You forgot after switching to the buggy-whip business, they then sued the largest automaker, and threatened to sue customers of that automaker, claiming that said auto maker stole buggy-whip technology and implemented it into automobiles.
I feel like a huge idiot (well not really because the inline find feature isn't incredibly obvious, so really a slight idiot), but at the same time, incredibly grateful. You've just given me a reason to switch to Opera, sir.
The only reason I use Firefox over Opera and IE 7 is because of Firefox's find feature. Having a separate window pop up for finding a word or phrase is incredibly disruptive, especially when you're looking for multiple instances. As soon as you click outside the find window, it looses your place, and you have to start all the way at the beginning again. I know it sounds silly to most people, but Find is one of the feature I use most often, and if it isn't like Firefox, I'm not switching.
The other advantage of the CD is less surface area to get scratched in the first place. Records were very unwieldy in comparison. They were much harder to take care of, and even if you were paranoid with your LPs, they still would wear out over time, reducing sound quality with every spin on the turntable.
"Vista, however, is six years after XP. There's a lot more investment involved here."
It may have been six years between the XP and Vista RTMs, but that doesn't mean the product you hold in your hands today has anything to do with what was going on from 2001-2003. Technically, Vista was only in development for three years. If you recall, all development on Longhorn (Vista's code name) was completely scrapped about 3-4 years ago. They started fresh after that. So Vista was really not in development for that much longer than ME.
Sparta is only a few miles up the road from me. It's a miserable hick-town with nothing going for it.
This is ridiculous. What shocks me is that this is even a law. If you're a business that offers Wifi, then you should be able to secure it properly. If you can't, then you deserve all the piggybackers you get.
It's like the British government gets all their ideas from Half-Life 2. What's next, three-legged walkers? That country needs an infinite rocket crate, stat.
The way consumers burn CDs is nothing like how real CDs are manufactured. Burning creates a series of discolored dots on the surface of the disc, while manufactured CDs are created by pitting the surface of a master die which presses the pits into the blank disc surface.
"It just requires colleges and universites to get their noses out of their butt and poke them in the comerical world and see what they are doing there. And they may be supprised that life outside of education has many interesting areas of study that they never explored.
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I can really relate to this. A lot of universities sadly have become walled gardens in respect to current trends in the real world.
The texture of a dollar bill is extremely unique. I would think that someone who is blind would experience this even more than you or me. The paper used to make US money is a cloth-based (that's why it can survive a washing machine) formula that is very hard to duplicate. Oftentimes, a counterfeit is discovered because it just doesn't "feel" right.
The Kama Sutra is not pornography. It is a work for sexual education and technique. Pornography is an unrealistic representation of sex and not in the same category.
"Leviticus commandments imply that god cares about what kind of clothes we wear.
The "New Covenant" implies that god does not care about what kind of clothes we wear."
Leviticus implies that God cared about what kind of clothes the Israelites wore. I don't know the reasoning for it. Perhaps it was like the Bavarian beer purity laws that only allowed barley, water, hops, and yeast to be used to make it. That way it would be illegal for people to cheapen their product with inferior ingredients. I've found that there's always a historical pretext to these things. There are other laws that would have seemed ridiculous to most people in the world at that time, too. The laws on hygiene and diet were commanded during a time when Egyptian doctors would use feces on open wounds to heal them. To people that practiced this, a law that said you had to bury your excrement would seem ludicrous.
"Also, if I recall, the Bible specifically says that those laws are NOT meant to be temporary... something about a covenant lasting forever... so I think you have the facts wrong on that bit."
I just find this laughable because you tell me I'm wrong without offering any proof whatsoever. No citations or anything, just what you "recall." Well, your recollection is flawed, or you misinterpreted something.
"So I still have no idea (and I would sincerely like to know) why god's opinion changed about these commandments. Either it is something rational that nobody knows about, or god is irrational, or we have a contradiction so god does not exist."
As I said before, God's opinion did not change. He had one set of rules for a certain time, place, and people, with a plan to refine them later as he opened up that plan to the rest of the world. I am going to look into why the farming/clothing laws may have been put into place, because before it never struck me as something that mattered.
On that note, I don't care if you don't believe in God. I'm a Christian (if you couldn't already tell) who doesn't believe the earth was created in 6,000 years. I believe this because the word used for "day" is used other places in the Bible to describe varying periods of time. The people that take the Bible literally tend to hold to their flawed King James translation and don't understand the dynamics of other languages. Oftentimes, if understood in the original language, the Bible says very different things than what is commonly accepted.
"And people think it is reasonable for a god to make large numbers of odd demands, then all of a sudden change his entire philosophy and say none of them matter? Or is the christian god believed to be whimsical and unreasonable?"
No, those laws were never meant to be permanent to begin with. The whole point of Jesus was to fulfill those laws. Basically, he was the ultimate sacrifice, the pinnacle of what the whole law was about to begin with. Most Christian churches don't teach the entire 10 commandments, either, since one of them was to keep the sabbath.
The mistake people make when talking about Christianity is they lump every OT law together as a single entity. Then, the fact that we don't observe the festival of booths and eat pork is proof of Christian hypocrisy, when in fact those laws are repealed later in the bible. OT law provides some very basic tenets to live by, along with guidelines that were specifically meant for the survival of Israel. Since Jesus' sacrifice, God's favor opened up to people in all nations, and the survival of one group of people in one area of the world ceased to matter.
Christians aren't bound by the Law of Moses. This issue is covered in most of the New Testament. Specifically, issues such as circumcision and dietary laws are specifically addressed.
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Oh my God! Hahahahahahahahahaha! I've never heard that one before? It's from the Simpsons right?!! Hahahahahahahaha! Oh my God you're so FUNNY!
You forgot after switching to the buggy-whip business, they then sued the largest automaker, and threatened to sue customers of that automaker, claiming that said auto maker stole buggy-whip technology and implemented it into automobiles.
I feel like a huge idiot (well not really because the inline find feature isn't incredibly obvious, so really a slight idiot), but at the same time, incredibly grateful. You've just given me a reason to switch to Opera, sir.
The only reason I use Firefox over Opera and IE 7 is because of Firefox's find feature. Having a separate window pop up for finding a word or phrase is incredibly disruptive, especially when you're looking for multiple instances. As soon as you click outside the find window, it looses your place, and you have to start all the way at the beginning again. I know it sounds silly to most people, but Find is one of the feature I use most often, and if it isn't like Firefox, I'm not switching.
I'm guessing you think the only application for 3D acceleration in Linux is games.
Is it strange that I trust the thieves with my data more than Monster.com?
The other advantage of the CD is less surface area to get scratched in the first place. Records were very unwieldy in comparison. They were much harder to take care of, and even if you were paranoid with your LPs, they still would wear out over time, reducing sound quality with every spin on the turntable.
I wouldn't be surprised. If the deal did fall through it was likely because GW realized that sales of their $40 boxes of plastic would suffer.
This is sickening and just more proof that capitalism is unsustainable.
Blackberries are delicious
"Vista, however, is six years after XP. There's a lot more investment involved here."
It may have been six years between the XP and Vista RTMs, but that doesn't mean the product you hold in your hands today has anything to do with what was going on from 2001-2003. Technically, Vista was only in development for three years. If you recall, all development on Longhorn (Vista's code name) was completely scrapped about 3-4 years ago. They started fresh after that. So Vista was really not in development for that much longer than ME.
Sparta is only a few miles up the road from me. It's a miserable hick-town with nothing going for it. This is ridiculous. What shocks me is that this is even a law. If you're a business that offers Wifi, then you should be able to secure it properly. If you can't, then you deserve all the piggybackers you get.
The thing is, Linux (or rather, Gnome and KDE) DOES infringe on at least one. Microsoft currently carries the patent on double-click customization.
It's like the British government gets all their ideas from Half-Life 2. What's next, three-legged walkers? That country needs an infinite rocket crate, stat.
I think Slashdotters should hold a summit to teach Digg users how to properly execute Yakov Smirnoff jokes.
If he is, then how does he explain the DOWB (Decade of Windows Bugs)?
The way consumers burn CDs is nothing like how real CDs are manufactured. Burning creates a series of discolored dots on the surface of the disc, while manufactured CDs are created by pitting the surface of a master die which presses the pits into the blank disc surface.
"It just requires colleges and universites to get their noses out of their butt and poke them in the comerical world and see what they are doing there. And they may be supprised that life outside of education has many interesting areas of study that they never explored. --"
I can really relate to this. A lot of universities sadly have become walled gardens in respect to current trends in the real world.
The texture of a dollar bill is extremely unique. I would think that someone who is blind would experience this even more than you or me. The paper used to make US money is a cloth-based (that's why it can survive a washing machine) formula that is very hard to duplicate. Oftentimes, a counterfeit is discovered because it just doesn't "feel" right.
That's right, all those "Dear Penthouse" letters are real..
The Kama Sutra is not pornography. It is a work for sexual education and technique. Pornography is an unrealistic representation of sex and not in the same category.
"Leviticus commandments imply that god cares about what kind of clothes we wear. The "New Covenant" implies that god does not care about what kind of clothes we wear."
Leviticus implies that God cared about what kind of clothes the Israelites wore. I don't know the reasoning for it. Perhaps it was like the Bavarian beer purity laws that only allowed barley, water, hops, and yeast to be used to make it. That way it would be illegal for people to cheapen their product with inferior ingredients. I've found that there's always a historical pretext to these things. There are other laws that would have seemed ridiculous to most people in the world at that time, too. The laws on hygiene and diet were commanded during a time when Egyptian doctors would use feces on open wounds to heal them. To people that practiced this, a law that said you had to bury your excrement would seem ludicrous. "Also, if I recall, the Bible specifically says that those laws are NOT meant to be temporary... something about a covenant lasting forever... so I think you have the facts wrong on that bit."
I just find this laughable because you tell me I'm wrong without offering any proof whatsoever. No citations or anything, just what you "recall." Well, your recollection is flawed, or you misinterpreted something.
"So I still have no idea (and I would sincerely like to know) why god's opinion changed about these commandments. Either it is something rational that nobody knows about, or god is irrational, or we have a contradiction so god does not exist."
As I said before, God's opinion did not change. He had one set of rules for a certain time, place, and people, with a plan to refine them later as he opened up that plan to the rest of the world. I am going to look into why the farming/clothing laws may have been put into place, because before it never struck me as something that mattered.
On that note, I don't care if you don't believe in God. I'm a Christian (if you couldn't already tell) who doesn't believe the earth was created in 6,000 years. I believe this because the word used for "day" is used other places in the Bible to describe varying periods of time. The people that take the Bible literally tend to hold to their flawed King James translation and don't understand the dynamics of other languages. Oftentimes, if understood in the original language, the Bible says very different things than what is commonly accepted.
"And people think it is reasonable for a god to make large numbers of odd demands, then all of a sudden change his entire philosophy and say none of them matter? Or is the christian god believed to be whimsical and unreasonable?"
No, those laws were never meant to be permanent to begin with. The whole point of Jesus was to fulfill those laws. Basically, he was the ultimate sacrifice, the pinnacle of what the whole law was about to begin with. Most Christian churches don't teach the entire 10 commandments, either, since one of them was to keep the sabbath.
The mistake people make when talking about Christianity is they lump every OT law together as a single entity. Then, the fact that we don't observe the festival of booths and eat pork is proof of Christian hypocrisy, when in fact those laws are repealed later in the bible. OT law provides some very basic tenets to live by, along with guidelines that were specifically meant for the survival of Israel. Since Jesus' sacrifice, God's favor opened up to people in all nations, and the survival of one group of people in one area of the world ceased to matter.
Christians aren't bound by the Law of Moses. This issue is covered in most of the New Testament. Specifically, issues such as circumcision and dietary laws are specifically addressed.
Didn't Bill Gates write "Nibbles" or something?