Justifying pornography because it is "natural" may not be the best way to defend it. Even from a non-religious point of view, many "natural" emotions and desires are not considered acceptable to society.
Think of a time when you were fired for no reason, or you failed a test you studied hard for. I would be very much surprised if you didn't feel like being cruel to and/or hurting your teacher or former boss. Or perhaps you remember a time a spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend cheated on you. Why, they were only acting on natural desires, so why should they be at fault?
Natural desires lead us to cheat, steal, lie and seek personal gain at the expense of others. To classify all natural desires as 'OK' would be wrong.
This is really incredible. Carmack has always been a long time supporter of OpenGL, because afaik OpenGL has always been regarded as a more sophisticated and feature-rich graphics driver as opposed to Direct3D.
It'll be interesting to see if other developers decide to take this precedent and remove support for OpenGL from future games to speed up development time. Of course most games today use Direct3D exclusively anyways so the impact could be small. However, up until now id has always kept the OpenGL/Linux community alive by designing games for OpenGL. Even if id and id alone makes this move, it could still be a big hit to the Linux gaming community.
I do find it funny that people will be paranoid about GMail now... the only reason these MediaDefender-Defender guys got in is because they knew the password. Perhaps GMail is more insecure than other email providers; however, afaik they didn't hack into his account, they just found out his password from another site and used it to log into his email. Not exactly GMail's fault.
Vorbis encodes very nicely to low bitrates (112, 128 VBR) that are comparable to (if not better than) 256kbps VBR Lame encodings. Unfortunately, all of this is just conjecture and unless we see an actual limit in bytes, nobody will really know what bit rate they have in mind.
Keep in mind that what they gave customers was store credit. That means that whatever customers may buy, Apple is only losing whatever it cost to make the Apple device that is bought. That may be only $25-$75. Plus they are distributing more Apple accessories which will in turn advertise for the company and promote brand loyalty. Brilliant really...
I, along with my brothers and sisters, was home schooled from day 1. I am the oldest of 4 and I learned to read when I was 6 years old at my mothers prompting, like most "normal" kids in public school systems. However, my mom started experimenting with the next three children and was surprised to find my sister reading at the age of THREE. And not just words like "cat" or "hat", but real books aimed at 8-12 year olds.
While science requires different brain functions, it seems to me that you can't generalize what kids can or cannot learn at certain ages. It really depends on their environment and their inherent ability to understand abstract concepts.
At least now I can watch these movies from the comfort of my own home. That way when I am let down I will only have been robbed of a short segment of my life; I get to keep the $10.
This topic has turned into yet another religion bashing post. Nearly all the comments I have seen that support the non-evolution point of view have been marked as trolling. Hmm. Why is it that those who do not believe in the creation story have such a hard time accepting that other people believe it? And even more intriguing, why do I hear names like "stupid" and "ignorant" being tossed around? It seems to me that someone who is so "rational" and "in-tune" with the scientific world would calmly explain their point of view instead of lashing out against anyone who doesn't accept their theory.
The best solution I can come up with is that it makes these people afraid. Afraid that their beloved science, their "facts" that they hold so dear, may be the very things to drag them down in the end. I can find no other explanation for it. Why sit around and waste your time telling these obviously delusional people that they are wrong? Instead you feel the need to spend a lot of time and effort attacking those who have a faith that you do not understand. There have been good pieces of scientific evidence that surfaced in this post. So you have to ask yourself: "Why do so many people believe this stupid idea that macro evolution is not fact and that the world was created in 'X' days versus 'Y' days, as science clearly tells us?" Well, think about this. How many scientific ideas have we been told are "fact" and yet only a few years later we see new evidence that proves our previously held ideas completely wrong? There have been many. Consider the structure of an atom, or the quantum versus wave view of particles. Theories on both of these subjects (and many more!) have been tossed back and forth for centuries, but we still have much to learn and discover about them.
But I digress. There is an underlying issue here. Why is it that as soon as someone rears their religious head, everyone is so quick to tear them down instead of constructing a sound argument about why they believe there ISN'T a God and a creation? I find it highly amusing that it is found "alarming" that many people believe the earth was created in 10,000 years. So what if they do? I myself am inclined to believe scientific evidence. Sure, why not, right? I don't care what scientists find. Just because the world appears 2.5 trillion years old (or maybe 2 billion, or 1 million, or 20,000 for all I care) does not mean there is no God. Just because I have an alternative belief does not mean I am ignorant. I highly respect that 48% that reject evolution as fact, not because they are necessarily religious but because they realize that they do not need to accept something just because it is popular. Stand up for what you believe and get stoned; I guess it's as true in Bible times as it is nowadays at/. .
Try comparing 'love' to 'wind' with your girlfriend/wife, I'm sure they'd love that (no pun intended:) ). Your argument is silly because love is not made up of matter.
What I am referring to is deeper than your sadly shallow point of view. It is the love you feel from your savior. Without trying to get myself into a religious debacle, I will point out that you cannot see love either. But I'd be willing to bet you believe it exists. Some things cannot be seen.
Homeschooled children are better educated as a whole than most of public school because of individual attention and a less stressful learning environment. This is why most colleges view it as a plus if the prospective student has been homeschooled. I was homeschooled myself K through 12 and I am doing very well. I am currently working towards my BA in EE. Don't be so quick to pass judgment.
And I don't want to see any replies about "social skills." I had no trouble at all leaving my family or making friends in school, so I don't want to hear about how homeschoolers can't make it in "the real world." If the real world was anything like public school, we'd all be in trouble.
I believe you are wrong here. Evolution has been forced on and indoctrinated into youth today and yet these figures seem to show that young adults are growing up with a faith in a higher power. Interesting that no matter how much science you push on somebody, people still see the beauty and power that surrounds everything in the scientific world that is not definable by any empirical means. People do not necessarily believe in God just because they are ignorant. I consider myself a well educated Junior in college with a well rounded education. It is true that I grew up in a Christian home, but I believe what I believe no matter what science says because of the personal impact it's had on my life.
I'm not about to change my beliefs just because somebody says to be "open minded". There is only one truth and being "open" to other ideas is completely contrary to having faith. What I believe in cannot be proved correct scientifically, therefore it cannot be proven wrong scientifically.
It's not. I believe in creation and frankly it doesn't matter how old the earth appears to be. There is no evidence for faith; that's why it's called faith.
Definitely a good point about gaming magazines. But certain areas like sports or cars have great pictures only available in print or other features. Computer and gaming mags may eventually move completely online in a user-editable format for the reasons you listed.
There are a lot of wiki's available today, but a magazine type wiki? Definitely makes you think about the future of paper magazines. Some people say you can't replace the feeling of getting a paper magazine once a month in the mail, but (especially in the gaming community) you can see something like this evolving into a great source of information.
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I hate when HDD manufactures do this... 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 at what bit rate?
Perhaps this counts as "last week", but what about Sam and Max 201 - Ice Station Santa?
Justifying pornography because it is "natural" may not be the best way to defend it. Even from a non-religious point of view, many "natural" emotions and desires are not considered acceptable to society.
Think of a time when you were fired for no reason, or you failed a test you studied hard for. I would be very much surprised if you didn't feel like being cruel to and/or hurting your teacher or former boss. Or perhaps you remember a time a spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend cheated on you. Why, they were only acting on natural desires, so why should they be at fault?
Natural desires lead us to cheat, steal, lie and seek personal gain at the expense of others. To classify all natural desires as 'OK' would be wrong.
Interesting, seeing as I haven't heard of a case where someone was unable to use BT on a Comcast line so they tried again and it worked.
You jest, but that actually sounds like it could be fun.
Scratch that two off the charts and mark it back to one; I just uninstalled my Ubuntu distro.
"Indiana Jones and the Raiders of Indiana Jones"
At least for myself, when I'm stressed I perform worse in games anyways. I find that I play at my best when I'm confident and having a good day.
... but prices don't come out!
This is really incredible. Carmack has always been a long time supporter of OpenGL, because afaik OpenGL has always been regarded as a more sophisticated and feature-rich graphics driver as opposed to Direct3D.
It'll be interesting to see if other developers decide to take this precedent and remove support for OpenGL from future games to speed up development time. Of course most games today use Direct3D exclusively anyways so the impact could be small. However, up until now id has always kept the OpenGL/Linux community alive by designing games for OpenGL. Even if id and id alone makes this move, it could still be a big hit to the Linux gaming community.
I do find it funny that people will be paranoid about GMail now... the only reason these MediaDefender-Defender guys got in is because they knew the password. Perhaps GMail is more insecure than other email providers; however, afaik they didn't hack into his account, they just found out his password from another site and used it to log into his email. Not exactly GMail's fault.
Vorbis encodes very nicely to low bitrates (112, 128 VBR) that are comparable to (if not better than) 256kbps VBR Lame encodings. Unfortunately, all of this is just conjecture and unless we see an actual limit in bytes, nobody will really know what bit rate they have in mind.
Keep in mind that what they gave customers was store credit. That means that whatever customers may buy, Apple is only losing whatever it cost to make the Apple device that is bought. That may be only $25-$75. Plus they are distributing more Apple accessories which will in turn advertise for the company and promote brand loyalty. Brilliant really...
I, along with my brothers and sisters, was home schooled from day 1. I am the oldest of 4 and I learned to read when I was 6 years old at my mothers prompting, like most "normal" kids in public school systems. However, my mom started experimenting with the next three children and was surprised to find my sister reading at the age of THREE. And not just words like "cat" or "hat", but real books aimed at 8-12 year olds. While science requires different brain functions, it seems to me that you can't generalize what kids can or cannot learn at certain ages. It really depends on their environment and their inherent ability to understand abstract concepts.
At least now I can watch these movies from the comfort of my own home. That way when I am let down I will only have been robbed of a short segment of my life; I get to keep the $10.
This topic has turned into yet another religion bashing post. Nearly all the comments I have seen that support the non-evolution point of view have been marked as trolling. Hmm. Why is it that those who do not believe in the creation story have such a hard time accepting that other people believe it? And even more intriguing, why do I hear names like "stupid" and "ignorant" being tossed around? It seems to me that someone who is so "rational" and "in-tune" with the scientific world would calmly explain their point of view instead of lashing out against anyone who doesn't accept their theory.
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The best solution I can come up with is that it makes these people afraid. Afraid that their beloved science, their "facts" that they hold so dear, may be the very things to drag them down in the end. I can find no other explanation for it. Why sit around and waste your time telling these obviously delusional people that they are wrong? Instead you feel the need to spend a lot of time and effort attacking those who have a faith that you do not understand. There have been good pieces of scientific evidence that surfaced in this post. So you have to ask yourself: "Why do so many people believe this stupid idea that macro evolution is not fact and that the world was created in 'X' days versus 'Y' days, as science clearly tells us?" Well, think about this. How many scientific ideas have we been told are "fact" and yet only a few years later we see new evidence that proves our previously held ideas completely wrong? There have been many. Consider the structure of an atom, or the quantum versus wave view of particles. Theories on both of these subjects (and many more!) have been tossed back and forth for centuries, but we still have much to learn and discover about them.
But I digress. There is an underlying issue here. Why is it that as soon as someone rears their religious head, everyone is so quick to tear them down instead of constructing a sound argument about why they believe there ISN'T a God and a creation? I find it highly amusing that it is found "alarming" that many people believe the earth was created in 10,000 years. So what if they do? I myself am inclined to believe scientific evidence. Sure, why not, right? I don't care what scientists find. Just because the world appears 2.5 trillion years old (or maybe 2 billion, or 1 million, or 20,000 for all I care) does not mean there is no God. Just because I have an alternative belief does not mean I am ignorant. I highly respect that 48% that reject evolution as fact, not because they are necessarily religious but because they realize that they do not need to accept something just because it is popular. Stand up for what you believe and get stoned; I guess it's as true in Bible times as it is nowadays at
Try comparing 'love' to 'wind' with your girlfriend/wife, I'm sure they'd love that (no pun intended :) ). Your argument is silly because love is not made up of matter.
What I am referring to is deeper than your sadly shallow point of view. It is the love you feel from your savior. Without trying to get myself into a religious debacle, I will point out that you cannot see love either. But I'd be willing to bet you believe it exists. Some things cannot be seen.
Homeschooled children are better educated as a whole than most of public school because of individual attention and a less stressful learning environment. This is why most colleges view it as a plus if the prospective student has been homeschooled. I was homeschooled myself K through 12 and I am doing very well. I am currently working towards my BA in EE. Don't be so quick to pass judgment.
And I don't want to see any replies about "social skills." I had no trouble at all leaving my family or making friends in school, so I don't want to hear about how homeschoolers can't make it in "the real world." If the real world was anything like public school, we'd all be in trouble.
I believe you are wrong here. Evolution has been forced on and indoctrinated into youth today and yet these figures seem to show that young adults are growing up with a faith in a higher power. Interesting that no matter how much science you push on somebody, people still see the beauty and power that surrounds everything in the scientific world that is not definable by any empirical means. People do not necessarily believe in God just because they are ignorant. I consider myself a well educated Junior in college with a well rounded education. It is true that I grew up in a Christian home, but I believe what I believe no matter what science says because of the personal impact it's had on my life.
I'm not about to change my beliefs just because somebody says to be "open minded". There is only one truth and being "open" to other ideas is completely contrary to having faith. What I believe in cannot be proved correct scientifically, therefore it cannot be proven wrong scientifically.
It's not. I believe in creation and frankly it doesn't matter how old the earth appears to be. There is no evidence for faith; that's why it's called faith.
Definitely a good point about gaming magazines. But certain areas like sports or cars have great pictures only available in print or other features. Computer and gaming mags may eventually move completely online in a user-editable format for the reasons you listed.
There are a lot of wiki's available today, but a magazine type wiki? Definitely makes you think about the future of paper magazines. Some people say you can't replace the feeling of getting a paper magazine once a month in the mail, but (especially in the gaming community) you can see something like this evolving into a great source of information.
This article might have more relevance if it was discussing the "primary users", not "owners" of consoles.