Thanks for the tip, but I would never respond in the way the first AC did. I thought what I wrote was relevant, but if the moderators disagree, c'est la vie.
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
God has related to us in different ways throughout history, depending on where we are at. Before Christ, we needed a strict law in order to understand what it means to love God and others. After Christ, he superseded the written law with the concepts of truth and grace.
As we move past our Scientific philosophies to a more Postmodern view, God will begin to reveal himself in new ways. It really does look like things are gearing up for the second coming of Christ, which means there will be a real polarization: many will come to have relationships with God through Christ, but many will become great enemies of God. There will be an increased understanding that true Christianity is a relationship and not a religion (a bunch of traditions and actions).
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
Is there some kind of cut-off, where they don't index a site if it doesn't have enough links to it? I added the URL to my site months ago, and it still doesn't show up in any search results.
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
There was a time and a place for religion, but that time has passed.
I agree with that, except I'm not sure there was ever a time for religion. A religion is basically a set of traditions and behaviours that are repeated. This is what the Jews' relationship with God had become in Jesus' time, and what Jesus (and Paul) fought so hard against.
When asked what the greatest commandment was, Jesus answered, "'To love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neightbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments."
If you examine the teachings of Jesus (or the whole bible, for that matter), you will realize that everything is simply an explanation of how to fufill those two commandments. To put things another way, the most important thing is your relationship with God, and then your relationships with others. True Christianity is not about religion, but relationships.
With that in mind, you have to realize that many people who claim Christianity as their religion do not have that relationship with God. All they have is the actions that a "good Christian" should have. These people then fight for their religion in ways that completely contradict the basis of Christianity.
A parallel I could draw is the free software / open source change. Free software originally had a specific meaning, and a philosophy, but it was tainted by people who used the term "free software" to mean things it did not mean. This forced people to change the term to open source.
Perhaps true Christians, those who base their lives on relationships, need a new term that does not carry the conotations of religion!
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
The reason this is a problem is not because the companies can keep track of the number of people watching a show, but because they know which show YOU watch. Unless there are legal restraints in place, we're up against another company creating a profile of you in some big database, ready to sell it to the highest bidder.
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
Actually, it's a more complex style sheet language, based on DSSSL. (I think I have the right number of S's in that!) The goal is to have both CSS and XSL available. CSS for simple formatting (since it's easier to use) and XSL for complex formatting of XML documents.
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
It is used for displaying images from a variety of formats, like GIF, PNG, JPEG, etc. It has a standard interface to the different formats, and lets a bunch of display settings like gamma correction and contrast be set globally.
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Thanks for the tip, but I would never respond in the way the first AC did. I thought what I wrote was relevant, but if the moderators disagree, c'est la vie.
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
As we move past our Scientific philosophies to a more Postmodern view, God will begin to reveal himself in new ways. It really does look like things are gearing up for the second coming of Christ, which means there will be a real polarization: many will come to have relationships with God through Christ, but many will become great enemies of God. There will be an increased understanding that true Christianity is a relationship and not a religion (a bunch of traditions and actions).
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
Is there some kind of cut-off, where they don't index a site if it doesn't have enough links to it? I added the URL to my site months ago, and it still doesn't show up in any search results.
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
I agree with that, except I'm not sure there was ever a time for religion. A religion is basically a set of traditions and behaviours that are repeated. This is what the Jews' relationship with God had become in Jesus' time, and what Jesus (and Paul) fought so hard against.
When asked what the greatest commandment was, Jesus answered, "'To love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neightbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments."
If you examine the teachings of Jesus (or the whole bible, for that matter), you will realize that everything is simply an explanation of how to fufill those two commandments. To put things another way, the most important thing is your relationship with God, and then your relationships with others. True Christianity is not about religion, but relationships.
With that in mind, you have to realize that many people who claim Christianity as their religion do not have that relationship with God. All they have is the actions that a "good Christian" should have. These people then fight for their religion in ways that completely contradict the basis of Christianity.
A parallel I could draw is the free software / open source change. Free software originally had a specific meaning, and a philosophy, but it was tainted by people who used the term "free software" to mean things it did not mean. This forced people to change the term to open source.
Perhaps true Christians, those who base their lives on relationships, need a new term that does not carry the conotations of religion!
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
The reason this is a problem is not because the companies can keep track of the number of people watching a show, but because they know which show YOU watch. Unless there are legal restraints in place, we're up against another company creating a profile of you in some big database, ready to sell it to the highest bidder.
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
Actually, it's a more complex style sheet language, based on DSSSL. (I think I have the right number of S's in that!) The goal is to have both CSS and XSL available. CSS for simple formatting (since it's easier to use) and XSL for complex formatting of XML documents.
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
NeoPlant
"Bugs are harder to cope with than features, because they are less well defined and less well designed."
It is used for displaying images from a variety of formats, like GIF, PNG, JPEG, etc. It has a standard interface to the different formats, and lets a bunch of display settings like gamma correction and contrast be set globally.