Well there's your problem. You need to get the KJV and a good set of translation notes. The NIV and other "modern" bibles are the word of Bob the fallablle translator, not the word of God. I'll never understand why you people waste your time on those things. It's like trying to understand Shakespeare by reading only the Cliff's Notes.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
That's both more accurate to Paul's original text and more beautiful to read. If Paul had intended to say "homosexual", he would have used the well-known word "paiderasste." Instead, he uses, "malakoi" and "arsenokoitai," neither of which have ever had clear homosexual connotation. Do a Google search on the Greek words if you want to learn more. It's fascinating.
"OK, hatred for Jews is stupid (after all, even Jesus was a Jew)" And so it's OK for Muslims, who don't view Jesus as a Messiah, to be antisemetic? Hey I have a great idea - how about arguing against what he said and not words you decide to put in his mouth. (stealing discussion ignored)
The GP was not putting words in his mouth. This is exactly what he said -- that it's wrong to hate Jews because Jesus was a Jew. This is an apallingly bad argument. What if Jesus was Taoist instead of Jewish? How does Jesus's religious affiliation have anything at all to do with anti-semitism??
Gays, on the other hand, have free will and they do what they choose to do. It's really simple: if one could choose one's sexual orientation, then a heterosexual man could choose to be gay.... Have you ever tried being gay? I'm sure he wants to save criminals too - does that mean he should try doing things he feels are wrong (i.e. violating his conscience) just to gain a better understanding? That's insane!
He was tyring to illustrate the absurdity of the original poster's statement (that homosexuality is a choice). You're right, it was a poor example. Let's get back to the original point: do YOU think that gay people have any choice in the matter? Can they simply decide to be attracted to women from now on?
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Leviticus 20:13." So God didn't have room on those stone tablets to jot down "Don't be gay" on Mount Sinai? Pretty interesting that Ol' Infallible Himself was able to include relatively minor things like "take a day off every week" and "put up with your parents" but seemed to think that an outright capital offense wasn't worth mentioning. I think you'll find out that things like rape and incest (things we feel are bad still today in modern society) were also offenses of similar magnitude - do you really think a list of 10 things can meaningfully cover all possible "really bad" actions?
You missed the OP's point. If God felt so strongly about homosexuality, then why didn't he ever SAY so? Even Leviticus is incomplete and open to a number of different interpretations. Even if we were to assume that God is talking about homosexuality in general here, apparently He thinks that it only merits a brief mention among a whole bunch of other things to avoid, like yoking an ox and a donkey together. So why should you attach such grave importance to it?
...burning building...
If I ran into a burning building and saw a man refusing to be saved, heck yes I'd do everything I could to drag him to safety. But this is an analogy, and it's a poor one. Where is the burning building? Are you suggesting that people who do not share your religious beliefs are going to suffer certain death or damnation by fire? You've got to be kidding me.
DDD's GUI is an archaic user interface nightmare. Watch programmers using DDD some time; they spend minutes clicking and dragging rectangles instead of getting real work done. You'd think they were using Inkscape. Why can't DDD just present the in-scope variables in a nice tree view?
What's worse, the data displays don't persist! They're supposed to, but it's been buggy for years. Once you finally get DDD to display your linked list in a semi-readable format (no mean feat; it involves a lot of scrolling), you hit a breakpoint and everything goes haywire. Some items disappear, some get duplicated, some get linked 3 or 4 times, and everything gets moved around. And, over a year later, it still doesn't work well with GDB 6.
Put a bullet in it. The only way to rescue DDD is a ground-up rewrite. The Data Display capability looked groovy, but it turns out that it's just not very useful in the real world. There's a reason no other debuggers have chosen to implement this feature: it seems trick, but it tends to get in the way.
I find that Insight is the best debugger going right now. I'm hoping for good things from the Mono debugger but I haven't manged to run it successfully on C code.
"Glad you discovered us, on your road towards getting published. We are always happy when a new author has found the way to our door, because opportunity knocks on both sides of it."
This is the start of the text on the author sign up page. They must have had one of their editors write the copy for the web site.
Apparently Travis Tea worked harder than they needed to... From the article linked by Sundroid:
Dee Power, unhappy with how PublishAmerica had handled her novel, ``Overtime,'' submitted a ``new'' book that consisted of the first 50 pages of ``Overtime'' and the last 10 pages, repeated over and over. The manuscript was accepted. (Power declined to have it published). PublishAmerica also accepted a novel by Kevin Yarbrough, even though the first 30 pages were repeated six times. (Yarbrough revealed his trick on an Internet site.)
I've chosen to install analog speedo, tach, H2O temp and oil pressure. This allows the LCD screen to be less expensive and less important so I don't mind as much when it's unreadable (say, a cold start at 0 degrees).
Even with a good (transflective or super-bright backlit) screen, you'll need to ensure that it is shaded well against light from an oblique angle. Depending on your dashboard, that might be easy or it might be hideous.
Right now I'm thinking I'll gut an IPAQ H3950 running Linux to supply the display and controller. Apparently it has a good screen, and I'm sure it's rugged enough for automotive use. The battery will help a lot too. The one drawback that I can see is the screen is only 320x240. I yearn for 640x480, but I've been unable to find aything daylight readable in that resolution for less than a few thousand dollars.
This is absoultely true. Subversion is an excellent SCM and ready for large-scale use today. There is only one warning: DO NOT use the BDB store. It's awful to administer and scales very poorly. Use the fs store ("svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs") and I think you'll be very happy.
What about IBM's own Lotus Notes? I know a number of companies that could convert a large number of desktops to Linux if only it ran Notes. IBM really needs to fix this if it wants people to take Linux on the desktop seriously.
Unless you say what hardware you have, your complaint nothing more than a meaningless troll. You realize, of course, that complaining on Slashdot is not quite as effective as asking on linux-usb or filing a bug in the kernel bugzilla?
Ever notice that there's tons of Perl, PHP, and Ruby snippents all over the web but very few Python snippets? It's because you really can't copy Python from the browser and paste it into a text editor! The whitespace gets changed and the program breaks in very hard-to-diagnose ways. It's rather funny.
There are many features of Python that will be adopted by future languages, but I doubt that significant whitespace is among them.
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You do realize, of course, that both Postgres and Oracle's (and MS SQL Server's) hierarchy mapping functions are not a part of "SQL the language" right? They're custom extensions, and fairly incompatible with each other.
Your 4x4 example is really off-topic, but that problem is easily solved by having a good brake system. My 1 ton K5 Blazer will stop without the power assist with just light pressure on the brake pedal.
So will mine. We're talking about engine braking, which is entirely on topic. I'm sure you already know that on a loose, steep (35+ deg) slope, you need to touch the brakes as little as possible. This is for two reasons: 1) brakes are normally biased to the front, so the back will want to come around and try to roll you and, more importantly, 2) because if you accidentally lock up either front wheel (easy to do in gravel or sand) you lose most or all of your directional control.
So, let's say you're just starting down the hill and RPMs are low. If your motor stalls and you have an automatic, no matter if it was made in 1950 or 2005, you're in for a scary ride. This exact scenario happened on Five Finger Hill in Hollister in a beat up 1990 Range Rover. So, I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about...
In your example, of course, the torque converter is still working forwards because your engine is still developing power. You need to actually turn the ignition off. I think you'll be surprised at how quickly your engine drops RPMs to almost nothing.
My numer is right for the U.S. (story) but opposite for Europe. Blorg is right. Sorry for the confusion.
And, to the other people replying here, I've done this. When my car's engine stops developing power, the ZF disconnects pretty much completely. No chance of push-starting it. And besides, push starting at 30 MPH? Are you daft?? Considering that you can push-start a manual at 5 MPH, I'd say that my point is probably valid.
The Catholic position on contraception and birth control might appear moral in the United States. But it is absolutely unconscionable in the areas that hold the vast majority of the world's population. The number of people indirectly killed by statements like this far outweighs the number of abortions in the western world.
This is stupid thing to say because it totally ignores momentum. Remember that you're in a 3000 pound car. At highway speed, the brakes need to overcome both the engine AND the massive amounts of kinetic energy you're carrying. Can they bring you to a full stop before they fade? That's a tall order with the crappy hardware put on most cars nowadays. Good luck if you're on a mild downhill!
In most cars, the engine won't be turning no matter how fast you're coasting. Try it with an automatic transmission and see.
10X as many automatic transmissions are sold as manuals in the U.S., and the numbers are somewhere around 7X for Europe. With an automatic transmission, as you know, the torque converter is driven off the output shaft of the engine.
So, if the engine stops developing power, the pump half of the torque converter stalls. Unfortunately, torque converters don't work backwards. Therefore, the fluid pressure in the fins disappears and engine and drivetrain effectively become disengaged. You're now coasting. Thanks to compression, the engine comes to a halt really quick.
Know what that means? No power steering, no manifold vacuum, no power brakes, no engine braking. You're in for a hell of a ride.
This is a real problem when taking automatic 4X4s offroading. Picture stalling the engine on a steep hill... *shudder* Unfortunately, I don't know of any good way of fixing this, short of converting to stick.
Nice try. That's a loaded question ("have you stopped beating your wife yet?"). Your question presupposes that Arch has proper, good use of namespaces. In my opinion, it does not. It glues metadata onto the archive name and tries to claim that THAT is proper usage of namespaces. In reality, it's just an ugly hack.
Aesthetics are not more important than sound design, of course. Alorighmic beauty before syntactic beauty, always. However, within the constraints of the problem, good aesthetics make a project enjoyable to learn and use. The Arch developers, apparently, don't share this view.
A quote from an email conversation with an unnamed Arch user in January: "I think Arch's biggest bug is the one up the developer's collective asses."
This article is a good example. Tom Lord just hand-waves his way past every question. Subversion sucks!!! CVS users are teh stupid!!! If he tones it down a bit, he definitely has a future in politics. But I don't think he's a very good software architect.
OK, it's true that CVS and Subversion have problems. But, gak, so does Arch. Good God is it slow for big projects (something they've been promising to fix for years). And it's got some horrifying naming conventions: "tla--devo--1.3". And the files! "{arch}", "++default-version", ",,inode-sigs". Whatever Lord was smoking, it must have been good. The branching and merging operators are powerful but, thanks to all the punctuantion, they are also ugly. It's like the entire UI goes out of its way to be downright unfriendly.
Every time someone mentions these deficiencies on the mailing list, they just get flamed for not truly understanding Arch. "Namespaces! Namespaces! Namespaces!" "Win32 is for lusrs!" Whatever. I just want a tool that helps me get the job done.
Personally, I'm in the middle of transitioning to Subversion. It's better than CVS, and it is faster and nicer to use than Arch. Works for me.
This confusion is intentional. NetScape's client-side scripting language was originally going to be called LiveScript. A fine name. However, just before shipping it, they decided that they wanted to tie in with Sun's new marketing juggernaut even though, aside from some superficial syntax similarities, the two languages have nothing in common. Hence Java/JavaScript. Pure unadulterated idiocy!! Don't blame clueless users for this one -- this confusion is exactly what NetScape had in mind when they chose the name.
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Well there's your problem. You need to get the KJV and a good set of translation notes. The NIV and other "modern" bibles are the word of Bob the fallablle translator, not the word of God. I'll never understand why you people waste your time on those things. It's like trying to understand Shakespeare by reading only the Cliff's Notes.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
That's both more accurate to Paul's original text and more beautiful to read. If Paul had intended to say "homosexual", he would have used the well-known word "paiderasste." Instead, he uses, "malakoi" and "arsenokoitai," neither of which have ever had clear homosexual connotation. Do a Google search on the Greek words if you want to learn more. It's fascinating.
And so it's OK for Muslims, who don't view Jesus as a Messiah, to be antisemetic?
Hey I have a great idea - how about arguing against what he said and not words you decide to put in his mouth. (stealing discussion ignored)
The GP was not putting words in his mouth. This is exactly what he said -- that it's wrong to hate Jews because Jesus was a Jew. This is an apallingly bad argument. What if Jesus was Taoist instead of Jewish? How does Jesus's religious affiliation have anything at all to do with anti-semitism??
Gays, on the other hand, have free will and they do what they choose to do.
It's really simple: if one could choose one's sexual orientation, then a heterosexual man could choose to be gay.
I'm sure he wants to save criminals too - does that mean he should try doing things he feels are wrong (i.e. violating his conscience) just to gain a better understanding? That's insane!
He was tyring to illustrate the absurdity of the original poster's statement (that homosexuality is a choice). You're right, it was a poor example. Let's get back to the original point: do YOU think that gay people have any choice in the matter? Can they simply decide to be attracted to women from now on?
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Leviticus 20:13."
So God didn't have room on those stone tablets to jot down "Don't be gay" on Mount Sinai? Pretty interesting that Ol' Infallible Himself was able to include relatively minor things like "take a day off every week" and "put up with your parents" but seemed to think that an outright capital offense wasn't worth mentioning.
I think you'll find out that things like rape and incest (things we feel are bad still today in modern society) were also offenses of similar magnitude - do you really think a list of 10 things can meaningfully cover all possible "really bad" actions?
You missed the OP's point. If God felt so strongly about homosexuality, then why didn't he ever SAY so? Even Leviticus is incomplete and open to a number of different interpretations. Even if we were to assume that God is talking about homosexuality in general here, apparently He thinks that it only merits a brief mention among a whole bunch of other things to avoid, like yoking an ox and a donkey together. So why should you attach such grave importance to it?
If I ran into a burning building and saw a man refusing to be saved, heck yes I'd do everything I could to drag him to safety. But this is an analogy, and it's a poor one. Where is the burning building? Are you suggesting that people who do not share your religious beliefs are going to suffer certain death or damnation by fire? You've got to be kidding me.
You can't see tits on the radio. Oh no.
DDD's GUI is an archaic user interface nightmare. Watch programmers using DDD some time; they spend minutes clicking and dragging rectangles instead of getting real work done. You'd think they were using Inkscape. Why can't DDD just present the in-scope variables in a nice tree view?
What's worse, the data displays don't persist! They're supposed to, but it's been buggy for years. Once you finally get DDD to display your linked list in a semi-readable format (no mean feat; it involves a lot of scrolling), you hit a breakpoint and everything goes haywire. Some items disappear, some get duplicated, some get linked 3 or 4 times, and everything gets moved around. And, over a year later, it still doesn't work well with GDB 6.
Put a bullet in it. The only way to rescue DDD is a ground-up rewrite. The Data Display capability looked groovy, but it turns out that it's just not very useful in the real world. There's a reason no other debuggers have chosen to implement this feature: it seems trick, but it tends to get in the way.
I find that Insight is the best debugger going right now. I'm hoping for good things from the Mono debugger but I haven't manged to run it successfully on C code.
"Glad you discovered us, on your road towards getting published. We are always happy when a new author has found the way to our door, because opportunity knocks on both sides of it."
This is the start of the text on the author sign up page. They must have had one of their editors write the copy for the web site.
http://www.publishamerica.com/authorinfo.htm
Apparently Travis Tea worked harder than they needed to... From the article linked by Sundroid:
Dee Power, unhappy with how PublishAmerica had handled her novel, ``Overtime,'' submitted a ``new'' book that consisted of the first 50 pages of ``Overtime'' and the last 10 pages, repeated over and over. The manuscript was accepted. (Power declined to have it published). PublishAmerica also accepted a novel by Kevin Yarbrough, even though the first 30 pages were repeated six times. (Yarbrough revealed his trick on an Internet site.)
I've chosen to install analog speedo, tach, H2O temp and oil pressure. This allows the LCD screen to be less expensive and less important so I don't mind as much when it's unreadable (say, a cold start at 0 degrees).
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Even with a good (transflective or super-bright backlit) screen, you'll need to ensure that it is shaded well against light from an oblique angle. Depending on your dashboard, that might be easy or it might be hideous.
Right now I'm thinking I'll gut an IPAQ H3950 running Linux to supply the display and controller. Apparently it has a good screen, and I'm sure it's rugged enough for automotive use. The battery will help a lot too. The one drawback that I can see is the screen is only 320x240. I yearn for 640x480, but I've been unable to find aything daylight readable in that resolution for less than a few thousand dollars.
How to interface to it? Wifi!
Yes, it's the same Knuth. But Boyer-Moore is almost always a better algorithm to use.
Until IBM ports Lotus Notes to Linux and starts using it, anything they say about the Linux desktop should be absolutely ignored.
"Do as I say, not as I do" works for parents, but it sure doesn't work very well for companies.
This is absoultely true. Subversion is an excellent SCM and ready for large-scale use today. There is only one warning: DO NOT use the BDB store. It's awful to administer and scales very poorly. Use the fs store ("svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs") and I think you'll be very happy.
What about IBM's own Lotus Notes? I know a number of companies that could convert a large number of desktops to Linux if only it ran Notes. IBM really needs to fix this if it wants people to take Linux on the desktop seriously.
Unless you say what hardware you have, your complaint nothing more than a meaningless troll. You realize, of course, that complaining on Slashdot is not quite as effective as asking on linux-usb or filing a bug in the kernel bugzilla?
Admiral Painter: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
Great line, though it turns out those words were the words were dubbed in over some other line.
Ever notice that there's tons of Perl, PHP, and Ruby snippents all over the web but very few Python snippets? It's because you really can't copy Python from the browser and paste it into a text editor! The whitespace gets changed and the program breaks in very hard-to-diagnose ways. It's rather funny.
There are many features of Python that will be adopted by future languages, but I doubt that significant whitespace is among them.
You do realize, of course, that both Postgres and Oracle's (and MS SQL Server's) hierarchy mapping functions are not a part of "SQL the language" right? They're custom extensions, and fairly incompatible with each other.
Your 4x4 example is really off-topic, but that problem is easily solved by having a good brake system. My 1 ton K5 Blazer will stop without the power assist with just light pressure on the brake pedal.
So will mine. We're talking about engine braking, which is entirely on topic. I'm sure you already know that on a loose, steep (35+ deg) slope, you need to touch the brakes as little as possible. This is for two reasons: 1) brakes are normally biased to the front, so the back will want to come around and try to roll you and, more importantly, 2) because if you accidentally lock up either front wheel (easy to do in gravel or sand) you lose most or all of your directional control.
So, let's say you're just starting down the hill and RPMs are low. If your motor stalls and you have an automatic, no matter if it was made in 1950 or 2005, you're in for a scary ride. This exact scenario happened on Five Finger Hill in Hollister in a beat up 1990 Range Rover. So, I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about...
In your example, of course, the torque converter is still working forwards because your engine is still developing power. You need to actually turn the ignition off. I think you'll be surprised at how quickly your engine drops RPMs to almost nothing.
My numer is right for the U.S. (story) but opposite for Europe. Blorg is right. Sorry for the confusion.
And, to the other people replying here, I've done this. When my car's engine stops developing power, the ZF disconnects pretty much completely. No chance of push-starting it. And besides, push starting at 30 MPH? Are you daft?? Considering that you can push-start a manual at 5 MPH, I'd say that my point is probably valid.
Right on Demachina. Wish I had mod points.
The Catholic position on contraception and birth control might appear moral in the United States. But it is absolutely unconscionable in the areas that hold the vast majority of the world's population. The number of people indirectly killed by statements like this far outweighs the number of abortions in the western world.
This is stupid thing to say because it totally ignores momentum. Remember that you're in a 3000 pound car. At highway speed, the brakes need to overcome both the engine AND the massive amounts of kinetic energy you're carrying. Can they bring you to a full stop before they fade? That's a tall order with the crappy hardware put on most cars nowadays. Good luck if you're on a mild downhill!
Ummmmm .... no.
In most cars, the engine won't be turning no matter how fast you're coasting. Try it with an automatic transmission and see.
10X as many automatic transmissions are sold as manuals in the U.S., and the numbers are somewhere around 7X for Europe. With an automatic transmission, as you know, the torque converter is driven off the output shaft of the engine.
So, if the engine stops developing power, the pump half of the torque converter stalls. Unfortunately, torque converters don't work backwards. Therefore, the fluid pressure in the fins disappears and engine and drivetrain effectively become disengaged. You're now coasting. Thanks to compression, the engine comes to a halt really quick.
Know what that means? No power steering, no manifold vacuum, no power brakes, no engine braking. You're in for a hell of a ride.
This is a real problem when taking automatic 4X4s offroading. Picture stalling the engine on a steep hill... *shudder* Unfortunately, I don't know of any good way of fixing this, short of converting to stick.
Nice try. That's a loaded question ("have you stopped beating your wife yet?"). Your question presupposes that Arch has proper, good use of namespaces. In my opinion, it does not. It glues metadata onto the archive name and tries to claim that THAT is proper usage of namespaces. In reality, it's just an ugly hack.
Aesthetics are not more important than sound design, of course. Alorighmic beauty before syntactic beauty, always. However, within the constraints of the problem, good aesthetics make a project enjoyable to learn and use. The Arch developers, apparently, don't share this view.
A quote from an email conversation with an unnamed Arch user in January: "I think Arch's biggest bug is the one up the developer's collective asses."
This article is a good example. Tom Lord just hand-waves his way past every question. Subversion sucks!!! CVS users are teh stupid!!! If he tones it down a bit, he definitely has a future in politics. But I don't think he's a very good software architect.
OK, it's true that CVS and Subversion have problems. But, gak, so does Arch. Good God is it slow for big projects (something they've been promising to fix for years). And it's got some horrifying naming conventions: "tla--devo--1.3". And the files! "{arch}", "++default-version", ",,inode-sigs". Whatever Lord was smoking, it must have been good. The branching and merging operators are powerful but, thanks to all the punctuantion, they are also ugly. It's like the entire UI goes out of its way to be downright unfriendly.
Every time someone mentions these deficiencies on the mailing list, they just get flamed for not truly understanding Arch. "Namespaces! Namespaces! Namespaces!" "Win32 is for lusrs!" Whatever. I just want a tool that helps me get the job done.
Personally, I'm in the middle of transitioning to Subversion. It's better than CVS, and it is faster and nicer to use than Arch. Works for me.
This confusion is intentional. NetScape's client-side scripting language was originally going to be called LiveScript. A fine name. However, just before shipping it, they decided that they wanted to tie in with Sun's new marketing juggernaut even though, aside from some superficial syntax similarities, the two languages have nothing in common. Hence Java/JavaScript. Pure unadulterated idiocy!! Don't blame clueless users for this one -- this confusion is exactly what NetScape had in mind when they chose the name.
Too bad it appears under the icon for MSN...
MSN is tied into the OS in a bunch of other places too ("You're running Outlook for the first time! Would you like to set up a free MSN account?").
Making deals with Microsoft is hard.