If the parent's parent is correct about the Sagan interchange with the Pope, Sagan may have been asking not 'what if there is no god?' but more 'what if your christian religion, at it's fundamental level is not based on real events (birth of christ, ressurrecton, etc...) thus undermining your belief system?'.
Check out John Carpenter's movie 'Prince of Darkness' for an alternate (if bizarre) explanation of the events upon which the christian faith is based. Or even the DaVinci Code. If either of those were proven correct, the Church would have some 'splainin to do.
The existence of God does not need to be questioned for a religion to be discredited.
I haven't heard any Williams or Breem in awhile, but you're probably right. The thing is, I've heard Fripp do "Glass figures" for 6 minutes or better on guitar (see God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners, IIRC) and this was 25 years ago. While Williams, in particular (along with Di Meola and some others) have the chops to do it, it's just not the kind of thing that they normally do. For Fripp, it would be a very nice fit and well within his capabilities.
I just hope that Fripp and Glass do hookup for some work.
I have a CD 6 pack in my car. One of the CDs is always Philip Glass. Another is always Fripp/Crimson. This stuff has been in my blood since the late seventies.
When I'm doing exercises on my guitar to warm up for a gig, I've had people stop by and ask "Is that Fripp?" "No, it's Philip Glass". And other times "Is that Glass" "No, it's Robert Fripp".
Try Robert Fripp. He's a freak and he's training others to be freaks, too. He's like the Neal Peart of guitar: deadly frickin' accurate every single time. Very spooky. He's the only guitarist I could see being able to play with the Philip Glass Ensemble.
I owned one of the original Boomslangs. It was the best mouse for gaming at the time. Nobody even came close. It broke my heart when they shutdown. I got to a point where I needed new drivers and had to put that mouse away.
I've owned close to two dozen aftermarket mice, including that 3d mouse-on-a-stick thing that Logitech made for awhile. But I always come back to Logitech. There ergonomics have always been superior to the competition.
I've currently got 2 Mx700s and a several older mice for backup. The one not being used is always in the charger so I never have to worry about my battery dying. I'll probably upgrade to the Mx1000 but really haven't had a strong reason to change.
The only mouse that ever consistently gave me wrist problems was the old Sun optical mouse that need the shiny mouse pad with a grid on it. Having an third mouse button was a great step up for me (at the time), but I was limited to only 14 hours of work before my wrist failed to work.
The only alternative I've considered going back to was an IBM keyboard with the touchpad and the track-point eraser thing in the middle of the keyboard. I loved it because of the fact that I didn't have to move my hand back and forth between the keyboard to the mouse. It sped things up for me and reduced the wear and tear on hand and wrist noticably.
In case you haven't noticed, I take mice very seriously:).
So if the feds bust in and kick you off your warez box, as long as they dont switch it off, they've got your 0-day filez in the plain.
I've always had the power strip for my box on the floor next to my left foot. If I need to do an emergency power-off cuz the FBI wants to talk to me or because I got some Jenna Jameson on the screen and my boss just walked in, I can hit it in a hearbeat.
Not that I would ever put myself in a situation like that, but I'd rather be prepared "just in case".
If Adobe sued Nikon over this matter, Adobe would win. The courts would say that Adobe can legally reverse engineer NEF file formats, including the bits that are "encrypted" and many of us would rejoice.
However, that is the last thing in the world they want. They do not want a court ruling that permits this reverse engineering of file formats. It would create massive problems for them and their ability to defend their "intellectual property" in other arenas.
Adobe won't sue. But they will apply what pressure they can in a public forum to get everybody upset with Nikon.
I frequently find that design documents do not have enough of the reasoning behind why a decision was made. Issue Based Information Systems (IBIS) is one way of recording this information and I have seen people use this technique successfully. But what may be of more value is to setup a designated mailing-list/newsgroup/blog/journal for the project that can be accessed (online and searchable) in addition to any formal documentation that is generated.
From TFA: Microsoft has granted clemency to the 19 year-old author
Normally, I would complain about slash-editors munging up a story, but this story is so farked its ridulous. The article makes it appear as if MS was ajudicating the proceedings in addition to the US District Judge.
Photoshop Elements is Adobe's consumer oriented image editor. And it is very good at being just that since it is essentially a version of PS with much of the hardcore image tech removed or made more user-friendly.
Great software. I've unforunately had to use it this week after an ill-fated SP2 upgrade farked my boot disk so bad I couldn't even get to the Recovery Console. After reformatting the partion and flipping a ghost-image on to it, all is good with the help of UBCD.
Google Groups (I still call it Deja News...) is useful _only_ for searches. The UI is not getting any better, if anything, its getting worse over time. I only go there when I need to search across groups for something. For day-to-day reading and work, I read NNTP via Thunderbird. Or, worse comes to worse, I'll run gnus in xemacs. Or, if all else fails, I could probably get by with rn. lynx with groups.google.com don't cut it.
Why doesn't Paul Allen or Bill Gates cough up some $$$ to buy the entire collection and donate it to the Smithsonian? Somebody in the biz with the bucks needs to step up to the plate here..
This IsNot is not the same (in the general case) as the IsNot in the patent application. If A and B are pointers, then (A != B) would be the same as IsNot. In Javascript, the '!==' operator is identical to the IsNot they describe.
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If the parent's parent is correct about the Sagan interchange with the Pope, Sagan may have been asking not 'what if there is no god?' but more 'what if your christian religion, at it's fundamental level is not based on real events (birth of christ, ressurrecton, etc...) thus undermining your belief system?'.
Check out John Carpenter's movie 'Prince of Darkness' for an alternate (if bizarre) explanation of the events upon which the christian faith is based. Or even the DaVinci Code. If either of those were proven correct, the Church would have some 'splainin to do.
The existence of God does not need to be questioned for a religion to be discredited.
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It still rox. Or maybe not. I don't remember.
-exwife #2
I haven't heard any Williams or Breem in awhile, but you're probably right. The thing is, I've heard Fripp do "Glass figures" for 6 minutes or better on guitar (see God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners, IIRC) and this was 25 years ago. While Williams, in particular (along with Di Meola and some others) have the chops to do it, it's just not the kind of thing that they normally do. For Fripp, it would be a very nice fit and well within his capabilities.
I just hope that Fripp and Glass do hookup for some work.
I have a CD 6 pack in my car. One of the CDs is always Philip Glass. Another is always Fripp/Crimson. This stuff has been in my blood since the late seventies.
When I'm doing exercises on my guitar to warm up for a gig, I've had people stop by and ask "Is that Fripp?" "No, it's Philip Glass". And other times "Is that Glass" "No, it's Robert Fripp".
Try Robert Fripp. He's a freak and he's training others to be freaks, too. He's like the Neal Peart of guitar: deadly frickin' accurate every single time. Very spooky. He's the only guitarist I could see being able to play with the Philip Glass Ensemble.
so we have time to nail our hookers on the way home from work.
See! I knew being a movie star was sweet!
I thought everybody knew that Stu Feldman wrote make(1)?
Oh, wait...
I owned one of the original Boomslangs. It was the best mouse for gaming at the time. Nobody even came close. It broke my heart when they shutdown. I got to a point where I needed new drivers and had to put that mouse away.
:).
I've owned close to two dozen aftermarket mice, including that 3d mouse-on-a-stick thing that Logitech made for awhile. But I always come back to Logitech. There ergonomics have always been superior to the competition.
I've currently got 2 Mx700s and a several older mice for backup. The one not being used is always in the charger so I never have to worry about my battery dying. I'll probably upgrade to the Mx1000 but really haven't had a strong reason to change.
The only mouse that ever consistently gave me wrist problems was the old Sun optical mouse that need the shiny mouse pad with a grid on it. Having an third mouse button was a great step up for me (at the time), but I was limited to only 14 hours of work before my wrist failed to work.
The only alternative I've considered going back to was an IBM keyboard with the touchpad and the track-point eraser thing in the middle of the keyboard. I loved it because of the fact that I didn't have to move my hand back and forth between the keyboard to the mouse. It sped things up for me and reduced the wear and tear on hand and wrist noticably.
In case you haven't noticed, I take mice very seriously
You really need to switch to Stargate(s). Trek-knowledge is so last season.
So if the feds bust in and kick you off your warez box, as long as they dont switch it off, they've got your 0-day filez in the plain.
I've always had the power strip for my box on the floor next to my left foot. If I need to do an emergency power-off cuz the FBI wants to talk to me or because I got some Jenna Jameson on the screen and my boss just walked in, I can hit it in a hearbeat.
Not that I would ever put myself in a situation like that, but I'd rather be prepared "just in case".
If Adobe sued Nikon over this matter, Adobe would win. The courts would say that Adobe can legally reverse engineer NEF file formats, including the bits that are "encrypted" and many of us would rejoice.
However, that is the last thing in the world they want. They do not want a court ruling that permits this reverse engineering of file formats. It would create massive problems for them and their ability to defend their "intellectual property" in other arenas.
Adobe won't sue. But they will apply what pressure they can in a public forum to get everybody upset with Nikon.
I frequently find that design documents do not have enough of the reasoning behind why a decision was made. Issue Based Information Systems (IBIS) is one way of recording this information and I have seen people use this technique successfully. But what may be of more value is to setup a designated mailing-list/newsgroup/blog/journal for the project that can be accessed (online and searchable) in addition to any formal documentation that is generated.
But the price just doubled.
How do MS shares rise to close near their 52-week low? Sounds to me like they closed at their 52-week low.
From TFA: Microsoft has granted clemency to the 19 year-old author
Normally, I would complain about slash-editors munging up a story, but this story is so farked its ridulous. The article makes it appear as if MS was ajudicating the proceedings in addition to the US District Judge.
The confusion is in the original article.
Photoshop Elements is Adobe's consumer oriented image editor. And it is very good at being just that since it is essentially a version of PS with much of the hardcore image tech removed or made more user-friendly.
Great software. I've unforunately had to use it this week after an ill-fated SP2 upgrade farked my boot disk so bad I couldn't even get to the Recovery Console.
After reformatting the partion and flipping a ghost-image on to it, all is good with the help of UBCD.
I seem to remember being able to step backwards in Borland's Turbo Debugger. I don't remember details but I do remember trying it out a few times.
TD was a great debugger for its time. They got the UI just right.
Google Groups (I still call it Deja News...) is useful _only_ for searches. The UI is not getting any better, if anything, its getting worse over time. I only go there when I need to search across groups for something. For day-to-day reading and work, I read NNTP via Thunderbird. Or, worse comes to worse, I'll run gnus in xemacs. Or, if all else fails, I could probably get by with rn. lynx with groups.google.com don't cut it.
There's no uncashed check in there for $2.56 from Dr. Knuth. I consider that a glaring omission.
Why doesn't Paul Allen or Bill Gates cough up some $$$ to buy the entire collection and donate it to the Smithsonian? Somebody in the biz with the bucks needs to step up to the plate here..
ciao,
-X
Lincoln noted "Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt".
Mark Twain must have had Slashdot in mind...
http://quotations.about.com/cs/marktwainquotes/a/
In Javascript, the '!==' operator is identical to the IsNot they describe.
That should read "Strawberry Jelly Hypo-allergenic Cat Overlords". Funding committees are very picky about things like that.