Think of it like this; when you want to use Word, you run Word. When you're all done with Word, you close Word. If Word crashes, you run another copy.
No imagine if EVERYTHING in your system was like this. Want to do some networking? First, you *load* your NIC driver, then you *load* your TCP/IP stack, and go nuts. NIC driver crashed? Oh well, run it again.
Now, you want to drop some files to hard drive? Fine. *Load* your hard drive drivers. All done writing files? *Terminate* that driver.
Want to upgrade your hard drive driver? Terminate the driver, and run the new one. Presto.
IE, is it 'QNX will switch in 40 microsecs, period. AmigaOS will switch in 4..usually...but sometimes, it takes a lot longer...depends on what you're doing, really...'
One the other hand, whenever I'm reminded of his role in Fushigi Yuugi, I scream in agony at the braindead "heroine" of the show screaming his character's name constantly. I know it's not his fault, but that's what I'm reminded of.
Side note; on one of the OVA series, they have a little comedy serial about the two groups of Celestial Warriors going to a health spa; they all make fun of themselves. Chiriko keeps getting motion sick, for example. The whole bus ride, Tamahome and Miaka are sitting in the back of the bus, staring at each other, and repeating each other's names, over and over.
Oh, and the Seriyuu guys have a MUCH better bus. When asked about it, Nakago replies 'Of course! Who do you think is the writer's favorite character?'
And you think the signal is going to get through the TV case, the TV's interference, if it's on, through the wall, through the interference of whatever wiring is *in* the wall, and so on?
The signal a CRT pumps out is one thing. The signal a radio embedded in glass bead pumps out is quite another.
Actually, it's probably more 'Hmmm. We're not winning in this market, and we DON'T REALLY CARE to expend the time and effort to, so we're bowing out gracefully. Good luck, have fun, and maybe we'll get together some time.'
I have been a Christian for 10 years, grew up in a Christian family, and consider myself to know more about the Bible than the average person. Yet I have NEVER seen/heard anything that states this.
Please don't take this the wrong way, and I mean NO offence AT ALL by this, but I'd suspect that this is because you're American; or more accurately, an American Christian. I can only assume you're American; I base this on the conversation thus far. And the reason I say this is because the American branches of Christianity tend to be far less, hmmmmm. Cosmopolitan? The word I'm looking for escapes me. But the idea here is that the average American isn't exposed to a whole lot of 'foreign' beliefs.
As I said, find a knowledgable scholar or religious authority from any of the three major religions, and ask. You might be surprised. But if you've never interacted in any major way with a Jewish or Islamic group, then no, I'm not surprised that it's never come up, and that you've never heard it.
But aye, I think we do agree some what. But where you argue that different perceptions make for different Gods, I argue that different perceptions do NOT make for different Gods; they make for different religions. The Bill Clinton that the Democrats see is the same Bill Clinton that the Republicans see; the two groups just have different goals, ideas, reactions, and so on. Bill is still Bill, however.
This is my last post in this thread. You don't address my questions and points, so I have a hard time developing an "argument" when there is no logical flow. That is not meant to be rude, and I apologize if you have been offended in any of my previous posts.
Not offended; not at all. I'm curious, though; did you actually follow any of the links I posted at one point?
But if you mean they follow the same god as far as who god is, then I disagree with you. Each has there own concept of god, and thus it can't be the same god.
Then I'm afraid that you're simply wrong. The three religions being discussed agree that they follow the same God. Period.
Here's an allegory. Everybody agrees that Clinton was president of the USA for a period of time. Not everybody agrees with what he did, why he did it, or what he hoped to accomplish by it. Oh, and some people don't agree that he even existed, and some people believe that he was controlled by a Greater Power, Hillary.
Getting back to this, go find a trained scholar or priest/rabbi/imam of the appropriate religion, and *ask.*
Many is the time that I've seen contractors come in, do something that has nothing to do with what the company needs, and get paid, quite cheerfully; after all, the company doesn't quite know *what* it needs, hence it brings in contractors.
I thought about the thinking-faster-than-communicating thing when I noticed that if I get excited and start stream-of-conciousness talking, I'll start skipping sentence chunks; the end result is that I sound dyslexic. I am not, however, dyslexic; quite the contrary. I simply get ahead of myself.
Writing is the same way. I noticed that once I learned to touch type properly, I could actually turn my fingers into a SCSI device (how's THAT for geeky!) and simply send them a sentence to type out, and they'd take care of it on their own.
Of course, it didn't help when everybody made such a big deal of how bad one's handwriting is; you get worried over it, concentrate on it, worry about what people will think of it, and generally it oscillates out of proportion.
I'd be very surprised to find if you were anything other than an INTx, most likely an INTP, by the way.:-) If you're familiar with Meyers-Briggs typing.
The religions THEMSELVES agree that they all follow the same God. The Qur'an SPECIFICALLY POINTS OUT that Christians are fellow People of the Book, for example.
They just disagree on what he said, and what he meant.
Get this straight; the God they all refer to is the SAME GOD, and they AGREE on that. The schisms come in about what that God wants people to do.
Of course there are other monotheistic religions, with their own completely separate Gods.
Linksys DID NOT. Then run a stock Linux on their equipment, which then runs THEIR OWN STUFF.
Hence, they have NOTHING TO DISTRIBUTE that you couldn't get off of another FTP site. Hence they have MADE NO PROVISION for it to happen on a large scale. They are COMPLYING WITH THE GPL by coughing it up anyway to anybody who asks.
Is the intent to blow shit up implied in a chemistry course? Is the intent to poison people implied in a biology course? Is the intent to shoot people implied in a firearms course? Is the intent to beat the crap out of people implied in a martial arts course?
Intent falls to the person who commits an act. I will teach you, right now, how to make a bomb. If you actually do it, I am in NO way, shape or form liable, responsible, or involved in any way.
ALL KNOWLEDGE IS NEUTRAL. How you choose to use it is where good/evil comes in.
They took linux, compiled it, and are running it on their boxes. They then wrote a program which runs, under Linux, on those boxes.
End of story. They have modified NOTHING which is under the GPL, so they don't have to release their own stuff. They are NOT required to post the parts of Linux they're using on their website, they're required to give it to whoever a) owns their product and b) specifically asks for it. They're also allowed to charge the cost of giving it to the person; hence the self-addressed stamped envelope.
So, in other words, you completely ignored their needs, current infrastructure, and future usage requirements, installed something that they neither needed, wanted, nor could admin themselves, and they're now forced to move it all back?
I'm not trying to be harsh or antagonistic here, but that's how it winds up reading to me; especially since it seems you knew that the actual maintenance/day to day running of the network would go to somebody else....
BitTorrent doesn't work, or has to be using a completely different principle, right?
Correct, it uses different principles. You'll also note that it's useless when you're the only person downloading a given file.
A technique similar to the one described has not been used in the last Gulf War to lay out a wireless network troughout the desert
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. However, a bounded geographic area connected through military necessity, and PAID FOR by military budgets does NOT equate to 'we can do this across the world for free!'
Free commodities are impossible. GPS does not exist
Correct, free commodities do not exist. How much do you think Uncle Sam paid to build those satellites, put those satellites in orbit, and to keep them there? They let you USE them for free, aye. But the ARE being paid for, one way or the other.
Business is not willing to provide free access to "expensive backbones" if it attrackts customers or enables them to use a free network for their own needs, thus saving costs
Correct, at least, not the intelligent businesses. They cost money.
McDonalds / airports /... have no free in-house (wireless) internet access for their customers
You're right, they don't. They either charge for the time, such as McDonalds, or bundle the cost into the other products, such as Starbucks, or airports. Nevertheless, SOMEBODY is paying out money. Just because it's not you doesn't mean it's free.
Yes, the scripture is different, but all three scriptures have the same basic source. The God they write about is the same God; one just refers to him as The Lord God, one refers to him as Allah, and one refers to him as Jehovah/Yahweh/whatever.
Oh, and Islam does believe in Jesus, or as they refer to him, Isa, or Eesa. Check out this. The Qur'an specifically refers to Christians as fellow People of The Book. Jesus is specifically referred to as a prophet. The question becomes, though, is he a 'son of God' in the meaning that we are all brothers and sisters, or is he the literal Son of God? Mistranslations and misinterpretations abound. So you are correct, in that Islam does not acknowledge Jesus as God's Child, but they do acknowledge and venerate him.
When you get right down to it, McDonalds, Burger King and Wendys all sell hamburgers. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all teach that there is the One True God, and that his word is law. Where they differ is what that word is, what it means, and so on.
All three agree that there is but One True God, that he has a 'son' called Jesus, that there are various prophets, such as Abraham, Mohammed and Jesus himself.
What they differ in is interpretation and emphasis. But, you get that within each religion, let alone between them (see protestants vs catholics, or shi'a vs sunni, and so on.)
Well, if they're referring to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it's easy enough.
All three religions agree on the high points, and all three tend to list the same major names; they just have different people they pay attention to. Or different interpretations of the same 'historical occurance.'
Well, presumably, the license agreement states something like 'you agree that you hold this license at the whims of the Licensor, who retains the right to revoke this agreement at any time. Dance, puppets, dance.'
Is that legal and binding? Who knows. Maybe the license happens to come up for renewal on Friday.
In AN, I believe, an Alien ship crashes into a California desert; what most people didn't realize (in the story) was that it was a slave ship.
So the Aliens try to integrate into the population; being slaves bred for physical labour, they have extra hearts, they're faster, stronger, etc etc. Thy wind up taking jobs away from humans, yadda yadda yadda.
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Think of it like this; when you want to use Word, you run Word. When you're all done with Word, you close Word. If Word crashes, you run another copy.
No imagine if EVERYTHING in your system was like this. Want to do some networking? First, you *load* your NIC driver, then you *load* your TCP/IP stack, and go nuts. NIC driver crashed? Oh well, run it again.
Now, you want to drop some files to hard drive? Fine. *Load* your hard drive drivers. All done writing files? *Terminate* that driver.
Want to upgrade your hard drive driver? Terminate the driver, and run the new one. Presto.
Which is exactly what it should do, in this case. "Your program tried to do something naughty, so I've killed it. Have a nice day."
What it *shouldn't* do, but probably would on, say, Win3.1, is blindly overwrite the memory, which will crash the machine, requiring a reboot.
I also remember a 'Day in the Life of...' game where you could make stupid choices...
Also, a sweet 2d animation program you could make little stick-figure animations in.
My question would be, are those hard numbers?
IE, is it 'QNX will switch in 40 microsecs, period. AmigaOS will switch in 4..usually...but sometimes, it takes a lot longer...depends on what you're doing, really...'
Side note; on one of the OVA series, they have a little comedy serial about the two groups of Celestial Warriors going to a health spa; they all make fun of themselves. Chiriko keeps getting motion sick, for example. The whole bus ride, Tamahome and Miaka are sitting in the back of the bus, staring at each other, and repeating each other's names, over and over.
Oh, and the Seriyuu guys have a MUCH better bus. When asked about it, Nakago replies 'Of course! Who do you think is the writer's favorite character?'
And you think the signal is going to get through the TV case, the TV's interference, if it's on, through the wall, through the interference of whatever wiring is *in* the wall, and so on?
The signal a CRT pumps out is one thing. The signal a radio embedded in glass bead pumps out is quite another.
Actually, it's probably more 'Hmmm. We're not winning in this market, and we DON'T REALLY CARE to expend the time and effort to, so we're bowing out gracefully. Good luck, have fun, and maybe we'll get together some time.'
Please don't take this the wrong way, and I mean NO offence AT ALL by this, but I'd suspect that this is because you're American; or more accurately, an American Christian. I can only assume you're American; I base this on the conversation thus far. And the reason I say this is because the American branches of Christianity tend to be far less, hmmmmm. Cosmopolitan? The word I'm looking for escapes me. But the idea here is that the average American isn't exposed to a whole lot of 'foreign' beliefs.
As I said, find a knowledgable scholar or religious authority from any of the three major religions, and ask. You might be surprised. But if you've never interacted in any major way with a Jewish or Islamic group, then no, I'm not surprised that it's never come up, and that you've never heard it.
But aye, I think we do agree some what. But where you argue that different perceptions make for different Gods, I argue that different perceptions do NOT make for different Gods; they make for different religions. The Bill Clinton that the Democrats see is the same Bill Clinton that the Republicans see; the two groups just have different goals, ideas, reactions, and so on. Bill is still Bill, however.
Not offended; not at all. I'm curious, though; did you actually follow any of the links I posted at one point?
Then I'm afraid that you're simply wrong. The three religions being discussed agree that they follow the same God. Period.
Here's an allegory. Everybody agrees that Clinton was president of the USA for a period of time. Not everybody agrees with what he did, why he did it, or what he hoped to accomplish by it. Oh, and some people don't agree that he even existed, and some people believe that he was controlled by a Greater Power, Hillary.
Getting back to this, go find a trained scholar or priest/rabbi/imam of the appropriate religion, and *ask.*
Many is the time that I've seen contractors come in, do something that has nothing to do with what the company needs, and get paid, quite cheerfully; after all, the company doesn't quite know *what* it needs, hence it brings in contractors.
I thought about the thinking-faster-than-communicating thing when I noticed that if I get excited and start stream-of-conciousness talking, I'll start skipping sentence chunks; the end result is that I sound dyslexic. I am not, however, dyslexic; quite the contrary. I simply get ahead of myself.
Writing is the same way. I noticed that once I learned to touch type properly, I could actually turn my fingers into a SCSI device (how's THAT for geeky!) and simply send them a sentence to type out, and they'd take care of it on their own.
Of course, it didn't help when everybody made such a big deal of how bad one's handwriting is; you get worried over it, concentrate on it, worry about what people will think of it, and generally it oscillates out of proportion.
I'd be very surprised to find if you were anything other than an INTx, most likely an INTP, by the way. :-) If you're familiar with Meyers-Briggs typing.
The religions THEMSELVES agree that they all follow the same God. The Qur'an SPECIFICALLY POINTS OUT that Christians are fellow People of the Book, for example.
They just disagree on what he said, and what he meant.
Get this straight; the God they all refer to is the SAME GOD, and they AGREE on that. The schisms come in about what that God wants people to do.
Of course there are other monotheistic religions, with their own completely separate Gods.
Tivo does that because they MODIFIED THE KERNEL.
Linksys DID NOT. Then run a stock Linux on their equipment, which then runs THEIR OWN STUFF.
Hence, they have NOTHING TO DISTRIBUTE that you couldn't get off of another FTP site. Hence they have MADE NO PROVISION for it to happen on a large scale. They are COMPLYING WITH THE GPL by coughing it up anyway to anybody who asks.
Bullshit.
Is the intent to blow shit up implied in a chemistry course? Is the intent to poison people implied in a biology course? Is the intent to shoot people implied in a firearms course? Is the intent to beat the crap out of people implied in a martial arts course?
Intent falls to the person who commits an act. I will teach you, right now, how to make a bomb. If you actually do it, I am in NO way, shape or form liable, responsible, or involved in any way.
ALL KNOWLEDGE IS NEUTRAL. How you choose to use it is where good/evil comes in.
They took linux, compiled it, and are running it on their boxes. They then wrote a program which runs, under Linux, on those boxes.
End of story. They have modified NOTHING which is under the GPL, so they don't have to release their own stuff. They are NOT required to post the parts of Linux they're using on their website, they're required to give it to whoever a) owns their product and b) specifically asks for it. They're also allowed to charge the cost of giving it to the person; hence the self-addressed stamped envelope.
So, in other words, you completely ignored their needs, current infrastructure, and future usage requirements, installed something that they neither needed, wanted, nor could admin themselves, and they're now forced to move it all back?
I'm not trying to be harsh or antagonistic here, but that's how it winds up reading to me; especially since it seems you knew that the actual maintenance/day to day running of the network would go to somebody else....
Correct, it uses different principles. You'll also note that it's useless when you're the only person downloading a given file.
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. However, a bounded geographic area connected through military necessity, and PAID FOR by military budgets does NOT equate to 'we can do this across the world for free!'
Correct, free commodities do not exist. How much do you think Uncle Sam paid to build those satellites, put those satellites in orbit, and to keep them there? They let you USE them for free, aye. But the ARE being paid for, one way or the other.
Correct, at least, not the intelligent businesses. They cost money.
You're right, they don't. They either charge for the time, such as McDonalds, or bundle the cost into the other products, such as Starbucks, or airports. Nevertheless, SOMEBODY is paying out money. Just because it's not you doesn't mean it's free.
Yes, the scripture is different, but all three scriptures have the same basic source. The God they write about is the same God; one just refers to him as The Lord God, one refers to him as Allah, and one refers to him as Jehovah/Yahweh/whatever.
Oh, and Islam does believe in Jesus, or as they refer to him, Isa, or Eesa. Check out this. The Qur'an specifically refers to Christians as fellow People of The Book. Jesus is specifically referred to as a prophet. The question becomes, though, is he a 'son of God' in the meaning that we are all brothers and sisters, or is he the literal Son of God? Mistranslations and misinterpretations abound. So you are correct, in that Islam does not acknowledge Jesus as God's Child, but they do acknowledge and venerate him.
Or this. Here's another take on the whole thing. And another.
When you get right down to it, McDonalds, Burger King and Wendys all sell hamburgers. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all teach that there is the One True God, and that his word is law. Where they differ is what that word is, what it means, and so on.
That, my friend, is one of the funniest damn things I've read in a long time. That's getting printed and going onto a wall somewhere.
All three agree that there is but One True God, that he has a 'son' called Jesus, that there are various prophets, such as Abraham, Mohammed and Jesus himself.
What they differ in is interpretation and emphasis. But, you get that within each religion, let alone between them (see protestants vs catholics, or shi'a vs sunni, and so on.)
Well, if they're referring to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it's easy enough.
All three religions agree on the high points, and all three tend to list the same major names; they just have different people they pay attention to. Or different interpretations of the same 'historical occurance.'
Well, presumably, the license agreement states something like 'you agree that you hold this license at the whims of the Licensor, who retains the right to revoke this agreement at any time. Dance, puppets, dance.'
Is that legal and binding? Who knows. Maybe the license happens to come up for renewal on Friday.
You'd be surprised. Even now, there are people who refuse to believe that the Nazi holocaust happened, for example.
In AN, I believe, an Alien ship crashes into a California desert; what most people didn't realize (in the story) was that it was a slave ship.
So the Aliens try to integrate into the population; being slaves bred for physical labour, they have extra hearts, they're faster, stronger, etc etc. Thy wind up taking jobs away from humans, yadda yadda yadda.
For those who don't know, there's a second series, Colonization, which follows what happens 20 years later.