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I have the same thing going on where I am. Qwest the local teleco can't qualify me for DSL, but Covad was able to do it no problem. I'm finally starting to use my home computer again. Slowly I used my home PC less and less cause dial-up doesn't compare to a T1 at work.
This is exaclty why Linux has lost the desktop war before it even began. Gnome and KDE are great, but when I work I want good tools (apps) and some conformity between applications. I am a web developer and Mac OS X is my OS of choice. I've got all the *nix tools I'm used to, but Apple has thrown a whole bunch of developers on making a great desktop experience.
I believe in choice, but the Linux community is spending too much of its resources to be different instead of being good.
I agree that Mozilla is the best choice out there right now for browser, and rather than waste our energy going in a million different ways lets focus on good fully functioning software that will make Linux not such a pain to use day in and day out.
IIRC games like Quake and Warcraft require special licenses to be used in a game center. The contact information for these special licenses is normally in the regular one, but I'm sure the game companies in the interest of profit will be happy to answer an inquiry via e-mail or phone call.
Why ask Zeldman this? You can go to http://www.mozilla.org and find out for yourself. Basically Mozilla/Netscape 6 is 100% standards compliant supporting all of CSS 1 and some of 2, the DOM, JavaScript, etc. By the way that 100% means that if it isn't a standard it isn't in there (read Netscape's layer tag). I don't know what developers have complained about Netscape's JavaScript implementation, after all the inovator (correct usage not MS type stealing and making propriatory) NS that came up with it has always been better with MS a step behind (the only way MS is better in the scripting dept. is the gaping security holes in it). iFrames IIRC is not a standard tag, though through CSS you can get the same thing (I've seen it you can too download Mozilla and go to Debug menu).
The only reason IE 4 was better than NS 4 was because it came out later, compare Quake 3 to Quake 1 which is better? They are both trying to do the same thing, FPS, so why is the later one better? (it came out later)
On a side note you should start to forget supporting the version 3 browsers, anyone still using them needs more help then being able to browse you site. People will use the lowest common denominator as long as developers keep supporting them.
by the replies, I think I came off different than my meaning. As to the GNU exists (well is so large)... that was just to show that GNU and Linux both owe each other for making it to the prime time, and not just being back in the corner hidden from the spotlight.
I think it should be GNU/Linux, but RMS is more or less forcing it down everyone's throat, that is what I am against. Even if it becomes mainstream to call it GNU/Linux, when I talk about it Linux will still be its name for the sake of being easier. Just like windows is windows not microsoft windows. I think that a move by distributions and others to have GNU/Linux on packaging and written materials is a great idea, but my impression is that whenever somebody is not referring specifically to the kernel RMS wants GNU/Linux not just Linux. Imagine microsoft trying to force everyone to say microsoft windows everytime, no exceptions, "its microsoft windows not windows."
Basically I'm for GNU/Linux I'm anti Mr. free software himself being a nazi. (not in Third Reich Nazi, but in Seinfield Soup Nazi (controlling, strict)).
What I meant was that when the operating system starts the kernel (Linux) is loaded before anything else (such as GNU software, or BSD licensed, etc.) the operating system can not exist without the kernel. GNU would still exist if there was no Linux, and Linux would exist without GNU, but they have eachother and both benefit from the relationship. The underlying fact is that GNU was choosen by Linux users not vice versa (hence the push for HURD, a GNU kernel).
I'm glad that the GNU software is here to help Linux, I'm happy that my computer runs Linux and GNU and BSD and other style licenses software and some propriatery stuff (Q3), and don't think I'm picking on GNU, if the BSD people want it to be BSD/Linux since software of theirs makes the operating system, I'll raise hell then too.
I have no doubt that without GNU Linux could have made it, it would have taken longer to get going, but think about how the kernel was in those early days and tell me that getting Linux working on your machine didn't mean you were capable of writing software.
Calling the whole system "Linux" leads people to think that the system's development was started in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.
and later on
I ask you to call the system GNU/Linux so you can help inform the system's users that it exists because of the GNU Project's idealism.
IIRC the GNU's website has an entire page (actually it is several screenfulls) arguement for Linux being called GNU/Linux, and these statements are sort of contradictory to that. On a side note I would call it GNU/Linux if it had spread from the community and not RMS shoving it down everyone's throat. How could anyone deny that Linux was started in 1991? The GNU project and Linus were not working together. According to your own arguement RMS, people started using the kernel Linus built and then they wanted tools so they could use it everyday, and it was not accident that they found the GNU project. Previously and until HURD is ready to be used prime time, the GNU's only obstacle was a kernel. The GNU project exists (well is so big now) because of the Linux kernel, not the other way around. If the early Linux users had not found GNU they would have hacked out their own tools. But I think everyone can agree that downloading source and compiling is a lot easier than roll your own. I think you need to stop shoving "GNU/" down the throats of everyone (BTW it should be Linux/GNU since the kernel is before the programs) let GNU stand on its own feet, I think you'll be suprised at what happens. Everyone (well the smart ones) know that the smart hackers, coders, aren't out blowing their horn all day (maybe to their friends) to the world, only the idiots do. The idiots have something to hide, their skill is not good enough to deserve praise. Well I think the GNU movement is a good one, but hell if I'm going to give it to you if your trying to force it on me.
The way it goes IIRC, the group of people using Linus' first released kernels would grab GNU software so that they could not just have a neat toy, but a computer they could use for everyday stuff. The GNU didn't find Linux, Linux found the GNU.
do you know where I might find this particular location of hell? I will mount a rescue mission, to get the laptop back. The *real* people scare me to much to get it back to you, I'll just bring it back to my place.
Napster is a tool that is used exclusively to steal from legitimate artists. no its not. I have a few hundred CDs. Having the music on those CDs in my car, at home, and at work, would involve transporting my CDs with me everywhere. Solution: MP3 my collection, and compilation CDs with my fav. songs. Now where I work its easier to download MP3s from someone else, then it is to tie up my machine ripping the CD. I'll admit I have songs I don't own, and I'm downloading the new No Doubt CD from someone right now (which I don't own yet, but I'm picking it up on the way home). Instead of stomping out the pirates the industry should provide me with an alternative. I would pay for MP3s, but to get MP3s right now I have to buy the album, requires shipping or going to the store, rip it, ties up the computer (yes you can still use it but it is slower), versus if they would set up a site, let me choose what songs I want pay for them and d/l them, which could be done anytime with instant product delivery. I don't like the RIAA, and I only use Napster cause it is the best solution out there for getting MP3s.
I can't remember where I read it (some gaming magazine probably), but they said that it takes the third or fourth game from a developer for the hardware to really be taken advantage of. Maybe with the PS2 it will take a little longer.
Just think what a stalker could find out about you if they could easily hack your house. It would be bad if someone could turn your stove on high, disable your fire alarms remotely (or even from the side of the house). The possibilities are endless. I am reminded of the adage "Whenever there is power to do great good, it can also be used for great evil."
The beauty of Final Fantasy is that the stories differ from one to the next (as well as the world, characters, etc.) they won't be trying to fit a video game story to a movie. Besides Square has some of the best video game writers anywhere, combine that with the fact that this will be the most life-like CG animated movie it is sure to be a geek favorite.
I am a Mormon, live in Utah, and admit that I find some of the more devout wierd. I also am against the filters, I went to high school here and anyone with half a brain that wanted porn would be able to get it (FTP, Hotline, etc.). Though I have a few problems with what you said. We are not a cult. We are a church. If you think that we are a cult then by that logic so are all the Christians, Protestants, etc. All of these had a living leader that the religeon followed (Christ, Martin Luther). Also anyone can come and visit a ward (wardhouses proclaim "Visitors Welcome") and should you decide to leave we aren't going to ruin your life or try to kill you. So to recap we started like other churches, we have open door policy on our churches, if you leave we can deal with it, oh and we have 10-11 million members hardly a small group, basically we don't have a lot in common with the definition of cult.
I can't remember his name, but a serial killer (killed only women) said that he started down the path to it because of pornography. Others in a similar situation have admitted this. Even I have gone down the spiral. The point is that not everyone can handle things. Would the Columbine incident have happened if there was no Doom (anything like it), maybe, but then both of those boys would probably had still been mentally all there.
further clarification on point 1. Yes the blacks were not allowed to recieve the priesthood until the 1970s. Why no one really knows, there is no official church stance/explanation other than God has made it known that every worthy male can recieve the priesthood.
Yes we are quite off topic, and I hope that you see this, well someone, but I doubt it.
Mormonism is a cult. To paraphrase Richard Winwood: The definition of a cult according to World Book Encyclopedia is a "religious group devoted to a living leader, a new teaching, or an unusual practice." That would make Jesus Christ a leader of a cult to the Jews, Martin Luther was a cult leader, as were Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists. All of which have developed into churches. Using the term cult to describe the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is for the sensational effect. [much like press/media uses hackers] There are no secret oaths required for membership, and no unseemly practices or rituals are preformed by its members. Members are free to remove themselves from church activity at any time.
point 1. The Book of Mormon was written/translated in 19th century by a boy who had no real formal education. Grammatical errors were corrected because spelling and grammer were not standardized in the early 1800s. Yes, there was non-grammatical things changed, these are things that smoothed the message, clarified the meaning or intent of phrases. All changes were meant to clarify and simplify difficult passages. Despite all of the changes the message has remained unaltered.
point 2. Black people/African Americans have been members of the church almost since its organization in 1830. If we were thinking they were bad then why did we include them in our numbers? Protestant churches in the US, South Africa, and other parts of the world separated blacks and whites for worship and fellowship. No such seperation ever existed in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
point 3. Polygamy has been practiced throughout the ages for short periods of time when directed by the Lord for his purposes, as in the case of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others all of Bible fame. Saint Augustine, the great philosopher and Catholic convert who became the Bishop of Hippo, responded to the church's condemnation of polygamy: "Jacob the son of Isaac is charged with having committed a great sin because he had four wives. But here there is no ground for a criminal accusation: for a plurality of wives was no crime when it was a custom; and it is a crime now, because it is no longer a custom... The only reason of its being a crime now to this, is because customand the laws forbid it."
closing notes I have read the New Testament a few times and don't recall exactly where are beliefs are in contradiction. All Christian churches except ours are in contradiction to the teachings of Jesus however, what was the government set up by Jesus? One leader (himself) and apostles and so forth as he set up. What changed that his government structure was no longer valid? Also what has changed from Jesus that women should be able to hold the priesthood? If it truly was of God wouldn't it have been practiced long before the world said "hey women are just as good as men if not better"?
Yes if I believed what you do about Mormons, that I can gather from your comment I to would consider it a "hipocritcal faith." But what you think about Mormons will never change what I know. Caleb Jaffa
I hope the author/site doesn't take two seemingly similar things, a DoS attack and the slashdot effect, and turn the fact that their server is experiencing one into a story about how they were DoS'ed because of the article. Then again they might just have to eat their own words because I know that quite a few of us slashdot junkies (myself included) (are forced to) use windows, so they would have to include windows in the cause of the DoS or as we call it "slashdot effect".
On a side note I don't recall any stories about yahoo, buy.com, etc. in the last week.
Being LDS (Mormon) I have to point out what our Christian (belief in Jesus Christ) doctrine is.
What is faith? Unquestioning belief Mormons define it further to be a belief in something that is true, but can not be seen (I have faith that Jesus Christ suffered for everyone's sins and a more defining example I have faith that when I flip a light switch a light will come on (electricity might fail to work anymore etc., it is true the light will come on, and while science has an understanding of lights and electricity, until I flip the switch I can not be 100% sure that the light will turn on)).
What has science done for you? Notice that this jump in science started around the same time that the LDS church was established. We believe that after Jesus' second coming there will be a period of 1000 years (the millenium) when all of the work for the dead (baptising people, and other work, for those that have died (it is up to them to accept the baptism, they can still refuse it), what will this require? Ways to figure out who everyone is, when/where they lived and track what ordinances have been done for them. While not official church doctrine, computers (databases), a network (internet like) both make it incredibly easier to do the work for everyone that has lived on this Earth, and keep track of it so duplicate work is not done.
Denied us all immortality (I assume you are talking about the garden of Eden) if Adam and Eve had not partaken of the fruit of good & evil then we would not be alive, Adam and Eve would be immortal in a state of innocence (knowing no joy and no sorrow, because there was no opposition). Through the atonement of Jesus Christ the doors of death are unlocked. Regardless of how righteous you live in this life you will have eternal life because of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus.
Denied us equality with him. Mormons believe that through living right and following the commandments of the lord and the words of the prophets, we can become gods ourselves (after the test of this life is over) because we accepted and followed the gospel.
I'd side with Lucifer. You did not always feel this way. According to the plan of salvation, if you chose Lucifer over Jesus you would not have gained your "second estate" (this life, the first being pre-existance life (without a body)) the second being a test of faith..., and the third estate is what you earned from the second), all of those that sided with Lucifer in the pre-existance did not get bodies and you obviously do.
Anyways I hope I haven't butchered LDS beliefs to much and will do my best to help anyone understand better, post in this thread or e-mail me (caleb@nowallsDotcom).
Obfuscated code contests get you to make a program incoherent to any that read the source. (lawyers do this everyday with initially short/simple sentences)
It is the way you 'tell' the computer to accomplish a task
give two coders a task, they'll both write code that might have some similarities, but not everything will be the same
How can code be anything but a form of self expression unless it is written by a program, but that had to be written by someone so that doesn't even work. Things like this make me want to smack every lawyer I see for taking something good and twisting it.
like the parent says (just want to give it more attention) is that under Linux when DeCSS was started, support for the DVD file system was not there. So rather than sit and do nothing, they used windows to figure out the decryption methods so that once Linux support was up to par they had support for reading DVDs and the code to do it.
I am a web developer, every day I code in ColdFusion and Php, I also do some graphics work. I use windows at work because ColdFusion Studio is really great. It offers the best enviroment to code ColdFusion/Php and the closest thing I;ve found is NEdit that pales in comparison (can't even get all of the syntax highlighting right). Someone posted that the guru is coding in the form neccessary (only a console text-only app) to avoid the layer of a GUI because it is not needed, but a nice GUI makes a program stand above the rest and a more pleasant experience for those using. Note: there are some programs that only should be console only but there are a lot that could benefit from a good GUI] Granted if I wanted to I could code in Linux at the console in Pico/Emacs/Vi, but I don't, because I have used a good editor (CFStudio) that had a good GUI. I know that Emacs would be really nice to use for coding my C/C++ programs, but I don't know all the commands and really don't want to, when I can open the program in M$ Visual C++ 6 and get all the neat features now, without a learning curve.
I like the Gimp it is very nice, but I have used Photoshop, and the keyboard shortcuts and polish kick the Gimp's behind any day. If I had never used Photoshop I would praise The Gimp all day long, but it isn't as friendly as Photoshop. If The Gimp's shortcuts were as easy to use as Photoshops and not so complex it would give it a leg up, but they aren't and the learning curve is steeper which makes it harder to jump in and get something done.
Basically what I'm driving at is that while Linux is nice, Linux is great, right now it isn't the best means to the end of a web developer. The engine is nice but the car looks like crap and isn't polished.
Good news, but how much longer until another stupid lawsuit comes up? Honestly not all lawyers/business people will be able to learn their leason from Etoy/Etoys.
Why not just pay for Mesa to get a license and provide programmers to help Brian Paul? Its great that we will have an OpenGL library that can name itself as OpenGL compliant, but why not support the project that is already there. After all Mesa is not vaporware/idea, there already is a lot of good code that is OpenGL complaint (while not being able to say so due to the licensing crap).
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I have the same thing going on where I am. Qwest the local teleco can't qualify me for DSL, but Covad was able to do it no problem. I'm finally starting to use my home computer again. Slowly I used my home PC less and less cause dial-up doesn't compare to a T1 at work.
I believe in choice, but the Linux community is spending too much of its resources to be different instead of being good.
I agree that Mozilla is the best choice out there right now for browser, and rather than waste our energy going in a million different ways lets focus on good fully functioning software that will make Linux not such a pain to use day in and day out.
IIRC games like Quake and Warcraft require special licenses to be used in a game center. The contact information for these special licenses is normally in the regular one, but I'm sure the game companies in the interest of profit will be happy to answer an inquiry via e-mail or phone call.
The only reason IE 4 was better than NS 4 was because it came out later, compare Quake 3 to Quake 1 which is better? They are both trying to do the same thing, FPS, so why is the later one better? (it came out later)
On a side note you should start to forget supporting the version 3 browsers, anyone still using them needs more help then being able to browse you site. People will use the lowest common denominator as long as developers keep supporting them.
I think it should be GNU/Linux, but RMS is more or less forcing it down everyone's throat, that is what I am against. Even if it becomes mainstream to call it GNU/Linux, when I talk about it Linux will still be its name for the sake of being easier. Just like windows is windows not microsoft windows. I think that a move by distributions and others to have GNU/Linux on packaging and written materials is a great idea, but my impression is that whenever somebody is not referring specifically to the kernel RMS wants GNU/Linux not just Linux. Imagine microsoft trying to force everyone to say microsoft windows everytime, no exceptions, "its microsoft windows not windows."
Basically I'm for GNU/Linux I'm anti Mr. free software himself being a nazi. (not in Third Reich Nazi, but in Seinfield Soup Nazi (controlling, strict)).
I'm glad that the GNU software is here to help Linux, I'm happy that my computer runs Linux and GNU and BSD and other style licenses software and some propriatery stuff (Q3), and don't think I'm picking on GNU, if the BSD people want it to be BSD/Linux since software of theirs makes the operating system, I'll raise hell then too.
I have no doubt that without GNU Linux could have made it, it would have taken longer to get going, but think about how the kernel was in those early days and tell me that getting Linux working on your machine didn't mean you were capable of writing software.
Calling the whole system "Linux" leads people to think that the system's development was started in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.
and later on
I ask you to call the system GNU/Linux so you can help inform the system's users that it exists because of the GNU Project's idealism.
IIRC the GNU's website has an entire page (actually it is several screenfulls) arguement for Linux being called GNU/Linux, and these statements are sort of contradictory to that. On a side note I would call it GNU/Linux if it had spread from the community and not RMS shoving it down everyone's throat. How could anyone deny that Linux was started in 1991? The GNU project and Linus were not working together. According to your own arguement RMS, people started using the kernel Linus built and then they wanted tools so they could use it everyday, and it was not accident that they found the GNU project. Previously and until HURD is ready to be used prime time, the GNU's only obstacle was a kernel. The GNU project exists (well is so big now) because of the Linux kernel, not the other way around. If the early Linux users had not found GNU they would have hacked out their own tools. But I think everyone can agree that downloading source and compiling is a lot easier than roll your own. I think you need to stop shoving "GNU/" down the throats of everyone (BTW it should be Linux/GNU since the kernel is before the programs) let GNU stand on its own feet, I think you'll be suprised at what happens. Everyone (well the smart ones) know that the smart hackers, coders, aren't out blowing their horn all day (maybe to their friends) to the world, only the idiots do. The idiots have something to hide, their skill is not good enough to deserve praise. Well I think the GNU movement is a good one, but hell if I'm going to give it to you if your trying to force it on me.
don't give them your name or anything and pay cold hard cash.
The way it goes IIRC, the group of people using Linus' first released kernels would grab GNU software so that they could not just have a neat toy, but a computer they could use for everyday stuff. The GNU didn't find Linux, Linux found the GNU.
do you know where I might find this particular location of hell? I will mount a rescue mission, to get the laptop back. The *real* people scare me to much to get it back to you, I'll just bring it back to my place.
Napster is a tool that is used exclusively to steal from legitimate artists. no its not. I have a few hundred CDs. Having the music on those CDs in my car, at home, and at work, would involve transporting my CDs with me everywhere. Solution: MP3 my collection, and compilation CDs with my fav. songs. Now where I work its easier to download MP3s from someone else, then it is to tie up my machine ripping the CD. I'll admit I have songs I don't own, and I'm downloading the new No Doubt CD from someone right now (which I don't own yet, but I'm picking it up on the way home). Instead of stomping out the pirates the industry should provide me with an alternative. I would pay for MP3s, but to get MP3s right now I have to buy the album, requires shipping or going to the store, rip it, ties up the computer (yes you can still use it but it is slower), versus if they would set up a site, let me choose what songs I want pay for them and d/l them, which could be done anytime with instant product delivery. I don't like the RIAA, and I only use Napster cause it is the best solution out there for getting MP3s.
I can't remember where I read it (some gaming magazine probably), but they said that it takes the third or fourth game from a developer for the hardware to really be taken advantage of. Maybe with the PS2 it will take a little longer.
Just think what a stalker could find out about you if they could easily hack your house. It would be bad if someone could turn your stove on high, disable your fire alarms remotely (or even from the side of the house). The possibilities are endless. I am reminded of the adage "Whenever there is power to do great good, it can also be used for great evil."
Will these be blocked for the protection of our children or preserved for the educational purposes?
The beauty of Final Fantasy is that the stories differ from one to the next (as well as the world, characters, etc.) they won't be trying to fit a video game story to a movie. Besides Square has some of the best video game writers anywhere, combine that with the fact that this will be the most life-like CG animated movie it is sure to be a geek favorite.
I can't remember his name, but a serial killer (killed only women) said that he started down the path to it because of pornography. Others in a similar situation have admitted this. Even I have gone down the spiral. The point is that not everyone can handle things. Would the Columbine incident have happened if there was no Doom (anything like it), maybe, but then both of those boys would probably had still been mentally all there.
further clarification on point 1.
Yes the blacks were not allowed to recieve the priesthood until the 1970s. Why no one really knows, there is no official church stance/explanation other than God has made it known that every worthy male can recieve the priesthood.
Mormonism is a cult.
To paraphrase Richard Winwood:
The definition of a cult according to World Book Encyclopedia is a "religious group devoted to a living leader, a new teaching, or an unusual practice." That would make Jesus Christ a leader of a cult to the Jews, Martin Luther was a cult leader, as were Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists. All of which have developed into churches. Using the term cult to describe the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is for the sensational effect. [much like press/media uses hackers] There are no secret oaths required for membership, and no unseemly practices or rituals are preformed by its members. Members are free to remove themselves from church activity at any time.
point 1.
The Book of Mormon was written/translated in 19th century by a boy who had no real formal education. Grammatical errors were corrected because spelling and grammer were not standardized in the early 1800s. Yes, there was non-grammatical things changed, these are things that smoothed the message, clarified the meaning or intent of phrases. All changes were meant to clarify and simplify difficult passages. Despite all of the changes the message has remained unaltered.
point 2.
Black people/African Americans have been members of the church almost since its organization in 1830. If we were thinking they were bad then why did we include them in our numbers? Protestant churches in the US, South Africa, and other parts of the world separated blacks and whites for worship and fellowship. No such seperation ever existed in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
point 3.
Polygamy has been practiced throughout the ages for short periods of time when directed by the Lord for his purposes, as in the case of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others all of Bible fame. Saint Augustine, the great philosopher and Catholic convert who became the Bishop of Hippo, responded to the church's condemnation of polygamy: "Jacob the son of Isaac is charged with having committed a great sin because he had four wives. But here there is no ground for a criminal accusation: for a plurality of wives was no crime when it was a custom; and it is a crime now, because it is no longer a custom... The only reason of its being a crime now to this, is because customand the laws forbid it."
closing notes
I have read the New Testament a few times and don't recall exactly where are beliefs are in contradiction. All Christian churches except ours are in contradiction to the teachings of Jesus however, what was the government set up by Jesus? One leader (himself) and apostles and so forth as he set up. What changed that his government structure was no longer valid? Also what has changed from Jesus that women should be able to hold the priesthood? If it truly was of God wouldn't it have been practiced long before the world said "hey women are just as good as men if not better"?
Yes if I believed what you do about Mormons, that I can gather from your comment I to would consider it a "hipocritcal faith." But what you think about Mormons will never change what I know. Caleb Jaffa
On a side note I don't recall any stories about yahoo, buy.com, etc. in the last week.
Being LDS (Mormon) I have to point out what our Christian (belief in Jesus Christ) doctrine is.
What is faith? Unquestioning belief
Mormons define it further to be a belief in something that is true, but can not be seen (I have faith that Jesus Christ suffered for everyone's sins and a more defining example I have faith that when I flip a light switch a light will come on (electricity might fail to work anymore etc., it is true the light will come on, and while science has an understanding of lights and electricity, until I flip the switch I can not be 100% sure that the light will turn on)).
What has science done for you?
Notice that this jump in science started around the same time that the LDS church was established. We believe that after Jesus' second coming there will be a period of 1000 years (the millenium) when all of the work for the dead (baptising people, and other work, for those that have died (it is up to them to accept the baptism, they can still refuse it), what will this require? Ways to figure out who everyone is, when/where they lived and track what ordinances have been done for them. While not official church doctrine, computers (databases), a network (internet like) both make it incredibly easier to do the work for everyone that has lived on this Earth, and keep track of it so duplicate work is not done.
Denied us all immortality
(I assume you are talking about the garden of Eden) if Adam and Eve had not partaken of the fruit of good & evil then we would not be alive, Adam and Eve would be immortal in a state of innocence (knowing no joy and no sorrow, because there was no opposition). Through the atonement of Jesus Christ the doors of death are unlocked. Regardless of how righteous you live in this life you will have eternal life because of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus.
Denied us equality with him.
Mormons believe that through living right and following the commandments of the lord and the words of the prophets, we can become gods ourselves (after the test of this life is over) because we accepted and followed the gospel.
I'd side with Lucifer.
You did not always feel this way. According to the plan of salvation, if you chose Lucifer over Jesus you would not have gained your "second estate" (this life, the first being pre-existance life (without a body)) the second being a test of faith..., and the third estate is what you earned from the second), all of those that sided with Lucifer in the pre-existance did not get bodies and you obviously do.
Anyways I hope I haven't butchered LDS beliefs to much and will do my best to help anyone understand better, post in this thread or e-mail me (caleb@nowallsDotcom).
- Obfuscated code contests get you to make a program incoherent to any that read the source. (lawyers do this everyday with initially short/simple sentences)
- It is the way you 'tell' the computer to accomplish a task
- give two coders a task, they'll both write code that might have some similarities, but not everything will be the same
How can code be anything but a form of self expression unless it is written by a program, but that had to be written by someone so that doesn't even work. Things like this make me want to smack every lawyer I see for taking something good and twisting it.like the parent says (just want to give it more attention) is that under Linux when DeCSS was started, support for the DVD file system was not there. So rather than sit and do nothing, they used windows to figure out the decryption methods so that once Linux support was up to par they had support for reading DVDs and the code to do it.
I like the Gimp it is very nice, but I have used Photoshop, and the keyboard shortcuts and polish kick the Gimp's behind any day. If I had never used Photoshop I would praise The Gimp all day long, but it isn't as friendly as Photoshop. If The Gimp's shortcuts were as easy to use as Photoshops and not so complex it would give it a leg up, but they aren't and the learning curve is steeper which makes it harder to jump in and get something done.
Basically what I'm driving at is that while Linux is nice, Linux is great, right now it isn't the best means to the end of a web developer. The engine is nice but the car looks like crap and isn't polished.
Good news, but how much longer until another stupid lawsuit comes up? Honestly not all lawyers/business people will be able to learn their leason from Etoy/Etoys.
Why not just pay for Mesa to get a license and provide programmers to help Brian Paul? Its great that we will have an OpenGL library that can name itself as OpenGL compliant, but why not support the project that is already there. After all Mesa is not vaporware/idea, there already is a lot of good code that is OpenGL complaint (while not being able to say so due to the licensing crap).