From my own experiences, I've seen several Suns with uptimes measured in years. I have never, EVER, seen a Windoze box with a track record that can even dream of touching that.
I've been using win9x for 5 years, and the best uptime I've ever had was probably 1-2 weeks. YEARS?!?!! Unthinkable!!
I've had Windows crash while:
installing Windows
re-installing Windows
starting up Windows
shutting down Windows
the computer is IDLE (just the screensaver running)
countless other situations
Sometimes I get attacked by BSODs, error popup windows, and beeps until I surrender and give the 3-finger salute. But sometimes the evil OS demands you to salute many times and even then you may have to hit the restart button on your box.
With a clean install of win98, you need to reboot once a week b/c of horrid memory leaks (much worse than win95). After a few months you need to reboot twice a week..a few more months- every 48 hours. I reboot at least once a day now. I have 64MBs of RAM but I'm getting memory errors all the time (and a 128MB swap file!!). When I do web developing I have to reboot about every 30 minutes. This really sucks. I'm gonna re-partition my drive and install Win98 clean... and a Linux distro.. with the hope that I can trash my MS CDs one day.
BTW, I got the Best of Linux Distributions (Red Hat, Caldera, Slackware, and Debian) from CheapBytes.com... it really is cheap! and comes with a good book.
4. Bible: Oceans before land (Genesis 1:2) Evolution: Land before oceans.
5. Bible: Atmosphere between two hydrospheres (Genesis 1:7) Evolution: Contiguous atmosphere and hydrosphere.
6. Bible: First life on land (Genesis 1:11) Evolution: Life began in the oceans.
7. Bible: First life was land plants (Genesis 1:11) Evolution: Marine organisms evolved first.
8. Bible: Earth before sun and stars (Genesis 1:14-19) Evolution: Sun and stars before earth.
9. Bible: Fruit trees before fishes (Genesis 1:11,20,21) Evolution: All fishes before fruit trees.
10. Bible: All stars made on the fourth day (Genesis 1:16) Evolution: Stars evolved at various times.
11. Bible: Birds and fishes created on the fifth day (Genesis 1:20,21) Evolution: Fishes evolved over hundreds of millions of years before birds apeared.
12. Bible: Birds before insects (Genesis 1:20-31; Leviticus 11) Evolution: Insects before birds.
13. Bible: Whales before reptiles (Genesis 1:20-31) Evolution: Reptiles before whales.
14. Bible: Birds before reptiles (Genesis 1:20-31) Evolution: Reptiles before birds.
15. Bible: Man before rain (Genesis 2:5) Evolution: Rain before man.
16. Bible: Man before woman (Genesis 2:21-22) Evolution: Woman before man (by genetics).
17. Bible: Light before the sun (Genesis 1:3-19) Evolution: Sun before any light (on earth)
18. Bible: Plants before the sun (Genesis 1:11-19) Evolution: Sun before any plants.
19. Bible: Abundance and variety of marine life appeared all at once (Genesis 1:20-21) Evolution: Marine life gradually developed from a primitive organic blob.
20. Bible: Man's body created from the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7) Evolution: Man evolved from monkeys.
21. Bible: Man exercised dominion over all organisms (Genesis 1:28) Evolution: Most organisms extinct before man evolved.
22. Bible: Man originally a vegetarian (Genesis 1:29) Evolution: Man originally a meat-eater.
23. Bible: Fixed and distinct kinds (Genesis 1:11,12,21,24,25; 1 Corinthians 15:38-39) Evolution: Life forms in a continual state of flux.
24. Bible: Man's sin is the cause of death (Romans 5:12) Evolution: Struggle and death existent log before the evolution of man.
OVER 8,500,000 PEOPLE OFFICIALLY MURDERED during Bill Clinton's tenure as president, funded by your taxes without your consent. (abortion)
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS MURDERED by official, senseless military strikes in Kosovo (mainly), Sudan (official reason: anti-terrorist strike; reality: we bombed an aspirin factory), and Afghanistan during Clinton's presidency.
~90 SUSPICIOUS DEATHS/"SUICIDES"/MURDERS of people associated with Clinton (partial list and info) during his political life.
Note: Generally, people who get the Death Penalty CHOSE to break a law that put them in that situation; they are GUILTY! In contrast, unborn people and civilians minding their own business are INNOCENT! My views are not hypocritical.
The Y2K bug started in the 50s, but it continued into the late 90s. Even Windows 98 was not Y2K compliant. Microsoft released a patch in the second half of 1999. You'd be surprised how much software created in the last couple years was not compliant.
What you've said about Jews is true, but I don't understand why you feel threatened by Jews in power.
You say Jews are intrinsically evil? According to the Bible, ALL PEOPLE are intrinsically evil because Adam and Eve ate fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. A person can become GOOD only through the grace of God.
This isn't just about telecommuting. My Dad is a pharmaceutical rep. for a large drug company and ALL of his work is done at home. There IS NO office to report to, except the corporate HQ in New Jersey. (We live in SC.)
If our homes and cars are considering places of work to be policed, controlled, and regulated, that means anything not allowed in your company building is not allowed in your home or car. Firearms will be illegal in your own office or car. You won't be allowed to smoke either. What if you use a laptop while watching TV in the living room, bedroom, kitchen? No firearms, cigarettes, or non-ergonomic furniture will be allowed. Better get rid of that soft mattress and couch cushions...bad for your back.
This is the work of bureaucratic liberals whose goal is to elimate ALL firearms from your possession.
Btw, I don't own firearms or smoke cigarettes, but we cannot let anybody usurp our constitutional rights (Amendments 2 and 4, here). Notice how OSHA is made up of people who were NOT ELECTED and cannot be VOTED OUT of office or IMPEACHED! Furthermore, it is questionable whether the mere existence of government agencies is constitutional. They are often called the 4th branch of the federal governement.
The body of (Christian) believers is a melting pot of different cultures and subcultures with a core of common beliefs and values. You are right; many Christians are hypocritical by prejudging goths, but this is changing. It is just hard for the older folks to accept "weird" people as fellow believers. I am encouraged and inspired by the patience displayed by Christian goths in this time of growing acceptance. If anybody reading this thinks they wouldn't fit in with Christian groups, think again. There are lots of freaks/goths who are actually *gasp* Bible thumpers.
I mentioned the word "arrogance" because I know that hostile non-Christians often use this term to describe people who dare assert in a public forum the notion that there is only one right answer to a question.
Getting back to y2k and the calendar, I agree that we use it because it is so entrenched. For daily life, it really doesn't matter at all what number the year is.
The reason we don't use the Jewish calendar is because Jesus was the new king of the Jews, prophesied in the Old Testament. The birth of Jesus was a (the?) landmark in human civilization and heralded the beginning of a new epoch -- a time from which the years would be counted forward. I can understand why you still might think it would be more important to count from the beginning. My belief is that Jesus' birth signified the spiritual rebirth of Earth, much like the way Christians are born again.
By definition, cults are faddish. 2000 years is a bit long for a "fad" don't you think? And, umm, how could you overlook the little distinction of Jesus being the Son of God and Koresh not? Koresh is like one of the false prophets that God warned us about in Jeremiah 23. If Koresh had read this scripture, he would have known that "the storm of the Lord [would] burst out in wrath" upon him as it did in Waco.
Sorry for stepping on your toes, but you do a disservice by misrepresenting Jesus.
OK, if you're not too irritated after my display of "arrogance", here's a web page that some of you heathens might find amusing.:-)
Problems Only Christian Goths Have
I'm not a goth but I wouldn't doubt that these are true.
Brittanica.com and WWWebster Dictionary have identical definitions:
innovate 1. to introduce as [new] or as if new
It's always been my understanding (and nearly everyone else's) that to be innovative, something had to be new AND better than what was available before. BUT WE'VE BEEN WRONG! Not only does a product not have to be beneficial to be "innovative", it doesn't have to actually be new...only APPEAR to be new! Stolen technology from Xerox, Apple, or whoever can be repackaged and honestly called "innovative" because it is "introduced as if new"!!
So everything new can be called innovative, from DIVX to Echelon to MS Bob (at the time they were introduced or discovered).
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I've been using win9x for 5 years, and the best uptime I've ever had was probably 1-2 weeks. YEARS?!?!! Unthinkable!!
I've had Windows crash while:
- installing Windows
- re-installing Windows
- starting up Windows
- shutting down Windows
- the computer is IDLE (just the screensaver running)
- countless other situations
Sometimes I get attacked by BSODs, error popup windows, and beeps until I surrender and give the 3-finger salute. But sometimes the evil OS demands you to salute many times and even then you may have to hit the restart button on your box.With a clean install of win98, you need to reboot once a week b/c of horrid memory leaks (much worse than win95). After a few months you need to reboot twice a week..a few more months- every 48 hours. I reboot at least once a day now. I have 64MBs of RAM but I'm getting memory errors all the time (and a 128MB swap file!!). When I do web developing I have to reboot about every 30 minutes. This really sucks. I'm gonna re-partition my drive and install Win98 clean... and a Linux distro.. with the hope that I can trash my MS CDs one day.
BTW, I got the Best of Linux Distributions (Red Hat, Caldera, Slackware, and Debian) from CheapBytes.com... it really is cheap! and comes with a good book.
1. Bible: God is the Creator of all things (Genesis 1).
Evolution: Natural chance processes can account for the existence of all things.
2. Bible: World created in six literal days (Genesis 1)
Evolution: World evolved over the aeons.
3. Bible: Creation is completed (Genesis 2:3)
Evolution: Creative processes continuing.
4. Bible: Oceans before land (Genesis 1:2)
Evolution: Land before oceans.
5. Bible: Atmosphere between two hydrospheres (Genesis 1:7)
Evolution: Contiguous atmosphere and hydrosphere.
6. Bible: First life on land (Genesis 1:11)
Evolution: Life began in the oceans.
7. Bible: First life was land plants (Genesis 1:11)
Evolution: Marine organisms evolved first.
8. Bible: Earth before sun and stars (Genesis 1:14-19)
Evolution: Sun and stars before earth.
9. Bible: Fruit trees before fishes (Genesis 1:11,20,21)
Evolution: All fishes before fruit trees.
10. Bible: All stars made on the fourth day (Genesis 1:16)
Evolution: Stars evolved at various times.
11. Bible: Birds and fishes created on the fifth day (Genesis 1:20,21)
Evolution: Fishes evolved over hundreds of millions of years before birds apeared.
12. Bible: Birds before insects (Genesis 1:20-31; Leviticus 11)
Evolution: Insects before birds.
13. Bible: Whales before reptiles (Genesis 1:20-31)
Evolution: Reptiles before whales.
14. Bible: Birds before reptiles (Genesis 1:20-31)
Evolution: Reptiles before birds.
15. Bible: Man before rain (Genesis 2:5)
Evolution: Rain before man.
16. Bible: Man before woman (Genesis 2:21-22)
Evolution: Woman before man (by genetics).
17. Bible: Light before the sun (Genesis 1:3-19)
Evolution: Sun before any light (on earth)
18. Bible: Plants before the sun (Genesis 1:11-19)
Evolution: Sun before any plants.
19. Bible: Abundance and variety of marine life appeared all at once (Genesis 1:20-21)
Evolution: Marine life gradually developed from a primitive organic blob.
20. Bible: Man's body created from the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7)
Evolution: Man evolved from monkeys.
21. Bible: Man exercised dominion over all organisms (Genesis 1:28)
Evolution: Most organisms extinct before man evolved.
22. Bible: Man originally a vegetarian (Genesis 1:29)
Evolution: Man originally a meat-eater.
23. Bible: Fixed and distinct kinds (Genesis 1:11,12,21,24,25; 1 Corinthians 15:38-39)
Evolution: Life forms in a continual state of flux.
24. Bible: Man's sin is the cause of death (Romans 5:12)
Evolution: Struggle and death existent log before the evolution of man.
OVER 8,500,000 PEOPLE OFFICIALLY MURDERED during Bill Clinton's tenure as president, funded by your taxes without your consent. (abortion)
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS MURDERED by official, senseless military strikes in Kosovo (mainly), Sudan (official reason: anti-terrorist strike; reality: we bombed an aspirin factory), and Afghanistan during Clinton's presidency.
~90 SUSPICIOUS DEATHS/"SUICIDES"/MURDERS of people associated with Clinton (partial list and info) during his political life.
Note: Generally, people who get the Death Penalty CHOSE to break a law that put them in that situation; they are GUILTY! In contrast, unborn people and civilians minding their own business are INNOCENT! My views are not hypocritical.
The Y2K bug started in the 50s, but it continued into the late 90s. Even Windows 98 was not Y2K compliant. Microsoft released a patch in the second half of 1999. You'd be surprised how much software created in the last couple years was not compliant.
You say Jews are intrinsically evil? According to the Bible, ALL PEOPLE are intrinsically evil because Adam and Eve ate fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. A person can become GOOD only through the grace of God.
If our homes and cars are considering places of work to be policed, controlled, and regulated, that means anything not allowed in your company building is not allowed in your home or car. Firearms will be illegal in your own office or car. You won't be allowed to smoke either. What if you use a laptop while watching TV in the living room, bedroom, kitchen? No firearms, cigarettes, or non-ergonomic furniture will be allowed. Better get rid of that soft mattress and couch cushions...bad for your back.
This is the work of bureaucratic liberals whose goal is to elimate ALL firearms from your possession.
Btw, I don't own firearms or smoke cigarettes, but we cannot let anybody usurp our constitutional rights (Amendments 2 and 4, here). Notice how OSHA is made up of people who were NOT ELECTED and cannot be VOTED OUT of office or IMPEACHED! Furthermore, it is questionable whether the mere existence of government agencies is constitutional. They are often called the 4th branch of the federal governement.
I mentioned the word "arrogance" because I know that hostile non-Christians often use this term to describe people who dare assert in a public forum the notion that there is only one right answer to a question.
Getting back to y2k and the calendar, I agree that we use it because it is so entrenched. For daily life, it really doesn't matter at all what number the year is.
The reason we don't use the Jewish calendar is because Jesus was the new king of the Jews, prophesied in the Old Testament. The birth of Jesus was a (the?) landmark in human civilization and heralded the beginning of a new epoch -- a time from which the years would be counted forward. I can understand why you still might think it would be more important to count from the beginning. My belief is that Jesus' birth signified the spiritual rebirth of Earth, much like the way Christians are born again.
In addition, K = kopeck, krona, krone, kaon, Kelvin, the symbol for potassium, and a few other things.
By definition, cults are faddish. 2000 years is a bit long for a "fad" don't you think? And, umm, how could you overlook the little distinction of Jesus being the Son of God and Koresh not? Koresh is like one of the false prophets that God warned us about in Jeremiah 23. If Koresh had read this scripture, he would have known that "the storm of the Lord [would] burst out in wrath" upon him as it did in Waco.
Sorry for stepping on your toes, but you do a disservice by misrepresenting Jesus.
OK, if you're not too irritated after my display of "arrogance", here's a web page that some of you heathens might find amusing. :-)
Problems Only Christian Goths Have
I'm not a goth but I wouldn't doubt that these are true.
Brittanica.com and WWWebster Dictionary have identical definitions:
It's always been my understanding (and nearly everyone else's) that to be innovative, something had to be new AND better than what was available before. BUT WE'VE BEEN WRONG! Not only does a product not have to be beneficial to be "innovative", it doesn't have to actually be new...only APPEAR to be new! Stolen technology from Xerox, Apple, or whoever can be repackaged and honestly called "innovative" because it is "introduced as if new"!!
So everything new can be called innovative, from DIVX to Echelon to MS Bob (at the time they were introduced or discovered).