The key difference between those incidents and the current one is that those were "merely" temporary restrictions, while the bill in question is permanent.
The constitution makes specific exceptions for temporary revocation of rights for as long as necessary, but no longer. This is not that.
(suspension of habeus corpus sucks, but it tends to make logical sense, and is fair. interning japanese people is overreactive, foolhardy, and unfair. assigning survellance teams to follow around anyone who had been in recent contact with others in japan is reasonable, however.)
You make me want a "ignore comments from" option on/.
You're not even a US citizen, yet you feel free to lambast US policy on rather limited background. All the "evidence" you show of this is biased, left-wing propaganda.
I'm a moderate, from a conservative background. I look at what my country does and I am disgusted some of the time. But I am damned proud the remainder. We _do_ do some things that are questionable. We _do_ make mistakes. But we _do_ care. We are not out to make the world a perfect place for everyone; we are out to try and make the world a better place.
If you want the US to keep its nose out of foreign affairs, we could just leave the UN and NATO. How big would the combined forces be thereafter? How much would the budgets of these organizations decrease with this? How much prestige and therefore influence would they lose over this?
We could also suspend trade relations to Europe. Think about that the next time you're out shopping. Electronics come from Japan, and durables come from local factories, but you'd be amazed how much stuff we export.
Yes, the CIA is bad. Yes, we should keep our nose in our own business. But if we did that, you'd be ranting at us for not being a "good global citizen," because poor kids in Bosnia are getting the shit shelled out of them, or some random group of people in the Middle East are being exploited.
Please, stop ranting or bother to learn unbiased facts. Read the proceedings on the floor of the congress--we do care about the places we stick our nose. Check out how much of the world depends on us as a stablizing force. And if you're still anti-USA, more power to you. Write your local reps and tell them you want your country to suspend relations with us. Get all your friends and family to do the same. And then you have done what you can to stop this horrible menace of neo-colonial tyranny that is the US.
-josh, sick of hearing how evil his country is for trying to be the responsible parent to the rebellious teenager that is the rest of the western world.
it could also be that all us creepy smart people stick together.
but i found, especially back in HS, that everyone in my classes went through bouts of this sort of thing. just came with the territory, i suppose. maybe it was the stress of "honors" or something else, but it sure seemed consistent.
lots of possible causes, but i feel it most probably is physiological. i'd like someone to refute me with studies, though.
that was my point. it should be a bit over that, because it was actually 1.something Mb SDSL. see the "bit" in "megaBIT"? yah... that's what i'm talking about.
i actually know that 56K modems don't connect at full 56Kbps, too!
you need to start on some downers or something... you're edgy.
some would argue that the very thing that makes these people geniuses is a great mental flaw.
all the exceptionally smart people i know (i humbly include myself in this group, for anecdote's sake) suffer from a slight to not-so-slight case of manic depression. this is considered abnormal psychology, sometimes resultant from physiology. so would you abort this group? keep in mind that manic depression is a highly negative trait, not always treatable with medication...
or how about homosexuality? it doesn't contribute to the greater good, and it could have physiological cause. does this mean we should terminate all potentially gay children?
eugenics is a bitch to live with.
personally, i live with some severe lows, i keep an eye on what sharp objects i have easy access to at times, and live without medication. why? because the medication will "fix" the problem in my brain, which i feel is what makes me "smart." do i think i'm better for it? definitely!
please don't prejudge people; let them become people and decide for themselves whether their lives are worth living or not.
while i agree that you're probably right in saying that the bottleneck isn't his machine, it's fairly likely that your full bandwidth is appreciably lower than 180KBps... i know mine is and always was (even on full megabit telocity i peaked out at 130KBps).
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well, i meant an oscillation, not a jolt, sorry. other people have pretty well made the point i was trying to make, anyway. many have posted that there were engineers on CNN talking about the building was designed to be hit by a plane, etc.
i'm duly impressed and proud of the engineers that designed this building, and look forward to seeing what we as a nation do to replace it (surely we're going to put up a replacement WTC...)
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If we accept that the differences between Islam/Christianity/Judaism are simply human distortion, then, by extension, no religious system is truly right or wrong. they all serve the same goal, and are all simply "different." In this case, the norse gods seem more true than Judaism/Christianity/Islam, because you could say that monotheism is a special case of polytheism. We wind up with feel-good/say-nothing "religions" like Unitarian Universalism, which, while it makes people feel warm and fuzzy, doesn't actually hold any Truths (and if you feel this is the point of a religion, more power to you).
yes, Muslims and Judeo-Christians do share the same OT. yep, most of our belief systems are compatible, if not identical. Islam, for the most part, supercedes Christianity and Judaism. However, it changes one key tenant of Christian belief: Jesus was a part of God. He was not simply God's son/offspring, but the physical manifestation of God. This is _the_ foundation of Christianity; without this belief, the method of salvation is lost, and Christianity dissolves into simplified (and slightly weird) Judaism. Christianity is the fufillment of Judaism (to use a religious buzzword). We believe Jesus was the Messiah, as prophesied in the OT. I'm not familiar with the Islamic interpretation of the Messianic propehsy, but i'm willing to guess that it probably disagrees strongly with the Christian interpretation.
The point of this all is that Christianity has a different Deity than Islam, in a very key way: It had a physical manifestation in the Messiah (Jesus). It also has a component that somehow dwells within all those who believe in it, the Holy Spirit. In Islam, Jesus was simply a prophet and is now dead, and all prophets are secondary to Mohammed, who is also dead. In Christianity, Mohammed was a charismatic leader and is now dead, and Jesus was the Son of God, who died once, came back, and still lives on.
(These are all rather wacko ideas, but they seem to be true. i don't blame atheists for doubting me, but anyone that believes in the supernatural should be thinking hard).
Anyway, thank you for a good post, this is a topic that too many people would just blow up on, instead of discussion sanely and rationally.
-jbm, trying to be a rational follower of the Christ (no, it's not an oxymoron. really.)
"This group would have the authority to violate the sovereignty of any country in the pursuit of terrorists that it had identified."
setting a policy like this won't make you too many friends. while i like the idea at first blush, thinking through the consequences makes me shudder.
this group will have very little obligation to a national government. it will probably be run by a multinational buearacracy (UN peacekeepers anyone?). so not only will it be inefficient, but it will hold authority with noone holding absolute authority over it.
We already have a group much like this: Covert Ops and/or the CIA. we can look back at how many times that has been abused (it has been used somewhat successfully, yes, but i think the abuses far outweigh the benefits).
anyway, seems like a great idea at first, and then i look at the precedent set by the my [US] gov't, and realize how horrible this would be if it was a multinational coalition.
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"Jews, Christians and Muslims all pray to the same God"
this is a theological point, and as such a matter of opinion.
Most Muslims will tell you very firmly that Allah is not the same as Yahweh+Yeshua+the holy spirit. Most Jews look at you funny when you start talking about Yahweh like that, but they tend to be more laid back about the idea. Most Xtians (the ones that actually read and believe the NT, which is the minority anymore, in my experience) will tell you that their Deity is made up of three individual components of the same entity, and is not just a single "thing."
My thoughts are: Jesus set a pretty damned good example that you shouldn't hate, but he also set a good one that you should turn the other cheek to those who wrong you. I figure that if the majority of the nation is going to ignore the latter, they're probably going to ignore the former as well.
My sympathies go out to all who lost people in the US, but also to those who will lose people overseas (terrorists are people too... horrible, evil people, but they are just as human as you or i)
-jbm, pacifist in the "shoot for the legs, not for the head" sense
um... the ramming didn't do much. otherwise you would have watched them tremble/wobble/somehow move immediately after the attack.
i (not a mechanical engineer in the least) think it was the fire that got them... i didn't see them collapse until the fire had burned its way several floors below the point at which the building crumpled, which started the fall.
i have heard reports that the cause of the problem was _melting_ the steel supports, which is amazing.
where'd you get your parts from? i've been wanting to find upgrades, but haven't found anything (partly because i'm new to apple with my PB).
i'm particularly interested in the HDD, as i've only got 10GB (i got the base TiBook, right before they went and dropped the price a few hundred bucks)
i'll agree he's wrong, but i think he might have a point: when you exclude females, you're missing out on ~50% of the population. i think what he was getting at was: "if you bring women in, you'll have more players."
while i'm skeptical, it seems plausible. this would imply similiar things for male-female oral sex, excepting ejaculation, which is typically controlled.
however, my understanding of the mechanics of transmission imply that it is possible through cuts inside the mouth/scratches on the tounge.
but documentation isn't everything. the risk is still there. any sources for this information? i poked around a bit this afternoon to try and follow up my own statement, but didn't have too much luck (nor did i really try that hard, i have a job and whatnot...)
"homosexual males in particular, are likely to have a larger number of sexual partners, and more opportunity to catch sexual deseases"
that, and, the little detail that for the most part anal sex is like having a blood transfusion with your partner. the risk of pregnancy is lower, yes, but i would think that homosexual males have larger incentive to be monogamous.
i know several lesbians and bi women. they don't seem too worried about AIDS, where as the gay/bi men i know are. AIDS seems to be less of a problem in the lesbian community than in the gay community, and the lesbians i know are _far_ more promiscuous than the gays (lucky girls...). I would be curious to see statistics corrolating the two, since it would seem that the primary vectors of AIDS are anal and vaginal intercourse, while oral sex doesn't seem to spread it as much. Please note all the opinion statements above, feel free to refute them with numbers or a reasoned argument.
i do agree with you, though, that a large portion of the population needs to be more civil towards alternative lifestyles (i often wonder who gets more crap, though, the extreme right-wing, or gays... i think falwellians are just too closed-up to get the kind of media attention other groups do. that, or the media has learned to filter them out)
(this is with regards to your previous comments in this thread... it's a bit OT, but i find it easier to reply to one post than multiple)
Please, i'm going to ask nicely, dogmatic statement of presupposed and preconcluded ideas or opinions as fact has no place in a "discussion" forum. in a discussion, you probably ought to at least touch on as many sides of the issue as you're comfortable mentioning. even though this is a touchy, personal issue, broad and direct statements are usually wrong, and i find them hard to listen to without a lot of doubt and uncertainty.
though some would argue that/. isn't much more than a forum for people to simply exclaim their opinion without any logic or factual basis.
anyway, i felt i should point out that you're not being totally "fair" here, as more of a friendly nudge than an accusation.
it's actually "for it is a man's number" (in the greek the word order is all messed up for "for"s... one of the ways english and greek differ), but the use of man's matches things up nicely.
there's a lot to be said for conjugating everything in a language, or conjugating nothing (ie: chinese, where everything is context). english is just annoying for truely technical discussion (it's admittedly great for everyday use, however, and is flexible enough to be very descriptive, at the expense of conciseness)
"Now which one of those two individuals is the last sentence refering to?"
The original (or, as close to the original as i have available, if you're of that line of htinking) Greek is clear that the number being calculated is associated with the calculatee, not the calculator. you're just used to english, which is a shitty language for this sort of thing, if i may say so. =)
Warning: bad romanization below, missing accents, with breathings:
"Here is wisdom. The one having understanding, let him calculate the number(-ou) of the beast, for it(-ou) is the number of a man, and the it(-ou) is six hundred sixty six."
and you calculate someone's number by doing magic number games with the letters of their name (i think it's a holdover from the whole letters-as-numbers thing in hebrew, but i really don't know. it's been a long time since we covered revelation in sunday school... keep in mind i haven't been to church in 3 or 4 years now)
things i thought i would never post to/.: translations from the Greek NT...
"Another advance is that the infrared transmitter now plugs into a computer?s USB port rather than a serial port ? to improve speed."
Now, i can see switching to USB to improve compatibility, but to improve speed?! How fast can you really blast IR anyway? Is this mis-informed journalism, or bad marketing, or did i miss the memo about 12Mb IR tranceivers?
I also found it somewhat amusing that his girlfriend was faster on the pickup than he was . Take that, gender-based stereotypes (thank god my friends don't read/. that much... all the girls i know would kill me for that one)
i hate to reply to myself on this one, but i figured i would point out something: when i pay 2700$ for a piece of equipment, i expect it to be solid. i expect it to be well-designed, and i expect it to be well-made. I expect all weaknesses to be clearly labeled on a sheet of paper included with the manual, especially ones that affect the most costly component of the system. True, i don't need warnings like "the display can be scratched," but instead things like "when closed, the latch is not guaranteed to be perfectly snug." If they had noted this weakness in the design relative to similiar products, i would not have had the problem.
Anyway, this is something for me to bitch at apple about, not for me to expose myself to public humiliation over.
of course not. it was closed, inside a sleeve that is open where you insert the laptop, and inside a courier bag. i hadn't opened the laptop since the night before, in the car, and put it away while in the car. i assume the rock got knocked into the sleeve when i closed the bag up, after reading in the park (i sat in a landscaping bed, the place was full of people eating lunch).
i think it's safe to assume that things aren't going to work their way into a closed laptop--i've not had a problem with this on my previous laptops. the marks are at a point where it makes perfect sense for something to have fallen in and gotten wedged, banging and scratching and dinging around for the rest of the day...
i've only heard rumors, but i hear it's just bad design of the TiBook. such is the way.
the bigger screen alone makes the TiBook worth the extra expense to me, though i've had nothing but frustration with it otherwise (a word of caution: small rocks can get in between the screen and the large, flat expanse of metal when the machine is closed. and if you then proceed to walk around with it in your courier bag for a few hours, you wind up with a very large spot on the screen and marring on the metal. Not Good. i'm going to call apple about this on tuesday, to demand a replacement under warranty, because i consider this to be a design flaw)
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The key difference between those incidents and the current one is that those were "merely" temporary restrictions, while the bill in question is permanent.
The constitution makes specific exceptions for temporary revocation of rights for as long as necessary, but no longer. This is not that.
(suspension of habeus corpus sucks, but it tends to make logical sense, and is fair. interning japanese people is overreactive, foolhardy, and unfair. assigning survellance teams to follow around anyone who had been in recent contact with others in japan is reasonable, however.)
You make me want a "ignore comments from" option on /.
You're not even a US citizen, yet you feel free to lambast US policy on rather limited background. All the "evidence" you show of this is biased, left-wing propaganda.
I'm a moderate, from a conservative background. I look at what my country does and I am disgusted some of the time. But I am damned proud the remainder. We _do_ do some things that are questionable. We _do_ make mistakes. But we _do_ care. We are not out to make the world a perfect place for everyone; we are out to try and make the world a better place.
If you want the US to keep its nose out of foreign affairs, we could just leave the UN and NATO. How big would the combined forces be thereafter? How much would the budgets of these organizations decrease with this? How much prestige and therefore influence would they lose over this?
We could also suspend trade relations to Europe. Think about that the next time you're out shopping. Electronics come from Japan, and durables come from local factories, but you'd be amazed how much stuff we export.
Yes, the CIA is bad. Yes, we should keep our nose in our own business. But if we did that, you'd be ranting at us for not being a "good global citizen," because poor kids in Bosnia are getting the shit shelled out of them, or some random group of people in the Middle East are being exploited.
Please, stop ranting or bother to learn unbiased facts. Read the proceedings on the floor of the congress--we do care about the places we stick our nose. Check out how much of the world depends on us as a stablizing force. And if you're still anti-USA, more power to you. Write your local reps and tell them you want your country to suspend relations with us. Get all your friends and family to do the same. And then you have done what you can to stop this horrible menace of neo-colonial tyranny that is the US.
-josh, sick of hearing how evil his country is for trying to be the responsible parent to the rebellious teenager that is the rest of the western world.
Apple should just start marketing the chips based on a performance number, instead of a clock speed. Instad of a 400MHz G4, how about a G4-PR900?
This seems like such a good idea!
(come on, you know you're all closet cyrix fans. really, they were wonderful. they were just, uh, underappreciated!)
it _was_ really good latency for a atime. telocity. 50$/mo. telocity has since gone under, but i also moved out of coverage area.
now on us-worst, er, qwest 640/240, which is a bitch. and it's ~55$/mo iirc.
it could also be that all us creepy smart people stick together.
but i found, especially back in HS, that everyone in my classes went through bouts of this sort of thing. just came with the territory, i suppose. maybe it was the stress of "honors" or something else, but it sure seemed consistent.
lots of possible causes, but i feel it most probably is physiological. i'd like someone to refute me with studies, though.
that was my point. it should be a bit over that, because it was actually 1.something Mb SDSL. see the "bit" in "megaBIT"? yah... that's what i'm talking about.
i actually know that 56K modems don't connect at full 56Kbps, too!
you need to start on some downers or something... you're edgy.
some would argue that the very thing that makes these people geniuses is a great mental flaw.
all the exceptionally smart people i know (i humbly include myself in this group, for anecdote's sake) suffer from a slight to not-so-slight case of manic depression. this is considered abnormal psychology, sometimes resultant from physiology. so would you abort this group? keep in mind that manic depression is a highly negative trait, not always treatable with medication...
or how about homosexuality? it doesn't contribute to the greater good, and it could have physiological cause. does this mean we should terminate all potentially gay children?
eugenics is a bitch to live with.
personally, i live with some severe lows, i keep an eye on what sharp objects i have easy access to at times, and live without medication. why? because the medication will "fix" the problem in my brain, which i feel is what makes me "smart." do i think i'm better for it? definitely!
please don't prejudge people; let them become people and decide for themselves whether their lives are worth living or not.
while i agree that you're probably right in saying that the bottleneck isn't his machine, it's fairly likely that your full bandwidth is appreciably lower than 180KBps... i know mine is and always was (even on full megabit telocity i peaked out at 130KBps).
well, i meant an oscillation, not a jolt, sorry. other people have pretty well made the point i was trying to make, anyway. many have posted that there were engineers on CNN talking about the building was designed to be hit by a plane, etc.
i'm duly impressed and proud of the engineers that designed this building, and look forward to seeing what we as a nation do to replace it (surely we're going to put up a replacement WTC...)
If we accept that the differences between Islam/Christianity/Judaism are simply human distortion, then, by extension, no religious system is truly right or wrong. they all serve the same goal, and are all simply "different." In this case, the norse gods seem more true than Judaism/Christianity/Islam, because you could say that monotheism is a special case of polytheism. We wind up with feel-good/say-nothing "religions" like Unitarian Universalism, which, while it makes people feel warm and fuzzy, doesn't actually hold any Truths (and if you feel this is the point of a religion, more power to you).
yes, Muslims and Judeo-Christians do share the same OT. yep, most of our belief systems are compatible, if not identical. Islam, for the most part, supercedes Christianity and Judaism. However, it changes one key tenant of Christian belief: Jesus was a part of God. He was not simply God's son/offspring, but the physical manifestation of God. This is _the_ foundation of Christianity; without this belief, the method of salvation is lost, and Christianity dissolves into simplified (and slightly weird) Judaism. Christianity is the fufillment of Judaism (to use a religious buzzword). We believe Jesus was the Messiah, as prophesied in the OT. I'm not familiar with the Islamic interpretation of the Messianic propehsy, but i'm willing to guess that it probably disagrees strongly with the Christian interpretation.
The point of this all is that Christianity has a different Deity than Islam, in a very key way: It had a physical manifestation in the Messiah (Jesus). It also has a component that somehow dwells within all those who believe in it, the Holy Spirit. In Islam, Jesus was simply a prophet and is now dead, and all prophets are secondary to Mohammed, who is also dead. In Christianity, Mohammed was a charismatic leader and is now dead, and Jesus was the Son of God, who died once, came back, and still lives on.
(These are all rather wacko ideas, but they seem to be true. i don't blame atheists for doubting me, but anyone that believes in the supernatural should be thinking hard).
Anyway, thank you for a good post, this is a topic that too many people would just blow up on, instead of discussion sanely and rationally.
-jbm, trying to be a rational follower of the Christ (no, it's not an oxymoron. really.)
"This group would have the authority to violate the sovereignty of any country in the pursuit of terrorists that it had identified."
setting a policy like this won't make you too many friends. while i like the idea at first blush, thinking through the consequences makes me shudder.
this group will have very little obligation to a national government. it will probably be run by a multinational buearacracy (UN peacekeepers anyone?). so not only will it be inefficient, but it will hold authority with noone holding absolute authority over it.
We already have a group much like this: Covert Ops and/or the CIA. we can look back at how many times that has been abused (it has been used somewhat successfully, yes, but i think the abuses far outweigh the benefits).
anyway, seems like a great idea at first, and then i look at the precedent set by the my [US] gov't, and realize how horrible this would be if it was a multinational coalition.
"Jews, Christians and Muslims all pray to the same God"
this is a theological point, and as such a matter of opinion.
Most Muslims will tell you very firmly that Allah is not the same as Yahweh+Yeshua+the holy spirit. Most Jews look at you funny when you start talking about Yahweh like that, but they tend to be more laid back about the idea. Most Xtians (the ones that actually read and believe the NT, which is the minority anymore, in my experience) will tell you that their Deity is made up of three individual components of the same entity, and is not just a single "thing."
My thoughts are: Jesus set a pretty damned good example that you shouldn't hate, but he also set a good one that you should turn the other cheek to those who wrong you. I figure that if the majority of the nation is going to ignore the latter, they're probably going to ignore the former as well.
My sympathies go out to all who lost people in the US, but also to those who will lose people overseas (terrorists are people too... horrible, evil people, but they are just as human as you or i)
-jbm, pacifist in the "shoot for the legs, not for the head" sense
um... the ramming didn't do much. otherwise you would have watched them tremble/wobble/somehow move immediately after the attack.
i (not a mechanical engineer in the least) think it was the fire that got them... i didn't see them collapse until the fire had burned its way several floors below the point at which the building crumpled, which started the fall.
i have heard reports that the cause of the problem was _melting_ the steel supports, which is amazing.
where'd you get your parts from? i've been wanting to find upgrades, but haven't found anything (partly because i'm new to apple with my PB).
i'm particularly interested in the HDD, as i've only got 10GB (i got the base TiBook, right before they went and dropped the price a few hundred bucks)
i'll agree he's wrong, but i think he might have a point: when you exclude females, you're missing out on ~50% of the population. i think what he was getting at was: "if you bring women in, you'll have more players."
anyway, that's just my thoughts on it.
you must be from the south... where i come from, he's Uncle Sam.
<insert lyrics to "I'm my own grampa" here>
while i'm skeptical, it seems plausible. this would imply similiar things for male-female oral sex, excepting ejaculation, which is typically controlled.
however, my understanding of the mechanics of transmission imply that it is possible through cuts inside the mouth/scratches on the tounge.
but documentation isn't everything. the risk is still there. any sources for this information? i poked around a bit this afternoon to try and follow up my own statement, but didn't have too much luck (nor did i really try that hard, i have a job and whatnot...)
"homosexual males in particular, are likely to have a larger number of sexual partners, and more opportunity to catch sexual deseases"
/. isn't much more than a forum for people to simply exclaim their opinion without any logic or factual basis.
that, and, the little detail that for the most part anal sex is like having a blood transfusion with your partner. the risk of pregnancy is lower, yes, but i would think that homosexual males have larger incentive to be monogamous.
i know several lesbians and bi women. they don't seem too worried about AIDS, where as the gay/bi men i know are. AIDS seems to be less of a problem in the lesbian community than in the gay community, and the lesbians i know are _far_ more promiscuous than the gays (lucky girls...). I would be curious to see statistics corrolating the two, since it would seem that the primary vectors of AIDS are anal and vaginal intercourse, while oral sex doesn't seem to spread it as much. Please note all the opinion statements above, feel free to refute them with numbers or a reasoned argument.
i do agree with you, though, that a large portion of the population needs to be more civil towards alternative lifestyles (i often wonder who gets more crap, though, the extreme right-wing, or gays... i think falwellians are just too closed-up to get the kind of media attention other groups do. that, or the media has learned to filter them out)
(this is with regards to your previous comments in this thread... it's a bit OT, but i find it easier to reply to one post than multiple)
Please, i'm going to ask nicely, dogmatic statement of presupposed and preconcluded ideas or opinions as fact has no place in a "discussion" forum. in a discussion, you probably ought to at least touch on as many sides of the issue as you're comfortable mentioning. even though this is a touchy, personal issue, broad and direct statements are usually wrong, and i find them hard to listen to without a lot of doubt and uncertainty.
though some would argue that
anyway, i felt i should point out that you're not being totally "fair" here, as more of a friendly nudge than an accusation.
it's actually "for it is a man's number" (in the greek the word order is all messed up for "for"s... one of the ways english and greek differ), but the use of man's matches things up nicely.
there's a lot to be said for conjugating everything in a language, or conjugating nothing (ie: chinese, where everything is context). english is just annoying for truely technical discussion (it's admittedly great for everyday use, however, and is flexible enough to be very descriptive, at the expense of conciseness)
"Now which one of those two individuals is the last sentence refering to?"
/.: translations from the Greek NT...
The original (or, as close to the original as i have available, if you're of that line of htinking) Greek is clear that the number being calculated is associated with the calculatee, not the calculator. you're just used to english, which is a shitty language for this sort of thing, if i may say so. =)
Warning: bad romanization below, missing accents, with breathings:
`Wde `n sophia estiv. `o exwv vouv psnphisatw tov 'apithmov tou phnpiou, 'arithmos yar 'avthrwpou 'estiv, kai `o 'arithmos 'autou "`exakosioi `exnkovta `ex".
"Here is wisdom. The one having understanding, let him calculate the number(-ou) of the beast, for it(-ou) is the number of a man, and the it(-ou) is six hundred sixty six."
and you calculate someone's number by doing magic number games with the letters of their name (i think it's a holdover from the whole letters-as-numbers thing in hebrew, but i really don't know. it's been a long time since we covered revelation in sunday school... keep in mind i haven't been to church in 3 or 4 years now)
things i thought i would never post to
"Another advance is that the infrared transmitter now plugs into a computer?s USB port rather than a serial port ? to improve speed."
/. that much... all the girls i know would kill me for that one)
Now, i can see switching to USB to improve compatibility, but to improve speed?! How fast can you really blast IR anyway? Is this mis-informed journalism, or bad marketing, or did i miss the memo about 12Mb IR tranceivers?
I also found it somewhat amusing that his girlfriend was faster on the pickup than he was . Take that, gender-based stereotypes (thank god my friends don't read
i hate to reply to myself on this one, but i figured i would point out something: when i pay 2700$ for a piece of equipment, i expect it to be solid. i expect it to be well-designed, and i expect it to be well-made. I expect all weaknesses to be clearly labeled on a sheet of paper included with the manual, especially ones that affect the most costly component of the system. True, i don't need warnings like "the display can be scratched," but instead things like "when closed, the latch is not guaranteed to be perfectly snug." If they had noted this weakness in the design relative to similiar products, i would not have had the problem.
Anyway, this is something for me to bitch at apple about, not for me to expose myself to public humiliation over.
of course not. it was closed, inside a sleeve that is open where you insert the laptop, and inside a courier bag. i hadn't opened the laptop since the night before, in the car, and put it away while in the car. i assume the rock got knocked into the sleeve when i closed the bag up, after reading in the park (i sat in a landscaping bed, the place was full of people eating lunch).
i think it's safe to assume that things aren't going to work their way into a closed laptop--i've not had a problem with this on my previous laptops. the marks are at a point where it makes perfect sense for something to have fallen in and gotten wedged, banging and scratching and dinging around for the rest of the day...
i've only heard rumors, but i hear it's just bad design of the TiBook. such is the way.
the bigger screen alone makes the TiBook worth the extra expense to me, though i've had nothing but frustration with it otherwise (a word of caution: small rocks can get in between the screen and the large, flat expanse of metal when the machine is closed. and if you then proceed to walk around with it in your courier bag for a few hours, you wind up with a very large spot on the screen and marring on the metal. Not Good. i'm going to call apple about this on tuesday, to demand a replacement under warranty, because i consider this to be a design flaw)