Actually, Lewis denied that Naria was an allegory in the strict sense. It's not a matter of Aslan=Christ, because that's not what he had in mind. He describes it as saying, "What if Christ came to a completely different (fantasy) world...What would that look like?" He then created Naria around that premise.
No, to successfully get people to use those $1 coins, you need to convince most US males and anyone who doesn't carry a change purse that the extra weight in their pockets is actually a *good* thing. Why should I carry around more coins in my pockets when the bills fit nice and neatly in my wallet? Thanks, but I think time would be better spend on improving the paper to make it last longer.
Is it so amazing that people won't use products created by child labor in Honduras? Having beliefs and *acting* on them is a quality that not enough people demonstrate these days.
90% of the flamewars here could be avoided if the person had the maturity to say "oops, I was wrong." Heck, I wonder if 90% of all wars could be avoided if the parties involved were able to admit their fault. I guess pride is quite a powerful thing...
I have to use Office97 at work and it's common that someone sends me a PPT 2000/02 file. What do I do? I tell them to resave it in a PPT 97 format and try again. If MS software forces me to do this, why should I have different expectations with a free alternative? Save it to the lowest common demoninator, regardless of whether you're using OSS or MS.
You know, the people yelling for boycott of the MPAA are not necessarily the same people clamoring for the next StarWars DVD, don't you? Broad generalizations tend to paint one as ignorant.
Looks like Tom forgot all about the SNES. Kind of a big omission. I remember the SNES starting out slow, but becoming one of the biggest consoles ever.
GNU software by it's own nature is always a copy, a duplicate, of something somebody wrote before.
There is almost never anything new in GNU. It's cloner stuff.
You can say that about almost *every* piece of software out there. Heck, you can say that about most products. Everyone builds off the work and ideas of others, "there is nothing new under the sun."
You'll need an external TV tuner (I prefer the external tuners over the internal because it means I never have to worry about Linux drivers). For example, Avermedia makes a pretty decent one. Get the optional svideo cable for the Dreamcast and you'll have a pretty sweet picture.
Good points, but I rather pay $50 for a DC and $20 for Grandia II (total, $70) and be able to play it now, rather than pay $300 for a PS2 and $50 for the games (total, $350) and play it months from now.
I just picked one up at Funco for $49. They also have tons of accessories and used games for a reasonable price. I got the DC, a 2nd controller, a memory card, an svideo cable, and two games (Grandia II and Skies of Arcadia) all for $120. Beat that XBox!
You miss the most obivious of points:
1) There is nothing wrong with being a monopoly, it's when you abuse that monopoly that the smack comes down.
2) MS was found guilty of abusing its monopoly.
3) Giving away it's own software (increasing the monopoly) is not a punishment for its illegal activities. In fact, it's just the opposite, it's a rewarding thing.
Sorry, but this plan from MS is an insult to our intelligence. They should be donating to schools and charities *regardless* of their legal situations. While I applaud your apparent lack of OS-bias, it appears your vision is clouded on this one...
Doesn't anyone out there realize that I'm willing to pay for a quality piece of software that emulates my Playstation games on my computer? Sony? Someone?? The resolution enhancement alone makes it worthwhile to me. Guess I have to keep hoping ePSXe works some wonders...
Clearly you have no idea of the issues surrounding Windows. I can't begin to count the number of times I've fixed a Windows problem for someone concerning a device that was supposed to be "plug and play." Everything has an install procedure to varying degrees of difficulty. Take the time to learn about the OS you use or don't complain.
Charging $3.50 for a bag of candy that cost you $0.36 is completely outrageous. I'm not against making a profit (heck, I work for a computer reseller), but what you do is nothing more than a price gouging scam. I will continue to bring my own snacks (in the few movies I see at the theater) for as long as you try to rip people off.
Thanks, this needs to be said every once and a while. I enjoy the kernel posts and the subsequent discussion from people who know a lot more about the Linux kernel than I do.
. I also despise CS Lewis, which is the literary equivalent of having a metaphor pounded into your head with a 2x4
And how much Lewis have you read? There's a lot more than just the "Narnia" series. Oh, and if you ever studied the man, you'd know how much he hated people reading metaphor into his books, a metaphor he never intended. Narnia may be seen as a "loose allegory", meaning he didn't write about religion in our world using a childrens story, he created a new world and tried to imagine what it would look like if Jesus went there. See this FAQ entry for a better description.
And here are some quotes from the man:
"When I started The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe I don't think I foresaw what Aslan was going to do and suffer. I think He just insisted on behaving in His own way. This of course I did understand and the whole series became Christian. But it is not, as some people think, an allegory. That is, I don't say 'Let us represent Christ as Aslan.' I say, 'Supposing there was a world like Narnia, and supposing, like ours, it needed redemption, let us imagine what sort of Incarnation and Passion and Resurrection Christ would have there.' See?"
Elsewhere, Lewis also continued to deny Aslan's presence as an allegorical figure, stating instead that his lorldly lion was to be seen as suppositional:
"If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all. So in Perelandra. This also works out a supposition. ('Suppose, even now, in some other planet there were a first couple undergoing the same that Adam and Eve underwent there, but successfully.')
Allegory and such supposals differ because they mix the real and the unreal in different ways. Bunyan's picture of Giant Despair does not start from supposal at all. It is not supposition but a fact that despair can capture and imprison a human soul. What is unreal (fictional) is the giant, the castle and the dungeon. The incarnation of Christ in another world is mere supposal: but granted the supposition, He would really have been a physical object in that world as He was in Palestine, and His death on the Stone Table would have been a physical event no less than his death on Calvary."
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Someone has to play devil's advocate.
Maybe. Then again, the devil's never been known for accuracy...
Oh shut up. You whine worse than a little baby. Why don't you try solving your problems instead of giving up and crying about it. There are millions of people who have Linux installed. There's no reason you can't, either, if you stop whining and put a little effort into learning.
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Recently? Spectecjr is one of the oldest MS trolls around. He and Zico must be live-in lovers.
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Actually, Lewis denied that Naria was an allegory in the strict sense. It's not a matter of Aslan=Christ, because that's not what he had in mind. He describes it as saying, "What if Christ came to a completely different (fantasy) world...What would that look like?" He then created Naria around that premise.
No, to successfully get people to use those $1 coins, you need to convince most US males and anyone who doesn't carry a change purse that the extra weight in their pockets is actually a *good* thing. Why should I carry around more coins in my pockets when the bills fit nice and neatly in my wallet? Thanks, but I think time would be better spend on improving the paper to make it last longer.
Is it so amazing that people won't use products created by child labor in Honduras? Having beliefs and *acting* on them is a quality that not enough people demonstrate these days.
Do you also get taxed if you own a tv tuner in your PC?
90% of the flamewars here could be avoided if the person had the maturity to say "oops, I was wrong." Heck, I wonder if 90% of all wars could be avoided if the parties involved were able to admit their fault. I guess pride is quite a powerful thing...
I have to use Office97 at work and it's common that someone sends me a PPT 2000/02 file. What do I do? I tell them to resave it in a PPT 97 format and try again. If MS software forces me to do this, why should I have different expectations with a free alternative? Save it to the lowest common demoninator, regardless of whether you're using OSS or MS.
I must have missed the meept posts (started reading june '99). Do you have any linked examples of them?
You know, the people yelling for boycott of the MPAA are not necessarily the same people clamoring for the next StarWars DVD, don't you? Broad generalizations tend to paint one as ignorant.
Looks like Tom forgot all about the SNES. Kind of a big omission. I remember the SNES starting out slow, but becoming one of the biggest consoles ever.
GNU software by it's own nature is always a copy, a duplicate, of something somebody wrote before.
There is almost never anything new in GNU. It's cloner stuff.
You can say that about almost *every* piece of software out there. Heck, you can say that about most products. Everyone builds off the work and ideas of others, "there is nothing new under the sun."
Heh, it's sick how some ads never leave your brain ;)
You'll need an external TV tuner (I prefer the external tuners over the internal because it means I never have to worry about Linux drivers). For example, Avermedia makes a pretty decent one. Get the optional svideo cable for the Dreamcast and you'll have a pretty sweet picture.
Good points, but I rather pay $50 for a DC and $20 for Grandia II (total, $70) and be able to play it now, rather than pay $300 for a PS2 and $50 for the games (total, $350) and play it months from now.
I just picked one up at Funco for $49. They also have tons of accessories and used games for a reasonable price. I got the DC, a 2nd controller, a memory card, an svideo cable, and two games (Grandia II and Skies of Arcadia) all for $120. Beat that XBox!
You miss the most obivious of points:
1) There is nothing wrong with being a monopoly, it's when you abuse that monopoly that the smack comes down.
2) MS was found guilty of abusing its monopoly.
3) Giving away it's own software (increasing the monopoly) is not a punishment for its illegal activities. In fact, it's just the opposite, it's a rewarding thing.
Sorry, but this plan from MS is an insult to our intelligence. They should be donating to schools and charities *regardless* of their legal situations. While I applaud your apparent lack of OS-bias, it appears your vision is clouded on this one...
Doesn't anyone out there realize that I'm willing to pay for a quality piece of software that emulates my Playstation games on my computer? Sony? Someone?? The resolution enhancement alone makes it worthwhile to me. Guess I have to keep hoping ePSXe works some wonders...
Clearly you have no idea of the issues surrounding Windows. I can't begin to count the number of times I've fixed a Windows problem for someone concerning a device that was supposed to be "plug and play." Everything has an install procedure to varying degrees of difficulty. Take the time to learn about the OS you use or don't complain.
That's some of the best advice I've seen on Slashdot in a long time...and you didn't even need to preface it with a "IANAL."
Charging $3.50 for a bag of candy that cost you $0.36 is completely outrageous. I'm not against making a profit (heck, I work for a computer reseller), but what you do is nothing more than a price gouging scam. I will continue to bring my own snacks (in the few movies I see at the theater) for as long as you try to rip people off.
Thanks, this needs to be said every once and a while. I enjoy the kernel posts and the subsequent discussion from people who know a lot more about the Linux kernel than I do.
. I also despise CS Lewis, which is the literary equivalent of having a metaphor pounded into your head with a 2x4
And how much Lewis have you read? There's a lot more than just the "Narnia" series. Oh, and if you ever studied the man, you'd know how much he hated people reading metaphor into his books, a metaphor he never intended. Narnia may be seen as a "loose allegory", meaning he didn't write about religion in our world using a childrens story, he created a new world and tried to imagine what it would look like if Jesus went there. See this FAQ entry for a better description.
And here are some quotes from the man:
"When I started The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe I don't think I foresaw what Aslan was going to do and suffer. I think He just insisted on behaving in His own way. This of course I did understand and the whole series became Christian. But it is not, as some people think, an allegory. That is, I don't say 'Let us represent Christ as Aslan.' I say, 'Supposing there was a world like Narnia, and supposing, like ours, it needed redemption, let us imagine what sort of Incarnation and Passion and Resurrection Christ would have there.' See?"
Elsewhere, Lewis also continued to deny Aslan's presence as an allegorical figure, stating instead that his lorldly lion was to be seen as suppositional:
"If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all. So in Perelandra. This also works out a supposition. ('Suppose, even now, in some other planet there were a first couple undergoing the same that Adam and Eve underwent there, but successfully.')
Allegory and such supposals differ because they mix the real and the unreal in different ways. Bunyan's picture of Giant Despair does not start from supposal at all. It is not supposition but a fact that despair can capture and imprison a human soul. What is unreal (fictional) is the giant, the castle and the dungeon. The incarnation of Christ in another world is mere supposal: but granted the supposition, He would really have been a physical object in that world as He was in Palestine, and His death on the Stone Table would have been a physical event no less than his death on Calvary."
Someone has to play devil's advocate.
Maybe. Then again, the devil's never been known for accuracy...
You prove yourself: whiny, lazy, unwilling to learn something new.
Oh shut up. You whine worse than a little baby. Why don't you try solving your problems instead of giving up and crying about it. There are millions of people who have Linux installed. There's no reason you can't, either, if you stop whining and put a little effort into learning.
Recently? Spectecjr is one of the oldest MS trolls around. He and Zico must be live-in lovers.