What's REALLY funny is that no where in the Bible are priests supposed to be celibate. Now, the fact that there is no special class of "priest" in the NT is a different matter altogether. The priesthood and its rules are late 4th century and beyond additions to the Christian tradition (more important to Catholicism than mere scripture, according to the cathecisms).
Has anyone in the last couple of decades attempted a translation from the oldest possible sources for the Bible's contents?
That's exactly where the American Standard Version (and its crippled counterpart the Revised Standard Version), Darby's New Translation, the New Internation Version (more of "thought translation" than "word by word") and other modern translations have come from. The latest work on reconstituting the oldest and closest-to-the-original (sometimes the oldest available isn't the most authentic...think about it; sometimes a revision is better preserved than a revered and faithfully copied original) bibical texts is embodied in the United Bible Society's Nestle-Aland Greek Text of the New Testament.
A quick look on the Net for more info should you be interested lead me to this page, which APPEARS to be a fairly decent resource for more info on this topic. (*I haven't reviewed it thoroughly just briefly--but it rings objective*)
Actually, the more it is on the Slashdot frontpage the better. Why? Google's News. Slashdot gets listed on the front page (top stories) quite often. This provides access to NON-TECHIES for prespectives other than Press Release Mills and the like. If Slashdot ignores SCOX on days when SCOX is in the news that perspective may be lost on the masses.
Most bugs are found by pesky users who don't use applications the way they're meant to be used. For this reason I always specify Sony Vaio laptops for my end users so that when they complain of a bug I can send them that special ringtone to repel the buggar.
If you have never read http://lwn.net before, you are oblivious to the best true reporting on Linux available in any media format. I'll wager you read Slashdot for the gaming and YRO articles, not the development-oriented articles. Nothing wrong with that; it's just that for those it services LWN is very valuable.
well, word processing hasn't changed all that much either in the last five years.
Good point. Speaking of Word Processing, I had two consultants in my office today (one of whom reads/., I know) who noticed with a gufaw that I was using OpenOffice.org to read/print a design doc they had sent me. One (the/. reader who has yet to post) told me I was a brave soul for trying OOo. That is, until I showed them Direct to PDF and presentation to SWF in the latest Beta.
I bet they've already downloaded and began using it!
One reason Word Processing hasn't changed much in 5 years is that the paradigm is well defined and most every (conceivable) need is met. I'd even venture to say that the reason there have been releases of Word since Office 97, or, to be kind, Office 2000 has been purely revenue enhancement via license churning; no user of Word 97 is missing a critical feature in later versions of Word. Except activation, of course!. But, I digress.
The other reason for lack of changes in Word Processing in the last 5 years is that 5 years ago (or so) Microsoft officially killed off any real competition in the Word Processing market. No need to innovate.
OOo has mainly been a MS Office replacement excercise to this point -- but with the new beta some new ground is being broken and I have hope for real competition, not just functional replacement, to Office now. Every one I show OOo1.2b to is super-impressed with the PDF and SWF capabilities. Sure, alternatives to Adobe and Macromedia existed for a long time in the Open Source world -- but not so brain-dead simply. In fact, OOo makes PDF creation easier than Word/Acrobat5 (which I bought 2 months before OOo1.2b was released).
Even on the browser -- IE even -- there is innovation. Everyone is touting Mozilla/Firebird/Opera/Safari/Konqueror (and should be talking about NetFront) but the real innovation happening is with Google. Google is the reason I still use MSIE 6 on Windows -- painless, free pop-up blocking makes MSIE 6 bearable. And, for the first time I've started a blog (not that anyone cares, I understand) due to the "blog this" button Google's latest toolbar sports. The browser is a platform for further development. Google is leading the way.
I've got OS/2 on a Dell OptiPlex sitting 4 feet away from me right now. It's the base for a voicemail system (Repartee). Runs solid -- has since 1999. The vendor was in recently pushing an upgrade based on win2000Server. I gently showed him the door muttering something about mission critical and needing to keep my job.
Yep. We're successfully using ~450 MHz Dell Diminsions on our desktops, most running Win98. Some more important machines are running Windows 2000 Pro. No need to upgrade just to use office automation software.
Right now I'm using a Toshiba 2805 202s laptop that I bought new in Feb 2001. Runs beautifully (except the battery which now lasts only 20 mins on a "full charge"). This is a 650 MHz computer with 320MB RAM (maxed out). I've developed a multi-million dollar application (for my employer) using this computer and haven't really needed to upgrade yet.
I have been buying some Toshiba Magnia SG20's and SG30's. These are Linux appliance/hot spot servers really good for small networks and clustering. Of course, I'm buying them new for about $230 each. Hardly a dent in the budget. Slap an Orinoco Gold or Silver card in the unit and you'll get a solid Wi-Fi AP/Bridge that won't drop ssh sessions like a DLINK or Linksys AP/Broadband router is wont to do.
The last big purchase I made was for eEnterprise 7.0 (GreatPlains Accounting, owned by Microsoft). Bought a Compaq ML350 G2 (Dual Processor) to run the application, SQL Server 2000 and to act as a file server for a 20-person office network.
I keep getting calls from hardware vendors, but I don't need anything. If I do, it won't be a big machine; just an application server (canabalizing older PCs) or a new desktop PC ($300-$500). I'd hate to be in the PC hardware business these days.
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I'm all for an embedded RFID, as long as I don't have to worship someone to get it (you need to include verse 15, too):
14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.
not good enough -- too specific to this instance of the worm. Once this mutates *slightly* your proc won't work. If you have to write procs so specific to stop these things, I'd much rather pay someone to write the procs centrally and allow me to update automatically. I do not have time to chase down the worm de jure.
Funnily enough, that's the service that Symantec, et al, provide...
So SCO employees are responsible for upper management decisions now? Much the same as citizens are responsible for government decisions, yeah?
I feel that what you've said of SCO employees is absolutely and completely unreasonable.
The designs of management are carried out by their employees -- employees enable management to carry out its intentions. Ergo, I call for rebellion against management by SCO employees.
Sometimes images are shared by people with sympathetic views. Sometimes such things are mere coincidences. Does this co-use of the rose image seem like a coincidence or does it betray the good Senator's secret sympathy for Islamic extremism?
If only Micron wouldn't raise their prices to match the tarriff induced increase I'd side with Micron. Or maybe Micron won't act like US auto mfg'ers. . .
Heh. My Toshiba 2805 has been my workhorse since Feb 2001. I have three hard drives I swap around: original with WinME (factory installed), Windows 2000 Pro and RedHat 8.0 (now; updated from RH7.2 and SuSE whatever I had in 2001). And by workhorse I mean providing a base for PuTTY, running MySQLCC, MySQL Front, and IE 6 -- my development environment.
Nothing works as well as Toshiba's WinME on the machine. Nothing.
For a while in 2002 I had a TiG4 550 (Mac Powerbook). But just couldn't get away from my need of IE 6 for business web application development and testing. Went back to the Toshiba and sold the Mac to my graphic designer.
I'm now considering a new laptop -- but don't really need one. Probably another Toshiba -- with the point stick; I never could get used to the touch pad.
Here's one that causes even up to the latest MozillaFirebird (MF) to die: in an input field (type=text) with autocomplete enabled (whatever that IE feature is called in MF) when the drop down drops down hit a key other than an up or down arrow and BOOM - no more MF.
Yeah, I'm an MF'er who doesn't fill out bug reports. Kill me.
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What's REALLY funny is that no where in the Bible are priests supposed to be celibate. Now, the fact that there is no special class of "priest" in the NT is a different matter altogether. The priesthood and its rules are late 4th century and beyond additions to the Christian tradition (more important to Catholicism than mere scripture, according to the cathecisms).
- Has anyone in the last couple of decades attempted a translation from the oldest possible sources for the Bible's contents?
That's exactly where the American Standard Version (and its crippled counterpart the Revised Standard Version), Darby's New Translation, the New Internation Version (more of "thought translation" than "word by word") and other modern translations have come from. The latest work on reconstituting the oldest and closest-to-the-original (sometimes the oldest available isn't the most authentic...think about it; sometimes a revision is better preserved than a revered and faithfully copied original) bibical texts is embodied in the United Bible Society's Nestle-Aland Greek Text of the New Testament.For a compendium of many translations see The Bible Gateway.
A quick look on the Net for more info should you be interested lead me to this page, which APPEARS to be a fairly decent resource for more info on this topic. (*I haven't reviewed it thoroughly just briefly--but it rings objective*)
diff -urN ms-linux/CREDITS linux/CREDITS
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+BELONGS TO US
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Actually, the more it is on the Slashdot frontpage the better. Why? Google's News. Slashdot gets listed on the front page (top stories) quite often. This provides access to NON-TECHIES for prespectives other than Press Release Mills and the like. If Slashdot ignores SCOX on days when SCOX is in the news that perspective may be lost on the masses.
- Even RedHat bailed out by making 9.0.3 a project instead of a product.
Inflammatory BS. RedHat still sells its RHAS and RHES products. They didn't bail out of anything by opening their distribution development process.A democratic shrill candidate wanna be filling in for Lessig. I respect Lessig less now. It's akin to Jerry Springer filling in for Peter Jennings.
[So convoluted *I* lost track of the joke]
- as I realize 99% of us geeks already use it
Not true.If you have never read http://lwn.net before, you are oblivious to the best true reporting on Linux available in any media format. I'll wager you read Slashdot for the gaming and YRO articles, not the development-oriented articles. Nothing wrong with that; it's just that for those it services LWN is very valuable.
- well, word processing hasn't changed all that much either in the last five years.
Good point. Speaking of Word Processing, I had two consultants in my office today (one of whom readsI bet they've already downloaded and began using it!
One reason Word Processing hasn't changed much in 5 years is that the paradigm is well defined and most every (conceivable) need is met. I'd even venture to say that the reason there have been releases of Word since Office 97, or, to be kind, Office 2000 has been purely revenue enhancement via license churning; no user of Word 97 is missing a critical feature in later versions of Word. Except activation, of course!. But, I digress.
The other reason for lack of changes in Word Processing in the last 5 years is that 5 years ago (or so) Microsoft officially killed off any real competition in the Word Processing market. No need to innovate.
OOo has mainly been a MS Office replacement excercise to this point -- but with the new beta some new ground is being broken and I have hope for real competition, not just functional replacement, to Office now. Every one I show OOo1.2b to is super-impressed with the PDF and SWF capabilities. Sure, alternatives to Adobe and Macromedia existed for a long time in the Open Source world -- but not so brain-dead simply. In fact, OOo makes PDF creation easier than Word/Acrobat5 (which I bought 2 months before OOo1.2b was released).
Even on the browser -- IE even -- there is innovation. Everyone is touting Mozilla/Firebird/Opera/Safari/Konqueror (and should be talking about NetFront) but the real innovation happening is with Google. Google is the reason I still use MSIE 6 on Windows -- painless, free pop-up blocking makes MSIE 6 bearable. And, for the first time I've started a blog (not that anyone cares, I understand) due to the "blog this" button Google's latest toolbar sports. The browser is a platform for further development. Google is leading the way.
- we had about eighteen different things we had in mind for the browser.
How many of them were duplicates of them?tiktir.
accordingly,
Windows is a "pass up" monstrosity.
Netcraft confirms BSD is a "pass-ing" fad. Sorry...got carried away...
I've got OS/2 on a Dell OptiPlex sitting 4 feet away from me right now. It's the base for a voicemail system (Repartee). Runs solid -- has since 1999. The vendor was in recently pushing an upgrade based on win2000Server. I gently showed him the door muttering something about mission critical and needing to keep my job.
- and software engineers who look at competitor's interfaces will be blinded with hot irons.
We must plug the analog holes!Right now I'm using a Toshiba 2805 202s laptop that I bought new in Feb 2001. Runs beautifully (except the battery which now lasts only 20 mins on a "full charge"). This is a 650 MHz computer with 320MB RAM (maxed out). I've developed a multi-million dollar application (for my employer) using this computer and haven't really needed to upgrade yet.
I have been buying some Toshiba Magnia SG20's and SG30's. These are Linux appliance/hot spot servers really good for small networks and clustering. Of course, I'm buying them new for about $230 each. Hardly a dent in the budget. Slap an Orinoco Gold or Silver card in the unit and you'll get a solid Wi-Fi AP/Bridge that won't drop ssh sessions like a DLINK or Linksys AP/Broadband router is wont to do.
The last big purchase I made was for eEnterprise 7.0 (GreatPlains Accounting, owned by Microsoft). Bought a Compaq ML350 G2 (Dual Processor) to run the application, SQL Server 2000 and to act as a file server for a 20-person office network.
I keep getting calls from hardware vendors, but I don't need anything. If I do, it won't be a big machine; just an application server (canabalizing older PCs) or a new desktop PC ($300-$500). I'd hate to be in the PC hardware business these days.
- 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
Check out a great explanation of the beast and the number of the beast. Hint: it's a reference to Nero who was, was not, and will be.15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.
Funnily enough, that's the service that Symantec, et al, provide...
No troll. Really wondering what the impact on those of us (there are more than just me, right?) who don't feel the need to rip[-off] and burn.
Now, I am one to rip and burn what I DO own, I just make sure I own it first.
- So SCO employees are responsible for upper management decisions now? Much the same as citizens are responsible for government decisions, yeah?
The designs of management are carried out by their employees -- employees enable management to carry out its intentions. Ergo, I call for rebellion against management by SCO employees.I feel that what you've said of SCO employees is absolutely and completely unreasonable.
Sometimes images are shared by people with sympathetic views. Sometimes such things are mere coincidences. Does this co-use of the rose image seem like a coincidence or does it betray the good Senator's secret sympathy for Islamic extremism?
[It's funny. Laugh.]
If only Micron wouldn't raise their prices to match the tarriff induced increase I'd side with Micron. Or maybe Micron won't act like US auto mfg'ers. . .
Nothing works as well as Toshiba's WinME on the machine. Nothing.
For a while in 2002 I had a TiG4 550 (Mac Powerbook). But just couldn't get away from my need of IE 6 for business web application development and testing. Went back to the Toshiba and sold the Mac to my graphic designer.
I'm now considering a new laptop -- but don't really need one. Probably another Toshiba -- with the point stick; I never could get used to the touch pad.
embarrassingly enough, WinME.
Yeah, I'm an MF'er who doesn't fill out bug reports. Kill me.