Are you sure that was Roman Catholic? The Teaching I got from attending Roman Catholic Mass was more like this. God has given us a set of talents that we have free will on how we use and nurture them. So when you are doing something good with your talents God is pleased that you are using your talents for Good, If you use your talents to something bad then God isn't so pleased with the way you use your talents.
However an other element to Catholicism is the idea of Humility. So your parents may have tried to teach you not to be too impressed with yourself and your skills, so you will continue to work on improving your talents, and not become too self important and let your talents become wasted. The practice of praying "to Jesus for working through me to do something so good" helps you realize you accomplishment without being to exalted about it.
We protest the success of the top 1% richest people... But if you check their lives you will see they got that way by taking a lot of risks, and had made some big mistakes that they didn't repeat.
Same with innovation. In order to come up with something new you need to risk the expense and the risk of failure to try it.
A company patents an Idea it doesn't mean they will implement it... It also doesn't mean their customer will buy it if it is implemented... It also doesn't mean if the customer does buy it that they will use the feature... It also doesn't mean if the customer does use the feature that they will abuse it to squander our rights....
I think we need to thank GWB for these efforts for carbon emission. He allowed our Gas prices to go over $4.00 a gallon. Causing people to look towards more fuel efficient cars. Compare that to Clinton who kept gas prices really low causing almost every American to get huge SUVs.
The reason why the emission reductions are working now is the fact for most businesses it means saving money because fuel is too expensive. And saying you support a green movement is just good PR which sound better then we cannot afford to pay the energy bill.
If energy is cheap we will use it more. Most of us would love to drive large 4 wheel drive trucks vs. the small hybrid car but economics has forced us to make a trade off. Unfortunately a bad economy is good for the environment.
But that has nothing to do with carbon. We can deal with only one problem at a time. And Carbon won by popular vote.
How much are you willing to bet that this will be used to try to debunk global warming because there is an area that has colder then average weather.
I tried to explain a normal curve of weather chances and that Global warming has shifted it, it doesn't work. So on a year that is above average they go in panic mode, if it is below average then they figure it is just a myth.
Functional programs are great when you know what your program will do. In real life it is making a program that does what we think it should do, then go back and alter it to do what really needs to be done.
When ever I work with someone fresh out of college, they argue how my code doesn't follow a strict structure a lot of the time and my defense is we will probably will need to make modifications when the specs change. And my experience in those areas the specs will change so I code them to quickly adjust for new specs. They get angry with me as it seem I don't care about good form for an area that may or maynot change.
However when the specs do change, my code is fixed very quickly, while the newgrad is pulling overnight rewriting everything because he was coded into a hole.
Functional programming languages makes your code too tight for real life where you write programs that you don't know what they are used for.
The problem is Lenord Nemoy and even Williman Shatner were really good actors on what otherwise would be a mediocre show. They made the show great and popular. So unfortunately they got stuck with the show and became too iconic.
But it may not make them more. There is value of getting them there and sticking around playing with their products, but the length of time they stay there probably has a curve of diminishing returns to it.
It is what the customer want... The problem is lately all the arguments and complains are about the potential for something to happen not that it actually happens.
Complain when they start doing it. Not when there is a potential why is our economy slumming lately? Because everyone is spending their time Poo-Pooing on any new technology or idea that comes out poisoning themselves with the fear of all the evil potential that this could cause, and dismissing the benefits...
Here are some examples? Hydrofracking: Yes it isn't a clean energy there is a potential environmental impact on a drinking water supply. But not lets worry about compared to impact of even mining for coal or drilling for oil this is much safer.
Nuclear Energy: Yes there is a potential to a lot of disaster, and a troublesome waste product. But lets not worry that it is for the most part carbon free which is the biggest problem we have now. And numerous safety systems in these plants when well maintained keep everyone safe.
Tablet Computers: Yes they don't have a keyboard and a the processing power of a desktop. But they are small light portable and new UI make a useful touch interface for many applications.
I can keep going on... Every new technology has a tradeoff. You need to deal with that and understand, sure 10 points for seeing there is a tradeoff that can happen. And you should make sure that its harm is reduced but not by complaining and bickering about every new technology that has a potential for misuse.
We are panicking because Amazon has the potential to do nasty thing, not that they are doing it. Why do we buy an ISP and not worry all the time that your ISP will monitor and record all your traffic. Or the guys who own the wires they have been in trouble for spying on us in the past...
Unlike AOL or Facebook Amazon isn't filtering anything. Unlike AOL where you had access to AOL approved content then you had that scary rest of the web to deal with.
Firefox was designed for a release schedule of major,minor,patch type of revision. Google wasn't designed for that type of release schedule. So when Firefox copied Google scheme it breaks a lot of old plugins who expect to be redone after every major version, and the development time frame and scheduling was set for the older method.
By giving new version number to be cool like Google without a major change in its overall development methods, is like putting a Honda Engine in a Porsche Body.
Legacy Systems tend to have a Java Applet to "Web Base" their applications... Mostly because these apps were webified back in the early 2000's where HTML was quite limited, as well the fact that HTML disconnects makes it rather impractical or at least a demanding job to interface with those old telnet/terminal application. That don't disconnect after each request. Being that Java was supposed to be cross platform it was a better choice then choosing ActiveX.
Then there are those Java Applet Games that stuck around for too long, like the ones that Yahoo use to host. And there is those Java Auto Launch apps, that require java to be installed for them to run... Once Java is setup the Applets are setup too...
Then there are also things like the IBM/Lenovo driver update tools off the website that finds the newest drivers for your PC etc....
Java isn't dead, It is just not often used for anything big like they hoped (on the desktop)
The only part that if read literately is the book of genisus, or other religions creation story. For the most part those are stories just to start things off. The rest of the story's may have a bunch of miracles described as supernatural, or at least quite improbable. As for the improbable they could have gotten lucky, and for the supernatural it can from a rare event, or supernatural being something outside of science. But things like the big bang works well in religion and even some of the insanity in quantum physics. And for religions who can get past the first chapter in the bible. Most science works well.
GNOME has lost some steam over the time. From 2001 - 2010 when Microsoft was stuck with XP (dont count vista it was an early beta for windows 7) GNOME had a wonderful opportunity to surpass Windows with a good set of new UI functions. But it laggard and let Apple come up and take the place.
The situation is though the boxes are now smaller relative to the car.
While the T4 is for higher workloads the fact is the standard x86 processor can handle most of workloads quite well. And the T4 usage is getting more specialized.
Back in the late 1990's the Ultra Sparc Chip was widely used for Web Servers and DB Servers. Because most companies needed a server that can 50 units a second. Today the standard x86 server can take 500 units a second and now say the T5 can take 5000 units a second. But today's requirement is only 200 units a second.
So while there are request for more boxes to be shipped the average car size grew or relative to the average car size the size of the boxes shrunk.
Probably not. Most people realized that people do want relationships more then just blind sex for most people. AIDS didn't put a stop to it. It was on its way out before AIDS but AIDS did give the opponents extra reasons.
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Are you sure that was Roman Catholic?
The Teaching I got from attending Roman Catholic Mass was more like this. God has given us a set of talents that we have free will on how we use and nurture them.
So when you are doing something good with your talents God is pleased that you are using your talents for Good, If you use your talents to something bad then God isn't so pleased with the way you use your talents.
However an other element to Catholicism is the idea of Humility. So your parents may have tried to teach you not to be too impressed with yourself and your skills, so you will continue to work on improving your talents, and not become too self important and let your talents become wasted.
The practice of praying "to Jesus for working through me to do something so good" helps you realize you accomplishment without being to exalted about it.
Sure there are some born rich... However you could argue they grew up in a culture that encouraged them to take risks growing up in their lives too.
We protest the success of the top 1% richest people... But if you check their lives you will see they got that way by taking a lot of risks, and had made some big mistakes that they didn't repeat.
Same with innovation. In order to come up with something new you need to risk the expense and the risk of failure to try it.
A company patents an Idea it doesn't mean they will implement it... It also doesn't mean their customer will buy it if it is implemented... It also doesn't mean if the customer does buy it that they will use the feature... It also doesn't mean if the customer does use the feature that they will abuse it to squander our rights....
Yea you guys always find excuses.
I think we need to thank GWB for these efforts for carbon emission. He allowed our Gas prices to go over $4.00 a gallon. Causing people to look towards more fuel efficient cars. Compare that to Clinton who kept gas prices really low causing almost every American to get huge SUVs.
The reason why the emission reductions are working now is the fact for most businesses it means saving money because fuel is too expensive. And saying you support a green movement is just good PR which sound better then we cannot afford to pay the energy bill.
If energy is cheap we will use it more. Most of us would love to drive large 4 wheel drive trucks vs. the small hybrid car but economics has forced us to make a trade off. Unfortunately a bad economy is good for the environment.
So the ends justify the means.
But that has nothing to do with carbon. We can deal with only one problem at a time. And Carbon won by popular vote.
How much are you willing to bet that this will be used to try to debunk global warming because there is an area that has colder then average weather.
I tried to explain a normal curve of weather chances and that Global warming has shifted it, it doesn't work. So on a year that is above average they go in panic mode, if it is below average then they figure it is just a myth.
Functional programs are great when you know what your program will do.
In real life it is making a program that does what we think it should do, then go back and alter it to do what really needs to be done.
When ever I work with someone fresh out of college, they argue how my code doesn't follow a strict structure a lot of the time and my defense is we will probably will need to make modifications when the specs change. And my experience in those areas the specs will change so I code them to quickly adjust for new specs. They get angry with me as it seem I don't care about good form for an area that may or maynot change.
However when the specs do change, my code is fixed very quickly, while the newgrad is pulling overnight rewriting everything because he was coded into a hole.
Functional programming languages makes your code too tight for real life where you write programs that you don't know what they are used for.
The problem is Lenord Nemoy and even Williman Shatner were really good actors on what otherwise would be a mediocre show.
They made the show great and popular. So unfortunately they got stuck with the show and became too iconic.
Like... DeForest Kelley's dead, Jim.
or
Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85
Yes Slashdot is all full of class.
Your right... They should be a site that that consolidated tech based news across web to cover such things such as new product releases of technology.
Perhaps we should name it after some some part of a basic mainframe commands but obscure enough to to keep some people out. Maybe DividePeriod.org
Lets face the facts Ladies and Gentlemen...
Slashdot is a tech web site... Apple is the big name in tech... Information will be spread to the site.
But it may not make them more.
There is value of getting them there and sticking around playing with their products, but the length of time they stay there probably has a curve of diminishing returns to it.
It is what the customer want...
The problem is lately all the arguments and complains are about the potential for something to happen not that it actually happens.
Complain when they start doing it. Not when there is a potential why is our economy slumming lately? Because everyone is spending their time Poo-Pooing on any new technology or idea that comes out poisoning themselves with the fear of all the evil potential that this could cause, and dismissing the benefits...
Here are some examples?
Hydrofracking: Yes it isn't a clean energy there is a potential environmental impact on a drinking water supply. But not lets worry about compared to impact of even mining for coal or drilling for oil this is much safer.
Nuclear Energy: Yes there is a potential to a lot of disaster, and a troublesome waste product. But lets not worry that it is for the most part carbon free which is the biggest problem we have now. And numerous safety systems in these plants when well maintained keep everyone safe.
Tablet Computers: Yes they don't have a keyboard and a the processing power of a desktop. But they are small light portable and new UI make a useful touch interface for many applications.
I can keep going on... Every new technology has a tradeoff. You need to deal with that and understand, sure 10 points for seeing there is a tradeoff that can happen. And you should make sure that its harm is reduced but not by complaining and bickering about every new technology that has a potential for misuse.
We are panicking because Amazon has the potential to do nasty thing, not that they are doing it. Why do we buy an ISP and not worry all the time that your ISP will monitor and record all your traffic. Or the guys who own the wires they have been in trouble for spying on us in the past...
Unlike AOL or Facebook Amazon isn't filtering anything. Unlike AOL where you had access to AOL approved content then you had that scary rest of the web to deal with.
And I know most of wont beleave it, but software quality has been improving greatly over the years.
Why do need to add new rules when the problem is improving on it's own?
Well it is partially due to it.
Firefox was designed for a release schedule of major,minor,patch type of revision. Google wasn't designed for that type of release schedule. So when Firefox copied Google scheme it breaks a lot of old plugins who expect to be redone after every major version, and the development time frame and scheduling was set for the older method.
By giving new version number to be cool like Google without a major change in its overall development methods, is like putting a Honda Engine in a Porsche Body.
MD in general love tablets. They were the only group that really bought the old Laptop Tablets with a stylus. So yes it needs to be secure..
Legacy Systems tend to have a Java Applet to "Web Base" their applications... Mostly because these apps were webified back in the early 2000's where HTML was quite limited, as well the fact that HTML disconnects makes it rather impractical or at least a demanding job to interface with those old telnet/terminal application. That don't disconnect after each request. Being that Java was supposed to be cross platform it was a better choice then choosing ActiveX.
Then there are those Java Applet Games that stuck around for too long, like the ones that Yahoo use to host. And there is those Java Auto Launch apps, that require java to be installed for them to run... Once Java is setup the Applets are setup too...
Then there are also things like the IBM/Lenovo driver update tools off the website that finds the newest drivers for your PC etc....
Java isn't dead, It is just not often used for anything big like they hoped (on the desktop)
The only part that if read literately is the book of genisus, or other religions creation story. For the most part those are stories just to start things off. The rest of the story's may have a bunch of miracles described as supernatural, or at least quite improbable. As for the improbable they could have gotten lucky, and for the supernatural it can from a rare event, or supernatural being something outside of science.
But things like the big bang works well in religion and even some of the insanity in quantum physics. And for religions who can get past the first chapter in the bible. Most science works well.
GNOME has lost some steam over the time.
From 2001 - 2010 when Microsoft was stuck with XP (dont count vista it was an early beta for windows 7) GNOME had a wonderful opportunity to surpass Windows with a good set of new UI functions. But it laggard and let Apple come up and take the place.
The situation is though the boxes are now smaller relative to the car.
While the T4 is for higher workloads the fact is the standard x86 processor can handle most of workloads quite well. And the T4 usage is getting more specialized.
Back in the late 1990's the Ultra Sparc Chip was widely used for Web Servers and DB Servers. Because most companies needed a server that can 50 units a second. Today the standard x86 server can take 500 units a second and now say the T5 can take 5000 units a second. But today's requirement is only 200 units a second.
So while there are request for more boxes to be shipped the average car size grew or relative to the average car size the size of the boxes shrunk.
Probably not.
Most people realized that people do want relationships more then just blind sex for most people.
AIDS didn't put a stop to it. It was on its way out before AIDS but AIDS did give the opponents extra reasons.
No I will not.
Legally Yes your are right... However if you Egg someone one too much the assault becomes self defense.