turn out to be Microsoft PLUS Desktop Themes on steroids...
If neither Mr. Gates nor Mr. Belfiore can figure out how Front Row could have TV and digital video recorder functions without adding buttons to Apple's remote, Microsoft is in sorry shape.
Mr. Gates is bright enough (chances are he scored higher on the SAT than you, and I mean chances are... He scored a 1590, and the 99th percentile is a mere 1450...) to know HOW to do it. What he wonders is WHY they've done it. There is a big difference there: between how and why.
Relying on Microsoft to build the foundation for all home digital entertainment is like relying on Ford to build the foundation for quality automobiles. (Psst. Hey geniuses. The Japanese already beat you to it.)
It didn't take me long to realize why your userID is "LameJokeGuy".
Or worse yet, due to a great miscalculation in size, the entire battlefleet could be swallowed by a small dog.
Of course, only Americans would send an entire battlefleet on the first testrun.
A successful PVR
Sounds like an oxymoron to me...
Apple, of course, realizes this, and has positioned the mac mini and its iTunes offerings (and now Front Row) accordingly.
Not everything that Apple does is in response to Microsoft. Yes, they compete mainly in the same areas, but they do not compete in absolutely everything.
Science
Is there no domestic Chinese music industry? Hardly. Chinese musicians make most of their money through concerts, doing ad spots, and all sorts of other means.
Money made from concerts, ads, all sorts of other means isn't much money at all. But if we're going to talk about money, even money made by the Chinese/American/Whoever musicians through sale of CDs is not much money made at all in the first place. Where the money is to be made through copyrights and such, enabling the sale of CDs from only one source, is in the producers. For example, Michael Jackson, the best selling solo artist in the world with sales over 300 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_jackson) has brushed repeatidly with bankrupcy. On the other hand, even a small time producer (well not small time, but compared with other bigger producers) such as Jay-Z has a networth of about $320 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-z), and hasn't sold nearly as many albums. You see, the money isn't being made by CD sales of the musicians... Musicians don't make money period. The producers make the money, and copyrights enable them to do so.
That's what Tom Cruise said.
The Open Source Development of this console has ensured a following that will keep the console alive for years to come.
Yes, yes. And the Atari 2600 is still alive too.
Just because a few people still develop and play with an outdated, old, and rather crappy system doesn't mean that the system is doing well, successful, popular, or even mentioned at all in the future. Sure, the system will be alive by a few teenagers with far too much time on their hands and a little monkey coding in their blood, but does that mean it's worth it or even matters?
Are we all too young to remember the original NES Nintendo Entertainment System?
I couldn't start the thing half the time, and spent more time blowing into the cartridge than actually playing the game. I remember having to buy bottles of alcohol just to clean the cartridges. And I remember once taking apart my NES because something got stuck inside the cartridge loader. Ok, now. All systems have had their problems and we've all dealt with them before, are we too spoiled now to deal with an overheating problem?
I mean, when I first bought an AMD (It was the 1.2 Ghz Athlon) I had so many overheating problems but I dealt with it for the faster (for cheaper) processor. And now I have an AMD 64 3200+ and I still have trivial problems (at least compared to my Intel P4 2.4 GHZ) with overheating. But I deal with it. I paid less for a faster processor and I deal with it.
I'm tired of hearing about powersupply crap and now scratching? Uhm. There are solutions out there, explore them.
Some people can't afford the internet, regardless of age. This is the United States of America, yes. But even then, not everyone living here is living in prosperity.
From http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/CV/BLEEX-Summary.pdf:
The control scheme needs no direct measurements from the human or from the human-machine interface (e.g., sensors between them). The controller, based on measurements from the exoskeleton only, estimates (i.e., computes very quickly) how to move so that the wearer feels very few forces. This novel control scheme is quite elaborate, but it is an effective way to create locomotion when the area of contact between the wearer and the machine is unpredictable.
The first possibility is that this show is really, truly deserving of the number one spot of 2005's best television.
The second possibility is that the man behind the article had the self-discipline and fervent determination as a die-hard fan of Battlestar Galactica (and probably any of its sci-fi cousins) to give reasonable, detailed and accountable reviews up until that point to earn the credibility he needed to be in the position to be the reviewer of 2005's best television shows. And then, at the last moment he pulled out his hardcore sci-fi passion and placed it at the top of a list that usually never gets a sci-fi show just to have snuck in the passion of his life into the mainstream.
Sneaky or not, the rest of the list is reasonable (which still allows for the second possibility to actually be true).