The only thing worse than a christian fundamentalist is an atheist fundamentalist
I'm not so sure. It's all the same. People seem to commit pretty much the same nasty things no matter which dogma they follow. Christianity does not have a strong history of forgiving and not judging, and atheism does not have a great history itself.
I used to be quite hard on the ateism myself when i was younger, but realised how dogmatic it is in it's own. After some time, I've come to realise the problem may be the concept of "holy". That appears to be the source of so much dogma, so much anger, backwardness and voilence. When the Mohammed carricatures where published here in Norway, and embassies where burned abroad, it was a token of this. Not because the great masses rose up, but because of the small group of very angry people that traveled the middle-east to fuel the fire and spread lies.
In societies where holy is a word used to rule, there can never be true freedom. This also includes the "holy" concept of ateism: that "there is no god, and religion is used to supress the people".
Somehow I cannot find this funny. The last 200 years we've come an amazingly long way in understanding the world around us, and that understanding may be the single most precious thing we have! Yet someone says 1/5th of the Americans, from country that gets the most television time in the world, convert to or cling to the old childish illusions. It scares the life out of me. I simply refuse to laugh.
....is that is does now evolve like bacteria and viruses. Once we know how to cure all forms of cancer, it will never find ways to beat us. Eventually, we will beat it, and this article seems to relate to some very interesting research. I hope my kids will never know a world where cancer abounds.
Hm, this is very interesting news. If it's possible to send information something more than 50 ms back, it could be very neat. You don't need a very complicated type og carrier to trasnsmit digital information, so imagine a digital broadcast sent back 200 years. Now that would really rock things.
That may be the core tho'. If it proves possible to send a cure for cancer back 200 years, imagine the impact for the future! Also, this is one of those things I suspect would not happen in nature on it's own, so we are entering a place where humans are truly walking into the unknown, as no such thing can be observed naturally. Perhaps we are actually at a point where time will go from linear to chaos since we can changes past events.
However, if you think about it, it appears logical that if you send something back, you will stop exsiting the moment you start, since time chages, thus no information is transmitted in the first place (:
If this turns out not to be FUD, it sounds excellend. I bet those 30% extra could easily be subsidised by city gouvernments quite simply due to reduced environmental and health problems.
If anything, it proves better technology is the cure to problems caused by technology (:
Also remember that the US has an old and string democratic tradition, a tradition of press freedom and grand ideals that have worked in the past. Some of the other places on this list has not, and I would for that simple reason alone guess they are more dangerous places to stay long term.
If you feel something is wrong in your nation, you fix it. If you cannot, I think it's fair to take your ambitions where they will be appreciated. Most people take their ambitions not away from the US, but to it.
Regards from Norway (that you may want to look to for inspiration on how to run a healthcare system, and try to fight poverty. Oh, and if you do, look in the history books, cuz it's not going stellar at the moment) (:
If so, it would not just require improved resolution of the broadcast like HDTV is doing, but also a change in the clip format. I'm quite sure most non-HDR formats today remove most of what it is not expected that a CTR of LCD screen will be capable of showing. It's a natural progression of course. very neat (:
One sometimes has to wonder if the same set of thoughts in the US that allows for the death penalty also contributes to the nation's staggering crime rates.
China would probably also be the force to invade, given that the population in the NK is so heavily soaked in anti-western ideologies. This is really much like Iraq in that sence. But there will be no invasion. The only political will and strength in this part of the world in terms of reaction to the nuclear tests are political pressure from China, and precision strikes from the US. I'm sure Japan wouldn't mind...
Me on the other hand will now go back to play Defcon.
Halo (the PC version) World of Warcraft Super Mario World Zelda: A link to the past Zelda: Occarina of Time Yoshi's Island
Halo replaced Unreal, once the Mac I had it on died. Halo has a sence of adventure and exploration that always triggers good feelings with me. In a sence, World of Warcraft does the same, but the relaxing element in that game is the fact that the world truly lives. I've had a few recreational moments just watching people pass by in a city in WoW.
The Nintendo titles are just outright great titles. Especially the Zelda titles, who's dark atmosphere is just endlessly deep. I can dive in and let it engulf me at any time.
Of course, Solitare should probably be on the lust, but I guess this discussion will have enough jokes about that;P
I think this idea makes sense, and could really do things for space exploration. It may not be able to fling humans up there (or could we simply submerge them first?), but if you put enought small compact briks into space, you'll have a castle.
In other words, small pices of a space station could be flung up, then the crew arrive by slower checmical rockets. It's a really neat idea... If I was the Lego company, I'd invest;)
Isn't globalization really a natural re-distribution of labour and wealth to the parts of the world where it is truly needed? Perhaps the fact that jobs are lost is merely a sign that somehting was wrong in th first place, not that there is anything wrong with globalization itself.
I don't nessesarily see how this is so dramatic. In the past, controllers were always just a single configuration. If anything, the Wii opens up for actually swapping hands if you want. It's a step forwards, not backwards.
The reason that the previous Zelda games ("A link to the past", and "Occarina of tine") is remembered by so many for their atmosphere. Wind waker was problematic. It was an enormously good game in so many respects, but lacked the dark compelling atmosphere of a world in trouble. The illusion was quite simply not good enough!
This is especially true to RPG games like the Zelda series. Personally, I so so so miss the darkness of the early Zelda titles. This is why when Twilight Princess comes out, I'm popping a bottle of champagne and miss work for the next three days. I have it planned down to every little excuse that may be needed;)
Nintendo did go wrong with the GameCube and it's games. I think they see this now. The GameCube did offer some good titles, but didn't look good in most livingrooms. To parents with kids, it was ok, but a toy. As people grew up, it lost it's appeal. And what grown man would buy it.
Actually I did... and I was teased by the friends I was living with for the childishness of the machine, and it's titles. Now I live alone, and has taken it back out;)
The Wii is cooler, it's titles more mature-looking. The best part is that I can now play my GameCube games without anyone seeing the little purpel playoven sitting around;D
Greetings from Norway, where also much money is being poured into school computers, but teatchers are old an cannot use them, or teach the kids how to.
A computer is a massivly powerfull thing, yet the suplimentary or primary school material based on computers is close to non-existant. The OLPC project would succees everywhere, incl. the industrialised world, if they had allot of good education software written for the. That's the only way a computer could truly improve education.
Without serious, interactive, exciting and creative educational software, you might was well give the kids a typewrite and a colouring book... pretty much the same thing. An no matter how you look at it, computers will make schools more expensive (initial cost, support, education, price of software etc.).
This is the reason why we have options such as "easy install" and "install for expert users", and put the things that are hard to decide and has scary names and words in them in the "expert" section.
Anyone can choose if they want to plunge into easy or expert mode... come on.../:
Of course, the best thing is if stuff "just works", but that is not always possible. It is porbablypossible much more often than what lazy user intercace engineers and programmers tend to think, however.
Most people have seen this coming for quite some time, but let's have a look at what this really seems to be (I cannot access it at the moment, due to to many users being logged in).
Basically, AJAX and these "Operating Systems" have arisen from the browsers capability nudging towards that of a remote desktop client, or so it seems. The browser is still made to deliver HTML, remember that.
What if someone made a much more powerfull client-side application that could do what the Javascript/DOM model does, but add support for harware accelerated graphics, and API's actually designed for this purpose? I guess FireFox's Canvas is a start, but its not in any way like FF or IE is designed to do this kind of stuff. People have simply discovered it's possible by accident, and started building these OSes. I love remote X-sessions and Remote Desktop towards my workstation, it's much richer than what your browser can deliver, but of course to slow for large scale applications, and to much of the processing happens server-side.
It would be a little bit like an X-Windows client I guess, only that more of the processing happens client-side. Apps would be downloaded in text/XML, and Javascript or similar could be used to add dynamics. Possibly a code-behind type thing would be betterm but I really have no clue (:
So, in essence, the server becomes a application dispenser, and a data source. Then the "player", optimized for the client's architetcure, would run the app.
Apple has 1. A powerfull, widespread and high quality media system (QuickTIme) 2. A powerfull, widespread and high quality distribution system (iTunes) 3. A powerfull, widespread belief that Apple is high quality (the Market, seeing ITMS success)
So in other words, it is perfect for Apple, they are in the best position of any company out there to succeed with this. Combine with a Media Mac, FrownRow software, shake, and you have a lovely competitor to WinXP Media Center. (:
I see your points. I'm not a professional software developer, but end up doing some coding every now and then to achieve things nessesary for my work, quite simply since my company doesn't have resorces to hire a professional for all such things. None of this code gets any lasting importance however, which I consider important.
I am however noticing that the developer world here in Norway(which I encounter from time to time) seems to be professionalising allot. Maybe its a sign of better things to come, when combined with more security features being engineered in Windows Vista etc. At least this applies to big products like PowerPoint (:
But you know, as long as there are hobbyist programmers around, and development tools are so easily available, people who doesn't have a degree in how to engineere software for security will keep making the stuff.
If you build a house in a city, allot of people have to approve it for quality, so maybe the same thing should apply to the major software market? (: Guess that would only add one or two more annoying popup in Visat;P
Cheers, . Knut
(P.s.: have to you ever wondered when the first "popup-blocker" to block Vista security messages wil larive?;P)
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I'm not so sure. It's all the same. People seem to commit pretty much the same nasty things no matter which dogma they follow. Christianity does not have a strong history of forgiving and not judging, and atheism does not have a great history itself.
I used to be quite hard on the ateism myself when i was younger, but realised how dogmatic it is in it's own. After some time, I've come to realise the problem may be the concept of "holy". That appears to be the source of so much dogma, so much anger, backwardness and voilence. When the Mohammed carricatures where published here in Norway, and embassies where burned abroad, it was a token of this. Not because the great masses rose up, but because of the small group of very angry people that traveled the middle-east to fuel the fire and spread lies.
In societies where holy is a word used to rule, there can never be true freedom. This also includes the "holy" concept of ateism: that "there is no god, and religion is used to supress the people".
P.s.: Agonostics rules! ;)
Somehow I cannot find this funny. The last 200 years we've come an amazingly long way in understanding the world around us, and that understanding may be the single most precious thing we have! Yet someone says 1/5th of the Americans, from country that gets the most television time in the world, convert to or cling to the old childish illusions. It scares the life out of me. I simply refuse to laugh.
....is that is does now evolve like bacteria and viruses. Once we know how to cure all forms of cancer, it will never find ways to beat us. Eventually, we will beat it, and this article seems to relate to some very interesting research. I hope my kids will never know a world where cancer abounds.
Hm, this is very interesting news. If it's possible to send information something more than 50 ms back, it could be very neat. You don't need a very complicated type og carrier to trasnsmit digital information, so imagine a digital broadcast sent back 200 years. Now that would really rock things.
That may be the core tho'. If it proves possible to send a cure for cancer back 200 years, imagine the impact for the future! Also, this is one of those things I suspect would not happen in nature on it's own, so we are entering a place where humans are truly walking into the unknown, as no such thing can be observed naturally. Perhaps we are actually at a point where time will go from linear to chaos since we can changes past events.
However, if you think about it, it appears logical that if you send something back, you will stop exsiting the moment you start, since time chages, thus no information is transmitted in the first place (:
Hrmz... back to work...
If this turns out not to be FUD, it sounds excellend. I bet those 30% extra could easily be subsidised by city gouvernments quite simply due to reduced environmental and health problems.
If anything, it proves better technology is the cure to problems caused by technology (:
The funny thing about this experiment for me is that it felt very peacefull. Much more so than a normal webpage. Like water, in a way, just flowing (:
It reminds me of the PSP/PS3 interface, where you only need the directional buttons to navigate your way around.
Also remember that the US has an old and string democratic tradition, a tradition of press freedom and grand ideals that have worked in the past. Some of the other places on this list has not, and I would for that simple reason alone guess they are more dangerous places to stay long term.
If you feel something is wrong in your nation, you fix it. If you cannot, I think it's fair to take your ambitions where they will be appreciated. Most people take their ambitions not away from the US, but to it.
Regards from Norway (that you may want to look to for inspiration on how to run a healthcare system, and try to fight poverty. Oh, and if you do, look in the history books, cuz it's not going stellar at the moment) (:
I guess this is related to enhancing the dynamic range of the image, not the light intensity? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_im aging
If so, it would not just require improved resolution of the broadcast like HDTV is doing, but also a change in the clip format. I'm quite sure most non-HDR formats today remove most of what it is not expected that a CTR of LCD screen will be capable of showing. It's a natural progression of course. very neat (:
One sometimes has to wonder if the same set of thoughts in the US that allows for the death penalty also contributes to the nation's staggering crime rates.
...when you can play it using just your brain signals ;)
China would probably also be the force to invade, given that the population in the NK is so heavily soaked in anti-western ideologies. This is really much like Iraq in that sence. But there will be no invasion. The only political will and strength in this part of the world in terms of reaction to the nuclear tests are political pressure from China, and precision strikes from the US. I'm sure Japan wouldn't mind...
Me on the other hand will now go back to play Defcon.
According to Norwegian media coverage, the USGS did detect a small quake meassuring 3.6 in the Ricther scale at 10:36. Accosiated press confirms: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061009/ap_on_re_as/ko reas_nuclear;_ylt=AhG0IQHL7EsN.2wrCEu.et6s0NUE;_yl u=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
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Norwegian coverage:
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2006/10/09/479140
In no particlular order:
;P
Halo (the PC version)
World of Warcraft
Super Mario World
Zelda: A link to the past
Zelda: Occarina of Time
Yoshi's Island
Halo replaced Unreal, once the Mac I had it on died. Halo has a sence of adventure and exploration that always triggers good feelings with me. In a sence, World of Warcraft does the same, but the relaxing element in that game is the fact that the world truly lives. I've had a few recreational moments just watching people pass by in a city in WoW.
The Nintendo titles are just outright great titles. Especially the Zelda titles, who's dark atmosphere is just endlessly deep. I can dive in and let it engulf me at any time.
Of course, Solitare should probably be on the lust, but I guess this discussion will have enough jokes about that
Nudists be warned! Ok, the story was interesting. Seriously,
I think this idea makes sense, and could really do things for space exploration. It may not be able to fling humans up there (or could we simply submerge them first?), but if you put enought small compact briks into space, you'll have a castle.
;)
In other words, small pices of a space station could be flung up, then the crew arrive by slower checmical rockets. It's a really neat idea... If I was the Lego company, I'd invest
Isn't globalization really a natural re-distribution of labour and wealth to the parts of the world where it is truly needed? Perhaps the fact that jobs are lost is merely a sign that somehting was wrong in th first place, not that there is anything wrong with globalization itself.
Left - Visual studio
;)
Right - Word, writing something important
Center - World of Warcraft
Nothing like reaching lv60 and get paid for it boys...
I don't nessesarily see how this is so dramatic. In the past, controllers were always just a single configuration. If anything, the Wii opens up for actually swapping hands if you want. It's a step forwards, not backwards.
The reason that the previous Zelda games ("A link to the past", and "Occarina of tine") is remembered by so many for their atmosphere. Wind waker was problematic. It was an enormously good game in so many respects, but lacked the dark compelling atmosphere of a world in trouble. The illusion was quite simply not good enough!
;)
;)
;D
This is especially true to RPG games like the Zelda series. Personally, I so so so miss the darkness of the early Zelda titles. This is why when Twilight Princess comes out, I'm popping a bottle of champagne and miss work for the next three days. I have it planned down to every little excuse that may be needed
Nintendo did go wrong with the GameCube and it's games. I think they see this now. The GameCube did offer some good titles, but didn't look good in most livingrooms. To parents with kids, it was ok, but a toy. As people grew up, it lost it's appeal. And what grown man would buy it.
Actually I did... and I was teased by the friends I was living with for the childishness of the machine, and it's titles. Now I live alone, and has taken it back out
The Wii is cooler, it's titles more mature-looking. The best part is that I can now play my GameCube games without anyone seeing the little purpel playoven sitting around
Cheers,
. Knut
Simple backup system you ask? Well, I'm taking my hat off for Apple, who's "TimeMachine" feature in the OSX Leopard is quite amazing.
t ml
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.h
You can say allot about Apple, but I think their style of inovation is some times stunning (:
Best,
. Knut S.
Greetings from Norway, where also much money is being poured into school computers, but teatchers are old an cannot use them, or teach the kids how to.
A computer is a massivly powerfull thing, yet the suplimentary or primary school material based on computers is close to non-existant. The OLPC project would succees everywhere, incl. the industrialised world, if they had allot of good education software written for the. That's the only way a computer could truly improve education.
Without serious, interactive, exciting and creative educational software, you might was well give the kids a typewrite and a colouring book... pretty much the same thing. An no matter how you look at it, computers will make schools more expensive (initial cost, support, education, price of software etc.).
Best,
. K
This is the reason why we have options such as "easy install" and "install for expert users", and put the things that are hard to decide and has scary names and words in them in the "expert" section.
/:
Anyone can choose if they want to plunge into easy or expert mode... come on...
Of course, the best thing is if stuff "just works", but that is not always possible. It is porbablypossible much more often than what lazy user intercace engineers and programmers tend to think, however.
Best,
. Knut
Most people have seen this coming for quite some time, but let's have a look at what this really seems to be (I cannot access it at the moment, due to to many users being logged in).
Basically, AJAX and these "Operating Systems" have arisen from the browsers capability nudging towards that of a remote desktop client, or so it seems. The browser is still made to deliver HTML, remember that.
What if someone made a much more powerfull client-side application that could do what the Javascript/DOM model does, but add support for harware accelerated graphics, and API's actually designed for this purpose? I guess FireFox's Canvas is a start, but its not in any way like FF or IE is designed to do this kind of stuff. People have simply discovered it's possible by accident, and started building these OSes. I love remote X-sessions and Remote Desktop towards my workstation, it's much richer than what your browser can deliver, but of course to slow for large scale applications, and to much of the processing happens server-side.
It would be a little bit like an X-Windows client I guess, only that more of the processing happens client-side. Apps would be downloaded in text/XML, and Javascript or similar could be used to add dynamics. Possibly a code-behind type thing would be betterm but I really have no clue (:
So, in essence, the server becomes a application dispenser, and a data source. Then the "player", optimized for the client's architetcure, would run the app.
Best,
. Knut
Apple has
1. A powerfull, widespread and high quality media system (QuickTIme)
2. A powerfull, widespread and high quality distribution system (iTunes)
3. A powerfull, widespread belief that Apple is high quality (the Market, seeing ITMS success)
So in other words, it is perfect for Apple, they are in the best position of any company out there to succeed with this. Combine with a Media Mac, FrownRow software, shake, and you have a lovely competitor to WinXP Media Center. (:
Cheers,
. Knut
I see your points. I'm not a professional software developer, but end up doing some coding every now and then to achieve things nessesary for my work, quite simply since my company doesn't have resorces to hire a professional for all such things. None of this code gets any lasting importance however, which I consider important.
;P
;P)
I am however noticing that the developer world here in Norway(which I encounter from time to time) seems to be professionalising allot. Maybe its a sign of better things to come, when combined with more security features being engineered in Windows Vista etc. At least this applies to big products like PowerPoint (:
But you know, as long as there are hobbyist programmers around, and development tools are so easily available, people who doesn't have a degree in how to engineere software for security will keep making the stuff.
If you build a house in a city, allot of people have to approve it for quality, so maybe the same thing should apply to the major software market? (: Guess that would only add one or two more annoying popup in Visat
Cheers,
. Knut
(P.s.: have to you ever wondered when the first "popup-blocker" to block Vista security messages wil larive?