Uh... Depends on your interpretation. Most people I know believe that the gates of Hell are barred from the inside. Those who wish to rebel against God are, alas, quite successful, even to the end.
If that is your reason for not being a "christian", you probably were never one. As for Hawkins, who knows what happens next. Only God; "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy." It is not for us to judge, and never was.
Why are you blaming God for what people do in his name? I've seen people do some pretty messed up stuff in the name of money. Does that make all money evil? Or maybe we should hold people responsible for their actions, not God, whether or not you believe in him.
Religion gives people power just like politics. Are you really so surprised that people at times abuse power? Get some perspective please before you start spewing hate like that. Oh, wait. This is slashdot. Never-mind. Carry On.
ust FYI, you can get 7 segment display like devices that can display letters
Do you even know what "7 segment" means?
hint: count the number of lines in the following
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Both of us fail reading comprehension. I missed that GGP did mention these devices and you missed the "like" in my statement. Smile and have some more coffee. Stuff like this happens all the time on slashdot.
Just FYI, you can get 7 segment display like devices that can display letters. Normally only upercase as this minimizes the number of extra LEDs. Been around for ages, but I can't tell you when they became popular.
I had the luck(if you believe in such) of growing up around reasonable, rational and intelligent people who were capable of respecting other people's positions and happy to debate them. Once I learned that it was not God's plan for people to be argued or bullied into church, I actually started to enjoy the debates... Though the "delusional" argument when used would be more of a personal attack than reasonable argument.
I wouldn't go quite as far as to say knowledge is knowledge. For example, I don't believe man was meant to know how to kill and maim his fellow man. The idea of doing so simply should not occur. The fact that man was so easily tempted springs from his naivety and free will. And because of free will, God would not interfere with such temptation, even knowing its consequences.
Nah, I don't presume to judge your soul. And I don't think you lack empathy. I also have respect for your position, it is internally logical and self consistent. I have a good friend who takes approximately your position(the difference is he doesn't see a problem with any religion). I just don't happen to believe it is correct.
I actually somewhat suspect that if the religious wackos took the New Testament literally, they would stop being wackos... YMMV. You might think me a wacko for believing a literal resurrection for example. And, yes, not everything that is taken literally was meant to be. But I do believe the Bible contains a fairly accurate account of events in the history of the Jews, early Christians and events surrounding the life and death of Christ. On that point we will most likely have to agree to disagree.
There's at least one instance in the Bible that I can recall where God actively dissuaded his curiosity-imbued creations from learning - The Tree of Knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden...
TFTFY. So, no, basically what it means is that from this point on, because man now had "knowledge of good and evil" he was now responsible for his actions and out of God's protection.
As for being encouraged to avoid questions, I can't speak for other people, but those around me and I are encouraged just the opposite way. And despite having asked all the hard questions, I am still a Christian. My faith is not blind. It is based on God's faithfulness to me. If God did not come through for me, I would have no reason to trust Him would I? I guess at this point you will call me delusional, or looking for a pattern where there is none (yes, I've heard all the arguments), but from my perspective (and I am a critical thinker) that is not sufficient to explain the circumstances in which I find myself, nor the experiences I have had.
[..]Don't worry, I hate christians as much as I hate muslims, and just about any other nutcase that professes to "believe".
Which is why you'll never "convert" anyone to your way of thinking. Rational argument requires respect on both sides. Don't be surprised if when talking to the "religious" they become irrational towards you. Its not them, its you. And before you say like most atheists you "don't force nothing down anyone's throat", then I must ask you if you really hate the "religious".
You will certainly disagree with me, but thats your problem. I just call it as I see it.
Every time facebook comes up and people complain, I'm happy to point them in the bloat free direction. Although this also suffers from feature creep, the "like" madness has recently infected facebook mobile...:{
Speaking of blaming others for your problems, I've found most issues with any operating system are relate to poor drivers. Its pot luck whether a given set of hardware is stable under Windows, Linux, both or neither. I have seen all four cases. In your case, it sounds like a graphics driver issue. Disabling Compiz would probably solve that.
At this point you'll probably say that it doesn't matter to the end user whose fault it is, and you'd be right. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't push hardware manufacturers to release quality drivers for Linux and Windows.
Hmmm.. slashdot ate some of my comment.
The difference is pushed back into the supply. Inductors and capacitors store energy in case you didn't notice. My line of reasoning is to quite correctly view a home load as an RLC circuit with an AC input frequency. What is yours?
No, 28 VA == 28 W at 1.0 pf. Do you not understand that VA is the same units as a watt, and the notational difference is used to distinguish between real and apparent power?
Uh... But we're not at 1.0pf.. We're 13W at.45 to.5 pf. Do you not understand what apparent power is? If we look at true power, 13W != 28W. My point is this 28VA is not at 1.0 PF and you can't view it as such. Under normal circumstances, the power company will adjust their generators/substations so that they "see" your 28VA load as 13W.
And, no, your other appliances will not use the energy. You're thinking of bypass capacitors used to smooth out ripples. Appliances can't "steal" current on different phases. Where are you getting this line of reasoning?
Didn't read the link either did you? I can rig up an LC filter which will reduce my VA to almost zero. My actual true power usage will be higher, but a VA meter will measure zero(or close to it). This is of course illegal in most places. Please remember conservation of energy, kirchoff's laws, etc. We use 13W true power at 28VA. The "difference" is "pushed" back into t
No. You need to unplug the computer during the lightning storm. If there is a close hit/direct hit on the line near you your UPS means squat. But then replacement PSUs/Motherboards/Modems/Data are cheap where you are?
If there was a reason you could not unplug your PC during a storm, then you would already have a UPS and some other fancy equipment...
Assuming that there was no compensation for the power factor (normally in the form of a capacitor in parallel with the inductive load, or another appliance on the same circuit to bring the total power factor closer to 1), this amount of energy is negligible(8%-20% transmission line loss) - a 13W bulb would waste at most ~3W.
Normally a power company will adjust the power factor with a bank of capacitors in the substation. Which is what they have done all along - most loads (electric motors, heating elements, etc are inductive and have a poor power factor.
VA != Watts. They actually use their rated power. The VA is the instantaneous maximum load from the supply, but since they contain inductor/capacitor circuits, these "return" some of their stored energy back to the supply. So, TFS is BS. Check here..
Except that they consume exactly their rated power(and hence energy). TFS (I did not read TFA) does not understand power or the fact that power companies in most parts of the world compensate for the power factor. A more likely truth is, since most meters(around here at least) do not measure true power, you use 13W, but pay for 28W....
Uh...? I'm afraid I don't follow your reasoning at all. That "28-13W" would have to be generated anyway. Think of a capacitive load. The capacitor stores energy and pushes it back into the circuit, depending on which part of the cycle it is in. This means that your other appliances will end up using this energy. There is actually no issue here. "This same electrical output" could not power a PF 1.0 bulb because it is not actually 28W. It is 28VA, which is a completely different thing.
Fires (Rare and nothing too serious)
Earthquakes (No)
Blizzards (Never)
Hurricanes (No)
Volcanoes (No)
Tsunamis (No)
Landslides (Not often, and rare in poulated areas)
Drought (yeah, but good management can deal with that)
Floods (Nothing serious)
Nah, I think GP is referring to the fact that you can't get all the energy you put into a battery back out.. Internal resistance, self discharge, etc.. Its a bit pedantic, but it is true.
The problem I have with running a motherboard directly from a 12V battery is that most batteries are 12V nominal; actual voltage varies quite a bit (10.5-13.8 for a Pb-Acid). So the question is how well do the 12V components cope with the lower/high voltage? Most of the logic should be OK; that's all 5/3.3/1.xV. I'm guessing the only stuff that really uses 12V anymore is actually disk drive circuitry(not technically on the MB).
I have a suspicion that you really don't want to be running a hard drive off a voltage supply that varies by up to 25%. They must have solved this somehow (step up + step down converter? But that is not efficient) but I really see no point in using 12V motherboards unless everything else can reliably run off the battery first. The home consumer may as well stick with getting 5V from the PSU and letting that dissipate the heat from the step down conversion until we're all using 5V disk drives. In which case, we can probably move to lower voltages (and lower voltage batteries); ~8V seems about right to get a stable 5V.
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Uh... Depends on your interpretation. Most people I know believe that the gates of Hell are barred from the inside. Those who wish to rebel against God are, alas, quite successful, even to the end.
If that is your reason for not being a "christian", you probably were never one. As for Hawkins, who knows what happens next. Only God; "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy." It is not for us to judge, and never was.
Why are you blaming God for what people do in his name? I've seen people do some pretty messed up stuff in the name of money. Does that make all money evil? Or maybe we should hold people responsible for their actions, not God, whether or not you believe in him.
Religion gives people power just like politics. Are you really so surprised that people at times abuse power? Get some perspective please before you start spewing hate like that. Oh, wait. This is slashdot. Never-mind. Carry On.
ust FYI, you can get 7 segment display like devices that can display letters
Do you even know what "7 segment" means? hint: count the number of lines in the following
Both of us fail reading comprehension. I missed that GGP did mention these devices and you missed the "like" in my statement. Smile and have some more coffee. Stuff like this happens all the time on slashdot.
Just FYI, you can get 7 segment display like devices that can display letters. Normally only upercase as this minimizes the number of extra LEDs. Been around for ages, but I can't tell you when they became popular.
I had the luck(if you believe in such) of growing up around reasonable, rational and intelligent people who were capable of respecting other people's positions and happy to debate them. Once I learned that it was not God's plan for people to be argued or bullied into church, I actually started to enjoy the debates... Though the "delusional" argument when used would be more of a personal attack than reasonable argument.
Thanks. :)
I wouldn't go quite as far as to say knowledge is knowledge. For example, I don't believe man was meant to know how to kill and maim his fellow man. The idea of doing so simply should not occur. The fact that man was so easily tempted springs from his naivety and free will. And because of free will, God would not interfere with such temptation, even knowing its consequences.
Nah, I don't presume to judge your soul. And I don't think you lack empathy. I also have respect for your position, it is internally logical and self consistent. I have a good friend who takes approximately your position(the difference is he doesn't see a problem with any religion). I just don't happen to believe it is correct.
I actually somewhat suspect that if the religious wackos took the New Testament literally, they would stop being wackos... YMMV. You might think me a wacko for believing a literal resurrection for example. And, yes, not everything that is taken literally was meant to be. But I do believe the Bible contains a fairly accurate account of events in the history of the Jews, early Christians and events surrounding the life and death of Christ. On that point we will most likely have to agree to disagree.
There's at least one instance in the Bible that I can recall where God actively dissuaded his curiosity-imbued creations from learning - The Tree of Knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden...
TFTFY. So, no, basically what it means is that from this point on, because man now had "knowledge of good and evil" he was now responsible for his actions and out of God's protection.
As for being encouraged to avoid questions, I can't speak for other people, but those around me and I are encouraged just the opposite way. And despite having asked all the hard questions, I am still a Christian. My faith is not blind. It is based on God's faithfulness to me. If God did not come through for me, I would have no reason to trust Him would I? I guess at this point you will call me delusional, or looking for a pattern where there is none (yes, I've heard all the arguments), but from my perspective (and I am a critical thinker) that is not sufficient to explain the circumstances in which I find myself, nor the experiences I have had.
Move north one country and it gets even worse... Though at the moment I'm paying US$25/month for unlimited EDGE (~100kbps). When it works...
Why not save time and name it the "End of Time Clock"? Longest practical joke ever.
[..]Don't worry, I hate christians as much as I hate muslims, and just about any other nutcase that professes to "believe".
Which is why you'll never "convert" anyone to your way of thinking. Rational argument requires respect on both sides. Don't be surprised if when talking to the "religious" they become irrational towards you. Its not them, its you. And before you say like most atheists you "don't force nothing down anyone's throat", then I must ask you if you really hate the "religious".
You will certainly disagree with me, but thats your problem. I just call it as I see it.
Now that is a brilliant idea! How about using some of the harder questions from project euler? That'd really fix the spammers.
Every time facebook comes up and people complain, I'm happy to point them in the bloat free direction. Although this also suffers from feature creep, the "like" madness has recently infected facebook mobile... :{
Fewer machines on the conficker botnet?
Speaking of blaming others for your problems, I've found most issues with any operating system are relate to poor drivers. Its pot luck whether a given set of hardware is stable under Windows, Linux, both or neither. I have seen all four cases. In your case, it sounds like a graphics driver issue. Disabling Compiz would probably solve that.
At this point you'll probably say that it doesn't matter to the end user whose fault it is, and you'd be right. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't push hardware manufacturers to release quality drivers for Linux and Windows.
Hmmm.. slashdot ate some of my comment.
The difference is pushed back into the supply. Inductors and capacitors store energy in case you didn't notice. My line of reasoning is to quite correctly view a home load as an RLC circuit with an AC input frequency. What is yours?
No, 28 VA == 28 W at 1.0 pf. Do you not understand that VA is the same units as a watt, and the notational difference is used to distinguish between real and apparent power?
Uh... But we're not at 1.0pf.. We're 13W at .45 to .5 pf. Do you not understand what apparent power is? If we look at true power, 13W != 28W. My point is this 28VA is not at 1.0 PF and you can't view it as such. Under normal circumstances, the power company will adjust their generators/substations so that they "see" your 28VA load as 13W.
And, no, your other appliances will not use the energy. You're thinking of bypass capacitors used to smooth out ripples. Appliances can't "steal" current on different phases. Where are you getting this line of reasoning?
Didn't read the link either did you? I can rig up an LC filter which will reduce my VA to almost zero. My actual true power usage will be higher, but a VA meter will measure zero(or close to it). This is of course illegal in most places. Please remember conservation of energy, kirchoff's laws, etc. We use 13W true power at 28VA. The "difference" is "pushed" back into t
No. You need to unplug the computer during the lightning storm. If there is a close hit/direct hit on the line near you your UPS means squat. But then replacement PSUs/Motherboards/Modems/Data are cheap where you are?
If there was a reason you could not unplug your PC during a storm, then you would already have a UPS and some other fancy equipment...
Assuming that there was no compensation for the power factor (normally in the form of a capacitor in parallel with the inductive load, or another appliance on the same circuit to bring the total power factor closer to 1), this amount of energy is negligible(8%-20% transmission line loss) - a 13W bulb would waste at most ~3W.
Normally a power company will adjust the power factor with a bank of capacitors in the substation. Which is what they have done all along - most loads (electric motors, heating elements, etc are inductive and have a poor power factor.
This has all the features of facebook I ever use...
VA != Watts. They actually use their rated power. The VA is the instantaneous maximum load from the supply, but since they contain inductor/capacitor circuits, these "return" some of their stored energy back to the supply. So, TFS is BS. Check here..
Except that they consume exactly their rated power(and hence energy). TFS (I did not read TFA) does not understand power or the fact that power companies in most parts of the world compensate for the power factor. A more likely truth is, since most meters(around here at least) do not measure true power, you use 13W, but pay for 28W....
Uh...? I'm afraid I don't follow your reasoning at all. That "28-13W" would have to be generated anyway. Think of a capacitive load. The capacitor stores energy and pushes it back into the circuit, depending on which part of the cycle it is in. This means that your other appliances will end up using this energy. There is actually no issue here. "This same electrical output" could not power a PF 1.0 bulb because it is not actually 28W. It is 28VA, which is a completely different thing.
Reactive power does not transfer energy, so it is represented as the imaginary basis. Real power moves energy, so it is the real basis. Also look down the page to "Reactive Power Flow", which is how utilities should balance the PF..
TFS is a load of BS(some would even say FUD). Sorry.
Lets see...
Fires (Rare and nothing too serious)
Earthquakes (No)
Blizzards (Never)
Hurricanes (No)
Volcanoes (No)
Tsunamis (No)
Landslides (Not often, and rare in poulated areas)
Drought (yeah, but good management can deal with that)
Floods (Nothing serious)
Does this count?
If not, welcome to paradise...
Nah, I think GP is referring to the fact that you can't get all the energy you put into a battery back out.. Internal resistance, self discharge, etc.. Its a bit pedantic, but it is true.
The problem I have with running a motherboard directly from a 12V battery is that most batteries are 12V nominal; actual voltage varies quite a bit (10.5-13.8 for a Pb-Acid). So the question is how well do the 12V components cope with the lower/high voltage? Most of the logic should be OK; that's all 5/3.3/1.xV. I'm guessing the only stuff that really uses 12V anymore is actually disk drive circuitry(not technically on the MB).
I have a suspicion that you really don't want to be running a hard drive off a voltage supply that varies by up to 25%. They must have solved this somehow (step up + step down converter? But that is not efficient) but I really see no point in using 12V motherboards unless everything else can reliably run off the battery first. The home consumer may as well stick with getting 5V from the PSU and letting that dissipate the heat from the step down conversion until we're all using 5V disk drives. In which case, we can probably move to lower voltages (and lower voltage batteries); ~8V seems about right to get a stable 5V.