It's not fair to make fun of OS/2.
OS/2 was a technology leader for a long time, it was the first OS to take the desktop metaphor seriously. Its programming model (SOM) and template system is still marvelous after all these years.
It was the first OS with proper multi-threading support, with voice support etc. etc.
Lots of innovations happenend on this platform.
It just had one problem: It was managed by IBM!
When OS/2 version 3 came out, it kicked ass compared to Win 3.11 and Win 95.
Just imagine what would have happenend if IBM had decided to put a proper fight in the desktop war.
We would have a far more advanced OS by now.
Currently we are stuck with Vista, which is a graphical update of the interface concepts of Windows 3.11!
It's a shame we are stuck in the 90s wrt human computer interaction.
If you would follow this field more closely you would find that there is a small but steadily growing number of scientists from around the world working in this field.
Since cold fusion has such a bad reputation, they are calling it Low -Energy Nuclear Reactions.
It's not only a better name, but it describes more accurately what those scientists are seeing:
Transmutations and excess energy in low energy conditions.
The offical LENR webcine New Energy Times has all the info:
"it's counted from the creation of the human soul (ie, "Adam")"
Could you define "soul" for me, please?
And who told you that its counted from the creation of Adam? And which version?
And while you keep pulling "facts" out of your butt: Where did Cain get his wife?
(And another hint: Go read the gilgamesh epos)
And while you re-read Genesis: How can you stand the fact that God is a lier and a sexist right in the first 2 chapters of this old dusty book.
You entertain me quite a bit, thanks!
Well, believing incredible things like virgin birth, eternal after-life just because some authority told you to do so (and withouth having a shed of evidence), is simple-mindedness, don't you think? Can we agree on that?
Fear of eternal torment, sin, martyrdom etc. are powerful tools in the hand of skillful manipulators. Religious people are exploitable using those tools. I don't think you have to google far to find these simple, logical statements backed up by evidence.
And once again: You confuse atheism with dogma. Don't worry, you are not the only one. Also many atheists, including Sam Harris, would like to drop this name, for obvious reasons.
The rest of your statements just show the typical religious mindset: Ignorant to simple, logical facts, ignorant of evidence, heck - even ignorant of daily news. I'm sure you are willing to call radical islamists mad and dangerous without seeing the irony in it.
Your statements about 'dehumanizing your enemies' are insofar correct, however, you can't take religion out of the equation. The spanish inquisition is a good example of this.
Basically, you have to differ between "group-think" (which makes any outsider your enemy) and the dogma of religious faith.
You can very easily use religious faith to escalate a confrontation between religious groups (or religious groups vs. non-religious groups), however, I've never heard of non-believing, reason, scientific enquiry being used as a reason for war.
Well the chinese regime can claim it being atheistic any way it likes.
If it sticks to the dogma to ban any religion (which no atheist in its right mind would strive for), it is still a
dangerous doctrine.
Just not in the name of atheism. And that is the whole point.
And speaking of wars: How many wars have been lead in the name of religion?
That said, I'm completely aware of the fact that wars have been lead simply by simple motivations like greed, power.
Still the best way of the people in power to motivate a war is to give joe average some kind of good/evil scheme.
Religious people are the easiest to exploit wrt such schemes.
If your mind is blinded with the simplistic views of religious doctrine, the jump to violence behaviour isn't far.
This can be witnessed every day: In Iraq and in the US of A and in numerous other religious countries.
What your brain does not seem to digest: There is no atheistic regime!
You don't talk of an anti-astrology regime, because it just makes no sense.
Dogmas are bad, but look up the definition of dogma and compare this to scientific inquiry, reason and rational discourse, which are often associated with atheism.
Hell, I don't see the swedish and norway government killing people and suppressing minorities. Those could be called, in your twisted logic, atheistic.
Oh come on. Be rational. That has nothing to do with religion. Far more people have been executed and tortured at the hands of atheist regimes than religious ones.
Can we rest this particularly wrong argument?
How have people been killed and tortured in the name of rationality, science, skeptic inquiry?
I won't mention that you can't really compare the numbers: We are much more efficient in killing people now than at the times of the holy crusade or the spanish inquisition.
The point is: Name one bad deed specifically done in the name of unbelieve in a higher being?
Now name one bad deed done in the name of any higher being?
I hope you are not really proposing that is how the world works.
This theory is not testable at all and anything can happen in this world. So the predictive power of this theory would be exactly zero.
We can do better than this.
If the National Academy of Sciences feels the urge to make such a statement, then this is another shocking sign of how far religious thinking has permeated the US of A.
I keep looking forward to the time when people proclaiming to get their commands from god have to pay the same price as people proclaiming that elvis is still alive
looking like a happy man/ in the snow with Rosebud/ and King of the mountain.
Not necessarily. As a developer, when you run a bunch of testcases, if you find a bug, you don't halt everything in the debugger and fix the bug immediately, you just wait until it's all over Still stuck with C++?
Dude, in modern java virtual machines you can replace the class as you go and fix your bug while debugging. Don't get caught in the 90's.
Assigning a number to a game isn't doing justice to the different tastes and gamer groups at all.
But there are other problems: I still have to find reviews which contain all relevant information, especially on console games.
A few days ago I tried to find PS3 games which can be played co-op in offline mode. (No PS3 jokes, please:)
If a multiplayer mode was mentioned at all in one of those two dozens or so reviews I looked at, it wasn't mentioned if it was online only. Even in the summary or fact sheet of a game, you didn't have the simple information that you get when looking at the back of the actual box! It's embarrassing!
At least the basic facts of the game (how many players, co-op vs. versus, co-op campaign, online, offline, 2 player splitscreen horizontally or vertically split etc.), should be mentioned.
Yet this seems to be too much to ask. Go ahead, try to find out how many players can play Rainbox Six Las Vegas on PS3 on one console? Is the compaign playable with 4 players?
My paranoia tells me it is not so much a developer's choice;)
Other games in the GfW-Initiative: Shadowrun (Vista only), Lost Planet (works best on Vista), BUT VISTA; BUY VISTA
Blehh.
If there are real technical reasons to upgrade, fine, but I don't see them.
"Games for Windows" is a certification to encourage games to play well with modern hardware, e.g. support widescreen and run on 64-bit operating systems. This is a good thing.
Dual monitor mode in World in Conflict only works with DirectX 10. How is that a good thing?
And how come I can't help myself wondering that M$ is behind this dubious decision. Multi-monitoring-support in DirectX 9 is no problem whatsoever! Looks to me like "Games for Windows" is designed to push players into using Vista...which you would really piss off if you run it on 64-bit...
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One of the most important points for using something like GWT has been missed:
You can write test code for GWT very easily!
If you ever tried to debug a mid-sized Javascript application, you know what I'm talking about.
With GWT you have a hosted environment that makes debugging much easier.
Also, you can employ Test Driven Development much easier. There is even explicit support for JUnit in GWT.
For your favourite toy web application, GWT may be overpowered. For massive, distributed internet applications who need to involve the client side as much as they can, GWT currently is the best solution for Java shops.
Wow, the chinese scientific community will be amazed to learn that their government officially acknowledges the existence of reincarnation. Great news for buddhists: Unique Reincarnation manual, now approved by TEH CHINESE GOVERNMENT! Buy one, get one free.
Jeez. Can we get rid of all this religious madness please?
Why is the parent post moderated as Insightful?
A civilization spanning millions of galaxies and they all blow themselves up at the same time, eradicating all matter, somehow get rid of the radiation?
Come on, guys. You can do better
Baseleass statements? You surely did your research!
I said they have lots of evidence! I didnt say: They know for a fact.
At the very least, they are actually doing some real research to find out why life formed and
dont look for answers in outdated books with fairy tales (bible) or attribute it to some higher being they simply
have NO evidence for!
Nice try, anonymous coward, try again.
However, where God steps into the picture for me in this context is as the provider of the initial GA, after which organisms can themselves take over the process from there. I'm not claiming (at least in this context) to have any definite idea of what God actually is or was, either...but I do think that there are at least a couple of areas, (such as the GA question) which atheistic evolutionary theory alone can't really account for. Under what evidence?
Why can you assume that - even if we currently have no satisfying explanation for the initial spark for life - a supernatural being did it?
At least, scientist have some evidence that life emerged from simple chemical processes, but you, on the other side, have no frigging evidence at all for your point?
Just because theory A does not currently explain all phenomens, theory B (God did it) is automatically true.
That is just... nonsense.
It is well-known that Java is a "write once, debug everywhere" solution.
Speak for thyself. For 6 years now we are deploying a complex(>3000 classes), swing-based client to windows, linux and even mac desktops.
We never, ever had to debug something because of different platform quirks.
Even better, we never compiled the code on those other platforms. Class files are compatible across platforms.
Using fine grained security permissions, no code is executed we don't want to. No buffer overflows on our server, improved performance with every major JDK release.
I could go on and on. It really saves a LOT of work!
Yesterday I installed firefox on a new machine.
I went to a website which required Flash 9. Since I didn't have this plugin, I simply clicked on "Install plugin" or whatever and within seconds(!) I had flash installed and could watch the page without any other hassles.
No braindead installer, no ridicously long loading times, just slick and smooth,
THIS is what Sun needs to accomplish: A no-pain, mind-numbing simple and unobstrusive way to install a minimal, blazing fast VM on the client.
The rest is just icing on the cake.
The default for this option must be OFF in any case. Is the firefox team really prepared to be associated with the same business practices Microsoft and -the new kid on the bloack- Apple is showing?`
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Ah, the old early indoctrination tactic again.
Well, not really that early to be effective, but still a nice try.
Organized religion is a scam
Want to play Quake now? From the browser?
No matter what Operating System?
Take a look at Jake2.
http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html
So where exactly is the innovation here?
OS/2 was a technology leader for a long time, it was the first OS to take the desktop metaphor seriously. Its programming model (SOM) and template system is still marvelous after all these years. It was the first OS with proper multi-threading support, with voice support etc. etc. Lots of innovations happenend on this platform.
It just had one problem: It was managed by IBM!
When OS/2 version 3 came out, it kicked ass compared to Win 3.11 and Win 95. Just imagine what would have happenend if IBM had decided to put a proper fight in the desktop war.
We would have a far more advanced OS by now.
Currently we are stuck with Vista, which is a graphical update of the interface concepts of Windows 3.11!
It's a shame we are stuck in the 90s wrt human computer interaction.
Since cold fusion has such a bad reputation, they are calling it Low -Energy Nuclear Reactions. It's not only a better name, but it describes more accurately what those scientists are seeing: Transmutations and excess energy in low energy conditions.
The offical LENR webcine New Energy Times has all the info:
http://www.newenergytimes.com/
This is rubbish. There wasn't a line at all when I purchased my stuff yesterday night at 11pm in this store.
"it's counted from the creation of the human soul (ie, "Adam")" Could you define "soul" for me, please? And who told you that its counted from the creation of Adam? And which version? And while you keep pulling "facts" out of your butt: Where did Cain get his wife? (And another hint: Go read the gilgamesh epos) And while you re-read Genesis: How can you stand the fact that God is a lier and a sexist right in the first 2 chapters of this old dusty book.
Well, believing incredible things like virgin birth, eternal after-life just because some authority told you to do so (and withouth having a shed of evidence), is simple-mindedness, don't you think? Can we agree on that?
Fear of eternal torment, sin, martyrdom etc. are powerful tools in the hand of skillful manipulators. Religious people are exploitable using those tools. I don't think you have to google far to find these simple, logical statements backed up by evidence.
And once again: You confuse atheism with dogma. Don't worry, you are not the only one. Also many atheists, including Sam Harris, would like to drop this name, for obvious reasons.
The rest of your statements just show the typical religious mindset: Ignorant to simple, logical facts, ignorant of evidence, heck - even ignorant of daily news. I'm sure you are willing to call radical islamists mad and dangerous without seeing the irony in it.
Your statements about 'dehumanizing your enemies' are insofar correct, however, you can't take religion out of the equation. The spanish inquisition is a good example of this. Basically, you have to differ between "group-think" (which makes any outsider your enemy) and the dogma of religious faith.
You can very easily use religious faith to escalate a confrontation between religious groups (or religious groups vs. non-religious groups), however, I've never heard of non-believing, reason, scientific enquiry being used as a reason for war.
Well the chinese regime can claim it being atheistic any way it likes. If it sticks to the dogma to ban any religion (which no atheist in its right mind would strive for), it is still a dangerous doctrine. Just not in the name of atheism. And that is the whole point. And speaking of wars: How many wars have been lead in the name of religion? That said, I'm completely aware of the fact that wars have been lead simply by simple motivations like greed, power. Still the best way of the people in power to motivate a war is to give joe average some kind of good/evil scheme. Religious people are the easiest to exploit wrt such schemes. If your mind is blinded with the simplistic views of religious doctrine, the jump to violence behaviour isn't far. This can be witnessed every day: In Iraq and in the US of A and in numerous other religious countries.
What your brain does not seem to digest: There is no atheistic regime! You don't talk of an anti-astrology regime, because it just makes no sense. Dogmas are bad, but look up the definition of dogma and compare this to scientific inquiry, reason and rational discourse, which are often associated with atheism. Hell, I don't see the swedish and norway government killing people and suppressing minorities. Those could be called, in your twisted logic, atheistic.
How have people been killed and tortured in the name of rationality, science, skeptic inquiry?
I won't mention that you can't really compare the numbers: We are much more efficient in killing people now than at the times of the holy crusade or the spanish inquisition.
The point is: Name one bad deed specifically done in the name of unbelieve in a higher being?
Now name one bad deed done in the name of any higher being?
I hope you are not really proposing that is how the world works. This theory is not testable at all and anything can happen in this world. So the predictive power of this theory would be exactly zero. We can do better than this.
If the National Academy of Sciences feels the urge to make such a statement, then this is another shocking sign of how far religious thinking has permeated the US of A.
I keep looking forward to the time when people proclaiming to get their commands from god have to pay the same price as people proclaiming that elvis is still alive looking like a happy man/ in the snow with Rosebud/ and King of the mountain.
But there are other problems: I still have to find reviews which contain all relevant information, especially on console games. A few days ago I tried to find PS3 games which can be played co-op in offline mode. (No PS3 jokes, please :)
If a multiplayer mode was mentioned at all in one of those two dozens or so reviews I looked at, it wasn't mentioned if it was online only. Even in the summary or fact sheet of a game, you didn't have the simple information that you get when looking at the back of the actual box! It's embarrassing!
At least the basic facts of the game (how many players, co-op vs. versus, co-op campaign, online, offline, 2 player splitscreen horizontally or vertically split etc.), should be mentioned. Yet this seems to be too much to ask. Go ahead, try to find out how many players can play Rainbox Six Las Vegas on PS3 on one console? Is the compaign playable with 4 players?
My paranoia tells me it is not so much a developer's choice ;)
Other games in the GfW-Initiative: Shadowrun (Vista only), Lost Planet (works best on Vista), BUT VISTA; BUY VISTA
Blehh.
If there are real technical reasons to upgrade, fine, but I don't see them.
And how come I can't help myself wondering that M$ is behind this dubious decision. Multi-monitoring-support in DirectX 9 is no problem whatsoever! Looks to me like "Games for Windows" is designed to push players into using Vista...which you would really piss off if you run it on 64-bit...
One of the most important points for using something like GWT has been missed: You can write test code for GWT very easily! If you ever tried to debug a mid-sized Javascript application, you know what I'm talking about. With GWT you have a hosted environment that makes debugging much easier. Also, you can employ Test Driven Development much easier. There is even explicit support for JUnit in GWT. For your favourite toy web application, GWT may be overpowered. For massive, distributed internet applications who need to involve the client side as much as they can, GWT currently is the best solution for Java shops.
Wow, the chinese scientific community will be amazed to learn that their government officially acknowledges the existence of reincarnation. Great news for buddhists: Unique Reincarnation manual, now approved by TEH CHINESE GOVERNMENT! Buy one, get one free. Jeez. Can we get rid of all this religious madness please?
Why is the parent post moderated as Insightful? A civilization spanning millions of galaxies and they all blow themselves up at the same time, eradicating all matter, somehow get rid of the radiation? Come on, guys. You can do better
Baseleass statements? You surely did your research! I said they have lots of evidence! I didnt say: They know for a fact. At the very least, they are actually doing some real research to find out why life formed and dont look for answers in outdated books with fairy tales (bible) or attribute it to some higher being they simply have NO evidence for! Nice try, anonymous coward, try again.
At least, scientist have some evidence that life emerged from simple chemical processes, but you, on the other side, have no frigging evidence at all for your point?
Just because theory A does not currently explain all phenomens, theory B (God did it) is automatically true. That is just ... nonsense.
Yesterday I installed firefox on a new machine. I went to a website which required Flash 9. Since I didn't have this plugin, I simply clicked on "Install plugin" or whatever and within seconds(!) I had flash installed and could watch the page without any other hassles. No braindead installer, no ridicously long loading times, just slick and smooth, THIS is what Sun needs to accomplish: A no-pain, mind-numbing simple and unobstrusive way to install a minimal, blazing fast VM on the client. The rest is just icing on the cake.
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r k.html
http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Computer/javaCbenchma
At least if I'm not telling you to do so ;)
The default for this option must be OFF in any case. Is the firefox team really prepared to be associated with the same business practices Microsoft and -the new kid on the bloack- Apple is showing?`