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It is very scary to notice the lack of reasoned thinking in the world most notable in USA. I would hope that in the last 100 years when science has given us so many answers and new technologies, people would not rely, believe and put their world view on a 2000 year old myth, a tale. The Bible does not give any answers - only questions.
I admire Mr. Dawkins very much for calling upon reason instead of belief. Here is his presentation from the 2002 TED seminar where Mr. Dawkins calls atheists to arms against intelligent design and religion as a whole. I would also absolutely recommend his book, The God Delusion, to anyone claming that religion is for any good. In fact, I would agree with Mr. Dawkins that religion is dangerous and it doesn't do any good in a modern society where we don't need a god (or more) to explain every day things. Why would we need a god to be on our side in a war, listen to my thoughts and do things I want, or bother about any sexual views one might have. This is ridiculous!
Please, watch the video below of his presentation and think for yourself.
It is true: once you seen a film in HD you never want to see a film in DVD anymore. Period. And I mean HD as in 1080p. Not the marketing bullshit wannabe-HD 720p.
The moment of truth for me was a film called Happy Feet. I think it was the perfect film to see as my first HD experience because animation by nature looks even better on HD than regular film. The animation in this film is stunning. But when you see the level of details with HD it really blows your mind away. The brain is just not adjusted to the fact that unlike with DVD you can actually see the details in the background, the crisp lines of a snowflake or the outline of a feather.
I knew HD would be something different from DVD. I remember when I watched for the first time DVD over a SCART RGB signal and that was amazing compared to VHS films. The difference in picture quality was staggering. This time I would argue that the difference in experience is even more dramatic! Only this time the audio was still "only" Dolby Digital 5.1 so as an overall shift in movie experience this probably won't compare to the one with DVD. But still I must say that watching a DVD film after a HD film is pretty lame!
Oh yeah - just to make one thing clear; the HD format of the future is of course Blu-ray :)
Yes, I write this with Windows Live Writer. I heard about the Live.com products through the Twit's Windows Weekly podcast. I never thought the applications Microsoft would offer for free would be any good but I was proven wrong. I downloaded and installed Live Photo Gallery and this Live Writer and I have to say Microsoft has done a phenomenal job. Both applications are really easy to set up and do exactly what I would expect them to do!
With Image Gallery I can import photos from the camera, tag them, view them by date and more - but also publish them in Flickr! This is great! I love Google Picasa because of the integration to the web site with the photos. Now I can have the same for Flickr!
Posting to the blog site is always a bit tedious because I have to login to the web page and editing the posts just with the web browser never felt natural. This is great! Let's see if I even would post stuff more often ;)
Thanks Microsoft!
