The fact that it may be possible to genetically modify humans to live longer does not support the biblical creation story. It just doesn't contradict it.
Finding evidence of localised floods, each of which happened at completely different times does nothing to support the notion of a global flood.
Will you put away your bullshit religious rhetoric and look at the evidence honestly?
I have never owned a computer with ECC ram and 95% of the people i know have never owned a computer with ECC ram. I'd be so bold as to suggest that 95% of all home users have never owned a computer with ECC ram. Is there some special reason that your PC needs to be a tiny bit more reliable than everybody else?
This thinking is too binary - it's a matter of degree. If you have a cheap convenient distribution method that converts 90% of pirates to your method, the fact that the other 10% still exists is unimportant. The trick is to come up with a method that hits the sweet spot in the scale to maximise profitability. If you have a relatively scale-agnostic distribution method like bit-torrent and you can get 2 million people to give you a dollar, you make more money than getting 100,000 people to give you 10 dollars.
I remember being at high school around the time the RISC OS 3.5 wave of Arcs were coming out, and at the time it really seemed like a 3 horse race between Acorn, Apple and Microsoft in the UK. It was all downhill from there...till I started using linux and computers were fun again. I've been playing around with Beeb/Elk emulators recently and it's reminded of the difference between a Programmer and a Developer. I much prefer programming a computer as opposed to developing some software. I re-read the Electron user guide cover to cover - it's even more fascinating now that I'm not 9 years old and can understand the stuff towards the back of the book.
According to google they reused some code from another project but failed to disable an irrelevant part of the old project that collected traffic. Seems plausible to me. Without any proof of intent it's just down to how malevolent you feel Google are I suppose. I personally don't see what incentive Google have to shoot themselves in the foot like this. They make too much money out of the data they collect from willing punters to throw it all away risking illegal shit like this.
Exactly. If I wanted to be trolled by this kind of fucking garbage I'd go out and buy a murdoch shitrag. Don't contaminate my favourite blog with this. "Please".
The centauri also had fangs, and the special effects got waaaay better as the series went on. The thing about B5 is the acting may be atrocious and the effects very dated (with some notable highlights that still look awesome today), but the plot and the characters perform a colossal steaming dump on post-TNG star trek from a gigantic height, compare favourably to TNG, and don't suck in comparison to TOS. I watched the whole thing through recently, having not watched it in the 90's and I have to say, you're missing out. (and for god's sake don't judge it by the horrifically amateurish pilot episode, and the clunky 1st season, it gets so much better)
Happiness is understanding and accepting what it is that you actually want, rather than avoiding facing it by buying validation from other people in order to maintain your cognitive dissonance.
Sorry I'm too tired. The piracy argument gets played out over and over on slashdot; give it a couple of hours and everyone else will have elaborated for me.
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I would never be friends with a Mac owner ;-p
sigh, sorry my stupid little brother saw i was still logged in and decided to insult people using my account
/Anonymously because I don't need the karma.
You arrogant presumptuous cunt.
Poe's law makes it difficult to tell, but just in case you aren't trolling...
"Mitochondrial Eve" is not the ancestor of everyone alive on earth today. Therefore, she could not be the biblical Eve.
The fact that it may be possible to genetically modify humans to live longer does not support the biblical creation story. It just doesn't contradict it.
Finding evidence of localised floods, each of which happened at completely different times does nothing to support the notion of a global flood. Will you put away your bullshit religious rhetoric and look at the evidence honestly?
The desktop will die one year before the year of linux on the desktop.
I have never owned a computer with ECC ram and 95% of the people i know have never owned a computer with ECC ram. I'd be so bold as to suggest that 95% of all home users have never owned a computer with ECC ram. Is there some special reason that your PC needs to be a tiny bit more reliable than everybody else?
Stop before you make yourself sounds like even more of a fool.
Garshk Popeye, thanks for the heads up. Hugugugugug!
it saw the largest wars in history, because the 20th century had the largest population by far, and it had global travel and communications.
This thinking is too binary - it's a matter of degree. If you have a cheap convenient distribution method that converts 90% of pirates to your method, the fact that the other 10% still exists is unimportant. The trick is to come up with a method that hits the sweet spot in the scale to maximise profitability. If you have a relatively scale-agnostic distribution method like bit-torrent and you can get 2 million people to give you a dollar, you make more money than getting 100,000 people to give you 10 dollars.
I remember being at high school around the time the RISC OS 3.5 wave of Arcs were coming out, and at the time it really seemed like a 3 horse race between Acorn, Apple and Microsoft in the UK. It was all downhill from there...till I started using linux and computers were fun again. I've been playing around with Beeb/Elk emulators recently and it's reminded of the difference between a Programmer and a Developer. I much prefer programming a computer as opposed to developing some software. I re-read the Electron user guide cover to cover - it's even more fascinating now that I'm not 9 years old and can understand the stuff towards the back of the book.
According to google they reused some code from another project but failed to disable an irrelevant part of the old project that collected traffic. Seems plausible to me. Without any proof of intent it's just down to how malevolent you feel Google are I suppose. I personally don't see what incentive Google have to shoot themselves in the foot like this. They make too much money out of the data they collect from willing punters to throw it all away risking illegal shit like this.
the joker was actually created in 1942 (batman #11 - which has an awesome front cover)
Exactly. If I wanted to be trolled by this kind of fucking garbage I'd go out and buy a murdoch shitrag. Don't contaminate my favourite blog with this. "Please".
TA-DA!
I wonder what the movie industry could come up with if they spent more than the 30 seconds it took me to pull that out of my ass?
The centauri also had fangs, and the special effects got waaaay better as the series went on. The thing about B5 is the acting may be atrocious and the effects very dated (with some notable highlights that still look awesome today), but the plot and the characters perform a colossal steaming dump on post-TNG star trek from a gigantic height, compare favourably to TNG, and don't suck in comparison to TOS. I watched the whole thing through recently, having not watched it in the 90's and I have to say, you're missing out. (and for god's sake don't judge it by the horrifically amateurish pilot episode, and the clunky 1st season, it gets so much better)
you wouldn't kill a policeman... http://www.metacafe.com/watch/808656/it_crowd_anti_piracy/
It's bakewell tart. Don't make Mr. Kipling angry.
why?
Occam's razor dictates that the null hypothesis be maintained in the face of inconclusive results.
I just listened to the first 3 rainbow albums in his honour. i was so looking forward to seeing Heaven & Hell at high voltage in july.... bummer.
That's an interesting key word. Does it has something to do with chasing poo?
Happiness is understanding and accepting what it is that you actually want, rather than avoiding facing it by buying validation from other people in order to maintain your cognitive dissonance.
Sorry I'm too tired. The piracy argument gets played out over and over on slashdot; give it a couple of hours and everyone else will have elaborated for me.
paying for copies of software is meaningless
Vulcans and the Prime Directive are both human ideas.