Red Hat, Inc. is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and has only one office above the Mason-Dixon line. There's an office in Alabama but none in so-called Silicon Alley (NY). I think that tells us something about where its demand has been over the last eight years.
It sounds like Bronson's been reading The Call by Os Guinness. This is a very comtemplative and meaningful book that provides good guidance pertaining to our question here of "What should I do with my life?" Here are some of my notes from the book (mostly excerpts) to give you an idea of what it's about.
We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us. (45)
A sense of calling should precede a choice of job and career, and the main way to discover calling is along the line of what we are each created and gifted to be. Instead of, "You are what you do," calling says: "Do what you are." (46)
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work. (42)
God does call us to "be ourselves" and "do what we are." But we are only truly "ourselves" and can only truly "do what we are" when we follow God's call. (48)
We are not called first to special work but to God. (43)
The notion of calling is vital to the modern search for a basis for moral responsibility and to an understanding of ethics itself. (90)
All we are is a hearing and a response. We are responsible because we are response-able. Between the first word of God's creation and the last word of His judgment our ways of life are our response to God's Word to us. (92)
To make the choice of career or profession on selfish grounds, without a true sense of calling, is probably the greatest single sin any young person can commit, for it is the deliberate withdrawal from allegiance to God of the greatest part of time and strength. (47)
Be "inner-directed" by God rather than "other-directed" by our environment. Don't succumb to "outside-in" thinking. (74, 75)
In many cases a clear sense of calling comes only through a time of searching, including trial and error. Clarity may apply to only a part of your calling at first. (52)
Life is lived forward but understood backward. (53)
I don't have that problem because I used Mozilla's tabbed browsing.
What I do: Middle-click the first link (opens in own tab), middle-click the second link (opens in yet another tab), and don't worry about the Back button at all. You've got all three pages in tabs. Want to get rid of a tab? Just middle-click it.
If someone can be intellectually convinced into something, he can be intellectually convinced out of it. The issue is whether the conviction is deeper than the intellect.
I think there has to be some kind of desire behind this. Some kind of ulterior motive or agenda that's driving the movement. Anti-government feelings, anti-NASA (waste of taxpayer's money, sending people into space when children are still starving in Africa), anti-Americanism, jealousy of other nations, phobia of ET exploration, or something else. What do you think?
Stores at the mall could try the same tactic. We may see the following in an article some time in the future...
Using a technique called the "kick through," advertisers can direct a person to another store if they simply kick their butt through the store entrance -- no walking is necessary.
"We're experiencing enormous success," said the company's VP of Consumer Compliance. "Excited customers just keep flying through the door."
The company's division of Consumer Compliance consists of only one employee, Lars Ulrich, former drummer of metal band Metallica and notorious anti-Napster advocate.
"BLOCKERS BAAAAAD! KICK THROUGH GOOOOOD!" exclaimed Ulrich as he pounded a confiscated MP3 player to pieces with his fists.
'But a continuous consumption of datareduced audio could possibly lead to fatal consequences' How?
I think the student's native language is German, and he had a bit of trouble accurately expressing his thoughts in English. The word "fatal" is probably a mistranslation. I think he's referring to the "fatality" (termination) of hearing, not the fatality of life, i.e., death. Even so, he doesn't support the assertion well.
seems like it was written by a 12-year old, judging from the English.
It looks like it was written by someone whose native language is not English. It appears that it was originally written in German, then translated, pretty well for the most part, into English. Notice that the article is on the site of a German university (www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de), and there are German words in the diagram pictures.
Space is overwhelmingly small, dark and quiet. ... I don't think you understand a damn word of what you just posted, and it astonishes me that you can get a +4 moderation for being totally flipping wrong.
I'm not surprised. SETI@home recently got its 4 millionth user. A lot of people think space is overwhelmingly big (I agree here), and full of lively hustle and bustle with every conceivable and inconceivable thing flying, flashing, or otherwise propagating around. The total activity in space is great, but for any given vicinity of a spacecraft in space, it's virtually dead. For the most part, space is a vast emptiness cloaked in darkness.
That's just another Smashdot snafu. The article clearly says, "PHP version 5, expected to appear in beta form by March, 2003, and released in the summer of 2003..."
Historically, in the US, the Republicans have favored strong federal government and democrats favored states' rights at the expense of the federal government.... there doesn't seem to be any politicians left on either side who strongly favor states' rights
That's because there are no more Dixiecrats. If we had elected Strom Thurmond as president, we wouldn't have had all these Big Brother problems over all these years.
Ok, so you believe that guns and safety are inversely proportional. Then why do we allow security guards to carry guns? The fact is guns put the "security" in "security guard". Besides hunting, the reason most people buy guns is for safety.
Use carbon-based ink on leather scrolls, put them in pottery jars, and store the jars in an arid desert cave. The Dead Sea Scrolls were preserved this way for almost 2000 years.
Because of the dominance of the Roman Empire, Greek was the lingua franca at the time the Gospels were written. It is believed that Galileans were bilingual, speaking either Hebrew or Aramaic (a precursor to Hebrew) plus Greek. No one disputes that the Gospels were originally written in one of these three languages. Although all of the earliest surviving manuscripts are in Greek, many people believe that they could've originally been written in Hebrew or Aramaic. We know for certain that both Jesus and Mary could speak Aramaic, because the Aramaic words were not translated; the literal words were preserved "as is".
In any event, we are absolutely certain that the original language was not Latin. A complete Latin Bible didn't exist until Jerome's Vulgate Bible in 400 A.D.
While I can't say for sure that the Gospels were originally written in Hebrew, there are hundreds of references and quotes from the Old Testament in the Gospels, which we know was originally in Hebrew. Jesus himself quotes liberally from the Old Testament. Jesus lived according to the Hebrew Torah, and his life as the Messiah, from birth to death to resurrection, fulfills hundreds of prophecies in the Hebrew books of prophecy.
I've personally found Sanskrit more meaningful than Hebrew anyway.
You mean the Vedas? Hindu scripture? I suppose it would be satisfying to believe yourself to be divine. I think that being One with the universe would make for a lonely existence. If everything is one entity, there can be no fellowship. The Hebrew scripture speaks of God as One with whom we can have communion (not union) - a personal relationship. He is the Father; when we put our trust in His Son, Jesus the Christ, God in human form, as our Lord and Savior, we can be adopted as sons and daughters into His family and have fellowship with Him forever.
If you feel there's only one god, then for you, that is true.
I don't know what it means to "feel" truth. That doesn't make any sense. I study and observe truth which points to further truth which must be taken on faith. It is reasoned belief.
Reality is not based on belief; it is for belief to be based on reality. I cannot will something into existence by believing in it. If I believe myself to be a physician, will you let me do surgery on you? Won't it be true if I believe in it? According to your reasoning, yes. I'd also like to believe in world peace. Voila! Now it's true! Now I'm believing that Santa Claus is real. This is cool! And grandly delusional.
It harms me none.
You and I are standing in a busy street. My point of view is that a Mack truck is ten feet away and driving toward us at 60 MPH. My belief is that if you and I and everybody else in the lane does not immediately run to an area of safety, we will all be run over by the truck and die. Somebody glued to their GameBoy will have a different point of view, but the reality of the situation will affect him as equally as it will affect me. The Mack truck will run over you even if you don't believe it's real or harmful. Other examples: Failure to believe that fire is hot will harm you. Believing that you are using Unix when in fact you are using DOS is sure to drive you nuts. Belief won't change your OS. You have to install an OS to change the reality. This is really common sense.
Reality is universal and transcendental. You have to adapt your beliefs to reality. Reality will not adapt itself to your beliefs. It couldn't even if it "wanted" to, because people believe different things. It is what it is, and you will be adversely affected if you believe it to be something it's not.
An artist doesn't need to sign his name if there is no other artist.
I hate to use an oddball example, but this is the only one I can think of right now. Edward ScissorHands didn't need to sign his creations, because nobody else made creations like he did. There was no doubt as to who created those amazingly unique shrubberies. The creations were the signatures! He was ONE OF A KIND. (I didn't actually see the movie, but even if my assumptions about it are wrong, you get the point.)
The universe is the signature of God! No other entity has the powers to produce anything remotely comparable.
Expecting the universe creator's signature to be embedded in the universe is like expecting a logo creator's signature to be on the very logo he created. It's like saying that Microsoft needs to have its signature on its logo; nevermind that the logo consists of nothing but the word "Microsoft". Is there any doubt about which company created the logo which is its owner's signature? Does Bill Gates need to have his name embedded in the logo just to make sure nobody is confused as to its ownership?
The Earth is God's signature. We are God's signature. Look, anything pertaining to God is bigger than we can imagine. The eyes of a gnat will never see the Statue of Liberty (comprehend it beyond being a green solid substance) even if it runs smack into her nose. We encounter God with every breath and blessing of our lives, but we don't see Him because we've become myopic fools from squinting at a trillion digits of Pi trying to find His alleged mathematical signature. This is like a silly British comedy: "Monty Slashdot and the Search for the Holy Pi Signature."
Let me give you a little hint. If you want to see God's name in a written form, you'll have much better luck from studying the meaning of Hebrew letters rather than Greek letters.
I guess that saying "good" people use Linux is actually a bit of a disservice, since it could suggest that Linux users are normally otherwise -- which is the prejudice that Michael is pointing out as false. (The BBC article does not say "Good Samaritans".)
That's a great post, well deserving of the +5 Funny mods, but you completely missed the main point of the parable. He didn't say just to help the needy. He said to help the people you least want to help.
The victim on the road was a Jew. Jews and Samaritans had nothing to do with one another. For a Samaritan to help a Jew would be like a KKK member helping an African (as I understand it).
Your parody would have been more appropriate if you had put the MCSE in the place of the good Samaritan, but you put him in the place of the first passerby who was a Jewish priest!
Here's the implicit analogy=> Jewish priest:Jew:: MCSE guy:Linux geek Hunnh??
Would anyone really be worse off if Microsoft took the "my" off of "My Computer", "My Documents", etc?
"Computer" might not be your computer. It could be a shortcut to your co-worker's computer on the network. As for "___ Documents" you might have a shortcut to a shared folder of documents on another PC or a different user account on the same PC.
Windows XP automatically puts more than one Documents folders in My Computer, like: Administrator's Documents, CurrentUserName's Documents, and Shared Documents (from the All Users account). (I assume that the only reason I have access to Admin's Documents is because I designated myself a Power User.)
Frankly, I think Microsoft's primary purpose of "My" is for it just to be a means of hand-holding for newbies. The implication of ownership on a typical home PC ought to go without saying, but saying it's Mine makes it special and easier to remember.
In the contest, both God and man are restricted to using matter that each created. If man is allowed to think, he is using matter that God created. That's cheating. God has the unique advantage of existing eternallly, autonomously outside of the natural realm. Having omnipotence is another nice perk of divinity.:-)
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Um, there's this thing called the Power button. You can turn off the phone if you don't want to be contacted.
Red Hat, Inc. is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and has only one office above the Mason-Dixon line. There's an office in Alabama but none in so-called Silicon Alley (NY). I think that tells us something about where its demand has been over the last eight years.
We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us. (45)
A sense of calling should precede a choice of job and career, and the main way to discover calling is along the line of what we are each created and gifted to be. Instead of, "You are what you do," calling says: "Do what you are." (46)
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work. (42)
God does call us to "be ourselves" and "do what we are." But we are only truly "ourselves" and can only truly "do what we are" when we follow God's call. (48)
We are not called first to special work but to God. (43)
The notion of calling is vital to the modern search for a basis for moral responsibility and to an understanding of ethics itself. (90)
All we are is a hearing and a response. We are responsible because we are response-able. Between the first word of God's creation and the last word of His judgment our ways of life are our response to God's Word to us. (92)
To make the choice of career or profession on selfish grounds, without a true sense of calling, is probably the greatest single sin any young person can commit, for it is the deliberate withdrawal from allegiance to God of the greatest part of time and strength. (47)
Be "inner-directed" by God rather than "other-directed" by our environment. Don't succumb to "outside-in" thinking. (74, 75)
In many cases a clear sense of calling comes only through a time of searching, including trial and error. Clarity may apply to only a part of your calling at first. (52)
Life is lived forward but understood backward. (53)
What I do: Middle-click the first link (opens in own tab), middle-click the second link (opens in yet another tab), and don't worry about the Back button at all. You've got all three pages in tabs. Want to get rid of a tab? Just middle-click it.
I think there has to be some kind of desire behind this. Some kind of ulterior motive or agenda that's driving the movement. Anti-government feelings, anti-NASA (waste of taxpayer's money, sending people into space when children are still starving in Africa), anti-Americanism, jealousy of other nations, phobia of ET exploration, or something else. What do you think?
Using a technique called the "kick through," advertisers can direct a person to another store if they simply kick their butt through the store entrance -- no walking is necessary.
"We're experiencing enormous success," said the company's VP of Consumer Compliance. "Excited customers just keep flying through the door."
The company's division of Consumer Compliance consists of only one employee, Lars Ulrich, former drummer of metal band Metallica and notorious anti-Napster advocate.
"BLOCKERS BAAAAAD! KICK THROUGH GOOOOOD!" exclaimed Ulrich as he pounded a confiscated MP3 player to pieces with his fists.
I think the student's native language is German, and he had a bit of trouble accurately expressing his thoughts in English. The word "fatal" is probably a mistranslation. I think he's referring to the "fatality" (termination) of hearing, not the fatality of life, i.e., death. Even so, he doesn't support the assertion well.
Last night. I use big over-the-ear headphones in a quiet room.
It looks like it was written by someone whose native language is not English. It appears that it was originally written in German, then translated, pretty well for the most part, into English. Notice that the article is on the site of a German university (www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de), and there are German words in the diagram pictures.
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I don't think you understand a damn word of what you just posted, and it astonishes me that you can get a +4 moderation for being totally flipping wrong.
I'm not surprised. SETI@home recently got its 4 millionth user. A lot of people think space is overwhelmingly big (I agree here), and full of lively hustle and bustle with every conceivable and inconceivable thing flying, flashing, or otherwise propagating around. The total activity in space is great, but for any given vicinity of a spacecraft in space, it's virtually dead. For the most part, space is a vast emptiness cloaked in darkness.
That's just another Smashdot snafu. The article clearly says, "PHP version 5, expected to appear in beta form by March, 2003, and released in the summer of 2003..."
That's because there are no more Dixiecrats. If we had elected Strom Thurmond as president, we wouldn't have had all these Big Brother problems over all these years.
*ducks* :-)
Ok, so you believe that guns and safety are inversely proportional. Then why do we allow security guards to carry guns? The fact is guns put the "security" in "security guard". Besides hunting, the reason most people buy guns is for safety.
Use carbon-based ink on leather scrolls, put them in pottery jars, and store the jars in an arid desert cave. The Dead Sea Scrolls were preserved this way for almost 2000 years.
In any event, we are absolutely certain that the original language was not Latin. A complete Latin Bible didn't exist until Jerome's Vulgate Bible in 400 A.D.
While I can't say for sure that the Gospels were originally written in Hebrew, there are hundreds of references and quotes from the Old Testament in the Gospels, which we know was originally in Hebrew. Jesus himself quotes liberally from the Old Testament. Jesus lived according to the Hebrew Torah, and his life as the Messiah, from birth to death to resurrection, fulfills hundreds of prophecies in the Hebrew books of prophecy.
I've personally found Sanskrit more meaningful than Hebrew anyway.
You mean the Vedas? Hindu scripture? I suppose it would be satisfying to believe yourself to be divine. I think that being One with the universe would make for a lonely existence. If everything is one entity, there can be no fellowship. The Hebrew scripture speaks of God as One with whom we can have communion (not union) - a personal relationship. He is the Father; when we put our trust in His Son, Jesus the Christ, God in human form, as our Lord and Savior, we can be adopted as sons and daughters into His family and have fellowship with Him forever.
I don't know what it means to "feel" truth. That doesn't make any sense. I study and observe truth which points to further truth which must be taken on faith. It is reasoned belief.
Reality is not based on belief; it is for belief to be based on reality. I cannot will something into existence by believing in it. If I believe myself to be a physician, will you let me do surgery on you? Won't it be true if I believe in it? According to your reasoning, yes. I'd also like to believe in world peace. Voila! Now it's true! Now I'm believing that Santa Claus is real. This is cool! And grandly delusional.
It harms me none.
You and I are standing in a busy street. My point of view is that a Mack truck is ten feet away and driving toward us at 60 MPH. My belief is that if you and I and everybody else in the lane does not immediately run to an area of safety, we will all be run over by the truck and die. Somebody glued to their GameBoy will have a different point of view, but the reality of the situation will affect him as equally as it will affect me. The Mack truck will run over you even if you don't believe it's real or harmful. Other examples: Failure to believe that fire is hot will harm you. Believing that you are using Unix when in fact you are using DOS is sure to drive you nuts. Belief won't change your OS. You have to install an OS to change the reality. This is really common sense.
Reality is universal and transcendental. You have to adapt your beliefs to reality. Reality will not adapt itself to your beliefs. It couldn't even if it "wanted" to, because people believe different things. It is what it is, and you will be adversely affected if you believe it to be something it's not.
An artist doesn't need to sign his name if there is no other artist.
I hate to use an oddball example, but this is the only one I can think of right now. Edward ScissorHands didn't need to sign his creations, because nobody else made creations like he did. There was no doubt as to who created those amazingly unique shrubberies. The creations were the signatures! He was ONE OF A KIND. (I didn't actually see the movie, but even if my assumptions about it are wrong, you get the point.)
The universe is the signature of God! No other entity has the powers to produce anything remotely comparable.
Expecting the universe creator's signature to be embedded in the universe is like expecting a logo creator's signature to be on the very logo he created. It's like saying that Microsoft needs to have its signature on its logo; nevermind that the logo consists of nothing but the word "Microsoft". Is there any doubt about which company created the logo which is its owner's signature? Does Bill Gates need to have his name embedded in the logo just to make sure nobody is confused as to its ownership?
The Earth is God's signature. We are God's signature. Look, anything pertaining to God is bigger than we can imagine. The eyes of a gnat will never see the Statue of Liberty (comprehend it beyond being a green solid substance) even if it runs smack into her nose. We encounter God with every breath and blessing of our lives, but we don't see Him because we've become myopic fools from squinting at a trillion digits of Pi trying to find His alleged mathematical signature. This is like a silly British comedy: "Monty Slashdot and the Search for the Holy Pi Signature."
Let me give you a little hint. If you want to see God's name in a written form, you'll have much better luck from studying the meaning of Hebrew letters rather than Greek letters.
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Free software and support? That would make the Samaritan's purse happy. :-)
I guess that saying "good" people use Linux is actually a bit of a disservice, since it could suggest that Linux users are normally otherwise -- which is the prejudice that Michael is pointing out as false. (The BBC article does not say "Good Samaritans".)
The victim on the road was a Jew. Jews and Samaritans had nothing to do with one another. For a Samaritan to help a Jew would be like a KKK member helping an African (as I understand it).
Your parody would have been more appropriate if you had put the MCSE in the place of the good Samaritan, but you put him in the place of the first passerby who was a Jewish priest!
Here's the implicit analogy=> Jewish priest:Jew :: MCSE guy:Linux geek
Hunnh??
"Computer" might not be your computer. It could be a shortcut to your co-worker's computer on the network. As for "___ Documents" you might have a shortcut to a shared folder of documents on another PC or a different user account on the same PC.
Windows XP automatically puts more than one Documents folders in My Computer, like: Administrator's Documents, CurrentUserName's Documents, and Shared Documents (from the All Users account). (I assume that the only reason I have access to Admin's Documents is because I designated myself a Power User.)
Frankly, I think Microsoft's primary purpose of "My" is for it just to be a means of hand-holding for newbies. The implication of ownership on a typical home PC ought to go without saying, but saying it's Mine makes it special and easier to remember.
Maybe one of their watches was using metric time. :)
it's like, a bummer :-)
In the contest, both God and man are restricted to using matter that each created. If man is allowed to think, he is using matter that God created. That's cheating. God has the unique advantage of existing eternallly, autonomously outside of the natural realm. Having omnipotence is another nice perk of divinity. :-)