From what I remember reading being turned into a 'pillar of salt' was simply Aramaic slang for being made infertile or barren. Definitely changes things a bit.
This wasn't in question. I felt that the parent post was drawing a connection between the actions of the Taliban and Islam. I could be wrong about that.
Mankind doesn't need any particular creed to be a bastard any more than it needs one to be a saint. The parent post had stated...
The doctrine of Christian fundamentalists isn't likely to result in widespread terror, and large numbers of people fleeing rape, murder and robbery, as is the case with the Taliban. Drawing a serious comparison between the two is mentally retarded.
While I can agree that the crusaders actions do equate to out right barbarism, I wouln't necessarily consider the hordes that overran the middle east in addition to the Byzatine empire merely 'some Europeans'. The slaughter of over 3,000 women and children who had already surrendered at Antioch comes to mind here.
Personally, I think the crusades themselves had little to do with Christianity, but Christrian doctrine was abused to come to a decidely 'unholy' cause.
I can agree that you cannot judge a large group based on the actions of the fringe, but in this case I feel that the fringe wield way to much power and will reap further abuses on the religion they claim to stand for.
The problem is that people use religious doctrine for their own personal gain and history has show that there are no exceptions to this. Well...perhaps jainists, but I'm doubtful about even that.
!!!!BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF PUBLIC CELL PHONE CONVERSATIONS SOUND LIKE THIS!!!!
Joking aside, even this usually doesn't bother me. It only gets really annoying and not to mention offensive when you're in a quiet public place like the post office and every other word coming from someone on a cell phone is #$*@ or $@!$*. While it is true that this can occur in a normal conversation, I see it happen far more often when cell phones are involved. Not really something I want my kids listening to.
I have nothing against cell phones and thier usage, what I really have a problem with comes down to simple bad ediquite.
Not too far from the truth. Can you guess which county 70% of Orange County, FL high school graduates couldn't identify on a map? Hint: Its big and has Florida in its lower right hand side.
You mean just like the 'studies' during the 1920-40's that proved that blacks where genetically inferior to whites. William Shockley of transistor fame funded several himself.
We laugh at them now, but at the time they were take n quite serious.
And one other thing...all you countries complaining about how Americans are just for world domination...where exactly in our history have we ever done that, especially when we were in the driver's seat (Germany and Japan weren't annexed after WWII)?
Maybe not the best examples, but here goes.
War of Texas Independance (Texas)
Mexican War (Southwest US)
Indian Wars (Most of the western US)
Spanish-American War (Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam, Cuba)
Personally I am proud to live in the US, but that does not mean I feel we have never done any wrong.
Unless you are doing just basic CGI GET/POST, the underlining logic of the forms (no matter how simple) still has to be implemented in some other fashion (JavaScript, VBScript, etc.). Consistent support for these across multiple platforms or even multiple browsers/servers is spotty at best (key word is consistent).
HTML makes a decent markup tool for cross platform documentation (its original intent), but a poor method of application development.
It has aways struck me as degrading application functionality back to the level of the IBM 3270 series terminals (which supported form based screens), but not doing as good of a job.
Sorry for the rant, but it drives me crazy when dealing with the limitations of web applications when asked to convert some of our native clients to it so that the sales department can use the latest marketing buzz words.
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Funny, I did not think that C++ existed in the seventies.
C++ was originally C with Classes created at AT&T in the early eighties (83 I think but I could be wrong). ANSI standardization came much later.
Maybe I missed the point....From what I understand VST is only a specification for a plugin (platform independant specification). From there you would have both Mac and PC versions of the same plugin. How can a plugin that is compiled for PowerPC run on an Intel processor (unless they're all written in something like Java, scary thought). Not to mention the user interfaces for each need to make API calls specific to each operating system (Carbon vs. Win32). This is the one area where Muse still has a few problems since it relies on Wine to provide access to a Win32 compatible subsystem.
I guess that if you a VST that had no display to control parameters, you could run it under either Mac or PC, but then again you will still run into the instruction set issue.
I've seen plenty of VSTs that are only available for either Mac or Windows, but not both. Drives me nuts.
Of course I could be completely off base on this one, but from what I understand, a VST has to be compiled for a specific platform (granted you can target Mac and Windows, but now every vendor does this).
No offense, but I think you missed the point about VST support. These are not native Linux VSTs, but Win32 ones running on Linux through an emulation layer. I agree that VSTs in themselves are nothing new, but until vendors build native versions for Linux (never), being able to run the Win32 versions is a big deal. This is the equivalent of running the Mac version of a VST on a PC and I havn't seen that one yet.
With my first experience with VS (2004 beta I believe), I felt I was taking several LARGE steps backwards. Up until then, most of my Windows dev work was with Delphi. VS felt sluggish, flakey and it was difficult to do things that were quite simple in Borland's IDE. Granted, alot of this was caused by limitations in the stock.NET framework components when compared to native VCL ones (What? Not even an Alighment property? GAH!).
I still don't know why it always seemed like VS's form designer was always a few pixels behind my mouse (2.4 GHz machine). Made me feel drunk and nauseous. As for RAD, VB just doesn't compare with Delphi. The flexibility and power of C++ with the ease of VB. I always found it way to easy to end up bashing my head against VB's limitations.
For a simple 'put some controls on a form app', VS worked out ok, but it showed serious weekness when managing more complex projects. It could handle them, but it didn't make it easy.
Microsoft created a pretty decent language with C# by hiring Delphi's cheif architect, so now maybe they should also grab up Borland's IDE team while they're at it and get rid of some of VS's braindeadedness.
If my day job didn't require me to sometimes code for Windows, all of this would be moot. VI and GCC for me all the way.
The problem that I've had with cable company repairs is not how long it took them to finish the job, but how long it took them to get there in the first place.
When some new fences went up in our neighborhood, the cable line was cut. Here is what it took to get it fixed.
1. Call Time-Warner, let them know about the problem. Someone will be out next week to repair it.
2. Wait for the week. No one shows up. Call Time-Warner again. Ooops! So sorry. Someone will be out next week.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 about 10 times. (I'm not kidding here!)
4. Get annoyed, complain about getting billed for service that I am not even getting.
5. Someone comes out and runs a new cable the next day. Says someone else will comeout the next week to bury the new cable.
6. After six months of phone calls, bury the cable yourself.
Based on this experience with our cable company, is it any wonder that we went with DSL for our service.
Granted I've also had bad service from the telcos as well. A couple of years ago when order an ISDN line from Sprint-United, it was a bad sign when their sales rep. asked "What's that?". But at least once a line is up, it generally stays that way and gets repaired quickly.
You mean they pretty much act and feel like every other major religious group in the world;)
Most religious texts say the same thing. 'Smite the infidels, punish the heathens, burn the witches!'
The west has been screwing with Islam since its conception. Atrocities like the crusades are relatively recent, and besides, cultures have long memories. Maybe they're still pissed.
Granted, they have been screwing right back at us.
The thing to remember is there are no good guys and there are no bad guys.
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From what I remember reading, this happened around London a few years ago. They lowered the speed limit on one of the major roads (M5/A22/something) by 20kmh and the net result was that people got through faster. This was mostly due to fewer lane changes (I hate lane weavers) and accidents. The book I read this in was "Why do Busses Come in Threes?". Good Read.
Sorry, I do get your point and agree. I accidentally left rant mode on. Sometimes you have to work with the lowest common denominator (and clients always seem to have only that). Granted I have not hade any issues with PNG support, but that has been my own experience.
Nothing turns me off a site faster than animated gifs. They always leave me with the impression that the layout was done by a thirteen year old who got hist hands on FrontPage.
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From what I remember reading being turned into a 'pillar of salt' was simply Aramaic slang for being made infertile or barren. Definitely changes things a bit.
This wasn't in question. I felt that the parent post was drawing a connection between the actions of the Taliban and Islam. I could be wrong about that.
Mankind doesn't need any particular creed to be a bastard any more than it needs one to be a saint. The parent post had stated...
The doctrine of Christian fundamentalists isn't likely to result in widespread terror, and large numbers of people fleeing rape, murder and robbery, as is the case with the Taliban. Drawing a serious comparison between the two is mentally retarded.
While I can agree that the crusaders actions do equate to out right barbarism, I wouln't necessarily consider the hordes that overran the middle east in addition to the Byzatine empire merely 'some Europeans'. The slaughter of over 3,000 women and children who had already surrendered at Antioch comes to mind here.
Personally, I think the crusades themselves had little to do with Christianity, but Christrian doctrine was abused to come to a decidely 'unholy' cause.
I can agree that you cannot judge a large group based on the actions of the fringe, but in this case I feel that the fringe wield way to much power and will reap further abuses on the religion they claim to stand for.
The problem is that people use religious doctrine for their own personal gain and history has show that there are no exceptions to this. Well...perhaps jainists, but I'm doubtful about even that.
Hrm....
The crusades anyone?
"we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
-Ann Coulter
Doesn't look like things have changed too much in the intervening years.
Except an Amiga Guru Meditation
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http://www.universoamiga.hpg.ig.com.br/guru-medit
It's not dead
It's just resting
Probably tired and shagged out after a long squak.
He was originally paid 50 grand for the rights to QDOS. Latter he successfully sued MS for a couple of million.
Infinitely more so than 95 or 98.
Not exactly something I would be proud of.
Which at 7.5ips would be 2 seconds of music.
!!!!BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF PUBLIC CELL PHONE CONVERSATIONS SOUND LIKE THIS!!!!
Joking aside, even this usually doesn't bother me. It only gets really annoying and not to mention offensive when you're in a quiet public place like the post office and every other word coming from someone on a cell phone is #$*@ or $@!$*. While it is true that this can occur in a normal conversation, I see it happen far more often when cell phones are involved. Not really something I want my kids listening to.
I have nothing against cell phones and thier usage, what I really have a problem with comes down to simple bad ediquite.
Not too far from the truth. Can you guess which county 70% of Orange County, FL high school graduates couldn't identify on a map? Hint: Its big and has Florida in its lower right hand side.
You mean just like the 'studies' during the 1920-40's that proved that blacks where genetically inferior to whites. William Shockley of transistor fame funded several himself.
We laugh at them now, but at the time they were take n quite serious.
Sounds like Joe User himself is the crux of the problem. If we can get rid of him then everything else would be solved.
And one other thing...all you countries complaining about how Americans are just for world domination...where exactly in our history have we ever done that, especially when we were in the driver's seat (Germany and Japan weren't annexed after WWII)?
Maybe not the best examples, but here goes.
War of Texas Independance (Texas)
Mexican War (Southwest US)
Indian Wars (Most of the western US)
Spanish-American War (Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam, Cuba)
Personally I am proud to live in the US, but that does not mean I feel we have never done any wrong.
Or 'To Serve Man' from the Twilight Zone episode
I never thought of HTML as programming.
Unless you are doing just basic CGI GET/POST, the underlining logic of the forms (no matter how simple) still has to be implemented in some other fashion (JavaScript, VBScript, etc.). Consistent support for these across multiple platforms or even multiple browsers/servers is spotty at best (key word is consistent).
HTML makes a decent markup tool for cross platform documentation (its original intent), but a poor method of application development.
It has aways struck me as degrading application functionality back to the level of the IBM 3270 series terminals (which supported form based screens), but not doing as good of a job.
Sorry for the rant, but it drives me crazy when dealing with the limitations of web applications when asked to convert some of our native clients to it so that the sales department can use the latest marketing buzz words.
Funny, I did not think that C++ existed in the seventies.
C++ was originally C with Classes created at AT&T in the early eighties (83 I think but I could be wrong). ANSI standardization came much later.
Maybe I missed the point....From what I understand VST is only a specification for a plugin (platform independant specification). From there you would have both Mac and PC versions of the same plugin. How can a plugin that is compiled for PowerPC run on an Intel processor (unless they're all written in something like Java, scary thought). Not to mention the user interfaces for each need to make API calls specific to each operating system (Carbon vs. Win32). This is the one area where Muse still has a few problems since it relies on Wine to provide access to a Win32 compatible subsystem.
I guess that if you a VST that had no display to control parameters, you could run it under either Mac or PC, but then again you will still run into the instruction set issue.
I've seen plenty of VSTs that are only available for either Mac or Windows, but not both. Drives me nuts.
Of course I could be completely off base on this one, but from what I understand, a VST has to be compiled for a specific platform (granted you can target Mac and Windows, but now every vendor does this).
No offense, but I think you missed the point about VST support. These are not native Linux VSTs, but Win32 ones running on Linux through an emulation layer. I agree that VSTs in themselves are nothing new, but until vendors build native versions for Linux (never), being able to run the Win32 versions is a big deal. This is the equivalent of running the Mac version of a VST on a PC and I havn't seen that one yet.
I was under the impression that it was Italian for 'lawnmower'.
With my first experience with VS (2004 beta I believe), I felt I was taking several LARGE steps backwards. Up until then, most of my Windows dev work was with Delphi. VS felt sluggish, flakey and it was difficult to do things that were quite simple in Borland's IDE. Granted, alot of this was caused by limitations in the stock .NET framework components when compared to native VCL ones (What? Not even an Alighment property? GAH!).
I still don't know why it always seemed like VS's form designer was always a few pixels behind my mouse (2.4 GHz machine). Made me feel drunk and nauseous. As for RAD, VB just doesn't compare with Delphi. The flexibility and power of C++ with the ease of VB. I always found it way to easy to end up bashing my head against VB's limitations.
For a simple 'put some controls on a form app', VS worked out ok, but it showed serious weekness when managing more complex projects. It could handle them, but it didn't make it easy.
Microsoft created a pretty decent language with C# by hiring Delphi's cheif architect, so now maybe they should also grab up Borland's IDE team while they're at it and get rid of some of VS's braindeadedness.
If my day job didn't require me to sometimes code for Windows, all of this would be moot. VI and GCC for me all the way.
The problem that I've had with cable company repairs is not how long it took them to finish the job, but how long it took them to get there in the first place.
When some new fences went up in our neighborhood, the cable line was cut. Here is what it took to get it fixed.
1. Call Time-Warner, let them know about the problem. Someone will be out next week to repair it.
2. Wait for the week. No one shows up. Call Time-Warner again. Ooops! So sorry. Someone will be out next week.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 about 10 times. (I'm not kidding here!)
4. Get annoyed, complain about getting billed for service that I am not even getting.
5. Someone comes out and runs a new cable the next day. Says someone else will comeout the next week to bury the new cable.
6. After six months of phone calls, bury the cable yourself.
Based on this experience with our cable company, is it any wonder that we went with DSL for our service.
Granted I've also had bad service from the telcos as well. A couple of years ago when order an ISDN line from Sprint-United, it was a bad sign when their sales rep. asked "What's that?". But at least once a line is up, it generally stays that way and gets repaired quickly.
You mean they pretty much act and feel like every other major religious group in the world ;)
Most religious texts say the same thing. 'Smite the infidels, punish the heathens, burn the witches!'
The west has been screwing with Islam since its conception. Atrocities like the crusades are relatively recent, and besides, cultures have long memories. Maybe they're still pissed.
Granted, they have been screwing right back at us.
The thing to remember is there are no good guys and there are no bad guys.
From what I remember reading, this happened around London a few years ago. They lowered the speed limit on one of the major roads (M5/A22/something) by 20kmh and the net result was that people got through faster. This was mostly due to fewer lane changes (I hate lane weavers) and accidents. The book I read this in was "Why do Busses Come in Threes?". Good Read.
Sorry, I do get your point and agree. I accidentally left rant mode on. Sometimes you have to work with the lowest common denominator (and clients always seem to have only that). Granted I have not hade any issues with PNG support, but that has been my own experience.
Nothing turns me off a site faster than animated gifs. They always leave me with the impression that the layout was done by a thirteen year old who got hist hands on FrontPage.