A friend of mine traveled to the US in September last year and he went through customs and every airport check (his dad and him flew to a few places to check the country out) and he went through each and every time with coins and a set of nail clippers in his pocket/carry on luggage.
In South Africa (I know it is a different world down here) I flew with a Leatherman tool (one of the cheapo clones I got as a gift and not a word, nor a beep, while my wife had to surrender her nail file.
Okay but Toshiba still took a hit on their stocks, and Sony scored.
Toshiba's shares fell 0.1 percent to close at 782 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after dropping as much as 1.3 percent. Sony's stock rose 3.4 percent.
So now, would you go buy Toshiba stock at the better price, or wait it out to see if Paramount in the end does as has been speculated...
Warners decision last week to throw its weight behind Blu-ray saw it join Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as backers of the Sony format.
Some big players in the market there.
The Warners move gives Blu-ray about 70 per cent of Hollywood's output, although the format's grip on film content will increase further when Paramount comes aboard.
The words "grip on film content" makes me feel all cornered.
I am no fan of malicious hacking, but my inner geek always stirs when I read something like this, much like watching someone in the real world accomplishing an amazing but insane feat, like those guys with the squirrel suits base-jumping, or something *cough*
Question, where any *nix or L*X machines compromised? Might be a dumb question, so bash me all you want if it was...
First of: Some of the 80's and 90's stuff immediately caught my eye, and I thought hmm... good times...
Which is just sad. For me.
Second, that is a really cheesy collection for the most part - ignoring avril and britney and that boy band here - which leads me to think someone thought it may be a good idea to target this product at a specific demographic.
i.e. not your cutting edge or younger "hip" (I gave my generation away teehee, at least I didn't use "cool") generation, but the wife of the geek, or the parents/family of the teen/geek who would want to offer maybe either the voucher as a gift, or be able to download the songs as a gift to an iPod or other music player as an "extra" gift.
Which begs the question, what would encourage these people to do that as opposed to simply buying a CD and giving that, or even a regular music voucher/gift voucher...
When you buy a new computer with Vista it's going to be so powerful that the bloat that's been added since XP (and this isn't a Microsoft problem, OSX and Ubuntu all have gotten bigger)
The Ubuntu comment caught my attention. I run Ubuntu/Linux Mint/PCLOS on my Dell C610 with 256mb ram, PIII 1ghz and 16mb ATI with Beryl/Compiz/Compiz-Fusion. Fancy desktop effects aside, I'd love to see how anyone can clump Vista and Ubuntu/Any Distro in the same camp as far as bloat is concerned.
Right now I am using only about 170mb ram while I am typing this.
You could make the argument that there's no reason a home user needs a dual core processor and two gigs of RAM but that's what is being sold.
The question is WHY. WHY are those spec machines being sold? Because Vista needs it. If Vista did not need such a lot of stuff to carry it, the average home Joe would be able to get away with half the specs you quoted.
Machines get faster and software gets updated.
Yes, there is that law about processor speeds doubling every 18 months or so, in this case MS has released a product that makes even the fastest machines just good enough. It would almost seem as if they are purposely pushing the specs...
MS just blunders ahead and everybody tags along because of the old analogy: Microsoft, because it's there.
What's he going to do when it will not work with his GPS, camera, cellphone, PDA, mp3-player, or other favourite gadget?
Support for these things are getting better by the day. Pretty soon this will be a nonissue. Right now I have all my peripherals working fine with Linux. It's a perception thing mostly...
And besides them shipping, do they know how many VISTA installs where replaced with XP or even better, Linux? I don't think we should be popping the champagne at the Vista funeral just yet. MS is a juggernaut, they will find a way to try and make their OS even more prevalent.
Besides, Joe Bloggs sitting at home wanting to buy a PC reads this kind of marketing schpiel and thinks to himself:
"A hundred million copies eh? Wow I better get me a PC with vista, seems everybody is doing that..."
MS has a brilliant marketing strategy, its called FUD.
(which was only a few years ago 1999ish:)) we used to refer to it as PEBCAC errors. Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
Also of course was the prevalent ID10T virus. I swear, we once actually told a guy that after he wiped his pc for the n'th time, and he ate it all up...
...the idea is being pushed all over the US. Either someone thinks this is a good idea and is pressing on regardless, or someone knows this is a bad idea and is pushing it through because they have ulterior motives.
The way things are going at the moment I wouldn't be surprised if either or both are eventually proven true.
Yes water is opaque to IR, but in shallow water, an object that deflects water flow would show up since the water currents will diflect. The temperature diffs in the water itself should show this. This is how they traced the flow of the Aghulhas current.
Not to start a flame war, but will this console orgy mean the end of PC gaming? And how will DRM be integrated into the whole mess? HD gaming disabled because you dared buy a new tv? I seem to remember a recent slashdot story about that...
I distinctly remember the guy writing the love letter in the cornfield and the firefight in Iraq.
My point is, someone should sit down and study those images in depth, or there should be something like a hubble looking back towards earth. There is so much on our planet to be discovered still, and it can only be good for mankind.
As an aside, I wonder how much those images are worth to Google, they must be worth a fortune!
First off. Did you use BBcode option to reply? It is rather nicely formatted, much nicer than the normal Italics stuff...
Hokay, back on topic:
As to your question HOW, I don't think there is one way that suit's all, if you catch my drift.
Which tells me that whatever ways exist, they aren't logical. Were they logical, you could simply point me to a logical argument, and that would be the end of it.
(Boldyness indicates my OP to avoid confusion)
Your original statement is not logical from where I stand. Do you say that there is only one approach to coming to a logical conclusion? There are four personality types (depending on who you ask, but there we could go on forever on another topic altogether) and each one of them approaches a set problem in a certain manner that is logical to that personality type.
I am Sanguine, for instance, with a lot of Phlegmatic thrown in for good measure. I think in pictures, and loose ideas. I find it hard to debate a subject with a person who thinks more, erm, "mathematically" if you catch my drift. My wife is Choleric/Melancholic, you get how my day is. She asks when something will be done, I say soon, she wants a set time. Oh some days...
If you excuse me to be so bold, but read some work of Josh Mcdowell. He approaches the subject with a logical framework. I am guessing that his manner of logic (I hope you understand what I mean by this) might resonate with you. Accept Jesus or not, the idea is not that you read his book and convert, you asked for an example of a logical argument, that is the best one I can refer you to.
People are not black and white, and lunatics are the least predictable.
Jesus taught people to love their neighbor, for one. Does that mean that if I believe in loving my neighbor, I must believe Jesus was God?
You are correct, people are not black and white. I touched on this above.
Yes Jesus taught people to love their neighbor. He also taught that God is the highest authority on earth. He also taught that Christians would be persecuted for their faith. He told the apostles that they would die for their faith.
The result? Eleven of the twelve where killed. They literally followed His teachings unto death, and inspired others to do so as well. Not good moral teachings in my book if He were not God.
Let's not forget: Maybe it was a metaphor, and maybe Jesus even did his best to make it clear it was a metaphor. There's plenty of room for misinterpretation and downright revisionist history by the time the Gospels were actually written.
The Bible has a lot of metaphor in it doesn't it. There are ways of determining what was metaphor, and what was not. As to revisionist history, there was not that much room for revisionist history, besides there is a lot written (from both Atheist and Christian sources) on the subject. I ascribe to the Christian view, you would not, I can however say that if you are basing your argument here on say the Davinci Code you should really find a better source. I won't go too far into that here, if you are interested in that you should go to http://godgab.org/ and check in the Christianity section. There are several sections where Atheists asked the same questions you did. Believe me it takes up pages and pages of to-ing and fro-ing to get ANYWHERE significant.
And don't worry, godgab is not a Christian forum, it was started by an Atheist, there is a vibrant Atheist group that frequent it.
Or maybe he was entirely sane, and made the claims he did because he was deliberately engineering a religion around himself -- not out of megalomania, but to make sure people didn't forget the lessons he taught.
But I suspect you know this, at least somewhat:
I know this in the sense that I have heard the argument before. It is a bit flawed though, because He made some promises that he would then not be able to keep. And the point again, people died because they foll
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A friend of mine traveled to the US in September last year and he went through customs and every airport check (his dad and him flew to a few places to check the country out) and he went through each and every time with coins and a set of nail clippers in his pocket/carry on luggage.
In South Africa (I know it is a different world down here) I flew with a Leatherman tool (one of the cheapo clones I got as a gift and not a word, nor a beep, while my wife had to surrender her nail file.
Strange world...
Ah you got me. I shoulda known IR wouldn't work underwater and I was gallantly trying to defend a weak argument by fudging...
I actually had it without the dash, and then re-checked TFA to make sure. Paints a altogether different picture doesn't it?
This Google Trends is surprisingly indicative of where this is headed...
Okay but Toshiba still took a hit on their stocks, and Sony scored.
Toshiba's shares fell 0.1 percent to close at 782 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after dropping as much as 1.3 percent. Sony's stock rose 3.4 percent.
So now, would you go buy Toshiba stock at the better price, or wait it out to see if Paramount in the end does as has been speculated...
Warners decision last week to throw its weight behind Blu-ray saw it join Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as backers of the Sony format.
Some big players in the market there.
The Warners move gives Blu-ray about 70 per cent of Hollywood's output, although the format's grip on film content will increase further when Paramount comes aboard.
The words "grip on film content" makes me feel all cornered.
Ah there you have it then.
Cue the chorus; "Windows machines are only attacked because there are so many users..."
Sheesh, forgetting that 70% of servers run Linux...
Teehee... would like to see a specific Wetnose OS graph to see which ones got hardest hit...
...those of you who thought "Awesome!"
I am no fan of malicious hacking, but my inner geek always stirs when I read something like this, much like watching someone in the real world accomplishing an amazing but insane feat, like those guys with the squirrel suits base-jumping, or something *cough*
Question, where any *nix or L*X machines compromised? Might be a dumb question, so bash me all you want if it was...
First of: Some of the 80's and 90's stuff immediately caught my eye, and I thought hmm... good times...
Which is just sad. For me.
Second, that is a really cheesy collection for the most part - ignoring avril and britney and that boy band here - which leads me to think someone thought it may be a good idea to target this product at a specific demographic.
i.e. not your cutting edge or younger "hip" (I gave my generation away teehee, at least I didn't use "cool") generation, but the wife of the geek, or the parents/family of the teen/geek who would want to offer maybe either the voucher as a gift, or be able to download the songs as a gift to an iPod or other music player as an "extra" gift.
Which begs the question, what would encourage these people to do that as opposed to simply buying a CD and giving that, or even a regular music voucher/gift voucher...
...to your post, and I got to "...Misspent youth with only AM radio."
I caught myself and thought - 'Wait, that doesn't sound right'
AND TRIED AGAIN!
Took me a few seconds before I realised it was your sig...
Oh. Wait...
Not anywhere close? When last did you try Linux? No offense, but progress is being made in leaps and bounds...
When you buy a new computer with Vista it's going to be so powerful that the bloat that's been added since XP (and this isn't a Microsoft problem, OSX and Ubuntu all have gotten bigger)
The Ubuntu comment caught my attention. I run Ubuntu/Linux Mint/PCLOS on my Dell C610 with 256mb ram, PIII 1ghz and 16mb ATI with Beryl/Compiz/Compiz-Fusion. Fancy desktop effects aside, I'd love to see how anyone can clump Vista and Ubuntu/Any Distro in the same camp as far as bloat is concerned.
Right now I am using only about 170mb ram while I am typing this.
You could make the argument that there's no reason a home user needs a dual core processor and two gigs of RAM but that's what is being sold.
The question is WHY. WHY are those spec machines being sold? Because Vista needs it. If Vista did not need such a lot of stuff to carry it, the average home Joe would be able to get away with half the specs you quoted.
Machines get faster and software gets updated.
Yes, there is that law about processor speeds doubling every 18 months or so, in this case MS has released a product that makes even the fastest machines just good enough. It would almost seem as if they are purposely pushing the specs...
MS just blunders ahead and everybody tags along because of the old analogy: Microsoft, because it's there.
Oh dear... I seem to be on a roll... I K'd the wrong C... *bangs head on C... erm Keyboard*
Bwahahaha... it would seem the PEPCAK strikes again!
What's he going to do when it will not work with his GPS, camera, cellphone, PDA, mp3-player, or other favourite gadget?
Support for these things are getting better by the day. Pretty soon this will be a nonissue. Right now I have all my peripherals working fine with Linux. It's a perception thing mostly...
And besides them shipping, do they know how many VISTA installs where replaced with XP or even better, Linux? I don't think we should be popping the champagne at the Vista funeral just yet. MS is a juggernaut, they will find a way to try and make their OS even more prevalent.
Besides, Joe Bloggs sitting at home wanting to buy a PC reads this kind of marketing schpiel and thinks to himself:
"A hundred million copies eh? Wow I better get me a PC with vista, seems everybody is doing that..."
MS has a brilliant marketing strategy, its called FUD.
(which was only a few years ago 1999ish :)) we used to refer to it as PEBCAC errors. Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
Also of course was the prevalent ID10T virus. I swear, we once actually told a guy that after he wiped his pc for the n'th time, and he ate it all up...
...the idea is being pushed all over the US. Either someone thinks this is a good idea and is pressing on regardless, or someone knows this is a bad idea and is pushing it through because they have ulterior motives.
The way things are going at the moment I wouldn't be surprised if either or both are eventually proven true.
Yes water is opaque to IR, but in shallow water, an object that deflects water flow would show up since the water currents will diflect. The temperature diffs in the water itself should show this. This is how they traced the flow of the Aghulhas current.
Not to start a flame war, but will this console orgy mean the end of PC gaming? And how will DRM be integrated into the whole mess? HD gaming disabled because you dared buy a new tv? I seem to remember a recent slashdot story about that...
An infra red imaging device, or certain wavelengths of radar should work nicely. And I am sure there are satellites up there that are capable of that.
Imagine the submarine hunting possibilities! No way the military has not at least investigated the technology...
easter eggs that are found on Google earth.
I distinctly remember the guy writing the love letter in the cornfield and the firefight in Iraq.
My point is, someone should sit down and study those images in depth, or there should be something like a hubble looking back towards earth. There is so much on our planet to be discovered still, and it can only be good for mankind.
As an aside, I wonder how much those images are worth to Google, they must be worth a fortune!
First off. Did you use BBcode option to reply? It is rather nicely formatted, much nicer than the normal Italics stuff...
Hokay, back on topic:
As to your question HOW, I don't think there is one way that suit's all, if you catch my drift.
Which tells me that whatever ways exist, they aren't logical. Were they logical, you could simply point me to a logical argument, and that would be the end of it.
(Boldyness indicates my OP to avoid confusion)
Your original statement is not logical from where I stand. Do you say that there is only one approach to coming to a logical conclusion? There are four personality types (depending on who you ask, but there we could go on forever on another topic altogether) and each one of them approaches a set problem in a certain manner that is logical to that personality type.
I am Sanguine, for instance, with a lot of Phlegmatic thrown in for good measure. I think in pictures, and loose ideas. I find it hard to debate a subject with a person who thinks more, erm, "mathematically" if you catch my drift. My wife is Choleric/Melancholic, you get how my day is. She asks when something will be done, I say soon, she wants a set time. Oh some days...
If you excuse me to be so bold, but read some work of Josh Mcdowell. He approaches the subject with a logical framework. I am guessing that his manner of logic (I hope you understand what I mean by this) might resonate with you. Accept Jesus or not, the idea is not that you read his book and convert, you asked for an example of a logical argument, that is the best one I can refer you to.
People are not black and white, and lunatics are the least predictable.
Jesus taught people to love their neighbor, for one. Does that mean that if I believe in loving my neighbor, I must believe Jesus was God?
You are correct, people are not black and white. I touched on this above.
Yes Jesus taught people to love their neighbor. He also taught that God is the highest authority on earth. He also taught that Christians would be persecuted for their faith. He told the apostles that they would die for their faith.
The result? Eleven of the twelve where killed. They literally followed His teachings unto death, and inspired others to do so as well. Not good moral teachings in my book if He were not God.
Let's not forget: Maybe it was a metaphor, and maybe Jesus even did his best to make it clear it was a metaphor. There's plenty of room for misinterpretation and downright revisionist history by the time the Gospels were actually written.
The Bible has a lot of metaphor in it doesn't it. There are ways of determining what was metaphor, and what was not. As to revisionist history, there was not that much room for revisionist history, besides there is a lot written (from both Atheist and Christian sources) on the subject. I ascribe to the Christian view, you would not, I can however say that if you are basing your argument here on say the Davinci Code you should really find a better source. I won't go too far into that here, if you are interested in that you should go to http://godgab.org/ and check in the Christianity section. There are several sections where Atheists asked the same questions you did. Believe me it takes up pages and pages of to-ing and fro-ing to get ANYWHERE significant.
And don't worry, godgab is not a Christian forum, it was started by an Atheist, there is a vibrant Atheist group that frequent it.
Or maybe he was entirely sane, and made the claims he did because he was deliberately engineering a religion around himself -- not out of megalomania, but to make sure people didn't forget the lessons he taught.
But I suspect you know this, at least somewhat:
I know this in the sense that I have heard the argument before. It is a bit flawed though, because He made some promises that he would then not be able to keep. And the point again, people died because they foll