But... for a web development firm to have no one on site who understands web development well enough to write up a good site... it doesn't bode well for how their tool will understand web development. Or in other words: if their site suggests no one there either cares enough or knows enough to develop a good site for their product, why should I trust that they know enough or care enough to develop a good website development tool.
Realize that a new motherboard is only about 10% of overall system cost, and that by the time you can afford and need a processor upgrade you can probably afford a motherboard upgrade to go with it.
As a backup, the best strategy will tend to be to buy early in a socket's lifetime. Buy a new socket with a low end chip, and figure to upgrade to the highest chip that socket will support when said chip becomes cheap.
Are you kidding me? The socket is clearly the female side of this connection. Any nerd caught looking at the pins on his CPU may as well be checking out his friends... you know.
The one who speaks to you. If none of them do, you'd probably be best off just doing no wrong, as that generally leads to the most pleasant sort of life for the most people. You could also try being a completely selfish bastard, but evidence seems to suggest that leads to a high probability of long term loneliness.
And since a simple experiment has verified both for me and for many others that the Bible is easily corrupted, I think you have to conclude that it ain't.
... or so the bible claims, if it has not been corrupted by the hand of man. That's the core problem: there's no way to trust that the Bible doesn't contain deliberate misinformation supplied by God's enemies among man.
You differentiate the will of the holy spirit from a figment of your imagination by noting the qualitative difference. If you ever experienced the will of God you'll quickly understand the difference. In the worst case, then, you might be completely insane, but if that's the case you aren't capable of being responsible for your actions anyway.
Perhaps kylar has been submitting a lot of stories, gradually moving where he inserts the random garbage into the story description, to find out just how far the slashdot editors will read before posting a story. His research seems to indicate the slashdot eds give up around 350 characters.
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Real life java challenges can be interesting. Do you live close enough to San Mateo and want to consider a new job? The company I work for provides some good challenge, doing mostly java development, and can't ever find enough qualified people. Write me back if you'd be interested in more info.
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I think the problem is that Sun is too opposed to making language level changes (anything that requires a change in the VM). They've done so much work in optimizing the performance for the existing VM, they're afraid of anything with consequences for their optimizer, and unfortunately from that perspective it seems fairly clear that allowing for unsigned ints would present a danger to the optimizer.
Frankly, I'm with you though, I wish they would just bite the bullet and fix up the raw types to have a signed and unsigned version for every size, and then fix up the bitwise operations to allow auto casting to boolean as well. But we'll never see it.
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The rationale is that char is a type representing a character, and that in such a context a negative value doesn't make any particular kind of sense. A char is an index into unicode, nothing more. A byte is a data representation, so sign makes sense in that context.
You can't have an unsigned int primitive because that would lead to confusion when trying to index into arrays. The type of an array index is signed int, and is that way for a bounds checking reason. If you had access to a primitive unsigned int, no doubt you'd be irritated that you couldn't use it to index an array.
I can't really see how this is different from what we have now.
Since you cannot take in information without interpretation, you must in fact interpret the bible. Literalists try to interpret as little as they can, but even they wind up in severe disagreements about what the bible says, or which translation is correct.
As to being told to kill: God told people they should kill in the bible. Why shouldn't that happen today? And frankly, if you are a true believer, you shouldn't care what society says is right, you ought to listen to what God tells you is right. There are plenty of examples in the bible where the prevailing belief is wrong, and God tells a small sub group what the right thing to do is.
A better model for knowing what action is moral is the Kohlberg scale, it frees you from having to worry about whether your society or your religion has gotten things quite right in their understanding of what God wants.
The law (society's) exists to offer combined force to enforce behaviours we deem preferable as a group. God's law offers even greater force to enforce his desired behaviours. As a person, you typically decide which one you will give preference if they are in conflict. Supposing you choose God's law as your highest preference: if God tells you to kill, you better obey, and you should do so sure in the knowledge that God will reward you for doing so, and you should do so without fear of society's punishment, because presumably you have confidence that God's threat is so much greater.
The real problem, which I think your post is pointing out, is that there is no way to trust any particular religion's teachings as being directly connected to God's law. Better to either trust a personal connection with God, or perhaps better yet to go with society's law, or maybe even the best to get a deep understanding of the Kohlberg stages.
Why not just open yourself to the holy spirit, and let that guide you like those who wrote the bible, rather than trust that no man since two thousand years ago has been able to introduce corruption into the text of the bible.
If you don't believe the text of the bible can be corrupted, I'd be happy to demonstrate otherwise.
I'm afraid there is a lot of mixing going on. Many fundamentalists are in fact involved in pushing the ID agenda in the schools, in an effort to help them encourage kids to discredit evolution and be more favorably disposed to a literal reading of Genesis. So while you may not favor ID, it is inaccurate to claim that fundamentalists in general do not support it.
I mean, those guys must be well over a thousand years old. I guess Judaism really is the one true religion if its adherents live that long!
Or if you just mean some guy in his 60s who really knows nothing meaningful more about what was happening when the book of genesis was first written, I don't see where you'd expect to get any improvement in the level of 'authority' about the subject.
I don't see a lot of people watching video while working (though I used to at a job developing tech for cable tv, and it didn't seem to impact my productivity any more than listening to audio, so who knows, maybe that will change), but I do see plenty of people watching video while exercising or driving.
In fairness to mobile video on cell phone, I think there are only 4 problems blocking adoption:
resolution: no doubt this will be solved in the next 10 years or less screensize: unrollable, unfoldable, or eye projection screens will resolve this inside of 20 years quality: bigger storage and faster transmission protocols will resolve this inside 10 years availability: tivo-to-mobile etc will solve this inside 5 years
So my guess is this will be pretty common and enjoyable in 10 years or less.
Some of us live in places where going outside means exposure to temperatures a good distance below zero right now, so we make some effort not to do it too much. Wastes a lot of energy and all if you unseal your door. Can get very pricey. Much better to stay indoors and enjoy some good reading.
I've got cigarette stubs all around my apartment from the previous tenants. Why won't the damn deer all over this area come eat them so I don't have to look at them all the damn time!
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Wow, moderated troll for an on-topic post. Way to go mods. Who exactly was being trolled for?
Yep, they taught their students you can get big $$$ when you abuse the authorities.
Maybe IBM is planning a kernel fork. They could easily be developing their own 2.7 kernel.
But ... for a web development firm to have no one on site who understands web development well enough to write up a good site ... it doesn't bode well for how their tool will understand web development. Or in other words: if their site suggests no one there either cares enough or knows enough to develop a good site for their product, why should I trust that they know enough or care enough to develop a good website development tool.
Realize that a new motherboard is only about 10% of overall system cost, and that by the time you can afford and need a processor upgrade you can probably afford a motherboard upgrade to go with it.
As a backup, the best strategy will tend to be to buy early in a socket's lifetime. Buy a new socket with a low end chip, and figure to upgrade to the highest chip that socket will support when said chip becomes cheap.
Are you kidding me? The socket is clearly the female side of this connection. Any nerd caught looking at the pins on his CPU may as well be checking out his friends ... you know.
Yeah, I deliberately hedged my post with the 'thousand years' bit to disguise my ignorance of when exactly rabinnical judaism got started.
The one who speaks to you. If none of them do, you'd probably be best off just doing no wrong, as that generally leads to the most pleasant sort of life for the most people. You could also try being a completely selfish bastard, but evidence seems to suggest that leads to a high probability of long term loneliness.
And since a simple experiment has verified both for me and for many others that the Bible is easily corrupted, I think you have to conclude that it ain't.
... or so the bible claims, if it has not been corrupted by the hand of man. That's the core problem: there's no way to trust that the Bible doesn't contain deliberate misinformation supplied by God's enemies among man.
You differentiate the will of the holy spirit from a figment of your imagination by noting the qualitative difference. If you ever experienced the will of God you'll quickly understand the difference. In the worst case, then, you might be completely insane, but if that's the case you aren't capable of being responsible for your actions anyway.
I'm sorry for the misunderstanding of your claim. I agree completely with your clarification.
Have you seen how lawyers dress? If I were them I'd be looking for a new costumer too.
Perhaps kylar has been submitting a lot of stories, gradually moving where he inserts the random garbage into the story description, to find out just how far the slashdot editors will read before posting a story. His research seems to indicate the slashdot eds give up around 350 characters.
Real life java challenges can be interesting. Do you live close enough to San Mateo and want to consider a new job? The company I work for provides some good challenge, doing mostly java development, and can't ever find enough qualified people. Write me back if you'd be interested in more info.
I think the problem is that Sun is too opposed to making language level changes (anything that requires a change in the VM). They've done so much work in optimizing the performance for the existing VM, they're afraid of anything with consequences for their optimizer, and unfortunately from that perspective it seems fairly clear that allowing for unsigned ints would present a danger to the optimizer.
Frankly, I'm with you though, I wish they would just bite the bullet and fix up the raw types to have a signed and unsigned version for every size, and then fix up the bitwise operations to allow auto casting to boolean as well. But we'll never see it.
The rationale is that char is a type representing a character, and that in such a context a negative value doesn't make any particular kind of sense. A char is an index into unicode, nothing more. A byte is a data representation, so sign makes sense in that context.
You can't have an unsigned int primitive because that would lead to confusion when trying to index into arrays. The type of an array index is signed int, and is that way for a bounds checking reason. If you had access to a primitive unsigned int, no doubt you'd be irritated that you couldn't use it to index an array.
I can't really see how this is different from what we have now.
Since you cannot take in information without interpretation, you must in fact interpret the bible. Literalists try to interpret as little as they can, but even they wind up in severe disagreements about what the bible says, or which translation is correct.
As to being told to kill: God told people they should kill in the bible. Why shouldn't that happen today? And frankly, if you are a true believer, you shouldn't care what society says is right, you ought to listen to what God tells you is right. There are plenty of examples in the bible where the prevailing belief is wrong, and God tells a small sub group what the right thing to do is.
A better model for knowing what action is moral is the Kohlberg scale, it frees you from having to worry about whether your society or your religion has gotten things quite right in their understanding of what God wants.
The law (society's) exists to offer combined force to enforce behaviours we deem preferable as a group. God's law offers even greater force to enforce his desired behaviours. As a person, you typically decide which one you will give preference if they are in conflict. Supposing you choose God's law as your highest preference: if God tells you to kill, you better obey, and you should do so sure in the knowledge that God will reward you for doing so, and you should do so without fear of society's punishment, because presumably you have confidence that God's threat is so much greater.
The real problem, which I think your post is pointing out, is that there is no way to trust any particular religion's teachings as being directly connected to God's law. Better to either trust a personal connection with God, or perhaps better yet to go with society's law, or maybe even the best to get a deep understanding of the Kohlberg stages.
A good summary of the Kohlberg stages for anyone who doesn't know what they are:
http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm
Why not just open yourself to the holy spirit, and let that guide you like those who wrote the bible, rather than trust that no man since two thousand years ago has been able to introduce corruption into the text of the bible.
If you don't believe the text of the bible can be corrupted, I'd be happy to demonstrate otherwise.
You should put your trust in god, not the bible.
I'm afraid there is a lot of mixing going on. Many fundamentalists are in fact involved in pushing the ID agenda in the schools, in an effort to help them encourage kids to discredit evolution and be more favorably disposed to a literal reading of Genesis. So while you may not favor ID, it is inaccurate to claim that fundamentalists in general do not support it.
I mean, those guys must be well over a thousand years old. I guess Judaism really is the one true religion if its adherents live that long!
Or if you just mean some guy in his 60s who really knows nothing meaningful more about what was happening when the book of genesis was first written, I don't see where you'd expect to get any improvement in the level of 'authority' about the subject.
I don't see a lot of people watching video while working (though I used to at a job developing tech for cable tv, and it didn't seem to impact my productivity any more than listening to audio, so who knows, maybe that will change), but I do see plenty of people watching video while exercising or driving.
In fairness to mobile video on cell phone, I think there are only 4 problems blocking adoption:
resolution: no doubt this will be solved in the next 10 years or less
screensize: unrollable, unfoldable, or eye projection screens will resolve this inside of 20 years
quality: bigger storage and faster transmission protocols will resolve this inside 10 years
availability: tivo-to-mobile etc will solve this inside 5 years
So my guess is this will be pretty common and enjoyable in 10 years or less.
Some of us live in places where going outside means exposure to temperatures a good distance below zero right now, so we make some effort not to do it too much. Wastes a lot of energy and all if you unseal your door. Can get very pricey. Much better to stay indoors and enjoy some good reading.
I didn't mean legally, I meant popularly. I think if cigarette smoke were perfectly safe, then most of the places with bans would vote them out.
I've got cigarette stubs all around my apartment from the previous tenants. Why won't the damn deer all over this area come eat them so I don't have to look at them all the damn time!