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I'm not familliar with the term Kerygma, and I think it would be best to qualify any specialized expressions of a term (like Dogma, in the Kerygma sense) which means something significantly different in common American English. I don't feel that I understand your point entirely, and I think you may be in the same position regarding my explanation of Dharma.

I found this definition of Kerygma which gives a greek etmology for the "preaching" definition you give. I'm not sure why it is useful to use a greek term which is so easily represented by an equivalent english word. Even more befuddling, it seems that you (and the Christian Theological academic corpus) have an even more specialized meaning for Kerygma, as a proper noun, titling a selection of biblical texts. In order to understand the difference (and common ground) between your interperetation of "dogma" and mine, I think I may need a little help understanding the link between Kerygma and "dogma." Read on and decide for yourself.

In Buddhism, there are three institutions, collectively called the "triple jewel". One is the Buddha, or the abstraction of an enligtened being. Anyone can be a Buddha. Buddhists strive to be buddhas. All beings are buddhas. The second is the Dharma, or the teachings of the buddhas. Whatever a buddha transmits to any other being that helps them towards enlightenment is Dharma, but originally it is the Suttas (the Buddhist equivalent to the Bible), and minimally it is the Four Noble Truths. The third jewel is the Sangha, which means the community of all living beings, but more specifically those that are on their way to enlightenment.

The first jewel is the only thing that a buddhist must accept without actual experience: that there are, and have been, and will be enlightened beings that will help another to become enlightened. The Dharma is formally the traditional Buddhist teachings, and informally can be almost any teaching. It does not require faith or assumption of its truth. Dharma is self-apparent the way any normal experience is apparent (not dogma). The Sangha is also apparent, in that participating in practical buddhist activities in the presence of others creates a community, and the potential to experience Sangha is always present when there are other beings present (not dogma).

If you followed me this far, maybe there isn't enough difference in our uses of the word "dogma" to make an issue. Attempting to put what I have to say in your words: the only "preaching" to accept in Buddhism is the actuality of enlightened beings, if one has never actually met or experienced the eminent peace and benevolence of such an individual. If one meets a buddha, or if one becomes enlightened, then the facticity of enlightenment is apparent, and there is no more dogma in Buddhism. The ethical system, and its imperatives however, survive this transcendence--which (returning to my original reply) is how I arrive at Buddhism as an example of a cohesive ethics without dogma or 'given' truths.

Cox Cable, did the same thing a few months ago, and even took it up a notch, in the sense that for a little extra per month you can go up to 5mbps......

http://members.cox.net/captwillard/WillMacMiniGril l.jpg

Referring to this image...

See those three holes in hte bottom left, bottom right and top right wit the red block in the bottom? There are three matching pins build onto the panel that covers this hole. Slide the panel to the left and it lifts right off!
=Smidge=

Something similar happens at the end of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Apparently, the master tape wasn't fully erased after its last use!

It's faint, but there's an unmistakable orchestral version of the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" playing. Interestingly, both artists used Abbey Road studios. This analog tape _must_ be expensive if Pink Floyd had to resort to recycling!

• What is it that you absolutely need?

• What would go along with these critical feature well?

• What would be "icing on the cake?"

1. 1) Mockup something and present it to them.

1. 2) Ask "Is this what you're looking for?"

1. 3) Architect your framework (real coders should be taking part here!)

America's Army is sponsored by Uncle Sam, and is therefore patriotic and American and all that (apologies if the poster is not in the US).

Failing that, there's always Lords of Conquest or Master of Orion 2 if you want to kick it old school.

It's tough to get a feel for what Unity was all about, but as they say, a screenshot is worth a thousand words (scroll down). There's also a bit on VLM3, which they say predated the Unity project.

I still remember reading about (I believe it was) Attack of the Mutant Camels in Antic/Angalog magazine during the early '80s. Unity's cancellation may be disappointing, but the fact that Jeff Minter is still involved in the industry after 20 years is, IMO, nothing put a positive.
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Joe-jobbing seems to be highly overrated. There never seem to be any real cases cited, only hand-wringing by people who have not been joe-jobbed but who seem more concerned with hypothetical joe-jobbing of unnamed, unknown others that no one can point to than with the stark, ugly reality that significant and increasing levels of Internet bandwidth are being eaten up by the billions of spam and worm/virus messages being propagated daily, not to mention the millions of person hours lost to weeding through and disposing of spam and disinfecting machines.

That's the reality. Your joe-jobbing fears are entirely speculative and not taken seriously by anyone familiar with the protocols and programming involved in designing and implementing something like the Lycos screen saver.

Check out his stuff. I'm halfway through Contact Fights, which I've already found to be remarkably helpful. BTW, Bruce is an entertaining lecturer too, if you get a chance. http://members.cox.net/wilcoxeureka/

Halo WAS originally rated T. I have a copy of EGM from December 2001, and there is a multi-page EB ad, showing the Cover Art for halo, and it has a T rating on the box. A photo of the box, sporting a T rating

Old Version, doesn't look like the cd chair was posted here yet.

Essays in the Brittanica are reviewed for style and content,

signed by their authors

The EB has been many things in it's 200+ years of existence, but a haven for mediocrity, a "democratic" consensus, it is not.

I avoided anything that was tracking, took all the fixed rates, added them up together, averaged them ,and multiplied by 365.

As did I, only i used NRELs annual statistics not your uninformed calculations of their raw data (no offence). Since we seem to go over this again and again I will spell it out for you. Though at this point I think you are just being obstinate. From the rredec database:

"City: ","KANSAS CITY "
"SOLAR RADIATION FOR FLAT-PLATE COLLECTORS FACING SOUTH AT A FIXED-TILT (kWh/m2/day)
"Tilt(deg)"," ","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug", "Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec","Year"
"Lat ","Average", 3.8, 4.3, 4.8, 5.4, 5.6, 5.8, 6.0, 5.9, 5.4, 5.0, 3.8, 3.3, 4.9
" ","Minimum", 2.7, 3.3, 3.5, 4.2, 4.6, 4.9, 5.2, 4.8, 3.5, 3.8, 2.7, 2.5, 4.5
" ","Maximum", 4.8, 5.4, 5.7, 6.4, 6.4, 6.6, 6.8, 6.6, 6.8, 6.6, 4.9, 4.3, 5.5

Now look at that last column, "Year". Look at the row "Lat Average". 4.9kWh/m^2/day. Got it? If not, want to see a map of the same data? I don't know what you want, whack you over the head with a dozen sources? Here, here, here

So 7% of texas land mass to produce ALL of our energy use, only 0.8% for our electricity need. Using fixed panels (not even adjusting the angle seasonally), including shading. I didn't use the best location, but an average location. This doesn't translate by any stretch of the imagination into all of Texas. More importantly I showed we don't to use any new space at all.

You also are naively using 3 * 10 ^ 13 kW as our total energy source that would need to be replaced - the difference is that 90+% of that energy is in a form that we can directly use - natural gas for heating and gasoline for burning, coal for making steel, etc.

Ready to discuss storage, transmission, grids, seasonality, etc Yet? I think you've lost this part of the argument.

From http://www.foxforums.com/index.php?showtopic=543.. .

http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2953....com% 5D.torrent (BitTorrent)
http://www.worldofepic.net/ep3.mov (Mirror #1)
http://members.cox.net/chambers30/teaser.mov (Mirror #2)
http://www.larney.co.uk/ep3.mov (Mirror #3)
http://www.jackpearce.info/full.mov (Mirror #4)
http://www.astercity.net/~jerry/full.mov (Mirror #5)
http://ufies.org/txt/switzler084hs_dl.mov (Mirror #6)
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IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121766/

Hey! Whaa don't one of ya bitches just answa me - is that a bazooka right there?!

See this if you don't get it

Cover me! Ah'm about to get ma bazooka!

YRO

YRO

A coin coming up heads or tails is one thing, you know if its heads or tails. A satellite crashing through your roof is another.

Second, No way does one event (satellite crashing through your roof) influence another (such as your lottery numbers will coming up). Ergo, the comment by jelle that one bit of bad luck will bring some good luck to maintain cosmic harmony is twaddle - it's just the gambler's fallacy in a different form.

Here is a pdf copy of the patent. Notice how the complete circuit diagram, together with a detailed description is included. That's what a patent is supposed to be, not the obvious and vague "one-click" shit they patent today.

Yay, I get to plug one of my projects again :)

Metal

VS.

Ocean

Yay, I get to plug one of my projects again :)

Metal

VS.

Ocean

The openGL feature is really cool.
Any idea if there's a way to turn this on or off programatically?

Having this on the command line is ok, but if someone is using Mesa3d(software openGL on Linux) instead of hardware acceleration, it will be slower than the default rendering path of X11.

Here's a screenshot of my JTurtle application running on accelerated openGL with jdk1.5 and using the new look and feel.

The openGL feature is really cool.
Any idea if there's a way to turn this on or off programatically?

Having this on the command line is ok, but if someone is using Mesa3d(software openGL on Linux) instead of hardware acceleration, it will be slower than the default rendering path of X11.

Here's a screenshot of my JTurtle application running on accelerated openGL with jdk1.5 and using the new look and feel.

Just as an example, here are some boards manufactured by Olimex.

Four boards panelized on a single 4x6 order, double sided, with 2 non-standard drill sizes and over 500 holes (980 something holes for all four boards), came out to $9.50 each, including shipping.

I just got some stuff back from Olimex for my computerized 1971 Impala project:

Here is an image of the boards.

They are just basic AVR carrier boards with a perfboard area and space for a MAX233, so I put a little Tux in the silkscreen for geek-appeal.

Olimex is great, good prices and good quality boards. These four boards came to about $9.50 each.

I'm going to have Olimex do the next revision of my Binary Clock PCB too, to give it a more professional look.

I have published some details about the binary clock project if anyone is interested. I really should set up a web page for it, but I have never gotten around to it. The code, such as it is, is GPL.

I just got some stuff back from Olimex for my computerized 1971 Impala project:

Here is an image of the boards.

They are just basic AVR carrier boards with a perfboard area and space for a MAX233, so I put a little Tux in the silkscreen for geek-appeal.

Olimex is great, good prices and good quality boards. These four boards came to about $9.50 each.

I'm going to have Olimex do the next revision of my Binary Clock PCB too, to give it a more professional look.

I have published some details about the binary clock project if anyone is interested. I really should set up a web page for it, but I have never gotten around to it. The code, such as it is, is GPL.

I just got some stuff back from Olimex for my computerized 1971 Impala project:

Here is an image of the boards.

They are just basic AVR carrier boards with a perfboard area and space for a MAX233, so I put a little Tux in the silkscreen for geek-appeal.

Olimex is great, good prices and good quality boards. These four boards came to about $9.50 each.

I'm going to have Olimex do the next revision of my Binary Clock PCB too, to give it a more professional look.

I have published some details about the binary clock project if anyone is interested. I really should set up a web page for it, but I have never gotten around to it. The code, such as it is, is GPL.

Actually, plasma is the best driver, and that was used in commercial speakers back in the 1970s (I'm talking about Hill's Plasmatronic tweeters which use a DC glow discharge, not the crappier RF corona discharge designs you find more often). Take a look at the second set of response graphs on this guy's page for performance of slightly modified ones. With new technologies (MHCD instead of simple cathodes), even better is possible, with full range drivers not as unreasonable as might have seemed back then. Unfortunately Hill used helum plasma, so a helium tank was necessary. I'm working on DIY air plasma drivers, and the MHCD method makes a lot of difference. The only real problem is efficiency, as thermal relaxation is non-linear and that becomes a problem unless most of the power is bias rather than audio frequency modulation.

Seems to have helped here

SPF and Sender-ID don't prevent spam, they are used so that systems recieving e-mails can verify that e-mails are sent from servers that are authorised to do so for particular e-mail addresses. This prevents JoeJobs and (hopefully) allows for faster tracking of e-mail abuse. Spammers implement/support SPF or Sender-ID records in order to circumvent systems that discard e-mails that SPF or Sender-ID marks as spoofed.

..'to serve man'

http://members.cox.net/kaiotea/serveman.htm

I filed for an FOIA for the latest satellite images of Hurricane Ivan. This is what they gave me.

Ok, here is the whole thing, code, schematic, a couple of the images I just posted, and a short write-up about the project.

Please feel free to bash my ugly code, I was working strictly for functionality without the slightest regard to design. I wouldn't know good C code if it came up and introduced itself anyway, so if you are inclined, feel free to enlighten me as to my mistakes.

I'm using the AT90S2313. Its my favorite AVR right now because its small, but has a reasonable amount of IO and a built in UART.

Thanks. Yup, its really mine. :)

Here are some more supplies for clocks, and the back of this one (forgive the libral use of hot glue, its just a prototype :)).

I thought about selling the design, but the idea is really almost trivial, the software design (done in AVRGCC, maybe 200 LOC at most) took an evening and only that long because I'm pretty clueless when it comes to C coding. I kept K&R's _The C Programming Language_ handy and spent quite a bit of time screwing up the switch statement.

The hardware was time consuming because I was using perfboard and wiring up all those damned headers. I won't make that mistake again. Next time I'll just have the PCB made professionally and save myself hours of frustration soldering hookup wire.

You are right though, it would be nice to be able to refrence it in a resume. Perhaps I'll reduce it to a single board design (one PCB behind the platter with SMT LEDs) and have a few boards made. Would be fun anyway.

Thanks. Yup, its really mine. :)

Here are some more supplies for clocks, and the back of this one (forgive the libral use of hot glue, its just a prototype :)).

I thought about selling the design, but the idea is really almost trivial, the software design (done in AVRGCC, maybe 200 LOC at most) took an evening and only that long because I'm pretty clueless when it comes to C coding. I kept K&R's _The C Programming Language_ handy and spent quite a bit of time screwing up the switch statement.

The hardware was time consuming because I was using perfboard and wiring up all those damned headers. I won't make that mistake again. Next time I'll just have the PCB made professionally and save myself hours of frustration soldering hookup wire.

You are right though, it would be nice to be able to refrence it in a resume. Perhaps I'll reduce it to a single board design (one PCB behind the platter with SMT LEDs) and have a few boards made. Would be fun anyway.

I turned an old harddrive into a binary clock.

I just stripped out all the parts, built the circuit on perf board, milled some holes into the back of bottom of the case behind the platter and mounted blue LEDs in the holes. I drilled holes in the platter (very carefully so I could keep the very flat mirror surface that makes the platters look so neat in the first place) and mounted some little plastic rods with frosted ends in the holes to diffuse the light from the leds.

In an improvement over the Think Geek clock, I have the LEDs set up to fade on and off over a quarter second, instead of the abrupt blink on and off in the TG clocks.

The bottom register is seconds, right is minutes, and top is hours. Its easier to read than the TG clocks, but doesn't generate the cool patterns.

I cut down one of those clear CD blanks that you find on top of a spindal of CDR's so that it fit neatly over the electronics, then frosted it with some sandpaper so it has a nice diagonal grain. This fits over electronics so they are less obvious, but can still be seen if you care to look.

Heres a picture of the clock. The lighting isn't great, so its hard to see how clearly the bits of each register light up. The frosted end of each rod lights up brightly, while the sides are water-clear, so it ends up looking like a bright blue disk 'floating' above the mirrored surface. Really looks pretty good.

Here is a photo of the clock

I, for one, welcome our new car with personality overlords.

"To Serve Man" is also the name of a classic episode of The Twilight Zone where some Big -Headed Aliens "arrive on Earth, and immediately start helping man. They appear totally trustworthy and full of goodwill. This idea is backed up when they leave a book titled "To Serve Man" at the U.N. Michael Chambers, a decoding expert, along with thousands of other people book passage to the Kanamit's home panet. Meanwhile, Michael's assistant Pat is trying to decode the book left by the Kanamits. As Michael is boarding the Kanamit spacecraft, Pat runs up and tells Michael she has finished translating the book - it's a cookbook! Michael tries to escape, but is forced back inside by a Kanamit, and the craft leaves."

Maybe they're trying to avoid another repeat of the now infamous Apple III incident where they sold 14,000 defective Apple III's.

Cheap rigs like this are easy to build and don't wreck cameras. Trust me, I've put plenty of them down hard.

The problem is that it's very, very easy to poison the prosecution of the beneficiary of spam. See Basics on JoeJobs Who's to say whether something like this came from you or not? :

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How do you propose to demonstrate that you didn't pay someone to send it? Turn over all of your financial records to someone to show no payments to an unknown spammer in the Ukrane that runs a server or ten in China?

Trying to sue credit card companies and banks is pretty unreasonable as well. There's no easy way to verify every action that a merchant takes. Even if you suceeded in getting some kind of law to that effect passed, the cost would get handed right back to the consumers. Theoretically suing spammers could work because they are reasonably small operators with a small number of clients. When Visa has hundreds of millions of users, they can abuse them pretty freely.

Yeah, this should work. I am dumb. I'm telling ya, its awesome.

Ding. Found picture. Ignore filename.

pop3 problems it seems with no time to repair.

Looks like they use InterMail pop3 server (telnet pop.east.cox.net 110) and
smtp server
(telnet smtp.east.cox.net 25): 220 lakermmtao11.cox.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-
20040324) ready Mon, 24 May 2004 19:00:55 -0400
(was 4xx too busy a minute ago)

Intermail is/was produced/sold by Openwave
Intermail is no longer available and support has been discontinued. For Openwave email products please visit our Email Mx page.

So, no support.
Indications are that it runs on windows servers.

Draw your own conclusions

Sam

In any case, "jumping the shark" refers to the lame TV you see when they persist in writing stories for a successful but worn-out premise. I think everbody with half a brain agrees that the Star Trek franchise has been in that mode for years now. The only question is: just how many years. You could make a case that they JTSed back in the third season of TOS!

What keeps Star Trek going is all the brainless Trekkies who gleefully swallow all the crap Paramount dishes out to them. Finally beginning to die off, thank God!

Wouldn't the speed of the search be influenced mostly be the capabilities of your own computer?

Ultimately, yes, but there's searching and then there's searching. For example, searching a hashed index is much faster than just searching through files in a filesystem. You could generate an index of data and metadata for all files on the system and incrementally update it during idle times, for example, or do certain kinds of updates on an as-needed basis.

GNOME used to have something like this, called Medusa. I think it was dropped because the existing implementation had performance problems (and possibly security issues?). However, it seems to be under redevelopment, and it looks like it will be quite useful when it gets a bit further along.

God Bless America

(mirror)

A 1962 Twilight Zone epsiode, "How To Serve Man".

Took me a minute to find the corrected title. In the past I've also read that it was a short story, but I can't remember who wrote it. I've never actually seen the story.

Amazon has the CD set, which aparently has this epsiode on it.

Ah ha! Found it!

It was written by Damon Night as a short story, and produced by Rod Serling as a Twilight Zone episode, which aired on March 2, 1962!

The whole Story

Damn, that Internet is a wonderful thing. hehe