While I recognise that slashdot is a community that covers users from the whole of the OS spectrum, is it really necessary to see thinly veiled advertisements for M$ products such as this? Don't you understand how happy it makes the beast to see his product chatted around on this site in particular? Don't you understand that in so doing, and by helping to expose and document the flaws in said product, you are doing their testing job for them (for free)? Couldn't you be doing the same thing for the open source community instead?
Speking of translation, i did a search for the fsv-pgx1 and found quite a number of quasi translated japanese pages. as usual, there were some interesting mis-translations on those pages, the best being "Windows Embedded for developers Under an early receptionist"
i think we are in a state of violent agreement - as i said i wasn't trying to troll. the distinction i was trying to draw is that you can tune an engine to have anything from very high tourqe and hence pulling power (as they do with 4WD vehicles) or the other way round with high HP and low tourqe (as per borevettes and porches). i didn't mean to imply something odd about RPM's - just doing a bad job of explaining my comment perhaps.
i think someone is pulling your leg, you need to actually go and see your 'friends' car on a real dyno. while i don't doubt that it is a lovely vehicle, you aren't getting 850hp out of a 100 odd cubic inches. now if he has instead stuffed a real chevy big block in there, the sky is the limit...
i'd say that mucking around with your engine is actually no big deal - as long as it is NOT one with a computer. all the problems with cars started in the late eighties with the chips themselves. when working on what i would call (no troll intended) real hot rods, you actually have to work pretty hard to get something that can be as damaging as a slightly whacked computer. Generally, if you F it up it won't start, or if it does it sucks a valve or bends a pushrod immediately. About the only thing you can do then is dump a lot of N2O in an engine that isn't tuned for it (12:1 or higher compression comes to mind for the amateur) and then you will have what is called in the business 'catastrophic engine failure' when you push one or more of your con-rods through the side of your engine block or, as one of my fine friends did during a time trial, straight through the hood of his car half way down the track. Ah, the good old days!
no, he meant nitromethane as in real quarter mile cars. nitrous is also used there, but it is most popular amongst the 'boulevard brawler' style of racer. actually, about 20 years ago when i started building cars, N2O was seen the same way that serious street racers see the chip kits now - a cop out for kids with too much of dad's money.
Not trying to be a troll, but horsepower wins any race longer than stoplight to stoplight. Torque wins those, but then your cam has no top end to reach for past about the first 100 yards and you get whacked by the cars with an RPM based curve. I had an ~350HP/500fpt 55 Chevy years ago and could beat anyone in the neighborhood - as long as we stayed in the neighborhood! Once we got on the freeway, even kiddies in daddy's borevette could catch me out. No disrespect to your Viper, it's an awesome car.
thank you for the perspective, it is great to get a view from someone living in Mexico instead of the rest of us just making blind suppositions. I worked there for a while about a decade ago, and can certainly see how a financially powerful group like the RIAA could find 'friends' in the government for long enough to make radis like this. I still remember all the money i had to give the police in Mexico City just to keep them from writing my foreign car a ticket every day...
Thanks for your response. I'm not trying to deny you the ability to make comparisons, I simply wanted to try to present things from the Catholic perspective as I felt comparing us with Scientology, a cult I have studied at some length, was invalid.
As to time lines, I think the period you want to focus on for us is the Crusades, the first 500 years the Catholic church was still so small all you will find is lots of us dying for the what we believed, not the other way round. Certainly during the dark ages things were a mess all over, but then again you pretty much have to write off most of western civilization during that time. It was so bad for us, the Holy Father recently made a blanket request for forgiveness for the foolish things done in the name of the Church back then. Certainly not something anyone would be proud of.
In any case, thanks for being willing to give the modern Church a break - all the folks I've ever been involved with really are just trying to do their bit to make things better.
Really, the anti-Catholic racist jibe is pretty out of place here.
1) You know well the Catholic Church doesn't exist to collect money, it exists to save souls. Mock that as you like, but it is what any Catholic I know would hope they could do, in whatever small way they are able.
2a) The Church would like it very much if everyone believed the same thing, but actually we do a pretty rotten job of 'converting' people. The hope is that we can help people get their own lives in order by giving a good example of our own behaviour.
2b) Wouldn't it be nice if ANY government was on the side of the Catholics. If you had done any research on the subject you'd see that for most of the last 2000 years, people both in and out of power have had the same hateful point of view you do about Catholicism. In fact, I'd venture to say that this is the ONE thing we DO have in common with Scientology, the fact that quite a lot of people harbor significant blind agression towards us without bothering to even find out who we are or what we are really about.
3) Don't be silly, I've never met someone who gave anything like 5% of their income on a regular basis, much less 50%. While it would be great, as it would allow for a lot more charity work, it simply doesn't happen.
4a) People die for their beliefs all over the world, for all sorts of reasons. Are you saying that all the men and women who died during WWII for their beliefs in freedom (like the freedom which allows you to post your hate speech here in public) were wrong to do so?
4b) Stating that the Church causes people to take their own lives is quite frighteningly innacurate - are you familiar at all with either Christ's teachings or the Ten Commandments? At lease do a bit of homework here!
5 and 6) Again I implore you to do a bit more research than just what People Magazine has to say.
7) The Catholic church does quite the opposite. I have always been encouraged to learn as much as possible about all religions as a way to understand them and perhaps share some of our views with their adherents in a way that makes more sense to them. I've read Dianetics, the Torah, the Koran, the Gita, what can be found publicly on the Book of Mormon as well as various writings relating to smaller Christian sects, Reverend Moon, Jim Jones et al.
8) Again, when you tie your hostilities to such meaningless targest as 'many members' you can't hope for others to believe you are doing more than fomenting a personal hatred.
9) To your point further down the thread about evolution, contraception, abortion, satanism. Please do some homework, we have most definitely been taught about all of the above. 9a) You really need to separate the Catholic church from many of the 'literalist' evangelical sects that take the Bible at its strictest and most explicit. We believe the world was created in seven days, however long seven of God's days were. An awful lot of space for interpretation in there, no? 9b) We are MOST DEFINITELY taught about contraception. We are also taught that you shouldn't use any intrusive method like condoms, but that simply abstaining during ovulation is a whole different matter. I'm not a Priest, so please feel free to check my facts. 9c) I would venture to guess that I know more about abortion in all it's greulling detail than you ever will. We were taught in such depth to allow us to see why the Church considers the procedure murder. 9d) Again, are you just trolling here? I have four books that I can see from where I am sitting written by Priests written about satanism and the devil. Again, if you had done any background reading before letting loose with your attack you would have seen that the Catholic church has done more reasearch on satan and his works than anyone. How on earth can you suppose otherwise?
I considered not replying to your post on the hope that you are just flame baiting, but thought that perhaps by trying to clarify a bit it might help some other folks reading your tirade distinguish between your own personal anger and the reality of Catholocism today.
You can run the 11.5 flavour of some of the 20 odd different Oracle applications on Linux, but that does limit you to the Intel platform. Most medium and certainly the majority of large businesses are going to shy away from not using more significant hardware in their server rooms - at least today.
You can't get better business software than Oracle (save me the SAP rant) but unless you have more than $500M USD/year in gross revenues, it may be better to use either Business Online or the Small Business Suite as mentioned earlier.
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While I recognise that slashdot is a community that covers users from the whole of the OS spectrum, is it really necessary to see thinly veiled advertisements for M$ products such as this? Don't you understand how happy it makes the beast to see his product chatted around on this site in particular? Don't you understand that in so doing, and by helping to expose and document the flaws in said product, you are doing their testing job for them (for free)? Couldn't you be doing the same thing for the open source community instead?
Just my opinion, not meant to be a troll.
Speking of translation, i did a search for the fsv-pgx1 and found quite a number of quasi translated japanese pages. as usual, there were some interesting mis-translations on those pages, the best being "Windows Embedded for developers Under an early receptionist"
i think we are in a state of violent agreement - as i said i wasn't trying to troll. the distinction i was trying to draw is that you can tune an engine to have anything from very high tourqe and hence pulling power (as they do with 4WD vehicles) or the other way round with high HP and low tourqe (as per borevettes and porches). i didn't mean to imply something odd about RPM's - just doing a bad job of explaining my comment perhaps.
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i think someone is pulling your leg, you need to actually go and see your 'friends' car on a real dyno. while i don't doubt that it is a lovely vehicle, you aren't getting 850hp out of a 100 odd cubic inches. now if he has instead stuffed a real chevy big block in there, the sky is the limit ...
i'd say that mucking around with your engine is actually no big deal - as long as it is NOT one with a computer. all the problems with cars started in the late eighties with the chips themselves. when working on what i would call (no troll intended) real hot rods, you actually have to work pretty hard to get something that can be as damaging as a slightly whacked computer. Generally, if you F it up it won't start, or if it does it sucks a valve or bends a pushrod immediately. About the only thing you can do then is dump a lot of N2O in an engine that isn't tuned for it (12:1 or higher compression comes to mind for the amateur) and then you will have what is called in the business 'catastrophic engine failure' when you push one or more of your con-rods through the side of your engine block or, as one of my fine friends did during a time trial, straight through the hood of his car half way down the track. Ah, the good old days!
no, he meant nitromethane as in real quarter mile cars. nitrous is also used there, but it is most popular amongst the 'boulevard brawler' style of racer. actually, about 20 years ago when i started building cars, N2O was seen the same way that serious street racers see the chip kits now - a cop out for kids with too much of dad's money.
Not trying to be a troll, but horsepower wins any race longer than stoplight to stoplight. Torque wins those, but then your cam has no top end to reach for past about the first 100 yards and you get whacked by the cars with an RPM based curve. I had an ~350HP/500fpt 55 Chevy years ago and could beat anyone in the neighborhood - as long as we stayed in the neighborhood! Once we got on the freeway, even kiddies in daddy's borevette could catch me out. No disrespect to your Viper, it's an awesome car.
how long are people going to talk about a product from a company that has been formally out of business for over a year?
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thank you for the perspective, it is great to get a view from someone living in Mexico instead of the rest of us just making blind suppositions. I worked there for a while about a decade ago, and can certainly see how a financially powerful group like the RIAA could find 'friends' in the government for long enough to make radis like this. I still remember all the money i had to give the police in Mexico City just to keep them from writing my foreign car a ticket every day ...
Gerard,
Thanks for your response. I'm not trying to deny you the ability to make comparisons, I simply wanted to try to present things from the Catholic perspective as I felt comparing us with Scientology, a cult I have studied at some length, was invalid.
As to time lines, I think the period you want to focus on for us is the Crusades, the first 500 years the Catholic church was still so small all you will find is lots of us dying for the what we believed, not the other way round. Certainly during the dark ages things were a mess all over, but then again you pretty much have to write off most of western civilization during that time. It was so bad for us, the Holy Father recently made a blanket request for forgiveness for the foolish things done in the name of the Church back then. Certainly not something anyone would be proud of.
In any case, thanks for being willing to give the modern Church a break - all the folks I've ever been involved with really are just trying to do their bit to make things better.
Gerard,
Really, the anti-Catholic racist jibe is pretty out of place here.
1) You know well the Catholic Church doesn't exist to collect money, it exists to save souls. Mock that as you like, but it is what any Catholic I know would hope they could do, in whatever small way they are able.
2a) The Church would like it very much if everyone believed the same thing, but actually we do a pretty rotten job of 'converting' people. The hope is that we can help people get their own lives in order by giving a good example of our own behaviour.
2b) Wouldn't it be nice if ANY government was on the side of the Catholics. If you had done any research on the subject you'd see that for most of the last 2000 years, people both in and out of power have had the same hateful point of view you do about Catholicism. In fact, I'd venture to say that this is the ONE thing we DO have in common with Scientology, the fact that quite a lot of people harbor significant blind agression towards us without bothering to even find out who we are or what we are really about.
3) Don't be silly, I've never met someone who gave anything like 5% of their income on a regular basis, much less 50%. While it would be great, as it would allow for a lot more charity work, it simply doesn't happen.
4a) People die for their beliefs all over the world, for all sorts of reasons. Are you saying that all the men and women who died during WWII for their beliefs in freedom (like the freedom which allows you to post your hate speech here in public) were wrong to do so?
4b) Stating that the Church causes people to take their own lives is quite frighteningly innacurate - are you familiar at all with either Christ's teachings or the Ten Commandments? At lease do a bit of homework here!
5 and 6) Again I implore you to do a bit more research than just what People Magazine has to say.
7) The Catholic church does quite the opposite. I have always been encouraged to learn as much as possible about all religions as a way to understand them and perhaps share some of our views with their adherents in a way that makes more sense to them. I've read Dianetics, the Torah, the Koran, the Gita, what can be found publicly on the Book of Mormon as well as various writings relating to smaller Christian sects, Reverend Moon, Jim Jones et al.
8) Again, when you tie your hostilities to such meaningless targest as 'many members' you can't hope for others to believe you are doing more than fomenting a personal hatred.
9) To your point further down the thread about evolution, contraception, abortion, satanism. Please do some homework, we have most definitely been taught about all of the above.
9a) You really need to separate the Catholic church from many of the 'literalist' evangelical sects that take the Bible at its strictest and most explicit. We believe the world was created in seven days, however long seven of God's days were. An awful lot of space for interpretation in there, no?
9b) We are MOST DEFINITELY taught about contraception. We are also taught that you shouldn't use any intrusive method like condoms, but that simply abstaining during ovulation is a whole different matter. I'm not a Priest, so please feel free to check my facts.
9c) I would venture to guess that I know more about abortion in all it's greulling detail than you ever will. We were taught in such depth to allow us to see why the Church considers the procedure murder.
9d) Again, are you just trolling here? I have four books that I can see from where I am sitting written by Priests written about satanism and the devil. Again, if you had done any background reading before letting loose with your attack you would have seen that the Catholic church has done more reasearch on satan and his works than anyone. How on earth can you suppose otherwise?
I considered not replying to your post on the hope that you are just flame baiting, but thought that perhaps by trying to clarify a bit it might help some other folks reading your tirade distinguish between your own personal anger and the reality of Catholocism today.
You can run the 11.5 flavour of some of the 20 odd different Oracle applications on Linux, but that does limit you to the Intel platform. Most medium and certainly the majority of large businesses are going to shy away from not using more significant hardware in their server rooms - at least today.
You can't get better business software than Oracle (save me the SAP rant) but unless you have more than $500M USD/year in gross revenues, it may be better to use either Business Online or the Small Business Suite as mentioned earlier.
HTH