Sure we question and analyze reality, we just believe in a different reality to you.
I don't exactly know what you mean by "raised from the dead", but such feats such as the Chinese preacher you mention are hardly abnormal. There are many instances of stuff like this happening.
How else can you take the term 'raised from the dead'? He died and then he lived. He was dead and then he was raised back into life. He was pronounced dead (after slipping into a comma) but sat straight up and asked to go home 20 minutes later.
And as for 74 days without food and water being hardly abnormal? It's widely recognised that any more than about a week without water or seven weeks without food (dependent on fat stores) will cause death. This guy went 10 and a half weeks without both (and was daily beaten too).
Unfortunately some people choose to harden their hearts despite occurances that clearly defy long helf scientific and natural laws to prevent uncomfortableness.
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But at least with Christianity we do not try to build up a portfolio of proofs but instead rely more on faith. The search for the truth differs between athiests and Christians (I can't speak for other theistic religions). Atheists require proof of God from a scientific/head based point of view while Christianity combines the knowledge of God in out spirit while always relying on faith.
I can tell you a story of a friend who was raised from the dead, of a Chinese preacher who lived for 74 days in prison without food or water, of people with incurable diseases being healed but this will not change a thing. Science cannot explain these things yet your head will not let your heart entertain the idea that there may be a God.
the problem with Macs was that while they performed better on the whole, they were more expensive.
ION Linux may guarentee that the software and hardware will play together nicely but you've gotta pay for it. I've never had a problem getting Linux (RedHat, Debian, Gentoo) to work well on standard Dell machines or on machines I've built from various parts.
Nice idea but prebuilt Linux machines don't have a big market and I don't see that ION Linux is going to change this.
For me dual-booting has not been a problem and I've been dual-booting on and off for seven years now. These days most installers do it fir you but there has been an easy to follow HOWTO for ages now.
Yeah, data storage is a bit of a problem but I just make sure I have at least on FAT32 partition for any data I need to share between the OSes.
That's not sniffing! In my days when we had a network problem we would draw straws to see who got the wires shoved up their nose. Yep, we really sniffed those packets.
How are your 'fair-use' rights being stepped on? And aren't you just trampling all over someone else's copyrights? But I guess it is ok to step on someone else's rights as long as your are spared.
No, I beleive the world would be better if people obeyed the law but proactively lobbeyed for change. Disobedience is not the right way.
I'm not trying to push my morality onto you. And it's not narrow-mindedness, we are just both being stubborn in our beliefs, no compromising. Compromise too much on your beliefs and you'll have none.
Yes, I buy things I think deserve buying and No, I don't buy things I use but don't think are worth my money.
So the law be damned then? If YOU think something is useful, but not so useful to pay the asking price then you think it is ok to use it illegally? Do you only pay as much tax as you think the government deserves as well?
Christians have a harder time. To a Christian, fantisizing about adultery or fornication is as bad as doing it. Of course, it's also assumed that we are all sinners at heart. So while God isn't pleased by it, he still loves us.
Thus watching porn, in of itself, is ok.
I honestly fail to see how you make this progression. Matthew 5:28 "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." So how can watching porn be ok? Only if you don't watch porn with any lustful thoughts?
You can't just say it is part of our sinful nature and it's going to happen anyway. Romans 6 says "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" We will never be totally free from sin but wilfully watching porn is only damaging yourself, it's not harmless. You are filling your heart with lust, not God.
It's got nothing to do with the business model and I doubt StarROM's success/demise will have any effect on the liability of people who illegally obtain copyrighted ROMs.
From what I have read, StarROM is just a distribution outlet. It does not hold any copyrights to the ROMs so it's existence changes nothing to do with copyright infringements. The only thing StarROMs could do is sue some site owner, who is illegally distributing ROMs, for damages but I doubt they would have the capital to try that.
Oh and if you're feeling a little more threatened with your pirated ROMs then try buying them legally.
No, not rare. Any one who has read the Bible would also know that God desires us to be faithful to our wife. I never claimed to know God's full plan but His word is in the Bible so feel free to read it.
Others have called you an M$ basher but you are spot on. The OS community announces a bug and then knuckles down and fixes it. This is how it has to be done considering the developer community is a subset of the user community.
At Microsoft, and any other closed source company for that matter, bugs can be fixed inhouse and only then announced along with a patch. This is simply the nature of closed source software.
Interstingly, there have been occasions where people have sent bug reports to Microsoft and then months later, after seeing no action on it, have announced it publicly to force Microsoft's hand.
But with respect to pornography the Bible is quite clear. The only corruption of the Scriptures would be to suggest the porn was all right in the eyes of God.
As an open sourced tool, I believe that some amazing solutions would show up for Java that will probably never appear with it being closed source.
Possibly the only sane thing about this post. Open sourcing Java would mean that there would be more hands on deck trying out different things.
Look at perl for example. Do you think it would be where it is today if it were closed source? It would probably be some hack that about 2 guys use. But no, it's on the standard distribution of just about any UNIX-like OS out there, and many websites use mod perl with Apache to get some great results (including/.)...
And Java comes with any OS that comes with perl, plus it is more common on Apple and Windows than perl. Have you heard of J2EE?
Imagine where Java would be if it were open sourced. I think that most desktop software could even be developed for Java and run the same on any platform. No more Microsoft monopoly. You could buy a program and run it on OS X, Linux, Windows, or whatever. How? By being open sourced, it would probably become so efficient and powerful that nobody would want to waste their time natively compiling stuff for this system or that.
Java has always tried to be a write once run anywhere product and at times it has acheived this. What you are suggesting could happen already does and it is currently closed source. As for efficiency, it runs in a virtual machine so it will probably never reach the speeds of natively compiled code. It just so happens that processors are fast enough these days that speed has become less of an issue, especially for average users.
What level of C++ knowledge is necessary to begin working with something like Qt (or other windowing libraries for that matter)? Having taken several semesters of C++ so far, I want to try something a little more tangible than the prompt stuff we've been doing.
I'm guessing that you would have a basic understanding of most of the features of C++ and would understand the philosophy of OOP. The major step is now getting out of a command line user input/system output frame of mind to a GUI one. But starting with a mature toolkit like Qt is a great place to start.
PHP has shown just how powerful integrating data and presentation can be through inlining code directly into a webpage layout.
A lot of people using PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion are doing their best to separate data collection and manipulation with the actual presentation of the data.
My particular favourite methodology fusebox tries to help programmers separate the model and the view. It is unbelievable how simpler web applications are to write when you do separate data and presentation.
I may be feeding the troll but they don't let me feed the aninamls at the zoo anymore.
Not wanting to pay up for the use of patented technology Sony has released a new line of digitcal cameras. These cameras do not use any image compression techniques, limiting the user to only one photo. 'But that's perfect', says one Sony engineer, 'cause we don't store any images either. They just come up on the view finder for 10 seconds and then disappear.'
While setting up and testing the inl=laws new DVD and surround sound system I had to do a sort of movieoke myself. I was testing it out with the Braveheart DVD and while I was behind the entertainment unit trying to figure out the mess of wires occasionaly there would be no sound (note to wanna be technicians like me: read the manual in full, plug everything in properly, then turn it all on... do as I say, not as I do). So having seen the movie 10+ times I kicked in with what was happening, what was being said and perhaps some of the soundtrack until the sound came back on. Now if only I could get that Scottish accent right.
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Sure we question and analyze reality, we just believe in a different reality to you.
I don't exactly know what you mean by "raised from the dead", but such feats such as the Chinese preacher you mention are hardly abnormal. There are many instances of stuff like this happening.
How else can you take the term 'raised from the dead'? He died and then he lived. He was dead and then he was raised back into life. He was pronounced dead (after slipping into a comma) but sat straight up and asked to go home 20 minutes later.
And as for 74 days without food and water being hardly abnormal? It's widely recognised that any more than about a week without water or seven weeks without food (dependent on fat stores) will cause death. This guy went 10 and a half weeks without both (and was daily beaten too).
Unfortunately some people choose to harden their hearts despite occurances that clearly defy long helf scientific and natural laws to prevent uncomfortableness.
But at least with Christianity we do not try to build up a portfolio of proofs but instead rely more on faith. The search for the truth differs between athiests and Christians (I can't speak for other theistic religions). Atheists require proof of God from a scientific/head based point of view while Christianity combines the knowledge of God in out spirit while always relying on faith.
I can tell you a story of a friend who was raised from the dead, of a Chinese preacher who lived for 74 days in prison without food or water, of people with incurable diseases being healed but this will not change a thing. Science cannot explain these things yet your head will not let your heart entertain the idea that there may be a God.
So you applaud them for believing that they have the truth about God but are not wanting to share it with others?
What is particularly bad about monotheist religions as opposed to polythist ones?
No, I will not use the defense 'I did nothing wrong' because clearly I did.
Until they change the law so only one person is allowed to watch TV at a time, because anything else would be stealing...
Ummm, don't hold your breathe.
But we buy the really old helicopters and the flags still have only 48 stars on them.
First they came for the crackers
and I did not speak out - because they broke the law.
Then they came for the hackers
and I did not speak out - because they broke the law.
Then they came for the file sharers
and I did not speak out - because they broke the law.
Then they came for me -
and we sat down and watched the footy together cause I had done nothing wrong.
the problem with Macs was that while they performed better on the whole, they were more expensive.
ION Linux may guarentee that the software and hardware will play together nicely but you've gotta pay for it. I've never had a problem getting Linux (RedHat, Debian, Gentoo) to work well on standard Dell machines or on machines I've built from various parts.
Nice idea but prebuilt Linux machines don't have a big market and I don't see that ION Linux is going to change this.
For me dual-booting has not been a problem and I've been dual-booting on and off for seven years now. These days most installers do it fir you but there has been an easy to follow HOWTO for ages now.
Yeah, data storage is a bit of a problem but I just make sure I have at least on FAT32 partition for any data I need to share between the OSes.
That's not sniffing! In my days when we had a network problem we would draw straws to see who got the wires shoved up their nose. Yep, we really sniffed those packets.
The rest of us would monitor the nose twitches.
This is where the term 'Test Bunny' came from.
I advocate obedience to authorities.
How are your 'fair-use' rights being stepped on? And aren't you just trampling all over someone else's copyrights? But I guess it is ok to step on someone else's rights as long as your are spared.
No, I beleive the world would be better if people obeyed the law but proactively lobbeyed for change. Disobedience is not the right way.
I'm not trying to push my morality onto you. And it's not narrow-mindedness, we are just both being stubborn in our beliefs, no compromising. Compromise too much on your beliefs and you'll have none.
Yes, I buy things I think deserve buying and No, I don't buy things I use but don't think are worth my money.
So the law be damned then? If YOU think something is useful, but not so useful to pay the asking price then you think it is ok to use it illegally? Do you only pay as much tax as you think the government deserves as well?
Christians have a harder time. To a Christian, fantisizing about adultery or fornication is as bad as doing it. Of course, it's also assumed that we are all sinners at heart. So while God isn't pleased by it, he still loves us.
Thus watching porn, in of itself, is ok.
I honestly fail to see how you make this progression. Matthew 5:28 "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." So how can watching porn be ok? Only if you don't watch porn with any lustful thoughts?
You can't just say it is part of our sinful nature and it's going to happen anyway. Romans 6 says "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" We will never be totally free from sin but wilfully watching porn is only damaging yourself, it's not harmless. You are filling your heart with lust, not God.
It's got nothing to do with the business model and I doubt StarROM's success/demise will have any effect on the liability of people who illegally obtain copyrighted ROMs.
From what I have read, StarROM is just a distribution outlet. It does not hold any copyrights to the ROMs so it's existence changes nothing to do with copyright infringements. The only thing StarROMs could do is sue some site owner, who is illegally distributing ROMs, for damages but I doubt they would have the capital to try that.
Oh and if you're feeling a little more threatened with your pirated ROMs then try buying them legally.
I believe the only change has been due to translation from one language to another. You can feel free to disagree.
No, not rare. Any one who has read the Bible would also know that God desires us to be faithful to our wife. I never claimed to know God's full plan but His word is in the Bible so feel free to read it.
Others have called you an M$ basher but you are spot on. The OS community announces a bug and then knuckles down and fixes it. This is how it has to be done considering the developer community is a subset of the user community.
At Microsoft, and any other closed source company for that matter, bugs can be fixed inhouse and only then announced along with a patch. This is simply the nature of closed source software.
Interstingly, there have been occasions where people have sent bug reports to Microsoft and then months later, after seeing no action on it, have announced it publicly to force Microsoft's hand.
God's plan was that we would only take pleasure in our wife's beautiful body. Don't try to change God to suit yourself.
Yes, you do have a point.
But with respect to pornography the Bible is quite clear. The only corruption of the Scriptures would be to suggest the porn was all right in the eyes of God.
How? Are different people charged different sales tax rates?
Come on, you already know the answer.
Poor people's income (if there is any income) are taxed at a lesser rate. If they were taxed higher they simply could not afford it.
If income tax was abolished, poorer people would most probably effectively end up paying more tax on basic items such as food and clothing.
Possibly the only sane thing about this post. Open sourcing Java would mean that there would be more hands on deck trying out different things.
Look at perl for example. Do you think it would be where it is today if it were closed source? It would probably be some hack that about 2 guys use. But no, it's on the standard distribution of just about any UNIX-like OS out there, and many websites use mod perl with Apache to get some great results (includingAnd Java comes with any OS that comes with perl, plus it is more common on Apple and Windows than perl. Have you heard of J2EE?
Imagine where Java would be if it were open sourced. I think that most desktop software could even be developed for Java and run the same on any platform. No more Microsoft monopoly. You could buy a program and run it on OS X, Linux, Windows, or whatever. How? By being open sourced, it would probably become so efficient and powerful that nobody would want to waste their time natively compiling stuff for this system or that.Java has always tried to be a write once run anywhere product and at times it has acheived this. What you are suggesting could happen already does and it is currently closed source. As for efficiency, it runs in a virtual machine so it will probably never reach the speeds of natively compiled code. It just so happens that processors are fast enough these days that speed has become less of an issue, especially for average users.
What level of C++ knowledge is necessary to begin working with something like Qt (or other windowing libraries for that matter)? Having taken several semesters of C++ so far, I want to try something a little more tangible than the prompt stuff we've been doing.
I'm guessing that you would have a basic understanding of most of the features of C++ and would understand the philosophy of OOP. The major step is now getting out of a command line user input/system output frame of mind to a GUI one. But starting with a mature toolkit like Qt is a great place to start.
PHP has shown just how powerful integrating data and presentation can be through inlining code directly into a webpage layout.
A lot of people using PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion are doing their best to separate data collection and manipulation with the actual presentation of the data.
My particular favourite methodology fusebox tries to help programmers separate the model and the view. It is unbelievable how simpler web applications are to write when you do separate data and presentation.
I may be feeding the troll but they don't let me feed the aninamls at the zoo anymore.
Not wanting to pay up for the use of patented technology Sony has released a new line of digitcal cameras. These cameras do not use any image compression techniques, limiting the user to only one photo. 'But that's perfect', says one Sony engineer, 'cause we don't store any images either. They just come up on the view finder for 10 seconds and then disappear.'
While setting up and testing the inl=laws new DVD and surround sound system I had to do a sort of movieoke myself. I was testing it out with the Braveheart DVD and while I was behind the entertainment unit trying to figure out the mess of wires occasionaly there would be no sound (note to wanna be technicians like me: read the manual in full, plug everything in properly, then turn it all on ... do as I say, not as I do). So having seen the movie 10+ times I kicked in with what was happening, what was being said and perhaps some of the soundtrack until the sound came back on. Now if only I could get that Scottish accent right.